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Answering surveys are probably one of the most common opportunities you will come across when you look for ways to make money online.
A lot of them are legit opportunities that can really make you money, while there are also a lot of these survey sites that are just a scam and steal your information.
For this review, we’ll be discussing Survey Squad, a website that will pay you for participating in different kinds of surveys and research panels.
Survey sites don’t usually provide you with ways to make a lot of money and Survey Squad is not an exception. Sure they have more options that pay higher, but there’s no guarantee you will be qualified to participate in it.
It’s likely that you will make $20 to $50 a month, at most, with this site. But is Survey Squad a legit opportunity to make money or just a scam?
Focus Forward is the company that powers the Survey Squad website and is known as one of the companies that provide people with a platform to share their opinion on businesses since 2003.
The website is one of the platforms that people can share their opinions with and get paid for it. They become part of a panel and participate in different types of research that Survey Squad offers.
Based on what the website promises, I can say that Survey Squad is a legitimate opportunity. However, research also shows that there have been payment delay concerns.
A lot of the members complain that it takes a long time for the website to give them their money, usually taking months before they’re able to receive it.
This is a big concern, as this shows that the website is having problems providing people their due payments.
It shows that either the website can’t keep up with the number of members it has or it’s not getting enough money to pay everyone.
This will be discussed further in this review, as well as why you can only expect to make $50 at most a month with this site.
Who Uses the Survey Squad Website?
The Survey Squad website is made for two groups of people with one being businesses and market researchers looking to gather information and data about their consumers.
The other group are people like you who are looking to earn extra money online. For businesses and researchers, the website gives them an opportunity to reach a variety of people for their research.
Survey Squad has a lot of members who are more than willing to share their opinions about product and services to businesses or researchers who would listen to them.
Businesses and researchers can get people’s opinion either through online surveys, mobile surveys, or in-person discussion.
The website also ensures that those participating are the ones who are qualified to take the surveys. For people like you, Survey Squad provides an opportunity to make money answering surveys or participating in studies.
The site offers a variety of studies that you can participate in, like online surveys, in-person discussions, and more. Each study that you complete and participate in will allow you to earn rewards.
Payments for in-person discussion or studies will be given at the end of the study, while payments for online or mobile surveys will be sent to your account and you can request for a withdrawal.
You can request for a withdrawal once you reach the minimum amount required and it will be sent via check.
Joining is easy and free. You would just need to provide your information and you’re good to go. The opportunity, though, is only available to U.S. residents.
How Do You Earn with Survey Squad?
The Survey Squad only provides one way to earn and that is through participating in their panel and research. The good thing is that the website has a variety of research types that you can participate in.
The site will be paying you for each study that you complete. Most studies will pay you in points, which you can redeem for cash after reaching the minimum amount required.
The first study that Survey Squad offer is the Single-Session Online Survey. These are the regular surveys that you answer online.
You get paid in 1,000 to 5,000 Focus Forward Points for each survey that you complete. The site will send an email notifying you if there is an available survey and how much it will pay.
You will need to reach 20,000 Focus Forward Points or $20 to be able to request your money, which will be paid via check.
You will just need to answer the qualifying questions to see if you can participate in the survey. If you qualify, you can take it and earn points after you complete it.
The other studies you can participate in are Telephone and Multi-Session Online Surveys. Telephone studies are those that are conducted via phone, where the researcher will call you and ask you questions.
Multi-session online surveys are those where you are required to participate in more than one online session before you get paid.
The site will also provide email notification about available telephone or multi-session surveys, which also includes details about it and how much you will earn.
You will earn around $100 to $300 for completing these kinds of studies and the payments are sent to you via check. The last studies that you can participate in are the in-person studies.
Like single-session online surveys, you will need to answer questions to see if you’re qualified to participate in the study.
These studies are basically those that require you to be present in-person. These types of studies usually pay around $100 to $300 and it will be given to you in person after completing the study.
The payments are usually in cash, check, or gift card. Availability of these studies are also sent via email and you will also need to answer a few questions to see if you qualify.
Survey Squad also has a monthly sweepstakes draw, where you have a chance to win 250,000 points or $250. Of course, winning here is not guaranteed, so it’s hard to rely on this for income.
Joining is easy, as you would just need to sign up through the Survey Squad website. You need to fill out the required details to complete your profile.
The more details you provide, the higher the chance of you getting an email invite. The opportunity, though, is only available to U.S. residents.
Now that we know more about Survey Squad and what it offers, it is time to talk about what is good with the opportunity they provide.
One of the things that I liked about Survey Squad is that it offers a lot of studies for you to participate in. You don’t just have to rely on answering online surveys, as there are mobile surveys, telephone studies, and even in-person studies.
It’s also a good thing that Survey Squad provides good payments to members who are participating in their studies. The minimum you can earn is $1, which is more than what a lot of survey companies provide.
It’s also good that Survey Squad doesn’t just rely on the Focus Forward points to pay its members. Cash payments are given to those who participate in telephone or multi-session surveys and they are sent via check. While those who participated in in-person studies will usually receive cash, check, or gift cards right after the study so there’s no need to wait for it.
Of course, not everything is well and dandy with Survey Squad, as there are also things that are bad about the website.
My first issue with Survey Squad is that I’ve read a lot of reviews that the website takes a while to send the payment via check to your home. The site says that it will take 6 to 8 weeks before the check arrives, but some members have complained about waiting 3 to 5 months before they are able to get their money. This is a major concern, as it shows the site has problems paying people.
Another concern I have, which is usually a problem for survey sites, is that you are not guaranteed to participate in any study at all. Even if you receive an email notification about an available study, you will still need to answer several questions to see if you qualify for the said study. This means there are chances that you won’t be able to participate in a lot of the studies.
Is Survey Squad to be Recommended?
After learning more about Survey Squad, I don’t really recommend it to anyone due to the concerns with the delay in payments.
The delay in payments shows that the site may be having problems in keeping up with its commitments to pay its members. This is not a good sign and shows the site is probably having issues with money.
Another thing reason why I don’t really recommend Survey Squad is that there’s no guarantee you will be able to participate in the available studies.
You will still need to answer certain questions to see if you qualify to participate or not. Yes, I understand that this is something almost all survey sites do but it is a bit irritating to be receiving an email for a study invite only to find out after answering the questions that you don’t qualify.
It would likely be best if the email notification sent will already assure that you are qualified based on the profile that you provided.
As for earnings, since there’s no guarantee you will always qualify, especially for the studies that pay big, there’s a big possibility that you can only earn $50, at most, with this opportunity.
So if you’re looking to earn money online through answering surveys, Survey Squad is not the opportunity for you.
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text: This international feature film is the third collaboration between director Lisa Langseth and Alicia Vikander, co-produced by the Oscar award winning actress’ new production company Vikarious. The cast also includes Eva Green, Charlotte Rampling and Charles Dance. Malmsten Hellberg designed the titles in collaboration with the film’s editor Dino Jonsäter.

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Abstract: Due to prolonged use of wind turbines they must be characterized by high reliability. This can be achieved through a rigorous design, appropriate simulation and testing and proper construction. The reliability prediction and analysis of these systems will lead to identify critical components, increase operating time, minimizing failure rate and minimizing maintenance costs. The Monte-Carlo simulation of parameters of helical wind turbine with vertical axis includes elements of reliability theory and notions of probability and statistical inferences. To estimate the produced energy by wind turbine, an evaluation approach based on Monte Carlo simulation model is developed which permits us to estimate the probability of minimum and maximum parameters. In our simulation process we used triangular distributions. The case study consists on determination of statistical parameters of assumed distribution, in order to estimate the reliability and unreliability functions, probability density function (pdf) and hazard rate (failure rate) of the helical wind turbine with vertical axis. Based on experimental tests, it was calculated the variation of power produced for different wind speed, respectively it was calculated the Weibull distribution of wind probability and the power which is generated. The analysis of experimental results indicates that this type of wind turbine at low wind speed is more efficient than other wind turbine with horizontal axis and with three blades.
Abstract: We have already reported that Cu(10 wt.%)/SiO2 catalyst prepared by using the sol-gel method is excellent catalyst for hydrogen production by methanol steam reforming. Zn, Pd, Au, Pt, Ir, Re, Rh, Ru, Ag, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mo, Sn were added to the Cu/SiO2 catalyst on the way of its sol-gel preparation process and Cu-M(9-1 wt.%)/SiO2 catalysts were prepared using the sol-gel method, respectively. These catalysts were tested for hydrogen production by methanol steam reforming, respectively. Cu-Zn(9-1 wt.%)/SiO2 catalyst prepared using the sol-gel method is the most excellent catalyst for hydrogen production by methanol steam reforming at 350 oC. On the other hand, low temperature methanol steam reforming system is needed for waste heat recovery around 200 oC. For this purpose, Cu-Pd(9-1 wt.%)/SiO2 catalyst prepared using the sol-gel method is most excellent among the catalysts, while the Cu-Zn(9-1 wt.%)/SiO2 catalyst produces 1/10 amount of H2 that of hydrogen produced at 350 oC.
Abstract: The present work focuses its attention about the need of implementation of an energy recovery system for a renewable energy device as photovoltaic cells. In a specific way the present paper is addressed to the evaluation of a potential use of Peltier cells to recover waste heat of PV, using the Seedback effect, and the opportunity to recovery the vibrational energy of the PV cell surface when it is subject to the effect of rain drops. An overview of Peltier cells, mainly focused on their functionality, properties and possible applications, is initially presented. The results of an extensive experimental test campaign is then presented; these tests have mainly been dedicated to the evaluation of Peltier cells properties in the electrical conversion of heating energy produced and/or not dissipated during the photovoltaic phenomena in siliceous PV cells. The second part of the work is focuses on a first study for a piezoelectric harvesting system, finalized to obtain electrical energy from the kinetic energy of rainy precipitation; a renewable energy source not really considered until now. After a state of art of the harvesting systems from environmental energy, linked to vibrations, using piezoelectric structures, and of piezoelectric harvesting systems functioning with rain, authors propose an analysis of the fundamental features of rainy precipitations for the definition of the harvesting system. An electro-mechanical model for the simulation of performance of the unit for the energetic conversion, composed by three blocks, is proposed. The model is used for a simulation campaign to perform the final choice of the more suitable piezoelectric unit, available on the market, which will be adopted for the realization of the “Piezo Roof Harvesting System”.
Abstract: Predictive current control methods for forced-commutated converters, e.g., voltage source inverter, are well documentated and they perform very well compared with the classical solutions, i.e., hysteresis control and proportional-integral controllers with pulsewidth modulation. This paper presents a strategy to implement a predictive control technique for a naturally-commutated converter, e.g., multipulse cycloconverter. This strategy uses a discrete-time model of the system to predict the future value of the load current for all possible output voltages of the converter. Since in a naturally-commutated converter the possible output voltages are dynamic and they depend on the present switching state of every semiconductor of the converter, these output voltages must be obtained from a mathematical model (finite-state machine) of the converter. The proposed current control strategy is tested. The simulation and experimental results show that a predictive control strategy can be used not only in applications with forced-commutated converters but also with naturally-commutated converters showing good electric performance.
Abstract: The work deals with the issues of modern architecture power supply compatible with the trend of more electric aircraft in the field of energy-electronic power electronics systems PES (Power Electronics Systems), both civil aircraft "classical" companies Airbus and Boeing aircraft (A-320, B-767) and military Lockheed Martin (F-16) as well as a more civil aircraft/ fully electric MEA/ AEA (A-380 and A-350XWB, B-787) and military JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) F-35 and F-22 Raptor. The subject, and also the aim of this paper is to make a comparative characteristics of selected elements of power electronic converters, which are multi-pulse rectifiers (6- and 12- pulse) or (18- and 24- pulse) used on modern aircraft with 48- pulse rectifier, presenting them analysis and mathematical models, and based on the above, the analysis and draw practical conclusions in the field of advanced power electronic power systems PES according to the concept aircraft more/ fully electric (MEA/ AEA). The idea behind this concept is to replace conventional key air devices, circuits and systems, electrical power, pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical - devices, circuits and systems fed one kind of energy, namely electricity.
Abstract: In the current international standard IEC 61000-4-2 the equation describing the electrostatic discharge current needs a further investigation in order to describe the measured current accurately. In the current paper two different optimization methods are presented that have been developed in order to calculate the parameters of the electrostatic discharge current equation. The first method uses a quasi-Newton optimization algorithm, while the second one uses genetic algorithms and constitutes an extension of a methodology that has been used in a previous research work. Electrostatic discharge current data obtained from real measurements are also used in this work in order to compare them with the results obtained from the two proposed methods in an effort to prove their efficiency and accuracy. The proposed methods are extremely useful in the ESD studies, since an accurate electrostatic discharge current equation is an indispensable requirement for the description of the ESD generators in simulation programs.

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Today will be fun! I'm getting the kids to bake their own cookies - start to finish (with heaps of supervision). They will be excited/nervous to do this, but that's what makes it great. I'm setting them up for success by simply tweaking a store bought cookie mix and they'll get to pick how they adapt it.
Dinner at Friends! Yay - love doing this! I'm still dreaming up ideas of what to bring - maybe some of our fresh 5 Minute Bread bread? Maybe Best Brownies Ever?
The marinated pork chops are something I'll have to try in the near future! :) New fan via MPM!
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Political Parties in Burma | Dominic J. Nardi, Jr.
I wrote a brief op-ed in Irrawaddy about political parties in Burma and how they might actually strengthen the country’s authoritarian elites. It’s not related to law so much, but does address some of the broader literature on institutional design in authoritarian countries.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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The U.S. Naval War College has posted the November 2009 edition of the Sanremo Handbook on Rules of Engagement, published by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law. The document includes discussion of land, maritime, air, outer space, and cyberspace military operations. Hat tip to Kelly Vinopal.
The text has been prepared by Commander Alan Cole RN, Major Phillip Drew, Canadian Forces, Captain Rob McLaughlin, RAN and Professor Dennis Mandsager, Captain, JAGC, US Navy (Ret.). The final draft has been reviewed by a team of Council members of the Institute, composed of Brigadier General Erwin Dahinden, Dr. Baldwin de Vidts, Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Professor Marie Jacobsson, Dr. Michael Meyer and Professor Michel Veuthey, with the cooperation of Colonel Darren Stewart, Director of the Military Department of the Institute.
There are no other Handbooks of its type in existence; it has been designed so that it can be used by any nation or group of nations without reference to security caveats or restrictions. Of course this was always the intent, to provide a tool that could be used to facilitate and enhance multinational cooperation and mutual understanding while ensuring that military forces are in compliance with national security and policy concerns.
As the political control on the use of force and with that the use of rules of engagement to regulate the conduct of armed forces by individual nations, alliances and coalitions around the world continues to grow, so too the need to be able to train on and understand rules of engagement similarly gains importance. It is essential that a clear understanding exists that whilst rules of engagement are often a mix of military and political policy requirements, these must be bounded by extant international and domestic legal parameters. Such legal constraints may never be exceeded, but are quite often restricted further by the effect of rules of engagement. Too often national or multinational security classifications mean that the publication and sharing of rules of engagement experience and best practice is problematic. The ability for militaries to share their experiences as well as for academics, students and the public to consider the subject is critical in order to promote awareness of the practical implementation of International Humanitarian Law through rules of engagement.
This entry was posted in Human Rights, international law and tagged armed conflicts, cyberspace, Human Rights, international humanitarian law, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, international law, law of armed conflict, military, navy, rules of engagement by Sergio Stone. Bookmark the permalink.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Search one abdominal perfect is what many of us pursue. For this reason we are always presenting exercises that will help us have an abdomen in perfect condition. We almost always focus on exercises that take into account only the upper abdominals and lower. This time what we will do is to present an exercise suitable for work the obliques and get a waist in perfect condition by touching all parts.
For this exercise we will simply need our body and a mat where we will place to carry out the exercise in the most comfortable way possible. The exercise will consist of a twist that will have as the central part of the trunk. It is important that to well execute this exercise we are in control of the most movements of our body besides having a base minimum of strength in the abdomen, since this exercise tension is very high in all the abdominal part, in addition to the legs bear part of this tension, and therefore it is necessary that we are already strong.
For the exercise will place us on the mat on the buttocks. In this position we will rise legs shrink the knees, We will take back a little back, so keep the balance, and we will raise arms and place them in the chest for much more help us maintain balance. We must put your feet on the whole in a way that does not influence the rest of movements. They simply have to be fixed and placed so that we maintain the balance in the best way possible without tiring us too.
On the basis of this position what we will do will be working the obliques in the following manner. Starting with the upper part of the symmetrical to the legs, front trunk will be what to do turn right, the trunk while the legs, keeping them together, turn left. Made this movement we will return to the Centre with both parts of the body, then, moving the trunk to the left and right legs. In this way we incidiremos directly in the part of the oblique, but also in the straight most of the abdomen, improving the belly and abdominal toning.
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industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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This story starts in 1968 when Bill drove from Detroit to Canada to get a tattoo. In those days, there were only a hand full of tattoo artists in the country and the art was kept under lock and key. No one gave out information pertaining to equipment, the art of, etc. and you could forget about training. There really were no apprenticeships going on. But,…on with the trip.
Bill drives to Canada and gets a tattoo and questions the guy about getting started in the business, i.e. where to get equipment, what to do from here and all of that. He really got no answers because it was all under ground. This tattoo artist worked really hard to get there and he’s not sharing because he took a blood oath or something.
So, Bill goes back to Detroit, finds a manufacturer of tattoo equipment, teaches himself, learns on his friends and opens a tattoo shop in Detroit in 1969. If that doesn’t sound like much to you, you’ll have to transport yourself back to the era. Detroit in 1969 (like most other large metro areas) had no tattoo shops but had PLENTY of customers that were willing to stand in line all day. And, that’s what they did.
Business was so good that Bill only worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In the meantime, he established himself as one of the premier tattoo artists of his generation and those to follow.
While I’m most impressed with the school, the owner/creator is nothing to sneeze at either. First, this man just doesn’t teach the art of tattoo. He’s also a naturopathic Dr. of Medicine, Black Belt in Karate (REAL Defense) and a Chiropractor along with a number of other vocations. Dr. Pogue doesn’t just dream up ideas, you see, he turns them into reality. The World’s Only Tattoo School is the very first sanctioned tattoo school in the nation to teach the art of tattoo.
While I met April from Ohio in the class on Lake Street in Shreveport, she was far from a small group of few. She already had a job lined up in Ohio after she completed the intense course and became certified. In the meantime, she has a nice room [complete with bath/kitchen/cable/covered deck & other amenities] at the school and then goes back with her new found knowledge and starts a new career.
The World’s Only Tattoo School officially started out in Detroit as a series of seminars and then developed into an actual, scheduled training course allowing students to gain certification and eventually employment.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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You're probably familiar with the Peruvian-style ceviche made with raw seafood cured with citrus juice and aromatics. The Colombian stuff is different. It's made with cooked shellfish and shrimp, langoustines, lobster, oysters, octopus, periwinkles, or whatever gets dragged up that days—dressed with lime juice, ketchup, mayonnaise, and perhaps some hot sauce and onions or cilantro. It comes served with saltines and it's damn delicious. Here's how to replicate it at home.
Starting the shrimp in cold water spiked with citrus juice gives them great flavor and the most tender texture.
Sprinkling the shrimp with baking soda before cooking transforms their texture so that they're supremely juicy with a wonderful snappy bite.
Bringing the cooking water only to 170°F (not boiling) delivers perfectly cooked shrimp.
Combine shrimp, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl and toss to coat. Place in refrigerator and let rest for 15 minutes.
In a medium bowl, combine 1 tablespoon lime juice, mayonnaise, olive oil, ketchup, and onion and stir until homogenous. Add hot sauce to taste and stir to combine. Add parsley and season to taste with salt and black pepper. Set aside.
Add shrimp to medium pot and cover with 3 cups cold water. Add remaining 1 tablespoon salt with remaining 1 tablespoon lime juice. Place over medium-high heat and heat until water is barely steaming and registers 170°F on an instant-read thermometer; adjust heat to maintain this temperature for remainder of cooking. Cook shrimp until pink and firm to the touch, about 7 minutes total. Drain carefully, rinse under cold running water, and spin dry in salad spinner. Add shrimp to bowl with sauce and toss to combine. Serve immediately with crackers and extra limes for squeezing.
For best results, use small, raw, shell-on shrimp and peel yourself (shelled shrimp tend to be a little mangled). Avoid par-cooked shrimp, as they will not absorb flavor properly. Traditional Colombian-style coctel is made with straight up mayo, ketchup, and hot sauce. I like adding some extra-virgin olive oil for extra flavor.

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AMD today announced a new way to help consumers select the PC that best meets their needs. Working with retailers and PC manufactures, VISION Technology from AMD breaks the model in how PC benefits are communicated. Rather than the traditional model, which focuses on the technical specifications of individual hardware components, VISION communicates the value of the whole system and demonstrates the combined processing power of both the CPU and GPU to deliver a superior visual experience to mainstream PC users. It emphasizes how an AMD-based PC is optimized for video, digital media and content creation activities. VISION guides the industry past the era of CPU-centric marketing and describes the PC capabilities in terms of what can be enjoyed on the system – see, share, create. This helps consumers to make better informed buying decisions.
Notebook PCs with VISION Technology from AMD are expected to be widely available on retail shelves and online during the holiday buying season timed to the release of the Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft®. Complementing VISION, Windows 7 supports DirectX 10, Direct X10.1, and Direct X11 for richer 3D detail on games and other media apps, and a Unified Video Decoder to free up the CPU so that users can have a superior visual and more responsive computing experience while converting video for use on hand held devices. This last activity is greatly simplified and much more rapid with the new Drag and Drop feature of Windows 7.
AMD’s 2009 notebook platforms, also announced today, serve as the first proof points for VISION Technology. Mainstream OEM notebooks offered with VISION have next-generation HD graphics technology for rich, vivid HD and Blu-ray video playback, life-like 3D games, brilliant, clear photos, and multi-tasking power for editing photos, music and videos.
For consumers seeking rich PC experiences in a very thin and stylish notebook, innovative ultrathin OEM notebooks with VISION are designed to deliver highly responsive, balanced performance and a superior visual experience at accessible price points. VISION technology contains three levels of increasingly rich PC system capabilities: VISION Basic, VISION Premium, and VISION Ultimate to reflect the different usage patterns of PC consumers: from digital consumption to content creation.
In the first quarter of 2010, AMD plans to introduce a fourth level, VISION Black, to enable the highest end capabilities sought by enthusiasts, primarily on desktop PCs. Descriptions of the types of activities available at each level will be available in-store and online, so that buyers can align their needs and make the right choice for their preferred experience.
Completing the VISION Technology from AMD announcement, AMD launches the new Fusion Media Explorer software utility and the Fusion Utility for Mobility.
An Auto DJ for queuing up music files, and much more.
Fusion Utility for Mobility is a software utility that turns off background processes to enable longer battery life while on the go. Both applications are available for download here.
It really depends on the chip and the platform you are talking about. This particular post is a few years old and AMD has update their chips several times since. The standard edition Vision CPU and some of AMDs new low end chips weren't and aren't meant for heavy multitasking.

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The note below is a perspective piece on biometrics. On March 11th I traveled down to the Philippines, and had a chance to experience the possible convenience of biometric based identification.
On the evening of March 11th I found myself on a plane destined to the Philippines for a week long joint privacy and ICT development conference in Bohol. After a 14 hour journey I landed in Manila, and was welcomed by the hot tropical weather, so familiar to the Philippines. Hungry I quickly dropped my checked bag at the hotel, and taking my backpack, set out immediately to explore Filipino food culture. Over a dinner of rice and grilled chicken, the standard local cuisine every tourists nightmare came true for me. I was robbed. While eating a group of men made a commotion around me and snatched my bag. Much to my distress the thief was able to get away with not only money and my camera, but my entire wallet consisting of my passport, Indian visa, Canadian visa, health card, FRO paper, and debit cards. In a nutshell – the wallet had every document essential and of value to my life. Little does the thief know, but his one snatching act has made me reconsider many aspects of my life, including my position on biometric forms of identification.
For the past several months I have been researching biometric forms of identification in response to the UID scheme that is being proposed in India. My stance on biometrics in my research has always been neutral – trying to draw out both the pro’s and the con’s of using biometrics. Personally though, I had always swayed away from the idea of my biometric being the strongest form of identification. The possibility that my daily motions could be easily tracked through the constant use of my finger print for transactions never settled well with me. Potential convergence of databases, unreliable technology, the possibility of stolen fingerprints, no choice to use other forms of identification have all been concerns that swayed me to the less optimistic side of the debate. But after jumping over hurdle after hurdle that came along with trying to replace the lost paper documents, and sweating at night thinking of all the possible ways the thief could exploit my papers, I am more privy to the idea of biometrics as a strong form of identification.
The process of recovering my documents started off with a police report and the cancelling of my cards. The second task was not as easy as I had hoped, as I had not brought photocopies of my cards. Thus, it took me three hours to actually cancel my cards. Throughout the whole process I kept thinking that if my account was only accessible through my fingerprint – I would not have to worry about closing the accounts. Or if I could have identified, verified, and cancelled my account with the use of a cell phone equipped with a fingerprint reader, I would not have had the stress of rushing around trying to find adequate information to cancel my bank account.
The next step in the process started early Monday morning when I set out to the American Embassy. Luckily the hotel had taken a copy of my American passport (I did not have a photocopy of this either). With the copy of the passport, police report, and my social security number – the American embassy was able to pull up my information, and issue me an emergency passport that would be valid for three months. If I had not had a copy of my passport – the process of getting an emergency passport I can only imagine would have been even more challenging. As I sat for hours in the embassy my mind wandered to the thief and the known market for American passports. I could not help but think about how much more secure my passport would be if verification was based on my fingerprints accompanied by a passport, rather than just my passport and a picture. Speaking with the embassy officer confirmed my thoughts. He talked about how fake American passports are becoming harder and harder to use now that the biometric has been introduced. In this situation the biometric would be a form of convenience and security – a way of lowering the risks of my stolen passport from being misused and my identity from being taken advantage of.
On Tuesday morning I took on the challenge of the Indian embassy. I officially came to India 8 months ago on an employment visa. When I explained my situation to the embassy I hit my first road block of the day. By rule, all matters relating to employment visa’s must be handled by and at the place of issuance. Country databases do not talk between eachother – thus the Indian embassy in the Philippines could not contact the Indian embassy in the States or in India to verify my information. Therefore, for my employment visa to be replaced I would need to return to New York and speak with the embassy there. This was not an option. Speaking again with the officer, he finally suggested a tourist visa. Typically tourist visa’s are not issued on 3 months passports (my emergency passport was only three months), but the officer made an exception and agreed to issue a tourist visa. When I went to pay for my tourist visa I hit my second road block of the day. I was lucky and had kept one credit card in another bag, but as it turns out, the Indian embassy only accepted cash. The day was almost over and I needed to pay for my application for it to be processed. The officer had already made an additional exception, and had agreed to process my visa in three days (when my return flight to India was scheduled) rather than the typical six working days. Trying to think on my feet I sped to the nearest mall and tried to take money out of an ATM. No luck. I tried to get cash back on a grocery store purchase. No luck. I tried to western union myself money from my VISA. No luck. Finally I was able to get through to a friend of my boss who could loan me the cash, but not until the next morning. So, I rushed back to the embassy and begged with the officer to process my visa in two days rather than one. Thankfully he agreed. Riding the local metro back to my hotel I thought again about how convenient it would have been to have my credit accessible through my fingerprint, and not have to rely on a card.
This experience, and the many hurdles that I needed to jump in order to replace my lost papers made me realize that one side of the biometric debate that is often glazed over with talk of security and privacy, is that of convenience. It would have been incredibly convenient if on my initial visit to the American Embassy they had been able to pull up my entire file, re-issue me my lost passport and visas, and accepted payment through credit accessed through my fingerprint and a pin. Though I am still aware of the risks associated with biometrics as a form of identity, this experience has shown me the positive side and convenience of having a biometric identification rather than paper forms of identification.
Identification involves a comparison of one biometric against all collected biometrics in one central database. Authentication involves a comparison of a live biometric against a stored template. Thus , the central database should not be accessed for both authentication and identification processes . Placing a biometric on a smart card puts the control of access for authentication in the hands of the data subject .
A biometric should be encrypted whenever it is used. A biometric should be encrypted to this degree that it is not possible to reconstruct the biometric data. After an encrypted version of the biometric is made, the original biometric should be deleted .
A fingerprint scan should not, and cannot be used alone to identify an individual .
Strict control on access regarding third parties should be enforced. To bolster this point, a warrant or court order should be required for access by external agencies.
Transactional information about a person should be stored separately from personal identifiers such as name or date of birth .
All procedural and technical safeguards that are established should be placed in a legislation to give them the force of the law.
Though there is no way to make a biometric perfectly safe, these standards, if enforced, I believe work to ensure that a biometric is as secure as possible. In India biometrics has become a controversial topic as the country is currently considering/has begun to implement the UID – an identity scheme based off of biometrics. Concerns with the project include the centralized storage of biometric information, the possibility of tracking individuals through the use of their biometric, and the unreliability of the technology. For example in an article found in Money Life, test results from the UID project showed the possibility of up to 15,000 false positives for every Indian resident . Biometrics have been used in India even before the UID scheme. In 2009 schools proposed to use biometrics as a way of marking attendance for both the students and the teachers in order to decrease the dropout rate and insure that teachers are present in school  . Also in 2009 fishermen in the coastal village of Awas were issued the biometric based multi-purpose National Identity Card . The MNIC scheme was later dropped. Clearly India is in a position where she must think about the convenience of biometrics weighed against the privacy risks, and determine how biometric use in India should be secured in order to find a balance between the two.

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There are so many places in the Dubai where you can buy residential properties. But when it comes to the MBR city, all of the people want to get properties there for residence. So here we are with the project called District One MBR. This project is launched through the Meydan Sobha. The Dubai off plan project gives you apartments or villas with customized number of bedrooms. Which means you can have the single room or 3 room apartments situated in Mid-rise towers. Here we are going to let you know that what amenities you’re going to get there and the way you can have a lot of more facilities there in the community. There are 4 to 16 storeys within the buildings. You can choose any of the floor for your house. Let us tell you just how the District one MBR is really a gated community where you’re going to get contemporary styling. It is situated on the world’s largest crystal lagoon that’s 7 km long. How old they are alongside the 14 km shoreline. District one MBR City has so many top hotels and malls near to it. They have 600 acres of dedicated green spaces. These villas will be provided to the owners in fourth quarter of 2019.
Once we have said that these District one Villas are close to so many great places. You can see that the District one apartments are nearby to the Al khali road. That is just 9 minutes out of the project. Meydan One mall is 14 minutes drive distance far from district one. Similarly, Dubai International Airport is 21 minutes and Burj Khalifa and Dubai mall is just 14 minutes from the district one community. Other than this you’ll also realize that the District one community is close to Meydan hotel and Meydan One mall. It’s location is rendering it better than some other community.
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Before the holiday, I ordered some new blinds and curtains for Ellie's room. I went with Just Blinds.com and was able to order custom blinds at a great price and delivered in less than 10 days. It only took be about 30 minutes to install both windows. I was really happy with then and ordered blinds for our room too.
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A computer by definition is an electronic device that is capable of accepting data, processing this data using a set of instructions to produce visible out put such that could be printed out. Not quite long ago, experts discovered how this phenomenal device can be used effectively in solving financial, practical, mathematical, economical, scientific and social problems among many other complex problems confronting the world today. Because of the wild-range of computer application and usage in this fast growing and highly civilized world, there is a great need to not only know how computers work but to become the grand Master of computers.
The future of computer experts all over the world is quite bright and promising thereby making computer knowledge highly necessary for almost everyone. Many Companies are no longer willing to employ just any body. Even security men today must not lack computer knowledge as they may not be able to manage modern security gadgets that are computerized for proper security of the personnel, products and assets of the companies in question.
It is interesting to know that governments of many countries are fighting computer illiteracy with their every fleeting breathe by ensuring that all their citizens are ‘computer masters’ through the introduction of various computer training schemes. This is because computer revolution has brought great transformation to the entire world especially technologically. For instance, when you want to know what is happening in India, America, china, Japan or any part of the world, simply hit your web browser and engage the search engines like Google and wait for results. Sooner than you expect, you are connected to the entire world with your first hand information readily displayed in your web browser.
Have you ever imagined what the entire world will become technologically in the next ten years if what we presently have constitutes just about 4.9% of the total expectation of what is to come? What will be your answer to this humble question following? Where will you be, what will you be doing when this world finally depends on computers to eat, pay bills, travel, make friends, do business, make payments, pass judgments, secure property, control events, preach the gospel, broad cast news, drive home from the town, diagnose and treat the sick or diseased?
This is not a condition for a ‘peace treaty’ or dialogue but a wake up call to a total surrender and submission to learning and mastering computer operation. Listen to me friend, you will be obsolete, outdated, antiquated and washed out if you dare to remain a computer illiterate as you are right now. Are you already unaware of how to become a computer Master? Who looks up to for solutions to their computer problems and how do you handle them? You don’t even know how to boot your computer, or may be able to boot a system but can’t differentiate between warm and cold booting. Friend; you need to do something now!
You must have a computer or at least have access to one as this will give you the freedom of practice any time you wish to do so. Learn one application at a time instead of combining many applications like Corel-Draw with Microsoft Word as doing so may leave you more frustrated and confused. Let me candidly advice you today please, enroll into a very good computer training program to save your self from the shackles of feeling lonely and dissatisfied having a computer but without the relevant operation skills. Read relevant e-Books and other relevant materials on computer training as often as you can. Practice any newly acquired operational skills till they permanently become a part of you. Seek for mentor-ship and ask questions where you do not understand. Finally, know that you are a potential computer master, so spend quality time with your computer daily.
Michael S. Justice is a young Online and Offline entrepreneur with relevant skills and vast knowledge on how to make it in this IT and computer Dependent world and take great business decisions for high profitability. He is the Manager of Sunshine Intercontinental Ventures Ltd, a leading company in the provision of general Car and Tyre security via Car Tracking and Tyre Sealant, a sure protection from all kinds of Car snatching and theft, punctures, gunshots, bullets, nails and more. He is currently the Director of Computer Trainings at Sunshine Intercontinental Computer Academy (SiCA), a leading Computer Training Institute in Adamawa State, Nigeria.


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I could tell you about my first time to Tallahassee as a lobbist, the eye-opening experience, the stimulation of being in the vortex of Florida government. But, that has already been well discribed in other volunteer's writings.
Instead? As we were debriefing, some discussion centered around volunteerism and getting the middle ground motivated. As I listened and participated, I wondered if during the Civil Rights movement there were problems of getting the masses motivated. I also wondered as stories were shared of how hostile and rude some of our representatives have been, if decorum is always the answer. This lead to thoughts of civil rights leaders. In particular, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Was one of these strong leaders more of a tipping point than the other, or were both ends of the spectrum needed to find the middle?
These thoughts have lead me to ask, would any one out there who was in the battle field during the Civil Rights movement be willing to give their input on these questions and maybe give us some idea of how to motivate the middle ground?


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The growth in courses available on the web has led to a growth in paid services that will impersonate students and do their work for them.
When I was in high school, I cheated pretty regularly. And I mean all the time. I remember writing chemistry formulas on small bits of paper that I then sealed to the bottom of my dress shoes with transparent tape. When I crossed my legs, the information I needed was literally in my lap.
That was before education went online. Cheating, it seems, has gone with it. Today, entrepreneurs and freelancers openly advertise services designed to help students cheat their online educations. These digital cheaters for hire will even assume students’ identities and take entire online classes in their place.
I reached out to one of these companies—the aptly named No Need to Study —asking, for the sake of journalism, if it could take an online English Literature class at Columbia University for me. I got an email response from someone on its customer-relations staff who told me that, not only could the company get a ringer to take my online class, it could also guarantee I’d earn a B or better. I was told the fee for such an arrangement was $1,225.15.
That extra fifteen cents made it seem official.
There’s no way to directly link the growth of online-education options to an increase in online cheating. But more online classes means more online students, which means more potential customers for cheating providers. According to the 2014 Online Learning Survey, roughly a third of all higher-education enrollments in the U.S. are now online—with almost 7 million students taking at least one online class. Other statistics put the number a bit lower, at a fourth of the overall student populations. Either way, that’s millions of potential customers for ambitious providers of cheating services.
If a goal of online education proponents is to convince the public and employers that an online education is as official and prestigious as a traditional one earned in brick-and-mortar and Ivy classrooms, it’s hard to imagine anything more damaging than identity-fraud schemes in which students literally pay for grades but do no work whatsoever. At least with a traditional degree, the assumption is the recipient actually went to class personally.
Even so, the growth in online-degree credibility is already happening as more and more colleges move classes and degree programs online. Arizona State University offers a complete bachelor’s degree in a variety of majors—entirely online. Others schools, such as SUNY Empire State, do too. At the University of Florida, students can take their underclass core classes—which account for about half their undergraduate degree requirements—virtually. And the University of Central Florida has been posting many of the lectures for its popular courses to the web so students can “attend” classes virtually, a reality that prompted one UCF student to tweet, “Thanks, UCF, for having lecture-capture courses so I don’t have to go to class ever.” These degrees are, in theory, credible, even if they were “earned” online.


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Imagery is one of the most important ways you can establish the look and feel of your brand and store with your Shopify theme, so it’s no wonder that it’s also a common area that store owners want to customize and tinker with. However, as we’ve discussed with both typography and color, there are some areas with imagery that can deliver much better returns on your time and energy.
Big or small? Centered or left side?
At the end of the day, the size and positioning of your logo isn’t going to have a huge impact on sales. Since many Shopify users are just starting out or only serve niche markets, brand recognition isn’t likely to have a huge impact; logos don’t need to be large or overbearing to be useful.
As long as your logo is clearly displayed, it’s likely to be effective in building and establishing brand awareness, while still ensuring that those already familiar with your brand know they are in the right place.
That said, make sure you have a well designed logo that’s also available in a high quality version so it’s easy to read and see in your Shopify theme. If you don’t have one, spend some money to have one designed or get some logo design tips from the many resources available online.
If you have a logo you’re happy with, but only have it in low resolution sizes, spend the money to have it traced.
When commissioning a logo design, consider that horizontal logos in a landscape orientation tend to work better in most Shopify themes — tall, round or square ones can often cause layout issues. If your current logo doesn’t seem to be fitting well in your layout, consider having a designer create an alternate version of the logo that will work better in a wider space.
Also check to see if your theme can accommodate logos in different places; for example the “word mark” or horizontal version of your logo may work best in the top menu area, but a symbol/icon or emblem version of it could look better in the footer or on mobile.
Many Shopify theme users think their product images are too big. And an equal number of store owners probably think their product images are too small.
The first thing to consider when it comes to your product images, is that most Shopify themes have ecommerce best practice in mind and use photo sizes that look good aesthetically, adhere to established design guidelines and make it easy for customers to view products.
In order for the shopper to feel confident making a purchase online without being able to physically handle the item, it’s often better to err on the side of bigger images rather than smaller, with more access to view details rather than less.
Instead of spending time adjusting the size of images on pages, which often requires extensive code modification, find ways to improve your product photography to not only make the best use of the space available to you but also make your products look their best.
Don’t forget that it’s often a good idea to show photos of your products in use, in addition to isolated or more staged studio shots.
Remember that your Shopify theme’s product photos are the digital equivalent of a person being able to pick up or try on your products — so spending time and energy on quality photography will ultimately pay off much more than worrying about the precise display size of the images.
If you don’t have high resolution photos, that’s also definitely worth an investment, especially if you use a Shopify theme with a product image zoom feature.
It’s tempting to promote all of your most exciting news and updates to visitors on your Shopify theme’s homepage, but adding more than a few slides to a rotating slideshow banner or carousel is not only time-consuming to produce and design, but also adds to page load time; most of your users are unlikely to be on the page long enough to see more than one or two slides anyway.
If your Shopify theme only supports a set number of slideshow banners, adding more can be a complex process.
Also keep in mind that since homepage slideshow images tend to be, by definition, very large, they can also have a profound effect on the load times of a particular page.
Instead of customizing a theme to accommodate more slideshow content, work within the confines of your theme and make everything that’s on the homepage “earn” the right to be there. Items on the homepage typically should be broadly focused and the most compelling you have to offer.
If you have info you want to promote or make sure gets seen, such as a new collection arrival or a flash sale, it’s best to put that announcement on a static image banner in a prominent place; if you typically have a slideshow in your topmost area of your home page, for example, consider turning off the slideshow effect by reducing it to the one slide only; this offers the best chances of it being seen by your shop visitors. It’s often best to think of a slideshow as a place for supplementary imagery rather than as a place to convey important information.
Spending time fussing with Photoshop or other image editing software to add your own text or "buttons" to a picture is usually an unnecessary exercise and time drain.
Since most themes will automatically scale down or crop image banners, slideshows and other pictures on mobile, this often renders any text that has been added directly to the image file quite tiny and hard to read.
If text has been "hard stamped" in place onto the image, it could also get cut off on smaller screen sizes or not appear in the spot you thought it would.
A well-designed theme will usually provide multiple options for adding and styling any text and action buttons on top of your banner and slideshow images, and possibly other images as well.
This will allow any text to remain as text, which not only renders legibly on different screen sizes (since the size of it can be controlled through the code) but it’s also much better for SEO, since that text will be searchable rather than embedded into an image file.


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In some cases doing things yourself is often the best way to yield quick results. Yet, when it comes time to handle situations like tax filing and debt, it’s often a good idea to bring in a third party that knows the tax laws and has successfully dealt with your special kind of tax case.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) might respond better to someone who has had experience dealing with various kinds of tax matters. Knowing what kinds of solutions to ask for can go fairly quickly than asking an IRS representative what can be done to help them.
While it’s true that IRS representatives are there to assist you, they can only do so much on their end. Bear in mind that they’re not working for you; they’re working for the United States government. Their job is to make sure that they are taking the necessary steps to ensure that taxpayers are paying their debt. They will do what they can to help you but to put it plainly, they’re not going to hold your hand or provide consultation services to you at any time of the day. The IRS is there for you Monday-Friday, 9 am to 4:30pm-and every other taxpayer in the country!
That’s a lot of people! In fact, when you consider that many people have to send in separate returns for every business they run, you can start to see that it’s theoretically possible that they’d be dealing with more forms than there are people in the USA. While it’s never gotten quite that bad yet, they do estimate that slightly over 151 million returns were processed last year alone.
No wonder you’re on hold waiting for a representative! It’s not uncommon to sit on hold for an hour with the IRS. Not everyone has the luxury of sitting on hold for that long, especially during the weekday. When you finally get a live operator, you may only have a few minutes to talk! As you might imagine, IRS agents are very often backlogged with tax files from dozens if not hundreds of people. They might not know what’s best for your particular situation even if they did have enough time to review your case on an individual basis.
Yet, when it comes to handling matters with the IRS, you have to make time and this may result in taking time away from your work priorities that could create a problem at your job. So, not only do you have an issue with the IRS, you now may have an issue at your workplace-the very place that’s helping you earn the money to pay the IRS. This conundrum can cause a great deal of stress. But think about it, if you had a professional tax relief expert with years of experience resolving working to resolve your tax issue, you wouldn’t have to worry about neglecting other priorities.
With the right professional to negotiate your case with the IRS, not only your tax debt but also the stress that came along with it will be eliminated. Since you won’t have to worry about doing things on the IRS’ time, any concerns about lost income will vanish just as easily.
Perhaps most importantly, professionals have the experience to navigate increasingly complicated IRS regulations. When you’re stressed, you’re more likely to make a serious mistake. Filing errors can be a huge problem when you’re doing your taxes normally.
When you’re trying to settle a debt, they can cause you to miss out on major money-saving opportunities that the IRS provides for taxpayers who are struggling to pay everything back. Working with the pros increases your odds of getting approved for one of these important relief schemes.
See for yourself what value a professional tax relief consultant can bring to your current tax issue. Success Tax Relief has two locations: one in Houston, TX. and another in Atlanta, GA., yet we have the resources to serve taxpayers throughout the entire country. Contact a Success Tax Relief representative today by asking us a question online.

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As some of you may know from following my escapades on this blog, I have been a big proponent of the Getting Things Done (GTD) and Mastering Your Now (MYN) as personal productivity systems. At one point, I was pretty good - and very productive - using these systems. A couple of years ago, however, I switched to the Mac and I lost a lot of momentum.
You see, I used to use Outlook as my "home base" for processing my inbox and managing tasks, and I relied heavily on ClearContext for managing my mail volume. On the Mac, Entourage, OS X Mail, and Outlook don't even come close to the power of Outlook on Windows. To make matters worse, Outlook on the Mac is not extensible so there is no way to do anything like ClearContext on the Mac.
I tried OmniFocus and a number of other tools, but never could find one that became a habit, so they all fell by the wayside (usually after a couple of days).
I found a personal productivity system I like on the Mac!
I have good news - I've found a personal productivity approach that is a) familiar, b) works well on the Mac, c) has a mobile approach that works. This one comes from my old friend Michael Linenberger (creator of the Mastering Your Now (MYN) system - that's him in the video freeze frame). A few weeks ago, I found out Michael had created an online offering for Master Your Now ToodleDo Video Training. He has done a lot of work to apply his MYN system to a pretty powerful cloud-based task management service called "ToodleDo."
It fits well with inbox processing, as I can send emails to ToodleDo to automatically add them as tasks on my list. There are also some intuitive "commands" you can add to your subject line to adjust the priority, start date, and more on the task right from your email (I'm using OS X Mail).
I'd used ToodleDo in the past, but it didn't flow well for me. Now, Michael Linenberger has collaborated with ToodleDo and has implemented a quick setup method that optimized the settings to support MYN. That made a huge difference by reducing clutter in the UI and making it simple for me to understand and use. There are also instructions in the course on how to configure your mobile client to work in this new way with ToodleDo (the mobile instructions are manual, but short and easy to follow).
With this setup in place, all your sorting, columns, default values, and so forth are set up as they need to be to make MYN easy with ToodleDo.
Why do I like MYN?
MYN is very similar to GTD, but I find it to be a bit more prescriptive - just enough to make it work better for me. The philosophy with GTD is "Do what you need to do for the system to work for you" which doesn't alway work as well for a distraction-prone guy like me. GTD also relies heavily on "Contexts" to drive what you do - do the thing that matches the place you are. I had a tough time with contexts, and never felt effective in that aspect of GTD.
In contrast, MYN is more of a "Do it this way" kind of system, which is what I need when it comes to time management.
For example, MYN cares a lot about when you want to do things, and less about where you want to do them. The diagram on the right illustrates what I think of as the "MYN Zones" for when you want to get things done. The Critical Now tasks are ones that must be done today (they are the "If I don't' get these done I've gotta stay late" tasks). The Opportunity Now tasks are ones you'd like to get done within the next 10 days. The Over the Horizon tasks are analogous to the "Someday Maybe" list in GTD - you want to get them done someday, but if they don't get done it's not the end of the world.
Within these "MYN Zones" it gets even more structured - you should have no more than 5 Critical Now tasks on any given day, and no more than 20 Opportunity Now tasks. Everything else should be in the Over the Horizon bucket, which can be as big as you want it to be.
I find this budgeting method to be a great forcing function as a safety valve against over-committing (that's a big problem I tend to have).
After years of frustration I've found a personal productivity scheme on the Mac that I can actually use and stick with.
I am a big fan of Michael Linenberger's Master Your Now ToodleDo Video Training.
Using ToodleDo with the Master Your Now ToodleDo Video Training is really powerful.
This method will work very well for those of us not using Outlook, and/or not using Windows.
The ability to use this consistently on my desktop, from a web browser, and on my iPhone is very powerful.
Would love your feedback and war stories regarding productivity on the Mac - particularly if you're a distractible type like I am.


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1) Professional: We have been in this industry for over 15 years. We know this industry thoroughly, we know the market and we understand what our customers need; 2) R&D Team: We have 5 R&D employees who have graduate degrees. They possess rich experience Founded in 2002, Hefei Huayang Construction Machinery Co.,Ltd is located in the cultural and historical city - Hefei, Anhui Province, China. After more than 10 years of development, our company has developed into a full line of equipment manufacturer with fully integrated design, products development, manufacturing and distribution capabilities for both domestic and export markets.
We possess our own proprietary intellectual righted "LULAIRUIDE" road maintenance equipments. We adopt methods of serialization, standardization and modularization during our manufacturing process. Besides, we integrate advanced design concepts with actual needs of the customers. At the meantime, we gather customers' suggestions and improve our products continuously, to keep standing at the leading edge of this industry's technology development scope. We continuously stick the rules to provide our customers with professional, timely and considerate after-sales services.


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clables and Manitoba Product Stewardship Funding. Governing Board is by appointment of the various entities involved and it is administrated by EricksonlClanwilliam Municipal staff. The depot is supervised by Erickson town employees and summer staff.
It is difficult to appreciate the development of South Side Outfitters unless one looks at the history of our farm over the last 50 years, 1950-2000.
The first 35 years we provided free hunting, guiding and many weeks of free board and room to our many relatives and friends from all parts of Manitoba, mainly hunting elk. Rudy started big game hunting (deer-elk) in 1949 and was farming full time in 1951.
In 1952, the first quarter (SW 33-18-17) near the park was purchased from the R.M. of Clanwilliam for $25.00, including transfer of title of$8.00. There were 32 quarters the R. M. had for sale to any purchaser that year for a flat price of $25.00 per quarter. Taxes on SW 33 were $55.00/year and the last time the R.M. had collected taxes on that quarter was in 1920. In 1953 the R.M. put the sale of tax lands up to $100, later to $150 per quarter and the last were sold at $300 each. Eight quarters were purchased from the R.M. and seven were purchased privately between 1952-1960. At the time, and some even tually later, came eight quarters of crown land leased for cattle pasture.
This block of land adjacent to the park for six miles formed the basis of 11 separately fenced cattle pastures ranging from one quarter to four quarters each. Section 31 was reserved for hay/grain farming and only 300 acres was developed in total on all the lands including sown pastures. These lands also carry abundant wildlife like black bears, whitetail deer, elk, moose and even timber wolves.
We hunted elk from 1949 on and they were in record numbers, till the disastrous winter of 1959-60 when 42 inches of snow fell on October 6-8, 1959 and lasted till May I, 1960. By spring, the most optimistic estimate otRMNP elk was 1500 whereas the pessimistic estimate was that only 500 survived. Seasons were closed for 9 years until 1968 when elk numbers reached 2500 again. The surprise increase in moose occurred from minimal numbers before 1959 to reach 2268 in 1969, resulting in the first moose season, which opened in 1970 around the park (RMNP). Subsequent seasons included both elk and moose. Bag limit this year, 2000, is for one elk or one moose (bull, cow or calf) in archery, landowner and all three rifle seasons.
Black bear were not hunted on our farm till 1979 when a late spring resulted in bears killing 5 cows and 15 calves.
In 1980, on NW 33-18-17, a hunter from Winnipeg shot an eight foot brown bear (male boar) on April 25, 1980, weighing over 600 lbs. This was probably the killer bear on cattle the year before. Between 1980-1999, some 223 bear have been harvested by hunters on our north farm and we have more bear than ever.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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You may roll your eyes at the, painfully, alliterative title but I was really proud of that when I thought it up at stupid o’clock last night. After close to a decade of blogging in some form or another it gets hard to come up with these things!
As you might have guessed we’re here today today to talk about my Monday night hair ritual. You’ve heard of Skincare Sunday, well this Monday Mane-tenance. Every week - pretty much - I give my hair a loving boost with some form of deep treatment. My current favourite combo - in an effort to try and keep my colour between hairdresser appointments - is the Clairol Colour Booster in copper and the infamous £1 Argan Oil hair mask available from Poundland.


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Identity for a Hungarian animation studio. CUB is a group of young people dealing with animation.
Their goal is to help the new generation in Hungary. The combination of stencil the word CUB representing dynamic, fresh power is based on and the tools just used is always form a unique logo. The types of logo’s lines may be changed to different kinds of line qualities using the members’ strokes of the brush or pen. This way it includes that kind of sketch feeling and manuality that is the base of every animation.
Identity for a Hungarian animation studio.


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Sunday started out pouring buckets, I had trouble staying dry during my morning walk. Eventually the sun came out and it was a great day. I managed to give three tours and I kept everyone dry.
During one of the tours I was asked about compartment labels. The label above is an example. It's on the main deck, port side and it's between the 1st (Quarter Deck) and 2nd (Galley) tour stops.
81 is the frame number. Frame are vertical beams that extend from the keel. Hull plates are attached to frames. The SLATER has about 170fFrames. The lightly colored purple lines on the center of the USS SLATER Main Deck Plan are the frame numbers.
2 indicates that the door is on the port side (left side).
The 2nd line of the label is a description of the space "Muffler Room". If you look on the USS SLATER Main Deck Plan you can see that there are four Mufflers (one for each main engine). The door in question is right before Muffler #4.
The 3rd line of the label is the number of the compartment (compartment is a navy word for room): B-103E.
B - represents the section of the ship. A sections are before main machinery spaces; B sections are over main machinery spaces; C sections are aft of main machinery spaces. This is fairly clear when you look at the USS SLATER 1st Platform Deck Plan).
103 is the compartment number. The one in the 103 indicates a compartment on the main deck. A 203 would indicate a compartment one deck down (2nd platform) and a 0203 would indicate a compartment one deck up from the main deck (referred to as the 01 level).
The final letter - E represents the usage of the compartment. E represents an Engineering compartment (contains machinery). A complete description of these codes are contained in the Navy Publication: Nomenclature of Naval Ships, February 1942. This letter has important significance for damage control parties. For example special attention was given to fire suppression near in a compartment with a F or M designation (F is for fuel, M is for magazine, explosive storage).
In 1949 the Navy changed the numbering system, but when the USS SLATER was built the 1942 Nomenclature was used (reference - Nomenclature of Naval Ships, February 1942). Today a different and more comprehensive system is used (example contained in 3M Company Compartment Damage Control Marking Guide).
If you are a veteran and a tour guide, you have priority on whether  you take a group, or pass it on to an intern.
The role of interns is to fill in when the veteran tour guides are  all busy, or when vets prefer to pass it on.
If you would like to move to another day for tour guiding, that is  fine, but please know that the "original crew" of any given day has top  priority for their day, followed by interns.
In my opinion this is a very welcome change! As a veteran (4 years active and 4 years reserve) and a Volunteer Tour Guide (over 10 years, since 2000), I get a little disheartened when I am sitting on the bench waiting for a tour. One of the main reasons that I typically come on a Sunday is that it's a fairly busy day.

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The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote revealed that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery will generate $11 billion per annum.
Dangote said the refinery will meet 100 percent daily Nigerian consumption of all refined products. He also noted that there will be surplus for export.
According to Africa’s richest man, the refinery and petrochemical projects include: world second largest Urea plant with capacity to produce three million tons per annum; the largest sub-sea pipeline infrastructure in any country in the world, 1100 km, to handle three billion standard cubic feet of gas per day; world scale gas treatment stations; world-class petrochemical complex; 480MW power plant and 500 KPTA polyethylene plant.
Dangote noted that the project, which will be the largest single train refinery in the world upon completion, will create no fewer than 100,000 indirect jobs, 26,716 filling stations and 129 depots in Nigeria. The ongoing construction of the project has encouraged the employment of 1,500 direct labour, 100,000 contractors on site and 10,000 service providers.
The project is expected to commence in April 2020 and will create ease of product availability and 26,000 trucks for transport.
Dangote said “the projects will make Nigerian become the largest exporter of petrochemicals and biggest exporters of refined petroleum products in Africa. Our gas pipeline project will transport 3 billion standard cubit feet per day of gas. I hope and pray that other Nigerians will join us in developing the country”.
It was reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria would provide funds worth 75 billion naira for the Dangote Refinery. The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele also noted that Dangote has already invested about 50 percent of the $9 billion dollars needed to complete the project. The remaining 50 percent is expected to be sourced as loans from both local and foreign lenders.
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To say that Adidas is a huge company is an understatement. The German company is the second largest sportswear manufacturer in the world, just behind Nike. Why is that important to cycling eyewear? It allows research and innovation from other sport markets and gives Adidas the capital to make some very impressive products, like the Evil Eye Evo sunglasses.
These are unique sunglasses in that they provide a distinct visual boost combined with high levels of protection. If your riding takes you through overgrown, bushy trails or dirt and dust are common annoyances, the Evil Eyes provide a layer of protection that bridges the gap between regular sunglasses and full-on goggles.

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Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos will have to wait until the summer to decide his future. While his current contract with Tampa is set to expire at the end of the 2015-16 season, Stamkos’s potential departure was delayed after general manager Steve Yzerman confirmed his captain would not be traded at the deadline.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are the current favorites to land Stamkos, arguably the most desirable pending unrestricted free agent. The temptation is high for the Ontario native, since there is a strong possibility he could assume team captaincy with Dion Phaneuf’s departure to Ottawa.
Currently, there is still hope for Tampa Bay to lock up their captain long-term. Tampa was a legitimate Stanley Cup contender last season and with the imminent trade of Jonathan Drouin, there is more importance in attempts to retain their franchise player.
It’s no secret that the Lightning will have to splash the big bucks to keep Stamkos in Tampa. There is also no doubt that Stamkos has earned himself a contract of US$10 million per season for the next little while. In terms of contract length, he could be looking at between six and 10 years – possibly even a lifetime deal.
Countless examples have seen NHL superstars sign contracts that keep them in a franchise until their 40s. Stamkos’s pedigree surely places him within this group of players.
However, Yzerman shouldn’t be duped into taking the severe risk that has become a curse with many of the star players in recent years who are locked up long-term. Truth be told, any contract length that surpasses the 10-year mark has proven to be poisonous to NHL teams working against the salary cap.
The Bolts don’t have to look far for an example of a long-term contract failing. Lightning management locked up former captain Vincent Lecavalier in 2008 to an 11-year, US$85-million contract. Despite his superstar status, Lecavalier’s struggles with injuries shortly thereafter forced the Lightning to buy out the remaining seven years of his contract. To this day, his buyout is considered the most expensive in NHL history.
Other examples of recent lifetime contracts for franchise skaters include Ilya Kovalchuk and Roberto Luongo. Kovalchuk retired from the NHL favouring a return to Russia in 2013, three years after signing a 17-year contract with New Jersey. Meanwhile, the Canucks traded Luongo five years into his 12-year contract after he could not replicate the form that brought Vancouver to the 2011 Stanley Cup final.
At the age of 25, Stamkos still has plenty of firepower left in his game. With the average NHLer reaching the pinnacle of their career in their late 20s, the most sensible option for Yzerman is to offer Stamkos an extension in the five-year region.
With such a contract, the Bolts will be able to experience the best years of their captain’s career.
Should Stamkos then request a trade – likely to Toronto – the Leafs would then have less of a problem fitting in a shorter-term contract against their salary cap.
The next big thing in Toronto?
If Stamkos is unwilling to listen to offers from the Lightning, Yzerman will be expected to take advantage of the 2016 NHL Draft before letting his captain go to free agency on July 1. From that point on, the former Ontario Hockey League standout is most likely destined for Toronto.
The hockey market in Ontario’s capital is much more demanding than that of Tampa, and adding a bona fide scorer like Stamkos will make Toronto certain contenders in the NHL.
In such a case, Stamkos would be the best franchise player in Toronto since Mats Sundin. The comparison to the Leafs legend is fair, however it pressures Stamkos into a situation where he would need to lead Toronto into the playoffs on a consistent basis – something the franchise has not accomplished since 2004.
Regardless of the competitiveness of a specific hockey market, Stamkos is expected to live up to his pedigree game after game. Yet, having spent his entire career in a relatively tame market in Tampa Bay, the 25-year-old will need to adjust to the challenge of representing a franchise that has not tasted from Lord Stanley’s mug in nearly 50 years.
The question, if the Stamkos saga escalates to a point of certain departure, is how the Maple Leafs would land Stamkos negotiation rights in case GM Lou Lamoriello wants to talk business before July 1. Yzerman is not afraid to pull the trigger on a superstar trade. If it involves a deal including Stamkos to Toronto, expect a few top skaters and prospects to head to Tampa.
A youthful return would surely compensate for the loss of a 60-goal scorer in 2011-12. With the delayed upcoming of defenseman Slater Koekkoek, the Lightning will be keen in including the 2012 10th overall pick along with Stamkos’s rights for defensive stalwarts Jake Gardiner or Morgan Rielly, along with two of Toronto’s top-rank prospects and high draft picks. After all, the Leafs have an impressive teenage trio in their system that consists of Kasperi Kapanen, William Nylander, and Mitch Marner.
If the destination isn’t Tampa Bay or Toronto, there are plenty of markets that suit what Stamkos puts to the table. These clubs include Boston, St. Louis, Anaheim, and both New York teams.
While these clubs may not be able to support a salary of Stamkos’s figures, allocating the cap space to fit the 2008 first overall pick would benefit them greatly. The Bruins, Blues, Ducks, Islanders, and Rangers already have stable defensive corps and consistent goaltending allowing them to prioritize any chances in their offensive units.
Stamkos would certainly add some scoring depth to take the pressure off John Tavares, Rick Nash, and Vladimir Tarasenko in New York and St. Louis. Not to mention combining with pure playmakers in a deadly powerplay unit.
In the cases of St. Louis and Anaheim, Stamkos would be a timely inheritance for aging leaders in both franchises such as Ryan Getzlaf or David Backes.
For the Bruins – possibly the best fit of any team – Stamkos would add legitimate primary scoring to a team with very distributive scoring amongst all four lines. Since losing franchise player Joe Thornton in 2005, Boston hasn’t had a defined point-producer. Despite winning the 2010-11 Stanley Cup, their trade of power forward Milan Lucic to Los Angeles last summer didn’t help in the goal-scoring department.
Centres David Krejci and Patrice Bergeron play versatile forward roles and would move to the wing in order to fit Stamkos into the lineup. Bergeron specifically would greatly benefit from playing a line with Stamkos, having played alongside Sidney Crosby at various stages of his junior career. The two were paired at the World Juniors and the last two Olympics – all gold medal triumphs.
Lastly, with the final chapter of Zdeno Chara’s NHL career coming to a close, the potential to wear the “C” for a historic franchise would get any NHL elite such as Stamkos excited to step into the spotlight.


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The Guam Fire Department will be reopening the Astumbo and Piti fire stations on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.
The Guam Fire Department will be reopening the Astumbo and Piti fire stations on Tuesday, according to a GFD press release.
The fire stations were temporarily shut down, since March 4, as a result of the GovGuam financial crisis.
GFD has continued to analyze daily operations and financial constraints to see if they could reopen the stations, according to a release from acting fire chief Daren Burrier.
"Given the dense population of Astumbo and the high concern for risk of grass fires in the Piti area, especially Turner Road, restoring response capabilities to these areas has been a priority of the fire department and Office of the Governor," Burrier said.
GFD will be able to reopen the Astumbo Fire Station with a fire engine capable of responding to medical and fire emergencies. The reopening is scheduled for 8 a.m. Tuesday, March 27.
"This has been made possible through the Governor’s fiscal realignment plan and the overtime savings of approximately $400,000 in unscheduled overtime since the closure of the stations," Burrier said.
The Piti station will also reopen on Tuesday, with the help of the Department of Agriculture, with a limited response capacity, Burrier said.
Due to current fiscal constraints, GFD is unable to reopen the Piti Fire Station with full response capabilities, according to Burrier.
However, GFD and Adelup are concerned about the increasing risk of grass fires in the area during the dry season, and have paired GFD and the Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division to work together and divide shifts at the Piti Fire Station.
"Wildland fire fighters are dedicated and trained specifically for these types of fires," Burrier said. "They diligently carry out their job with purpose of protecting property by mitigating wildland fires before they reach personal residences. This unit will be at Piti to provide a more immediate response to wildland fires, not to medical or other emergencies in the area."
The unit will be assigned daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m, during the peak hours of potential grass fires for a more immediate response.
Two personnel from the GFD Fire Prevention Bureau scheduled for nighttime inspections and responses to fire investigations will be assigned to Piti from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m., according to Burrier.
The unit will be available to assist with medical emergencies at the station while awaiting an ambulance.

industry_corpus2: Safety Management


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NFL rumors: Eagles re-sign Nate Sudfeld to restricted tender (UPDATE) | How does deal impact offseason program?
The Eagles will have three quarterbacks under contract to start their offseason program.
Fourth-year quarterback Nate Sudfeld has re-signed with the Eagles, according to ProFootballTalk. Sudfeld signed his one-year, $3.095 million restricted tender on Monday.
UPDATE: The Eagles have made the move official.
Sudfeld is likely to serve as the backup to starting quarterback Carson Wentz this season. He spent the last two seasons as the third quarterback on the depth chart behind Wentz and Nick Foles, who is now in Jacksonville. Despite his position on the depth chart, Sudfeld served as Foles’ backup for several games over the last two seasons following Wentz’s back-to-back season-ending injuries.
Sudfeld has appeared in three games over the last two seasons. He completed 20-of-25 passes for 156 passing yards and a touchdown during his limited regular season action.
The backup quarterback has had two years to learn behind Wentz and Foles, so he should be ready for a bigger role. He will compete with recently added Luis Perez for reps during the offseason program. Sudfeld enters that battle as the runaway favorite for the backup quarterback job.
Perez is coming off an eight-game stint with the Alliance of American Football’s Birmingham Iron. Perez will most likely serve as a developmental quarterback behind Wentz and Sudfeld.
With Sudfeld in the mix, the Eagles can spread out their passing reps during the offseason program. Wentz is recovering from a stress fracture in his back, so the Eagles may want to ease him into action. Sudfeld knows the offense and the majority of his offensive teammates really well. If Wentz needs to take some days or reps off, Sudfeld should be able to lead the huddle in practice.