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Jun. 8, 2017 6:40 pm
Why RHD CEO Dyann Roth is leaving for the job at smaller Inglis
"Now I have an opportunity to be more intentional to design my life, said Roth, a 25-year veteran of the social services org.
Dyann Roth
Inglis, Resources for Human Development
Leadership, women in leadership
Dyann Roth.
(Photo by twitter.com/Resources4HD)
Updated 6/8/17 8:23PM: Clarified the commitment the RHD board has made to interim CEO Marco Giordano.
Why would a CEO take the same job at an organization a fifth the size?
If you ask Dyann Roth, 50, chief of social services giant Resources for Human Development, it can come down to life choices.
This morning RHD announced that by August, Roth, an RHD lifer who started at the nonprofit as a teenager, will start the CEO role at 140-year-old Inglis, another far smaller, if also multifaceted, social services nonprofit. (In 2015, RHD reported more than $255 million in income. By contrast, this fiscal year, Inglis House has a $51.2 million operating budget.)
"RHD is so important in my life. It has really made me who I am," said Roth. "This is now probably the time for me to design the rest of my career, rather than have it happen to me."
RHD's Chief Financial Officer Marco Giordano will become interim CEO on July 31. Roth starts at Inglis on Aug. 21, following the retirement of Gavin Kerr, who held the role since 2008. It represents a unique moment for the RHD board.
Roth was a safe and familiar replacement in 2013 for the iconoclastic and visionary RHD founder Bob Fishman, whose reputation still carries a sizable shadow inside RHD and elsewhere in Philadelphia's social services sector. What happens now? Does RHD find another stable, familiar leader within its ranks, knowing much of its leadership is made of longtime stewards of the nonprofit giant's programs in behavioral, mental health and other social services, like homelessness, reentry and drug addiction programs? Or do they bring in someone entirely new?
That's to come, though Roth says Giordano "is not your average CFO" and seems likely to be the next in line for the permanent internal promotion. " Giordano will have the role for at least the next year, said RHD spokesman Kevin Roberts, but "the hope and expectation is that Marco will be the CEO."
This announcement is instructive in understanding that career goals don't always follow a linear path of grander titles at ever bigger organizations.
RHD has more than 6,000 employees and a range of 160 programs in 15 states. It's a behemoth headquartered in a sprawling and light-filled facility wedged between East Falls and Nicetown in North Philadelphia. Inglis has 630 employees, a residential facility, in-home care and a range of services for people with physical disabilities (they're the largest the largest developer of "affordable" wheelchair-accessible independent living apartments, says Inglis spokesman Gary Bramnick), including initiatives pushing into technology to service those needs.
A search firm working for Inglis contacted Roth for background on filling the CEO role. Roth was intrigued but "had to think long and hard before I even shared that I was interested in being a candidate."
In the end it fit many of her interests and needs at this point in her career, after working with RHD since a part-time job as a 15-year-old, save for time as an undergraduate at Penn State and a brief stint in a junior role at the United Way in Chester. Since then, she's been with RHD for 25 years.
"I've been very organic with my growth with RHD," she said. "Now I have an opportunity to be more intentional to design my life."
Interestingly, Roth will likely get a pay bump when she makes the move, helped by Inglis having an established endowment. (Retiring Inglis CEO Gavin Kerr made more than $500,000, according to public records, though at RHD Roth made $136,268 in 2015.)
"Salary has to be part of it, it can make decision making a little easier, but it wasn't the driver in this," she said. "It can't be."
For Inglis, the get could be a good one. For one, Roth is the first female CEO in the organization's 140 year history. Roth has managed a far bigger and more robust offering, though she also has experience in the field, as she climbed through the RHD ranks.
"We are very excited for having someone with Dyann's capacity and renowned and reputation to join us," said spokesman Bramnick. In a release, Kerr said he was "pleased" with the choice.
RHD spokeswoman Roberts noted that one of the initiatives that Roth helped foster within RHD was a well-liked leadership development program to cultivate internal leaders.
"Dyann knew that people leave, and that you need to have a transition plan because the main goal is to deliver great services," Roberts said. "Dyann said she might need to take her own advice."
What is Roth's advice for other executives on choosing next career moves?
"Look at your whole life, not just your job. Look at what it might bring in terms of new passion. Whatever you need to do for the right balance to you," said the mother of two. "In this role, I can be more present with my kids."
She also noted that Inglis's narrower focus will allow her to be closer to the work.
"I think I can focus and get more connected to the people. When it's such a large organization, it can be hard to be connected to our work," she said. "But let's not forget: A $52 million organization isn't small."
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A nakedly Canadian fur protest from Morrissey
Mozzer dreams of donning a Goose
NME @NME
Morrissey asks fans to petition Canada Goose to stop selling fur products expi.co/01nCip
As he prepares to tour across Canada after nearly two decades of boycotting us as a statement against the seal hunt, Steven Patrick Morrissey has teamed with PETA to circulate a petition with the goal of getting Canada Goose to make a coat he'd wear.
The Queen might as well be dead now
Monarchist League @monarchist
The new licence plate design released by Ontario's government today relegates the image of the Crown to second place behind the Trillium, and effectively will make it invisible because of the widespread use of licence plate frames which will cover it.
Monarchists were affronted by their cause being put in the corner—the crowning complaint over this unusual obsession.
You can drink more than chocolate milk in the morning. Doug Ford definitely won't, but the premier's populist budget includes a move to let bars serve alcohol at 9 a.m. The budget would also expand online gambling and allow municipalities to legalize drinking in parks. Naturally, these things are being criticized as distractions from service cuts.
Street preacher set to get new neighbour
The Competition Bureau announced its investigation into Bell Canada's telecom marketing practices on the same day that Bell's main rival announced this new lease:
Edward Rogers @EdwardSRogers
Massive Rogers flagship taking over former Forever 21 location at Yonge-Dundas Square Massive Rogers flagship taking over former Forever 21 location at Yonge-Dundas SquareA massive, multi-floor Rogers retail flagship will move into Forever 21′s former home at Yonge-Dundas, according to the telecom giant.dailyhive.com
Terry Hargreaves dead at 82. The first parliamentary bureau chief for CBC Radio later wrote about Canadian politics for Maclean's. After retirement, he lived in Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan as the spouse of diplomat Anna Biolik. Hargreaves also made a CBC Television documentary about the 1966 opening of the Bloor-Danforth subway.
Finally, paws upholding the laws
Jeb Lund, a writer on American politics, has just eclipsed 12:36 on Substack's most popular free newsletter list, thanks to his thorough analysis of this Toronto-produced cartoon:
Jukt Microdicks @Mobute
It's time to rethink the Paw Patrol's role as a government contractor. The Paw Patrol Is a Threat to DemocracyThere is no reason to think about the Paw Patrol if you are over six years old. Maybe eight at the outside. Paw Patrol is a cartoon about a boy who leads a team of technologically advanced talking dogs on various rescue missions around Adventure Bay, an extremely clean town filled with and led by ha…jeb.substack.com

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Eh...sorry if the title of this post is a little hard to read--it's because I really want others to be able to find this info when they do an Internet search 'cause I sure couldn't find any info about anything like this!
Wow: Clear, operator of registered traveler lines in many airports around the country, has ceased operations. For more (what little there is) visit http://www.flyclear.com.
I liked Clear and I'm disappointed it has shut down. There are numerous new stories about the shut down and most of them indicate that the Clear lines were idle much of the time. When you're using them, they are, by virtue of your usage, not idle--but still, thinking back on it now, there were times when I was the only person going through.
So why were the Clear lanes idle so much of the time? Because their value proposition wasn't clear (pun intended; ha ha!) for enough people. As mentioned in an Atlanta Business Chronicle article the wait time at the "regular" lanes here in Atlanta is rarely more than 10 minutes; I didn't note any other statistics for other airports in any of the other articles I read, but many of them did mention in general terms that security wait times are generally modest these days. And, as numerous of the news articles indicate, the Clear security screening process itself is no easier or quicker than the regular security screening process--rather it is the same process as in all other security lines. So if you aren't saving hassle with the actual security screening and you aren't saving significant waiting time, what are you really getting from Clear? It seems most people answered that question with one word: "nothing." Hence, even a clear (I can't help myself!) path through the Clear lines wasn't good enough to attract new customers. And I'm sure that as they looked to prospects for the future, what they saw is that the worst part was that if they had somehow been able to grow, the reality is that they would have only been able to handle a certain amount of growth (at least without expanded capacity) before they'd actually have found themselves in a situation where their wait times frequently exceeded those of the regular lanes!
So with this all being the case, why was I a Clear member? Well, when I joined last year, regular security lines were generally longer than they are now. Why has this changed? Since that time, the economy has weakened and less people are flying, and at some airports like Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, additional regular security lanes have been added, plus it seems that people are moving through security faster than they did last year (I'm not entirely sure if this is true or if it is, why it is, but kudos to TSA for any role they've had in the matter). But regardless of the reasons for the reduced wait times in the regular lines, I was contemplating not renewing at the end of my current membership period as a result of those reduced wait times. And you may find it surprising to find that I was actually leaning towards renewing. Why? Because even if Clear didn't provide actual speed advantages over the regular lanes, it did provide certainty of speed. That is to say, it provided a certainty that you'd get through security fast. So now the position I'm in is that when I go to the airport on Wednesday morning, I'm probably going to get through security quickly--but since I no longer can rely on that, I'm going to have to arrive earlier than I would have if I were able to use Clear--and the worst part is that I'll still be at greater risk of missing my flight! And that, my friends, is why I will miss Clear.
P.S. Although Clear ceasing operations rips off any existing Clear member, the good news for me is that although I had a bit more than 5 months of membership left on my term, I did still get much of the expected value out of my Clear membership: I purchased a 1-year membership in March of 2008 and had gotten additional bonus time from a pre-Atlanta-Clear-lanes opening special and from others using my Clear referral code. But surely there are some people who only recently had paid for Clear memberships; such people were supremely ripped off. But it pales in comparison to the investors who lost millions, right? Well, if Clear intentionally deceived those investors then yes--but otherwise, those investors simply invested in a company which just didn't pan out, they weren't ripped off like we Clear members were.
P.P.S. On a slightly related note: once, during the course of normal use of the Clear website (that is to say, not during a web application security penetration test), I stumbled upon a web application security vulnerability through which an attacker could have harvested Clear customer email addresses (to be clear, the attacker would only have been able to do this harvesting of email addresses one by one, not en masse; as for other details, well, as Forrest says, that's all I have to say about that). I always was amused by the irony of a company which went to great lengths to keep personal data safe having such a hole on their website! And I always wondered when Clear would discover the hole and patch it (but that certainly appears to be a moot point now!). I believe a good web application security assessment would have revealed this vulnerability and so I therefore find it doubtful that Clear authorized such an assessment. But regardless, this vulnerability just goes to show that even companies like Clear are not sufficiently adept at precluding unauthorized access to customer data. Feel free to shudder.
Okay, this one is way off-topic in relation to what I usually blog about, but I fully believe it's going to prevent someone who reads it from making the same mistake I made. Specifically, I believe it is going to prevent someone from booking a multi-destination ticket in the situation where, for the very same total price, that person could instead book each leg of the journey separately.
So why is it a mistake to book a multi-leg itinerary instead of booking separate one-ways, if the cost of the two is the same? I'll get to that in just a moment, but before I do you should know that in the majority of cases I have seen for the last many years, at least in regards to travel within the United States, both types of booking do in fact cost the same. That could vary from market to market, but in my experience, market is not generally a concern.
Okay, so let's talk about why you always want to go with booking your flights separately, so long as it doesn't cost you any more than booking them as a multi-leg trip (actually, after you read this post, you might decide it is even worth paying a little bit more in some situations): because it gives you more flexibility to alter your travel without incurring airline change fees. And if you haven't tasted any of the change fees being charged by airlines these days, let me just tell you that they taste very, very bitter and you very, very much want to avoid incurring them. I believe that most airlines are now charging $150 for any change.
Here's the deal: if you change a particular flight on an itinerary, the effect is that every flight from that point onward on the ticket has to change too. That doesn't mean you have to make any changes to any other flights, it just means that they get priced as if they were changed. And that means that if those flights have become more expensive, you have to pay the difference between what you paid and what the new rate is. So to be clear, even if you aren't changing any subsequent flights, they "act" as if they are being changed and the price for them gets recalculated and you pay the difference between the new price and what you paid.
So you should already see where it benefits you to book separate flights: if you change a one-way flight, there are no subsequent flights so you won't have to pay any fare increases that affect flights you don't actually want to change. So if you book an outbound flight and a separate return flight and then you change the outbound flight, while you'll have to pay $150 plus any fare increase for changing that outbound flight, you won't get stuck paying any fare increase for the return flight.
To make this perfectly clear, let's consider a simple example: you pay $300 for an outbound flight and separately you pay $200 for a return flight. Then you need to make a change to your outbound flight. Unfortunately, the fare for the new flight is $350; you now have to pay the additional $50 that this new flight costs over what you paid. In addition, you have to pay $150 to make the change. Ugh. You're out $200! But what if you'd booked a round-trip? The answer is that, best-case scenario, you'd be out the same $200 because of the same fees; worst-case scenario you'd be out not only that $200 but also much more because you would also have to pay any fare increases affecting the return flight: let's say that instead of $200, that same flight now costs $250; you'd have to pay the $50 that the return flight--the same return flight, mind you--costs over what you paid for it previously. This is an absolutely ridiculous policy, by the way. But it is in fact the policy.
Ah, but it gets worse: there's another policy that says that if you don't take a flight on a ticket, all other flights on that itinerary are cancelled (you get to keep their value, minus that same hefty change fee, but you can't actually fly them as scheduled). Why does this matter? Because in the world of $150 change fees, sometimes it makes the most sense to simply bail on a scheduled flight and book a new one. Think about it: if it costs you $150 to change a flight then so long as you can buy a replacement flight for less than $150, aren't you better off buying the replacement flight and simply not taking the existing flight? Of course you are. And with multiple one-way tickets, you have the flexibility to do that in all cases; with multi-leg trips, you can only do it where it won't be a negative impact to cancel all remaining flights on the ticket (so for instance, for the last flight on a ticket). By the way, the fact that you can't take a flight in an itinerary simply because you missed other flights in that itinerary is yet another ridiculous policy, but here again, it is in fact the policy.
So another example: let's say you pay $100 for an outbound flight and $200 for a return flight then you need to make a change to your outbound flight. Good news: the new flight also costs $100; you won't have to pay an increased fare. But should you change that outbound flight? No way! You should simply skip it and book the new flight you want for $100! Why pay $150 when for $100 you can achieve the same desired result (which is a ticket on the new flight you want)? But of course, if you have other flights on that ticket (that is, if you booked a multi-leg instead of multiple separate one-ways), you can't do that because they won't let you get on any flight on an itinerary on which you have missed a preceding flight. That means that if you really want to make the change, you have to pay the $150 change fee--but remember, you also have to pay an additional increase in the fare of your return flight, even if you don't change your return flight in any way. So, let's say that return flight is now $275 instead of $200; you have to pay not only the $150 change fee, you also have to pay the $75 by which the return fare has increased. That means you're coming out paying $225 additional--and this to change a ticket that originally cost you only $300! But if you'd booked separate tickets, you'd have paid only $100 because you'd have simply bailed on your original outbound ticket and bought a new outbound ticket.
I'm actually in very much this situation right now: if I had separate tickets for an upcoming trip, I could bail on the outbound ticket and buy the flight I actually want for $105, but if I change the round-trip ticket I have it will cost me $235. It actually would cost me less money, a total of $210 for a $25 savings, to go ahead and take my original flight then immediately take the first flight back home--and the logistics of doing that actually would work out for me. Now, you may say "don't be crazy--spend the $25 extra and save yourself the hassle of the travel. And it's a valid point because while I, like everyone, would rather get something for my money, in this case I don't need it and it's actually more of a hassle to use it than it is to not use it. Ah, but by using it, there is something I would get: miles. And those miles, coming as they would at the beginning of the year (a.k.a. the point at which earning miles for elite status resets), could months down the line be just what I need to achieve the next level of elite status (and at the very least, they would get added to my total available for redemption for award travel).
In having to pay the change fee where you would like instead to replace a flight in the itinerary with one costing less than the change fee, but where such a replacement would mean that subsequent flights in the itinerary that you do not want to change and do want to take would be automatically cancelled when you missed your originally scheduled flight.
In having to pay for the increased fare of flights for which you are not actually making any changes, simply because these flights have their fares recalculated every time a change is made to any preceding flight.
So...book multiple one-ways instead of multi-legs. Enjoy the flexibility!
I do want to make it explicitly clear that it is only in the case where you want to change a flight in an itinerary that has subsequent flights you do not want to change where it is to your advantage to have booked those flights separately rather than as part of a single ticket; in cases where you only want to change the final flight on an itinerary, it makes no difference whether that flight is a one-way or part of a multi-leg. The reason is that effectively, the final flight for an itinerary is a one-way: changes to it don't cause you to be subject to paying the fare increases of subsequent flights because there are no subsequent flights and if you bail on it, there are no ramifications in regards to the automatic cancellation of subsequent flights because again, there are no subsequent flights. Now, if you need to change multiple flights on the same itinerary, you may well be better off if you bought all of those flights as part of the same ticket because you will only be charged a single change fee to change them whereas if they were on separate tickets, you would be charged a change fee for each ticket. However, I think it is a lot more common that you need to change only a single flight than it is that you need to change more than one flight on an itinerary so I believe that it will more often benefit you to book each leg of a journey separately than it will to book those legs together.


Elche and Levante are both struggling to make significant impression in the Spanish top-tier football. The sides have already been (or are) positioned within the drop zone in several occasions since the season kicked off, implying major dilemmas in their form, discipline, attack, and defense. They are currently among clubs at extremely high risk of leaving the league by the end of the season, which practically makes minnows of the tournament. Thus far, only Elche were able to achieve a top-flight victory in the past six weeks of La Liga, which they obtained from their most recent battle against Athletic Bilbao. Levante, on the other hand, have remained winless since their surprise triumph over Valencia last year.
Online betting tip: Elche and Levante will share the spoils.
Continuing their magnificent streak this season, Sevilla made sure that they will remain unbeaten for a fifth consecutive week in La Liga by winning their fixture against Almeria. The clean sheet victory was fed by a marvelous pair of goals from Vicente Iborra and Coke, who scored the double within only five minutes since the opener was served. This placed them very highly in the league standing, which now approaches the fourth spot to put them nearer to a possible Champions League play-off round seeding.
Malaga, like their rivals, are also having a generally better season compared to their last. The current seventh placers have so far won nine matches and forced a draw in four for a total score of 31 points. They were beaten only once as per their last five appearances in the Spanish top-tier football.
Football betting tip: Sevilla and Malaga will produce a thriller, but the home team will eventually (and narrowly) carry the day.


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#ifndef TENSORFLOW_C_EAGER_ABSTRACT_TENSOR_HANDLE_H_
#define TENSORFLOW_C_EAGER_ABSTRACT_TENSOR_HANDLE_H_

#include <memory>

#include "tensorflow/core/framework/types.pb.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/platform/refcount.h"
namespace tensorflow {

// Abstract interface to a Tensor handle in either tracing or immediate
// execution mode.
class AbstractTensorHandle : public core::RefCounted {
 protected:
  enum AbstractTensorHandleKind { kGraph, kMlir, kEager, kTfrt };
  explicit AbstractTensorHandle(AbstractTensorHandleKind kind) : kind_(kind) {}
  virtual ~AbstractTensorHandle() {}

 public:
  // Returns tensor dtype.
  virtual tensorflow::DataType DataType() const = 0;

  AbstractTensorHandleKind getKind() const { return kind_; }

 private:
  const AbstractTensorHandleKind kind_;
};

namespace internal {
struct AbstractTensorHandleDeleter {
  void operator()(AbstractTensorHandle* p) const {
    if (p != nullptr) {
      p->Unref();
    }
  }
};
}  // namespace internal

using AbstractTensorHandlePtr =
    std::unique_ptr<AbstractTensorHandle,
                    internal::AbstractTensorHandleDeleter>;

}  // namespace tensorflow

#endif  // TENSORFLOW_C_EAGER_ABSTRACT_TENSOR_HANDLE_H_

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package org.iolani.robotics;

import org.iolani.robotics.hardware.SabertoothSpeedController;
import org.iolani.robotics.hardware.SabertoothSpeedController.Address;
import org.iolani.robotics.hardware.SabertoothSpeedController.Motor;

/**
 *
 * @author Aidan
 */
public class RobotMap {
    // Pod 1 //
    public static final Address drive1SabertoothAddress = SabertoothSpeedController.Address.TWO; //Which Sabertooth are we accessing?
    public static final Motor drive1MotorNumber = SabertoothSpeedController.Motor.ONE; //Which motor on the Sabertooth are we accessing?
    public static final int turningTalon1 = 1;
    public static final int digipot1 = 2;
    public static final int encoder1Pin1 = 1;
    public static final int encoder1Pin2 = 2;
    public static final double digipot1Offset = 235.0;

    // Pod 2 //
    public static final Address drive2SabertoothAddress = SabertoothSpeedController.Address.TWO;
    public static final Motor drive2MotorNumber = SabertoothSpeedController.Motor.TWO;
    public static final int turningTalon2 = 2;
    public static final int digipot2 = 1;
    public static final int encoder2Pin1 = 3;
    public static final int encoder2Pin2 = 4;
    public static final double digipot2Offset = 26.0;

    // Pod 3 //
    public static final Address drive3SabertoothAddress = SabertoothSpeedController.Address.ONE;
    public static final Motor drive3MotorNumber = SabertoothSpeedController.Motor.ONE;
    public static final int turningTalon3 = 3;
    public static final int digipot3 = 3;
    public static final int encoder3Pin1 = 5;
    public static final int encoder3Pin2 = 6;
    public static final double digipot3Offset = 1.5;

    // Pod 4 //
    public static final Address drive4SabertoothAddress = SabertoothSpeedController.Address.ONE;
    public static final Motor drive4MotorNumber = SabertoothSpeedController.Motor.TWO;
    public static final int turningTalon4 = 4;
    public static final int digipot4 = 4;
    public static final int encoder4Pin1 = 7;
    public static final int encoder4Pin2 = 8;
    public static final double digipot4Offset = 210.0;
}


Imagine how your life would change if $10,000 were wired into your bank account every week, like clockwork, whether you were working, on vacation, or even just relaxing at home. Imagine, over time, becoming debt free, but the money continues to arrive week after week. Imagine being able to spend unlimited quality time with your family or giving generously of your time or finances to your favorite causes.
The concept of residual income is both incredibly exciting, and, for most people, seemingly unattainable. I was introduced to the power of residual income in my early twenties, and it has had a life changing impact on all of my career choices since that time.
Why we need residual income so desperately.
What the benefits of residual income are.
Creating residual income through network marketing.
So, are you up for learning how to create unlimited residual income along with complete time freedom, exotic travel opportunities, profound personal growth, and a whole lot of fun? I thought so! Let's get started.
First, let's talk about why we need more residual income in our lives.
As a former financial planner/investment advisor, I have had the opportunity to counsel a lot of individuals and families who were dealing with all sorts of challenging financial issues. So, even though I haven't sat around your kitchen table, I have a very good idea of some of the challenges you may be facing.
According to a landmark Consumer Survey by the Certified Financial Planner Board Of Standards the primary reason that clients visit financial planners is to discuss their financial concerns which include: preparing for retirement, managing and reducing debt, building an emergency fund, building a college fund, saving for a home purchase or renovation, sheltering income from taxes, generating retirement income, providing for future medical needs, and, if there is money left, figuring out how to vacation or travel more.
The report goes on to say that 47% of consumers are technically classified as "Troubleds," and they worry about debt, fret about financial decisions such as money for retirement, are not confidant in their control over their financial future, may have a financial plan but do not follow it, are often their own primary financial advisors, and, despite their discomfort, they are the least likely to have a plan!!!
Also, the report indicates that 69% of consumers don't set measurable financial goals. Of course, we know that if people do not set goals, they will probably not reach them.
We also know that, according to Social Security statistics, out of 100 people at retirement age in America, only 2% are financially free. Out of the other 98%, 45% are dependent on relatives, 30% are dependent on charity, and 23% are still working.
To quote from the movie "Apollo 13", "Houston, we have a problem." Families today are dealing with uncertain career stability, lay-offs, the highest debt loads ever, rising costs of consumer goods, college education and health care costs that are spiraling out of control, worries about social security, and dealing with a highly volatile stock market. In short, many people are stressed out and see little hope of things getting better.
One of the biggest challenges that most of us face is that, in terms of our economic lives, we live in a world in which we trade time for dollars, which I sometimes call Economic System A, or "linear income." Statistically, most of us work for a company or the government as an employee, and we receive money periodically for the time we spend working for that employer. We work, on average, 40 hours per week, and we generally get paid every two weeks, or perhaps once per month. The downsides are that, often, the salary is fixed, the raises are modest, and the person in the cubicle next to you, who is not working as hard as you, may make the same amount of money as you. The other unfortunate reality is that, when you are no longer working for that organization, they obviously no longer pay you.
The other challenge most of us face is that our financial lives are far more fragile than we care to think about. Far the most part, people feel very insecure about the fate of their employment. And they should be concerned. In this age of reduced corporate profits, mergers and acquisitions, and constant lay-offs, no one is as safe as they might think they are.
Savings account balances are low, families are consistently spending beyond their means, and most people, if they did not receive any money for six months, would be forced to seriously consider bankruptcy.
But, there are a small but powerful number of individuals in America who have discovered the secret weapon in the war against financial challenges. These smart and insightful individuals have learned and harnessed the awesome power of residual or ongoing income streams.
Do you currently have multiple streams of income rather than relying on one main income source?
Are your hourly earnings unlimited?
Are you creating income 24 hours a day?
Do you own or control your income?
Can you sell or will your streams of income?
Can you give yourself a raise at any time?
If your main source of income dried up, could you survive for a year on your remaining streams?
If you answered NO to any these questions, you are not realizing the full and life changing power of Residual Income.
Residual Income (also called "passive," or "recurring income") is income that continues to be generated after the initial effort has been expended. Compare this to what most people focus on earning, which is called linear income, which is "one-shot" compensation or payment in the form of a fee, wage, commission or salary.
While linear income is directly proportional to the number of hours invested in it (40 hrs. of pay for 40 hrs. of work), one of the great advantages of residual income is that once things are set in motion, you continue making money from your initial efforts, while gaining time to devote to other things… such as generating more streams of residual income!
There are a variety of ways residual income can be earned. The following are some examples.
You could transfer the rights to a book you wrote, a software program you created, a gadget you invented, or a song you recorded, to a company that agrees to pay you a percentage of each copy of your work sold in the future.
You could become an actor and draw residual income from each of your movies, TV shows, or commercials, each time they run.
How about letting an oil company drill a well on your property in exchange for a percentage of the revenue.
You might purchase an office building or other real estate that earns you recurring income through lease or rental payments.
While these strategies sound exciting, the problem is that earning residual income from the methods I've just described generally aren't that easy to implement, due to ability or investment limitations.
More attainable for the average person would be the opportunity to build up an investment "nest egg" that could provide residual income through interest distributions. So, let's review that option.
So, let's say you wanted to have $100,000 per year of interest income coming in from your investments. At 5% interest, you would need to have about $2,000,000 in personal investments. Perhaps you do not have that much in an account yet. So, let's say that you would like to accomplish that goal in twenty years, to help supplement your retirement income.
To accumulate that much over the next twenty years, and if you started with no money saved, and if you could earn 8% interest on your money, you would need to save a little over $40,000 per year starting right now. How are you doing on your goal?
There's not much time left for sleeping if you're working three eight hour shifts a day to earn that kind of money! What we find is that most people are working themselves to death in Economic System A but not getting ahead. Can you relate? And, even if the heavy workload works and you generate significant amounts of money, you end up having no TIME for your family and life. IP address location Of course, if a person does not work very hard, they may have TIME, but no MONEY. Ideally, you create a life that provides you with both TIME and MONEY!
The "First Rule" of achieving Residual Income Success: You want to avoid or limit your involvement with linear income opportunities.
As we look at the best ways to create residual income, found in the wonderful world of Economic System B, let's review two key wealth accumulation strategies.
First, in the book, "The Millionaire Next Door," by Thomas Stanley and William Danko, the researchers found that three out of four American millionaires owned their own business. Not that you cannot become wealthy working for someone else, but you usually have more opportunity and greater potential in your own business.
Duplication of your own productive efforts. That is where most people fall down. He said "I'd rather have 1% of the efforts of 100 men that 100% of the efforts of one man. Why? Leverage. Key Point: Leverage Is The Secret Of Wealth.
The challenge of starting a traditional business, however, is that the owner has to deal with major issues like long hours, specialized knowledge, significant upfront investment, inventory, accounts payable and receivable, employee challenges, and with all of that, a low national success rate.
So, what if our goal was to create the effect of that $2,000,000 financial asset we mentioned earlier? And, what if we could create it in only 2 to 5 years, with a part-time effort, and an initial investment of less than one mortgage payment, and without all of the hassles of starting a traditional business? We can create the same or even better Residual Income through Network Marketing.
What is Network Marketing? First, understand traditional marketing. Let's say a product cost $10.00 in a retail store. A company's real cost to manufacture the product and pay overhead, is, on average, around $6.00. The other $4.00 is spent on advertising and distribution. In network marketing, companies market directly to the public, and cut out the advertising and middlemen costs. That leaves around 40% to be paid to the individuals who are involved in the marketing and distribution of the products.
But, what is even better, is that a typical Network Marketing payment arrangement is designed to pay you to build a "network of marketers and consumers" and the more people that you are able to attract to the opportunity, the more money you can make. But, the even better news is that once you get your network started, it tends to take on a life of it's own, and most of the growth will be developed by people that you may not even know today!
You may have heard that the "eighth wonder of the world" is compound interest. Here is an example: $200.00 per month invested for forty years would equal $96,000.00 of contributions. But, if you never touched the money, and you earned a 10% compound interest rate, you would have $1,264,815 in your account, or over 13 times what you actually invested.
With Network Marketing you can have TIME DUPLICATION that works the same way!
First Month, you generate $500.00 in product sales and you sponsor five people who create $500.00 per month of product sales volume. That equals $3,000 in total volume, including your $500.00.
Second Month, those five each maintain their sales volume and sponsor five people who create $500.00 per month of product sales volume. That equals $15,500 in total volume, including your $500.00.
Third Month, they each maintain their sales volume and sponsor five people who create $500.00 per month of product sales volume. That equals $78,000 in total volume, including your $500.00.
By the way, if each person worked just five hours per week in this business, you would be reaping the benefits of 3,120 hours worked per month in your business. By contrast, most people work about 2,000 hours in an entire year!
The three most amazing things about a system like this is that a) the sales volume can happen very fast, and b) you will be paid an increasingly higher income on the ENTIRE volume created by your organization as it grows, and not just on the volume you personally create. And, c) this growth in organization and volume, once set properly in motion by you, will tend to increase over time, and continue to pay you royalty income month after month, whether you are home, on your yacht in the Caribbean, or at your mountain home in Aspen, Colorado.
Interestingly, I spoke with one Network Marketing leader who shared with me that if she took her monthly income and divided it by the number of hours she works her business on average each month, she is actually earning about $500.00 per hour for her time. Wow! Are you receiving hourly wages at that pay rate?!
To further discuss the concept of LEVERAGE, let's look at three professions and assume they each make a 20% "commission" on the sales volume they bring in for their employer.
If a shoe salesman sells a pair of shoes for $100, he would make $20.
Key Point: The income you will receive in life is not necessarily based on "hard work" but rather on how much "economic value" you bring to the organization you are associated with. The more "economic value" you create, the more income you receive.
Therefore, to make a large income, you need to use leverage.
As you can see, residual income is a very exciting concept, and it will change your life immensely once you are benefiting from it.
If you have not already made a decision to pursue residual income opportunities, I encourage you to make it today! Decide today to become financially free and begin to experience the amazing power of residual income in your life.
Posted in Building Residual Income, Business Building, Network Marketing Tips & Trends by Ben on Posted on March 31, 2015 , updated on February 2, 2016 by Ben.
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Historic Fort Snelling is an MNHS historic site and the state's first National Historic Landmark. A major project at the site prioritizes the adaptive reuse of two historic buildings concentrating on opportunities for public use, education, engagement and reflection. This project supports an MNHS strategic priority and speaks to the mission by returning historic facilities to public use while fostering new dialogues. A master plan was done in 2015, and predesign was completed in June 2016.
Historic Preservation Corps
Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps and MNHS began implementing lessons learned from the past two years to increase the viability of a historic preservation activity built on a conservation corps model. The first year focused on building the capacity of the corps through further expansion of service projects, skills training and networks.
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There are 67 Minnesota State Parks and 7 Minnesota State Recreation areas that each have facilities to serve outdoor recreation users. Funds in this category are used for developing new facilities and include visitor centers, trail centers, roads, parking lots, bridges, campgrounds, and so on.
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Renewal of existing State Trail surfaces, parking areas, and trail wayside areas, improving accessibility, enhancing user safety and implementing current best management practices. MNDNR Parks and Trails Division has a identified approximately 85 miles of existing state trail in need of rehabilitation and upgrading. This program also focuses on the rehabilitation or replacement of existing state trail bridges, including structural engineering inspections of all trail bridges .
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MNHS continues to strive for environmental, economic and social sustainability in its sustainability program. To pinpoint opportunities for ongoing progress, the sustainability program will harmonize a broader range of institutional needs and objectives. The program will establish integrated, continuous, electronic reporting that unites environmental, social and economic risk analysis. This reporting will be used to further reduce our environmental impact and improve the sustainability of our operations as a whole.


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The 2018 IAFF Fallen Firefighter memorial was held in Colorado Springs on Saturday September 15, 2018. Included with the 271 names of IAFF members who have passed away in the Line-Of-Duty, we were honoured to be present as the names of six retired Hamilton firefighters had their names etched on the memorial wall. This year we honoured Ron Bowman, Lloyd Michor, Gary Burgess, Bill Knowles, William Smith and Robert Kerr.
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import HeroPage from './containers/HeroPage'

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Cineblend
Working with Documentary, Festival, Film, Media, Music in Netherlands. Interested in Creative Collaboration
Email: info@cineblend.nl
Website: cineblend.nl/en
CINEBLEND FESTIVAL is the new name for the Beeld voor Beeld festival, a yearly documentary film festival focusing on issues of cultural diversity, now in its 27th year. Rooted in visual anthropology, the festival screens documentaries on various (sub)cultures, offering discussions and seminars. The festival serves as a meeting place for filmmakers and audiences from different cultural backgrounds. A special section will be devoted to studentfilms, open to all courses of Visual Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking. Most filmmakers will be present for a Q&A after the screening of their film.
Cineblend positions itself at the crossroads of visual anthropology, documentary filmmaking and politics. Often questions on the representation of other cultures should rise, as the images almost always reach us through a western perspective. The festival therefore screens challenging documentaries, often from an unexpected angle. Documentaries that force us to critically evaluate our prejudices and pre-conceived ideas about other peoples and cultures, environment, groups or settings. Therefore the subtitle of the festival is: Festival on Culture and Representation.
The screened films on Cineblend have in common that the filmmakers have for a long period of time lived in the setting of their film. They know all of the ins-and-outs of their subject and they have succeeded in forging an intimate relationship with the people they film, communicating a 'view from within' to the audience. Anthropology has been the first to propagate this method of 'participant observation'. The films that are its result, lead us into unknown worlds or give us a new, refreshing look into the world in which we live. Using this method Cineblend wants to create, even modestly, understanding for other cultures, other ways of life, other individuals.
Genuine elements of the festival are, amongst others, a section that is devoted to student films and extensive talking to the filmmakers. Most filmmakers will be present during Cineblend to discuss their film and related subjects. Beside a meeting place for filmmakers and audiences, the festival offers a stage to talented students who are occupied with the making of documentaries.
To further embellish Cineblend, different activities will be organised, like music and seminars.
The festival has a history that goes back to 1990.


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Akaryn Hotel Group (AHG), the innovative boutique hospitality brand with a portfolio of luxury hotels and resorts across Thailand, is shaking up cocktail hour with the Be Your Own Bartender experience at akyra Beach Club Phuket, Aleenta Hua Hin, and akyra Manor Chiang Mai.
Guests staying at each of the properties can concoct their own in-room drinks by following a cocktail-of-the-day recipe with a curated mix of ingredients supplied free of charge, apart from the alcohol, which is priced at mini-bar rates.
Every day is cocktail day with ingredients such as lime, mint leaves, passion fruit puree, coconut milk, cucumber strips, cinnamon sticks and homemade syrup de gomme all presented for guests tasting and drinking pleasure. How-to guides help guest-bartenders make a perfectly balanced and refreshing drink.
At akyra Beach Club Phuket, Friday is White Party time. Exclusive top entertainment with in-house DJ, gourmet comfort food and creative cocktails inspire party-lovers to "paint the evening white". In honour of this weekly beach celebration, guests can mix their own cocktail in their room – by mixing 5 ounces of white cranberry juice, 2 ounces of ginger ale and 1 teaspoon of lemon – all provided free of charge and topped up with 2 ounces of vodka from the minibar. Once it's time to party, step away from the room and enjoy the same drink or more creative cocktails designed to fuel the resort's unique beachside festival vibe, featuring mad mojitos, delicious daiquiris, merry margaritas and many more.
On every month-end, to celebrate pay-day, White Party at Club akyra is escalated with a spectacular masked fire show, guest DJ and lavish Colombian Beach BBQ. After enjoying the party, guests can book the Weekend Bliss Package, which includes room, entry to White Party, drinks, Colombian Beach BBQ, hang-over breakfast with Bloody Mary and signature activities the next day.
At sister property, Aleenta Hua Hin, guests enjoy a "toes in the sand with a cocktail in hand" experience. Sip a sundowner, a refreshing temptation after a long day in the sun and the weekly menu of in-room thirst quenchers has been specially selected to complement the bright and breezy tropical climes of Thailand. A blend of brand name imports and local specialty spirits behind the bar adds to the intrigue and room-made cocktails.
At akyra Manor Chiang Mai, a cocktail a day makes for a perfect stay in the northern Thai capital, where a cosmopolitan kick adds to the urban chic. The impressive list of smart uptown creations perfectly complements the hotel's hip downtown vibe, and includes Gordon's Ginger Gin Fizz, Mint Gimlet, Bubbly Passion, Nut As A Coconut, Gold Apple, Cucumber Gin Tonic, and a Lychee Martini. Those who like to go off-menu and think outside the glass can mix it up with their own customised cocktails too.
"The Aleenta and akyra brands may differ in terms of design, location and facilities but all AKARYN Hotel Group properties are built with memorable guest experiences at their heart. Our in-room cocktail concept is part of that approach and one of many ideas we have introduced to allow guests to really customise their stay," says Ms. Anchalika Kijkanakorn, Founder and Managing Director of AHG.
"All of our akyra hotels and resorts run with a common DNA of exciting vibrant fun and extraordinary experience that guests have come to expect. Our in room cocktail concept takes the experience up a notch, adds a personal touch, and is one of our many continued inventions and reinventions designed to surprise and delight our guests," she added.


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package me.egg82.hme.lists;

import org.bukkit.Material;

import ninja.egg82.bukkit.reflection.material.IMaterialHelper;
import ninja.egg82.concurrent.DynamicConcurrentSet;
import ninja.egg82.patterns.ServiceLocator;

public class GlowMaterialSet extends DynamicConcurrentSet<Material> {
	//vars
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -3079214005056170469L;

	private IMaterialHelper materialHelper = ServiceLocator.getService(IMaterialHelper.class);

	//constructor
	public GlowMaterialSet() {
		super();

		addMaterial("torch");
		addMaterial("lava");
		addMaterial("stationary_lava");
		addMaterial("lava_bucket");
		addMaterial("fire");
		addMaterial("fireball");
		addMaterial("glowstone");
		addMaterial("glowstone_dust");
		addMaterial("burning_furnace");
		addMaterial("glowing_redstone_ore");
		addMaterial("redstone_torch_on");
		addMaterial("jack_o_lantern");
		addMaterial("redstone_lamp_on");
		addMaterial("redstone_block");
		addMaterial("beacon");
		addMaterial("sea_lantern");
	}

	//public

	//private
	private void addMaterial(String name) {
		try {
			add(materialHelper.getByName(name));
		} catch (Exception ex) {

		}
	}
}


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Q: Context to show Toast from onClickListener class I have a MainActivity that handles the UIs and buttons, but I have a separate class that handles the onClickListener portion of the code. My Main class is defined as: public class MainActivity extends Activity and my buttons in the class are defined like:
MyButtonListener l = new MyButtonListener();
b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
b1.setOnClickListener(l);

The MyButtonListener class is defined as public class MyButtonListener extends MainActivity implements View.OnClickListener. The problem comes in, is when I try to make a toast in MyButtonListener. I do not know what context to put for the toast. I have tried: MainActivity.this, MyButtonListener.this, getContextApplication(). None of them seemed to work. This is how I am trying to show my toast:
Toast.makeText(MyButtonListener.this, message, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

Does anyone what context to put in order to show the toast from the MyButtonListener class?

A: Create Global variable
Context context;

in MainActivity and set
context = this;

in onCreate Method of main activity
now pass the context in MyButtonListener Constructor
like this
MyButtonListener l = new MyButtonListener(context);
    b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    b1.setOnClickListener(l);

and in MyButtonListener add constructor
private Context context;

public MyButtonListener(Context context) {
    this.context = context;
}

and use that context in toast

A: add a Context to your MyButtonListener's constructor and use it to show the Toast.
  public MyButtonListener(Context c);

from MainActivity:
 MyButtonListener l = new MyButtonListener(this);

A: Use View.getContext() from the parameters.
E.g.:
...
void onClick(View v){
    Context ctx = v.getContext();
}
...

This saves you from passing a context manually.

A: It is not the context you are getting but a different context of a different reference, instead you can pass the reference of the main activity to your constructor of the MyButtonListener and use the context that was passed on it.
What you are doing is actually inheriting the mainactivity but not its reference by the time it is created so using the MyButtonListene.this wont bring the toast on front . so extending mainactivity is completely useless/pointless.

A: I do not see any reason to have MyButtonListener extend MainActivity.
Do something like this:
public class MyButtonListener implements View.OnClickListener {

    private Context context;

    public MyButtonListener(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    ...

}

And pass the context from MainActivity:
MyButtonListener l = new MyButtonListener(this.getApplicationContext());

A: MyButtonListener l = new MyButtonListener(getApplicationContext());
and create parameterize constructor  in
MyButtonListener

and use that Context

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