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You should contact your service provider if you need help or have an issue. If your issue is not resolved every Community Care service user has the right to lodge a complaint about the service they have received. You may wish to do this in writing, by telephone or in person. In the first instance complaints should be directed to the organisation providing the service, to give them a chance to fix the problem.
If you have tried using the above pathways for seeking a resolution for your care complaints and you are still not satisfied with the response your complaint has received, you can contact the Office of the Queensland Ombudsman who may be able to conduct an external review.


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Around the age of 18, every male citizen of Singapore is enrolled into National Service (NS) and undergoes a two-year military training period. Men who have completed their full-time NS become National Servicemen (NSmen). From here NSmen form the ranks of Singapore’s Operationally Ready National Servicemen (ORNS) abd are required to undergo regular ORNS activities. Such employees are liable to be called up for a maximum of 40 days NS every year.
An employee may not be dismissed on account of being called up for NS. Employers are also required to grant NSmen a leave of absence to complete their annual NS, which will have an impact on their regular remuneration.
Please note: under the Enlistment Act, when an employee is away from work performing ORNS activities, CPF contributions are unaffected, and the full amount remains payable at the usual rate for the employee.
Service Pay – based on the NSman’s rank and vocation for the training. It will be pro-rated based on the duration of the ORNS activity in which the employee participates.
Make-Up Pay – any loss in civilian income suffered by an NSman is claimable as Make-Up Pay from the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), the Singapore Police Force (SPF) or the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). Note: Make-Up Pay is claimable only if there is an overlap between the NSman’s civilian working hours and the NS training. Any loss of income suffered outside the duration of ORNS activities will not be compensated by MINDEF.
The two options for employed NSmen to claim Make-Up Pay are discussed below. For self-employed NSmen, please refer to NS Matters.
The employee continues to receive his usual salary from the employer in accordance with the ordinary pay schedule for the duration of his NS activities.
The employer then claims back from MINDEF, SPF or SCDF the amount of NS Pay to which the employee would be entitled. The employer will need to submit the employee’s Make-Up Pay claim at least 14 days before their ORNS activity in order for MINDEF to credit the employee’s Service Pay to the employer. If the Make-Up Pay claim is not submitted on time the Service Pay will be credited directly to the employee. The employer may then recover this amount from the employee.
Since you are continuing to pay the employee his usual salary, there are no changes required when processing payroll. There is currently no system leave type available for National Service, but you can create a custom leave type if you want to keep track of the leave days taken.
*Note: before you can file claims on behalf of your employees, you will need to register with the Direct Reimbursement to Employers of Claims for NS Training (DIRECT) scheme.
If an employer is not registered with the DIRECT scheme, either the employer or the employee will need to initiate the Make-Up Pay claim process. This can be done via Manage NSmen Payments on the NS Portal. The employer can certify an employee’s Make-Up Pay claim and submit it to MINDEF who will reimburse the employee directly. MINDEF, SPF or SCDF will credit the Service Pay directly to the employee.
Employers will need to deduct the Make-Up Pay amount from the employee’s salary. Make-Up Pay claims need to be submitted at least 2 weeks before the ORNS activity begins and within 3 months from the payment of Service Pay.
Before submitting a claim, please make sure you have all the necessary Supporting Documents.
Please note: the employer has to pay CPF contributions based on the wages given by the employer, together with the Make-Up Pay (i.e. loss in civilian income inclusive of variable wage components like overtime pay and commission) paid by MINDEF. The employer has to bear the full employer’s share of CPF contributions but can recover the full employee’s share from the employee’s wages.
As mentioned above, there is currently no system leave type for National Service; however, you can create a custom leave type.
For more information about National Service and CPF contributions for NSmen, please refer to the MINDEF website or the CPF Board website, respectively.

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The whole house water filter system is booming in the water filtration industry. With this technology, it can aid in producing high-quality drink for the whole family. Furthermore, environment protection is being promoted since the materials used are Earth-friendly.
This article will tackle what whole house water filter is and the tips on how to buy the best ones. Also, this will introduce some of the best whole house water filter system to avail.
Under sink water filter is an innovation which helps families make their drinking water safe for consumption. Instead of using wide space on the counter, this product uses space from the cabinet beneath the sink. Sometimes, it requires professional plumbing modifications or drilling a hole for the dispenser at the countertop.
The under sink water filter works by getting its water from the cold water pipe, sends it at a plastic tube to the water filter, and delivers the filtered water on a special faucet on the sink.
The system has constant pressure thus when one opens the faucet, the water will flow directly. In under sink water filter, only the drinking water produced at the special faucet is filtered. The regular hot and cold water functions of the sink is independent of the system.
Countertop water filter is an innovation that can remove the impurities in drinking water. It uses a physical barrier such as filters, biological process, or even chemical process to achieve a safe water for the family.
This product is portable and easy to install. You can just put it directly on your faucet or on your countertops. In addition, it is affordable and considered as the most convenient option than buying expensive bottled water regularly.
Water is one of the most important things that we need in our lives. Clean water is one of the safest ways in order for us to keep us hydrated. There are different bodies of water that we can rely on. Like the rivers, lakes, and the faucet water that we use at home. The earth that we live in is 80% water. Which is why there is still another life underneath the ocean. There are fish and other living creatures underneath that we need to discover. Like fishes, we depend on water as well. Keeping ourselves hydrated is one of the reasons why we are still alive today. If you are in an area where water is a little bit contaminated, there are different kinds of portable water filters that are invented for us to use.
Taking a bath is one of the most important part of our daily life that we should be doing every day. It has the ability to keep our bodies cool and clean so that we will be able to feel fresh. Taking a bath will help you feel motivated in doing the different things that you will be doing on the day to day basis. Even just a small splash of water can refreshes your feeling. A quick shower can help you cleanse your body thoroughly. It can rinse off the bacteria that is stuck on your body. And if you want to have an effect shower experience, there are different shower heads in the market for you to add to your life.

industry_corpus2: Water Resources & Marine


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Commercial printing can open doors you never thought possible, as far as what you can accomplish in the creation of your materials. Commercial printing facilities often have the highest quality of technology available, and offer you severe discounts on your print jobs. Moreover, commercial printing services can give you mass copies of whatever printing job you need--at a fraction of the cost you'd pay elsewhere.
The same way that a huge photocopier can deliver more for you, at a better per-page cost, than a small desktop photocopier, a commercial printing facility can offer you the better deal and higher quality. This means that if you take a commercial printing job to a mom-and-pop store, they oftentimes won't be able to accommodate you. Perhaps you need large signs made, or banners to hang at an event--you want to know that your printer can not only accommodate your job, but can do so quickly and economically.
Perhaps your company is participating in a trade show or industry conference. Maybe you need custom folders created, with the company colors or design on them. Maybe you need to have the marketing materials inside created, with high resolution and plenty of customization.
These are just a few of the examples of what commercial printing services can do for you. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can find quality commercial printing services available to you online. You can even check the status of your order online at most of these places, so that you can track your order as it comes towards completion.

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Sellincourt Primary School is a community primary school providing education for around 470 children. The school is located in the Tooting area.
To find out more about Sellincourt Primary School please either contact them directly to request a brochure or make an appointment to visit, or look at their website.

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You’re not sure if the injection pump bosch 0403474021 pes4mw100/720rs fits your application?
Nie jesteś pewny, czy pompa wtryskowa bosch 0403474021 pes4mw100/720rs pasuje do Twojej maszyny?
Mascus Eesti lehelt leiate Bosch Injection pump Bosch 0403474021 PES4MW100/720RS mootorid. Selle Bosch Injection pump Bosch 0403474021 PES4MW100/720RS hind on - ja see toodeti aastal 2000. See masin asub Kojszówka Poola. Mascus.ee lehelt leiate veel Bosch Injection pump Bosch 0403474021 PES4MW100/720RS ja palju teisi mootorid mudeleid.

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In order to understand the min-max algorithm, you should get familiar with game playing and game trees. Game playing can be classified as game trees. What is a game tree? A tree is made of a root node, and a root node has child nodes; each child node is subdivided into multiple children.
In game play, our main goal is to win the game; in other words, we try to find the best possible solution by looking ahead in the game tree. The most important thing to note about playing a game is that we don’t actually go down to a particular node (or down to a complete tree), and we don’t play the entire game. We are at the root position, and we are looking for the best option that is available to us, in order to maximize our chances of winning the game.
Since we are performing game playing, we will take turns, just like in a game of chess or tic-tac-toe; we take a turn, and then our opponent takes a turn. This means that all of our children, or the children of a particular node, will be our opponent’s move. Our opponent’s objective will be to make us lose, because whatever the game tree that we are going to develop would be in our perspective. Therefore, from our perspective, on any particular move, our objective is to win the game; once our move is done, it will be our opponent’s move. The opponent’s move, in our perspective, will be to make us lose. Therefore, when looking ahead, we simply search the game tree.
In min nodes, we select the minimum cost successor. Out of all of the successors that we have for a particular node, we choose the minimum. In a max node, we try to find out the maximum successor, because the nodes are our moves.
We’ll start at the root node, A. We have two options: either the right subtree or the left subtree. If we select either of the subtrees at random, our chances of losing the game become higher. To avoid this, we will apply certain heuristics, so that our chances of winning the game will increase. Therefore, we’ll try to model the game. Suppose we select B; our opponent will have the option to select either D or E. If our opponent selects D, we’ll have the option to select either Hor I. If our opponent chooses H, we will have the option to select either 10 or 11, this is the maximum that can be performed. Our computer system does not have the RAM to process any further; therefore, from this point, we’ll apply heuristics.
In the preceding diagram, the heuristic values of all of the terminal nodes can be seen. The game is not ending, and we are only looking ahead. The heuristic values comprise the maximum depth that we can go for a look ahead; after them, we will apply heuristics. The chances of winning the game at particular points are, let’s say, 10%, 11%, 9%, and so on. These are the terminal values that we have.
Now, suppose that our opponent selects the H node. This is a min node, and a min node will always choose a minimum out of its successors. Therefore, the min node will always choose 10, if choosing between 10 and 11. If we move ahead, we have 9 and 11; so, our opponent will select 9. Similarly, our opponent will select the rest of the nodes.
So, this is how the game play works.
So, we’ll define Point, and the x and y points. This will give us the x and y values, onto which we have to enter the values. String will return us those values. PointAndScore will provide the point value and its score at each particular square, whether it is filled in or not.
Next, we will see whether 0 has won; so, we will do the same thing for 0. Here, we will check whether the value is 2. Then, if nobody has won, we’ll check the available states for the users, and we’ll print them. We will then have placeAMove, and either player 1 will move or player 2 will move.
Next, we have takeHumanInput; so, we’ll take the human input for the x and y points, and we will display the board using the displayBoard method; finally, we’ll apply a min-max algorithm. So, we’ll check if X has won or if 0 has won; if not, we’ll start playing the game, and we will print the score positions. Finally, in the mainclass, we’ll start with who will make the first move (either the computer or the user). If our user starts a move, we have to provide the values in x and y coordinates (in an x and y plane); otherwise, the computer will start the move, and every time, we will have to check whether X has won. If X has won, we will print Unfortunately, you lost! if 0 has won, we will print You won! if both win, then we will print It’s a draw!
The computer has entered 1 at , and has won the game. If you enjoyed reading this article and want to explore more about AI with Java, you can check out Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Java for Beginners. Featuring numerous interesting examples, the book takes you through the concepts in a fun manner, so you can build intelligent apps using ML and DL with Deeplearning4j.

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Mowen is a character based on a movie done by fellow students and me.
The short is called “In the cave of Mowen” and is a chinese kung fu movie.
hybrid bird fighter and started to model the sketch in 3D.
Later I decided to use the model for a student animation project.
The model is 23k tris with 1x 2k map.

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Many specialists have attended training given by our behavior management specialist, Jeremy Fowler, on writing Behavior Service Plans. These plans can be time intensive to write and implement. It affects special as well as general education, especially for our primary folks. BSP’s should be written foe kiddos who have behaviors that can’t be managed in a traditional manner. Look to your administration for more information for when/why/how these should be written. Administrators were slated to receive the training in addition to specialists.
The current chairs of this committee are Tammy Parker and Derenda Faias. They may be reached by clicking their names.


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Ever since I began working as a professional keynote speaker, people began to ask me “Have you written a book” and for a few years, I didn’t take the hint!
Then in late 2014, I had a real scare – I almost became blind! I was rushed to the hospital and received emergency surgery to replace a detached retina, and as part of the recovery, I needed to completely rest both my eyes…..for 6 weeks!
I’ve shared lots here regarding how I’ve successfully used my military training to succeed in business. By applying these 10 proven military tactics, you too can overcome any aspect of mediocrity and build a team of hard working, target orientated team to achieve the most incredible results.
The book also has its own website! Where you can access a whole host of other related resources.


text: Respecting the Yahoo NDAs we've signed, we've written little about the features of Yahoo's soon-to-launch new search platform, "Panama." Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable posted notes from a recent Yahoo visit about the new platform. Good post.


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Arizona Cyclist is proud to stock quality road, mountain and women's specific bikes from Specialized, Cannondale, Cervelo, Niner, Ibis, and Pegoretti. The links on this page will take you to the manufacturer's web site.
Stop by our St. Philips Plaza Shop or our Williams Centre Shop to let our knowledgeable staff help you pick out the right machine for you. There's nothing like taking a test ride to judge for yourself.

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hokay! So I have plans to make this costume for next year.
My question involves the lower portion of her dress where its entirely pink but has sharp strands that come upwards and the purple swirls at the bottom. Ive been mulling over different ways of doing it such as applique or fabric paints- the latter would require alot of it. >.> Ive never attempted something like this and would love any input on the best way of doing it that will look the nicest.

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text: 9.5.17 In the first of two parts, Episode 37 of Wheat All About It! entitled, “When Nisshin Comes Calling,” follows the route of a three member team from Japan’s largest flour milling company, as they travel through Eastern Washington on a two day swing to talk with elevator staff, pick up harvest samples and learn about the growing season. On the first day, Scott Yates, director of communications and producer relations for the Washington Grain Commission, led the team west of Spokane where optimism and above average yields were the norm.

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text: Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney said he would "add F-22s" to the Air Force's inventory if he moves into the Oval Office. That was one of the defense-related moves he discussed during an interview with WAVY TV 10 of Virginia Beach, Va., posted at the station's website on Sept. 8, 2012. The Air Force's last F-22 rolled off Lockheed Martin's assembly line in Marietta, Ga., in December 2011, and the line has since closed. Here, a pair of F-22s assigned to JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, trails behind a KC-135 tanker during an air refueling mission, Aug. 23, 2012.

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Whatever Dylan's motivation/inspirations were during the "Christian years" of 1979-1982 he absolutely played it as if he meant it, which is something he does not always do. He was on fire here. A fervent fire. It shows in his vocal delivery, his interaction with his top notch band and just the general "feel" on the performances. It is really good to hear Dylan so enthusiastic, and to hear performances from this often ignored period in his long career.
The live shows are great. A bit of variation in sound quality between them as is to be expected given the years they were recorded in, but overall I was pleasantly surprised by the excellent, warm, full sound quality. The Toronto gig has a lovely bassy sound. I am not always a big fan of "outtakes" but those contained here are very impressive. Indeed, for the both the live cuts and the outtakes, I am finding I prefer listening to them to the studio originals. This is particularly true of the material from "Saved" and "Shot Of Love". Songs like "Covenant Woman", "In The Garden" and "Solid Rock" really come to life in a way just not heard on the somewhat dull originals. "What Can I Do For You?" features some stonking backing vocals and a killer harmonica solo from Dylan. It is twice the track it is on the original album.
When he kicks off with "Slow Train" and "Gotta Serve Somebody" on the earlier dates there is a vibrancy about the renditions rare in Dylan live cuts since "Hard Rain". Whereas the complete Toronto show that you get is totally taken up with "born again" material, by the 1981 Wembley show, Bob had deigned to put "Like A Rolling Stone", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "Forever Young", "Just Like A Woman" and several other old favourites into the set and included only eight songs from the Christian trio.
Just very enjoyable. Great to hear other material rather than "Watchtower" or "Thin Man" again (although the latter is played in 1981 at Wembley).


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United States Ambassador Michael E Ranneberger is calling on, especially on the Kenyan youth, to play their rightful role in the Kenyan political process. Political hopefuls like Jimmy Kibaki and Tony Gachoka seem to be following suit. They realize the power and potential of the youth.
This is a NOT a new idea. The call seems to recur from time to time. Former President Daniel Arap Moi, in the sunset of his presidency in 2001, asked for the youth to come out and lead! The youth have the energy, he said; they are less encumbered with the politics of “old”, he added; they are more likely to see the world in a “new light”!
Then I responded that Youth Are Not A Panacea for Kenya’s problems! It was true then; it is true today! There are many, many youth that are corrupt. Indeed, if youth haven’t been brought up in a tradition of democratic values, they will simply perpetuate the political script they have been dealt. Alongside the campaign to get youth to participate, we should also urge that they help build a democratic dispensation.
The 2007 elections saw a number of young MPs elected to parliament. Watch the performance of these “Young Turks” in the present parliament. They seem to be following the old, tried, tested and won out script! A script that has been tried tested and failed; a script that is central to the current mess in the country.
We need a new script; and yes, the youth must be the larger component of this script. This is because the youth have greater stakes in the future of the nation than the aged and soon-to-die off generation in power. The youth have to pay greater attention to today’s politics for those are the seedlings of the crops they will harvest in their prime!
Necessarily that script must be based on democratic principles, including justice, equity, and respect for diversity. The script must be based on the common good and a shared common destiny, where each Kenyan plays his/her rightful role in the realization of a prosperous nation.
It will be a great help for the future if most youth internalized values that would realize a prosperous Kenya that many of us dream of; a dream that will NOT be realized through current leadership and their policies.
Calling on youth participation in national affairs also recognizes that they haven’t asserted themselves as they should. Were the youth to assert themselves effectively, they would bring a sea change to the current environment. It is estimated that more than 60% of Kenyan voters are below the age of thirty. They have the numbers that no one can ignore. It is no wonder that some politicians become uneasy at the mention of youth.
I posit that youth participation in the political process is lacking, in part, because of our African culture and that seeks deference to elders and authority. This is NOT good for democracy! Deference to elders is fine where those elders hold values amenable to the common good; it is good when the elders work towards a better common destiny.
In traditional society where reverence worked, those elders were selfless; they dedicated themselves to the survival of the societies they lived in! They nurtured youth with the hope that the latter would ensure the society thrived into the future. It was a vastly different world then compared to today. How may of our elders (specifically those in power) are committed to the collective good of our nation to the extent the elders of yore were?
The shameless exploitation of our culture remains real today! In the old days elders never stole from their communities as today’s leaders do! Seers never corrupted their flock as religious leaders do today! Today’s elders must understand that they cannot have their cake and eat it too! They can’t seek reverence when they neither hold nor practice values that serve the common good! They do not deserve it.
It hurts to society to defer to elders in environments where these elders are central to corruption, driven by unfettered greedy ambitions! It is retrogressive to defer to these elders when they perpetuate ethnic discrimination and dream ethnic cleansing and mayhem. It is self-defeating to defer to elders when their vision of the nation is based on narrow sectarian interests rather than the national common good!
It is better to have a young man with a grand, achievable vision for Kenya than an elder who perpetuates tribalism, takes and gives bribes, causes ethnic clashes, facilitates corruption scandals and more! Conversely, I had rather have an elder with democratic values, works for the common good and is committed to a prosperous Kenya.
In traditional society, deferring to elders was also fine as experience correlated with age! The older you were the more knowledgeable you were likely to be. Elders’ experiences served societies well, especially in the hunter-gatherer days; and in less sophisticated societies where knowledge was a preserve of a few. In those days the youth had to be deferential to elders so to learn in order to serve society well.
It was a different world then from what we have today where knowledge is not a preserve of those that have lived long on this earth; one needs take a stroll to the library (of course we have the Internet!) a couple of times, and make good use of time studying! And one’s knowledge expanse could leapfrog and dwarf that of elders that may be engaged in narrow, micro-focused ethnic chauvinism, corruption, and looting!
And that is where, in my view, the youth MUST assert themselves: that the elders should NOT and MUST NOT dismiss them in the name of tradition. Indeed, that they have a right to be heard in the same weight as everyone else!
Often, elders are heard extolling the young to work hard for “they are leaders of tomorrow”! The underlying message is that there is no leadership vacancy today; it will come tomorrow.
As a country we need to nurture a culture that asks for and inculcates leadership today. Kids in schools need to lead in circumstances in which they find themselves; they need to work hard in their studies, games, and all, including leadership for they need this experience over time in order to lead at a higher level.
The mantra should be: work hard and lead today! And no, don’t wait for leadership to be handed to you. Work for it! Seek it! And take it, democratically of course.
There is more! It is estimated that Kenyans under 30 years of age constitute close to 65% of the voters roll! Now there it is: one needs these numbers to make real change happen, i.e. if the numbers are harnessed properly.
Talking of youth is also necessary to give them the confidence that they can make the necessary difference for a better future. Often, as has been seen, youth follow, get used and get dumped for selfish gain. In the process they would have learnt and internalized the retrogressive practices that are the cause of our problems. They merely become a conduit for past failed practices.
Empowering youth would enable them to critically examine what they engage in and question those things not in line with values of democracy, justice, fairness, etc. US president Barack Obama knew this and with resonance (mainly) youth responded that “yes we can”!
There is more! When youth energy is harnessed for common good, it can move mountains! American upheavals, that rocked the social order in many ways, was largely advanced by the youth, many that rejected the old order! Through protest (e.g. against the Vietnam War, racial discrimination, etc.), music (rock and roll), clothing, and many other ways, they were able to create a “new order”! The US president Barack Obama makes that point: being a beneficiary of an order driven largely by youthful energy of leaders like Martin Luther King Jr.
Kenyan youth should internalize the message that: they have bigger stakes in the nation’s future. And for that future to be different, they MUST get engaged in the process! They MUST help seek ways of building a democratic society and reject the tried, tested and failed ways of corruption, nepotism, ethnic discrimination, corruption. They must vote for interest here which is: a just .society of fairness, equity, accountability, and true democratic governance.
Matunda Nyanchama is an Information Security professional working in Canada. Read more of his opinion at www.matunda.org.
Posted: June 1st, 2009 under Political Talk, Society.


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Eastman Kodak is bringing the Easyshare-One Wi-Fi Digital Camera with a small delay but in time for the holiday shopping. Originally planned to start shipping the model in June 2005, the company will make the new model available for purchase from October, coinciding with the beginning of the holiday shopping season in North America.
Kodak is working with wireless companies to make sharing pictures as easy and convenient as possible. All Easyshare-One camera purchasers receive a complementary, camera-specific trial service in conjunction with major hotspot providers. In addition to service from T-Mobile USA, with more than 6,000 T-Mobile HotSpots across the United States, Kodak plans to announce further market-specific service providers, as well as retailers that will sell the new camera, in the coming weeks.
The new model will cost a suggested price of US$599, including the Kodak Wi-Fi Card.
Users will be able to e-mail and share pictures on-line without a computer, using a direct, wireless connection to the Kodak Easyshare Gallery service. By connecting to the Gallery through a compatible home home or public wireless network, people can upload pictures and videos for electronic sharing.
The service allows sharing of up to 1,500 favorite pictures, synchronized with a person's PC-based picture collection, thanks to a 3-inch, high resolution, rotating LCD touch screen that's protected when not in use, plus a basic 256 MB (megabytes) of internal memory. When connected wirelessly to the on-line gallery, users can also view their pictures stored online on the camera.
The user interface was developed in Macromedia Flash, which the company says is a first for digital cameras.
The camera comes with SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH C-VARIOGON 3X optical zoom lens (36 - 108 mm equivalent), a 4-megapixel sensor, and the Kodak Color Science image processing chip.


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dc.identifier.citation Nilsson Jobs, E. and Bolte, S. and Falck-Ytter, T. 2018. Spotting Signs of Autism in 3-Year-Olds: Comparing Information from Parents and Preschool Staff. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 49 (3): pp. 1232–1241.
© 2018, The Author(s). Preschool informants may provide valuable information about symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in young children. We compared the diagnostic accuracy of ratings by preschool staff with those by parents of 3-year-old children using the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment Preschool Forms. The sample consisted of 32 children at familial risk for ASD without diagnosis, 10 children at risk for ASD with diagnosis, and 14 low-risk typically developing controls. Preschool staff ratings were more accurate than parent ratings at differentiating children with and without ASD, and more closely associated with clinician-rated symptoms. These results point to the value of information from preschool informants in early detection and diagnostic assessments.


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You’ve likely heard by now that Pete Buttigieg officially announced his candidacy for president during an impassioned speech in South Bend, Indiana on Sunday.
During his 36-minute ceremonial speech, the openly gay Mayor of South Bend talked about everything from the economy to intergenerational justice to climate change to equality for all.
At the end of the speech, he and his husband Chasten Buttigieg shared a kiss and received a huge round of applause from the crowd, as well as from people on Twitter.
Oh, and then his campaign raised $1 million in, like, three hours or something crazy like that.
It was pretty damn historic.
It sends a message to every gay/queer kid in America that they can be out and proud, and achieve anything they want.
Don’t know exactly why, but us Latinos love when when a non-Latino speaks Spanish. I think it has to do with community and pride for our culture. And we love Mayor Peter. Adelante, alcalde Pedro!!!
The amount of love and support I see @PeteButtigieg getting from not only the people in South Bend warms my heart. I don’t think we could as for a better candidate for president, I’m so proud and so HONOURED to be apart of this movement. #PeteForAmerica ???
Without Obama and Hillary, there’d be no @PeteButtigieg. I’m thinking a lot about that right now.
It’s not just the LGBTQ heroes that made this campaign possible— It’s anyone who challenged the norms of politics as we know it.
That’s intersectionality at its best.
I’m already seeing the negative takes, and today I’m letting them go without comment. Today an openly gay man officially announced his candidacy for President, was taken seriously and celebrated for it. I did not think I would see it this soon, if ever, and today I am happy.
We need @PeteButtigieg so that people can associate Indiana with someone infinitely better than Pence !!
Man what an exciting thing to see two men hug more than just half a second in front of a huge crowd. He is the real deal. Donation now!
Fabulous. Let’s make america gay not again, but forever.
Then Disney and Fox will get a hold of the speech and edit out the kiss.
No words to properly express my pride over Mayor Pete. He’ll get my donation very soon!
As a proud gay American I am so thrilled to see this day arrive. However, as amazing as it is and the joy in celebrating this time in our LGBTQ history, it is a LONG shot he will ever be elected and IF he is, the attack’s on the LGBTQ community by the far right wing TRUMPERS will be horrible.
Mayor Pete has said that he is quite experienced in and fully prepared with dealing with the homophobes. Yes there will be lots of attacks but he can handle them just fine.
Come on OhNoyou, You and many old folks have given too much credit to the Stonewall thing. Yes it triggered something bigger but that was needed at that time. Fast forward to 2019, we don’t need another riot or revolution. We already got gay marriage and we should aim for anti-discrimination rights going forward.
Yeah, your concerns are valid. But, we must push on and face adversity head on. No foe will be too powerful to stop the Queer Rights Initiative, especially if we stay organized and smart.
My comment about the attacks are not referring to Mayor Pete. It’s referred to about our community.
This brings tears to my eyes. I cannot believe I have lived long enough to witness this event. I was 24 when Stonewall happened in June of 1969 and I knew even before then that it was going to be a very long and hard struggle to get civil rights for the Gay Community. But I have seen Gay Marriage legalized in 2015 and now, to see an openly gay man running for the highest office in the land. WOW!!! How amazing. WOW! I am ecstatic.
Aside from the fact that he’s gay (which is awesome) he is the most intelligent, articulate, well-rounded candidate running. I have donated. I will donate again. And I will cheer this fine young man on to victory.
You are so correct. I have seen several interviews with him and he is right on the ball with answers and NEVER dodges any of them. None of this beat around the bush crap that most politicians do. I wish him well.
Already his supporters are as insufferable as BernieBots.
So P-R-O-U-D! Hey America…donate Pete for America NOW!
You bet! Every dollar helps in a grassroots contributions campaign. No amount’s too small. $3 a month would be great and immensely helpful.
I’m very thankful that Mayor Pete’s in the race. His interviews, speeches, and writings show his drive to aspire to his longtime, multifacited dreams. And, he’ll be taking the LGBTQ community right along with him. What’s now happening is that his social cohesion is expanding exponentially to include a broad spectrum of our American demographic society. Doesn’t feel good, hopeful, and inclusive? There’s been some positive paradigm shift in the favorability ratings for Queers of late. And, Pete Buttigieg is our Knight in Shining Armor.
Pete Buttigieg is not even in my top tier of candidates I will be supporting, but that was a great scene for sure.


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The project 'Guerilla Beehives'has an exemplary meaning when it comes to the public perception of sustainability. It is a collaboration between the arts, design and science.
This is the end of the anthropocene. We imagine an ecosystem where all actors collaborate to keep up the resilience of the system. As artists, beekeepers, makers and thinkers, we collaborate with animals, plants, insects and bacteria. We co-design Intelligent Guerilla Beehives: supportive shelters for bee swarms. In return, the bees provide us with information on the ecosystem that is hosting the Guerilla Beehive. Driven by the intelligence, complexity and self-organisation of the Super Organism (bee swarm) we discuss and explore in a democratic way. This is not a study of-, but a development together with 'the other organism'. This collaboration should lead to a more diverse and thus more resilient system, post human and post anthropocentrism. Animal politics are taken into account. We go for an embodied experience, non-linear, immanent and interacting with the non-human other.
An emergent collective intelligence; single agents teaming up without any decision maker. Important is the arrangement and relationship of the parts which provokes the emergence of a bottom-up intelligence in this self-managed group with independent actuators. The group is build on diversity which provides resilience. They are offered a shelter -prototyped by nature- which is designed to grant equilibrium and homeostasis (variables are regulated so that internal conditions remain stable and relatively constant).
'The Disappearance of the Honey Bees' laat eveneens toe om onderzoek te voeren naar de positie van de mens tegenover de natuur in grootstedelijke context. Natuurkunde, biologie, botanica, politiek en economie maken allemaal deel uit van dit complexe ecosysteem.
Bee colonies are threatened in all industrialized nations. Given that the survival of bees is crucial for human sustainability, there is a great urgency to improve by all means the ways in which colonies could thrive.
In 2009 I founded the Brussels Urban Bee laboratory (http://urbanbeelab.okno.be), the place of action for a group of artists, scientists and technologists to observe bee colonies in non intrusive set-ups. The Urban Bee Lab is also a vehicle to raise public awareness via art installations and workshops.
The Guerilla Beehive project is one of these actions. It proposes a shelter for swarming bee colonies and supports the bees in their roles as pollinators and caretakers of biodiversity rather than as honey producers. In this project, bees, humans and plants - are working together to assure a sound basis for the further development of our ecosystem.
The pictures above present a scale model (35cm x 30cm x 30cm)) of the Guerilla Beehive. The form is inspired on a pollen grain of a Fragaria vesca (a wild strawberry). The model is sculpted in high density foam and is cladded with a skin in bioplastic, made on the basis of Psyllium ovata. The model+skin are vacuum pressed to reveal the embossed voronoi design on the front of the hive.
The hive-entrance is in between the wind-protective wings on the left side. The entrance is monitored by a camera and the processed images are send via bluetooth to a monitor. The camera is powered by a Raspberry Pi which is hosted at the other side of the beehive, in a small 3D-printed pocket. The back of the hive is decorated with a 3D-printed voronoi design in flexible filament. The solarpanel is fixed on a 3D-printed solarpanel holder.
The design of the Guerilla Beehive is inspired by nature. The content (± 40 liters) responds to the nest-needs of a bee colony living in the wild, and the mobile architecture makes it easily deployable on different spots in public space, hence its name: the Guerilla Beehive. The hive can be grafted on the wall of a building or wrapped around the branch of a tree in a park (the bees prefer a 'higher' spot, south-east oriented). The beehive has been enhanced with a sensor network in order to monitor the health of the colony without interference and thus allow better care. The Guerilla Beehive is made out of smart organic materials with usefull properties in respect to temperature fluctuation, humidity and ventilation. The hive has a high tactile potential; the flexible rubber of the outer skin and the warm and soft cork of the inner skin invite to touch and feel. All materials are biodegradable. Once the colony decides to leave the hive, the Guerilla Beehive will fall as a ripe apple from the tree and decompose completely. It is a cradle to cradle design.
Because bees are recognized as important biomarkers, the Guerilla Beehive is augmented with sensors and sensory processing algorithms that analyze the quality of pollen and propolis as well as the behavior of the bees in order to monitor the state of the ecology in the surrounding area.
The Guerilla Beehive can have a major impact on the sustainability of bees, agriculture and plant life. On top, the project innovates also in ICT by adopting a Green ICT approach at all levels: the structure of the hive is built using parametric design and is fabricated with 3D printing and milling facilities. The hive's ICT components will be powered by solar panels and microbial fuel cells using the bodies of dead bees and honey as source, so that the system is self-sufficient in terms of energy. The processing and telecommunication infrastructure will exploit techniques of low energy computation. In this project we are not only building prototypes of the Guerilla Beehive but we are also conducting field studies in urban and peri-urban areas, and we exploit the results using open source hard- and software methodologies.
An extensive rooftop garden in the centre of Brussels hosts the headquarters of the BUBL laboratory. It is giving place to several experimental beehives and instrumentation equipment. From this laboratory, data is continuously being broadcast through streaming technology.
Check the other research projects of the Brussels Urban Bee Laboratory on this project-wiki. Discover the Transparent Beehive project, the Sound Beehive project, the Color Coded Beehive, the Pollen Database, the Material Science research, the eco-data visualization, … and more research projects.
The 'wrap-around' design consists of 2 parts: 1 big bag which is hosting the nest of the bee colony, and 1 smaller bag which is housing the observation technology - at the same time, the smaller bag acts as the counter weight for the bigger bag.
The hive-part has a content of 40 liters. The outer skin is printed in rubber. It has an irregular spiky form which is inspired by the surface of a seedpod and it has qualities of camouflage when fixed to a tree. The rubber spikes adapt to variable weather conditions. At the inside, the nest-volume is lined with cork. Between the outer and inner skin there is a vacuum (similar to cell-membranes) filled with air. This air-filled space adjusts the thermoregulation in the hive and helps the bees to maintain the ideal temperature of 35°C. The cork wall has micropores (inspired by the pores in radiolaria) which allow for a humidity regulation around 55%. Both outer and inner wall are designed to manage the beehive's homeostasis.
Resilient parametric structure, modelled after pollen of the Fragaria (strawberry).
Sensors and actuators. Embedded mesh network of thermistors.
- microbial fuel cells integration.
Figure (oval): Drawing of a piece of cork by Robert Hooke (1665). The structure of the cells can be seen. Cork is taken from the bark of the cork oak tree (Quercus suber). Cork is one of the first objects ever examined through a microscope. It inspired the scientist Robert Hooke to name the individual unit of an organism a cell.
Blender modeling, inspired on a pollen grain of a Fragaria vesca (strawberry).
We make the scan of the model with a Kinnect. This device is not at all precise, so the result is rather disappointing. Anastasia decides to start the design from scratch in Rhinoceros. We also will have to integrate at once the wooden (leaf-like) frames in which the bees will build their comb. It is not the purpose to open the hive once it is inhabited by a bee colony.
The inspiration for the form of the Guerilla Beehive is a SEM picture of a pollen grain of the Fragraria (Strawberry). This shape is transferred to a first design attempt in Blender. The voronoi-like texture is rather complex. I decide to make a scale model first, in high density foam. This is a traditional sculpture, the analogue way. The HD foam is a great material to work in, can make a lot of detail (but the dust gives some allergic reaction to my skin).
I finalize the skin's texture as analogue parametric design. The result looks like the structure of a nut, or a brain. The purpose is to 3D scan this model and than lasercut it in additive cork layers.
In the meantime I do tests on laminating the HD foam-model with a bioplastic skin in the vacuum machine.
The first attempt to laminate the HD foam model, is with several layers of bioplastic material that I've prepared a day before. The material is still very wet and flexible, and there are as well translucent layers as samples with coffeemix. I think we've put these samples too soon on the HD foam model. Some of them were splitting open (due to the still very jelly-like state of the substance). The importance is to find the right moment to process these casted plastics - the status between solidifying and still flexible enough to be handled and changed.
After a few hours in the vacuum machine, I took the object out and left it overnight to dry. The next morning I took off the bioplastic layers and started anew with other material. This other material is the sheet grown out of Psyllium ovata. The substance is more compact, without water but still flexible. The sample is also bigger in size, which makes it easier to cover the object in the vacuum machine.
A few questions come up during this working process. Wouldn't it be better to first seal or fill the very porous surface of the HD foam object? What material can we use for it?
Shellac, Gesso (artist primer sealer undercoat), water based latex, water based polyurethane, PVA (wood) glue.
I did a quick test with PVA glue, and this gave an immediate result. The bio-skin was sticking better to the foam surface with glue than without. More tests should be done with Gesso or other primers.
Using a liquid mix of PVA glue and water helps to keep the lamination with bioplastics in place.
The plan is to envelop the Guerilla Beehive with a kind of net in the shape of a 'grocery bag' and hang it in a tree or attach it to the wall of a building. The net-like vector-design will be cut in a sheet of bioplastic or 3D printed.
Anastasia is finetuning for 2 weeks the model in Rhinoceros. We will cut a first 1:1 model in layers of cork.
The real thing will be milled in 10cm cork, a job done in 5 parts - so highly difficult and secure.
I was also thinking to make a new and smaller model of the Guerilla Beehive in HD foam, and make a mold of it in silicone, for castings with bioplastic. I made some drawings on how to construct the mold, and my final outcome was that it has to be a silicone one - if I stay with the same design, namely 'the brain' design. I made yet some silicone molds, and those have the advantage that you can have irregular forms that can be casted - and can be taken out of the mold later.
If I want to keep the model with the voronoi-brain design, as well as the side-flaps sticking out, I will have to work with a 2-part flexible silicon model.
This model will be really small (I think 1/2 of the other model I made) and so it will be usefull only for casting and experimenting with biopolymers and document this study.
But I hope we can still work on the 1/1 Rhinoceros 3D-file. It would be so great to work on the final design in cork.
From the point of view of a beekeeper, cork is such a nice natural product. Biopolymers cannot be used for housing a real bee colony, as this material will be eaten by the bees, as well as it will delude in water (if it rains).
We discuss or a mesh network of thermistors inside of the double wall of the hive, or the integration of an infrared camera to check what happens inside the hive.
Integrating a camera is a lot of work and (seen the experience I've build up on this technological bee observation-matter) in my eyes rather useless. For observing the wellbeing of a colony, a network of temperature/humidity sensors is much more usefull.
A camera installed in the middle of the beehive will not at all work. The middle of the beehive, this is the core of the bee-nest. This is the preferred place of the queen, where she lays her eggs, where the most of the new bees are born. There is not the place for a camera, and if you would put one, it would be covered by the bees with wax immediately.
The same thing for other places in the beehive: for a camera, you need distance. Putting a camera in the beehive and realizing good results with it for monitoring, is very very very difficult.
Unless you just want to put a camera for the exhibition (proof of concept), to see inside of the hive-design: how does the hive look inside? What is new about it? How is it made? In that case, whatever setup is possible.
But if you want to do this for monitoring bees, than it asks for a long research to see what is possible with this kind of beehive - but once more: cameras are very difficult, just simply because the choice of ultra small, wide angle, short focus and infrared cameras is extremely limited. A nice project would be to design a new lens, custommade for this kind of beehive.
But as I said: this is a very long-term project, not something you develop and realize in 2 weeks.
The last years I realised 2 different setups with cameras. They were running over a whole bee-season, but we worked the whole winter fefore the start of the season on these customised setups.
This was a setup in regular beehives (which is much easier than in a Guerilla Beehive), and it was already very difficult.
Here are some photos from the setup we introduced last year in one of our beehives (the sound beehive). It is a rather complex setup. We were working with a Raspberry Pi + a hacked PiNoir camera of Raspberry.
As the image result with the PiNoir was rather blurry, we worked afterwards with a 6mm lens (still connected to Raspberry) and 2 infrared Leds. Here are some pictures of the setup - but this setup asks for a lot of space (to host the Raspberry Pi + all cables) and also we need enough distance from the object (the bee nest).
I think we will have to go for an image-stopmotion setup (instead of video). The processing of video will not be possible in a stand alone version with solarpanel. Maybe we will have to work with a combination of Arduino and Raspberry Pi, in order to save energy consumption of the Pi and switch on the Pi only when necessary.
But everything depends on what is the goal of the project.
Is the goal bee monitoring?
Is the goal designing a Guerilla Beehive: a sustainable shelter for honeybees in context of biodiversity?
For me it is clearly the last. Therefore, an alternative is to install a mesh network of thermistors.
I think it is much more interesting and helpfull for the disappearing bees (and as well for the wellbeing of our ecosystem) to support the bees with shelters that are adapted to their needs (read: hives build out of natural materials with bee-supporting properties) than to design a bee shelter enhanced with (intrusive) technology.
Later, if we have more time and money, we can try to enhance the same model with technology that is custom developed for this model beehive: camera with custom adapted lens.
If we want to add technology right away, and one that is usefull in terms of monitoring, than we should go for the mesh network of thermistors. They measure what is most important in context of bee monitoring: the temperature and the humidity in the nest, compared to the temperature and humidity of the surrounding outside - and how they relate to each other.


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The effect of enzymatically degradable poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels on smooth muscle cell phenotype.
The formation of scar tissue due to dedifferentiation of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) is one of the major issues faced when engineering bladder tissue. Furthermore, cell sources for regenerating the SMC layer are also limiting. Here we explore if human mesenchymal stem cells (MCSs), cultured in enzymatically degradable poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel scaffolds can be differentiated into SMC-like cells. We explored the degree to which a less synthetic SMC phenotype can be achieved when primary human SMCs are cultured within these scaffolds, It was observed that when both MSCs and SMCs are cultured in the PEG hydrogel scaffolds, but not on traditional tissue culture plastic, they up-regulate markers associated with the less synthetic SMC phenotype, decreased expression of alpha(5) integrin and THY-1, and increased expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin (alphaSMA) and myosin. Furthermore, we show that MSCs and SMCs cultured in the PEG hydrogels are able to proliferate and express matrix metalloproteinases for up to 21d in culture, the duration of the study. This study addresses the importance of the cellular microenvironment on cell fate, and proposes synthetic instructive biomaterials as a means to direct cell differentiation and circumvent scar tissue formation during bladder reconstruction.

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today i have Inni Nail Vinyls in the design Christmas (simply use the search feature on www.inni.com and enter in Christmas to find it... there are other designs named Christmas, but this one is by Katja) to share with you all! these were kindly sent to me as a press sample for review :) Inni Nail Vinyls are a new nail wrap that are made of vinyl and apply exactly like a sticker. they don't need topcoat, and simply peel off when you are done with them! i love the ease of it, i know other wraps require water and other things... since these were my first experience with wraps ever, i think i would be hard pressed to ever try the other, more difficult/effort required, wraps!
here's a look at Christmas!
definitely made some mistakes with my application, and i do think there is a learning curve involved. you find the video from Inni instructing you on application here! in the video there is a little ruler at the top of the sheet, but mine didn't have one, so i just laid my finger against the strips and guessed. this is probably not the best method, as i kept choosing ones too small! since they are stickers, you can simply put them back if you get the wrong size.
i used a cuticle pusher with a rubber tip and the Revlon File-n-Smooth Nail File for application. the cuticle pusher i used because i had seen it used in an application video for other wraps and it seemed like a great idea. i used the Revlon nail file because i couldn't find the file i was sent to use... i, of course, found it still in the envelope after i was done! i swear i checked there multiple times... sheesh. the good thing is, i can definitely recommend that you NOT use these metal files, it didn't work as well as the more traditional cardboard one would.
here's a look at the tools! including the file i *should* have used.
before you start applying, i recommend *not* applying lotion... this is my usual routine before polish application, but i feel it kept the vinyls from from bonding as best they could. also, rub your nail really well with polish remover or acetone right before you apply... i just did a cursory swipe and i don't think i got my nails clean enough. once you are ready, get the sticker right down to the cuticle and press it down towards the sides and top of the nail. Inni recommends that you stretch it/pull it a bit as you apply! i then used the cuticle pusher to really get the sticker under my cuticles all around my nail for a more seamless look. i did get a little wrinkling... i think it's just going to take practice to get better at application. once they are pressed completely, fold the excess over the nail. i made the mistake on some nails of sticking the excess together into a point before filing... it works way better if you simply fold it flat off the nail like it shows in the video! then take your file and take off the excess with downward strokes. my most important recommendation is to not try refiling once you are done. i had a little bit of lifting on a couple nails, so i went over all my nails again... this caused them all to lift up all over! i'm glad i made some mistakes, though, so i can keep you guys from having to go through it :) because i did that, i only kept mine on a couple days.
you can see the shine on these... it's so cool that they are so shiny with no topcoat needed! i got loads of compliments on these, Mama Pawlish is a huge fan :D what's nice is you can use them from either direction, so it's easy to make an accent nails with designs like these that don't have a clear top and bottom.
*INNI Nails comes in a set of 30 pieces with 13 different sizes for both hands, from very small to very big so that both young girls and grown-ups can enjoy the perfect fit. Customers also receive a compact nail file along with instructions on how to apply the nail stickers and how to find your correct size. Custom sets retail online starting from $9.90 with free shipping everywhere.


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The idea is orientated at the medical volunteers work in the USA: Please, spent 2 or 3 hours per week in a school and you will change lives! Especially in poor countries we do need this help!
Be a part of this work!
The Rock academy is looking for Speech Therapists.

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Sky Eye Films is an full service photography and videography production company. We offer brilliant photos of real estate interiors, exteriors as well as offering aerial imagery and video. Our images are used by marketing firms, construction companies, the insurance industry or real estate professionals who know that professional imagery can deliver a better understanding of their property. We are dedicated to providing new understanding of your project through stunning imagery, an easy to work with attitude and our Satisfaction Guarantee. In addition to our client work, we also provide educational classes to youth and adults who want to discover more about the world of unmanned aviation.

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San Diego has the reputation of being one of the most beautiful places in the world. Having lived in this fine city for nearly 10 years and counting, I can testify to the accessible beaches, immaculate weather, and lovely restaurants. If you ever find yourself with a weekend in the area, here are some great places to check out.
Morning: After grabbing an açaí bowl at the OB Smoothie Bar and Subs, take a stroll down Newport Avenue take a walk down towards the pier of Ocean Beach and revel in the beautiful natural formations of Sunset Cliffs. As one of the world’s most quickly eroding places, it’s something you don’t want to miss.
Afternoon: Travel up along the coast and check out the international yacht community parked along Mission Bay. Maybe even try striking up a conversation with a few of these folks and ask about their sailing adventures. Close by, the Pacific Beach neighborhood has a great handful of restaurants. For lunch, grab some Mexican seafood (the ultimate combo for San Diego dining) at Oscar’s fish tacos, it’s unbeatable.
Evening: End your evening by visiting La Jolla. If you’ve got time to visit the University of California, San Diego, the modernist style of architecture and the sprinkling of art installations around campus makes it a worthy experience. If anything, stop by Geisel Library and be awed by its spaceship-esque, brutalist architecture, and attend a music concert from UCSD’s world renowned music department.
Morning: Start in North Park by grabbing some delicious french toast at The Mission on University Avenue. There’s always a line, so be sure to get there early. While you’re on University Avenue, peruse down the street and admire the line of cute boutique shops, quirky restaurant and bars, and the diverse locals that live in the area.
Afternoon: Enjoy the beautiful Spanish colonial architecture of the buildings, stroll through the gardens, and walk through the museums of Balboa Park. Enjoyable to both tourists and locals alike, this historical cultural park is declared for purely recreational use, and 100% family-friendly. Some personal favorites of mine include the cactus garden (it’s like stepping foot onto another planet), and the diverse verdure of the Botanical Building. Many of the museums also often have special exhibits going on.
Evening: End the evening by grabbing some drunken noodles or green curry at Amarin Thai in Hillcrest and hanging out and rooting for a local soccer team at the North Park Rec Center. In the spring and summer, soccer games are exciting to watch and go late into the night, some begin as late as 10 pm. In the dry, warm San Diego night time weather, it’s absolutely the perfect way to end the day.
Are you a San Diego local or have visited, and have more recommendations you’d like to add? Feel free to chip in the comments below.
This entry was posted in 48 Hours: Travel Like a Local, Do, Explore, San Diego, Stuff we love, Taste.
This is such a nice write-up for San Diego. The photos are pretty. :) This makes me miss SD!

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NHS England has today announced it will provide £10 million to GPs to support delivery of additional extended hours, out of hours and unscheduled care sessions over winter.
The Winter Indemnity Scheme will be used to cover the costs of professional indemnity for the extra services provided by GPs, giving them the freedom to work extra sessions securely and without extra costs.
This is just one of a programme of activities being undertaken by NHS England to support general practice meet demand over the winter months.
NHS England is working with the Department of Health and Social Care, the General Practice Committee of the BMA and other organisations in developing a state-backed indemnity scheme.
Dr David Geddes, NHS England’s Director of Primary Care Commissioning, who is writing to heads of primary care, clinical leaders and CCGs regarding this winter’s indemnity scheme, said: “Extra costs can discourage GPs from providing extra out of hours or unscheduled care, so NHS England is supporting them to offer additional services, which is not only better for patients – who get more convenient access to care – but also eases the pressure on GPs, A&Es and other frontline NHS services.
The scheme will mean GPs do not pay additional subscriptions to their medical defence organisations (MDOs) and will run between 1 October 2018 and 31 March 2019.
This is the fourth year that NHS England has funded the successful winter indemnity scheme, having first introduced it in 2015-16.
Having committed £10 million to support the initiative, NHS England will be monitoring uptake across GP practices, out of hours services, NHS 111 and urgent care service providers, to evaluate the scheme’s impact.


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A few days ago we celebrated the glorious news of Easter Sunday morning. Churches around the world reverberated with the ancient words that are constantly new: “He is risen! He is risen, indeed!” Congregations enjoyed standing room only as sanctuaries overflowed, experiencing their annual, high attendance day for the year.
The liturgical calendar calls the week AFTER Easter “Low Sunday.” The origin of the title remains unclear. Historians believe the name stood in contrast to the great festival of Easter. Following the celebration of the Resurrection, churches returned to the “low” or ordinary rhythm and routine of worship.
Church pastors know better. Low attendance puts the “low” in Low Sunday!
If Easter marks the high water mark for worship, then the week AFTER Easter resembles low tide. The same pews that were packed to capacity only seven days before now have plenty of room to stretch out for a short snooze.
This year’s Low Sunday is compounded by a further inconvenience of the calendar. The Gwinnett County School System Spring Break begins on Friday, April 1. School does not resume until Monday, April 11. So the Sunday after Easter lands in the midst of the weekend when many families will leave town.
Combining Low Sunday with Spring Break forms a pastor’s worst nightmare. Some churches may even dip into the negative numbers this week! Certainly the pews will be underpopulated and the parking spots plentiful.
During the days following Easter Sunday morning, however, we will continue to celebrate the season of Easter. For forty days, the risen Lord appeared to his disciples. The reports vary in the details.
The Gospels describe the women discovering the empty tomb. Luke’s account includes the two disciples who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Paul reports that Christ first appeared to Simon Peter, then the twelve Apostles followed by more than five-hundred followers at one time.
In John’s gospel, one man missed the first Easter Eve when the Lord appeared to the disciples. “Doubting” Thomas declared his disbelief and announced he would only be convinced by touching Christ’s wounds.
Christ responded: “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” For almost two thousand years, people have believed the Easter message by faith rather than sight. The same message proclaimed at the empty tomb continues to echo in our ears today.
I suppose it’s a good thing that Thomas decided to attend church the Sunday AFTER Easter. Just imagine what he might have missed!
On Low Sunday, we continue to celebrate the Easter good news that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead!
John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, emphasized God’s means of grace that enable us to grow as Christian disciples. The Lord designed these spiritual disciplines as reliable ways to experience divine mercy, love, and power.
Wesley divided God’s means of grace into two broad categories: works of mercy and works of piety.
Works of piety encompass devotional habits that draw us closer to God. According to Wesley’s teachings, they include: prayer, Bible study, Holy Communion, fasting, and Christian community.
Works of mercy lead us to reach out to others in the name of Christ. Faithful disciples joyfully embrace doing good, visiting the sick and imprisoned, feeding and clothing the needy, practicing financial stewardship, and seeking justice.
Works of piety help us to grow in personal devotion. Works of mercy challenge us to reach out to others.
To do one is to do the other. To neglect the one is to neglect the other. Either without the other is not enough. This is not a choice of either/or but both/and.
Paul said works without faith is dead. James said that faith without works is dead. Both were right.
Works of piety and works of mercy are equally important; and they inspire one another. Christian discipleship is both an inward and outward reality. Our personal devotion leads to service of others. Our service to others leads to personal devotion. This becomes a self-reinforcing cycle of faith.
And don’t be misled by the word “works.” It calls to mind human diligence and labor; and certainly we play our part in responding to God’s call upon our lives. However, we also recognize that all of these activities are means of God’s GRACE.
Grace is the first and last word of the gospel. Grace is a gift freely given to us even when we don’t deserve it. Ultimately, we grow in faith because of God’s grace in our lives. Whatever attempts we make to exercise the means of grace are enabled and enhanced by the Spirit’s presence.
You cannot go back in time and start these disciplines five years ago. But which ones will you wish you had started five years from the present? Today is the day, now is the time—start here, start now.


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DAMA is a mural program which began as part of Dane Arts and is now an independent non-profit organization. Our purpose is to engage community members throughout Dane County in the mural-making process. Together, we create art for public display of the highest merit. Knowing that our impact will extend beyond those who actively participate in the creation of murals, DAMA recruits participants through multi-channeled community networks and positively affects the quality of life for Dane County residents. Our work builds upon dozens of existing collaborations - while continually creating new ones - both local and national.
Through DAMA, community artists train in the process of creating community murals. They use art as an educational tool to make a difference in the lives of Dane County communities with an emphasis on working with at-risk youth. DAMA engages community members and youth in all aspects of the mural-making process - providing opportunities to experience success through organized, hands-on, hard work. Our goal is to address disparities by working within urban and rural communities that have limitations to arts programs. Through extensive outreach to and partnership with those whose grassroots efforts are building community, we are using the arts as the tool to address urban decay, community engagement and youth self-affirmation: beauty, goodness, and truth drive our work.
Artists increase their earning power – and their connection to community.
Communities experience an enhanced sense of place and community connectedness.
Youth learn how to successfully complete projects on time, increase their critical thinking abilities, and create better connections with their neighborhoods and communities.
While visually awakening communities, DAMA ignites members of neighborhoods in the process. DAMA artists benefit from the increased opportunity for paid work as community artists. Community participants benefit from the ownership of the public art in which they are fully a part. Youth benefit by working alongside skilled trained artists who understand that deliberate practice leads to success. Through their hard work, youth benefit from the artist mentor relationships created, and learn job-readiness skills.
The mission of DAMA is to utilize the transformative nature of art, particularly mural-making, to create a sense of belonging, especially for youth, by beautifying communities and humanizing neighborhoods.
The vision of DAMA is a county-wide network of communities whose members, especially youth, are happy, healthy and engaged, and who reap the rewards of living and working in neighborhoods and communities filled with art which they have helped to create.
We believe that art has the power to transform both individuals and communities. Through DAMA, Dane Arts is committed to training artists to work as community artists who practice this most rewarding type of art – community art. Not all artists have the desire or the capacity to become community artists. It takes a highly organized person who is outgoing and able to adapt to often continually changing circumstances in order to see a successful mural project through from inception to dedication. We believe, though, that by training those artists who have the aptitude for community art, we can improve the lives of Dane County citizens.
DAMA artists evenly divide their attention between creating a meaningful work of art and transforming lives. They strive to keep an equal balance between product and process. Through the mural-making process, artists positively engage youth - many of whom lack opportunity. Our program is designed to help close the opportunity and achievement gaps which limit the ability of Dane County youth - especially those of color - to envision and attain successful futures in their own hometowns.
The same limitations to quality arts programs impact our rural communities as well as poorer inner city communities. DAMA community artists address the disparities and lack of access to arts programs in both rural and urban Dane County. Art is used as the tool to address youth self-affirmation, community engagement and urban decay.
DAMA engages students and other youth through project-based learning so as to help increase school attendance and improve outcomes in other areas of life. Data from alternative high school programs shows increased attendance for students who participate in our mural activities.
Youth are given the opportunity to train alongside community muralists. Depending on the skill level of youth, perhaps some will become community artists themselves; others might learn to be able to paint murals or install mosaics commercially; while others might merely learn how to show up regularly – and on time – for a job. The acquisition of job-readiness skills is a major goal for youth. We have devised simple pre- and post- tests which show positive outcomes for participating youth.
Our curriculum is “emergent.” This means that our curriculum is based on the learning goals for youth, not merely on the mural project or projects themselves. The curriculum “emerges” as we get to know a specific participant and build a relationship with him or with her.
We use a trauma-informed curriculum in our work with youth. The first component of our curriculum is to give youth the chance for a degree of recovery from trauma and the ability to feel safe. The second component of our curriculum is to give youth the opportunity to express their feelings and find their own voice. The third component of our curriculum is the development of social skills. Artists model cooperative interaction in their work as community artists. They foster problem solving skills in youth, and are experts in changing negative behavior into positive behavior. They foster the resilience that helps youth learn to make a rewarding place for themselves in the world.
To successfully teach the emergent curriculum at DAMA, our community artists are firmly grounded in their knowledge of adolescent development. They are aware of the different stages of childhood and young adulthood, and know particularly how people at different stages react differently to stress. Community artists are prepared to respond to the “teachable moments” that participants present.
DAMA artists encourage youth to take initiative and to make real choices that involve their lives. They give power to youth by helping them have their voices heard and develop skills in real life situations that perhaps have never been equaled for them in the classroom. Our goal is to make each moment count and make the learning real.
DAMA has a strong place-making component. One of the most effective ways to engage youth is to help them forge strong connections with their neighborhoods and communities. Helping to beautify their neighborhoods and communities through the creation of murals instills a sense of pride in the participants. Many of Madison’s neighborhoods and Dane County’s communities are pleasant, walkable areas. Others, though, are sadly devoid of art or much that is humanizing. DAMA is working to change that for as many neighborhoods and communities as possible.
It is our intent to create murals that are designed to last as long as possible. We strive to ensure the longest possible life for our projects by engaging in “best practices” in all technical aspects of the mural making process. We update our knowledge and skills through on-going communication with the best mural programs in the country. We work to determine reasonable expectations for the life of each work that is created. Maintenance plans are built into each project.


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Re-orchestrated by SNJO director, saxophonist Tommy Smith, this Rhapsody in Blue of the twenty-first century was written to feature Scotland’s world-class jazz pianist Brian Kellock, who played the original Rhapsody as a music student in Edinburgh in 1981.
Familiar themes, including the iconic clarinet glissando and Gershwin’s heartbreaking nostalgic refrain, have been used – respectfully – as source material and reworked into a fifty-two minute epic that flows through exciting up-tempo movements, rhapsodic blues passages, a sensational Cuban fantasia and hard swinging jazz choruses, showcasing SNJO’s magnificent ensemble playing and top class, creative soloing.
The piece was premiered at Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2006, going on to further acclaim at London Jazz Festival, Brecon Jazz Festival and in concerts throughout the UK, and the CD will be launched officially at a special Glasgow Jazz Festival performance at the Old Fruitmarket on Sunday, June 28.


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We invest in the development of our employees and enable them to lead balanced lives. Our career opportunities span the diverse range of disciplines below.
Our Manufacturing employees ensure that products are made in a safe, efficient and cost effective manner while producing top quality products.
Customer Support employees are at the forefront of our business. They build new relationships, strengthen existing ones and enhance the ease of doing business with Nystrom.
Nystrom's sales team works with thousands of contractors and architects across the continental United States and worldwide.
Our Technical Support employees identify products for application along with installation and post-sale issues.
The estimating department works with the sales department and interprets building plans.
Nystrom's drafters and mechnical designers provide daily support to sales operations and custom manufacturing.
Finance employees play an integral part of daily operations at Nystrom, from business analytics to daily transactions.
Nystrom IT professionals help solve business challenges and enable growth with information technology.
Human Resources provides Nystrom leaders and employees with best-in-class people, programs and services.
Nystrom's Marketing and Product Management employees deliver top quality products and communications to the market.
Supply Chain at Nystrom supports the flow of materials into Nystrom for manufacturing, on-site logistics, and deliveries to our customers.
Nystrom's facilities management team manages and coordinates our building spaces, infrastructure and processes to support the core business.


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Whats your fav Linux Distro?
How fast are you in Linux?
how to i "patch" the kernel?
Any other Ubuntu Linux users here (Debian)?
Guide: What is the distro for me?
Now your crappy gamecube can be useful! With Gamecube Linux!
Which Linux Distro For Me?
KDE vs Gnome for my new Mandrake Install?
Can't Get My B&W G3 to Boot From ANY OSX Panther CD or DVD!
Where (or how) do I get X.org 6.8 for Mandrake 10.1 Official?
Was installing gentoo a good accomplishment for a very first time linux guy?
Linux on 2nd HDD ???
OK so I am not doing something right..
Can't get SuSe to give me 2560x1600??
How has the best (Fedora) Linux driver support?
Good site to learn alot about linux??
Want to Install Ubuntu 6.10 but need to clear a few things first!
Which dist do u have on ur laptop/notebook ?
Xgl not compatible with TNT2 cards?
Linux Ubuntu, but which version?
Which distribution for my old Laptop?
Linux + asus p5k = problems?
Your favorite Linux distro and why?
Backtrack Lilo Issue: Append proper "root="
Scheduling a hot backup in CentOS.
Cannot install ATI Catalyst 8.10 Drivers on Mandrake 2007.1, 2008, or any other!
OC'ing tools for Linux (CoreTemp, CPU-Z, etc)?
Need a small but fully featured linux distro!
Fedora 11 and ATI: No love?
DSL on a USB stick!!
Successful Xubuntu install disc burn!
Linux and Windows 7 Ultimate Multi boot ?
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Amtrak is the intercity train service run by The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, connecting more than 500 US destinations and three Canadian provinces.
According to The Make Good in its piece on content marketers that are ahead of the curve, Amtrak has seen a rise in train ticket sales that perhaps goes against the dominance of air travel in the USA.
This is in part thanks to its recent content marketing push. Amtrak has redesigned its blog, including an archive of photography that stretches back over four decades of its existence, upped its social media game and has begun sponsoring trips by writers and photographers in order to create engaging content for the company.
Let’s take a closer look at the best of Amtrak’s content and channels.
AR (augmented reality) gets a tough rap in digital marketing circles. To date, the technology is still most visible powering children’s games and providing 3D thrills that use your tablet or smartphone to layer digital information or graphics over real-world objects.
With wearable tech exploding off the tradeshow floor at CES, and Google Glass finally infiltrating mainstream press, it’s time to take a serious look at augmented reality in modern marketing and the enterprise.
Here are three reasons why I’m betting on seeing more use of AR from savvy brands and agencies in the year(s) to come.