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Forum Council
The Forum Council works collaboratively with the Forum Staff to produce member programs, services, and benefits. The 15 members of the Forum Council are elected by the voting members of The Forum. The Council accomplishes its work through Standing Committees, Working Groups, and Task Forces. In practice, this means that the Council provides the expertise needed to advance the five content areas (represented in five standing committees) through the production of deliverable products and services that benefit the membership. Working together with Forum Staff, the Council has done extraordinary work over many years to drive the production of our membership deliverables. The Council apprises the Forum Board of Directors of its activities, and these activities further the mission and strategic plan of the organization by providing Forum members with meaningful products and benefits.
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Members of the Forum Council
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Tracey Bradley (2022), Chair
Executive Director, Tennessee Consortium for International Studies/Pellissippi State Community College
Craig Rinker (2020), Vice Chair
Director, Office of Global Education, Georgetown University
Mark Odenwelder (2020), Secretary
Keshia Abraham (2021)
Director of Strategic Initiatives, CIEE
Brian Brubaker (2022)
Director of Education Abroad, The Pennsylvania State University
Christina Carroll (2021)
Director, Risk Management, International Programs, Florida State University
Elena Corbett (2022)
Director of Education Abroad, AMIDEAST
Rob Hallworth (2020)
Vice President and Deputy Director of Academic Programs, IES Abroad
Julie Maddox Korenko (2020)
Global Education Consultant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Annette Mares-Duran (2022)
Faculty-Led International Program Coordinator, University of New Mexico (UNM)
Joy Phaphouvaninh (2022)
Director of Illinois Abroad and Global Exchange, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anthony Pinder (2020)
Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs-Internationalization & Global Engagement, Emerson College
Uttiyo Raychaudhuri (2022)
Vice Provost for Internationalization, University of Denver
Leo Rowland (2021)
College Dean, SACI Florence
Tynelle A. Stewart (2020)
Assistant Dean & Director, Education Abroad, University of Rochester


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Start your weekend on the right foot with a leisurely jog along the luxurious yachts docked at Keppel Bay. Starting your trail from Labrador Park MRT, let the pristine sights along this uptown area engage you throughout your run.
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Pierpaolo Piccioli had his Resort collection photographed in Rome's Orto Botanico, a green oasis in the center of the city with giant bamboo stands and towering palm trees. He liked the garden's exuberance, but also its urbanity. "I didn't want escape," he said at today's New York presentation.
Getaway clothes have often formed the basis of Resort collections because they arrive in stores so close to the winter holidays. Piccioli was more interested in aligning elegance and the everyday. "Pre-collections have to be about a wardrobe," he elaborated. The opening look paints a compelling picture of his vision: a sweeping cape, silk shirtdress, suede boots, and wide-brimmed hat without a single superfluous embellishment or stitch, and all in complementary shades of purple. Piccioli has mastered the art of doing more with less.
A blouse in dark red taffeta and a long skirt in plum taffeta, both couture-ish in their proportions, were just as good at marrying the real with an alluring sense of grandeur. It was that juxtaposition that animated the collection's most novel looks, like a black evening suit with a cape-like jacket embroidered in sequins and ostrich plumes and bermuda shorts in place of trousers, or a streamlined, long black shirtdress whose multicolor stripes were formed by tiny embroideries of crystals and feathers.


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An Australian Outdoor Story
With Summer on the horizon, Australian and New Zealand based contemporary textile house, Mokum, and Australian outdoor furniture design house, Tait, have come together to celebrate the southern hemisphere's latest and greatest in outdoor design. This season channels late-century nostalgia with warm and dreamy scenes of laissez-faire lounging. Tait and Mokum's Summer 2019/20 collection reaches new levels of outdoor comfort and effortless style, built to last in Australia's unforgiving elements. Where your home is your sanctuary and your outdoor space an escape to paradise, this seasons playful yet pared-back pieces bring the sumptuous luxury of indoor living to the outdoors.
'An Australian Outdoor Story' is set against a backdrop of Sydney's idyllic hidden coves, where cliff faces dive into mermaid-green bays and crisp white yachts sway at their moorings. Golden light trickles through dappled, drawn-out shadows, imparting an atmosphere of long afternoons blissing-out by the garden or pool.
Referencing design cues from the '70s and a biophilic return to nature, the collection embodies a sense of relaxation and escape. Showcasing fluid, rounded and tubular frames with soft, cocooning volumes swathed in high-texture weaves, plush velvets, and Tropicalismo- inspired prints, the collection realises new and luxurious ways of living outdoors. Modular seating and versatile pieces such as the Trace drinks trolley offer added flexibility when entertaining, while laid-back loungers make adding extra guests a breeze.
Perhaps the most covetable piece of the collection, Tait's Trace armchair (by leading Australian designer Adam Goodrum), debuts Mokum's new 'Tropicalia' statement outdoor fabric. Designed by famed Australian costume and production designer, Catherine Martin, (most notably renowned for her Academy Award® winning and nominated work across films including; Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby and Australia directed by Baz Luhrmann) Tropicalia features leafy fronds, bunches of bananas and playful sophistication.
Never before have we quite seen high performance in the outdoors meet the refined luxury of indoor lounging than with the release of Mokum's lush outdoor velvet, South Beach. The forward-thinking outdoor velvet welcomes into the fold a rich yet pleasantly muted palette as well as a line of refined nautical-inspired velvet stripes.
Each detail in the collection has been designed and made to last, with both Tait and Mokum respectively drawing on over 25 years experience designing and manufacturing products to withstand Australia's harsh climate. Tait's low maintenance product frames are finished in hard-wearing, UV stable powder coat with timber elements made with dimensionally stable, sustainable timber. "In recent years, performance advancements in outdoor materials have improved so much so, that we can readily achieve the luxury of an indoor lounge with one that is all-weather" says Tait's Creative Director, Susan Tait. Each outdoor fabric in the collection boasts outstanding performance indicators including; UV light fastness, solution-dyed compositions and bleach cleanability. "If a fabric can't meet what we deem our non-negotiables, we simply won't release it" explains Mokum's Design Director, Stephanie Moffitt.
Styling by Steve Cordony, photography by Robert Walsh.
Tait & Mokum's Summer 2019/20 collection is available now.
Mokum's Tropicalia, Miami, South Beach and South Beach Stripe textile range is available for order through James Dunlop Textiles.


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Four DeRidder men were arrested after Beauregard Parish Sheriff's investigators linked them to a Pitkin man charged with several offenses after a vehicle chase from Merryville to Newton County, Texas.
Travis James, 25, of Pitkin, and DeRidder residents Gary Clark, 18, Aaron Elliot, 39, and Barney Gordon, 23, were charged in the vehicle and property thefts.
Beauregard Parish Chief Deputy Joe Toler said Merryville police received a report on Saturday, March 26 that a passenger in a vehicle driven by James was seen removing items from a vehicle at a truckstop.
He said James, with two passengers,m fled deputies in an apparently stolen pickup, leading them into Texas.
The pursuit endedin Newton County when James wrecked the truck. James was booked into a Texas jail, and returned to Beauregard Parish on Thursday.
The other arrests were the result of an investigation into James' connection with area thefts, Toler told the American Press.
James is charged with three counts of vehicle theft, one count of possession of stolen things and two counts of aggravated assault with a vehicle. Bond was set at $200,000.
Gordon was charged with reckless operation, resisting an officer, possession of stolen things, marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond was set at $54,500.
Clark and Elliot were charged with possession of stolen things; bond for each was set at $75,000.
Cory McCarver, 18, of DeRidder, a passenger in James' vehicle during the pursuit, was charged with simple burglary. Bond was set at $10,000. A juvenile in the truck was turned over to juvenile authorities.


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Company Name: Virtual StrongBox, Inc.
Leadership Team:
Ron Daly (Founder and President/CEO)
Lenny Giambalvo (Chief Technology and Product Officer)
Website: virtualstrongbox.com
Twitter: @VirtualStrongBx @RonDalyVSB
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/virtual-strongbox/
— Responses below are by Ron Daly —
Company Overview:
Virtual StrongBox addresses one of the biggest innovation challenges in Fintech – the balance of security and convenience. Balancing security and convenience while attempting to digitally transform is tough in any industry. Financial institutions are faced with the challenge of ensuring the security of customers' information and at the same time providing the ability for customers to do business when, where and how they want. To thrive and survive, financial institutions need to make it easy and hassle-free for the consumer to do business with them.
Virtual StrongBox knows the stakes are high. The security/convenience balance requires a lot of careful planning, design, and a secure platform designed for that balance. Some companies focus solely on data security. Others focus solely on consumer convenience. There's no need to compromise. We have built the bridge to bring security and convenience together.
Can you explain what that looks like for the end user?
Our platform is a key part of the digital transformation fabric that bridges the gap between legacy systems and the digital consumer's real-time expectations. Think of the secure platform as a translator that speaks digital consumer and old technology. To the end user this is exactly what they demand – convenience, mobile, easy to use and a simple way to interact and exchange information with the company they are doing business. No more fax, scan, email, mail or bring it to us in any process. Take a picture of your drivers license and it's instantly delivered to the organization.
To the organization, our secure platform uses our patented technology to collect or exchange sensitive information required in the business process and then uses our API library to deliver it to the old legacy system workflow. The benefit to the organization is that they don't need to spend tons of money to bring their core systems up to date just to meet digital transformation pressures. In fact, in many instances we are reducing operational costs by 70% to 80% in the efficiencies that are created.
How do you collaborate with existing FinTech applications?
Virtual StrongBox's secure customer engagement platform and APIs coupled with our deep security, API first strategy and financial industry expertise, empower our FinTech partners and clients to innovate around old, expensive to replace, lagging technology to achieve consumer-driven innovation without sacrificing security or convenience. Our Software-as-a-Service offering is deployed at over 250 financial service providers and our Platform-as-a-Service has been integrated into six FinTech offerings. The digital transformation in these clients include transforming consumer, small business & commercial lending processes, new account opening processes and compliance and mortgage lending compliance in FinTech. In RegTech the platform is transforming compliance, secure file exchange and innovating around regulatory exams and audits.
What is the inspiration for your company?
The Virtual StrongBox journey started when I was trying to solve a personal pain point. As the owner of a growing company, I had piles of personal and business documents and files. Cloud storage didn't provide the level of security that I needed or protect personal information the way Fintech, RegTech & InsurTech regulations required. Sure, there were non-secure options available at the time but most of my documents were just too important to store in a stranger's "garage." In addition, my financial service customers were telling me that they could NEVER use the cloud when it comes to storing and exchanging their customers personal data. These two things inspired us to create our secure, customer engagement platform – Virtual StrongBox.
Who is your competition and how do you distinguish your company?
We knew that the only thing holding highly regulated financial service firms back from leveraging the power of cloud for business process transformation was the lack of a data security focused platform. The Virtual StrongBox platform and it's six patents make data security our #1 priority.
Our platform, with its Total Information Privacy & Protection (TIPP), protects confidential data in the cloud the "Financial Institution" way. TIPP is the security measure that sets Virtual StrongBox apart from every other provider. It ensures Virtual StrongBox users that only the account owner can see the documents within their personal account. The Virtual StrongBox user is the ONLY one that can access files in the Virtual StrongBox account. NOT employees at Virtual StrongBox. NOT Employees at the provider of the service. NOT employees at the cloud-service provider.
Our Total Information Privacy and Protection patents and infrastructure ensures our clients and users' that Personally Identifiable Information is never vulnerable to security threats.
When did the company start? How did the team come together?
Virtual StrongBox started as a product in my first start-up but became its own organization a few years ago. We quickly realized the potential of the platform and the tremendous opportunity to bring transformational changes to the financial services sector. The Virtual StrongBox platform became its own company shortly after that realization. In 2016, we had a successful exit on the original company which created the opportunity to drive Virtual StrongBox forward. The company's CTO and a hand-picked selection of employees followed me to the new organization.
What is your connection to the Carolinas and why do you operate here?
The technology division of my first start-up was located in Charlotte. While traveling from Northern Virginia on a regular basis, my family and I loved all the region had to offer. As the Virtual StrongBox CEO, being part of the growing FinTech and startup Network in Charlotte was key to our success and has provided growth opportunities. A couple of examples – the Blue Diamond Award we received opened doors to conversations with local financial service providers that were looking for technology like ours and being part of the StartCLT and UNCC Ventureprise groups opened the door to a meeting with the Deputy Director of the CFPB and his RegTech innovation group in Washington, D.C. In addition to the great networking opportunities in CLT, as our organization grows, the available talent in the region with all kinds of experience in the financial services industry is a huge benefit.
Recent Accomplishments and Challenges (share with our audience how your company has made recent progress)
Our fastest growing opportunity is using the Virtual StrongBox platform to strategically transform loan participations and sales. We spent the last year and a half working with financial institutions on their loan participation needs and pain points. We've found a common problem and we used our technology to solve it. There's nothing else in the marketplace that does what we have created that provides instant ROI and gives our clients a competitive advantage.
Another large opportunity in 2018 is the launch of a new cybersecurity collaboration portal by one of our strategic partners to help financial institutions prepare for fast-approaching cybersecurity examinations. The portal's integrated documentation vault, provided by Virtual StrongBox, secures evidentiary documents against exposure while allowing selective sharing between a financial institution and external users such as outside Auditing or Consulting partners or NCUA/FDIC examiners.
What challenges have you overcome since starting Virtual StrongBox?
One of the biggest challenges is to get any organization to narrow their focus and create steps in their digital transformation strategy. Tackling digital transformation all at once is like trying to boil the ocean. It just can't be done.
Another challenge that Virtual StrongBox and every other FinTech company had (or has to) overcome is the how the corporate immune system of any organization is trying to protect the status quo to preserve and protect the past. Too often executives worry about the time it takes to integrate new systems or processes, the costs involved, and the challenges of employee buy-in. A fear of failure and corporate hurdles often inoculate organizations against fresh ideas.
To address both of these Virtual StrongBox has established an innovation sandbox where our technology and focus help our clients win at digital transformation. Clients can solve one digital transformation problem at time & not try to "boil the ocean" with rapid prototyping with one business line or functional area. They can incubate ideas that dramatically increase the business value for clients and look for better ways to work differently with the consumer. Best of all it's low risk and inexpensive learning to move forward or fail fast.
What is Next?… (for you, the industry, the next 5 years?)
I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Virtual StrongBox and other FinTech providers going forward. Over 1.3 million security-conscious enterprises globally know they need to transform legacy technology & workflows without spending tens of millions of dollars & taking years to deploy. Yet they are stymied to the point of paralysis by security concerns and regulations that make forward progress very slow. In addition, Enterprises that are searching for operating efficiencies while new entrants & competitors are achieving cost transformation and new business models.
Consumers are going to continue to drive digital transformation forward with their "need it now" mindset placing the burden on organizations to find new ways to compete/interact with them. Organizations are also under pressure to find ways to reduce or eliminate operational expenses. Because of these factors we should continue to see growth in SaaS and PaaS companies that provide services to help them achieve their goals.
The Virtual StrongBox platform is a key part of the digital transformation fabric that bridges the gap between legacy systems and the digital consumer's real-time expectations. We believe that our company is perfectly situated to take advantage of this continued trend.
Do you think you will expand outside of financial services to other industries that deal with secure information?
Great question – there certainly is a great need to secure and protect critical information across many verticals and organizations. What's more, the new GDPR data protection and privacy regulations raises the bar, and the fines, for everyone. Virtual StrongBox's secure customer engagement platform is already working with organizations and partners in the FinTech, RegTech and InsurTech sectors that are changing the way confidential information is collected, protected and exchanged in various workflow processes. Our strategy for other verticals like healthcare, government and human capital management is to be the integrated technology of another entrepreneur's vision and transformation strategy for those verticals.
How have your two startup experiences differed/been similar?
I was founder& CEO of my first company from 2000 to 2016. If you think back to that period technology, its cost and how it was used was completely different than now. The speed of change in technology and the consumer expectations was not as great as it is now. This time around technology is almost disposable because of the models in place now and how fast a FinTech can design a prototype or product. New competitors can come out of nowhere to challenge anyone's business model.
I really like the fact that major banks and companies are setting up innovation labs and venture groups to explore new Fintech companies and offering outside the corporate structure. It certainly makes it easier to find the right people to pitch your technology to than ever before.
Any advice to other Fintechs and entrepreneurs?
First, be persistent, patient and very fluid in your strategy (i.e. sticking to the original plan no matter what is not always a good strategy).
Second, don't be a solution looking to create the problem. Listen to the marketplace and your customers for the pain they are trying to eliminate, see if your technology can solve it and then find out how much they are willing to pay for a solution. One small pivot in your tech or product offering can go a long way in making your company successful.
Finally, fail fast and move on.


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At the beginning of the week, Steve was looking for something on his iPhone that he thought would be under "Settings." He stumbled onto the section called "Legal Notices." We both got a good laugh out of it: a comparison between Apple's Legal Notices, License information, and Warranty.
I'm assuming that everyone, like me and Steve, has carefully read this information. Perhaps most, like us, even have had their attorneys review this content to make certain it is appropriate for your use and needs and general well being. Nooooot!!! I wonder how many tiny little words there actually are on screen after screen after screen–enough words that my finger is getting tired of swiping.
And then we get to the Warranty. Oh wait. Hmmm… Not much there…
Now, in all fairness to Apple, the iPhone does have a warranty. Obviously the link provided on the warranty screen takes you to more information about the warranty. For all I know, it might have even more words than the Legal and License sections on the phone.
And if you purchase AppleCare, it's a fairly good warranty, I guess. It's certainly an expensive one. I've had to use my AppleCare warranty any number of times through the years, and I've always felt like I've been treated rather well by AppleCare. We just had a laugh over how all of this information was positioned on the device.
Words, words, words. Lots and lots of words that lots of people got paid well to write. I'm sure they are important.


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***The content of this Blog was acquired from an USCF-certified chess coach***
Also Read :
- Analyze Your Chess Games in 12 steps
- My Psychology of Chess with friends
- 10 Things To Know With A Beginners Guide to Playing Chess
Why analyze our games?
A- To compare our decisions against the record.
B- To understand our thinking during the game(s).
C- To learn about the openings we play, the middlegames, and the endgames that might be improved. During your analysis, new ideas will occur to you, and you will know more and more about yourself and about how you think and react.
D- To bring your mistakes to the surface (knowledge, mental processes, recurring errors, etc.
The guidelines for analyzing your chess games:
To analyze your game, the first and the second steps take place during the game.
STEP 1 – Write down the time spent in the game on every move as you play.
The fact that you spend more time on one move than another, or in one phase of the game, or in certain positions can sometimes be an indication of gaps in your knowledge or playing technique. A compilation of these records over time can give you an idea where you might be failing
STEP 2 – During the game create code signs on your score sheet to point out the critical moments of the game.
As the game changed phases, were you disoriented in the position? Did you overlook a tactic? These are all critical times. For more information, go to Step Six.
STEP 3 – Immediately after the game, write down what you remember from the game.
Write down what went through your head during the game, the reasons for your decisions, all the plans and calculations that you did. If you did a post mortem with your opponent try to avoid mixing analysis done during that time with these thoughts. It's good to also include that post-mortem analysis, but separate it from your own train of thought during the game. This will help you successfully perform Step Nine.
STEP 4 – Write at least three things you learned from the game you just completed
Jacob Aargard in his excellent book Excelling at Positional Chess recommends three, but if there are more than that, then that's even better. Go the extra mile – think and try to extract some new ideas. Did you correctly assess the position? How many times did you had to do it again because you missed something, or because you realized the plans you made were not correct? To search for excellence, this is an opportunity to learn and to verbalize what you know and what you don't, what you thought was right during your initial calculations but had to correct in the course of the game.
STEP 5 –Identify the critical moments of the game …
… and add what you found after the game to those recorded using code signs on your score sheet, (Step Two). This is necessary because they are starting points from which you can begin to analyze and also offer valuable information both pure chess related as well as insights as they come to you.
"But," you ask, "What are the critical moments of the game? How do I identify them?" Every change, either actually played over the board, or just appearing in analysis variations, is a critical position.
The first is when you run out of moves that you know in the opening you played. No matter who made the "novelty", the important thing is your thought process. Did the move surprise you? How did you respond? Did you assess the resulting position as good or bad for you?
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How could you identify another critical moment in the game? The pattern is that every change in the game is a critical moment, as stage and state transitions:
Stage transitions:
- From opening to Middle game
- Middle game to the Endgame.
- A quiet game into a tactical storm (or vice versa), or a draw in the endgame to a lost one.
- The conversion of advantages in others (or change of plans, or when the configuration of pawns changes drastically, or a massive trade of pieces)
- Your mood changes during the game
- Identify where you felt "lost" in the position, struggled to develop a plan, or overlooked a continuation.
The more you collect, the more you will improve. Start immediately after finishing your game (analyze the game with your opponent, if time permits).
"I will spend more time writing than thinking about the game!" No, come up with a couple of codes (e.g., O for the end of the opening, or E for the endgame and so, etc.). Then, every time you identify a critical moment in the game you write it down next to the annotated move. It will be burdensome at first, but with practice it will become easier, and you won't spend more than a second or two doing so.
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STEP 6 – After establishing the critical points, you can begin to analyze them.
Put the most effort into this, yourself. Remember to separate what you saw during the game with the things that you've been discovering. This is of enormous importance and it will help you in Step Eight.
STEP 7 – Check opening theory
(Starting from the moment you were on your own in the opening because you had run out of moves from the book, or if you decided that the variation played is good till moving 12, the analysis of the opening and the transition to the middle game start right there.) Actually, the real work is more difficult: it is not only finding your mistake, it's discovering why it was wrong. It's challenging you on whether you know (or knew) the main plans in the system chosen and the kind of middle games that derive from those openings. It also does not have to be a punishment, this way you may even discover new opening ideas and novelties.
STEP 8 – Positional patterns searching.
This is an intermediate step from which your game can make a qualitative leap by doing this consistently.
Pay attention mainly to the pawn structure and the remaining pieces, and perform a search query in Chessbase. Select games of the masters, both past, and present. Using the rating selection to choose among games from only titled players you will get positions of great value which will help you to understand the kind of structures you would like to reach in your games.
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We can enhance this step by making it much more general. Suppose you could manage finding the correct game plan, like trading the correct pieces…now you can search for similar positions and see how masters played. Maybe you chose the correct plan (good!) but learn something new.
STEP 9- Analyze the game by yourself (don't rely on programs like Fritz and Rybka.)
The computer will point you out the tactical moves you missed, but by no means is it able to teach you anything about positional chess and strategies, or explain to you why a movie is bad, and so on.
When to use the software? It can be used in openings theory and for other info described in Step Eight. Use the computer only when you have done your personal analysis (by writing down variations and describing verbally everything that happened). Only then you can go to any engine you have and set it in "blunder-check" mode (error checking) to see what the engine found that you missed.
However, that's not what is the most important; what matters most is when the engine finds a tactical error in your game (and in the analysis of variations that you said you saw in the game) you have to look for patterns. Searching for tactical patterns, you have to look at how many moves in your calculations until you made a serious mistake. This will help you
determine your horizon. If you find that you often make a mistake in your calculations after four moves, then you will develop a more watchful eye and pay more attention in such calculations during your games.
STEP 10- Reports and diagnostics.
We thank Aargard for putting into words this advice. It simply involves making a list of errors in the tournament and describing them verbally. At the same time, adding the patterns found by the analysis of program such as Fritz or Rybka, using it to make a diagnostic report of your major weaknesses (so that you may seek a remedy for each one).
STEP 11 – How to strengthen your game analysis.
There are different ways to do this: In your club, with a player stronger than you, or with a chess buddy. The objective is to check the analysis out with people, not engines. Please, even if you think you have the perfect analysis, be humble and accept criticism.
"Why do I need to check it against other humans, if I used Rybka (Fritz, Shredder, you name it)?"
The brain is a complex organ, and one of the many tricks it can make us suffer is complacency and exhaustion, both grouped in a conduct named recursion. Recursion is when our thinking runs along the same path to reach the same place, and in the case of chess, complacency, and exhaustion that gives a long analysis can lead to the belief that our analysis is excellent (or that a brief one is lacking). Sometimes it is, but sometimes we overlook a mate in two, to give an extreme example, or mistake the value of a position.
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STEP 12- Time to wrap up and verbalize the acquired knowledge.
Did you learn anything more than what you wrote in Step Four? If so, add it. Describe it from your point of view, like "in this opening variation, I'm better to trade the X bishop", or "in this middle game with this pawn structure the open line is useless and I should seek to open another one", or "in this endgame I need to keep this piece"… You get the idea.


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What Cheer?
After the sudden passing of his wife, Stan (Richard Kind) finds himself in a state of shock. He tries to ignore his pain but finds himself followed by inescapable grief, or rather, followed by the inescapable What Cheer? Brigade, a 20-piece brass and percussion band drowning out his world with boisterous, ear-numbing song.


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We offer a variety of home loans you can benefit from:
EMI (Equated Monthly Installment) is the amount payable to the lending institution every month, till the loan is completely paid off. It comprises of the interest as well as the principal amount.
To qualify for a home loan with DHFL, you must be:
A co-applicant is/are the co-owners of the property which is being offered as collateral/security to the loan. However all co-applicants need not be co-owners. Co-applicants to the loan are generally husband/wife, father/son, etc.
Interest rates vary according to the market conditions and are dynamic in nature. The interest on home loans in India is usually calculated either on monthly reducing or yearly reducing balance. In some cases, daily reducing basis is also adopted.
DHFL calculates EMI on monthly reducing basis only.
Fixed rate of interest means interest rate remains constant during the entire tenure of the loan.
In case of floating rate of interest, the interest rate fluctuates based on the Retail Prime lending rate.
Prior to full and final disbursement and at the beginning of the EMI, you pay pre-EMI interest on the portion of the loan disbursed to you. Pre-EMI interest is payable every month from the date of each payment up to the date of commencement of the EMI.
Home loans are usually accompanied by the following costs:
DHFL offers home loans with a tenure ranging up to 30 years.
The property to be purchased itself becomes the security and is mortgaged to the lending institution till the entire loan is repaid. Sometimes additional security such as life insurance policies, FD receipts and share or savings certificates are required.
DHFL doesn't ask for a Guarantor. One can have a co-applicant instead, while some other financial institutions do ask for guarantors.
Loans can be applied before or after the selection of a property. The loan amounts are sanctioned in principle to let buyers know what amounts they can avail of. This helps them decide their budgets and purchasing power. Actual disbursements are made after satisfactory verification of all necessary documents.
About 3-15 days, subject to proper documentation provided by the home loan applicant.
On an average, loans are given out within 3-15 days after satisfactory, complete documentation and completion of all relevant procedures, including proof that 15% of the cost has been paid upfront to the seller of the property.
Resident Indians are eligible for certain tax benefits on principal and interest components of a home loan. As per Income Tax Act 1961 rules, the current applicable exemption under section 24(b) is Rs. 2,00,000/- for the interest amount paid in the financial year and up to Rs. 1,50,000/- (under section 80 C) for the principal amount repaid in the same year.
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Louise oped for a whimsical outfit in keeping with Halloween which is right around the corner. She felt her greatest accomplishment was not only selecting a good husband, but remaining happily married for over 50 years until he passed away. She was also grateful for her five children.
Sweet little Joanie is 86 years young and still leads a very active life. She said her color choice for the outfits she wears is usually beige. She felt her greatest accomplishment was getting her RN degree after her husband died in an automobile accident at a very young age, and left her with young children to raise.
I didn't take a selfie when it was my turn. ;-) The best thing I ever did in life was deciding to follow Christ and give Him first place my life. The accomplishment was God's when He sent His Son to redeem/save me from my sins. I'm definitely not wearing a halo, because I've had my share of wrong choices and deeds, but God always forgives when I seek His forgiveness. Anything good that I have done is because of the abilities and blessing He's given me, and I'm sure the other ladies feel that way too.
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Okay, I know I am totally cheating again by posting Instagrams, but in all honesty I haven't been hefting my big camera around with me as much lately when we go out on walks. Sometimes I just want to get the exercise without the extra weight a camera brings, especially on a hot and sweaty Summer day. Terrible really considering my camera is so lovely, but darn it, my phone is just so handy and small!


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Sunday marks my return to the soccer field. I played a couple of times indoor and scrimmaged a few times while I coached this spring/summer, but for the most part I've been staying off my bum wheel.
But I love this time of year and I love this league. I started the Airwaves in 2000 when I was still anchoring weekends at 25. I had barely touched a ball in five years at that point. I quote/paraphrase Jonathan Ahl once a year when talking about this... "it's like being a kid again." Jon and I are the only two who have played all six years and for the past three seasons we've fielded two teams.
We play for fun and the rules I put forth that first year were simple: have fun, no one yells at anyone for making a mistake, and don't get hurt. It's that third one people have had trouble with :)
This league is perfect for my limited abilities. I'm not in good shape, what skill I once had has for the most part left me, and don't shoot particularly hard or well. But the field is so small and I can still change directions faster than most, that I will still score in bunches. My plan this year is to play as a sub when needed and from what I heard of our first game, that might not be very often.
Most of the teams/people in the league are pretty cool which makes it fun. There are a couple of clowns who seem to think hurting/hacking others is the way to handle getting beat, but they are in the minority.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Looking Forward To Sunday
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Europe's largest mountain spa, Caldea is a must when visiting Andorra. Housed in a large mirror-covered church-like building in Escaldes-Engordany, it measures a whopping 30,000 m2. Reminiscent of a water park, this huge complex is filled with many different pools, jacuzzis, hydromassage jets and waterfalls. All this is fed by natural thermal spring water which comes in at a scalding 70 ºC, before being cooled to varying temperatures. The water is rich in natural elements such as sulphur, sodium, sulphates and calcium, and there's even a special spa area for kids.
Parc de la Mola, 10, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra +376 800 999
Located in the ski resort of Arinsal, the Hotel Princesa Parc offers guests a calming spa area, perfect for relaxing those muscles after hitting the slopes. Spend your time here sweating it out in one of two saunas, chilling out in the hammam, unwinding in the hydromassage pools, cooling yourself at the ice fountain and soothing your body at the marble caldarium. The spa also offers massages and various beauty treatments such as wraps and facials.
Crta. General d'Arinsal, Arinsal, Andorra +376 736 400
Situated right in the middle of the Pyrenees, next to the Grandvalira ski area, sits the 5,000 m2 area of the Sport Wellness Mountain Spa. A quiet haven in the middle of nature, it sits at 1,850 metres above sea level, and is the ideal spot for relaxing. The spa's water circuit takes you through a ritual of bathing in hydrotherapy pools of varying temperatures, counter-current swimming, bubble massage beds and open-air hydrotherapy jacuzzis. When you've completed the circuit, ease your body in the Turkish bath, caldarium, sensation showers, tepidarium, ice fountains and Finnish sauna.
Crta. General 2, Soldeu, Canillo, Andorra +376 870 510
Attached to the Caldea spa complex, you'll find Inúu, Andorra's newest wellness centre. A world of peace and tranquility, it's the ultimate silent escape. As well as large cascading bubbling pools, there are private spa areas and various treatment rooms. Complete your wellness journey with a treatment based around one of four themes – mind and body, aqua, sensorial or nutrition. The centre also has its own restaurant serving up delicious and healthy cuisine.
Parc de la Mola, 10, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra +376 804 999
Located in El Serrat, in the northwest of Andorra, the Spa Xalet Bringué is an innovative Greco-Roman-inspired wellness area. Filled with tiles and images of ancient Greek and Roman statues, it has features based on old Roman baths, such as a caldarium, tepidarium and frigidarium. Other elements include a Finnish sauna, hammam, ice bath, Scottish shower and aero-massage jets.
Another of the Andorra's excellent spa hotels is the Hotel Roc Blanc. Located in Escaldes-Engordany, this thermal spa offers all the latest in hydrotherapy treatments. Fed by natural mineral hot springs, the thermal waters here gush out at 70 °C, and are filled with sulphide and sulphur ions. The waters are particularly effective for treating bone problems, arthritis and respiratory issues. Other features include a swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room and cardio area.
Plaça Coprínceps, 5, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra +376 871 400
The Termes Carlemany Hotel Spa Centre is also located in Escaldes-Engordany and is an ideal romantic spa break for couples. With soft lighting, candles and soothing music, the spa area includes a Turkish bath, sauna, relaxation area, UVA room, hydromassage jets and jacuzzis.
Av. Carlemany, 4, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra +376 870 050
The Espace Wellness at the Hotel Plaza is a zen space in the capital of Andorra de la Vella, which looks like it belongs in Thailand rather than a small mountain principality. With oriental decor and inspiration, it features elements such as a shower temple, hammam, sauna, jacuzzi, crystal fountain and spa circuit. All the treatments here also inspired by the Far East.
C/ NaMaria Pla 19-21, Andorra la Vella, Andorra +376 879 444
Located in the ski station of Soldeu, one of Andorra's best, the spa at the Hotel Piolets is a 1,000 m2 area of mountain relaxation. Opening right out into nature, it features both indoor and outdoor spaces, with stunning mountain views. Features include contrast showers, treatment cubicles, a sauna, whirlpool baths and jacuzzis. There are also special family spa sessions here, so you can take the kids along.
Carretera General, Soldeu, Andorra +376 871 787
With lots of natural rock and oak wood, the Grau Roig hotel spa is a tranquil nature-filled oasis. Decorated with warming colours and subtle lighting, it offers a swimming pool, whirlpool, Finnish sauna and steam bath. Even the massage cubicles here feel at one with nature, with walls covered in living plants and grass.
Estación de esquí de Grandvalira, sector Grau Roig, Grau Roig, Andorra +376 755 556


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Opinion: Simon Pressley, Head of Property Market Research at Propertyology
Last year's population increase of 388,124 was the fifth largest on record but quite a bit short of the 442,454 increase in 2008/09.
Overseas migration accounted for 245,408 (63.2%) of population growth while the remaining 142,716 was natural growth (births minus deaths).
Melbourne's population is currently growing the fastest. You probably already knew that Sydney and Melbourne combined represents 40% of Australia's total population, but you may not have realised that 38,475 residents relocated away from Sydney over the last two years.
Meanwhile, the population growth rates of Darwin (0.5%), Adelaide (0.7%), Perth (1%) and Hobart (1.1%) were below the national average of 1.6%.
But it's not all about capital cities – 34% of Australia's population choose to not live in our eight capital cities (that's one in three people). Across the country, there's a plethora of regional locations with a stable population base, essential infrastructure, and affordable housing; many play the role of a 'mini capital city'.
Population in the city councils of 33 regional locations increased at a rate equal to or better than four capital cities, including the hottest property market in Australia for the last two years, Hobart.
There's more than just population data to consider when buying a house
An important word of caution to anyone using population data to help determine where you might invest. Population growth is rear-view-mirror stuff. The latest ABS data covers the 2016/17 financial year which commenced July 2016 (almost two years ago).
To help appreciate that there are other forces at play within property markets, keep in mind that Australia's two cities with the highest population growth right now have recently seen property prices fall. While population growth is a factor, there are numerous other factors.
Job creation is a major influence of where the population is pulled towards. This changes from year-to-year depending upon which industry sectors are performing well, policies by all levels of government, and major infrastructure projects.
Population changes: State by state breakdown
Queensland's population as at 30 June 2017 was 4,928,457. The 1.6% growth rate was comparable to New South Wales and the Australian average. Net overseas migration (31,148 people) and natural growth (31,006) had similar contributions.
Greater-Brisbane is made up of five city councils (Logan, Ipswich, Moreton Bay, Redland, and Brisbane – Australia's largest city council). Population increased by 2% (up from 1.8% the previous year). Ipswich (3.2%) and Moreton Bay (2.2%) grew the fastest. While Queensland was Australia's biggest beneficiary of interstate migration in 2016/17, only 846 of the 17,246 net-inflow relocated to metropolitan Brisbane.
More people reside in regional Queensland than Brisbane, making it the most decentralised mainland state. Eight of Australia's 30 biggest cities are located across regional Queensland. Population growth was strong in Cairns (1.3%), Fraser Coast (1%), Gold Coast (2.7%), Lockyer Valley (1.8%), Scenic Rim (1.9%) and Sunshine Coast (2.7%).
The land within the Victorian border represents 3% of Australia's land mass and is home to 25.7% of Australia's total resident population. Comparing its annual growth rate to other states, Victoria was a middle-of-the-road performer for much of the last two decades however, it has been the strongest performer since 2014.
In 2016/17, Melbourne's CBD municipality population grew more than five times higher than the national growth rate (11,953 people, or 8.1%). Wyndham (6.1 %), Cardinia (5.0%), Melton (5.0%), Whittlesea (4.1%), Casey (4.4%) and Hume (3.9%) were also very high. Interestingly, large volumes of existing residents migrated away from Monash (3,424 people), Brimbank (2,312) and Greater-Dandenong (2,311).
75.5% of Victoria's population reside in the state's capital, making it Australia's least decentralised state. That said, 20,995 extra people took up residency in regional Victoria in 2016/17. Surf Coast (2.9%), Baw Baw (2.8%), Bass Coast (2.7%), Geelong (2.6%), Golden Plains (2.5%), Ballarat (1.9%), Macedon ranges (1.9%), Wodonga (1.8%) and Bendigo (1.6%) all had population growth rates equal to or above the national average.
South Australia
South Australia's population increased by 10,494 people (0.6%). What the state gained from natural growth (births minus deaths) it equally lost to interstate migration (5,941 people).
Population in the 'City of Churches' increased by 0.7% to 1,287,388. The biggest increase was in Adelaide's city (2.2%), Playford (1.7%) and Gawler (1.5%). Port Adelaide Enfield attracted the highest volume of overseas immigrants in the year (1,207 people).
The state's highest population growth rate was in Mount Barker (2.5%) while Port Lincoln (0.5%) and the neighbouring Lower Eyre Peninsula (1%) also produced some growth.
Economic growth, affordable housing, and lifestyle have proven to be a recipe for success for Tasmania. The 1.1% population growth rate was the state's highest since 2010. 22.5% of the growth came from interstate migration, the highest proportion of all Australian states and territories.
Proving that property price growth is much more than population growth, the state capital produced the fifth highest Australian capital city population growth rate (1.1%) however, the capital growth produced by its property market is streaks ahead of all other Australian locations. The highest volume of population growth occurred in Clarence, Kingborough, Hobart city, and Glenorchy city council areas.
The highest annual population growth rate was in the state's north (West Tamar, 1.6%) and far south (Huon Valley, 1.5%).
New South Wales
One out of three Australians (32%) reside in New South Wales. The state's population growth rate of 1.6% last year was equal third with Queensland.
Of Greater-Sydney's 101,754 population increase, 84,684 immigrated from overseas. An excess of 5,000 overseas migrants became residents in the city council areas of Sydney city, Parramatta, Canterbury-Bankstown and Cumberland. On the other hand, 17,943 people migrated away from Sydney last year to another Australian location, including 2,984 people leaving Randwick.
The population increased in regional New South Wales by 20,049 people in 2016/17; that's similar population growth to Perth's last year and more than Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin or Hobart.
Western Australia
10.5% of Australia's population (2,580,354 people) reside in Western Australia, which has a land mass covering 32.9% of the country. The 0.8% population growth in 2016/17 was the third consecutive year below 1%. It now feels like a long time ago that WA consistently had Australia's highest population growth, increasing by 21.3% in just seven years ending 2013.
71.3% of the state's population reside in Perth. 9 out of 30 city councils that make up Greater-Perth saw population decline in 2016/17 (Bayswater, Cambridge, Joondalup, Melville, Mosman Park, Peppermint Grove, South Perth, Victoria Park). On the flip side, Kwinana (4.6%) and Armadale (3.3%) were among Australia's highest population growth rates.
Augusta-Margaret River in the state's south – a popular tourism and winery location – saw population increase by 2.9% (nearly double the national average).
Australian Capital Territory
The nation's official capital now has a population of 410,301 people, making Canberra Australia's eighth largest city. ACT's population growth rate of 1.7% was Australia's second highest. 49.3% of the annual increase was natural growth (births minus deaths) while 41% was net overseas migration.
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory has a population of 246,105, representing 1% the nation's total population. Between 2007 and 2013, population in the NT grew by an impressive 2 to 3% per year. 2016/17 growth of 0.1% was miserable.
59.4% of NT's total population reside in Australia's 'Top End', Darwin, where population increased by a paltry 691 people over the year.
About Simon Pressley
As Managing Director of Propertyology, Simon is passionate about helping everyday Australians build a more sustainable lifestyle through making astute property investment decisions. Propertyology provides advice for mum-and-dad investors and was recently named the 2018 REIQ Buyer's Agency Of The Year. Find out more at www.propertyology.com.au.


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The Columbia University Meals Sustainability Project supports the development of a just meals method. We champion sustainability and we supply the resources to help neighborhood governments and their industry partners realize and implement solutions for sustainable neighborhood economies. In this report, we discover the challenges that construction and engineering companies share when it comes to workers' rights, provide recommendations for ways forward, and assess the feasibility of a collaborative group to address the difficulties. The SRI utilizes the complete variety of the EBRD's instruments to finance sustainable resource projects across the Bank's area. As with any variety of resource, regardless of whether it is natural or man created, as the demand increases the scarcity of these sources continues to decrease.
The Centre has a core employees in the disciplines of fishing gear technology, conservation engineering, fisheries biology, fish behaviour, and mechanical engineering. It entails engaging shoppers via awareness-raising and education on sustainable consumption and lifestyles, supplying consumers with adequate information and facts by way of standards and labels and engaging in sustainable public procurement, amongst other people. It also acknowledges that human civilisation takes resources to sustain our contemporary way of life (1).
Other approaches, loosely primarily based about New Urbanism , are effectively lowering environmental impacts by altering the built atmosphere to build and preserve sustainable cities which help sustainable transport Residents in compact urban neighborhoods drive fewer miles, and have considerably lower environmental impacts across a range of measures, compared with those living in sprawling suburbs.
In the procedure, Whales and Dolphins had been hunted virtually to extinction, and demand for consumer goods saw the mass harvesting of a lot of Marine Turtle, Fish and Seal species for their skins, shells and oils, as effectively as their meat and other body parts.
The definition of sustainability" is the study of how organic systems function, remain diverse and generate anything it wants for the ecology to remain in balance. The mineral resources of the marine regions happen in many forms, such as in remedy in the water, as precipitates on the bottom and also under the ocean bed. With our population expansion, aging water and electrical infrastructure, and shrinking landfills, designing and constructing green and sustainable buildings makes practical sense from a utilitarian point of view. These methods are most likely to stay element of most water resources development tactics. Organic Resources Canada (NRCan) recognizes that sustainable development is an chance to harness our understanding and innovation to accomplish societal objectives and economic achievement.


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Single mum Tamzin Outhwaite says her kids have been 'begging her' to spend time with them as she struggles with long days on EastEnders set
The brave star opens up about life as a busy working mum after returning to EastEnders
TAMZIN Outhwaite has poured her heart out about the struggles of being a working mum.
The EastEnders veteran uploaded an emotional post on Instagram and said her children are "begging" her to put down her scripts to spend some time with them.
In a refreshingly honest post, the star has revealed she's struggling to juggle long days on set with life as a mum.
The actress has been putting in all the hours as she returns to Albert Square, as well as being a doting mum to her children, Florence and Marnie, with ex husband Tom Ellis.
Tamzin poured her heart out alongside a caption that states: "Parenting is f****** hard."
She wrote: "This week has been one of the longest, hardest, most brain frying weeks of work I have ever done.
"About to spend the weekend with my girls, and I know how fortunate and blessed I am to have them...
"But need to dig deep to find the energy needed to satisfy their hunger for their mama's undivided attention all weekend.
"(Last night they begged me to put my scripts down for one night)."
Tamzin signed off her post with a hashtag "hats off to single parents everywhere."
After reading her message, fans flocked to Instagram to offer support, with one writing: "You are a wonderful Mum, don't beat yourself up and don't try to be Super Mum", while another added: "And you're doing a great job!! Xx."
Mel has been a single mum since she divorced husband Tom in 2014 after he had an affair while working in America.
The Sun exclusively revealed that Tamzin would make a shock return to EastEnders reprising her role as Mel Owen in October 2017.
Mel first appeared on Albert Square in 1998 and was involved in high-profile storylines, including tying the knot with Ian Beale to mark the Millennium Eve celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999, and a problematic marriage to Steve Owen.
She left the Square in 2002, and returned over the new year.
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Sports Speaker Doris Burke has made history as the pioneering woman analyst for a Big East Men's Basketball Tournament, in addition to many other firsts as a female broadcaster in the sports industry. Beginning her career as an analyst for women's games at Providence College in 1990, Burke was not always the leading lady in men's sports. However, as her career progressed she began working for both the Big East Women's games and eventually the Big East Men's games in 1996.
An enduring supporter of the WNBA, Burke eventually became the lead analyst for ESPN's coverage of the league, working specifically with the New York Liberty team as the ongoing radio and television voice since 1997. While remaining a major voice in the WNBA, Burke began working with Dick Vitale on ESPN's top men's basketball team in 2003, in addition to working the NBA sidelines for ESPN and ABC. Leaving a lasting impact in the field of men's sports, Burke became the first female to not only become an analyst for a Big East Men's game, but she is also the first woman to become the main analyst on a male college basketball conference package, as well as the first female color analyst for a New York Knicks game on radio and television.
Burke continues to demonstrate her innate sports speaking talent, particularly as an announcer in the 2012 Big East Tournament, where she also worked as a reporter during the championship game. More recently, Burke agreed to serve as an NBA commentator for ESPN, signing a multiyear contract with the network in 2013. In the same year, she was also featured on ESPN's NBA pregame show Kia NBA Countdown, partnering with Jalen Rose and Avery Johnson for it.
A career worthy of numerous awards and honors, Burke has been inducted into many prestigious organizations, such as the Institute for International Sport's Scholar Athlete Hall of Fame in 2004, and the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. She has also been given awards such as the Rudy Award as the Best Face in Sports Television by USA Today in 2003, as well as the 2012 Silver Anniversary Award in honor of her work in the NCAA as a significant keynote speaker.


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Backgammon Terms and Definitions
If you are new to the game of Backgammon you will no doubt want to increase your knowledge by taking advantage of the various strategy and tactical guides available on the Internet. Problems can arise, however, as you come across terms and words that you may not understand.
The following list includes some of the most commonly used terms n Backgammon.
Let us start with the board. The Backgammon board is divided into two four squares, two for each player. Each has a home board and an outer board. The triangles are called points. The space separating the boards is called the bar.
The objects that are being moved about are variously called checkers, counters or stones. A checker that occupies a point is called a blot. A blot can be removed from its position on the point by an opposing checker. When that happens, it is called a hit, and the hit checker is placed on the bar.
The term anchor is used when you have two or more checkers inside your opponent's home board. When your checkers are on the four or five point, it is called an advanced anchor. Connectivity is a term used to indicate that your checkers are arranged in such a way that they are no more than six points from each other.
A double is a situation wherein, before a Backgammon game an offer is made to double the stakes. If the opponent refuses, he loses the game automatically and the current stakes. If the player accepts the double, the player who made the offer turns over the doubling cube, which is used to monitor the wagers.
Other terms that you will come across are pip and pip counts. A pip in Backgammon can refer to either a numeric value on a die, or the distance between points on the Backgammon board. The pip count denotes the number that a player needs to bear off (remove) his checkers from the board.
The effectiveness of a lot of Backgammon strategies depend on the rules employed in a game or tournament. The Crawford Rule states that the doubling cube cannot be utilized when a player is within a point of winning. A Crawford Game means the doubling cube is not allowed.
The Jacoby Rule states that if a player has not offered to double in the game, gammons (losing player fails to bear off any checkers) and backgammon (losing player fails to bear off and leaves one or more on the bar) count for a single game.
Although far from complete, this list of terms should enable you to understand some of the terms and definitions used in backgammon articles. You will be able to follow the strategies and discussions, which will help increase you knowledge of the game.


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Lesson Overview:
Based on the work of Margriet Ruurs, this is a tremendously powerful lesson for helping children understand the importance of community or school libraries. Quite often children in developed countries take for granted the many privileges they enjoy. In this lesson, they get a glimpse of the countless ways communities all over the world receive library books and the dedicated volunteers and librarians who deliver them.
Lesson Plan:
Suggested Grades:
To understand that books are valued in cultures around the world.
AASL 2.3.2: Consider diverse and global perspectives in drawing conclusions.
AASL 4.4.4: Interpret new information based on cultural and social context.
Suggested Time:
35-45 minutes
Success Criteria:
Students will identify four different countries and the ways library books are brought to school children in those countries/cultures.
Lesson Outline:
1. Introduction:
Ask which of the children have books at home. Ask which of the children have libraries in their home country(ies). Ask why books are so prevalent in homes around the world. Emphasize that most cultures value education and believe that having access to books is a great way to help children learn and enable them to have fun.
2. Main:
Summarize or paraphrase relevant sections of the text. The book is too long to read it in its entirety, so I usually choose a few different sections. The kids respond particularly well to:
- Australia – Trucks (a familiar transport vehicle).
- Finland – Boats (also familiar to most students).
- Thailand – Elephant! Describe the rural northern Thailand terrain and let them guess . . . sometimes they can!
- Kenya – Camel. They love looking at this picture. Ask if they think you, as a librarian, could organize the mules, camels, or elephants!
I like to start with highlights from the foreword, because in it the author explains that she wondered how kids around the world got their books. Point out that she had a question, did her own personal inquiry, kept notes, and eventually turned that work into a book. This is a fabulous example of a grown-up doing inquiry work. Our students learn through inquiry, and this shows how powerful and effective personal inquiry can be!
Be sure to use a globe so that the children know where in the world the examples come from.
3. Conclusion:
Reiterate that books are brought to kids around the world because people believe that having access to books is important for children.
additional Resources:
- My Librarian is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World by Margriet Ruurs.
- Student Handout (see attached.)
- Map or globe
Key Terms:
Libraries, Traveling Libraries, Librarians, Camels
Recommended Texts:
- My Librarian is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World by Margriet Ruurs.


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Hotfix will be for both iOS and Android. It can sometimes take a bit longer to get updates through the Apple store but hang in there and check back later today : )Ypho said:Will this hotfix also work for iOS devices? Because otherwise iOS users will not be able to make fair battles until release.
Denzik said:@Spijker - If your app still shows version number 1.5.0 Then you have not correctly updated. This could be an incorrect out of sync issue with your phone believing it had downloaded the update, but it not actually getting the correct download from the server that did the distribution. It's rare when it happens, but it's not impossible that the update your device thought it got was not actually a different version. Please make sure your device shows 1.5.1. Hope this helps!


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International training course «Effective FM Professional»
The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) and Academy of Real Estate (ARE) are inviting you to the international training course «Effective FM Professional»
Date: 29 November – 01 December 2018.
Time: 09:00 – 18.00
Venue: Moscow
Who should attend?
- Senior Facilities Managers or experienced junior FMs who aspire to that position
- Those considering the BIFM Level 4 qualification
- Those wanting to refresh or assess their knowledge of the FM Professional Standards
Learning Outcomes
- A better understanding of the role of a Senior Facilities Professional in strategy development, setting service requirements, procurement, stakeholder and risk management
- Techniques for managing FM operations at a senior level, FM management systems, performance management, finance and resource management, motivating staff and ensuring delivery
- Ways of maintaining effective FM operations including key performance indicators (KPIs), continuous improvement, problem solving, prevention measures and corrective actions
- Project management and change management techniques
The British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM) was founded in 1993.
BIFM is the professional body for facilities management, we support professionals across the world in attaining, developing and maintaining essential skills in the discipline of facilities management.
Our Mission: The professional body responsible for promoting excellence in facilities management for the benefit of practitioners, the economy and society. BIFM as a part of the global organization Glorax FM is also developing standards for the FM field.
With BIFM as a facilities management professional you can build your skillset and develop professionally to achieve all-round excellence in facilities management.
Whether it's to help deliver outstanding FM in your current role or to reach long-term career goals, we can support you throughout your FM career.
- Get professional recognition
- Develop skills
BIFM first time in Russia in partnership with the training center Academy of Real Estate (ARE) are announcing course «Effective FM Professional».
BIFM has formally adopted the definition of Facility management (FM).
"FM – Facility Management – Organizational function which integrates people, place and process within the built environment with the purpose of improving the quality of life of people and the productivity of the core business."
Facilities management encompasses multi-disciplinary activities within the built environment and the management of their impact upon people and the workplace.
Effective facilities management, combining resources and activities, is vital to the success of any organization. At a corporate level, it contributes to the delivery of strategic and operational objectives. On a day-to day level, effective facilities management provides a safe and efficient working environment, which is essential to the performance of any business – whatever its size and scope.
Within this fast-growing discipline, facilities management professionals have extensive responsibilities for providing, maintaining and developing myriad services. These range from property strategy, space management and communications infrastructure to building maintenance, administration and contract management.
What do you get at the training course?
Intensive course program offers a comprehensive set of competencies and tools to use them to achieve strategic objectives and ensure long-term success in your business. Upon successful passing of the exam after completing the course participants receive a certificate "Assessed CPD certificate" or Certificate of Professional Development.
Is it for you?
This course is for you if you are in a senior FM role looking to assess your knowledge and build on your existing skillset, or you are an experienced junior FM looking to aspire to a more senior position.
What will you learn during 3-day training course?
You will cover the following topics:
Quality and Stakeholder Management; Part 1, 2 and 3
- understanding stakeholder objectives, requirements and value
- managing stakeholder relationships
- customer feedback and continuous improvement
Policy Implementation and Change; Part 1 and 2
- FM organizational and service requirements, targets and objectives
- project management and change management techniques
Property Asset Management
- managing property and fixed assets
Finance and Procurement; Part 1 and 2
- procuring FM goods and services
- financial, budget and resource management
- meeting FM compliance, risk and business continuity requirements
Service Delivery; Part 1 and 2
- ensuring the delivery of FM service provisions
- problem solving, prevention measures and corrective actions
People; Part 1 and 2
- HR and the facilities manager
- motivate, manage and develop FM teams
Management Systems
- facilities management systems and key performance indicators
The above topics will be split in to three days, (day one – Strategy Development, day two – Managing Performance, day three – Sustainable Success)and help you better understand your role, identify competency areas and acknowledge areas for further study.
Learning techniques within this course
- instructor led discussion
- group workshops
- self-analysis
- written exercises
- lecture
- set reading
- presentation
- action planning
- individual exercises
Learning resources
- comprehensive course handbook
- profiling tools for yourself
- profiling tools for others
- document templates
- process flow charts
- worksheets
- equivalent to 18 hours CPD
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Well crafted, these pure linen bedding have been pre-washed for softness and durability. The more you wash the linen, the softer it becomes.
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A1L Digital, (formerly known as was Widge) was founded in 2010, They afford marketers a host of cutting edge opportunities in the mobile and online applications arena. A1L Digital develops highly flexible and configurable mobile applications that can be used in virtually any business. All applications are developed with customers in mind as user experience key.


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The Massachusetts early Canada goose–hunting season began Tuesday, Sept. 5, one half-hour before sunrise, and will end one half-hour after sunset on Friday, Sept. 22. This is the first year the early goose season is allowing hunting to go one half-hour after sunset.
The timing of the season and the daily bag limit of seven birds is intended to reduce growing populations of geese that have lost their natural urge to migrate with the seasons.
Canada geese feed on young growth, and pull vegetation up by the roots. The large birds also produce from a half-pound to a pound and half of droppings per day, according to state wildlife biologists. Farmers and shell fishermen concerned about the damaging effects of a large, nonmigratory goose population on Island water bodies and agricultural fields often welcome the sound of booming shotguns in the early fall.
A study by Dr. Stephen H. Jones of the University of New Hampshire Jackson Estuarine Laboratory in Durham, N.H. ("E. coli Ribotyping for Identifying Sources of Fecal Contamination in the Salt Ponds of Martha's Vineyard"), identified geese and cormorants as significant sources of E. coli bacteria in Trapps, Eel, Farm, and Sengekontacket ponds.
In 2008, the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (DFW) increased the daily bag limit from five to seven geese in an effort to further reduce the number of geese that have made Massachusetts their year-round home.
According to a history of goose management provided on the DFW website, prior to the 1930s it was unusual for geese to nest in Massachusetts. That is no longer the case.


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May 30, 2013
"The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day." Dr Seuss – The Cat in the Hat All photos copyright Claire Shropshall
May 19, 2013
Diamonte-shaped sunburn, lambrini in the park, scantily clad ladies tanning on roundabouts – it can only mean one thing. Spring hath sprung in London Town. The ice sheet of winter has finally cracked, dousing us in sunshine and dressing our trees in glorious, lustrous greenery that smells better than a Lenor advert. We didn't think […]
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The owner of a cat who was subject to an appalling act of cruelty in Blyth, Northumberland last week is thanking everyone involved in helping her beloved pet get home safe.
The young female cat, a Russian Blue-type now known to be called 'Piper', was rescued from a bottle bank at Asda on Cowpen Road on Thursday (24 April) where she had been dumped with a plastic bag over her head and all four legs tied together with elastic bands and string.
Owner Stephanie Emsley saw the story on Facebook. She said:
"I just knew it was her.
"I wasn't sure whether she was okay or not and when I rang the vets I was crying my eyes out.
"Everyone has been brilliant – the lady at the vets, the lady at RSPCA Felledge, the inspector and the people who found her and got her out of the bottle bank at Asda. I'm so grateful to them and can't thank them enough."
I'm convinced someone took her
Piper had been missing from home in Cramlington, 3.3 miles from the Asda store where she was found, since 17 March when she disappeared, uncharacteristically, during the daytime.
Stephanie said:
"She wouldn't usually go out in the day, normally spending most of it sleeping and going out at night. She was such a friendly cat, too friendly really. I'm convinced someone took her.
"She is much more timid since coming home and is frightened of our dog who she used to curl up with.
"We are just so glad to have her back."
Customers alerted staff to the cat's plight just after 11am after hearing meowing coming from inside. They then called us.
Diane Barnes, who works at the store, climbed into the bottle bank to get the cat out:
"It was so distressing.
"I just can't believe what people are capable of doing, she is the loveliest cat.
"After freeing her and getting her out of the bottle bank I just cuddled her till the RSPCA arrived."
She was literally surrounded by broken glass
Piper was taken to a local veterinary practice where she was checked over. Amazingly, she had no more than a couple of superficial cuts to her back legs.
RSPCA Inspector Trevor Walker said:
"From speaking with the owners Stephanie and her partner Michael it does seem as though Piper may have been stolen, and I'm concerned to hear that two other cats are missing without a trace from nearby too.
"We've had some information that a grey cat has been seen around Asda over the past couple of weeks, and at the moment I think whoever took her may have dumped her when she wouldn't settle with them.
"We don't know who tied this bag over her head, bound her legs together and dumped her in the bottle bank, but it seems pretty clear what their intentions were.
"It's a miracle that she was rescued and that we've been able to re-unite her with her owners.
"I want to appeal for anyone with any information about who did this to call the RSPCA on 0300 1234 999 and ask to leave a message for me"
We always urge people to ensure their pets are microchipped as it is the best way of ensuring they can be traced back to their owners if found. This is available for a small fee at vet practices and local RSPCA branches often do reduced or free microchipping.
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To help us investigate cases like this please donate online or text HELP to 78866 to give £3 (Text costs £3 + one standard network rate message).


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So Bernie Madoff is under house arrest and therefore out of view. Already people seem to be losing interest in the story, as the government is keeping everything hush-hush and there's nothing new to feed the information appetite of the public.
But if you are still as obsessed with Madoff as we are, you may soon have a way of getting a closer look at the probably psychopathic Ponzi schemer. You see, his penthouse might be up for sale. Already brokers are stopping by. And since Madoff is stuck inside, you might even catch a glimpse of the man himself.
The New York Post broke the story:
Top New York real-estate brokers have been asked to visit Madoff's tony penthouse at 133 E. 64th St., between Lexington and Park avenues, to assess its value, with an eye toward unloading it, one of the agents said yesterday.
"They want to sell it," said the broker, who did not want to be identified...
Because he must remain inside the two-story apartment as a condition of his $10 million bail, Madoff will be in awkward proximity to brokers when they eyeball its four bedrooms, at least five bathrooms, kitchen and library.
"They'll probably have him in the dining room when we're in the bedrooms and vice versa," said the broker.
Here's a bigger shot of the floorplan (as requested). We understand that this is a plan of two penthouse apartments, one of which is Madoff's.


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Last week's workouts were back to the usual routine, with my usual food, my usual work schedule, and usual day to day life. Sigh. I love it but I'm already looking forward to the next big think. Which sadly, isn't for awhile. Oh well. Bring on the routine.
After wondering where all the January Joiners were at the gym last week, it looked like today was the day to get started. It wasn't crazy busy but there were more new faces than the usual crowd at zero dark thirty. I really don't mind a crowded gym. I've been working out a long time so know many variations of exercises. I can improvise. What I do mind is when people camp out and grab every single DB, med ball or other piece of equipment at one time. If you want to do a circuit workout with a lot of equipment, a home workout would be a better option. End rant. 🙂
30 minutes Elliptical, 10 minutes easy, 60 sec hard/60 sec recovery x 8, 4 minutes easy
strength training:
Bench press
Smith press split squats
squat with plate grab and press
banded pull ups
eccentric pull ups
cable SL knee up/row
TRX inverted row
TRX pistol squats
Med ball crunch/toss
Med ball Russian twists
plank/side plank SL balance
5.17 miles, 8:50 avg/pace
I woke up to a thin layer of snow on the ground and more coming down. Despite our lack of snow so far this year, I've been lucky to have two snowy runs in the last week. Kyle and I met up for easy paced miles making our own tracks. There were a few icy spots but nothing to slick. There really is something magical about a snow run(see pic at the top).
Later in the day, I went to see my PT who I worked with in the fall for my plantar fasciitis. The thing with my Achilles is lingering and I wanted him to check it out to see what I should be doing. The good news is that nothing is torn and I caught the thickening early. Matt said no matter how much rest, foam rolling and stretching I'd do, the thickening wasn't going to go away. I needed Graston and ultrasound to break it up. Yippee! If you've ever had Graston on your Achilles, you know that it's nothing but pure joy. Perfect since my word of the year is enJOY, right? Anyway, I've noticed a huge difference so hopefully this will be a short time rehab stay.
30 minutes ARC Trainer, 10 minutes easy, 1 min hard, 1 min recovery x 10
strength training:
DB bench press
Reverse lunge w/ DB shoulder press
Barbell hip thrusters
Barbell reverse grip rows
Banded pull ups
Eccentric pull ups
SL KB deadlifts
SL side lunge to balance w/ KB
Bench step ups w/ bicep curl
Plank/side plank to SL balance
5 miles, 8:38 avg/pace
Remember 10 years ago when you would never meet up with people you met on the internet? Funny how times change. Thanks to the power of social media, I met up with another new running friend for the first time. Kevin and I have known each other for a bit but I just recently met Jen. Of course, even though we "met" through social media, we have so many mutual friends that I'm sure we would have connected at some point anyway. It's a small world after all. 🙂
Morning Flow Yoga @ Bending Bodhi
Hip Hop Yoga @ Bending Bodhi
A live DJ spinning all the best tracks (hello Tupac!) while we do 10,000 Chaturanga push ups? Yes, PLEASE! We sweated, we danced and had a blast. I love when Bending Bodhi puts on this class.
10 mile run, 8:43 avg/pace, 430 ft elev gain
With a temperature of 8 degrees and a real feel of -4, I'm so glad I had company on this run. Seven of us met up for a fun run in the sun. Thankfully, there was sun – That made a huge difference on the warmth factor. I actually think I over dressed because I was too warm for at least most of the run. A portion of my Balaclava that was on my neck froze. At one point I started to question if there was a hidden chin strap on it. Nope, it was just frozen solid.
And FYI – I really, really did not plan to run 10 miles. Originally it was 8 miles but then when the planned route goes over…opps. The good news is that there's no change in my Achilles status. Just don't tell my PT how far I ran!
Rest day!
Originally it was supposed to be a ski/snowboard day but Lukas came down with a stomach bug Friday evening and still wasn't feeling the greatest on Sunday. So Avery and Ron went to the mountain while Lukas and I stayed home. I made the mistake of watching a few episodes of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. It turns out that ALL of my workout/running clothes give me joy. And now with her nifty folding technique, I have more room in my drawers. Time to go shopping! Hahaha!
How was your week in workouts?
Linking up with Hoho and Wendy for the weekly workout wrap up.


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Contact Information
- Phone: (631) 375-4666
- Website: www.michaelsgould.com
Specialties & Experience
General Specialties: Dogs and Police Practices & Procedures
Specialty Focus: Dog bites, canine forensics, scent dog detection work, explosives canine work, bomb dog work, cadaver dog handling, narcotics and drug detection, police dog deployment, use of force, canine crime scene
Education: Bachelor's of Science, State University of New York; Graduate, FBI National Academy; Graduate, Canine Handler, Suffolk County Police Canine Academy; Graduate, Canine Handler, NYPD Canine Academy
Years in Practice: 35
Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs: 6
Additional Information
Michael S. Gould is a court-qualified expert in dog bite analysis and canine aggression with more than 30 years of experience training, supervising, and deploying canine teams for private and government agencies. He was a founding member of the NYPD canine unit and later moved to the Nassau County Police Department, where he achieved the rank of Lieutenant and was appointed to the position of Commanding Officer of the Department's Canine Unit. As a New York State certified canine trainer and examiner, Michael has evaluated canine teams for law enforcement agencies and has extensive experience identifying and evaluating dog behavior. His canine scent detection company (Canine Consultants International) was one of the first private companies to deploy canine teams at Ground Zero after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack. Michael now owns and operates a pet care business (Hounds Town Inc.), and regularly evaluates the temperaments of dogs for their suitability as pets and their ability to interact non-aggressively in pack environments for his business and private clients. He regularly supervises and studies canine pack behaviors and has significant experience providing court-qualified expert testimony in dog bites, animal aggression, use of force, canine forensics, scent dog detection, and police canine tactics. Michael is a 1998 graduate of the FBI National Academy.


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Danlers PIR Thermostat Control for Cooling User Adjustable
For the automatic control of electric cooling loads. The passive infra-red person detector detects whether somebody is present in the vicinity. If somebody is present the cooling is controlled by the thermostat. There is a 'deadzone' adjustment and a run-on time adjustment to avoid excessive switching of the cooling load. If nobody is present the cooling thermostat remains off until the room temperature reaches its upper threshold. This upper threshold is set using the 'offset' temperature adjustment.


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Monitoring, supervising and the maintenance of buildings, property, equipment optimization of inventory and other operational elements
Without correct management of complicated business spaces, performing daily operations in business can become bogged down by asset maintenance inconsistency and equipment stoppage. So, it is very necessary to have proper property management software that can assist you in managing asset and property well. It's your responsibility to keep your workstation and equipment in the most favorable condition all round while keeping in mind your employees' shelter. Obviously, the task becomes more complicated when you start relying on traditional techniques such as paper and pen or spreadsheets. But the question is why to waste time in such a lengthy procedure when there is good facility management software solution. Facility management software offers a wide range of multifunctional features that enable you to competently administer your assets.
AYN InfoTech can offer you tailor-made facility management software that has a capacity to monitor, maintain and execute activities workforce from anywhere. The activities are measurable through your mobile application and web. The software has been designed in such a way so that it can manage equipment and assets, simplify the work order method, and condense maintenance costs.
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The software is the ideal solution for businesses with a vast scope of handling amounts of assets, property, assets, and equipment of your business.
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Smarter facility management for complex environments gives you a tension free mind and can maintain, run your business operation without any hurdle. From supervising work requests to keeping track of workers, all of your facilities maintenance challenges can be resolved at one go.