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Jonathan Stettin Wins Inaugural Handicapping for Horses Tournament and Donates Prize Money to TAA and Old Friends
Our own Jonathan Stettin won the inaugural Handicapping for Horses tournament at last summer's Saratoga meet. He donated the prize money to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance and Old Friends Farm. Aftercare, and taking care of horses and all animals comes high on the Pick 6 King's list of priorities. He is and has been involved in animal rescue for years. Here is the article on the TAA website... Stettin-Wins-Handicapping-for-Horses-Tournament-Donates-Prize-to-TAA-1Download Read about Jonathan Stettin in the Paulick Report... Read about Jonathan Stettin in the TDN... Read about Jonathan Stettin in Bloodhorse...
Romero Maragh Returns
Romero Maragh returns to action at Gulfstream Park Born & raised in Hollywood, Florida, with Jamaican roots, Maragh comes from a horse racing family His cousins Tony and Rajiv are successful jockey's and he has Uncles that are successful trainers. Growing up he always wanted to be a jockey, but when he was 10 years old, "I started to get a little chunky so I decided to play soccer to get some exercise and get in better shape. And by the time I was 16 I was playing at a...
Poppy Bridgwater
Poppy Bridgwater At just 21 years of age, Poppy Bridgwater has already started to pave her way on the UK Horse Racing circuit as a Flat Jockey, being close to riding out her weight claim and making the transition from Apprentice to Professional jockey for trainer David Simcock in Newmarket (Horse Racing Headquarters!) in the United Kingdom. Growing up in Stow On The Wold in the beautiful Cotswolds, daughter of successful Dual Racehorse trainer (Flat and jumps horses), David Bridgwater, Poppy inevitably grew up around horses and her passion for...
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Tiz the Law Breezes for 2020 Debut in Feb. 1 G3 Holy Bull
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Sackatoga Stable's Tiz the Law breezed five furlongs Sunday at Gulfstream Park in preparation for a planned start in the $350,000 Holy Bull (G3) Feb. 1. Trained Barclay Tagg shipped the Grade 1...
Javier Castellano Gets The Call on Spun to Run
Jockey Javier Castellano has been named to ride Spun to Run in the Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Saturday. Irad Ortiz jr. was originally named on Spun to Run, who he won the Breeders'...
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Bob Baffert Rides Mucho Gusto back to the Pegasus
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Well, I didn't warn anyone but it is pretty obvious I was on a blogging hiatus. Not really because I have nothing to write – because I do. Not because I'm burnt out – because I definitely am not. I guess it is just one of those just because things that sorta happened.
I really really can't wait to share pictures from Evan's special day (almost a MONTH ago! See what I mean! Where does time go!?
completely unrelated how beautiful was yesterday's sunset? Such a perfect day.
This weekend will be just as nuts, per the usual. But hopefully will update on things we are loving!


Wow, how in the world could an everyday person with no building experience manage Construction activities payable? The task seems overwhelming! No worries…there's an App for that!
Not really, however humor aside there are convenient forms available that will ease the difficulties of managing multiple sub-trades and navigating through various project activities payable. No matter project size or complexity, AIA forms G702 & 703 https://www.aiacontracts.org/ are certainly among my most favorite management tools. Let's take a closer look (please see attached image).
In brief, AIA G702 is an Application Summary and Certified Certificate for Payment. Its companion document G703 provides an appropriate place for itemization of all activities by description, value or cost, and an evolving percentage complete to reasonably comprehend any payment due. Incidentally, if work itemization exceeds space allowed on just one G703, additional 703's may be attached until all activities are accounted for. Just keep adding another G703 page until you have enumerated all the various activities.
Now, for as much as I may heartily recommend use of the G702/03, I must provide you with a warning! Management of expense is only as good as the information inputted. Remember the old axiom "Garbage-in…Garbage-out"? Well, if you don't know how to determine the real value of work itemized you could be taken to the cleaner. In other words, an applicant could front-load (over valuate) all early-on activities and walk with more money in his pocket then he would otherwise earn by honoring itemized work to be performed. Front loading disincentivizes performance and could ultimately lead to unnecessary disputes and expensive litigation.
So like any tool, in the hands of an expert assurance and predictability can be expected. However in the hands of the inexperienced the consequences could be dreadful.
If you need an expert or just want to talk to one, give us a call. At Dan Joseph & Associates we are always available to your needs, whatever they may be!
Tools of the Trade include more than you think.
It's fairly easy to imagine tools required to competently construct a structure and often include thoughts of hammers, saws, a tape measure and alike…and for the experienced, Architectural Plans. Yet few in the public realm would ever think or even consider document management as an essential tool of the trade.
That's right, a competent and capable professional will always utilize documentation including: Plans, Specifications, RFQ's, RFI's, Purchase Orders, Formal Agreements, General Conditions (A201), Supplemental Conditions, Change Orders, Product Submittals, Shop Drawings, Budgets, Contractor's Applications & Certificate for Payments (G702-703), Waivers of Lien, Sworn Statements, Insurance Requirements, Gantt Charts and a Critical Path Method (CPM) for scheduling the hundreds of activities that could take place over the duration of any project.
Truly, the difference between a Contract Broker and a Project Manager is knowing when and how to use all tools of the trade, including documentation. Elaborating, a Contract Broker is ordinarily focused on securing the job and billing for periodic activities, whereas a professional Project Manager will actually administer every aspect of the built-response in benefit of the Project-Owner's best interest. Proper Project Management will often result in less disputes, create expectations, hold parties accountable, reduce costs and if ever needed a paper trail for legal remedy.
Today's Owners are sophisticated, experienced and well educated, therefore it is reasonable that all team members understand the importance and requirement for accountability on every level of service provided. Make sure you and your service provider maximize proven management methods for your project by using ALL the tools of the trade.


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Targeted Threat Protection Enhancements
Mimecast Offers Cyber Resilience for Email with New Detection, Remediation and Threat Intelligence Capabilities
New Survey: 53% Predict Their Organization Will Suffer from an Email-borne Attack in 2018
RSA CONFERENCE 2018– SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2018 – Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security company, today announced enhancements to its Targeted Threat Protection services - Impersonation Protect, URL Protect, and Internal Email Protect – engineered to combat and remediate the evolving threat landscape. New features include supply chain impersonation protection, similar domain detection, the integration of new automated intelligence feeds, as well as the introduction of automated threat remediation capabilities. New research from Mimecast and Vanson Bourne revealed that organizations are not only facing a variety of different threats, but the volume and frequency of these attacks continue their upward trajectory. In fact, 53 percent expect a negative business impact from these email-borne threats in 2018.
Impersonation attacks commonly use social engineering, and are designed to trick users such as finance managers, executive assistants, and HR representatives into making wire transfers or providing information which can be monetized by cybercriminals. Normally, these attacks target people from within the same company; however, attackers have started to impersonate senders from so called trusted third parties that the target company does business with regularly. New Mimecast and Vanson Bourne research found that 40 percent of the 800 IT-decision makers who responded said they saw an increase of these types of attacks over the past 12 months. Impersonation Protect, from Mimecast, will offer supply chain impersonation protection to guard companies against similar or lookalike 3rd party email domains, helping to stop these attacks before they could cause any issue.
Lookalike domains are also increasingly becoming a problem, as recently publicized in top media outlets, like KrebsonSecurity. Attackers are now using non-western character sets to display letters that look identical to the naked eye, such as the Cyrillic "а" in comparison to the Western "a". This tactic helps to mask the true destination of a link. Mimecast has incorporated new capabilities within Impersonation Protect and URL Protect that are designed to use new algorithms to protect internal users from similar or lookalike domains.
New real-time data feeds have also been added to Impersonation Protect engineered to better identify newly observed and registered domains to further enhance Mimecast's ability to detect security threats. Additionally, using Mimecast's global threat intelligence network, Internal Email Protect can help customers more quickly remediate security threats that originate from any email account inside or outside the organization. Internal Email Protect will constantly monitor and re-check the status of all file attachment "fingerprints" globally. If the security posture of a delivered file changes, the service is designed to quickly alert and update administrators, automatically or manually remediate attachment-based malware and will log incident actions.
"Cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to be stealthy and trick users, which was the key driver for us to enhance Targeted Threat Protection with these new capabilities. Research found that 97 percent of respondents said maintaining email uptime is critical for business continuity, yet only 27 percent have adopted a cyber resilience strategy. In fact, for those that had suffered an email-based attack in the last year, the average recovery time was three days. That's a long time, and, for many organizations, catastrophic," said Ed Jennings, chief operating officer. "It is critical organizations have comprehensive security controls in place before, continuity during, and automated recovery after an attack to help them build cyber resilience for email."
Available in June 2018, these new features will be delivered through Mime|OS, a 100 percent single cloud platform that underpins the Mimecast services, and via a single administration console with a simple to use user interface. Built using micro-services, Mime|OS allows customers to take advantage of the cost and performance benefits of industry-standard hardware and resource-sharing, specifically for the secure management of email and data.
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Statements in this press release regarding management's future expectations, beliefs, intentions, goals, strategies, plans or prospects, including, without limitation, the statements relating to new features and functionality related to Mimecast solutions, may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including statements containing the words "predicts," "plan," "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "goal," "target," "estimate," "potential," "may," "might," "could," "see," "seek," "forecast," and similar words. Mimecast intends all such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 21E of the Exchange Act and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors including those risks, uncertainties and factors detailed in Mimecast's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of such risks, uncertainties and factors, Mimecast's actual results may differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements discussed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Mimecast is providing the information in this press release as of this date and assumes no obligations to update the information included in this press release or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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2/1/2017 - 06/01/2017: Mike Casey Trio
Summer Concerts on the Square:
Mike Casey Trio
The 2017 Summer Concerts on the Square kick off on Thursday, June 1 with a performance by local jazz artist, Mike Casey. Mike Casey has been a fixture on the jazz scene since he began attending the renowned Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford) in 2011, where he studied with renowned jazz artists such as saxophonists Abraham Burton, Rene McLean, & Javon Jackson, trombonist Steve Davis, and bassist Nat Reeves. In 2015, Casey was one of 24 selected worldwide to participate in the prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where he studied with an all-star faculty including Eric Harland, JD Allen, Eric Revis, Cyrus Chestnut, and Jason Moran. His debut album, The Sound of Surprise, was released in early 2017.
The Summer Concerts on the Square are free and open to the public.
Visitors are welcome to bring a blanket or a small lawn chair. Visitors may purchase refreshments at one of the many great downtown restaurants. Alcohol and all tobacco products (including vaping) are prohibited.
For more information about the 2017 Summer Concerts on the Square, including the full schedule, please visit mansfieldmusic.org
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The 120v EmeryAllen E26 retrofit lamp is an energy efficient alternative to incandescent E26 base lamps. It offers similar light output to a 120v, 75w incandescent (950lm) and is suitable for use in most 120v E26 fixtures.
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Mahalo (the Hawaiian word for thanks) seems appropriate this March already. Spring is starting to bloom and Shelf Life Season 4 is in full swing as of today, March 5th! (we hope you are enjoying it), Tara is appearing in her first big screen flick The Call and we just returned from Hawaii where we shot an episode of Hawaii Five-0 together and also got some playtime for hikes and get-togethers with friends on the island. We are filled with gratitude and love; may we all have a bit more Mahalos in our March.
P.S. - Today is Yuri's Birthday, so if you see him (or just "see" him online) wish him a happy happy!


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Food, with its various tastes, smells, textures, and visual appeal, is a powerful trigger in the process of remembering. Whether it is in the preparation, serving, or eating, certain foods seem to prompt many people to close their eyes, take a deep breath, and remember where and when they last indulged.
Since the days of the Bible, the Jewish people have used food to celebrate and remember certain holy days. Since each of these days points to a highlight in Jewish history, a properly prepared menu can ensure not only a tasty and satisfying meal but a marvelous lesson in Jewish theology.
It has been said, "More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel." Foods served on this day remind the Jewish people of its importance for rest and worship.
Two loaves of yellow braided bread form the centerpiece of countless Sabbath tables. Known as challahs, these loaves bring to the Jewish mind the memory of the heavenly bread (manna) that God provided for His people as they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. Two loaves are used to remember the double portion of manna given for the Sabbath (Ex. 16:22–26). Despite the trauma of their bondage in Egypt, God's Chosen People fondly remembered the fish they ate there (Num. 11:5). Thus, it is not surprising that the eating of fish is customary in the Jewish community. Similar to a fish hamburger, gefilte fish is made of several different kinds of inexpensive fish. Carp, pike, or white fish are filleted, combined, and shaped into a patty, then boiled and cooled.
Although it is not eaten much today, cholent is a stew made of garlic, onion, beef, beans, eggs, and carrots. Because it cooks for a long time over a low heat, it can be prepared before the Sabbath begins, at which time work, such as lighting a fire, is not permitted.
The task of planning and preparing a tasty meal without leaven is not easy, yet the Passover feast is eagerly anticipated in most Jewish families. Almost every food item tells a story or serves as a reminder of God's power in delivering His people. At the center of this celebration is matzoh, unleavened bread. Matzoh ball soup, matzoh pancakes, matzoh biscuits, and matzoh brei (fried) are but a few of the imaginative and tasty ways matzoh is used.
Haroset, a relish made with apples, nuts, and cinnamon, represents the mortar made by Jewish slaves in Egypt and is a delicious way to remember the sweetness of freedom. And while eating horseradish may raise the voice an octave, it also serves as a reminder of the bitterness of their bondage.
The absence of lamb is significant. It is purposely omitted from most Jewish Passover tables to lament the sober truth that the Temple is gone, destroyed in AD 70.
Pentecost (the Feast of Weeks) occurs seven weeks and one day after Passover. It is believed that Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai on this day. Song of Solomon 4:11 states that "honey and milk are under thy tongue," implying that as dairy foods are pleasant to the taste, so the words of God are pleasant to the soul. Cheese blintzes and strudel are wonderful reminders of this fact.
"O, once there was a wicked, wicked man and Haman was his name sir … " This line from a children's song suggests the origin of Purim's best-known food, Hamantaschen. These fruit-filled pastries are shaped in triangles because legend says that the villain Haman wore a three-cornered hat. (The actual meaning of Hamantaschen is Haman's pockets). Purim commemorates God's deliverance of the Jews from the evil Haman's plot.
The miracle of the oil is the theme of this winter holiday. Anything cooked in oil can be used as a reminder. Doughnuts and latkes (potato pancakes) are two of the favorite dishes of Hanukkah. Dairy products are also popular because of the legend of Judith, the Maccabee daughter who fed the enemy general curds of cheese until he fell asleep and was thus defeated in his sleep. Sour cream and blintzes also are served for this holiday. Gelt (money) is often given at this time, and so edible, foil-covered coins are also eaten.
The most important aspects of each holiday are the people who participate and, above all, the God who commanded us to remember that He must take center stage.
It should be pointed out that the most important memories of these celebrations are not necessarily linked to the specific food items. The food serves to symbolize and remind. The most important aspects of each holiday are the people who participate and, above all, the God who commanded us to remember that He must take center stage. As families and friends gather to celebrate, the fellowship around the table makes impressions that last a lifetime.
Steve Herzig is the director of North American Ministries and a Bible teacher for The Friends of Israel.
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Will Seneca Meadows Close in 2025? Check Nov. 7 Election Results
Peter Mantius November 6, 2017 Uncategorized
The state's largest landfill is battling local efforts to force its closing in 2025, and its chances of success may hinge on the outcome of the Nov. 7 election to fill two seats on the five-member Seneca Falls Town Board.
Of the four candidates vying for the two open spots, two are committed to closing Seneca Meadows Inc. in eight years, while two are not.
Even as foul landfill odors continue to waft over the community, unsolicited mailings warn potential voters that they'll face a 300% tax increase if they turn their backs on Seneca Meadows.
"Call the Town Board," says one flyer that bears the landfill's logo. "Tell them none of us can afford a 300% tax increase. Not now. Not ever. Rescind Local Law 3 now!"
Another says: "A 300% tax hike would decimate families, destroy the local economy …"
The flyers don't refer to candidates by name, nor do they mention the potential 2025 landfill closing date. Instead they target Local Law 3, which mandates that Seneca Meadows shut down by the end of that year.
Local Law 3 rests on uneven footing. It was passed on Dec. 6, 2016 by a seemingly decisive 4-1 vote, but two of the 'yes' votes were lame duck board members who had lost elections the month before to Republicans Lou Ferrara and Tom Ruzicka.
In May, Ferrara and Ruzicka joined Town Supervisor Greg Lazzaro in voting for a new law repealing Local Law 3 and allowing the landfill to continue operating beyond Dec. 31, 2025.
But that new law was vacated by a state Supreme Court Judge in September on the grounds that the board's 3-2 majority failed to take a legally required "hard look" at the environmental consequences of extending the landfill's lifetime. That action put Local Law 3 back in force again.
Amid the helter-skelter local politics, the state Department of Environmental Conservation was being flooded with complaints that odors from Seneca Meadows were persistently out of control — in violation of local ordinances, state law and the host agreement between the town and the landfill. Dozens of local residents spilled out their gripes at public hearings DEC officials held over two days in August.
The DEC has been allowing the landfill to operate under an air quality permit that expired in 2012. The agency says that's OK because the landfill has applied for a renewal and the DEC is working on it. The DEC also delegates to Seneca Meadows the duty of responding to air quality complaints even as the landfill tries to cover up the unpleasant stench with grape-flavored air freshener.
Many who complained at the hearings in August urged the DEC not to grant Seneca Meadows its request for a 10-year extension of its state permit to accept 6,000 tons of waste per day at its 898-acre site (360 acres actively used) on Route 414 just west of Seneca Falls.
On Oct. 31, the DEC heeded their cries, limiting the landfill's operating permit to eight years and putting it in synch with Local Law 3's mandatory closing date of 2025.
"It was a small victory for (landfill opponents) because the standard extension would have been 10 years," said Doug Avery, a Democratic candidate for the Town Board. The eight-year extension "brings the state permit in line with the host agreement and Local Law 3."
Candidates Avery and incumbent Democrat Dave DeLelys support Local Law 3. Republican incumbent Ruzicka opposes it, and Republican candidate Steve Turkett, a former town code enforcement officer, appears to lean against it.
"We do not need to send a message that the town is not open for business and will enact local laws to force business closures and discourage new startups," Turkett told the Finger Lakes Times.
The current Town Board is in favor of overturning Local Law 3, even if its efforts to do so were slapped down by a judge. Supervisor Lazzaro, Ferrara and Ruzicka voted in April to rescind Local Law 3.
If either Ruzicka or Turkett win Tuesday, Avery and DeLelys presume the Town Board will try again to repeal the law and its 2025 landfill closure date.
But if both Democratic candidates are elected, they hope to team with Republican Vic Porretta, who voted for Local Law 3, to keep it in force.
Lazzaro and Ferrara have underscored the economic importance of the landfill and its host agreement with the town, which provides 20% or more of the town's $12 million budget.
Under the host agreement, the landfill pays the town 5.5% of its annual net revenue. The town had budgeted $2.3 million for 2017. But in at a Town Board meeting February, landfill manager Kyle Black presented the town a check for $3.016 million.
Black told the board at that meeting that the landfill had already spent $7.5 million on odor mitigation and expected that total to rise to as much as $13 million, the Finger Lakes Times reported.
Even so, then-town attorney Patrick Morrell urged the Town Board not to issue a renewal of its annual zoning permit for the landfill, pending the adopting of a formal odor control plan.
Morrell later resigned under pressure from Lazzaro and Ferrara.
Lazzaro declined to be interviewed for this article.
According to DeLelys, Lazzaro recently proposed raising property tax rates from $3.61 to $6.09 per $1,000 of assessed value, a 69% increase.
DeLelys said he opposes any such increase. He's confident the town can gradually cut out from its budget the money received from the landfill host agreement, based on his talks with town department heads.
"We have eight more years to wean ourselves from the host agreement," he said.
Meanwhile, the DEC is working to address complaints that landfill air emissions include hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, volatile organic compounds, hazardous air pollutants and dust.
The agency said in its Oct. 31 ruling that when the long-expired air quality permit is eventually renewed it will contain specific limits for some of those emissions. That renewal is still months away, but the DEC said the opening of a public comment period on a proposed renewal air permit "is expected soon."
Also coming soon:
— A court hearing, repeatedly postponed, will address DeLelys' assault allegations against Ruzicka, sitting Town Board members on opposite sides of the fence on Local Law 3. Ruzicka has pled not guilty concerning an incident at a restaurant hours after the board voted to rescind the law in May. DeLelys alleges that Ruzicka rose from a bar stool when DeLelys and his wife were passing and grabbed him by the shirt.
— Draining a Seneca Falls wastewater treatment tank that receives hazardous leachate from Seneca Meadows. The DEC reported Oct. 30 that the tank was continuously leaking at the rate of 30 gallons per minute.
— The state Comptroller's Office has accepted invitations from local residents, journalists and Ferrara, among others, to probe Seneca Falls' finances and operations, according to Ferrara.
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Everybody has the right to be safe and well looked after.
If you, or someone you know, is at risk of harm don't ignore it. if you've Seen Something, Say Something. Contact your local social work department and share your concerns. Everything you tell them will be dealt with in the strictest confidence - you dont even have to give your name, if you don't want to.


Kersfield Developments (Bridge Road) Ltd v Bray & Slaughter Ltd is the latest authority in a line of cases providing guidance on interim payments in construction contracts under the Construction Act 1996.
While a wide number of arguments were deployed in the case, perhaps the most interesting point for construction practitioners is that it offered the first judicial guidance on the meaning and effect of sections 111(8) and (9) of the Construction Act 1996.
While Bray's application for payment did not meet the employer's requirements (as set out in the contract), Kersfield was estopped through a course of dealing from relying on that to invalidate Bray's application.
Kersfield had not issued a valid payment notice or pay less notice.
Bray's application for payment became a default payment notice, and the sums notified within it were due.
Kersfield issued a Part 8 claim seeking a final determination of the validity of the notices and the estoppel points; alternatively a declaration that it was entitled to dispute the valuation of the interim payment application and to refer that dispute to a further adjudication.
Bray sought enforcement of the adjudicator's decision by way of summary judgment.
The payment application was not invalidated by any lack of particularity in certain items. There is a distinction between the validity of an application, and the validity of the claims within an application. Inadequate substantiation may justify rejection of a claim, but it does not of itself invalidate the application.
Had the payment application been invalid, it would have rejected the argument that Kersfield was estopped from relying on its invalidity by a course of dealing.
The contractual requirement concerning the effect and timing of service by email did not offend the Construction Act 1996: it was a valid process clause.
The court rejected Kersfield's submission that Bray was prevented from treating the payment notice as invalid on the principle of approbation and reprobation. It also rejected submissions concerning a stay of the enforcement proceedings and procedural unfairness.
Section 111(8) appears to envisage a scenario where a valid payment or pay less notice has been given, but an adjudicator decides that more than the notified sum should be paid. (Section 111(9) deals with payment of that sum.) This suggests a tension between section 111(8) and section 111(1), which requires payment of the notified sum: how does the adjudicator decide that more than the notified sum should be paid, if that is all that is contractually due?
This tension had been exacerbated by case law, which has found that in the situation of a default payment notice it was the notified sum that was to be paid – this could not be challenged by way of a second adjudication as to the true value of the works at that date. This appeared to support the position that as far as interim payments were concerned, it was the contents of the notices that mattered, and not the value of the works.
This appears to assert the primary role of notices under the contract, over the true value of the works, in determining what is contractually due.
This position was clarified in Galliford Try Building Ltd v Estura Ltd, where the court stated that the value to be paid could be challenged at a future interim payment, at the final account, or by Part 8 proceedings. It was merely for the interim payment itself that the notified sum was final. Again, this was a default notice situation, where no payment notice or pay less notice has been given.
Again, this appears to support the position that it is the notified sum that determines what is contractually due, rather than any reference to the true value of works carried out.
What was perhaps not explicitly apparent until the decision in Kersfield is that the rationale for these restrictions is the default notice situation itself.
Kersfield argued that the effect of sections 111(8) and (9) was that an adjudicator was entitled to open up any payment notice or pay less notice. Bray meanwhile argued that sections 111(8) and (9) could only be operated by the contractor. The notices referred to in these sections are those an employer gives, and so it is only a contractor who will be disputing that greater sums should be paid.
This explains that in the default notice situation there is no dispute over the value of the works: it is deemed to be agreed. If the matter is referred to adjudication, the adjudicator can look only to the validity of the notices and establish the notified sum, which must be paid. There can be no second adjudication on the value of the works because it is deemed to be agreed. This plainly follows the reasoning in the Seevic line of cases.
However, this "deeming" analysis is only expressed as holding true for default payment notices. Where a payment notice (or pay less notice) has been given, then it would seem that an adjudicator can look to the value of the works (if there are "competing valuations"), and can decide that more than the notified sum is to be paid. This would also appear to leave open the option that if an adjudicator decided only the validity of the notices, there could be a second adjudication on the value of the works.
In light of Kersfield, the "accordingly" must relate back to this default notice situation. Seevic would then be saying that it is only in the default notice situation that the parties cannot assert an entitlement based on valuation. It is not entirely clear how the contractual entitlement to more than the notified sum can arise where a notice has been served. The argument appears to be that it arises under section 111(9), specifically by way of the words "the decision of the adjudicator… shall be construed as requiring payment". Adjudication itself is a contractual mechanism of dispute resolution. An adjudicator's decision is therefore contractual, and this provision appears to say that in these specific circumstances that decision shall be construed as requiring payment under the contract.
If this interpretation is correct, the decision in Kersfield appears to provide a rather neat means of giving effect to sections 111(8) and (9) in a way that avoids contradicting existing case law. The notices determine the notified sum, but section 111(9) permits an adjudicator to require payment of something more. It would also appear that construction practitioners will need to ensure that any adjudication on interim payments considers the value of the works, so that they do not leave themselves open to subsequent adjudications.
What constitutes a "competing valuation"?
How is an adjudicator to determine what sums more than the notified sum are to be paid?
In the context of JCT contracts, which expressly state that the sum due under interim payments is the amount specified in the relevant notice, what is the contractual basis by which more than the notified sum can be due? Is this term ousted by the wording of section 111(9)?
Given that Kersfield was granted permission to appeal on the second adjudication point, it may be that answers to these questions will be forthcoming.


The first pilot of the d-HealthyLife training course took place in the Catalan Health Department Roc Boronat buildings in Barcelona between 12th-14th September 2018.
Participants from a wide range of backgrounds and sectors came together to receive modules in the three pillars of the project, and to evaluate the experience. The 3 modules took place over 3 days and used a variety of different trainig formats and techniques, from interactive lectures, gamified training and problem-based learning to Lego-assisted development workshops.
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During a session of the 19th Zionist Congress in Switzerland, the delegates received the bitter news: Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, the Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, had passed away earlier that evening in Jerusalem. Overcome by grief and mourning, the session was brought to an early close.
When the assembly reopened, Dr. Chaim Weizmann invited Menachem Ussishkin, respected Zionist leader and president of the JNF, to say a few words in honor of the beloved Chief Rabbi. The text below is from Ussishkin's eulogy at the Congress.
Today, the Jewish nation is cloaked in deep mourning. One of the preeminent scholars of our generation has departed.
The first time I heard his name was from that unique luminary of our generation, Hayim Bialik. After Bialik's first visit in Eretz Yisrael, he gave me a report of everything he saw. But his greatest enthusiasm concerned a certain Jew whom he had met, then rabbi of the small town of Jaffa. He told me wonders about this man's wisdom, his Torah and breadth of knowledge, and his tremendous expertise — not only in Torah, but also in the latest philosophies. And over all of this, Bialik added, hovers a towering personality in its depth, love, and dedication, and in its approach toward the new phenomena in the world.
When I made my second trip to Eretz Yisrael, I knew that I must meet this man whose fame precedes him. When I met him, I recognized that Bialik's description was accurate. Rav Kook was flowing with ideas — brilliant, sparkling ideas, regarding all aspects of life. When you spoke with him — or more precisely, when he spoke, for it was impossible to have a conversation with him, he would always lead the conversation, while others would listen and absorb — you would be exposed to such a wealth of ideas and views that sometimes you had to struggle to fully grasp their depth. You could not help but be enthralled with the brilliance of his ideas and the beauty of his imagery. After conversing with him, you always left the room with some new view, some new concept, or some new insight, regardless of whether you agreed with him.
Even though his views on life, and especially regarding our national life in Israel, were original and dazzling, Rav Kook remained with both feet firmly entrenched in our ancient traditions. He did not move a hair's breadth from the tenets of our fathers and ancestors. Yet he possessed a radically different approach on how to bring understanding of this tradition to the new and changing world that confronts us.
First of all, there must be a profound soul-connection between the old and new generations. His admiration for youth in general, and particularly the youth living in Eretz Yisrael — youth thousands of miles away from his own worldview — was like a father's understanding of his son, a father who wishes to instruct his son and draw him close with insight and love.
The Rav responded by noting that the Holy Temple had separate courtyards. Some areas were only for priests; others were for Levites, or regular Israelites, or women. And there was one special place called the Kodesh HaKodashim, the Holy of Holies. There, only the High Priest was allowed to enter, and only once a year, on the holiest day of the year.
All this was true when the Temple was standing. Then there were separate areas for each sector of the nation, and each person knew where he was allowed and where he was not allowed to enter.
That was Rav Kook's philosophy, from the first day that he arrived in the country, until his final day.


The Highland Hotel overlooks the popular town of Fort William. Originally built as a Victorian railway hotel, the building is a landmark within the town and retains many of its original features. With views across Loch Linnhe and the distant Sunart Hills the Highland Hotel offers beautiful scenery and is also within walking distance of the lively town centre.


Have you ever felt badly about not totally loving a movie? Night School (opening today – September 28, 2018) is a good example of that for me. And the worst thing about it is that I really had to think long and hard to figure out why I wasn't over the moon with this one. Then I got it…..it's just too long with too many chunks of time that aren't hilarious (especially for a Kevin Hart film).
I believe that most Kevin Hart fans would say that his films roll from one (sometimes raunchy) laugh to another with very few down times in between. Frequently, the laughs come so closely together that you miss some of the jokes because you can't hear the dialogue over the audience's laughter. But that's not the case with Night School. While very entertaining, Hart has set his comedic bar so high that this production falls just shy of it. Additionally, there's no special chemistry between Hart and his co-stars. I would have given anything for Ice Cube to make an appearance with the spark they shared in their Ride Along movies. While I can't fault anyone's performance, there was still no spark….no chemistry…. nothing to help carry the jokes between the characters.
Hart plays Teddy Walker, a high school drop-out who is so focused on projecting a successful image that he puts himself in tough situations assuming he can charm anyone into giving him what he wants. While his charm helps him reach a great level of success in his sales position, things turn south for Teddy when he accidentally blows up the company which was slated to be his upon the boss's retirement. After hitting rock bottom, his only other viable option for successful employment forces him to accept the need for a GED which leads him to night school.
The classroom setting brings to light his various learning disabilities which led him to drop out as a teenager, puts him into a mix of misfits with whom he never thought he'd associate, and brings a high school nemesis back into his life. Add in a fiancé that has no clue any of this is happening and you've brought in the normal Hart-characteristic of the comedic liar who can talk circles around others.
As expected, Teddy learns to deal with his learning disabilities, becomes friends with his classmates, makes amends with his long-lost nemesis, and gets to keep the girl in the end. Sounds very much like Hart's typical formula except for the long drags between funny bits. But maybe all his films start out this way and rely on great editing to make them as popular as they normally are.
This film's 111 minute runtime probably could and should have been cut back to 90 minutes unless they wanted to replace some of that screen time with more of his customary unique dialogue.
All that said, it's still worth seeing….but maybe when it comes out on demand and you can pause the movie as desired. It's a light-hearted film with a positive message and a number of dirty jokes sprinkled in there for a bit more of the usual Hart flavor that mature audiences expect. It's okay for a date night, but better for a "snuggle-up on the couch" type of date rather than incurring the cost of a night out on the town.


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Q: Life cycle management of servlet when SingleThreadModel is used According to the java docs, it says that If SingleThreadModel is used there are two ways a servlet instance will be created and used
1. Create one servlet instance and make the service() method synchronized and thus allow only one thread to execute the service method.
2. Create a pool of servlets and serve the request by using one servlet instance from the pool for each request.
THe question which I want to ask is I have also read a new Servlet instance is created and destroyed for every request. Now which one is correct

A: Here's what the spec says (version 3.0, section 2.2):

For a servlet not hosted in a distributed environment (the default), the servlet container must use only one instance per servlet declaration. However, for a servlet implementing the SingleThreadModel interface, the servlet container may instantiate multiple instances to handle a heavy request load and serialize requests to a particular instance.
In the case where a servlet was deployed as part of an application marked in the deployment descriptor as distributable, a container may have only one instance per servlet declaration per Java Virtual Machine (JVMTM)1. However, if the servlet in a distributable application implements the SingleThreadModel interface, the container may instantiate multiple instances of that servlet in each JVM of the container.

Note that you should really not use the single thread model. Just make sure your servlet is thread-sae. A servlet is typically stateless, so you don't have anything to do to make it thread-safe.

A: From the docs for SingleThreadModel:

Ensures that servlets handle only one request at a time

This is in essence a way to make non thread-safe servlet code work. Note that the container is free to choose any of the two implementations to adhere to the spec:

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*Create a single instance of the servlet and ensure that it handles only one request at a time

*Create a pool of servlet instances and hand over a request to an available servlet instance.


Participating in a press conference yesterday in downtown LA, I watched as Jane Fowler faced the TV cameras and teared up over the re-opening of Sempra's giant Aliso Canyon gas reserve next door to where she lives.
The site of the biggest methane well blowout in U.S. history forced her to flee, and the now-capped well is still leaking methane that makes her sick.
No sooner had the PUC and oil regulators greenlighted resumed natural gas injections at Aliso Canyon last week, than Los Angeles County sued to block it.
LA County is suing Southern California Gas for failing to conduct required safety and environmental studies on its natural gas storage facillity and to turn over public documents before it is reopened. As well the County should.
Big Oil and Gas may have a tight grip on California, but a popular backlash against the industry and its corrupt relationships in the halls of power could lead to the prying off of its fingers one by one.
State regulators are considering re-opening the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility without knowing what exactly caused the blowout in the first place. That's like taking an airplane that just crash landed and sending it aloft again without knowing if the engine's loose.
But that's what State Oil and Gas Supervisor Ken Harris said today in a briefing with legislative staff in Sacramento who were asking tough questions about the state's proposal to reopen 34 of the 114 wells at Aliso—albeit at reduced pressures and with continuous monitoring.
Southern California Gas has a secret weapon. His name is Alan Walker. He works at the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), and he anticipates and satisfies every SoCalGas need before the company even asks.


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Scientific operations carried out by Yersin expedition
7 February , 2018
Photo by Olivier Borde @www.facebook.com/pg/Monacoexplorations
Between late August and early October 2017, Monaco Explorations completed 53 mission days at sea and travelled 3,150 nautical miles (5,800 kilometres). With its original scientific research, both at sea and on land, diplomatic missions aimed at protecting the oceans, media outreach to raise awareness, including among young people, and the distribution of educational tools, the initial stages of this three-year, round-the-world scientific voyage led by H.S.H. Prince Albert II has shown the way forward.
On 27 July, the Yersin left Port Hercule headed for Macaronesia, the region which encompasses the Madeira and Cape Verde archipelagos, the two initial destinations for Monaco Explorations. During this period, more than 60 people were welcomed on board, including policymakers, scientists, NGO leaders and representatives from government institutions. In addition, lots of school pupils and students also came to learn more about Monaco Explorations and its research vessel, whose sustainable propulsion and on-board living facilities make it unique in its class.
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A total of 12 scientific operations were carried out on the two archipelagos including, in Madeira:
A study of the interaction between birds and marine mammals who feed on the same prey on the water's surface, carried out by a joint team from the University of Lisbon and the Whale Museum in Madeira
A study of sediment on the ridge separating Madeira from the Desertas Islands, carried out by a team from the Funchal Marine Biology Station
Brand new mapping of the seabed north of the main island of Madeira by a second team from the Funchal Marine Biology Station
An inventory of monk seal habitats on the northern coast of Madeira and the eastern coast of the Desertas, carried out by teams from the Instituto das Florestas e de Conservaçao da Natureza in Madeira
A study of the herpetofauna (reptiles) of the islands of Selvagem Grande and Selvagem Pequena, carried out by experts from the University of Porto and the Natural History Museum in Paris
The work carried out in Cape Verde included:
The recovery of a Bottom Lander, an autonomous robotic unit used to collect samples and data, from the summit of underwater mountain Senghor Seamount at a depth of 112 metres, and redeployment of the unit off the coast of the island of Santa Luzia, with the German oceanographic research centre GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the University of Cape Verde, and the National Fisheries Development Institute
A study of the herpetofauna on Branco Island, carried out by the University of Porto, the Natural History Museum in Paris, and NGO Biosfera 1. In 1902, Prince Albert I visited this site, where lizards of a species which is now extinct were captured. One of the specimens kept in the collections of Monaco's Oceanographic Museum was donated to the Cape Verde authorities
The deployment of underwater cameras and tripods to study marine biodiversity off the coast of Branco Island, carried out by the University of Cape Verde
The implantation of satellite tracking tags in sharks and manta rays to the south-east of Boa Vista with NGO MarAlliance
The deployment by teams from MarAlliance, the University of Montpellier and the Zoological Society of London of underwater cameras with bait to film pelagic and benthic fauna in its natural environment
During its journey to Madeira from 5 to 8 September, H.S.H. Prince Albert II officially opened the Albert I of Monaco: An Explorer Prince, Discovering Madeira exhibition at the Funchal Municipal Museum. He then took part in a workshop on board the Yersin which brought together international experts on the conservation of the monk seal, one of the most endangered species in the world, on behalf of which the Prince Albert II Foundation is doing a great deal of work.
Accompanied by Mr Miguel Filipe Machado de Albuquerque, the President of the Regional Government of Madeira, the Sovereign Prince visited the Desertas Islands, following in the footsteps of his great-great-grandfather Prince Albert I, who explored the Madeira archipelago eight times, and had a fleeting and extraordinary opportunity to observe a pair of monk seals on Deserta Grande.
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In Mindelo on Cape Verde, H.S.H. Prince Albert II, in an act which was both scientific and symbolic, presented President Jorge Carlos Fonseca with a rare specimen of a Cape Verde giant skink, before taking part in a meeting of Cape Verde NGOs working to protect sea turtles, which was held on board the Yersin. The Prince then visited a site managed by the Sea Turtle Foundation in Curral Velho, in the south of the island of Boa Vista, where he talked to scientists about the problems facing turtles. Cape Verde is the world's third most important loggerhead sea turtle nesting site. During this visit, an environmental education leaflet on the topic aimed at Cape Verde's children, 1,400 copies of which were printed thanks to support from Monaco Explorations, was distributed to a group of school pupils.
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Omarosa Manigault Newman's Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, famously gives an inside look at what goes on in the White House, but it also digs into her personal life.
In the book readers really get to know Omarosa as a person. Unhinged goes into her childhood and the loss of both her father and brother. "I was completely transparent," she says. She says a lot of who she is can be attributed to the way that she grew up, "I save money because I don't want to be poor."
Unhinged of course gives details about what goes on inside of Trump's White House. Russ says it confirms things that many of us already thought.
When asked if she has any tapes that she's waiting to drop she says that she does. There is one tape in particular of Sarah Huckabee Sanders that was recorded shortly after Charlottesville, it shows how relaxed the White House was with race relations and violence.
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I am now a Yahoo! guy!!! The final round of interviews took place yesterday. They asked lot of techie stuff and some very interesting questions. I had 4 interviews one after the other and then Jayanthi (the nice lady from HR) immediately came and told me "You're through. When can you start?" I was dazed for a moment but then I recovered. So, here I am today making my first blog entry from the Yahoo office. I am right now working as an intern for a 4-month project.
What could be better? Well, Yashwanth is here as well. We've had so much fun together in our projects and college, and I am looking forward to more cool things at Yahoo with him. I had a neat dialogue for him as well – "We worked in our first 'company' LinCDs.com together and now we are working in Yahoo company together as well!"
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congrats da..more oppurtunities to have more fun..
URRRRSO……..what else can u do other than all the tech stuff……anyway…. u deserved them…..or yahoo just got lucky to have u…..will meet u there soon….
Congratualations dude ! I'm also looking for a same break.


A word from The Networked Nonprofit: People are partners, not ATMs!
Interview with Ami Dar: What is Idealist Network?
Who's Using Social Networking and How?
And how else do you find these relationships without networking or cold calling? Networking can work extremely well if you have active volunteers or you have a lot of personal connections. But sometimes it can be worth it to grow your organizations networks.
Lately, my associates and I have been doing quite a bit of social network visualization research for clients, typically using raw social data and comprehensive, fee-based custom tools. Use this tool to quickly visualize a network based on a Twitter username.
The draw of the story about the media-streaming service raising its rates by over 60% earlier this week (a raise that will not have an impact on current subscribers until the fall) is how Netflix's subscribers jumped all over the service via their social networks and Facebook.
A global network to help people do things that they want to do but haven't done yet. We're going to be called simply the idealist network, we're going from being a site to being a network. Today I am interviewing Ami Dar, founder and director of Idealist.org.
Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman have written an important new book called Networked: The New Social Operating System. Networked explores the convergence of three technologies — broadband, mobile connectivity, and social networking — and consumer adaptation to them.
Beth Kanter and Katie Paine's new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, helps you answer that question. The first thing you should probably do is read Beth Kanter's first book, The Networked Nonprofit. The next book, Measuring the Networked nonprofit, ALSO has a wiki.
I made a mistake when I started reading The Networked Nonprofit (Amazon link ) by Allison Fine and Beth Kanter. Allison: In our research we found that all Networked Nonprofits had a way of being that led to a way of doing. Allison: Networks thrive on simplicity.
Online social networking is all about the sharing, even sharing stuff you wished the rest of the world didn't see. The opportunities for outreach are expanded exponentially through a social network like Twitter or a blogging site like Tumblr.
If you haven't perused the Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report by NTEN, ThePort and Common Knowledge, here's what you've missed: Social Networking Presence Facebook is still used by more nonprofits than any other commercial social network with 86% of nonprofits indicating that they have a presence on this network. of organizations fell into this successful fundraising category Download the full Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report for all the details.
Creating social networks before anyone knew what they were. Like any network of peers, colleagues, browsers… you tend to get out what you put in.
Staying up-to-date with developments in the social-networking world is no easy task. Facebook engages most of our oxygen/eyeballs, but plenty of other services are available.
You know you want to… We are often extolling the virtues of particular social-networking platforms or encouraging specific strategies to reach out to your audience(s) across these platforms. The term used since 2004 is " social networking fatigue.
That said, getting your up-to-five accounts integrated into the service is as easy as clicking the + tab at the top, picking which social network you want to add, and filling in your name and password. Need help taming those updates and retweets?
Fannit.com created a helpful infographic listing the best and worst times to post on each of the main social networks. The post What are the best and worst times to post on social media networks?
Another concern is that Facebook tries to be all things for all people (all 900 billion users), whereas other social-networking platforms are making strong inroads as specialists in certain kinds of social and informational exchanges.
Our participation in online social networks seems well beyond the status of a 'fad.' These social networks are the current heavy hitters, of course. Could these more concentrated communities really be worth the effort of building a presence on yet another social network?
My name is Meredith Maples and I am the Vice President for the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) of Austin Board of Directors. Young Nonprofit Professionals Network:Who they are, what they do, why you should join.
The Networked Nonprofit is a book by Allison Fine and Beth Kanter , which you should really go buy, okay? This story is from the Networked Nonprofit. Want social proof that your nonprofit should have an online presence? I submit this case study for your consideration.
This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising and today I am so pleased to be interviewing Cathy Taylor, the executive director of the Ontario Nonprofit Network. CT: So I'm executive director at the Ontario Nonprofit Network. Hey, everybody. Welcome.
Isn't it time your social network slipped into its spandex and buttoned on its superhero cape and did a little good in the world? Here's how you and your social network can do good using HopeMob. But it is the larger network that will fund all those school uniforms.
Beth Kanter's first book, The Networked Nonprofit , taught us how to use social media tools. Her latest book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , which is co-authored by Katie Delahaye Paine , teaches us how to measure what we've done.
Here are some recommendations to rethink how you are using your time and mental energies on social networks. of social networks is that they can throw new information about unexpected developments at you without warning. How are you measuring your time?
This time last week we talked about the online scheduling convenience of Tungle.me , which offers subscribers the opportunity to block out available times on their calendars within which prospective colleagues or meetings can choose mutually convenient meeting times.
The rise in the use of social network sites (SNS) among internet users over the past 7 years has been dramatic. Social network sites: Definition, history and scholarship.
They "Get&# It from Communications Network on Vimeo. Kids Count leverages its network of grantees — who have the knowledge and experience to communicate most effectively at the local level, including with policymakers — as messengers.
Love it or hate it, the world's most popular social network turns 12 today! The post Facebook Turns 12 – What's In Store for the World's Most Popular Social Media Network appeared first on JCSM.
If you're a social-networks maven, you've probably heard a lot, perhaps even too much, about the exclusive/VIP/by-invite-only launch of Google+. Out of the trenches, Google+ conceivably could tie together what most of us do on Facebook ('Friends,' family, sharing holiday snaps, poking folks on their birthdays…) with what many of us do on LinkedIn (post resumes, create 'networks' of business peers, discuss developments in our industries…).
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Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Clark Sweat , Chief Revenue Officer at Children's Miracle Network (CMN), about CMN's incredible success with checkout charity. On the show, Megan, Clark and I discuss: Clark Sweat, Children's Miracle Network.
My friend, Lisa Colton , wrote fascinating post on the personality of network weavers. Meyer-Briggs for network weavers, she called it. We know there is a function called network weaving, originally defined by Valdis Krebs and June Holley. This design will shape the network.
Your social network strategy? More about The Widget Channel at cnet and MySpace becoming the first TV social network. Tags: Social Media Social Networks Television Widget Channel The convergence of internet and television may have just happened.
Much of our learning about social media/networking is derived from experience and experimentation. Although most social networking platforms include some sort of engagement and sharing features, each new category tool is slightly different. New Social Media Network Road Map.
I did not realize it at the time, but I was harnessing the power of networking. In the time since, I would say that 50% of my career opportunities have in some way come thru my networks. And I am, what I would call, a network "underutilizer"-I am generally hesitant to use my personal and professional networks for career advancement. The odds are in the networkers favor. How you present yourself to your networks is key.
Last Wednesday I posted on the Starfish Television Network, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity and a television network devoted to airing TV programming that supports the missions of other nonprofits.I Tags: Starfish Television Network So What's the Catch?Last also used the word 'free.' As in, "Starfish will air your broadcast-quality nonprofit television programming for free."Nothing Nothing worthwhile is free, I hear the skeptics say.The.


That Independent clans, to be defined as Assamites, Ravnos, and Setites, could better be served by an Independent Clan Coordinator, as opposed to several different coordinators. This would not include the Giovanni or the Gangrel, who are very large populations and need their own coordinators.
New York City, NY - USA, Kings of New York Against I really think this puts too much in one place. However, I agree that other genres should get more support.
Cincinnati, OH - USA, Shadows of Cincinnati Abstain The intentions behind this proposal are Golden, we need to work on the organization of the positions and get some actual job descriptions before we move on something like this.
AHC 1 For This position would cover about half of what the other Vampire genre coordinators cover, in terms of people. If we are going to have a clan coordinator for every clan, then we also need one for every tribe of Garou, a Changeling coordinator, because we should not be One Vampire by Night.
Chronicle/Position Unknown For I think that this could work like Garou, with a central office, and then sub coords, or in our case trible narrators to take care of the individual clans. I see this as taking a load off of the Head Coord, as it is a central house collecting stuff from subs.
Chronicle/Position Unknown Against Hell NO! OUt of curiosity? Who in their right mind would even volounteer for that job? Even if you had sub-coords...there will come a time when someone will want to hear from the Head coord...YOU wanna know all the ins,outs and specifcs of ALL said Clans? Sounds like A GREAT way to get burnt to me.
Chronicle/Position Unknown Against Limiting the number of Coordinators is good in theory,but this isn't the way to do it. Perhaps having a Coordinator be tied to having significant numbers of characters in the area of coordination (significant being defined however it seems best to define it) or a high complexity (with high being defined however it seems best to define it) would be the way to go, and any area without that number or complexity doesn't get a Coordinator would be the way to go. But combining these three Clans under one Coordinator? The only way I can see it working well is if the Coordinator appointed subCos to coordinate two of the three Clans and coordinating the third on his/her own, and then why not just have 3 Coordinators? If a Coordinator seems to have nothing to Coordinate, then we can look at eliminating the position as necessary.
Chronicle/Position Unknown Against Since Assamites have just been offered probationary sectmembership into the Camarilla, they are a much more viable character option than before. They should have a coord available to them. In response to the AHC, why not do what we have done for the Garou, and have a Vampire coord and then subcoords off of that office. Otherwise we are still One Vampire(Camarilla) by Night.


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11 New Disney Legends Inducted by Walt Disney Company
by David Wallace | Oct 14, 2008
The Walt Disney Company inducted 11 new Disney Legends at a ceremony at the Burbank Walt Disney Studios yesterday. The Legends are chosen by a selection committee created by Roy E. Disney. The program honors gifted animators, Imagineers, songwriters, actors and business leaders as having made a significant impact on the Disney legacy.
There are now 227 Disney Legends, including the 11 inducted yesterday.
This year's inductees are:
Television pioneer Barbara Walters
Broadcasting legend Frank Gifford
Voice actor Wayne Allwine (Mickey Mouse)
Voice actress Russi Taylor (Minnie Mouse)
Disney Imagineer Bob Booth (Enchanted Tiki Room, New York World's Fair Pavilions, EPCOT and Tokyo Disneyland)
Disney Imagineer Neil Gallagher (Mr. Lincoln for New York World's Fair, Enchanted Tiki Room, Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disneyland Paris)
Representative director, chairman and CEO of the Oriental Land Company, Toshio Kagami
Animator Burny Mattinson ("Lady and the Tramp," "Sleeping Beauty," "101 Dalmatians," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," "The Lion King")
Animator Walt Peregoy ("Peter Pan," "Lady and the Tramp," "Sleeping Beauty," "The Sword in the Stone," "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book")
Disney Imagineer Dorothea Redmond (New Orleans Square, Fantasyland)
Musician Oliver Wallace ("Dumbo," "Cinderella," "Alice in Wonderland," "Peter Pan," "Lady and the Tramp")
Each honoree received a Disney Legends Award sculpture signifying the imagination, creativity and magic they have brought to the company. The new Disney Legends also participated in a hand-print ceremony. Congratulations to all and many thanks for your contributions to Disney magic over the years.
Hat tip The Disney Blog.
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Security: Where is the Commander-in-Chief?
By Editorial Board
23 December 2020 | 3:05 am
The relief that followed the release of 340 students captured two days earlier in Katsina State could not have adequately compensated for the distressing, agonising, and traumatic experience they went through
A child wraps himself in a blanket while gathering at the Government House with other students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria upon their release on December 18, 2020. – More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys were released on Thursday after being abducted in an attack claimed by Boko Haram, officials said, although it was unclear if any more remained with their captors (Photo by Kola SULAIMON / AFP)
The relief that followed the release of 340 students captured two days earlier in Katsina State could not have adequately compensated for the distressing, agonising, and traumatic experience they went through when the students were captured.
For the third time in about six years, Nigerians were subjected to the insufferably embarrassing experience of young innocent pupils kidnapped by the extremist Boko Haram religious insurgents. And even before the dust of the release settled, another set of about 80 students of Quaranic School, still in Katsina, was again abducted for some hours before, mercifully, they were rescued by what appeared to be a combined effort of the police, military, and local vigilante groups.
Hundreds of students of Government Secondary School, Kankara, in President Muhammadu Buhari's home state of Katsina, were abducted while sleeping in their school's hostels. The heinous act was executed on the day that Buhari began a weeklong private visit to his village of Daura, a distance of about 200 km southward. In effect, from where the insurgents struck, it would take little more than two hours' drive to reach Daura. As perceptive observers have noted, this ''enemy action'' was not only dangerously close to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, it signalises the brazenness of the insurgents to take their dastardly acts to Buhari's doorstep. Did these enemies of the Nigerian state have a foreknowledge of the President's visit or was it a coincidence? Anyway, it was a daring ''thumb-on the-nose'' act pregnant with meanings. The president and everyone with any responsibility to secure this country, has much reason to worry.
Besides their confident affront to federal power, the insurgents have repeatedly betrayed agreements reached to assuage them. In August 2019, Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari initiated a Dialogue/Amnesty programme to settle with the criminals that terrorise the state. At a reported cost of N30 million, the programme was to settle with repentant bandits including paying for the weapons surrendered. Not a few commentators deemed a deal with criminals inappropriate. In a subsequent interview on the BBC Hausa radio service, the governor was to express his frustration that the bandits reneged on the agreement and continued to attack the state. Alleging that they come from Niger Republic and collaborate with their ilk in Zamfara, Kaduna, and Sokoto states, he vowed to deal firmly with them.
Deriving from the current unhappy situation, groups and persons have expressed their concern with the seeming incapacity of the government to protect the citizens, old and young. The major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has found ammunition to berate the president and his APC government. ''This particular abduction, in the President's home state, under his watch, raises further serious questions over his government's capacity to fight insurgency,'' said the party spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan. The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) lamented: ''that this is happening in the president's home state at the time of his visit is not only serious but calls for concern.''
The abysmal failure of intelligence, failure of proactive measures, failure of response strategy that allowed the taking away of hundreds of school children for the third time reeks, at every level of authority, of tardiness on the one hand, and crass incompetence on the other. How could the state, with the benefit of past experience run a school of about 800 students protected by a few ill-equipped policemen? And when the criminals struck, it is not surprising that they literally had enough time to invade the staff quarters and proceeded from there to the students' hostel where they gathered and marched students into the bush. And then reinforcement came! A disappointed Amnesty International (AI) did not mince words to say that ''the ongoing failure of security forces to take sufficient steps to protect villagers from these predictable attacks is utterly shameful.''
It may be recalled that, before this December 11 incident at Kankara, 276 schoolgirls were seized from Chibok Secondary School in Borno State on the night of April 14, 2014. On the evening of February 19, 2018, 110 school girls were forcibly taken away by men of the same sect, then from another school in Dapchi, Yobe State. They were eventually released, except Leah Sharibu who refused to renounce her Christian faith in exchange for freedom. To the perennial agony of their parents, she and a number of the girls are yet to be delivered from the kidnappers' den by the state under a government on oath to secure them.
Experienced security experts have suggested that, given the non-conventional tactics of the Boko Haram group, a specialised anti-insurgency military corps be set up. If this does not exist already, the government should consider it with the utmost seriousness. There have been concerns too that fifth columnists, conflict entrepreneurs, and other sinister interests that profit from the ongoing situation may be at work to sustain it. The abiding duty of constituted authority is to consider every possibility and address it. This is what any government worthy to be so-called is about. And, when and where it is not equipped to do this, it makes absolute sense to seek help where it can be found.
In all these, leadership is key. To the extent that Buhari is not showing the leadership that Nigeria urgently, desperately, requires in these times, it is inescapable to ask in exasperation: where is the Commander in Chief? Any wonder that calls for his resignation is growing louder and more persistent. As the saying goes, whoever cannot stand the heat should simply get out of the kitchen? Consider that, in such a symbolic act of empathy, he did not pay a visit to Kankara, a mere two-hour drive from where he was, to meet the parents of the children and staff of the affected school.
Emotional Intelligence is a sine qua non of good leadership. But it is not the only requirement. The constitution which Buhari swore to ''preserve, protect, and defend'' ''to the best of my ability'' demands of this president and commander–in–chief that ''the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of [his] government.'' Therefore, it is a matter of integrity, the very reason that Nigerians voted for him in 2015, that this president lives up to his oath to the constitution and the people. All failure, incompetence, and inefficiency of federal agencies and functionaries are, ultimately, attributable to Mr. Buhari. For, the buck stops at his desk.
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You ought to be statesman not tribesman, Obasanjo tells Clark
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, replied the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, over an allegation of his hatred for the oil-rich region...
Nigerians have never had it so good
"With all the happenings in Nigeria, if the president, his friends, and spokesmen believe that Nigeria is doing well, it's either they do not live in Nigeria or perhaps reside in another realm."
Bandits kill district head, 82, four others in Zamfara
Bandits have killed five persons, including 82-year-old Head of Gada District, Alhaji Umar Allah, in Bungudu Local Council, Zamfara State.
'B'Haram destroys one million buildings in Borno'
The 12-year Boko Haram terrorism has claimed 956,453 houses, 665 municipal buildings and 201 health centres in Borno State.
Military combs Lake Chad, kills 22 terrorists, loses six troops
To contain insurgency in the Lake Chad region, the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has conducted an operation, SHARAN FAGE, against Boko Haram terrorists, destroying their bunkers and killing several members of the sect.


We, as organizational leaders and elected officials, are writing to urge a 120-day public comment period for two Draft Environmental Impact Statements: one concerning the proposed Grays Harbor crude oil terminals and the other concerning the proposed Shell rail offloading facility in Anacortes, Washington.
You have understood the wisdom of our previous requests.
Due to our efforts, studies of significance have been completed. Due to our efforts, the scope of review for both projects was greatly expanded.
We ask you to listen to us once again and make the public comment period 120 days.
Our labor, environmental, community, health and fishery groups, along with our Native American allies, have a great deal of knowledge about these issues. You need our participation if your decisions are to be properly informed and legitimate. Please don't silence us by making our participation impossible. We need 120 days.
We are prepared to read the thousands of pages of documents, discuss them with our members and prepare informed testimony, but we need more time. We are people who have full-time jobs and family obligations. We do not have policy staffs like the Governor's office, the Department of Ecology or the multi-national corporations advocating for these projects.
There is nothing routine about these proposed projects. Your decisions about these projects will set a precedent for future projects that will shape the character of Washington State and signal your commitment to reduce global warming.
Please send your response to our request via the Washington State Council of Fire Fighters at 1069 Adams Street, SE, Olympia, Washington 98501 or wscff@wscff.org.
Note: The Solidarity Roundtable on Oil organized this sign-on letter in conjunction with the Washington State Council of Fire Fighters.


Infographics are very powerful in the blogosphere and in every other business as well. Inspite of Time and writing more content, they are indisputable in reaching more readers and can be understood easily. As Web Designers and Bloggers, we come across a lot of infographic presentations everyday and only we know how much effort we are putting into for creating such infographics using tools like Photoshop. Photoshop is really a competing tool for designing Charts, images and infographics etc., but in the POV of designers, it consumes a lot of time and energy and budget. To reduce the amount of time spent in creating such infographics and charts, came the infographic creator tools which can save you a lot of time and money. Anyone can design cool infographics with these tools and you don't need to be a designer to furnish your carvings.
Here are 5 of my favorite tools for creating cools infographics with your data.
Infogram- Create Interactive Infographics. One of the best Infographic creator tool and easy to use as well. A total of 1,039,728 Infograms (and counting) are created using this tool. Infograms created with this tool are rich in data content and more like charts. Chart type datas can be created in minutes. It ha a built-in spreadsheet where you will be providing the data or you can also import data from Excel sheet, XLS or CSV formats too. You can create chart type infographics in formats like Bar chart, Pie Chart, Bubble Chart, Tree Chart etc., . The Download feature is available only to pro users who buy subscription for 18$/ month or $/year. You can share the infographics created by you on your social networks and can embed in your website too.
This is a cool infographic creating tool which gathers data from your social networking profiles and generates your own personalised infographics. Yes, by signing in via Facebook, the tool automatically generates an infographic image based on your social media activity. It is one of the best tool to view your ups and downs of your day to day social media profile activities.
Visualize.me is an apt tool to rejenuvate your resume in an infographic format. The tagline- Visualize your Resume in one click says it all. Yes. That's Right!. Just be connecting with your linkedin profile, it creates a professional infographic resume. You can create your infographics resume in minutes. You can share your personalised Resume to your social networking profiles as well as embed to your blog. It is in its beta version and some of the features like Print are coming soon and it will be quite exciting in coming years with the personalized infographic resume.
Piktochart is another free infographic tool that contains more than over 120 themes which you can create visual infographic datas. It is easy to share and easy to use as it guides step by step tutorial even for a perfect newbie. The attractive feature is that download as JPG or PNG formats are available for all the users. The Pro users will get hands on unlimited themes. Free Users can access only 7 themes whereas Pro Users can access more than 100 themes. The cost of Subscription is $29 /month or 169$/year.
Easel.ly is another free tool to create your infographics. It calls its themes as vheme (Visual Theme) and it is totally free. You can create your infographics within minutes with this tool and is cost-effective too. The best part is it has drag and drop facility that works on the themes where anyone with no designing background can use its features very easily.
So far I have seen and tried, the above are the 5 tools for creating infographics. There are many other infographic tools out there but I am sure that you'll love the above ones more than the other tools for your purposes.
Now, leave back a comment with your favorite infographic creation tools.
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The board of the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers on Friday unanimously approved an internal reform plan that dramatically changes how directors are selected and how internet domain name policies are made.
The proposals, which are set to be honed and possibly enacted at the organization's next quarterly meeting, call for the abolition of board seats elected by the internet-using public, and the establishment instead of a Nominating Committee that selects directors from industry luminaries.
The board voted 18 to 0 to approve a plan that was created by a committee of four directors and was published two weeks ago. The director most likely to oppose the resolution, Karl Auerbach, who himself was elected by North American internet users, was not present at the meeting in Bucharest, Romania.
The resolution calls for the Evolution and Reform Committee to come up with an implementation plan that will be presented to the board for approval at its next meeting in Shanghai, China in late October. In the meantime, the ERC has had its remit modified somewhat to take into account additional concerns.
The committee will now have to come up with measures to ensure the geographic and cultural diversity of "all parts of ICANN's structure". ICANN is legally a California non-profit corporation, and gets its power from the US government, but it is widely expected to fail if it cannot secure the support of international domain bodies.
The resolution also directs the committee to come up with a way to replace the so-called At Large board directors with an alternative way of allowing formal public input in policymaking. The committee is directed to "consider the creation of an At Large Advisory Committee as a potential vehicle for informed participation in ICANN by the broad user community," the resolution says.
Critics, including sections of the US government, have recently expressed concerns that ICANN should be more transparent and publicly accountable. And there are legions of ICANN participants who believe the reform proposals are merely a mechanism for ICANN insiders, government, and corporate interests to get more power.
Given the unhappiness recently expressed about the reforms by the three critical Regional Internet Registries (the organizations that manage the allocation of IP addresses in coordination with ICANN), the resolution also contains instructions for the ERC to take more direction from "critical infrastructure providers and the technical community to further the establishment of effective working relationships".


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Local Eighth Graders Pledge to Work Hard, Attend SOU After High School
October 28, 2011 /in SOU News
(Ashland, Ore.) — The room was packed at Talent Middle School on Thursday evening as students and their families came to learn about "Pirates to Raiders," a new partnership designed to open doors for Hispanic students.
The program forms an alliance with eighth-grade students, their families, the Phoenix-Talent School District and Southern Oregon University. Each member of the partnership agrees to participate in ensuring that these students take all the right steps over the next five years. If they do, they will be accepted to SOU.
"I've been envisioning a program like this ever since I came to Oregon," said SOU President Mary Cullinan. "It really does take a village to help students get to college. This program creates that village. With Pirates to Raiders, these students can fulfill their dreams."
Families are an integral part of Pirates to Raiders. They pledge to make sure their children regularly attend school, support their academic progress, attend Pirates to Raiders events with them and ensure they complete the program.
SOU and the school district provide mentorship, access to scholarship and financial aid information, transportation to Pirates to Raiders events and opportunities for students to learn about the university.
"A college degree is the gateway to middle-class jobs and incomes," said Jonathan Chavez-Baez, SOU admissions counselor for minority outreach. "As educators, it is our responsibility to help these students and their families. The Pirates to Raiders program both provides structure and inspiration for students."
On Thursday evening, students listened attentively as current SOU students spoke to them in Spanish about why coming to SOU has been so important to them and what goals they hope to reach.
"This is a powerful partnership," Cullinan said. "Everyone is committed to these students' success. Their success will make a huge difference to their families and their communities. The program could become a model throughout Oregon."
To learn more about the program, contact Javier del Rio, Title III coordinator for the the Phoenix-Talent School District's Office of Instructional Services at 541-535-1552, extension 306.
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