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Depression is different from normal sadness as it interferes with your day-to-day life making it hard for you to work, study, rest and have fun.
Most likely, depression is caused by a combination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors. Depression can, in turn, lead to more stress and dysfunction and worsen the affected person's life situation and depression itself.
Depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain. Brain-imaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have shown that the brains of people who have depression look different than those of people without depression. The parts of the brain involved in mood, thinking, sleep, appetite, and behaviour appear different. But these images do not reveal why the depression has occurred. They also cannot be used to diagnose depression.


When we went to Webelos Woods we all got there late at night but wanted to get a spot in the area we were going to teach the webelos in so we slid a bunch of poles under the fence so no one stole the spot in the morning. Everyone worked with the webelos in some way during the trip. We taught the webelos how to make fires. It was very interesting.


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Feb 1 Cauliflower Peppercorn "Steaks"
Cauliflower is making a comeback especially in our house! These Peppercorn Steaks happens to be one of my favorite Vegetarian Dishes. I have promised the recipe for the last few months so here it is! Hope you guys love it as much as we do!
1 large baking potatoes sliced matchstick, tossed in olive oil and baked at 425 till crispy (for about 30 min).
First Prepare your cauliflower and start by preheating the oven to 425. Slice the cauliflower into 3-4 "steaks" about 1 inch thick. You want to cut through the core in order for it to stay in together. This can be really tricky. First cut the cauliflower in half with the base down (the non round side). Then work your way back out and try to get at least two steaks per half. The rest of the cauliflower I cut up and roast with the steaks so keep and do not waste. Next, lay the steaks on a greased cookie sheet (you can use olive oil or baking spray) and also add on the pieces that crumbled. Drizzle the olive oil evenly over the cauliflower. Tuck in the garlic and thyme sprigs over the cauliflower and salt and pepper. Sprinkle on half the cheese. Bake for about 30 minutes then add on the rest of the parmesan cheese. Bake for an additional 10 more min and start to prepare your sauce (the sauce takes 10 min so I start it after I add the cheese). In a small saucepan, add olive oil to a pan and on medium heat add in the thinly sliced shallot and minced garlic, saute until brown about 3-5 min. Next, add the peppercorns and saute an additional 1-2 min until fragrant. Add in the beef broth and bring to a boil and reduce for about 3-5 min. Last, add in the sour cream and whisk together for 2 min until mixed in. Plate the steaks and spoon over desired amount of sauce. If you like a lot of sauce you can always double the recipe. Serve with baked fries.


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Revenue Management Roles Elevate Women in Hospitality
by Jason Q. Freed, Managing Editor
It was no accident that the stage comprised three female hoteliers during the "Revenue Professional's Guide to Asset Value and Profitability" session at HSMAI's Revenue Optimization Conference on Wednesday.
Led by Kalibri Labs' Co-Founder and CEO Cindy Estis Green, the three women suggested the importance of a revenue leader in today's hotel has paved the way for women to move up the hospitality career ladder.
"Women often don't have access to direct P&L experience," said Diane Fox, Senior VP at CHMWarnick, which manages more than $15 billion in hotel real estate. "The stuff Cindy is doing is making it happen."
Women make up a large percentage of revenue managers throughout the industry and the panelists suggested that, because revenue managers have ascended into leadership and even executive roles at many hotel companies, this profession has helped women break the glass ceiling. Now more than ever, women are making critical decisions that affect the bottom-line profitability of individual hotels and entire hospitality companies.
And they're making critical changes to how revenue teams operate as well. Estis Green is leading this charge, highlighting the importance of a shift from traditional revenue management to a more holistic approach termed revenue strategy.
"The revenue role needs to be expanded," Estis Green said. "Sales and digital and branding need to all be aligned and focused on the best opportunities, not every opportunity.
"Be smart and surgical in the way you target your business," she said.
"Revenue management is the key to the business," added Kim Gauthier, Senior VP at HotelAVE, which provides asset management services to 48 hotels in North America, Canada and Latin America. "RMs should have a lot more control than they're given. This is an opportunity for them to bring a lot more ideas to the table and then present the problem with new ways to get it solved."
She said revenue teams should ask themselves what they can do to "break down the silos" between complicated hotel operating departments. Key questions they should ask are: What is the investor trying to accomplish? How long will it take to stabilize the asset? If it were me and I were responsible, what would I do?
"And then bring those ideas to the table," she said.
Gauthier outlined the importance of a revenue team by compelling the audience to think about who their decisions affect.
Net Operating Income "is what pays the debt service," she said. "The decisions that you're making affects a lot more people above you. This is someone's pension plan, it's someone's inheritance."
What's Changing in RM?
Estis Green said revenue management is no longer just about pulling pricing levers; the role has expanded to ensure the hotel is building the right mix of business.
Gauthier agreed, suggesting hotel revenue managers spend less time pulling reports and more time strategizing.
"The purpose of the revenue meeting is to sit around in a group and strategize," she said. "Present the problem and, as a team, identify a solution."
Estis Green showed Kalibri data from their 52,000 participating hotels that suggested 75% of the average hotel's RevPAR comes from four rate categories: Rack/BAR, group, corporate and OTA. Of the four categories, OTAs rank third in amount of contributed demand but fourth in contribution to Net RevPAR.
Almost all business comes through digital channels, she said, which can be quite costly.
"The digital marketplace is powerful and super expensive," Estis Green said. "Traditional revenue management is an important component but determining overall business mix has to be more than filtering rates and inventory."
She implored revenue managers to take that same concept of filtering and apply to the top of the funnel, suggesting they be more proactive in determining the right business for sales teams to target.
"Instead of going after every group, every digital opportunity, be selective," she said. "Ask how we can align our spending with what's in the market and take net revenue into account."
Estis Green said RevPAR Index is a simple way to communicate where the hotel stands to key stakeholders, but she questioned whether it was the right metric for revenue managers to measure their success.
"It's all about channel mix and optimization," she said. "Sometimes I don't want to be indexed 100 in the group segment, I want to be 175, and maybe in some other channels I'm fine being 50 or 75."
Fox said that through 20 years of watching the hospitality industry transform, she now sees the need for a revenue leader in the C-suite.
"What you guys do is very complicated," she told the audience. "But you're still very siloed on the management and brand sides. You almost need a Chief Revenue Officer, someone who's as senior as the GM and understands all the levers and is responsible for the P&L.
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Video: Tribune Sports Editor Bill Rozak reports from Kirkwood Mountain Resort Thursday, Jan. 18. South Lake Tahoe may get a few inches of snow starting Thursday night with lingering snow showers into Friday, according to the National Weather Service. The high temperatures will hang around freezing with the lows in the teens and 20s into Wednesday with more snow in the forecast possible starting as early as Sunday night.


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Q: Determining sample size I have a large set of data and a copy of that data. The whole data set is $n$ bytes. I want to be 99.999% certain that the sets are identical. Assuming that copying errors occur randomly, how many bytes do I need to randomly select and compare against the reference to be 99.999% certain the two sets are completely identical?
This problem, it appears to me, relates to that one here: Determining Sample Size for a Desired Margin of Error -- however I'm confused by the margin-of-error and confidence interval both occuring in the formula, but the sample size not being dependent at all on the input size (in that example, total number of students).

A: If I understand your question correctly, you want to treat your data as a set of Bernoulli random variables ($X=1$ if a given byte is correct), and determine if the "real" proportion of bytes that are correct is $p=1$. So you construct a one-sided confidence interval around $\widehat{p}=\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^Nx_i=1$ and choose $N$ such that (using the rule of 3) $1 - 3/N=1-\delta=0.000001$.
See this post and this wiki page.
Note that your $n$ doesn't matter (unless $n<N$ of course) because we consider a hypothetical infinite population. Also note that many approximations won't work for you because your $p$ should be close to 1.
I will note though that this doesn't make much sense from an actual computer engineering standpoint, for actually copying data (as the comment above notes). You should use checksums or something :)

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The formula for Goodwood's Revival weekend festival of historic motor racing just doesn't get old. With track parades to celebrate anniversaries of iconic cars and drivers, flying displays by historic aircraft as well as a wide spread of events for many categories of historic racing cars, giving the old 'uns a good leg-stretcher has proven a big crowd-pleaser.
Two charismatic racing models celebrated their 60th anniversary this year, the Maserati 250F and the Jaguar D-Type, and the weekend saw high-speed parades with many examples of both vehicles taking part. The Revival always attracted some star talent and no less a champion than Sir Jackie Stewart was the toast of this year's event, celebrating 50 years since he first eased himself into a single-seater racing car. By happy coincidence, it was here at Goodwood back in March of 1964, when Ken Tyrrell invited Stewart for a trial in Tyrrell's F3 Cooper-BMC T72.
This career-forming trial saw Stewart racing in F1 within a year and he was reunited with that same T72 during Friday's parade, moving up to the Tyrrell 006 for Saturday and then, on Sunday, the Matra MS80 in which he claimed his first World championship in 1969. Mark Webber gave the Matra MS80 a thorough shakedown on Saturday.
History was made in the skies above Goodwood too, with the last two remaining airworthy WWII Avro Lancaster bombers flying together, flanked by Spitfires and Hurricanes. The UK-based Lanc is a familiar fixture at the Revival, being joined this time round by its Canadian-based counterpart that has spent much of the summer in the UK.
Despite their best efforts, the aircraft couldn't hope to overshadow the main attraction which has always been the pre-1966 historic race cars. The paddocks were crammed with priceless metal, with virtually unrestricted public access. In one direction were ERAs types A, B and C alongside Alfa Romeo Tipo Bs and 308C. Nearby were the TT contenders; Cobras, lightweight E-Types, Ferrari 250 GTOs etc.
As is the norm at the Revival, contemporary dress comprised jackets and ties, or even cravats for the gentlemen while for the ladies, there were flared skirts, fur stoles and mini-skirts. Fortunately the weather played ball, with a whole weekend of clear skies.
The racing itself was hotly contested. Saturday's opening race saw Mark Gillies take his almost customary win in the 1934 ERA A-Type R3A from Calum Lockie's Maserati 6CM. During this race, Richard Last spun his Parnell MG into the path of Stephen Rettenmaier's Alfa Tipo B which was launched towards the Armco right in front of my camera. The two cars were badly mangled, but both drivers climbed out unhurt.
The two-part St. Mary's Trophy for saloons was reserved for cars racing between 1950 and 1959. Part One, for celebrity drivers, was as hard-fought as ever. Victory here went to Anthony Reid in the Jaguar Mk 1, just ahead of Emanuele Pirro, who put up a spirited drive in an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Ti, finishing 0.4 secs ahead of Andrew Jordan's Austin A40.
Part Two was just as close at the front with Mark Jordan in the Austin A40 taking the flag 1.3 secs ahead of Justin Law in Anthony Reid's winning Jaguar Mk 1. Grant Williams rounded out the minor placings in the Mk 1 Jaguar that had landed Derek Bell with reliability issues on Saturday. The combined results gave victory to the Reid / Law Jaguar Mk 1 less than half a second clear of the Jordans' A40.
New on the race program this year was the Shelby Cup for American saloons to celebrate 50 years of the small block V8. The field comprised mostly Ford Mustangs and Falcons with a smattering of Plymouths, Mercurys and Dodges. The 45 minute race was for two drivers, with the pits getting rammed when teams opted to make their driver change during an early safety car spell. This broke up a four-car battle for the lead, and the Nikki Faulkner and Mike Gardiner Ford Falcon Sprint came home a 'relatively' easy winner from Mat Jackson and Henry Mann's Mustang. Emanuele Pirro had another epic drive in the Mercury Comet Cyclone shared with Roger Wills, just holding off the Halls and Minshaw Falcon.
In the Whitsun Trophy for big bangers, Chris Goodwin in his 1966 McLaren M1B ran away from the pack to beat David Hart's Lola T70 Spyder by over 20 seconds. Roger Wills took his Lotus-Climax 16 to victory in the Richmond Trophy for front-engined F1 cars of 1954 to 1960. Many of the Maserati 250Fs that had been in the parades over the previous days raced in this event. Tony Wood claimed a close second place in his 250F, this being the smaller and lighter Tecnica Meccanica Maserati 250F, the last ever built.
The opportunity to watch priceless metal being raced in anger is just part of the appeal of the Revival.
The Blue Riband event at the Goodwood Revival Meeting is the two-driver, hour-long, Tourist Trophy for closed cockpit GT cars of 1960 to 1964. This sees AC Cobras, Jaguar E-Types, Ferrari 250 GTOs and GTs mixing it with Aston Martins, Corvettes, a single Sunbeam Tiger and Maserati Tipo 151 and even a couple of ISO Bizzarrini A3Cs this year. This race attracts some top-drawer talent which, combined with big horsepower, old-school tyres and rear-wheel drive, results in armfuls of opposite lock through most corners.
Sauber's F1 test driver, Giedo van der Garde, displayed great racecraft at the start, swooping across the track in his AC Cobra from the dirty side of the track, to be on the inside line into Madgwick well before reaching the first corner. The racing was closely contested but clean, with good positions for some of the less represented cars. Second place went to the sole Maserati Tipo 151 of Derek Hill and Joe Collasacco, this in Maserati's centenary year. Van der Garde and David Hart claimed victory in the Cobra by ten seconds from the Tipo 151, with three E-types filling 3rd, 4th and 5th positions.
In the Freddie March Memorial Trophy, Sam Hancock's Cunningham C4R led for the early laps before eased out by Darren McWhirter in his rare 1954 Lagonda V12 Le Mans. The weekend's racing culminated in Andy Middlehurst claiming the Glover Trophy in a Lotus-Climax 25, holding off the challenge of James King's Brabham-Climax BT7.
The Goodwood Revival Meeting has traditionally played second-fiddle to the massively popular Festival of Speed, but it's enjoyed a boom in recent years. This ticket-only event was fully sold out, with 148,000 visitors enjoying warm and dry weather throughout. It may be a long trek to the south of England from Australia, but the whole pre-1966 atmosphere, fierce wheel-to-wheel racing and enthusiastic participation by the spectators makes the Revival weekend something rare and special. It's not too early to start making plans for next year.


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Gardaland Adventure Hotel, the new 4-star hospitality structure that will expand the offer of Gardaland Resort is ready to receive the numerous tourists hailing from every corner of Italy and Europe.
The first impact with the structure is truly scenic: a great Portal of Adventure welcomes Guests inside a real submarine, icon of imaginary journeys in Jules Verne's classic tales, which serves as introduction to the four fantastic worlds of Gardaland Adventure Hotel. 25 metre long and 6 metre high, the submarine has a 150 square metre surface and it is made in steel with the addition of paintings and decorations that contribute in giving it a "worn out" look of wood and raw iron.
Ideally, Gardaland Adventure Hotel is the home of an imaginary adventurer who, after a long voyage around the world with an imaginary, odd submarine, returns home "storming", by mistake, his own garden and destroying the fencing and the water pipes… The Guests are then "forced" to go through the hatches of the submarine's cargo hold, inside which there are many objects, retrieved from all over the world, on display.
The rooms will now be awaiting the courageous adventurers! Jungle, Arabian, Wild West and Arctic are the four themed developed. The extreme care in every detail characterises the various settings of Gardaland Adventure Hotel: from the walls to the floors, from the beds to the cupboards, the lights and the small interior design items… Everything speaks the same language – that of adventure and exploration – that every Guest will know how to translate and experiment based on their own "emotional chords".
Gardaland Adventure Hotel doesn't simply aim at delivering unpredictable adventures but also… wet appetites for a very special dinner! The rooms won't be the only things to be themed, as the second pavilion will host a very original, fully themed restaurant called Tutankhamon Restaurant, which will allow everyone, even those not staying at the Hotel, to dine among the walls of an ancient and imposing Egyptian temple and discovering the taste of delicious dishes in an engaging atmosphere.
Gardaland Adventure Hotel, the new 4-star hospitality structure that will expand the offer of Gardaland Resort is ready to receive the numerous tourists hailing from every corner of Italy and Europe. . . .


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Woman in Scotland Receive Pay Increase to the Real Living Wage
Women in part-time work are most likely to benefit from Living Wage employer accreditation, according to recent findings from Living Wage Scotland.
Following the announcement earlier this week that Dundee is the first city in the UK to be recognised for an ambitious plan to become a Living Wage City, Living Wage Scotland have released findings today, International Women's Day which show that women in part-time work are most likely to benefit from a pay increase to the real Living Wage of £9.00 per hour as a result of Living Wage employer accreditation.
Julie McGahan, Living Wage Scotland Manager said:
"This is the first time that Living Wage Scotland have been able to offer an analysis of gender in relation to the number of workers in Scotland being uplifted to the real Living Wage as a result of their employer becoming accredited.
"We were able to look at sample figures which account for 13,122 workers in Scotland. An analysis of these figures show that women in part-time work account for 66% of the workers uplifted to the real Living Wage. We also found that women in full-time employment are more likely to benefit from pay increases to the real Living Wage than men, and men working part-time more likely to benefit than men who are in full-time employment.
"I think our findings demonstrate that there is good potential for Living Wage Scotland to affect some change in the number of women in part-time work receiving the real Living Wage, as we work towards our target of delivering pay increases to the Living Wage for at least 25,000 workers over the next three years".
The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said:
"We are committed to fair work. More security, decent pay and a greater voice for workers in the companies whose wealth they help to create.
"Our Programme for Government makes clear our determination to reduce gender inequality and improve the position of women in the workplace, and closing the gender pay gap is a priority. Ensuring the real Living Wage is paid by as many companies and organisations as possible is part of that effort.
"Along with setting up a working group to inform a new gender pay gap action plan, we are funding several initiatives to support women to return and progress in the workplace. We are investing £5 million over the next three years to support around 2,000 women return to work following a career break, and we continue to fund Close the Gap £205,000 to challenge and change employment practices and workplace cultures."
Anna Ritchie Allan, Executive Director of Close the Gap, said:
"Women's propensity to work part-time, so that they can balance work with caring roles, means that they're at higher risk of in-work poverty. The Living Wage is an important mechanism to lift women and their families out of poverty.
"We also need a step change in employer approaches to part-time working. Too often, there's a cultural presumption against part-time working in senior grades, and in male-dominated jobs and sectors. This prevents women from progressing, and sustains their concentration in the lowest paid jobs in the labour market. Employers that pay their staff the real Living Wage, and enable them to work flexibly at all levels, will be able to benefit from the well-evidenced gains of gender equality at work."
Kate Wallace, Living Wage Scotland Leadership Group member and SSE Sustainability Economist said:
"We know women are more likely to be in low-paid and insecure work than men, which is why the analysis published today by Living Wage Scotland is so important. This is core evidence the Living Wage movement has made a real difference in improving conditions for those in low-paid work, both full and part-time.
"SSE was delighted to be an early pioneer of the Living Wage and continues to encourage more business to invest in their workforces and make a real difference to society."
Table 1: The number of workers who received a pay increase to the real Living Wage
Full time workers
Part time workers
Female workers
Male workers
8% (1066)
80% (10,444)
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Spain : in search of a child in 110-Meter-deep manhole so far unsuccessfully
Fernando Onega is a seasoned television journalist, and has seen a lot. But he fights in a live broadcast with the tears. The desperate search for a two-year-ol
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Fernando Onega is a seasoned television journalist, and has seen a lot. But he fights in a live broadcast with the tears. The desperate search for a two-year-old, to be plunged when Playing in a more than 100 meters deep and very narrow well shaft, in the whole of Spain compassion.
Although the rescue teams for Sunday lunch at the scene of the accident in Totalán in Málaga province, even at night, constantly active, there was also on Tuesday, after more than 48 hours, no sign of life from the small Julen. There is no news, informed of the accident emergency service. Whether the child was still alive, remained unknown.
The police had admitted on Monday that they had "no physical proof" that the child was actually in the hole. On the basis of the information provided by the parents hear the child in the shaft would have to cry, to clasp but other ways - for example, that he was out climbed and got lost - for the time being.
A family trip to the countryside ends with a tragedy
The cheerful family trip to the countryside, a picnic with a lot of Paella, and was finished on Sunday in the hilly forest area, suddenly a desperate scream. An aunt had seen the fall from some distance, and loudly called for help, reported the newspaper "La Vanguardia", and other media. The Small is supposed to have fallen while Playing with other children in the open slot.
The rescue work is complicated by the fact that the shaft has a diameter of only about 25 to 30 centimeters. With a robot camera man was penetrated on Monday to a depth of nearly 80 meters. There they had discovered a bag of candy that Julen had. Because earth have dissolved, the plug of the shaft, come with the camera so far, but no further forward, informed the rescue teams. The shaft had only been a couple of weeks ago in search of water is dug, a total of 107 metres deep, it said. This corresponds approximately to the height of a 30-storey building.
the search close to the 352-Meter-high hill, Cerro de la Corona, about 15 kilometres North-East of the coastal city of Málaga, more than 100 members of the fire brigade, the police, the civil protection and other emergency services involved. Also, experts from companies and universities were consulted. On Tuesday, moreover, experienced miners of the Northern coal Region of Asturias were called to help. Were used in the larger vehicles, hard-to-reach area of the various machines.
rescue workers plan horizontal Tunnel
First of all, you had been considering to build after the removal of the dislodged earth and the strengthening of the inner walls of the shaft, a hole parallel to the shaft. On Tuesday, it was decided, however, the slope of the terrain to take advantage of a slope from a horizontal, approximately 50 to 80 meters long Tunnel to dig, which should lead directly to the end of the well shaft. Then if you want to use again the robot camera, to find Julen. "This is the safest and fastest way," said the Deputy delegate of the government in Andalusia, María Gámez. An expert explained on TV, the construction of such a tunnel will take two to three days, and only if no problems have appeared.
The Spaniards hope that the child can survive thanks to an air bubble for longer. "With every Minute that passes, wane but the hopes," commented the newspaper "ABC".
With every Minute, the sympathy of the Spaniards was but larger. The Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had called on Sunday to the hope not to give up. Courage to the languages of the family, also many other personalities of the public life. Queen Letizia, herself a mother of two daughters, asked on Tuesday to the opportunities of the Small.
Julens parents already lost a child
More than 100 companies, among other things, in the construction sector and help offered. The Madrid Ministry of the interior pledged "all means". The Church is invited to pray the Little. Also people the family knew, howled in front of TV cameras uncontrollably. "All are shocked and anxious," said the 71-year-old Onega.
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003 – Dojo Universe Podcast – Donald MacPherson, Route 66, and More!
Description: In today's episode: We listen to two tracks the late great Donald MacPherson, and talk a bit about his career. Then, some guests discuss their experiences at the Pipes and Sticks on Route 66 concert(s). Finally, a great review by Carl of the Chanter Reed Pressure Gauge!
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If you are seeking out old furniture, ensure you examine its underside so that you ensure stability. A lot of the time, some furniture may look like it's in great condition when it really isn't. Rust and dry rot are common problems that tend to plague older furniture.
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Hello RSO GMs! Many of you probably remember the emails from this summer in search for some hardcore GMs ready to put up serious cash to reserve their place in the first ever High Stakes League on our platform. Well, it took all summer, but we finally got to twelve GMs/Owners, and the league was born. From all over the US, the twelve GMs have been battling hard all season long, culminating in six playoff berths last week. The seeds were as follows:
#1 Seed – Schless is More – led by RSO vets and brothers Jude and John Schlesselman and representing the great state of Oklahoma, Schless is More has been balanced since the beginning of the season, led by three of his key signings on auction day. Russell Wilson (4 yrs $151.5mm) is QB #3, Dalvin Cook (3 yrs $100.5mm) is RB #2 and Darren Waller (2 yrs @ $23.5mm) is TE #2, and the trio has led Schless to a 10-3 record and a league high 1935 points.
#2 Seed – Philadelphia Freeways – led by Jared Smith a mystery GM and representing the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, Jared and the Freeways got off to a hot start to the year, winning his first six games of the year. He finished the regular season at 10-3 with the #2 seed, led by free agent signings Travis Kelce (2 yrs @ $50mm and TE #1) and Stefon Diggs (1 yr @ $14mm!! for WR #3 as of this week). Unlike Schless who made only a few trades during the year that did not materially impact his team (other than having Matt Stafford starting in the Open Flex this week), Jared made a few key trades during the season that have helped him get to where he is. In Week 6, he dealt his 2022 1st Round and Joe Burrow to get Aaron Jones, a top 5 RB that had a monster game last night for the Freeways, helping him (along with Diggs) to have a 50.50 to 49.86 lead over #3 seed The "Don" headed into play this afternoon. He made another deal with the same team, Rodge and Dodge, in Week 10 right before the trade deadline, and he picked up his other starting RB, David Montgomery, and Brandin Cooks/Antonio Brown, in exchange for Dexter Williams, Tyler Higbee, OBJ and his 2021 1st and 2022 2nd. Jared is going all in to win this year, and he is now two weeks away from achieving that dream.
#3 Seed – The "Don" Piccolo – from St. Louis, Missouri, Ryan Bennett is what some would call a "fantasy nut", as he has 50+ teams he manages each year. We are proud to have him in the inaugural High Stakes League, and he has had a great season, going 8-5 and winning a three-way tiebreaker for the #3 seed by virtue of his 1815 points scored. The "Don" has been led by his two QBs he signed in the auction, Kyler Murray (4 yrs @ $190.5mm QB#1) and Justin Herbert (2 yrs @ $14.5mm QB #10), as well as consistent play (and QB-WR stacking benefits) from DeAndre Hopkins (3 yrs @ $98.5mm WR#6). After defeating the #6 seed NJ Generals last week, he trails the Freeways by a couple points heading into action this afternoon, as he looks to keep the dream alive with a big upset win this week and a championship berth.
#4 Seed – Borderland Bombers – the Borderland Bombers are our #4 seed and are led by Steven Schuster from El Paso, Texas (aka football country). Schuster led his squad to a 8-5 record and 1796 points. After starting a pedestrian 5-5, the Bombers caught fire over the last three weeks of the season, winning all three contests, and then knocked off #5 seed Y-Town in the first round of the playoffs, riding great games from two of his multi-year guys, Lamar Jackson (4 yrs @ $225mm) and Calvin Ridley (4 yrs @ $68.5mm). On RSO, it is not always about the Draft or the Auction or even trades, but about the in-season acquisitions that are made. In week 1 (after the auction but before the NFL season commenced), Borderland signed undrafted free agents James Robinson to a 1yr $2.5mm deal (he is now RB #4) and Mike Davis to a 1yr $1mm deal (he is now RB #8). The Bombers are looking to keep the hot streak alive and pull off the huge upset over Schless is More this weekend.
#5 Seed – Y-Town – led by Daniel Johnson from Youngstown, OH, Y-Town also had an 8-5 year, but received the #5 seed by scoring 10 fewer points (1786) than the Bombers. Led by Alvin Kamara (4yrs @ $138.5mm RB#1) and Josh Allen (QB #4), who he acquired in a 12 player trade in Week 8 that also included a 2022 draft pick, Y-Town had a great first season in the league, but the Bombers proved too much for them, as Schuster's squad bested Johnson's team in the regular season finale in Week 13 (138.60-113.68) and then again last week (163.88-133.84). With no 1st or 2nd round picks left in 2021, Y-Town will look to his long-term core of Josh Allen, Alvin Kamara and Josh Jacobs to lead his squad to success in the years to come.
#6 Seed – NJ Generals – the last of our playoff teams is led by Greg Salter out of Trenton, NJ. The Generals had some tough matchup luck this season, going only 5-8, but they made it to the playoffs via their 1770 total points scored (the #5 and #6 seeds are decided based on total points). Led by the WR duo of Tyreek Hill (3 yrs @ $103mm WR #1) and Tyler Lockett (2 yrs @ $23mm WR #10), the Generals kept their poise after starting the year 1-5, which included a couple of tough beats, and just kept tallying points each and every week, resulting in a #6 seed and chance to play The "Don" in the first round of the playoffs. While Miles Sanders and Tyreek Hill had phenomenal weeks, Salter's squad could not overcome the goose eggs laid by Noah Fant (0 points) and James Conner (1.80 points). In the end, The "Don" was too tough, besting the Generals 136.58-115.92. Salter will undoubtedly have his team ready for 2021!
Wildcard Playoff Results & Semi-Final Matchup Analysis
#3 The Don Piccolo (8-5) vs #2 Philadelphia Freeways (10-3)
As of this posting, exactly 1 point separates The "Don" Piccolo (85.26) and the Philadelphia Freeways (84.26 points). The Freeways got a huge game from Aaron Jones and Stefon Diggs yesterday, while The "Don" had a huge game from Justin Herbert on Thursday night. The Freeways have Travis Kelce and Wayne Gallman yet to play while The "Don" has Nick Chubb, DeAndre Hopkins and Kyler Murray yet to go. Edge is probably to The "Don" at this moment, but as expected at the start of the week, this one should be fun to watch to the wire. Good luck to both of you.
Projected Score The "Don" 169 – The Freeways 167
#4 Borderland Bombers (8-5) vs #1 Schless is More (10-3)
The clear #1 in the league all year, Schless is More is now on the ropes. They have a 89.04-71.24 league as of this writing, but all of their players are on the field at the moment (save Darren Waller whose 30 points on Thursday will be much needed by the time the final whistle blows). The Bombers have five guys playing at the moment with Kareem Hunt and Jared Cook to go later today. Still a ton of football left to play, but the Schless needs to build a bigger lead if he wants to survive an upset from the Bombers and make his way into the championship matchup.
Projected Score Borderland Bombers 150 – Schless is More 160
Stay tuned next week for coverage of the championship game. Our winner will not only take home a bunch of dough and massive bragging rights, but our friends at TrophySmack are making a custom trophy for the winner, which will be amazing eye candy in one of those new home offices everyone is designing at the moment.
To all of you in fantasy playoff matchups this week, best of luck in making it one step closer to fantasy immortality!
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Video (2:17): Zanele Muholi presents 'Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness' (Aperture, 2018).
Video (2:45): A short talk with queer photographer iO Tillett Wright. They have spent the past six years photographing people who identify across the LGBT spectrum.
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Signed as a top priority artist with Mercury-Universal, Tara returned to work in 2011 with David Guetta on the track 'Pandemonium', co-produced by Afrojack. This song saw her tour the world; from South Korea to Paris, to Ecuador and Switzerland.
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Who Knew There Were So Many Different Interview Methods?
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Nobody realizes it more than instant cash loans direct lenders only Clear Choice Staffing Solutions and others in our industry the changes in job searches and interview methods. Gone are the days where you look in a newspaper, see an ad for a job, call the company and schedule an interview. It seems like most hiring is done online today by way of job boards and social media sites. The next most popular thing is word-of-mouth referrals that will get you a job interview.
Back when you would use the newspaper for job searching, the interview method was pretty straight forward too. You walked in, introduced yourself and usually chatted with an owner or the manager. Then companies felt the need to get more layers in there such as a HR person. So you might have found yourself interviewing with 3 or 4 people before you were awarded the job or passed on.
And today, it is even more complicated. Because everyone has so much going on today, businesses have found other ways to interview. This means that today's candidates need to be prepared for whatever interview method or technique comes their way. This doesn't mean you're one interview and done either. You may still have to go through several before a decision is made.
When a company has received a massive amount of applicants, they will use the Screening Interview to eliminate a big part of them. This method of interview is meant to "weed out" the most apparent un-fit for the job at hand and they are often performed by phone. They are very short and focused on the candidate's basic qualifications.
Many times, phone interviews aren't scheduled. However, if the caller reached you at an inconvenient time, simply ask to reschedule. Don't try to force it to work, because it probably won't.
Yes, there are still some personal interviews being done and many job seekers feel they 100 guaranteed loans with bad credit have a better chance when they are in a face-to-face interview. You want to make sure your appearance is in interview condition and that your actions are in proper form for an interview.
These can be nerve wracking! You will appear before a "committee" made up of different people within the company. Each will have their own set of questions and after you leave, they compare notes. From the business' standpoint, the Panel Interview is the most efficient way because they get all parties interviewing done at once.
As a candidate, it can be intimidating and you need to be sure to engage and interact with each person on the panel. Ask for each panelist business card and then send each a personal thank you note afterward. You should have ample about of resumes so that you can offer each panelist a copy.
Some companies will schedule you to interview with a list of people throughout the day in this type of interview. They are usually back to back with a break for lunch. You may even have a lunch interview, which we discuss next. For the candidate, this type of interview is exhausting mentally and physically. It is almost as tiring as the first day on a new job! But you have to keep your game face on with a positive online loans for no credit attitude all day.
Sometimes the interviewing manager will ask to meet you for lunch. This type of interview is meant to be a more casual and comfortable setting because it is unstructured. During this type of interview, you are being evaluated on your manners and social skills. So make sure you bring your best manners with you! And above all, do not order an alcoholic beverage even if the other person does.
This type of interview is where a company brings in several candidates that have applied for the same job. There is usually just one interviewer who will ask the questions to the group in general. Retail and restaurants use this type of interview when they are looking for candidates that are going to stand out, because chances are, they'll stand out as an employee too.
Many companies are going this route as an elimination interview. It is called digital interviewing and enables the employer to perform an efficient, fair and structured interview. This type of interview is used when geography is an issue.
The multiple interview styles are as various as the jobs you're applying for and as diverse as the companies themselves are. What you should keep in mind is if you are asked back, then you are getting closer to the decision being made.
Remember the song "School Days"? "School days, school days. loans until payday Dear old Golden Rule days 'Reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic Taught to the tune of the hick'ry stick". Well those days are disappearing from America's education system, if some people have it their way.
The Clear Choice Staffing Solutions blog this month has been focused on college and high school graduates. Are they ready for the workforce? What is the best education avenue for them to take? Maybe vocational training is better for some of them and what happens to those who don't get a high school diploma?
Today, we're going to look at Common Core State Standard. What exactly is it and how is that going affect the workplace when the students that are taught that way get to the workforce. If you're like most people that are reading this blog, you probably only have an ambiguous idea about what Common Core State Standard is. Results from a Gallup Poll indicated that almost two-thirds of American hasn't even heard about it, much less understand it.
In the early part of 2009, 48 of the states along with the District of Columbia jointly agreed that for children to be ready for college, a new standard in teaching was needed. Thus CCSS (Common Core State Standard) was born.
After receiving input from business leaders, online loans reviews education experts, researchers and teachers, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers wrote and published the CCSS in 2010. With the final draft of the CCSS adopted, the California State Board of Education was the first to sign on. As of today, not all states have adopted this new standard.
So What Is Common Core State Standards Anyway?
It is a set of educational standards links all learning to 10 Career and College Readiness Standards that are deemed necessary for students to be successful when they reach college and the workforce. It is also designed to help teachers concentrate on the overall picture, giving them a big picture of how they teach is connected to a student's past and present academics.
So right away, we can see that the CCSS strand won't be accomplished in a single year. Many are questioning how well this new standard is going to work because of low test scores from the first states that have implemented the new standards. The AP way of keeping score is going to go away and instead, schools will rely on grade-point average along with teacher recommendations until this new standard gets worked out.
How Is The Workforce Going To Be Affected?
The 100 guaranteed long term loans literary approach to language arts will be replaced with informational text. Those that are in favor of CCSS say this is the type of reading that is used more in the workplace anyway. And with math, memorizing concepts will be replaced with critical thinking as well as problem-solving skills. Again, something is used in the workplace.
Okay, many of us feel like we've done okay with our education. After all, we've created, developed and invented many of the things that kids are using today, right? But then when was the last time you used a William Shakespeare piece at work? Or recited the multiplication table while generating a report for accounting?
It is too soon to tell just how well this new education standard is going to do in the workforce. We've got to see the kids going into kindergarten through a minimum of 13 years of school and then college before we'll know. Some of the proponents for CCSS probably won't even be alive to see if it is a success or not. What we do know, and you've had the opportunity to read about here in our blogs this month, that what we're doing for our kids today isn't working all that well.
Don't Drown – Turn Around!
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This Is How You Get To Be The "A" Team!
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Clear Choice Staffing Solutions loves our clients and online payday loan company the employees that we match with them. There is nothing we like to see more than a successful relationship. We know that when the matches we make are good, then the results are good too. But when things aren't going good, we step in to see what we can do to help, even if it means working side-by-side with the employees.
It is what we call the WOW approach. The "Watch Our Work" approach is what sets Clear Choice Staffing Solutions above our competition. We do more than just place quality employees with quality employers. We become a partner with our clients and engage the employees to give the best and most productivity they can.
This is exactly what we did recently for one of our distribution clients this past April. There were problems in the warehouse with online payday cash advances mis-picks and other shipping errors. Employee attendance and turn-over were not meeting expectations and team support in the ranks was lacking. The team objectives hadn't taken root because of those things, making the inconsistencies in employees and poor performance key issues for our client.
Jasmin Espy, CEO of Clear Choice engaged the employees to seek their input on making improvements. What we found out is there was an awesome crew in place, but there were missing some details that would help them understand the key metrics and how to team better. Without key metrics in place, the company was experiencing poor employee attendance; lack of employee knowledge and a lack of real team work. So what did we do?
We put on our jeans and sneakers and joined in with the Clear Choice Staffing Solutions employees we had placed. payday advance loan washington We worked the line, elbow-to-elbow, with the crew and unloaded more than 3000 boxes with the team. What the management of our client saw was a team that was there all along and an error rate went from over 600 errors to an average of 10 a day.
Having better knowledge of how the work was performed took the edge off so that any defensive or job protection mindset was eased. We turned the focus on teaming, offering a bonus campaign that focused on rewards for zero and stressed the importance of team work and offered rewards for those who stood out as a leader in work ethic.
We communicated the importance of error reduction by setting new standards. We kept the team in the loop by providing them weekly updates on performance and who was leading the payday loans vancouver b c pack with the goals that were set.
We rewarded the team and enjoyed a catered lunch by Lew Cornish of "BBQ Lew's Smoke House". Thirty percent of the CCSS staff won $100 bonus for improved attendance. Award and recognition were given to "Best Team Player" and "Most Improved Employee" as well as "Best New Beginner" for their personal commitment, skills, and overall performance.
The key factor of this great success and turn-a-round is the employees. They had the desire and fortitude to be successful themselves and make the company a success too. The reached down inside and pulled out what was there all along and gave their absolute best. It is that determination that makes Clear Choice Staffing Solutions the agency of choice for our clients and makes us a success. And that is how we got to be the "A" team in staffing!


Brand awareness for nonprofits varies among households earning either more or less than $100,000, with only six charities among the top 10 matching across both demographics and four of the top 10 being in healthcare.
Zion & Zion, a Tempe, Ariz.-based marketing agency collected data from 1,053 respondents to its annual survey, ranking brand awareness of the 100 largest U.S. charities by total revenue. Data were analyzed comparing different consumer income segments.
The top-ranked nonprofit for brand awareness in the study overall was Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at 91 percent, followed by The Salvation Army, 88 percent; Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 87 percent; and, The Y and American Heart Association, both at 85 percent.
Habitat for Humanity International, 74 percent.
Doctors Without Borders, 90 percent.
The most significant differential where higher brand awareness was found among households with annual incomes of less $100,000 was for Chicago-based Feeding America, at 14 percent (39 percent to 25 percent), followed by Step Up For Students in Jacksonville, Fla., at 9 percent (12 percent to 4 percent), and Cross International in Pompano Beach, Fla., at 8 percent (9 percent to 1 percent).
The more extreme difference in charity brand awareness among higher-income households earning $100,000 or more was American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), with a 37 percent differential (74 percent to 37 percent), followed by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), at 36 percent (80 percent to 44 percent), and Susan G. Komen, 30 percent (86 percent to 57 percent).
Charity brands more familiar among higher-income households dominate Zion & Zion's top 100, taking the top 40 spots overall. Organizations with higher brand awareness among households with less than $100,000 in annual income occupy 20 positions among the top 100, only two managed to crack the top 50: Volunteers of America (VoA) at No. 41 and Feeding America at No. 43. Ten of them were among the bottom 25 charities in the rankings.
Among the top 100, six charities were ranked as "equal" when it came to awareness among high versus lower-income households.


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In generic terms, absorption heat pumps are hydronic type systems, as they heat and/or cool the water that is required. One of the many advantages of this characteristic is that it allows the heating and cooling input temperature to be managed better, making for precise adjustments to indoor comfort, thus increasing the operating efficiency of the entire system.
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The Times New Roman: My 13 Favorite Albums of 2013!
2013 was another wonderful year for music! I've had the chance to discover a number of new artists this year. While I've spent a significant amount of time listening to music and attending concerts, it would have been impossible to review every release. I call this list my favorites because I'm certain that I haven't had the pleasure to hear some of the best albums of the year. I'm not a critic nor do I claim to be any sort of expert on taste. Music is a personal experience and to rank a particular record as better than something else is completely subjective.
12. Atlas Genius, When It Was Now.
8. Foxygen, We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic.
5. Portugal. The Man, Evil Friends.
3. The National, Trouble Will Find Me.
1. Woodkid, The Golden Age.


We love collaborating with local Bristol and South West companies who are as passionate about making a difference as we are. Whether you are a small business or a large corporation, there are plenty of ways to join FareShare South West in fighting food waste and hunger in our community.
We are a small charity with a big impact. Every partnership we make can have a huge positive difference to those in need, as well as bringing benefits to your company that meet your strategic objectives. A partnership with FSSW can bring employee and customer engagement opportunities, positive PR across our networks, and meaningful contributions to your CSR objectives. We can provide impact reporting to show how you make a difference, and partner companies can also benefit from significant tax relief through charitable work.
Talk to us today about partnerships with us- we would love to hear from you.
Choose us as your Charity of the Year and we will support you every step of the way. From bespoke fundraising events here in our Bristol warehouse to office-based activities that unite your employees, we will make it a year to remember! We can help you develop a calendar of events which tie in with your company values, and will provide you with powerful impact reporting with case studies to show exactly how you made a difference to your community.
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Arrival Day: Our packages include airport transfer services hence we will meet you and drive from Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) to your hotel in Moshi and rest for a while. Afterward, you will meet your guide for gear checking and briefing about the mountain. Also, your guide will go through your group camping gear and demonstrate the use and operation of all equipment, especially emergency oxygen cylinder and pulse ox meter and explain signs and symptoms of various mountain sicknesses which might happen while trekking.
The drive from Moshi to the Mount Kilimanjaro National Park Gate takes about 50 minutes. The journey passes through the village of Machame which is located on the lower slopes of the mountain. You leave the park gate and walk through the rain forest on a winding trail up a ridge. Lower down, the trail can be muddy and slippery. Gaiters and trekking poles are a good idea here. You will continue a short distance until you reach the Machame Camp.
After breakfast, you will leave the glades of the rain forest and continue on an ascending path, crossing the little valley walking along a steep rocky ridge, covered with heather until the ridge ends. The route now turns west onto a river gorge. Time for rest, dinner, and overnight at the Shira campsite.
From the Shira Plateau, you will continue to the east up a ridge, passing the junction towards the peak of Kibo. As you continue, your direction changes to the South East towards the Lava Tower (4600m), called the "Shark's Tooth." Shortly after the tower, you will enjoy your lunch and break for acclimatization.
You will continue down to the Barranco Hut at an altitude of 3940m. Here you will rest, enjoy dinner, and overnight. Although you end the day at the almost same elevation as when you started, this day is very important for acclimatization and will help your body prepare for summit day.
At Stella Point (5756m), you will stop for a short rest and will be rewarded with the most magnificent sunrise you are ever likely to see (weather permitting). From Stella Point, you may encounter snow all the way on your one-hour ascent to the summit. At Uhuru Peak (5895m), you have reached the highest point on Mount Kilimanjaro and the continent of Africa. Faster hikers will see the sunrise from the summit.
From the summit, you will now make your descent continuing straight down to the Mweka Hut camp site, stopping at Barafu for brunch. You will want gaiters and trekking poles for the loose gravel going down. Mweka Camp is situated in the upper forest and mist or rain can be expected in the late afternoon. Later in the evening, you will enjoy your last dinner on the mountain and a well-earned sleep.
Departures Day: Our packages include departure day services. Enjoy breakfast and a morning sightseeing in the city or join us for Safaris. If you are returning home our driver will bring you to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) to catch your flight home.


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How To Stay Young (At Least In Spirit) When You're Retired
in Wellness March 30, 2017	0
Mohr Keet of South Africa bungee jumped when he was 96, landing himself in the Guinness Board of World Records.
Yuichiro Miura of Japan climbed Mount Everest when he was 80.
Not everyone in the golden years of life will attempt and accomplish such extraordinary feats, but most people can take steps to keep themselves young – at least in spirit – when they reach retirement.
Unfortunately, for many people retirement planning remains fixated on finances, so when the big day arrives they're not quite ready to segue into life's new chapter, says Ann Vanderslice (www.annvanderslice.com), president and CEO of Retirement Planning Strategies, which specializes in advising federal workers about their benefits.
"After you've planned for the money, there is still anxiety about retirement," she says. "You don't know what it's like to not work and so there is that emotional part of retirement you need to manage. Sometimes people aren't ready in any way, shape or form."
She says a few ways to hang onto a little youthful exuberance, while aging gracefully in retirement, include:
• Be a lifelong learner. Making the effort to learn about new things keeps our brains young. Read something you wouldn't normally read. Sit in on a lecture that a college opens to the public.
"Some of my clients mention they took classes in philosophy or in a foreign language," Vanderslice says. "It's proven that those who are lifelong learners have a greater sense of optimism and a lower chance of dementia."
• See the world – or at least some of it. There are no doubt plenty of places you haven't ventured out to, some close by and others far away.
Traveling and enjoying new experiences is a great way to keep you feeling young and enthusiastic about life, Vanderslice says, whether you head to a state park just an hour's drive away or you board a plane bound for Paris.
"Part of the fun of traveling is deciding where you want to go," Vanderslice says. "The sky should be the limit."
Don't eliminate anything from your initial list just because of expense, she says. You might be able to find bargains, and because you're retired you can travel any time you want, which allows you go in the off season when prices are lower.
• Remember your doctor's advice. Activities such as enrolling in a college class can help keep you mentally young, but you want your body to cooperate, too.
"We're always looking for that magic bullet, the easy and quick way to feeling younger," Vanderslice says. "The truth is that those things your doctor tells you – exercise, eat a healthy diet, get the appropriate amount of sleep – are about as close to a magic bullet as you're going to get."
"People think that money is the most important aspect of retirement, but it's really No. 2," Vanderslice says. "You can have more than enough money, but if you aren't healthy or doing the things you enjoy, the money won't matter."
You Are The Architect Of Your Life
Keep On Looking Up


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Q: Settext not called while it is called before a FOR loop Whenever I am clicking on a option item, the for loop will go first, and after the for loop is finished, the button text will be set. Why is it set AFTER the for loop is done, when it's fired BEFORE the for loop?
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int id = item.getItemId();

    if (id == R.id.refresh) {
        Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
        button.setText("Running");
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "We are currently running this function", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
            try {
                System.out.println("For is running" + i);
            } catch (NullPointerException e) {
                //Don't do shit :)
            }
        }
    }
}

A: Your problem is that you stop the UI thread within the loop. It will set the text st the button object level, but is stopped before this can be reflected to the user interface. If you want to execute some code which takes a percievable amount of time, you should always use a background activity. For examples see for example "https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html".

A: 1) Firstly, method public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) waits until you send back a boolean value. I will not show your button till you return true.
2) Second, it's very bad idea sleep() on UI thread. Instead try runOnUlThred():
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
    int id = item.getItemId();

    if (id == R.id.refresh)
    {
        Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button);
        button.setText("Running");
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "We are currently running this function", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        runOnUiThread(new Runnable()
        {
        public void run()
        {
        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
            try {
                System.out.println("For is running" + i);
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            } catch (NullPointerException e) {
                //Don't do shit :)
            }
        }
        }
        }
    return true;
    }
    else return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}


Houston, We Have a Logo!
Earlier this week we quietly unveiled our logo, which you can see at the top of this page. We're so excited by how well it captures the feeling of our brand and even ties closely to how the forthcoming site will look and function. Please be patient, though — it will be a little while before we're ready to reveal all!
Behind the scenes, the first iteration of the storytelling tool that will be at the heart of Treelines is complete, and over the next few months we will be previewing it for a select group of genealogy friends and colleagues. We're looking forward to hearing a ton of feedback so we can make the public version we'll share with you later this year as amazing as it can possibly be!
While it's gratifying to see months of hard work come together, the best part of this journey so far has been speaking with so many of you about your family histories. The father who wants his girls to understand how they are descended from both Francis Scott Key and the senator who proposed that the Star-Spangled Banner become our national anthem. The married couple who discovered they are distant cousins, connected through numerous Mayflower passengers, Revolutionary War officers, and even Salem witches! The Vietnamese immigrant who shared with me a couple of binders tracing her family back to the 13th century. The new friend whose great-grandmother killed her husband because she thought "life would be like a song" with her lover. The old friend whose great-uncle was separated from his family when he immigrated and ended up alone in Uruguay. And many, many more. All of these stores inspire us as we work to make Treelines the best possible tool for capturing and sharing these priceless family stories.
If you want to be the first to hear when we do start opening our doors, please join our email list using the form at the top-right.


Telluride is one of the most pedestrian-friendly resort towns in the United States. Once you get here, you don't need a rental car thanks to services such as the free Gondola, Dial-A-Ride/Telluride Concierge and Galloping Goose bus service.
Learn more about the Telluride-Mountain Village Gondola.
The Galloping Goose bus service provides free transportation in and around the town of Telluride, Mountain Village and Lawson Hill. It also provides paid bus transportation to Norwood and Placerville.


One of the last and most popular in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the rock-dominated 1960s, Johnny Mathis concentrated on romantic readings of jazz and pop standards for the ever-shrinking adult contemporary audience of the '60s and '70s. Though he debuted with a flurry of singles-chart activity, Mathis later made it big in the album market, where a dozen of his LPs hit gold or platinum and over 60 made the charts.
While he concentrated on theme-oriented albums of show tunes and traditional favorites during the '60s, he began incorporating soft rock by the '70s and remained a popular concert attraction well into the '90s.
Unsurprisingly, given his emphasis on long sustained notes and heavy vibrato, Johnny Mathis studied with an opera coach prior to his teenage years, and was almost lured into the profession; his other inspirations were the smoother crossover jazz vocalists of the 1940s — Nat "King" Cole, Billy Eckstine, and Lena Horne. Mathis was an exceptional high school athlete in San Francisco, but was wooed away from a college track scholarship and a potential spot on the Olympic squad by the chance to sing. He was signed to a management contract by club owner Helen Noga, who introduced the singer to George Avakian, jazz producer for Columbia Records. Avakian signed him and used orchestras conducted by Teo Macero, Gil Evans, and John Lewis to record Mathis' self-titled debut album in 1957. Despite the name talent and choice of standards, it was mostly ignored upon release.
Columbia A&R executive Mitch Miller — known for his desperately pop-slanted Sing Along albums and TV show — decided the only recourse was switching Mathis to Miller's brand of pop balladry, and the formula worked like a charm; the LP Wonderful, Wonderful didn't include but was named after a Top 20 hit later in 1957, which was followed by the number five "It's Not for Me to Say" and his first number one, "Chances Are." From that point on, Johnny Mathis concentrated strictly on lush ballads for adult contemporary listeners.
Though he charted consistently, massive hit singles were rare for Johnny Mathis during the late '50s and '60s — half of his career Top Ten output had occurred in 1957 alone — so he chose to focus instead on the burgeoning album market, much like Frank Sinatra, his main rival during the late '50s as the most popular traditional male vocalist. Mathis moved away from show tunes and traditional pop into soft rock during the '70s, and found his second number one single, "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late," in 1978. Recorded as a duet with Deniece Williams, the single prompted Mathis to begin trying duets with a variety of partners (including Dionne Warwick, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, and Nana Mouskouri), though none of the singles enjoyed the success of the original. Mathis continued to release and sell albums throughout the '90s — his fifth decade of recording for Columbia — among them 1998's Because You Loved Me: Songs of Diane Warren and 2000's Johnny Mathis on Broadway.


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Iker Casillas denies retirement reports again
- June 15, 2019 June 15, 2019
Iker Casillas has denied fresh reports he is retiring from football after he suffered a heart attack during training with Porto last month.
The Real Madrid and Spain great had a myocardial infarction on May 1 and underwent emergency surgery before returning home five days later.
Reports in Portugal claimed Casillas will announce his retirement on Thursday, with the goalkeeper said to be taking up a role on Porto's board of directors.
But the 38-year-old indicated the media have jumped the gun, because he is yet to be told by medical experts whether he has recovered enough to play football again.
"The same as this tweet a month ago, except for the part of the medical check with the doctor," Casillas wrote on Twitter, referencing a previous retirement denial.
"More than anything because I have it tomorrow."
Casillas came through Madrid's academy and established himself in their first team as a teenager, going on to play 725 times for the club in all competitions, a total bettered only by striker Raul (741).
He won every trophy possible with Los Blancos, including three Champions League crowns and five LaLiga titles, and was also a part of the historic Spain team that won the country's first World Cup in 2010 and ended a 44-year wait for European Championship success two years earlier.
The keeper, who went on to win Euro 2012 and is regarded among the finest of his generation, remains Spain's all-time leading appearance maker with 167 caps, though Sergio Ramos will likely overtake him soon.
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NAACP Names Delta Soror Frankie Muse Freeman 96th Springarn Medalist - Progressive Greek
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Board of Directors announced that attorney Frankie Muse Freeman will be honored with the Association's Spingarn Medal, the NAACP's highest honor. Freeman will become the 96th recipient of the award, and she will be honored during the NAACP National Convention in Los Angeles July 28 at the annual Spingarn Dinner.
The Spingarn Medal, instituted in 1914 by then-NAACP Chairman Joel E. Spingarn, is awarded for outstanding and noble achievement by an American of African descent during the preceding years
"Frankie Muse Freeman has dedicated her life's work to the civil rights movement," stated NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock. "She broke down barriers as a member of the NAACP's brain trust during the 1950s and as the first woman to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Her determination to end racial discrimination in American society for more than half a century serves as an inspiration to us all.
Freeman has been a practicing attorney in state and federal courts for more than 60 years. After graduating Hampton Institute and Howard University Law School, she began her career serving the state of Missouri and the city of St. Louis. During this time she helped the NAACP in the case of Brewton v. Board of Education of St. Louis, and later represented the NAACP in the landmark case Davis et al v. the St. Louis Housing Authority, which ended legal racial discrimination in public housing.
"We are honored to give Frankie Muse Freeman the highest award that our 102-year old organization can bestow," stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. "As a premiere advocate for African Americans over the past six decades, Freeman embodies the NAACP's core values. Her record of success is a testament to her competence and resolve."
"I have been a member and engaged with the NAACP for more than 60 years," said Frankie Muse Freeman. "It is with a great sense of pride and humility that I accept the 96th NAACP Spingarn Award to be presented on July 28, 2011, during the 102nd Annual NAACP Convention in Los Angeles, California."
In March 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Freeman as the first woman to serve as Commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a federal body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination. Freeman served on the commission for sixteen years, subsequently reappointed by Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, until July 1980. She also served as Inspector General of the Community Services Administration during the Carter Administration. In 2003, Freeman published a memoir, A Song of Faith and Hope: The Life of Frankie Muse Freeman.
"This year's Spingarn Medalist, Mrs. Frankie Muse Freeman, who was a practicing attorney for more than sixty years, has had a career of singular accomplishment from her appointment by the late president Lyndon B. Johnson as the first woman to serve on the United States Civil Rights Commission, a post she held for sixteen years, to successfully representing the NAACP in landmark cases re segregation in education and housing," added Jesse Turner Jr., Treasurer of the NAACP Board of Directors and Chairman of the NAACP Spingarn Committee. "Throughout her career she has been a devoted NAACP civil rights leader and acclaimed for her continuing outstanding community service. The 96th NAACP Spingarn Award is a richly deserved tribute, which we are proud to bestow upon her."
Freeman has received numerous accolades for her life's work, including a number of honorary degrees and induction into the National Bar Association's Hall of Fame and the international Civil Rights Walk of Fame. She has a distinguished history of volunteer service. She is past chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council on the Aging, Inc. and serves on the executive committee of the St. Louis City NAACP, and many other organizations.
To date, 95 Spingarn Medals have been awarded, recognizing achievements in a range of fields. Medalists include Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), former U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, media personality Oprah Winfrey, baseball hall of famer Henry "Hank" Aaron, Vernon Jordan, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), William H. Cosby, Jr., Maya Angelou, Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Percy E. Sutton, Gordon Parks, John Hope Franklin, the late Judge Leon Higginbotham Jr., Carl Rowan, NAACP Chairman Emeriti Julian Bond and Myrlie Evers-Williams, businessman and publisher Earl G. Graves, Sr., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., artist Jacob Lawrence, Rosa Parks, opera singer Leontyne Price, Judge Constance Baker Motley, Judge Robert L. Carter, and the late Oliver W. Hill, Sr.
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.
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Very often our DIY decor projects and perhaps overlooked one room that need the most attention – the bedroom! It's not often look for all the guests, who can be called home, there always seems to be a room that has been placed on the "back burner". It does not take long, but our bedroom was old and uninviting as it is often the only place in the house where we can really go back and just be a "self".
Maybe when this pile of ironing finally to the ceiling and there's nowhere left to sit, much less lie, we could consider a Candice olson bedroom designs. It's time to go back to the bedroom to the part of the state, which should be one of relaxation and tranquility, a place where the outside world seems a million miles away, even if it is just a few minutes!
There are some quick and easy tips that can transform the shabby chic, and the first step is to get a good clean up! It is important to be ruthless here, because the more space you dig, the more material you have to work. So, laundry and kids toys go (at least in the work room), and when the covers are removed, you can evaluate what you have.
What is the current Candice olson bedroom designs? It is clean and neutral or colorful, or perhaps even worse, really dark? If you are lucky enough to have a neutral base, you already have a good base, or painting the walls can be the next step. White, (especially the background) Aqua and turquoise are all the colors that are very "now" and helps to produce a feeling of purity and freshness to the bedroom.
How does the floor look like? Do you have a tired looking carpets or wash your face? If you have free access to the boards and can not wash them, then maybe you can paint them too, or add a neutral-colored carpet and a little warmth in the legs.
Choose curtains or blinds to blend in to the Candice olson bedroom designs system. Either will work, but the curtains encourage softer feel of the bedroom. Furniture should also be taken into account, and things that are bulky and tired of looking for may be in favor of something a little more modern and thin. If your budget will stretch, sliding doors, wardrobe doors to change the bedroom space and offers a lot of additional storage space.


The Oregon Department of Education recently released report cards for K-12 schools across the state, evaluating their performance for the 2013-14 school year. Sherwood schools received high marks, with all schools receiving a Level 4 or Level 5. Level 5 is the highest rating, signifying the top 10% of schools in the state.
Archer Glen Elementary School, Edy Ridge Elementary School, Laurel Ridge Middle School, and Sherwood High School were each rated at Level 5. Hopkins Elementary School, Middleton Elementary School, and Sherwood Middle School were rated at Level 4. Sherwood schools were among Oregon's top performers.
At the school level, the district has conducted a thorough examination of school data and have determined areas of improvement. Each school has identified specific goals to increase academic achievement and has prepared plans to address these goals. During the 2014-15 budget cycle, funds were committed to align math curriculum across grade levels, provide professional development in math, and continue to invest in math intervention at the elementary and middle school levels.
Sherwood School District is in the process of developing a district-wide strategic plan that will guide school improvement efforts. Approximately 40 stakeholders participated in the visioning process which began in September, including teachers, administrators, school staff, the Board of Directors, and community representatives. More information will be shared by the district as the strategic plan continues to develop.