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Just finished the Professor this morning, as it happens.
It’s terrific, very clever, very thought-provoking, and of course, very funny.
I particular liked the Mr Tumble references (‘I know someone who could slip into his shoes’), and the ex-girlfriend dating the magician who pulls out the hankie which keeps coming and coming.
My wife-features is all set to read it next, and I haven’t given away the ending.
Fantastic to hear it’s doing so well.
Great to hear that sales have been brisk!
I finished The Prof at the weekend, and was highly delighted at how it all worked out.
The scene that keeps replaying in my mind is the Prof riding through the snow-coverd countryside on top of a tank and taking a header into the cess-pit! However, that is to single out one incident from so many, and there were lots of perfect moments throughout this wonderful story. I loved it!
Special mention must be made of Dave the taxi driver and his alliterating vegetables…sheer brilliance!
Thank you for this book, and the others, and please write another one soon!


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In December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly decided by its Resolution 68/192 'Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons' to observe July 30 as the World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The rationale behind the choice of this date lies in the fact that the UN Global Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons, the first universal and comprehensive document concerning the issue of combating human trafficking, was adopted on July 30, in 2010. The Global Plan of Action, which calls for integrating the fight against human trafficking into the United Nations' broader programmes to boost development and strengthen security around the world, was defined by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as 'a clarion call' of the need to take immediate steps 'to stop this terrible crime against human dignity, which shames us all'.
30 July 2014 is the UN's first World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The day is aimed at raising awareness around this global issue and to highlight the plight of the millions of women, men and children who are victims of trafficking from all corners of the world, as well as at encouraging people to take action against this crime.

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>> At which point my Solaris 10 v490's reboot in unison, lovely.
>> Anyone else see anything interesting?
Have either of you determined if this was a OS reboot and not a bios reset?

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LEGAZPI CITY — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Bicol, in a joint operation with the police, National Bureau of Investigation and the Armed Forces of the Philippine (AFP), on Wednesday arrested a suspected drug pusher with PHP3.4 million worth of shabu in his possession.
PDEA-Bicol acting regional director Christian Frivaldo, in a phone interview on Thursday, said Benedict Oliveros, 18, single, of Barangay San Isidro, Pili, Camarines Sur, was collared at around 10:05 p.m. in a buy-bust operation along the Obelisk-Eco Homes Road in Barangay Puro here.
Operatives seized from the suspect two knot-tied transparent plastic sachets containing 500 grams of suspected shabu.
Wednesday’s confiscation brought to PHP6.8 million the total worth of shabu seized in buy-bust operations in this city since last week.
On Jan. 24, PDEA was able to confiscate another PHP3.4 million worth of suspected shabu in Barangay Bogtong here.
Frivaldo said the arrested suspects were said to be members of a drug syndicate that supplies drugs to Barangays Oro Site, Bitano, and Bonot, which are considered as “illegal drug hubs”.
The leader of the drug syndicate, however, was able to escape during the drug bust, and is now the subject of a casing operation.

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Art has been the core of Ron Henry's life since early childhood - art and a profound love of the outdoors.
A California native, Ron's formal art training began at the university of San Jose, California and later at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. For ten years he worked as an art director, illustrator, designer and agency account executive in the graphic arts and advertising business. Ron's paintings explore a realm where humans and their environment interact to create people with the character of the American West.
Ron's bold, contemporary and colorful approach has earned him placement in some of the finest galleries in California, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. "Nature is my inspiration", says Ron. "To achieve the color and balance that I require, I paint in oil and acrylics on gesso board. The many textures this provides enchances feelings I am trying to attain in my images. Many contempary southwestern artists have influenced me - Howard Terpning, James Reynolds, Roy Anderson and Ted Conis, to name a few. Studying their techniques and approaches in design and composition gives me inspiration to further develop and refine my own style."
Today Ron lives and creates in the magnificent surroundings of Grand Junction, Colorado. When not painting, Ron hikes, bikes, fishes and plays golf.

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text: I've studied the science of social communication. I working for 8 years in the field of social documentary photography. I've ever participated in 5 exhibitions.

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Science has long supported the idea that nature has a therapeutic effect on adults, and new research finds that it's incredibly soothing for adolescents as well.
According to a report in the Journal of Adolescent Health, access to greenery makes teens, especially middle schoolers, less likely to feel depressed. Researchers studied more than 9,000 12-to-18-year olds over the course of years, monitoring their depressive symptoms and access to green space. They found that those who lived in areas with a lot of vegetation were 11 percent less likely to suffer from severe depression than peers who weren't exposed to greenery. Interestingly enough, access to bodies of water did not appear to factors into participants' mental health.
The researchers have a few theories at to why lush trees are medicinal for young people. One is the restoration theory—the idea that nature helps restore some mental clarity after long, arduous tasks like, say, studying for standardized tests. Another explanation is the biophilia hypothesis, which says that humans of all ages are hardwired to seek connection with the outdoors.
This study comes on the heels of another that found that teens who spend a lot of time on their phones are significantly less happy than those who pursue hobbies offscreen. While not a new idea, it's yet another reminder of the importance of mindful technology use and abundant time outdoors—or at the very least, next to a houseplant.
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Our Wine Pairing Weekend Challenge this month was Hors D'oeuvres with a Sparkling Wine in Celebration of the Holidays hosted by Jeff of Food, Wine, Click.
I have two wonderful appetizers that I adapted from Williams Sonoma that I like to serve during the Christmas season and this year I paired them with a Prosecco from Cupcake Winery. Prosecco is a very dry wine and many people like to make Prosecco Cocktails by adding Framboise, Chambord, Grand Marnier or other flavored liqueur to it but I like it just as it is. I thought it was a perfect pairing for the appetizers that I am sharing with you today.
I served this Prosecco from Cupcake Winery out of California's Central Coastal Region.
My brother and his family live in this area and one of our favorite things to do when we visit with them is to go for rides through the beautiful countryside, stopping at wineries along the way.
This is an easy and elegant appetizer that paired well with the Prosecco.
Remove crusts from the bread and cut in half to make triangles. Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 350* until lightly golden, about 15 minutes. Turn over and bake another 5-10 minutes so that the other side toasts as well.
While bread is toasting, place cream cheese, watercress, salt and pepper into a food processor and puree until smooth.
I also served these Blue Cheese and Walnut Puff Pastry Rolls adapted from the same cookbook.
The original recipe called for Roquefort Cheese but I had Blue so that is what I used.
Start with a sheet of Puff Pastry Dough.
Roll it out a bit and cut in half lengthwise.
Spread with the Blue Cheese Mixture.
Sprinkle with finely minced Walnuts and a bit of minced Rosemary.
Roll each half lengthwise, pinch seam shut and then cut into 1/2" slices.
Place on a parchment lined baking sheet, seam side down.
Place baking sheet, containing the pastries into the freezer for at least 15 minutes.
Then transfer the cold baking sheet to an oven preheated to 400*.
Bake for 12-15 minutes until the rolls are puffed and golden.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Lay the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface and roll out the seams. Cut the sheet in half lengthwise. Using a fork, combine the blue cheese with enough cream to make a spreadable paste. Spread half of this mixture onto each pastry sheet to within a 1/4" of the edges. Sprinkle with the nuts and rosemary. Starting at the long side, roll each sheet and pinch the seams shut. Cut the rolls into slices 1/2" thick with a sharp knife. Place on parchment lined baking sheet and place the sheet and pastries into the freezer for at least 15 minutes.
When ready to serve, preheat the oven to 400*. Remove the baking sheet from the freezer and place it directly into the preheated oven. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until the rolls are puffed and golden.
Here are the ideas available from our group for you. Try something new this year!
Two wonderful appetizers! Count me in for the party!
Yummy! Both your appetizers looks wonderful Wendy! In fact, the Toast Point and Smoked Salmon are similar to my Potato Chips and Smoked Salmon appetizers. I see both of these being a good pairing with Prosecco. Bravo!
Yes, I just got done looking at your post and commmented on how smoked salmon and bubbly get along so well together.
Lovely pairing. Looks delicious. Thank you for sharing!
Appetizers look wonderful. Now I am salivating!!
Blue cheese and walnut sound yummy! Like the prosecco choice.
They were yummy. Thanks Jennifer.
Finger food for the next party! Luv me some Prosecco. Both of your appetizers wonderful choices for satisfying guests. You mixed it up with flavor, texture and temperature. The Blue Cheese and Walnut Puff Pastry Rolls sound especially good now. Thank you!
Thanks William. Let me know how you like them if you decide to make them. They are easy peasy and look like you fussed.

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A game made to challenge your intelligence and creativity, that is Happy Glass a very entertaining game, your goal on Happy Glass Level 259 is to make these sad and empty crystal glasses happier than ever, doing it you’ll accumulate stars to unlock more levels. Getting them happy seems easy because you only have to fill them with water to make them smile, but multiple obstacles and challenges will get in your way to get the water transferred from the pipeline to its final destination.
As a skill game, Happy Glass Level 259 will test your logic and diverse skills, from calculating spaces to execute sharp movements and drawing skills, since the main tool that Happy Glass will let you use will be simply a pencil to draw the lines of bridges, roads and forms that will provide all the help needed to direct the water to the sad glass.
Its graphics are straight up simple, on the spot to be a very basic game. Happy Glass Level 259 can be very addictive, entertaining and even relaxing, ideal as a hobby for leisure time.
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Some levels can be somewhat repetitive, in addition to that they seem not to take an order according to difficulty, they go from quite easy levels to others much more complex and then it’ll be easy again. It is also unfavorable to the game that the advertising popping up after each level is way too much, there are way too many ads interrupting the attention and interest during the gameplay of Happy Glass level 259.

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text: This series of classes are for those students ages 12 to 18 who are serious about art and want to study and learn more. The instructor is a working artist with over 30 years of teaching experience in the school system. Students will focus on the Elements and Principles of Design and Three Theories of Art which will provide students the opportunity to build their portfolio, reinforce basic skills and advance their own artistic growth. Students will work on exercises as well as their own personal projects. Class size is limited to 10 students. The fee for the 7-week session is $175 which includes most supplies.


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Good Families Don’t Just Happen is the name of a book I picked up from the Goodwill store a few years ago. I loved the title, and it drew me in because growing up I was able to observe healthy and unhealthy families and I wanted to learn how to be intentional about building a good one.
1. Successful Parents Do What Unsuccessful Parents Are Unwilling to Do. In order to have a strong family, the Prats say you have to make your marriage relationship first and foremost. It’s really easy to get distracted with life, kids, career and as a result put your marriage relationship on the back-burner.
“Strengthening and maintaining a marital relationship is an active process. Passivity and complacency will not allow a marriage to nurture and grow. It takes continuous effort, but we reap what we sow.” A strong marriage gives the children a strong sense of security and can lay a healthy emotional foundation.
2. Shared Parenting and Family Management is a Must! There are many women who feel like their husbands do not actively participate in the daily raising of the children. This mentality is the fastest way for burnout and can plant a lot of resentment in the relationship.
I totally agree with Joe when he stated “I feel strongly that family must be a shared responsibility. I’m often amazed at husbands who expect their wives to do it all, and then wonder why their wives are frustrated, tired, angry, and unaffectionate.” Joe--it amazes me too!
3. Treat Each Person in Your Family as an Unique Individual without pressuring them to be like someone else. There are no favorites in a good family. As a parent you might be tempted to favor one child over the next because they have similar interests or personality.
“We do not pressure them to be a doctor, play a certain sport, or march to a certain drummer. They each have God-given talents and must find their own path to follow.” I think this is one of the best ways to ensure jealousy, comparison, and insecurity don’t sneak their way into your family culture. When each child is valued--each one will be a supportive team member.
The authors went on to explain that all discipline should be done in a manner that will never give your kids the impression that they are unloved.
Recently, my boy’s were running through a museum (yes my kids act up!) and the security guard came and let me know that he spoke with them, but they ignored him. I brought the boys to the security guard and had them apologize and then handed out consequences once we got in the car. Before we left the museum, the security guard pulled me aside and thanked me. He said, sometimes he’ll tell parents their kids are acting up and the parents don’t do anything. He reassured me that although my boys were running through the museum (so embarrassing) I was doing a good job by dealing with the behavior.
Well, I definitely thought my boys needed some more home training, but it was really good to hear that the simple act of redirecting them and having them apologize was a good thing. Sometimes it's really easy just to ignore my kids when they are misbehaving. Sometimes, it takes so much effort to get them in line, so it was really encouraging to have that man let me know I was on the right track.
5. Teach by Example. In other words, be real. Don’t be fake--live out the life and character you want your kids to have. If you are materialistic, dishonest, hard to please, selfish but you put on the opposite face in public, don’t be surprised when your children mimic the same behavior.
I was reminded of how true this is when one day, my eldest was going around shouting commands at everyone with a terrible tone of voice. It was then that I realized she was totally mirroring my own bad attitude--and let me tell you it was ugly! My kids see me mess up all the time. I’m not perfect and I don’t claim to be because I want my kids to see that we all have weaknesses but can grow and improve each day.
Parenting is hard work and building a healthy family is even harder. I hope some of these insights encourage you to keep making your family a priority. Remember good families don't just happen!
I've been married to my best friend Bryan Murray since the year 2000. Now we have four incredible children and a super full life with extended family and friends.


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Designed with a non-slip and soft grip this is the safest and easiest way to slice and dice while protecting your hands from the knife blade. Wide comfortable grips take the chore out of food preparation.
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Hope for Paws came to rescue a mama dog and her puppies. When they arrived they found at least 6 puppies living in a cave deep within the earth. They coaxed some out with food but others were not trusting enough to coax out of the cave. Once spooked the puppies retreated deep underground. Rescuers had to dig their way down 18 feet to reach what turned out to be 9 puppies. Yes 9!
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There was no outlook written for Xavier Nady in 2019. Check out the latest news below for more on his current fantasy value.
$Signed a minor league deal with the Mariners in May 2014.
The Mariners released Nady from his contract at Triple-A Tacoma on Thursday, the Tacoma News Tribune's Bob Dutton reports.
The oft-injured journeyman batted .236 with two homers in 22 games before the M's decided to move on.
Jesus Aguilar figures to be the greatest beneficiary of Nick Swisher and Carlos Santana hitting the DL, according to Adam Wolf.
Nady split time between the Nationals and Giants appearing in 59 games (166 plate appearances), and producing an awful .248 wOBA in that time. He was unlucky in his plate appearances with a .217 BABIP, however, his strikeout rate has contributed (22.3 percent) to his poor OBP along with a 51.4 percent groundball rate. His career-best 7.8 percent walk rate was likely an aberration considering his chase rate of 34.1 percent was the worst of his career. It is unlikely that the 35-year-old will make the Royals' 25-man roster out of spring training after signing a minor league deal in December.
With Paul Goldschmidt's arrival in the big leagues, Nady's role in Arizona would be limited to pinch-hitting and occasional spot starts if he returns in 2012. His days as a valuable fantasy contributor appear to be over with his second consecutive season toting a subpar OPS (.646) and waning plate discipline. Fortunately for Nady, he managed to see some duty in left field in 2011 and could occasionally play there after successfully making it back from two Tommy John surgeries on his throwing elbow.
Last year was a lost one for Nady who played part time and struggled coming back from Tommy John surgery. Still just 32 and playing left field in hitter-friendly Chase Field, Nady could resume being the zero plate discipline, 20-plus homer player he's always been, so long as he gets the at-bats. At press time, that looks fairly likely, as the front office doesn't appear to be sold on making prospect Brandon Allen an everyday left fielder.
Nady played just seven games in 2009 before an elbow injury and the ensuing Tommy John surgery shelved him for the rest of the year. For teams who don�t want to break the bank, Nady could be a nice pickup as a second-tier free agent just one year removed from a .305/.357/.510 campaign with 25 homers and 97 RBI. From a fantasy perspective, he�ll be a decent source of average with some good power, though we recommend exercising caution with a player who has undergone two Tommy Johns.
Acquired in a deadline deal with Pittsburgh, Nady was adequate while adjusting to his new home in the American League during the second half. A career .280 hitter, Nady hit just .268 after the trade despite hitting .330 for the Pirates, but that's likely tied to a 75-point drop in his BABIP, which actually bottomed out below his career norms in New York. He doesn't offer anything in the way of steals, but if you're looking for a decent average and some power, you could do much worse. With Bobby Abreu out of the picture, Nady will likely take over as the Yankees' everyday option in right field with another 20-homer campaign and plenty of RBI opportunities in the offing, as long as he's able to remain healthy.
Nady rang up career highs in homers (20) and RBI (72) even though he played in just 125 games last year. It remains questionable whether he has fully recovered from a nagging hamstring injury, but the early returns are good. The 29-year-old righty becomes a free agent following the 2009 season and agent Scott Boras has a long history of shopping his clients around to the highest bidder. For that reason, Pittsburgh may try to move Nady. On one hand he could land on a better team, but at the same time he might end up in another platoon situation. At least from a production stand point Nady solidified his lot as a serviceable major leaguer in 2007. He batted .274 against right-handed pitching, an increase of nearly 30 points over his career mark of .245. From a fantasy perspective, Nady's value will be determined by his playing situation in 2008. If he stays with the Bucs, expect similar numbers to the ones he posted a year ago.
Whether Nady is good enough to handle the opportunity he has in front of him in Pittsburgh is the $64,000 question. Nady started off on fire for the Pirates after being acquired at the trade deadline for Roberto Hernandez and Oliver Perez. Nady, 28, hit .359 in August, 89 points above his career .270 mark. He fell back to earth the rest of the way and ended up batting a combined .280 with 17 homers and 63 RBI. Depending on the roster composition, Nady will either play first base or right field. He should be good for 20 home runs, 80 RBI and a .270 batting average in 2007, especially batting behind Jason Bay.
Nady hasn't been able to earn a starting role in the bigs after shining in the minors. Job security would probably do "X" wonders for his mental approach, and the Mets saw enough to commit to him as an everyday player in 2006. If it all finally clicks for Nady and he keeps Victor Diaz on the bench, he could hit 20-plus HR with an acceptable batting average. If it doesn't, he'll wind up a fourth outfielder and platoon first baseman.
The slugger struggled with the majors in 2004 but destroyed Triple-A pitching with a 1.026 OPS in 74 Pacific Coast League games. Major league pitchers continue to exploit his inability to recognize breaking pitches, and at age 26, he's becoming a Triple-A- plus player. The organization remains staunch in their support but rumors have had them shopping him for over a year now. He doesn't have a regular role in the upcoming season, playing all outfield positions as well as both corner infield spots, and it's a pivotal time for the quickly fading star.
In his first year as a major leaguer, Nady showed all that his surgically repaired arm is equal to the task of playing right field, but also proved his eye at the plate is questionable. A demotion to Triple-A helped his status as a power prospect, but the same troubling tendencies were present as he failed to make consistent contact against minor leaguers. With the problem looking like a lack of pitch recognition, it's unlikely he'll be a regular with the Padres in 2004. With the acquisition of Brian Giles and the return of Phil Nevin, the club has three proven veteran hitters to play first base and the corner outfield positions. If the team is healthy, he'll likely be used against tough left-handers and a trade to another organization is a possibility.
Padres GM Kevin Towers predicted that Nady would be the Opening Day LF in 2003 but the recent shift of Phil Nevin to the position, ended any chance of this possibility. He has never shown the arm, or athleticism necessary to make the transition to either of the other outfield positions so Triple A Portland looks to be his destination for 2003. Now that plans to try him at 2B have subsided, the Padres would like Nady to work on his plate discipline. If he can improve in this area, there’s no reason he can’t post 20 HRs and hit close to .270 over the course of a major league season but these totals would not supplant either Nevin, or first base incumbent, Ryan Klesko.
Nady will report to extended spring training, Greg Johns of MLB.com reports.
Nady has agreed to a minor league deal with the Mariners and will start at Triple-A Tacoma, CBS Sports' Jon Heyman reports.
Nady has elected free agency, Chris Cotillo of MLB Daily Dish reports.
Nady was designated for assignment Monday afternoon.
Nady hit a solo homer in Thursday's 3-1 loss to Colorado.

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Sheila Frederick now helps train other flight attendants.
It is commonly reported that human trafficking increases around high-profile events, especially the Super Bowl. Although some have refuted this claim based on a lack of statistics, visibility around human trafficking skyrockets around the football game every year.
Last week, hundreds of flight attendants gathered in Houston for a seminar on how to spot signs of human trafficking. It’s an annual event that has been given increased importance—in 2016, reports of human trafficking in the United States increased by 35 percent.
Congress passed a rule last year that requires flight attendants to receive human trafficking training, but AAI wants to go further.
At the event, attendants were taught to look for a disheveled appearance, a passenger who insists on speaking for their companion, or signs that a victim was drugged. Attendees at the event learned from experienced flight attendants who have dealt with human trafficking, like Sheila Frederick.
Frederick, a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines, had a dramatic experience when she stopped a flight trafficking incident on a flight from Seattle to San Francisco in 2011.
While assisting two passengers, an older man and a young girl, Frederick noticed a few suspicious things. First, there was a drastic age difference between the two—and the girl had a dirty appearance while the man was well-dressed. He also insisted on speaking for her and became defensive when Frederick tried to communicate with her directly.
Frederick recognized the signs of human trafficking and left a note for the girl in the bathroom. When the girl indicated that she needed help, Frederick had the pilot warn police on the ground, who were waiting in the terminal when the plane landed.
The trafficker was arrested and the girl (with whom Frederick still has contact) has moved on to a normal life. She is currently attending college.
"I've been a flight attendant for 10 years and it’s like I am going all the way back to when I was in training, and I was like, I could have seen these young girls and young boys and didn't even know," Frederick told local Florida news station WTSP.
It’s estimated that more than 50,000 women and girls are trafficked into the United States every year. Last year, over 7,500 cases of human trafficking were reported across the country, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.


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Headed by Resource Paraprofessional and Garden Guru Mr. Adam, our school is jumping on board – helping our planet by helping to recycle school-wide.
Our students and staff sort out items they use daily – and containers food may come in – that can be recycled and put them in recycle bins. Mr. Adam’s recycling crew, called “Team P7”, currently has 12 students who work together to collect filled recyclable bins from classrooms each Friday.
Way to go, Mr. Adam and students! We are proud of your efforts and know that our school is helping our planet by recycling.


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The euro is down big lately, which is to be expected. Over-indebted countries have traditionally used devaluation to keep their debts from crippling them.
The problem is that a cheaper currency is only a temporary fix because it invites retaliation from everyone else. For a real-world example of this process in action, consider what just happened to McDonald’s. For the past few years it has been turning crappy food into great numbers, in part by adding new restaurants in hospitable markets and in part because the dollar was relatively weak, which made the euros and yen McDonald’s earned relatively valuable.

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http://vimeo.com/27677318 Darcy Turrenne has long been one of mountain biking's top female ambassadors but now she is spreading her wings and moving into film making. Already she has shot a documentary on Indonesian and Balinese sporting females, a music video, as well as numerous shorts. Check out her Vimeo page. Recently she went to Rwanda for a big filming project and along the way compiled a quick (one minute) montage of images that revolve around bicycles and their importance to the people there. It is interesting to see it projected that whereas our bicycles are just for fun, recreation and health, their bicycles are for transportation, work and, in some cases perhaps, survival, but still they have fun and bicycles can bring a smile to people's face. This video shows a little bit of that through beautiful shots in magic light.
"During a recent trip to Rwanda, there were many things that left me awestruck. One of the main sources of my enchantment were the bikes. From what I witnessed, bikes are a major source of transport for essential items like water, harvests, and people; like at home, they are often regarded as prided possessions. Unlike at home, the bikes are made of steel and retrofitted with rebar accessories! I cut this short from some leftover footage I took while on assignment for another project. Enjoy!"


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It’s not always easy to maintain a healthy lifestyle and diet, but with all of the great holistic and health food stores in Arizona, it’s easier than ever. From distilled water to tinctures, essential oils, organic food, healthy snacks, and so much more—the best health food stores make it easy to stay on track. Here are our favorites.
Nature’s Health Shoppe has been serving residents of the valley since 1986. The family owned and operated retail store spans 4,500 square-feet, and carries a wide range of herbal supplements, bulk herbs, health and beauty products, and organic foods. Have a question, or not finding something you’re looking for? The friendly, knowledgeable staff are always happy to help make recommendations and will even special-order products they have in stock.
There’s a reason Arizonans love Tucson Herb Store. It has a great selection of teas, tinctures, salves, sprays, and syrups—each of which has been designed with care and intention to help heal your mind and body. In addition to shop itself, the Tucson Herb Store also has an onsite clinic which offers acupuncture, herbal consults, and more, as well as informational classes to help you broaden your herbal understanding.
With its commitment to providing high-quality natural and organic health foods, Healthy Habit stands out. You won’t find many name-brand products here, because Healthy Habit believes it’s more important to support local businesses than huge, national brands. There are vitamins and supplements, health and beauty products, and aromatherapy products, too—all of which are organic and sourced from sound, environmentally conscious brands. Keep an eye on the events calendar, too, as the store often hosts free nutritional workshops.
As its website clearly states, Aqua Vita is the kind of natural foods market that is “a gem” to find. There’s a lot on offer here: from pure, distilled water to organic produce, organic bulk herbs, organic food, natural supplements, cleaning products, and healthy snacks, to name a few. Staff is knowledgeable about the products, supportive, and friendly. It’s evident from the moment you walk in that Aqua Vita’s primary purpose is, in fact, to serve its surrounding community however possible.
Serving Payson and the surrounding area, Back to Basics offers health food, supplements, organic smoothies, and much more. Their mission is to offer the highest quality products at affordable prices, so everyone can get back to the basics and restore their mind, body, and soul.
Food Conspiracy is a different kind of co-op. You’ll find a lot more here than just standard produce, grocery items, and dairy. You’ll find all of the above, sure, but there’s also bulk herbs, bulk foods, a sandwich bar, beer and wine, a community garden, wellness products, and more. And the best part is – anyone can join! So, what are you waiting for?
Nature’s Finest Health Foods is a family-owned and operated business run by staff who practices living a healthy lifestyle themselves, so they’re nothing if not knowledgeable on the products they sell. They’re committed to educating shoppers on how to practice a healthy lifestyle, and try to make doing so as affordable as possible. They offer a “huge selection” of organic foods, vitamins, supplements, herbs, pet products, and so much more. Check out their selection today!
The Good Apple is a true market. They really offer it all. Whether you’re looking for herbs, minerals, vitamins, tea, housewares, or something completely different, chances are good you can find it here. Check out their website for more information on everything they offer, and then get to the market!
If there’s one word to describe Natural Planet in Kingman, it’s inviting. From the warm, welcoming, and helpful staff to the comfortable and easy-to-navigate store layout, Natural Planet is a health foodie favorite. Stop in and check out their great selection. Be sure to come back regularly, too, as new, exciting products hit the shelves daily.
At Natural Options, the focus is, as you might expect, on a natural approach to “disease prevention and overall wellness.” Both locations feature a vast selection of herbs, vitamins, and minerals, along with essential oils, aromatherapy, and natural pet products. To help you stay on track (or if you’re not sure where to start), you can sign up for a wellness and/or nutrition consultation, as well as enroll in a natural health class.


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EH domains are protein–protein interaction domains that function in vesicular trafficking and endocytosis. Here, we report the NMR spectral assignments of the high-affinity complex between the second EH domain of Eps15 and a stonin 2 peptide—providing the basis for the characterization of a two-site binding mode.


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How do you manage resources and plan for future growth in a distributed, multi-tenant and ever-changing environment? In this blog post I will elaborate on the challenges we faced at Outbrain with managing our Hadoop clusters, and the service we created to improve visibility and transparency into the clusters’ utilization.
Outbrain generates a lot of data.
Every impression, click, and widget request is sent and made available for processing, along with many other business events. This amounts to tens of billions of new records being delivered each day into our Hadoop clusters, in two on-premise data centers, as well as in the cloud. These are multi-tenant clusters, with over a dozen distinct business entities running all kinds of workflows, using various data processing engines. We currently have a combined total of more than a thousand defined workflows, which in turn run a total of 10,000 jobs on each of our two main clusters every day. The workflows are always evolving, with dozens of commits each week. Data volumes also change constantly, usually upwards, as a result of traffic growth, new features being deployed or other production changes.
Most workflows start running when data for a certain period of time has fully arrived, be it hourly, daily or in some rare cases even weekly and monthly. And with everyone rushing at the same time to process the newly available data for their own uses, the cluster resources get depleted quickly. This is known as the Tragedy of the Commons, where each user tries to maximize its own benefits from the cluster, resulting in an overall slowdown. Since we don’t want jobs with tight SLAs to be slowed down by jobs with looser SLAs we schedule jobs using queues with different weights and capacities. This brings a third constantly changing variable into the picture: business priorities.
Take reporting vs. serving as an example, do we want our customers to have access to reports as soon as possible, but at the cost of our end-users not getting the best up-to-date recommendations, or vice-versa? This balancing act is a business decision and these decisions also change frequently, with different product features being given priority over others.
And so with ever-changing processing logic, data volumes as well as business priorities, it is our team’s job to provide continuous in-depth visibility as to how resources are being used, so that informed decisions about resource allocation can be made.
To solve this lack of visibility we created Jacko, a service that helps us collect runtime data available from various history servers and index it to Elasticsearch, allowing us to easily query and use Kibana dashboards and visualizations to analyze workflows’ behavior over time. Making this data accessible helps us estimate workloads, which can help evaluate costs for features across multiple workflows and plan for future growth. It can also be used for anomaly detection, so we can get alerts for all sorts of behavioral changes, from abnormal I/O usage to intermittent failures.
One aspect of workflow runtime data where adding visibility was crucial for us was resource consumption. When users run their workflows they normally check whether they succeed or fail, and perhaps know the total execution time, but they are usually unaware of the actual impact on the cluster. The execution time is not a good indicator for resource consumption – a job can run for hours while using only 1% of the cluster’s resources while another runs for a few minutes but takes up all of the cluster’s resources. Measuring the cluster’s machines’ CPU usage also doesn’t help, since a core might be idle but as long as it is assigned to a certain job it is unavailable to the cluster, so it is effectively fully used. To know the actual resource consumption we must know the total time each resource was assigned to any tasks related to a workflow. And with Jacko, our users can now easily drill down and compare the workloads of their workflows.
Using these new insights into the actual resource consumption profiles of the workflows, it was easy for us to identify the topmost resource-hogging workflows and focus our efforts on improving them. For example, we found a Hive query that was supposed to process a single partition but ended up going over the entire table due to predicates not being pushed down correctly. Problems of this kind are normally easy to fix but are hard for users to detect – processing is distributed, so the total execution time was not abnormal in this case. Overall, these improvement efforts made possible by Jacko helped us reduce the total resource consumption in our main Hadoop clusters by more than 30%, equalling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware upgrades, while making sure resource usage is aligned with business priorities.
Outbrain has recently launched a direct-to-consumer (D2C) initiative. Our first product is a chatbot. As with every D2C product, acquiring users is important. Therefore, optimizing the acquisition channel is also important. The basis of our optimization is analysis.
Kibana has several ways of displaying a fraction, but none excel in displaying small numbers. (Pie can be used to visualize fractions, but small). We developed a Kibana plugin for displaying a single metric, in percent format.
We use this visualization for displaying the conversion rate of the most interesting part of our funnel.
Displaying your most important metrics and the full funnel is nice. Comparing variant A with variant B is very nice. We’ve setup our dashboard to show similar key metrics on 2 versions of the funnel. We always try to run at least 1 A/B test and this dashboard shows us realtime results of our tests.
A timeline is awesome. If you’re not using it, I suggest trying it.
We track a user’s activity by sending events to the server. The server writes these events to ES and Hadoop. We developed 2 Kibana plugins to visualize the most important metrics of our user-acquisition funnel. We can filter the funnel by Platform, Country, OS, Time, Referral, or any other fields we bothered to save. In addition, we always filter by A/B Test variants and compare 2 specific variants.
Wait && See — if you wait long enough this scenario will probably happen by itself in production.
Deep Learning — put the DBA, OPS and service owner in a big room, and ask them to analyze what will happen to the services after restarting the DB. They will need to go over network configuration, analyze the connection pool and DB settings, and so on.
Timing — Bases on your knowledge pick the right quarter, month, week, day and hour – so the impact on the business will be minimal.
Monitoring — make sure you have all monitoring and alerts in place. If needed, do “manual monitoring”.
Scale — If applicable do it only on the portion of your production: one data center, part of the service, your own laptop, etc.
The Wait && See approach will give you the right answer, but at the wrong time. Knowing how your system behaves only after a catastrophe occurs is missing the point and could be expensive, recovery-wise.
The Deep Learning approach seems to be the safer one, but it requires a lot of effort and resources. The answer will not be accurate as it is not an easy task to analyze and predict the behavior of a complex system. So, in practice, you haven’t resolved your initial hypothesis.
Internal and External Communication — because you set the date, you can send a heads up to all stakeholder and customers. We use statuspage.io for that.
Collaboration — set a HipChat / Slack / Hangouts room so all relevant people will be on the same page. Post when the experiment starts, finishes, and ask service owners to update their status.
Document the process and publish the results within your knowledge management system (wiki / whatever).
This approach is applicable for organization that practice proactive risk management, have a healthy culture of learning from mistakes and maintain a blameless atmosphere.
People that pick Deep Learning are often doing so because it is considered a “safer”, more conservative approach, but that is only an illusion. There is a high probability that in a real-life DB restart event the system would behave differently from your analysis. This effect of surprise and its outcomes are exactly what we wanted to solve by predicting the system’s behavior.
As we are now few weeks into this POC and we gave you first glimpse into it in the first post. We would like to continue and update on what are the latest developments.
However, before we come to the update. There are 2 things that we needed tell you about the setup that did not get into the first post just for length reasons.
A – partition key (number).
B – Clustering key 1 (text). This is the value type (i.e. “name”, “age” etc…).
C – Clustering key 2 (text).
D – The data (text). This is the value itself (i.e. “David”, “19”, etc…).
When storing the data we store either all data for a partition key, or partial data.
When we need multiple partitions we just fire the above query in parallel and wait for the slowest result. We have come to understand that this approach is the fastest one.
As this meant to be the fastest, we need to understand that such reads latency is measured always by the slowest key to read. If you fire tens of reads into the cluster and If, by the chance, you bump into a slow response of one of the nodes (GC can be a good example for such case) your all read attempt is delayed.
This where we thought Scylla can help us improve the latency of the system.
The second thing we wanted to tell you about is what made this POC so easily done in Outbrain and this is our Dual DAO mechanism that Doron explains below.
We have come to see that in many cases we need a dual DAO implementation to replace the regular DAO implementation.
Start dual writes to both clusters.
Migrate the data – by streaming it into the cluster (for example).
Start dual read – read from the new cluster and fallback to the old.
Remove the old cluster once there are no fallbacks (if the migration was smooth, there should not be any).
The dual DAO we have written holds both instances of the old and new DAO, and also a phase – a number between 1 and 5. In addition, the dual DAO implements the same interface like the regular DAO, so it is pretty easy to inject it in and out when done.
Write to old cluster and read from old cluster only.
Write to both cluster and read from old cluster only.
Write to both cluster and read from new cluster, fallback to old cluster if missing.
Write to new cluster and read from new cluster, fallback to old cluster if missing.
Write to new cluster and read from new cluster only.
Read-repair – when in phase 3 or 4, and we fallback to the old cluster – write the data we fetch to the new cluster. This approach usually fits to use cases of heavy reads.
Stream the data in manually by Data guys – this has proven to be the more effective and quick way – and this is what we have done in this case.
The ScyllaDB POC introduces a slightly different use-case. We do not want to migrate to Scylla (at least not right now) – but add it to our system in order to test it.
The write to the new DAO is done in the background – logging its results in case of failures – but does not fail the write process. When working in dual DAO for migration we want to fail if either the new or old DAO fail. When working in test-mode we do not. At first we did not implement it like this – and we had a production issue when ScyllaDB upgrade (to a pre GA version, from 0.17 to 0.19) caused the save queries to fail (on 9/3/16). Due to those issues we have changed the dual write to not fail upon the new DAO failure.
The read from the new DAO is never used. On phases 3-5 we do read from the new DAO, and place a handler in the end to time the fetch and compare the results to the old DAO. However, the actual response gets back from the old DAO, when it is done. This is not bullet-proof but reduces the chances of production issues due to issues in the test cluster.
Last time we have reported was when ScyllaBD was loaded with partial and ongoing data while the C* cluster was loaded with the full historic data. Scylla was performing much better as we showed.
The next step we had to do was to load the full data into ScyllaDB cluster. This was done by Scylla streaming process that read the data from the C* cluster and wrote it to the ScyllaDB cluster. This process uncovered a bug with it that failed to extract the data from the newest version of C* that we’ve used.
The Scylla team figured it out and fixed it pretty quickly.More info about this issue can be found in the project GitHub.
After all the data was filled correctly into the ScyllaDB cluster, We’ve seen degrade in the ScyllaDB cluster which made it perform slightly worse than the C* (Surprise!!!!). A faulty configuration we’ve found in the C* “Speculative retries” mechanism and fixed it, actually made the C* latency about 50% better than the ScyllaDB. We need to remember we are measuring latency at its 99th percentile. In our case – as Doron mentioned above it’s while using multiple reads which is even harder.
ScyllaBD guys were as surprised as we are, They took a look into the system and found a bug with their cross DC read-repair, they fixed the issue and installed a new version.
After investigation, we found out the Scylla latency issue was caused by a subtle bug in the read-repair, causing unnecessary, synchronize, cross DC query.
When creating a table with read-repair chance (10% in this case) in Scylla or Cassandra, 10% of the reads send background queries from coordinator to ALL replications, including cross DC. Normally, the coordinator waits for responses only from a subset of the replicas, based on Consistency Level, Local Quorum in our case, before responding to the client.
However, when the first replica responses, does not match, coordinator will wait for ALL responses before sending response to the client. This is where Scylla bug was hidden.
Turnout, response digest was wrongly calculated on some cases, which cause the coordinator to believe local data is not in sync, and wait for remote DC nodes to response.
Performance definitely improved starting 13/4 19:00 (IL time). It is clear.
Scylla supports two modes of operations – the default, event triggered mode and another extreme poll-mode. In the later, scylla constantly polls the event loop without no idle time at all. The cpu waits for work, always consuming 100% per core. Scylla was initially designed with this mode only and later switched to a more sane mode of operation with calls epoll_wait. The later requires complex synchronization before blocking on the OS syscall to prevent races between the cores going in/out sleep.
We recently discovered that the default mode suffers from increased latency and thus fixed it upstream, this fix did not propagate to 1.0.x branch yet and thus we recommend to use poll-mode here.
The journey didn’t stop here since another test execution in our lab revealed that hardware Hyper Threads (HT) may increase latencies during poll mode.
Yesterday, following our tests with and without HT, I have updated scylla configuration to use poll-mode and running only on 12 physical cores (allowing the kernel to schedule the other processes on the HT).
Near future investigation will look into why poll-mode with HT is an issue (Avi suspects it’s L1 cache eviction). Once the default, event-based code will be back ported to the release, we’ll switch to it as well.
Data was loaded into Scylla in 4/1 (lower graph).
On 4/4 Doron did the fix in C* configuration and its latency improved dramatically.
On 4/13 Scylla 1.0.1 was installed and did an improvement.
On 4/20 Shlomi did the HyperThreading poll-mode config change.
The current status is that Scylla base is nicely on the 50ms spiking to above 90ms whereas C* is at 60-65 spiking to 120ms in some cases. It worth to remember that those measurements are 99th percentile taken from within Outbrain’s client service which is Java and by itself suffers from unstable performance.
There is a lot to learn from such POC. The guys from Scylla are super responsive and don’t hesitate to take learnings from every unexpected results.
We still see some level of results inconsistencies between the 2 systems that we want to verify where they come from and fix.
Move to throughput test by decreasing the number of machines in the Scylla cluster.
That’s all for now. More to come.


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Mara Justine is 5′ 3″ (1.60 m) tall.
This is her height being a child, but as expected it should increase as she grow older. Her adult height could be in the range of 5′ 6″ to 5′ 10″. She has an amazing voice which she got to share with the world on America’s Got Talent.
Justine weighs about 115 lbs and this will also change as she gets older. We will have to wait until she gets older to see whether she turns out to be well toned and in shape or overweight. To be successful in the entertainment industry, the former is advisable in many circumstances.
She seem to have an average body size with measurements that are not exaggerated neither on the fat nor skinny side. With consistent physical activities she should be able to maintain a physically fit body throughout her career.
Mara Justine auditioned and performed on the television show, America’s Got Talent, season 9. She made it all the way to the finals where she was eliminated.
Mara was born on February 28, 2002.
She was born in Galloway Township, NJ.
We don not have any information on the schools sh eattended.
Her mother’s name is Linda Platt.
We do not have any information on her dating and relationship history.
She wears her hairstyle ling and straight. There are no notable tattoos or ear piercings.
Justine was a finalist on the 9th season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. She is actively trying to pursue a career as a singer even after the show.
She has five siblings, one of which is Jacey Marie, who herself is a singer.
She is currently practicing with Sal Dupree, one of the most acclaimed vocal coach in the country.
As she grows older, we now see more pictures of her without her glasses. this could me she is wearing contacts instead.
Mara Justine released her self-titled debut album July 2015. It had seven songs, Hit and Run, Criminals, Never Die, God Only Knows, Nothing Gona Stop Me Now, Thankful and Walk with Me.

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Breakfast, they say, is the most important meal of the day. Good thing it’s keeping a level head about it – otherwise, lunch might get a little upset. Come to Blueberry Hill Cafe, where you can enjoy all the delights of pre-dinner noshing, from omelets to club sandwiches, from pancakes to Philly burgers, and everything tasty and sweet in between. With this Deal, get $20 worth of casual dining at Tinley Park's favorite cafe for only $10.
At Blueberry Hill Cafe, they agree that Mom was right when she made sure you left the house with a good breakfast in the morning. That is why they strive to provide you with generous, home-cooked meals in a warm, friendly atmosphere, just like Mom's. Blueberry Hill has been serving the Chicagoland area for over 15 years. Blueberry Hill is proud to have been voted one of Chicago's Top Ten Breakfast restaurants by the Chicago Tribune. At Blueberry Hill Cafe, they use only the freshest ingredients. Stop in and try their delicious pancakes, crêpes, omelets, skillets, sandwiches, salads and much more. Locations are open from 6am until 3pm, seven days a week.
Valid at Tinley Park location only. Dine in only; not valid for take-out or delivery. Not valid on alcohol. Certificate not valid for purchase of gift cards.


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This wine is 40% Grenache, 40% Mourvedre and 20% Syrah. The Grenache and Mourvedre grapes were sourced from Vista Serrano Vineyard, located on the West side of Paso Robles. The soils at this hillside vineyard are rocky loam with limestone striated throughout. The Syrah was sourced from Rancho Arroyo Grande Vineyard in the hills above the coastal Arroyo Grande Valley, located thirteen miles from the Pacific Ocean with fossilized marine soil. All the grapes were picked early for rosé.
The Vista Serrano Grenache and Mourvedre, were whole cluster pressed. The Syrah was de-stemmed and soaked on the skins before being pressed. The Vista Serrano Grenache & Mourvedre lots fermented together in stainless steel tank and the Syrah was fermented separately and blended prior to bottling. The rosé components were blended together in January, fined with bentonite and cold stabilized. The finished wine was bottled in early February. Only 604 cases produced.

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These days radio and television are filled with stories of the downturn in the United States Real Estate Markets and many think that this crisis will tumble across the border into Canada. There may be market corrections in some pockets of Canada, particularly in the East and in higher end, over priced homes but what will happen in a community like Maple Ridge?
With two major Bridge construction projects curently being undertaken, The New High Level Pitt River Bridge linking Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows to Port Coquitlam and the Golden Ears Bridge linking Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows to Langley, the future looks brighter here than almost anywhere else in North America. With quick access to the South towards the US Border and allowing residents to access the southern communities without having to cross two bridges, and needless to say the Pitt River bottleneck being eliminated to the West Maple Ridge is poised to grow in all areas, Residential, Commercial & Industrial. With all this construction completing in the Fall of 2009 and the the continuation of low interest rates to prop up the United States and Eastern Canadian Economies there is unlikely to be any loss of value in the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows region any time soon, because as you see Real Estate is a local phenomenon.
So if you are sitting on the shelf waiting for lower prices in this region, you may be sitting a long time.

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I want to share with you an article that I wrote with my friend Tim Leberecht, CMO of frog, a version of which appeared on Forum Blog, the official blog of the World Economic Forum. We are co-hosting a special event that I believe really matters- the “Reinvent Business” hackathon that will be held in San Francisco on June 9-10. In focusing on how we urgently need to reinvent business and how we can change corporate behavior from within, the article captures many of the themes that I cover in The HOW Column. The deadline for software developers, designers, gamers, filmmakers and business leaders to submit their applications to build innovative products and services for the “Reinvent Business” hackathon is on May 25 (participate at www.reinventbusinesshackathon.com).
How can the use of technology enable companies and the people within them to make better decisions and have a more positive impact on our world? Can creative minds help us rethink how business operates? Can the right group of people collaborate to reexamine and restore the social contract between business and society?
As members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values in Decision-Making, we are hosting a hackathon – a collaborative, rapid ideation and programming workshop – in San Francisco on June 9-10, jointly produced by frog and LRN, and in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, Net Impact, Silicon Valley Bank, and Fast Company. The “Reinvent Business” hackathon will bring together software developers, designers, gamers, film makers, writers, leaders in business and academia, and other problem solvers to imagine, design, and build a more human and truly social enterprise. The goal is both simple and bold: to develop concepts and prototypes for products, services, and tools that have the potential to transform business from within.
This is one of many initiatives that the Values Council has been working on as part of an ambitious agenda to help organizations translate human values into practices and behaviors that strengthen our institutions and positively impact the state of the world. The Values Council was formed by the World Economic Forum in response to the current economic crisis – a crisis of values – to realign our collective mindset and develop practical approaches for a more moral economy. New challenges call for new approaches, and we hope that with this hackathon as the starting point, the Council can engage the tech and creative communities in an ongoing constructive dialogue on how technology, and especially social technology, can change corporate behavior. This need for behavior change, for “reinventing business,” is an urgent one.
While most companies will subscribe to that point of view, the disconnection between business and society (and, as studies show, between management and employees) is indisputable. From Occupy Wall Street to public resignation letters in the New York Times, the widening ‘trust gap’ between business and society can’t be ignored.
In a recent column, The Economist contends that companies should worry less about their reputations and more about how they do business. And indeed, increasingly, consumers and citizens demand that companies match their words to their actions, far beyond just Mission Statements, Codes of Conduct, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs. For today’s consumers and citizens, integrity means that a firm’s decisions and behaviors are fundamentally and consistently aligned with its values and principles as well as those of its stakeholders (which include society at large). Our current crises – financial, environmental, employment, debt, or otherwise – are not the result of unforeseen disasters or natural market cycles, they are the result of our behavior, of how we have been acting as people and institutions.
Yet the crisis of capitalism is not only a crisis of character, it is also one of purpose and meaning. With a growing number of employees expressing a strong desire for a purpose beyond profits and of consumers to buy from conscientious companies, and even the Harvard Business Review espousing happiness as a new economic paradigm, this appears to be a ripe time for reinvention. As the world becomes more interconnected and interdependent, the lines between the corporate and the social, the professional and the personal blur, and the younger generation of netizens in particular expects heightened levels of transparency, responsibility, and inspiration – both as consumers and employees. Being “In Search of Excellence” therefore no longer suffices; companies and their leaders now need to pursue significance.
Achieving this vision requires innovations in two key dimensions of our economy: what we consider to be “value” and the values that guide how we create it. We need a more inclusive value definition that is respectful of all stakeholders’ needs, fully aligned with human values, and transcending the merely transactional, and we need inclusive models of value-creation that are inherently social. We can indeed generate value from values.
One of the biggest barriers to broad adoption of this idea is the reality that for too long we have been measuring our successes and failures based on 19th and 20th century notions of growth and productivity. There is an old adage that “you manage what you measure.” We have become great at measuring “how much” and have made it our habit to manage in “how much” terms – as in “how much” GDP, debt, stimulus, resource, revenue, profit, friends, followers, page views etc. In our more interconnected and interdependent world, questions of “how much” matter much less than the question of HOW (i.e. HOW we think, behave, lead, govern, operate, consume, engender trust in our relationships, and relate to others). Instead of reflexively asking “how much,” we need new metrics that help us create organizations, societies, institutions, governments, and businesses that mirror our deepest values.
At the macro-economic level, Bhutan’s Gross Happiness Index, as an alternative to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), has gained many admirers, and both the French and the UK governments have begun to emulate it. Moreover, there are supra-national organizations and NGOs such as the New Economics Foundation in the UK that have long proposed new indicators of economic progress grounded in the belief that we need a more holistic, integrated understanding of the economy instead of one that is purely based on financial terms.
With the rise of “talentism,” the need for a real understanding of the common human values that connect organizations and individuals is becoming ever more important. Transparency, inclusivity, inspiration, and organizational responsiveness are crucial in nurturing businesses’ social fabric and facilitating empathy and collaboration. Yet, the challenge remains: How do we translate these values into day-to-day corporate behavior and into tangible, personal experiences? How can companies become open organizations that harness and build social capital both inside and outside of their institutional boundaries?
This is where our “Reinvent Business” hackathon comes in. True reinvention can only happen with multiple stakeholders contributing to the solution, sharing their ideas from the bottom up and not just the top down. Whether it is a mobile app that uses real-time peer feedback from social networks to help address ethical dilemmas, or a data visualization tool that illustrates the unintended consequences and the externalities of decisions, or an ‘empathy app’ that lets you see the world through someone else’s eyes, new concepts need to be created from people willing to collaborate and invent solutions that recognize that we live in a more interconnected and interdependent world, where we rise and fall together.
To be clear: We don’t expect this hackathon to produce any silver bullets, nor do we aim to “productize away” the deep and complex challenges of a moral economy and a more human enterprise. But we are poised to spawn a conversation by tackling concrete problem spaces that might inspire further-reaching, broader solutions.
Amplified by social technology, we have the potential to unleash the humanity inside organizations to change the world in new and positive ways. We have the opportunity to shape new behaviors that create competitive advantages and sources of growth in this new era. We have the ability to change business from within.
“Reinvent Business” is an initiative for those who recognize the problem and truly wish to be part of the solution. Join us!

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Who doesn't hyperventilate when they see lechon? I was lucky to have been invited (again) to join the lechon tasting of Leonardo's. I missed the first one so I made sure that I don't have any other schedule when I got invited again. Hahaha, that's how much I love lechon.
Also, I'm curious about this special kind of lechon by Leonardo's.
So what makes Leonardo's Lechon special? Aside from lechon meat and the crispy skin, this lechon is filled with sausages. How crazy right? But the dining experience is surreal. Its meat vs meat. And if you notice, the lechon has more lean meat than fat. It is also laden with herbs and spices to make it more flavorful. This lechon with sausage is called- Carnivore Lechon. It has kielbasa, hungarian, chorizo sausages, bacon slabs and roasted garlic.
Leonardo's also offers meaty barbeque.


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Hundreds of athletic training students added with one symposium equals thousands of new connections to be made and information to learn.
On Sunday, Oct. 13, the Albion Athletic Training Program took 17 students to the Michigan Athletic Trainers’ Society Student Symposium in Grand Rapids. The Brits met with other athletic training students from all over the state to learn about new approaches and techniques to athletic training through interactive lectures and hands-on activities.
Michael opened the symposium with a talk on professionalism, encouraging students to challenge those who try to falsely define them. Students should instead make something of themselves in the professional world.
Following Michael’s lecture, other presenters took the floor to inform students on different topics.
The quiz bowl consisted of two teams from each school answering jeopardy questions similar to the ones on the exam students must take in order to become certified.
This year, Albion seniors Tanner Johnson, Holly Hall, and Kylen Bradley took third place, continuing the successful streak.
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Seriously, I’m beside myself with how excited this makes me.
The trot officially clocked in at 32.91 seconds — nearly 1.5 seconds slower than the previous slowest trot ever.
And that’s being generous! Because of the particular set-up of Fenway Park, there were no cameras to give a clear view of which foot touched home plate first. The 32.91 seconds assumes that Papi’s right foot is the one to reach the base first.
With that evidence (which shows up at the 1:56 minute mark of this video), we can officially re-clock Papi’s record-breaking tater trot. The official time on the slowest home run trot of the Tater Trot Tracker era is now 33.39 seconds.
That’s just about half-a-second longer than what was originally reported, and close to two seconds longer than the previous slowest ever trot.
I’ve always loved Big Papi. Now I love him a half-second more!


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Underfloor heating, in one form or another, has been around for hundreds of years, but has seen a resurgence in popularity in the past decade with the introduction of more efficient heat sources that require lower running temperatures to operate efficiently, like condensing boilers, heat pumps and solar thermal.
An underfloor heating system heats a room’s floor structure, which in turn warms the room itself. This is achieved in a “wet” underfloor heating system by passing heated water through plastic or composite pipes which are installed in the floor. Various installation options are available to suit different floor constructions. The underfloor heating pipes are routed back to a central manifold, typically one per floor, which is used to distribute heat to the relevant loops as and when required.
Underfloor heating produces a more gentle, even heat than a radiator or blown-air system, with the main component of heat output being infrared heat radiation, rather than convection. This affords comfort at lower room temperatures as the reduced convection results in fewer draughts.
The larger heating area provided by using an entire floor, rather than a relatively small radiator panel, also allows underfloor heating to operate effectively at much lower running temperatures than a traditional radiator heating system.
All of these efficiency improvements mean that a correctly designed underfloor heating system can provide annual fuel savings of up to 25% over a traditional radiator system.

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It’s not my idea of a bank. I have worked in both a Credit Union and a bank and although internally similar they do face different regulatory requirements.
In recent years perhaps the two are more similar in requirements than earlier... I’m not sure.
But for me the first Bank will signal that regulatory requirements are fully met for XRP usage at least in that particular corridor.
I'm not sure if he was supposed to say that? He seemed to get a bit awkward after Bitstamp was mentioned. Not sure if he honestly couldn't remember, or if he didn't want to say who it was.
Never listen to what JPMorgan says.... watch what they do! And again if they are talking in public about doing something, you can just about predict they doing the opposite.
Whatever JPM and Goldman Sachs state publicly i have always traded against it with great success over the years with commondities (ie gold and oil etc)and now crypto.
@Longjohn lol, beat ya to it!!
I could be wrong but I don’t read Brad or anyone else at Ripple as that kind of player.
I think they play a straight bat.
Also I had been thinking for a while that Bitstamp was XRapid enabled but I can’t recall why I thought that.
This is not a great attitude to have at all. Every entity that joins Ripplenet will make the network even more robust and help us move closer to ripples vision of the Internet of Value. Brad reiterated once again that this is a marathon, we should be excited about each and every participant on Ripplenet whether it takes 3-5 years to carve out our share of the market than so be it.
Patience is one of the most difficult virtues to master. Even harder when we have to walk around every day carrying the secret that the way value moves daily, could soon radically be changed!
As long as things are growing life is good. Whether we moon in 2 years or 5 years, matters little as long as we get there. The important thing is Ripple continues to follow an exponential growth curve.
1. Look, this is a marathon.
2. We're way ahead of the competition.
4. And finally he gets up early. And the early bird, as we all know, catches the worm.


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