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Where would you expect to find a Jungian psychotherapist and the economist son of a WWII German rocket scientist raising organic beef? If you guess that it can’t be far from Shepherdstown, you’re right.
Chris and Evie Lotze produce natural Black Angus beef on Roxley Farms on Old Leetown Pike near the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. The farm had been owned by the Coyle family since the days of Lord Fairfax. In 2001, the Lotzes purchased 30 acres of the historic property with its 1780s farmhouse, keeping the farm’s traditional name.
The Lotzes had a vacation home on the Potomac near Hedgesville and fell in love with the Panhandle. They spent weekends here, and Evie says, “It was harder and harder to go back to the city.” They decided to retire and build a new life here. They met Henry Shepherd through a mutual friend and he assisted them in their search for a home. Coincidentally, Shepherd was related to the Coyle family. Unfortunate occurrences in the Coyle family led to their sale of the family farm.
For a time Chris continued to commute to the city, but a bizarre accident finalized his decision to retire. Evie had finished a book she had written on life-changing experiences, and it had just gone to the publisher. They were putting in fence posts with a tractor and auger. Unknown to them, an old fence was buried in the ground, and Chris was standing right on it. The auger hit the fence wire, which came up and wrapped around Chris’ body. “We thank God and the emergency response team,” said Evie. “The doctors said accidents like that had happened before, but nobody else had ever survived one. Every day is a gift,” said Chris.
Chris was born in Germany and came to the United States as a child when his father went to work at White Sands, New Mexico. Chris grew up to become an economist for the U.S. government, working for a time in Saudi Arabia. Evie, originally from New Mexico, is a Jungian psychotherapist specializing in psychodrama.
Goat cheese was on the Lotzes’ minds when they decided to get into farming. They had spent some time in France, where they became fans of goat cheese, and they believed it had a great potential in the U.S. market. “We took a long vacation to Newfoundland and visited goat cheese places,” said Evie. On that trip, they visited a large goat operation and decided it was not for them. They learned that goats have to be milked twice daily and that making the cheese is exacting, requiring precise timing and temperature.
Since the Lotzes wanted to consider themselves at least semi-retired, they were not anxious to get into something that would tie them to the farm. “If we want to go somewhere, our son can take care of this operation,” said Evie, explaining that their son lives on the adjoining 45 acres and that the cattle use their combined acreage.
Chris commented that their beef business was first made possible by Wes Ware, an auctioneer with the Winchester Cattle Exchange. Ware’s family had once lived in the farmhouse now occupied by the Lotzes’ son, and he used to run cattle there. “He has been a wonderful resource,” said Chris. “He came by one day and said he wanted to help us because he wanted to see the property kept as a farm.” Chris explained that Ware was in a position to notify them when naturally-raised cattle were available at auction.
The Lotzes raise grass-fed, corn finished, Black Angus beef without growth hormones or antibiotics in pastures that are not treated with pesticides. They want to educate consumers to the benefits of eating grass-fed beef and eventually move to purely grass-fed and finished beef.
Chris emphasized that grass-fed cattle are high in omega-3 fatty acids the “good” fatty acids. “Omega-3 fatty acids are why people eat fish,” he said, “and I want them to know they can get them from grass-fed beef.” He explained that grass-feeding takes longer than conventional methods because cattle grow more slowly. The Lotzes’ cattle are only finished on corn for 6-8 weeks and take more than 30 months to finish.
Evie noted that they’ve learned that there is now a New Zealand breed genetically bred for finishing on grass. They hope to be able to interbreed them with their own herd in the future.
Before they began marketing their beef, they had to decide on their target market. They started with a “focus group” of friends and friends-of-friends in D.C. They decided that they didn’t want to present an expensive, gourmet product but rather affordable, healthy meat with prices comparable to those of stores like Whole Foods.
The Lotzes began with 10 head of cattle–five for them and five for their son. Now they have 46, including one bull. In their first year of sales, they felt that selling six or seven could be considered a success. They sold 16 in that first year.
Their beef is processed by a Mennonite butcher in Maugansville. It comes back to the Lotzes cut, frozen, wrapped, and weighed, so all they have to do is price the cuts.
Chris recalled what happened when he sold a large quantity of steaks to a restaurant. He had to offer a price break because of the volume. Then, when they went to the farmers’ market, they had no steaks for their regular customers and had to send them away disappointed. From that experience, they decided not to sell in volume because they make less money for the same amount of meat. To make up the difference, they would have to increase their herd, which they do not want to do. They can keep things manageable by continuing to sell their steaks at the farmers’ market. “We don’t want to be driven by our own business,” Chris said.
Evie explained that they calculated how many cow-calf pairs their land can support to market size without resorting to use of chemicals. They have eight pastures through which they rotate their cattle. “They eat grass and fertilize the ground,” said Evie.
The Lotzes see farmers’ markets as growing in importance. Chris joined the Loudoun Cattlemen’s Association, where he is on their Direct Marketing Committee. With his background as an economist, he can see the economic benefits of direct marketing to farmers. They may put out a booklet to help farmers.
The Lotzes hope to build a shop on the farm some time in the future.


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I am greatly concerned about Loujain al-Hathloul, Iman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef, who have been detained by the Saudi authorities since mid-May 2018. The three activists are leading campaigners in calling for women's right to drive, the end of discrimination against women and the abolishment of the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia. Since then, two other women human rights defenders, Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sada, have also been arrested.
The detained women human rights defenders have reportedly faced sexual harassment, torture and other forms of ill-treatment during interrogation. According to three separate testimonies obtained by Amnesty International, several activists, including women, were repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly. According to a testimony, one of the detained women was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment by interrogators wearing face masks. Prison authorities have also reportedly warned detained activists against disclosing any accounts of torture or prison procedures to family members.
As a member / sympathizing of amnesty international, I respectfully urge you to ensure that the five women human rights defenders are released immediately and unconditionally, and that pending their release, they are given access to their family and a lawyer of their choosing without delay. Please also make sure that they are protected from torture and other ill-treatment.

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industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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After yesterday’s post using salt marshes as a visual image of providing direction in a complex system I shouldn’t be surprised that the common place phrase back to the salt mines came to mind. As is often the case with a blog post, the subject and picture come before content; one of the reasons I like the medium so much. Starting with a title, finding a picture and then starting writing without a clear goal I find curiously liberating. I suppose it harks back to the impromptu speaking and debating tradition which was so much a part of my education up to leaving university. The 4th edition of the Dictionary of American Slang defines it as returning to hard work and unremitting discomfort after a period of relative ease and pleasure. It comes from the 1920s and the tradition of penal servitude in Siberian salt mines. So my first thoughts were that this would be a dark post, covering the worst aspects of organisational control and the perverse attempts to make us all happy employees, confirming to the top down value statements of organisational cheer leaders. That was still my thought as I searched for an image but then I found one which expressed hope and I realised that the phrase can be ironic and affectionate in nature.
I then started to think about my own career and realised that there have been very few days when I haven’t wanted to go to work, which is not to say that I have not been frustrated and bored on many an occasion. I also realised that I have been very lucky over the years seven good bosses and two bad ones, but even the bad ones were interesting and allowed me a lot of space. What I am not sure about is the degree to which this was created for me as opposed to something I created for myself. My general policy was to do what I thought was right/interesting while accepting some constraint. I think I also realised that you had to serve an apprenticeship. Working within a charity with no support staff for three years post university was probably formative as one just mucked in along with a first disastrous job following that where I and they made so many mistakes the learning was brutal in nature and ended with nine months unemployment. So the negative experience influenced me when I finally got back into a job. One of these days I’ll write those experiences up but that is for another occasion.
The one thing I do know is that I probably wouldn’t get away with that particular history in any modern organisation. I don’t remember any KPIs or clear targets until I started to run a business when I had profit and growth front and centre. Reviews were linked to human judgement rather than spread sheet determined distribution of rationed pay rises. I was lucky to have shifted from personal to finance in the early days of computing and thus had a (then) rare combination of skills. I also built my reputation during the brief 5/6 year period when 4GLs allowed application specialists to build programs and systems without a great deal of initial knowledge of computer programming and operating systems – that could be acquired as you went along. I also realised early on that loyalty within a network is key to survival, something I still hold as a principle. You have to learn to live with failure at times – both yours but more critically that of other people. Being prepared to spend six days (and most of six nights) with a hand calculator and piles of paper to reconcile BOC invoices for oxygen cylinders at multiple North Sea ports with receipts from survey ships is a painful memory to this day; but (and this is important) I sort of enjoyed it at the time. It was solving a series of intractable problems like a giant puzzle, but it also meant I didn’t have to create a chain gang of people who reported me to get the result out.
Enjoyment is about anticipation and expectation and if those are two high at the start you are on a downwards slope thereafter. Part of this is your own responsibility, some is that of the organisation. The more HR departments make promises and raise expectations the more they create the motivation issues that result in them making more ambitious promises and so on.
The relationship with the person you report to is mutually defined. I’ve know a few really evil managers in my life but they are exceptional and the main can be avoided. I’ve generally worked on the principles that you should do as much as you can do within broad guidelines but you should escalate fast as soon as you realise that you might be getting out of your depth. Of those who have worked for me over the years the ones I have the lease respect for are those who try and resolve issues in those circumstances instead of involving you. Late escalation means the time and energy to deal with the problem is far greater than needed and means fault finding is more likely.
Seize the day: as opportunities present themselves experiment. Over detailed planning means that you end up following familiar routes and those are always less interesting. Finding areas where there is no clear pathway means that you are involved in creating the path. You also have a little more space and time to recover if you make a mistake.
If something is wrong or stupid then falling back to compliance in order to survive is in the main not a good strategy. Survival (and with that enjoyment) is finding work arounds and for that you have to ….
… cultivate and build informal trusted networks.
The fifth of these is probably the most important but the most difficult to define. Understanding how gifting works (its not a one to one exchange) and being trustworthy is key. Understanding difficult cultural expectations is also vital. Working in an anglo-dutch company taught be fast that delivery expectations are very very different in those two cultures!


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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank stresses the importance of Os Guinness’ new book, Last Call for Liberty. If you care about American liberties and the future of our nation, Last Call for Liberty is an absolute must-read. Few issues are more fundamental than our most basic liberties… and those liberties are under attack like never before. Political debate has degenerated into degrading and barbaric incivility. American leaders and opinion leaders are at each other’s throats intent on tearing each other apart. Many Americans are seething with rage over other Americans and so America is locked in a mortal struggle for what each side believes is the soul of the republic. As Os Guinness puts it, what we are seeing is not politics as usual, but politics in a dangerous radical style led by leaders who should know better.
Isn’t suicide a lack of trust in God?

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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LOS ANGELES — When walk-on CJ Baird entered Michigan’s 99-72 victory over Texas A&M for the first time with 41 seconds to go, teammate Jaaron Simmons offered some last-second advice.
“I told him come get the ball and shoot it,” Simmons said.
Encouragement from a teammate was all the coaxing Baird needed to make the most of a rare moment on the floor. The freshman has only played in two previous games this season, four minutes against UC Riverside in late November and three against Alabama A&M four weeks later.
Having grabbed the ball at the top of the key, Baird dribbled down the shot clock, rose up and buried a 25-footer over the outstretched hands of Texas A&M’s 6-foot-10 forward Isiah Jasey. Baird was so excited that he flashed the 3-point sign running back down court as his teammates jumped up and down in celebration on the bench.
Baird’s shot was a fitting ending to a night when Michigan couldn’t miss no matter who shot the ball. The third-seeded Wolverines buried seventh-seeded Texas A&M under an avalanche of threes, sinking 10 before halftime and shooting 14 of 24 from behind the arc for the game.
The most memorable of the 14 was Baird’s because it was so unlikely. Only six months ago, he had no intention of trying to play basketball at Michigan.
Baird played four seasons of varsity basketball at Detroit Catholic Central High School, but he was a better student than he was a prospect. Rather than play basketball at a nearby Division III school, Baird decided to enroll in Michigan’s business school in hopes of one day forging a career in corporate finance.
One of Baird’s high school coaches reached out to the Michigan staff about the possibility of him walking onto the team. There were no available roster spots, so Baird became a student manager instead.
When Baird got back to the locker room after his 3-pointer, he was chosen to lead the team in singing Michigan’s fight song. Minutes later, he checked his phone and found a flood of calls, texts and tweets, several of them from his parents who are celebrating their 25th anniversary in Italy this week.
Nobody was happier for Baird than Simmons, the player whose encouragement paved the way for the walk-on’s moment in the spotlight.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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Gwen Lawson is thrilled with the Queen’s Service Medal she received in this year’s New Year’s Honours. But even more thrilled and humbled by the work that her many fans must have put in to nominate her for her service to sports administration over 64 years, including lawn bowls.
Her fans must have been lining up to get a piece of the nominee action. So much has been her influence on lawn bowlers in Northland, and for that matter, the rest of New Zealand. That’s without even considering her lifetime of voluntary work in sports including netball, marching, softball and basketball, and in community organisations like Solo Parents.
Gwen has not only been there, done that when it comes to voluntary service … but is still being there, doing that coming up to the age of 80.
“Lawn bowls is my great love,” says Gwen, “but it wasn’t my first love. I joined marching when I was just 8, and I was on the marching Association Committee by the age of 15.” Gwen found herself being a marcher, an instructor, and a qualified judge for the New Zealand Marching Association from 1960, as well as New Zealand Association Treasurer from 1992 to 1994.
In the 50s and 60s she became involved in netball. Like marching, netball was about more than just playing the game. Gwen ended up as Association President for Netball from 1960 to 1962 and an Umpire for Netball New Zealand for 30 years from 1954 to 1985. In 1979, the Northern Advocate described Gwen as a ‘pillar of North netball’.
Lawn bowls didn’t come in to her life until 1972, when a girlfriend talked her in to having a go at the Hikurangi Bowling Club, a few miles north of Whangarei. “I loved it,” says Gwen. And the 46 year association with lawn bowls and the Hikurangi Bowling Club was born.
She was a solo mum for eleven years before her second marriage to ‘Sparkie’ in 1989, which these days has blossomed in to 6 grandkids and 5 great grandkids. It wasn’t until 1986 that Gwen realised that there was more to bowls than playing, and she became the multi-titled and multi-tasked Secretary, Treasurer, Delegate and Executive member of the Northland Women’s Bowling Association.
That simply opened the floodgates.
In 1991, Gwen became The President of the Umpires Association as well as the President of Hikurangi Bowling Club. The following year she became the Hikurangi Centre Delegate – a position she still holds.
She collected another presidency in 1995, becoming President of the Northland Women’s Bowling Association. The same year she volunteered to be the Secretary & Treasurer of the New Zealand Women’s Umpires Association.
In 1996, Gwen widened her administrative portfolio, becoming a Registered Coach, assisting the Director of Coaching in the northern area.
Bowls Northland must have thought all their birthdays had come at once having someone to endlessly volunteer like Gwen. “I became a Selector, Coach and Manager of Northland Representative Teams from 2000 until 2016,” recalls Gwen, “an Executive Member in 2002 of the amalgamated Bowls Northland and served 15 years on the Board, including three years as President and Chairperson from 2011-2014. She became Events Manager and Match Committee Chair in 2003 and currently holds that position.
Meantime she had taken on just about every voluntary job there is to take on in her home club of Hikurangi – Treasurer, Secretary, Match Committee Member, Bar Manager, Caterer … you name it. She has also joined the closer-to-home Kamo Bowling Club, where she enjoys just playing as a club member.
Until 21 years ago, Gwen was also working a full-time job in Whangarei. And ‘annual leave’ was about going to the Nationals every year and playing in the tournament with friends. “I went 16 years in a row,” says Gwen, “we even got through to the last sixteen and quarter-finals a couple of times”.
These days, she just likes to go to the North Island Chartered Clubs Tournament – in November 2018 it was in Tokoroa. “The four of us have a ball,” laughs Gwen.
In May, Gwen and her family will find themselves at Government House in Auckland, where she will be invested with the Queen’s Service Medal. “I am looking forward to it,” says Gwen. The QSM will accompany another of Gwen’s service awards received in 2009 – the Sport Northland Service to Sport Award.
It’s great recognition for someone who has done, and continues to do, so much for lawn bowls.


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“I have just been too busy.” Friends, if you are too busy to take the steps to achieve your goal, then you are not ready, or you simply do not want it bad enough. When you have a real fire in your heart for something, there is nothing that can stand in your way. You will stay up later, and you will wake up earlier. You will cut out an hour of social media scrolling. You will cut out your three Starbucks trip for the week and instead hire a babysitter for a couple hours to devote time to your goal. If you are truly passionate to make something happen, you will rearrange, sacrifice, beg, borrow, and steal to get it going. (Alright, don’t really steal anything, unless of course you are stealing time.) I say it all the time – you make time for what you want to make time for. If you are not ready, that’s OK! But, own it. Don’t make excuses.
“I don’t have the money right now.” I get it. Financial stress is tough. Your primary financial responsibilities are most likely putting food on the table every night and keeping a roof over your head. Sometimes it’s hard to see how you are even going to meet those most basic needs from one month to another. Chances are, however, whatever goal you are working toward has a “first step” that barely costs a thing. Can you create a business page on social media? Can you set up a couple meetings with mentors that are doing what you want to do? Can you come up with $15 and find a Staples promo code and print some business cards? Read a freakin’ book? There is something that you can do that you can also afford, trust me. Also, remember that your financial situation is not going to change one bit if you don’t make a move towards something new, and potentially better. If you want to experience change, then make a change.
“I’m scared.” If you are truly honest with yourself, fear is likely the root cause of all your other excuses for not executing. Force yourself to figure out what it is that are you actually afraid of happening. Is it facing the criticism of others? Is it fear of failure? Going completely broke? Write out every single thing you are scared of related to taking the first step to achieve your goal. Then, write out what the consequences of each of those things actually happening. What really happens if people make fun of you, or if you fail miserably? Look over that list and have a “come to Jesus” talk with yourself. Are you truly unable to handle these consequences? If someone chooses to laugh at you, is their opinion really of value to you anyway? If you fail, will your heart still be beating when it’s all said and done? Will you lose the love of your friends and family if you bomb this endeavor? Chances are, when you sit down and weigh the consequences, you are probably blowing things way out of proportion. You are a strong person and you can handle much more than you are giving yourself credit. Confront your fears, and then kick them out of your way.
Martin Luther King, Jr. has a famous quote that rings true for every dreamer, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” If you can pinpoint virtually any first step that brings you closer to the goal you want to accomplish, then it is time to become a person of action.
You’ve envisioned it. You’ve wished for it. You’ve talked about it. You’ve planned for it. Now, act on it.


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Today I decided to upgrade my Windows 10 Technical Preview build from version 9860 to 9879.
Unfortunately, just after downloading the new build the system kept showing me an error 0x80240016, saying ply try again later.
Restarting windows was not helpful at all. I found a good solution which helped me to install the upgrade.
New Forest. Amazing place near Southampton.
Today Arleta, Karina and I visited for the first time The New Forest. We spent only about one hour there, because our baby Karina started to cry a little bit.
During that time I took a few pictures. I also started to love that place straight away.
I am sure we will revisit The New Forest many many times again in the future. I only had a telephoto lens so I am unable to publish landscape pictures from The New Forest but please believe, the place is amazing.
Unfortunately during this short time we have not met any deer, but we spotted a lot of birds and also few wild ponies.
Today I received a small parcel from my mum from Poland with a gift for my daughter.
Now I am asking: who was the liar who said Poland is a fanatic catholic country???

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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In 1696, after the death of his half-brother Ivan, Pyotr Alexeyevich became Tsar Peter I (pictured). After a trip to Austria, Holland and England, ‘Peter the Great’ decided that Russia had to be modernised to bring it into line with Europe.
One of his most important symbolic decisions was to tax beards and traditional clothing. The tax, which applied to everyone except priests and peasants, was very successful in getting people to adopt more modern garb.
These cultural changes were accompanied by political and military reforms, among them his attempt to turn Russia into a maritime power by greatly expanding its navy.
The port of St Petersburg was founded in 1703 and became the Russian capital ten years later. He also centralised the machinery of government, reducing the power of the nobility.
This allowed Russia to defeat Swedish and Turkish invaders, and to extend Russian control over the Baltic countries, turning it into a major world power. But while Peter made Russia stronger in the short run, his rule set it back in other ways.
He used mass executions to crush dissent, and increased state control over the Russian Orthodox Church, while his decision to strengthen the rights of masters over their serfs prevented the emergence of democracy.
Some even argue that Peter’s use of secret police provided the template for Stalin’s terror, over 200 years later.


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IT recruitment agency Crimson has been shortlisted for two national recruitment awards.
Crimson, based in Birmingham, has been named among the finalists in the ‘Best IT & Telecoms Recruitment Company To Work For’ category at Recruiter’s Investing in Talent Awards and in the ‘Best Specialist Agency’ category at The Drum’s Recruitment Business Awards.
The Investing in Talent Awards is one of the recruitment industry’s best-known and well-respected award ceremonies. It is organised and hosted by Recruiter, the principal magazine of the UK and international recruitment profession.
The ‘Best IT & Telecoms Recruitment Company To Work For’ award is presented to the recruitment firm that provides the most effective work environment, incentives, benefits, development, internal communications, and best practice-orientated management and social responsibility activity. Along with providing evidence of financial stability, innovation, and profitability, the winner will also have demonstrated workforce diversity and the availability of career development opportunities for all.
The Recruitment Business Awards have been rewarding excellence in recruitment for 15 years. It is coordinated by The Drum, a global media platform and the biggest marketing website in Europe.
The winner of the ‘Best Specialist Agency’ category will be presented to the recruitment firm that provides the best services to its clients, whilst developing its staff, and showing innovative new approaches over the past 12 months.


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In the last few years the growth of Instagram popularity has been rapid. The platform has millions of daily users and millions of posts are being hosted every day making it a productive marketing tool for both large and small scale business owners.
However, you should have it in mind that to get favorable outputs from this platform, you need to constantly share contents that are of good quality and aid the growth of your brand.
Getting the kind of engaging content and constantly having to generate fresh ideas to be posted online might be a difficult task. Nevertheless, relieve yourself of brainstorming for engaging contents and apply the five amazing tips below as they would significantly increase your chances of success on the platform.
There are so many festive periods yearly, and it is vital to creating seasonal and timely posts during such times. While creating these seasonal posts, take your time to make use of Apagraph as it would go along with the post and season as well.
Interacting with your customers is another way of increasing interest and engagement from followers of your page. Asking them for opinions and thoughts on a product is a good way to keep them engaged, you get to know your customers better while making them feel closer and more involved with the brand.
Nat Geo Wild have made a tradition of posting a short story alongside their photos to increase engagement. The picture is important but the message beneath has to complement it perfectly. Including back stories and origins alongside useful info on the product is a perfect way of doing this.
It is normal for you to desire a promotion of your goods and services, but when branding and marketing are all you do, it might reduce your followers’ interest on your page. It is especially true if they are not completely sold on the kinds of services and products you offer. To ensure followers remain engaged with your page, you can post something unrelated every now and then like a joke or news, it’s refreshing and keeps people your followers and potential customers interested in your page and products.
Now this may be harder for some people to pull off than others, but getting a celebrity to model your product is priceless. Sports brands are known for this, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Serena Williams appearing often in Nike adverts. These people are role models to many and their affiliation with your brand and products could be a quick ticket to fame.
Use popular hashtags. Making use of trending hashtags is a good way to get more views and likes on your post. Also, using popular hashtags that are related to your line of work or industry makes it easier for potential customers on the platform to find you, hence, increasing your chances of success.
Build an image for your brand. Going back to Nike, a prime example of a well-advertised brand, they have built a strong brand image which makes them and their product unique and immediately recognizable worldwide. Their swoosh logo (worth $26 million) and the tagline ‘just do it’ have become their image, instantly setting them apart from the crowd. Applying a similar idea to your brand will no doubt boost your business. You should also consider a buyer persona while building your brand’s image.
Consistency is essential when it involves posting engaging contents on Instagram. While its advisable to branch out every now and then to mix things up, your marketing strategy and branding should pass across a single message to your customers and page followers. This is because inconsistent and contradictory posts can end up misinforming your followers which is bad for business.
With its increased popularity now resulting in millions of daily users on the site, having a loyal fan base on this platform is essential especially for large business owners. Following the above content would not only improve your chances of having a successful brand and standing out from the competition but also guide you in generating a large audience and turning your Instagram followers into loyal customers and a successful business.


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In the battle between speed vs quality, teams that practice test automation know that there’s a practical way to aim for both. However, while testing inherently places value on precise observation and careful consideration over making mistakes for the benefit of speed, how can you make testing rapid enough the meet the needs of Agile development demands without skipping over essential steps?
Faster testing is easily attainable by refining your current automation strategy and adjusting the processes that are already in place. Not only will the following tips make your life easier, they’ll also accelerate your testing to help make the most out of your time.
Get organized – Keeping your tests organized may not seem like a priority day-to-day, but it will make things much more streamlined for you in the future. You should be keeping your test cases lean and reusable, automating features at the unit level. By practicing good test management methods, maintaining accurate data, and keeping clean automation reports, it’ll be easier for you and your team to run tests whenever they’re needed.
Talk to your teammates – Speaking of team, your teammates are some of your most important tools to driving testing that’s effective and efficient. Whether you’re the solo tester on a software team mostly made up of developers or you’re one of fifty other automation engineers, there are always other stakeholders in the software. Communicating with these people will help everyone stay on the same page as far as documentation and reporting, as well of the status of the software included what’s new, what needs to be tested, what’s been tested, and what needs to be fixed.
Know when to automate – Of course, automating your tests will make things exponentially easier and faster, but automating the wrong test cases is just going to slow your progress down. While testing manually might seem to take longer, new test cases require exploratory testing, and taking the time to do it at the beginning will save you from having to go back and do it later after you’ve already tried to automate it. Ultimately, understanding the best cases to automate before you actually start running them will prevent you from wasting time — a software tester’s worst nightmare.
Try parallel testing – While automation will unquestionably help you test more parts of your application faster, it falls short in the way that it is only able to accomplish this in a sequential fashion — no more than one automated test can generally be run at one time. However, with parallel testing, automation gets a much-needed boost by allowing different tests to run simultaneously. If you’re smart enough to understand the importance of the same tests across multiple browsers, operating systems, and devices, you can also see the value in doing this all at once with parallel testing instead of running the script over and over on different configurations.
Use tools to your advantage – Being a great tester will only take you so far if you don’t know how to leverage the right tools to help you. Between adopting open source testing frameworks and investing in automation tools, there’s no shortage of ways to make your life a little easier. With the previously mentioned parallel testing, for example, you need to rely on a tool like CrossBrowserTesting for a cloud-based Selenium grid.
Cut out flakiness – While tools like Selenium are an asset in automation, it can also lead to flakiness. False negatives will just slow you down — no one likes seeing red all the time and dealing with inconsistent results. In order to avoid this, it’s best to attack the problem head-on by isolating flaky tests from the build to fix them before rerunning the test again.
Working towards faster test automation doesn’t have to mean starting over. Balancing speed and quality is something you just have to learn along the way, but getting to know test automation hacks will get you there even sooner.


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Russell Crowe continues his assault on Hollywood, stateside upon its release Arthur hit the top half of the chart suggesting his star power isn’t in question, tellingly it quickly dropped suggesting the word of mouth on this particular film wasn’t all that strong, posing the question as to why… Well it isn’t for lack of ambition on Brand’s part, taking on an iconic and previously Oscar-winning part (by Dudley Moore) Brand seems the perfect fit to play a billionaire man-child who spends most of his life drunk frivolously spending his inherited cash on things such as antique suits and iconic movie cars and so it turns out he more than holds his own proving he does have some range and can be rather sweet with the bawdy humour that was evident in Get Him To The Greek.
The film starts with a skit involving the Batmobile from Batman Forever, something which seemingly serves simply to suggest how much money Arthur really does have, sadly it doesn’t raise the requisite laughs only one or two smirks, not a good start for a supposed comedy. Thankfully each progressive scene in the first 20 minutes builds to something that is sufficiently humourous if not all-out hilarity, what helps even the balance is that the heart of the film makes it a breezy and likeable experience, this is thanks to Brand and his chemistry with Mirren and Guzman (despite the latter being criminally underused), both prove perfect foils for a man who is often walking the edge between funny and annoying and if nothing else the film always avoids becoming annoying.
This may not seem like a glowing review (it isn’t) and that is simply because this type of film was never going to break any new ground, rather it treads old well-worn ground sufficiently and well enough to entertain just enough. At times the jokes hint at a better film but that could have only occurred with a more experienced director and in particular a writer who had the conviction to make Arthur more than a sum of its parts, alternately the casting department have done a great job and in all honestly I can’t imagine anyone better suited to the role than Brand, Mirren having worked with him before also seems the perfect fit and helps some potentially soppy scenes from becoming as such with her barbed wit.
Because Arthur’s world revolves around money the resultant message is a no-brainer and having his love interest be a “poor” illegal tour guide being far from surprising, he even uses his wealth to help her publish a book, it’s in plot points that are this shockingly hackneyed that you will cringe ever so slightly, but some of the billionaires escapades are amusingly realised though it seems odd that in these times of yearning to get a 12 certificate certain things are inevitably muted…the fact that Arthur is an alcoholic never births anything other than drunken hijinks, though I never expected a hit and run or attempted suicide something a little more edgy would have been nice.
It seems strange to have said that about Brand, a man who up until now has seemed like he was incapable of “toning it down” has proven twice in the last month he may have longevity in his acting career and the ability to turn his considerable charm and comic timing to kids films (Hop) and, now, family comedy, now all he needs to do is find material as good as he is and we may just have something special but for now I guess we will have to make do with passably entertaining films that don’t squander the mans talent but fail to fully capitalise on it.
Arthur shows Russell Brand can tone down his usual routine and become a relatable character who is warm and funny at once (quite a feat given that his character is a billionaire), maybe next time the material will match the man himself but until then Mirren and Brand’s quipping will suffice.

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This is not production designer Bart Mangrum’s first movie at the Sundance Film Festival. He designed Septien (2011, directed by Michael Tully) and I Used To Be Darker (2013, directed by Matt Porterfield), and was both an on-set dresser and extra in Stoker (2012, directed by Chan-wook Park). But this is the first time Mangrum has been at Sundance as the production designer of two feature films screening in the same category.
Mangrum was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, and still lives there. His father ignited his enthusiasm for art by teaching him how to draw during church around the age of five, and Mangrum has been at it ever since. After entering the production art world in the mid ‘90s as a scenic artist on music videos and commercials, he went back to school to receive his degree in Stage and Set Design from the Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Technologie in Rome, Italy. Since then, Mangrum has designed and art directed over two-dozen films, music videos, and TV episodes, which include collaborations with Harmony Korine, AG Rojas, and The Black Keys.
Mangrum is at the festival this year with Ping Pong Summer (directed by Michael Tully) and Memphis (directed by Tim Sutton), both of which are premiering in the NEXT section. Full disclosure: I worked with Mangrum on Memphis this past spring. I co-produced the film as he explored the landscape and sounds of the city to create the mythical environment that Memphis’ lead character inhabits.
When I heard that Ping Pong Summer would also be premiering at Sundance, I immediately thought about Mangrum’s work – he could not have two more dissimilar films at the festival to represent his abilities. Ping Pong Summer is a coming-of-age comedy set in Ocean City, Maryland that required extreme preciseness with its production design to feel authentically 1985, while Memphis challenged Mangrum to allow the sets and film’s design to evolve naturally, often with far less control.
Below Mangrum talks about the differences between the two films and his experiences as a Production Designer.
Filmmaker: How did you prepare differently for Ping Pong Summer than Memphis?
Mangrum: For Ping Pong Summer (PPS), I revisited the ‘80s mentally. I did research on ‘80s films, ping pong, and Ocean City, looking for common ground between the movie and myself. Taking summer vacations and having an older sister was something I was familiar with, and PPS is set the year after I graduated high school. With Memphis, I’ve always loved the blues, had some friends there that I used to visit from time to time, and could relate to Willis’ somewhat existential search.
My mantra for PPS was, “What Is 1985?” For Memphis, I wanted to become the central character. I buy as many of the props as I can from the location where the film is actually set, get to know the town and the people of the town. We’re visiting these places and listening to this music, and these experiences become insight into what the personality should feel and look like on film.
For PPS, we were looking for items you would find in 1985. Having a little more time and manpower, we reached out to the community in search of period-specific arcade games, ping pong tables, cars, catamarans, and everything else we needed to make the movie. The PPS script was clearly defined what was going to happen and where. We knew what we were going to need. With Memphis, we worked off a shorter, looser scriptment that left room for change and for things to morph as we shot.
Filmmaker: You’ve worked on films of considerably varying budgets (as both a Production Designer, Art Director, and Set Dresser), which do you prefer? Do they offer you different opportunities?
Mangrum: When working with lower budgets, you tend to work with a smaller crew, which can often make your team tighter. You get to know everyone better and work more closely. On larger films, sometimes the crew can be so large that you don’t personally work with everyone. It’s the difference between working with a family and a community.
With the bigger budget, you have the opportunity to do bigger things. You can build or alter sets that you can’t afford on a smaller film, where you have to find and work with existing locations.
Filmmaker: When working with a small or smaller budget what is the biggest trick you must rely on?
Mangrum: You have to have a crew that is committed to the film and whatever it’s going to take. In Ocean City, we got a couple guys to bring some catamarans out to where we were shooting PPS. They got out in the water for the shot, and we were losing the light, so trying to get them in the right spot out in the ocean to be in the background was nearly impossible. We started to roll and at the time they were way out of the shot, but we stopped for an adjustment. We started rolling again, and [Michael] Tully and I were watching the monitor when I hear our set decorator Joie Todd screaming in the background. Then a catamaran just comes busting into the frame and lands on the beach, something we could have been there for days trying to capture. On smaller budget films, every day you have to be able to set up the possibility for things to happen that you can’t afford to purchase.
Filmmaker: In this industry, we are constantly learning from and reacting to situations and problems that arise. What was the most important thing you learned on Memphis? What about Ping Pong Summer?
Mangrum: On Memphis I learned to let go and trust in the process. With PPS, by putting together a crew where everyone’s different strengths work together, we were able to pull off magic quite regularly.
Filmmaker: If you could design the film of your dreams, when and where would it take place?
Mangrum: I’m imagining a Martin Scorsese film about an organic farmer who wrestled in high school and starts a fly-fishing tour guide business that travels the world, set in the very near future.
Filmmaker: Is there anything you always sneak onto one of your sets – a Bart signature?
Mangrum: I sometimes sneak in as an extra.
Filmmaker: What tool (mental or physical) must a good production designer possess?
Mangrum: You have to have endurance, mentally and physically. It’s about pacing yourself, trusting yourself, and focusing.


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Paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdõs believed that the meaning of life was to prove and conjecture. His work in the United States and all over the world has earned him the titles of the century's leading number theorist and the most prolific mathematician who ever lived. Erdõs's important work has proved pivotal to the development of computer science, and his unique personality makes him an unforgettable character in the world of mathematics. Incapable of the smallest of household tasks and having no permanent home or job, he was sustained by the generosity of colleagues and by his own belief in the beauty of numbers.
Witty and filled with the sort of mathematical puzzles that intrigued Erdõs and continue to fascinate mathematicians today, My Brain Is Open is the story of this strange genius and a journey in his footsteps through the world of mathematics, where universal truths await discovery like hidden treasures and where brilliant proofs are poetry.
The call might come at midnight or an hour before dawn -- mathematicians are oddly unable to handle the arithmetic of time zones. Typically, a thickly accented voice on the other end of the line would abruptly begin: "I am calling from Berlin. I want to speak to Erdõs."
"Why don't you know?" Click!
Neither are mathematicians always observant of the social graces.
For more than sixty years mathematicians around the world have been roused from their abstract dreams by such calls, the first of the many disruptions that constituted a visit from Paul Erdõs. The frequency of the calls would increase over the next several days and would culminate with a summons to the airport, where Erdõs himself would appear, a short, frail man in a shapeless old suit, clutching two small suitcases that contained all of his worldly possessions. Stepping off the plane he would announce to the welcoming group of mathematicians, "My brain is open!"
Paul Erdõs's brain, when open, was one of the wonders of the world, an Ali Baba's cave, glittering with mathematical treasures, gems of the most intricate cut and surpassing beauty. Unlike Ali Baba's cave, which was hidden behind a huge stone in a remote desert, Erdõs and his brain were in perpetual motion. He moved between mathematical meetings, universities, and corporate think tanks, logging hundreds of thousands of miles. "Another roof, another proof," as he liked to say. "Want to meet Erdõs?" mathematicians would ask. "Just stay here and wait. He'll show up." Along the way, in borrowed offices, guest bedrooms, and airplane cabins, Erdõs wrote in excess of 1,500 papers, books, and articles, more than any other mathematician who ever lived. Among them are some of the great classics of the twentieth century, papers that opened up entire new fields and became the obsession and inspiration of generations of mathematicians.
The meaning of life, Erdõs often said, was to prove and conjecture. Proof and conjecture are the tools with which mathematicians explore the Platonic universe of pure form, a universe that to many of them is as real as the universe in which they must reluctantly make their homes and livings, and far more beautiful. "If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is," Erdõs frequently remarked. And although, like all mathematicians, he was forced to make his home in the temporal world, he rejected worldly encumbrances. He had no place on earth he called home, nothing resembling a conventional year-round, nine-to-five job, and no family in the usual sense of the word. He arranged his life with only one purpose, to spend as many hours a day as possible engaged in the essential, life-affirming business of proof and conjecture.
For Erdõs, the mathematics that consumed most of his waking hours was not a solitary pursuit but a social activity, a movable feast. One of the great mathematical discoveries of the twentieth century was the simple equation that two heads are better than one. Ever since Archimedes traced his circles in the sand, mathematicians, for the most part, have labored alone -- that is, until some forgotten soul realized that mathematics could be done anywhere. Only paper and pencil were needed, and those were not strictly essential. A table-cloth would do in a pinch, or the mathematician could carry his equations in his head, like a chessmaster playing blindfolded. Strong coffee, and in Erdõs's case even more powerful stimulants, helped too. Mathematicians began to frequent the coffeehouses of Budapest, Prague, and Paris, which led to the quip often attributed to Erdõs: "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Increasingly, mathematical papers became the work of two, three, or more collaborators. That radical transformation of how mathematics is created is the result of many factors, not the least of which was the infectious example set by Erdõs.
Erdõs had more collaborators than most people have aquaintances. He wrote papers with more than 450 collaborators -- the exact number is still not known, since Erdõs participated in the creation of new mathematics until the last day of his life, and his collaborators are expected to continue writing and publishing for years. The briefest encounter could lead to a publication -- for scores of young mathematicians a publication that could become the cornerstone of their life's work. He would work with anyone who could keep up with him, the famous or the unknown. Having been a child prodigy himself, he was particularly interested in meeting and helping to develop the talents of young mathematicians. Many of the world's leading mathematicians owe their careers to an early meeting with Erdõs.
Krishna Alladi, who is now a mathematician at the University of Florida, is one of the many young mathematicians whom Erdõs helped. In 1974, when Alladi was an undergraduate in Madras, India, he began an independent investigation of a certain number theoretic function. His teachers could not help Alladi with his problem, nor could his father, who was a theoretical physicist and head of the Madras Institute of Mathematics. Alladi's father told some of his knowledgeable friends about his son's difficulty, and they suggested that he write to Erdõs.
Because Erdõs was constantly on the move, Alladi sent a letter to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In an astonishingly short time, Alladi heard from Erdõs, who said he would soon be lecturing in Calcutta. Could Alladi come there to meet him? Unfortunately, Alladi had examinations and could not attend, so he sent his father in his place to present the results of his research. After his father's talk, Alladi recounts, "Erdõs walked up to him and told him in very polite terms that he was not interested in the father but in the son." Determined to meet with the promising young mathematician, Erdõs, who was bound for Australia, rerouted his trip to stop briefly in Madras, which lies about 850 miles south of Calcutta.
The Iyers and Iyengars are two Brahmin sects. The Iyers worship Shiva the Destroyer but will also worship in the temples of the Iyengars, who worship only Lord Vishnu, the Protector. Erdõs explained that this was his variation on the poem about Boston and the pecking order among the Lowells, the Cabots, and God. Having put Alladi at ease, Erdõs launched into a discussion of mathematics. Erdõs was so impressed with Alladi, who was applying to graduate schools in the United States, that he wrote a letter on his behalf. Within a month Alladi received the Chancellor's Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A celebrated magazine article about Erdõs was called "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers." While it is true that Erdõs loved numbers, he loved much more. He loved to talk about history, politics, and almost any other subject. He loved to take long walks and to climb towers, no matter how dismal the prospective view; he loved to play ping-pong, chess, and Go; he loved to perform silly tricks to amuse children and to make sly jokes and thumb his nose at authority. But most of all, Erdõs loved those who loved numbers, mathematicians. He showed that love by opening his pocket as well as his mind. Having no permanent job, Erdõs also had little money, but whatever he had was at the service of others. If he heard of a graduate student who needed money to continue his studies, he would send a check. Whenever he lectured in Madras he would send his fee to the needy widow of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan; he had never met Ramanujan or his wife, but the beauty of Ramanujan's equations had inspired Erdõs as a young mathematician. In 1984 he won the prestigious Wolf prize, which came with a cash award of $50,000, easily the most money Erdõs had ever received at one time. He gave $30,000 to endow a postdoctoral fellowship in the name of his parents at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and used the remainder to help relatives, graduate students, and colleagues. "I kept only $720," Erdõs recalled.
In the years before the Internet, there was Paul Erdõs. He carried a shopping bag crammed with the latest papers, and his brain was stuffed with the latest gossip as well as an amazing database of the world of mathematics. He knew everybody: what they were interested in; what they had conjectured, proved, or were in the midst of proving; their phone numbers; the names and ages of their wives, children, pets; and much more. He could tell off the top of his head on which page in which obscure Russian journal a theorem similar to the one you were working on was proved in 1922. When he met a mathematician in Warsaw, say, he would immediately take up the conversation where they had left it two years earlier. During the iciest years of the Cold War Erdõs's fame allowed him freely to cross the Iron Curtain, so that he became a vital link between the East and the West.
In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Erdõs fled to the United States and embarked on his mathematical journeys. This book is the story of those adventures. Because they took Erdõs everywhere mathematics is done, this is also the story of the world of mathematics, a world virtually unknown to outsiders. Today perhaps the only mathematician most people can name is Theodore Kaczynski. The names of Karl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, Georg Cantor, and Leonhard Euler, who are to mathematics what Shakespeare is to literature and Mozart to music, are virtually unknown outside of the worlds of math and science.
For all the frequent-flier miles Erdõs collected, his true voyages were journeys of the mind. Erdõs carefully constructed his life to allow himself as much time as possible for those inward journeys, so a true biography of Erdõs should spend almost as much time in the Platonic realm of mathematics as in the real world. For a layman this may seem to be a forbidding prospect. Fortunately, many of the ideas that fascinated Erdõs can be easily grasped by anyone with a modest recollection of high school mathematics. The proofs and conjectures that made Erdõs famous are, of course, far more difficult to follow, but that should not be of much concern to the reader. As Ralph Boas wrote, "Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations." Just as it is not necessary to understand how Glenn Gould fingers a difficult passage to be dazzled by his performance of the "Goldberg Variations," one does not have to understand the details of Erdõs's elegant proofs to appreciate the beauty of his mathematics. And it is the nature of Erdõs's work that while his proofs are difficult, the questions he asks can be quite easy to understand. Erdõs often offered money for the solution to problems he proposed. Some of those problems are easy enough for readers of this book to understand -- and perhaps even solve. Those who decide to try should be warned that, as Erdõs has pointed out, when the number of hours it takes to solve one of his problems is taken into account, the cash prizes rarely exceed minimum wage. The true prize is to share in the joy that Erdõs knew so well, joy in understanding a page of the eternal book of mathematics.
Michael Hopkins Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Bruce Schechter pulls back the curtain on the peculiar life of the world's most prolific mathematician....We feel so connected to this obsessed gentleman that we regret never having met him.
Paul Erdõs If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.
K.C. Cole author of The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty With affection, insight, and humor, Bruce Schechter invites us into the wacky world of mathematical genius Paul Erdõs -- one of the strangest characters to inhabit the world of science. Schechter does an admirably agile job of interweaving real mathematics with the far side of human nature.
Russ Cardwell The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) My Brain Is Open is a lively romp through Erdõs' globe-trotting life and into the surreal, exclusive club of the world's great mathematicians.
Doug Wyatt Savannah Morning News Schechter, with insight, considerable affection, and high humor, admirably intertwines accounts of [Erdõs's] bizarre life with an appreciation of his remarkable achievements.

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The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) supports an international effort to rigorously conduct earthquake forecasting experiments. CSEP testing centers now operate in California, New Zealand, Japan, China, and Europe, with 442 models under prospective evaluation. CSEP supports retrospective forecast evaluations (testing forecasts on existing data) and prospective experiments (testing forecasts on data to be collected in the future). Current CSEP experiments evaluate forecasts that are expressed as expected rates in small space-magnitude bins and updated at regular intervals (e.g., daily or yearly). This experiment design is simple and allows a wide range of models to participate. However, recent forecast models, including candidate models for Operational Earthquake Forecasting (OEF), involve simulation of thousands of synthetic seismicity catalogs (stochastic event sets), which express important dependency structures between triggered earthquakes. In addition, some models, such as the third version of the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3), forecast spatially extensive ruptures on specified faults. As part of CSEP’s second phase (CSEP2.0), we are redesigning CSEP’s software to support the testing of such models. Requirements include access to high-performance computing, distributed processing of forecasts and evaluations, and streamlined data management, as well as adhering to CSEP’s goals of transparency and reproducibility within a controlled, open-source software environment. This redesign is being implemented through a modularization of CSEP’s codes to allow for tailored experiments that do not fit into the current framework allowing for easy recombination of modules for new types of experiments should greatly expand CSEP’s model and experiment space. Experiments will be described using directed-acyclic graphs (DAGs) that allow us to execute the computation using workflow tools. This allows for introducing high-performance computing resources while still maintaining the core values of CSEP testing centers. The improved capabilities of the CSEP software will be made available to the earthquake forecast research community. We follow best-practices of open-source software, which include continuous integration of the scientific and utilities codes, a collection of unit and acceptance tests, and thorough documentation that includes example forecasts and evaluations.
Savran, W. H., Maechling, P. J., Werner, M. J., Jordan, T. H., Schorlemmer, D., Rhoades, D. A., Marzocchi, W., Yu, J., & Vidale, J. E. (2018, 08). The Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability version 2.0 (CSEP2.0): New Capabilities in Earthquake Forecasting and Testing . Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.

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I bet most of you had used music streaming service before. Some of the music streaming services allow you to share songs with your friends. What will you think if I tell you that now you can listen to or share the music with your friends within your favorite social networking site, Facebook?
Forbes is reporting that the integration service between Spotify and Facebook is currently being tested. When the service is confirmed, Spotify’s icon will appear on the left-hand-side of user’s newsfeed. Once you click on the icon, the service will be installed to your desktop so that you will able to listen to Spotify’s catalog via Facebook.
However, the service will not be available at the United States where Spotify is not allowed to be launched.
The partnership indicates Facebook’s direction of becoming a hub for media like movies and music. According to Forbes, Warner Bros. announced that it would make movies available to stream and rent through Facebook using Facebook credits.
Previously, Spotify already has Facebook Connect integrated into its own desktop interface, allowing user to share what they are listening to on Facebook. The new service actually has similar social features.
Contradictory happens when Forbes also reports that a Spotify spokesperson claimed not to know about the new music deal and Facebook tells Mashable that there’s nothing new to announce.
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Car baby seat, boosters or car child seats in our taxicabs are available at no extra cost. You can be sure than Airportmallorcatransfer.com offer the best Majorca airport transfers service at an affordable price. See our complete Price List. All our transfers are private and not shared with other clients.
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You can pay cash in hand to our cab or coach driver. We accept credit card payements upon arrival to your destination in Majorca and secure online payments in advance through PayPal or Stripe.
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It is very easy, just fill the data into the free quotation form and click the submit button. Do not forget to include your destination, number of passengers, a contact cell-phone number (If something unexpected arises we may need to contact you at the airport or hotel) and within hours we will send you a custom quote for your cab transfer, minicab, minicoach or bus.
Hotel and shuttle airport transfers to your apartments, villa, holidays resort or just for return to your home.
If you are more than four people, Airportmallorcatransfer.com can provide transfers from the airport or to the airport in minicab, minicoach or coach. No queues at the Majorca airport, without intermediate stops at other hotels and at very affordable prices, without commissions to third parties.
Reliable and safe booking service, in Majorca Airport Transfer you have the possibility to pay directly to the cab driver. No need to pay in advance. All our vehicles are in order, taxi-cabs, minicabs, minicoaches and coaches, have passenger insurance, official licenses, technical reviews and drivers have the necessary qualifications for passenger transport.
We offer big cab or minicab transfers up to 5, 6, 7 or 8 persons, minicoach for 9, 10, 11 or 12 passengers, midicoach up to 17, 19, 22 seater and shuttle coaches up to 50-55 persons.
Private bus or coaches will be operated by our own company Bennasar Transfers Group SL or by our partners.
Private non-stop accessible transfers with wheelchair ramp from the airport to your hotel, resort, villa or apartments wil be operated by our partner company Adaptbus SL.
Cab & Coaches from Palma de Majorca PMI airport to your resort.
Direct bookings and online reservations service.
If your group are planning on coming to Majorca on holiday, think how to arrive from the airport to your hotel or resort.
Palma de Mallorca airport taxi drivers and small bus companies believes that with this website we can compete with the big multinational transfers and intermediation companies, we offer a direct contact with our clients. Renting your taxi or bus transfers in Airportmallorcatransfer.com if at the airport or on the reoute an unforeseen event arises you can contact directly with your transport supplier to solve it.
Taxi drivers and bus services from the Mallorca airport to tourist resorts presented this new digital platform regarding taxis and bus services and other ranks at main coaches stations in Palma, Puerto de Alcudia, Santa Ponsa, Porto Cristo, Cala Mesquida, Playa de Palma, Playa de Muro, Cala Bona, S'Illot and Canyamel according to the government rules.
Independent taxi drivers and small transfers companies launched this platform to be able to compete with the multinational travel agencies dedicated to the intermediation in contracting online transfers with commissions that can reach from the 10% up to 40% of the price of each service, enabling the direct supplier contracting without intermediation expenses and offering the best transfers service and the guarantee of direct contact.
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Stepping in for Taylor Swift, who had been scheduled to perform Aug. 28, 2007 at Mohegan Sun's Wolf Den in Uncasville, Rasmusen performed a series of originals and covers for a highly receptive crowd.
It was the day of her debut album's release on Lofton Creek Records, and Rasmusen was planning on doing a meet and greet with the fans at Spin Street record shop following her set.
"At the end of my set in CT, I hopped up on the drumstand to rock out for the last 8 bars of the song. On the very last note of the very last song, we all jump up in the air. I decided it'd be cool to jump off the drumstand. So, on the very last chord, I jumped off and threw my head down just as my guitar player was cranking the neck of his guitar up. The guitar neck (the metal tuning knob that the string is wrapped around, to be exact) punctured a hole above my left eye and the tuning knob itself came across my eye sideways, cutting it underneath and bruising it.
"I thought he had actually knocked my eye out of its socket, it was so powerful and painful. I was holding the mic and kept saying 'Ow, ow, ow...,' until I realized that I was still on stage and that everyone was looking at me. So, I walked up to the front of the stage (not knowing that I was starting to bleed badly) and said, 'I guess my guitar player just hit me in the eye! Thanks for coming. I hope you enjoyed the show' -- and then jumped because I thought someone threw water on me. But it was the blood that had started to run down my face!
"So, I went backstage, got cleaned up, and was taken to the emergency room where I had to get two stitches above my eye and a patch to wear for a couple days. But when I arrived at the hospital and the nurses checked my vision, it was still 20/20. I have not had any side effects (besides a cool scar) and have completely recovered. A miracle, in my opinion. It could have been a lot worse."


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Sister Desire is an annually professed Felician Sister and serves as the Vocation Outreach Minister for Our Lady of Hope Province. Below is her vocation story in her own words. You can also follow Sr. Desire's blog at sistalogue.blogspot.com.
I met the Felician Sisters while I was having a good time in college and doing the usual Mass-on-Sundays-only routine. It wasn’t until I made friends with my Spanish professor that I really thought about other concrete ways to live my faith, and even then it was only half-hearted. My professor told me about a pilgrimage she’d done the year before, emphasizing the cultural depth of walking through some of New Mexico’s oldest towns and pueblos. Knowing I was Catholic, she had also explained that we would pray together and celebrate Mass on a daily basis, but my focus was on the fact that most of this would be in Spanish. “It sounds like fun!” I told her, and soon after that I signed up to go.
Only later did I learn that this pilgrimage would have us walking 100 miles over the course of a week, and even more surprisingly that it was specifically a pilgrimage to pray for vocations. Little did I know that God was calling me through an experience I had deemed simply fun and cultural. I ended up walking 100 miles with two Felician Sisters and at the end of the week I decided I wanted to know more. I had been very curious about religious life since I was a child, so I figured “now was the acceptable time” and I started visiting the sisters on a regular basis.
After a couple of months, the sisters discovered that I was dancing for a semi-professional basketball team and that I had previously been in ballet for several years. One day they asked me if I could do a prayerful dance for a jubilee celebration and I agreed, knowing that I could rely on my background in ballet. What I didn’t know was that this dance would set the course for my future. Dance had always been a performance to me, or something to do for fun and entertainment. When I danced at the jubilee celebration, I realized for the first time that dance could be prayer. I saw very suddenly the stark contrast between how I was living my life and how I wanted to live my life, and I knew then that these sisters were the women I wanted to journey with.
I spent a couple of years in discernment and once I graduated from the University of New Mexico with my Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education, I formally said “yes” to God and began my journey with the Felician Sisters.


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From The Compound: Home...and a GIVEAWAY!
Tonight was the first night in months, literally months, that one of us did not have to be somewhere. We were able to be here...at home. Finally, it's a place I love to be!
As a child, I didn't long to be "home" like some of my friends did. My friend, Jamie, for one loved to go "home" which meant back to her parents house, long after she left home. It was a comfortable, familiar place for her and there were times in her life when she wanted to be there more than anywhere else. I've always wanted that for my children. I wanted our house to be their "home". A place that would feel comfortable and familiar no matter how old they got and how far away they moved.
A place they would always long to come back to. I thought I had accomplished that over the years since having Owen & Sophia, but what I hadn't quite mastered was making our house a place where Trevor and I could relax and unwind. It was always comfortable for the kids. All of toys, art projects and displayed good grades made the kids feel loved and pampered, but it made us feel overwhelmed and inundated.
I realized, wanting to make our home a comfortable place for the kids was fine, but we had to want to be here too! So I decided to make a change. I wanted a peaceful, calm and uncluttered space. I wanted a home that housed our treasured memories in a simple and beautiful way. I wanted to highlight our history and our hopes while maintaining a classy, stylish feel.
my friend and soul sister Joanne from Joanne's Decor Plans, to help me make my cluttered, kid-dominated space a soothing home for all of us.
Here are some the before and after pictures of the magic Joanne worked in our family room, downstairs bathroom and entry way. She is amazing!
I have always hated this oak entertainment center, and after some crazy 8 year old boys broke the glass out of one of the door, I loathed it even more! Now I love it. A little paint, a screwdriver and a handy husband gave the old, oak eyesore a beautiful, built-in feel.
I love the idea of a collage wall, but I hated the thought of mixing frame finishes. Here was one time that I took a deep breath, trusted Joanne and ended up completely loving the results.
I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep my $40 Goodwill shelf, but of course, Joanne knew the right paint color would turn it into a rich looking piece of furniture.
I did spend a little money on the cool lamp next to the couch; it was like $60 at Gordman's.
Oh and the Pottery Barn pillows...they were $3 each at Goodwill!
I love how we found a way to display all the stuff the kids love to collect: anthers, rocks, feathers, seashells, owls and even the French horn my trash-collecting father gave me for Christmas.
Now take a look at how our bland, vanilla powder room with crappy decor transformed into a vibrant space with art and personality.
The jellyfish photos were taken at the Shedd Aquarium last summer. I had them framed for months but wasn't sure where to put them. Believe me, I wouldn't have thought the powder room, but I trusted Joanne and it worked great.
This is a photo I took years and years ago with an old point & shoot camera. I love that it matches perfectly in my bright new bathroom.
Once we got the paint color worked out in the entry way, the decor went together with a little elbow grease. Trevor took my $19.99 Goodwill sewing machine and turn it into a beautiful, black side table per Joanne's request.
Trevor also fashioned this doorknob hanger using the old glass knobs from our first house and some super smooth wood from his grandfather's farm. For 50 years, cows walked along side these fallen branches and "sanded" them smooth as glass. We've had the branches & knobs for years just waiting to figure out something to do with them. I love these unique and useful pieces.
Joanne understood my desire to continue to use the kid's art work and my photos as the common thread that ties the whole space together. Here is an example we came up with ways to showcase and organize at the same time. The personalized clipboards are really handy and super easy.
My friend and local artist, Beth at Prairie Hills Pottery, helped the art & photos theme with some of her amazing personalized pottery pieces. I love, love, love the silhouette plates she made of Owen & Sophia! They work perfectly in our very informal dining room.
Beth also created this lovely ceramic pennant with the kids handwriting on each tile. I can't even explain how much I love having this fill the big bare space above our bed.
I think Joanne's next project here at The Compound will be to beautify my room using this as the focal point. I have absolute faith she will nail it!
Here is the really exciting part...a giveaway!
Joanne & Beth have decided that 1 lucky From The Compound reader will receive a lovely little home makeover.
Joanne will be giving away a consultation and decor planning session and Beth will be giving away a personalized piece of pottery. Together the prizes are valued at over $150!
All you need to do is leave a comment below telling me what you think of my new space and which space in your house needs a makeover. The giveaway starts Friday, July 13th and ends July 27th. The winner will be drawn randomly on July 28th. Good luck!


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