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Jedediah Charles Learned, 40, of Vallejo, son of Charlie & Joan Learned of Davis, passed away Monday, June 25, 2018 of complications from undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.
Jed graduated from Davis High School in 1996. He received a B.A. degree in Creative Writing from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2000. He worked as an appraiser for Marin County. The world lost a creative poet, musician and artist. He loved music - playing guitars, horns and drums. He was a song writer and loved to create works of art. Jed had an immense sense of humor and irony finding intrigue and beauty in the mundane. He had great compassion for those in need and loved animals, especially his dog, Maybelle.
Jed was a well-loved man as a father, son, brother, nephew, cousin and friend to many. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his daughter, Francesca; brother & sister in law, Will and Katie Learned, and a host of aunts, uncles, and cousins.
There will be a memorial service and celebration of his life at 10 a.m. Friday, August 3, at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin, 640 Hawthorn Lane in Davis, followed by a gathering in the parish hall. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Francesca's ScholarShare College Savings Plan.
For details, please visit www.smith-funerals.com (or see below).
A 529 educational account has been established for Jedediah Learned's daughter, Francesca P. Learned (aka Frankie). Charles Learned, Jed's father, is designated by the program as Trustee "Participant" with Jed's daughter as sole beneficiary.
Make checks payable to Charles R. Learned (Memo: Francesca P. Learned) and send to Charles Learned, 1132 Alice Street, Davis, CA 95616. Upon receipt of checks, Charles will endorse them and send them to ScholarShare with a deposit slip for the account. Please note that personal checks (excluding starter checks), bank drafts, teller's checks and checks issued by a financial institution or brokerage firm from a banking institution located in the U.S. and payable in U.S. dollars are acceptable.
2. Send an email to charlielearned@sbcglobal.net and he will email you an invitation with instructions on how to contribute via an electronic wire transfer from your bank account direct to Francesca's ScholarShare account.


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I was reflecting on Pearl Harbor today and wanted to share this photo. It's a great picture and thought to show one of the first bomb drops.
There's an excellent book on World War II called "Fly Boys: A True story of Courage". It gives an excellent perspective on the Japanese engagement, and also provides an interesting look into the Japanese warrior culture and history leading up to WWII. Up to that point in time, the Japanese had a reputation for not declaring war before engaging in it (pretty smart if you ask me).
Click Here to look Under The Radar at Craig Shirley's new book.
Fly Boys is a great read and we should all remember the lessons learned from Pearl Harbor. The signs were all there if we had just paid attention. I guess some lessons have to unfortunately be learned the hard way. Remind you of anything?


The NCOP provides an exciting opportunity to extend the evidence base on the impact of outreach in higher education. The national evaluation team (CFE Research and the BIT), together with four consortia have run Randomised Control Trials (RCTs). To understand the impact of online mentoring, summer schools and text-based nudging on attitudes towards and propensity to apply to study HE. The learning identified during the trials could usefully inform the design of future trials to further improve evaluation practice and the quality of evidence produced.
To date, few RCTs have been carried out on outreach activity. RCTs provide the opportunity to improve the quality of the evidence base and identify which outreach activities are most effective. To date, three RCTs have been completed as part of the NCOP national evaluation and analysis is currently being undertaken. The first trial involving the SUN consortium and Brightside considers the impact of online mentoring on students' self-reported intentions to go to HE. A light-touch text based method with Year 13 learners has been delivered by the NEACO consortium to test whether it can encourage learners to apply to HE. A collaborative summer school RCT with Year 10 learners has been run by the GHWY consortium, LiNCHigher and FORCE consortia to determine whether summer schools can increase students' knowledge about HE, their motivation to attend and their belief that this is possible.
Ensure the appropriate skills and capacity are available to design and implement the trial. Evaluation expertise and knowledge/experience of experimental methods is essential, particularly for ensuring a robust trial protocol and data analysis. Seconding or buying-in additional research and/or statistical support may be required. It is also important to ensure there are sufficient 'boots on the ground' to secure and maintain engagement in the trail, including data collection.
Test the feasibility of utilising experimental evaluation designs. RCTs are resource intensive. A small-scale pilot of the planned methodology helps to identify budget and/or capacity issues as well as any problems that need to be addressed before a large-scale trial is implemented.
Ensure strategic buy-in from all parties involved in the trial. Securing buy-in from the delivery partners is essential to the successful implementation of an RCT. This is particularly important for activities that engage a range of providers across a wide area. In addition, it is important to be realistic about the likely appetite for the intervention under investigation. A wide range of outreach is being delivered as part of NCOP and wider institutional WP activities. Some schools/FECs may be at saturation point may not have the capacity to engage in additional activities, especially under experimental conditions. This further emphasises the importance of undertaking feasibility testing.
Anticipate and address ethical concerns and tensions that may arise as a result of pressure to achieve operational targets. Be mindful of the potential tension between maximising engagement with NCOP target learners and filling spaces on outreach activity on the one hand, and ensuring the integrity and quality of the trial is maintained on the other. Outreach staff need to be supported and feel confident to prioritise and maintain the design of the trial.
Set realistic timelines. Do not under-estimate the time involved in setting up and implementing a trial. Processes such as obtaining Ethics Committee approval, disseminating information about the intervention, securing agreement from schools/FECs to take part, and agreeing and disseminating data collection instruments, are often time consuming and this needs to be accounted for in the evaluation plan. Access to expertise in data protection issues and allowing sufficient time to derive data security protocols are essential.
Maximise the response rate to trial outcome measures. Incentives, when used appropriately and within the confines of the trial ethics protocol, help to maximise response rates and ensure the data required to establish the outcomes and impacts of an intervention is obtained.
Establish clear communication channels. Ensure there is a single point of contact at the schools/FECs taking part in the trial. This helps to ensure that momentum is maintained for and that accurate information is communicated on a timely basis throughout the trial.
Work with attrition resulting from drop-out. Sustaining engagement in outreach interventions can be challenging for both the schools/FECs and learners involved. Consider over-recruiting participants to ensure enough complete to run the trial. Having a named single point of contact in schools/FECs and making sure there is regular communication between the partners helps to minimise drop-out.
Adhere to trial protocol. It is essential that the trial protocol is communicated to all parties involved and that adherence to the protocol is monitored throughout. Less experienced evaluators may need help to implement the trial in accordance with the protocol (in addition to support with trial design and analysis).


READ Rise of the King (2014) Online Free. ReadOnlineNovel.com - Free Reading Epub, Pdf.
About book: Fantasy novel – second in this particular seriesNot familiar with R A Salvatore, I found out by research that this is the 27th novel of its kind which means that I'm coming in a little late!It's the second in this series and the first chapters are inundated with names of characters, places and creatures which makes for a highly confusing story at first. It probably helps if you're already familiar with them all but it meant nothing to me. There are frequent references to past events, no doubt from previous books, but these had to remain unexplained. However I persisted. The books ends on more cliffhangers so the reader is expected to get the next book in the series.Dwarves, Elves, Giants, Ogres, Trolls, Goblins, Dragons and Orcs abound. This is very much a book for the D&D generation: it's all action and very little characterisation.I prefer my fantasy with more originality and depth.Fans of the author and the genre will no doubt be satisfied with this novel and I recommend it to them. The premise: The companions of the hall are back and they are needed.Other comments: As another reviewer said, this is sort of in the 'Empire Strikes Back' or 'Two Towers' (for those who hold to the OTHER trilogy) place in the overall story arc. Hence, impossible to say much of anything without spoilers and/or recounting the previous book...well maybe: Wulfgar is taking something of a kicking in this book.Otherwise, I'd say standard Drizzt fare, with the disclaimer that the standard with the Drizzt novels, I've always found to be very good. Enjoyable, but this one leaves you waiting for the next book. If that sort of thing hurts you, put off reading this one until the next book to comes out so you won't have to endure the waiting.
Amazing book. The only bad thing about it is that I have to wait for the next one.
Awesome story can't wait to read the next book and find out what happens.
The Shark. Consider it thoroughly jumped.


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Q: What is difference between add_definitions and set in CMake file I am new to CMake stuff. I got quite confused by add_definitions and set in CMake file.
For example,
add_definitions(-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0) and set(D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI,"0"), is there any difference? I saw the different results but I cannot understand.
Second question: what does D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI this do?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot!

A: add_definitions(-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0) appends -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 flag to every compiler invocation in the project.
set(D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI,"0") just sets CMake variable called D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI to 0. You probably see no difference, because somewhere down the code it is used as value for add_definitions():
if(D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI)
  add_definitions(-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=${D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI})
endif()

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Study: Online TV Is Second-Most-Popular TV Viewing Choice in U.K., Sweden and Germany
A new survey of TV viewers in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany found that online TV is now the second most popular viewing source behind pay-TV, with usage ranging from just under 40% in Germany to more than 50% in the U.K. and Sweden.
Nielsen company Gracenote and digital media analyst firm nScreenMedia conducted the survey, "TV Universe — U.K., Sweden, Germany: How People Watch Television Today," in the first quarter of 2019, focusing on pay TV, free-to-air and online TV viewership in the three European countries that account for 31% of the European Union's total population, according to Statista.
The online TV viewership growth in the three countries "is a remarkable rise as online TV is a relatively new offering," according to the research firms. In fact, Netflix launched in the United Kingdom in just 2012. Whereas 12 years ago most homes relied on a single-source for TV, today nearly half of viewers in all three of the countries studied are multi-source television households, the researchers noted.
"Consumer behavior relating to TV viewing is changing rapidly in Europe as it is around the world," said Simon Adams, chief product officer, Gracenote, in a statement.
Pay TV is currently the most popular television source in the U.K. and Sweden with nearly two in three consumers in each market using it, the survey found, but in Germany the most popular source is free-to-air TV, which accounts for the vast majority of viewers at nearly eight in 10.
In all three European markets surveyed, consumers pointed to on-screen program guides and user interfaces as being critical tools for finding content to watch. Six in 10 viewers indicated visual imagery and TV artwork displayed in guides exert important influence on their viewing choices. Among the 18-to-24-year-old demographic, the number jumped up to around 90%. In addition, respondents indicated TV show and movie descriptions that shed light on content are also factors in their tune-in decision-making, with 70% of U.K. viewers, 65% of Swedes and 57% of Germans saying the program descriptions were at least somewhat important.
The study also found free-to-air TV is gaining traction on mobile with more free-to-air viewers using broadcaster apps to supplement viewing than pay TV viewers use their operator "TV Everywhere" apps. In fact, more than half of free-to-air users in each country use broadcaster apps.
The smart TV is the preferred device to watch video content on in all three countries, according to the study. A significant 70% of total viewing time is on the TV screen in the United Kingdom and Germany, while in Sweden, it is 60%. Samsung is the most popular TV brand in all three countries.
Other insights include:
17% of the U.K. study group use all three TV sources available to them, higher than in Sweden and Germany;
While the on-screen guide is the dominant way Swedes and Brits find content to watch, newspaper TV guides and channel flipping are the main ways for Germans; and
31% of Swedes consider online TV to be their primary TV source, the highest of the three countries studied.
"The new TV Universe study shows that online TV has become the second most popular source of TV entertainment in a remarkably short period of time," said Colin Dixon, founder and chief analyst at nScreenMedia in a statement. "Also telling is the fact that, though most online viewing takes place on the television, consumers don't have the discovery tools they need to efficiently find something to watch there. Features such as voice and cross-service search are thinly used in each country. There is also plenty of room for improvement with content recommendations as a quarter or less think they accurately reflect their interests."
The consumer research study conducted from February to March 2019 surveyed 1,500 adult TV viewers in the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden. The data was weighted to represent the general population of each country. The full report is available for free download now at nScreenMedia.com.
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Eddie Hearn Takes Over From Dad Barry Hearn As Matchroom Chairman
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Eddie Hearn will become Chairman of the Matchroom Sport Group of Companies as Barry Hearn OBE steps aside after almost 40 years to become President of the Group in an advisory role, dealing primarily with event strategy and global development.
Eddie will become Chairman of the Group of Companies and Chairman of Matchroom Sport, Professional Darts Corporation, Matchroom Boxing, Matchroom Boxing USA, Matchroom Media and the PGA EuroPro Tour.
Also, in the group, Steve Dawson will take over from Barry as Chairman of World Snooker after this year's World Snooker Championship. Matthew Porter will become Chairman of Matchroom Multi Sport and Katie Hearn CEO of Matchroom Media.
Hearn founded the sports promotions company back in 1982, enjoying huge success with Snooker before moving into Boxing, Darts, Pool and Tenpin Bowling amongst more than a dozen different sports.
Through the 1990s Hearn turned several niche sports into major TV attractions with a succession of innovative ideas. His acquisition of a majority shareholding in the PDC in 2001 and World Snooker in 2010 saw him appointed Chairman as both companies went from strength to strength.
Matchroom supplies a wide range of sports programming to broadcasters worldwide, producing over 3,000 hours of action annually across over 600 event days in addition to original documentaries and shoulder programming for all platforms.
Following several years in the sponsorship and event management industry, Eddie Hearn joined Matchroom Sport in 2004, he assumed the role of Chief Executive of the PGA EuroPro Tour and subsequently headed up Matchroom Sport's rapidly expanding poker and online gaming operations. With the swift growth of the company in recent years Eddie has assumed the role of Group Managing Director and will now become Group Chairman.
Eddie's most notable public face is as the head of Matchroom's Boxing division, promoting a stable he has grown, and which is littered with World Champions and Olympic gold medallists.
Eddie posted to his Insta how he felt about this passing of the torch.
Under Eddie's leadership, Matchroom Boxing has returned to the forefront of the sport around the world. In 2018 he agreed a historic $1 billion deal with live streaming platform DAZN to stage 16 fights a year across America under Matchroom Boxing USA.
Barry Hearn OBE said: "It has been a huge honour to have worked with some of the greatest sports people on the planet across the last 40 years and enjoyed so many wonderful experiences across our spectrum of events in that time, from snooker's glory days of the 1980s to record-breaking boxing shows and the incredible growth of professional darts, as we have created opportunities for thousands of sportsmen and women during that time.
"Great challenges have been met, but none more so than the Covid pandemic. I have been determined to stay in charge until this disaster passed and now there is light at the end of the tunnel and I believe it is the right time to pass control of Matchroom to my son Eddie and the brilliant teams we have assembled across all our activities.
"I shall continue to be available to all Matchroom companies as non-executive President, an advisory role concentrating on group strategy and global expansion, but Eddie will be elevated to Group Chairman with overall responsibility for the entire group.
"I could not be prouder of the Matchroom Group of Companies and the outstanding teams that operate in a highly competitive marketplace. Matchroom has grown from two employees operating in an office under a snooker hall in Romford in 1982, to the global powerhouse it is today due to the efforts and performances of all our staff, contractors, broadcasters, and partners.
"I know the company is in good hands with Eddie at the helm and with my daughter Katie heading up Matchroom Media, Matt Porter at the PDC, Frank Smith at Matchroom Boxing, Emily Frazer at Matchroom Multi Sport, Steve Dawson my Chief Executive for over 30 years and Dan Godding at the PGA EuroPro Tour, along with all their teams.
"Now is the time to give all Matchroom employees the opportunity to take this great British company to the next level and beyond."
Eddie Hearn commented: "Anyone that knows me is well aware of what Matchroom means to me and our family. It has a legacy that spans 40 years from a small office under a snooker hall in Romford to a global powerhouse of sports entertainment. My father has dedicated his life to the company and since I joined in 2004 I have done the same. Now a greater responsibility falls on my shoulders and I am very proud to continue his great work and lead the business and the incredible team that we have built at Matchroom. We have seen astounding growth in the last ten years but we have only just begun. I look forward to continuously evolving and continuing the global growth of this astonishing family business."
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Clarence is the only one here who doesn't understand French.
Eugene works at the school where Lanny teaches.
Kenton is the only one in our family who's been to Australia.
I'll be seeing Philip later this afternoon.
It must've been Raman who did that.
"I saw Emily today." "Who?!"
Sanche locked himself in the bathroom.
Novorolsky is richer than Ahmet.
I have to go talk to Tim.
Skeeter always wears a tie to work, except on Fridays.
Trying asked me about Hienz.
Curtis and Alison were alone at home.
What would you suggest that I get Surya for his birthday?
Do you really think Terry can hear us?
Maybe something happened to change Tanya's plans.
Does Soohong still keep in touch with Shirley?
Linda said he wanted to take some pictures of us.
Guillermo used to hang out with Don and John.
Meehan knows better than to lie to me.
Either Neal is wrong or I am.
Kyle threw Ilya's letter into the fire.
That boy looks a little bit like Timo.
Diana is wearing white socks.
I admit that Mayo was right.
Ted can wait for me here.
I don't want to eat with Lance.
Helen told me I had to leave.
Timo won't go to the market.
Everybody leaves Tor alone now.
Leo is an amazing skier.
Celeste swims laps every morning before going to work.
Nicolo has been trying to learn how to juggle.


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Sounding out technology
What Sound Looks Like
An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt
September 27, 2015 / By Marc Weidenbaum
A modest little doorbell stands apart from the substantial mess it seems to have been called upon to help manage. First there is the original doorway itself. The street address, 634, appears on the door, behind a firm gate. Clearly the gate was installed after the door, because it duplicates the now partially illegible address number. That echo may be the facade's most memorable characteristic. But it isn't the only echo here. Note as well how the gate was formed to have holes for the pre-existing window and mail slot. The gate has, in addition, a knocker. At some point that knocker must have been deemed insufficient to the task, and the doorbell was installed, another echo, though more practical than the address number's repetition, and less literal than the window and mail-slot passthroughs. It says something about the sheer visual density of the entrance that a visitor is likely to click on the doorbell without having taken a full inventory of the years of accrual the doorway represents.
An ongoing series cross-posted from instagram.com/dsqt.
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<?php

namespace Bangpound\Tika\Tests;

use Bangpound\Tika\Client;
use Guzzle\Http\Message\Response;

/**
 * @covers Bangpound\Tika\Client
 */
class ClientTest extends \Guzzle\Tests\GuzzleTestCase
{
    public function testVersion()
    {
        $client = $this->getServiceBuilder()->get('test.mock');
        $this->setMockResponse($client, array('version.txt'));

        /** @var \Guzzle\Http\Message\Response $response */
        $response = $client->version();
        $version = $response->getBody(TRUE);
        $this->assertRegExp('/^Apache Tika (\d+\\.)?(\d+\\.)?(\\*|\d+)$/', $version);
    }

    public function testGreeting()
    {
        $client = $this->getServiceBuilder()->get('test.mock');
        $this->setMockResponse($client, array('greeting.txt'));

        /** @var \Guzzle\Http\Message\Response $response */
        $response = $client->greeting();
        $greeting = $response->getBody(TRUE);
        $this->assertContains('This is Tika Server. Please PUT', $greeting);
    }

    public function testTika()
    {
        $client = $this->getServiceBuilder()->get('test.mock');
        $this->setMockResponse($client, array(
            'tika.txt',
        ));

        $file = __DIR__ .'/../../../../' . $_SERVER['TIKA_SRC_PATH'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .'testPDF.pdf';

        /** @var \Bangpound\Tika\TikaResponse $response */
        $response = $client->tika(array('file' => $file));

        $this->assertEquals('application/pdf', $response->metadata('Content-Type'));
        $this->assertEquals('Bertrand Delacrétaz', $response->metadata('creator'));
        $this->assertEquals('Bertrand Delacrétaz', $response->metadata('Author'));
        $this->assertEquals('Firefox', $response->metadata('xmp:CreatorTool'));
        $this->assertEquals('Apache Tika - Apache Tika', $response->metadata('dc:title'));

        $this->assertEquals('2007-09-15T09:02:31Z', $response->metadata('date'));
        $this->assertEquals('2007-09-15T09:02:31Z', $response->metadata('modified'));

        $content = $response->getBody(TRUE);
        $this->assertContains('Apache Tika', $content);
        $this->assertContains('Tika - Content Analysis Toolkit', $content);
        $this->assertContains('incubator', $content);
        $this->assertContains('Apache Software Foundation', $content);
        $this->assertNotContains('ToolkitApache', $content, 'should have word boundary after headline');
        $this->assertNotContains('libraries.Apache', $content, 'should have word boundary between paragraphs');
    }

    public function testMeta()
    {
        $client = $this->getServiceBuilder()->get('test.mock');
        $this->setMockResponse($client, array(
            'meta.txt',
        ));

        $file = __DIR__ .'/../../../../' . $_SERVER['TIKA_SRC_PATH'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .'testPDF.pdf';

        /** @var \Bangpound\Tika\MetaResponse $response */
        $response = $client->meta(array('file' => $file));

        $this->assertEquals('application/pdf', $response->metadata('Content-Type'));
        $this->assertEquals('Bertrand Delacrétaz', $response->metadata('creator'));
        $this->assertEquals('Bertrand Delacrétaz', $response->metadata('Author'));
        $this->assertEquals('Firefox', $response->metadata('xmp:CreatorTool'));
        $this->assertEquals('Apache Tika - Apache Tika', $response->metadata('dc:title'));

        $this->assertEquals('2007-09-15T09:02:31Z', $response->metadata('date'));
        $this->assertEquals('2007-09-15T09:02:31Z', $response->metadata('modified'));
    }
}

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Le Web: Facebook and the Technology of Networks
Dec 9, 2009 1 min read ethan beard
On to social media.
Ethan Beard of Facebook is talking about the basis of the social network in the basic human need for connection. In fact, a lot of what a human being is can be represented by the connections between people and ideas that appeal to them – and Facebook can create that representation.
Facebook aspires to be more than a website, but instead to be a technology that allows people to connect with the people and things they like. The platform is extending from being a place for applications within the site, to Facebook Connect, which allows you to bring Facebook into your own sites. And there are companies making good profits almost exclusively on the Facebook platform.
80,000 sites are now using Facebook Connect, with around 60 million people taking advantage of it…
They're adding e-mail address sharing to Facebook Connect. Huffington Post users can see what stories their friends are using, because the social graph that lives in Facebook comes across – but it can also be use to push content back into Facebook and drive traffic back to the site. HuffPost's comments jumped by 50% after adding Facebook Connect.
JibJab is using Facebook Connect to allow users to pull their photos straight in from Facebook to the JbJab videos.
Why did some publishers gain traffic from the Facebook outage?
Single point of (Facebook) failure
Local news, for local people, by local creators (sponsored by Facebook)
Morning Conference: turn those damn comments off (now that you can)
Morning Conference: AI good, Facebook bad


Education books publisher, Navneet, has had a turbulent 2004 on the stock markets. The stock lost over 40% of its market capitalisation by March 2004 from the start of the year. From there on, however, the stock recovered and is currently trading at levels witnessed at the start of 2004. On a net basis, investors did not gain anything from the investment in Navneet stock during 2004. Let us have a look at the company's recent performance and its prospects.
In the last one year, Navneet Publications is one stock, which has underperformed the benchmark index. This is evident from the fact that Rs 100 invested in the stock would have yielded Rs 160 to date as compared to the Rs 180 returned by Sensex. In this article, we look at the profile of the company in brief.


Golf Sponsor Exemptions for Celebrities: Pro or Con?
The topic of sponsor exemptions for celebrities has bounced around as a semi-hot subject. I am not inferring that PRO-AMs are a bad thing, in fact I enjoy watching some of the antics by various celebrities. However, these events are set up this way and all the fans understand that this is not a regular event like all other professional golf tournaments. Personally, I not a fan of celebrities being given a sponsor exemption to play with the pros. And it appears I am in the majority on this topic.
I am sure you read the articles regarding Julio "The Machine" Bell, (self-proclaimed) who received a sponsor's exempt position for a Web.com Tour event and shot 93-105. Of course he missed the cut, however the plethora of remarks from the golfing world sparked my desire to comment.


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package aws

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"strings"
	"time"

	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"

	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/resource"
	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/schema"
)

func resourceAwsVpnConnectionRoute() *schema.Resource {
	return &schema.Resource{
		// You can't update a route. You can just delete one and make
		// a new one.
		Create: resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteCreate,
		Read:   resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteRead,
		Delete: resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteDelete,

		Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
			"destination_cidr_block": &schema.Schema{
				Type:     schema.TypeString,
				Required: true,
				ForceNew: true,
			},

			"vpn_connection_id": &schema.Schema{
				Type:     schema.TypeString,
				Required: true,
				ForceNew: true,
			},
		},
	}
}

func resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
	conn := meta.(*AWSClient).ec2conn

	cidrBlock := d.Get("destination_cidr_block").(string)
	vpnConnectionId := d.Get("vpn_connection_id").(string)
	createOpts := &ec2.CreateVpnConnectionRouteInput{
		DestinationCidrBlock: aws.String(cidrBlock),
		VpnConnectionId:      aws.String(vpnConnectionId),
	}

	// Create the route.
	log.Printf("[DEBUG] Creating VPN connection route")
	_, err := conn.CreateVpnConnectionRoute(createOpts)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Error creating VPN connection route: %s", err)
	}

	// Store the ID by the only two data we have available to us.
	d.SetId(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", *createOpts.DestinationCidrBlock, *createOpts.VpnConnectionId))

	stateConf := resource.StateChangeConf{
		Pending: []string{"pending"},
		Target:  []string{"available"},
		Timeout: 15 * time.Second,
		Refresh: func() (interface{}, string, error) {
			route, err := findConnectionRoute(conn, cidrBlock, vpnConnectionId)
			if err != nil {
				return 42, "", err
			}
			return route, *route.State, nil
		},
	}
	_, err = stateConf.WaitForState()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteRead(d, meta)
}

func resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
	conn := meta.(*AWSClient).ec2conn

	cidrBlock, vpnConnectionId := resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteParseId(d.Id())

	route, err := findConnectionRoute(conn, cidrBlock, vpnConnectionId)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if route == nil {
		// Something other than terraform eliminated the route.
		d.SetId("")
	}

	return nil
}

func resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteDelete(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
	conn := meta.(*AWSClient).ec2conn

	cidrBlock := d.Get("destination_cidr_block").(string)
	vpnConnectionId := d.Get("vpn_connection_id").(string)
	_, err := conn.DeleteVpnConnectionRoute(&ec2.DeleteVpnConnectionRouteInput{
		DestinationCidrBlock: aws.String(cidrBlock),
		VpnConnectionId:      aws.String(vpnConnectionId),
	})
	if err != nil {
		if ec2err, ok := err.(awserr.Error); ok && ec2err.Code() == "InvalidVpnConnectionID.NotFound" {
			return nil
		}
		log.Printf("[ERROR] Error deleting VPN connection route: %s", err)
		return err
	}

	stateConf := resource.StateChangeConf{
		Pending: []string{"pending", "available", "deleting"},
		Target:  []string{"deleted"},
		Timeout: 15 * time.Second,
		Refresh: func() (interface{}, string, error) {
			route, err := findConnectionRoute(conn, cidrBlock, vpnConnectionId)
			if err != nil {
				return 42, "", err
			}
			if route == nil {
				return 42, "deleted", nil
			}
			return route, *route.State, nil
		},
	}
	_, err = stateConf.WaitForState()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}

func findConnectionRoute(conn *ec2.EC2, cidrBlock, vpnConnectionId string) (*ec2.VpnStaticRoute, error) {
	resp, err := conn.DescribeVpnConnections(&ec2.DescribeVpnConnectionsInput{
		Filters: []*ec2.Filter{
			&ec2.Filter{
				Name:   aws.String("route.destination-cidr-block"),
				Values: []*string{aws.String(cidrBlock)},
			},
			&ec2.Filter{
				Name:   aws.String("vpn-connection-id"),
				Values: []*string{aws.String(vpnConnectionId)},
			},
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		if ec2err, ok := err.(awserr.Error); ok && ec2err.Code() == "InvalidVpnConnectionID.NotFound" {
			return nil, nil
		}
		return nil, err
	}
	if resp == nil || len(resp.VpnConnections) == 0 {
		return nil, nil
	}
	vpnConnection := resp.VpnConnections[0]

	for _, r := range vpnConnection.Routes {
		if *r.DestinationCidrBlock == cidrBlock && *r.State != "deleted" {
			return r, nil
		}
	}
	return nil, nil
}

func resourceAwsVpnConnectionRouteParseId(id string) (string, string) {
	parts := strings.SplitN(id, ":", 2)
	return parts[0], parts[1]
}


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"I belong to the old school that believes a significant portion of leadership is natural"
Bloomberg LP's chairman Peter Grauer is an understated confidante who never tires of repeating how he met Michael Bloomberg
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Peter Grauer takes his age and accomplishments lightly. He will turn 70 in October but he doesn't bat an eyelid when he says, "I know I look much younger than that." As for his accomplishments, he credits it to the serendipitous meeting with Michael Bloomberg. Grauer never tires of repeating how he met 'Mike', now a close personal friend for nearly 27 years. His then six-year-old daughter wanted to learn horse-riding and for that he had driven down to a farm 50 miles out from Manhattan.
That is where Bloomberg's daughters had also enrolled to learn riding. Serendipity aside the fact remains that Bloomberg wouldn't have entrusted Grauer with his company if he were not sure about his ability to successfully shoulder that responsibility. Grauer has now been on the Bloomberg board for 19 years, served as chairman for 16 years and was also its CEO for 9 years. Grauer's counsel is much sought after by private and public institutions but having successfully battled prostate cancer, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, on whose board he sits, is the one that is closest to his heart.
What is Bloomberg LP's moat and how do you ensure that it stays forever or for a long time?
We have several moats. One is the nature of the community that we have developed and the way we interact with that community. If you look at our 325,000+ subscribers, the average tenure on the terminal is probably somewhere between 10 and 12 years. They need to do what they do every single day and part of that is because we have developed product offerings that our customers need. We have evolved those products as the markets have changed, as delivery mechanisms have changed.
For example, not only have we been very proactive in creating disaster recovery capabilities for customers, we also have been very aggressive in developing mobile applications or providing in depth functionality across asset classes. So, constant innovation, very high customer service through our analytics desk, the relationship our sales reps have with our customers, the tone that Mike (Bloomberg) and Tom (Secunda) set at the top in terms of customer service… all of these have contributed to creating moats.
Another thing: our being a private company is a huge competitive advantage because we can take a long term perspective and invest knowing that the first five or six years may generate negative rates of return. Let me give you a specific example… around 2002 there was a very strong competitive threat from a consortium of Wall Street broker-dealers with regard to a fixed income electronic trading platform. We were concerned that they would take that platform, add news, data and analytics and have a more competitive offering as compared to the Bloomberg terminal.
To counter it, we took one of our best people at that time and developed what today is the leading electronic fixed income trading platform in the financial markets. It took us about 8-10 years to get there but we got there. If we were a public company we probably wouldn't have had that long term perspective about things. Having one shareholder (Mike Bloomberg) who owns 85% of the company makes the decision making process an awful lot easier. So I think that, too, contributes to our moat. But none of it takes away from the fact that we have to worry about all this stuff and that it is a highly competitive place out there. There are a lot of very strong players that would love to take some of our market share away that we have earned over the last 33 years.
Despite Bloomberg's unique competencies, are you experiencing any pricing pressure and if that is the case, how do you deal with it?
Our business model is elegantly simple: we price our product at one price for everybody. Whether you subscribe to two terminals or you subscribe to thousands and thousands, which our larger customers do, everybody is subjected to the same pricing discipline. We raise our prices by a weighted global average inflation rate over a two-year time period and our customers are used to that. The last time we did that was in 2014 and of the total 40,000 or 50,000 mails sent, we got about ten emails questioning the price increase.
As for pricing pressure, it relates to lower priced offerings that are primarily focused on the local capital market. In some cases, that is not our target segment. Our market in India is investors who follow the local capital markets but are also very interested in what is going on in the capital markets outside India. Or it is the sales and trading people or portfolio managers in London who want to know what is going on with the public companies in India. So, it is a slightly different audience for us than it would be if we were solely a domestic data provider.
The other thing that to some degree protected us is that we provide all these other capabilities in the terminal. I described before our fixed income electronic trading platform and that is also true with our foreign exchange electronic trading platform or our equity order routing capability called EMSX. The ability to direct securities for execution in those markets to pools of liquidity can be done in the terminal at no incremental cost. If clients had used a third-party provider, they would end up paying a commission for that.
What we are interested in is that desktop real estate and therefore have created much broader functionalities in the Bloomberg terminal. We may on the surface appear to be more expensive but when you add all the additional capabilities in the terminal that value proposition is much greater than when you just look at the sticker price of the terminal.
Despite Bloomberg's entrenched position, are there business risks that you most worry about?
The number one issue always is leadership and succession. To make sure that we have developed a bench of men and women who can lead the company going forward. Ensuring that people are developed properly, that they get geographic opportunities and they are given opportunities to succeed and fail and learn from the failures. Most people aren't totally ready to take on additional responsibility but you have to give them an opportunity to do it. You have to monitor to make sure that they are doing what they are supposed to and if not, give them the remediation and support to succeed. So, leadership and succession is issue number one for me.
Issue number two is reputational risk. We operate on trust all the time. Since we started the company we host all of our customer applications, we have all of their data in our data centers. We write 6,000 to 8,000 stories a day around the world and making sure that we get that right because reputation is critically important to us.
The third thing that I worry about is the financial services industry, both the buy side and the sell side. As a result of the financial crisis and lower economic growth, banks and brokerage firms on the sell side and asset managers, hedge funds, corporations and government on the buy side, have gone through a dramatic reshaping of their business model. The kind of structural change that is going on in the markets is something that we need to be keenly engaged in and aware of. We have got to make sure that we anticipate this change and help our customers meet those challenges. The fourth thing that I worry about is cyber security as it is an important part of what we do. We are very humble in that environment because it is dramatically changing. It is a race without a finish line. You have got to constantly invest in new technologies and ensure that you understand the technological changes that are going on and the implications of those. We move more real-time financial information around the world than anybody else. We think we have a thoughtful approach to the problem but you never know.
Constructive paranoia seems built into the DNA at Bloomberg LP, how do you put it into practice?
It has been part of the company culture from day one. If you were to have much exposure to Mike or Tom or the other founders, their mentality pretty much is, "the glass is half empty, it is not half full." It is just instilled into us as part of the Bloomberg culture that you are constantly looking over your shoulder and you are never satisfied. When we talk about a competitor who has developed a product, we never talk about equivalency; we always talk about doing better.
I think that has been part of the makeup of the company from its initial years. If you think about the accomplishments that we have had over the years, part of it is because constructive paranoia leads to a sense of humility about things and we try not to take ourselves too seriously about some of the successes that we have had. [To put things in perspective, in 1989 Bloomberg LP clocked about $85 million in revenues. It closed 2014 with $9 billion.]
So, how do you percolate it down the organisation?
I think we do it through open communication and transparency. We are a company of ideas. We want people to think about how can we do things differently, how can we continue to be disruptive going forward. I think it manifests itself in the fact that we try and eliminate bureaucracy and be more agile and work together in smaller teams and things like that. It is kind of there and a lot of it comes from Mike's personality.
In hindsight, would you say meeting Michael Bloomberg was the biggest turning point in your career? What is it like working with him?
I started my career at Citibank in 1969. Obviously someone took a chance on me to give me that job as I knew nothing about the banking business. I went to Wall Street in 1980 to work for a firm called Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette as part of their private equity business. Then the next big move that took place in my career was me getting to know Mike Bloomberg in October 1989 because of our girls. In 1996, he asked me to go on his board of directors. When he decided to run for Mayor he asked me to become chairman. When he was elected Mayor he asked me to come in as chairman and CEO. It was a relationship deeply steeped in friendship but it was also a relationship built on trust.
There is nobody in the world like him, who has accomplished what he has in his career. Having a very successful career on Wall Street, getting fired from Salomon Brothers and then starting Bloomberg LP. I characterise us as having been a student of companies for the last 45 years. This is one of the greatest companies in the world and we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to him. He led the company for the first 21 years and I led it for the last 13 years with lots of help. Now he is back, full of ideas and at 73 he hasn't slowed down at all. It is a privilege to have him as a very close friend and colleague.
If you look at business history, very few companies have been able to transcend a shift led by technology. What qualities does one need to transition successfully?
The most important quality is courage, the conviction that change is required and that you have to make that change. There are lots of examples of people who weren't prepared to do that, who I think became a little bit overconfident in the model that they had and didn't see the change that was going on. So I think courage and knowing how to lead in an increasingly complex world is important. There aren't a lot of people like that.
We have a guy called Justin Smith who runs our multimedia businesses and what he did at The Atlantic took a fair amount of courage. He sustained the print capability on the one hand but built a bunch of digital offerings to be able to create new revenue streams to offset the contraction in the classic print business. Obviously you have got to be innovative and you have got to be prepared to implement disruption in terms of one's business model. But these are the kinds of things that when you go home at night, you look in the mirror and you say to yourself, "God, I don't know if I can do this." But you got to have the courage to be able to try and, hopefully, the resources that give you the latitude of time and capital to get those things done.
How has your own leadership philosophy evolved over the years?
Emotional intelligence, authenticity and humility are qualities that I identify with. I belong to the old school that believes a significant portion of leadership is natural. It is instinctive and you are born with it. You are given opportunities to allow it to surface by people taking chances on you. I think emotional intelligence plays a key part. People with high emotional intelligence have a greater propensity to listen because they have a quiet self-confidence in how they conduct themselves.
They have a much better understanding of the importance of listening to people, processing that information and providing thoughtful feedback. You may be pretty good academically but you have got to have the emotional intelligence to understand how to judge people, how to challenge people, how to get people to think differently and how to make difficult decisions about people.
As a leader, you also need to understand the consequences of power and only use it when you need to exercise those powers to make significant changes to the organisation. I could have won every single fight I went into at Bloomberg LP because of the authority I had as chairman and CEO but I focused on three things over the 12 year period. One was the big organisational change with people in 2005. The second was hiring my successor in 2008. The third was making sure that when Mike came back the relationship between our then CEO who got promoted in 2011 to succeed me as CEO and Mike would ultimately work out.
The last thing I would mention is that a leader needs to reflect. These are the things that I have thought a great deal about over the last 45 years. I have been very fortunate that people had confidence in me, in many instances before I think I deserved it. In the end it has worked out pretty well and I am fortunate enough to have had a terrific run.
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The Colonnaden (the colonnades, pl. also in German lang.) is a shopping street in Neustadt quarter, Hamburg, Germany. The street, now largely a pedestrian zone, forms a diagonal junction from Jungfernstieg boulevard to Esplanade/Stephansplatz. It has a rich tradition and was dubbed a "Prachtmeile" (lit. splendour mile). Most of the buildings are designed in Renaissance Revival architecture and the north eastern side of the street is formed by arcades.

History

In the 1870s, the street was a private road of the Wex brothers. Most buildings were erected around 1880. When the street was built, the last remnants of the Oper am Gänsemarkt were demolished. The KellJung line of Hamburg U-Bahn, later known as U1 line, was built until 1930 below the street, leading occasionally to a sales slowdown of the local shops.

In 1974, the street became a pedestrian zone. At the same time, a footbridge was built to the building of the former Hotel Esplanade, Dammtor area and Dammtor station, linking the street with the footbridge of the Dag Hammarskjöld bridge at the station. Many of the old apartment buildings are under monumental protection since 1978. The footbridge to the hotel building was demolished in 2005. In addition, the street was redesigned the same year. The southern part was partly re-opened for motorized traffic.

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 Picture archive of Colonnaden

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Jason Lee's Scientology Breakaway Shows Glimpse Of Church's Problems, Former Members Say
By Suzette Gutierrez-Cachila ( [email protected] ) Sep 25, 2016 09:39 AM EDT Comment
Jason Lee at the Hallmark Hall of Fame "Away & Back" Premiere event at the iPic Theaters in Westwood, CA on January 20, 2015. Wikimedia Commons
Actor Jason Lee commented in an interview last week that he no longer practices Scientology. This revelation is evidence that there were problems in the church, according to Lee's ex-wife Carmen Llywelyn.
For more than a year now, Lee and his wife Ceren have been staying in Denton, Texas, where he bought a house and leased an office space to work on his photos. He also sits on the board of the Greater Denton Arts Council.
His presence in the area apparently raised questions regarding his plans. Speaking in an interview for local media outlet The Dentonite, Lee set the record straight.
"If Ceren and I had an idea for a business, it certainly wouldn't happen at the cost of someone else's. And being that we don't practice Scientology, and that we aren't particularly interested in opening religious centers in general, we have no plans to open a Scientology center," Lee said.
He clarified that the rumors circulating about him and his wife wanting to "buy up" or "take over" the city were not true.
"Quite a few rumors about me/us floating around but none of it's true. We're not here to buy up or change or take over Denton, put some kind of personal stamp on it," Lee explained. He said they only want to be involved in the city's "very cool creative community" and "perhaps help where we can."
His ex-wife said she was glad to hear the actor already left the Church of Scientology and no longer adheres to its teachings.
"I was glad to hear that Jason came out and said he no longer practices Scientology," Llywelyn told Fox News.
Former Scientology member Chris Shelton said Lee could have been seeking a quieter life after leaving the church.
"I feel like Jason Lee left (the church) a while ago, and started a new life and finally felt safe to say he left," Shelton said, according to Fox News. "He had to say that so people knew he wasn't a part of the religion anymore."
Shelton parted ways with Scientology in 2013 after being a member of the church for 27 years. He said the church membership has gone down remarkably in recent years.
According to Sheton, about 50,000 people would attend church events back in 2009. As of two years ago, that number has dwindled to about 20,000 people. However, he said "the church won't provide hard numbers."
The accessibility of online information about the church could have led to the decline in its attendees, Shelton said.
"Getting new people to join Scientology is almost impossible due to the negative news about it on the Internet," he said.
Lee is not the only celebrity to have left the church. Leah Remini, who was part of the church for 36 years, left in 2013. In November last year, she wrote a tell-all book about Scientology entitled "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief."
Remini said her daughter was the primary reason why she left.
"She was getting to the age where the acclimation into the Church would have to start," Remini said in an interview with BuzzFeed. "It includes having children answer questions like, Have you ever pretended to be ill? Have you ever decided you didn't like some member of your family? Have you ever been a coward?"
Remini started to question some things practiced in the church, such as its "church first" rule, something she went against because she believed in putting family first. She offered suggestions to change them, but her opinions were met with a challenge. People from church started branding her as a person who refused to abide by the church's practices.
"We had a chance to make a change from within, but they didn't want to," Remini said. "That showed me they didn't actually care, which went against everything I thought we stood for. They didn't care about doing the right thing. That showed me everything the Church taught me was a lie."
The Church of Scientology issued a statement denying Remini's claims, saying she was "on the verge of being expelled for refusing to abide by the high level of ethics and decency Scientologists are expected to maintain."
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Max Polyakov's Firefly is an aerospace company which opened its research center in Dnipro, Ukraine. On May 17, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, visited the center where Max Polyakov presented him the unique developments of Firefly and other members of Association Noosphere.
On May 17, a President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visited the research center of Max Polyakov's Firefly, as a part of his official working visit to Dnipro. Firefly Aerospace is a private company founded in 2017, after the acquisition of Firefly Space Systems' assets by Max Polyakov, Managing Partner at Noosphere Ventures. The company's goal is to open space for interested persons by reducing the cost of launches and administrative matters.
What do we know about Firefly?
The main office of Firefly is in the United States, and the Ukrainian branch is its only representation outside the USA. The research center in Dnipro is equipped with the latest modern technologies: here is the largest industrial 3D printer in Ukraine, designed for automated production of large size high-quality metal products. The capabilities of the research center allow to design and manufacture not only structural elements for light-duty missiles, but also ground launch systems and test benches.
This year, Firefly announced that the launch of their first launch vehicle is scheduled for 2019. Max Polyakov shared that two missiles, Alpha and Beta, have already passed the development stage at the moment.
Firefly Alpha is a small two-stage missile that is capable of bringing a payload of up to 1,000 kg to the low Earth Orbit (LEO), and up to 600 kg to a heliosynchronous orbit (SSO). Max Polyakov plans that Alpha will become a breakthrough in the market of small and medium-sized satellites, due to significantly lower launch costs relative to competitors.
Firefly Beta is an upgraded version of the Alpha, a 2.5-stage rocket capable of delivering up to 4,000 kg to the LEO and up to 3,000 kg to the SSO, which also have the ability to achieve a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO).
In the future, Max Polyakov & Firefly are going to reach the level of mass production and carry out up to 24 launches per year. Customers will be able to book a flight in advance according to the schedule of launches and will be able to either fully buy out the start-up for their cargo or occupy part of the space in the compartment.
How did the President's visit go?
During his visit, Petro Poroshenko noted the high technological level of the Firefly research center, saying that it is one of the most technologically advanced centers not only in the region, but throughout Ukraine. Evaluating the uniqueness of the company's developments, the State Head showed the greatest interest in the possibilities of applying the latest space technologies in the agricultural sector.
In a friendly atmosphere, Max Polyakov and Petro Poroshenko discussed other projects. The President was interested in the developments of other Association Noosphere member companies, such as ArtOS (artillery fire control complex), MyPol (application for communication of citizens with law enforcement agencies), and others. Despite the limited time, the President paid enough attention to all projects, communicating with their leaders, as well as engineers and developers.
At the moment, Firefly is negotiating with the US government, and as Max Polyakov said, for the first time the government is ready to consider cooperation in space exploration with a private company whose R&D center is outside the US. This gives Ukraine an excellent chance to fill a new page in the history of the domestic space industry.
Firefly Aerospace is connected with Ukraine not only by the research center, but also by participation in the initiatives of Association Noosphere, of which the company is a member. In December, the company together with Noosphere organizes an international space summit - Noosphere Space Summit, where Max Polyakov invited everyone to discuss on the development of the aerospace industry.
Max Polyakov calls Noosphere's mission - the dissemination of scientific knowledge and increasing the interest of citizens and businesses to scientific developments. It remains to wish him and his association to successfully continue their business of introducing science and technology into the global business environment.


The third annual Household Travel Advisor Discussion board is an unique event created for today's household travel seller, with an emphasis on groups, corresponding to multi-generation travel and household reunions, amongst different alternatives. Pat Bunyard, for instance, mentioned TripAdvisor is not the go-to for lodges. Whether or not you are looking for an journey tour or a peaceful household holiday on the seashore, the wilderness will encompass you everywhere. The challenge is to place all of the travel components (air, resort, rail, sightseeing), together for a seamless, stress-free travel experience.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said he has agreed with his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, "to establish lines of communication" to resolve through diplomatic channels the maritime dispute between the two countries.
The Paraguayan congress was strongly supported at the Latinamerican Parliament, Parlatino, which during the XXVIII ordinary session voted against an Argentine motion to have it suspended.
The Union for South American Nations (Unasur) agreed to limit the actions of 'special situation funds' (hedge funds or 'vulture funds') and categorically rejected a referendum that will take in place in the Falkland Islands in March to decide the political status of the archipelago, during the summit that took place in Lima.
Paraguay complained bitterly Unasur (Union of South American Nations) decision to confirm the suspension of the country from the group until next April 2013 when elections are scheduled. The decision was described as a 'systematic persecution' and 'interventionism' of Paraguay, which is contrary to basic principles enshrined in the UN charter.
Moody's Ratings agency announced it has downgraded the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from "Aaa" to "Aa1," with negative outlook on each.
President Dilma Rousseff vetoed on Friday parts of a controversial oil royalties bill that pit Brazil's oil-producing states against the rest of the country in a battle over future oil wealth.
Brazil on Friday reported slower than expected economic growth in the third quarter putting more pressure on President Dilma Rousseff to make deeper structural reforms and adding to fears that the global slowdown is reaching big emerging markets.
Latinamerican countries most of which recognize Palestine as a free and sovereign state, helped this week with their votes to elevate the status of the Palestine Authority to "non member observer" which was approved this week by an overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly.
Despite claims by the Argentine media that the Bahamas flagged cruise vessel "Seabourn Sojourn" had no plans to visit Falklands the 431 passengers on board have enjoyed a wide range of tours around the Islands after they anchored in Port William, just outside of Stanley Harbour on Friday at 9am.


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LinkedIn isn't just a social platform for posting resumes. It's also an effective tool for growing your real estate business. If you're on LinkedIn currently but aren't using it to its maximum potential, or if you've considered using LinkedIn but felt intimidated or confused about how to use it correctly, this is your guide.
Most people think of LinkedIn as Facebook for professionals, but it's much more than just that. It's a tool for finding new leads and building a network with fellow real estate professionals.
Unlike other social media platforms (Facebook included), the whole point of being on LinkedIn is to generate leads and grow your business. Everyone on LinkedIn is there to make professional connections. You won't have to contend with cat videos, passive aggressive posts, and the endless slideshow of selfies as you would on other sites. On LinkedIn, it's okay to self-promote for professional purposes. In fact, you're encouraged to do so.
You can use LinkedIn to become an authority in your specific real estate niche. Build a name for yourself by publishing content that's relevant to your target audience. You can also do the same by linking to valuable content (published by others).
LinkedIn allows you to craft your unique brand image and build trust with others.
Let's get into the nuts and bolts of building an effective LinkedIn profile.
Your photo is one of the first indicators of trust that you can add to your LinkedIn profile. A professional photo can add to your credibility, but it also brings in the human component that's so needed in a social platform.
Your LinkedIn profile photo should be in the shape of a square. Your profile photo should be at least 400 x 400 pixels, but it's okay to choose a larger size (up to 8MB) as long as it's quare. In fact, the higher your resolution, the better quality image you'll have to represent you on LinkedIn.
Choose a photo of you, not your logo, for your LinkedIn profile. It's hard to connect with a logo. Also, choose an image with a clear shot of your face, not you from a distance, or you among a group of others.
The profile photo isn't the only photo to consider for your LinkedIn page. You should also take advantage of the cover image. On LinkedIn, the cover image is one of the first things that your connections will see. It makes sense to populate this cover image with information that's highly relevant to your audience.
Take advantage of this and start your profile off with the URL right away.
If you have a fairly common name that's already taken, you can still create a custom URL. Consider adding Realtor or Real-Estate to the end of your name.
Your headline is another crucial piece of real estate on your LinkedIn profile (pardon the pun). Use your headline to summarize your greatest asset or skill. The keywords that you use in this headline will help pull in prospective clients. Remember to use your headline for making connections with prospective clients, not with colleagues.
The experience section in LinkedIn is your time to shine, but remember your intended audience. As a real estate agent, your objective on LinkedIn isn't to get a job with an employer. Rather, your goal is to build a connection with prospective leads based on trust. And the easiest way to get people to trust you is to show that you have a proven track record.
Prospective clients aren't interested in reading a list of where you worked in the past. Instead, they're focused on how you can help them. Instead of rattling off where you've worked and your position with those places, consider highlighting your main accomplishment at each place you've worked. If you've had a relatively short working history, then list more than one accomplishment per employer.
Discuss your sales numbers and skills you've learned. In other words, awe them with stats and details. Do you have experience working with foreclosures, short sells, or persuasive selling? Are you social media savvy? Do you have killer marketing skills? Are you a top negotiator? Don't be shy, list your strengths here and watch as your colleagues and past clients endorse you for these skills (more on that later).
Let prospective clients know about awards that pertain to their needs. If you have any industry-related awards, list them in your profile. Even if the award was given to your firm and is not specific to you, you can still list them here.
Also, do you have any real estate-related certifications that can improve your profile? Share it on your profile. Remember that you're not using LinkedIn to get a job, you're using it to get a client— or at least to find a new contact who may eventually turn into a client. All of your experience and accolades can help you build trust with prospective clients.
Making connections is tricky, but vital to your promotion strategy on LinkedIn. LinkedIn offers three types, or degrees, of connections.
First degree connections are the people who you connect with or who connect with you.
Second degree connections are the people who are connected with those in your first degree network, but not with you directly. You can, however, reach out to them, and invite them to connect with your network. When they do this, they become part of your first degree network and then their contacts become part of your second degree connections.
Third degree connections are the people who are connected with those in a second degree network. If you want to reach these people, you can't send a network request right away - you instead have to send an InMail message, which is LinkedIn's premium product (cha-ching). InMail starts at $29.99 plus tax per month.
The point is that you want to make as many first degree connections as possible because it provides maximum visibility. You see, LinkedIn prefers to show profiles and posts of people who are connected by at least second or third degrees. But the more people you can connect with (and thus build your first degree network), the more people will potentially see your content.


On Friday, January 18th Hui Xin campus was once again trandformed into a market place for the annual Charity Drive and celebration of the Chinese Spring Festival. It was a beautiful day, full of smiles and warm hearts ready to help raise money for Charity. At the market place families could explore traditional chinese crafts and enjoy performances by K2 students and Newton teachers. Teachers were singing, performing as Peppa Pig and children danced and played instruments on the stage as well as giving a drum welcoming at the entrance together with Lion and Dragon dancers.
I want to thank each and every one of our amazing families, students and teachers for again raising the bar and collecting a total amount of 63,066.1 RMB in donations for the Newton Charity Fund. Together we are able to make a big difference and provide assistance to those who have no other means.
I also want to thank all vendors for donating and parent trustees from K1-202, K2-308 & K2-403 for volunteering to help at the donation boxes and to oversee the count. K2 children performed both at the gate and on the stage this year and as something new, to bring back traditional Chinese puppet theater, a four-person teacher's group consisting of Reece, April, Elaine & Lillian had made large size puppets with hand painted masks, moving arms and costumes and put on an amazing, colorful and beautiful puppet show.
The Charity Drive and Spring Festival celebration of 2019 was a big success!


There are many topics that you can discuss as part of a psychology dissertation; however, some things are more popular than others. Of course, in your particular university, the popularity of different subjects may depend slightly upon what it is that you are taught. Nevertheless, there are generally some topics that universally popular. Whilst it can be interesting to discuss these topics yourself, it is important that you try and make things unique or, at the very least, as interesting and insightful as possible. In order to do this, you may wish to try and investigate whether there is a different slump that you might be up to use on a particular topic. Alternatively, even if one topic has been thoroughly covered, if there is any way of combining it with one or more different topics, then it might give you a unique perspective into that particular area of psychology.
One final thing to be aware of when it comes to choosing a popular topic to write about is that you want to avoid the possibility of plagiarizing anyone else's work. For example, if you are looking on the Internet for research purposes, and you find any particularly interesting information, then be sure to include any references and citations if you are worried about being accused of plagiarism. Alternatively, just be sure that you do not copy anyone else's work.
Finally, to give you some idea of popular topics that people may write about when it comes to psychology, the following is a list of interesting ideas that have been covered in one way or another on multiple occasions.
The nature versus nurture debate: our children a product of their environment or born a certain way?
How do humans learn language and does the brain develop in different ways in relation to when and how we learn?
What is the future of artificial intelligence, and what implications might it have on human psychology?
How can positive and negative reinforcement be used in behavior modification?


Join us for the second annual One-Miler, in conjunction with First Magnitude Brewing Company. Funds raised support the Five Points of Life Foundation, a support affiliate of LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The Five Points of Life Foundation educates and raises awareness of the five ways to share life with others through the donation of blood, apheresis, marrow, cord blood, organ and tissue.
This one mile road race begins at First Magnitude, continues through the newly opened Depot Park and finishes back at First Magnitude for awards, live music and food trucks. Prizes will be awarded to top finishers in each wave.


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We would like to emphasise the important role you play in your child's education. In order to feel confident and secure your child needs to see the relationship between home and school.
Starting school can be an exhausting business!
Don't be surprised if your children come home feeling tired and not wanting to talk about their day.
Give them a meal, a bath, a cuddle and a story, before getting them off to bed early.
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Sunday Reading: Diner
Since opening his restaurant, The Dip, inside a Sydney club in 2010, Andrew Levins has become a tried-and-tested authority on all things smoked, fried, salsa'd and sauced. He's now sharing the recipes in a new cookbook: Diner.
Thirsty Thursday: Pumpkin ale
It's a novel choice: but with Halloween around the corner it seems like the right time to talk about pumpkin ale.
River Cottage (DVD giveaway)
Beyond having the best name in televised gastronomy, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall also stands at the forefront of Britain's "real food" movement.
Sunday Reading: The Gourmand
The Gourmand is a magazine about food, discussed by artists and made by designers. It's fun, bright and features popular arty people talking about food - from culinary trends in inner-city London to sloppy hamburgers at CalArts in LA.
Friday October 05, 2012
This weekend Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens are throwing their annual Spring Plant Sale, where carefully cultivated examples of the RBG's most interesting and rare stock are available for purchase by the public.
Thirsty Thursday: Holgate Brewhouse
Sitting just north of Melbourne in the appropriately woody Woodend, the Holgate Brewhouse (and the beer contained within) is an unexpected pleasure.
Thirsty Thursday: Feral Brewing
Thursday September 27, 2012
In Australia, calling something or someone "feral" doesn't usually translate as 'good taste'. Not unless you find body odour and dreadlocks tasteful. An exception: Feral Brewing out of Western Australia.
The Informal Economy
Welcome to System D, the invisible economic powerhouse that's worth more than $10 trillion per year.
Thirsty Thursday: Dr Pilkington's Miracle Cider
Curly hair, left-handedness, and an inability to whistle are just three of the "troubles" Dr. Pilkington's Miracle Cider claims to combat. While what it promises may be pretty outlandish, Dr. Pilkington's definitely delivers on cool packaging and great taste.
Strange Answers to The Psychopath Test
The grey area between crazy and sane isn't easy to illuminate, but if anyone should have a crack it's author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson.


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Bike Safety Check & Repair Derby Health Collaborative and Derby Bike Month Committee have volunteered to check over your bicycle to make sure it's in good working condition. Minor repairs will be done on site. Tougher repairs may be referred to an area bicycle shop.
Derby Skate Park BMX Challenge Emery Park BMX is coming to the Derby Skate Park. They provide competitive BMX racing for boys, girls and adults ages 3-50+. BMX racing is an individual sport and is designed to build self-confidence and self-esteem in anyone who participates. Come see and learn more about the sport of BMX.


Most of us are pet lovers and we always have that one favorite pet that we take good care at home. For pet lovers, they are not just animals but they are one of the great companions that we have in life. They bring happiness to our hearts and we always make sure that we spend quality time with them. We have special bonding moments with our pets and that's what makes them close to our hearts.
Army Pvt. Hannah Foraker has a 13-year-old golden retriever named Buddy. Hannah and her pet is so close to each other that they always make sure they spend time with each other. Unfortunately, the two got separated and they parted ways because of some circumstances. Hannah joined the army and it is a must for her to take a 3-month combat training. It was the first time that Hannah and Buddy will not be seeing each other for several months.
When Hannah came home, the first one to welcome her was her beloved pet. Sadly, Buddy was suffering from hearing impairment and arthritis and he can't recognize Hannah. But when Buddy figured out that it was Hannah in front of him, he was so happy to see his owner. Buddy's excitement was obvious and it seems like it was the perfect day that he was waiting for several months. Pets are not just animals, in fact, they also know how to recognize the love and care given to them by their owners. They can be a great friend and companion in life so we need to make sure we take good care of them.
Army Pvt. Hannah Foraker, 21, was reunited with her 13-year-old Golden Retriever after three months away for basic training. The golden retriever was so excited to be reunited with her owner that the dog seemed to cry.
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