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I have written previously about my own pets, and the most common prompt for me to do this has been when my own animals have reached the end of their lives. For me, it has been a type of grief therapy sometimes, with the opportunity to write an obituary for an animal that's been an important part of my life.
This week, the good news is that this is not an obituary. One of my two cats, Couscous, has been unwell, but so far, treatment has been successful, so this is a tale about her illness, not about her death.
Couscous came into my life as a very young kitten. She had been found abandoned, too young to survive on her own. The team at my clinic had taken pity on her, and they'd nurtured her, bottle-feeding her at first, then weaning her on to solid food. She was an affectionate kitten with an ultra-loud purr, and that's what I found so appealing. I brought her home one weekend to do my share of caring for her, and while she was with me, she purred so loudly that I decided to keep her. That was over thirteen years ago.
As Couscous grew older, she turned out to be an exceptionally nervous, flighty type of cat. She still purrs loudly with people that she knows well, but if a stranger ever visits our house, Couscous vanishes. She hightails out of the cat flap, and rushes out into the garden, hiding out of sight. We've had other cats over the years who have been far more relaxed and sociable, but Couscous has always had the gentle charm of a shy animal. It's a real honour if she trusts you enough to sit beside you, purring loudly.
Couscous was always a fit, lean animal, and she managed to avoid major health crises. The only problem she suffered from was sunburn on her left ear tip. Her ear tip is white, and that means it contains no skin pigment to protect it from the ultraviolet radiation of the sun. Every summer, the tip of the ear has turned a red colour, and every winter, it has returned to normal. Ideally, I know that she ought to have had regular sun block applied to that ear tip, to protect it. The challenge for us, as owners, has been that Couscous is so nervous that whenever anyone approached her with sun cream, she rushed away before she could be caught and held still. And we knew that if we did manage to corner her, and apply the stuff, she would head off on her own for several days. And the next time she saw anyone approaching her, she'd be doubly impossible to catch. For this reason, we adopted a "monitoring from a distance" approach. Couscous was fortunate in that her mild sunburn never progressed to cancer, which would have meant that she'd have had to have her ear amputated.
A few weeks ago, we suspected that one of our animals was drinking more water than usual: at first, we didn't actually see any of them doing this, but we did notice that the bowl needed to be filled up more frequently. We started to keep a careful watch of each of the two dogs and the two cats. After a few days, it was clear: Couscous was sneaking up to the water bowl at times when she thought there was no-one watching, and she was definitely lapping up the liquid for longer than normal.
If someone told me that their pet was doing this, I would recommend a visit to the vet. Luckily for Couscous, this did not mean a trip in a car (the stress of this would have upset her a lot). Instead, I brought my stethoscope home and checked her out right beside her own bed. There was nothing obvious wrong with her, so I collected a blood and urine sample for analysis. Couscous did not enjoy this process, but it was all over very quickly.
The test results gave me the diagnosis of her problem: her blood parameters were all normal, but her urine was much too dilute. She was suffering from early kidney failure, one of the most common illnesses of older cats.
Kidney failure can be difficult to treat: in advanced cases, intravenous fluid therapy is needed, with long stays at the vet while the kidneys are flushed out. In the USA, kidney transplants can be given, costing tens of thousands of dollars, and with limited success, giving cats less than a year of extra life. In Europe, this is not considered to be enough of a benefit, and the procedure is not available.
Fortunately for Couscous, the problem is still in the early stages: she would not cope well with prolonged stays and repeated visits to the vet. We are treating her with the simplest therapy of all: a special low-protein, low-phosphorus diet designed for cats with kidney failure. Studies have shown that dietary therapy of this type can double the life expectancy of cats in early kidney failure.
She is still drinking more than usual, but she has a good appetite, and she's enjoying the special diet. The saddest aspect of her diagnosis is that it does mean that she's unlikely to live to a great old age. My parent's cat lived till she was twenty three years old; with her kidney disease, Couscous will be lucky if she reaches fifteen.
The focus for us is to give this timid creature the best life she can have with the least possible human intervention. She's happy in her own space, and out of respect to her, we are going to continue to honour her wish to be on her own. Unless of course, she wants to sit beside us and purr. We never say no to her lovely rumbling purr!


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Shin Chin was already working as a data scientist when he decided to take NYC Data Science Academy’s online Data Science Bootcamp. Although he had studied math, engineering and physics at college, he felt he needed more specific practical skills in Python and R in order to move his career in data science forward. He started in October 2015, and talks to us about strengthening his data science skillset, and how learning online with NYC Data Science Academy is already making him a better employee!
My educational background is in electrical engineering. I got my BSc in electrical engineering, an MSc in electrical engineering, and another MSc in physics at the University of Michigan. Then I got my PhD from Penn State in signal processing and pattern recognition. My PhD thesis title was “Anomaly detection in complex dynamical systems” so I implemented an algorithm that I researched and developed to detect anomalies in complex dynamical systems. I didn’t really do machine learning like the kind we do at NYC Data Science Academy.
Right now I’m a data scientist on an Air Force contract. I’m part of a web development team that tries to integrate analytics into the application we’re building. I have knowledge of data science, which is my value-add to the team, but I’m not actually writing code or analyzing large data sets right now. In my previous two jobs, I was a data scientist but I felt I needed to brush up more on my skills in order to succeed.
With that kind of background, why do you need NYC Data Science Academy? What drove you to do a bootcamp style program?
After college I did start interviewing for data science positions. But I felt like my skill level was not up to the degree needed to succeed at big companies like Facebook or LinkedIn, because my background is in electrical engineering, not computer science. My software development and programming skills were not as proficient as someone who is a computer scientist.
Over the last three years I picked up R and Python, but I was not very good. I’m not sure how to use machine-learning algorithms in Python and R to analyze sets, define patterns, and find anomalies. So I thought NYCDSA would help me brush up those skills, improve my understanding of these wonderful machine learning algorithms, and help me implement them practically in a work environment. I’m more of a research scientist and I want to be data scientist in the real world industry, rather than just being a theoretician.
Did you look at other data science bootcamps before you made your decision on NYC Data Science Academy?
I did look at the Python course at General Assembly.
How did you find out about NYC Data Science Academy?
I was looking through news articles about data science bootcamps and NYC Data Science Academy had great reviews. I heard they had a more rigorous curriculum in Python and R than other data science bootcamps.
Why did you decide to do the online version of NYC Data Science Academy?
I didn’t want to quit my job and move to New York City from Washington, DC. It would be too expensive. I talked to NYC Data Science Academy founder Vivian Zhang and told her I wasn’t interested in moving to New York City, and she told me about the online version.
Did you have to be convinced of the bootcamp model or the online bootcamp model, because you had done so much traditional education?
I know I have a strong background in math, engineering and physics, but I felt I was lacking practical skills. My traditional academic education gave me around 85% to 90% of the skills I needed to work as a data scientist for a big company, but the bootcamp will give me that last 10% to 15% to learn other practical programming skills. With these skills I’ll be able to hit the ground running in my first year at a big company.
What have you learned so far at NYC Data Science Academy?
We started with R, then moved on to Python. I haven’t got into Spark, Hive and Hadoop yet, but those are the next tools I’ll learn.
For beginners who are not totally sure, what is the difference between R and Python?
R is a great statistical computing package that a lot of statisticians use. They’re great libraries and great packages that can be used to perform machine learning visualizations. Python is more of a programming language used for a wide variety of purposes like web development. But Python is catching up very quickly because people have developed modules that implement a lot of the same stuff that R implements. A lot of companies use Python. It’s also very good for integrating into web applications. R is also a little more complex to learn than Python. It’s good to learn both because different companies use one or the other.
Do you like using one or the other more?
I’ve been using R more often, but I started to learn Python in the last year or so. I think both have their uses.
In the online version of the class, is job placement important?
Vivian has always been emphasizing that NYC Data Science can help you find a job after you graduate. She always gives me encouraging news about students or hiring companies coming to NYC Data Science to interview students, and tells me about students getting jobs at various companies. Hiring companies are invited to come meet students towards the end of the program, and she is encouraging me to go out to New York City to be present at hiring events. She also sent my resumes out to hiring partners such as BlackRock. I just started the interview procedure.
What is it like to take the online version of NYC Data Science?
It’s 25 to 30 hours a week. They record all the lectures and put them online for me to view them. They also put all the lecture notes and lecture slides on the website. I think it’s better than actually being in the classroom because I can stop the video and rewind. I meticulously listen to the videos, and go through the slides, to make sure I understand everything. There are also homework and projects you have to complete.
I have a TA who’s assigned to me. He helped me setup my environment for Git, Python, R and SQL. He reviews my homework and when I have finished a project, we have a Google hangout where he goes through it, suggests improvements then grades it. If I have any questions, I can call him anytime and he will give me the answer.
Do you get to talk to other people in the class ever or other people doing the online course?
Not really. I think I’m one of the few people doing the online course.
What types of projects are you working on? Have you done a big project yet?
There’s a final project but I haven’t started working on that yet. I’m still in week 9 and I still have the machine-learning project to finish before I work on my capstone project. I’ve worked on three projects so far, and I’m working on the fourth project now, then the capstone project will be the biggest project.
Do you feel there are things they are teaching in the class that you already know or has everything been new?
Everything is familiar to me, except they go more in depth and I learn more about the algorithms, R, and Python and all the parameters and things that you can do. I learned more and I find myself thinking, “Oh! I never knew this about R.” So they helped me understand it more and gave me new insights into what is going on.
Is there a good feedback loop when a problem comes up?
Yes. Sometimes when I click on the online classroom and the links don’t work, I immediately communicate with the TA and he gets it fixed within a day.
Do you think somebody should have a PhD in order to do well as a data scientist?
I think it really helps to have at least a master’s in a quantitative subject because it’s not about knowing and knowledge, it’s about the method of thinking and analytical skills. The skills you have as a scientist are very helpful as a data scientist.
How are you balancing your studies with a full time job?
On my job, the last 10 months I’ve been working remotely, and my entire team work remotely. I work on NYC Data Science right after I finish my work in the late afternoon, and evenings. I’ve not been going out on the weekends. When my friends ask me to go out, I say I have to work on my studies.
You’re working on a data science team now for the Air Force. Have you noticed that what you’re learning at NYCDSA has made you better at your job already?
Yes, yes. I’m not working in a data science team in my job, I’m the only data scientist on my team. Most of the people on my team are analysts or web developers.
And also the reason why it’s taken a longer time – I signed up five months ago – is because I’ve taken a couple of vacations in between. I can take six months to finish the course.
What’s your dream scenario when you graduate?
To work as a data scientist with the skill sets I have learned, applying what I’ve learned on a day to day basis, and creating value for the company. I like where I’m currently working, so my goal right now is to help them improve their bottom line.
Do you have any advice for people thinking about doing a data science bootcamp?
I think it helps if you have a basic knowledge of statistics and programming skills. Also, be prepared to work hard, because it’s a lot of work. You need to work hard to get the most out of it.
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I am currently co-teaching a course with Fr. Geoffrey Ready about death in the Orthodox tradition.
One of the things we come up against in this course is the fact that death in our culture is kind of a black box–people go in, they die, a bunch of paperwork (right?), then there’s a funeral. What happens in between?
In addition to theological content, we want to give our students, some of whom are priests or priests-in-training, practical insight into that black box to aid pastoral ministry in the Church.
With this in mind, Fr. Geoffrey and I have been trying to set up a meeting with one of the biggest funeral homes in Toronto to get to know them and possibly organize a field trip with our students.
That’s how Fr. Geoffrey and I found ourselves sitting in the lobby of one of the biggest funeral homes in Toronto last Friday, which just so happened to be the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross. Symbolic? Deliciously.
If you’ve never been to a funeral home before, or just find the whole prospect confusing, here are some signs to know whether you’re in the right place.
You have been offered coffee or “something to drink” approximately 14 times in the last two minutes.
Everyone who works there–even the women– is wearing suit coats and ties.
The parking lot and driveway are covered with a huge, extended awning that seems both ominous yet also incredibly thoughtful. Why can’t all public parking lots have such an awning? We’d never get wet again.
Everyone addresses you in these soothing, hushed tones and makes direct eye contact with you when speaking. At all times.
There are an unusual array of brochures for burial plots and grief + loss.
There are also an unusual amount of kleenex boxes.
It’s quiet. I mean, *really* quiet.
The people are just really, really nice–but without being smiley or bubbly or overly talkative. As an introvert, I just think funeral directors are the best!
If one or more of these items are true, you are most likely in a funeral home.
Jokes aside, it was a rather meaningful way to spend this particular feast day. After a tour of the premises, we had an extended conversation with the owner in which we discussed our course, cultural attitudes towards death, ongoing work in our area to establish an Orthodox burial society, the funeral industry today, and a whole bunch of other things.
Full disclaimer, it just so happens this particular funeral home helped with my father-in-law’s funeral and burial this past May. At the time, I was completely caught off guard by how helpful and meaningful the funeral home staff had made things. They really added a dimension to my FIL’s funeral that would have otherwise been lacking.
I think that funeral homes and their directors get a bad rap these days. We assume they are money-hungry people waiting to prey on families as soon as tragedy strikes. Yet most (certain all that I’ve ever met in networking for several death-related university courses) have good intentions and work every day on the front lines of a phenomenon most of us would just as soon avoid.
The funeral directors who worked with my family knew (and seemed to respect) Orthodox burial customs almost more than we did. They did not flinch when we broached our options about embalming, they didn’t look at us cross-eyed when we interrogated their itemized price sheet. They made sure we had incense for all the prayers, that someone was taking care of koliva and bread and wine and oil for the funeral, that things were orderly and beautiful and (perhaps the biggest miracle of all in a large, Greek family) punctual. And, to some extent, that we all understood the theological significance of what was happening.
So I was curious to meet the owner behind it all, who–to my knowledge–is not Orthodox. His name is G. He has the sober demeanor of a veteran funeral director who’s seen a lot.
Pretty much off the bat, without our even asking any questions, G. said you can’t really make it in the funeral industry without some kind of faith in the resurrection. Or you can, he started, but… It will just be a business for you. You’ll never be able to face the real, human dimension of the work you do. Or you’ll burn out. You can only really face death with faith.
G. explained that his funeral center excels in providing “traditional funeral services” for families in the area. By this, he means funerals in which there is a Christian religious element at the center. De facto, then, the vast majorities of folks they serve are either Orthodox or Catholic–fewer and fewer Protestants, he explained, really want a traditional funeral anymore. They may not even want a body present. Instead, they opt for celebrations of life that are typically shorn of religious context.
“We always encourage people to do as much of the services for their loved one as possible in a church rather than at the funeral home,” he said. “Especially the funeral, but also the visitation if possible.” He repeated this several times, and also kept saying that the Church should be at the center of funerals, not the funeral home.
I asked him why he found this point so important. He’d just finished showing us the beautiful chapels, which he’d clearly invested a lot of resources in. (One of the Orthodox chapels, for example, was complete with a full-sized iconostasis and hand-painted icons.) Wasn’t getting people “back into the churches,” as he put it, bad for business?
As he sees it, though, funerals (and funeral homes) serve little purpose outside a traditional Christian understanding of death. Churches, especially those that understand sacrament, are the last places in society that understand the mystery and dignity of death. The Church and the funeral home are not in competition but in an almost symbiotic relationship. The funeral home, to not only survive but to do so in a meaningful way, needs the Church.
“Funeral homes are selling something people don’t want,” he said. “The Church has something everyone wants–hope, faith, etc.–but it’s not selling it.” I got the distinct impression from G. that he thinks the Church, generally defined, isn’t doing enough to evangelize or bear witness to Christ in a way people actually understand.
And I sensed that, for G., the need funeral homes have of the church extended beyond a mere business mentality. That he found something truly meaningful–almost ministerial–in the way he serves the dead and the living. There is a lot of fallout of secularism, but one of them we don’t often think about is the way it minimizes the dignity we afford to the dead. It denigrates the time we take for them, the rituals we afford them, the ways we grieve them. And on this subject, I could detect both fear and sadness in his eyes–not because this trend could have consequences for his industry, but because this could have consequences for humanity.
“It’s not about how we value death,” he told us at a later point in the conversation. “It’s about valuing life.” How we treat and care for the dead directly impacts–and is impacted by–our regard for human life.
Towards the end of the meeting, we left G. with a sheet of priorities we are working toward in Orthodox communities in Toronto. Our class is part of a larger project to develop resources for Orthodox in the area to learn about traditional funeral and burial options available to them. With that in mind, many of our priorities focus on starting a conversation about traditional burial alternatives–giving people options to have simpler and more age-old burial options. This entails trying to undo decades of death denial in our broader culture.
But one priority didn’t have much to do with death at all, it just focused on better integrating people into churches and ministries in general.
G. liked that priority the most. “Get people back into the churches,” he repeated. His point was this: be the Church, which necessarily has an important story to tell about death and resurrection, and everything else will fall into place. If the Church would get back into the business of preaching hope (real hope) in the face of death, people wouldn’t have to jump through all these hoops to deny death. They would listen.
For G., why would anyone follow in the direction of Christianity if it can’t (or won’t) stand up to death? Why bother?
So the next time you find yourself just milling around on a Feast of the Elevation of the Cross with nothing to do, might I suggest hitting up the local funeral home. It’s one of the few places left in mainstream society that will not just talk about death, but be willing to face it–in the flesh, with dignity, hope, and possibly also a few admonishments I think the Church needs to hear.
If you liked this blog post, be sure to check out Season 4 of Time Eternal, which is all about death and time. Here’s a good place to start.
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This funeral home sounds much better than any I have ever been to! Aside from the awning, the funeral homes I have been to have been very different; smarmy and fake-feeling. If there is a funeral home in our large metro area with an iconostasis, I haven’t seen it. Our parish conducts funeral services at the church though, just like that wonderful director knows is so important.

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If all of this true – and we’ll have to wait weeks for the toxicology report to find out for sure – it will only fuel the already fiery conversation about opioid abuse in this country. That won’t bring back Prince’s artistry, but it could raise awareness for an epidemic that the general public too often misunderstands and overlooks.
Prince’s death, already an unexpected loss for pop culture and music, could turn out to be part of a new twist on an old tragic story – another rock star overdose, this time thanks to the prescription painkillers that are claiming so many American lives.
Everyone knows heroin is dangerous. But what about Percocet? Or Norco? Or Vicodin?
Millions of Americans are hooked on these and other opioids – a class of drugs that includes brand-name versions of oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine and fentanyl, as well as the illicit drug heroin.
Most people start off innocently ingesting the painkillers under the direction of doctors. This can lead to addiction, though. It is more common than most people imagine to go from a seemingly harmless prescription for Percocet to full-on, uncontrollable addiction, and from there to a fatal overdose.
Tens of thousands of Americans die from overdoses every year. More than in car crashes. If this is what happened to Prince, it’s sad and it’s shocking. But it also could serve as the biggest wake-up call yet that opioid addiction is a public health crisis that must be addressed with more urgency.
If that were to happen, it would do more than commemorative showings of “Purple Rain” at movie theaters across the country to honor his memory.

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Watch dolphins leap out spectacularly to the air in their natural habitat, followed by visiting the most popular Hot Spring in Bali and Vihara Buddha Banjar.
Watch dolphins leap out spectacularly to the air in their natural habitat, followed by visiting the most popular waterfall of Bali and Ulun Danu Temple.
Embark on a scenic stroll atop an elephant and interact closely with them. Followed by tour to Taman Ayun Temple before enjoying sunset at Tanah Lot Temple.
Embark on a scenic stroll atop an elephant and interact closely with them. Followed by tour to some fascinating and popular excursions around Ubud area.
Embark on a scenic stroll atop an elephant and interact closely with them. Followed by tour to Kintamani Volcanic Sightseeing and Tegallalang Rice Terrace.
Pedal through the rapids and enjoy the Ayung River scenic journey, followed by tour to Taman Ayun Temple before enjoying sunset at Tanah Lot Temple.
Pedal through the rapids and enjoy the Ayung River scenic journey, followed by tour to several interesting and popular excursions around Ubud area.
Nusa Penida is a secluded island located southeast of Bali. The tourism infrastructure is not yet overly developed on this island.
Pedal through the rapids and enjoy the Ayung River scenic journey, followed by tour to Kintamani Volcanic Sightseeing and Tegallalang Rice Terrace.
See sunrise at Mount Batur summit and enjoy strolling around Tegalalang Rice Terrace.
See sunrise at Mount Batur summit followed by a walk in the Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud.
See sunrise at Mount Batur summit followed by a visit to Tirta Empul Holy Spring Temple.
Get loose and chill in the geothermally heated pools at the edge of Lake Batur and breathe on the greeneries at northern side of Ubud.
Join on the back-to-back route to visit three legendary temples and the largest rice paddies on the Island of Gods, all in one day.
Discover the allure of the southern Bali peninsula and experience one of the most unforgettable evening in your life.
Explore the highland central and lowland southwest Bali which offer both cultural and natural experiences.
The combination tour of Ubud and Kintamani is a call from nature for you to explore and feast your eyes on the greeneries.
There’s no other tour that allows you to visit 8 excursions in just one day! Embark on our Ubud Area Tour if you haven’t done one.

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Best regards of the day to Alexey Semenovich Myagkov!
Best regards of the day to Anna Savelievna Safina!
Best regards of the day to Lev Seraphimovich Andrusenko!
On May 9, 2013 Russia will be celebrating 68-th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. A few years ago Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre team launched the Our Victory project, aiming at supporting, caring, and revering our dear veterans ever grateful for their courage and heroism in times of war. The project’s slogan is, “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten”.
Our team has also developed a website, destined to learn more about the great deeds of the Soviet people. Marshalls’ and admirals’ biographies, narrations of the self-sacrificial feats of our Motherland’s defenders… We have also considered the means by which the modern generation of the heroes’ children and grandchildren can marvel at the ordeals their grandparents had had to undergo for us to live in peace under the cloudless skies. The website features reviews of feature movies and documentaries, war museums, war book reviews, posters, caricatures, photographs of the period. Here you can also listen to war-time songs. On top of all a separate section is dedicated to the “St. George Ribbon” promo, featuring the list of locations, where you can get one.
From this day onwards we will be daily posting various materials dedicated to the Victory Day on Sokolniki ECC and Our Victory project official websites.


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‘Some of the feedback I have from front-line staff is that they have found the next stage review liberating. This is the sense that they feel they have greater permission than ever to stand up for the quality of care, to challenge practice and lead improvements,’ said health minister Lord Darzi in an interview with Nursing Times last week.
It has been a year since surgeon and politician Lord Darzi published his NHS Next Stage Review, a document setting out the future development of the health service. It called for a greater focus on improving the quality of care that put patients at the centre of decision-making.
The NHS Next Stage Review built on The NHS Plan, published in 2000, which outlined the government’s over-arching health policy for its first and second terms in office.
Although the goals of the next stage review are broadly similar to those of The NHS Plan, such as reducing regional health inequalities, the review differs in several key ways.
While the NHS Plan set out targets that would be enforced centrally, such as the 18-week waiting limit, and attempted to bring about change with huge government investment, Lord Darzi’s plan calls on NHS staff to be the agents of change and empowers them to improve services through innovation.
There has been some progress over the past 12 months on tthe move away from the old-fashioned, top-down NHS management approach towards allowing clinicians to take more control at a local level.
Just last month, as reported by Nursing Times, the government published a list of 200 quality indicators, commonly known as metrics, that could be used across the NHS.
In line with the review’s clinical empowerment agenda but what perhaps came as a surprise to many in the nursing profession was that the use of the performance indicators would not be mandatory and individual organisations could choose which ones best applied to them.
Lord Darzi said the metrics were not mandatory targets, like those set out in the NHS Plan, because he wanted clinicians to take ownership and decide which metrics were most relevant to use themselves.
‘I don’t see myself here instructing any nurse or any doctor in saying that these are the measures you need to use to deliver your care,’ he said.
Examples of the new metrics include measuring emergency readmissions to hospital within 28 days of discharge following a stroke, or measuring call to needle time for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients.
Lord Darzi said that the chief nursing officer for England, Christine Beasley, and her team were also working on a set of indicators specifically for nurses and midwives. She has set up an advisory board to advise on the ‘shape and direction’ of the indicators.
Returning to the subject of local change, Lord Darzi said another useful way for nurses to improve their own services could be for them to produce their own lists of ‘never events’ – events that are serious and largely preventable.
The Next Stage Review proposed that ‘never events’ in England should be identified and monitored.
Progress has already occurred on this front. The National Patient Safety Agency published a list of national never events in November last year. There are eight, including wrong-site surgery, instruments being retained after an operation and chemotherapy administered via the wrong route.
PCTs can choose to monitor and tackle different types of event on the list, which will eventually be included in commissioning contracts.
Lord Darzi also urged nurses to consider creating their own list of preventable never events for own area of work.
For example, nurses might want to define a never event based around nutritional standards and use that to improve care quality, Lord Darzi added.
‘If you have an issue about nutrition in your ward, you need to identify what the problem is, you start to identify what the nutritional standards should be, you start identifying measures that you need to measure against the standards then you say this is the policy that we are going to adopt,’ he said.
Another Lord Darzi buzzword is ‘teamwork’ and he is keen to point out the contribution nurses make to his surgical team.
In particular, patient experience surveys, conducted every year by the Care Quality Commission and the Picker Institute, could well point to how well a clinical team is performing, Lord Darzi suggested.
‘[This will] capture the patient’s experience of the nurse, the doctor, with the occupational therapist,’ he said.
However, while work appears to be progressing well in the move towards more a measurable health service that should lead to a better quality of care, Lord Darzi was less happy with progress on other aims of the review.
At the top of his to-do list is the integration of health and social care services, where he says much work is still to be do be done. Health and social services are not working together as they should and, as a result, care is suffering, he said.
‘There is still too much separation between organisations which present hurdles for patients to negotiate rather than providing seamless services, in which there is no difference for the patient between acute, primary care or social care provider,’ said Lord Darzi.
Another aim of the Next Stage Review that is seemingly yet to take off is the push to make more nurses entrepreneurs – within or outside the health service.
In particular, the review talked of nurses and other staff creating social enterprise schemes that would be independent of the health service but commissioned by it to provide services.
In theory, now that the Treasury has agreed that nurses could keep their NHS pension schemes if they transferred to social enterprises, there would appear to be little to stop nurses starting their own organisations to provide services to the NHS.
The downside is that – as with any other business – they can fail. An economic recession is unlikely to be a popular time to start a business outside the safety of the NHS.
Despite this, Lord Darzi has faith that nurses can and will become health entrepreneurs and improve the quality of services. ‘Most nurses have all the competencies to manage patients when they are ill – now compare that the risk of running a business,’ he said.
Unlike nursing, running a business is not life or death, said Lord Darzi. Therefore nurses should easily cope with the challenges of being in charge of an organisation.
‘If you have a complex sick patient, you have the competencies. Just believe in what you can do and get out and do it,’ he said.
Lord Darzi said he saw social enterprise schemes as vital to the reform of community services – and community services are central to the Next Stage Review’s vision of an NHS that is more responsive to the needs of patients.
The government document Our Vision for Primary and Community Care – what it means for Nurses, Midwives, Health Visitors and Allied Health Professionals was published in July 2008, one month after the main review document.
Lord Darzi said he saw this document as one of the main achievements of the review process to date. It established the Transforming Community Services programme (TCS), which has involved more than 1,000 nurses and allied health professionals.
Part of this work will result in a set of ‘transformational guides’ in six service areas that are intended to help nurses improve the quality of community services – inevitably through the measurement of care against indicators.
The six chosen service areas are: health and well-being; children and families; people with long-term conditions; rehabilitation; providing hospital care close to home; and end-of-life care.
‘[These will] enable nurses and allied health professionals to design, deliver and lead the transformation and a quality framework that over time will build indicators so that the quality of community services can be measured,’ said Lord Darzi.
One of the goals is to take advantage of technology, such as physiological sensors and the internet, to move patients away from hospital settings back into their homes.
As evidence for progress in this area, Lord Darzi highlighted the use of physiological sensors, which measure pulse and blood oxygenation levels. Information from these can be transmitted to a community nurse, who can then instigate an early treatment.
Nationally, a £1.5m TCS innovation and leadership fund has been set up to enable nurses and others to test creative ideas.
Additionally, there is much to be done in taking forward the nurse education reforms outlined in another subsidiary document of the Next Stage Review, called A High Quality Workforce. This document included a commitment to the move to an all-graduate entry level profession.
Lord Darzi welcomed the work already produced by the NMC’s review of pre-qualification nurse education, which will phase out nursing diplomas by 2013–2014. The first phase of this review was carried out from November 2007 to February 2008. The second phase of the review is under way.
‘There is still a lot of work to be done collaboratively between the NMC, DH and universities to achieve this [all-graduate entry level],’ he said, adding that existing nurses would not need to gain degrees.
‘Only new registrants will be required to have degrees. There is no requirement for current nurses to get degrees to stay on the register,’ he said.
Despite Lord Darzi’s positive words, the NHS is once gain facing challenges that he could not have accounted for when drawing up the next stage review – namely an economic recession and political turmoil.
The effects of the recession are largely yet to affect the public sector but, when they do, could be severe. Last week, the NHS Confederation predicted spending cuts of up to £15bn in the NHS over the next 10 years, which could radically change the face of the health service.
Lord Darzi said he was not concerned that his programme of reforms would be threatened by internal changes at the Department of Health earlier this month. Alan Johnson, who was in charge of the Department of Health when the review was published, is no longer health secretary.
He was – perhaps unsurprisingly – positive about his new boss, Andy Burnham, who was appointed as health secretary in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s cabinet reshuffle.
‘Andy is absolutely brilliant and he has worked in health before – he was the health minister here. He is very much engaged in the health reforms and sees that the Next Stage Review is the continuum of the many reforms that he has been involved with in the past,’ Lord Darzi said.
Whatever the political or economic challenges, Lord Darzi said that he believed that the success or failure of his reform plans lay squarely with his clinical colleagues working on the front line.
What’s on your Christmas list – a higher salary?
What is your position on Christmas? Are you going to spend too much on presents, have another mince pie, maybe a glass of wine or two and get back into the gym after New Year, assuming you can see your feet to tie your unused trainers?
Nurses to create personal "brands"
Nurses would run hospitals and sell services directly to the public using their personal “brands”. This is the vision of the director of a network of nurses who recently discussed her ideas with Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
The government is set to introduce a new ‘Michelin-style’ accreditation system that will see the best clinical teams, wards and departments in the NHS awarded a ‘gold standard’ for excellence.
Health minister Lord Darzi has pledged that ‘quality is well on its way to becoming the organising principle of the NHS’.
Nursing’s ‘tremendous appetite for innovation’ must be harnessed to improve patient care and stave off the impact of tighter NHS spending, according to health minister Lord Darzi.
The NHS must provide better ‘customer care’ to its patients in future, the government has warned.
Many Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are not capable of implementing Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review of the NHS, according to an influential committee of MPs.
Campaigns to encourage people to join the nursing profession will fail unless they are backed with cash incentives, according to an agency that has revitalised the image of teaching.
Adopting metrics that measure nurses’ contributions to care could lead to them earning money for attending courses or developing new ideas, NT has learnt.
He's wrong. Patients should be in charge of reform. That's why we're playing musical chairs and the emperors new clothes 13 years later. Of course he's a surgeon so it's not a surprise that he would believe this.


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Gonna be gone for a few days.
Goin’ camping with my family.
No phone, no internet, no problem!
I will be back to my desk on Tuesday, so don’t fret.
I will be walking back and forth across this very bridge.
And taking naps in my hammock.
And we plan to do a day trip on our bikes….yikes!
Did I mention I would be taking naps in my hammock?

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Pick up: Your Hotel or Residency in Dubai.
Your tour guide and driver will be waiting for you at your hotel lobby for picking up and Driving outside Dubai to experience a Drive in the sand dunes. By driving there you will Really enjoy and try the experience of driving over yellow sand like locals with marvelous Scene of Desert with all it may includes before stopping for marvelous photo stop by sun Set.
Next we proceed to our camp. Upon arrival at the camp you will have the opportunity to Ride a camel and walk into desert.
Then it is time for BBQ meal by the sand and in an open air tent and also with unique Belly dance show with oriental music.
By the end of the tour you arrive back at your Ship or hotel after enjoying your safari Day.
Private: 125 USD (Minimum 4 Persons).
– Pickup from your hotel or residence in Dubai.
– Biggest Pyramid Dunes / Adventurous dune driving .
– BBQ Dinner with Veg & Non Veg dishes.
– Drop back to your hotel or residence in Dubai.


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BlackWrights is ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s brand-new artist development program aimed at bringing new First Nations work to the stages of Australia.
The BlackWrights Master Labs are a series of hands-on theatre workshops for First Nations artists and creatives. The Theatre Making workshop (with Rachael Maza and Kamarra Bell-Wykes) is the final Master lab of the series. Limited places so register now to avoid disappointment.
This is your opportunity to immerse yourself in a week of play, exploration and creation with ILBIJERRI’s artistic team. Collaborate with other First Nations artists to seed and explore creative ideas with a focus on performance and directing craft.
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Important: If you are using Exchange with smtp-proxy.tm.net.my, you must configure your server to reject invalid recipients during the SMTP session, rather than generating NDRs and sending them out later. In the Message Delivery Properties dialog box in Global Settings, find the Recipient Filtering tab. Make sure that “Filter recipients who are not in the Directory” is checked, and Apply the settings.
Go to “Start/All Programs/Microsoft Exchange” and click on “System Manager”.
By default, Exchange uses SMTP for outbound connections, so you should find an “Internet Mail SMTP Connector” already there. Right click on it and select “Properties”.
On the “General” tab, select “Forward all mail through this connector to the following smart hosts” and enter “smtp-proxy.tm.net.my” in the field below.
On the “Advanced” tab, click on the “Outbound Security” button to get to “Outbound Security” dialog box.
By default, exchange sets up security to use “Anonymous Access”. Change this to “Basic authentication (password is sent in clear text)” then click the “Modify” button, enter your domain username and password, and click “OK”.
Back at the “Outbound Security” dialog box, enable “TLS Encryption” and click “OK”.
Exchange’s SMTP virtual server does not support authentication. In order to use smtp-proxy, you must add an SMTP connector.
Important: If you are using Exchange with smtp-proxy, you must configure your server to reject invalid recipients during the SMTP session, rather than generating NDRs and sending them out later. In the Message Delivery Properties dialog box in Global Settings, find the Recipient Filtering tab. Make sure that “Filter recipients who are not in the Directory” is checked, and Apply the settings.
Click on Routing Groups -> First routing group -> Connectors.
Add an SMTP connector by right clicking on Connectors.
In the properties, select “Forward all mail through this connector to the following smart hosts” and enter smtp-proxy.tm.net.my in the field below.
Add a local bridgehead. If you have only one server, this is your server.
Select Properties: Deactivate “Send HELO instead of EHLO”.
Activate “Do not send ETRN/TURN”.
On the Delivery Options page, select “Specify when messages are sent through this connector” and specify “Always Run” (or whatever you desire).
Under the Advanced tab, click “Outbound Security…” then “Basic authentication” then click Modify. Enter your domain username and password here.
Under Address Space, click Add then SMTP. Domain should be * and cost 1.
Connector Scope is probably “Entire organization”.
It is not necessary to click “Allow messages to be relayed through this domain” (and this option probably should not be selected).
These instructions is for Mac OS X 10.3 that running postfix 2.0.10. It is expected that other versions of postfix running on various flavors of UNIX/Linux should be similarly configured.
These instructions assume the postfix config files live in /etc/postfix.
to enable SSL/TLS when sending outgoing mail. Note that the path info in the second command may be different depending on your system and where you have installed your certificates. The last line may be omitted, but should help reduce CPU cycles verifying the certificate chain when sending outgoing E-Mail.
where userid and password are your domain username and password.
Next, change the ownership and permissions on the sasl_passwd file to protect it from unauthorized access.
Remove the relayhost = smtp-proxy.tm.net.my entry in main.cf, if one exists.
If you want to change the port that Postfix uses to send outgoing mail, we have been told that you may need to change the definition of the SMTP port in /etc/services. We do not have comprehensive instructions for making this change, but some reasonable searching should get you the information you need – when changing /etc/services, though, you should be very careful, as this file controls a large part of the UNIX system’s TCP/IP interactions.
These instructions assume that you already have an appropriate .mc file prepared for your Sendmail configuration, and have the appropriate commands/tools prepared to compile that into a sendmail.cf file and install it in the appropriate location. On some BSD-based systems, this is as simple as typing “make” in /etc/mail and editing $hostname.mc. On other systems, it can be considerably more difficult. Consult the manual for your system or Sendmail for more information.
Replacing “username” and “password” with your domain username and password, respectively. Be sure to include the rest of the line exactly as it is shown above, quotes and all. You should make sure that this file is not readable by unpriviledged users, as it contains your login information.
This will create an /etc/mail/authinfo.db file, which Sendmail will use to read the authentication information. You will need to re-run the above command any time you change /etc/mail/authinfo.
In the “MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS” make sure that your primary_hostname and local_domains variables are configured correctly. Otherwise you’ll likely generate nasty loops. Unfortunately we can’t tell you precisely how to configure these as they depend on too many local variables. Consult the Exim documentation for more details on configuring these items.
The username and password should of course be your domain credentials.
These instructions is for Communigate Pro version 4.1.7 on Mac OS X 10.3. However, the basic interface for this in Communigate Pro hasn’t changed since 3.0 or earlier. As such, these instructions should work with most versions of Communigate Pro currently in service.
Using the basic Web interface to administer Communigate Pro, access the SMTP section and select the option “Forward to”.
Enter smtp-proxy.tm.net.my in the text field to the right of this option.
In the “Send AUTH” field enter your domain username.
In the “Password” field enter your domain password.
Optionally, in the “Send Encrypted (SSL/TLS)” enter smtp-proxy.tm.net.my in the “To Domains” field to engage SSL based encryption for communications between you and our relay server.


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New Florida Majority Executive Director Andrea Mercado released the following statement on Gov. Rick Scott’s signing of Senate Bill 7026.
“Gov. Rick Scott had an opportunity to be a responsible leader on addressing school violence.
In allowing more personnel to be armed in schools, Gov. Scott and the legislators that made this bill possible, just add to existing fears and pave the way for potential abuse and violence. Teachers and students need more funds – not more guns in schools. They need textbooks, counselors and resources that don’t come at the expense of housing, climate resilience and other neighborhood needs.

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Until I taught 6th graders I didn't know math could be so much fun. Back in the days... art, history, geography and literature, even biology (illustrating frogs and flowers) had more appeal. But perspectives can change!
We needn't be mathematicians to appreciate geometry in nature where math and art come together! Fractals are everywhere. Let's bring the children to UCSC's Arboretum, walk around our own gardens, the neighborhood, our parks, visit local garden stores. Take a different perspective in the fresh produce section of the grocery store. For some exotic images of fractals, go here.
Make your outings mathematical. Challenge the children to find fractals. Our local scientist/mom, Christine Cockey, explains fractals in the larger scheme of things --here and here.
For more math fun, check out the upcoming Julia Robinson Math Festival at Cabrillo College.
An old friend, Judy McMillan, who has run a wonderful, nurturing in-home daycare for many years called to let us know that she has re-opened her enchanting environment as a preschool offering flexible days and open 8am to 1:30pm. If you are in preschool exploration mode, check out Children's Cottage Montessori in Aptos. Judy welcomes your visits.
An educator new to me, Rob Owen, called to talk about his new venture, Pioneer Academy. Working with middle school students, an age that became my favorite as they wrestled with humor, mistakes and successes in the natural ups and downs of that "middle" childhood age takes experience, vision and a steady presence. Check out Rob Owen's new and surprisingly affordable program located in Corralitos.
The fair is a family affair. Especially wonderful for the children is a visit to meet the farm animals and to talk with the children who have raised them. Or you can visit the exhibits of collections, vegetable carvings, art, quilts and preserves. On the way in, take a little time to visit the Rodgers House, an 1870's house.
Once a year you can eat "fair food": huge corn dogs, crispy egg rolls on sticks, long hot dogs with curled french fries, fried mushrooms or artichoke hearts, Philly cheese steaks, legs of rotisserie turkey and barbecued meats galore, a sausage sandwich or taco salad, hamburgers and grilled onions on toasted bun with pickles and cheese. For dessert try cotton candy. Parents may find a taste of cold home brewed beer. Choose one!
2016 Metro Fair schedule will be posted soon!
If school mornings in your home are calm, peaceful and enjoyable. If it's easy to get to school on time, if your children get themselves up and ready, always have their homework and never forget where their shoes are then you can stop reading right here. If however, mornings at your house are sometimes less than idyllic, here are some tips.
You and your children will be getting ready for school in basically the same way for at least 13 years. That means 2,340 mornings that can either be smooth and organized or filled with tears, stress and cajoling. If your routine takes 20 minutes longer a day than it needs to that is 60 hours a year (about 2 school weeks) wasted that could have been spent doing something fun. If you have to prompt your child through the 25 steps process of getting out the door you may want to pull your hair out some mornings and that is not a good way to start the day.
As my kids grow older, I've become increasingly obsessed with asking myself, "Will they be prepared to live on their own someday?" Deep down, I know they'll be fine. They will make mistakes, do things I consider irrational or unwise, or just struggle to define who they are and what they believe in. Even though I know my kids will do fine in life, it's hard not to wonder and worry as a parent. It takes constant effort to adjust my own mindset so I'm preparing my children for independence instead of limiting their opportunities to grow. The constant effort is exhausting, but the end result is rewarding.
This monthly column provides tips for anyone who is helping raise children, based on the world-renowned Triple P - Positive Parenting Program, available to families in Santa Cruz County. If you have a question or idea for a future column, email me at triplep@first5scc.org.
Dear Randi, Good question! It makes me think of "growth mindset" - a concept developed by Carol Dweck, a Stanford University psychology professor. People with a "fixed mindset" believe they are born with certain abilities, intelligence and talents, and there's nothing they can do to change them. Their goal is to always appear smart and capable, which leads them to avoid challenges or give up because they're afraid of failure.
Kayla Kemper is the Seymour Center's current "Artist in Residence" and is stationed next to the back windows of the entry hall. Due to popular demand, her live demonstrations have been extended into mid-September. Stop by to see Kayla as she demonstrates how she creates marine art and learn more about scientific illustration and animations.
Details: Wineries, gourmet food, fine art, entertainment, children's art area. Admission free.
click to view website Fractal Detectives!
Encourage your child to set goals and self-evaluate her progress. Talk with your daughter about something she would like to work on or improve this year. Help her identify a goal that feels both realistic and challenging to achieve. Throughout the year, ask questions that encourage her to reflect on her progress: what strategies she's tried, what's working well and what she'll do differently in the future.
Praise both efforts and achievements. Descriptive praise acknowledges the child's efforts and ties it to the goal or outcome the child is working toward. This boosts a child's self-esteem and also reinforces the belief that continuous effort leads to continuous improvements. Examples of descriptive praise include, "You spent a lot of time studying for that test and your score is higher than last time. That's progress!" or "You did a good job trying different ways to solve this problem and sticking with it until you figured it out."
Teach your child strategies to solve problems independently. In Triple P, the steps in the problem-solving process are 1) define the problem or issue, 2) brainstorm possible solutions, 3) choose a solution, 4) try it out, and 5) review what worked well and what adjustments are needed for the future. These are steps that children of any age (and adults!) can learn and practice. Parents, caregivers and teachers can help children become independent problem-solvers by gradually reducing the amount of telling - "You should try this next time," - and increasing the amount of asking - "What will you do next time?"
Set a good example. It's common for adults to talk about having a growth mindset, but then respond to their own or others' mistakes and struggles by becoming anxious, overly concerned or controlling. Trust me, I know. One of the best ways for adults to foster a growth mindset in children is to have regular conversations about setting goals, trying new ideas and approaches, making mistakes, trying again and acknowledging accomplishments. It will be even more powerful when children see and hear adults doing this about their own challenges and failures.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Developing a growth mindset is hard work. It's a lifelong process. Fortunately, positive parenting strategies are valuable tools that help foster a growth mindset, which is one of the greatest gifts that parents can give their children.
Nicole Young is the mother of two children, ages 12 and 16, who also manages Santa Cruz County's Triple P - Positive Parenting Program, the world's leading positive parenting program. Scientifically proven, Triple P is made available locally by First 5 Santa Cruz County, the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency (Mental Health Services Act) and the Santa Cruz County Human Services Department. For more information, including classes and one-on-one meetings to help parents handle everyday parenting challenges, visit http://triplep.first5scc.org,To find a Triple P class or practitioner, contact First 5 Santa Cruz County at 465-2217 or triplep@first5scc.org.


text: Guhagar beach is clean and isolated white sand beach located close to the Guhagar S.T. Depot. The beach is safe for swimming and other water sports. Guhagar beach with its unspoiled white sand beach, offers tranquility to the minds of the people. You can also enjoy the ferry service from Dabhol to the beach. You can also visit a number of temples, which are located close to the town known as Velneshwar, Balkeshwar Vyadeshwar, Talkeshwar, Udaleshwar and Ufrata Ganapati temple.


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The modern-day revolution is seeing a lot of things, which one could not have imagined two or three decades ago, turn into reality. Among these are the virtual reality (VR) and the augmented reality (AR). Even though these technologies are still in their early days, according to industry analysts, the headset market is going to expand a lot in the coming years.
13.7 million units of headsets have already been shipped this year, and the amount will grow up to a shocking 81.2 million units by the start of 2021, which shows an annual growth of 56.1%.
The VR market has already taken off, with many mainstream companies venturing into the market. High-profile VR headsets that include Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and the HTC Vive were already put on sale from 2016. On the other hand, the large mobile VR market, that contains headsets powered by smartphones, have also taken off with the Samsung’s Gear VR and various Google Daydream gadgets making it to the shops this year.
On the other hand, AR is still in transition and developing mode, with very less firms into the technology. Microsoft’s HoloLens remains possibly the only well-known AR headset, that you can purchase right now, after the Google Glass project. Moreover, the mysterious Magic Leap and Apple’s ARkit is also making the headlines in the AR market.
VR is a fully hypnotic digital world hidden inside a headset, while AR, or mixed reality, overlaps the digital world over reality. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook has not hidden his praise for AR, naming it a core technology. He further added that AR will be a larger business in the long future than VR.
According to market analysts, VR headsets will take more than 90% of the headset market until 2019, but AR headsets will experience a revolution in the market between 2020 and 2021, with AR grabbing a quarter of the market by the end of that tenure.
A senior researcher and analyst revealed that AR headset shipments are only a little amount of what he expects it to be after a tenure of five years, both with respect to the amount and its functionality.
He further added that AR headsets are on the pathway to make more than $30 billion in sales by 2021, which will be almost twice of the revenue gained by VR. Most of the AR headsets will have a higher average selling price in comparison to VR headsets. Moreover, most consumers will also experience AR on mobile devices, with the Apple ARKit and Google’s ARCore-enabled applications all set to march themselves into the consumer grade headsets.


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Out of 1,054 scheduled flights in total, 643 were canceled, the airports said, adding that many of their passengers would be affected, with significant delays at security checkpoints. An average of 115,000 passengers pass through the airports per day. Public sector union Verdi said it was negotiating on behalf of 23,000 security workers in Germany. Wage talks are to resume on Jan. 23, it said. The union has demanded a pay increase to 20 euros ($23.06) per hour before tax. On Monday, a strike at Berlin's Schoenefeld and Tegel airports had caused delays and flight cancellations. Around 1,000 security workers took part in the strike during the morning, Verdi said on Thursday, adding that the strike would continue until the end of the day.
spokeswoman for the union said.
Christian Witt, one of the passengers stranded at Duesseldorf airport, told Reuters: "You never understand when it affects you personally but you have to see the bigger picture."

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Aerial- Chosen Productions Inc. - Chosen Productions, Inc.
Chosen Productions is changing the way the world is viewed today with aerial videography in Chattanooga. In today’s market more and more companies are leveraging the amazing visual power of interactive technology to reach potential clients and close more sales without the high cost, travel, and time. Instead of personal visit to your office, everything can be accomplished with a click of a button.
Our remote control helicopter can operate in very close range of the subject using a wide angle lens to achieve a shot impossible to get with full sized aircraft. We can access almost any subject, without disturbance in the form of rotor wash or noise. With an R/C helicopter it’s possible to follow subjects through tight places like through trees and around buildings.
Chosen Productions use the best equipment to capture amazing aerial videos to deliver a high quality final product. Our videographers are extremely knowledgeable and have amazing customer service. Our video team will be able to take your ideas and make them a reality. Contact Chosen Productions today for a free consultation.


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Guide providing hotel and guest accommodation in Bloomsbury. Our directory contains detailed information for cheap hotel rooms, bed and breakfast, luxury and discount accommodation deals.
The Alhambra Hotel, run by English, French and Portugese speaking staff, is within convenient reach of London's West End and City. Listed by many international travel guide books such as : Lonely Planet, Lets go, Guide du Routard and Petit Fute we can proudly say that over half of our guests are return customers.
Comfort Inn King's Cross was awarded Best Comfort Hotel of the year in U.K & Ireland by Choice Hotel Europe for its outstanding achievements during the year 2002. Comfort Inn King's Cross is only a few minutes walk to King's Cross, St Pancras, Thameslink and Euston Station -all of these rail stations also have associated underground / subway Stations.
We are situated within 100 metres of King's Cross underground station, right in the centre of London. At the Crestfield Hotel we offer friendly service for long and short stay guests visiting London on either business or pleasure We offer good value for money with a variety of rooms to appeal to everyone, from the budget traveller to the businessman.
The Park Hotel is ideally located in Central London close to the famous Bloomsbury District and is perfectly situated for Kings Cross, St.Pancras and Euston mainline stations. We are also easily accessible from all London mainline airports - Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton and Stansted. We pride ourselves in offering visitors to London, whether business or pleasure "a home away from home."
Located in King's Cross, The Swinton Hotel is a friendly relaxed hotel in the centre of London . The location of the hotel allows easy access to all London attractions, many within walking distance. Whether you are in town on business, as a tourist, for shopping, or to enjoy the entertainment and nightlife we will provide you with a comfortable environment from which to base yourself.
Being just two minutes walk from Kings Cross and St. Pancras mainline railway stations, Hotel Meridiana offers easy access to London's many tourist attractions. The hotel is an ideal launch pad for Oxford Street, The British Museum, Camden Town, Soho, Trafalgar Square, and many other sights of London, all of which can be reached within 15 minutes of the hotel.
The Albion House Hotel is a brand new boutique hotel, with 13 spacious en-suite bedrooms. The hotel situated in a tranquil square and is privately owned and operated. Each bedroom has a unique style, combining modern contemporary design and charm.
Macdonald Hotel is a family run bed & breakfast hotel offering a friendly and homely environment, centrally located and well served by public transport. A few steps away from Kings Cross St. Pancras underground station all of London's popular attractions like Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, London Eye, Tower of London and Tower Bridge are within easy reach.

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Alright, I know that I’ve shared these fabulous entrepreneurs on Facebook, but I am all about giving love to the entrepreneurs in my life. Growing up the daughter of one of the world’s great entrepreneurs, (as well as the sister to a girl that once sold rocks in our front yard and will likely be another great), I have always deeply admired people that take risks to create financial independence.
Heck, I have even tried unsuccessfully myself, (wedding videography/documentary maker anyone?!), so I definitely know the spirit when I see it and strive to continue chasing it through my writing. Soon enough, I will also be married to an entrepreneur again, as Alex is imminently headed back to real estate. Which reminds me, does anyone want to buy or sell a house? Oh, wait, that’s a different post!
Back to the point, it seems like I am surrounded by inspiring entrepreneurs. Here are a few recent inspirations in my life, thank you ladies for reminding me to be brave and take risks!
My husband’s cousin recently launched her own home business making all-natural soaps and spa products in Hawaii. Not only are the ingredients wonderful, but the products are stylish. Jessica followed her heart to take the risk to move her family to Hawaii and has not looked back. I admire the guts! Her home business is experiencing great success, including the use of her products by celebrities. Doesn’t get much better than that!
My dear friend Tanya is blessed with the courage to pursue her creative endeavors. She has sold gorgeous wedding veils, fabulous dresses, and handsome silk neck ties. As a design major at UC Davis, she kept us all on our toes in her various fashion shows, (excuse the rhyming!). Currently, she blogs for Style Bistro and does amazing freelance fashion illustrations. I truly cannot wait to see what she does next!
Apparently UC Davis is just a hotbed of creativity, because another lovely friend from college, Katie, is a designer for Old Navy as well as the owner of Botany Factory, a quirky cute company that creates terrariums and offers occasional terrarium-making classes set to live Blue Grass music in the Mission in SF. Katie has also received press attention for her terrariums, and I cannot wait to buy one!
Staying at my aunt Colleen’s house was always the biggest treat when I was growing up. She has been an entrepreneur longer than I have been alive, and her house was always abuzz with her pursuits. Whether I was pouring through the blue prints for her contracting jobs or chasing around baby chicks for her pet store, I was always in kid heaven. The best of course, was when she had baby sheep that I could bottle feed and cuddle. I can still remember the wooly softness of a baby sheep hug! Now, Colleen turns the wool from her sheep into gorgeous blankets for her business Flock & Farm. With baby sheep season upon us, I think I may have to go visit sometime soon!
Thanks for the love! So many inspirational folks out there. What talent!


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Carmen, Alex and Nacho, from URJC (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) show us their RhythmBox made with Arduino. This project consists in building a RhythmBox with 9 coloured buttons in the top of a small case. Each one will play a different sound, so you will be able to create music using several buttons. The frequency of the songs will be showed in the screen through an equalizer.
- 9 10 k Resistors.
Thank you to Angel Serrano (Researcher in URJC). Enjoy it!!

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


text: Fanwood is part of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood school district, with five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, all of which are in Scotch Plains, close to the Fanwood border. The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School had 1,555 students enrolled this year, 59 percent of whom took one or more of the 17 advanced-placement courses offered. Private school choices include St. Bartholomew Academy for prekindergarten through Grade 8 and Union Catholic High School, both in Scotch Plains.


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The pre-production stage is a vital part of the film as it’s where we make some key decisions. It’s the planning stage where we ensure the project is well organised, but still retains flexibility should it become necessary to make some changes.
When we script your film, we design a shot-to-shot plan so that we arrive fully prepared with an accurate idea of timeframe.
A good script is key to delivering the information you want in the manner that best fits your business. We work with you to draft and perfect the script for your film, ensuring that we cover all the key points and that it’s in keeping with the values and personality of your business.
This is where we define the delivery of the script and the shots themselves. The delivery style is a direct reflection of your company’s core values. Are you a local start-up company with a story to tell or do you need to deliver a straight-talking message for your established business? Think tie or trainers!
We source music for the film (if necessary) that goes with the style we’ve defined for the project and the information being conveyed.
When it comes to location shooting, we need your place of work looking as fit for film as you do. A clutter-free space will make all the difference.
Common sense prevails when it comes to organising when we actually shoot your film. We need a time of day that doesn’t provide too much or too little light, and it’s best to avoid early mornings as your cast will tend to have scratchy voices first thing. We also need to decide on a time that doesn’t disrupt the day-to-day running of your business.
We need to find the perfect people to appear in your project, be they members of staff or otherwise. Some people behave very differently when a camera is pointed at them, so we need to find who gives the best value to your project.
This is a mixture of casting, setting, script and delivery. To get good talking head shots we’ll ask questions off camera to prompt the best responses from the cast.
We’ll liaise with you throughout to ensure the production goes smoothly. It’s vital we organise as much as we can to ensure the film is on time, on budget and gives you the best value possible. It’s at this the stage when we can develop or discount certain creative ideas to refine your project.


text: We love a party, and these pretty aqua heart paper plates are sure to make a stylish addition to yours! Try them with our aqua hearts paper cups, and mix and match with our new party bags and straws. Love hearts? Why not try with our gorgeous new heart-shaped balloons! Each pack contains 8 paper plates.


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Hi, I’m Barrett Rothe and I’m running to represent Highlands Ranch in the Colorado legislature.
On Thursday and Friday this week, teachers from around Colorado will be taking time off to go to the state capitol. Teachers are going to raise awareness about Colorado’s dismal investments in public education. I’m reaching out to teachers and parents to let you know I’ll be standing with them.
As the grandson of a civics teacher in Oklahoma I was instilled with a tremendous respect for teachers and a love for our country’s values.
The people who educate our children should be paid a professional wage, they should not have to pay for classroom supplies out of their own pocket, they should not be compelled to carry a gun to teach 7th grade social studies, and they should not be threatened with jail time for exercising the freedoms we hold dear.
We can do much, much better than this.
With that in mind I’m asking all of you, no matter where you live, to find who is running to represent you in the legislature and get involved in their campaign.
Together we can make sure teachers can stay in the classroom next year, they should not have to march to get our attention.
Thank you for reading, and for those of you going to the capitol good luck and I’ll see you there!


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Both houses of the Washington legislature are considering bills that would provide prepaid postage for ballots (HB 1209 / SB 5063), making last year's measures permanent and statewide. Many of us have heard stories of first-time or inconsistent voters who haven’t realized they needed a stamp in order to vote until too late. Other voters may not have the transportation and work flexibility to go to a post office during the day to buy one stamp, or they may not have the excess cash to buy an entire book of stamps.
Ballot postage is paid in King County but in other counties ballot postage was only provided on a one-time basis in 2018 by Governor Inslee. This year the legislature has the opportunity to make that practice permanent for the whole state.
• HB 1379 / SB 5221 PAC to PAC disclosure. Eliminates a loophole that allows concealment of the true donors behind campaign ads. These companion bills would close that loophole by requiring that the top donors listed be the individuals, corporations or nonprofits that actually contributed.
• SB 5076 Extend voter registration to persons on parole (community custody). Allows people who are on parole to register to vote as long as they are in compliance with the conditions of their parole.
• SB 5207 Notification of voting rights restoration. Requires that the Department of Corrections provide inmates with a felony conviction with information on how to restore their right to vote along with a voter registration form. Too often someone leaves the prison system believing that their right to vote has been taken away permanently.
• HB 1339 / SB 5079 Native American Voting Rights Act. Will enable mail-in ballots for those living on native lands but without a recognized street address.


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Lecturecast allows for the scheduling and recording of lectures in Lecturecast enabled UCL teaching spaces to support student learning.
Recordings can then be made available to students via Moodle courses.
The Lecturecast system provides a learning platform that goes beyond the simple recording of lectures, allowing staff to engage with students, and students to engage further with content.
What kind of event can be recorded?
These are events that are part of an undergraduate or postgraduate taught program that have been assigned to a specific portico taught module e.g. ECON1001. These can be scheduled via the Lecturecast scheduler tool and will automatically appear in the correct section within Lecturecast.
These are events that are part of an undergraduate of postgraduate taught program but are not associated with a particular module code e.g a shared/common introductory lecture taught across multiple modules. These events can be scheduled for recording, as long as they have been booked in a Lecturecast equipped space via room bookings, using the Lecturecast scheduler tool. They will not by default be associated with any particular section in Lecturecast but will be stored in the personal library of the person who made the booking. From this location they may be published into any existing Lecturecast sections (i.e. modular section) on which the person making the booking is an instructor.
NOTE: Special events are supported by Digital Media and cannot be scheduled via the Lecturecast system.
These are events that are NOT part of undergraduate or postgraduate taught programs, e.g. an inaugural lectures, conferences, outreach events, public events, CPD, etc.
If you need to record a special event, contact Digital Media at video@ucl.ac.uk who provide filming and editing services.
Why should I record my lectures?
Lecture recordings provide lecturers with the ability to review the structure and delivery of their lectures for professional development. Lecture recordings also provide lecturers with the ability to change the balance of activities during contact times, e.g. deliver informational elements via a recording and follow up with discussion sessions.
Lecture recordings provide students with the ability to revisit complex material, unusual or subject specific terminology (especially useful for overseas students) and view lectures missed due to illness or unforeseen circumstances.
How does Lecturecast benefit lecturers?
Giving students the ability to review lecture content should reduce the number of basic questions that lecturers have to answer repeatedly.
Lecturecast affords the opportunity to 'flip' lecture content - delivering the informational content via pre-recorded material and making more productive use of contact time.
The system logs viewing statistics, giving lecturers and course designers a good idea of how much a recording has been viewed and by whom.
How does Lecturecast benefit students?
The ability to revisit complex material to ensure understanding.
The opportunity to clarify the use of unusual terminology or subject jargon (this can be especially useful for overseas students).
The option to view lectures missed due to illness or unforeseen circumstances.
The ability to bookmark specific parts of recordings as an aid to revision.
In every recent UCL survey of students and their use of technology, more use of Lecturecast has been the most frequent request.
Do I have to Lecturecast my lectures?
At the current time UCL does not have an opt-out policy for Lecturecast. Use of the system is purely opt-in at the moment, so its use is up to the individual/department to decide.
There are plans to move towards opt-out in coming years, but any such change will be agreed by Educational Committee first, with procedures and tools to facilitate this. Ground work is needed before this, specifically to clarify legal and policy aspects, and a Working Group has been set up under the Office of Vice Provost for Education to review and implement required policies to support an opt out Lecturecast solution.
Can I Live Steam using Lecturecast?
At the current time the UCL Lecturecast service does not support Live Streaming as part of the service offering. Only lecture capture and associated engagment tools are available as part of the service.
How can I check if my Lecturecast recording has been scheduled?
How do I make a booking for a Lecturecast recording?
Log in to the Lecturecast Scheduler to create or edit a recording schedule. Schedules may only be amended or deleted by the staff member who created the original schedule. Find instructions on how to access the Lecturecast Scheduler and how to schedule a recording in the Lecturecast Scheduler training guides.
Recordings for centrally timetabled teaching events will automatically appear in the associated Lecturecast class within a given module's section.
I cannot find my event on the Lecturecast scheduler. What should I do?
Only events timetabled via CMIS can be scheduled for recording. Check to make sure that your lecture is timetabled via CMIS.
Ensure the lecture is taking place in a Lecturecast enabled teaching space.
Try searching for any other module codes assigned to your lecture e.g. ECON1001 and ECON1001A as only one code will feed into the scheduler for each event. You could also try doing a search using the ‘Location’ field.
Event information is brought into the scheduler on a 3 month rolling basis. Your event will need to occur within the next 3 months to be visible in the Lecturecast Scheduler.
Is there a limit on recording duration?
The maximum duration of a single recording is 4 hours. Events booked in CMIS longer than 4 hours will appear as non-bookable in the Lecturecast scheduler. Events longer than 4 hours should be broken down to chunks of less than 4 hours in CMIS to make them bookable via the Lecturecast scheduler. Currently the scheduler advises users to contact the Lecturecast team for scheduling recordings more than 4 hours in length, the team will assist in making these bookings during the first term of the 2017/18 session but subsequently will expect users to make the necessary adjustments in their CMIS bookings allowing them to schedule their own recordings.
What if my room booking is cancelled?
When a CMIS room booking is cancelled the corresponding Lecturecast schedule is also cancelled. A notification will be sent to the event owner in CMIS advising them of this.
By default, Lecturecast captures all material sent to the room's projector from any connected device (e.g PowerPoint slides from an attached laptop, handwritten notes or objects held under a document cameras). Audio is captured via a clip-on radio microphone and video of the presentation area (i.e the lecturer or presenter) is captured via a fixed position camera.
Do I have to appear in my recorded lectures?
No. Video of the presenter may be omitted from the recording by un-ticking the 'Capture presenter' option available in the online scheduler (when 'Unscheduled events' view is used). Prior to recordings commencing, schedules can also be edited (only be their creator) to change the 'Capture presenter' option. Once a recording has been made the presenter component can only be removed by downloading the slides & audio version of the recording and re-uploading this into the class containing the original video. It's important to note that if the original video has been available to students, overwriting it will cause the loss of student bookmarks and/or Q&A synchronisation with the original media.
Do I have to deliver my lecture differently?
Questions from the floor are often faint in the recording as it is usually only the presenter who has a microphone. Repeating or paraphrasing the question asked before answering will ensure that both the question and response are clear in the final recording.
It is best to use the computer cursor/mouse to highlight particular areas of the slide or presentation when they are being referred to. Devices like laser or physical pointers will not be captured.
The cameras used by Lecturecast will not effectively record materials being written on white boards. If you need to draw, write or mark-up materials during your presentation it is best to use the in-theatre document camera.
What do I need to consider if I want to record a guest speaker?
In the case of external or guest speakers, they should be asked to sign the standard Lecturer consent form. The form is used to gather permission to record their lecture and permission to re-use their copyright material. The completed "Lecturer consent forms" should be retained by the UCL department which has organised the event as proof that we have the relevant permissions. A consent form is available from the main UCL library's Lecturecast copyright page.
What do I need to be aware of regarding copyright?
Guidance on this can be found on the Library's copyright pages for lectures, podcasts etc.
How is a Moodle course linked to its associated Lecturecast section?
Moodle courses act as gateways to associated Lecturecast content and therefore the course link to Lecturecast must be set up before course staff and students can access the Lecturecast content.
How do I get instructor access to my Lecturecast section(s)?
Find out how to link a Lecturecast section on a Moodle course in the Linking Moodle to Lecturecast training guides.
Can my recording be edited?
Yes, basic editing functionality allows sections to be removed from a video. Detailed instructions can be found within the Lecturecast ALP - Edit a capture training guide.
Can the presenter be removed from a recording?
This is possible if student content such as Q&A, notes etc. has not already been associated with the class content. Find out how to remove the presenter from a recording in the training guide.
Do I have to edit my recording before publishing?
In most cases editing Lecturecast recordings is not strictly necessary and the choice to edit or not is the personal preference of the presenter (or decided by departmental policy). It is important however, where for example, personal conversations between event attendees may have been inadvertantly recorded, that these be removed. When scheduling recordings there is an option to make recordings automatically available to students or to hold them back for review before making them available.
Instructors can make any recording available or unavailable at any time and if material does need to be removed it's recommended that recordings are made unavailable until any edits have been completed and processed.
Can I upload videos to my Lecturecast course page?
Uploads from personal capture software (note that pre 2017 upgrade versions of personal capture software will need to be upgraded).
Videos created using the Lecturecast mobile apps.
Videos can be uploaded directly to a class by logging in to a Lecturecast section and using the upload facility. Note that each class can contain only one video but instructors can create any number of classes to house their content. Find out how to upload content to your section in the Add Content to a Class training guide.
By default, downloads (MP4 files of screen presentation and audio) are disabled but may be enabled at section level by anyone with instructor access to the section. Note that before enabling or disabling content download, instructors should consult their colleagues teaching on the same module and check whether or not there is a departmental policy regarding the availability of downloadable recordings.
How long will recordings be kept?
Retention policy is currently under review, once agreed with Echo360 this FAQ will be updated.
What about recordings made in the previous Lecturecast system?
Content recorded using the Lecturecast system have been migrated to Lecturecast. You can reuse recordings from previous academic years by publishing them to current Lecturecast sections..
Do I need to change my browser settings to view a Lecurecast recording?
Echo360 is a web-based application that uses a browser to view content and as such has certain browser requirements. Beyond ensuring you're using a supported browser, there are also some browser configuration settings you may need to check or change to successfully use Echo360 (especially if using Safari on iOS/MacOS).


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The Duchess of Cheshire’s Mummy Ball was the official opening of what promised to be a bumper season. There were two earls, a viscount and a marquis on the table this year and only twenty-eight hungry debutantes. Twenty-nine if Lily d’Bulier counted herself, which she did not. Twenty-one was no grand age, even if her Aunt Beatrice had started clearing off a shelf for her, but debutante she was certainly not.
The gas lighting was off-tap for the occasion, the subtle glow of a thousand candles cradled in hanging chandeliers deemed kinder on the twenty-eight nervous expressions and faux-Egyptian decorations. Silk hangings depicting geometric paintings of sphinx creatures fascinated everyone. Fewer wished to examine the bandaged apparitions scattered between the imported potted palms in any great detail.
Lily turned that arched brow on her friend’s flaming ringlets.
“A pleasant auburn, if you don’t mind.” Pragella Lane puffed her ringlets protectively.
Both pairs of eyes returned to the man in his first bloom of adulthood, awkwardly freckled despite half the length of the ballroom and the best intentions of candlelight.
“Consider the children,” Pragella urged.
“I always endeavour to aim as low as possible,” chirped a new voice near her ear.
“Lily is on the hunt for a husband,” Pragella offered with her dimpled smile.
James Lanbury, third son of the Viscount Cootte, cut an unremarkable figure in black formals as he came to a halt before them. His gaze landed on Evelyn, by far the prettiest of the three with her cinnamon curls, blue eyes and classic features, but unfortunately attached to a husband; skidded past Lily, who’d turned down a gallant and adequately unassuming proposal from him only last June; and came to a final rest on Pragella, all flaming ringlets, hazel eyes and dimpled smile.
With a shallow bow to the remaining ladies, he led Pragella away.
Gragor stopped, turned, smiled his hollow smile and placed the glass on his tray. The average celludrone was a tiresome thing, having to be addressed by name and requiring specific instruction when one’s wishes would be obvious to the freshest footman, but so outrageously expensive that every household able to afford one was obliged to flaunt it.
Lily faltered as she became aware of the gentleman standing directly opposite on the other side of the ballroom, his rude stare interrupted only by the occasional couple waltzing into his line of vision. Brown hair in dire need of a clipping, square jaw that would likely shatter at the suggestion of a smile, the set of those broad shoulders—even in the absence of the oilskin coat, there was no mistaking him.
“Thank you, Evie, I was relying on your invitation.” She linked arms with Evelyn, leaving her friend no option but to join in the retreat to a suitable niche between a pot plant and a mummy.
“I rather think your aunt is achieving exactly what she meant to. All of which still does not explain why we’re hiding—blending with the decorations,” Evelyn pointed out.
Having little experience in the way of husbands, Lily was at a loss of how to respond.
Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, Evelyn’s attention was riveted to a man who was most decidedly not her husband.
“Lord Dashing fainted?” Evelyn gasped.
“In Grosvernor Square in broad daylight?” Lily exclaimed.
In that moment, using the full advantage of her extraordinary five-foot-seven and abhorrence for the new fashions, Beatrice Ardington loomed over the pair of skulking girls while blotting the rest of the room from view, including the stranger who’d brought her. In deference to her wide skirts, he was forced to remain five feet to the side.
In deference to Aunt Beatrice’s stern expression, Lily and Evelyn lost the inclination to strain around mummies and peek through fronds.
Amidst the confusion of heat spreading up her throat and prickles chasing down her spine, Lily gave another shallow dip.
Aunt Beatrice drew in a sharp breath of disapproval.
“I love to dance above all else.” Evelyn linked her arm in his and sauntered off with a wink thrown over her shoulder for Lily.
She doubted a man like Lord Adair needed to resort to trickery when it came to claiming a lady’s attention. With his unfashionable hair, intense brown gaze and smoky burr, Lord Adair was dark, dangerous and pulse-racingly different.
I never thought I'd enjoy steampunk but this book is a fantastic read. I see the great Amazon reviews are already starting to roll in! CONGRATULATIONS!

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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These programs have operated with success. Candidates in states with full public financing spend less time fundraising and more time with their constituents. Moreover, under public financing systems, there is more candidate and donordiversity. The impact of small donors is also increased.
In the first year of the program, the total number of donors approximately tripled from 2013. Nearly 90 percent of voucher users were new local election donors and low- or moderate-income voters and voters under age thirty were better representedamong voucher users than cash donors.


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Wukong is one of the most played online slot games in Malaysia. Some of the illegal internet cafes even use the character “Wukong” as a symbol or logo for their retail businesses. Why don’t they put other slot game characters like thered truck in Highway Kings, or the Dolphin in Great Blue?
This is because Wukong is really really popular in Malaysia. Nearly all of the casino players can easily recognise this game. It is considered one of the leading multiplayer slot games in the local market. As such, Wukong itself is viewed as a branded slot game that represents premium quality.
Nowadays, most of the slot game products would choose to offer this game under their platforms. Leveraging on the strong brand of Wukong, they would be able to attract more slot game players.
Since many products are offering this game, how does a player choose the best avenue to play Wukong? Let us quickly have a look at some of the popular slot game products today.
918Kiss should be the first products that would probably come across your mind. Yes, it is really popular. Almost everyone is playing 918Kiss game now. Remember when its game server was down for couple of weeks recently? Most of the players would rather wait for its server to resume than switching to other slot game products. I think there is no need for me to explain how success 918Kiss is. It also offers Wukong under its mobile slot game series.
From what I have observed, 918Kiss’s slot game graphic is a bit less superior compared to other products. It never really spend much into game graphic maintenance. Some players are actually attracted by Wukong’s high resolution (HD) as well as dynamic animation. Thus, I would suggest you to play 918Kiss if you are seeking for the best visual effects.
918Kiss, tend to have much better quality in terms of game graphic design. Every single detail is well designed to suit for all players’ betting preferences. From navigation pane to slot game engine, you can hardly find any flaw. Besides, its winning payout is pretty much convincing.
TIPS: HOW TO WIN BIG FROM WUKONG?
If you were to ask me this question, frankly speaking, my answer doesn’t really help much. Wait a minute. Actually there is no need for us to get tips in order to win from Wukong. Basically you have nothing to do much to win big. Why would I say so?
In fact, each slot game product would have their own highlighted slot games to attract new casino players. Very naturally, the tactics here is to increase winning payout for some certain slot games. Wukong is one of the highlighted slot games. It helps to enlarge market share due to its strong brand name as well as reputation.
It reaps huge profits from many other slot games in its online gaming platform. Wukong is just considered one of its pipelines to get more new players.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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We’re looking for a qualified Internal Auditor to join our team in our Dublin office – based in College Green.
Do you enjoy working in a fun and fast paced environment with a great work – life balance? This could be the role for you!
Deliver internal audit projects and reviews.
Build and maintain relationships with clients.
Complete testing working papers and audit files.
Prepare high standard reports for review by the Director/Partner.
Suitable professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or IIA).
Strong internal control, risk management and internal audit experience in both financial and operational processes.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics