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Jobing.com Acquires WorkMetro Expanding Its Reach In the South and Northeast
By John Zappe February 5, 2008 July 23, 2015
Jobing has picked-up its ninth acquisition in four years as it continues its march from a small, Phoenix job board to a player on the national jobs scene. The deal for WorkMetro, a San Jose, Calif. based job board was announced Monday.
WorkMetro had a presence in 22 markets across the U.S. mostly in the South and Northeast. Although the company has been struggling for some time, it has promotional arrangements with cable operators in many of its markets. Both the local emphasis – each WorkMetro market has a separate web address – and the TV partnerships fit with Jobing's own strategy. Plus, it gives Jobing a footprint in the northeast where it previously had only a limited presence.
Under the leadership of CEO Aaron Matos, a former recruiter and HR director, Jobing has gone from a publishing company division with sales of under $3 million to a private, equity-funded company with revenues of more than $22 million. Acquisitions, including WorkMetro, and organic growth should push Jobing's revenues well over the $30 million figure in 2008. Its traffic ranks it among the top 25 career sites in the U.S.
Besides its focus on local market jobs, Jobing.com invests heavily into developing locally focused community content. Its sites have blogs written by local recruiting professionals and hiring managers and Jobing promotes the use of video better than any other jobs site in the U.S. The company maintains its own video production facilities in Phoenix and offers employer branding videos free as part of a subscription package.
The WorkMetro relationships with local cable operators and TV stations will help Jobing expand the reach of the videos, which now mostly appear only on the job site itself.
WorkMetro, founded in 2003, initially grew rapidly fueled by partnerships with the local operators who provided promotion in exchange for a revenue share. The company staffed offices in each of its markets, just as Jobing does. Unlike Jobing, however, WorkMetro failed to gain traction and for the last year has been consolidating operations and reducing staff. WorkMetro had fewer than 20 employees when it was sold, compared to Jobing which has about 300.


Published online at The Analytical Scientist, Dec. 2017.
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The current processes for managing impurity profile information are cumbersome and overwhelming. The sheer quantity of data generated is almost impossible to effectively organize and manage with currently available systems. Many organizations use Excel in an effort to transcribe scattered information from different sources into a single environment, but this is tedious, error-prone, and time consuming.
Luminata allows the multi-disciplinary teams that undertake process development projects to gather all the relevant chemical and analytical information in a single scientific environment. Furthermore, it supports a Quality-by-Design (QbD) approach to establishing effective process and analytical impurity control strategies. The fear of using old data is eliminated with access to live up-to-date information. This assembled data enables collaboration and information sharing in a manner not previously possible.


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Top dog
A field report
Pacitto and companion on a Brighton campus playing field. Photograph: Lee Pellegrini
One hot afternoon in July, I visited the habitat of a creature without a real name, whom I will call Wile E. Wile E. is a tan, hollow-bodied plastic coyote with blue eyes, and he and a twin—whom I'll also call Wile E., because I don't know which is which—are on most days all that stand between the Brighton Campus practice fields and a local pack of Canada geese who avidly dine on grass and leave behind a rich garnish of consequences.
Canada goose facts, from National Geographic
When I first spotted Wile E., he was defending the westernmost of the fields, just below St. John's Seminary. I believe the grass was marked up for rugby, but if it had been marked for football, Wile E. would have been a wide-out on the 50 yard line, his shoulders down, his head up, and his nose pointed at Lake Street, 100 yards distant, where a man coasted downhill on a bicycle. Wile E.'s brushy tail was tilted left (it can also be rotated to up, down, and right positions), and his ears pointed forward (these, too, can be rotated). Wile E. did not move, of course, but he looked as though he might. Not a goose was visible on the ground or in the sky.
Wile E. is to some degree the descendant of Blaze and Tucker, English setters that Boston College acquired in the late 1990s, and who (along with their successors) have since been driving Branta canadensis from the practice facilities on Shea Field. Prior to the dogs' arrival, the responsibility for clearing goose accrual—sometimes 200 pounds a day—fell to groundskeepers wielding a lawn sweeper and wearing raincoats. "The guys love Blaze and Tucker," a grounds supervisor told Boston College Magazine in 2000.
But what works on fenced-in Shea Field, doesn't work on the open, 65-acre Brighton campus, I was told by Domenic Pacitto. A groundskeeper, Pacitto has become one of the University's two designated coyote handlers since "the dogs" (as he calls them) were purchased in April, setting the beasts out in early morning and bringing them in at the end of his shift. A voluble, broad-shouldered man with leanings toward irony, Pacitto, who previously worked for the archdiocese, recalls the arrival of geese on the property in the late 1980s. Sitting in his BC-issue pickup truck a few yards from where Wile E. contemplated Lake Street traffic, he mused, "They started on Chandler Pond"—a head nod to the west—"and then they moved to Rogers Park—a nod to the north—"then here."
Soon after Pacitto and his partner began setting out the coyotes, however, the plague ended. "We haven't had a goose on the property since the beginning of football camp, in the second week of June," he said with satisfaction in late July. He said he and his partner, Jeff Pearson, thought about holding a naming contest for the creatures, but were concerned that publicity might be bad for the coyotes' tenure. (Two coyotes purchased last spring disappeared during senior week in May. One turned up in the tent erected for the School of Theology and Ministry graduation ceremonies, like a baby left on the church steps. The other remains borrowed.)
A greater threat to the coyotes came from children at Boston Public's Thomas A. Edison Junior High School, a K–8 establishment whose red-brick building overlooks the Brighton Campus playing fields. Like the geese, the schoolchildren were highly impressed by what they saw on the field one day. Animal control officers were summoned by teachers, but Wile E.—who suffers from seams where his haunches, chest, neck, and legs meet—lived to stand guard another day, when the wind blew hard and the children looked out their window and saw the coyote lying on his side. "The kids cried," said Pacitto, shaking his head. "They thought it was a dead dog." Boston College pulled the coyotes off duty until it completed an informational mailing to Brighton residents near the campus. That doesn't keep some people from wondering, however. Recently, Pacitto said, he saw a woman standing on one of the campus roadways and staring at the stock-still coyote in the field. "Is that dog okay?" she asked Pacitto. "Sure," he said, and walked up to Wile E. and knelt and poured water from a bottle into his cupped hand and brought it to the coyote's snout. The woman moved off.
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Chécy is een stad in de Loiret in Frankrijk. Chécy is gelegen bij de Loire en bij het kanaal van Orléans aan de ene kant en het bos van Orléans aan de andere kant. Chécy ligt op 10 km afstand van Orléans.

Chécy is op een bijzondere plek gelegen, er zijn sporen gevonden die naar een bewoning in het Vroeg-paleolithicum wijzen, de plaats waar de stad nu staat zou al 400.000 jaar bewoond zijn.

Bezienswaardigheden
Église Saint-Pierre, een kerk met een 12e-eeuwse klokkentoren, de rest van de kerk dateert uit de 13e eeuw (geklasseerd monument);
Château de la Prêche, een grotendeels 17e-eeuws kasteel;
Château de Reuilly, een 18e-eeuws kasteel;
Château du Crot, kasteel uit de 17e eeuw, met delen aangebouwd/verbouwd in de 19e eeuw;
Château de Portmorand, alleen de ruïnes zijn er nog van over, uit de 16e eeuw;
Tonneliersmuseum. Tot het eind van de 19e eeuw was de wijnbouw de belangrijkste bron van inkomsten van de streek. Daaraan gelieerd was de productie van wijntonnen. Het museum toont met name het ambacht van tonnenmaker en de daarbij behorende artefacten.

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Overige
Chécy is ook de naam van de kaas die in deze streek geproduceerd wordt.

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Twitter teams with women's advocacy group to…
Twitter teams with women's advocacy group to target online harassment
By Los Angeles Times | Mercury News
PUBLISHED: November 7, 2014 at 4:26 pm | UPDATED: August 17, 2016 at 4:57 am
Twitter is teaming up with a women's advocacy group to fight female harassment on the popular social media platform.
The group, Women, Action and the Media, created a form for users to report instances of "gendered harassment." If the reports seem valid, WAM will use its clout as an "authorized reporter" to flag the requests, forwarding them to Twitter.
Users will be able to report the specific types of abuse they are experiencing, including "whether someone has made an impostor account, is sending them violent threats, is using Twitter to encourage people to harass the person offline, or any of other several defined categories."
Twitter's move comes at a time when national conversation has shifted toward the harassment of women online. Discussions have been fueled by "GamerGate" — an ongoing controversy that has included death threats, as well as threats of rape and violence, against women who are vocal about the perceived sexism in mainstream video games.
An October Pew study found 25 percent of young women online have been sexually harassed on the Internet and 26 percent have experienced stalking.
"The disproportionate targeting of women online results in them removing their voices from the public conversation," Jaclyn Friedman, the organization's executive director, said in a statement.
Bloomberg says Warren, Sanders don't 'know what they're talking about' on breaking up big tech firms
Presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg said his rivals Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders don't "know what they're talking about" when they call for breaking up big tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon.
A UC Santa Cruz student recently won a competition for her invention of a microplastics-eating turtle named PETER.
Bay Area man sues Sirius XM claiming he was fired for social media posts about Steve Bannon
Supervisor told Daniel Acosta he was being fired for failing to apologize for posts about Bannon, suit claims.
NHTSA looking into 500,000 Tesla cars due to acceleration complaints
Tesla is coming under the gaze of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration as the federal agency said Friday it will review a petition to look at 500,000 Tesla cars due to several complaints about the vehicles speeding up at unintended times.


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When it comes to crafting & DIY-ing, one of my main goals is to cut costs wherever possible, and painting furniture was definitely one of those items always up on the chopping block… Why would I buy special paint when I could just go out to my trusty garage and mix up some kind of creative concoction to get the job done? Well, chalk paint has been all of the rave lately, and I have a couple of friends who swear by it, so I finally decided to throw in the towel and try it!
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Great Russian Artists
Fyodor Petrovich TOLSTOY (1783-1873)
Time Period: 19 century
Fyodor Tolstoy, one of the most interesting and original artists of the first half of last century, was born in St. Petersburg into the family of the head of the War Commissariat, and—as was customary then—was immediately registered as sergeant to the Preobrazhensky regiment. His parents, who envisaged their son becoming a military man, sent him to the PolotskJesuitCollege and then to the Naval Corps. The boy's artistic abilities were discovered very early, and while still studying at the Naval Corps he began to attend the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Gradually his desire to become a professional artist grew stronger, but to do that he would have to retire from the service, give up his military career and face the fury of his parents and family and a break with his relatives and friends. Only great courage and his boundless love for art allowed him to take this step. In 1804 he sent in his papers, and a life full of privations and difficulties began for the young artist.
At the Academy of Arts Tolstoy studied sculpture under professor I. P. Prokofiev and also became friendly with Orest Kiprensky, whose guidance helped him in drawing plaster-casts.
Tolstoy copied antique statues and studied ancient history with gusto, fascinated by the customs and mores of the people of the distant past. His deep and sincere love for classical art, which emerged in his youth, would stay with him for the rest of his days. His remarkable talent and diligence quickly led to success. His first works were drawings and bas-reliefs on classical themes: in 1806, for example, he made the drawings Alexander of Macedon's Trust in the Physician Philipp, The Judgement of Paris, and The Struggle of Hercules (RUSSIAN MUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG). For the wax bas- relief Alexander of Macedon's Triumphant Entry into Babylon (1809, StateHermitageMuseum, Saint Petersburg) Tolstoy was elected honorary member of the Academy of Arts.
Tolstoy worked in almost every sphere of art —in model designing, sculpture and graphic art, and later in painting and decorative art. His early works, haut-reliefs in rose wax — Boy Under a Shawl, Children Bathing (both 1808-09, Kalinin Picture Gallery), Psyche (1808-09, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg) — exhibit a high level of professionalism. The figure of Psyche is distinguished by its beautiful lines, smooth contours and gentle, expressive modelling. Tolstoy's contemporaries were impressed by his knowledge of natural forms and by his superb mastery of the secrets of wax modelling.
People's Volunteer Army. Medallion
Psyche Admiring Her Reflection in a Mirror
A quite unusual aspect of his early period was his wax portraits—small profile representations executed in fairly low relief in light-coloured, yellow or rose wax on a black board or glass. While in his early portrait bas-reliefs the sculptor sought to express the workings of his subject's minds (portrait of A. F. Dudina, portraits of Tolstoy's brothers), in his later works he tended rather to generalise and typify the images, exercising great freedom in his choice of artistic devices (cf. portraits of K. A. Leberecht and P. A. Tolstoy).
Tolstoy's early work as a medal-designer was done entirely under the auspices of the St. Petersburg Mint, where he was appointed in 1810. A medal, in his view, ought to be clear and accessible, 'so that everyone can immediately understand the occasion for its being minted'.
'I proposed to design the medals required of me,' wrote Tolstoy, 'in the classical Greek manner, this being the best in the fine arts, strictly reflecting the customs, costumes, locality and country of the time and the persons involved in the events to be depicted on the medal. . .'
His first medal, In Memory of Chatsky's Educational Work, which conformed to the best traditions of classicism, appeared in 1809, and in 1813-17 he produced many more medals, including one to be awarded to pupils at the Academy. All of them had a strict composition, beautiful contours, smooth rhythms and precise drawings. In his long, arduous years in the field of medal-designing, Tolstoy developed a doctrine of 'what and how to learn in order to become a medal-artist rather than a medal-master'.
Real fame came to the artist after he created a series of medallions on themes from the 1812 War against Napoleon. 'I am a Russian and I am proud of that name,' he wrote during the war. 'Wishing to participate and share in the glory of my countrymen, I ventured upon an undertaking which would trouble even the greatest artist. But the hitherto unheard of glory of our days can inspire even a mediocre talent to enter the gates of the future. I decided to convey to posterity all the shades of emotions felt by me, and wished to tell the people of the future that in our day everyone felt as I did, and everyone was happy to bear the name of a Russian.'
It is important to point out that Tolstoy carried out this work—for more than twenty years—not at the request or orders of some highly placed personage, but motivated purely by his own genuine patriotism. He celebrated the military actions not in portraits of generals but in figures which symbolised the Russian troops and people's volunteer army. He carefully studied the details of battles, read the descriptions by military experts and talked to war veterans. The drawings and sketches which have been preserved allow one to follow the creative process behind each composition and show that the laconic, expressive qualities of Tolstoy's artistic idiom were the fruit of extensive searches and painstaking labour. He achieved his goal that 'everyone who looks at the finished medal should recognise the event being illustrated without resorting to the inscription'.
Tolstoy's medallions are very diverse both in subject-matter and treatment. The majority of them concern the most important battles of the Patriotic War, and all are firmly rooted in real life and history, interpreted with sincerity and emotion.
The medallions became widely known not only in Russia but also abroad, and Tolstoy was elected as a member to almost all the European academies of arts. His artistic peak coincided with his most active period of political and civic activity. Like many progressive people of his time, Tolstoy longed for sweeping changes in the social order. In 1816 he joined the free-masons, and later he took part in the organisation of so-called 'Lancaster schools', the aim of which was to spread literacy among the population.
Tolstoy's social activities led him in 1818 to join a secret society—the Union of Prosperity, of which he became one of the leaders. He did not wholly go along with the Decembrists, but he did not lose his convictions, his daring and his broadmindedness. This can be clearly seen from two memoranda which he submitted to Nicholas I in 1826 in which he bravely defended the dignity of the human personality, harshly criticised the senseless drills and discipline of the cane in the army, and angrily condemned serfdom and bureaucratic extravagances. He was most active in his attempts to achieve freedom for the Ukrainian poet T. G. Shevchenko.
But the artist's involvement in public affairs did not cause him to desert his art. In 1816 he made four wax bas-reliefs illustrations for Homer's Odyssey (TRETYAKOV GALLERY, MOSCOW). These works represent an invaluable part of his sculptural legacy. His fine understanding and knowledge of the antique world, his great insight into Ancient Greek life which fascinated him so, enabled him to reconstruct pages from history with lyrical charm and realism.
Apart from medallions and bas-reliefs, Tolstoy produced several sculptures. In 1822 he modelled a Head of Morpheus (terracotta, RUSSIAN MUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG), in 1839 a Bust of Nicholas I (marble, RUSSIAN MUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG) and in 1848 a Head of Christ (plaster of Paris, RM; marble, TRETYAKOV GALLERY, MOSCOW). In 1849 the Council of the Academy of Arts confirmed him in the post of professor, in recognition of his services to sculpture.
An important place in his artistic legacy is occupied by his illustrations to Ippolit Bogdanovich's poem Dushenka (Psyche). For thirteen years he worked on these drawings (1820-33, TRETYAKOV GALLERY, MOSCOW), which were later used to make engravings. In these drawings, the brilliant use of the line — which characterised all his work—manifested itself particularly clearly. The line or contour, was for Tolstoy the main means of artistic expression. In his hands the line is elastic and precise, sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, creating a full impression of depth and materiality in his figures and objects. The varying character of the lines allowed him to solve plastic and spacial problems with extreme concision. Tolstoy's illustrations to Dushenka were his finest graphic achievement.
Fyodor Tolstoy was also renowned as a designer of sets for ballets and operas. In 1838 he designed the scenery and costumes and did a large number of drawings of individual dance steps for the ballet The Aeolian Harp, and in 1848 for the ballet The Echo.
Tolstoy considered sculpture, medal-design- ing and graphic art his main spheres of activity, and it was to them that he directed most of energy. In his rare free hours he used to cut silhouettes from black paper; this he did for himself and his friends, quite independently of prevailing tastes and of the demands of the Academy and official commissions. The silhouettes vividly reflected his realistic aspirations and interest in the surrounding world. He also painted several pictures: Family Portrait (1830, RUSSIAN MUSEUM, SAINT PETERSBURG), Embroiderings. In the Rooms (TRETYAKOV GALLERY, MOSCOW) and View of the Markoville Summerhouse in Finland (1855, TRETYAKOV GALLERY, MOSCOW).
Fyodor Tolstoy died on 13 April 1873, at the age of ninety. His life was long and industrious, and he left a glowing legacy. Created over a hundred years ago, his works are still very much alive today.
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Charles Barkley had some harsh criticism for the Cleveland Cavaliers after Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night.
The Cavs lost at home to the Golden State Warriors 110-102.
The most anticipated moment of the NBA playoffs finally took place, and no, we're not talking about the upcoming Game 7s.
Charles Barkley doesn't intend to punch Draymond Green, and he's sorry for saying he wanted to.


For the first time this year, the production company Sky Music Corporation from Serbia organized a music festival with participants from the countries of the Western Balkans, the former Yugoslavia Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia and the Republic of Northern Macedonia. One of the biggest music events was organized in Belgrade at Stark Arena, which gathers about 20,000 people while television viewers had the opportunity to watch the live event on the small screens across the region. The rating of the ratings of the musical event was a respectable one. At the same time, it was also a great interest in the manifestation by the regional audience.
With the positive feedback of the public, we come to the unequivocal conclusion that this music event attracted a lot of audience attention. The most popular tracks of all musical directions from folk across pop, rock, alternative music directions were chosen. The special award for excellence was won by the young Croatian cellist Stjepan Hauser, whose musical opus is precious to the unique performances of the class of music.
In the context of mediation, the MAC musc awards 2019 music festival played an interesting role. Let us note that in the 1990's, the countries of the former Yugoslavia suffered a torture of war-related casualties, conflicts and post-war tensions that lasted until recently. The mutual cooperation of the country – the republics of the former Yugoslavia established in the field of art above all the acting. The musical festival about which the text has contributed to the type of healing process, connecting countries in the best way with music.
About 60 performers from all countries of the Western Balkans took part at the festival. The profit of the tickets and SMS votes for the best performers MAC music festival in cooperation with UNICEF the collected profit will be used for the implementation of projects intended for the children of the participating countries.
In addition to the humanity of the festival night, it was in the discourse of promoting peace, equality, the right to diversity, tolerance and love.
That's why MAC music awards 2019 earned praise, because it is not an event of a classic commercial character, but an intermediary in establishing positive international relations.
The forms of mediation are no doubt different and each case is unique and deserves the attention of the professional public. It does not have to be methods based on spoken words by formal strategies that take place at the table. Instead of the word, music, performance in the form of dance, acting, with high-tech audiovisual production was mediated by the event, which in a positive way initiated the inetration on the relaunch of the performers – the audience initiating only positive emotions.
The personal point of view is that the presented situation is the fact that Serbia together with the countries of the Western Balkans region is progressing in establishing positive mutual relations.
It is not always necessary to have a round table or an ancient Agora, but a magnificent stage at which music has been mediated in order to establish peace, spread the joy of rhetoric of equality, tolerance of diversity, concern for the oppressed. The melody had the capacity of a mediation power tool in order to promote the relationships of different countries, cultures and traditions.
Your article raises important information about how the creative arts can play a part in promoting mediation to achieve peaceful solutions to conflict.
I love this article. Cannot but raise my own thinking in that we all human beings are an orchestra. If an instrument is not in tune, the whole song will be aweful to our ears. What can we all do to help the instrument tune? We look for good strings, or good wood, or better brass, we train the musician to tune the instrument, we learn to listen to a good tune. That, is our roles also as mediators.
Thank you for sharing the event and your perspective. The event is certainly beyond mediating relationships; sounded like the event helped transform the relationships and helped build bridges. We need more visual artists, dancers, theatrical performers, musicians, and even cultural workers to help bring people together and to promote diversity. Celebrating differences through music and dance, inspirational writings, and thought provoking arts, or through sharing of different traditional foods rather than in fear of differences. The question is how mediators can help promoting these amazing resources.
Very good to know how the music event brought people together in the region.


Each of the twelve channels includes a point often referred to in English as the 'cleft' or 'xi-cleft' point. Most often, modern acupuncture textbooks refer to these points as being particularly useful in cases of acute pain. While this is certainly true, a brief analysis of commonly found patterns of palpated changes at these points will reveal other applications for these particularly useful points. This short article will review the functions of the cleft points in the channel system and provide some ideas for broadening their clinical application.
The character (xi) generally refers to a narrow opening or pathway. Consequently, many modern texts describe the cleft points as being in areas where the channel pathway narrows and has a tendency to blockage and accumulation of qi and blood. A more clinically useful conception is of the cleft points as areas where channel qi is filtered (guò lu) and flow is controlled. They are like sluice gates (zhá mén) or toll booths regulating the nature and rate of channel flow. As might be expected, these points are often found in areas of the body where an opening or clear separation can be readily palpated. Sometimes, these palpable openings are between the bodies of muscles or, in many cases, they can be palpated as spaces on or near bones.
Jason D. Robertson ist Absolvent des American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (San Francisco). Für mehr als 8 Jahre lebte und arbeitete er in China und Taiwan. Er studierte Chinesisch an der Lee University in Washington, und anschließend an der Taiwan Normal University. Jason Robertson führt derzeit eine private Praxis in Seattle und unterrichtet am Seattle Institut of Oriental Medicine.


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The Hague launches on-demand transit services in partnership with The Routing Company
The Routing Company has received a three-year contract from the Municipality of The Hague in the Netherlands. The contract marks TRC's second partnership in Europe, with The Hague joining West Coast Motors in Scotland.
The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands. Its public transport service, run by local operator HTM, has been active since 1864 and today delivers over 80 million passenger rides per year. It also operates shared bikes within the city and tram connections to surrounding cities.
The Routing Company is a platform for on-demand vehicle routing and management. It has been founded by MIT researchers and rideshare industry veterans. Mission? Delivering "routing from multiple points of demand to one vehicle".
TRC to launch on-demand services in The Hague
Still in Europe, most recently, TRC was accepted as an official supplier on G-Cloud 13 , the United Kingdom's Crown Commercial Service platform that connects public sector customers with cloud computing service providers, and oversees £3 billion in annual purchases.
The contract will service the Benoordenhout area with TRC's leading product, the Pingo app (awarded with Metro Magazine's Innovative Solutions Award for 2022), "which is set to replace the area's previously underutilized fixed-route service", TRC says. HTM will provide vehicles and drivers for a new on-demand service powered by TRC's award-winning technology and launching in early 2023.
Both apps – Ride Pingo and Drive Pingo – will be available in Dutch, marking the first time Dutch is offered across the Pingo platform. Operating as a hub-to-hub service between nine existing bus stops, the service will leverage the Pingo platform's Venues feature to route drivers and riders to convenient pickup and dropoff locations. The Venue feature allows fleet managers to route all requests to specific points within the service area.
"TRC has strong Dutch roots and maintains a close relationship with the Delft University of Technology. We are thrilled to be launching our first Dutch service in the Netherlands' dynamic administrative center," said Menno van der Zee, Cofounder and Engineer, TRC. "We will provide driver and operator training, technical and operational support during launch, and app translation to ensure that this new service is a success from day one."
"We are very enthusiastic to work with TRC," said Nadya Ensing, Senior Policy Advisor of Public Transport, Municipality of The Hague. "Using this new technology through the Pingo app, we are offering more flexible and efficient additional public transport in a way that was not possible before."
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// Copyright 2016 Openprovider Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a license
// that can be found in the LICENSE file.

/*
Package rates 0.2.2
This package helps to manage exchange rates from any provider

Example 1: Get all exchange rates for the ECB Provider

    package main

    import (
        "fmt"

        "github.com/openprovider/rates"
        "github.com/openprovider/rates/providers"
    )

    func main() {
        service := rates.New(
            // any collection of providers which implement rates.Provider interface
            providers.NewECBProvider(new(rates.Options)),
        )
        rates, errors := service.FetchLast()
        if len(errors) != 0 {
            fmt.Println(errors)
        }
        fmt.Println("European Central Bank exchange rates for today")
        for index, rate := range rates {
            fmt.Printf("%d. %s - %v\r\n", index+1, rate.Currency, rate.Value)
        }
    }

Example 2: Get exchange rates for EUR, USD, CHF, HKD

    package main

    import (
        "fmt"

        "github.com/openprovider/rates"
        "github.com/openprovider/rates/providers"
    )

    func main() {
        registry := rates.Registry{
            // any collection of providers which implement rates.Provider interface
            providers.NewECBProvider(
                &rates.Options{
                    Currencies: []string{
                        providers.EUR,
                        providers.USD,
                        providers.CHF,
                        providers.HKD,
                    },
                },
            ),
        }
        rates, errors := registry.FetchLast()
        if len(errors) != 0 {
            fmt.Println(errors)
        }
        fmt.Println("European Central Bank exchange rates for today")
        for index, rate := range rates {
            fmt.Printf("%d. %s - %v\r\n", index+1, rate.Currency, rate.Value)
        }
    }

Exchange Rates Provider
*/
package rates

import (
	"strings"
	"time"

	"golang.org/x/text/currency"
)

// Rate represent date and currency exchange rates
type Rate struct {
	ID       uint64        `json:"id,omitempty"`
	Date     string        `json:"date"`
	Currency string        `json:"currency"`
	Time     time.Time     `json:"-"`
	Base     currency.Unit `json:"-"`
	Unit     currency.Unit `json:"-"`
	Value    interface{}   `json:"value"`
}

// Options is some specific things for the specific provider
// It should configure the provider to manage currencies
type Options struct {
	// API key/token
	Token string
	// List of the currencies which need to get from the provider
	// If it is empty, should get all of existing currencies from the provider
	Currencies []string
	// Flexible settings list
	Settings map[string]interface{}
}

// Provider holds methods for providers which implement this interface
type Provider interface {
	Name() string
	FetchLast() (rates []Rate, errors []error)
	FetchHistory() (rates []Rate, errors []error)
}

// Registry contains registered providers
type Registry []Provider

// New service which contains registered providers
func New(providers ...Provider) Provider {
	var registry Registry
	for _, provider := range providers {
		registry = append(registry, provider)
	}
	return registry
}

// Name returns name of the provider
func (registry Registry) Name() string {
	var names []string
	for _, provider := range registry {
		names = append(names, provider.Name())
	}
	return "Registry: " + strings.Join(names, ", ")
}

// FetchLast returns exchange rates from all registered providers on last day
func (registry Registry) FetchLast() (rates []Rate, errors []error) {
	for _, provider := range registry {
		r, errs := provider.FetchLast()
		rates = append(rates, r...)
		errors = append(errors, errs...)
	}
	return
}

// FetchHistory returns exchange rates from all registered providers from history
func (registry Registry) FetchHistory() (rates []Rate, errors []error) {
	for _, provider := range registry {
		r, errs := provider.FetchHistory()
		rates = append(rates, r...)
		errors = append(errors, errs...)
	}
	return
}

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Things We Saw Today: All The Mandalorian, All the Time
By Vivian KaneApr 14th, 2019, 5:51 pm
Star Wars Celebration wrapped up today, but not before giving us some more information regarding the upcoming live-action Star Wars television show, The Mandalorian. Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, and executive producer Dave Filoni sat down to dish out some details on what has until now been a highly secretive project set to premiere in November of this year. I'm sure we'll be diving into this in greater detail this week, but here are some of the fun things we learned today:
We got some character names and descriptions. Pascal describes the Mandalorian as "a mysterious lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy. Some might say he has questionable moral character, which is in line with some of our best westerns, some good samurai. All the good stuff. And he's a badass!."
Carano is Kara Dune, "an ex-rebel shock trooper," who fought in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. "I'm a bit of a loner–which isn't a far stretch," she says, "and I'm having a bit of trouble reintegrating myself into society."
Weathers plays Grief, "a guy who is running this group of bounty hunters. He's kind of the head of this guild of bounty hunters."
Here's a look at those characters:
Star Wars drops 4 new images from Jon Favreau's #TheMandalorian, coming to DIsney+ November 12
(via @starwars) pic.twitter.com/0QNGr0mVeX
— Fandom (@getFANDOM) April 14, 2019
Let's see, what else? The show uses some old-school Star Wars techniques and the bounty hunter's ship–named the Razorcrest–is being shot using practical models. Also, the 501st Legion Stormtrooper cosplay group will appear in the film, although they didn't know that when they showed up to the shoot.
members of the 501st legion appear in THE MANDALORIAN. they apparently didn't know what they'd be filming until they got to set. pic.twitter.com/1HbapxH1oI
— lindsey romain @ swcc (@lindseyromain) April 14, 2019
Fans who attended in person got to see some behind-the-scenes footage and a teaser trailer, but they blocked it out of the livestream, so we have to rely on the excited tweets of those who were in the room where it happened.
The footage we just saw, that wasn't on the livestream, was 90% behind the scenes stuff over b-roll and 10% a wordless scene where the Mando walks into a space bar. Looks amazeballs. #TheMandalorian
— Chris Taylor (@FutureBoy) April 14, 2019
Wowowooeowwowo They just showed a #TheMANDALORIAN featurette. It takes place 5 years after Return Of Jedi. Dewbacks, new planets, new aliens. It was UN-REAL. This is made for the lifers. I lost my mind, I want this show today. #TheMANDALORIAN #StarWarsCelebration2019
— Kristian Harloff (@KristianHarloff) April 14, 2019
Standing ovation! We just watched several minutes of footage, this is a huge production, tons of Easter Eggs. Kowakian monkey lizards, gonks, 4-Lom, IG-88 mowing people down, and freakin @billburr is in this show! This is going to be INCREDIBLE. #StarWars #TheMandalorian
— SWNN (@StarWarsNewsNet) April 14, 2019
I don't think I've ever been more excited for a TV show than #TheMandalorian. It looks like it's exploring the weird, grimy, crime-ridden corners of Star Wars that I adore so much. Villainous, depraved gangsters and drunk puppet monsters smuggling illegal spices. Fuck yes. pic.twitter.com/3ww24RK7B8
— Brian Altano (@agentbizzle) April 14, 2019
Big Little Lies season two trailer shows what the "Monterey Five" have been dealing with since the end of season one. (via Youtube)
This is the only thing worth watching from last night's otherwise pretty abysmal SNL:
Yo-Yo Ma played joint concerts on both sides of the US/Mexican border today as part of a "Day of Action." (via NPR)
Daniel Craig apparently has very good taste, as he reportedly requested Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) be brought in to punch up the next James Bond movie. (via The Guardian)
Please enjoy this very important thread:
tessa thompson as pringles: a thread pic.twitter.com/btlJ5PwbI2
— z (@ttomholIand) April 12, 2019
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With more than 40 galleries, museums, cultural venues, restaurants, bars and businesses, in addition to dozens of artist booths in Hemming Plaza, street performers and live music, this art walk is more than 10 years old. The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville offers free admission.
Artist booths line First Street and businesses feature specials and live music at this beach-side Art Walk event.
With more than 55 participating local artists, this art walk also features almost 30 venues for shopping and dining.
Riverside Arts Market (RAM) features more than 100 juried artists that showcase Jacksonville's creative side, from handmade pottery, paintings and jewelry, to silk-screened shirts and unique accessories. The farmers market features local produce, artisan breads, gourmet spreads, fresh cheeses, and more. Three stages present live entertainment, such as regional bands, barbershop quartets, bellydancers, magicians, fire-eaters and jugglers.
Come to The Jacksonville Landing every first Wednesday of the month. This downtown Jacksonville event will feature a beer garden, games for kids, food trucks, and music. Shop wares from local artisans.
Photo from Riverside Arts Market.


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Rules for Flying the U.S. Flag
June 27, 2011 June 27, 2011 ~ emilyrex	~ Leave a comment
Purchasing an American flag, no matter how large or small requires understanding of proper flag regulations. Although not difficult to follow, many Americans are unaware of the federal laws that ensure all American flags are treated with dignity and respect. Below are the most important rules that govern the use of the American flag, according to the United States Flag Code.
The American flag is customarily displayed only from sunrise to sunset. A flag may be displayed during darkness if the flag is properly illuminated
The flag is always raised quickly and lowered slowly.
Only all-weather or weather-resistant flags should be flown during sever weather to avoid damaging—and thus making unusable—less durable flags.
The main administration buildings of every public institution should fly an American flag on the premises.
Polling locations should display the American flag on or near the premises on election days.
Schools should display the American flag on or near the premises when school is in session.
In a procession with other flags, the flag should appear in the front of the line, on the flag's own right (observer's left).
The American flag should never be draped over anything, such as a car, train, boat, statue, or monument, and should never be used on a parade float.
When used indoors, the union of the flag should appear at the flag's own right (observer's left). If the flag is on display during a speaker's presentation, the flag should be displayed either on a pole at the speaker's right or above and behind the speaker. If other flags are on display, they should appear to the speaker's left, and only the flag of the United States should appear on the speaker's right.
When a flag is displayed above the middle of a street, the union should be to the north on an east-west street or to the east on a north-south street.
It's also important to note that the Flag Code cannot cover all possible flag-waving situations. When practices are in question, the following overarching rule should be followed: "No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America."
June 27, 2011 ~ emilyrex	~ Leave a comment
The United States Flag Store is the largest and most complete vendor of Valley Forge flags, flagpoles, and accessories. With the widest variety and largest quantities of Valley Forge flags and flag accessories in their inventory, the United States Flag Store is your number one online store for these high-quality American-made flags.
Valley Forge flags are special for several reasons. In addition to serving as one of the oldest and most widely regarded makers of American flags, Valley Forge flags are completely American-made. The company is also a major supplier of American flags to the United States government, and Valley Forge flags have been raised and flown in major American events since World War II, including at the Battle of Iwo Jima, at the liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps, in Normandy on D-Day, and on the first moon landing.
The Valley Forge Flag Company has remained a family-owned business since its beginnings in 1882. The company began its industry by manufacturing burlap sacks and began manufacturing American flags and other surplus during World War I. In 1932, due to increasing demand for American flags, the Valley Forge Company opened a small factory in Spring City, Pennsylvania. To this day, the Valley Forge Flag Company operates under the mission to manufacture United States flags that are 100% American-made. The Valley Forge Flag Company is committed to educating the American people and flag sellers about the importance of American-made flags and helped found the Flag Manufacturers Association of America.
Valley Forge flags are available in three materials from the United States flag store: cotton, nylon, and Koralex. The Valley Forge Best Cotton American Flags are made of heavyweight 2×2 ply mercerized cotton. The cotton flags feature vibrant colors and reinforced fly ends, and are designed for outdoor use. Valley Forge Nylon American Flags are a lower cost alternative to the traditional cotton flag but are a cut above traditional nylon flags. Valley Forge nylon flags feature sewn stripes, embroidered stars, and reinforced fly ends for an elegant look. Valley Forge Koralex American Flags are another great alternative to traditional cotton flags because they have the appearance of cotton but are more fray and weather resistant.
Etiquette for Flying the U.S. Flag
June 22, 2011 ~ emilyrex	~ 2 Comments
When you purchase and fly the Flag of the United States of America, you are committing to adhering to certain standards of respect for the flag, or rules of etiquette. The Flag of the United States should be treated with utmost respect at all times, and if a flag becomes unsuitable for use, it should be disposed in a proper manner. Here are some of the most important rules regarding flag etiquette.
The Flag of the United States should always be flown with the union–the blue and white "stars" field–at the flag's own right (the observer's left). Flying the flag upside down is a standardized signal of distress. Flying the flag backwards is disrespectful.
The flag should never be used for purposes other than flying. Therefore, the flag should not be used in any advertisements; as a costume or article of clothing; or as a covering for a table, desk, or podium. The only exception to this rule is that a flag patch may be worn on uniforms of certain government personnel, including those in the military, fire fighting, and police forces.
The flag should never touch the ground or be dipped to any person or other object. There are specific instructions for folding the U.S. flag. Instructions for folding, which requires two people, can be found here.
The United States flag should be kept as clean as possible. If the flag becomes damaged, or if it has been used in an inappropriate manner, it should be destroyed in a dignified flag burning ceremony.
When the Flag of the United States is displayed with other flags, such as flags of other states or organizations, the United States flag should be the first flag raised and the last flag lowered. The U.S. flag should be at the top of the pole if it is flying with other flags. If the flags are on separate poles, no flags should fly higher than the United States flag, and the U.S. flag should be on its own right (the observer's left). The United States flag should not be smaller than any of the other flags. When the U.S. flag flies with flags of other countries, each flag should be on a separate pole, all the flags should be raised and lowered at the same time, and all flags should fly at the same height.
Half-Mast, Special Flag Days, and Continuous Display of the U.S. Flag
The Flag of the United States can be found flying on the sites of government buildings and also outside residential homes. In general, the U.S. flag is raised quickly at sunrise and lowered ceremoniously at sunset. There are of course, exceptions to this rule: residences and public places, for example, can display the flag during darkness if the flag is properly illuminated. There are also certain days throughout the year that are special flag flying days or when the flag should be flown at half mast.
To achieve a patriotic effect, there are some government buildings that display the flag continuously. These are:
The Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
The White House (Washington, D.C.)
United States Marine Corp Memorial (Arlington, VA)
Flag House Square (Baltimore, MD)
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine (Baltimore, MD)
On the Green (Lexington, MA)
The National Memorial Arch at Valley Forge State Park (Valley Forge, PA)
At United States Customs Ports of Entry
There are also special flag flying days, or days of celebration when United States citizens are encouraged to display their flags at full mast. These days include:
President's Day (the third Monday in February)
United States Flag Day (June 14), celebrating the adoption of U.S. flag in 1777
Veteran's Day (November 11), a celebratory day to honor our veterans
There are other days when the flag should be flown at half mast. In general, flags should be flown at half mast from sunrise to sunset. The exception to this rule is Memorial Day, when the flag is flown at half mast until noon, and then raised to full mast until sunset. Half mast days include:
Peace Officers Memorial Day (May 15)
Memorial Day (the last Monday in May)
Patriot Day (September 11)
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (December 7)
The President of the United States or a United States governor has the power to declare the United States flag to be flown at half mast. To honor the death of a state or national figure, the flag is flown at half mast for the following durations:
Thirty days following the death of the President or former president
Ten days following the death of the Vice President, Chief Justice, retired Chief Justice or Speaker of the House.
The time between the death and burial of a former Vice President, Associate Supreme Court Justice, military secretary, and a state governor.
The day of and day after the death of a congressperson.
If a community deems appropriate, the U.S. flag can also be flown at half mast to honor the death of important local government, religious, social, or youth leaders, teachers and coaches, or other community figures.
To get the most current updates about when the flag should be flown at half mast, visit www.halfstaff.org.
Flag of Kansas
June 9, 2011 ~ emilyrex	~ Leave a comment
The flag of the state of Kansas was adopted by the Kansas State Legislature on May 21, 1927. The flag features a blue background with the Great Seal of the State of Kansas in the center. The Kansas state crest is appears above the seal and the state's name is printed in block letters below the seal.
The Great Seal of the State of Kansas was adopted on May 25, 1861 and tells the story of Kansas's development. A farmer, two horses and a plow, and a cabin are depicted in the seal's foreground, reflecting the importance of agriculture in Kansas's economy, society, and history. The journey many Americans made to Kansas from the American east during the nineteenth century is depicted behind the agricultural scene with a train of oxen and wagons moving westward. Kansas's Native American population is represented in the background of the seal with two Native Americans hunting buffalo on horseback. A river and a steamboat are also pictured in the seal's background, representing Kansas's participation in interstate commerce. The state's motto, Ad astra per aspera, or "through hardships to the stars," is written at the top of the seal in Latin. The Kansas state seal also includes thirty four stars, representing Kansas's admission to the Union as the thirty-fourth state on January 29, 1861. Around the entire scene are the words, "Great Seal of the State of Kansas, January 29, 1861."
Kansas's state crest is featured at the top of the flag and consists of a sunflower resting on top of a gold and blue bag. The flower is Kansas's state flower and also symbolizes fearlessness and openness. The blue and gold bar represents the Louisiana Purchase, of which the area that is now Kansas was a part.
The Kansas State Flag was flown for the first time in 1927 at Fort Riley to honor the troops stationed at Fort Riley and the Kansas National Guard.
Flag of Alabama
The flag of the state of Alabama was adopted by Alabama's state legislature on February 16, 1895. The flag is rectangular and features a crimson cross in front of a white background. The cross on Alabama's flag is the St. Andrew's cross, which runs diagonally from corner to corner on the state's banner.
There are three proposed theories attempting to explain the origin of Alabama's flag. The most commonly accepted explanation for the flag's design is that it resembles the flag of the Confederate States of America, which was adopted in 1865. The flag of the Confederate States of America features a blue St. Andrew's cross with white stars in front of a red background.
A second proposed theory regarding the design of Alabama's flag is that it is similar to a banner flown by the seventh Alabama Cavalry during the American Civil War. The cavalry was part of Rucker's Brigade and was led by Edmund Rucker, who resided in Montgomery after the Civil War. Rucker's Brigade flew a white banner that featured a red St. Andrew's cross decorated with blue-green stars. The flag was made from the "best dresses" of several Confederate women, including the wedding dress of Lorenzo Leedy, a Mississippi widow.
Finally, it's important to note that the flag of Alabama resembles two other important state and country flags. The Alabama flag closely resembles the United Kingdom's Union Flag and the flag of the state of Florida, of which Alabama was originally a part.
Before the adoption of Alabama's current flag in 1895, Alabama flew a much different two-sided banner. In 1861, the Alabama Secession Convention set out to design the state's first official flag, and several Montgomery women created the double-sided design. The flag is rectangular with a blue background. One side of the flag features the "Goddess of Liberty" holding a sword in one hand and a blue flag in her other hand. The text at the top of this side of the flag reads "Independent Now and Forever." The other side of the flag features a rattlesnake and a cotton plant. Underneath the image are the Latin words Noli Me Tangere, or "Touch Me Not."


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Double Appointment For DoubleTree Edinburgh
Experienced hotelier Marcello Ventisei has been appointed as General Manager of RBH operated hotel, DoubleTree by Hilton Edinburgh City Centre while Carol Mackillop joins as Marketing Manager.
Marcello brings an impressive 26 years' managerial experience to the four star hotel following recent roles as Cluster General Manager for Macdonald Hotels and Resorts in Central Scotland and seven years as General Manager of Principal Edinburgh Charlotte Square.
In his new role, Marcello will lead the team at the 138 bedroom hotel, strategically managing sales, operations and finance as well as overseeing people development.
It's an honour to be back in the heart of the city, leading a team at a hotel steeped in such architectural history. The hotel already had a fantastic reputation and I am looking forward to working with the team to further develop a world class guest experience."
DoubleTree by Hilton Edinburgh City Centre's new Marketing Manager, Carol, joins the team following eight years in event design and management with Cameron and All Event Hire.
DoubleTree by Hilton Edinburgh City Centre is a fantastic venue – especially with its Sky Bar providing the best view of the capital.
I intend to hit the ground running in my role here with a packed calendar of events scheduled for the coming months for both residential and non-residential guests. From summer and festive silent discos to themed afternoon teas and a Rocky Horror Singalong – we've got something for everyone and I'm delighted to join the team here."


This three-part series features Ireland's most heroic wildlife travellers and the incredible journeys they carry out every single year. From the 8,000km flown annually by the Manx Shearwaters to the transatlantic voyages of our eels and salmon, 'Wild Journeys' follows these voyagers to the ends of the Earth, showing the extraordinary challenges they meet and revealing the magnificent landscapes they visit en route.
The series publicises the vital work of Irish scientists as they tag and track the animals across the globe and reveals the amazing network of wildlife that links all life across the continents; how global warming directly affects our Barnacle Geese as they struggle to cope with a rapidly changing Arctic and the extraordinary distances covered by our marine animals.


Under direction of the Utah Office of Tourism, a team of volunteer geocachers have thoughtfully placed geocaches in locations of exceptional scenic, historic and cultural interest throughout the state. Groups and individuals can download an app from geocaching.com that highlights all of the stashes. Once Utah GeoTour participants find three of a county's five Utah Geo Tour geocaches (all placed in ammo cans), they can follow the instructions on a laminated code card found within each cache to a patch pick-up location as all of Utah's 29 counties have a unique patch designed by the Utah Office of Tourism. Once a geocacher has been awarded 10 county patches, he or she is qualified to receive an official Utah GeoCoin. If any geocacher is ambitious enough to redeem all 29 patches, an official Utah Geo Tour jacket for displaying the patches is awarded (while supplies last, otherwise another special reward is presented).


The K9 Crew, an initiative of the SPCA of Wake County's Behavior Team, is a group of trained volunteers that focus on highlighting some of the dogs who linger at the SPCA, regardless of breed.
The K9 Crew was first called the "Pit Crew" and originated to repair and rebuild the reputation of the American Pit Bull Terrier in our community. That work continues as the SPCA K9 Crew.
Please support the SPCA K9 Crew! Register to walk with us, donate to a team member, donate to the team, or share our page with your friends!


Seth Mattison is an internationally renowned expert on workforce trends and generational dynamics. As Founder and Chief Movement Officer of FutureSight Labs, Seth advises many of the world's leading brand and organizations on the key shifts happening around talent management, change and innovation, leadership, and the future of work.
Named to the Editors' Picks for Favorite Speakers for 2013 by MeetingsNet, Seth's presentations bring an entirely unexpected perspective on the future of work, talent, innovation, and the power of relationships. With a passion for helping to create greater understanding and collaboration in today's workplace, Seth offers participants actionable content that can immediately impact business performance.
A power shift has occurred in the world of customers and clients today. No longer do institutions and authority figures hold the keys. Today power, information, and influence are shared between clients and sales professionals creating new challenges and opportunities for entire industries. How will you respond to this dramatic evolution? In the Shine, Seth Mattison will dissect how world class firms, leaders, and sales producers are meeting the elevated expectations of more sophisticated and demanding customers by demonstrating an entirely new set of relationship competencies required to compete and win business in this new complex and competitive environment.
We're witnessing the greatest fundamental shift the world has ever seen in the way we organize, collaborate, connect and contribute. Whether it's empowered clients connecting with your brand in new ways or engaged employees amplifying their voices, the walls that have divided us are crumbling down. Leading this evolution is a new generation disrupting every industry and market segment they occupy. Digitally charged and hyperconnected, they are rewriting the rules of engagement. In response to this dynamic shift, a new ethos and view of the world will be required by brands today—one that's more human, authentic and accessible to all. In this session, Seth Mattison will bring to life this new networked view of the world. He'll offer new insights, best practice recommendations and actionable tools to foster long-term loyalty and brand preference among the next generation of consumers.
For future focused organizations to succeed in the new world of work a bold approach to management is needed. An approach where freedom, trust, and experimentation are not only embraced but encouraged. Unfortunately while our advancement in technology has equipped us to navigate the disruptive waters of change, our management models have not. Today, many of our organizations still operating from a 19th Century industrial age management model that undervalues unconventional thinking, discourages full transparency, deters initiative, frustrates experimentation, and allows people to play small. In this program, Seth will provide a road map for anticipating the management challenges that will demand fundamentally new thinking; successfully challenge obsolete management models that limit success and help leaders build tomorrow's best practices today.
Take a look around your organization today. There's a good chance you're working alongside three and possibly even four generations of talent. Going forward, the workforce is moving inexorably toward greater diversity. This dynamic can create crippling challenges or game-changing advantages for teams that learn to recognize, understand, value and ultimately tap the strategic perspective that lies within every generation. Fresh eyes alongside seasoned wisdom will be a fierce force in the new world of work. Gen-Power will help you harness it. In this session, Seth Mattison will help you understand the histories, personalities, strengths and challenges of each unique generational group, while also sharing insights and best practices on leading, managing, recruiting and retaining colleagues of all ages and experience levels.
We are entering the greatest period of business transformation the world has ever known. The constant state of disruption we are experiencing mandates a bold new approach to leadership. This program is designed to help leaders prepare to navigate a new business landscape where the pace of change is elevating and collaboration is the key ingredient to unleashing the innovation required to compete and win. Supported with cutting-edge research and category-leading case studies, Seth Mattison will prepare audience participants today for what is going to be required to compete and thrive tomorrow.
In today's super-wired, highly digital society, humans still crave social interaction and relationships. In business, creating strong relationships is the key to achieving success, both individually and as an organization. What's the secret for cultivating successful relationships, particularly in business? As more and more lives play out virtually, connections can sometimes feel less than fulfilling. From Facebook to LinkedIn, Twitter to Foursquare, it's important to remember just how powerful it can be to reach beyond the fiber optics and make that physical connection. In the Relationship Revolution, Seth Mattison will explore five key insights that will equip you for building better, stronger, more authentic relationships in the new world of work.
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You have probably heard speakers on the topic of generational differences in the workplace, but Seth Mattison is by far the best. His presentation Rocking the Workplace: Managing and Leading the Four Generations skips over all the negative and annoying stereotypes ('millennials have no loyalty, no work ethic') and gets the audience fired up about the idea of getting along with four—soon to be five—generations at once. His presentation is fun and funny, energetic, and totally relatable. He manages to engage every member of the audience, which in most cases will span every generation, in an affectionate and endearing way.


Bold Vision, a community development charity in SE14, is looking for a new operator to take over running the vibrant Hill Station Community Cafe on Telegraph Hill. This is an exciting opportunity to build on the existing success of the venture, and to develop a catering business that serves the needs of the community and fulfills Bold Vision's social mission. The contract will be for a 3 year period and will start in August 2013. A full tender and specification document is available on the Bold Vision website (www.boldvision.org.uk) or from stuartbell80@btinternet.com.
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Shelby 1819 Limited Microbrew - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories
Series of Guest Blogs by an out-of-state Fish Report reader originally from this area about fond memories of growing up in Midwestern Ohio during the 50's & 60's
Shelby 1819 Limited Microbrew
Photo by Chett Borchers, my niece's husband
Over Easter weekend, my brother-in-law offered me a can of a new pilsner microbrew pictured above called Shelby 1819 Limited, commemorating the bicentennial of Shelby County. I really liked it because it was a lot less "hoppy" than the typical microbrews. It was brewed by Moeller Brew Barn in Maria Stein and represents their first pilsner. I had written about them and another favorite microbrew, Wally Post Red in this previous blogpost.
Intrigued by the photo on the Shelby 1819 Limited can, after some research I found the following excerpt on the Shelby County website:
"Shelby County was established in 1819 with Hardin, serving as the first County seat. The name Shelby came from General Isaac Shelby, an officer in the American Revolution who was noted for his bravery and honesty, and was elected Governor of Kentucky. The people of the County chose the name Shelby because many of them were from Kentucky and admired General Shelby a great deal".
General Shelby was quite a leader as evidenced by this statement from his Wikipedia bio:
"Shelby was surveying lands in Kentucky in 1780 when he heard of the colonists' defeat at Charleston. He hurried to North Carolina, where he found a request for aid from General Charles McDowell to defend the borders of North Carolina from the British. Shelby assembled three hundred militiamen and joined McDowell at Cherokee Ford in South Carolina.On the morning of July 31, 1780, he surrounded the British stronghold at Thickety Fort on the Pacolet River with 600 men. He immediately demanded a surrender, but the British refused. Shelby brought his men within musket range and again demanded surrender.Though the fort likely would have withstood the attack, the British commander lost his nerve and capitulated. Without firing a shot, Shelby's men captured 94 prisoners."
The Shelby 1819 Limited microbrew came about because the County formed a Bicentennial Beer Subcommittee pictured below. The chair of the subcommittee is my old neighbor Tony Bornhorst, standing, and current County Commissioner. My cousin Duane Gaier seated in the vest was also a member. Knowing Tony and Duane, and seeing the smiles on their and the rest of the subcommittee's faces, no doubt they made several road trips to the Brew Barn before settling on the winning name and microbrew! Tough duty!
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Sports - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories
Imagine a world without sports - I can't either! From the youngest age, sports permeates our lives in all kinds of wonderful and imaginable ways. From that first ball your parents put in your crib to the sports memorabilia that might be placed in your coffin, we are privileged to enjoy the many amenities and benefits of sports activity.
My first sports memory was rather unique in that it was badminton! My Mom loved playing the game so we were taught to hold a racket and hit the shuttlecock at a very young age.
Badminton was best played when there was no wind so the shuttlecock stayed on course. We had this special place in our barnyard near a shed that tended to block the wind. That game introduced me to and help develop skills for all kinds of other rackets sports like tennis, paddleball and pickle ball that I enjoy playing to this day, as do several of my siblings.
The family's badminton net also served a dual purpose for volleyball as well.
Of all the sports I played over the years, most people are surprised to learn that volleyball was likely my best. Since it's not a high school sport for boys, other than recreational volleyball, it wasn't until college when I became proficient. As a freshman on our fraternity intramural team, I recall playing with several outstanding setters who could perfectly place the ball above the net for me to spike. My 6'5" frame and jumping ability from basketball really were assets in volleyball. We won the intramural championship all four years in college and also won numerous championships in the Ford recreational league while working there after college. And on summer weekends, we played lots of pick-up volleyball around the pool at our apartment complex and later in the water near our lakefront home.
Without sports, life would be a bore! Whether playing or watching a sport, fun times result. Sports activities are the best form of recreation and exercise in my view because there's a competition underway that gets the juices flowing and energy level rising.
My passion for sports continues unabated in my 71st year, as I'm usually doing something sports-related every day. Retirement has really help in that regard given my time can now be spent participating in sporting activities.
A routine each day is checking in on Fish Report for the many sports articles and social media posts. What a wonderful service Craig and his fine crew provide for area sports fans. Thanks so much! It's the perfect way for me to stay connected to and root for my favorite teams back home.
I'm amazed at the competitive play by the teams in the SCAL and MAC. The competition is of such high quality; arguably the best in the state. Take it from me, the teamwork, skills and lessons learned on the playing fields at that critical age will serve every participant very well for the rest of their lives. May each cherish their time playing competitive sports at the high school level. And good luck!
St. Henry baseball's Dream Team of 1945..
The following is part of a collection of new clippings and pictures submitted by a Fish Report reader on the careers and life of brothers Ed & Wally Post. Click to enlarge.
Sparkyisms - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories
A Series of Guest Blogs by an out-of-state Fish Report reader originally from this area about fond memories of growing up in Midwestern Ohio during the 50's & 60's
Sparkyisms
Sparky Anderson was an all time favorite, not only because he was a winner for both the Reds and Tigers, my two favorite teams, but also for his always interesting commentary, which I'll dub as "Sparkyism's" in light of last week's blog on "Yogisms". Sparky always spoke positively about just about everything; as this was his motto:
"Learn to treat people well — it doesn't cost a dime." or as evidenced by this gem: "I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench."
Many of his comments were real exaggerations. For example, here's some Sparkyisms about players who never quite made it up to his view of their potential:
"Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived."
"Barbaro Garbey is another Roberto Clemente."
"Mike Ivie has the hitting mechanics of Steve Garvey."
Probably the only negative comment I'd ever hear him speak was after losing a bad game:
"You can't put a tuxedo on a pig."
Sparky hated losing but was usually philosophical:
"I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come."
And after a rainout:
"It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow."
Sparky lasted only one season as a player in the majors. Here's his rookie card:
On his playing career, Sparky commented. "I never hit a home run in the majors. But I took (Don) Drysdale deep. Foul, but deep." He also said, "I don't know whether I'm a big leaguer or not, but I want to find out, and if I can't do it, then I'll be a minor leaguer the rest of my life." At age 30 in 1964, Sparky became the manager of AAA Toronto at the time, where he had been playing as a minor leaguer after his one season playing with the Phillies. Five years later he was the Reds manager, leading them to two World Series victories. At the time, the Cincinnati Enquirer headlines read "Sparky Who."
For sure, we now know who Sparky was.
During his Hall of Fame induction ceremony which began with the audience giving him a standing ovation, Sparky told them, "Please sit down. I learned a long time ago in baseball when they stand up, they're getting ready to boo."
More Sparkyisms...
Told once he was "one of a kind," Anderson replied: "You know what? That's good. The world couldn't take two of me."
"I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that."
"Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings."
"I once sold used cars," he was fond of saying, "but not many." His honesty compelled him to tell people which ones were lemons.
When asked about John Wockenfuss, a utility catcher with his Detroit Tigers who couldn't run the bases for his life: "Problem with Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him."
"People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it."
On the designated hitter: "I've changed my mind about it. Instead of being bad, it stinks."
On managing: "A baseball manager is a necessary evil."
His line of admiration about Willie Stargell: "He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone."
One of my favorite Sparkyisms I used with my son when he was a kid, "Pain don't hurt"!!!!
He appeared once on the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati:
My favorite Sparky moment came during the 5th and final game of the 1984 World Series when the Tigers were playing the San Diego Padres. He almost swallows his gum communicating with Kirk Gibson before he hits the series winning home run; click here. Just listen to Sparky go at it in the background. Turn up the volume!
More about last week's Yogi Berra blog:
Yogi won a record setting 10 World Series championships as reflected in these rings from each series compared to Tom Brady's six Super Bowl rings.
It's widely accepted that the cartoon character Yogi Bear got his name from Yogi Berra. But how did Berra become "Yogi" in the first place? As it turns out, Berra (whose first name was actually Lawrence) got the nickname as a teenager playing American Legion Baseball. A friend who had just seen a travelogue about India noticed how similar a Hindu yogi's cross-legged pose was to Berra's when he sat on the ground awaiting his turn at bat.
"I'm going to call you Yogi," Berra's friend reportedly said. The rest is, well, you know.
Yogisms - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories
Yogisms
Last week's blog about Opening Day ended with a quote from Yogi Berra, which brought about an email from a Fish Report reader suggesting a blog on Yogi's most famous quotes; so here goes!
Growing up I never really like the Yankees but of all the many famous players, Yogi was the most entertaining with his crazy sayings and self-deprecating humor.
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris got all the headlines, but Yogi no doubt kept all those superstars on the team loose and laughing, including when the the Yankee's creamed the Reds in the 1961 World Series. Reds long-time announcer at the time, Waite Hoyt, was a former pitcher for the Yankees, so he had plenty of stories to tell about those times during the blow-out series. His relationship with the Yankees allowed him inside access that regular broadcasters only dream about.
Speaking of records, the Yankees hold many; the most famous of which is Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941, a record in my view that will never be broken. For Yogi's records, check out his Hall of Fame plaque pictured below and this short video tribute about Yogi.
Some more of my favorite Yogisms:
And my all time favorite Yogism:
Next week, I'll take a look at quotes from another interesting baseball personality, Sparky Anderson; aka Sparkyisms! Stay tuned.
Opening Day - Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories
Opening Day is a wonderful state of mind, with countless baseball fans recognizing this unofficial holiday as a good reason to call in sick at work or skip from school. My first opening day came in 1973 at the new but now demolished Riverfront Stadium during the era of the Big Red Machine.
My wife and I had just married the fall before and her family had season tickets. For Opening Day, season ticket holders were allotted 8 tickets; the regular 4 behind the Reds dugout accessible to the amenities of the Stadium Club. The other 4, including my seat, were in the upper deck nose-bleed section. But I didn't care one iota because it was Opening Day and that's all that mattered. Plus we'd move down to the better seats while my wife's grandfather, father-in-law and uncles visited the Stadium Club.
Before the game, we caught the tail end of the annual parade in downtown Cincinnati commemorating Opening Day. This year the city celebrated the100th annual parade and the ball club's 150th anniversary, with Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred serving as grand marshal, with special guest Hall-of-Famer Johnny Bench.
The Reds played the Giants on that 1973 Opening Day, but lost 4-1, eventually winning their division and losing the NLCS in 5 games to the Mets. Here's the box score and ticket stub for the game:
During the next year's Opening Day at Riverfront, while the Reds were playing the Braves, Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's all time home run record, with newcomer and now Hall-of-Famer Marty Brenneman making the famous call to kick-off his 46 year career broadcasting Reds games. He's retiring at the end of this season.
I missed that game because by then we had moved to Michigan, where I quickly became a Tiger fan, especially when Sparky Anderson was later fired by the Reds and hired by the Tigers. In April of 1984, I snuck out of work from Ford Motor Company for "a long lunch" and made the short drive to Tiger Stadium for Opening Day, scalping a ticket out front. I was back at work before quitting time and no one, including my boss or wife, were the wiser! The Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 1-0, leading to a 35-5 start, an AL pennant, World Series and many, many pleasant memories.
Experiencing Opening Day was so special. My third and so far last Opening Day was in the year 2000 for the inaugural game at Detroit's new Comerica Park. I again snuck out of work to see the game, but since it was the first game in the new stadium, I had absolutely no luck scalping a ticket. So improvising, I was able to watch the game from the Detroit Athletic parking deck beyond centerfield circled in the photo below. It was freezing with snow flurries, but I could stay in my car and watch the game with the heater at full blast, listening on the radio as legendary Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell described the Tiger victory.
Hall-of-Famer Harwell would always lead off each Opening day with the following poem: "For lo' the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Happy New Year, everybody. It's time for Tiger Baseball".
In recent years, it's been a special treat to get a jump on Opening Day by attending spring training in Florida, and especially this year as the Tigers were playing the Red Sox in Ft. Myers while our son was visiting us for a week. Here's a selfie at Jet Blue Park with a replica of Fenway's Green Monster in the background.
Fish Report has been including regular tweets about my cousin Jared Hoying's play with the Hanwha Eagles in the South Korean baseball league. Jared's been playing great so far in this new season. He and his wife Tiffany are expecting their second child this summer.
Some Opening Day quotes from famous Yankee ballplayers:
You always get a special kick on Opening Day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.— Joe DiMaggio
A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.— Yogi Berra
Since both the Reds and Tigers are in rebuilding mode, it will likely be a long season for both teams, so I plan to read these books between the losses:
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'Two Centuries of Glass'
Case filled with a variety of colorful glass household items dating from 1800s-1900s. Collection of Washington State Historical Society. Photos courtesy of WSHM
Medical case belonging to Dr. Joseph Leonidas Brown, chief of staff, St. Joseph's Hospital, Tacoma, circa 1898. Case opens at center to show rows of glass vials, some containing medicine, with handwritten paper labels affixed to side. Collection of Washington State Historical Society, C1961.1728.1.
Washington is recognized around the world for its colorful art glass. Tens of thousands of people visit our state every year to see the work of artists such as Dale Chihuly, Sonja Blomdahl, William Morris, Ginny Ruffner, Preston Singletary and so many others, featured in museums, galleries and other public and private spaces throughout the region.
But what of the beauty of the glass that we use every day? This versatile material is an essential part of our lives from the moment we wake up until the time we go to sleep. We use glass in what we wear, to prepare and share meals, to communicate, even for saving lives (and so much more). Washington State History Museum is celebrating the history and many uses of glass in the new exhibition "Two Centuries of Glass," on view through Feb. 10, 2019.
Nearly 400 glittering artifacts drawn from the Washington State Historical Society's collections make for a sparkling atmosphere in the gallery. The wide variety of objects date from today back to the 1800s, and a few are substantially older.
"Among the many objects visitors will see, there are three tiny glass vials that date to 0-400 BCE. They were brought to the Society by a donor in the 1800s, at a time when the objective of the museum was to display the wonders of the world to those who lived here," said Lead Curator Gwen Whiting. "In a time when transportation wasn't as readily available as it is today, these small glass vessels might have been the only glimpse of the ancient world a Washingtonian would ever see."
The gallery cases shimmer with ordinary items that remind us of how crucial glass has been for daily living, as well as for science and industry in Washington, for hundreds of years. Get a look at Peter Rainier's telescope and a fascinating array of tools that have been used for exploration; see lightbulbs that date to the turn of the 19th century; examine a medical kit from 1898; imagine who may have worn the elegant glass jewelry; and feel the nostalgia of your grandmother's kitchen with Depression glass from the 1920s. Inspire your creative spirit with art glass, too, including the work of Tacoma's native son Dale Chihuly and Seattle's Sonja Blomdahl.
Although these items are taken for granted now, how different would our lives be if glass had not come into common use?
"This exhibition is an opportunity to think of glass not only as an important material, but in its broader significance as material culture and how that represents those who left these objects behind for the Historical Society to collect," said the Washington State History Museum's Director of Audience Engagement Mary Mikel Stump. You'll leave with a renewed appreciation of the incredible physical and functional properties of glass.
About the Washington State Historical Society and History Museum
Address: 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, WA 98402
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the Third Thursday of each month.
Admission: Free for members; $14 for adults, $11 for seniors, students and military veterans with ID, free for children 5 and under. Patrons with a Washington Quest card or Washington Foster Parent license/I.D. can attend for $1 per person or $2 per family. Admission is free from 3-8p.m. on the Third Thursday of each month. Free passes may also be checked out from Tacoma, Pierce County, and King County libraries.
Information: (253) 272-9747; www.washingtonhistory.org/visit/wshm; receptionist@wshs.wa.gov