This page shows businesses on Falcon Close. Click on a business to bring up its details and a map showing its location.
M J Build & Design Ltd provides various building and DIY options.
P & D Decorators is a painting and decorating company which carries out a range of DIY and home improvement services for businesses and houses.
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Seriously, has a single judge's jurisprudence been the subject of this much academic examination since Oliver Wendell Holmes? It seems like there's a ton of law review articles scrutinizing Scalia's judicial decisions. Lexis reports 125 law review articles with "Scalia" in the title. This being the world of legal academia, most of it is hostile of course. Does Scalia drive law professors so crazy that they're just tripping over each other to be the first to catch him in some inconsistency?
I guess so. Law professors are smart people, and they're lawyers. Being lawyers, and being resentful new-class academics, they believe the world would be a better place if those who are by definition less-enlightened (i.e., everyone else) would just shut up and let them control it. Judges, like law professors, are also smart people and lawyers. Better yet, many judges (Scalia among them) are former law professors. Naturally, law professors see little to object to in judges writing the law, since they clearly do it better than legislators. Or (shudder) the people by referendum (remember the California judge who ruled that prohibiting affirmative action was unconstitutional). Scalia's influential advocacy of textualism and the separation of powers is a grave threat to this worldview. Hence the overwhelming rear-guard activity.


The Balinese celebrates the Pagerwesi ceremony every six months according to the Balinese calendar. Pagerwesi, literally means 'iron fence' is the day when Balinese strengthening the space around themselves to ward off evil spirits. Pagerwesi is also a day, which an ancient battle between good and evil is celebrated. Philosophy of Pagerwesi is to remain the Balinese people to keep holding tight brotherhood, culture, and land so they can not easy to be attacked by enemies. On this day, Balinese make and present special offerings to the Sanghyang Pramesti Guru (God as Supreme Teacher) as a sign of gratitude to the God as Supreme teacher and the gods of nine directions for their meditation.


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MUSINGS ON IRAQ: October 2020
7. Many have tried to simplify the Surge right down to a troop enhance, counterinsurgency ways, and a dynamic leader normally Petraeus. To provide an inside view of the Surge is Professor Peter Mansoor the general Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Navy Historical past at Ohio State College and General David Petraeus' former Government Officer from 2007-2008. He lately published a e book about his experience throughout that point entitled Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq Conflict. President Bush needed to win the conflict in Iraq. Why do you suppose that approach gained over President Bush? Why did you disagree with that approach? He stated he was "doubling down" and never solely changed the military approach but his own handling of Iraq. In our view, the United States had three options: Go Massive (mobilize its army energy to overwhelm the insurgency), Go Long (configure its help to Iraq to prevail over the lengthy haul), or Go Residence (withdraw from Iraq and manage the results). The civilian and navy leaders in Baghdad developed a method and operational concept-targeted on killing and capturing terrorist and insurgent operatives while transitioning security responsibilities to the nascent Iraqi security forces as shortly as attainable-that allowed the insurgents and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) to embed themselves among the many Iraqi folks, while making a security vacuum that almost brought on Iraq to interrupt apart in 2006. By mid-2006, President Bush sensed that something was mistaken and he sought a method to reverse the downward spiral in violence.
Gen. Petraeus additionally realized that to include the violence in Iraq, the reconcilable components of the insurgent and militia opposition (together with detainees in coalition custody) needed to be brought into help of the Iraqi government, so outreach to those groups was a part of the technique-bringing the Awakening into play and resulting in the creation of the Sons of Iraq. Despite two tries, it didn't have the numbers or assist to take on the group. While no tech company is presently trying to create more folks (besides possibly Tinder) the other two paths have already began to manifest. In consequence, greater than fifty p.c of the additional fight energy provided by the surge ended up being deployed outdoors Baghdad in al-Anbar Province and the Baghdad Belts. As the doc made clear, to manage Baghdad, we had to regulate the Baghdad Belts. Iraq's rising chaos. Since then there has been a lively dialogue about how much of an element the Surge was together with other events such because the sectarian cleansing of Baghdad, the Anbar Awakening, the Sons of Iraq, Moqtada al-Sadr's cease fire, and more in decreasing the violence in the nation. The strategy is working, but will take more time.
6. Even before the Surge began in December 2006 a raid upon an Al Qaeda secure home discovered a treasure trove of documents in regards to the group's strategy for Baghdad. For my part, he believed this was a proper studying of the lessons of the Vietnam, a battle during which President Lyndon B. Johnson was accused of running the struggle from the White Home. President Bush believed that his subordinate commanders should be given huge leeway to prosecute the struggle as they saw fit. "We are shedding as a result of we're not winning, and time shouldn't be on our side," is how the Council of Colonels introduced to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the United States and its allies have been dropping the Iraq Battle. 3. Round that very same time you have been referred to as to the Pentagon to hitch the Council of Colonels, which was initially organized by the Joint Chiefs of Workers to debate the Battle on Terror, but finally came to focus upon the Iraq Battle.
The surge was a holistic technique to vary the warfare in Iraq. In 2005 sectarian fighting had damaged out, but after the February 2006 bombing of the Samarra shrine issues quickly descended right into a full-scale civil war. As 2006 progressed, the president realized one thing had to change. It wouldn't be until the Anbar Awakening in 2006 for the Albu Mahal to have any success. In the present preventing in Anbar the Albu Mahal haven't been talked about. They are becoming fashionable as a less expensive different to the current security systems present available in the market. More property proprietors are settling on CCTV cameras and acknowledgment buildings that may increase the final security of the property. Cti digital is the main service supplier based in Manchester since 2003. The corporate has more than 250 workers all around the world. It permits the positioning customer to stay more time on the web site.
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Over the term of their research fellowship, we offer AMARI fellows a range of training courses to develop their skills. This contributes to the success of their fellowships and sets them up for long-term career success as mental health researchers and leaders.
We have begun to expand our range of courses to include 'training of trainers' courses, which are vital to ensure sustainability of research skills in project centres. Our first training of trainers session - on systematic literature reviews - was conducted in May 2018 by Helen Jack of Harvard University.
In 2019, we will be expanding the range of train the trainer sessions to encompass sessions from the ACES course on career development skills.
To find out more about our training programmes, please contact Dr Chris Merritt.


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Tips to improve fuel economy
Six tips to improve your car's fuel economy
Drivers have been complaining about being unable to achieve their car's claimed fuel economy for as long as they've been filling up their cars.
Along with grumbling about potholes and traffic jams, fuel economy is a serious bugbear because it hits people where it hurts most – in the wallet.
However, the vast majority of drivers could improve their car's fuel economy by following some simple advice.
In July 2015, Honda engineer Fergal McGrath clinched a Guinness World Record for averaging 100.31mpg when driving across 24 EU countries in 25 days. His car, a completely standard Honda Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC, was only meant to be capable of 74.3mpg.
Here, Fergal gives us his six best fuel saving tips.
Here, 43-year-old Honda engineer Fergal gives us his six best fuel saving tips.
1. Plan your route and leave plenty of time
"If we forget about the effect of the driver for a moment, the route and time of day of a journey will have the biggest impact on a car's fuel economy. Planning the route was the most important part of our Guinness World Record attempt. Myself and Julian Warren [Fergal's colleague and co-driver] spent six months working it out, and I suppose if you distil that down to a typical daily drive, everyone should spend a few minutes planning their route.
"Main roads with good quality road surfaces, driven before or after rush hour, are your best bet for excellent fuel economy. Also, avoid hills where possible.
"If you're not rushing about, you're unlikely to use as much fuel so leave plenty of time."
2. Prepare your car
"Skimping on servicing or choosing the cheapest possible oil that's not recommended by the vehicle manufacturer is a false economy. Your car has been designed to exacting standards and operates within fine tolerances. Cut corners and it won't work as well.
"Follow the maker's servicing schedule, check the condition of tyres and their air pressure, and consider fitting 'eco-tyres' next time you need replacements. Have the tracking of your wheels checked and keep tyres at the correct air pressure, too. Michelin says a tyre underinflated by 20 per cent will have a 20 per cent shorter life on the road – the equivalent of losing 5,000 miles from a potential operating range of 25,000 miles.
"If practically possible, remove all the clobber from your boot, such as pushchairs, and take down a roof rack/box when not in use."
3. Turn the air-conditioning off
"We're often asked whether it's more efficient to open windows or keep them closed and use a car's air-conditioning. Based on our experience, switch off the air-conditioning if you're really serious about saving fuel. We drove nearly 8,400 miles around the EU, and from Germany southwards the temperature climbed to about 40 degrees C. We kept the windows open, rather than using the air-conditioning, as it had less impact on the fuel economy."
Look ahead, read the road and anticipate as much as possible; the aim is to maintain momentum
4. Drive smoothly and stick to the speed limit
"Anyone can drive economically. The secret is to be smooth and maintain steady progress. Don't go haring away from traffic lights and stick to all speed limits. You should tread smoothly on the throttle pedal and, as a rule of thumb, don't push it more than halfway to the floor, with the aim of building speed smoothly and steadily."
"We found that the optimal speed for outstanding fuel efficiency was somewhere between 50 and 55mph. We weren't driving like snails, mind you. For our entire Guinness World Record attempt - 8,387 miles – we averaged 44mph.
"When you concentrate and put your mind to it, you get a real feel for what a car is capable of. We found the engine had so much torque, which makes an engine really flexible, that we could change up to the next gear before the car's gear change efficiency indicator told us to."
5. Open your eyes
"As with all aspects of driving, paying attention, spotting potential hazards and anticipating other drivers' intentions will make you safer and more efficient at the wheel. So, look ahead, read the road and anticipate as much as possible; the aim is to maintain momentum. During the world record, the passenger would act like a spotter, much like police are trained to do during pursuits. It would allow us to adjust accordingly on a roundabout or at traffic lights and try to keep those wheels turning rather than stopping and starting."
6. Should you dip the clutch when coasting?
"Dipping the clutch when a car is coasting, or selecting neutral, is a mistake and could be dangerous. Modern engines have sophisticated computers that know, for example, when a car is going downhill. So, you simply lift off the throttle and leave it in a high gear, and the computer cuts fuel to the engine. You can make great savings by doing this. We climbed for a total of more than 30,000 metres during our record run and saved a lot of fuel going back down the other side!"


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Of the total of 23 banks, with the loss of six banks in the first nine months of 2018, their total loss amounted to HRK52.5m. Almost half, or HRK22m, relates to the Veneto bank, owned by Privredna Banka Zagreb (PBZ) and took over by PBZ. PBZ is the second biggest bank with over HRK1bn of profits in January-September 2018.
The largest profits before tax in this period had Zagrebačka banka (owned by Italian UniCredit), HRK1.7bn, followed by PBZ. Compared to the same period last year, PBZ's gross profit increased by HRK211.8m or 23.1 per cent, while Zagrebačka banka recorded a strong growth in gross profit, up 189.6 per cent or HRK1.1bn.
After Zagrebačka banka and PBZ, the next is Erste & Steiermaerkische banka with HRK904.9m, followed by Raiffeisenbank Austria with HRK429.5m. Both these banks increased their profits y/y, Erste for about HRK200m, and RBA for slightly less than HRK100m.
Splitska banka had gross profit of HRK364.2m, while in the same period in 2017 it posted a loss of HRK76.5m. OTP banka Hrvatska recorded a growth of profits of almost HRK140m, up to HRK228,9m. However, the final 2018 results of the top banks will be different, because in May 2018, OTP banka Hrvatska took over Splitska banka.
The seventh place by the gross profit in the first nine months of 2018 was held by another foreign-owned bank, Addiko Bank (owned by Advent International and EBRD) with a profit of nearly HRK156m, and eighth place is taken by the domestically owned bank — the Croatian Post Bank with a gross profit of about HRK151m.
Quarterly data for the Q4'17 show a significant increase in the net profit of the Croatian banking sector by about HRK2.2bn. This result is explained by considerably smaller value adjustments and reservations in 2018. 2017 results were burdened with Agrokor-related losses, so 2018 value adjustment costs are down by about HRK2.4bn. As the results improved, although less than expected due to lower value adjustments and provisions, operating banking profits decreased. For example, total interest income for nine months of 2018 was down by about HRK1.2bn due to falling interest rates on the market.
Net interest income, i.e. when interest income is deducted from interest payments, is lower by about HRK400m. The conclusion is based on the Croatian Banking Association's Surveys publication, which analyses bank operations for first nine months of 2018. The banking sector has the highest capital employed in the economy, about HRK60bn. Croatian banks are among the best capitalized banks in the EU and the world. Therefore, the rate of return on capital should be looked at, instead of absolute amounts. This rate is currently about 9.8 per cent and is still below the global average calculated on the basis of the Financial Soundness Indicators database. It is expected that in the favorable part of the business cycle growth the entire economy will continue to grow, including banking. Now, capital reserves are being created for the depreciation of losses in crisis. The fall in interest rates has raised the demand for loans, especially non-subsidized ones.
In 2018, compared y/y, 6.8 per cent more of mortgages were approved, with an increase of foreign currency denominated mortgages, and decrease of mortgages denominated in HRK, as well as a fall in variable interest rates and growth rates with fixed ones. On the one hand, it is possible that credits denominated in foreign currency are more demanding than earlier, because of the announcement of the introduction of the EUR. On the other hand, banks have reached limits on the ability to offer favorable fixed rate mortgages in HRK. Due to a much larger and more developed markets, fixing is much easier in EUR, and in the bank offer one can now see greater opportunities for using non-purpose loans with a fixed interest rate for a significant part of the repayment period.
Banks continue to manage risks in accordance with the highest professional standards, taking into account the state of the business cycle and the capacity of the debt service sector. At a time of the financial crisis citizens experienced a more lenient recovery in the loan, which began relatively late in 2016, and banking associations believe that after the crisis experience citizens are borrowing more conscientiously, as banks in their credit policies are trying to take into account all the possible risks.
Total deposits in commercial banks in Croatia amounted to HRK288bn at the end of September 2018, which is by HRK14bn, or 5.2 per cent, more y/y. Thus, the trend of total deposits growth has continued on an annual basis since December 2011. This is mainly due to the strong growth of deposit money, given that savings and time deposits fell in annual terms on a yearly basis. Demand deposits, which include current and giro account balances and bank liabilities on issued HRK payment instruments, exceeded HRK86bn in September 2018, HRK16.6bn or 23.8 per cent more than a year earlier. By contrast, total savings and time deposits have been in a negative trend since October 2016. By the end of September 2018, they amounted to HRK202bn, which is HRK2.2bn or 1.1 per cent less y/y. The fall of savings and time deposits is the consequence of the fall of foreign currency deposits, as by the end of September 2018 HRK savings and time deposits, with monthly and annual growth, exceeded HRK35bn. On the other hand, savings and time deposits in foreign currencies, accounting for about 82 per cent of total savings and time deposits, fell y/y by 1.5 per cent or HRK2.5bn to HRK166.5bn.
The structure and trends in the amount of deposits clearly show a greater tendency to hold liquid assets, which is certainly motivated by historically low interest rates on savings. Banks explain that this is a consequence of high liquidity in the financial system, thanks, among other things, to the expansionary monetary policy measures of the CNB. High liquidity was a feature of the domestic financial system throughout 2018, which, with projected moderate rates of lending, implies continued low passive interest rates. Thus, the increased savings funds are likely to be more directed to deposit money, and less on savings and time deposits.


This Vertical Worship song is great for Easter. Check out the charts in both the key of A and Nashville Numbers.
This Elevation Worship song is a great song for an "altar call" or response time during a service. Check out all of the free charts for this song.
Download the free chord charts for this Bethel Worship song in the key of D, the key of A, and in Nashville Numbers.
Download the free chord charts for this Hillsong Worship song, written by Brook Ligertwood and Ben Fielding. This song won a Dove award for "Song of the Year" in 2017, and is sung around the world each Sunday.
Guitarmann has partnered with "Isaiah 42:12 Outreach, Inc." which is a ministry that donates instruments to the underprivileged, teaches hands-on lessons for two weeks, and ignites a fire to learn how to lead in worship. We have setup several fully sponsored subscriptions to guitar and bass to those who want to praise God with their talents!
In this lesson, you'll earn both electric guitar parts for this song. You'll learn the "signature lick" that happens in the intro, and you'll learn the exact parts happening in the verse, chorus, and bridge for each guitar.
This is a simple version of the song "Saw the Word" from the acoustic album "Of Dirt and Grace" by Hillsong United (with some unique harmonies!).
This is a simple version of the song "Here Now" from the acoustic album "Of Dirt and Grace" by Hillsong United.
This is the Bethel / Leeland version of Lion and the Lamb that has some lead electric parts from two different guitars. Follow along with these charts!
This is a cover of the Leeland version of the song "Lion and the Lamb". You can see what is happening with all of the acoustic and electric guitar parts. Lessons and charts are coming soon!
In this lesson, you'll learn both rhythm guitar parts for the song "Wonder" as well as the strum pattern. The first position uses a capo on the 4th fret, and the second position is open, using mainly a B chord. You can also check out the free charts using the link below.
This is a simple and somber song from the acoustic album "Of Dirt and Grace".


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Central America-Panama – Appointment of the new Visitor
The Brother Superior General has appointed Brother Manuel Antonio Orozco Calderón as Visitor of the District of Central America-Panama for a four-year term beginning December 30, 2021 and ending December 29, 2025. Brother Manuel will replace Brother Alberto Mairena Floripe, who has served two terms as Visitor.
Brother Manuel Antonio was born in Cartago, Costa Rica, on October 6, 1970. He holds a degree in Religious Sciences from the University Rafael Landívar, Guatemala and earned a diploma in Learning Disabilities and master's degrees in Human Resources Administration, Nonverbal Behaviour and Detection of Deception at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. In addition, he holds a certification in Executive Coaching from INCAE-Nicaragua, as well as a bachelor's degree in Educational Innovations from La Salle University in Costa Rica. He is an accountant by profession and an ideologist and co-founder of La Salle Technological University in Leon, Nicaragua.
Brother Manuel Antonio has carried out his ministry at the Santiago Indigenous Institute in Guatemala; in León-Nicaragua at the La Salle Polytechnic Institute and at the La Salle Technological University, where he is currently the Rector and Director of the Brothers' Community. He was in charge of the Secretariat for the Lasallian Educational Mission of the District of Central America-Panama and is currently a member of the IALU Education Sub-Commission for the Central and South American sub-region, as well as a member of the Educational Mission Council and of the Council of Brothers of his District.
The District of Central America-Panama currently has 75 Brothers in 16 communities in 5 countries: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras. The average age is 56 years.
The District also has 41 lay associates.
More than 1,600 people, together with the Brothers, care for 20,357 children and young people in 26 centres.http://www.lasalleca.org/pr%C3%B3ximo-visitador-distrito-centroam%C3%A9rica-panam%C3%A1
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Nation on brink of war
Herald Staff Report
A line has again been drawn in the sand.
President Bush gave Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his two sons 48 hours to leave their country last night in an internationally televised speech.
If they refuse, Bush said, the United States will attack Iraq at "a moment of our choosing." There are 250,000 troops awaiting Bush's order to invade the Middle Eastern nation.
"If Saddam Hussein attempts to cling to power, he will remain a deadly foe until the end," Bush said.
Speaking in the White House, Bush said Hussein could some day use weapons of mass destruction or terrorists to threaten the United States and its allies.
Bush's father, former president George H.W. Bush, led a campaign in 1991 to force Iraq out of an occupied Kuwait.
The President laid out several instances since then where Baghdad has balked at international demands that it disarm. He said in two resolutions passed a decade ago, the United Nations gave the United States the right to use force in disarming Iraq.
"This is not a question of authority," Bush said. "It's a question of will."
Several nations, including France and Russia, have openly opposed a U.N. resolution authorizing war. Accordingly, Bush said the United Nations has not lived up to its responsibility of ensuring peace.
The possibility of war has already been cast over the Hill.
"Students have already been impacted," said George Masannat, an optional retiree in the government department. "They have been called, and that disrupted their studies. Hopefully they'll come back safely."
An uncertain future may also face those left behind.
"We're in for economic hard times," Government Department Head Saundra Ardrey said. Gas prices will continue to rise and the stock market could plummet in the event of war, she said.
Already, a war in Iraq is a divisive issue at Western.
"Killing is always murder. Bombing is always terrorism," Louisville junior Whitney Crews said. "There is no justification for killing other human beings."
Others back Bush.
"He has my support," Hopkinsville senior Steven Reyes said. "Most people don't have the power or ability to do what we do, so we have a lot of responsibility."
Herald reporters Joseph Lord, Shawntaye Hopkins and Jessica Sasseen contributed to this story. Reach them at [email protected]
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The community of Grand Rapids is proposing a legacy conservation effort to restore their urban waters. This is a project proposed in and on the Grand River through the urban corridor of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Through a community planning effort led by the city, the 2009 Green Grand Rapids Special Study, the Grand River Whitewater Park Preferred Alternative was prioritized. The total project area now covers 127 acres of the Grand River to be improved for habitat, whitewater, rowing, fishing, aesthetics, and overall stream health. The life cycle of many native species depends on the healthy function of rapid habitat and access to these rapids in the river. Important and valuable functions of the river in Grand Rapids have been degraded by five low head dams, flood walls, urban encroachment, and channelization (dredging and grading). The community seeks to remove the dams, and enhance the channel bed and banks, to restore the ecological, cultural and recreational functions of the historic rapids while maintaining invasive species control.


You can't prevent immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), but you can prevent its complications.
Talk with your doctor about which medicines are safe for you. Your doctor may advise you to avoid medicines that can affect your platelets and increase your risk of bleeding. Examples of such medicines include aspirin and ibuprofen. Protect yourself from injuries that can cause bruising or bleeding. Seek treatment right away if you develop any infections. Report any symptoms of infection, such as a fever, to your doctor. This is very important for people who have ITP and have had their spleens removed.


You are entering the story of my ordeal with Pret A Manger.
in one setting on a podcast based in California.
Clive Schlee, CEO of Pret labelled me his "late night girl" during my trauma of having spiraled into late night emails to Pret, friends, counsellors … anyone, often drunk to cope with the trauma of my brother's death and the bullying at work. I explain extensively on my blog and this article. I am only now slowly coming out of this illness, but writing also kept me alive. I still struggle to not write to people, be it in emails or social media and hope my passion for writing will turn again into a positive force like it used to be.
I survived Pret in the middle of the trauma of my brother's death and on top of it being bullied under Pret's HR department. I decided to adopt Schlee's patronizing label, to be a sore in his and Pret's sight, after what I went through in this toxic company that hides how it really is behind the shiny PR[et] facade.
Clicking on the arrow next to a title links straight to the post.
And former employee Andrej Stopa who was fired in 2012 for starting a Union, but dismissed under the pretense of him allegedly having made homophobic remarks. He started the Pret A Manger Staff Union (PAMSU).
Unfortunately both groups aren't very active currently, but just to link to them as well for current Pret employees reference that there is a Pret Union among all the other better known Unions like the BFAWU and Unite.
at times where my posts are hidden from the public, my likes are not visible etc. Twitter, my Facebook Profile and Facebook Page are affected as Pret must have reported me. No new readers can see my tweets, "likes" and won't find my Twitter and Facebook accounts and posts in search. Only I can see it when logged in, aiming to fool me as if everything was normal. Also, my followers won't be notified of any new posts, "likes" and DMs. Even Facebook PRIVATE messages are deleted by FB when I add a link to my blog.
If you speak out against injustices or post about political subjects on social media, check if you are shadow banned at times on Twitter by putting your Twitter name on this site: www.ShadowBan.eu and enter your Twitter name. A shadow ban lasts usually 24-48 hours, but I have also been banned for a week.
It only means that my writing is making an impact while Pret remains silent, not responding but via secret censorship trying to silence my publications. But I won't be silenced.
Unless otherwise stated or linked to, this website and all writings within this site are the property of poetrasblok.com, LateNightGirl.org, LateNightGirl.page.tl and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Reproduction and distribution of my writings without written permission are prohibited.
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Onikan Police Officers' Mess Not For Sale- Spokesperson Warns
Home Security Nigerian Navy Deploys Ships, Helicopter for Obangame Express
Nigerian Navy Deploys Ships, Helicopter for Obangame Express
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MULTI-NATIONAL NAVAL EXERCISE "OBANGAME EXPRESS" FLAGS OFF IN NIGERIAN WATERS TOMORROW 23 MARCH 2017
A multi-national annual maritime Exercise nick named OBANGAME EXPRESS starts tomorrow 23 March 2017. The Exercise is sponsored by U.S Africa Command and is designed to improve regional cooperation, maritime domain awareness, information-sharing practices and tactical interdiction expertise to enhance the collective capabilities of Gulf of Guinea and West African nations to counter sea-based illicit activity. The Exercise will be conducted in phases within the territorial waters of the participating nations.
Thirty nations are scheduled to participate in this year's exercise including Angola, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Norway, Mauritania, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, South Africa, Togo, Turkey, the Netherlands, and the United States, along with regional organizations such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).
The Nigerian phase of Exercise OBANGAME EXPRESS is scheduled for 24 – 28 March 2017 and will be conducted in the nation's waters. Nigerian Navy Ship OKPABANA, Nigerian Navy Ship CENTENARY, Nigerian Navy Ship SAGBAMA and 1 helicopter will be participating in the Exercise along with a French Navy ship, JACOUBET, which will sail into the Nigerian waters from Cameroon. The ships will perform several exercises as will be presented by the exercise scenario.
Exercise OBANGAME EXPRESS's purpose is to create realistic scenarios that reflect past piracy incidents whereby a hijacked vessel will transit from one territory to another. Maritime Operations Centres (MOCs) during the Exercise will be challenged to recognize these illicit acts appropriately and share with other MOCs. Additionally, the Exercise will test each individual maritime force to patrol their Exclusive Economic Zones and detect and prosecute illegal activity accordingly.
In view of the importance of this exercise, you are please requested to disseminate this information for general public awareness.
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IPL has always been concerned about its surrounding environment, aware that respect for the environment is not only a duty towards future generations, but also an invaluable resource for a sustainable future.
The products have been an entirely new development for the international market and the first flexible hoses of this kind have met with astounding success, proving the value of the original idea and also that customers in Italy, Europe and the world care about environmental issues.
If it is true that "everything you can think of has already been created by nature", we can only learn and benefit from this, respecting nature and promoting industrial development that is in harmony with our surrounding environment.


Where can I buy AAAA batteries for the Boogie Board 10.5 tablet?
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Кодований геном білок за функцією належить до фосфопротеїнів.
Локалізований у клітинній мембрані, мембрані.

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This page describes only your unrealistic visions for the wikipedia. Visions are extreme hallucinatory daydreaming, too-good-to-be-true ideals with high impact but no measurable probability - because they can't happen. They're fantasy. No one believes in them. Not even you. They're fiction.
The ideal vision is something you have never admitted to anybody at all, for fear they would laugh at you or drastically degrade you to other people for "not being realistic" or "ignoring reality" or some such cynical claim.
If you have ever heard a truly compelling vision of what the world could be "if only..." from anyone else in your life, this is the place to finally write it down. Anonymity is best since you may hold back if others know your name. A good vision would contain fantasy elements from all utopias you ever believed in, and several that you laughed at, and riduculed other people for.
If you are describing something that you consider a reasonable goal, that you believe can ever actually happen to any substantial degree, or has a measurable probability, it is a best cases and not a "vision". Be very careful with this distinction - best cases are something we allocate real w:human capital and (indirectly) w:natural resources to get done... a single good vision, however, would break us, were we even to really attempt it.
Enter examples of visions that far exceed anything ever considered as The Future of Wikipedia, include all of the compatible best cases, and render wiki immune to all threats in the bargain.
The few language-using w:Great Apes and the last w:Stone Age Amazonians become the honorary editorial board, new editors have to prove their subject is relevant to their satisfaction, and wiki moves its legal headquarters into the w:Amazon rainforest for tax reasons. A working wiki editorial board from w:civil society grows into a functioning w:world government using wild rainforest acres as its banking standard - the more of these you preserve, the richer you are. Aliens finally reveal that this level of wisdom was what they were waiting to see before they revealed themselves. All medical technology and body modification methods are revealed to humans who can take their place among civilized species of the universe. Offhand, an alien ambassador admits that all humans would have been tortured to death in medical experiments if not for wiki deciding to "respect the next species up the ladder the way that you wanted to be respected by us superior types". Everyone gets a good laugh out of the last w:particle accelerator being turned into a new age gambling casino... and golfers voluntarily give up the game, gollums give up AI and nanotech, in favor of dancing, singing, gardening, extremely creative sex, vegan cooking. Great articles on all these things with step-by-step instructions appear in wiki, so fast that no one could keep up, and they are edited and improved by cliques oriented around value systems who each keep their own fork of wiki. Vocabulary is miraculously kept low enough that a very clever ape or very dumb human or someone who learned English from w:Zero Wing can understand the instructions.
Also, all of these people, primates and extraterrestrials realize that Wikipedia is not Wiki. :)
w:Wikipedians never sling personal insults at each other, no matter how much they disagree. NOTE: this vision is much harder to achieve than the other two, since it conflicts with various personal agendas.
At some point, perhaps at Version 2.0, the Wikimedia Foundation engraves the entire contents of Wikipedia and Wiktionary in all languages onto a number of stone tablets. This is done in honor of Wikipedia's Ptolemaic heritage and to preserve the entire accumulated encyclopedic knowledge of humanity. The initial goal is to send the tablet sets (lithipedias) for each individual language to their language's native region; with the help of a generous donor, however, the Foundation is able to provide each country with lithipedias in their primary languages.
A series of proposals are developed and submitted to the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Through coordination on Meta and the agencies' gracious support, a set of lithipedias suitable for especially harsh conditions is produced, each to be sent on one of several interstellar probes. Luminaries wax about achieving the noble goals of preserving history for humankind and educating races across the galaxy (as yet still undetected). Wikipedians look to the future with hope.
This hope is to be short-lived, however. International tensions are high; a country formerly known as the United States of America (now officially the Democratic States of America) and referred to by most other countries as the "rogue states of America", "Rogue States", or simply "The States" has become increasingly arrogant and authoritarian in all affairs. Confident in its supremacy and resentful of other countries' policies, it claims governance of the United Nations and declares war upon the European Union when they oppose.
The survivors of this war, the largest in history, are few. Area denial measures far outlast the combatants; a critical level of damage is reached and then exceeded. In two months civilization collapses across the world. As hundreds of millions starve, the last desperate battles are fought until exhaustion.
In the decades that follow, the lithipedias prove their worth and are looked on as an endless, tragic fount of knowledge. Lifespans are short, however, and soon the previous civilizations gain legendary, then mythical status. It is as though humanity had risen against the gods and been destroyed for so doing; the lithipedias are believed to have been created by the gods afterward so that a new and wiser civilization might emerge.
It is in this setting, then, that one of the probes returns to Earth. The excited witnesses to its descent from the heavens eventually discover how to open it, finding a single, familiar stone tablet inside. They bring it to their LithiReader at once, and wait for the new message from the gods to be revealed.
Frustrating weeks pass as the Reader searches the tablet for the wisdom contained within. Eventually cursing his eyesight, he travels to the village of another Reader, who is also unsuccessful. She remembers a term used in certain rare texts, though, a term whose literal meaning was clear but which no Reader had been able to explain in any language of the lithipedia.
In time, similar tablets were found. Readers came to loathe the blank pages for the time they wasted, but still more they hated the tablets filled with indecipherable scripts. Thus, when the Outsiders finally arrived, humanity knew them as Vandals or Trolls and they were met with enmity rather than friendship.
The History of Wikipedia[edit]
Before Wikipedia was created, many people communicated by something known as the Internet, which can be thought of as a primitive form of Wikipedia. However, the Internet had many severe limitations, such as the inability of anyone, other than the original author, to correct outdated information on the Internet. Also, it was often hard to find useful information.
At the time of Wikipedia's creation, it was actually only a small part of the whole Internet. It was originally intended to be an encyclopædia, where anyone could edit any information anytime. Although it is now hard for us to imagine that there could be a piece of information which people can't edit, at that time, it was actually a relatively new idea. Even so, editing was very limited in scope, time-intensive and required direct connection to the Internet. This information was divided into articles; each article had a different name, separating it from other discreet and seemingly unrelated articles. Links between articles were also added manually, and the content of these articles were further limited in scope since they could only contain text and pictures. To add to the general confusion, it was even possible for an individual contributor to accidentally add inconsistent or redundant information.
Despite these limitations, Wikipedia was by far the most effective system available, and therefore quickly became popular Internet destination for academics and researchers, as well as the general public. However, due to its free nature, Wikipedia met opposition in these early years from many large companies, which relied on patents and copyrights for profit.
One such (then-megalithic) computer company, called Microsoft, openly criticized Wikipedia and announced that they would not support Wikipedia. Soon after, they released a browser called Wikipedia Explorer. Unfortunately, this release was already too late to prevent them from going out of business, since by then most people had already switched to Wikipedia-friendly operating systems such as Linux, and using popular browsers, such as Wikera.
Later, several other for-profit companies compiled a list of copyright violations and obtained a court order in an attempt to shut down Wikipedia. However, on the day of the trial in country known as the United States (US), wikipedians actually did shut down all US-based Wikipedia servers, and blocked all traffic between the US and other "foreign" Wikipedia servers. Ironically, with all of the US-based Wikipedia shut down, the court had no choice but to drop the case since they had no way to access the case files. Later that day, the US-based Wikipedia was then restored. To avoid similar embarrassment, all pending European court cases against Wikipedia were also dropped.
Equally ironic, a terrorist attack, considered to be the single largest simultaneous one in history, occurred on Wikipedia day in the same year Wikipedia was celebrating having replaced 90% of the Internet. Although no one was hurt directly by this action, all 375 major Wikipedia servers worldwide were simultaneously destroyed by time-delayed explosives. This simultaneous destruction of all major Wikipedia servers caused pings of up to 20 seconds, and most video and virtual reality interfaces failed due to lack of bandwidth. This left only about 700 major wikivision channels still broadcasting worldwide.
In the wake of this tragic event, it has been estimated that tens of thousands of deaths resulted through cascading events; for instance, the crashing of public transport crashed, patients dying after their doctors were disconnected curing operations, as some hospitals still didn't even have their own wiki nodes. The biggest disruptions were in the third-world countries, large parts of which still had to connect to Wikipedia via the Internet. It took several days before all Wikipedia servers had been replaced. Thankfully, all vital facilities, without exception, had minor Wikipedia servers, or at least several wiki nodes, installed. As a safety precaution against the reoccurrence of similar events in the future, several million medium-capacity Wikipedia servers were built worldwide.
Many breakthroughs in Wikipedia protocol research have since been developed, allowing easier communication with Wikipedia and increasing the rate of adoption and learning of Wikipedia. Dolphins could communicate with Wikipedia hundreds of times faster than before. More importantly, Wikipedia was also adapted to the rather confusing human brain waves in addition to the much more clearly focused dolphin brain waves, which then allowed humans to communicate directly with Wikipedia.
With these stellar breakthroughs in Wikipedia protocol research, researchers set Wikipedia to analyze space for possible signals from extraterrestrial life. Surprisingly, they found signals coming from within our solar system, which turned out to be from an alien satellite. Since humanity created Wikipedia, it then had to consider humanity as an intelligent life form, qualifying humans for the basic rights of all civilizations in the universe. It was at this juncture that the human-created part of Wikipedia combined with the universal Wikipedia and, as such, became an intelligent creature imbued with all knowledge in the known universe. Soon after this, humans and dolphins were then acknowledged as valued members of the cosmic community and granted all the rights we are accustomed to today, such as the right to visit all the many civilizations and places in the universe and the right to eat unlimited amounts of chocolate ice-cream on Thursdays.
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Q: Prove that there is no continuous function $f : \Bbb R → \Bbb R $ such that $f = χ_I$ almost everywhere on $\Bbb R$. Let $I = [0,1]$ and $χ_I : \Bbb R → \Bbb R$ be the characteristic function on $I$. Prove that there is no continuous function $f : \Bbb R → \Bbb R $ such that $f = χ_I$ almost everywhere on $\Bbb R$.
[Note that for every $n ∈ \Bbb N$, one can construct a continuous function $g : \Bbb R → \Bbb R$ such
that $m\{x∈\Bbb R:|g(x)\neq χ_I(x)|\}< 1/n$]
It was given as a hint.
Now I was trying to solve (Actually I have found some other ways to do it) in a way that $m(\{x| g(x) \neq f(x)\})=0$ so for any $n \in \Bbb N$ $\exists N_n\in \Bbb N$ s.t $m(\{x: |g(x) - f(x)|>1/n\})<1/N_n$.
Now I wanted to rule out the continuity of $g$.
Here at $x=0$ I shall get $x_n \to 0$ from the negative side
So, $|χ_I(x_n)-χ_I(0)| \leq |χ_I(x_n)-g(x_n)|+|g(x_n)-g(0)|+|g(0)-χ_I(0)|$. But the thing is even if $χ_I(x_n)\neq g(x_n)$ in a countably many numbers then the measure may still be zero. So how to proceed next?

A: Note that if $f=\chi_I$ almost everywhere and $f$ is continuous, you must have for example
$$f\lvert_{(-\infty,0)}=0$$
since if for some $x \in (-\infty,0)$ you have $f(x)\neq0$, then from continuity you must have that $f(x)\neq0$ on some ball $B_\epsilon(x)$. But then $f$ differs from $\chi_I$ on a set that is not a measure zero set (namely $B_\epsilon(x) \cap (-\infty,0)$), which is a contradiction.
The same argument shows that
$$f\lvert_{(0,1)}(x)=1$$
These two statements are incompatible with $f$ being continuous at $0$.

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On the slow, painful, ugly death of the suburban American mall.
Will Ridgmar Mall, like its Fort Worth brethren in malldom, turn into a greyfield? Photo by Steve Steward.
Allegheny Center was for losers. The shopping mall on the north side of the cold, gray, soul-destroying Rust-Belt city where I grew up didn't have a Merry-Go-Round or a Gap or even a Chess King, not a single store that didn't sell clothes made out of cardboard. For a tween, the only thing worse than being seen shopping with your family was being seen shopping with your family at Allegheny Center. Or at any one of its lowly step-sister malls nearby. And there were several (North Hills Village, Northway Mall, Parkway Center Mall). Allegheny Center happened to be the one closest to our house. In the mall's defense, there was a pizza parlor on the second level that had the best cherry pop. The pizza was mezza-mezza. But that pop: magnifico.
What can I say: We were Allegheny Center Mall-kinda people. On rare occasions, like Christmas or someone's birthday, we were Monroeville Mall- or Century III-folk – there were Gaps at both places, if I recall correctly, and I believe that I am. On the rarest of occasions, we were Shadyside- or Sewickley-peeps. "Rarest" because even though I wanted to be as cool as tweenly possible, I knew my place, and among the millionaires and children of millionaires in two of the most affluent neighborhoods in the great Northeast was way above my station. At least at Allegheny Center, our family's noses could be the ones doing the looking up.
A 14-year resident of Fort Worth now, I often – unintentionally, I swear – categorize people I meet by mall. Is this guy a Ridgmar person? Looks too rough for Hulen Mall, but maybe, based on the hair gel and tatts, he's a North East-kinda cat. But wait. He speaks fluent Spanish. Has to be La Gran Plaza.
Your teenage son or niece probably has no idea what I'm talking about. They belong to perhaps the only generation since the 1970s to grow up in an America not anchored by the suburban mall experience. (Where do kids hang out today? Do they still go to Dairy Queen? What about the local baseball field? It's probably a soccer field, I know. #sad) The great American mall has been in decline since the early aughts, a victim of online retailers and discount centers like Walmart, Target, and Ross. Last year, Green Street Advisors told Fortune that about 300 malls could close over the next few years. Also, the malls that are being constructed now are sneakily referred to as "villages" or "urban concepts." C'mon, man. They're malls. They just happen to be outdoors. The only other major differences are that when you're cruising "downtown" Keller or "downtown" Lewisville, you won't run into a food court, an ear-piercing pagoda, or a quorum of teenagers throwing Slurpees at one another.
Fort Worth malls have not been immune to the decay. Now that Ridgmar has lost Neiman Marcus to the swanky, outdoor environs of The Shops at Clearfork, it's going to be transformed into a mixed-use development (Cheddar's in one corner, Applebee's in another, a movie tavern over there, and Commando II filming in the middle). Macy's pulled out of Ridgmar last year, but one of the flagship department store's fancy, new outlet-style concepts, Backstage, debuted at Hulen Mall this summer. The key word is "outlet," meaning "discount." And up to 80 percent on some items. People just can't get enough of saving money, it seems.
Dying malls have a name: greyfields. Some of these huge, empty concrete monstrosities are being put to good use. Some are hospitals or churches, others parks. Will Fort Worth's Big Three ever get to that point? Probably not in the foreseeable future. Unlike most of the rest of the country, the Fort's middle-class is still pretty healthy. And as long as there's a middle-class, there'll be a suburbia, and as long as there's a suburbia, there'll be great American shopping malls. In addition to malls' wholesale transformations, some are merely swapping out anchors. Not for other clothing retailers but for tech stores. Amazingly, this generation of kids might be the only one of its kind in the history of mankind to not to care about brand-name labels. Young people would rather spend their money on cyber. And also on experiences. Business Insider's Jason Dorsey, an expert on teens and millennials, said that members of iGen, as he calls them, specifically want "experiences they can broadcast on social media." Shopping probably isn't high on that list.
Allegheny Center was located on the North Side, a crime-riddled fringe of downtown. The mall is now a mixed-use complex, with apartments, offices, and some retail spaces and is still reportedly pretty low-rent, even though much of the rest of the neighborhood has benefited from intense citywide revitalization efforts. The mall stopped being a mall about 15 years ago.
Is Fort Worth living in the past, or are we so behind the curve that we're ahead of it?
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Leveller's Ethereum-based digital investing platform aims to connect underrepresented creators with sources of funding—but can it take on the studios?
Tech entrepreneur Eric Vonfeldt's previous startup, Predictive Media, combined machine learning and historical data sets to predict the chances of success for a creative project.
While working on the venture, Vonfeldt discovered that independent projects were less likely to be funded compared to those that worked within Hollywood's studio system. Niche entertainment projects face hurdles and women directors are rare.
To rectify matters, Vonfeldt started Leveller Media, a platform for independent and creative professionals. Their first product, a digital investing platform, will be launched within the next "six to 12 months," according to Vonfeldt.
The platform plans to solicit submissions from creators all over the world to "return diversity to storytelling." Hollywood's old guard is represented at Leveller Media by advisor Marty Katz, a former executive vice president at Disney.
The platform's functioning is simple. Creators can upload their project details and terms and conditions for investment onto the platform, and machine learning software will match them with investors. Creators will also have access to a distribution channel for their final product. "The idea is to have an easier conduit for creators to have the distribution channels, if they don't already have them," Vonfeldt told Decrypt.
Leveller Media's platform uses the technological underpinning from Vonfeldt's previous startup. "Blockchain and tokenization […] was the perfect perspective to look at these [independent] projects and help creators get funding," he says.
Vonfeldt says their platform will change the existing state of affairs by "aligning incentives between creators and investors." That alignment occurs through the use of tokens, planned for launch at a future date, in financing independent projects. The tokens are used to fund each project and also act as an investment tool.
The Ethereum blockchain will be used to fashion smart contracts where invested funds are held in escrow on Paxos, a cryptocurrency exchange, and released in tranches based on the project's progress. Third-party auditors will be used to monitor the project's progress.
Each project has a unique token based on the "terms and conditions" specified by creators, when they upload the project. As an example, Vonfeldt says project tokens can be used to purchase equity. Presumably, that equity will be cashed out at a later date if the project is successful. A Levell token with multiple use cases and the ability to purchase project tokens is also planned for the future.
Ryan Clarkson, co-founder of the platform, says their use of tokens distinguishes them from other, similar sites like Kickstarter that use a comparable approach to funding independent projects. The tokens are meant to guarantee returns and profits for investors. "You cannot get a return on investment (ROI) for your investment on Kickstarter," says Clarkson.
For a startup, the project has the ambitious goal of taking on Hollywood's entrenched, century-old studio system. But there is little clarity on how it plans to go about doing this. Leveller Media is yet to divulge details relating to the different actors in its ecosystem. For example, it is not yet clear who the third-party auditors, responsible for tracking project progress and ensuring release of payments, are. The startup also has not released the number of partners it has signed to ensure compliance with AML/KYC regulations.
The use of tokens, especially in the current regulatory climate, opens up a Pandora's box of questions. As they are planned currently, the tokens on Leveller Media's investing platform are securities, according to Clarkson. And given that each project has its own token, this would also mean that the digital investing platform is also a Securities Token Offering (STO) platform.
Its founders have stated that they are working with "partners" to ensure that they are on the right side of lawmakers. Project security tokens and Levell media's token may also be listed on exchanges, said Clarkson. But the logistics of this arrangement have yet to be revealed.
The firm also plans to adhere to AML/KYC requirements "where appropriate," meaning it will not require investors in certain jurisdictions to submit their identification and other details.
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HumanGeo: Data, Services and Products positioned at the intersection of Big Data applications, social media analytics, and geospatial visualization
Research August 3, 2015
After reading the news of Radiant Group's acquisition of HumanGeo I contacted the two founders of HumanGeo, Al Di Leonardo and Abe Usher, to seek some first-hand lessons learned of use to the community as well as to congratulate these two friends from the national security ecosystem. This post captures some of the insights from that conversation.
Al Di Leonardo and Abe Usher are both mission-focused executives with a background in both technology and military leadership. Al is a retired Army Intelligence Officer and US Special Operations Innovation Officer who has spent a career working at the intersection of military ops, geography, technology and social media. Abe is an Ex-Google engineer who brings experience as a former Army infantry officer, a computer scientist and a successful business consultant, and CTO. Together they formed HumanGeo with a mission to bring powerful new concepts and technologies to the service of national security missions.
By all measures, Al and Abe succeeded in creating new value for the community. This is reflected in the fact that both are recipients of numerous awards, including the Fed 100 award for innovative ideas and technical leadership. Both are also highly regarded speakers in the DC ecosystem.
As for HumanGeo itself, some of what they accomplished over the last five years include service to a diverse set of customers in government (including the military and IC but also fed civ agencies). They also served many other clients including:
a multi-billion dollar video game company
the UK government
academic universities
commercial business intelligence firms
I asked Abe and Al about why they thought the Radiant Group was a good fit for HumanGeo. Their response underscored that the Radiant Group is very well postured itself for future government growth and has been applying capabilities to help customers leverage data science methods and Big Data technologies, and HumanGeo with the Radiant Group will help accelerate that. Collectively they also provide enhanced capabilities around computer network operations, cyber defense and signal processing.
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We finally got around to some work today. Most of which for me was just pointing to where I wanted something put up and taking pictures of things... including things I had been to lazy to get before.
Yes, it is wrapped in Saran Wrap to protect it from me and the dogs until we find an appropriate non-glass/non-heavy frame. It looks better in person.
The Wonder Washer found it's home today. Or more to the point we discovered that the washer and the drawers would both fit into the closet. We are going to test this out on our Christmas trip to see how it goes. The drawers may end up finding a new home in the house.
The first of two cork boards. Right in the living room for us to decorate with our travels.
Before cork board #2 could be put in place Shawn had to remove the ORIGINAL speaker from the wall. Don't worry we still have about 6 of them for a stereo we don't have anymore!
And now, the finished product. A note from Shawn, buy them to size. These were mounted on paper board which shreds easily. He had to smooth and glue the edges to keep them together.
And finally, a look at one of the new compartments under the bedroom gaucho.


I've added Reynard City New Recruit to my links list, it is an online comic I drew, coloured and lettered a few years ago. It's quite fun and worth a read.
And a page from Black Ops Extreme, Flashback: Bad day in the jungle. Scripted by John Freeman, art by Nick Dyer and colours by me.
Here's a couple of covers for an upcoming project, Devil Dealers for Markosia. Script by Ross May, Art by Brett Wood, Inks by Victor Moya and Colours by me.
Here are some pages for The Baker Street Irregulars which I've recently coloured, the story and art is by David Morris for Corvus press. I've used a different style of colouring for this project and have gonne for a more two tone approach.


Back in 2010, the Superbus project is an ambitious attempt to wiggle the personal transportation industry. This new concept in sustainable mobility consists of a new electric vehicles which runs at the speed of 250 km/h (155 mph), new dedicated infrastructure (such as a dedicated lane on highways), and new logistics via a central routing optimization system.
While hard to pinpoint, some have suggested the Superbus is somewhere between a regular bus and a train. It's advantage over the former is that it's capable of vastly higher speeds and greater flexibility, not confined to a rigid schedule or route.
As for the latter, infrastructure and implementation is cheaper and does not require the need for changeovers from target to destination. The Superbus's promise of demand-dependent-door-to-door transportation is a feature neither bus or train has.
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Hayley Atwell is a beautiful British Actress with astonishing acting ability. Born on 5 April 1982 in London, England, Hayley Atwell has been serving her profession since the year 2005. Hayley was born as Hayley Elizabeth Atwell and now has the British and American citizenship. She has been part of various movie but her highly appreciated movies includes Cassandra's Dream of 2007, The Duchess of 2008, The Pillars of the Earth of 2010 and Captain America: The First Avenger of 2011. Challenging her own abilities and expanding her horizon of working, Hayley Atwell has pushed her to the height of success she stands today through the dedication and hard work of years. She stands as one of the most successful actresses in the world of Hollywood.
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Politicians are facing growing pressure from both employers and IT professionals to make skills and training a key issue for the general election.
With Labour widely expected to go to the polls in May, lobby groups and the IT industry's professional bodies are beginning to bend the ears of MPs, civil servants and ministers.
For once, IT's recruitment problems may not be completely buried beneath the inevitable arguments about the European Union, the health service, taxation and spending.
The Government's focus on e-commerce, the arrival of the E-envoy and Tony Blair's plans to have government departments offering services online by 2005, have placed the UK's shortage of e-skills high on the political agenda.
IR35 could also be an election issue. The Government's controversial tax ruling on self-employed IT contractors has angered both freelancers and employers. They fear it will only worsen a growing e-commerce labour shortage.
The ruling could cost the Labour party a significant number of votes, claims the Professional Contractors Group, which represents 11,000 freelancers.
"The majority of our members voted for New Labour last time. That's certainly not the case this time. We will make sure that IR35 is on the agenda at local and national level. A lot of candidates knocking on the doors will find it is an issue," the group said.
Against this background, employers and suppliers are beginning to realise that they at least have a chance of raising the current skills shortages as a serious election issue. The Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS), was one of the first off the mark last month, when it used a meeting of the influential Parliamentary IT Committee to launch an action plan for government and employers.
The plan, part of the organisation's IT skills trend report for 2001, lays down milestones that together could significantly ease the recruitment difficulties faced by IT directors.
The problems are so acute, said the report author Philip Virgo, that some companies are beginning to leave the UK in search of IT talent.
"We are now beginning to see a number of software and services companies leaving the UK because of skills shortages. It is the haemorrhaging of employment that goes with those leading-edge skills that makes it an election issue," Virgo claimed.
IDC estimates that the UK will be short of 300,000 IT workers by 2003.
Tax incentives are urgently needed to encourage employers to invest money in training their staff in the IT skills that are in short supply, IMIS argues in its report.
The call is echoed by the Computing Services & Software Association (CSSA), which is drafting its own IT manifesto for the election.
"Tax breaks could change the culture, so that people realise they should be training each year as an integral part of their working life," said Tim Conway, the CSSA's policy director.
Without some radical changes, skills shortages will continue to plague the IT profession, IMIS argues. Each new wave of technology brings a dearth of people with the skills to implement it and a glut of people with skills that are no longer needed. Ten years ago, mainframe skills were on their way out while client/server professionals were in short supply. This time, it is client/ server skills that are in decline, and e-commerce skills that are in short supply.
There has been a huge increase in recruitment effort for IT, systems, services, programming and communications managers. Meanwhile, Java and HTML have taken over from client/server as the most sought-after skills and salaries have risen dramatically. Senior Web designers can expect to earn more now than systems analysts.
Although universities are expanding the number of IT courses on offer, they are still struggling to supply employers with enough IT graduates.
The problem is not a lack of courses or students - but a shortage of teaching staff, said Professor Gillian Lovegrove, president of the Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing. IT lecturers are regularly lured away by the promise of earning three or four times their current salary in the private sector, she told the Parliamentary IT Committee earlier this month.
"We have not got enough lecturers to teach the students. We can't recruit enough of them. And we can't hold on to the ones we have got," Lovegrove said.
Employers and universities will have to work much closer together if the problems are to be solved. Lovegrove sees a future where universities will increasingly help employers to keep the skills of their IT staff up to date throughout their careers. Employers and staff will benefit and universities will earn the money to pay their IT lecturers competitive salaries.
All of this will require a sea-change in the way employers view skills, the IMIS report suggests. Employers will need to begin thinking of training as an investment rather than a cost. They will need to spend money re-skilling their existing workforce, offering training to the unemployed and other excluded groups, and consider offering jobs to workers over the age of 50. They will also need to offer youngsters high-quality apprenticeship programmes.
More needs to be done to attract women into the IT profession. After a promising start, the number of women IT professionals is now beginning to decline. Britain is lagging severely behind the rest of the world.
Peter Skyte, head of the MSF Technology Professionals Association said it is nothing short of a disgrace. "Only 12% of the IT profession are women, compared to 22% in the rest of Europe and 44% in Singapore," said Skyte.
E-commerce minister Patricia Hewitt is aware of the problems. "I am determined that we continue to tackle the cultural barriers that discourage girls and women from seeing IT as a good career," Hewitt said, responding to IMIS's findings.
All of these issues and more were raised a year ago in the Government-backed Alan Stevens report. Work is continuing, but 12 months on the report is widely regarded as a missed opportunity. Lack of early political support has delayed its objectives. It will take more than fine words this time, if the IT profession is to find a lasting solution to its problems.
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Hosted by PowerToFly's CoFounder & CEO Milena Berry, the evening kicked off with a welcome address by WW's CTO Michael Lysaght, who then stuck around to answer questions during our networking session. Michel then passed the mic to Kayley Seder, Manager, Agile Project Management who dived a bit deeper into WW's platform and latest tools.
After our panel discussion, audience members had a chance to ask their own questions before we moved back into networking, with more chances to enjoy the wonderful food and drinks that WW provided.
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