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Whether you are a small company or a large multinational, you probably already conduct employee surveys. When used properly, the benefits of employee surveys are great. They can help you understand what employees think of your organization. About policies and procedures, managers and colleagues, job security and more. There are a number of different types of employee surveys to choose from. And thanks to survey apps and software, you can distill all this employee feedback into actionable, focused insight. This insight can help you work on specific areas that improve the employee experience and increase employee satisfaction and engagement. And ultimately, create the kind of workforce that creates, innovates and takes your business to the top.
Employee satisfaction surveys measure exactly what the name suggests – how satisfied employees are with the job, the workplace, their manager, and the company. This is one of the most common types of employee surveys conducted. It serves as the first step towards creating a motivated workforce. Use this survey to measure basic factors responsible for satisfaction and contentment at the workplace. These factors directly influence employee retention and are relatively easier to correct.
Employee satisfaction surveys measure job satisfaction, working conditions, supervision and teamwork, and satisfaction with pay and benefits. They are also useful for understanding what your employees think of policies, diversity and inclusion, and job security.
Do you think your role is clearly defined in line with company objectives?
Does company X offer sufficient opportunities for promotions, career advancement?
Do you feel work is distributed evenly across your team?
Do your managers value your feedback?
Employee engagement surveys are not the same as employee satisfaction surveys. Satisfied employees are not necessarily engaged employees. Engaged employees are enthusiastic, willing to take initiative and connect with the organization’s vision, mission, and overall goals. These employees are willing to go the extra mile for the organization.
An employee engagement survey measures the level of engagement, connection, and motivation employees feel with respect to their job, management, and the company. These surveys, when acted on properly, can help you get the best of your employees’ skills and talents. They encourage high performance and innovation from your employees. Engaged employees put in additional discretionary effort into their work.
Can you see yourself working at company X in two years time?
Do you have access to learning and development at work?
Do you believe leadership gives you the autonomy to do your job?
Organizational culture is the bedrock on which company policies, decisions, actions, and goals are based. Organizational culture is an ambiguous term, and what exactly makes an organization’s culture remains the subject of debate. However, everyone unanimously agrees that it exists and it plays a crucial role in defining behavior in organizations. Culture surveys are a great tool for discovering how employees see themselves and their role within the organization, their sense of ownership, accountability and more.
These employee surveys are especially important when companies go through culture changes like organizational restructuring, mergers, acquisitions and large changes in management. Culture surveys measure internal structures, skills and qualities that affect behavior, and management styles, expectations, power structures and more.
Do you feel like your work is respected?
Do you like the atmosphere at company X?
Do you feel like you can trust management?
Do you feel like you are being listened to?
Do you think the company encourages a healthy work-life balance?
These employee surveys are specifically designed to understand how new hires feel about the organization. They are a great way to check in with new hires. They offer valuable information on new hires’ first impression of the organization. They can help you understand the new hire experience. You can use this survey to improve the onboarding experience and ensure new hire expectations match the company culture.
Did you get accurate information about the organization during the recruitment process?
Do you feel welcomed at company X?
What steps do you think we can take to improve the onboarding process?
These surveys are a great way for managers and skip-managers to evaluate an employee’s performance. You can provide valuable feedback to your employees on improving performance. Properly conducted performance appraisal surveys can offer employees constructive criticism. These surveys engage both employees, and managers and supervisors. They, therefore, offer motivated employees a chance to gain valuable feedback on their work and can actually improve motivation.
To what extent did you meet your goals for the year?
How well do you prioritize and manage your workload?
Does this employee communicate effectively with others?
How would you rate employee Y’s leadership ability?
How well does employee Y set and meet deadlines?
How would you rate the quality of employee Y’s work?
These employee surveys are extremely important, yet often overlooked. Highly engaged and motivated employees want opportunities to develop professionally over the course of their career. Relevant and challenging professional development opportunities can actually engage and motivate employees further. This, in turn, can fuel a cycle of increased employee engagement.
High-potential employees don’t just want to be promoted. They also want to learn new skills and perspectives. Professional development can include skills and industry training, leadership training, and executive grooming. You can also give your employees the opportunity to work in different departments or job roles. It can include retreats and networking events across the organization. You can also provide opportunities to interact with professionals across the industry through trade shows, events. Some companies also provide their employees the autonomy to work on pet projects, further fueling creativity, interest, and engagement among employees.
Professional development surveys can help you assess what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong when it comes to your employees’ development and growth. The results of these surveys can help you create an engaged and skilled workforce.
Does company X provide opportunities for professional development?
How often do you get access to industry- and skill-related training?
Does company X provide a clear path for growth and development?
You could have a great company culture, offer incredible perks, provide autonomy to high-functioning employees. Yet, some of your employees will still leave. The loss of a valuable employee can be tough. But an exit survey does offer you an opportunity to learn more about the employee’s perspective and experience at your organization. Exit surveys can help you capture honest employee feedback about your workplace policies, work culture and more.
Under what circumstances would you consider returning to the company?
Do you think management adequately recognized your contributions to the job?
What did you like about your job here?
Employee surveys are a great way to understand your employees better. Survey apps and software can help you analyze all that information you collect from surveys. From trend analyses to comprehensive reports – get actionable insight that corresponds to specific areas of your business outcomes. Check out Zonka’s employee survey templates and the comprehensive app-based and online feedback management software.

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Surgeons are experimenting with Percutaneous Hepatic Perfusion to treat Ocular Melanoma. During the procedure, the liver is isolated from the rest of the body and saturated with high doses of chemo via a catheter for half an hour with a balloon used to capture outflow and preventing it from affecting the rest of the body. The blood containing the chemo drugs is then filtered, cleaned, and returned to the body via a catheter placed in the neck.
For patients to be considered for this treatment, they need to have healthy liver function and a modicum of tumors presenting — provided the ocular melanoma is confined to the eye then prognosis is excellent — but should the ocular melanoma have spread the success rate declines, there is a 50% rate of spread with this type of melanoma.
Ocular melanoma is the most common of all eye cancers. Melanoma is a cancer that is associated with cells that produce melanin, which is a skin pigment, hence the term “Skin cancer.” But melanin is found in other places throughout the body such as our hair, our organ linings, and our eyes.
Now, ocular melanoma affects some 2,500 adults in the US every year. It manifests as a malignant tumor with a 50% chance of spreading to other parts of the body — many times spreading to the liver. Ocular melanoma is unlike other forms of melanoma as it has no link to exposure to sunlight. The bulk of all ocular melanoma develops in the pigmented cells of the choroid, iris, and ciliary body.
Treatment regimens depend upon a variety of factors. Site and size of the tumor are taken into consideration but also the ability to see in the affected eye before and after treatment as well as the viability of the healthy eye. Ocular melanoma is resistant to systemic therapies, which use drugs which spread throughout the body to fight-destroy cancer cells wherever they are found == chemotherapy being a prime example. For this reason, early detection is imperative.
Radiation is used for the majority of small and medium sized tumors. Radiation used can include plaque radiotherapy, proton beam radiotherapy, and static radiotherapy. Treatment can also involve removal of the eye. Surgery is utilized for large tumors as well as used as an option if radiation is not successful. Should the ocular melanoma have spread to the liver, treatment is problematic.
Percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP) is a treatment which is minimally invasive and is being studied as per its effectiveness in treating ocular melanoma that has metastasized (spread). The procedure involves multiple needles puncturing the liver to deliver treatment rather than making an incision.
A catheter with balloons at either end is inserted. Then the balloons are inflated to isolate the liver from the rest of the body. Blood within the liver is removed, and the liver is permeated with a heated high dosage chemotherapy treatment. After the treatment, the chemotherapy is removed from the blood via running it through a charcoal filter and returning it to the body.
By using this treatment, individuals receive very specific and targeted therapy regimen to the liver. They also can receive much more aggressive and higher dosage chemo drugs, as those drugs will only be in the liver for a limited period of time and not introduced into the entire body. While percutaneous hepatic perfusion is still a new treatment being tested, it holds great promise for individuals with ocular melanoma and other cancers as well.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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For 31 years, the two races were fixtures on the Calder calendar.
Not only are they being conducted at Gulfstream for the first time, organizers tinkered with the name, going from what was always known as the Florida Stallion Stakes to the Florida Sire Stakes.
Each 11/16-mile race carries a $350,000 purse and is restricted to 2-year-olds — one dedicated to fillies only — that were nominated to the Sire Stakes (nee Stallion Stakes) program.
A number of national champions have emerged from the two races.
Gulfstream president Tim Ritvo said his track also intends to absorb some of Calder’s other bedrock stakes and fly them under the Gulfstream banner.
“We believe that Gulfstream Park is a very strong brand,” Ritvo said in explaining why the Frank Stronach-owned company is going with its own name and not Calder’s at the upcoming “boutique” fall meet there, which will go from Oct.8 through Nov.30.
During the head-to-head racing war that ended July1 when Calder gave up control of its racing dates to its cross-town rival, much more money was wagered on Gulfstream’s races, even though its summer racing cards weren’t much different than Calder’s in terms of field quality and size.
Ritvo said that was because of Gulfstream’s better name recognition nationally and locally, something he said the track hopes to capitalize on as it moves forward as a year-round entity.

industry_corpus2: Sports


text: Group Companies: VAM Systems is a Business Consulting, IT Technology Solutions and Services company with operations in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, USA, Australia, Singapore & India. VINIRMA Consulting Pvt. Ltd. is a 360° Human Resource Management Consulting and Staffing Services Organization with operations in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Australia, USA, Singapore & India.

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(1) The clerk/executive officer of the Court of Appeal must promptly file all opinions and orders of the court and promptly send copies showing the filing date to the parties and, when relevant, to the lower court or tribunal.
(2) A decision by opinion must identify the participating justices, including the author of the majority opinion and of any concurring or dissenting opinion, or the justices participating in a "by the court" opinion.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this rule, a Court of Appeal decision in a civil appeal, including an order dismissing an appeal involuntarily, is final in that court 30 days after filing.
(B) The dismissal of an appeal on request or stipulation.
(3) If a Court of Appeal certifies its opinion for publication or partial publication after filing its decision and before its decision becomes final in that court, the finality period runs from the filing date of the order for publication.
(1) A reviewing court may modify a decision until the decision is final in that court. If the office of the clerk/executive officer is closed on the date of finality, the court may modify the decision on the next day the office is open.
(2) An order modifying an opinion must state whether it changes the appellate judgment. A modification that does not change the appellate judgment does not extend the finality date of the decision. If a modification changes the appellate judgment, the finality period runs from the filing date of the modification order.
If a Court of Appeal decision conditions the affirmance of a money judgment on a party's consent to an increase or decrease in the amount, the judgment is reversed unless, before the decision is final under (b), the party serves and files a copy of a consent in the Court of Appeal. If a consent is filed, the finality period runs from the filing date of the consent. The clerk/executive officer must send one filed-endorsed copy of the consent to the superior court with the remittitur.
Rule 8.264 amended effective January 1, 2018; repealed and adopted as rule 24 effective January 1, 2003; previously amended and renumbered as rule 8.264 effective January 1, 2007; previously amended effective January 1, 2009, and January 1, 2016.
Subdivision (b). As used in subdivision (b)(1), "decision" includes all interlocutory orders of the Court of Appeal. (See Advisory Committee Comment to rule 8.500(a) and (e).) This provision addresses the finality of decisions in civil appeals and, through a cross-reference in rule 8.470, in juvenile appeals. See rule 8.366 for provisions addressing the finality of decisions in proceedings under chapter 3, relating to criminal appeals; rule 8.387 for provisions addressing finality of decisions under chapter 4, relating to habeas corpus proceedings; and rule 8.490 for provisions addressing the finality of decisions in proceedings under chapter 7, relating to writs of mandate, certiorari, and prohibition.
Subdivision (b)(3) provides that a postfiling decision of the Court of Appeal to publish its opinion in whole under rule 8.1105(c) or in part under rule 8.1100(a) restarts the 30-day finality period. This provision is based on rule 40-2 of the United States Circuit Rules (9th Cir.). It is intended to allow parties sufficient time to petition the Court of Appeal for rehearing and/or the Supreme Court for review-and to allow potential amici curiae sufficient time to express their views-when the Court of Appeal changes the publication status of an opinion. The rule thus recognizes that the publication status of an opinion may affect a party's decision whether to file a petition for rehearing and/or a petition for review.

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The quantities can vary from 1 Kg up to 2 Kg/T, depending on the formula, oil etc. Natural and water resistant. Ideal for aquaculture.
This guarantees an excellent impermeability.
It helps to keep the various components of the feed intact.
The quantities vary from 1 Kg to 3 Kg/T of feed.

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As an international tourism city, Hangzhou has paid more and more attention to the protection and development of the tourist cultures. Gongchen Bridge historic cultural block has been listed as the important protecting project by Hangzhou Government. Located at the west riverside of the Beijing – Hangzhou Canal, it was once a bustling place of the old Hangzhou. Lots of workers, craftsmen, fishing workers and stevedores are living here. Furthermore, it has retained the original forms of cultures and lifestyles of residents living in the period of the Republic of China, which has formed the special “Canal Culture”.
Located in the Gongchen Bridge historic cultural block, Laokaixin Teahouse was opened in 2011. It differentiates form the other teahouses because of the integration of tea cultures and Qvyi culture (Chinese folk art forms). There are folk Qvyi performances like Hangzhou Xiaorehun, Hangzhou Pinghua and comedies every day.

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The woman across the aisle from me on the train was reading a newspaper. She squinted at the picture on the cover, chuckling to herself. I leaned over to see what she was smiling about. Her eyes met mine and she quickly folded the paper in quarters, turned it over on her lap and stared out the window. Curious, I looked around at the other passengers. A patchwork of open newspapers stared back at me. On all the covers was a photograph of four men dressed in white suits, faces smeared in black face paint, heads covered with shiny polyester afro wigs. ‘Hey Hey Left Redfaced’ announced the front-page slogan.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday had aired a skit with four blacked-up performers playing the Jackson Five, with the Michael character appearing in whiteface. American musician Harry Connick Jr, a guest judge, voiced his disgust: ‘If they turned up looking like that in the United States, it would be like, “Hey, hey, there’s no more show!”’ He awarded the performers a zero.
Backstage, host Daryl Somers reluctantly negotiated an on-air apology with Connick. When it came, the apology was issued specifically to the musician himself, rather than to people of colour or any offended viewers.
‘Are those clowns, Mum? Can I go and see the clown show?’ my three-year-old responded when I absentmindedly plonked a copy of the paper down on the coffee table. I sighed, looked down at him and ran a hand through his curls – we had been here before.
If I were Winston in Orwell’s dystopia, the door in the interrogation chamber would lead to a Westfield mall the size of New South Wales and I would betray family and friend alike to escape it. Yet somehow my search for an extension to my son’s wooden train set had led me to Chadstone: the suburban shopping mall to swallow all suburban shopping malls.
I examined the map at the entrance and headed for the toyshop, Mali’s arm straining at the socket as I wrenched him quickly past mini-skirted tweens and Bugaboo strollers.
I was talking to the saleswoman, who surely couldn’t have been more than fourteen, when Mali tugged fiercely on my left arm.
He was pointing to a shelf above the shop assistant’s head.
My son jumped at the venom in my voice, confused.
The shop attendant stared at me perplexed, eyes darting back to the shelf above her head. On it was a huddle of jet-black golliwogs leering down at us with garish red mouths. The whites of their eyes rolled toward my son, the straight wool lines of their hair stood out in a ludicrous mock-afro.
I took a deep breath. Golliwogs. Not in some dusty antique shop in a backward country town but at the counter of the Early Learning Centre in white-picket-fence Melbourne. Golliwogs staring at my little brown son. And him, oblivious, reaching for them.
Sixteen-year-old Akoi Majak’s mother and father weren’t too thrilled to hear her dreams of becoming a writer.
My mother, sitting next to me, looked across, perhaps recalling the similar conversations we’d had each summer as I came home from university with a notebook full of poetry, barely scratching the credits needed to maintain my law faculty scholarship.
‘This is what I want to do … I just … I don’t know, I really love it. I want to write.’ Flanked by the other young writers of the play My Name is Sud, developed as part of Blacktown City Council’s African Theatre Project, Akoi thanked Robert Colman, the artistic director.
She feigned annoyance and then flashed another cheeky grin.
Colman blushed a little as chair Ivor Indyk moved the discussion on to another of the panellists of the African Artists Articulate conference. Distracted, I watched Akoi fiddle with the hem of her tomato-orange top. Her ringlet-curled weave of hair bobbed up and down as she nodded in agreement with one of the other panellists.
Her optimism was painfully familiar.
How long before Akoi Majak learnt about writing black in Australia? The obstacles that lie beyond dragging herself out of bed every weekend to write, beyond even her migrant parent’s unmoving but well-intended wishes for her prosperity? How long before the sentiments of that 69 per cent – the 69 per cent of Australians that, according to News Limited, considered Hey Hey’s blackface skit fun family entertainment – crush her aspirations?
The teenager smiled again, eyes sparkling at another question from the audience.
Roles of any kind were scarce for my Guyanese mother on her arrival in Australia from London in 1976. Though a graduate of London’s prestigious Central School of Speech & Drama, she found herself, for the most part, out of work unless a role specifically required a black actress. Watching her play a leading role in My Name is Sud, an eloquently written and moving examination of the Sudanese refugee experience in Australia, surrounded by young and mostly untrained African actors who she had mentored, was an extraordinarily emotional event.
Over the past year she had scrubbed the boards as the black servant Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird and the Barbajian maid Tituba in The Crucible. There was talk of her playing Juliet’s nurse for one Shakespearean production. Bit parts. Stereotypes. Slim pickings.
Blackface performing originated in the United States around 1789, with white performers liberally applying black greasepaint or shoe polish and using distorted dialogue, exaggerated accents and grotesque movements to caricature people of African descent. Blackface contributed heavily towards preventing black actors from treading the boards for over a hundred years in the US. Later, many black actors were forced to black up rather than be recognised as actors in their own right.
Given this, and the stark reality of being a black stage performer in Australia, it is no small irony that the four blacked-up performers in Channel Nine’s Hey Hey skit, who were themselves of Indian descent, represented a large percentage of Australian television’s abysmal yearly quota of brown-skinned performers.
In the aftermath of the Hey Hey It’s Saturday reunion, politicians and the mainstream media mostly defended the right of Australians to bear blackface. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard – at the time on an official visit to the first Western country ever to elect a black president – spoke with great nostalgia of her childhood spent watching Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
‘Whatever happened was meant to be humorous and would be taken in that spirit by most Australians,’ the Deputy Prime Minister said, not realising that considering it as humorous, in itself, was the problem.
Rather than speaking with someone of African descent, the Age chose to interview Izzy Dye, famous across Australia for his popular show Mammy, in which he wears blackface in tribute to Jewish-American singer and blackface legend Al Jolson. The interviewer noted that Dye’s family had severely suffered in the Holocaust, as if that credentialled him on matters of discrimination. Dye then hailed blacking-up as a harmless performance option.
The morning after the show, television personality Prue MacSween voiced her contempt for any criticism of the blackface skit. She held up her ‘little friend’, a golliwog, on national television and said that political correctness had gone mad.
Although Simon’s distinction was common among talkback commentators and blog-squatters in the days following the incident, it denies not only the increasing presence of people of African descendant in Australia – and, in particular, in the Australian arts community – but also the fact that white Australia itself has a blackface history.
Henry Melville’s 1834 play Bushrangers included an Aboriginal character known only as Native. The character was played by a white actor in blackface. ‘Me want baccy and bredley [tobacco and bread] – me long time – me got very old blanket,’ whined Native pitifully. When ‘Blacky’ (as he was endearingly referred to by white characters) was told to dance a corroboree in exchange for the goods, the blackfaced actor up and jigged obligingly. While Charles Chauvel’s 1955 film Jedda was the first Australian film to use Aboriginal actors, the character Half Cast Joe was played by a white man in blackface. Purportedly comedic blackface occurred on Australian prime time television as recently as November 2007, when The Chaser’s War on Everything presenters performed a political ditty to the tune of the Jackson Five’s Blame It on the Boogie.
Not only does white Australia have a blackface history, the present is also looking fairly boot-polished.
Sixty or so revellers were crammed into the foyer of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre to celebrate the launch of edition eight of Peril, an online Asian-Australian arts and culture magazine. Tom Jones’ 1968 hit ‘Delilah’ blared from the speakers at full volume.
that no man could see.
Her shoulders hunched, Mohiniattam-trained dancer Raina Peterson (one third of Melbourne anti-racist performance troupe Ladies of Colour Agency) crept across the stage with all the tip-toed obviousness of an animated villain.
Although the audience’s understanding of Raina’s whiteface subversion had no doubt been bolstered by the recent Hey Hey incident, the show conjured other images. For those who remember the black-and-white ‘Delilah’ video clip of Jones surrounded by an orderly, slow-dancing crowd of white youths as he crooned gently about killing a woman for spurning him, the drag, reverse-minstrel performance is staunchly feminist. Others may have been recalling the inappropriateness of Jones’ more recent chart-topper ‘Black Betty’, thoughtfully dedicated to Leadbelly. Some might have been thinking of Australia’s very own Delilah from decades back – a stereotyped alter ego created by African-American singer Delilah for Campbell’s Cash ‘n’ Carry, all long red fingernails and flowing weave. A few might have even heard the oft-whispered rumour that the darkly tanned Tom Jones is, in fact, an incognito black man, passing in order to appeal to white music lovers.
The many-coloured audience screamed with laughter as Raina’s Tom Jones pulled a bloodied plastic knife from the jacket of her tux and lunged off the stage into the audience.
A yellow-and-gold-adorned Aussie cricket fan sat in the packed bleachers surrounded by a group of merry-making West Indians playing steelpan calypso in support of their team.
The West Indian crowd were, of course, instantly pacified, downing their instruments and tucking into the greasy treat.
It was a couple days after Christmas and my extended family were lolling around in the lounge in a post-pudding daze. We stared at each other as if not quite believing what we’d just seen. My brother raised an eyebrow and looked over at me. I realised my mouth was still hanging open and slowly clamped it shut.
After the disbelief came anger: at whatever advertising genius decided racist caricature was a legitimate form of advertising, at the black actors themselves for enabling the production of the commercial and, most of all, at the reaction we all knew would come. When the KFC advertisement surfaced on YouTube and became internationally controversial, the old record, only just sleeved from the blackface saga, barely needed dusting: Australians weren’t racist; good old larrikin humour had simply been misunderstood; the commercial was never meant for an American audience; Americans clearly had some kind of a guilt-based hang-up about anything involving black people.
A crowd had assembled in the O’Donnell Gardens on St Kilda’s foreshore for Yalukit Willam Ngargee (People, Place, Gathering), an annual indigenous celebration. The Charcoal Club had just finished their stirring performance of ‘No Woman No Cry’, sung in pitch-perfect haunting tones and with the crowd joining in, despite the other-language lyrics. The song perfectly captured both the spirit of the gathering and the extraordinary ability of the performing arts to bridge colour, country and language divides.
Mali sat on my lap, bobbing his head up and down as he clapped his little hands, the tune familiar to him.
‘I think they’re singing it in another language,’ he shouted above the music.
The Charcoal Club finished up with their anthemic ‘Red, Black and Gold’. A lone Aboriginal woman rose to her feet and made her way to the grass immediately to the front of the stage. Throwing both arms up above her in the air, she swayed back and forth to the music.
It was the next performance that we had come especially to see: Kulin Bhumi, a collaboration between dancers of the Natya Sudha Classical Indian Dance Theatre and local Indigenous dancers. The dancers lined up at the side of the ground-level vinyl mat that served as their stage. Dressed in aquamarine calve-length shifts that rustled in the wind, they began a slow, graceful yet strangely earthbound stamp out to centre stage.
Of all that we saw that day, this performance tugged at my heart-strings the most. The collaboration between Indian and Indigenous performers drew on the traditional dance forms of each culture and brought to mind the recent, and in some cases fatal, acts of violence against Indian-Australians in both the inner and outer suburbs of Melbourne.
The state government’s response had, predictably, echoed the national response to the Hey Hey It’s Saturday incident, with a denial of the existence of racism, even as the Indian media and government issued formal warnings against travel to Australia and applications for Indian students to study in Melbourne fell by more than 50 per cent.
The dancers swayed, weaved and glided across the stage. They separated and merged, fell to the floor and gathered the earth. Mali sat as still as I had ever seen him, his face full of wonder. As the collaboration filed off stage to thunderous applause he turned to me, eyes sparkling. ‘Do you think if I practice really hard, I’ll be able to do a show like that one day?’ he asked. I hesitated, reminding him that he decided to take a break from his ballet classes that term. My four-year-old looked at me hopefully.
My son was staring at me, waiting for an answer.
The camera flicks over a grinning Daryl Somers as the four blackfaced performers lampoon their way across the stage, gyrating their hips foolishly.
The rowdy calypso cricket crowd grows calm as their fingers dip into a bucket of fried chicken.
I looked around at the black, red and gold flags billowing around the festival grounds.
‘Me long time – me got very old blanket,’ says the blacked-up actor playing Native.
‘I could do that, couldn’t I? Do a show, I mean,’ repeated Mali.
‘My parents say if I want to be a writer, I can write while I am not seeing the patients’ says Akoi Majak, rolling her eyes at the audience.

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Organizers for Recovery Day Lancaster, a celebration of recovery from addiction, are seeking musicians, exhibitors, sponsors, volunteers and others to help with this family-friendly event on Sept. 22.
Recovery Day is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 22 in Buchanan Park, Race and Buchanan avenues, Lancaster, and will feature a barbecue picnic, musical entertainment, kids’ crafts and the annual Walk for Recovery. It is sponsored by the Lancaster County Recovery Alliance, a volunteer group of people in recovery and allies of recovery, including helping professionals and those affected by addiction and recovery.
The focus is to raise awareness and celebrate that recovery is a reality in our community and to welcome community members to learn about the facts relating to addiction and recovery.
Headlining the musical entertainment this year will be Apes of the State, a Lancaster-based band featuring folk, rock and punk music.
Anyone interested in supporting this event as sponsors, musicians, exhibitors and others is invited to call Amy Sechrist at (717) 299-2831, extension 235. People in recovery are invited to save the date and share the information with friends and family members.
You may find more information on the group’s Facebook page here: facebook.com/LancCoPARecoveryAlliance.


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Ok...I know I started my first miso soup recipe by calling it "Not just tofu and green onions in my miso soup please" but I figured at one time or another I'd get someone asking why I don't have the quintessential miso soup on my blog so here it is. I also thought what better time than the grilled fish build a meal to introduce this classic miso soup recipe.
1) Make nibandashi or you can use ichibandashi. As a substitute you can use 2 cups of water and 1/4 teaspoon of dashi powder.
2) Add the tofu and simmer for 1 minute.
3) Add the miso and put the miso in a ladle and use chop sticks or something to dissolve the miso before adding it directly to the soup.
4) Add the green onions and serve immediately.
Put the green onions in just before serving.
Don't cut your tofu into tiny pieces.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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The movie somehow manages to reach you on an emotional level, but as a whole it has a lot of flaws. Perhaps by wanting to be socially relevant, Mother Lily drags in the issue of human trafficking and loosely connects it to the heroine's mother, to whom the subhead actually refers, and whose role could easily be summarized as a footnote or a passing thought and no one would even bother to care. This movie is really all about Melinda, and her kids. End of story. The other story elements seem contrived and disposable. The lousy editing does not help.
I've seen Chinese women roles portrayed with more gusto and believable coldness by other actresses (remember Dao Ming Sz's mother in Meteor Garden?) but Zsa Zsa here is an effing caricature. The accent is just disturbing. Her role as a villain is ineffective. When Melinda plants a fist on Olive's face, you do not feel triumph. You feel like you are watching a comedy bar skit. The villain is supposed to be hated but understood. Here, she is laughed at.
Aside from Angelica Panganiban (and perhaps, Iza Calzado), Sharon really has no other competition for Best Actress. I think she will get it. This is a personal bias. I like Angelica and I think she could act, but I think Sharon affected me more with her acting. Or maybe it is not the acting, but rather the role. But an upset is always cool, so Angelica FTW! Hahaha.
One good thing is that they seem to have gotten more actors with Chinese blood this time, at least in the supporting roles. It does lend something, although not really enough, to the authenticity of it being a film about the Chinese.
I would have loved to see how Angel Locsin would tackle a bitchy role, but IMO Heart Evangelista has been a good replacement. And she looks Chinese too, because she actually is. Dennis Trillo also looks Chinese, because he also is. Decent acting from this two.
The role I love best is that of Ciara Sotto's, rebelling because she is the one always around but feeling the least needed. The problem is Ciara Sotto cannot act to save her life. She often disappears in the scene because she cannot even hold her own against the other actors around her. She, along with the PBB girls, are obviously the weakest link in this otherwise well-acted movie. But the PBB girls got bit parts, and Ciara is around for more than half of the movie.
I think the problem with this movie is the direction. That Joel Lamangan person is just overrated. And he seems to love stereotypes, whether it be Chinese or gay characters.
At the end you will be satisfied with this film because it is feel-good, so very Christmas. It also helps a lot that you have (or have had) a mother. That fact would help you a great deal to sympathize with the characters. That is why I gave it a four. If it is not Christmas I would have given it a three. If I were asexually reproduced I would have given it a two.


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AFFAIRS…..Sometimes people need the fantasy life to keep the real life going. Is this bad? Perhaps that’s not the right word. Complicated? Yes. Especially if you don't know this is what you are doing.
If you 'fall' for the fantasy life as if it's real, you have fallen in to a place that is very difficult if not bordering on impossible to recover from. I wonder if those who keep the fantasy life in that category knowingly if it can remain as such. Why do some need the fantasy to keep the real? Serotonin levels? Too difficult to be so serious? Attention issues? Boredom with the reality? Not wanting to grow up? To get old?
What about those second younger wives? What really happens to those who succumb to the fantasy? Does it work out in the end? Can it? At the expense of the kids for sure. The good old fashion growing- apart-and-divorce-happens before either person meets someone else. Is this better for the kids? Does anyone do this? They'd have to detach from the fusion to be alone. I think very few people are willing to take that risk. I say the majority of people who divorce do it with someone waiting in the wings. All very interesting to me. I suppose there is not one answer even though I wish there was. But this is the complicated nature of humans, relationships and life.
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Miami Gardens will reimburse the town for the salary and benefits of the employees providing services, as well as pay an overhead rate.
Miami Lakes Town Manager Alex Rey said that the deal is part of Miami Lakes’ strategic plan to start outsourcing consulting services.
Council members brought up concerns at the meeting such as employees taking on additional work, and the potential for town services being affected by the agreement.
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Rhubarb and Strawberry Pie -- not enough flour is why.
2.In a large bowl, mix flour and sugar. Add strawberries and chopped rhubarb. Toss with sugar and flour and let stand for 30 minutes.
3.Pour filling into pie crust. Dot top with butter, and cover with top crust. Seal edges of top and bottom crust with water.
4.Apply yolk to top of pie, using a pastry brush. Sprinkle with sugar. Cut small holes in top to let steam escape.
5.Bake at 400 degrees F (200 degrees C), for 35 to 40 minutes, or until bubbly and brown. Cool on rack.
is rhubarb poison to eat with an R in the month,like september etc.?
You can eat rhubarb stalks at any time. And not all rhubarb stalks turn red, so you don't need to be concerned about the color of the stalks, either.
You shouldn't eat the leaves because of the potential for oxalic acid poisoning. You'd have to eat a lot of rhubarb leaves to do serious harm to yourself, however. Cabbage, spinach, potatoes and peas all contain oxalic acid and most people never ingest enough to harm themselves.
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Few people pursue joy in the midst of suffering, yet author Ajith Fernando’s new book asserts that Christian leaders and servants who want to know God more deeply must do just that.
“Suffering is there, but joy is also there,” said Fernando, who has served as the national director of Youth for Christ in war-torn Sri Lanka since 1976. He also spends considerable time mentoring and counseling Christian workers.
The journey toward such faith and surrender is life altering, Fernando said.
“Part of my mission is to teach people to concentrate on trusting God so that the joy can come. I have seen so many Christians who are unhappy because of what people have done to them.
Fernando shares in The Call to Joy and Pain how, during the height of Sri Lanka’s civil war, he had an opportunity to seek refuge with his wife and two young children in the United States. He could have escaped the horror unfolding in his native land and focused on his passion, writing.
Obeying that call didn’t mean Fernando was happy about it. It also didn’t mean his family wouldn’t suffer, he realized.
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Another key is learning to fully believe God.
Christians also must remain steadfast in their relationships.
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It's one of the best countries in my opinion and the 2nd most discussed country on the Off-topic forum (after USA). The beer gets my love and the friendly people here too.
Yet when I go visit those hundreds of threads about Belgium I see dishonour. It's sick and there's not one single thread with a positive message about my country.
So now we're in a state of a revolution to happen. Change the immoderate to moderate. Shield yourself with waffles and unchain your ires.
can Belgium please get some love?
Don't make me pull over Maggie De Block and her panzer on you.
Behead those who insult Belgium!
Whoaa-aa calm down. #MakeBelgiumGreatAgain will never be our slogan!
Simply get out. All of you. Only real Belgian sympathisers are welcome.
Where is the love for Belgium?
You mean french fried Banes?
Yea actually, thanks for catching that.
Np. And you were tasty. Next time try to eat yourself before I eat you!
Before posting, please proofread to ensure your post uses proper grammar and is free of logical mistakes or stupidity.
You quoted yourself a law that you personally even don't obey?
Find the logical mistake in your own comment, Polish nerd.
^how offensive! nobody wants to be called polish. maybe this is why belgium gets so much hate?
Blimey yes ! The only reason my country is in bad reputation is Death's fault and he seems to be proud of it as well!
Well I will try to be serious for once, I dont think Belgium will last long, Flanders will likely become independent and a sovereign state, and about Wallonia there is already a debate about joining France or not. The last 'Belgian' entity is Brussels, and I guess it would become a kind of free city (like Singapore or Hong Kong).
Yes it will, I think you are the first Flemish guy I met who is not for independence, wtf Belgian?


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Medical or dental billing can be a time consuming, frustrating, and overwhelming task resulting in stress, especially for small clinics that have limited time and resources to get the job done(and done right). However, it is a vital function in order to keep money circulating through the practice or clinic. Much like extra pounds on the waistline due to an unhealthy diet and no exercise can cause stress on the human body, extra costs and time spent due to having to hire and train new employees can cause stress on the businesses finances.
According to the Society of Human Resource Management, the cost to hire a new employee is $4,129, not including benefits.
This doesn't even account for the 'found savings' normally realized when a professional biller handles your medical or dental billing. Just like your income tax, there comes a time when a person outgrows handling it on their own and should consider hiring a professional. In the long-run, the savings of outsourcing your medical or dental billing outweigh the costs. Remember to consider all the costs associated before making a decision.
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Everyone knows the risk factors of little exercise, poor diet and bad habits can cause damage to the human heart. Similarly, poor billing practices and habits create lost revenue that damages a practice or clinic's finances. The largest risk factor is untrained billing staff members who are unfamiliar with the ever-changing insurance rules and regulations and in addition may have limited or no knowledge of billing software.
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Be on the lookout for these new cards with the new identification numbers and be sure that any patients with Medicare have provided their new card information to your office. There will be transition period of time from April 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 where Medicare will still process claims with the old numbers but it is important to get those new identification numbers entered into the insurance information fields in MacPractice as to avoid Medicare billing issues down the road.
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What is Dutch Cold Brew Coffee?
Dutch Cold Brew is a coffee brewing method where ice water is dripped slowly over freshly ground coffee for between 3 ½ -12 hours. This is not to be confused with the regular cold brewing method, where coffee grounds are steeped in room temperature water for 12-24 hours.
Dutch Cold Brew originated in the seventeenth century in the Netherlands. Since fat from coffee beans is insoluble in cold water, the Dutch created cold brew coffee to last on longer sea voyages. Centuries later, Dutch Cold Brew is making a comeback, but not for the same reasons; we love it for its unique flavor experience. Another strong reason is the low acidity, that makes cold drip easy to drink for those with a sensitive stomach.
What Is Kyoto-Style Cold Brew?
There are slight variations of the method, and there are names to these variations. There is cold drip, ice drip coffee, water drip coffee and Kyoto drip coffee. The method is the same; with the exception that ice drip uses literally ice cubes to drip over the grounds, instead of water.
The Nispira brewer has a modern look and is made with stainless steel and borosilicate glass. The unit is crafted in Hong Kong, and the brewer is very well made, the overall impression is of a quality product. The glass breaks easily as with most cold drippers, just keep that in mind.
It certainly doesn't have the "WOW" factor that other cold drippers have, but for some people, this unit actually looks better. It also depends on how you furnished your kitchen, and obviously, your taste.
Functionally, the Nispira unit is almost the same as the Yama glass brewer. The only difference is the missing coiled glass tube, which in fact doesn't have a practical utility, it's there just for the impression. I have to point, though, that the bottom beaker can't be taken out easily as with the Yama glass unit.
What Is Special about Dutch Coffee?
When you brew a regular cup of coffee at home, the heat causes the coffee to oxidize, which creates a bitterer, more acidic brew. Dutch Coffee, on the other hand, skips the heating phase and maintains some of the more delicate flavors, like fruity and chocolate flavors, that are typically lost through oxidization. Dutch Coffee is less acidic and less bitter, and much more flavorful than regular coffee. What’s more is that Dutch Cold Brew Coffee is efficient.
Dutch Coffee requires less beans and less time to brew than regular cold brew but manages to taste more complex and there is less aftertaste.
Immersion cold brew needs at least 12 hours for a full extraction. Cold drip only takes 3 to 5 hours, depending on the grind size and the quantity you are making. That's not to say that immersion cold brew coffee is not good.
For most people, there is simply no difference between the two methods, when brewed correctly. For coffee aficionados though, and for those with a great palate, the difference is there, and we have to mention it. Here is a comparison between the most popular immersion and cold drip coffee makers.
Not sure if this isn't going to confuse things even more, but here we go, I need to speak about iced coffee. The Japanese iced coffee brewing, is not another cold brew, as you might think. It is actually hot coffee, brewed over ice to cool down very fast.
Cooling the coffee very fast slows down the oxidation, while benefiting of the strong flavors obtained at high-temperature extraction. Peter Giuliano has an article about iced coffee vs cold brew here if you want to see his opinion.
I slightly disagree with him, I still think that cold brew is better.
Firstly, iced coffee doesn't have a long shelf life as the cold brew.
Secondly, hot brews, even when cooled down are still harmful to those with a sensitive stomach.
And thirdly, yes, you get a great flavor with hot brewed coffee, but you get great flavors with cold drip too, it's just a different one. "De gustibus non est disputandum".
How Can You Try Dutch Coffee?
There is a reason you don’t see Dutch Coffee mass-marketed, and it’s not for any lack of flavor. Where the more popular immersion cold brew method can easily be used to make large quantities of coffee at a time, Dutch Cold Brew requires a special coffee maker that produces a smaller batch of coffee.
Although the brewing with a Dutch dripper is faster, the fact that we can only make a small batch makes it inefficient to brew commercially.
It’s not likely that you’ll find any Dutch Coffee in the refrigerated section at the grocery store, but it is possible that you might find it at small, specialty cafés.
Your best bet would be to invest in your own cold brew dripper. There are a few different models on Amazon, we included here a couple that we think are better.
If the price of a Yama glass cold dripper is too steep for you, maybe you can improvise one as the one in the image. As there is no heat during the brewing, using plastic is absolutely safe.
Should You Try Dutch Coffee?
Absolutely, Dutch Coffee sounds great, but it requires special equipment to brew—is it even worth it? Especially if there aren’t many ways to try it before you go all in? We think so! We are pretty confident that Cold Brew Coffee is going to change the way you think about cold brew. The flavor experience is like none other, and on top of that, the makers are rather nice to look at. Like most brewing methods, Dutch Coffee has a certain aesthetic to it; it’s like art, something you make over time.
Choose a great single origin coffee with a light roast. A light roast will prevent the smoke tones to form. Those flavors are easier to pass in the coffee with a long steeping time. A light roast will allow great flavors specific to the origin to be preserved in the beans.
Grind slightly coarser than for auto drip, but finer than for French press.
With a coarser grind, you need more coffee with a finer grind, you can use less coffee. Write down your recipe, and adjust it from there. It all comes down to your taste, ultimately.
If your dripper uses a paper filter, pre-wet it. This will help with the water flow.
Place the ground coffee on the filter.
Place a fitted paper filter on top of your grounds, this will ensure an even distribution of the water for a uniform extraction. It will prevent channeling, to use a technical term.
Pre-wet this top filter, and pour around half an inch of water, to prime the coffee grounds.
Prepare the exact amount of water needed for the brew. The easiest way is to mix water with ice in a measuring pitcher, measure and pour.
Pour some of the water into the upper tank, (just an inch or so), and adjust the drip speed.
Adjusting the drip speed with very little water in the upper tank ensures there is enough pressure to push the water down through the whole process. As the water reservoir empties, there will be less pressure, and you risk stopping the brewing, while there is still water in the reservoir.
A good dripping speed is around one drop every two seconds, but you can go as high as 45 drips per minute.
The water is actually a combination of ice and water, and you need to measure the volume.
We use more ice for slower brewing. You can also go with a water only drip, and adjust the dripper for a fast brew. The fastest is around 3 to 4 hours, depending on the grind size as well.
When the coffee is done brewing, transfer into beer bottles, or other airtight glass bottles.
Store it in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Some people say coffee is great long after the two weeks.
You can also freeze this coffee as described on my coffee ice cubes recipe. But you will have to brew it a bit more concentrated for this purpose.
This Dutch cold brew coffee maker is beautifully crafted with Yama glass and carved wood. The ceramic filter gives your cup more body than brewing with paper filters. The dripping adjustment works great, and the fittings are good quality ones. For the top paper, the Aeropress filters are perfect.
The unit doesn't fit in any kitchen environment, it's rather tall, and its unique design doesn't work for everybody. If you think it won't look good in your kitchen, then it probably won't.
The glass breaks, so you need to be careful with the handling. The company that sells them, however, has a good reputation for, or replacing pieces broken on arrival, or selling parts only.

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Patti Newton has studied the Tarot since 1973 as a tool for personal insight, transformation, and a guide for making creative decisions.
"My 9 Life Area Readings are a combination of Bagua School Feng Shui Philosopies and Zen Tarot Teachings.
Learning to make rational, educated decisions combined with practical application of intuition, is what leads to personal success and self-empowerment in the game of life"
The human experience may present challenges on many levels that may lead to discouragement, confusion or depression. These feelings can inhibit or even shut down our creative process.
Discovering life areas that may hold stagnant or negative energy may allow us to release and transmute it into an experience of forward movement and a more rewarding life experience.


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Does a custom portfolio suit your needs?
Retirement plan participants often find themselves with a choice when they review their DC plan menus. Like a custom suit, sometimes a custom-made target-date or white-label fund is a prudent alternative to an off-the-shelf option.
Vanguard Chief Economist Joe Davis sees inflation heading higher, but not too high. Given the moderate outlook for growth and inflation longer-term, the Fed is unlikely to begin raise rates aggressively.
The Yale endowment model may be a victim of its own success. Opportunities in the alternative space are drying up. The second in a three-part series on the investing landscape for educational endowments.
Vanguard Chief Economist Joe Davis looks at the paradox of stagnating productivity and technological innovation.
Since 1996, the number of U.S. public companies has been cut in half. But Head of Vanguard Investment Strategy Group Jim Rowley explains research data from a graph showing little, if any, impact the decline has on investors.
Factor-based strategies are often different, even when focused on the same factor. Here are four key questions to ask when evaluating factor products.
The positive influence of plan design variables has helped improve participant outcomes.
Many educational institutions try to duplicate the legendary Yale endowment model in their own investing. Why have Yale’s epic returns proved elusive? The first in a three-part series on the investing landscape for educational endowments.
Investors often try to escape market volatility with tactics that can backfire. A Vanguard target-date retirement fund (TDF) is designed to help investors ride out volatile markets instead of taking potential costly risks.
Rising yields got you singing the blues?
John Hollyer, global head of Vanguard Fixed Income Group, discusses the recent rise in bond yields and what that’s meant for Vanguard’s bond funds. Mr. Hollyer says investors should center their long-term return expectations on the yields they are getting today.

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It’s amazing the impact that Internet of Things (IoT) technology can make in your day-to-day life. Just a couple of weeks ago, after my wife and I rushed out of the house to the airport to start our vacation, we couldn’t help but wonder if we had remembered to close our garage door. Luckily I had remembered I recently installed a device that allowed me to control my garage door from my smartphone via an app. I was able to quickly check and was reassured that we did in fact remember to close it. And at the same time, I was also able to set my Nest thermostat to vacation mode to conserve energy. These simple capabilities that are enabled by IoT technologies allowed us to be worry-free and relax as we started our vacation.
Vacations are when we get away from it all, but they always seem to spark ideas. Can IoT devices improve other areas of our lives? What about professional efforts and in business? There are in fact some great examples that demonstrate the potential of IoT in the business world.
Take the story of John Deere. Their newest services are revolutionizing agriculture. Customers tap into data crowd-sourced from thousands of farmers. Sensors from machines around the world provide intelligence and context to improve decision making. They’re also developing a fleet of robots for automated tasks. Put these things together and it’s clear that a handful of humans will soon operate a large farm better than ever.
IoT is also bigger than any one company. Enterprises are making groundbreaking advancements across industries. The basic premise is that, by enabling machines to communicate, we can unlock a fantastic combination of big data and automation. That means reduced costs, valuable analytics, and a plethora of new services. Not to mention, we can be more carefree on our holidays.
But how do we make this leap? There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes in order to make IoT come to life. While users may be launching a simple app on their smartphone, there is a lot that goes into making that simple digital experience work.
Take for example my garage door app. There’s the infrastructure piece which includes the garage door opener motor, a receiver, a transmitter, door status sensors, door safety sensors, and light on the opener. All of these components are connected together and data is sent and received via an internet gateway to the cloud. From there, the data must be stored and processed with the help of software on the providers back-end infrastructure. It is only the final step that a user actually sees and can control the status of the opener on their smartphone app.
That’s quite an extensive process when you think about all of the networks, data and dependencies on back-end applications and compute that is involved. In fact, the difficulties of infrastructure is why Gartner believes that by 2020, more than 50% of apps built on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will be for IoT purposes. PaaS can help organizations focus on their apps and innovation while outsourcing some of the complexities involved in getting started with IoT.
1. Real-time decision making depends on communication speeds from the sensors all the way to the application. That’s not a one-way street either. For a user to direct a complex task, the application needs to reliably send directions to the machines. Think of all the instruments in an orchestra. The conductor’s management ability makes it work in unison.
2. As companies rely on third party PaaS and clouds, those services play a huge role. Entrusting a provider only makes sense if you can see how their services are working with yours. Companies should have an application-centric approach to monitoring, that extends through their infrastructure.
3. At the end of the day, IoT can only be successful if the technology is brought together to provide an exceptional end-user experience. Users today demand real-time, responsive interactions with digital services (eg. Uber, Twitter, etc.). Having the toolset to measure and deliver the best possible end-user experience can make or break an IoT app.
Little things make a huge difference. Because once they are in harmony, that’s when we can have the true power of IoT at our fingertips.
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Love is in the air this month, and that means getting a gift for your special someone. Deciding on what to get can be difficult, but with the GasBuddy app’s new Savings feature, you can shop at your favorite brands and get rewarded with some free gas money. Win win! We’ve put together some ideas below based on what your better half (or you!) might enjoy.
If your significant other has a fur baby, there’s no better way to express your love than showing that you care for them and their pet.
Whether they’re struggling with their New Year’s resolution to exercise more or if they regularly hit the gym, your love will love getting new workout gear to keep them motivated. (And you’ll love getting free gas).
Is your significant other caught up in the Marie Kondo craze? Everyone needs help tidying up, and a loving, organizational gift for Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to ‘spark joy’ in your home.
Check out the new “Savings” tab in the GasBuddy app to find other ways to get GasBack on your Valentine’s Day gifts!


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The state of Ohio has been the birthplace of 8 US Presidents, and one King. And no, I’m not talking about Elvis (that’s Tupelo, Mississippi). I’m talking about the “King of Hollywood”, Mr. Rhett Butler himself Clark Gable.
William Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio on February 1st, 1901. He was named after his father so the family always called him Clark, Gable’s mother passed away when he was just 10 months old, and his father struggled to raise his son. While Gable loved reading especially Shakespeare, he never considered acting until his early twenties.
Clark Gable was born in the upper bedroom apartment of this house.
It’s like his ghost still haunts his home.
Clark Gable is one of the most bankable stars of all time. He had starring roles from the 1920’s all the way to the 1960s. This despite Louis B Mayer’s (the head of MGM) comment upon seeing Gable’s first screen test that “His ears are huge, and he looks like an ape. He’ll never be a star.” Gable had the esoteric “It” that makes someone a star. And for almost 40 years he films consistently made money.
Gossip columnist Louella Parsons has been credited for calling Mr. Gable “The King of Hollywood” But given his track record of hit movies. he has definitely earned it.
Clark Gable was just 59 when he died. Many people believe that working in the hot sun during the filming of the film “The Misfits” with Marilyn Monroe did him in.. (Well, that and a history of heart disease) “The Misfits” was both gable and Monroe’s last film. Both would be dead within two years. Co-star Montgomery Clift would also be dead a couple years after that.
For years there was no monument or acknowledgment of Gable’s time in Cadiz, Ohio at all. The house he was born in had been torn down years before Clark gable was famous. It wasn’t until the 1990’s that the city realized tourists might be interested in seeing where one of the largest film stars of all time was born that they pooled the money to recreate the home. They found pictures of the residence and did a good job rebuilding it as it looked at the time.
So if you are in eastern Ohio and “Frankly, you give a damn” come on over to Cadiz and check out the birthplace of a King.
Thanks, They put a lot of work in restoring the place. That and a lot of Gable’s fans donated items for the museum too. Glad you liked it.
The movie has a great poster collection from all his movies and some nice gone with the wind momentos.
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If you have had a car accident damage, a blemish, dented or scratched your vehicle we can help.
We have a fully equipped workshop in Worthing to deal with all your vehicle body work repairs, scratches, dents & panel replacement.
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Czech superstar, Tomas Berdych is set to face Pierre-Hugues Herbert from France in the quarterfinals of the 2018 ATP Qatar Open in Doha.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert enters this match having beaten Max Marterer in the previous round. It was a solid victory for Herbert as he won all of his service games while also winning 1 return game to get the win in 3 sets. It was impressive to watch Pierre-Hugues Herbert play during the third set as he handled the pressure of a tiebreaker exceptionally well to win the set and the match. It has been a very good tournament for Pierre-Hugues Herbert as he beat Dominic Thiem in the opening round. That win would have given Herbert a huge amount of confidence which he showed in his previous match and should bring into this contest also.
On the other side of the coin, Tomas Berdych enters this match beaten Fernando Verdasco in 3 sets. It was a solid performance by Tomas Berdych as he beat one of the most experienced and accomplished players on the tour. The returning of serve was the most impressive aspect for Tomas Berdych as he won 4 break points which is very impressive, especially against Fernando Verdasco. Tomas Berdych is a very experienced and accomplished player and he should be feeling confident as he heads into this match.
This is set to be the first time that Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Tomas Berdych will be playing each other.
Taking everything into consideration, I am going to pick Tomas Berdych to win this game. While Pierre-Hugues Herbert has been playing well and is looking confident, Tomas Berdych is simply a more accomplished and experienced player. Having just beaten Fernando Verdasco, Tomas Berdych should be feeling good about his game. I see Berdych making it into the semi-final of this tournament.

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We offer a full range of property management services tailored to you as an investor, homeowner, or landlord. We have an extensive portfolio of single family homes, townhouses, condos, and apartments in the Falcon area.
Falcon is an unincorporated community exurb in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It lies along US 24 about 14 miles northeast of Colorado Springs. A railroad hub in the early 20th century, the town spent several decades as a quiet ranching community until it experienced rapid residential growth throughout the 1990s which has continued increasingly through today. The population of Falcon as of 2009 was estimated to be 10,514. The U.S. Post Office in Peyton, Colorado (ZIP Code 80831) serves Falcon postal addresses, but many people mistakenly believe those residing in the Falcon area are Peyton residents. This is because most Falcon resident still list "Peyton, CO 80831" with their mailing address. However, that is incorrect and the postal service accepts "Falcon, CO 80831."


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Www.digitalplayspace.com - Google Play For Work. Cartoon is quickly becoming a very popular career choice for all those thinking about combining their love for art with their love for calculating. With pictures like Monsters Inc. and Cars holding the interest of kids and adults alike, it's no surprise that animation technicians have become popular after.
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An animation is defined like a visual change in a scene with respect to time. The visual change in the scene isn't just linked to the shift in the position of this object, but additionally using its own shape, color, transparency, texture and structure. An important thing about cartoon is that it usually signifies the hand drawn or artificially drawn series of pictures, which contrasts into the movies where actors performances together with real-world scenes have been listed.
This short article talks concerning the variation of cartoon and anime, as well as definition of each in a variety of classes. Anime, generally from Japan, demonstrates itself for being lots deeper and perfectly thought-out in plot and character development than individuals of cartoons.
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Okay I haven't logged into spark people for a good six months and I'm glad to be back here. I've missed it. I like the changes to the food tracker. I have tried to stay active and eat healthy in the mean time. I did a half marathon in June in 3hrs that I was proud of myself for. I have gained a little weight and have been guilty of a bit of mindless eating. Halloween did me in. I ate so much candy that I knew I had to get back to spark people. I've had enough laffy taffy and chocolate for the year. (Maybe not chocolate) Food tracker here I come.
Awesome deal on the half!
I can't fathom doing a 1/2 marathon, but I can certainly relate on hitting the Halloween candy. Welcome back to getting on Sparktrack!


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text: Prism Pixels offers the LGBT Community of New England (and beyond!) affordable and thoughtful wedding photography. Sara Engel, owner and photographer, prides herself on getting to know couples before their wedding day so that she can capture who you truly are as an individual – and as a new couple. Her style is genuine and natural. Sara’s approach is non-intrusive and she strives to create a comfortable setting for everyone on the other side of the lens. Blending in with the guests and families, she seamlessly captures all of those special moments, enjoying and celebrating the new couple. Prism Pixels is proud to say that gay wedding are – and always will be – the focus. Visit http://www.prismpixels.com for more information or to book your date.


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text: These posters were designed in honor of the seventh-year memorial for the Columbia space shuttle crash. Ilan Ramon was the Israeli astronaut on the space craft, the first Israeli to fly into space. The posters express three levels of mourning and commemoration; a personal memory, a father-son memory and a national memory.

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Empowerment is a word which is casually tossed around in every day conversations - politics, sports, on the job, church, etc... political figures empower the states, the Cleveland Browns empowered Johnny Manzel, the job empowers you to do your job, and churches empower followers with free will, so on and so forth. So, what does empowerment actually mean? Webster's defines it as "to give power to (someone)."
Here at NEMOJT, empowerment means that and so much more. When our participants come through the door for the first time they are often not prepared and not supported to enter the workforce and maintain a job. We see our job as to provide support and guidance. We will suggest opportunity and solutions, but it is the participant who needs to take the steps to be successful. And while we will help, we cannot walk for them.
I taught a job readiness course at Duluth Business University and that is one of the basic beliefs there as well. My students learned how to make resumes, the basics of cover letters, and why interviewers ask the questions they do. In class we talked about building interview answers based on stories rather than on specific words. In essence, my students were provided a road map that can lead to success; however, in order to achieve that success they needed to take the first step. I did not build resumes or cover letters for them, nor did I go to interviews with them. I empowered them to do so, on their own.
At NEMOJT, empowering our participants is presented in a similar way. We meet with participants regularly, helping them with job search. They are directed to resources including healthcare, SSI, childcare, etc. Often we cut red tape to clear obstacles, but we do not overcome those obstacles for our participants. Call it a partnership, not care taking.
You see, at some point the changes required to be successful need to be more important to the participant than they are to the staff at NEMOJT. WE EMPOWER OUR PEOPLE TO SUCCEED, we cannot succeed for them.
Impact one person every day.