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Tommy La Stella is providing an unexpected power boost for the Los Angeles Angels during their interleague series against the Milwaukee Brewers.
La Stella, who had only one other multihomer game, has gone deep in consecutive games for the first time in his career. It's just the second time in La Stella's six major league seasons that he's had three or more homers in a year.

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First, this is for a patio. Later on we will need a larger concrete pad for a barn. Patio will be approximately 20X50, 1000 square feet. The larger barn pad will be approximately 36x48.
Wooded 13 acres with no house. Considering a u shaped driveway of gravel, concrete or asphalt. Not sure of the dimensions yet. Need a ballpark figure per linear yard for each type of material.
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A number of Judges, members of the Victorian Bar and members of the Law Institute of Victoria will be attending the regular Sunday evening service of Choral Evensong at St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, corner Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne. The Service begins at 6 pm.
Although there will not be a Legal Procession, Judges and Counsel will robe and there will be a block of pews reserved for those members of the Profession attending this service.
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NEW YORK (AP) Liberty coach Bill Laimbeer said all season that come August he'll know a lot more about his team.
Right now, New York is one of the best teams in the WNBA, winning five straight, including victories over the top three teams in the league.
Tina Charles scored 19 points and Epiphanny Prince added 15 to lead New York. Despite the winning streak and clinching a postseason berth for the third straight year, Charles took a more cautious approach to the win over the top-seeded Lynx.
The Liberty had the third best record in the league last season and lost in their playoff opener.
New York (17-12) trailed by 11 in the first half before cutting its deficit to five at the break. The Liberty took the lead for good in the third quarter on two free throws by Sugar Rodgers with 40 seconds left in the period.
Minnesota was down 47-46 early in the fourth before New York scored 15 of the next 17 points to take control.
Maya Moore scored 22 points to lead the Lynx (22-6), who were missing starters Lindsay Whalen and Rebekkah Brunson to injuries.
The Lynx and Liberty players locked arms in a giant circle with members of the NYPD and Covenant House at center court before the game in a show of unity during the national anthem. This contest was billed as unity game to help promote social awareness toward racial inequalities. The Liberty hosted an hour long panel before the game with the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality.
INJURY BUG: Minnesota has been hampered by injuries over the last few weeks. Whalen has been sidelined with a fractured bone in her left hand since Aug. 4. She was working out before the game.
Brunson sprained her left ankle on Wednesday and missed her second game. She wasn't with the team, rehabbing it in Minnesota.
RETIREMENT: Minnesota Lynx forward Plenette Pierson will retire after the season. The two-time WNBA champion came into the league in 2003 and won titles with Detroit in 2006 and 2008. She's played for six different teams and earned the league's sixth woman of the year honor in 2007.
LYNX: Hosts Phoenix on Tuesday.
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The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), in partnership with Habinteg, has launched a new toolkit for people involved in housing and planning in local authorities in England.
‘Housing and disabled people: A toolkit for local authorities in England’ includes information, checklists, questionnaires and best practice examples for the provision and management of housing adaptations.
It is primarily aimed at leaders and practitioners in housing, adult social care, occupational therapists and tenant engagement teams.
The new toolkit comes following a report earlier in the year by EHRC which found that there is a lack of accessible housing across England, with figures revealing that only 7 percent of homes in England offer minimal accessibility features.
One of the key points within the document outlines that providing clear information about home adaptations and funding is essential for addressing present and future housing needs and that this information should be presented in a range of formats.
The toolkit also proposes different ways to form relationships with key people such as private landlords and wider stakeholders as a way to improve the provision and management of housing adaptations.


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I hope everyone's new year is off to a great start! I haven't started any new projects yet because I have two little boys home sick from school this week.
Lucky me, though, found a vintage Scrabble game before Christmas at our local Goodwill. In between the holidays, I whipped up a few Frenchy desk "plaques."
All I needed was the Scrabble tiles, tile holder and hot glue gun. I made the Bonjour and Merci ones for my Etsy shop. I made myself a Bienvenue one, which I have on our tv table as a sweet welcome.
I actually made this little Love Scrabble ornament last year. Somehow it got buried in my craft room (don't you hate when that happens?!). I was happy to find it as I'll be decorating for Valentine's Day soon.
Don't you love working with Scrabble tiles?!
Cute ideas - I don't craft with Scrabble tiles, BUT I love a good scrabble game!!

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Prof Hiran Amarasekera, Professor in Forestry and Environmental Science at University of Sri Jayewardenepura launched Back to Nature program which promote lifestyle more like our ancestors (Paleolithic or pre-agricultural type of lifestyle as far as possible) among young generation.
“Back to Nature” an initiative introduced by the Young Biologists’ Association and Forestry and Environment Society of University of Sri Jayewardnepura, which focuses on healing both humans and the environment; with the hope of encouraging a healthy and happy human being as well as a sustainable environment.
Move – Walk, Run and move like our ancestors.
Conserve and Resilience focus on safeguarding, conserving and adopting to changing environmental conditions.

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Our research team studies mechanisms of cardiovascular injury due to oxidative and nitrosative stress. Some key techniques/models employ tissue culture, antioxidant interventions and long-term treatment with chemotherapy agents, immunohistochemical characterization of apoptosis and inflammation, genetically engineered mice and echocardiography of impaired cardiac function. We identified substance P as a key mediator of inflammation of the heart due to magnesium deficiency, as well as cardioprotection from drugs that block neuropeptide release and the NK1 receptor for substance P. Currently we are studying the role of the neutral endopeoptidase, neprilysin, in amplifying neurogenic inflammation during hypomagnesemia; our lab is the first to report inhibition of this enzyme, which is critical for degrading excess substance P, due to the oxidative/nitrosative stress of hypomagnesemia. Recently we reported on the cardiotoxicity of tyrosine kinase inhibiting chemotherapeutic agents; this work resulted in funding of an NHLBI grant entitled “EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition-Induced Cardiomyopathy.” These recent studies may have translational relevance to the newly evolving joint cardiology-oncology emphasis on treating cardiovascular disease in long term cancer survivors.
Mak, I.-T, Kramer, J.H., Chmielinska, J.J, Spurney, C.F., Weglicki, W.B. The EGFR TKI, erlotinib, causes hypomagnesemia, oxidative stress and cardiac dysfunction: attenuation by substance P-receptor blockade. J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. In Press. 2014.
Weglicki, W.B., Mak, I-T., Chmielinska, J.J., Spurney, C.F., Kramer. J.H. Hypomagnesemia-induced neurogenic inflammation and cardiac dysfunction during experimental Mg deficiency. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Magnesium Symposium. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. In Press. 2014.
McCaffrey, T.A., Tziros, C., Lewis, J., Katz, R., Siegel, R., Weglicki,W., Kramer, J., Mak, I-T., Toma, I.,Chen, L., Benas, E., Lowitt, A., Rao, S., Witkins, L., Lian, Y., Lai, Y.,Yang, Z., Fu, S.W. Genomic Profiling Reveals the Potential Role of TCL1A and MDR1 Deficiency in Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity. Int. J. Biol. Sci. 9(4):350-360, 2013.
Mak, I.-T, Kramer, J.H., Chen X., Chmielinska, J.J, Spurney, C.F., Weglicki, W.B. Mg-supplementation Attenuates Ritonavir-induced Hyperlipidemia, Oxidative Stress and Cardiac Dysfunction in Rats. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 305: R1102–R1111, 2013.
Weglicki, W.B. Hypomagnesemia and Inflammation: Clinical and Basic Aspects. Ann. Rev. of Nutrition 32:4.1-4.17;2012. (in press).
Weglicki, W.B. Kramer, J.H., Spurney, C.F., Chmielinska, J.J., Mak, I.T. The EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Tyrphostin AG-1478 Causes Hypomagnesemia and Cardiac Dysfunction. Can. J. of Physiol. & Pharmacol. (accepted 1/20/2012) (in press).
Mak I.T. Chmielinska, J.J, Kramer, J.H. Spurney, C.F., Weglicki, W.B. Loss of neutral endopeptidase activity contributes to neutrophil activation and cardiac dysfunction during chronic hypomagnesemia: Protection by substance P receptor blockade. Exp. & Clin. Cardiol. 16(4):121-124, 2011.
Kramer, J.H., Spurney, C., Iantorno, M., Tziros, C., Mak, I-T., Tejero-Taldo, M.I., Chmielinska, J.J., Komarov, A.M., Weglicki, W.B. Neurogenic inflammation and cardiac dysfunction due to hypomagnesemia in a rodent model. Am. J. Med. Sci. 338: 22-27, 2009.
Weglicki, W.B., Chmielinska, J.J., Tejero-Taldo, M.I., Kramer, J.H., Spurney, C., Viswalingham, K., Lu, B., Mak, I.-T. Neutral endopeptidase inhibition enhances substance P mediated inflammation due to hypomagnesemia. Magnes. Res. 22: 1-7, 2009.
Mak, I. T., Chmielinska, J.J., Kramer, J.H., Weglicki. W.B. AZT-Induced cardiovascular toxicity - attenuation by Mg-supplementation. Cardiovascular Toxicol. 9(2): 78-85,2009.

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Tammy Ragsdale, Director of Verdugo Hills Chorus, is truly a "musical" director! She is a thirty-seven year member of Sweet Adelines International (and that's a lot of singing!), and has passed the Director Certification Program through Sweet Adelines International. She achieved the prestigious level of Master Director in the 2015 Regional Contest, with a chorus score of 600! Tammy is a member of a regional registered quartet, Clueless. She also sings in a non-barbershop ensemble, Eclectic Mix.
"The Chorus has done a lot of growing and learning over these past few years. We've focused heavily on the Contest aspect of the hobby and done well in that arena. We came back from Regional Contest this year and as is our tradition, we had a party to celebrate a wonderful season and talk about what to do next.
Although barbershop is one of the oldest American art forms, don't be fooled into thinking it's old-fashioned! Sweet Adelines is an innovative organization focused on competition, performance and education. The Verdugo Hills Chorus excels at this in every respect. In addition to singing classics from the American Songbook, we're also applying our unique style to songs like the Eurhythmics' "Sweet Dreams" and more! We create a feeling like no other when our voices join together in song and ring those awesome chords. It's something a musical instrument simply can't do!
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If the stamp escapes franking, an increasingly shabby envelope can travel between us for months, ferrying cargoes of new poems, images and a letter.
We met a dozen years ago in London, bonding over confessions of how much we wanted our poems to be good – and to publish. For years we met monthly to share vegan cakes, new work and discuss what we were reading. When Katrina moved to Cornwall in 2014 we reluctantly gave up the cakes but added the Post Office into the familiar mix – along with an agreement to write a brand-new poem each month in response to one written by the other.
We quickly became addicted to the process. We found it so fruitful that we added a second, more visual, conversation in which we exchange images to write from, again on a monthly cycle. We also critique a batch of each other’s poems each month. The envelopes keep getting fatter, and tattier.
We’re loyal to the letter, only using email when we’re abroad. Plotting the trajectories of our poem exchanges would require a moderately complex SkyMap: Japan (Katrina has just returned from an Arts Council-funded project); Grasmere (Judy spent a year as Poet-in-Residence at Dove Cottage); Hong Kong (Judy’s old home); Katrina’s residency at the Arnolfini (Bristol) and the Brontë Parsonage (Haworth); and our residences at Gladstone’s Library and Hawthornden Castle (but at different times) – plus London, Derbyshire and Cornwall.
We were both committed letter writers before we met, but our poems and our processes differed considerably. They still do, despite the transference of ideas such a long-term collaboration catalyses. Yet if something gets skimped from the envelope, it’s the letter not the poems.
This is partly because the poem exchange is also an exchange of information. And it’s exciting – not just because of time pressure and the surprising (and often uncomfortable) triggers, but also because of anticipation about what the other will come up with. Sometimes what our poems have to say is pure trickery or excitement about technique. They may spin off of current preoccupations or whatever we’re trying to hit in our own process.
It’s great to have a trusted recipient for this, but even better to have one who lobs back something fresh and alive in answer to our own puzzles, poetic and personal. It can be a refutation or refusal of a technique, a subject or a pronoun – you never know what’s coming! But you know you have to respond to the other’s poem and visual image, whatever you’ve made of it, mostly because of our shared urgency to write but also because we promised.
Both our recent second books contain many poems which have emerged from this deadly serious game.
Deep familiarity with each other’s process and the differing ways we transform material has increased our respect for each other’s work but our critiques aren’t soft. As friends, we may know a little too much about the underlying raw material, but that too helps us see what’s a real poem and what’s just diarising.
Sometimes the line blurs for us – is this two women talking or something more impersonal, two poems talking to each other? Do we care? Not really, as long as we get a proper meet-up once in a while and can go to the pub or on a walk, have a dance or a curry, leaving the poems behind for – well, at least for a couple of hours.
Crowd Sensations, Judy Brown’s most recent poetry collection, was published by Seren in 2016.
Katrina Naomi’s most recent collection, The Way the Crocodile Taught Me, was also published by Seren in 2016.
Working on our book, A Secret Sisterhood, has given us the perfect excuse to visit some of the places most associated with our literary heroines.
Some of these, such as Jane Austen’s former home at Chawton, are geographically close to where we live. Others, like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s house in the Connecticut town of Hartford, or the site of the school Charlotte Brontë attended in Brussels – both on the agenda for research trips this month – are considerably further afield.
A few are fixtures on the tourist trail, attracting many thousands of literary pilgrims each year; others are not usually open to visitors; others still, though they welcome the public, are nowhere near as well-known as they deserve to be.
A couple of months ago, I returned to my home county of Yorkshire to gain a stronger insight into the close and startlingly frank bond between Charlotte Brontë and Mary Taylor.
Regular readers of Something Rhymed may recall that I visited the Brontë Parsonage with my sister as a child – the two of us spending a long time in the gift shop picking out souvenir brooches bearing the images of Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
Walking on the moors by the Parsonage – as you can see from my flying scarf, there was a typically wuthering wind!
Once again, on this most recent trip, that famed grey-stone building on the edge of the moors was back on my itinerary. But this time I sought out other locations too: the house purchased by the intrepid Mary Taylor in her later years, once she’d returned to Yorkshire from New Zealand; the boarding school she and Charlotte Brontë attended as teenagers; and Taylor’s family residence, the Red House.
Situated in the village of Gomersal, its pleasant gardens and warm red brickwork make Taylor’s old home a welcoming sight. Inside, the marble-like pillars and wide-open balcony above the entrance hall give a markedly different impression from the dim downstairs corridor of the Haworth parsonage where her friend, Brontë, grew up.
The Red House – photographs of the interior of the house, including the stained glass and paintings mentioned in this post can be viewed on their website.
Thanks to the writings of both women, some features of the Red House felt pleasingly familiar to me.
In her novel, Shirley, Brontë reimagines it as Briarmains – the home of the Yorkes, who she based on the lively and opinionated Taylor clan. And in letters Taylor wrote to Elizabeth Gaskell, when she was preparing to write her biography of Brontë, Taylor recalled her late friend’s visits to the Red House – occasions when the once socially-conservative young Brontë was coaxed out of her usual reticence to engage in lively political arguments with the radical Taylor siblings.
Walking through the rooms of the Red House that day, scenes I’d last experienced in the written words of Brontë and Taylor kept resurfacing in my mind. It was a thrill to go into the back parlour and pick out the pair of stained glass windows and picture of Mount Vesuvius erupting – mentioned in the pages of Shirley – and to imagine the young Brontë first coming face-to-face with the drama of that painting, and the sparkling purple and amber lights bouncing off the panes of stained glass.
We’ll look forward to sharing many more stories about the Red House, and Brontë and Taylor’s fascinating friendship in our forthcoming book, which comes out in late 2017.
Discussing Jane Eyre together in March, made us curious to read Mary Taylor’s ground-breaking feminist novel, Miss Miles. Rather than doing an audio interview, this time we’ve decided to vary things by giving you our thoughts in a video, which we’ll post two weeks from now. We hope you’ll come back then to take a look.
Back in 2014, we profiled Charlotte Brontё’s friendship with the author of Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell. Theirs was a fascinating bond, but – important though Gaskell was to Brontё – another writer, Mary Taylor, had an even greater influence on her life.
Brontё met Taylor, the future author of the feminist novel Miss Miles, in 1831 when they were teenage boarders at Roe Head School near Huddersfield. Their relationship got off to a rocky start when pretty Taylor told the pale, frizzy-haired new girl that she found her very ugly – a typically outspoken remark, and one from which Brontё would never fully recover.
But the pair’s bookish natures and their love of political argument soon drew them together, with Taylor’s bold and radical views opening Brontё’s eyes to fresh ways of thinking, especially in terms of the place of women in Victorian society.
Charlotte Bronte painted by J.H. Thompson – this image is in the public domain.
After leaving school the next year they kept in touch by letter and paid visits when they could to each other’s houses: the now-famous parsonage at Haworth where Brontё lived, and Taylor’s home the Red House at Gomersal.
A decade later when they were in their mid-twenties, Taylor’s encouragement gave Brontё a ‘wish for wings’. The two daringly left their native rural Yorkshire and headed for urban Brussels, to continue their education at separate schools in the Belgian capital.
The Pensionnat de Demoiselles Heger-Parent, where Brontё enrolled, was to become the scene of one of the most infamous episodes of her life – the place where she fell desperately in love with her temperamental tutor, the married Constantin Heger.
Taylor, ever hungry for greater independence, soon moved on to Germany and took a position, controversially, teaching young men. Friendless and alone in Brussels, Brontё eventually realised that her position at the Pensionnat was untenable and returned to Haworth.
Taylor, on the other hand, decided to set-sail for an even more distant destination – New Zealand. On learning that the two would now be separated by thousands of miles, a devastated Brontё remarked that it felt as if ‘a great planet fell out of the sky’.
To most, including herself, it looked as if Taylor was the true adventurer. But Brontё was beginning to break new ground too. While Taylor pushed her literary ambitions into the background – concentrating instead on the daily challenges of her brave new life – safe within her childhood home, Brontё was finally getting the chance to write.
In 1847, Brontё tasted success for the first time when the publication of her first novel, Jane Eyre, caused a nationwide sensation.
Mary Taylor (far left), climbing in Switzerland at the age of fifty-seven. We asked the Red House museum for their permission to use this image.
Taylor, who’d continued to correspond with Brontё during her time in New Zealand, returned to Britain in 1860, five years after her friend’s early death. She kept on travelling into her later years. Aged in her fifties, she joined a female mountaineering expedition in Switzerland, which resulted in the jointly-authored book Swiss Notes by Five Ladies.
Owing to the distractions of her intrepid life, her novel Miss Miles wasn’t published until 1890 when Taylor was in her seventies. Like Brontё’s novel, Shirley – for which Taylor provided the inspiration for the plucky character of Rose Yorke – it can be regarded as a book that celebrates the enduring power of female friendship.
Later this month, we’ll be doing another audio interview. This time we’ll be discussing Charlotte Brontё’s novel Jane Eyre, and Mary Taylor’s forthright reaction to the book. If you missed our previous interviews about Jane Austen’s Emma and Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee, you can catch up on what we talked about then by scrolling down to those earlier posts.
For those who’d like a quick refresher, Jane Eyre is currently BBC Radio 4’s 15 Minute Drama. You can listen to episode one of the adaptation here.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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The marketing MBA equips students with the skills and knowledge about consumer behavior, advertising and various other marketing concepts. You can now choose from a number of schools and colleges that offer MBAs in marketing programs according to your needs, goals, and academic background. Enrolling in MBA Marketing programs may be able to help students keep pace with the ever evolving business world.
Analytical skills: In the present world, there is a lot of data that is available to marketing professionals. A successful marketing manager will know the value of this data and will analyze it for the benefit of their organization.
Critical thinking: A research done by the American Management Association (AMA) in 2010 revealed that a majority of executives said that according to them, the most important quality of an employee were critical thinking skills. Critical thinking breeds creativity which can be essential in a career in advertising and marketing.
Project management: The marketing profession is very project oriented, with frequent short term campaigns focused towards a specific aspect of the product. This may range from social media projects to new product launches.
Technical skills: It is common knowledge that technology will continue to advance, but what is lesser known is that marketing is very heavily influenced by changes in technology. The more tech savvy a marketing manager is, the easier it will be for them to keep their team up to date.
Holistic approach: Marketing is a highly interconnected and integrated process. The future marketing manager will focus on the cause and effect aspect of marketing.
However, students who already hold a doctoral or post graduate degree in marketing may request to be exempted from GMAT or GRE.
The above mentioned courses are part of the core curriculum that is a compulsory degree requirement. However, you will also be able to take some elective interdisciplinary courses which will expand your knowledge base. Online MBA of Marketing degree programs can also be a viable option for individuals already employed. There are several accredited institutes that offer online MBA in marketing degrees. These online programs can be managed from any location. Students can study at their own pace and the timings can be set according to their own schedule.
Some of the options available with a marketing MBA are Promotions, Advertising or Marketing Managers. These managers generally aim to generate public interest in a service or product. They are employed in a number of settings from advertising agencies to enterprises and industries.
As of 2012, the median annual wage of promotions and advertising managers was $88,590 while their expected job growth from 2012 to 2022 is at 7%. On the other hand, as of 2012, the median annual wage of marketing managers was $119,480 while their expected job growth from 2012 to 2022 is at 13%.

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It was the early 1970s. Richard Rogers and I were working on the Centre Pompidou in Paris. We were two young and curious architects looking for an example of a brave building in the city – and here it was.
The Maison de Verre was built in 1932. It is a structure of glass blocks and steel by Pierre Chareau, and occupies part of an 18th-century courtyard on the Left Bank. It was commissioned by a French doctor called Jean Dalsace, who owned the site. But the woman on the third floor refused to move. So Chareau replaced just the first two storeys. It took courage to build something like this in such a conventional space in Paris. But the house is not arrogant or aggressive. It is a masterpiece of lightness.
The light here is wonderful whether you are inside or out. You have the light that comes into the building during the day, which is beautifully diffuse. Then, when you stand outside the building at night, the light comes out as though from a magic lantern, and you can see the graphic lines of the steel frame and the grain of the glass. The combination of strength and fragility is the key to the poetry of the building.
When you go inside, the first experience is the stairs. Making stairs is extremely difficult, and the set in the Maison de Verre, which lead to the main living room, have no vertical supports. They seem to fly or levitate. As you move through the house, there is a constantly changing sequence of light and dark. You go from spaces that are vast and generous, to ones that are compressed and shadowy.
And yet wherever you go there is a sense of integrity. It has nothing to do with style, but rather the quality of the craftsmanship. Chareau, who was also an interior designer and furniture-maker, was in love with metal, and every item and joint is beautifully designed – the steps, the bookcase, the railings. Each time I visit I get great pleasure from moving around and discovering the details. There’s an innocence to the way it all fits together: the innocence of a little boy playing.
This building has been seminal for many of the things I have done. There is something Japanese about the framing of the Maison de Verre, and when I made an office for Hermès in Tokyo, I made it out of glass blocks like Chareau’s. More recently, I’ve finished a neuroscience-research centre for Columbia University in New York, which is all about the play of light. It is a space used by 1,000 scientists where illumination comes in during the day and a glow comes out at night. It too is like a magic lantern.


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I can’t wait to get out of the smelly room and return to my bed but I turn back around at the door. This is payback time for all those pranks he plays on me. I unlock my phone, go to the voice recorder, press record and wait for the sound again… GOT IT! Then I giggle to myself and run back to bed… I’ll save his fart noise as his caller ring tone!!!
I was wondering how long it would take before the kids came up with a farting story! Not long at all!!! Boys will be boys!
Now it’s your turn to offer ideas… What would you have found if you were chasing the strange noise in the night?
Thank you for writing a post totally different and yet a very common topic which most people fight shy of.
This made me laugh. Very good.
How awfully immature, Suki. Awfully immature! Why, back in my day… Although…upon further thought, the ringtone idea is pure brilliance. Sheer genius! Incredibly useful! I can’t wait to try it on my best friend Don! Please extend my profound compliments and gratitude to your admirably inventive boys! Indeed! Quite admirable boys! There is still hope for our species, I’d say.
If I was writing it there would have been scratching in the closet! A secret door in the back of the wall.
Suki, I forgot to say how much I love it that you do this sort of thing as a family.
Hahaha…I think it is a wonderfully funny post. It must have been a lot of fun writing it together.
Too funny! I love that they help write these stories! In the car, we like to story tell…someone will start the story with 3 words, then we take turns adding 3 words at a time. Not surprising that most stories end up being about farts or poop, ha. Kids…gotta love ’em!
This is so much fun. Made me smile thanks.
If I heard a strange noise in the night, it would likely be one of them (farting or snoring, I suppose). If it wasn’t them, it would be our demon refrigerator….


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The payday loan laws in Montana are like many of the other states in that they seem to favor the lending companies over the borrowers.
While on the surface they may seem borrower friendly, they still can rack up some serious payday loan debt.
This state does limit the total amount of the loan plus fees to not exceed $300.00 with a minimum of $50.00 per loan.
The loan amount must not exceed 25% of the borrowers monthly income.
This looks very good on paper, until you add in each payday loan company may grant 2 loans per customer. So, in essence, you may have unlimited payday loans if you go to more than one payday lender, and this can lead to financial disaster!
The lenders may extend your payday loan past the 31 day limit, but must not charge for it, making it a very unfavorable option to the lender. The borrower does have the right to resind the loan 1 day past the date of the loan.
This state is set up for financial failure for the borrower and finding oneself in the payday loan trap is a real possibility.
We strongly reccomend if you use this service in Montana to only take a loan out for what you need and pay it off on the first due date. Do not take more than one loan out for any reason!
If you find you have landed in the payday loan trap and do not know what to do reest asured that we can help you.
Check out our Payday Loan Repayment Plan and call us at 1-877-280-5100 or fill out this form for a free quote and more information on how we can help you get some relief from the collectors!
I hope this information on Montana state payday loan laws will help you make wise decisions on using these services.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Meyer Sound’s LEO Family of linear sound reinforcement systems has been expanded with the addition of the diminutive new LINA very compact linear line array loudspeaker and companion 750-LFC very compact low frequency control element. Easily the smallest and lightest in the series, LINA and 750-LFC bring the inherent linearity, low distortion and exceptional power-to-size ratio of LEO Family technology to a wider range of applications and venues.
The self-powered LINA loudspeaker measures only 20.27 inches (515 mm) wide and weighs in at a mere 43 lbs. (19.5 kg), making it an ideal choice when discreet appearance, portability and hanging weight restrictions are critical considerations. Also, because LINA shares the same structural footprint as Meyer Sound’s current MINA line array loudspeakers, owners of MINA systems can add LINA to their existing inventory using the same rigging and mounting hardware. Mixed systems of MINA and LINA are compatible using the delay integration in Compass control software.
On the inside, LINA has been outfitted with new drivers and an updated amplifier and signal processing package to conform with the LEO Family design philosophy. Compared to MINA, the newly designed class D amplifier affords greater efficiency, and an upgraded power supply enables higher peak output. The 3-inch HF compression driver incorporates a new magnet structure first used in the LEOPARD line array loudspeaker (LINA’s next-larger sibling) for reduced distortion. Low-frequency distortion from the dual 6.5-inch woofers is further reduced compared to MINA, aided by new internal venting and baffling to optimize performance. On-board signal processing has been upgraded for more power, and it now includes optimized Native Mode — as first introduced in LEOPARD – that yields excellent system performance with minimal external processing.
In most applications, LINA compact line array loudspeakers will be integrated with the companion 750-LFC low-frequency control element for extending deep bass performance across its operating frequency range of 36 Hz to 125 Hz. The 750-LFC houses a 15-inch, dual voice coil long excursion driver along with a two channel, open loop class D amplifier and signal processing to provide separate, precisely synchronized power to each voice coil. Like its larger siblings, the 900-LFC and 1100-LFC, the 750-LFC reproduces low frequencies at high continuous levels with clarity, extremely low distortion, and optimized phase response. An integral pole mount receptacle pairs with LINA or ULTRASeries loudspeakers, while an optional rigging frame allows flying in LINA arrays without a transition grid.
The high power-to-size ratio and sleek profile of the LINA compact linear line array systems make them an excellent choice for small theatres, theme parks, houses of worship and portable AV systems. Configured as single cabinets or short stacks, LINA loudspeakers are ideally suited for use as front fills and under-balcony fills.
LINA compact linear line array loudspeakers and 750-LFC low-frequency control elements are expected to ship June 1, 2017.


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Theology is the study of the nature of God and religious belief based on Catholic writings and tradition. The Theology program encourages students to develop a critical approach to the problems and challenges facing modern society while upholding and respecting the Catholic intellectual tradition.
The Faculty of Theology offers civil and ecclesiastical programs suitable as a preparation both for various ministries and for graduate research in theology.
In addition to the foundational courses,* the Theology undergraduate program opens the door to a solid understanding of Christian faith and how to integrate it into daily life through courses in theology and philosophy. Students are also given an opportunity to explore specific subjects in greater depth.
During your studies you will acquire a sound basic knowledge of a range of research areas in theology: sacred scripture, Church history, ethics, systematic theology and Church practice. You will also reflect on the major issues facing our society and the Church today.
A student enrolled in the Theology (Honours Bachelor of Arts with Major) must add a complementary major or a complementary minor, according to the student’s particular interests and requirements.
THO2189 Can we talk about God?
Students complete a second major (42 credits) and 12 credits or a minor (30 credits) and 24 credits.
This course addresses multiple aspects of the evolution of western thought, from Antiquity to current times, and the impact of major events and thinkers, and the influence of other civilizations on the contemporary understanding of human nature, culture and society.
This course is dedicated to the improvement of writing skills in order to become an effective communicator in several contexts.
Learning the techniques of efficient public speaking. Introduction and training to personal impression making in electronic media. Development of a professional attitude and self-confidence.
Introduction to the world religions with an emphasis on Christian faith in interaction with other living faiths.
The human effort to express the experience of the sacred and to name our sense of the “Beyond”. The different forms such expressions have taken: cosmic wonder and its symbols, foundations stories, ritual life. The meaning of this effort for understanding the quest of the human spirit and its attempts to build order in society and community.
What is ethics? Introduction to the key ethical ideas that shape our lives. Ethical riches of the Christian tradition to understand ourselves and our responsibilities to other persons.
Overview of the eucharistic liturgy. The history and theology of the eucharist from New Testament times through the Middle Ages to today. Basic concepts of meal, sacrifice and memorial. Contemporary issues in the eucharist.


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Entertainment Weekly just gave us an exclusive look at Christina Ricci in her role as the infamous Lizzie Borden. The made-for-TV movie, “Lizzie Borden Took An Ax,” will debut on Lifetime this January 25 at 8 p.m. ET. The movie is directed by Nick Gomez and produced by Sony Pictures Television.
We all know the story, right? The true crime tale occurred in 1892 and elicited national attention and controversy thanks to Lizzie being acquitted of the heinous murders of her father and stepmother. The film will also star Billy Campbell as Lizzie’s lawyer, Andrew Jennings. It will focus on Lizzie’s life, the trial, her acquittal and her subsequent branding as guilty in the court of public opinion. No one was ever charged with the crime.
The home where she remained and where the crimes occurred, still stands and is reported to be quite haunted. So, if you’re a fan of ghost hunting or simply visiting historic homes, head to the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum in Fall River, Massachusetts.


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11½km long, 1.2km wide and heated to between 24 and 27°C. Lake Millstatt is ideal for swimming, boating , fishing and all manner of water sports.
12 km in length, 1.6 km wide, 144 m deep with temperatures ranging between 24 and 27 ° C offer a wide range of activities for all sports enthusiasts, whether swimmers, sailors, wind surfers or divers.
Personalised boat tours on Lake Millstatt are a special experience for a couple in love or for the whole family.
In the middle of the tranquil, watery landscape, you will experience Lake Millstatt’s fascinating play of colours.
Between water-skiing, paddle boarding and sailing trips, Lake Millstatt has a lot to offer.
When the nights become longer, the 11½km long and 1.2km wide lake comes to life.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Let’s imagine you approach a T-junction on an average 30 mph road and you intend to emerge right.
On approach check your rear view mirror and right door mirror to check the speed and position of following traffic.
Think about where you will apply your right signal. Ensure there are no other junctions or major openings on the right before the junction as your signal may give the impression you are turning into one of them. If so, delay the signal until you have passed them.
Position as close to the centre line as safe. Look for other vehicles parked and make sure there is enough space for another car turning in to pass. on a narrow road the position maybe to the left.
Keep your wheels straight. Do Not turn to the right. This could cause a collision if for example someone is turning righ into the road.
Brake progressively on approach to the junction so your speed reduces gradually to avoid harsh braking when nearing the line.
There is no need to change down through the gears. Imagine you have approached in 4th gear and brought the speed down gradually, at a certain point approx 15-20 mph (before the car starts jumping because you are in too high a gear) you will need to dip the clutch, (this will be sooner in a diesel car than a petrol due to the different gearing).
On a closed junction or any junction with a limited view it’s probably best to use first gear to emerge (most t-junctions fall into this category) and creep the car on approach to the give way line.
Remember you MUST stop at a stop line even if the road appears clear. There is no need to apply the handbrake, however you must make it a stop. It is usally best to stay in the gear you are in until you stop, then change the gear, then Look.
On a junction with neither a give way or stop line you still give way, the road across the top of the ‘T’ has priority even without any marking.
You should start your observations on the approach to a junction as early as you can see into the new road.
Your minimum observations at a t-junction are right - left - right - left again before crossing a give way /stop line / end of kerb line.
Look to the left for cars approaching. you must be able to get out and upto speed without causing a car to slow down or cange position.
When looking right you will obviously give way to traffic, but if someone approaches with a left signal to turn into your road and they are close enough to hit you should their signal be wrong then wait. Once you see a second sign such as the car slowing heavily or the car actually starting to turn then you will know for sure that it is then safe.
If the vehicle is large such as a bus or lorry, be aware of vehicles behind it that are obscured from your view. They may try and overtake the turning vehicle, and you would be in danger if you are in the process of emerging. If you can’t see then don’t go.
Check right door mirror just before moving away for cyclists and pedestrians, this is particularly important in slow queuing traffic.
Remember to check interior mirror when entering new road, to see what may have changed behind you.


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Mobius Arch is the area's main photographic draw, and is arguably a very photogenic feature in the area, aligned south-east to catch the sun, it frames the Sierra Nevada, Mt Whitney and Lone Pine Peak within its span.
From the parking area a small path leads briefly into a wash then climbs out and sets off cross-country. The path has since been cairned on both sides, so it's easy to follow even in the dark.
Mobius Arch is sandwiched in a small gully, there’s not a lot of room for manoeuvre, or indeed landscape photographers and tripods. Get their early to avoid disappointment and a choice position. This does require hiking the trail in the pitch dark, but with the trail fairly well marked and a headlamp this doesn’t pose an real issues.
Whilst many may prefer sunrise, personally, false dawn provides the most opportunities. In the right light, the sandstone arch glows pink and red, and is magical if combined with alpenglow on the Sierras. As soon as the sun crests over the horizon, the scene is soon replaced with harsher tones, though sunrise does add some definition to the arch by introducing more shadow.
Winter, between Sept to Nov, provides the best light. The sun rises directly onto the arch, whereas in the months either side, the direction won’t be face on. Winter also raises the prospects of dustings of snow on the Sierra’s, which add some character and definition to the mountains.
This tiny arch sits snugly beside Mobius, and can be easily overlooked by photographers focussed on the main icon of the area. Despite being tiny -- just the height of an average backpack it is possible with a wide angle lens to use frame a vast chunk of the Sierra mountains beneath Lathe Arch.
Lathe Arch is a little west of Mobius arch. Look for it to the rear of Mobius arch, it’s to the left of you as you emerge from the arch back onto the trail heading back to the pullout.
The arch is its golden best just after dawn, making an ideal stop immediately after Mobius, when the sun has risen only a few degrees in the sky. The gully is so small that it’;s difficult for more than 1 person to shoot at a time, your ability to shoot it will depend on how many photographers are in the area. It’s also great spot for catching alpenglow on the Sierra Nevada, given you bring the mountains closer and more in frame than with Mobius, but that could mean forgoing your ideal spot at Mobius if you can only afford 1 day on location.
Definitely worth a look is the characteristically tortured lady Boot arch, also known as Cowboy Boot. It hasn’t got the grace or traditional shape of an arch like Mobius, or like those you'd expect to see in Arches National Park. It’s more awkward and tortured. But it has a certain something about it.
Carry on past the Mobius Arch parking lot, and drive 2.8 miles, you’ll initially head East before swinging North. After the 2.8 miles, you’ll come to a fork in the road. Take the left hand fork and drive a few hundred yards till you see a pullout on the left hand side of the dirt-road. From the pullout, you can see Lady boot North East of you.
The arch is North facing so it is not an ideal candidate for full sun or side-lighting, but the early morning sun has worked well for me in the past, giving shape and form to it’s orange lichen encrusted surface. A lot of the dough ball boulders you see around the Alabama Hills surround the arch which can make for interesting foreground candidates.
Don’t limit yourself to a single day, or just Mobius Arch, there’s plenty to shoot and many compositions to be found.
Overall late or early winter are good bets. In January the snowbound tops make for a more interest and geological contrast in your shots. Plus the winter skies are more likely to be clear, meaning the peaks are less likely to be shrouded in cloud. September through to early November are equally good seasons for illuminating Mobius arch. Also the sun is further South East at this time of year, so the side-lighting on the Sierra Nevada is more prominent revealing more of the mountains' form.


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International brand design agency Bulletproof has given the Cadbury Hot Chocolate portfolio a complete makeover with a contemporary new range identity and iconic packaging design, returning the 'magic' to the brand.
The agency was awarded the project in December 2012 by brand owners Mondeléz International, following a three-way credentials and chemistry pitch.
The brand's rich heritage and iconic stature wasn't delivered through its packaging other than through the dominance of purple and it lacked modernity and relevance. It was also difficult for consumers to navigate the range, as there was little or no differentiation between variants.
Bulletproof were briefed to develop the optimal Cadbury Hot Chocolate brand architecture to drive differentiation and shake up the category, whilst futureproofing the range to improve cross range shopability and accommodate future line extensions and NPD with ease.
Before any design work began, the agency undertook extensive category analysis focusing on the specifics of each product within the range i.e. Drinking Chocolate, Instant Chocolate and Highlights - to understand the different rituals, consumer personalities and needstates.
Maintaining a balanced portfolio approach, Bulletproof created a bold, cohesive design that heroes the much-loved Cadbury brand marque whilst injecting Cadbury joy and personality and a little sprinkle of magic - it's iconically Cadbury from every angle. Each variant also features a consumer relevant, appropriately unique character.


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Have you read A More Beautiful Question yet?
It’s one of a handful of books that is truly challenging my practice right now. Author Warren Berger — a columnist for everyone from Reader’s Digest to the Harvard Business Review — argues that the key to innovation and creativity rests in one’s ability to ask beautiful questions.
The challenge — and threat to everyone who cares about innovation and creativity — is that the number of questions that kids ask drops precipitously starting from the moment they walk through the schoolhouse doors.
“A recent study found the average four-year-old British girl asks her poor mum 390 questions a day; the boys that age aren’t far behind. So then, it might be said that questioning is like breathing: It’s a given, an essential and accepted part of life, and something that anyone, even a child, can do.
Interested in what my sixth grade students made of Berger’s argument that they were well and truly “over the questioning hill”, I asked them today to reflect on the role that questions play in their own academic lives.
“Maybe older kids ask fewer questions because they are less interested in school” — The vast majority of my kids agreed that they ask more questions when they are exploring ideas that are motivating, something that they are convinced happens less and less frequently the longer they spend in schools.
What bugs me is that my kids are right. School DOES get less engaging the longer you spend locked behind a desk with a Number Two Ticonderoga tucked behind your ear. Need proof? Then look closely at surveys of thousands of students.
That ought to leave classroom teachers, curriculum writers and state legislators convicted. If anything, school should get MORE interesting over time. Students who are older have the skills, readiness and sense of civic responsibility to wrestle with really powerful issues connected to the health and happiness and safety of their communities. Beyond schools, they are literally changing the world.
Why aren’t we tapping into that motivation, trying to make the extracurricular curricular? Why aren’t we addressing the simple truth that the kids in our classrooms are bored beyond belief — and why aren’t we ashamed that by the time our kids are twelve, they are already resigned to the reality that school ain’t ever going to get better?
“No one really asks us to ask questions. They just ask us to answer questions” — Stew in that for a minute, would you? Sadly, the goal in today’s test-’em-till-they’re-dead schoolhouses isn’t to get kids to ask beautiful questions. The goal is to get them to correctly answer the 50 crappy multiple choice questions on the high-stakes test we’re held accountable for.
Do we REALLY want to live in a world where kids grow up convinced that questions belong only to “the people who know?” What are the consequences of living in a world where we see those around us as knowers and not-knowers?
“I don’t ask questions because I don’t want to look stupid in front of my friends” — My kids seemed convinced that every question has a well-defined answer that someone else in the classroom already knows. To them, asking questions is an indicator of weakness while answering questions represents strength. That’s ANOTHER intellectual scar that we’ve left on the kids of the measured generation.
How can we expect moments of genuine intellectual inspiration from kids who have grown hesitant and cautious? Can curiosity REALLY thrive in environments where kids have learned that there are social consequences to being “wrong” in front of peers? More importantly, how do we break a decade of conditioning and create a space where it is truly safe to question again?
I left more than a little discouraged today. After all, I’m driven by the notion that I want my classroom to be a place where wondering matters. To borrow from Jacob Bronowski, I want to raise a ragamuffin nation that refuses to worship what is known.
But I also left more than a little determined to find ways to make questioning a more important part of the work we do on a regular basis.
I’ll keep you posted on what I learn.


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I’m finally back home in Trinidad and apart from a little post-travel grogginess, I’m feeling pretty great. Usually, long flights and I don’t mix and I lose a couple days to ‘travel recovery’. But I came in so close to Christmas this year that I wanted to try my best to avoid that lost time. So, while prepping for my trip home, I kept an eye out for things to help me with stay healthy while traveling.
In addition to being dog tired, I almost always walk off the plane feeling sick to my stomach thanks to whatever crap I used to ‘fuel’ my travels. Plus, my skin freaks out and gets dry AF after every flight. Not a great way to start a vacation if you ask me. So whatever tips and tricks I found had to deal with those issues as well. And considering I’ve been up for the last 12+ hours and I’m feeling the best I’ve ever felt post-flight, I’d say they helped.
You know that whole ‘I’ll sleep on the plane’ thing? Yea, it doesn’t work. Obviously, it is possible to sleep on a plane, but it’s not the most restful sleep unless you’re flying in one of those planes with actual beds. And even then, turbulence and general noise from other passengers can be distracting.
But, if you get a couple extra hours before hand you’ll be well rested and better able to deal with the stress that comes with a full day of traveling without crashing and burning when you get to your destination.
Classic traveling foods include things like chips, cookies, chocolate bars and trail mix. Not horrible in moderation, but things can get out of hand quickly when you’re in the air and away from your regular routine. So to avoid overindulging in not-so-great-for-you snacks, walk with your own homemade or healthier store-bought ones.
I always forget to do this and end up with a dairy induced stomach ache after giving into my hunger and eating the usually dairy filled foods provided during the flight. Luckily, it wasn’t a problem this time, but I still wanted to mention it.
Like most places these days, airlines are usually happy to accommodate people with food allergies. When booking your ticket, you can let the airline know of any food restrictions you have and they’ll do their best to provide you with alternatives. And if they can’t you’ll know in advance so you can make other food arrangements. One less thing to worry about on the actual day and your body will thank you.
Let’s just get it out in the open: bathrooms on planes can be pretty gross. Because of that, I tend to avoid drinking too much of anything while flying. But the lack of humidity in planes can cause dehydration. And unfortunately, avoiding water and other liquids is just going to increase your chances of becoming dehydrated.
I’d definitely recommend drinking a lot of water while flying. Even if it means having to use those gross AF airplane bathrooms.
Drinking water is great for staying hydrated in a general sense, but there are other types of dehydration that it can’t help. For example, when I’m flying my skin and eyes get really dry and my hair ends up being a frizzy mess. For years, I took these things as the price I had to pay for the convenience of flying, but there are some ways to avoid them.
Did you have to fly home to see your family for the holidays?
How do/did you stay healthy while traveling?
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I’m about to fly to Colorado to go skiing and I’ll be packing so. much. food.


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Given that it was recently International Workers Day, and given the recent and continuing hype around technologies such as artificial intelligence and, in particular, machine learning, we thought we’d consider the role of these technologies in the work place and their relationship with the Internet of Things.
This is interesting, and unnerving at the same time. The system, based on IBM’s Watson Explorer, is said to be able to possess “cognitive technology that can think like a human” and is being used to process structured (think payment information) and unstructured (think images and video) information. For the 32 employees of Fukoku it is obviously an unwelcome development, and indeed, some estimates anticipate that up to half of all jobs in Japan will be performed by robots by 2035.
Yet in a world of increasing connectivity, where huge amounts of data are being created daily, it is worth bearing the positives in mind. Put simply, human beings can only process so much information before we reach the limits of our cognitive potential. At this point, our brains are unable to draw meaningful conclusions from the information before our eyes, and as a result, we are unable to make intelligent decisions off of this data. For decades now, we have relied on computers to help us make sense of large volumes of information - an obvious example being the calculator. But what happens when an insurance or financial organisation is faced with 3 million lines of unstructured data from the Internet of Things? How to make sense of it all?
Perhaps a better place to start is to ask another question: why would they want to make sense of this data? There may be many answers to this question, but one of the most pertinent reasons has to do with behaviour. As the things in our world (cars, buildings, ships, factories, planes etc) become connected, the data they produce tells us a story about their behaviour - where they go, how fast they travel, how well they perform, any faults that develop. And this behavioural insight is gold dust. To an operator or owner it represents performance and bottom line (profit margins and efficiency), or at its most basic level, ensuring the ‘thing’ is still in working order. To an insurer it can represent risk, loss and the means of preventing them.
Yet information of this kind, such as complex time series data, cannot be processed without the help of computers and algorithmic technology. Machine learning algorithms that identify patterns of risk can help to turn this new insight into automated business process (and the decisions made therein). If you wish to know when your on-shore and off-shore aggregated exposure reaches a certain limit within the port area of Tianjin, an automated alert can be set. And there would be no sense in employing a human to carry out that task - as well as being extremely time consuming, it would also be mind numbingly boring. Imagine being sent one-thousand emails a day and trying to make sense of them all, sorting the valuable ones from those that waste your time - you’d need a filter to help spend less time sorting through them and more time engaging with the people who sent them. AI provides that filter.
Similar use cases can be seen elsewhere. In healthcare, neural networks can be trained to diagnose patients using visual information and pattern recognition (for example, eye scan images). In manufacturing, organisations such as Nanotronics Imaging use software and imaging technology to detect nanoscale defaults in silicon wafer chips, thus removing defective products from the production line - something that would otherwise require constant human vigilance (as well as the inevitable human mistakes).
So the level of disruption caused by IoT, AI and ML in changing corporate environments really depends on the organisation itself. Business processes (and the models behind them) will shift and job roles will need to adapt to take full advantage of these changes. Managerial prudence and improvisation will be required to help steer companies through a changing environment, and those that do this well will reap the benefits.
Finally, consideration must be given to how AI systems learn over time. As humans we come to learn that sometimes new information trumps or overrides all previous knowledge. Learning in this way can shift paradigms of perception and change the way we act and think. AI systems will need to be able to do this in order to become truly useful within a working environment. The same goes for heuristics (rules of thumb), such as guidelines for commercially sensitive decisions and pricing for customers. “I’m going to give them a discount this time, because they’ve been a good customer”. Humans, it seems, still have a role to play.

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Was watching TV2 Tamil news yesterday. Deputy Education Minister P Kamalanathan was talking about the recent matriculation intake. Out of the 1500 seats allocated to Indian students, 1394 was taken up. Initially more than 6000 students applied, and in the first round nearly 1200 were selected. some of the rejected their places and thus the balance 4000+ who appealed (nearly all who applied appealed) were review and few more were selected.
My question is, out of the 4000 over applicants, we can’t even get 1,500 candidates? Even after review those who appealed? Very strange.
I have two relations with string of As who didn’t get the place even after appealing. So what gives? Logically, if you got 6000 over applicants, who all meet the minimum requirements, you can easily fill up the 1500 seats. And yet got 106 places left vacant. That’s 7% gone, and probably the chance for 106 students to get education. did the 106 reject after appeal approved? Didn’t turn up last minute due to campus allocation?
Anyway, I don’t think will get answer to the question.
So out of the 356 appellants offered place, 212 (59.5%) accepted and 144 rejected (40.5%). Quite high rejection rate. Maybe due to late appeal results which means they have taken other options, or wrong appellants given offers.
Looks like the school board has decided not to waste time waiting. As for me, I had informed Deputy Minister P Kamalanathan, and according to him “Have been informed sir @mpoobalan am waiting for more details and will seek clarification as well.” (ref here).
Hopefully the school’s predicament does not become another disaster for MOE and MIC.
Giving way: St Joseph was built in 1924 on wooden stilts. Today, it still stands on the same wooden stilts.
THE board of governors of an 89-year-old Tamil primary girls school in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur will start an online campaign to push the government to build the promised new school.
SJK (T) St Joseph’s board of governors chairman Alice Fatimah said as a start, they would initiate a petition and obtain signatures from parents of children studying in the school as well as the public.
“We will also set up a Facebook page to create awareness on the campaign,’’ Alice said.
She expected that things would get moving after the school’s Sports Day on June 15.
“We will call for a meeting with the board to discuss details and mobilise the parents,’’ she added.
Alice said the board felt that relying on politicians alone to resolve the issue was not enough.
There isn’t enough space for proper storage, not even for school files.
“We have had many politicians visit the school each time the matter was highlighted in the press, but nothing ever got done,’’ she said.
Alice said there had been no news since.
Meanwhile, the Batu MIC division and its youth wing leaders have pledged to offer assistance and support for the online campaign.
Batu MIC division chairman Ramanathan Chinnu and youth chief D.R. Pala Kumaran have expressed their willingness to help the school board initiate the online campaign.
“This is a problem that involves the community and concerns the future of our children,’’ Pala said.
“I will push the authorities to speed up the procedures to secure the land promised to the school,” added Ramanathan.


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Snacking is evolving, but President and COO Vivek Sankaran has Plano-based Frito-Lay evolving with it.
Why you need to know him: Because he leads the $15 billion snacks division of PepsiCo. Enough said.
The food and beverage industry is experiencing transformational change on several fronts. Beyond getting calories on the move, consumer tastes have evolved. They’re wanting a wider variety of flavors. People also are changing the way they shop, giving up weekly trips to the grocery store in favor of at-home delivery.
But if there’s ever a jam at Frito-Lay, Sankaran can fix it—literally. After earning a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, he worked as a photocopier service engineer. “I can still fix a photocopier today,” he says with pride.
He came to America to attend Georgia Tech, worked for four years as an engineer for a Belgian company, then got his MBA from the University of Michigan. For 14 years, he worked for McKinsey & Co., advising Fortune 100 retail and tech companies on how to run their businesses. But advising isn’t the same thing as doing. So, when former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi (she’s now chairman) offered him an executive post at the global food and beverage giant, he made the switch. He worked with her as chief of strategy for two years in New York before shifting over to Frito-Lay.
Although Sankaran was excited about the opportunity in Texas, he wasn’t exactly confident it would last. That’s why he and his wife rented instead of buying a home. For four years.
Frito-Lay has been in Dallas for 85 years. About 25 percent of PepsiCo.’s 6,500 North Texas employees live in South Dallas or work in one of the two plants or five warehouses the company has in the southern sector. Frito-Lay has been actively involved in the community for decades, but recently decided to take things up a notch, inspired by a philosophy put forth by Nooyi called “performance with purpose.” The idea is to strike a balance between short-term and long-term priorities, focusing not just on the level of returns, but the level and duration of returns.
Bringing it home, Frito-Lay and PepsiCo have aligned with the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas to launch a $2 million initiative called “Southern Dallas Thrives.” It aims to “connect the dots” and generate sustainable results by focusing on preschool education, meals, educational support, and employment opportunities for families in the southern sector.


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We met up with Matt and Kellye Coffyn at their workshop in Leeds to get to know them better and see where the magic happens.
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JUGGLING her roles of elite athlete and university student, Tara Andrews soon realised she needed to draw on the similarities between her two worlds to push herself through her degree. "Hard work and time commitment is the biggest one," Ms Andrews said. "You need to put time and effort into study - engineering takes up a lot of time and is quite difficult, so you have to work hard at it. "It's the same with soccer and training, you have to put the time in to get better, to stay fit, to work with your team. "Sports people always push through. I'm competitive and I always want to finish something I've started." The Newcastle Jets mid-fielder and striker will graduate with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) from the University of Newcastle on Friday. More than 4000 students will celebrate the end of their tertiary studies across four days of ceremonies. UON will celebrate a milestone on Friday, when the number of Indigenous medical graduates surpasses 100. "I feel pretty excited - it's the final hurdle of finishing uni," she said. "I'm also sad because I won't get to see my friends as much as I want to. But overall I'm excited. "I got through it and put the hard yards in and it all worked out. "It's made me the most proud I've been in a while." Ms Andrews completed the four year degree across six years. She travelled to the United States to play in Colorado from April to August in 2014 and 2015. The first trip she studied one subject, the second she paused her studies. Ms Andrews was part of UON's Elite Athlete program, which gave her flexibility with exams and assessments so she could fulfil both her sporting and academic commitments. "It definitely wasn't easy," she said. "I guess I got pretty good at time management. I had to get work done when I was at uni - a lot of people would go get a coffee and do this and that, but I had to be more productive. "There were a lot of long days - sometimes I had to do uni all day, go to training and then do uni when I got home." Ms Andrews said there were times she wondered if she would better suited to a different degree. "At the times when I had so much on, had soccer, uni, trying to work through problems would take you five days. Or I'd keep getting stuck. "I'd think 'Am I smart enough to do this?' A lot of people drop out. "Sometimes I nearly had a nervous breakdown and would think 'I can't do it'. "But there's always a way to do it. I knew once I finished it would be a pretty good achievement." Ms Andrews used to help her handyman father around the house and had always been good at maths and science. She completed a 12 week placement as part of her degree with Australian Rail Track Corporation and has received a three year graduate engineer position.
Strike: Jets player Tara Andrews wants to "learn as much as I can" as an engineer and eventually move into project management.
JUGGLING her roles of elite athlete and university student, Tara Andrews soon realised she needed to draw on the similarities between her two worlds to push herself through her degree.
"Hard work and time commitment is the biggest one," Ms Andrews said.
"You need to put time and effort into study - engineering takes up a lot of time and is quite difficult, so you have to work hard at it.
"It's the same with soccer and training, you have to put the time in to get better, to stay fit, to work with your team.
"Sports people always push through. I'm competitive and I always want to finish something I've started."
The Newcastle Jets mid-fielder and striker will graduate with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) from the University of Newcastle on Friday.
More than 4000 students will celebrate the end of their tertiary studies across four days of ceremonies.
UON will celebrate a milestone on Friday, when the number of Indigenous medical graduates surpasses 100.
"I feel pretty excited - it's the final hurdle of finishing uni," she said.
"I'm also sad because I won't get to see my friends as much as I want to. But overall I'm excited.
"I got through it and put the hard yards in and it all worked out.
"It's made me the most proud I've been in a while."
Ms Andrews completed the four year degree across six years.
She travelled to the United States to play in Colorado from April to August in 2014 and 2015.
The first trip she studied one subject, the second she paused her studies.
Ms Andrews was part of UON's Elite Athlete program, which gave her flexibility with exams and assessments so she could fulfil both her sporting and academic commitments.
"It definitely wasn't easy," she said.
"I guess I got pretty good at time management. I had to get work done when I was at uni - a lot of people would go get a coffee and do this and that, but I had to be more productive.
"There were a lot of long days - sometimes I had to do uni all day, go to training and then do uni when I got home."
Ms Andrews said there were times she wondered if she would better suited to a different degree.
"At the times when I had so much on, had soccer, uni, trying to work through problems would take you five days. Or I'd keep getting stuck.
"I'd think 'Am I smart enough to do this?' A lot of people drop out.
"Sometimes I nearly had a nervous breakdown and would think 'I can't do it'.
"But there's always a way to do it. I knew once I finished it would be a pretty good achievement."
Ms Andrews used to help her handyman father around the house and had always been good at maths and science.
She completed a 12 week placement as part of her degree with Australian Rail Track Corporation and has received a three year graduate engineer position.


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Get to know all the top Latinos who are making a splash in the technology industry.
Latinos are taking an increasingly active role in some of the world’s largest companies, including many of the technology giants.
From mobile devices to spacecraft, Latinos are working on the new technologies that will change our lives and society.
Below we give you a list of the top Latinos working in technology today. You will definitely keep hearing from them!
Sergio Buniac is a Motorola Mobility veteran, having spent the last 18 years in various roles within the company. Currently, he is the corporate vice president and general manager of Latin America and president of Motorola Brazil, and is responsible for the business strategy and direction for all operations in the region.
Caballero’s team at Apple is distributed in 26 countries and is responsible for developing and implementing technology such as GPS, Wi-Fi, NFC and Bluetooth.
Caballero was born in Chile and he has been working for Apple since 2005 when he joined the team developing the first iPhone.
Guajardo leads the teams in charge of exploring the possibilities for the use of virtual reality. She is also in charge of the teams that develop the central technology for VR glasses and supervises the creation of the new glasses for the project, Half Dome.
Flores leads an army of employees (some 11,000 people around the world) who are in charge of global operations for AT&T infrastructure. This includes the management of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) for companies and consumers, as well as all mobile data services, including broadband, text and multimedia messages.
García is currently working on the team in charge of designing the next generation of rocket engines, which he believes will be essential in our quest to achieve interplanetary travel. Very exciting stuff!
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