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The Croods
March 22, 2013 by Kiko Martinez
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Starring: Nicholas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds
Directed by: Kirk De Micco ("Space Chimps") and Chris Sanders ("How to Train Your Dragon")
Written by: Kirk De Micco ("Space Chimps") and Chris Sanders ("How to Train Your Dragon")
They may not be the modern-Stone Age family most are familiar with in the cartoon caveman world, but "The Croods" is just as satisfying as any brontosaurus burger you're likely to find at a prehistoric drive-thru. Sure, the characterizations can sway into familiar territory, but with some overall rock-solid voice acting and directors/writers Kirk De Micco ("Space Chimps") and Chris Sanders ("How to Train Your Dragon") digging deep into their imaginations for some fun storytelling, "The Croods" is a family-friendly winner in any era.
While the title of the film isn't a great way to introduce us to the family (they might as well have called them The Uncooths or The Roughinskys), "The Croods" makes up for it in entertaining albeit recognizable characters. Grug (Nicholas Cage) is the overly-protective patriarch of the family, who uses fear-mongering to get his family to always stay safe in the confines of their cave. Monstrous cat-like creatures roam the terrain, after all. His rebellious teenage daughter Eep (Emma Stone), however, is curious to know what she is missing in a world so full of wonder ("Little Mermaid" anyone?). Rounding out the family tree is Eep's mother Ugga (Catherine Keener), the logical thinker of the family who understands where her daughter is coming from; Eep's dopey brother Thunk (Clark Duke), who is basically Chris Griffin ("Family Guy") in woolly mammoth clothing; Gran (Cloris Leachman), who technically isn't a Crood since she's Grugs's mother-in-law, but still delivers some old-lady laughs; and Sandy (Randy Thom), a toddler that acts more like a Gremlin than baby.
When the family meet Guy (Ryan Reynolds), a more civilized version their Neanderthal selves, Ugg is skeptical of all the fancy inventions he introduces them to like fire and shoes. Driven from their home after a natural disaster, the Croods are forced to journey through strange lands to find a new place to inhabit. During their barefoot road trip, the family learns that experiencing new things is all part of life and doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be eaten whole by a Sabre-Toothed Tiger.
It's a wonderful message for kids and stops short before rubbing their faces in it. The colorful and incredibly striking animation and funny sight gags and slapstick are what will keep children under the age of eight the most fascinated anyway. Parents, too, shouldn't find themselves bored with a collection of exotic animals and settings. The creativity makes the Croods' cave-hunting all the more exciting. The deeper family story also never slow the narrative down in any way. In fact, "The Croods" says a lot more about the father/daughter relationship than Pixar's "Brave" said about mothers and daughters last year.
Like in some animated films, there is a scene-stealing secondary character like the Minions in "Despicable Me" or the sly penguins in the "Madagascar" franchise. So take heed parents because Belt, Guy's loveable sloth who he keeps around his waist, will keep everyone laughing with his cliffhanger-inspired crooning. If you're lucky, the plush version (and not the stinky alive version) will be on your kids' Christmas lists this year.
Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders – How to Train Your Dragon
March 26, 2010 by Kiko Martinez
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If filmmaker Dean DeBlois had his own dragon to do as he pleased, he admits he might do a little damage midair.
"That's every kid's dream," said DeBlois, whose animated movie "How to Train Your Dragon" opens March 26. "To get on the back of something that could take flight like that would be unbelievable. I would crush every mountain I could find!"
Co-director/co-writer Chris Sanders interjects with his plans as if he had thought about it many times before.
"I would bypass traffic," Sanders said gleefully, "and torment my enemies!"
As veterans in the animation industry, there hasn't been much time for destruction as there has for creating new and fantastic worlds and characters. The last time DeBlois, 39, and Sanders, 50, directed and wrote the same movie was for 2002's "Lilo & Stitch," a film that also featured Sanders as the voice of the troublesome title alien.
In late 2008, the duo reunited for "Dragon," a story about scrawny Viking named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) who captures and befriends a rare dragon he calls Toothless. As he becomes familiar with the mysterious beast, Hiccup realizes they are not the destructive creatures everyone thought they were. The film is based on a British children's novel by Cressida Cowell.
During an interview with me, DeBlois and Sanders talked about why they were brought onto the project, how much input they had on the design of the dragons, and how they were able to put a unique twist on a mythological subject that has been featured on the big screen before.
I read the two of you were named as directors late into the process. How was your role explained to you coming onto a film that was already in production?
Dean DeBlois: When I first came onto the movie in 2008, they had already spent a couple of years adapting the book rather faithfully. They discovered the story didn't really lend itself to a 90-minute feature film. We were in charge of aging up the project a little, bringing it to an epic scale, and trying to make more of a fantasy adventure out of the elements.
Did that mean you had to start from scratch?
Chris Sanders: We took the story back to scratch. The environments and the characters almost all had been built already. It became a little bit of a puzzle because we had to use those existing elements. It was more about getting back to the basis of the story. We make some very big editorial decisions. In the book there are elements of dragons and Vikings at war. There are also elements of dragons and Vikings being cooperative with each other. We had to decide and go one way or the other. We went with Vikings and dragons as mortal enemies. That was good for Hiccup's character because that meant when he befriended the dragon he was taking the greatest risk he could take.
Were any of the characters changed once you came on board?
DD: Our character designer gave us a diverse range of different breeds of dragons and we were able to give them very specific personality traits. Toothless was redesigned so he could be a larger, more powerful, and more menacing.
Explain what directors do on the set of an animated film aside from working with the voice actors.
CS: It's all about staying in touch with the story. As directors on this film we attended to the story. Whether it was working with someone who is lighting a scene or producing effects for the scene, it's all about seeing that those things are contributing to the story in the right way. Because the story is constantly evolving it's important that we are there for all the critical story moments.
There is some great voice work in this film. Talk about the talent you had and how you got those performances out of them.
DD: In this particular film, not only did we have the great ad lib talents of Jay Baruchel and Jonah Hill, we had the opportunity to get some of the actors to work together in the sound booth at the same time, which is sort of a rarity in animation. It didn't feel cobbled together.
CS: We always encourage every actor to ad lib and build on what we've written. All of them were fantastic. It was critical to have them riff off one another. They just need to be as flavorful and as funny as possible.
How to Train Your Dragon
March 26, 2010 by Kiko Martinez
Filed under Reviews
Starring: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler
Directed by: Dean DeBlois ("Lilo & Stich") and Chris Sanders ("Lilo & Stitch")
Written by: Dean DeBlois ("Lilo & Stich") and Chris Sanders ("Lilo & Stitch")
While most animation studios will probably be restless until June when Pixar unleashes the goliath that is "Toy Story 3," that doesn't mean any of them should raise their white flag just yet.
Sure, Pixar might still be considered the leader in its field (it's picked up the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the last three years in a row), but over the last few years other animation studios are getting the hint: no matter how spellbinding the computer-generated characters are, the narrative also has to be first-rate.
While DreamWorks Animation has had its ups and downs since branching off as its own entity in 2004, the studio proved to have the talent necessary to deliver something as invigorating as 2008's "Kung Fu Panda." Of course, the "Shrek" franchise is still the studio's moneymaker, so when something comes along like "How to Train Your Dragon," a series of British children's books that could possibly spawn a new string of movies, it's not surprising that DreamWorks heads wanted to make sure they got the first one just right.
And to be quite honest, these fire-breathers definitely have some bite.
In "Dragon," one of the books in a series written by Cressida Cowell, geek-for-hire Jay Baruchel ("She's Out of My League") lends his voice to the lead character, Hiccup, a scrawny little Viking who doesn't look like his burly father Stoic (Gerard Butler) or any of the other savage warriors that make up his colony.
Hiccup might dream to one day slay a dragon (they're apparently as rampant as roaches and destroy everything) but without the upper body strength to lift a sledgehammer or do anything else that makes a Viking a conquering force in medieval times, Hiccup is better left to tinker with his brainy inventions and teenage self-consciousness. He is, however, able to prove that enthusiasm is just as important as talent when he does the impossible and captures his own dragon.
Despite doing it in an unconventional way (and without anyone noticing his feat), Hiccup has done more that just bring down the beast; he has netted the most feared and mysterious dragons in all of the land: the Night Fury. This is one of the treats in "Dragon." Not all of the dragons are designed in the same mold. Adapting Cowell's story, directors/writers Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders give each breed of dragon their own distinct traits and personalities.
As Hiccup bonds with his new friend, who he names Toothless, he realizes dragon are not the horrible creatures Vikings thought they were. When the colony decides they should allow Hiccup his chance to demonstrate his warrior spirit by going through dragon training, which will later lead to making his first kill, he finds himself at a crossroad.
Now, with a deeper understanding of the species, Hiccup must find a way to make his father proud without bringing harm to the misunderstood dragons. With a team of misfit Viking peers training beside him, including love interest Astrid (America Ferrera), it's only a matter of time before Hiccup's secret becomes far too massive for him to keep silent.
While many of the elements are familiar, "Dragon" is a lively family action-comedy that shines especially when both Vikings and dragons share the screen. Whether it's Hiccup and Toothless creating a friendship or the "Gladiator"-like sequences of fire-breathing dragons and risk-taking teenage Vikings fight it out on the battleground, "Dragon" is a neat adventure.
The 3-D animation also works in "Dragon" especially for those exhilarating scenes where Hiccup and his pet dragon sail across the infinite sky like the protagonists in "Avatar." It's a sight to behold for children and adults alike who are tired of unoriginal animation that barely flutters off the ground.


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The Wellington College Counseling Speaker Series provides students with invaluable insight into the world of higher education. Robust, yet meticulously curated, the list of speakers gives upper schoolers a comprehensive overview of a diverse array of college experiences and offerings.
The first event was held in cooperation with the Wellington Art Department and the topic focused on pursuing the arts in high school and in college. The second addressed ways in which students can have small community experiences while enrolled in public universities. One session gave information and advice about alumni interviews for colleges, while another concentrated on the advantages of participating in summer programs. The guests were affiliated with The Tyler School of Art at Temple University, the University of Vermont, Brown University, and The Joyce Ivy Foundation.
Brittany Knight from The Joyce-Ivy Foundation, affiliated with Harvard and several other colleges, shared with students information about supporting various exciting pre-college summer programs. Wellington parents Fred Coons P '20, a Brown University alumnus, and Carolina Lopez-Ruiz P '19 '27, a professor at The Ohio State University, spoke about best practices for alumni interviews and the endless possibilities of majoring in the humanities in college, respectively.
Wellington alumna Maddy McClinchie '17 talked about her recent transition to college, and alumnus Dr. Ajit Chaudhari '91, a mechanical engineer who runs his own biomechanics laboratory at The Ohio State University, shared his own college journey from MIT to Stanford. He emphasized the importance of being a well-rounded student. "Even if you're interested in science, humanities are important," he said. "Communication and understanding people can help you in all fields."
The many different perspectives and personal histories shared in the College Counseling Speaker Series advantages students tremendously as they consider what experience they are looking for after graduation and in life after Wellington.
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The City of Caldwell has established by ordinance the time and days in which to hold regular City Traffic Commission Meetings. These meetings are to be held at 10:15 a.m. on the first Monday of the month. In the event of a holiday, the meetings have historically been held on the following Tuesday. Click on the Meeting Calendar above to see when each meeting is scheduled. The agenda for any upcoming meeting will be posted at least 2 business days before each meeting. Each meeting agenda will confirm the date, time, and place of that meeting.
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Our Vision for Accessibility at the Schulich School of Music
The Schulich School of Music is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in our learning and employment environment, our artistic and social interactions, and our engagement with all communities.
The School aims to foster a climate of understanding and mutual respect for the dignity and worth of all persons. We strive to identify, remove, and prevent barriers that hinder full and meaningful participation in all aspects of campus life. All members of the Schulich School of Music community share the responsibility of supporting these values and goals.
In Fall 2017, the Dean established an Accessibility Working Group with representation from faculty, staff and students.
Their first actions are:
- to develop a Vision Statement in consultation with the Schulich community.
- to guide ongoing actions aiming to improve accessibility, inclusion and diversity.
Their ongoing mandate is:
- to evaluate service to the public, teaching and learning, the workplace, and the physical environment at the School of Music.
- to develop short-term and long-term strategies for improvement in all these areas.
The implementation plan is being developed in partnership with other units at McGill who have expertise in these issues.
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Mercedes-Benz USA needed a chauffeur staffing and transportation management partner for its June 2012 media event at Primland Resort, a luxury Virginia golf retreat featured in the Washington Post and Golf Digest. Mercedes-Benz invited 60 automotive journalists to put its new crossover 2013 GLK350 to the test on scenic roads throughout the Virginia countryside.
As a long-time driver staffing partner for Mercedes-Benz and its marketing agencies, WeDriveU has delivered thousands of service hours for Experiential Marketing programs ranging from auto shows and press trial drives to corporate sponsorships and lifestyle media events. With the goal of offering a flawless luxury test drive experience for media, Mercedes-Benz selected WeDriveU's transportation management team for this event.
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Upon arrival at the Greensboro, North Carolina airport, journalists were handed keys to experience the new GLK350's features during their one hour and thirty minute drive to the resort. To augment the journalists' time behind the wheel, Mercedes-Benz partner OSK Marketing & Communications arranged knowledgeable chauffeurs and shuttle drivers from WeDriveU to transport guests and vehicles throughout their stay.
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|Police Appeal over Brook Green Break In
Gold bars and coins worth 200,000 stolen
Hammersmith and Fulham Police are appealing for information following a burglary in Brook Green which resulted in thieves getting away with gold worth almost 200,000 pounds.
Police say they were called on Tuesday July 12 at approximately 12.30pm to the Brook Green area in Hammersmith.
A substantial amount of gold coins and bars were stolen with a market value of just under £200,000.
Anyone who recognises the gold or may have any information is asked to contact DC Owen Coulson based in the Burglary Squad on 0208 246 2678 or to remain anonymous, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
No arrests have been made so far and police say their enquiries continue.
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Ava, Addie, and Lucy are beautiful little girls and I relish in any opportunity to get them in front of my camera.


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LATEST service cuts will leave Ellesmere Port completely without buses after about 7pm on Sundays.
And operating company Arriva has also withdrawn a route serving major housing estates in the town.
Arriva has axed the 411 and 412 Chester-Ellesmere Port-New Brighton Sunday evening service, with the last journey from Chester now at 7.20pm.
Passenger representative Peter Zemroch, of Little Sutton, said: 'It is an absolute disgrace that a town of 60,000 people has no buses at all on Sunday evenings, and precious few on others.
'Many people are prisoners in their own homes because of this. Only the train service remains.
'Cheshire ratepayers can only look on with envy at the bus and rail network enjoyed in Merseyside.'
And passenger Ken Rickett slammed Arriva's cutting of the 411 Birken-head-Ellesmere Port-Chester route along Rossmore Road West, Rother Drive and Westminster Road.
It means that Rossmore and Westminster passengers must now use the revised 111 service, which calls at Grace Road and George Street once an hour.
Mr Rickett, of Rossmore, said: 'We used to have three buses - two Arriva and one coming from Mold - every hour.
'Now we only have one bus every hour to service Westminster and Rossmore which are two big estates.
'It will affect a lot of elderly people and could leave some housebound because they won't come off the estate if they can't get back home easily.'
Derek Bowes, commercial manager for Arriva North West and Wales, said: 'We took the decision to withdraw the 411 Sunday evening service in March this year, as it was not carrying enough customers to justify a fully commercial service. However, it does continue to operate during Sunday daytimes.
'From Sunday, April 23, the 401 service (renumbered from 411 to run Monday to Saturday) was also re-routed to operate via Overpool Road and Sutton Way.
'This was due to customer research indicating the revised route would be of more benefit to more customers. We do value customer feedback however, and will continue to monitor this situation.'


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Part I: I talk about coming back
Happy day-after-President's Day to everyone. I hope you are surrounded by people you love and make you happy. After a 13-month hiatus from posting here, I am back. I hope to continue sharing not just useful online resources for school, but interesting insights about living and learning. I miss having a place to not just share my thoughts about the work I am doing, but actually documenting the ever-evolving role of the school librarian.
With that short re-introduction done, let me begin by saying that I am excited about relaunching this project that I began way back in December 2007. The things that have changed in that decade are huge, yet incremental, and therefore, sometimes difficult to note as you are living through them (see my previous post for some numbers).
As with the original launch of this site, this is still an experiment in online librarianship. I view this blog as an opportunity to collect and connect. More than ever before, I hope that this page can be a launching point for teachers and students looking for reliable, fact-checked sources appropriate for school projects. Over the coming weeks, I will be rechecking and reorganizing the pages, links and recommended sites found here, making sure that they are all working, up-to-date and still worthy of your attention.
Thanks to the Way Back Machine (also known as the internet archive) there is a digital "snapshot" of what this blog looked like in its early incarnation. The post from October 2008 shows that Hulu.com wasn't yet a subscription streaming service. How the times keep changing.
Part II: I recommend some Crash Course lessons
I am always delighted when I am asked, mostly by our English teachers, to come into class to discuss how to do good academic research online. My presentations have changed over the years to reflect the evolution of the web and to address the particular needs of my audiences. No matter how much I may try, I always feel like I am leaving something out … because I have to.
A slide from my 2005 presentation shows that I was still recommending videotapes from our collection. We have since weeded out about 90% of that collection (mostly duplicates and programs taped from television).
What began as a curiosity and a marginal technology, has grown into a ubiquitous and all-encompassing force in our daily lives. The web is where we do everything nowadays, but it wasn't intended to be used mostly as an academic tool, and it shows. During simpler times, it might have been enough to look at the website URL, its domain extension and the About Us page to determine the reliability of the site. Things have gotten a little more complicated, nowadays, and I rarely have enough time to really cover everything you need to know to do good academic research online.
A slide from my 2014 presentation reflects my growing concerns with "aliteracy" (people who can read, but don't) and the growing amount of bad information.
Enter Crash Course, a YouTube channel I have recommended and talked about in the past, and even include on my Video Resources page here on this blog. In December 2018, they announced that they would be filming a series called, "Navigating Digital Information", which I highly recommend to my students and teachers. In the roughly two-hour-long series, I expect that they will cover much of the same information I have presented over the years … checking URLs, using primary sources, avoiding sites that don't credit their creators, references or link to other sites, etc.
The fact that Crash Course, and their sponsors (which they prominently reveal and discuss), find it useful to create a series about dealing with online information as a student (and a citizen) speaks to the need we have for good online content that educates us about online content. I know, it begins to feel a little like a conversation in Inception, or with Russian nesting dolls (for you older folks in the reading audience). Prior to this release, Crash Course had a whole series on Media Literacy, which I also recommend in general, and specifically episode 4, Media and the Mind. This episode focuses on the relationship between people and their devices, and how we shape our technology and it reshapes us. I especially recommend the video since it discusses the intersection of psychology and technology, two areas of study that play out every day in our schools.
In the past month, I have recommended these two series of videos to a handful of classes and hope they will turn to it as an online resource. I have also been advising my students to return to the print resources we have available in our library media center (LMC) collection.
Part III: I remind people of the HHS OPAC
I will use this last part as a public service announcement to remind people that the HHS LMC OPAC (what a string of letters meaning our online catalog) is available at the bottom of our school's Launchpad. Once you have reached our OPAC's home page, you will find a simple search engine to look through our collection.
I always remind students of the difference between a Keyword Search (general) and a Subject Search (specific), but lately, I have also been focusing on the Series Search to introduce students to a very specific kind of print resource. Many teachers have students write a persuasive essay, where they are able to pick a subject that interests them and research a position on that issue or idea. We have a number of book series that have short, pro-con type essays on a variety of subjects and, unlike information students may find online, these articles are all fact-checked, reliable and appropriate for school work. The series titles are:
- At Issue (160 titles)
- Contemporary Issues (20 titles)
- Current Controversies (52 titles)
- Issues in Focus (24 titles)
- Opposing Viewpoints (185 titles)
- Reference Shelf (104 titles)
Part IV: Closing thoughts and Bonus Find
As you can imagine, I have more to say about doing online research, but I will save that for next time. If I don't stop writing this post, I'll never get it online … and that was one of the reasons I stopped posting for a year; because I never knew when or what to write or how much or for who, if anyone, I was writing. But I do like sharing this information, and so I will try to post every other week here, until the end of the school year.
In the meantime, let me share one last video series I found on YouTube called "Blank on Blank". This series' homepage says it all, "Famous Names. Lost Interviews. Animated Shorts." Amongst my favorites is Aldous Huxley on Technodictators. Enjoy.
Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you found something interesting and useful.
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– Added the "Your Survey" page, which can be accessed from the "You" menu. What is the survey page? Basically it allows you to group a few topics and present them on one page, so if you've created a few related polls and want to make sure that they are all answered, the survey page is the perfect solution. You can add a poll to the survey page when you create it, or you can add an existing poll from the "Your Polls" page.
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Department of Workforce Development
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Telephone: (608) 266-3131
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MADISON – Today, the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) announced the release of two new Grant Program Announcements (GPAs) for Small Business Occupations and Construction Trades and Related Occupations under Governor Walker's Wisconsin Fast Forward (WFF) initiative. The grants are intended to provide Wisconsin employers with customized worker training solutions for construction and small business workers.
Wisconsin employers and workforce partners are encouraged to submit innovative, collaborative and customized training grant applications. Grantees may be awarded up to $50,000 to upskill workers in Small Business settings and/or up to $400,000 to upskill workers in Construction Trades and Related Occupations.
GPA details:
Worker Training Grants for Wisconsin Construction Trades and Related Occupations
Worker Training Grants for Wisconsin Small Business Occupations
Governor Walker's WFF program was approved with overwhelming bipartisan support from lawmakers in 2013 to address the skills gap through grants to employers for customized skills training to fill current job openings and ongoing skill requirements. DWD has awarded over $18 million in WFF grant contracts to date, supporting nearly 200 worker training projects that are benefitting hundreds of businesses and thousands of trainees across the state.
The program is administered by DWD's Office of Skills Development, which has developed an effective process that enables businesses to easily apply for grants.
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Social Solutions is excited to partner with the Ballmer Group to enhance performance outcomes in the social sector. Sign up here to receive regular updates on program details and matching grants that can help bring the power of Apricot software to your nonprofit or public sector agency. Read more about our partnership below, originally posted in Austin Business Journal.
Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft Corp., first became aware of Austin company Social Solutions Inc. because he and his wife, Connie Ballmer, noticed the the charities they were donating to used its technology to measure their impact.
"Steve and Connie reached out to us after they understood we were the de facto standard in nonprofit software," said Kristin Nimsger, chief executive of Social Solutions.
Ballmer Group announced in early August a $59 million investment in Social Solutions that will be used to grow the company and to help nonprofits pay for its software.
The Ballmers have been prolific givers recently, donating millions through their philanthropic organization, Ballmer Group LLC, to causes such as youth development and workforce training. But putting money into Social Solutions could have a major effect on the many of nonprofits that use its products.
Nimsger and Chief Technology Officer Joel Martins visited the Ballmers in December at their office in Bellevue, Washington. Steve Ballmer visited the Social Solutions Austin office in February.
The Ballmers believe a key aspect to improving "economic mobility" is access to data and the ability to analyze data by social-services organizations, said Jeff Edmondson, Ballmer Group managing director.
"In the course of our conversations, it became clear that we shared a vision" in using technology to tackle social ills, Nimsger said. Ballmer was particularly interested in collecting data from many "touchpoints" to provide "predictive analytics" and using data from "all interactions to demonstrate impact," Nimsger said.
Social Solutions case-management software, for example, can create a dashboard that integrates a student's school district information with community social-service resources, Nimsger said.
With inputs such as grades and attendance and using predictive analytics, a pupil identified as at-risk might be referred to a community after-school program, for instance.
Several aspects of Social Solutions impressed the Ballmers, Edmondson said.
It's "the largest software company focused on nonprofit organizations" and its reach encompasses different types of social services, he said.
The company's commitment to privacy, data security and the quality of the team also played a part in the Ballmers' decision to make the $59 million investment, Edmondson said.
"We are starting with a very specific focus on deploying case-management software and analytics because it is most essential to improving services to clients," Connie and Steve Ballmer wrote in an Aug. 9 piece in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. "Case-management software allows an organization to track which services are being delivered, to whom, and how often. It helps clarify the effectiveness of programs over time through reporting and analytics."
Austin-based Vista Equity Partners LLC acquired Social Solutions in 2014, when the company was headquartered in Baltimore. It moved to the Texas capital last year.
"One of our core principles across the Vista family of companies is that inspired ideas, fueled by technology, can catalyze positive change at scale. Social Solutions is a great example of this," said Robert Smith, Vista Equity founder, chairman and CEO. "The Ballmer Group's investment is a reaffirmation that Social Solutions is the living the adage of doing well while doing good."
The $59 million will go into two separate pots over five years.
Half will be used for product development and deployment, enhancing data science capabilities and hiring, Nimsger said. The rest will be available in the form of matching grants to make the software affordable to nonprofits and social service agencies.
The plan is to roll out the education data-analytics dashboard in "at least 20 cities," Nimsger said. She and her team are finalizing the list. Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Seattle are a go.
Social Solutions boasts a workforce of 240, with about 210 employees here in Austin. The rest work remotely.
The company intends to add between 25 and 50 new hires by the end of the year, Nimsger said. The Ballmer funding will account for about 50 percent of those and they will be in three main categories: product management, software development and data science. Other needed hires include sales and marketing.
Social Solutions executives declined to share revenue figures but said the company is profitable.
Edmondson said success will be measured based on whether nonprofit organizations are satisfied with the Social Solutions product.
Another kind of triumph, however, would be "the social services sector writ large as a legitimate market," Edmondson said. "There is no more important field than improving the lives of children and families. With a viable market and competition for high quality products, it's possible to achieve a social good and business goals as well."


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Growing Up and Growing Out of Baby Shoes
By Diane Winter
It is amazing what mothers find themselves getting sentimental about. My daughter recently outgrew her first pair of baby shoes. I used to put her in those shoes nearly everyday, because they looked cute and I could count on her little toes staying warm. Now that she has grown out of them, I find myself not ready to throw them in the trash. Then I heard of some ideas of ways to preserve the baby shoes so that I could keep them around and continue to enjoy them. If you find yourself not ready to get rid of your baby's shoes, I recommend you try one of the following.
One thing that I thought was a really cute idea was to get the baby shoes bronzed. You know how sometimes you see bronzed baby shoes used as decoration to symbolize someone's appreciation for the babies in their life? Well you can also have bronzed baby shoes, only they will be truly unique and special to you because they are your baby's first pair. What you need to do is find a company that does this sort of thing. The easiest way to find a company is to search online. Since there may not be a place locally, you may need to send out the shoes to the company and have them sent back when they finish. Then you can use the shoes to decorate your baby's room or you may even decide to put them away to present as a gift to your child when they have their own baby someday.
Another great idea for preserving those adorable baby shoes is to have them displayed in a shadow box. You can find cute looking shadow boxes at nearly any craft store. You may prefer to find one that is unfinished, so that you can paint it and decorate it to match the nursery. Then you can put the baby shoes by themselves in the shadow box and hang it up or you could collect your favorite baby items that you want to save and arrange them nicely in the shadow box.
An idea that I thought was really unique was to create a time capsule. This is where you find some type of container and fill it with your favorite baby items that you can no longer use. You may even want to get newspaper clippings or other things that show the date and include them in the time capsule. If you have a container that you used for your baby, you may consider putting everything in that. Then, you put the container away in a safe place and wait to present it to your child on either their wedding day or when they are getting ready to have a baby of their own.
There are so many wonderful ways to preserve those cute baby shoes. So rather than tossing them in the garbage, consider getting creative with your own way to care for them.
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Master password cheat for the Ultimate Flash Sonic online game
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The Department of International Planning Studies deals with the dynamics of urban development in rapidly urbanizing spaces. Rapid urbanization and its consequences for the access of urban populations to housing and other vital necessities such as water and electricity, the role of urban planning in the context of rapid urbanization and the everyday acquisition of externally provided services form the focus of our teaching and research. We classify processes of urbanization and urban change in terms of planning theory and history and see urban spaces not as isolated, but as closely networked with hinterland, region and world. In concrete terms, we investigate these networks on the basis of urban, regional and global flows of people, finances, energy and water. The IPS offers courses in the bachelor- and master programs at the faculty of spatial planning especially in modules with international focus and provides inputs in the master study program SPRING.
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In dozens of locations along Florida's 1,350-mile coastline, sea level rise is no longer an esoteric discussion or a puzzle for future generations to solve.
Sea level rise is happening now and is forecast to worsen over the next 20 to 30 years.
Canal systems in Fort Lauderdale and Coral Gables have become a liability. For officials in Port Orange and Longboat Key, fortifying storm drains against encroaching seawater is a concern. Along the Withlacoochee River on Florida's Gulf Coast and the Matanzas River at Marineland, residents report finding saltwater species they've never seen before in those waterways.
Federal gauges stationed around the state's coast document the slowly rising water. After decades of almost imperceptible increases, the sea began rising faster about 30 years ago, said William Sweet, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It jumped again beginning in 2006. Now NOAA reports sea levels are rising along parts of the Florida coast by more than a third of an inch every year.
The average person visiting a favorite beach or fishing hole surely won't notice the difference. But soon, if the trend of the past 30 years continues, the impact will be hard to miss.
"Until the last couple of years, the only time the water would have come over the seawall would have been for a named tropical event or one of the extraordinary nor'easters," said Henderson, executive director of Stetson University's Institute of Water and Environmental Resilience. In the fall of 2015 and 2016, he said, "the water came out of the banks on cloudless, breezeless days."
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Mid-range projections by NOAA scientists — not the worst-case scenario — put the seas around Florida up to 17 inches higher by 2030, with the highest rise at Mayport, Fernandina Beach and Daytona Beach.
With just a 9-inch rise in sea level, NOAA advisories for coastal flooding capable of causing "significant risks to life and property" could occur 25 times more often, said Sweet, lead author of NOAA's January report describing the updated sea level scenarios. Higher seas would push seawater inland in waterfront areas along bayfronts in Sarasota and Apalachicola and in low-lying areas along the St. Johns, Suwanee and other rivers, flooding neighborhoods with increasing frequency and longer duration.
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|Rita and Leland Sullivan dance on Friday night to western swing music played by The Ward Country Playboys. Above, Luke Erwin plays guitar.
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Local country musician Luke Erwin of Lonoke County is looking to head west in pursuit of a music career.
Erwin, a 2011 Cabot High School graduate, can be heard performing Friday nights at the Ward Country Dance off Hwy. 319 in Ward. He said he tries to play three times a week.
On Saturday, Erwin played with the Round Up Boys at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla.
The 23-year-old is a senior at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is studying history and set to graduate in May.
Erwin took guitar lessons when he was 13, but quit. He said he was around 17 when he went to the Grand Ole Opry and saw Chuck Mead playing. Erwin said, if Mead could do it, so could he.
He started learning to play the guitar again and taking lessons from Mike Hickman of Austin. Erwin said his dad, Lonoke County Judge Doug Erwin, played the piano, and his mom, Gail, was a drummer in a band.
He was a freshman at ASU-Beebe when he first went to the Ward Country Dance. Rockabilly legends Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers were playing that night.
Erwin talked to the band, and keyboardist Kern Kennedy took him under his wing. The young man started playing with Kern Kennedy and the Kampground Express and Hazel Sheets and the Famous Four. Gigs at nursing homes and senior centers honed his skills, and Kennedy taught Erwin how to play the piano.
"I play by ear. I can't read sheet music," Erwin said.
He then filled in for The Ward Country Playboys when they needed a guitarist and singer to play at the Ward Country Dance. He says he's enjoyed doing that ever since.
"I started listening to The Temptations as a little kid. In junior high, I got into classic country with George Strait and Merle Haggard. Kern (Kennedy) got me turned on to western swing. It is like jazz with cowboy hats," Erwin said.
Ace in the Hole and Asleep at the Wheel are two western swing bands Erwin gave as examples of the genre.
"Western swing takes more talent, too, because the music is more challenging to play. The genre is dying out. There is hardly anyone playing it anymore. I hope to move to Fort Worth and play in Texas and Oklahoma. I sense the music is more accepted there," Erwin said.
"If kids would listen to western swing, they would love it. People from ages 8 to 80 can get up and dance to it. The country genre has changed from rock to hip hop and rap influences. I like the traditional, but country has to change to remain popular with the times," he noted.
Erwin said he has played at the Silver Moon clubs in Tupelo, Miss., and Newport; and Stickyz Rock and Roll Chicken Shack in Little Rock. He also played with Sonny Burgress at a private party for Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson at South on Main restaurant in Little Rock.
Erwin also plays every other Tuesday with Kern Kennedy's band at the Jacksonville Senior Wellness and Activity Center.
His main focus is writing songs. Erwin said he's lost count of the songs he's written.
And "Today I Start Loving You Again" by Merle Haggard is one of his favorite songs.
Carl Farmer and Lou Peppers of McAlester, Okla., drove to Ward Country Dance on Friday to hear Erwin perform. The retirees travel to six states to go dancing. They heard him playing two weeks ago at the Fiddlers Winter Convention in Wagoner, Okla., and talked with him after the show.
"He shocked me. He was good. He can sing. I think I floored him when he saw me here," Farmer said.
Ward Country Dance owners Rita and Leland Sullivan spoke very highly of Erwin, too.
"He can write a song. He's got talent. He just needs his big break," Rita Sullivan said.
Leland Sullivan said, "Luke has great stage presence."
"Luke is very well mannered. He is a good, all-around true-blue American cowboy. Luke dresses the part and is cute. He is funny and has a good sense of humor. He is something special," Rita Sullivan added.
"There might be someone listening right here one night and, with the right exposure, he will make it. If he can get that one song produced, it will get his foot in the door," Leland Sullivan noted.
Erwin will be playing with Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers and Charlie Rich Jr. on May 20 at the Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock.
The local musician added that he's looking for bookings and wants to start a new group.


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Necessity is the mother of all inventions, right? Wrong! Though the saying can be quite true for many of the things, it doesn't necessarily mean it would be true for ALL things. Sometimes some inventions are made which go viral, earn the inventors millions of dollars, but they can be as useless as Rickon Stark in Game of Thrones.
Here are 7 such inventions that made people millionaires, but added nothing to the progress of humanity.
1. Handwritten messages on the potato.
In May 2015, 24-year-old Texas app developer Alex Craig came up with this idea of sending messages to people by having them written on a potato. Nothing could be more disastrous an idea in the time of internet when communication couldn't be any easier. Even his girlfriend had to call it 'the stupidest idea ever'. But she was both right and wrong.
Within the first two days of the launch of 'Potato Parcel', the company earned revenue of about $2,000. In Five months, Craig sold the company to Riad Bekhit for $40,000.
Today, Potato Parcel is delivering potatoes across US, UK, Canada, Europe and Australia. Bekhit wants to make it a global business. As per April 2016, the company was making a profit of about $25,000 per month.
2. 'I am Rich' app.
There are rich people, and then there are rich stupid people.
Between August 5 and August 6, 2008, six people from US, one from France and one from Germany downloaded an app from the Apple app store which was priced at $999.99, the highest that Apple allowed for developers to charge.
The app named "I Am Rich" was developed by German app developer Armin Heinrich that could do nothing except for displaying a glowing red gem and an icon which displayed the mantra 'I am rich, I deserve it, I am good, healthy & successful' when pressed. That's it.
Though Apple removed the app from the store within a day, eight aristocrats had bought the most useless app ever. Heinrich made about $5,600 out of their stupidity while Apple took about $2,400 as commission out of the deal. We can only imagine how much he would have earned if Apple hadn't had removed the app.
3. The million dollar homepage.
The million dollar homepage was a website developed by an English student Alex Tew in 2005 to gather money for his college education.
The idea was to divide the homepage into a million pixels of 1000 X 1000 pixels and sell each pixel for $1. People who purchased the pixels were provided with an image of their brand or logo clicking on which leads to their website.
This idea went viral in no time and it was all over internet after it was launched on August 26, 2005. He was showered with offers.
The last 1000 pixels were sold by a bidding system on eBay which fetched him $38,100. He made an astounding $1,037,100 out of this.
4. Plastic wishbones.
Ken Ahroni is a person who appreciates traditions, however, during a thanksgiving in 1999 when he was looking for a change in his career, he was struck with the realization that people wait for thanksgiving the entire year and those who believe in charms, they wait for the wishbone they get out of the cooked turkey for 12 long months. But, in a year, only two people could claim to make a wish and because of the shortage of wishbones, many hearts would get broken.
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He decided to solve the problem and invented plastic wishbones so that everyone can now make a wish. Ken founded a company named 'Lucky Break Wishbone Corp.' in 2004 that started manufacturing synthetic wishbones that looked and produced sound very similar to that of turkey wishbones.
After only six months in business, Lucky Break sold about $50,000 worth of wishbones. This weird idea of plastic wishbones went viral and today the company produces around 30,000 wishbones daily and has a turnover of $2.5 million per year.
5. Lifeless rocks as pets.
You know the world is definitely a strange place when people are even ready to pay their hard earned money to buy useless ordinary rocks. In 1970s, Gary Dahl, a man from California came up with the idea of selling rocks as pets and named them Pet Rocks.
If you are still wondering that Pet Rocks are some special kind of rocks found in a special mountain, then you're wrong. Pet Rocks were simple rocks, a little good in shape, but ordinary.
These rocks were packed in cardboard covers and sold for about $4, which would be about $18 today. You would be provided a guide with the rock about how you can take care and train your precious rock.
Around 1975, the pet rocks became quite famous and even people started to feed them, make them exercise and take them on vacations, making Dahl a millionaire by their strange obsession. In total, he sold 1.5 million Pet Rocks.
6. Pop-up ads.
One thing about internet that almost everyone mutually hates is Pop-up ads. No one likes to see them. You are reading that important article and suddenly an ad pops up on the screen and sometimes follows you down as you scroll, playing a video you have no interest to see. It gets everyone mad.
But the invention of useless pop-up ads was not even intentional. Inventor of the pop-up ads, Ethan Zuckerman, in an interview cleared that he was trying to create an advertisement that would not be put directly on a website because advertisers feared if a wrong ad is seen on wrong contents, it would harm the image of the product. He even went on to express how sorry he is for his invention and giving the world the most irritating form of advertisement.
Whatever might be the intention, Zuckerman and his company made good money out of this curse on humanity.
7. Indulgences.
To the disappointment of Jesus Christ who taught that the sins of a person once forgiven, through the sacrifice of Jesus on Cross, is forgotten and he is ready to enter heaven, the Catholic Church in the 1500s thought that souls would still be punished for a temporary time for sins before entering heaven, but the pain and punishment can be reduced by the sinners if they buy a piece of paper from the church.
The papers called 'indulgences' were sold among weary 'sinners' by the church and it earned the church much money by feeding on the fears of the believers despite of much criticism from the Christian community itself and particularly from the protestants who regarded it unbiblical.
The practice continued till the 20th century. Though the amount that the church earned couldn't be ascertained, it would not be surprising if it amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions viewing the practice continued for centuries. The Catholic Christians comprise the largest religious group and no one wants to be punished for their sins.
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Choosing Engine Oil by Mike Fishwick
Many new owners seek advice about which oil to use for their BMW, and the best advice is to be found in the Owner's Handbook, which has a couple of pages regarding engine oil – but it is unfortunately commonplace for previous owners to retain the handbook.
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BMW Oil and Filter Changes by Mike Fishwick
Many owners are terrified of losing that string of BMW Dealer stamps in their service book, believing that such expenditure may gain a better trade-in value or an easier private sale. Although this has a logic in terms of fairly new cars, an investment of maybe several thousand pounds will never be redeemed on a long-term car deemed by the trade to be virtually 'worthless.'
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Transmission Oil Changes by Mike Fishwick
The older BMW gearboxes were filled with either normal 75-80 EP gear oil or automatic transmission fluid, this being denoted by the use of either a brown or orange label near the filler plug, and owners of such cars therefore accept the need to change the oil from time to time. Many have found that the use of a more modern synthetic lubricant improves their gear change action, but if following this route, first find if your gearbox requires the use of GL3/GL4 oil only, or the modern GL5 standar
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Battery Maintenance and Problems by Mike Fishwick
Even those who keep their cars in top condition often ignore their battery until it dies. This failure is usually regarded with surprise, and accepted as being 'One of those things,' but at £60 to £80 a time it is an expensive folly.
How to Replace your Brake Pads by Mike Fishwick
Many owners regard the presence of a brake pad wear warning lamp as an excuse to ignore the condition of their pads, but the warning is only given when the friction material is worn to 3 mm, when there is a risk that damage to the discs will soon occur, particularly if the owner leaves replacement until the next service.
How to bleed your brakes by Mike Fishwick
Brake bleeding is one of the most cost-effective maintenance tasks you can perform, an annual operation removing most of the impurities which accumulate in the lowest parts of the system. These include moisture, rubber particles worn off the piston seals, and metallic debris from cylinder bores. Moisture is absorbed through the rubber hoses and into the hygroscopic brake fluid, reducing its boiling point, and as the "wet" fluid is denser than when "dry" it will gradually find its way down and i
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How to Replace Your Brake Discs by Mike Fishwick
A brake disc should last – under normal use – for about 100,000 miles, but it seems to be quite a common ploy for MoT testers to "advise" owners that their brake discs are warped, and that a new set of discs and pads is necessary. In most cases this is gem of wisdom is based on nothing more than a cursory examination of the discs, which – particularly on an infrequently-used car – may exhibit signs of incomplete contact with the pads, often in the form of a rusted area around the edge of the d
How to Maintain Your Handbrake by Mike Fishwick
The BMW handbrake employs drum brakes integral with the rear discs, which obviously have to be removed if access is required. This can be less than easy, and is the basis for the increased price of an Inspection 2, which on most BMWs is little different from an Inspection 1 apart from requiring that the condition of the handbrake shoes is inspected.
Under Bonnet Cleaning by Mike Fishwick
I am always amazed by the number of BMW cars on which the body work is regularly treated to expensive polishes, yet the engine bay and underside is totally neglected. Cleaning this area is not difficult, and even on a neglected car it can be recovered with regular attention. A morning's work every week for a month will make a dramatic change. Do not worry about getting water on the engine and its ancilliaries – just use an open hose pipe and common sense.
Engine Remapping by Mike Fishwick
Many people ask if it worth having their engine management system remapped, the answer being that it works well, with no snags other than the cost – unless you plan to keep the car for a long time, or it has an annoying flat spot, then perhaps it is not worth paying for – that depends on the owner's priorities.
Catalytic Converters by Mike Fishwick
Although many of us regard may it as an irrelevance, the introduction of the catalytic converter may well be seen in historical terms as the most significant event in the history of the motorcar.


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What? Part of the Hakkasan Group, HKK opened at the tail end of 2012 and was awarded its first Michelin star less than a year later. Leading the kitchen is Executive Head Chef, Tong Chee Hwee, who revives and modernises classic dishes, telling the story of Chinese culture through fine dining with a touch of drama and lot of flair.
New? No, opened back at the end of 2012.
Where? 88 Worship Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 2BE, www.hkklondon.com
On the Menu: The 8-course menu is an interpretation of the ancient and extravagant Emperor's feasts, which used to last several days. Here several days is concentrated into several courses instead – this isn't one to drop in for, you're going to want to set aside an evening to savour it. The menu starts with the Emperor's Bite of Spring – a spring roll filled with king crab, white truffle and winter bamboo shoot all in a glimmering gold roll. It finishes with the Century Egg; a take on the Chinese thousand year old egg, made with a sesame mousse, hazelnut and coffee.
First Impressions: From the road, HKK is unassuming, just another glass panelled wall, it could quite easily be walked passed without realising what is inside. Inside the mood is much more relaxed than Hakkasan which has an excitable energy running through it. For a Tuesday evening in the City the restaurant was busy though, albeit most of the diners looked as if they were on business trips or holding meetings.
The Look: With straight lines and big open spaces, HKK is minimal and slick, if a little neutral and verging on corporate. Tables run around the edge of the room, with a bar at one end, whilst white pendants hang above a station in the middle where dishes were given their final touches. To celebrate Chinese New Year, Wuon-Gean Ho, a British Chinese artist-printmaker has designed a series of bespoke banners which tell the tale of the emperors and their elaborate feasts. Printed on Japanese shoji paper, the jade-coloured banners (the colour synonymous with Chinese emperors) are decorated with gold leaf which has been applied by hand.
What We Ate: Following on from the Emperor's Bite of Spring, was the Monk Jumps Over the Wall – a soup named after a story in which a monk jumped over the wall in order to try the soup, which is made with abalone, sea cucumber and ginseng – good but not as memorable as many of the dishes to come.
Entitled Touch of the Heart, (I think 'The Way to my Heart' is probably more appropriate for me) the dumplings were plump, meaty, gelatinous parcels of sheer joy – the favourite being stuffed with sea bass and shrimp. The fourth course saw a chef preparing Peking duck in front of us, before it reappeared with a lick of hoisin sauce. Crisp skin and breast meat topped a mix of silky foie gras beneath and the other sticking to the more classic cucumber sticks and sliced onion. It worked beautifully with a sweet 2010 J.J Prum Riesling.
Served atop dry ice, the Eight Treasure Chicken was a parcel of guinea fowl, ginko nut, mushrooms and mangalica ham – heavier than the other dishes, it had a rich, woody, almost autumnal flavour. A Kumquat carrot cake provided a sweetness from whipped vanilla cream, whist also refreshing the palate with tartness from the kumquat. The feast finishes with the elegant Century Egg; a light, purple-grey sphere of sesame mousse, hazelnut and coffee, decorated with gold leaf. Dishes are exquisitely produced, each coming out more artistically presented than the next – it's just as much a feast for the eyes.
What We Drank: The menu can be accompanied by a beverage flight or an orchard flight – so can still work with Dry January, although if you're going to fall off the wagon then you might as well do it spectacularly with an eight-strong list. Particular favourites were the pisco served with honeydew melon, celery and ginger – a fresh drink with zing that worked wonderfully with the dumplings and a 2015 Moscato d'Asti, which was sweet yet light the perfect accompaniment to the Kumquat and carrot cake.
Go With: Given the location, HKK is ideal for business dinners, when you have someone you want to impress – in that sense it is great for a date too. The 8-course menu is running until the 11th February so get booking!
Final Word: Other restaurants in the Hakkasan Group are celebrating Chinese New Year; Yauatcha will be celebrating Chinese New Year through the colour red, the colour that symbolises good luck and joy. You'll find 10 different petits gateaux each decorated a vibrant shade of red, alongside a red cocktail using the Chinese spirit baijiu and a red dim sum dish. Hakkasan will celebrate the Year of the Rooster with a limited edition menu, exclusive cocktails and puddings, they'll also be inviting their guests to write their hopes for the year and to hang them on the lattices.
Like This? Try These: Hakkasan, Yauatcha, China Tang


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New York-based Berdon LLP (FY13 net revenue of $101 million) admitted three partners, effective Jan. 1. The new partners are Jessica Blatt, Marc Fogel and Travis Ludden.
Blatt has 20 years of professional audit experience and serves clients in the real estate, manufacturing and hospitality industries. In that role, she advises clients on complex real estate transactions and partnership agreements and consults on high-level tax issues and internal controls.
Fogel, a Berdon professional for more than 15 years, primarily serves real estate clients with a wide range of specialized advisory services, with expertise in due diligence, tax escalations and like-kind exchanges.
Ludden has been a member of the Berdon team for more than 15 years. He serves some of the firm's largest real estate clients, manufacturers and distributors and nonprofit entities. He specializes in cash flow analysis, internal control consulting and tax advisory and also plays a key role in mentoring younger professionals on staff.


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Hani Elgebaldy, the founder and CEO of AvidBeam, expects the Central Bank of Egypt's (CBE) initiative to finance small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to address the shortfall in funding that has affected manufacturers.
Members of both the industrial and commercial sector and the information and communications technology (ICT) sector expect the CBE's initiative to positively impact their fields.
The CBE launched an initiative to support SMEs through the provision of EGP 200bn to fund these projects. The loans provided within the framework of the initiative will be offered over four-year periods with an annual interest rate of 5%, aiming to finance 350,000 SMEs and to create 4m job opportunities.
Hamdy El Laithy, the head of the Telecom Branch and Board Member at the ICT Chamber of Commerce and the chairperson and CEO of Linatel for Telecommunications, noted that the sector's lack of access to quality funding sources is one of the challenges facing the private sector, especially after the economic crisis the country witnessed following the 25 January Revolution.
El Laithy stated that the economic recession negatively impacted SMEs in the ICT sector. He considers the CBE's initiative a good step to drive SMEs growth, which will push the economy forward in the long term.
Amir Barsoum, the founder and CEO of DrBridgeFounder, also noted the lack of access to quality funding as a principal issue facing the sector, despite the specialised investment funds.
He thinks that the CBE initiative to finance SMEs will solve part of the crisis, but also demanded banks provide fast funding measures outside of government bureaucracy.


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Sales tax collections in Sugar Land continue to grow at a healthy pace despite a one-month anomaly created by an auditing adjustment.
A state audit adjustment of more than $654,000 resulted in a sharp one month decline of Sugar Land sales tax receipts for the month of June, which reflect sales occurring during the month of April.
The adjustment was made to reflect refunds resulting from a Sugar Land business that paid too much in sales taxes between 2000 and 2004 according to the Texas Comptroller's Office.
Without the adjustment, June collections are nearly 8 percent more than last year and 10.4 percent more than budgeted for the month. Year-to-date sales tax revenues for Sugar Land are 4 percent higher than last year and 4.9 percent higher than budgeted.
Sugar Land's tax collections represent more than 50 percent of Fort Bend County's total collections.
"The City intends to follow up with the comptroller's office to request a payment plan for the audit adjustment," said City Manager Allen Bogard. "With their approval, the City will receive the first adjusted funds with the next monthly allocation, and smaller adjustments will be made over time."


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You Better Work! Superfan Replaces Britney Spears with Himself in Hilarious Spoof Video
You wanna live fancy? Take a note from this guy
WARNING: The video above contains some explicit language
Do you want a hot body? A Bugatti? A Maserati? You better work on your video editing skills, sir.
Youtube user Volinez Spears is wowing the Web with his interpretation of the Britney Spears hit, "Work B**ch." The music video looks relatively the same, except for one noticeable change: This superfan has replaced Ms. Spears's body with his own in nearly every frame.
Decked out in chest hair and a rotating series of boxer shorts, this editing mastermind has no trouble nailing all of Spears's seductive moves.
Admittedly, there are a few scenes where our creative friend has just blocked out the singer instead of standing in for her. (Shark tanks aren't cheap these days.) Regardless, Volinez proves that following Spears's suggestion to "work" can really take you to a magical place.
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WATCH: Taking to the Abu Dhabi skies for the Red Bull Air Race
The National's Willy Lowry experiences the G-force as he flies over the Corniche
Some of the world's best pilots are battling it out over the Abu Dhabi Corniche this weekend in the Red Bull Air Race.
The National's Willy Lowry strapped himself into one of the planes and took to the skies to see what it is really like with forces of up to 10G being exerted.
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'Nobody wants to listen to me!'
'I have nothing new to say!'
'Why bother anyway?'
'What if they judge me?'
'Everything I want to say somebody else already does!'
'Who am I to put myself out there?'
Sounds familiar?
You know that all these thoughts are hurting your profits and stopping you from making the impact you really want to make. It can be scary to show up every single day-just to make your business work.
The reality is that FEAR IS HOLDING YOU BACK.
Fear of being judged. Fear of ridicule. Fear of failure. Fear of success.
That's why you need to find out how to embrace the fear of being seen!
Key takeaways from this episode –
- How to let go of all of the reasons which hold you back from showing up on a consistent basis by creating a system which works for you (because you don't want to be a rehearsed copy of somebody else).
- How to step into new levels of comfort zones to grow your business on your terms (and prove all the naysayers wrong who said it can't be done!).
- How to use your message and incorporate it into your marketing by shouting out smarter, not louder (after all…you don't want to compete with all that noise out there!).
- How to gain confidence and conquer that pesky fear of being seen – for and for all.
Sandra Pilarczyk
After her classical training in hotel management, Sandra Pilarczyk had a successful career in hotel sales with Intercontinental Hotels Group. She then spent the next decade running her own venue booking agency for corporate clients, organizing thousands of conferences and events.
As a keen volunteer for a global not for profit organization,she traveled the world to train young active citizens. It was there she realized the impact that one person could make by sharing their message – and decided to focus on helping introverted business owners to do just that.
Sandra founded The Fearless & Live Club – a monthly business mentoring community for introverted business owners to bust through the fear of visibility-so that they can STEP UP and STAND OUT in this crowded market place.Sandra has a strong public speaking and training background, training hundreds of young leaders across the world, as well as leading her own successful training events.
Sandra is a native German speaker, who also speaks English and Dutch fluently and now lives with her husband and two children in Belgium.
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The Green College in Odisha is leading by example in the field of rural innovation and sustainable livelihoods.
Sumitra's hands and feet move dexterously on the sewing machine, and she is equally at ease with the other machines in the room. Sumitra is one of the many students at Odisha's Green College who learn not from books but from ideas and innovations. Green College is not the everyday college of lectures and libraries, it is a college working to enable its students, young and old, to create innovative and sustainable means of livelihood for themselves.
While Sumitra and her cohorts are learning to make and sell leaf-plates made of the locally-found siali leaves, Amita and her group are learning to cultivate different types of mushrooms, traditionally not seen as a cash crop in the region.
Sustainable living is at the core of the ethos that Green College seeks to promote. The students here are trained to manage and conserve natural resources and develop means of livelihood from them. For instance, after the paddy is harvested, most of the straw goes to waste. But at Green College, students make out of the straw and sell them. Such a set-up particularly helps women and adds economic value to the work they do, often dismissed as an extension of unpaid household work.
Green College offers two types of courses, short term courses that are taught over 15 days to a month and mid-term courses that go up to three months. After taking the courses, at least 80% students adopt the skills taught at the college and earn a living out of them.
"I love Green College because only 30% of the curriculum here is theoretical, the rest is all practical", says Dasami, a student. She also believes that no other college has faculty as cooperative as Green College, emphasising on the importance of a collective learning environment.
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