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Why Is Fidelity National (FIS) Up 2.7% Since Its Last Earnings Report?
May 31, 2018 12:13PM EDT
It has been about a month since the last earnings report for Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.FIS . Shares have added about 2.7% in that time frame.
Will the recent positive trend continue leading up to its next earnings release, or is FIS due for a pullback? Before we dive into how investors and analysts have reacted as of late, let's take a quick look at the most recent earnings report in order to get a better handle on the important drivers.
Fidelity Beats on Q1 Earnings, Revises View
Fidelity's first-quarter 2018 adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations came in at $1.09, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.04. Also, earnings improved 32.9% from the year-ago quarter figure of 82 cents.
First-quarter results reflect lower expenses and expanding margin. Also, the company raised full-year 2018 guidance on relatively strong first-quarter performance. However, decline in revenues and huge outstanding debt remains key headwinds.
The company reported net earnings of $182 million or 54 cents in the quarter compared with $129 million or 39 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Decline in Expenses Partially Offset by Lower Revenues
GAAP revenues for the quarter came in at $2.07 billion, which declined 3.8% year over year. However, the figure surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.04 billion.
Organic revenue growth was 3.3% in the quarter.
Selling, general and administrative expenses came in at $358 million, down 12.9% year over year.
Segment wise, Integrated Financial Solutions' GAAP revenues grew 2.3% year over year to $1.04 billion while revenues from Global Financial Solutions declined 7.6% to $927 million. Corporate/Other revenues decreased 27.6% to $78 million.
Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose nearly 6.7% year over year to $705 million while adjusted EBITDA margin expanded 340 basis points to 34.1%.
As of Mar 31, 2018, cash and cash equivalents were $725 million compared with $705 million as of Mar 31, 2017. Debt outstanding was nearly $9.08 billion.
In the first quarter, net cash provided by operations was $354 million and free cash flow was $226 million.
Fidelity paid dividends worth $106 million in the quarter and repurchased 4.1 million shares at a total cost of about $400 million.
Guidance for 2018
Fidelity expects organic revenue growth to be in the range of 2.5-3.5% while GAAP revenue growth is expected to decline 1.5-2.5%.
Adjusted earnings per share are expected to be in the band of $5.14-$5.34, up from $5.10-$5.30 expected previously.
Adjusted EBITDA margin is expected in the range of 36-37%.
Management expects adjusted depreciation and amortization to be in the range of $660-$680 million.
Net interest expenses are expected to come in about $280 million in 2018.
Full-year 2018 effective tax rate is anticipated to be about 20%.
Management expects net minority interest to be about $27 million.
Capital expenditures of about 7% of revenues are likely to be made in 2018.
How Have Estimates Been Moving Since Then?
In the past month, investors have witnessed an upward trend in fresh estimates. There have been six revisions higher for the current quarter compared to two lower.
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Price and Consensus
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Price and Consensus | Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Quote
VGM Scores
At this time, FIS has an average Growth Score of C, a grade with the same score on the momentum front. Following the exact same course, the stock was also allocated a grade of C on the value side, putting it in the middle 20% for this investment strategy.
Overall, the stock has an aggregate VGM Score of D. If you aren't focused on one strategy, this score is the one you should be interested in.
Based on our scores, the stock is equally suitable for value, growth, and momentum investors.
Estimates have been broadly trending upward for the stock and the magnitude of these revisions looks promising. Notably, FIS has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). We expect an in-line return from the stock in the next few months.
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS): Free Stock Analysis Report


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Was November gone in a flash for you? I think I blinked and it was over!
Looking for a fun, fishy thing to do if you are too cold to fish? The Go Fish Education Center is hosting their 3rd Annual "Go Fish Christmas" celebration on Mon. Dec. 3, 2018 (5:30 – 8 pm). What will you get to do? View the amazing Go Fish aquariums at night and see Santa scuba diving (6-7 pm, weather permitting). You can read a story and sing songs with Mrs. Claus, make Christmas crafts and other fun activities.
Lucky for us, there is still plenty of good fishing to be done before we say good-by to 2018. Below are fresh fishing reports from North, Central and Southeast Georgia. Go Fish Georgia!!
"Baby, it's cold outside!" but "The sun will come out tomorrow." These lyrics from two famous songs capture this week's fishing conditions in North Georgia. Despite the weather challenges, our fisheries staff is working hard to improve your odds of catching fish. DNR's Trout Stocking Coordinator, John Lee Thomson, produced some nice-sized rainbow trout at Burton Trout Hatchery this season and stocked a truckload last week into Amicalola Creek's Delayed Harvest section. In addition, Buford Trout Hatchery stocked the DH section of the Morgan Fall tailwaters this week. The delayed harvest (DH) program is a popular component of our trout stocking plan that focuses on high catch rates during the cold-weather months.
Carters Lake was also in the spotlight. DNR Fisheries Biologist, Jim Hakala, stocked Carter's Lake with a hefty number of hybrid bass, courtesy of South Georgia's Richmond Hill Hatchery. Shown in the photo (to the left) is Jason Howard, Richmond Hill Hatchery Manager, with one of his prize beauties about to be released into the lake. Carters Lake is known for its trophy hybrid bass fishing and this week's stocking will support this outstanding fishery. For more information about the Carters Lake fishery, check out Jim's report HERE. On a side note, congratulations to Jim Hakala for recently completing DNR's Leadership Academy!
sufficiently mixed with the surface waters and now there is plenty of good water quality for fish to enjoy. As a result, striped bass and other open-water wanderers will be scattered lakewide. Check out Hunter's latest Lake Lanier profile measured this week at the dam.
And finally, kudos to Matt Elliott, the Assistant Chief of WRD's Wildlife Conversation Section, who took some time for fishing last week and landed some nice yellow perch from the North Georgia mountain lakes. All in all, not a bad week for North Georgia.
Bass: The lake has been pretty stable over the past week and now stands at .7 feet below full pool. The main lake is fairly clear, and the creeks are stained. The spoon bite in the timber has been the bomb for us this week! We have had some great days, including one half day trip when we boated 55 fish, with the best 5 going 17 pounds. Look in the 30 to 45 foot range for the spoon fish, but that can change any day in terms of the depth they are holding based on the bait. Look for the fish to be tighter to the timber on sunny days, and roaming more in those ditches on cloudy days. We have also still been working shallower rocky points with crankbaits, jigs, and worms in the mornings and sometimes throughout the day. When the fish are active, the crankbaits are hard to beat. Try using a deeper diving crankbait, like the Spro Little John DD on those shallow points keep the bait digging on the bottom. You can cover water quickly and find the aggressive fish. Also, with the cooling water temperatures, look for the jerk bait bite to pick up soon as well in those same areas, as well as back in pockets. When the bite slows, switch to a worm and jig presentation in those same areas but back out from the shallows. The chasing fish have been in 10 feet or less, and the worm and jig fish have been more in the 12 to 20 foot range, but we have found them to be very shallow at times as well. Look for those worm and jig fish to show up deeper now on some days as well, based on the water continuing to cool. Focus on the shallower rock points in both the mouths of creeks as well as the main lake. Also the mouths of creek pockets in the first half of the major creeks have been productive as well. The creek ditches are holding some fish now in shallower water and we have been catching some on the SuperSpin down in the ditches on some days so count that bite has officially started and ready for training! THIS is the time to learn those winter patterns ditch fishing timber fishing spoon fishing….it's a great time to learn them all. I hope you will make plans to come join me. This is a great time to learn the deep timber bite with a spoon, worm, and jig, as well as the SuperSpin fishing in the ditches.
Striped Bass: Striper fishing is good if you can handle the cold temperatures and high winds. There are fish scattered from Vann's Tavern to Little River and from the river channel to the back of the creeks. The key is to find the areas with the greatest concentration of bait. Look for deep bait from 30 to 50 feet over a 50 to 100 foot bottom. When you locate a high concentration of this deep bait target any fish you mark with herring and medium shiner's on down rods. Fish your down rods above, into and under the bait. Also, look for shallow bait from surface to 20 feet and target these areas with free lines and planner boards. Vary the depth of you lines with split shots and distance behind the boat and planner boards. The umbrella rig is working in the areas with shallow bait and makes and excellent search tool. Set your rigs at 120 feet back and pull at 2.8 to 3.0 MPH. Focus on a depth of 30 to 60 feet. We have seen some surface activity early morning so keep your eyes on the water and target these areas with a buck tail jig and small spoons. Flat Creek, Balus Creek and Two Mile Creek are good places to start your search.
Lake Allatoona-Bass: (This Lake Allatoona bass fishing guides report is from Matt Driver) — Bass fishing is good. The fish are suspended out and easily targeted if you have good sonar. The 10 to 15 foot range mouths of creeks and few coves where the channel swings. The deep soft plastic swim bait, and float n fly have been doing the trick. The jig bite has been great as well. Steeper rock banks or rocky points is the place to be. The brown and purple KK Dock monkey and the Kaci's Custom green pumpkin are catching good quality fished on 12 pound test Sun line sniper. The warmer weather this weekend will get a few fish up shallow and some have even been caught on top. The warm spell will also bring some rain.
Lake Allatoona-Striper and Hybrid: (This Lake Allatoona striper and hybrid report fishing report has been brought to you exclusively by Robert Eidson, eidson6260@att.net, of First Bite Guide Service) — Line side fishing is great. The bite has been incredible this month. The big fish are moving back out of the rivers and into the main lake. The smaller fish are bunching up in big schools and are eating. The north end of lake has been best for the bigger fish. Flat lines and down lining large gizzard shad is the ticket if you want to catch a trophy. Look for these fish from Fields Landing to Duck hole. If it's numbers you're after, look for big schools of hybrids from the mouth to Kellogg's to Clark Creek on the edges of the river channel. Seagulls are giving these fish away. Threadfin fished 18 to 30 feet deep midday has been our better bite. This is the best fall fishing we have seen in years.
Lake Hartwell: Bass fishing is good. Head up the rivers and just work the banks and points with spinner baits and crank baits. Down lake anglers are using jigging spoons in deep water to catch their limit. The slow periods still seem to be during the high noon time until about 3:00 p.m. During these slow times, switch to a Carolina rig or pick apart the deeper water docks. Wood cover will still be the key areas to fish this week. Whether you fish the banks or hit the points, try to find all the forms of wood you can and fish it. Start off with those spinner baits and crank baits then follow it up with a jig or worm. Use the Rapala RS Shad Raps, DT10's, four inch finesse worms and flukes.
Lake Weiss: (Report by Mark Collins Service – mark@markcollins service.com) — Bass fishing is good. A lot of bass are starting to move shallow on a fall pattern, Rat L Traps and shallow running crank baits are catching fish. Rip Rap rocks are also holding fish. Shallow road beds and secondary points are holding fish. The Spotted Bass are doing well in the upper Coosa River near Riverside. If a normal presentation is not producing, try dead sticking the bait, allowing it to sit motionless for 10 to 30 seconds before moving slightly. Open water structure fishing has gotten tougher, but bass can still be caught around some points and ledges, especially up both rivers. Depths are mostly 6 to 15 feet deep up the lake. Crappie fishing is great and most fish are suspended 8 12 feet deep over the river and creek channels, long line trolling with Jiffy Jigs in 1/24 and 1/16 ounce is producing a lot of fish, casting a float and fly is also catch a lot of fish.
Based on angler reports, it appears that a lot of folks are taking advantage of the extra dose of stocked trout that occurred in the DH streams right before Thanksgiving. Find trout information and weekly stocking reports HERE. Rumor has it that Amicalola and Smith Creeks are fishing well. Hat's off to the trout hatcheries for this opportunity. With heavy rain forecasted for this Saturday, be sure to check the flows at your favorite USGS gaging station before you head out. Also remember that the smaller streams will recede and clear up first so have a backup plan in mind. HERE and HERE are a couple of recent reports about what's hot right now that you might want to check out.
Thanks again for your fishing license and license plate dollars. Hopefully you feel that we're putting them to good use across North Georgia.
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Bass fishing is good. Both the southern part of the lake and Beaverdam Creek are good areas. Try heading up the Savannah River. Bass are biting well starting at the Hartwell Dam all the way down to Rocky River. Picking apart the cover and fishing all the small cuts and bowls will be the key to finding the bass. Use a 1/4 ounce or 3/8 ounce spinnerbait, Rapala DT6 and Rapala DT10, #5 Jointed and RS Shad Raps and a Hot Steal colored X Rap. Use a variety of jigs and four-inch plastic worms. Use a six-inch worm and cut some off it four inches.
Bass fishing is good. With the water temperature dropping, bass fishing has been on one day and off the next. Look for a couple of warm days in a row for your best bite. After a couple of warm days look for the shad in the mouth of coves and pockets. Fish a small crank bait in a shad pattern or a ¼ ounce Rat T Trap in the chrome and black in the area you find shad. A few fish are still being caught under docks using a 3/8 ounce Strike King jig, black and blue with a Zoom Salty Chunk in the watermelon color. Work this bait on the docks in the mouth of the pockets and coves or any blow downs. A spinnerbait fished right next to the dock poles will bring you a few good fish. Make sure you hit the bait against the dock poles then stop the bait for a second before starting the bait back up.
(Report from Capt. Mark Smith of Reel Time Guide Service, reeltime@bellsouth.net) — The lake is full stained over most of the main lake. The Richland creek arm of the lake is clear. The temperature is 50 to 55 degrees.
Bass: Bass fishing is good. You will need to match the color of your bait to the water color. You can fish muddy water up the rivers to clear water in Richland creek. Pick the water color you like and go for it. Sugar creek is not as stained as the main lake. Small crank baits fished around docks and sea walls from the middle of the creeks to the back of the creeks at 8 feet of water depth at the end of the docks seems to be the best producer. Small spinner baits in white and chartreuse fished in the same area will also produce. Don't forget a Rat L Traps fished around the bridge rip rap. Soft plastics have been producing from Sugar Creek north. Again fish around the 8 foot water depth.
Striper: Striper fishing is good. As the mud line mover further south so will the stripers. They do not like muddy water. The stripers are in the river bend area of the lake as of this report but they will move south as the muddy water moves down the lake. Down lines as well as flat lines will produce. Fish are also showing up in the mouths of the coves. Use your Lowrance to locate the schools of bait and the stripers will be close by. Now is the time to go bait hunting. Find large schools of bait and the fish will be close by. The sea gulls have not shown up as of today.
Crappie: Crappie fishing is fair to great. This is the best fishing on Oconee right now. Long-lining (trolling) will produce some nice catches. You will need to run your jigs about 10 to 12 feet deep. Down-lining crappie minnows into tree tops and on ledges on the main lake at 10 ft. deep will also produce a lot of fish. Use your Lowrance to locate the fish in the tree tops and then drop your bait down to the fish.
Bass fishing is fair. The families of spotted bass and their largemouth cousins are suspended in the middle of the major coves on the lake especially the coves that have the wind blowing into them. Vertical jigging with a 1/2 ounce to 3/4 ounce spoon can be productive as well as using a Shad Rap or crank bait. The fish seem to be ready to move to their wintertime locations and mood. Time to get the spoons out and hooks sharp. Anglers will have to put the bait right in front of them. Structure on the ledges is best all day and you have to hit them in the head. Drop small spoons and drag dark jigs on the bottom in the creek mouths close to the river and pick them up and drop them about 5 inches at a time.
Bass fishing is good. After the cold fronts pass, the bass will head both shallow and deep. The shallow water bite can last all next week. Shallow crank baits and lipless crank baits are both working well in the more stained water in the creeks and rivers on the upper end of the lake. Focus on depths of 8 ft. or less for the shallow bite. A cell mate colored Spro Little John 50 and a chrome/blue Aruku shad have both been working around primary and secondary points around creeks and short pockets. Docks on points that have deep water close by have been producing good bites with a jig and a Spot Remover shaky head with a Zoom baby brush hog. Brown with a green pumpkin Zoom Super Chunk has been the best color with the jig. Watermelon candy has been the best colored soft plastic for the shaky head. The deep bite has been best on the lower end of the lake in the clear water. Depths of 22 to 35 feet of water have been best with a spoon and a drop shot rig. Use your Lowrance HDS electronics to find schools of bait around the mouth of creeks in the channel and drop your spoon or drop shot vertically below the boat.
Check your favorite ramp elevation as the lake is low. Bass fishing is fair and the largemouth are holding and relating to the wood in the lake. The spots are roaming around so cover a lot of water and use crank baits like the Bandit or a Shad Rap. This lipped crank bait is an ideal fall bait and will locate and catch a limit of bass each day. With the stained water, use the red crawdad or the red fire crawdad color. Stay in the river mouths especially if they are pulling water through the dam. Any current will drive the bass into a feeding frenzy and cranking the back sides of points and rip rap will get you a limit in a hurry. These bass will relate to the crawfish colors and attack the bait when it comes across. Work the small rocky banks and cover as much water as possible. Check out the small cuts or bowls in the bank and work to the secondary points back in the coves. Follow up this bait with a Shad Rap or Fat Free Shad Fingerling and work the same areas as before on the return back to the ramp.
Bass: Pumpkinseed or Green Pumpkin worms. Willow Leaf Spinnerbaits, Yellow-White 1.5 Strike King KVD HC Square Bill Silent Crankbait, 5" Black Red Silver Flake Laminate Yamamoto Senko Worms, seven-ten foot of water near cover, with a slow retrieval.
Bream: Crickets or Worms (Red Wigglers and Pinks). Near cover or near the shallower water during a full moon. For larger redear try blue/black or white/yellow 2" Rage Tail grubs with the tail cut down 75%, close to cover and with a slow retrieval.
Channel Catfish: Insufficient information to report on.
Crappie: Live minnows are the best at about 5-feet at the dock. Less weight and four-pound test line. Let the minnows swim freely. Watch the line carefully. When the minnow becomes active you will know the crappie are close. Yellow Mr. Crappie line is a must. Change the depth of your minnow between five feet and the bottom. The bigger Crappie are near the bottom. Many 7 and 8-inch Crappie are at the five-foot depth.
Bass: No reports of anglers catching bass and bass are in winter patterns. The bass are feeding on shad on the surface in Breambuster, Willow, and Clubhouse. Bass activity has been slow in Lake Rodbender.
The trophy bass pond is open year-round and anglers can harvest one bass (22) twenty-two inches in length or longer per day.
Channel Catfish: The catfish action has slowed down due to water temperatures but some anglers are still fishing for catfish. The fish feeders at Jones Lake are still operating with three (3) daytime feedings.
Striped Bass: Stripers are being caught in Clubhouse Lake in 2 to 3 pound range. Each angler can keep (15) stripers but only two of them can be over 22 inches. Which means if all stripers are under 22 inches all 15 stripers can be kept.
Bass: December brings cold temperatures and shorter days. Despite our best efforts at Marben, fishing really slows down this time of year. Anglers should try crank baits or rattle traps in the 6 to 10 feet of water. Do not be afraid to try a Texas rig in the same depth. Mid-day will be the best times to target bass giving the sun a little time to warm the water just a touch. Lunker bass are there but anglers need to try slow fishing techniques to lure these trophy fish to bite. Submerged timber and rock beds are good habitats to target when seeking bass at Marben PFA. Fishing slow and patience is needed this time of year.
Crappie: Crappie are probably the most aggressive fish anglers will find at Marben this time year. However, do not expect to hook one with every cast. Finding them may require a little effort. Remember though, the crappie bite can turn on at any moment in these small lakes. Flooded timber is the preferred habitat and the most popular bait is live minnows and yellow/white jigs. Try fishing cover approximately 10-12 feet throughout the day. Expect crappie to move into shallower water on warmer days in December.
Bream: Bream fishing will be slow at Marben. Coldwater temperatures and shorter days all play a factor with the decrease in activity. Anglers should expect bream fishing to be best with mid-day temperatures. Remember that bream are deeper this time of year so to be successful anglers will have to target deeper water in order to increase your chances.
Catfish: Look for catfish to be extremely sluggish this time of year. Patience is necessary if anglers are in pursuit of this fish. Anglers should target days when it is sunny which should warm the water in order to get catfish moving. Livers, worms and stink bait are the preferred choices if targeting catfish at Marben.
The best reports this week came from ponds, and bass and crappie were tops. Recent rains have blown out most of the rivers, except the St. Marys. Saltwater was tough over the weekend with the big full moon tides, but that should be improving this week. Last quarter moon is November 29th. To monitor all the Georgia river levels, visit the USGS website HERE.
J.J. at Altamaha Park said that crappie and catfish were caught the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. After that the bite has dropped off due to the rising river level. It is high enough that the tide has stopped flooding up at the park. The river level was 13.6 feet and falling (53 degrees) at the Baxley gage, and 11.4 feet and rising (55 degrees) at the Doctortown gage on November 27th.
The river is still well into the floodplain, but the extreme upper river should get fishable for catfish in the near future if we do not get additional significant rains. The river level on November 27th at the Waycross gage was 10.3 feet and falling (59 degrees), and the Atkinson gage was 9.2 feet and rising.
The river is still in good shape for now, but it is rising. As usual, the catfishing was great, with shrimp dropped in the deep holes producing best. The crappie bite picked up with the cooler weather, and minnows produced most of the fish. The river level at the MacClenny gage on November 27th was 3.7 feet and rising.
The east side is still high, but the west side is fishable. If you fish the west side, put a piece of shrimp on the bottom for catfish or pitch sallies for fliers and warmouth.
Quinn Brown caught this 9.3-pound bass on a dark colored worm this week from a private pond.
The largest bass I heard of was from Quinn Brown's 9.3-pounder that inhaled a dark-colored worm fished at night. He and his fishing partner had about 10 other good-sized bass on the trip. Quinn described his methods for fishing Reed Bingham State Park in an article by Craig James in the November issue of Georgia Outdoor News. Check it out if you are interested in the details. Taylor Sexton caught his first bass on a curly-tail grub suspended under a float over the holiday weekend. Way to go, Taylor! Chad Lee put it on the bass again this weekend, but this time he used a unique rig for a plastic crayfish. He skewered a 2.8-inch Okechobee Craw Keitech Crazy Flapper crawfish on an 1/4-oz. Capt. Bert's Shrimp Hook (a Gamakatsu hook designed to fish live shrimp and mudminnows in saltwater) to fool some nice bass up to 3 pounds over the weekend from Alma area ponds. He also caught about 30 crappie up to a pound by trolling a chartreuse-pearl 2-inch Pro Tiny Shad. Michael Winge said that crappie were caught by anglers trolling minnows and jigs.
On Wednesday evening, a group of Waycross anglers fished a Brunswick pier with fiddler crabs and dead shrimp and managed a keeper redfish, 6 black drum (2 keepers), a dozen whiting (kept 7 that averaged 12 inches apiece), and 2 dozen yellowtails. They did not get on any trout that evening, but one of the anglers caught some trout that morning on Assassin Sea Shads under Equalizer Floats. Brentz McGhin fished over the weekend in the Brunswick area and trolled up 25 trout (9 keepers) with new penny-colored Sea Shads. He also fished out of Crooked River this week and managed 20 short trout (2 keepers) with pink curly-tail grubs suspended underneath Cajun Thunder Floats. When the tide got low, they switched to dabbling fiddler crabs around wood and landed some sheepshead (their biggest was 4 pounds). They also caught a keeper redfish while fishing the wood. Mike and Trish Wooten of St. Simons Bait & Tackle said that the big full moon tides over the weekend slowed the bite. The best catches were made around the slack low and high tides. Whiting and sheepshead were the main bites from the pier. Some blue crabs were caught, but not as many as the last few weeks because of the ripping tides. You can monitor the marine forecast HERE.
Crappie and bass fishing in ponds are your best bets in freshwater this weekend. The forecasted warming trend should have them chowing, especially in the afternoons. Saltwater (trout and redfish) should pick up again this weekend with the lower tides and clearer water if the winds allow you to get out on the big water.
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Palheiro Golf
Designed by renowned golf architect Cabell B. Robinson and opened in 1993, Palheiro Golf is an 18 hole, PAR 72 parkland course, set within the magnificent, privately owned Palheiro Estate. Teeing off here is to walk through a verdant and tranquil 200-year-old country estate, and an abundance of fragrant, exotic flora lends the course a unique and singular quality. At nearly 500m above sea level, this course also offers dramatic views of Madeira's mountainous skyline and the vast Atlantic Ocean. At just under 6.000 m from the back tees this is a relatively short course, but it is by no means a push over. Play calls for a fair degree of accuracy – the contoured fairways and strategically placed bunkers guarding fast, undulating greens mean there's little room for error. This course demands your full attention from the first drive to the last putt. After your round relax on the club house terrace and enjoy one of the best views Madeira has to offer.
The Clube de Golfe Santo da Serra is the oldest course in Madeira, with it's origins dating back to the 1920´s. Redesigned by none other than the great Robert Trent Jones Sr., this 27 hole golf course will test all your skills. It is also home to the Madeira Open, a European Tour event, which has been held here since 1993. This course is a beauty on a fine sunny day, and a beast when the wind blows. Set at 700m above sea level you will be tempted to forget about your game, when confronted with the breathtaking views this course has to offer.
In the heart of an historic zone, alongside the Palace of Jesuits, this four star hotel arose from an innovative concept blending design, detailed architectural restoration and a welcoming atmosphere. With 81 rooms, it boasts a lap pool where guests will enjoy panoramic views overlooking the Bay of Funchal, two steps away from the main shops, museums, restaurants and bars in the city.
This unique hotel concept comprises five historically classified buildings that lead guests on a journey through three centuries of Funchal. The experience begins in a classified building of 18th century where once was handcrafts ateliers, and makes its transition to the 19th century mansion of a wealthy family of Funchal linked to mercantile trade. From the inner courtyards it accesses three buildings of the beginning of 20th century, where once was operating a typography company and an industry of embroidery. The hotel includes period pieces, building materials, furniture and antiques from these trades that embrace the journey through the different centuries. The result is a first-of-its-kind boutique hotel in the historic part of the city.
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Home security companies in Odessa, TX offer a variety of pricing structures, so you can select a plan that best fits what you're looking for as far as features and price. Price depends on several factors, including whether the alarm system is installed by a professional or you do it yourself (DIY), whether you or the company owns the equipment, and what level of monitoring service you choose. You can minimize your up-front investment by around $200 by installing your system yourself. Some companies provide free basic system equipment when you sign up for a home security monitoring plan, and others may charge a fee. If you plan to purchase a basic system, expect to spend about $230. From there, you can expect monthly monitoring fees to start as little as $29.99 on up to $200 per month.
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The neighborhood amenities are still underway will ultimately include a country club with an exquisite 18-hole golf course and New England inspired clubhouse, which will include a swimming pool, tennis courts and more.
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The average price per square foot has remained fairly consistent and has not strayed far from approximately $186 over the past year. Furthermore, home sales have also been fairly consistent, averaging approximately three sold per month over the last year.
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Rotaractor Divyum appointed president of Rotaract Club Chandigarh Himalayan
in Chandigarh
Chandigarh : It was a glorious sight at the Principal P.L. Anand Auditorium, Punjab University on June 1, 2018 where Rotaract Club Chandigarh Himalayan saw the commencement of its installation ceremony for the tenure 2018-2019. Rotaract Himalayan is a student-run non-profit organization operational in colleges all over the tricity. Having organized several events like Pirates of the City, Salsa Slam, Bowling Brawls and Kids' Olympics under its banner, the club has gained mammoth popularity amongst youth in Chandigarh.
For the club, it was an occasion of nostalgia and festivity at the same time as it had to bid goodbyes to its old leaders and greet hellos to the new ones. The function began with the lighting of the lamp. The Charter President of Rotaract Himalayan, Sandeep Singh and former President Bhavesh Dhoundiyan were the dignitaries who became a part of the momentous occasion.
The event proceeded with the collaring of the outgoing President Priya Krishnan by the Sergeant of Arms, Rotaractor Digvijay. Speeches by the visiting guests added to the firmament of the occasion. The outgoing President Ms. Priya Krishnan, the departing club Vice-President Shiv Suri, the leaving Joint Secretary Ambuj Chaturvedi and the retreating BOD, Rotaractor Digvijay were then invited on stage sequentially to share their experiences of their association with the club. Videos clips were played as well, featuring Rotaractors who had some messages for the outgoing leaders.
After this series of recollection of memories, the much awaited moment of the announcement of the name of the new President came into setting. Rotaractor Divyum was appointed as the Club President for the tenure 2018-2019. A BOD in the previous tenure, he exhibited exemplary dedication in the journey of his association with Rotaract Himalayan and thus the post was conferred upon him. After his collaring, his Board of Directors was announced.
With Rotaractor Divyum as the Club President, Rotaractor Satyam Batra was appointed as the General Secretary, Harwinder Singh as the Joint Secretary, Saroj Biswas as the Treasurer, Nabhanya Oberoi as the Joint-Treasurer, Yashodhara Bose was appointed to chair Club Literacy, Manveen Arora as the Director of Vocational Services, Tanya Trehan as the Director of International Services, Sumeet Singh as the Sergeant of Arms, Shivam Choudhary as the Director for Brand Promotions and Baneetpal as the Director for Public Relations.
After these appointments, the General Secretary addressed the gathering. As a token of gratitude and appreciation, the old BODs were presented T-shirts. It was followed by announcement of Rotaractor Himanshu Malik and Rotaractor Manmit Kaur Chhabra as the Best Rotaractors of the Year. Project Adult Literacy was announced as the Best Project of the Year. The function concluded with certificate distribution for the Rotaractors.
The Club has been doing commendable activity in the field of Social Welfare. Its active volunteers and innovative programs are appreciable. Monetary gains from its fund raising events are used in the upkeep of its Project Happy Schools. This project involves several government schools adopted by Rotaract Himalayan in areas around Chandigarh, the maintenance of which is done by the club. The club provides for their basic necessities like drinking water, benches, stationery and books. Volunteers of the club paint walls of these schools to make them lively so that children are attracted toward their places of learning. The efforts of Rotaract Himalayan are worthy of all praise.
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Talk show host Bill Maher: Intelligence agencies "our last line of defense"
By David Walsh
In an extraordinarily foul outburst February 17, Bill Maher, the host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," termed American intelligence agencies "our last line of defense" against the allegedly pro-Russian Donald Trump and referred approvingly to Egypt and Turkey as countries where similar agencies had intervened against a "crazy" dictator.
Maher has been pathological on the subject of supposed Russian interference in the US elections since the issue first arose. On July 27, 2016, in response to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's emails and unsubstantiated claims that Russian agents seeking to tip the election in Trump's favor were behind the action, Maher described Trump (who was semi-jokingly urging that Russian secret services hack Hillary Clinton's missing emails) as "the voice of treason."
Maher went on last July: "He's always taking Russia's side. Plainly, Trump is a Russian agent. I mean, I don't know it for a fact, but a lot of people are saying it . … Oh yes, Donald Trump: the spy who loved himself."
One month ago, on Inauguration Day, in his opening monologue, Maher observed, "It really happened, we Americans have a new leader … Vladimir Putin—and also this guy Trump took an oath today."
One of his guests January 20, Keith Olbermann, asserted, "We were invaded, is what it boils down to. Just because there was not blood on the streets. If the Russians had come in with Cossacks and put him [Trump] in, I think we would have had a different kind of reaction. … And we're now only debating at this point, after the story in the New York Times, how much the Russians decided our election."
Maher, who built a reputation for himself as an iconoclast during the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal and subsequently under George W. Bush, has claimed at various times to be a "liberal," a "libertarian" and a "progressive, a sane person." As we have noted previously: "His sneering, cynical, 'anti-establishment' posturing is aimed at taking in a certain section of those, especially among the young, disaffected with official politics and orienting them in quite a reactionary direction. His 'iconoclasm' has never gone farther than skin deep."
Maher opened his February 17 program by asserting, in his monologue, that there was an "unprecedented state of crisis in this country" and that the resignation of Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser, because of discussions with Russian officials, was "the most serious political scandal we've ever had in the United States." He described Donald Trump as a "mental patient who thinks he's Hitler."
In the panel discussion portion of the program, Maher argued that "our country's hanging by a thread" and that Trump was guilty of "the crime of treason, the crime is colluding with Russia to fix an American election."
One of his guests, Malcolm Nance, who described himself as having formerly worked for US Naval Intelligence and the NSA, as well as having been "loaned to other people" (presumably, the CIA), claimed that the 2016 was "the first time that a president was elected with the assistance of a foreign intelligence agency [i.e., Russia's]." Nance did not provide the slightest evidence for his allegation, and, indeed, some time later, Maher was obliged to admit, "We don't have the proof of that" [Russian involvement], but that did not prevent either man from making the wildest statements.
Maher went on to suggest that "the [US] intelligence agencies are crying out, 'We don't want to do a coup …'" In the most startling part of his comments, Maher argued that President John F. Kennedy had been killed in 1963 by US intelligence, or at least "that was one theory," because of his philandering. He was having sex with "East German spies and mafia couriers" and the intelligence outfits "couldn't trust him … [They said to themselves] 'He is too much of a danger to America.'"
Maher must rank as one of the first "progressives" to put a positive spin on the alleged CIA involvement in Kennedy's assassination!
He continued, "I feel like that's where the intelligence agencies are now [in relation to Trump] … Now, they should not be violent, don't get me wrong. But they are saying through these leaks, 'This man cannot be president.'"
Nance, a fanatical anticommunist and the author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election, then chimed in: "And you know why they're saying that? Because what we have is a situation here where the person they would have to report to, the absolute pinnacle, the commander-in-chief, is a person who himself cannot be reported to. What they're doing is they're reporting and they're taking it above his head to the ultimate commander-in-chief, which is the American people. This is an act of patriotism."
Maher went on: "America is now in this place where we have watched other countries [which] we have had our nose up about—Egypt and Turkey—places where we thought, 'Oh, you know, the dictator is crazy, so the intelligence services, that's not really the best option … oh, wait, it is the best option.' They're like our last line of defense now."
The HBO talk show host was presumably referring to the 2013 military takeover in Egypt, which brought to power the brutal and hated dictatorship of General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and the failed, US-backed coup in Turkey in 2016 against the regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Maher is identifying himself with murderous, right-wing forces.
Maher then noted that Trump was planning to appoint Steven Feinberg "to oversee the intelligence. It looks like a purge in the making so that he can take over. … Can Trump put his people in charge of the intelligence agencies? Because then we have no line of defense between the total coup." The host plaintively asked later, "Where are the patriots?" apparently suggesting that such "patriots" should somehow or other deal with Trump.
Maher's demented ranting points to several interrelated processes. First of all, there is the sharp turn to the right by all sections of the American political and media establishment, including its "gadfly," late-night comic contingent. The latter is made up of wealthy, conservative people committed to the defense of the existing social order. They do not have a single ounce of genuinely democratic sentiment among them and have only contempt for the mass of the American and global population. The notion of a CIA-military coup in the US, with its terrible consequences, does not disturb Maher's sleep in the least. On the contrary, he is actively promoting such an operation. He obviously does not expect to lose his job or his income under a CIA-run junta.
Concretely, figures such as Maher are frightened by the growth of social opposition to capitalism, accelerated by Trump's right-wing policies, and are desperately seeking to divert it along reactionary lines, in this case the drive for a confrontation with Russia. Maher, an anticommunist and Islamophobe himself, helped create the atmosphere that made Trump's election possible. Despite his violent, abusive rhetoric, the comic's differences with the new president—like those of the entire Democratic Party orbit—are purely tactical.
That the talk show host is promoting the American intelligence apparatus, the perpetrator of countless crimes against various populations around the world, resulting in the deaths of millions, to an audience of primarily young people is an unpardonable political and ideological crime. In this manner, Maher is acting as a facilitator of authoritarianism and dictatorship.
US Media Issues
Sanders' rise in polls alarms Democratic political establishment
CBS' "60 Minutes" program raises questions on death of Jeffrey Epstein
In midst of impeachment, Pelosi honors Trump with State of the Union invitation
An interview with historian Dolores Janiewski on the New York Times' 1619 Project
Workers respond to New York Times' 1619 Project's claim of an unbridgeable racial divide in US
Chicago police to be deputized as federal immigration agents
US official delivers Trump's threatening message to Sri Lankan president
#MeToo provocation against Bernie Sanders organized by CNN and Elizabeth Warren
House forwards impeachment articles, triggering Senate trial of President Trump
Mideast war threat overshadows Democratic debate
Tesla under investigation by US government for defect that caused over 100 crashes


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Published on October 24th, 2013 | by Louella Fernandes
Xerox Pushes Paper and Digital Boundaries
By Louella Fernandes • on October 24th, 2013 • in Articles, Featured Articles • 8,977 views • No Comments
As the business world embraces new ways of working, Xerox is also evolving its breadth and depth of services and shifting legacy perceptions of its brand.
The print industry is challenged with remaining relevant in today's era of mobility, the cloud and Big Data. Vendors are clamouring for higher ground, shifting from hardware to software and services with the goal of steady revenue, higher profits and deeper customer relationships.
Whilst many printer and copier vendors are pursuing a services led model, the stakes have probably been the highest for Xerox which has been working hard to reinvent itself as a services company.
Xerox, founded in 1906, has a brand steeped in heritage, transforming the office environment with the first commercial copier machine in 1959. Xerox's dominance of this market meant it reached the peak of brand presence, its name becoming a verb for photocopying. Today, the Xerox brand is under significant transformation as it shifts legacy perceptions, with hardware now representing less than half of its business. After acquiring Affiliated Computer Services in 2010, Xerox shifted from "the document company" to one that now generates more than half its revenue from business services, such as managed print services (MPS), operating call centres, processing insurance claims and handling automated toll payments. This has helped it expand its business process services (BPS) and IT services (ITS) footprint whilst reinforcing its leading presence in the MPS market.
Beyond the printed page
In a declining market, Xerox is focusing beyond the printed page. But the printed page is unlikely to disappear and we cannot ignore the fact that as a medium for communication paper has been around for over 1,000 years. Paper is inherently personal, portable, tangible and easy to annotate. It remains a powerful and compelling communications tool when many of us are inundated with a barrage of online communications. So, more realistic than the paperless office is the "less-paper" office. What businesses need is the technology to bridge both worlds as relevant to their business – eliminate wasteful printing, for instance through effective print management but also ensure printing remains part of the mix as needed in today's multichannel world.
In order to address these needs, a view of print-related process across an enterprise is needed. This means having a single view beyond desktop/office printing to the print room and commercial print. Xerox is well positioned to address this through a broad range of products and services. What sets Xerox apart in particular, is its legacy of innovation.
A focus on innovation
Xerox has a strong innovation history, although not always with commercial success. Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is accredited with inventing many of the technologies we now rely on, not least developing in 1970 the first personal computer with a mouse and icon-based software at its Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox PARC. Steve Jobs' legendary visit to the centre, where he saw the prototype of the experimental Alto workstation, is claimed to have given him the vision for the future of personal computing which he built on at Apple. Other inventions which had a large impact included a graphical user interface, Ethernet and laser printing.
Xerox continues to invest heavily in innovation, spread across areas that include analytics, business processes, data transformation, personalisation, and sustainability. When it comes to integrating the paper and digital worlds, this innovation will be critical to Xerox differentiating itself. A few capabilities particularly stand out:
Document workflow integration is particularly becoming key to the value proposition of many of its traditional competitors, such as Canon, HP, Lexmark and Ricoh. Quocirca was impressed with some forthcoming Xerox solutions to be announced in 2014, but probably one that will enable Xerox to bring paper and digital workflow optimisation to a wider audience is ConnectKey.
ConnectKey is a software ecosystem both embedded in Xerox MFPs and middleware to be used as secure document platforms. Documents can be shared directly to SharePoint, ERP systems, and the Cloud enabling paper documents to be integrated into digital document workflow. This approach to business process automation is particularly cost-effective as it enables businesses to leverage existing investments in MFPs, whilst also better utilising their sophisticated document processing functionality, beyond print and copy. MFPs are often not fully leveraged for their extended capabilities, and Quocirca believes that these devices will become a vital part of next generation MPS engagements that look to drive business process efficiency.
Xerox ECM
Xerox also has another string to its bow in this space – enterprise content management (ECM). At an enterprise level this will be the real opportunity of addressing the big data challenge, and turning the valuable information that resides in paper into business insight. Xerox has a mature offering through its DocuShare product, and Quocirca believes it must now raise its game, truly bringing this into its MPS fold. Lexmark is also pushing its ECM capabilities through Perceptive which it acquired in 2010. As many MPS engagements progress to the next phase, providers that can demonstrate and execute on a broader vision for print and ECM will set themselves apart.
Multichannel communications
Personalised communications through its XMPie product is probably one of Xerox's best-kept secrets, yet has the potential for Xerox to further extend its traction beyond print. Xerox's XMPie enables the composition and production of communications across diverse channels such as print, mobile and online. If Xerox can truly integrate its hardware, software and services strategy in this space it has the potential to drive further revenue opportunities in what is a very fragmented market.
Quocirca view
Xerox is still a company in the midst of transformation, competing now in a much wider technology and services market space. Through innovation and acquisition, it has developed the breadth and depth of products and services to develop a compelling proposition around optimising business processes in a paper and digital world.
It is worth pondering that October 2013 marked the 75th anniversary of Xerography. Meaning dry writing in Greek, Xerography served to emphasise the difference between a new technique and an old one, which used liquid chemicals. Chester Carlson, the patent attorney who invented the first Xerox Model A photocopier, did so because he wanted to make the laborious task of manually copying from books easier.
In many senses, Xerox is now again looking to simplify and automate, bridging the old paper and new digital worlds. Xerox laid the foundation for the transformation of the office workplace, and its challenge is now to deliver more than the sum of its parts and remain relevant in today's ever changing workplace.
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Prestigious world poker tour national for Europe is going to be kicked off in Rozvadov, (located near the border of Germany and Czech Republic) July 28 and will conclude on August 8, 2016.
The tournament attracts thousands of professional poker players from all around the world including whole Europe, America and Asia. Most of the players to this particular poker tournament are from European countries. The casino festival will be held at Kings Casino, which is a top casino destination for casino or poker players.
As mentioned earlier the tournament will start on July 28 and will conclude on August 8 of the 2016. The highlights of the tournament are WPTN Rozvadov main event, which is a €1,100 buy-in No Limit Hold'em event features a guaranteed prize pool of amount €200,000.
It means if you are a player currently living or residing in any European countries including the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Nederland's, France or Germany, Italy or checz republic, you can participate to the tournament and could go always with lots of real money winning.
The final table of the tournament will took place from August 6 to august 8. World poker tour national Rozvadov main event attracted 372 participants last years and generated a prize pool of amount €362,780, to which a German poker pro Manig Loeser, won the title of the championship for €76,000 ($82,906).
According to the managers of the tour the latest festival will be big and is expected to attract more than 500 players for the main event of the series.
You as a poker player can play your favorite game here for a guaranteed €100,000, whereas the buy in would be €200 buy-in. As the buy in are starting from just €45, it is expected to attract thousands of low stakes poker players.
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One of the things I've always loved about Thây is how he not only draws from his own Mahayana tradition, but also studies and works with Theravadan sutta (sutras), such as the Anapanasati Sutta. In fact, it was Thây's obvious familiarity with the Pali canon that inspired me to learn about it for myself.
If you are looking for further insight into working with the breath to bring healing to your body, I think you will find "Bathed in Breath" a very skillful teaching. This particular breathing practice is something I do regularly, and I can personally attest that it does brings about physical as well as mental healing.
When there's a Dharma talk, you don't have to listen to the Dharma talk. The important thing is to stay with your breath. When the breath comes in, you know it's coming in; when it goes out, you know it's going out. Try to make that knowledge of the breath fill your awareness as much as possible. The Dharma talk here is meant to be a fence to keep you with the breath.
And try not to think of yourself as inhabiting one part of the body watching the breath in another part of the body. Think of the breath as all around you. It's coming in and out the front, coming in and out the back, down from the top, all the way out to your fingers, all the way out to your toes. There's a subtle breath energy coming in and out of the body all the time. If you're in one part of the body watching the breath in the other part, there tends to be a habit of blocking the breath energy to make space for that sense of "you" in the part of the body that's watching.
So think of yourself as totally surrounded by the breath, bathed in the breath, and then survey the whole body to see where there are still sections of the body that are tense or tight, that are preventing the breath from coming in and going out. Allow them to loosen up. This way you allow for the fullness of the breath to come in, go out, each time there's an in-breath, each time there's an out-breath. Actually the fullness doesn't go in and out. There's just a quality of fullness that's bathed by the breath coming in, bathed by the breath going out. It's not squeezed out by the breath. It's not forced out by the breath. Each nerve in the body is allowed to relax and have a sense of fullness, right here, right now. Then simply try to maintain that sense of fullness by the way you breathe. Your focus is on the breath, but you can't help but notice the fullness.
If you can't get that sense of fullness going throughout the whole body, find at least some part of the body that doesn't feel squeezed out, that feels open and expansive, and then see if you can copy that same feeling tone in other parts of the body. You might notice that there are different parts of the body where it feels open like that and allow them to connect. At first, nothing much will happen from that sense of connection, but allow it to stay open, stay open. Each time you breathe in, each time you breathe out, have that sense of openness, openness, and the sense of connection will get stronger.
This is why the ability to stay with these sensations is so important, because your staying with them is what allows them to grow. If you move off to someplace else, if you're thinking of something else, there will have to be a tensing up in the body to allow that thought to happen. And so whatever sense of fullness might have developed—say, in your arms or your legs, in different parts of the body, down your back—doesn't have a chance to develop. It gets squeezed off because you're not paying attention to it any more.
This is why the Buddha talks about concentration as an enlarged type of awareness. If your awareness is limited just to one little spot, everything else gets squeezed out, everything else gets blocked out—and what is that if not ignorance? You're trying to make your awareness 360 degrees, all around, and all around in all directions, because the habit of the mind is to focus its awareness in one spot here, then one spot there, moving around, but there's always the one spot, one spot, one spot. It opens up a little bit and then squeezes off again, opens up a little bit, squeezes off again, and nothing has a chance to grow. But if you allow things to open up throughout the whole body, then you realize that if you think about anything at all you destroy that openness. So you've got to be very, very careful, very, very still, to allow this fullness to develop.
So these qualities of consistency, care, heedfulness—these are important in allowing this state of concentration to develop. Without them, nothing much seems to happen. You have a little bit of concentration, then you step on it, a little bit of concentration, then you squeeze it off as you go looking at something else, thinking about something else. And so whatever little bits and pieces of concentration you do have, don't seem very remarkable. They don't get a chance to be remarkable. They take time—and our society's one of the more remarkable societies in giving us expectations that things should happen quickly. If anything's going to be good, it has to happen quickly, it has to be instant. And so, by and large, we've lost the ability to stay with things as they develop slowly. We've lost the ability to keep chipping away, chipping away, chipping away at a large task that's going to take time and can't be speeded up.
When the Buddha gives images for practicing concentration, he often relates them to skills. Skills take time, and he was teaching people who had taken the time to work on whatever skills they had. In Thailand, they still sharpen knives against stones. There are particular kinds of stones that are good for sharpening the knives, and it's a skill you have to learn: how not to ruin the knife as you're sharpening it, because if you get impatient, try to speed things up, you'll ruin the sharpness of the blade. So you have to be very still.
The mind has to be still, and you have to maintain just the right amount of pressure constantly as you sharpen the blade. And it may seem like nothing is happening, but over time the blade does get sharper and sharper. The consistency of your pressure is what guarantees that the blade won't get worn in one particular spot—too sharp in one spot and not sharp enough in another, too sharp in the sense that the blade is no longer straight. You've worn it down too much in one spot. There are a lot of things you have to watch out for, simply in the act of sharpening a blade. But when you have that skill in your repertoire, then when the time comes to meditate, it's easier to relate to what you're doing: that same kind of consistency, that same evenness of pressure, the continual mindfulness and alertness that are needed to maintain that proper pressure.
Another skill sometimes used as an analogy is that of a hunter. The hunter has to be very quiet so as not to disturb the animals, not to scare the animals off, and at the same time has to be very alert so as not to miss when a particular animal comes by. And our tendency as meditators is to slip off either into too much stillness or too much mental activity. You have to find the proper balance. I was talking to an anthropologist one time, and he said that of all the skills that primitive societies have and that anthropologists try to learn as they go into those societies, the hardest one to learn is hunting. It requires the strongest concentration, the most sensitivity. So here we're not hunting animals, but we're hunting concentration, which is even more subtle and requires even more stillness and alertness.
Sometimes we in the West think that we come to the Dharma with an advantage: we've got so much education. But we have a disadvantage in that we lack the patience and consistency that come with mastering a skill. So keep that in mind as you're meditating, when you find yourself getting impatient for results. You simply have to be watchful and consistent. You need that sense of being bathed by the breath, being open to the breathing sensations in all parts of the body down to every little pore of your skin. Then you learn the sensitivity that's required, the consistency that's required, to maintain that.
That way the sense of fullness can grow and grow and grow until it really becomes gratifying, really satisfying, to give the concentration the kind of strength, the sense of refreshment, the sense of nourishment that it needs in order to keep going. Ajaan Fuang once said that without this sense of fullness, refreshment, or rapture, your meditation gets dry. This is a lubricant that keeps things smooth and running: the sense of well-being and refreshment, the immediate visceral pleasure of being in a concentrated state.
At the same time, it heals all our mental wounds: any sense of tiredness, of being stressed-out. It's like medicine for these mental wounds. Now, medicine often takes time to work, especially healing and soothing medicine. Think of the creams you put on your skin when your skin gets chapped. It's not that you put the cream on and the skin is immediately is cured. It takes time. The skin has to be exposed to the cream for long periods of time to allow the cream to do its work. The same with concentration. It takes time to expose your nervous system to the sense of fullness, giving it a chance to breathe in, breath out all around so that the mindfulness and the breath together can do their healing work.
So don't get impatient, don't feel that nothing is happening. A lot of things that are very important require time, and they do their work subtly. If you give them the time they need, you find that you're more than repaid. After all, you could be sitting for the whole hour planning next week, planning next month, planning next year. What will you have at the end of the hour? A lot of plans. And part of you may feel satisfied that you've provided for the future, but then when you reflect on how many of your past plans have actually borne results, you'll realize that the odds are against your new plans' ever amounting to much. What would you have to show for your hour? Nothing very certain. Maybe nothing but straw. But if you give the breath an hour to do its healing work, opening the body totally up to allow the breath to bathe every nerve in the body out to every pore, you know that you'll come out at the end of the hour with a body and mind in much better shape. The body will be soothed body; the mind, bright and alert.
And you don't need to stop being bathed in the breath when the hour is up. You can keep it going in all your activities. That way, even though you may not be armed with a whole set of plans for facing the future, at least you're in a position where you don't need that kind of armor. You've got the armor of a healthy body and mind. You've got an invisible armor: the force field of this all- encompassing breath, continually streaming out from your center to every pore, protecting you on all sides. That's something you feel in every cell of your body, something that you know for sure, for you can sense it all around you, right here and now. And you know that whatever the future brings, you're prepared. You can handle it. This sense of fullness, brightness, alertness: that's all you'll need to keep the mind capable, healthy, and strong.


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The Back-up Plan er den 18. episode af den femte sæson af amerikanske tv-serie Glee, og er den 106. episode overordnet set. Episoden er skrevet af Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa og er instrueret af Ian Brennan. Episoden blev vist på Fox den 29. april 2014 i USA.

Synopsis
Den nyslåede Broadway-stjerne Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) laver en audition til en tv-pilot, hvilket kan fratage hende hendes ledende rolle, som Fanny Brice i Funny Girl. Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) imponerer den velhavende June Dollaway (Shirley MacLaine) og Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley) forsøger at tilføje Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) til hendes musikaftale.

Produktion
Gæstestjerne Shirley MacLaine debuterer i denne episode som Jube Dolloway, en rig, "magtfuld socialite", og en større NYADA donor, som får en interesse i Blaine og ønsker at gøre ham til "en superstjerne". Scener med MacLaine og Criss blev skudt på Bradbury Building i downtown Los Angeles. Det var MacLaines første gang, til at synge en Janis Joplin sang.

Jim Rash vises som Fox TV-chef Lee Paulblatt, der forbløffet over Rachels talent, da han ser hende i Funny Girl og ønsker at hun skal til audition.

Episoden blev skrevet af producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa og instrueret af medskaber Ian Brennan, og begyndte produktionen den 9. april 2014, hvor Oscar-vindere MacLaine og Rash skød scener for ham. Den blev produceret sideløbende med den efterfølgende episode "Old Dogs New Tricks", som begyndte at blive optaget den 4. april 2014.

Tilbagevendende tegn forekommer i denne episode omfatter den håbefulde sanger Mercedes Jones (Riley), Funny Girl producer Sidney Greene (Michael Lerner) og NYADA lærer Alain Marceau (Nicholas Kadi).

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Registration of Interest - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traineeships
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Be a part of Australia's leading science and research organisation
CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. We seek to have a profound and positive impact on the most significant challenges and opportunities facing Australia and humanity.
We believe that Indigenous Australians have extraordinary contributions to make across cultural, economic and scientific domains. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traineeship Program is an initiative of the CSIRO Indigenous Engagement Strategy which seeks to increase the employment of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within our organisation. Through this strategy, CSIRO aims to enhance the educational, employment, training and career development opportunities for people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent.
CSIRO is actively seeking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are interested in working in a dynamic and supportive organisation. Our traineeships last approximately one to two years (depending on the course of study) and include paid, structured on the job training while you complete a Nationally Accredited Qualification relevant to your position. The course fees are paid for by CSIRO, and you will be given time to attend courses to complete this qualification while working.
Locations: Various - CSIRO has sites located all around Australia
Salary: $23,459 to $26,001 plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Duration: 1 to 2 years (depending on the course of study)
Applicants must be of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent and prepared to undertake study towards a nationally recognised qualification.
To register your interest in upcoming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traineeships at CSIRO, please apply online. Please note that you will be required to attach a resume/CV of your work experience and education to date. CSIRO will contact you if any traineeships which match your profile available.
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Jam Chart for shows in the city of Vernon, NY (5 entries)
1998-08-12 Slave Vernon, NY	 11:39 -> in from "Ramble On." "Those Were The Days" and "Ramble On" teases. Page is great on the Fender-Rhodes before shifting back to piano with Trey leading a spirited finale that has a bit more gusto than most '97s.
1998-08-12 Mike's Vernon, NY	 18:02 Opening with a thick, soupy groove, this long single jam has several sections. The basic groove builds up until 7:15, when things settle down into more ambient/funky terrain. Around 12:00, led by Fish, the guys bring the big guns back out for a few minutes, before closing out with a grundge-like, repetive theme.
1998-08-12 Simple Vernon, NY	 13:52 A bluesy jam emerges at 9:00 on the back end of the standard outro. An unusual version which > to "Rift."
1998-08-12 Loving Cup Vernon, NY	 8:59 The band rocked so hard in this mid-second-set version that they needed to cool down and segued promptly after it into "Sleeping Monkey." No joke.
1998-08-12 YEM Vernon, NY	 19:50 "HYHU" and "Mission: Impossible" teases. "Who's Your Daddy?" VJ. (No B&D.)


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Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dies at 96 (Updated)
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Former German Chancellor Schmidt arriving at unveiling ceremony of monument "Fathers of the Unification" at Axel Springer house in Berlin
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who led the country for eight years at the height of the Cold War, died on Tuesday at the age of 96, his office said.
Schmidt was West Germany's second centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) chancellor from 1974 to 1982 and a leading proponent of European integration.
He became chancellor at a time of crisis for West Germany, replacing Willy Brandt, who had been forced to resign when his close assistant Guenter Guillaume was uncovered as a Stasi agency spying for the East German intelligence agency.
At the same time, Schmidt had to deal with the consequences of the 1973-74 oil crisis.
German media reported that Schmidt caught an infection after having surgery to remove a blood clot from his leg about two months ago. He died on Tuesday in his hometown of Hamburg.
In recent years, Schmidt, a chain smoker, was a frequent talk show guest and won more respect among many Germans as an elder statesman than he did when he led the country.
"We are mourning Schmidt and are proud that he was one of us. We will miss his powerful judgement and advice," tweeted SPD leader and Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel.
Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel was to make a statement later in the evening.
His death prompted tributes from across Europe.
"A great German statesman has gone," French President Francois Hollande said. "He led his country at a very difficult time and he led it towards economic stability and towards the choice of growth."
Hollande added that Europe owed the existence of the euro to Schmidt.
As chancellor, Schmidt tried to balance a conciliatory tone towards Moscow and Communist East Germany with a strengthening of West Germany's standing within NATO and Europe.
Schmidt, who had served as finance minister from 1972 to 1974, was in office at the time of West Germany's 'economic miracle' although, recognising a worsening situation, he tried to make some welfare cuts.
One of his biggest challenges was dealing with the ultra-left Red Army Faction (RAF), whose attacks on the political and business establishment included a wave of killings and kidnappings that peaked in the 'German Autumn' of 1977.
Schmidt was succeeded by conservative chancellor Helmut Kohl.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he had lost a friend with political courage.
"The history of this continent shaped him for almost a century and made him a committed European," said Juncker.
He said that he, together with former French President Giscard d'Estaing, had founded a European currency system and so paved the way for the euro.
Born in the northern port of Hamburg in 1918, Schmidt fought in World War Two and was taken prisoner by the British.
He was married for 68 years to Loki, his childhood sweetheart. She died in 2010. They had a son who died in his first year and later a daughter.
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