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No two requirements are the same and our intruder alarms are tailored for your protection.
A cheaper alternative (for a one off cost) if you don't want the on-going expense of monitoring. When the intruder alarm is activated, up to 4 numbers of your choice are called (for example your mobile number, a caretaker etc.) until an answer is received, then a recorded alert message is left to inform you the alarm has been activated.
Sensors are placed on windows, doors and gates. These are then monitored by our remote monitoring station. When a sensor is activated our monitoring station is alerted, and the appropriate action is taken. Similar to sensors, we also use beam technology. When an intruder crosses the path of a beam an alert is raised so the appropriate action can be taken. Please call us on 01245 429200 for more information on our intruder and burglar alarm services, or to book a site visit.
We supply a range of monitored intruder alarms for schools, colleges, universities, local authorities, and healthcare settings. No two requirements are the same and our intruder alarms are tailored for your protection.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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The enemy of my enemy is a butterfly.
This is like a riddle...! What does that make your enemy? A cat? I'm confused!!!

industry_corpus2: Others


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We have managed to share the Official Micromax X085 Stock Firmware ROM (flash file) on this page. The Firmware Package contains Flash Tool, Driver, Flash File and Instructions manual to flash it.
Step 1: Download and extract the Micromax X085 Firmware Package on your computer.
Step 5: Then boot your Micromax X085 device into the download mode to begin the flashing process.

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United States senators have mobilised against president Trump's plan to allow ZTE to resume dealings with American companies.
The ban that brought the Chinese vendor to its knees was reversed by US president Donald Trump as a favour to Chinese president Xi Jinping.
Left out of that equation, however, is the position of US lawmakers, and they remain set against ZTE being let back in the tent.
A bipartisan group of US senators has put a renewed ban on both ZTE and Huawei into an amendment to the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.
The amendment will be voted on in the Senate this week, and if it passes, will need to be reconciled with the House version of the bill that passed in May.
The bipartisan anti-ZTE amendment was co-authored by Republican Tom Cotton, and Democrat Chris Van Hollen.
Cotton called ZTE a “repeat bad actor that should be put out of business”, adding: “I and obviously every other senator believes the death penalty is the appropriate punishment for their behaviour”.
Politico noted that the amendment spreads a wide net, with the outlet saying the language used “prohibits the federal government from doing business with ZTE or Huawei or other Chinese telecom companies”.


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(Kingston, PA, November 1, 2018) HKQ Law is pleased to announce that the Firm has been named to the 2019 US News and World Report and Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”. HKQ Law received a Metropolitan Tier 1 designation: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability - Plaintiffs, and Workers’ Compensation – Claimants; and a Metropolitan Tier 2 designation, Employment Law – Management. Metropolitan Tier 1 and 2 include Northeastern Pennsylvania and Allentown Lehigh Valley.
Firms included in the 2019 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise. “For more than 30 years, U.S. News has ranked a wide range of institutions,” says Tim Smart, executive editor of U.S. News & World Report. “Law firms are an integral part of our rankings and complement our law school rankings.” To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the United States. Over 21,000 attorneys provided almost 700,000 law firm assessments, and over 8,000 clients provided more than 47,000 evaluations. “We are proud that we have undertaken this challenging and important task so diligently and with such care that the legal profession has come to view our tens of thousands of rankings each year with widespread respect,” says Steven Naifeh, CEO and co-founder of Best Lawyers.
Receiving a tier designation reflects the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for its abilities, its professionalism and its integrity. The 2019 “Best Law Firms” rankings can be seen in their entirety by visiting bestlawfirms.usnews.com.

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This paper was an investigation into children's perception of choice whilst playing at home, in the school playground and the out of school club. Children recorded their own levels of choice using a diary and the findings are discussed in relation to theory, policy and professional practice.
Understanding Children's Free Play at Home, in School and at the After School Club: A preliminary investigation into play types and perceived control presented at the British Psychological Society Education Section conference Transitions in Education, Preston.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Aaa diamond rating --star rating - 4 stars-mobil rating - stars.
Good Companions Hotel Former Club House Hotel, remodelled by Tooth & Co. in 1957.
Longyard Hotel Hotel established in 1985.

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text: On August 25 together with Rudeep Rajthala we paid a visit to the Ananda Bhumi School in Kathmandu. We have had collaboration with this school since the times of UCP-SARnet and the purpose of this visit was to discuss whether the school would be interested in becoming one of the schools participating in our Smart Schools for Sustainable Smart Cities. Ms. S. Shah, the Principal of the school agreed on further collaboration so we are looking forward to the next step in creating our project together.


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It’s been well-established that in controlled tests—that is, on closed courses and driving simulators—that texting impairs driving ability to the same extent as alcohol. But what hasn’t been known is the extent that young adults drive while smart-phoning.
So researchers at Harvard Medical School and The Massachusetts Ear and Eye Infirmary set out to find out. They called the tool they built to study this the Distracted Driving Survey (DDS) and score. The recent article, “Texting while driving, the development and validation of the distracted driving survey and risk score among young adults,” by Regan W. Bergmark, Emily Gliklich, Rong Guo, and Richard E. Gliklich published in Injury Epidemiology details how they developed a self-administered survey, and the results they got from young adults in the 18-24 age bracket.
The survey they developed has 11 questions and takes 2-4 minutes to complete. They administered the survey to young drivers from the greater Boston metro area, and from the Western and Eastern U.S. They used these responses to develop a statistical scoring system. As they write, “The DDS is intended to be used to assess behavior patterns and risk and to evaluate the impact of public health interventions aimed at reducing texting and other cell phone-related distracted driving behaviors.” They intend this tool to be used to gather more data, the analysis of which they hope can point the way towards effective anti-distraction interventions.
Hi, you have given the best article about texting while driving technology and also in a right way thanks for posting such useful article, thanks a lot.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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by the staff of VideoGames & Computer Entertainment Magazine.
,” which ran for four volumes, plus a “Best of” edition.
Each of these books was fun to flip through, and in some ways crucial for those wanting to more thoroughly experience certain games, offering such tidbits as data, tips, tricks, strategies, reviews, and/or game storylines.
Nowadays, with the prevalence of the Internet, these types of books, while fun to collect, are less important to own for NES fans as you can find similar information online. As such, anyone wanting to write a book about the NES would do wise to produce a tome that provides a different experience than what you can find on your computer.
With The Complete NES: Officially Licensed USReleases, Jeffrey Wittenhagen has done just that. He’s published a large, durable, hardcover, coffee-table style book that is essentially a fancy checklist for collecting NES carts, boxes, and manuals.
, the book begins with the “number title” games (10-Yard Fight, 8 eyes, etc.) and continues alphabetically, listing 677 games in order. Each page features three games, and each game title is accompanied by release year, developer, and publisher, plus a full-color screenshot and box scan. The scans can appear slightly fuzzy, betraying the self-published nature of the project, but it’s a nice looking book overall.
Each game listing also has a convenient trio of squares for checking off the cart, box, and manual that you own. There are no cartridge or manual scans, and no genre or programmer info, but these are not deal-breaking omissions.
What may be a deal-breaker for some is the text, which weighs in at around three to four sentences per game. While a single paragraph isn’t enough to describe and review a game thoroughly, it should be enough to give you a general idea of what the game is about. In too many instances, this is not the case with this book.
Aliens have arrived on Earth and they definitely don’t come in peace. It’s your job, as Bill or Lance, to have them leaving in pieces. Through thick humid jungles, frigid mountainsides and slimy caves, the alien horde will confront you every step of the way. The fate of the entire human race is in your hands!
is a side-scrolling platform shooter, much less understand its place in history.
Overall, The Complete NES: Officially Licensed US Releases is a nifty addition to anyone’s game room library, and it makes for one hell of a checklist, but don’t expect much in-depth or insightful text.

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To make Microsoft® Office® applications available to Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET developers, Microsoft has created several primary interop assemblies (PIAs) that contain the official description of commonly-used Microsoft Office type libaries for applications such as Microsoft Access®, Microsoft Powerpoint®, Microsoft Excel®, Microsoft Word®, and so on. This group of PIAs is known as the Office XP Primary Interop Assemblies.
Microsoft has customized the Office PIAs to make them easier for managed code to interoperate with the Office COM type libraries. Avoid using any Office COM interop assembly that is not provided as part of the Office PIAs, or any Office COM interop assembly that is generated by Microsoft Visual Studio .NET at design time because they are considered unofficial.


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19’ - Gashi pinged a ball off Jermaine’s back, Lodeiro led a break, Gashi fouled him, on we go. Appropriate microcosm so far.
20’ - Lodeiro’s FK is cleared out. The Rapids defend set pieces like… something that defends something real well.
22’ - Roman Torres shoulder barge/successful dispossession on Jermaine Jones klaxon.
23’ - Oh boy, near miss from Colorado. Kevin Doyle gets a clean cross off but nobody’s inside the 6-yard box to greet it.
25’ - OH MAN. Stef Frei palms out a corner in traffic and Jermaine Jones’ half-volley is just inches high. (Frei was being held).
32’ - Last minute defending from Mears kills off another half-chance for the Rapids. Seattle… not doing a ton to ease your nerves.
35’ - AGGGGGH. Morris frees Ivanschitz in the box, but the Awesome Austrian opts to cross instead of shooting. Had a lane.
36’ - Better from the Sounders here. First sustained bit of possession. Need more MALICE in the box, though.
37’ - Gashi and Torres get into some #handbags after they collide in the box following a Gashi undercut.
39’ - Valdez gets into some space in the final third, but no supporting runners. Not many Sounders committing to getting forward today.
40’ - Free kick awarded at 25 for a Mears foul on Jermaine. Gashi and Torres have another fine chat about the robust Colorado economy.
41’ - Gashi’s FK is slammed into the wall. His 2nd attempt is slammed into the wall. Powers’ 3rd is wide. THE LINE HOLDS AND OTHER PHRASES.
42’ - Morris springs up after holding his left knee following a hard collision. Tough half for him so far. Illness clearly affecting him.
HT: @SoundersFC and Colorado scoreless at halftime. No Rapids goal is good news for Seattle, but Rapids were on top that 45.

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Merry Christmas and welcome to our final ever Film Friday! We’re returning to one of our earliest spotlighted stars, Joan Crawford (1904-1977), and featuring some of the remaining Pre-Codes we’ve yet to cover. Elsewhere on this blog, we’ve covered Dance, Fools, Dance (1931), Possessed (1931), Grand Hotel (1932), Letty Lynton (1932), Dancing Lady (1933), and Sadie McKee (1934). So far in this final series we’ve covered Paid (1930), Laughing Sinners (1931), and This Modern Age (1931). We’re ending it all today with . . .
A missionary tries to reform a streetwalker trapped on a Pacific island. Starring Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan, and Guy Kibbee. Story by W. Somerset Maugham. Based on the play by John Colton and C. Randolph. Screen adaptation by Maxwell Anderson. Directed by Lewis Milestone.
“A ship docks in rainy, tropical Pago Pago, discharging among others, Alfred Davidson, a self-righteous missionary, his prim, proper wife, and Sadie Thompson, a woman with an unsavory background. Sometime later, a cholera epidemic forces them to remain quarantined on the island, and Davidson decides he will reform Sadie and save her immortal soul. When she spurns his offer, Davidson has the governor order her deportation to San Francisco. She begs Davidson to allow her to remain a few more days, so she can sail to Sydney, Australia instead, but during the argument, she experiences a religious conversion and agrees to return to San Francisco and the jail sentence that is waiting for her there.
This is the most faithful adaptation of the notorious 1922 play that skyrocketed its star, Jeanne Eagels, to legendary acclaim. The first screen version came near the end of the silent era with Gloria Swanson as the infamous Sadie Thompson, but with a story that centers around a prostitute and takes its drama from the proven hypocrisy of religious zealots, Rain is an ideal Pre-Code. At least, that’s what Joan Crawford thought when she begged to be loaned out to UA to tackle this iconic role. Unfortunately, if you’ve read anything at all about the history of this motion picture (which is now in the public domain and can be seen anywhere and everywhere — from YouTube to Netflix), you’ll know that following critical derision, the actress would come to cite this as among her worst motion pictures.
Obviously, Crawford’s far from objective about her work, and it’s disheartening to note that her self-worth is inseparable from public opinion. For in addition to being nowhere near her worst film (even excluding the post-MGM years), Crawford gives a surprisingly commendable performance. Well . . . kind of. The star is utterly committed to transforming herself into this Pago Pago tart, but there’s no doubt that she so desperately wants to be taken seriously as an actress. As a result, it’s difficult for the audience to accept her as Sadie Thompson, for Crawford’s own personal ambition eclipses even Sadie’s fire. And then, it must be noted that Rain came at the wrong time in her career, especially since her celluloid persona was already in such a state of flux (from flapper to shopgirl). Couple this with the indelible memory of Eagels (and even Swanson), and it’s understandable why her fans couldn’t appreciate this effort upon its release.
And this is a shame, because Crawford really can handle the role. Of course, the results only half-prove this, for her performance is plagued not only by our inability to believe the casting, but by the occasional choice – tantamount to a wrong note being hit on the piano – that strikes us as odd and pulls us out of the narrative. Thus, I put all of the blame for Crawford’s performance on the director, who imbues the film with its languidly insipid pace and denies its star the able hand that could have shaped her turn as Sadie Thompson into a triumph and changed the course of Crawford’s career. The film is lifeless, and although its theatrical origins necessitate a strong reliance on dialogue, if the film had any rhythm — any rhythm at all — the audience would have an easier time WANTING to invest in the story. And, naturally, if Crawford was more consistent, this film would be hailed as a Pre-Code classic.
Yet credit must be given where it’s due, and despite the poor performative direction, the film is shot gorgeously; from the beautiful images of the production’s titular downpour to the luminous shots of Crawford herself, Rain is a feast for the eyes. And also, many of the supporting players, though sometimes too interwoven into the awful pace, are well cast — particularly the always delightful Guy Kibbee as Horn the innkeeper and Walter Huston as the icy cold “reformer” who gives into red hot lust in the final reel, nevertheless managing to imbue his trite dialogue with just enough sense to make it seem as desirable to us as it does to Sadie. Sure, it’s a melodramatic portrayal, but it seems to honor the text, and it works. So despite the obvious flaws, Rain isn’t a deluge of disappointment. It’s wrong almost as often as it’s right, but due to Crawford’s unique turn and the story’s Pre-Code sensibilities, 1932’s Rain is an easy one to recommend.
Tune in on Monday for the start of a whole new week of fun on That’s Entertainment! Although this will be the last regular Film Friday post on this blog, I can assure you that we will still be covering Pre-Code films about once a month on upcoming Wildcard Wednesdays. And instead of featuring good films alongside mediocre ones, we’ll be turning our attention to the finest of the finest and the era’s most seminal. So, please believe me when I tell you that the best is yet to come — because it really is!

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Rice University's Andrew Barron and his group, working with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, have identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly virus spreads by taking away its ability to bind with other proteins.
Using computer simulations, researchers tested more than 100 carbon fullerene, or C-60, derivatives initially developed at Rice for other purposes to see if they could be used to inhibit a strain of the virus, HIV-1 PR, by attaching themselves to its binding pocket.
"There are a lot of people doing this kind of research, but it tends to be one group or one pharmaceutical company taking a shotgun approach -- make a molecule and try it out, then make another molecule and try it out," said Barron, Rice's Charles W. Duncan Jr.-Welch Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science. "This is interesting because we're tackling an important problem in a very rational way."
The groups reported their findings in a paper published on the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling Web site last week.
Their method of modeling ways to attack HIV may not be unique, but their collaboration is. Research groups from five institutions -- two in Greece, one in Germany, one in Italy and Barron's group at Rice -- came together through e-mail contacts and conversations over many months, each working on facets of the problem. "Not all the groups have ever met in person," Barron said. Most remarkable, he said, is that their research to date has been completely unfunded.
Using simulations to narrow down a collection of fullerenes to find the good ones is "the least time-consuming low-cost procedure for efficient, rational drug design," the team wrote.
"A long time ago, people noticed that C-60 fits perfectly into the hydrophobic pocket in HIV, and it has an inhibition effect," Barron said. "It's not particularly strong, but there's potentially a very strong binding effect. The problem is, it's not the perfect unit." The objective was to find an existing fullerene derivative molecule that could be easily modified to become the perfect unit.
Rice got involved, he said, "because we make the molecules and the other guys had a great method for in-silico testing of molecules. They approached us and said, 'Do you think we could use some of these?' Then we started bouncing ideas around.
"We began thinking about a very simple experiment to calculate the binding efficiency of a molecule in the HIV pocket, then calculate that for a series of molecules, decide which one is best, make that molecule in real life and see if it correlates," Barron said. "If it does, then you've got a way to design your ultimate molecule. Our work was the first step in the process."
In fact, through their "in-silico" or computer-based,calculations, they found two good fits among the fullerene derivatives tested and are now working to enhance their binding properties to get that perfect molecule, one that sticks "like Velcro" to the virus and can be fine-tuned for various strains.
"This is just one component of the problem -- we're not going to cure HIV," Barron cautioned. The hope, he said, is to develop a method for the rapid creation of drugs to address various strains of HIV and other diseases.
Authors of the paper with Barron were Manthos Papadopoulos of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens; Serdar Durdagi of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Freie Universitat, Berlin; Claudiu Supuran of the University of Florence, Italy; T. Amanda Strom, Nadjmeh Doostdar and Mananjali Kumar of Rice; and Thomas Mavromoustakos of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the University of Athens.
The impromptu nature of the project intrigued Barron as much as the subject itself. "Here you've got computational people, experimental people, synthesis people, characterization people who've come together naturally as a collaboration and developed this protocol, developed their own methodologies.
"And no one's paid us to collaborate. Serdar Durdagi’s graduate fellowship was funded by the European Union. The fellowships of Rice graduate students Amanda Strom, Nadjmeh Doostdar and Mananjali Kumar were funded, in part, by Rice's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology. This is purely an academic collaboration." He said the group is working on a second paper and seeking funding to expand the project.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


text: Potatoes remain steady but Norkota are starting to finish. Idaho/Oregon onions are starting to clean up so there is some price fluxation however Texas(Mexico) has started on New Crop and there is a wide range in prices. Look for more changes in the coming week.

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Last week I had the privilege of making a retirement cake for a gentleman who had worked at the Victoria airport for over 40 years !!! That is a rare thing these days so I would say he was worthy of the celebration put on for him!
The backstory for this cake was that every Friday, the guest of honour would pick up a case of Lucky on his way home from work so if we could incorporate Lucky beer into the design it would suit him perfectly.
And so, the Lucky beer can-cake was born.
This was a Vanilla Cake with a Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream and a generous filling of fresh Raspberry Coulis.


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My Gurus - compiled from various random interviews with Rinpoche.
Guru is the source of blessings, the root of grace. From the Vajrayana perspective, nothing is more important than meeting the right guru! The lama is taken as the very root of spiritual realization and the basis of the entire path to enlightenment.
I have been very fortunate to have met some of the greatest masters of the twentieth century. And I am so blessed to have had these three great masters as my root gurus - the 8th Kyabgon Khamtrul Rinpoche, H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche and the 8th Kyabgon Adeu Rinpoche. They have left a lasting impression on me, and made me the person that I am today, for which I am greatly indebted.
Of the root gurus, Khamtrul Rinpoche and Adeu Rinpoche were pivotal in the transmission of the Dechen Choekhor Lineage of Drukpa Kargyu teachings in my life. They had in turn received the complete lineage teachings from their root guru, the 8th Kyabgon Drukpa Choegon Rinpoche, Choekyi Gyamtso in Nangchen Garh upon invitation and request by the King of Nangchen in the 1940s.
I was four years of age when Khamtrul Rinpoche recognized me as the reincarnation of the previous Choegon Rinpoche. At the age of six, I was then invited to Tashi Jong and formally enthroned by Khamtrul Rinpoche. At the age of fourteen, I received an urgent message from Khamtrul Rinpoche in Bhutan, who requested me to go to Bhutan immediately to receive the complete lineage transmissions and teachings of Drukpa Kargyu. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter he entered into parinirvana in Tongsa Monastery Bhutan after completed some of the most important transmission.
H.H. Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was still in Bhutan at that time, took on the mantle of teacher until he passed on in 1991. Khyentse Rinpoche imparted to me the teachings of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and guided me to complete many practices in retreat, including Vajrakilaya, Green Tara, Buddha Amitayus, Vajrapani, Kurukulle, Padmasambhava, etc.
My most important and instrumental root guru of this life time was the 8th Kyabgon Adeu Rinpoche, where he transmitted the complete Drukpa Choegon Lineage's practices and transmission, and guided me to accomplish all the important practices and retreats of the Drukpa Kargyu, particularly the characteristic practices of the Drukpa Choegon Lineage.
My other important teachers in this lifetime, according to chronological order, have been H.H. the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, H.H. the 68th Kyabje Je Khenpo of Bhutan, H.E. Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, H.E. Trulshik Choekyi Lodro Rinpoche and H.H. Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche.


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Warley Bishop's Hat features delicate nodding coral-pink star-shaped flowers with yellow eyes rising above the foliage in mid spring. Its attractive heart-shaped leaves emerge purple in spring, turning light green in color with distinctive indian red edges. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous brick red in the fall. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.
Warley Bishop's Hat is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Warley Bishop's Hat will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.
Warley Bishop's Hat is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. Because of its spreading habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.


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I enjoyed your written ‘off-roading,’ a lot.
I’m mortified when I even think that maybe more than a few family members, and two or three friends are reading my blog. I’ve sometimes thought about submitting articles then the fear of having someone know me read it ends that.


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Halperns’ Purveyors of Steak and Seafood, an Atlanta-based company with 100 employees, distributes top-quality meat and seafood to an expanding market in the Southeast and beyond.
A reliable wireless network is crucial to the business, enabling daily inventory checks across a massive area, said Brandon Ensley, Halperns’ Manager of Technology. “We use scan guns, and those have to stay connected to perform check-in, check-out updates,” he said.
However, the non-commercial grade access points (APs) that Halperns’ was using could not cope with the harsh environment and high-density utilization in certain locations within the building. APs would routinely fail, requiring Ensley to reset the APs and re-authenticate devices. Seeking a reliable solution at a reasonable cost, Halperns’ contacted Smartwave Technologies, a value added reseller specializing in wireless.
Halperns’ wanted a system that functioned seamlessly, so that users could access information from any device, anywhere in the building. In addition, Halperns’ hoped to eliminate some wired network infrastructure, as the hardware located in the fish rooms would corrode every few months.
When Smartwave performed a demo of Meraki’s wireless LAN, Halperns’ was wowed by the cloud management. Meraki’s solution also came out to be less expensive than quotes from Cisco and Barcode ID, which made the decision even easier.
In just three days, Smartwave completed a site survey of the facility and deployed nine Meraki MR11 APs, creating a seamless, high-speed 802.11n network. Soon Halperns’ employees were enjoying consistent wireless access, whether browsing the network from their laptops or updating inventories in the freezer with their scan guns.
Ensley said that Meraki’s network solution has eliminated all the complaints he used to hear. “We haven’t had any problems or access point failures. Everything has been working as it should,” he said.
Next quarter, Halperns’ plans to expand its Meraki network to its other facilities in Florida and Georgia. With IT staff only at the Atlanta facility, the cloud-based management will become even more valuable, as it will enable the Atlanta staff to configure and maintain the remote sites over the web.
Ensley said he would absolutely recommend Meraki. “The best compliment is not to have a complaint,” he said.


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Local school children are learning from the best classical musicians in the UK as part of a collaboration between Wigmore Hall in London and the Dartington Hall Trust which offers local people world-class Wigmore Hall concerts on their doorstep for the first time.
Devon classical music lovers can catch the final Dartington Schubert concert, by the Doric String Quartet, in the Great Hall Dartington on 7 March. Hailed as one the finest young string quartets of our time, the quartet – Alex Redington, Jonathan Stone, Helene Clement, John Myerscough – are described by string music magazine Strad as having ‘great wisdom and ... creativity of sound’ with performances that are ‘inventive, engaging, moving and beautiful’. They will perform Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, ‘Death and the Maiden’ D810 and Quartet No. 15 in G Major D887 at 7.30pm.
Meanwhile, the Heath Quartet, widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading young string quartets, will give Torbay primary school children an entertaining introduction to string quartet instruments at the String Quartet Discovery Day on 27 February, part of Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Challenge. After the concert, the children will meet the members of the quartet, try out string instruments, and tour the beautiful Dartington Hall gardens.
Tickets range from £15 to £20. Contact Dartington’s Box Office on 01803 847070 (from 12.30 to 7.30pm), online at www.dartington/org/whats-on, or email boxoffice@dartington.org.


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Vachan Sweet Lassi from Sarda Dairy and Food Products Ltd. is a luscious sweet version of one of the well known traditional dairy products of India.
Grab that cup of Vachan Sweet Lassi and add a stomach-full of healthy and tasty blurp to your meal or evening snack. Looking for something hat-ke!!??.........Treat your taste buds with Vachan Sweet Kesar Lassi. Are you sure you can resist to pick only one!!!
Grab that cup of Vachan Sweet Lassi and add a stomach-full of healthy and tasty blurp to your meal or evening snack. Looking for something hat-ke!!??.........Treat your taste buds with Vachan Sweet Lassi. Are you sure you can resist to pick only one!!!


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As a visual designer Kate is passionate about her work and draws on her wide range of knowledge in - Concept Creation, Art Direction, Styling, Interior Design.
Kate is highly regarded in the industry with over 10 years experience working for a broad range of clients throughout Europe.
Copenhagen is Kate's base and she is represented in Sweden, Germany and the UK. Kate is involved in a diverse range of projects and commissions including; Trend Prediction, Shop & Event Design, Branding & Identity, Editorial & Commercial Styling.


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Fans of NCIS(link is external) are familiar with Gibbs’ Rule Number 6: Never apologize. It is a sign of weakness. Then again, maybe that is why he has been divorced three times and is currently unmarried.
Ali McGraw gravely intoned a similar rule in the 1970’s movie Love Story: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” This could only be spoken by someone who has never been married—for long.
Do apologies serve a useful purpose? Or are they just power plays between people?
The majority of research indicates that apologies do indeed serve a useful—and objectively measurable—purpose. They convert a desire for revenge into willingness to forgive and forget.
Researchers(link is external) have found that people who are wronged in a business transaction may be more likely to say they would reconcile if the offender offers a sincere apology – particularly if the offender takes personal blame for the misdeed.
Robbennolt based this conclusion on research(link is external) involving more than 550 people during settlement negotiations in a hypothetical injury case. Overall, apologies reduced financial demands and facilitated agreement. But the nature of the apology matters. Apologies that accepted fault had more impact than apologies that merely expressed sympathy, but took no responsibility. The latter are sometimes referred to as “non-apologies”, such as “I’m sorry you feel that way.” Non-apologies infuriate people, fanning the flames of perceived injury and a desire for revenge.
So if genuine apologies yield such positive outcomes, why do so many people so strongly resist making them?
According to recent research(link is external), the reason has more to do with ego strength than with the merits of the case or the severity of the transgression. According to lead author Tyler Okimoto, “When you refuse to apologize, it actually makes you feel more empowered,” he said. “That power and control seems to translate into greater feelings of self-worth.” Ironically, Okimoto said, people who refused to apologize ended up with boosted feelings of integrity.
Okimoto and his colleagues came to this conclusion after studies the responses of 228 Americans who were asked to remember a time they had done something wrong—everything from trivial offenses to serious crimes, such as theft—and to indicate whether or not they had apologized. They also were asked to compose an email in which they either apologized or refused to apologize for their actions. The results showed that refusing to apologize provided psychological benefits.
So why do people refuse to apologize? Because apologizing makes them feel bad about themselves. Some even believe that apologizing means groveling and allowing another person to crow in victory over you—like the victor demanding you cry “uncle’ before he’ll let you go. According to Okimoto, demanding an apology from people with this belief system makes them feel threatened.
But on the way to adulthood, we learn that apologizing isn’t groveling or debasing oneself. Instead, the reason we apologize is to make the person we intentionally or unintentionally harmed feel better, not to make ourselves feel better. An apology means “I see you were harmed by my action, and that matters to me”.
Apologizing threatens to topple that fragile sense of omnipotence. It means having to face that we are human after all, and that part of being reasonable human adult means owning up to our mistakes and setting them right. According to NPR(link is external), “The next time junior — or your partner — does something wrong, pass on the stare and try a hug.” In other words, we have become such fragile babies that we can’t handle the ego threat involved in making a simple apology. Instead, we need to be coddled cuddled, and excused from stepping up to the plate and sorting the mess we’ve intentionally or unintentionally created.
1. Apologizing doesn’t mean admitting inferiority, unworthiness, or weakness. It doesn’t mean groveling or debasing yourself. People who demand that of you aren’t asking for an apology. They are asking for submission, and that is quite a different thing.
2. An apology first and foremost communicates a simple message that affirms your humanity and that of the injured party: “I see and I care”.


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Stereoscopic techniques can be traced in avant-garde practices going back to Dada, which then carried over into the work of Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, and eventually Ken Jacobs, but Godard’s 3D compositions have such a magisterial grace that it can feel as though we’re seeing all three dimensions with our own eyes for the first time. Evenly distributed throughout Adieu’s duration, Godard inserts one coup de cinéma after another: trick shots, clashing overlays, warped 2D images, stereoscopic fields that divide (then reunite), and disorienting deep-focus compositions all spill over the screen as illusions of depth compulsively emerge and recede. Dutch angles create the impression that figures and objects might slide out of the frame at any moment, while an upside-down shot of a car screeching to a halt is as gravity-defying as anything in Cuarón’s 3D outer-space blockbuster. And as in Film Socialisme (2010), the sound mix repeatedly calls attention to its own stereophonic falsehoods via peaking bursts of music, dialogue, and ambient noise segregated into either the left or right channel. (The sound design is so accommodating to disruptions that audience members’ cell-phone rings were generally believed to have been part of the film.) These devices are cut with enough extended spells of sublimity and beauty that the optical and sonic barrages never become intolerably abrasive. It’s a strategy meant to resist any of the “total cinema” delusions so often affiliated with cinematic stereoscopic technology, and to preclude the onset of complacency or passivity in the spectator.
This perhaps paints Adieu au langage to be far more of an “exercise,” but make no mistake: it’s wholly structured around thought and emotion, and is teeming with a sorrow and anger that may only rise after the lights go up and the glasses come off. It is tempting to list it among Godard’s string of late-career film-essays, but this designation would indicate a far more cerebral viewing experience than the film offers. The onslaught of quotations, citations, and references to world events might suggest otherwise, but Godard is too attuned to the way the mind consumes and organizes information—especially dense philosophical information—to legitimately expect his audience to locate a fully developed thesis and argument from these waves of metaphors and allusions. This is demonstrated early on when, upon mentioning Vladimir K. Zworykin’s invention of television, he cheekily asks, “1933, does that ring a bell?” and then reminds us that it was also the year Hitler was elected. It’s as cynical a technological history as you can get, but it’s also an instruction on how to process the data he’s heaving at us. It will all “ring a bell,” but the extent to which the reverberations can fully manifest themselves in our consciousness before the next (often contradictory) element is thrust upon us is duly left open.
This perverse strategy asks us to do away with interpretation—to bid farewell to cognition, offer a “so long” to translation, and say goodbye to language—while demanding that we simultaneously listen, read, and process information constantly. Evoking a sizable range of cultural and semantics theorists, as well as exhibiting a certain allegiance to the Lacanian Real (an allegiance Godard would likely never admit to), Adieu au langage is a lashing out against the symbolic and semiotic structures that hinder our ability to experience truth in the world, and laments the freedoms lost from so many demarcations and hierarchies, while painfully acknowledging the impossibility of the world without them. Abstraction is the closest we can get to reality, and he locates this utopian order-outside-of-order in three creative fields: geometry as an abstraction of space (viz. Laurent Schwartz, the Dirac delta function, and Riemann landscapes); poetic literature as an abstraction of syntax (viz. Rilke and Dostoevsky); and Impressionism and Fauvism as abstractions of the pictorial (viz. his trademark hyper-saturated colour palette, Monet and de Staël quotations, and countless shots of landscapes through windshield wiper blades fighting off every season’s variety of precipitation). Adieu au langage, finally, is Godard’s harrowing attempt to employ 3D imagemaking as an abstraction of reality; to use metaphor as a passageway into nature.
Which brings us to the dog. Portrayed by Godard’s own loyal canine, Roxy, the film’s hero spends most of his time onscreen either frolicking in and around a river, napping on a couch, or wandering through a forest (a.k.a. “the world,” as the Chikawa tribe sees no point in distinguishing between the two). He is “not naked, because he is always naked,” and he—like the rest of his species—“will love you more than he loves himself.” Free in the world yet beholden to man’s command, he is blissfully oblivious to whatever morals there are declaring it okay for him to be chained up in public and barred from entering certain rooms of the house. He, like every other animal, cannot see war, while man reduces to a state where he needs an interpreter for the words coming out of his own mouth, staring into the clouds and seeing images of dogs. “In the blue or the white?” asks someone, for some reason. It’s not just that Roxy exudes an uncanny degree of dignity in his basic canine activities that makes him such an instantly iconic screen hero; it’s also that every functional and intelligent human subject that he shares the screen with appears, by comparison, to be so pathetically alone yet devoid of autonomy. A few have called Adieu au langage one of Godard’s most optimistic films, but there can’t be many ideas in his oeuvre more damning than that of a grown man and woman looking down at a sleeping dog and wondering if he’s dreaming of the Marquesas Islands, a notion only double-underscored by the subsequent sound of competing howls and babble—likely the most satisfying and deeply moving duet in cinema history.
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ABSTRACT: Mental health disorders are a major public health problem worldwide. With the increasing use of psychotropic drugs and other advanced therapies, pharmacists form an important part of the multidisciplinary care team for patients with mental illnesses. One of the primary roles of pharmacists in this field is to counsel patients thoroughly in order to improve adherence and patient outcomes related to drug therapy. A range of barriers may deter pharmacists from counseling patients with mental illnesses, including pharmacist, patient, health system, and social or cultural factors. Interventions to improve the management of mental health patients should focus on enhancing communication and education.
Various studies have shown that community-based medication counseling interventions have resulted in increased adherence to antidepressants and antipsychotics.8,9 Adherence is crucial for patients to achieve maximal benefits from their therapy.10 However, there is evidence to show that patients with mental illnesses receive less counseling than patients with other conditions. A study conducted in Finland concluded that community pharmacists were less likely to provide directions for the use of psychotropic medications than for eight other therapeutic classes of drugs studied.11 Another study demonstrated decreased willingness on the part of pharmacists to provide pharmaceutical care for people with mental illnesses as compared to physical illnesses (e.g., asthma).6 This article discusses some of the reasons why this may be the case and attempts to offer some suggestions to improve the status quo.
A range of factors that may deter pharmacists from counseling patients with mental illnesses have been identified. These can be broadly divided into pharmacist-related factors, patient-related factors, health system–related factors, and social or cultural factors (TABLE 1).7,12 Some factors seem to have a greater effect than others, and many are interrelated.
Pharmacists have reported feeling more uncomfortable or uneasy in counseling patients taking medications for mental illnesses than those taking prescription agents for cardiovascular conditions.14 Additionally, it has been found that pharmacists are significantly more willing to provide pharmacy services to patients with asthma than with mental illness.6 These feelings of discomfort may be due in part to the fact that pharmacists lack the knowledge to counsel these patients as discussed earlier.
Health System–Related Factors: The most commonly reported health system–related factors are the lack of privacy for counseling and lack of time.7,14 Other issues include the lack of access to medical histories and thus not having a complete picture of the patient’s medical background. Research has shown that this is often the case. Although pharmacists are acknowledged as dynamic members of the mental healthcare team, they are not always fully embedded into the team.7,13,19 Poor communication between members of the healthcare team (e.g., pharmacists and physicians) or between other members of the healthcare team and the patient may also lead to less than sufficient information being passed on to patients. The high cost of prescription drugs may mean that some patients are not fully adherent to their medication (e.g., they may skip a dose to make their supply last longer). If pharmacists are able to identify such patients, they may be able to assist by suggesting generics, rebates, or other medications of the same class that might be covered on the patient’s health insurance plan.
Language barriers have been reported as an obstacle, particularly when it comes to counseling foreign-language patients, as has been shown by a study conducted in Switzerland.20 This may also apply to pharmacists trying to counsel patients from a different cultural background. Some cultures are not accepting of mental disorders and subsequently patients from these cultures are less likely to discuss the condition with the pharmacist. The social and cultural interpretations about the causes and prognosis of mental illnesses will influence the way in which patients approach the pharmacist and the way they interpret the information they are provided with.
Pharmacists play an important role in the counseling of patients with mental illness by discussing the expected outcomes and adverse effects of therapy as well as identifying potential drug interactions. Furthermore, they can assist in the selection of appropriate medications and dosing and ensure patient adherence. Due to the various barriers identified in this article, pharmacists may not be able to fulfill this role effectively. The implementation of various interventions to overcome these barriers is recommended in order to improve the services that patients with mental illnesses receive from their pharmacists.
1. World Health Organization (WHO). Investing in Mental Health. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 2003. www.who.int/mental_health/en/investing_in_mnh_final.pdf. Accessed September 1, 2016.
2. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing; 2013.
3. National Alliance on Mental Illness. Mental health by the numbers. www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers. Accessed October 10, 2016.
4. Ormel J, Petukhova M, Chatterji S, et al. Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world. Br J Psychiatry. 2008;192(5):368-375.
5. Finley PR, Crismon ML, Rush AJ. Evaluating the impact of pharmacists in mental health: a systematic review. Pharmacotherapy. 2003;23(12):1634-1644.
6. Rickles NM, Dube GL, McCarter A, Olshan JS. Relationship between attitudes toward mental illness and provision of pharmacy services. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2010;50(6):704-713.
7. Aaltonen SE, Laine NP, Volmer D, et al. Barriers to medication counselling for people with mental health disorders: a six country study. Pharm Pract (Granada). 2010;8(2):122-131.
8. Brook OH, van Hout H, Stalman W, et al. A pharmacy-based coaching program to improve adherence to antidepressant treatment among primary care patients. Psychiatr Serv. 2005;56(4):487-489.
9. Valenstein M, Kavanagh J, Lee T, et al. Using a pharmacy-based intervention to improve anti-psychotic adherence among patients with serious mental illness. Schizophr Bull. 2011;37(4):727-736.
10. Chang E, Daly J, Bell P, et al. A continuing educational initiative to develop nurses’ mental health knowledge and skills in rural and remote areas. Nurse Educ Today. 2002;22(7):542-551.
11. Vainio KK, Airaksinen MS, Hyykky TT, Enlund KH. Effect of therapeutic class on counseling in community pharmacies. Ann Pharmacother. 2002;36(5):781-786.
12. Paluck EC, Green LW, Frankish CJ, et al. Assessment of communication barriers in community pharmacies. Eval Health Prof. 2003;26(4):380-403.
13. Liekens S, Smits T, Laekeman G, Foulon V. Pharmaceutical care for people with depression: Belgian pharmacists’ attitudes and perceived barriers. Int J Clin Pharm. 2012;34(3):452-459.
14. Phokeo V, Sproule B, Raman-Wilms L. Community pharmacists’ attitudes toward and professional interactions with users of psychiatric medication. Psychiatr Serv. 2004;55(12):1434-1436.
15. Maslen CL, Rees L, Redfern PH. Role of the community pharmacist in the care of patients with chronic schizophrenia in the community. Int J Pharm Pract. 1996;4(4):187-195.
16. Rijcken CA, van der Veur H, de Jong-van den Berg LT, Knegtering H. Schizophrenia care and the Dutch community pharmacy: the unmet needs. Int J Pharm Pract. 2003;11(2):97-104.
17. Rubio-Valera M, Chen TF, O’Reilly CL. New roles for pharmacists in community mental health care: a narrative review. Int Environ Res Public Health. 2014;11(10):10967-10990.
18. Raisch DW. Patient counseling in community pharmacy and its relationship with prescription payment methods and practice settings. Ann Pharmacother. 1993;27(10):1173-1179.
19. WHO. Improving Access and Use of Psychotropic Medicines. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 2005. www.who.int/mental_health/policy/services/10_improving%20access_WEB_07.pdf. Accessed September 1, 2016.
20. Schwappach DL, Meyer Massetti C, Gehring K. Communication barriers in counselling foreign-language patients in public pharmacies: threats to patient safety? Int J Clin Pharm. 2012;34(5):765-772.
21. O’Reilly CL, Bell JS, Kelly PJ, Chen TF. Exploring the relationship between mental health stigma, knowledge and provision of pharmacy services for consumers with schizophrenia. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2015;11(3):e101-e109.


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The Share-Your-Photos App is meant for anybody and everybody that loves to take pictures. Because there are so many ways to use the app, we’re starting a series that showcases how different people use the app for their event.
Today, we’re featuring how a mother of the bride uses the app and her favorite features of it. A daughter’s wedding is one of the most special things you will experience in your life! Your favorite memories should be captured without the stress of documenting every moment yourself. It’s so easy to use the app for a wedding – whether it’s the guests’ candid photos, the photographer’s uploads, and so on.
What’s your favorite event you used the Share Your Photos App for and why?
My favorite event I’ve used Share Your Photos App for was my daughter’s wedding. I was able to put my phone down knowing I would be able to see everyone’s photos. It took stress off of me!
What’s your favorite feature of the SYP app?
Of course my favorite feature is being able to see all of everyone’s photos, and it’s so easy to use!
Who would you recommend the app to?
I would recommend this app for anyone having an event whether it be a wedding, shower, family gathering or even a family vacation! This app can be used all the time! Create your event and tell everyone- post away!!
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And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves(1 Thessalonians 5:12-13).
Let’s take some time today to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any place where we have dishonored God or any of the leaders that He has placed in our lives. As He shows us these areas, let’s repent and ask Him to forgive us of these wrong actions and attitudes. And let’s also ask the Lord if He would desire for us to go to anyone and ask them for forgiveness in person. Let’s make a fresh covenant and commit to the Lord to honor Him and all the leaders that God has given us in the body of Christ. Father, help us measure the treasure you have put in each of your children so that we can receive the riches of grace that are in them.


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Working parents looking for a baby sitter, au pair or nanny have a choice of Day care services. All insurance matters are catered to with a couple of firms available closeby. If you are hungry there are a few restaurants serving the area. There is at least one attorney nearby.
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One of my favorite parts of working as a consultant is supporting boards. I’ve never met a nonprofit board that didn’t have a deep wealth of knowledge and a group of people committed to the vision.
Unfortunately, despite the best of intentions and talent, many of these boards are ineffective. They rehash the same issues for months and years. They spend the whole meeting on committee updates, questioning everything. Often, their most connected and knowledgeable members leave because they don’t feel the board is a good use of their time.
I’ve done enough work with nonprofit boards to get a good understanding of what effective boards do to make the most of vision and strategy. They have impactful meetings and they move forward on the strategic plan swiftly.
Effective boards are all about the committees. If all of the big work is happening at the board meeting, your organization has some work to do. Committees with autonomy and strong leadership are the path to effective boards.
Clearly defined objectives that are aligned with the mission and specific to the strategic plan.
2-5 members, depending on type of work and timelines.
People who agree to sit on a committee show up consistently for meetings and votes.
Dedicated regular meeting time and location.
Detailed meeting notes are kept & stored in a shared repository.
Chair has a prepared update for every board meeting.
Committee prepares recommendations for the board to vote on regarding their specific objectives.
Committee works directly with administrative staff member with applicable role without having to go through the ED. Staff member attends most meetings.
Other board members trust the committee to do their work without second guessing them and the committee meetings are not re-hashed at board meetings.
The most effective boards have staff involved in each committee. This keeps the lines of communication open between staff and the board, which prevents big problems from going unnoticed. It also ensures that the board doesn’t make inaccurate assumptions about the ground truth in the organization.
It doesn’t matter what kind of service an organization offers, effective boards have annual retreats. Taking the time to move from tasks to vision and strategy is a smart investment. When we do the visionary work, we ensure the task work is a good use of time and resources.
A few weeks ago when I facilitated a retreat for a nonprofit Montessori program, a board member piped up and said, “We should do this TWICE a year!” He got it, the work we did in that retreat was going to generate tangible results for the organization. He had a taste of victory and he wanted more!
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I just got some really exciting news and wanted to share it with you.
As President, I shoulder a lot of responsibilities of the family business that my father started many decades ago. And one of those major responsibilities is the happiness of so many great team members who make up the VantagePoint team. I’m extremely honored and humbled to say we have just been named a Top 100 Company by Florida Trend Magazine.
To even be considered for the list, we had to undergo an evaluation of our entire workplace including policies, practices, and satisfaction. One of my VantagePoint team members said, “This is the best job I’ve ever had.” That made me smile.


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A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background. They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your cell phone‚ this can be links, videos, text, photos and more. We leave to you the process of creating and thinking of ways to use a QR code for publicity, marketing, or advocacy, but still we will give you few examples.
QR codes have become more prevalent in marketing circles and have been integrated into both traditional and interactive campaigns. Nowadays QR Codes are used in billboard ads, in-store displays, event ticketing and tracking, trade-show management, business cards, print ads, contests, direct mail campaigns, websites, email marketing, and couponing just to name a few. We record every scan so the geographical and usage statistics YouScan provides are very good for marketers. The ability to measure response rates with a high degree of precision allows easier ROI (return on investment) calculation, thus helping justify spending on marketing budgets.
QR Codes can put on business card, stickers, product packaging or print ads to direct viewers to social content you have embed in the code. You can engage them on Facebook or Twitter, show them YouTube or Vimeo video, or lets them check-in into all the venues and places on Foursquare, SoundCloud and Facebook. Combining different socials can tremendously increase the effect of your message to the people with just one scan.
You can download and print any QR code and put it on the bags into which you place your customers purchases, or if owning a venue or small business, place QR code in your storefront window and reward those who scan it. Give people who use it something small to thank them for their patronage.
For the moment we have 3 type of codes available: Forward, Social & Video and Personal.
- Forward only can be used to make a barcode for your product or service and just keep track of the numbers and geography of the clicks.
- Social & Video lets you choose among multiple social and video sites and make mobile friendly landing page for your business or product with its.
- Personal QR code gives you to option to put your email address, business phone, website or blog, Facebook profile or Fan page, Twitter account, notes and other contact information. You can put this barcode on your business card, brochures, etc. so when people scan it shows them how to reach You.
Many Android, Nokia, and Blackberry phones come with QR code readers pre-installed. QR reader software is available for most mobile platforms including the iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile and webOS. If you do not have installed QR Reader please visit http://uscn.me/app from your phone to download the appropriate application.
- Barcode size - Minimum 2cm x 2cm. At this size, a barcode can hold up to 60 characters. The barcode size increases as data contained within the barcode increases.
- White space surrounding the barcode - for best results, we suggest at least 4mm. of white space around the barcode.
- Scanning distance - A 2cm x 2cm barcode can be scanned from 10cm away. To scan over further distances you will need a larger barcode.
- Display surface - For optimal results, it is recommended to display the barcode on a flat surface.
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It’s National Libraries Day! To celebrate, I’ve put together a catalogue of my best library memories. Organized using the Dewey Decimal Classification, natch.
You’re a ten-year-old boy. You quite like a bookish girl in your class. Unfortunately, she’s too bookish to seal the deal during kiss chase. What to do? It was 1990, and the Righteous Brothers were back in the Top Ten. So the boy and his sidekick cornered me in our primary school library, and serenaded me with You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. Looking back, this was probably the most romantic thing that ever happened to me. At the time, I ran for it.
To secondary school, where at 13 I was still bookish, and still unkissed. Yet I found myself in a rare position of romantic power. I heard that a boy in my year fancied me. I think it went to my head. He helped out in the school library at lunchtimes. I put so much effort into acting disinterested and absorbed in my books, I couldn’t read a word.
One day I returned some books to him in ice-queen mode, and headed for the door. “Um, Isabel,” he said, quietly. I turned towards the desk, wondering how I might go about rejecting his advance. “Is this yours?” he said. I looked down. Oh. I’d returned something else, slipped inside a library book. My just-in-case-puberty-starts Always Ultra. Farewell, upper hand.
At university I entered library heaven: the magnificent Bodleian Libraries. Here you can read anything ever printed in the UK. So the first thing I looked up was the book self-published by my Grandpa. In that pre-Amazon era, seeing his name in the Bodleian catalogue made him seem famous.
To get a book, you filled in a slip of paper and put it in a wooden box. After four hours the books appeared as if by magic, in the reading room of your choice. And what a choice. The Radcliffe Camera. The New Bodleian. The Radcliffe Science Library. College libraries. Faculty libraries. You couldn’t take the books away, so I spent three years sitting in these beautiful places. Perhaps that’s why they were the scene of so much romantic drama – tearful break-ups, passionate make-ups, bitter arguments. All in a respectful whisper, of course.
In 2013, you’ll find me in our local library, herding my sons towards the picture books. Sometimes I sneak a visit to non-fiction, and get excited if I spot something written by me. I imagine the day the boys read one of my books, rather than using them as a place to wipe excess food. Perhaps they’ll be proud of me, as I was of Grandpa. And then I picture their teenage friends shouting, “Oi, did your Mum write this book ‘Why do I Burp?’” And the circle of library learning, love, and embarrassment starts all over again.
Telling writers how to get published is a boon industry. More than 4 million web pages offer advice on writing the all-important query letter. They’ve left out some important points though. Here are my own top tips, collated during my years as a commissioning editor. True stories, people.
Do not start by telling the editor that angels told you to approach her, and only her. Especially if she publishes books for primary schools, and you are pitching an adult self-help book dictated by said angels. Do not get cross when the editor suggests that the angels were wrong, and that you might have more luck with Mind/Body/Spirit publishers. Tell the angels to hold back on the publishing advice until they have consulted the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook.
My shelf of wishful thinking – literary & otherwise!
Do not refuse to disclose key details of the book – such as the title, or contents – on the basis that a rogue publisher might steal your idea.
Flattery only works if it’s grounded in fact. If you mention existing books in your query letter, be sure to look inside them first. Or you might find yourself praising a 15-year-old flop that lingers in the catalogue in an attempt to shift vast volumes of unsold stock, and is frequently a source of embarrassment to sales reps.
Do not tell the editor how grateful you will be if she were so kind as to publish your humble little book pretty please with a cherry on top. If your book is good, the editor will be grateful to have found you. And no, it’s never a good idea to surround your signature with animated flames.
Do not be insane. Or at least, don’t let it show.
And never, ever, ever ever, ever even think about using Comic Sans.
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New Delhi, Jan 16: A five-year-old child suffered multiple injures and later died after his step father thrashed him. The incident took place in Delhi’ Kapashera.
The accused step father, Narendra, is in police custody and is said to have confessed to beating the child.
The the injured child was taken to the hospital, the doctors were told that he fell in the bathroom. The 5-year-old’s mother also went along with step father’s lie that child fell in the bathroom. An FIR has been registered under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 120(B) criminal conspiracy against the couple.
“We have registered a murder case. According to the medical report, the child suffered multiple injuries including, one on head which was the cause of the death,” DCP South West, Delhi, told ANI.
“On 12 January, the child died due to injuries. The step-father has confessed to beating the child. The mother presented wrong facts during the investigation. We’ve concluded that death is a result of a conspiracy of which the mother was also a part,” he added.


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Internet provides a wealth of knowledge out there, and we now have many who prefer the DIY approach. This culture is tempting for many because they end up thinking that they can handle just about everything. However, you need to remember that at times a DIY approach might seem to be a good approach and will also help you save on a few dollars, but in some instances, it can be costly or even dangerous. It is always best to get professionals for your roller doors repairs. Here are some of the reasons why you should opt for only the professionals.
You can be safe: Safety is one of the biggest concerns for us, and more so when taking on a repairing project. The roller door repairs involve working with heavy weights and mechanisms. The mechanisms help to move these doors smoothly. Just imagine what these things could end up doing to your hands or any other parts of your body. You will take all the required precautions but think for a moment what could happen if there is no experience or training? It’s nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.
Making it more complicated: Often, it is difficult to gauge the extent of a problem in a specific scenario. All the knowledge available out there can be helpful, but it may not teach you about a specific situation of yours. An actual professional training for roller doors repairs is different than the DIY approaches that you find on the internet. You might think that you are doing the right thing but end up making the problem worst. If the problem worsens it may get costlier than it is now. If you call a professional, you can easily get the job done in the most efficient manner.
Risk of compromising on security: Professionals know exactly what they are working with, in the roller doors repairs. If you go for a DIY approach, you might think that you have done the best job to fix it but rather you may end up leaving some loopholes in the security. A gap in your doors, a broken lock, and so on, is an open invitation for thieves to attack. A professional on the other hand will analyze the problem and after providing the solution will also ensure that the security of your property is not compromised.
Apart from trying to fix a complicated problem in your roller doors, you can take appropriate measures for roller doors repairs. Make sure to take good care of your doors so that there is less repair work needed. Timely cleaning will ensure that dust does not settle in areas that are prone of getting jammed. If you take good care of your doors it will prolong the life and ensure that fewer repairs are needed over time.
Make sure that you compare the above-mentioned points and take a call, when there is a need to repair the roller doors. Investing in a professional service will not only give you a good result, but it will also enhance the overall performance of the doors. It is crucial then that you spend time to find the best professionals providing the repair and maintenance services in your area. Once you identify the right professionals, all that you need to do is to give them a call, they will come and provide the most efficient service to you.

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There were so many fish in the pictures I had a hard time seeing you. I bet the fish were trying to nibble on your fingers.
When you were swimming with the stingrays, did you finally try feeding them. When they take a piece of food from you it feels like a suction cup. Did you pet them? Their bottom side is so smooth.
Are you keeping a log of all the different fish you've seen? And are you able to identify most of them?
I'm glad you and Mark picked up so much trash in Papaete so that the waters are a little cleaner. When I used to walk on the beaches in Hatteras, Chance would run and find old plastic soda and water bottles and he would pick them up and bring them to me so I could put them in a big bag to then recycle them. He had lots of fun doing that.
You said you were windsurfing...are you getting better at doing it? Let me know what you can do. Does Mark try doing it also?
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The jubilant air that usually envelopes Family Service Agency’s annual gala had a tinge of sadness Saturday night in the Providence High School gym.
Several references were made to the car crash last weekend that took the lives of five youths and left one injured.
In his invocation, Pastor Ross Purdy asked the audience to remember the victims and families with a moment of silent prayer, adding that Family Service Agency’s purpose is to provide help to people in crisis.
But board officers, employees and supporters found there was much to celebrate with this being the agency’s 60th anniversary.
Four individuals and two businesses were presented with the Mary Alice O’Connor Vision Awards. O’Connor, a tireless volunteer with numerous charitable organizations, often was referred to as Burbank’s Fairy Godmother because her likeness was the model for the character in the Disney animated feature “Cinderella.” O’Connor died in 2010 but her legacy included being a founding member of Family Service Agency when it began in 1953.
O’Connor was someone who made miracles happen, said past Vision Award recipient Mary Alvord, a former city manager. She and several other women knew that some people did not live happily ever after. And they created the agency, which provides help for victims of domestic violence as well as counseling for families, individuals and students on all levels in the school district and many other programs.
“As one of the original Women of Vision honored by her, I can only say how truly grateful I am that my life was touched, enriched and changed forever by the bibbidi-bobbidy-boo magic that she did so well and that she used to make miracles happen throughout this entire community,” Alvord said.
Those honored for their vision in support of the vital work of the agency were Burbank Police Captain Michael Albanese, Burbank School Board member Dave Kemp, Pastor Ross Purdy, Cartoon Network and Burbank Healthcare Foundation. A special surprise was the addition of mistress of ceremonies Anja Reinke receiving the Vision Award.
The agency needs corporations and every individual in the room to help it do its critical work every day, Executive Director Laurie Bleick said.
“Please know that we can’t do it without you,” she said.
Capt. Albanese was recognized for helping with the agency’s work with domestic violence and mental health services, Bleick said.
“Our domestic violence program has never worked more closely with the police department since (former) Chief David Newsham, who is extraordinary, than we are now, and much of that goes to this man’s vision and not just the vision but the action taken behind that and that takes courage, intelligence and that takes an undying passion every day,” she said.
Dave Kemp was honored for giving 48 years to students in the Burbank Unified School District. He has been a teacher, coach, athletic director at Burbank High School and is in his third term as a member of the Board of Education.
Kemp was humbled by the honor, and said his success was attributed to a great team around him.
Pastor Ross Purdy received the honor, Bleick said, for being available whenever she calls and for his spiritual leadership.
Representing Cartoon Network, Zita Lefebvre was recognized for being a constant support to Bleick and introducing new friends to the agency. Burbank Healthcare Foundation’s Geri Hernandez accepted her company’s honor. The foundation has lent its support to the agency for all its milestones, especially in securing a $50,000 grant to establish the domestic violence program years ago, Bleick said.
The surprise of the evening was Anja Reinke receiving a Vision Award.
Alvord presented the honor and thanked Reinke for her longtime support and especially for coming up with the Care Walk fundraiser.
The evening included a buffet-style dinner, silent and live auction and dancing. Everyone sang “Happy Birthday” and each table had a cake in honor of the agency’s 60th anniversary and Bleick’s birthday.
This entry was posted in Events, News, Organizations and tagged Family Service Agency, gala, vision awards on October 8, 2013 by Joyce Rudolph.


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attotimedelta objects represent the difference between two dates or times. It wraps a native timedelta object, and stores fractional nanoseconds as a Decimal.
All arguments are optional and default to 0. All arguments may be ints, longs, or floats, and may be positive or negative.
Only days, seconds, microseconds, and nanoseconds are stored internally. days, seconds, and microseconds are stored in a native timedelta object, nanoseconds are contained in a Decimal.
days Between -999999999 and 999999999 inclusive.
seconds Between 0 and 86399 inclusive.
microseconds Between 0 and 999999 inclusive.
nanoseconds A Decimal between 0 and 999 inclusive.
td1 = td2 + td3 Sum of td2 and td3.
td1 = td2 - td3 Difference of td2 and td3.
td1 = i * td2 or td1 = td2 * i Delta multiplied by an integer, long, float, or Decimal.
td1 = td2 // i Computes the floor, discarding the remainder.
+td1 Returns an attotimedelta with the same value.
-td1 Equivalent to td1 * -1.
abs(td1) Equivalent to +td1 when td1.days >= 0, -td1 when t1.days < 0.
str(td1) Returns a string in the form [D day[s], ][H]H:MM:SS[.UUUUUU], where D is negative for td1 < 0 and UUUUUU can be expanded for up to 16 place fixed point.
repr(td1) Returns a string in the form attotime.objects.attotimedelta(D[, S[, U]]), where D is negative for td1 < 0.
Return the total number of seconds contained in the duration as a Decimal.
Return the total number of nanoseconds contained in the duration as a Decimal.
attodatetime is a single object wrapping a native date object and an attotime object for the purposes of storing date and time information with fractional nanoseconds stored as a Decimal.
Year, month, and day are required. tzinfo may be None, or an instance of a tzinfo subclass. The nanosecond argument may be a float or Decimal. The remaining arguments may be ints or longs.
Return the current local datetime, with tzinfo None. This is equivalent to attodatetime.fromtimestamp(time.time()).
Return the current local date and time. If optional argument tz is None this is like today().
If tz is not None, it must be an instance of a tzinfo subclass, and the current date and time are converted to tz’s time zone.
Return the current UTC date and time, with tzinfo None.
Return the local date and time corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, such as returned by time.time(). If optional argument tz is None or not specified, the timestamp is converted to the platform’s local date and time, and the returned attodatetime object is naive.
If tz is not None, it must be an instance of a tzinfo subclass, and the timestamp is converted to tz’s time zone. The returned attodatetime’s tzinfo is set to the provided tz.
Return the UTC attodatetime corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, with tzinfo None.
Return an attodatetime corresponding to the proleptic Gregorian ordinal, where January 1 of year 1 has ordinal 1. ValueError is raised unless 1 <= ordinal <= datetime.max.toordinal() (note native Python datetime range checking). The hour, minute, second and microsecond of the result are all 0, and tzinfo is None.
Return an attodatetime object whose date components are equal to the given date object’s, and whose time components and tzinfo attributes are equal to the given time object’s. If date is a attodatetime (or native Python datetime), its time components and tzinfo attributes are ignored.
year Between Python native datetime MINYEAR and MAXYEAR, inclusive.
month Between 1 and 12 inclusive.
day Between 1 and the number of days in the given month of the given year.
nanosecond In range(1000), as Decimal.
tzinfo The object passed as the tzinfo argument to the attodatetime constructor, or None if none was passed.
dt2 = dt1 + td dt1 moved forward the duration of the attotimedelta if attotimedelta.days > 0, or backward if attotimedelta.days < 0.
dt2 = dt1 - td dt1 moved backward the duration of the attotimedelta if attotimedelta.days > 0, or forward if attotimedelta.days < 0.
td = dt1 - dt2 The duration of time between dt1 and dt2, as an attotimedelta.
dt1 < dt2 dt1 is considered less than dt2 if dt1 precedes dt2 in time.
str(dt1) Equivalent to dt1.isoformat(separator=' ').
repr(dt1) Returns a string in the form attotime.objects.attodatetime(Y, M, D, h, m, s, us, ns, [tz]).
Return a date object with same year, month and day.
Return an attotime object with the same hour, minute, second, microsecond, and nanosecond. tzinfo is None.
Return an attotime object with the same hour, minute, second, microsecond, nanosecond, and tzinfo attributes.
Return an attodatetime object with the same attributes, except for those attributes given new values by whichever keyword arguments are specified. Note that tzinfo=None can be specified to create a naive attodatetime from an aware attodatetime with no conversion of date and time data.
Return an attodatetime object with new tzinfo attribute tz, adjusting the date and time data so the result is the same UTC time as self, but in tz’s local time.
A ValueError is raised if self is naive.
If tzinfo is None, returns None, else return self.tzinfo.utcoffset(self) as an attotimedelta.
If tzinfo is None, returns None, else return self.tzinfo.dst(self) as an attotimedelta.
If tzinfo is None, returns None, else returns self.tzinfo.tzname(self).
Return the result of datetime.timetuple() for a native Python datetime matching the attodatetime. Nanosecond precision is lost.
Return the result of datetime.utctimetuple() for a native Python datetime matching the attodatetime. Nanosecond precision is lost.
Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6. The same as self.date().weekday().
Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 1 and Sunday is 7. The same as self.date().isoweekday().
The optional argument sep (default ‘T’) is a separator, placed between the date and time portions of the result.
The decimal second component may be expanded up to 16 place fixed point.
Return the result of datetime.ctime() for a native Python datetime matching the attodatetime. Nanosecond precision is lost.
attotime is an object wrapping a native time object along with fractional nanoseconds stored as a Decimal.
All arguments are optional. tzinfo may be None, or an instance of a tzinfo subclass. The nanosecond argument may be float or Decimal. The remaining arguments may be ints or longs.
tzinfo The object passed as the tzinfo argument to the attotime constructor, or None if none was passed.
t1 < t2 t1 is considered less than t2 if t1 precedes t2 in time.
repr(t1) Returns a string in the form attotime.objects.attotime(h, m, s, us, ns, [tz]).
Return an attotime object with the same attributes, except for those attributes given new values by whichever keyword arguments are specified. Note that tzinfo=None can be specified to create a naive attotime from an aware attotime with no conversion of date and time data.
attotime is an open source project hosted on Bitbucket.
Any and all bugs are welcome on our issue tracker. Of particular interest are places where the attotime implementation incorrectly deviates from native Python behavior. Pull requests containing unit tests or fixed bugs are always welcome!
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From California to Massachusetts, Georgia to Alaska, schools across the country are in pursuit of a more sustainable campus. Environmentally friendly initiatives show prospective students, alumni and parents that making an investment in the future of the earth is important – much like investing in education.
Some schools have made great strides in reducing their footprints, with creative initiatives like campus-wide bans on plastic bags, community gardens, LEED certified buildings, and green cleaning programs. Others may be just beginning to explore what makes sense from a financial and environmental perspective. No matter what stage a school is at, one thing is clear: savvy students and parents are evaluating schools from an environmental angle, making it even more important for them to demonstrate and communicate their dedication and future plans.
Membership and involvement in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
Recent notable initiatives include Northern Virginia Community College’s commitment to match 35 percent of its natural gas usage with carbon offsets, which fund projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The school is one of the largest community colleges in the country, and across its six campuses, the carbon offsets purchase will have an environmental impact equivalent to avoiding the consumption of almost 125,000 gallons of gasoline. Other schools using carbon offsets include Duke University, which uses them to neutralize the impact of meetings and special events, and Middlebury College, which offers students the opportunity to purchase carbon offsets to make their study abroad travel carbon neutral.
While all sustainable efforts help to drive awareness of the importance of environmental preservation, some projects are more visible than others – literally. For example, Stonehill College is currently constructing a 15-acre solar array located across from its main campus. When complete, the project is expected to generate enough electricity to provide 20 percent of the college’s electricity needs. Other schools, like Evergreen State College, purchase 100 percent green energy and also invest in energy use reduction projects to lessen demand.
With so much focus on sustainability in the higher education realm, prospective students are sure to find a school that is focused on what matters to them, whether it be renewable energy, recycling, clean transportation options or other priority issues.
For other resources on evaluating sustainability in higher education, check out the Sierra Club’s Cool Schools list, the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment or the Sustainability Tracking, Assessmentand Rating System™ from the AASHE.
William R. DePhillipo is the founder of Green Energy Partners (GEP), a US-based solar development company with a focus on commercial and utility scale projects throughout North America. GEP’s mission is to help clients realize savings through the production of clean energy while also reducing their carbon footprint. Prior to founding GEP, he served as a senior member of the development team at Conergy, a global solar photovoltaic downstream company.


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