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Think it, do it, be it!
Author, actor, motivator Saba Moor-Doucette helps actualize your foremost desires
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Saba has spent all of her life in front of or behind the camera, and has been involved and won many awards, (including an Emmy), She has been in just about every facet of show business since the age of six. She has worked as a dancer/choreographer, actress, stunt girl, stand up comedienne, writer, producer, and director in all forms of media, including film, television, stage, stand-up comedy, music videos, and even a stint in the circus.
In 2012, Saba started her journey into fitness and competed with The Natural Body Building Association. She did a radio show on fitness learning even more about health, fitness and anti-aging along the way, Saba won first place in her division in every competition up to date, made TEAM USA, and competed Internationally against 23 other countries, and is the undefeated Senior Division International Bikini Diva Champion for 7 years in a row.
Saba has published a children's book, DINOSAURS & DONUTS, a work out CD called SABA'S AUTOSIZE, which turns your car into a personal gym, a book on health, fitness, and anti-ageing called CHANGE YOUR THINKING, CHANGE YOUR BODY WITH THINK IT, DO IT, BE IT, plus a workout video and a workshop of the same name, a cookbook from a non-cook, and a book on how to take the gamble out of gambling called THE CONSCIOUS GAMBLER. Saba continues to teach her workshop on her Think It Do it Be it Method and the Life Play Workshops, with her husband Jeff Doucette, while keeping creative and active at a young 76.
In 2017 she was signed by Bill and Gayle Gladstone of Waterside Productions to write her new book, FIT FOR LIFE, THINK IT, DO IT, BE IT, published in 2018.
She started off 2019 with a bang, with Erik Lundmark of Leomark Studios producing the Classic Bikini Divas TV pilot. Look for it later this year.
Saba also spends valued family time with her two children, four step children, nine grandchildren and loving husband Jeff.
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Gayle is the publisher of Waterside Productions, that enables qualified authors to take more control and responsibility for publishing their work and building an audience. In collaboration with Amazon's White Gloves program, Waterside empowers authors to take charge of publishing and distributing their own works throughout the world. Read more . . .
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Prolific actor, director, author and master of improvisational comedy, Jeff Doucette is partnered with wife Saba Moor-Doucette in creating life-empowering creative improvisational workshops, called Life Play. Together, they are committed to the betterment of the human condition through creative endeavors and spiritual growth. Learn more about Jeff . . .
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The underinsured motorist coverage works similarly, but it would only pay out when you get hit by someone who does have auto insurance, but your bodily injury damages that they caused are more than they carry, leaving them underinsured. Just like your bodily injury, the UMPD would pay to fix the damage to your car caused by the other driver, and you only have to pay the $250 deductible.
The company has its headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee and has been selling auto insurance since 1963 when it was known as Permanent General Agency. The name later changed to Permanent General Assurance Corporation (PGAC). In 2012, The General Automobile Insurance Services, Inc., a subsidiary company of PGC Holdings, was acquired by American Family Insurance.
I've been with them a year and we have now switched. Our policy had lapsed so we paid the past due, got caught up, and thought we were good. NOPE. Found out in April that my license was suspended! Why? Because the General didn't bother reporting to the state that I was insured! Had to pay to get reinstated. So we have a jeep that stopped working. My husband called to have it dropped. Apparently they dropped my car as well. I just got pulled over earlier for not having insurance! My husband has been paying them. I now have to get my license reinstated AGAIN!
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Poetry: there are times in life when nothing else will do.
This is the second in a series of poetry pamphlets by a bestselling and acclaimed novelist, a collection of ten poems about ten widely different things, but all circling the theme of daily inspiration and creative presence.
These are poems you read again and again, touching as they do on all the big themes. An Irishwoman surveys the alcohol-fuelled scene on St Patrick's Night 2013; an ancient mid-winter blessing is reworked; the vagaries of lunch with a friend are relived.
This is poetry in the tradition of Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Rumi.
You'll find poems about love, in its many manifestations. Poems about making art. Poems about life and liberty and the conditions for happiness. Poems about faith, loss, longing and belong and the eternal, ever-available, transformational power of redemption.
These poems are the purest practice of the theories Orna Ross expounds in her "Go Creative!" books.
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I stumbled on the LibreCAD project by chance.
It is a fork from Qcad, which only now provides its limited community versions free.
LibreCAD aims to be 100% Free and is rocking along in its development.
Its good for working .DXF files without the limitations of Qcad Community version (like no polylines).
I got it working in Lucid Puppy, but with some pain.
It won't compile no matter how I set things up with qt4 libraries and the like.
But a Lucid compiled Unbuntu .deb will get you home, plus an upgrade of the qtnetwork library.
Also check out the freeware Draftsight.
Thanks disciple - I found the thread for Draftsight and an sfs file.
Will compare later to see what is good for my needs. I could imagine both being useful tools.
i want to install librecad and installed as said in that, but when i open librecad via terminal got this message " librecad: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN14QObjectPrivate15checkWindowRoleEv.
now this .deb package and cannot opening pl help me.
...open librecad via terminal got this message " librecad: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN14QObjectPrivate15checkWindowRoleEv.
Linux tells what is missing ... ... seems libQtNetwork.so.4 or all Qt files are missing.
Read first post above to check all needed Qt dependencies are installed.
If you have done several QT installs, chances are some parts are not agreeing with each other, version wise or how they were compiled.
QT is a monster - so its easy to get it to tie itself in a knot.
TIP: If you are going to use it often, make a savefile (if frugal install or similar) just setup for CAD with the QTs for librecad - no collisions.
I basically made a lupusave or a fatdog savefile setup for all of my CAD apps - all built from a fresh start so nothing collides, and took notes one by one as I installed things until everything was happy.
As soon as anything went crazy I retraced my steps and weeded out the offending app or library.
Big programs have a habit of having heaps of libraries and the more you have the greater the chance that they don't like each other.
It's a 17.5Mbyte download. I've tried it on slacko-5,7 and upup raring & it seems OK. Let me no whether it works for you.
( The only thing I'm not sure about is whether there will be any conflict with existing Qt4 library installation).
Thanks muggins - just tried this on a live session of my Slacko 5.6 derivative and it appears to be working. Lots to learn so I haven't done anything advanced with it yet - just basic shapes, but it looks promising. Thanks.
- Any idea how to 'group' or 'connect' two 2D entities together? I have made one object placed offcentre inside another shape and want to rotate the two without losing their positions relative to each other. Sounds like I need to use block and layer functions but haven't figured it out yet.
best to post to librecad forum.
I use QCad but a suggestion from there may work. You can select multiple parts and move them etc. When you do, they move together without grouping.
Thanks, I will try this again. I can select all of the items I want to combine but then I found I was unable to move them. Must be using the wrong technique. Did Qcad have the 'block' feature - is that how you were able to move a cluster of selected items as one block?
Posted: Tue 17 Mar 2015, 11:54 Post subject: thanks muggins!
your sfs works very well for me on precise pup 5.7.1.
Just tried this on Slacko 5.7.0; working a treat. Been looking for an SFS of this for a while now. Lovely work.


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Expansion of social-ecological systems science
April 16, 2010 Garry Peterson	1 Comment
The concept of social-ecological systems has been gaining increased interested in science. Below is a graph showing papers whose topic includes social-ecological systems. During the 1990s there were a few publications and then a rapid rise during the 2000s. Two influential books articulated social-ecological ideas:
Linking social and ecological systems: Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience in 2000 and
Navigating social-ecological systems: building resilience for complexity and change in 2003 .
Papers from ISI - social-ecological or social ecological and Systems
The top five journals are dominated by Ecology and Society:
Ecology and Society (78)
Global Environmental Change (13)
Ecosystems (13)
Proc. of National Academy of Science (USA) (10)
Ecological Economics (8)
The most prolific authors are a group of people who are working to bridge the social and natural (with number of papers in brackets). The top two authors, Carl and Fikret, were editors of the Linking and Navigating books.
Carl Folke (26)
Fikret Berkes (14)
Steve Carpenter (14)
Per Olsson (13)
J. Marty Anderies (11)
The universities with the most publications are:
Stockholm University (41) (where Carl Folke is located)
Arizona State University (27) (where Marty Anderies and a number of SES researchers are)
University of Wisconsin (19) (Steve Carpenter)
University of Manitoba (18) (Fikret Berkes)
Indiana University (14) (Elinor Ostrom and formerly Marco Janssen, both of whom have frequently published on social-ecological systems)
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David Ing says:
@resilienceSci Thanks for being specific on the phrase "social-ecological systems" (as opposed to socio-ecological) and pointing out the key publications in the area.
In addition, thanks for the link to the Resilience Workbook wiki.


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SG-1 Season Six
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SG-1 is called to defend the people of Abydos from the Goa'uld once again when they learn that Anubis, in search of a powerful device, is about to attack.
FAN RATING - 8.99
NIELSEN - 1.8
DVD DISC: Season 6, Disc 5
WRITTEN BY: Robert C. Cooper
DIRECTED BY: Martin Wood
Alexis Cruz (Skaara), Gary Jones (Technician), Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), David Palffy (Anubis), Sean Amsing (Tobay), Vince Crestejo (Yu the Great), Michael Adamthwaite (Herak), Veena Sood (Abydonian Leader)
Skaara runs through the tent village on the desert world of Abydos, where the first Stargate team from Earth once helped liberate them from the powerful Goa'uld Ra seven years ago ("Stargate" the Movie). He enters a tent filled with people, and kneels down to speak with an Abydonian elder. She tells him that he must prepare the others for battle. Skaara wonders how they can hope to stand up to a Goa'uld as powerful as Anubis, and is told that they won't be alone. A hooded figure reveals himself to the young man — it is Daniel Jackson.
Back on Earth, Colonel Jack O'Neill enters the S.G.C. elevator and proceeds down to Sublevel 28. There is a power surge, and the elevator stops. Daniel appears, and tells Jack that Abydos is in trouble. Anubis is on his way, looking for the legendary Eye of Ra.
When O'Neill reports this to General Hammond and the rest of SG-1, he's surprised to learn that they don't think he's nuts for claiming to have seen the deceased Dr. Jackson. But the team is given the go-ahead to visit Abydos, and try to find the Eye before Anubis does.
They arrive, and Skaara shows them to an area of the pyramid where writings on the wall speak of the Eye. When they're unable to make progress, O'Neill demands that Daniel shows himself. He appears, though he insists that he's not allowed to help. If he interferes with unascended people, he explains, Oma Desala herself (a rogue member of the ascended) would intervene to prevent "the others" from bringing down their wrath.
But Jack convinces him to help a little, at least to locate the Eye for them. Meanwhile, Teal'c and the Abydonian boys set up a perimeter around the pyramid. Kasuf has taken the women and children into the caves to seek refuge. Anubis has arrived, and his death gliders streak over the Abydonian desert.
Daniel shows Jonas and Carter another chamber, where he'd always suspected there to be a hidden chamber. O'Neill and Skaara head to the surface to help the others fend off the attack. With Daniel's help they figure out how to access the secret chamber. Inside, Jackson makes a remarkable discovery: his people, the ascended, are actually the Ancients — the builders of the Stargate network!
He tells Sam and Jonas that he must do something, and vanishes. But before going, he tells them to guard the stone tablet he has found. Written in a very old dialogue of the Ancients, it tells of a lost city with a stash of the Ancients' weapons and technology — which can give Earth a huge advantage over Anubis. After he leaves, Sam and Jonas find the Eye of Ra hidden in a secret compartment.
Outside, Anubis's Jaffa land in force, and push the Abydonians back into the gate room inside the pyramid. Anubis's forces dial the Stargate from another world to prevent their escape. A vicious battle ensues inside the gate room, and several Abydonian fighters — including Skaara — are shot. Jack orders them to retreat into the catacombs of the pyramid.
When they meet up with Jonas and Carter, Jack slaps a brick of C-4 explosives onto the Eye of Ra. The Jaffa army fills the catacombs, led by Herak ("The Other Guys") — apparently, Anubis's new First Prime. O'Neill threatens to destroy the Eye — and everyone with it — unless they give them a clear path to the Stargate. After consulting the shrouded and sinister Anubis (who has arrived in orbit aboard a massive Goa'uld mothership), Herak refuses. Anubis will destroy all of Abydos if he does not hand it over.
But Daniel appears on board Anubis's own ship to confront him. He tells the Goa'uld that he will not allow him to harm anyone else on Abydos, and that he has the power to stop him. But Daniel may not be right: Anubis reveals his true, dark face to Daniel, who is stunned to learn what he is.
On the surface, SG-1 and the Jaffa are at stand-off. But Skaara is near death, and when he passes, his body begins to glow with an intense, white light. He has ascended.
In orbit, a hyperspace window opens, and Anubis's ship is surrounded by a fleet of Goa'uld motherships. Lord Yu tells him to surrender the Eye — he commands the collective forces of the System Lords. Daniel indicates that he summoned them, and threatens to tell them that Anubis doesn't have the Eye — that they can win if they strike now. But instead, he settles on a bargain with Anubis: Daniel will get him the Eye if he swears that no harm will come to the people of Abydos … ever. Anubis is eager to accept, and it is a promise to which Daniel swears he will hold him. The rest of the Ancients be damned.
Daniel visits SG-1 on the surface, and explains the plan. The most important thing, he tells O'Neill, is that they get that tablet safely back to Earth. It holds the key to Anubis's defeat, and he promises to help them find the lost city. O'Neill agrees, and hands over the Eye to Herak.
Jackson also explains what he has learned about Anubis: he is one of them, the ascended. The Goa'uld must have learned how to ascend, but the others didn't want him. They tried to send him back, but it didn't completely work. Now, he is still a being of energy, trapped between ascension and mortal life. His dark mask holds his form intact.
The Eye is delivered to Anubis, and its terrible power is revealed. Joined with the five other Eyes that Anubis has collected, it transforms his new mothership into a powerful weapon — which destroys a pair of motherships with a single burst. A massive battle ensues, and the System Lords are routed. Those ships that survive quickly flee.
Breaking his vow to Jackson, Anubis now moves to destroy Abydos. But Daniel is there to stop him. Using the power of the ascended, he tries to throw a burst of energy at Anubis — but is stopped and pulled away. Anubis confesses to Herak that it was not his doing; Oma Desala or the others must have stopped him.
Anubis activates his weapon once again, and a massive burst strikes the pyramid on the planet's surface. SG-1 returns to Earth through the Stargate, and Jack witnesses the pyramid collapse around him as he steps through the gate. The pyramid, the planet, everything is utterly annihilated.
Earth tries to redial Abydos, but fails time and time again. Carter insists that they keep trying — she won't give up until someone with a ship flies over the planet and tells her there's nothing left alive. But to her surprise, the Stargate finally connects. A probe shows the pyramid intact and undamaged, so SG-1 returns to investigate.
They find the tent village in the desert, bustling with the normal routine of the Abydonians. Even Skaara is there, alive, to greet them. But he explains that one named "Oma" did this; that death is just the beginning of one's journey. Suddenly, the village is gone, and O'Neill realizes that Oma helped the entire population of Abydos to ascend. Skaara tells them that the Stargate will remain until they leave, then disappears.
"We've already laid the groundwork for the Ancients. As a matter of fact, we've revealed more than many fans realize. Come this season, a lot will be revealed." (Writer / producer Joseph Mallozzi, in an online chat with the Sam/Jack Horsewomen)
"Anubis hails from the same galaxy as the other System Lords, although his host body … well that's another story. We'll learn more about him (and that weird host body) near season's end. No direct relationship to the Furlings." (Writer / supervising producer Joseph Mallozzi, in an Q&A at GateWorld Forums)
"'Full Circle' was written with the intention of, if need be, having it close out the series run. However, there were and are still plans in the works for a movie. So even though the episode would have closed out the series, it wasn't 'the end.' … 'Full Circle' will answer a lot of questions — and open the door for plenty more that we'll be trying to answer in Season Seven (i.e. the opening two-parter)." (GateWorld chat with writer / executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Yes, Yu is interesting — much in the same way that Maybourne is interesting. It's getting hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys from the ones playing in the middle. Yes, Yu will be playing a significant role in a major arc in Season Six." (Writer / producer Joseph Mallozzi, in an online chat at GateWorld Forums)
"We go back to the beginning of the Stargate story and go through a similar battle process with the evil forces of the alien. I always love taking the story back to Abydos because Daniel has a strong relationship with the people there. We managed to include a great location in Vancouver. The shoot has a great film look.
"I think Daniel knows that [Anubis] won't (attack). It was part of my original thought process, too. I was thinking, 'Yeah, what is he believing this guy for?' But he's not. I realized that after a second read of the script. He's not trusting Anubis, he's saying that making this deal will allow his friends to escape with the tablet so that they can find the lost city. He's already told the System Lords that Anubis is there. They will come to create a distraction while Daniel tries to get his friends out and save the people on Abydos.
"Daniel also wants to actually confront Anubis one-on-one. He knows if we find the tablet it will lead us to the lost city where the weapons are that can destroy Anubis. I think that he believes in keeping Anubis' trust in that particular moment. Daniel will do wherever it takes to get this Eye that will allow his friends to escape and possibly the people on Abydos.
"I think he is confused. He's sort of lost. Oma Desala took Daniel away from the battle because he committed actions that were forbidden. Daniel took a great risk in crossing that line." (Cyberex Online interview with Michael Shanks)
Who thought to use the ninja Jaffa for "Full Circle?" "I believe that was either Robert [Cooper] or Brad [Wright]. They wanted to make Anubis's Jaffa distinct — a little different from those brawny lunkheads that would follow Apophis around." (GateWorld online chat with executive producer Joseph Mallozzi)
"Ah, another series finale. Executive producer Robert Cooper wraps up SG-1 in fine style — except that, as we learned late in Season Six, this season would not be the show's last. After six seasons, SG-1 was still going strong, much to the delight of our new broadcaster, Sci-Fi, who were more than happy to pick up the series for one more year. Which, of course, we assumed would be its last …" (Writer/producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog)
"One of my favorite SG-1 episodes, and certainly one of the grander ones, is 'Full Circle.' Because we thought the series was ending, we pulled out all the stops, so there were huge sets as well as lots of explosions and the SG-1 team walked off into the sunset as if it were the finale." (Director of photography Jim Menard, in an interview with Steve Eramo)
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Now is the time of watching old simple strong good normal Toyota sedans vigorously engage in abnormal activities of off roading! They test their differentials.
These are videos where Toyotas that we did not receive in the United States of America are driven hard. They are driven in Russia.
They are the Toyota Mark II, except that they are not.
These are Toyota Crestas and Chasers and Mark IIs, which are all Mark IIs, except the Crestas and Chasers are different from Mark IIs in ways that are not critical to the understanding of these videos.
Strip away the metal skins and see the inner car bones and meat. Identical guts!
This one has "Torsen inside!!!!" It is wheeled with violence and purpose. The purpose is counter to the conceptual designing done by Toyota.
What a moment of pleasure it is to see the goodness of this counter-narrative explored deeply.
Dirt is not these cars' homes!


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Q: Why is my javascript form not submitting? I am creating a form that directly inject the data contained in the text fields to firebase via POST method.
This is the code for the html form:
<form>

From:

          Name
          <input class="u-full-width" placeholder="Full Name" id="fromName">

          Contact No.
          <input class="u-full-width" placeholder="08xxx" id="fromContactNo">

      Address
      <textarea class="u-full-width" placeholder="Full Address" id="fromAddress"></textarea>

To:

          Name
          <input class="u-full-width" placeholder="Full Name" id="toName">

          Contact No.
          <input class="u-full-width" placeholder="08xxx" id="toContactNo">

      Address
      <textarea class="u-full-width" placeholder="Full Address" id="toAddress"></textarea>

Delivery Details:

              Item description
              <textarea class="u-full-width" placeholder="Item Description here" id="itemDesc"></textarea>

      <button class="button-primary" id="add-order">Send</button>
    </form>

And the javascript function is as follows:
$(document).ready(function(){
var $fromName = $('#fromName');
var $fromContactNo = $('#fromContactNo');
var $fromAddress = $('#fromAddress');
var $toName = $('#toName');
var $toContactNo = $('#toContactNo');
var $toAddress = $('#toAddress');
var $itemDesc = $('#itemDesc');
var $addOrder = $('#add-order');

$addOrder.on('click', function(){

    var newOrder = {
        "from": {
            "name": $fromName.val(),
            "phone_no": $fromContactNo.val(),
            "address": $fromAddress.val(),
        },
        "to": {
            "name": $toName.val(),
            "phone_no": $toContactNo.val(),
            "address": $toAddress.val(),
        },
        "item": $itemDesc.val(),
    };

    $.ajax({
      type: 'POST',
      url: 'https://myUrl.firebaseio.com/order.json',
      contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
      data: JSON.stringify(newOrder),
      success: function(data) {
        console.log("Order added!", data);
      }
    });
});
});

I tried to mess around with the form and cannot find anything that breaks it. The console also showed no error.

A: You have two issue here. The first is that you hook to the click event of the button. This means that the form submission is still happening. When that happens the page is effectively reloaded as you have not given the form any action attribute, which is in turn preventing the AJAX call from completing. To fix this you should always hook to the submit event of the form and use preventDefault() to stop the default submission from occurring.
Secondly you only retrieve the val() properties of the input elements on load of the page. At that point the user has not interacted with them. Instead you should get their values just before you send them in the AJAX request.
Try this:
$('form').on('submit', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();

    var $fromName = $('#fromName');
    var $fromContactNo = $('#fromContactNo');
    var $fromAddress = $('#fromAddress');
    var $toName = $('#toName');
    var $toContactNo = $('#toContactNo');
    var $toAddress = $('#toAddress');
    var $itemDesc = $('#itemDesc');

    var newOrder = {
        "from": {
            "name": $fromName.val(),
            "phone_no": $fromContactNo.val(),
            "address": $fromAddress.val(),
        },
        "to": {
            "name": $toName.val(),
            "phone_no": $toContactNo.val(),
            "address": $toAddress.val(),
        },
        "item": $itemDesc.val(),
    };

    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
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The show, entitled "Toledo, the Universal City", will be projected on 6, 7 and 8 September as part of the "Luz Toledo 2018" celebrations.
The Zocodover square will also be transformed by the "Atmósfera" laser light and special effects show during the celebrations.
Toledo City Government awarded ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño (APD) the contract to design and execute the "Luz Toledo 2018" audiovisual show to be projected on the Alcazar façade on 6, 7 and 8 September; the show will be screened at 45-minute intervals several times per night, starting at 22:00 hours.
Under this year's title, "Toledo, the Universal City", the show includes the latest projection technology, lighting and 3D effects as well as music to highlight Toledo's contribution to the history of Europe.
ACCIONA has also been engaged to produce the "Atmosphere" show in the Zocodover square, using laser lighting and artificial fog to produce a dream-like atmosphere.
In the framework of European Year of Cultural Heritage, the "Toledo, the Universal City" show will underscore the city's contribution to the world and its historical, cultural, artistic and literary legacy.
The show will use twelve 22,000 lumen projectors and four 30,000 lumen projectors to use the façade of the Alcazar as a giant projection screen; by mapping images onto the building's surface, the show will generate optical illusions and 3D effects. A total of 60,000 W of sound will be produced from four separate points.
The soundtrack has been composed specifically for the show, adapting to the pace of the narrative.
The show will refer to historical events and locations that are essential for understanding the city's history.
Initially, the façade of the Alcazar will become the 3rd century Roman palace, which was the seat of the praetor (vestiges of the first structure to overlook the city of Toledo from this high rock).
Then, the Alcazar, which is currently the headquarters of the Library of Castilla la Mancha, will appear to open its walls to reveal a range of books that bear witness to the city's artistic, literary, landscape and gastronomic heritage.
Another highlight of the show will be the 1931 twinning of the city with Toledo, Ohio, the first such initiative ever. Toledo subsequently twinned with other cities such as Damascus (Syria), Havana (Cuba), Heraklion (Greece), and Nara (Japan), all of which will be recreated on the façade of the Alcazar.
The show will conclude with a tour of the iconographies and artistic styles that are represented in Toledo and which have had an international influence; this will be accompanied by 3D effects building to a grand finale of light and colour.
The show will have specific areas for persons with disabilities and persons with impaired sight or hearing.
Over the same three days, ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño will also execute a conceptual artistic show entitled "Atmósfera" in Toledo's Zocodover square.
This performance-type event will use lasers and fog machines.
The lighting will produce an artificial ceiling effect on the artificial fog coupled with a custom soundtrack to give viewers the feeling that they are in a dream.
Projects such as the ones for Toledo City are part of what ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño calls "Cultural Engineering", a concept consisting of using cutting-edge visual and sensory technology to convey the history, traditions and values of a city or location so as to enhance its appeal to tourists.
As a result of ACCIONA's focus on sustainability in all its activities, the show will be carbon-neutral. In other words, the related CO2 emissions will be calculated and offset through a clean energy project, so that the final balance of emissions is zero.
ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño designs, organizes and produces sustainable events and seeks to minimise their ecological footprint while also leveraging the environmental, economic and social opportunities that they can bring to the areas where they take place.


The Language Placement Exam is available online through the college's Blackboard Academic Suite.
Please refer to your welcome email sent to your personal email account for your login information. If you did not receive this, please contact the Office of Admission at admission@merrimack.edu or 978-837-5100.
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Every new student is required to log in to the exam. Part I of the exam will pose questions about your language history to help determine whether you are required to take Part II of the exam.
If you took French, Italian or Spanish in high school and wish to continue your study in one of these languages, you will be prompted to move forward with Part II of the exam.
If you have not taken one of these languages or wish to begin a different language at the introductory level, simply complete Part I of the assessment and follow the instructions to complete the exam. You will need to designate the language that you wish to study on your Academic Interest Form.
The test results will not appear in a traditional fashion (a low grade does not equate to low proficiency, a high grade does not equate to high proficiency). The Academic Success Center will place you in the appropriate class based on your score. During orientation, members of the world languages and cultural studies department will be available to answer your questions.
Please complete the exam as soon as possible after you deposit. Refer to the Transfer Credit Evaluation Sheet that was sent to you by the admission office; this document reflects the courses Merrimack has already accepted in transfer as well as any courses that may still be under review. If transferred credits have already fulfilled your language requirement or if you plan to start a new language at Merrimack, you are not required to take the language placement exam.
Incoming students with questions about the exam should contact the Academic Success Center at asc@merrimack.edu or 978-837-5244.


With the rise in popularity of online casino gaming, many people are curious about what the status quo is at the moment and what the major trends are in the gambling industry. According to statistics released this year by the UK Gambling Commission (one of the primary authorities in the industry), growth in most sectors has been the norm. Let's dig into these statistics to see what it reveals about the industry's current state.
Why the UK Gambling Commission?
The UK Gambling Commission exists to safeguard players and to ensure that the industry is safe and fair across the board. This is what allows gambling to be permitted. As long as its operators are transparent, it doesn't support crime, and vulnerable members of society are protected, citizens of the UK can enjoy betting on casino games and sporting events.
As such, the Commission regulate all types of gambling from on-location to remote gambling and even the National Lottery. As the chief regulatory body for any type of gambling inside the UK, the UK Gambling Commission is the place to turn to for insights into how the industry is functioning.
The UK itself is also a great barometer of where the industry is headed in general, as they are the number one gambling country in the world. Studies show that up to 65% of adults above the age of 21 in the UK are regular gamblers in some form or another. Gamblers in the UK also participate in almost all forms of gambling from sports betting to horse racing to lotteries to playing in real-world and online casinos.
Most of the numbers available to us were collected by the UK Gambling Commission from the previous year (from October 2016 to September 2017). The statistics for 2018 are still being collected. However, as the numbers have been following the same trends for the past few years, there is no reason to doubt that we will see similar results once the new numbers are released. Decreases and increases are measured against the previous statistical period of April 2016 to March 2017.
The total Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) for the UK was £13.9bn, which is up by 0.7% from the previous year.
Of this, the remote sector accounted for £4.9bn, which is a 1.0% increase for this sector and which bumped it up to 35.2% of the market share.
The most noticeable finding was that with its current market share of 35.2% and a GGY of £4.9bn, the online gambling industry is now the largest sector within the gambling industry as a whole. In second place is the non-remote betting sector with a total of £3.3bn (22% of market share) followed in third place by the National Lottery itself at £3bn (20% of market share).
Interestingly, the non-remote gambling sector was the only one that saw a decline. However, the number of casino premises in the UK increased once again. If you dig deeper into the numbers, you see that betting centres have declined for the fourth consecutive year to number 8,532. Machines also account for the largest portion of GGY in this sector, generating 58.2% of the yield and seeing a £4m increase.
This leads to the conclusion that betting is struggling and in decline but that other casino-related gambling activities are still very much on the rise.
These types of numbers are not only seen in the UK. Worldwide, the online casino industry is gaining massive traction as people are attracted to the prospect of being able to gamble anywhere on a single account.
The online gambling market had a total volume of $37.9bn in 2015 and is expected to grow to $51.96bn by the end of 2018. This would mean that the industry will have doubled from where it was in 2009.
Although the remote gambling sector has already overtaken the non-remote sector in the UK, this is not the case in all countries. In the US, non-remote casino gaming still dwarfs remote gambling with a total volume of $71.1bn in 2015. This is also common in many other countries with a healthy number of gamblers. However, this is changing quickly, and it seems as if it's only a matter of time before online casinos catch up.


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A variously motivated reluctance on my part to take a place in this panel discussion was chiefly overcome by the reflection that the occasion might be taken to dissociate my name from the experiment in college religion teaching that was undertaken in 1940 at Georgetown University and Loyola College, Baltimore, under my direction. Actually, it is at least four years since I was obliged for various reasons to give up active participation in the experiment; and the nominal dissociation, so to speak, would seem to follow naturally on this real dissociation. Moreover, whatever ideas I contributed are now publici iuris; and those who have carried on the experiment with much gallantry and intelligence will be more free to develop or relinquish those ideas, if this fact is accepted. The course has in fact seen developments with which I am not entirely familiar and which I cannot, and would not presume to, judge. They may or may not conform to my own ideas; it does not now matter. At all events, other names should stand sponsor for them. Finally, it should be obvious that my name is no sort of aegis!
The whole experiment was directed at contributing to the solution of three major problems. The first concerns the pattern of the college religion course. Here the way to a solution was conceived to involve primarily a clear formulation of the finality of the course. Finis est prima causarum. The end in view would inevitably determine the structural lines of the course, its content and emphases, its pedagogical principles and their application in teaching techniques, and even the literary form of the texts to be written.
In turn, the formulation of the finality of the course supposes (1) an analysis of our own times and of the special spiritual crisis they are witnessing, and (2) a corresponding analysis of the mission and function of the laymen in the contemporary Church, as she confronts this special crisis, which is spiritual indeed, but posited in the temporal order, the order of the layman's life.
The second problem concerns the teacher. The principle here was that in the teaching of religion, more than in the teaching of any other discipline, the preponderant role must be assigned to the personality of the teacher—his native endowments of imagination and feeling, the perfection of his theological knowledge that would give him flexibility in its use, his pedagogical skills, his own sense of consecration that would be the source of an inspirational quality in his teaching, in a word, all that is meant by "authority" as the special attribute of the "prophet," specially necessary when the prophetic office is exercised in a classroom. It was a further principle that the undergraduate course in theology does not, as it is not really supposed to, equip a man to teach college religion. Some specialized study and training are necessary, their content and manner to be determined by thought and experiment. There was therefore in view a sort of Institute of Higher Religious Education; it had exceedingly modest beginnings in two summer-long seminars in 1940 and 1941. Among its values was to be the establishment of solidarity among the men devoted to this work; this would be the condition of fruitful collective thought and exchange of experience.
The third problem concerns the integration of the religion course both with the religious activities of the college and more particularly with the rest of the academic curriculum—notably with philosophy, and also with literature, history and the social sciences. Clearly, this is the most difficult problem of all. However, apart from its solution there will be no adequate solution to the college religion problem. The pattern of the course, for instance, would necessarily be modified, as integration with other disciplines is effected. And the vitality of the course will always depend both on what it can borrow from these disciplines and on what it can give to them. Furthermore, theology (even in the "college" sense) either is, or is not, the queen of the sciences. And if she is, she should be permitted to be imperious.
tion unto religious adulthood, in intelligence, character, and sentiment." Adulthood in religious intelligence involves (1) a movement from the surface (Catholic practices, devotions, etc.) to the center, which is Christ, viewed in his full living reality; (2) an insight into Catholicism, in its doctrines, laws, liturgy, etc., as an organic whole, whose principle of unity is again Christ; (3) a personal possession of the whole truth of Christ, through a personal "discovery" of it; (4) a grasp of the relationship of Catholic truth to all other truth, and to the whole of life and all its problems; (5) the development of the faculty of Christian judgment on all that is secular.
Adulthood in religious character implies that insights have become fixed convictions principles of action, sources of felt responsibility. It implies too the acquisition of a certain "conquering quality of soul," as against so much Catholic defensiveness; an adult knows his powers as well as his responsibilities.
Adulthood in religious sentiment means all that is meant by "the Catholic sense," a habit of action and reaction that is instinctively Catholic. It means all that St. Ignatius meant by "framing one's affections to the true doctrine of Christ" (Three Modes), that is the secret of all high resolve and full spiritual energy.
This triple adulthood is what college religion should in general cultivate. More specifically, I should state the finality of the course as follows: (1) The theological instruction and religious formation (2) of the Catholic high school graduate, (3) that will leave him conscious of, and equipped for, his Christian responsibilities as a layman, and as a member of an elite among the laity, (4) in our contemporary world, in which the Church has assigned to such men a definite, imposing mission. Each of these four elements can here have only brief development.
living. We can only give him the Word, and hope that the Word itself will be in him the Verbum spirans amorem. Our effort can only be so to present the Word that the students will see that it is spoken to them and demands an answer in terms of life. For the rest, they must themselves furnish the answer.
2) The "Catholic high school graduate" is the material in view. Those who have not the religious instruction and training achieved on this level constitute a special problem; but this group cannot furnish a norm in constructing the college course. Otherwise we shall be cheating our best students.
In this material we suppose, as fundamental, the habit of faith, and therefore a certain connaturality with the truth. We must suppose, too, a certain hostility to the truth—a hostility of mind (scepticism, rationalism, resistance to authority), and of heart (superficiality, worldliness, moral problems). However, our effort is less to combat this hostility than to cure it, by cutting under it; it is relatively a thing of the surface. Finally, we must suppose the call of God to the youth of today; in its own way the course must make articulate that call. Therefore, it will not have the timelessness proper (up to a point) to the seminary course; it must rather have a certain timeliness, with the accent put on the truths which the Church herself is accenting today. By the same token the course will be constructed less in accord with the laws of logic, that insure dialectical consequence, than in accord with the law of grace as vocatio congrua, that insures psychological effectiveness.
3) The development of the layman's sense of his Christian responsibilities stands high among the finalities of the course. What these responsibilities are, in their distinction from those specific of the priest, I have elsewhere tried to say.2 In general, it is the layman's task to heal the schism that has been created between the Church and human society, between the spiritual and temporal orders, between the idea of "man" and the idea of "Christian." The Church today wants to create a new populus christianus in the old sense of that splendid term, as implying a special historic mission and vocation, but with a newly concrete meaning in the face of today's task, which is the creation from the bottom up (so to speak) of a new order of human life and institutions that will operate towards human ends because they are animated by the Christian spirit mediated to them by the Christian people.
note here only that "responsibility" is, as it were, the middle term between knowledge and action. It is the consciousness of one's baptismal character, felt as a burden, and likewise as an energizing dynamism prompting to the apostolate as the normal accompaniment of the Christian life. The truth we teach should be felt as a burden, because its possession is something the student must answer for; it should likewise be felt as "the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1:6), a salvation that is more than personal.
I should add too that the college man has a special responsibility by reason of his educational privileges. We are dealing with an elite, and even within the whole group there will be those of particular intellectual and spiritual capacities. The course therefore must be, in regard of all, inspirational of something better than mediocrity, and, in regard of the better students, particularly taxing. These latter ought to benefit most from it, and it ought somehow to be geared to their potentialities; for they are the special hope of the Church, particularly in that apostolate in the world of thought which is perhaps primary among her concerns today. This means that the course must, first, make high academic demands, and secondly, propose high spiritual ideals.
4) It is the special needs of our contemporary world that give focus to the layman's responsibilities. Hence the course, as integrated with other pertinent elements of the curriculum, ought to leave the student with a very concrete and Christian understanding of his own world, the total intellectual and moral milieu that will be the theater of his action. For this reason a climactic importance attaches to Senior year, wherein the hope is to effect the final syntheses—faith and reason, nature and grace, Christianity and humanism, ecclesiastical duty and civic duty, Church and State, supernatural religion and human society.
I do not know whether this statement, necessarily rather general, of the "idea" of the college course is all that is expected of me. To go on to construct and fill out a framework of study fitting this idea, hoc opus, hic labor est. One would have first to distinguish, and define for each year, both the academic objectives and the special religious finality; and in regard of academic content, one would further have to distinguish the historical and the doctrinal. I do not think that any one detailed pattern could be considered uniquely ideal; a variety of patterns, differing at least in considerable detail, are possible. What is of cardinal importance is synthesis, the construction of a genuinely organic whole, a corpus doctrinae wherein part is articulated with part and the whole grows by orderly explicitation of certain major, closely interrelated ideas.
As soon as one starts patching together, for "practical" reasons, a little of this and a little of that, one has left the college level. Just as one would leave the lay level by falling back into the divisions and categories that have become solemn with the professional theologian.
I once thought that the general progression of major ideas, each dominating a year, should be: Christ, the Cross, the Church, the Church and the World (i.e., the order of faith and grace in relation to the order of reason and nature; one might better use the title, The Divine and the Human). Each is a general rubric, denoting an organized body of doctrine, to which the introduction is historical, predominantly scriptural. It would be equally good, perhaps better, to invert the second and third ideas, putting the Church first. What follows is an indication in telegraphic style of the matter to be organized under each rubric.
I. Freshman. The historical part embraces a detailed and organized knowledge (1) of the Gospels as the sources of the life of Christ, (2) of the life of Christ in its structure and progression from his birth to the confession before the Sanhedrin, the climax of his prophetic mission. This history is the background for the dogma of the Incarnation, formulated as the faith of the Church at Ephesus and Chalcedon. These definitions display in archtype the notion of the supernatural: Christ, perfect man, perfect God, perfectly one. They therefore lay the foundation for the dogma of the Church as itself a theandric composite, and for the whole economy of redemption as involving at every turn the union of the human and the divine.
II. Sophomore. The historical introduction studies the Acts of the Apostles from the standpoint of the Holy Spirit at His principal work of gathering men into the catholica unitas which is the Church, the Body of Christ. This concept of the Church is further followed in the pertinent Epistles of St. Paul. The doctrinal study then bears, first, on this concept in its twofold aspect, the Body mystical and the Body juridical, whose inner principle of unity is the Holy Spirit, dwelling in the Church and in the faithful, whose visible principle of unity is the primacy of the Roman Pontiff; there is put here the analysis of the Church's magisterium and jurisdiction as the continuation of the prophetic and kingly mission of Christ. Secondly, the doctrinal study considers the process of the Church's gathering: God's salvific and predestining will is the origin of the process, as it is the first cause of actual grace, that does the gathering.
from the second Adam to the first), made real in us by baptism, whose grace is completed by confirmation and restored, if lost, by penance. Secondly, one moves to the mystical re-enactment of the Cross which is the Mass, the center and source of Christian life, and to the sacrament of orders whereby the priesthood of Christ is perpetuated in the Church. Finally, from the Eucharist, futurae gloriae pignus, one goes on to the "future glory" itself—the triumph of Christ, the Church, and the faithful (eschatology, and the sacrament of extreme unction).
IV. Senior. Equipped by this time with some philosophy, the student may turn to the problems involved in the relationship between the two orders of human thought and life. First, there is the problem of faith and reason; this ought to be studied in the amplitude of its contemporary position as indicated, e.g., by Aubier, Le problème de l'acte de foi (Louvain: Warny, 1945), wherein the weight falls on the problem of religion itself; the demonstratio christiana and catholica can be briefly treated, by an indication of their structure. Secondly, there is the problem of the mission of the Church in the temporal order, unto the renewal and reinstitutionalization of society; of this mission the layman is the bearer. There arise here the problems of marriage, the family, and education; of Church and State; of the socio-economic program of the encyclicals; of Catholic Action (lay responsibility, the institutional apostolate).
All this is a bare sketch of academic content. Admittedly, to fill it out, and produce texts, would be no easy matter. And the prime difficulty would be, not so much the sheer organization of material, but its organization in such a way that the academic study demanded would be a means of spiritual formation, centered progressively on clearly formulated religious finalities proper to each year. At this point, the initially theological work of constructing an ordered course goes over into a pedagogical problem of considerable magnitude. Both principle (e.g., utilization of liturgy as the vehicle of doctrine) and experience would need to be brought to bear on its solution. At all events, a solution should be available to imagination, knowledge, and hard work.
and many books. And after lines had been laid down, and substance given to the pattern, and texts done, there would be a long state of collective thought. It would review the plan and detail of the course, to consider in the light of actual teaching experience whether it were viable and effective. However, it has seemed to me that no course with a genuine organic form, suited to its finality, would ever come into existence unless one man did the work of its formation. He should indeed so form it as to allow sufficient room in which the individual personalities of teachers might rattle round. On them, in the last analysis, the success of the course would depend. But the pattern of the course itself, if it is to be unified, can only come from one mind.
So I thought nine years ago; so I think now. I may very well be wrong. At all events, the one man is to be somebody else, not I!
1Papers of this panel discussion were delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Jesuit Educational Association, Philadelphia, Pa., April 18, 1949.
2Murray, John Courtney, S.J., "Towards a Theology for the Layman," Jesuit Educational Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 4, (March 1949), pp. 221–28, gives a summary of more complete references listed.


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Technology Enables HVAC Contractors to Crack Down on Distracted Driving
TAKE YOUR PICK: Contractors have several tools available, such as GPS, Sync, cameras, etc., to monitor and ensure techs are not using their cellphones while driving or engaging in other distracted behaviors.
KEYWORDS driving safety / fleet tracking / HVAC contracting / smartphones
The advent of smartphones has made life both simpler and more complicated for people around the world. Information is now readily available with just a push of a button on these hand-held computers. However, in this age of instant gratification, people have also become somewhat addicted to their cellular devices, even when they should be focusing on other important tasks, such as driving.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) defines distracted driving as any activity that diverts attention from driving, including talking or texting, eating and drinking, and even fiddling with the radio or navigation system. In 2015, 3,477 people were killed and 391,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers, per the NHTSA. Additionally, the agency reported that during daylight hours, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cellphones while driving. This presents an enormous risk for accidents and injuries, especially for service companies, like HVAC contractors, whose employees spend much of their time on the road traveling to and from job sites.
LIABILITY AND LOSS OF WORK
Lorton, Virginia-based Trademasters Service Corp. features a company policy banning the use of cellphones while driving. The company also outfitted its fleet with cameras.
"We did it [added cameras] because we want to be better drivers," said Dave Kyle, president, Trademasters. "We're in a major metro area — the Washington, D.C., metro area — and the traffic is really bad, and things can get a little nutty. It also helps protect our drivers from other bad drivers. There might be a distracted driver that weaves into their lane. This helps protect my drivers, their licenses, reputations, and everything else. But also, maybe subconsciously, it has them trying to focus a little more on our culture of 'it can wait.' There's no reason to be messing with devices while you're driving — you need to be driving."
CAMERAS IN USE: Lorton, Virginia-based Trademasters Service Corp. has banned the use of cellphones while driving as well as outfitted its fleet of vehicles with cameras for the protection of its drivers.
Trademasters has endeavored to establish a top-down culture that prohibits distracted driving. The company also covers the issue in its regular Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-compliant training. According to Kyle, he is also frank when talking to employees about the cost to insure a business like Trademasters.
"To bring it home, we ask, 'Who here would prefer a better base wage? Raise your hand,'" he explained. "And of course, all the hands go up. Then we ask, 'Or, who would prefer to give all the money to the insurance company?' Nobody raises their hands. Our insurance rates are based on our performance as good drivers and other factors as well. We also point out that they're saving at home because an accident will cost them on their personal insurance as well. It's a no-win situation. We've been talking about it more, and our cameras go to show our commitment to those things."
Distracted driving could also have a detrimental impact on a contractor's ability to win jobs in the form of its worker's compensation modification number (Mod), Kyle noted. Insurance companies look at everybody in the industry and come up with a modification number. Most worker's compensation rates are set by states. So that rate can be modified up or down based on a company's history and experience with accidents and injuries.
"If you were to open a business today, your Mod would theoretically be 1.0 because you haven't had any accidents or lawsuits," Kyle explained. "Our Mod is significantly less than 1.0, which means in every dollar of worker's compensation the state can charge us, they charge us the multiplier of less. If the guy down the street from me has a Mod of 1.1, he's paying 10 percent more. Whereas, if I have a 0.9 or 0.8, I'm paying 10 to 20 percent less for worker's compensation.
"One of our best clients is the federal government," he continued. "And the federal government thinks safety is so important that when you turn in a proposal with certain agencies, you have to attach your Mod as well. They look to see if it's a 1.0 or less before considering a proposal. The reason I point that out is because, according to OSHA, one of the main sources of injuries in our industry is driving — it's vehicular. The injury of a driver can be counted as a worker's compensation event. Something like that would impact our Mod and our ability to do business with one of our largest clients: the federal government."
Trademasters also monitors its vehicles through GPS, which sends email alerts for selected conditions, such as speeding or sudden stops.
But, there's also the danger of other drivers being distracted, Kyle added.
"Every time we bring this up, our drivers all have these war stories of other drivers being distracted," he said. "This has a sort of doubling effect of why we can't be distracted — because 20 percent of the other drivers are distracted. You always want to be driving defensively. So we say 'it can wait,' because it can. You can wait to respond to the phone call or text message."
J&J Air Conditioning in San Jose, California, has tried a different approach to eliminate distracted driving amongst its technicians and installers. For the last two years, the company has been employing the use of the 'do not disturb' feature on employees' cellphones while they are driving.
SAFETY FIRST: Noah York was one of the first employees at J&J Air Conditioning in San Jose, California, to utilize the 'do not disturb' driving feature on his smartphone.
"Our techs have Android Samsung phones, and we can set the phones to automatically connect to a preset Bluetooth device, so these devices connect to the vehicles," said Frank Quintanar, service manager, J&J Air Conditioning. "What that does is engage this [Sync] feature, so it sends an auto reply to any text messages you receive while in the vehicle."
There are several older vehicles without the Sync feature, Quintanar noted, but it is company policy that if the vehicle is equipped, the driver must use it.
"A few years ago, we really ramped up our safety program," he said. "We felt it was important to include this. We had several accidents — some were at fault, but most were others' mistakes. And in most cases, someone was on the phone. It doesn't take much to lose sight of what you're doing. Driving should be at the forefront. We saw a decrease in at-fault accidents once we started doing this here."
While driving safety and this policy is important to the company, Quintanar said J&J doesn't necessarily monitor that employees are using it as they should.
"The truck is a driving billboard, and people will call us if someone is on the phone or driving erratically," he said. "But we can't really police it. Our techs do have an increase in safety and awareness, and that's what drives our program. It's all about getting them home safely."
Tyler Jeffrey, COO, Air Comfort Corp., Broadview, Illinois, heard about what J&J Air Conditioning had been doing at a Unified Group meeting, and he decided the program would work well for his company.
"This automatic reply message is available as an option on most smartphones, and most of us didn't even know it existed," he said. "We updated our company policy so we now use this. We had watched a video at a safety meeting about distracted driving that said even talking on a hands-free device is the equivalent of drunk driving, which was news to us. We hadn't heard that message before. We're always thinking, as long as it's hands-free, we're fine. But you can only do so many things at one time. When you're talking, it takes a primary portion of your brain, and driving becomes secondary. It's dangerous."
Jeffrey implemented the 'do not disturb' feature for employees just a few months ago. It's mandatory for all company-issued cellphones. However, there's really no way to monitor use, he noted. Instead, the company keeps reiterating that it wants employees to go home safe at the end of the day, and that it's OK to get back to a customer at a later time.
"We used to have Friday morning job meeting phone calls to talk to the sales engineers about their projects," Jeffrey said. "We had one sales engineer who would joke about missing his exit because he was on the phone with us, and I realized, 'Oh my gosh, we're about to kill John.'"
Needless to say, the company has since ended that practice. The job meeting phone calls no longer take place while the techs are driving — they must pull over and call in once they are parked.
Another option for preventing distracted driving is Cellcontrol, a patented distracted driving solution featuring two main components: a hardware device in the vehicle called DriveID and an app on the phone or other mobile device. Bobby Ring, president and CEO, Meyer & Depew Co. Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, implemented the technology a few months ago.
CONFIGURABLE SAFE MODE: Cellcontrol is a patented distracted driving solution featuring two main components: a hardware device in the vehicle called DriveID and an app on the phone or other mobile device. It stops all mobile device distractions, including texts, phone calls, emails, and web browsing.
"Cellcontrol requires the app be installed on all the phones, and there is a small device that is put into the truck — it's a little bit bigger than a pack of cigarettes," said Ring. "The device talks to the app, and tells the app when the vehicle is in motion."
The Cellcontrol platform stops all mobile device distractions, including texts, phone calls, emails, and web browsing; however, emergency calls are always allowed through the platform. Additionally, the software is completely configurable to each company. Fleet administrators can decide which mobile functions to allow in safe mode, such as allowing navigation apps but blocking texts and hand-held calls.
"The software allows us to define what an employee can and can't do while the vehicle is in motion," Ring said. "We're currently allowing them to make and receive Bluetooth hands-free phone calls. They can't use the device for anything else. It's basically locked down. If need be, we could even restrict that. You can set your policy up so the phone is absolutely useless — it can't be used for any reason while someone is driving. There's a lot of pros and cons to not doing that. There's always a time when we have to get ahold of someone, so we decided the ability to have a Bluetooth conversation was important to our business."
Ring said there has been an increased awareness of distracted driving since incorporating the Cellcontrol in company vehicles. However, it's too early to tell if the technology is reducing accident rates. Ring hopes that the company will see a significant reduction, at least in accidents caused by his drivers.
DISABLING DEVICES: Bobby Ring, president and CEO of Meyer & Depew Co. Inc. in Kenilworth, New Jersey, implemented Cellcontrol technology a few months ago to ensure his techs stay safe on the road.
"This has led to some tension in the workplace as well because we told our employees that they do not have to install this app on their personal phones, but if they wanted to bring their personal phones into the workplace, they had to install the app," he said. "Some of them are concerned about 'Big Brother' because we have some ability to know where they're at and what they're doing during work hours. But if they're not in their vehicle or not in close proximity to the Bluetooth range of the device that's in their vehicle, the app does absolutely nothing. We have no desire or interest to know what they're doing outside of working hours."
Every automobile and worker's compensation accident is reviewed by Meyer & Depew's safety review board, who then makes recommendations on disciplinary action, policy change, or additional training in order to prevent an accident from happening again. The company has also outlined progressive disciplinary actions and consequences for employees bringing personal cellphones into the workplace without installing the Cellcontrol app.
"There are multiple benefits for us to be doing this," Ring added. "The most obvious ones are avoiding injury to our employees or anyone else on the road. Other benefits are reducing the cost of accidents, reducing the cost of worker's compensation claims, and promoting a positive image in the community."
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Замок Дуннашед ("Dún na Séad" на ирландском, это буквально означает "Крепость драгоценностей"), иногда известен как "Болтиморский замок", представляет собой укрепленный дом XVII-го века, расположенный в деревне Болтимор в западном Корке в  Ирландии. Рыцарская башня была построена на месте более ранней постройки нормандской эпохи, которая сама заменила более раннюю постройку бронзового века, дун или круглый форт. Традиционно связанный с семьей О'Дрисколл, он был куплен и отреставрирован членами семьи Маккарти в конце 1990-х годов и частично открыт для публики с 2005 года.

История
Нынешний замок не первый, построенный на этом месте. В 1215, англо-нормандский поселенец, ФитцСтефенс, построил там башенный дом с бауном (ирландской рыцарской башней), который заменил гораздо более старое укрепление на этом месте, вероятно, круглый форт. В 1305 году замок был атакован и сожжён одним из самых могущественных гэльских септов в этой части острова, Маккарти. Другой гэльский септ, О'Дрисколлы, гораздо меньший по размеру, но всё же могущественный в этой части страны, впоследствии завладел Дуннашедом и восстановил его.

О'Дрисколлы постоянно подвергались давлению со стороны англо-нормандских поселенцев и соперничающих гэльских кланов, претендующих на их территорию и торговые интересы, что приводило к многочисленным нападениям и разрушениям замка в последующие столетия. Одна особенно продолжительная распря разразилась между О'Дрисколлами и уотерфордскими торговцами в 1368 году после нападения О'Дрисколлов на флот Уотерфорда.  Эта вражда продолжалась почти два века и закончилась разграблением Дуннашеда и Болтимора и других замков О'Дрисколлов другим флотом Уотерфорда в 1537 году.

Замок был перестроен, но после того, как О'Дрисколлы поддержали Хью О'Нила в Битве при Кинсейле, замок был взят английской армиеё. Некоторые из О'Дрисколлов были помилованы, и Дуннашед был возвращён Флоренс О'Дрисколл, которая впоследствии сдала его в аренду вместе с большей частью своих земель из-за финансовых проблем. Нынешний замок, вероятно, был построен в 1620-х годах и был взят войсками Оливера Кромвеля в 1640-х годах.

Позже замок превратился в руины, но в период с 1997 по 2005 год был отремонтирован и сейчас используется как частная резиденция.

Архитектура

Дуннашед построен на гряде песчаника в самом центре Балтимора, с видом на гавань. Он состоит из двухэтажного прямоугольного здания (с дополнительным мансардным помещением), окруженного изгородью или навесной стеной. Главное здание установлено в юго-западную стену бауна и имеет размеры примерно 18 м. Защитные характеристики этого здания скудны по сравнению с более ранними домами-башнями в этом регионе; на первом этаже окна представляют собой узкие щели, а на втором есть бартизан в юго-западном углу.

См. также
 Список замков Ирландии

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Примечания

Замки графства Корк

Замки, построенные в XVII веке

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