Within the next several months, your Android phone is about to drastically change.
Google, along with its partners and carriers, is in the process of rolling out its biggest Android update yet, called 5.0 Lollipop. The update is meant to make your Android phone look and feel different thanks to an interface overhaul known as Material Design.
But Material Design is more than just an Android facelift. It's part of Google's strategy to make all devices that run its software feel similar. If the company made anything explicity clear at its recent launch event for its new Nexus devices, it's that Android is going to be everywhere soon enough: on our wrists, on our TV screens, and of course, in our pockets.
Although Lollipop has only launched on a small number of Android devices, it's been in the making for years. Android's Vice President of Engineering Hiroshi Lockheimer, who has been with the Android team since 2006, sat down with Business Insider to talk about how Google prepared for its biggest Android update yet and what's next.
Business Insider: What makes Lollipop such a massive update for Android?
Hiroshi Lockheimer: It's not like we planned it to be this way. It just kind of turned out that way. There was a confluence of events. One thing was Material Design, the new user interface. That was a huge effort. It was a complete rethink of how the user interface would feel and it's a lot more dynamic. So that is a big milestone.
We also switched our runtime, which is kind of a technical thing. But from an end user's perspective, the benefit of that is very tied to Material Design. The new runtime is a lot smoother in terms of how it schedules tasks. So the user interface is going to feel a lot smoother and more fluid. You won't see the stutters you used to see. So we did that in conjunction to make sure all these new animations that we're doing in Material Design are much more fluid.
There's also in the silicon industry, there's a move to move from 32 bit to 64 bit, so we had that support also. So all these things are adding up together and made for a really big release. The other thing I would say that's part of the Material Design change, it's not just the operating system that changed. A lot of the applications that we build, for instance, have been updated to adhere to the material design guidelines.
This is one of the reasons why we did something a little bit different this year by having a developer preview of Android at Google I/O in June. It's the first time since we launched that we did that, and we did that for a reason because we knew this would be a big release and we wanted to give developers a lot of runway to get their apps updated. It's a pretty exciting time.
BI: What made you decide that this is the right time to totally change the Android interface?
HL: Well, it's been a multi year process. One of the things we do at Google in general, but also at the Android team, is iterate. Focusing on the user interface has been an area we knew we wanted to iterate on for a long time. We did the first major UI overhaul with Gingerbread and Honeycomb back in those days and we've been planning for something like Material Design since then. It took a while to get the designs right. We wanted to perfect it.
This won't be the last time we'll do a major UI overhaul. We'll let things sit for a while, and we want to mature Material on all these different form factors too.
BI: There's been some management change throughout Android over the years. Sundar Pichai has been in charge of Android for the past year-and-a-half now. What has that been like compared to working under former Android boss Andy Rubin?
HL: They're different leaders, obviously, with different personalities. When [Andy] left, we made an announcement about the departure. He talked about, and I think the quote was something along the lines of, "He's an entrepreneur at heart, he just wants to go back to his roots as an entrepreneur." Meaning he wanted to focus on early stage projects.
Andy had been doing that before [Google acquired Android]. Android has been around for a while. This is our 12th release. This is our sixth device. And we have a billion plus customers out there running software on their devices. So it's a different kind of project now. I wouldn't call it a startup, even though it's kind of corny to say it, but it still does feel very much like a startup. We act that way internally and the team is a lot smaller than you would think.
Reuters/Elijah NouvelageSundar Pichai is now in charge of all Google consumer products, including Android.
BI: And how small is that?
HL: You'd be surprised. Relative to the billion plus people out there, it's actually a small number of people who are working really hard and as a tight-knit group to keep this operating system going.
We do that intentionally because that's our way of staying nimble and doing things quickly. Going back to your question, it was a personal decision on Andy, too, to focus on what he wanted to do, which is really small, beginning of a project type of thing. Not a billion person kind of product.
And Sundar's absolutely fantastic at that stuff. It's been great. And hopefully you'll feel the results are good. I guess this is the first year after Sundar took over in terms of products, so this is kind of the result of that.
BI: So would you say this Lollipop release is the result of Android under Sundar's leadership?
HL: Yeah, absolutely. Kit Kat [the last version of Android] sort of started with Andy but finished with Sundar. Lollipop started with Sundar and finished with Sundar. So that's absolutely been a big part of this. And as I said in terms of the team, we've been a cohesive team for a long time, the team has stuck together. We all work really nicely with Sundar. So it's been great.
Lisa EadiciccoGoogle's Nexus 6, the company's new flagship phone.
BI: I want to go back to the early days when you guys first started working with Android after Google first acquired it. Not just the operating system itself, but inside Google the team has gotten so big. Did you guys expect it to explode like this?
HL: When I joined we were about 20 people. Obviously we're bigger now in terms of a team. And things have changed a lot. Back in 2006, maybe I should have been dreaming bigger. Larry Page would have told me I should have because that's just how he is. But I didn't expect this to happen.
We knew we were onto something. We wanted to build a fully-featured operating system and give it away for free and no one had done that before. So I think our trick was, and I mean that in a good way, our secret ingredient was building a fully featured operating system, and actually building a product. This is kind of why we did Nexus devices.
And over the years the basic recipe has been the same. We build software. We open source it. We make it available to all these manufacturers out there. And back in the early days it was HTC. Then HTC and Motorola. Then HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. People joining and building their own products on top. And that's how we got to the scale we're at now. And then with this year, one of our explicit goals was to then take that and expand this platform into other factors like TV.
APAndy Rubin founded Android. He recently left Google.
HL: That's a good question. It's a little inside baseball type of question, isn't it? Most things are actually getting used quite a bit. Its not easy for us to be like, oh, well that's not getting used at all. Cut it. We've really been focusing on iterating on features we've released and if we feel they haven't been perfected yet we'll take the effort to perfect them. An example in Lollipop is Face Unlock.
LE: Right, so how is Face Unlock different in Android Lollipop?
HL: I think that's a perfect example. We launched Face Unlock in Ice Cream Sandwich and with the way it worked, there was a little bit of a lag. You needed to align the camera with your face, and it needed to process. It was a good idea, but the execution took too long in practice to use it.
And what we've done in Lollipop actually is enabled this feature to start looking for your face before you even get to that screen to fix lighting and things like that. So it actually acts a lot quicker and the latency is lower, and it just makes the feature so much more useful.
That's the type of thing I'm saying is how we work on features. We'll release something, and I think there's always a nugget of good, but sometimes it takes the second iteration or the second round to really perfect it. And that's been our model for a while.
BI: Having a lot of variety is great for the consumer and it's great for Android. But does it ever hurt Google as a phone maker? Samsung is huge and it's the most popular phone maker next to Apple. Does that ever hurt you guys when you're trying to push Nexus devices out?
HL: I don't think so. We're not trying to compete with Samsung or HTC or LG. We're not competing with ourselves. The main reason we do Nexus is to show, internally, for ourselves, without doing it in the abstract. That's the worst kind of software to build — you kind of throw some software over the fence and hope someone ships it.
We work with partners but we really treat these devices as our own during development. And then, yeah, we release it to the public who buys it. And of course we're happy if a lot of people buy it, but it's also good for us if they end up buying a Samsung or HTC device. That's fine too. It's a win win for us. We don't really see it as we're trying to take share away from someone else.
Steve Kovach/Business InsiderSamsung's Galaxy S5.
BI: You work with so many different companies on Android devices. I'm sure that creates some fragmentation and issues here and there. Is there anything Google is doing to make things more seamless across devices? Because I could pick up a Samsung phone and it would look totally different from a Motorola phone, and the Motorola phones might get the update to Lollipop first, and that probably creates frustration for some people.
HL: In many ways it's by design. We knew from day one when we built the operating system that it wasn't going to be about one company. It wasn't going to be just about Google or HTC. It was always about a big ecosystem, a bunch of companies, there was an alliance of companies behind it. And it's grown more since then.
So the software itself was designed in such a way to handle, for instance, different screen sizes. It wasn't an afterthought. And in many ways, in the early days, I think there were growing pains as we adjusted and application developers adjusted to that model. But now I think we're reaping the benefits. It is about celebrating the diversity of devices. It's not one size fits all.


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Franklin Mayor race: Baker says he's not done yet
Ask Mayor Doug Baker a question and you will either get a one liner or a full story. He shifts from humble to 'let me tell you all about that' in a heartbeat depending on the subject.
In 2021, if you ask him about himself, he will proudly recall delivering the News-Herald and cleaning out the family owned taxi cabs as a self-proclaimed scrawny kid. "I've had my own money since I was 10," he said proudly.
He would also admit that, if that scrawny kid was asked about himself or any other question for that matter, he'd clam up. "I never raised my hand in class," Baker said.
It was something he knew he had to overcome. So around ninth grade, the 126-pound Doug Baker got motivated and decided to change his life. He lifted weights and grew stronger. He recalls being challenged to bench 225 pounds a year or so later. "I did it," he said with an almost amazed look in eyes still to this day.
After high school he worked a few jobs. He was told he should try to become a police officer and that's what he did. He also took it upon himself to take speaking classes and read about leadership. With new learned personality tools, he quickly showed he had communication and administrative skills. "I'm pretty good at organizing stuff," he said.
He became the Franklin Police Department's safety enforcement officer and he climbed the ranks to lieutenant. During the time, Baker would help organize community events through the department.
He retired from the police department in 2003 and then a stint with the Venango County sheriff's office before landing in the district attorney's office. He continues to work there part time on several task forces, including elder abuse and DUI, as well as obtains STOP grants to aid the county in its fight to stop violence against women.
The mayorr doesn't describe the position as something he slikes per se. "It's not anything I ever intended to do, but I like public service." And being a mayor with limited resources is a trying position. "If we had more money, we could do a lot more faster." He says the residents here are just about taxed out.
His service to the community continued when he returned as a councilman in 2004 where he served in that role until becoming mayor in 2010
He is on the Pennsylvania Municipal League Board,which helps him obtain training and ideas, as well as networking with other cities to see what works for them. "Things that help them, might help us," he said.
His history in safety leadership has him eying more ways to make the city streets safer. "The goal here is to provide health, safety and general welfare for the community." Looking into ways to slow traffic down has led to speed bumps and new stop signs in neighborhoods, but more can be done he says.
Declining neighborhoods present a problem, according to Baker, who wouldn't mind seeing a trade school move into the old Joy building. "Companies wanting to move into an area want you to show a workforce at the ready," he said, adding that young people are just not staying like they used to. Having qualified people at the ready is attractive to industry.
"There are no shortage of good ideas." he said. He listens to them all and then tries to see what can be done with the available resources. "I have ideas too," he said. "I represent the people of Franklin," emphasizing their needs are what he focuses on the most.
Baker says one of his most important jobs is seeking people for the city's commissions in order bring about so economic growth. He is proud of the work being done but always wants even more.
He feels he has more to do in the city and believes fixing things like the playgrounds and making areas like the Heights section more accessible to downtown are good ideas.
He believes a lot more can be done to make Franklin even better than what it is now. "It's beautiful here." Baker says those words are what he hears over and over again from visitors. He is proud to be a part of that.
So ask Mayor Doug Baker anything and you will hear a story filled with old names and even forgotten places, but if you ask him why he decided to run for a fourth term and you'll likely just get the one liner - "I'm not done yet."
Learn more about challenger Ryan Rudegeair here.
Editor's note: This is one of a two-part look at the candidates waging campaigns for the City of Franklin's mayor.
Doug Baker is seeking his fourth term as the city's mayor and he has a challenger in Ryan Rudegeair who is running a write-in campaign after narrowly losing to Baker in the Republican primary by 13 votes. Neither obtained enough votes to be on the democratic ticket.
Eight & 322 sat down with both candidates to find out what makes them tick and why they think they should get your vote next week.
In the city of Franklin the mayor is basically the voting head of city council made up of six councilors who represent the wards of the city. The mayor is responsible for running meetings and nominating members to the various commissions.
The city is run by a city manager who reports to council. Various commissions such as the Franklin Industrial and Commercial Development and Franklin Fine Arts are important for the mayoral role in nominating people to the positions.
These commissions and boards provide important infrastructure within the city workings and development.
The city of Franklin is less than five square miles with a population of a little over 6,000. It is over 95% white.

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After much prayer and seeking God, the founding elders of Harvest Bible Chapel identified the following four pillars, which we believe to be the foundational essentials of a church that God blesses. The Lord has done incredible things in our midst as we have focused on these pillars.
Preaching has fallen on hard times. The seeker movement often jettisons the Word of God in favor of talk that "influences" people to Christ, using what Paul called "the persuasive words of man's wisdom" (1 Corinthians 2:4). At the same time, the worship movement often relegates the proclamation of God's Word to "whatever time is left." Some seem to ask, "Why hear about God when you can experience Him?" as though God is experienced more when we speak to Him than when He speaks to us.
The "thus saith the Lord" proclamation of God's Word is very difficult to find on a given Sunday morning. Oh, there are lots of people talking about God, parsing the text of Scripture, even dispensing Bible information, but who can find anointed, passionate preaching? Where can we find preaching from one who has been gripped by the Spirit and the Word, one who brings the message with power and authority? Where is preaching that grips hearers' souls with the conviction of the Holy Spirit? I am not concerned with those of us who aim for this and often fall short, but with those who are missing the mark and don't even know it, those who have reduced the biblical content of their messages and are "healing my people slightly, saying peace peace when there is no peace," (Jeremiah 6:14) rather than "this is the way; walk in it" (Isaiah 30:21).
Without this kind of preaching in our worship we simply experience God the way we want Him to be. We write the songs, we include the parts about Him that we like, and we avoid the rest. Without careful exposition of the whole counsel of God, alongside our singing to God, we are in danger of worshiping a god that we have "made with our own hands" (Isaiah 2:8). Repeatedly in the gospels the people's response to Jesus' teaching was amazement at the authority with which He taught. He didn't couch his teaching with biblical explanations to gain their respect. He didn't bury the truth beneath both sides of the argument and discuss multiple interpretations. He didn't equivocate the hard edge of truth with endless meandering to avoid misunderstanding. Above all, He did not try to make the people comfortable or chase after those who walked away. He even acknowledged the difficulty of acceptance by the people: "this is a hard saying who can accept it" (John 6:60, 66). Psalm 138:2 tells us that God has "exalted His word above His name." We believe that God is looking for houses of worship where people can hear His voice. People all around us are grasping for answers. They are tired of churches that dilute the truth, that thin the language of sin and redemption to gain a hearing. People are looking for a place where equivocation is out and absolute truth is in. At Harvest Bible, we have tried from the start to be that kind of church. Though we have much to learn about what it means to bring a biblical message of authority and urgency, to really "speak for God," that is one of the pillars upon which we are based, and that is our earnest, prayerful desire.
Is it possible that our worship is getting too emotional? Does our worship need a larger infusion of truth to keep it balanced? Remember the Samaritan woman in John 4:22 who was chastised by Jesus for worshiping in ignorance? "You worship what you do not know," He said. When emotion becomes the engine leading our worship instead of the caboose following biblical truth, the train will go quickly off the tracks. When emotion becomes the master, dictating what is true instead of servant participation in what is true, false doctrine cannot be far away. On the other hand, truth without spirit is also defective worship. My wife does not want to be told I love her because it is time to say it again, and God is not impressed with the cold recitations of robotic worshipers mouthing words because it's 11 a.m. on Sunday morning. God says, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me," (Isaiah 29:13). Most of us who grew up in evangelical churches remember what I would call "truth worship," hymns filled with wonderful theology and truth about God. The problem was that truth raced by so quickly there was often no time for it to sink down into our spirits. Worship made it to our heads but not often to our hearts. After a five verse rendition of "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," one could only remark, "Wow, that was really true!" That kind of head worship without the heart, truth worship without the spirit entering in, is what Jesus condemned in John 4:24. "God is spirit and those who worship must worship in spirit and in truth." Why does it seem that so many churches have opted for "truth" or "spirit" worship? Is it because the balance is so difficult to find? We have tried to be very forthright in this by telling newcomers that if they come from a "truth worship experience," they should understand that people are free to clap or raise their hands and that extended times of worship are the norm for us. We let them know that they must not resent the presence of emotion in our worship but learn to "enter in." At the same time we instruct newcomers from a "spirit worship" background that exuberant dancing about or waving of arms should be restricted to their personal times with the Lord so as not to be the cause of someone's attention turning from Jesus to them. We believe that God has honored the balance of truth and spirit, in our worship. What a joy it has been to see "intellectual Christians" experience their worship rather than just understanding it and equally thrilling to see "spirit worshipers" free themselves from the mid-week let down of seeing church as an emotional fix. Twenty years ago, most churches were either truth or spirit oriented.
Today I believe that God is doing the greatest and deepest works in churches that are seeking a balance. We have struggled for that and certainly have erred on both sides at times, but we believe the balance between spirit and truth is the key to being the kind of worshiper God is seeking (John 4:23).
As you read the gospels, do you notice that there are many things Jesus did not teach His disciples to do? As far as we know Jesus did not teach His disciples to preach or teach. He did not teach them how to heal nor did He teach them how to organize and administer a large organization. He did not teach them how to win friends and influence people. He did not even teach them how to lead, except by example. What Jesus did teach His disciples was how to pray! The gospels record that one day the disciples simply sat and watched Jesus pray. Whether it was the fervency of His prayer or the length or content of His prayer we do not know: Obviously, the disciples were moved and inspired because "when He ceased, one of them said unto Him, 'Lord, teach us to pray' " (Luke 11:1). Jesus prayed before His ministry began, before meals, before a big decision and before an important day. He prayed during acts of service, times of relational pressure, in sorrow and in the midst of temptation.
Jesus prayed after a stressful day, after a spiritual victory, after a provision of God and after completing a job that God had given Him to do. Can we afford to do less? Whatever you believe about the book of Acts, it is certainly clear that the early church was a supernatural church. There were no seminars on "if you do A plus B you will get C." We believe that God's kind of church is a supernatural church—a place where things are happening that are not humanly explainable. I am not talking about bizarre unbiblical manifestations, just dramatic conversions, physical and emotional healing, and direct specific answers to prayer. You know, real miracles. Many times my mind is saying "I can't do it with out Him," yet my day planner indicates that I am trying to go it alone. Only when I get on my knees and get desperate for God does my true need for Him become more than intellectual assent.
All the emphasis on church growth troubles me. Our church has certainly grown, and I am not opposed to large churches. However, the desire by pastors to have large churches, the endless counting and analyzing of church attendance and what C.S. Lewis called "posing and posturing and look at me and aren't I a good boy," is doing more harm than good. Though it began with a good goal, the church growth movement has compromised both the message of the gospel and the biblical method for it's propagation. The focus on human persuasion in evangelism has produced an array of church growth methods that could be accurately sub-titled "how to fill your church with tares." The early church appears to have placed no emphasis on evangelistic methodology. Their approach was simple and powerful, they were BOLD! Many times in the New Testament the Greek word translated boldness which literally means "openness" or "candor," to speak freely especially in the face of hostility. It does not imply using a loud voice or an obnoxious presentation of spiritual truth that disregards the willingness of the listener. Boldness is the Spirit-directed conviction that one must share the good news of Jesus Christ and not fear the response or reproach of the listener. Spirit-led boldness has been replaced in our day by "the fear of man which brings a snare" (Proverbs 29:25).
Who are we to think that we can share the gospel in a way that makes people comfortable, when Stephen, James, Paul-even Jesus Christ himself-were beaten, ridiculed and ultimately killed for boldly proclaiming the truth. Modern proponents of the "subtle gospel" must consider Peter a fool for saying, "we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard" (Acts 4:13). Would to God that the unsaved in our day could see our boldness and marvel realizing that we have "been with Jesus" (Acts 4:13). It's all right there in Acts 4. As we rely upon God for supernatural boldness, some respond and receive Christ. Others become very angry and reject or even attack us; then we continue in prayer for boldness. Is not the easy way, but it is God's way. Our fear of man is understandable-even Paul asked for prayer, "that I may speak boldly as I ought to speak" (Ephesians 6:20) – but it is not acceptable. Our problem is that we want to talk about Jesus and remain popular with those who reject Him. We want the approval of our hearers more than the approval of God (see Galatians 1:10). We have opted for a sociological approach to sharing the gospel rather than a supernatural one.
For almost 10 years now, we have challenged our people to be bold witnesses for Jesus Christ, to "go out into the highways and compel them to come in." We have not always reached those we wanted to reach, but we have discovered there are people all around us whom God has ripened to the gospel through the painful circumstances of life. Through this witness God has been faithful and provided a miraculous harvest of souls. Though some Christians are more gifted in evangelism than others, all believers are called to be bold witnesses for Jesus. Boldness is not something we can work up ourselves, but it is something the Lord will give to those who persistently ask. "The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion" (Proverbs 28:1).
The bottom line is this: the Church should be a place where God is clearly at work. In and around all the variety He allows, these foundational essentials invite and allow Him to make His power and glory known, instead of merely displaying the ingenuity of those in ministry. Is God making His power known where you worship? In truly biblical ways? I pray that He is.Though we desire to do even more to make our church a place where God is at work, we believe strongly that God will bless a church that preaches His Word without apology, continues in prayer, shares the gospel with boldness and exalts the name of Jesus through biblical worship. May the Spirit of our Lord assist our meditation on these things so that we may all know how to conduct ourselves in the Church of our living God, which is "the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15).


York is home to some of the UK's most loved and respected chocolate makers. Why not be inspired and join us to create your own chocolate model that you can paint and decorate beauitfully with edible chocolate paints and sweets.
We'll show you how to create your own chocolate masterpiece, you'll then learn how to professionally temper the chocolate so you make and decorate your chocolate model before beautifully packaging them to take them home to show off, share or just enjoy.
The price of this workshop is £17.50 per chocolate model with a large number for you to choose from.
This workshop is open every Friday 4-5pm and Sunday 11:00am to 12 noon. We certainly recommend booking your places in be aware that places in advance or you can join us on the day, space permitting.
Group Chocolate Taster workshops are available for any sized group and are perfect for school groups, Brownie and Girl Guide groups, as well as birthday parties, corporate rewards and entertaining, we can join you at your venue or place of work or you can join us at one of our partner venues. We regularly cater for groups of 200+ so no event is too big. Email our event team at chocolate@yorkcocoahouse.co.uk or contact us on 01904 675787 to check availability and to discuss your group booking further.
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The Shadowboxers To Open Justin Timberlake's Spring Man Of The Woods Tour Dates
Lorie Hollabaugh • February 23, 2018
The Shadowboxers will join their mentor Justin Timberlake for the first leg of his highly-anticipated Man of the Woods Tour as the opening act on over 30 arena dates across the country. Tickets for the tour are on sale now and VIP information is coming soon, with packages going on sale March 2.
Discovered by Timberlake and signed to his Villa 40 artist development company, Nashville-based Shadowboxer members Scott Tyler, Matt Lipkins and Adam Hoffman experienced an almost-instantaneous musical compatibility when they first started writing together in college, forging a cohesive sound based on a shared reverence for the harmonies of the Bee Gees, CSN and Earth, Wind & Fire, and the rhythmic pop funk of Prince, D'Angelo and Michael Jackson.
Initially creating buzz with their YouTube cover of Timberlake's "Pusher Love Girl," the three have since racked up over 4 million streams of original material on Spotify and Apple Music to date and growing. Spending time writing in the studio with both Timberlake and Israeli songwriter/producer K-Kov, The Shadowboxers released the single "HOT DAMN!" in September 2017, and have since performed on national shows such as TODAY and The Talk as well as completed a set of national headlining tour dates.
The band is preparing for the release of their first EP, due out this Spring.
Hollabaugh, a staff writer at MusicRow magazine, has written for publications including American Profile, CMA Close Up, Nashville Arts And Entertainment, The Boot and Country Weekly. She has a Broadcast Journalism and Speech Communication degree from Texas Christian University, (go Horned Frogs), and welcomes your feedback or story ideas at [email protected]
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Weed Pro Increases Organic Leads 181% With Website Redesign
By Bridget CunninghamJun 29 /2018
There's one in every neighborhood. That home or business that always seems to maintain a healthy and beautiful lawn at all times of the year. You can't help but feel welcomed by the inviting landscape and want to learn more about what lies behind the scenes.
As one of Ohio's top lawn care companies, Weed Pro has helped bring these outdoor spaces to life. With years of experience, a passion for high-quality lawn care and affordable prices, this local company has achieved a long list of satisfied customers, from residential properties to commercial spaces.
While known for the great-looking yards they help create, Weed Pro struggled to convey that same sense of invite and interest in their website. Not only was the website dated, but it didn't focus on educating users or converting them into customers.
Old Weed Pro website
It was these frustrations—and missed opportunities—that led the company to reach out to Kuno Creative for a new website design.
What Needed to Change
Lawn care can often seem like a chore for homeowners and property managers. But that's not to say there aren't opportunities to make the topic exciting for users. After all, it's this engagement factor that can give local lawn care companies a leg up on the competition.
Determining how to incorporate this "wow" factor into Weed Pro's new inbound marketing website was the biggest challenge for the Kuno team.
Our research also found that customers saw all lawn care treatments as the same. Without knowledge of these differences—and the value of each treatment—there are fewer chances to connect with users and earn their business. We knew we had to find a creative way to educate individuals on the different types of lawn care treatments while getting them to convert quickly.
With research under our belt and our creative thinking put to the test, we were ready to put Weed Pro's new website design into motion.
We followed our website redesign process and created a visual site map and homepage mockup, seen below.
New visual site map
Homepage mock-up
We kept the creative juices flowing.
When visitors arrived to the new website—one with a clean, bright and modern feel—our team wanted to make sure there was an exciting and friendly way to engage with them. That's why we decided to add an effect on the hero image (see below) that allows the user to see what their lawn could look like with the right treatments. (Seeing is believing, after all.)
Beyond the Homepage
It's no secret that every lawn requires unique care. While Weed Pro offers a variety of services, via price and features, these options needed to be made clear to users. By creating a new layout for the pricing page, which takes a straightforward, step-by-step approach, we made it easy for users to browse available options and choose the right lawn care plans for their needs.
New Pricing Page
In an effort to further educate users, we introduced a new FAQs page to the website design. Whether they are looking for answers to questions about service, lawns and landscapes or seasonal tips, the FAQs page is their one-stop shop. As new questions come up and the seasons change, the list of answers both changes and grows.
New FAQ Page
And that's not all. Our new website design is also home to a lawn care help center with resources users can easily browse; a content refresh of each service page to highlight the educational factor; and additional reviews on the homepage to showcase a handful of the many satisfied Weed Pro customers.
New Resource Center
The Results Of Our Work
We launched the new website design in February 2018. The results we've seen thus far have proven to be impressive:
Session to conversion rate increased from 1.4% to 2%
Time on site rose from 45 seconds to 1 minute and 12 seconds
The average number of page views increased from 1.2 pages to 2.1 pages per session
In terms of leads through organic search, this number continues to increase by the month. The comparison between results for April 2017 and April 2018 show that organic leads are up by 45 year-over-year.
April 2017 Results
This upward trend was even more pronounced in May, with organic leads up by 141 (181%) year-over-year (see below).
And that's not the only space where growth is clear. As the results below indicate, new leads are on the rise from every type of marketing source.
May 2017 Results
With customer sales at an average of $450 ($1,350 Customer Lifetime Value) and a close rate of 49 percent, this translates to a worth of $270 per lead for Weed Pro.
Leveraging the Power of HubSpot Apps
We're happy to note that Weed Pro has found plenty of success with HubSpot apps, as well. Beyond the basic blog, contacts, email, landing and web pages, lists and social apps, Weed Pro is taking full advantage of CRM, ads, deals, workflows and tasks, all of which are assisting the sales team in closing more deals.
As a lawn care provider, Weed Pro experiences a good amount of turnover throughout the season. With the HubDB tool, they are able to quickly swap out team members and provide customers with the most up-to-date information about technicians.
Then there's the custom reports dashboard, which Weed Pro uses to share sales and marketing results in their sales room. Allowing salespeople to view their performance in real time creates a stronger sense of urgency and fuels friendly competition between team members.
Management uses these custom reports to develop additional dashboards. Whether metrics are sales or marketing related, managers can customize the data they want to monitor throughout the day.
Additionally, the team is currently working to move the FAQs page to the new HubSpot Knowledge Base, as well as adding bots to streamline customer service.
Marketing's Impact On Weed Pro's Business
Last year, Weed Pro made the decision to move into a brand new market without a book of business. They planned to penetrate the market organically, and paid to move a technician to Cincinnati, Ohio, this past January.
The new website, along with a targeted PPC strategy, was a major way the organization planned to make an impact on the new city. Webpages were optimized and ads were created. After just a couple months, the technician had enough customers to sustain the business in a new market.
Additionally, the organization wanted the new website to help streamline customer service, as they were experiencing an issue with cancellations. The homepage design incorporated a "sticky" bar that helps visitors get started with a free quote, a customer service question or a billing question. This improved ease in communications, along with the new educational content on the site, has already decreased the cancellation rate by 2 percent.
It is easy to see the financial impact the new website made for the company. But it also allowed one technician (so far) to start a new life in a new market.
The new look and feel of Weed Pro's website design has made an impact on the user experience. With this solid foundation in place, Kuno looks forward to working with the local lawn care company on ways to maximize marketing efforts—on which strides have already been made in the HubSpot CRM, social media and PPC efforts.
For Weed Pro, the feeling is mutual.
"The initial decision to outsource our digital marketing was not without apprehension, but we soon realized the advantages of working with a team that has superior insights and abilities that we could not match," noted Rob Palmer, owner of Weed Pro. "Since then, we have seen significant improvements in our online presence—well beyond our initial projections—and look forward to continuing this partnership well into the future."
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Bridget Cunningham
After earning a journalism degree from The Ohio State University, she has helped to write web content for a variety of industries, both in full-time and freelance positions. Before joining Kuno, she worked as a web content coordinator for a physics software company, managing their blog program as well as various social media efforts.


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Yogi 2.0 to focus on defence manufacturing
Mar 25, 2022 BrahMos, defence, economypost, industry, russia, uttar pradesh, Yogi Adityanath
Yogi Adityanath government 2.0 will focus bigtime on promoting the defence manufacturing sector, a top Uttar Pradesh government official has said.
UP additional chief secretary and UP Expressway Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) CEO Awanish Kumar Awasthi said the industry-friendly defence policy of UP has attracted noteworthy anchor units such as Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) in Jhansi and Brahmos supersonic missile project in Lucknow.
"UP Defence Corridor is being talked about with reference to the national Infrastructure upgradation and a budget allocation for the same is being worked out by the Yogi government 2.0," he added.
Awasthi informed that on March 15, the state government had renewed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Corridor knowledge partner, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur for another three years.
Meanwhile, he urged the private sector partners, who have acquired land in the Corridor, to start construction of the units at the earliest to benefit from the existing incentive schemes.
He was speaking virtually at a session organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Wednesday (Mar 23).
Concurrent to the CII Annual Regional Meet, a dedicated conference on Defence & Aerospace was held in partnership with the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) and UPEIDA.
SIDM president and Mahindra Group president S P Shukla said India essentially has been a defence importer till recently but a slew of progressive reforms were helping the country emerge as a manufacturing base.
He stated expertise in technology coupled with design capability and competitive pricing will help Indian enterprises emerge as global players. At the same time, the Northern part of the country is poised to present tough competition to the West & South of India in this context.
Sachin Agarwal, State Chair, SIDM UP & CMD, PTC Industries mentioned the current trade sanctions on Russia could be a huge window of opportunity for India to become part of the global defence supply chain since many leading manufacturers are re-orienting their resource procurement.
Manoj Gupta, Chairman, CII Northern Region Committee on Defence & Aerospace & Chairman, MKU Ltd shared the capital outlay for 2021-22 is an increase of 19 percent compared to last year's allocation.
The recent announcements – such as Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) and also Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approval for signing a contract for indigenously designed LCA aircrafts – reflect the Indian government resolve to develop a self-reliant military-industrial complex with strategic choice of action.
Industry leaders from banking segment, defence, academic and other renowned research institutions were also part of the CII conference.
Amid Ukraine crisis, UP military projects signal Indo-Russian cooperation
Adani to build South Asia's largest ammunition complex in UP
UP can emerge as global defence export hub: Former CEA
Oct 30, 2022 economypost
IIT Kanpur, BHEL to foster research in defence, aerospace
Aug 12, 2022 economypost
Israel to partner UP in defence manufacturing
Jun 13, 2022 economypost


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Q: troubleshooting icons in link_to Alright guys, this one seems like a slowball, but I'm stumped here. I'm currently using rails 4.1.1 and trying to get a link_to to appear as a button with an icon instead of text.
erb:
<%= link_to messages_path, do %>

<% end %>

Basically I grabbed the above code from here, but  it gives me this error when I try to use it:

/Users/user/project/app/views/pages/home.html.erb:20: syntax error, unexpected keyword_do_block ...end= link_to messages_path, do @output_buffer.safe_append=' ... ^ /Users/user/project/app/views/pages/home.html.erb:29: syntax error, unexpected keyword_ensure, expecting end-of-input

A: depending on which bootstrap version you have try one of these:
<%= link_to messages_path, class: 'btn btn-primary' do %>

<% end %>

or
<%= link_to messages_path, class: 'btn btn-primary' do %>

<% end %>

Basically the btn class belongs on your link and the glyphicon is probably a span now.

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Q: Using 16bit SDRAM with 8bit bus? I have a design with an 8bit SDRAM which I want to replace with a 16bit one,the problem is I don't have much pins left to connect all 16bit data bus, is it possible to access the whole memory using an 8bit data bus ?
The ram (IS42S16800E) is organized as 4096 rows x512 columns x16 bits per bank, using 9 bits column, I'm only able to access half the ram, this is acceptable if I have to, however, I tried using 10 bits for column address, and it worked, ran a memory test and I can read/write to every location, but I'm not sure how/why this works, if I understand correctly, it should only use 9 bits for the column address ? so does this depend on the organization of this specific ram ? or is this how all SDRAM work internally ?
Update:
I fixed my ram test (Thanks Dave Tweed) and this time it fails, writing to address base+0 overlaps with base+512 which means the 10th bit is ignored and it wraps around to 0. If I use 9 bits for the column address I can still access half the ram.
Here's my ram test:
uint8_t pattern = 0xAA;
uint8_t antipattern = 0x55;
uint32_t mem_size = (16*1024*1024);
uint8_t * const mem_base = (uint8_t*)0xC0000000;

/* Test data bus */
for (uint8_t i=1; i; i<<=1) {
    *mem_base = i;
    if (*mem_base != i) {
        BREAK();
    }
}

/* Test address bus */
for (uint32_t i=1; i<mem_size; i<<=1) {
    mem_base[i] = pattern;
    if (mem_base[i] != pattern) {
        BREAK();
    }
}

/* Check for aliasing (overlaping addresses) */
mem_base[0] = antipattern;
for (uint32_t i=1; i<mem_size; i<<=1) {
    if (mem_base[i] != pattern) {
        printf("address bus overlap %p\n", &mem_base[i]);
        BREAK();
    }
}

/* Test all ram locations */
for (uint32_t i=0; i<mem_size; i++) {
    mem_base[i] = pattern;
    if (mem_base[i] != pattern) {
        BREAK();
    }
}

A: If you have a device which puts out 16 bits, and you want to use all of its storage, then in theory what you can is:

*

*in the reading direction, take the 16 bit output obtained from your address lines A1..AN and pass it through a bank of 2x1 multiplexers, to go from 16 to 8 lines. Your A0 line to drive these multiplexers, so that in effect your A0 line selects which of the two 8 bit halves of the 16 bits are passed to your data bus.

*in the writing direction, you need some buffers which drive each of your 8 lines to one of two possible data pins on the ROM based on address A0.
These two directions can be combined into one using bidirectional multiplexers. For instance, the ON Semiconductor 74FST3257 mux/demux/bus switch provides four 2x1 bidirectional muxes. With a pair of these, you could route 8 points on one side into a choice of two different sets of 8 points on the opposite side, based on the A0 line.
This is complicated enough that it should send you looking for an 8 bit memory part in the first place.

A: 4096 rows is 12 bits of address space, 512 columns is 9 bits of address space, and 4 banks is 2 bits of address space so, added all up, that's 23 bits, which is 8 388 608 addresses.
The data sheet describes the IS42S16800E as an 8 meg X 16 RAM, so with your 9 bits of column addresses you should be able to access the entire array.

A: Not quite sure what the problem is? I will just quote the parts from the datasheet that mention/explain the behavior:

Each 33,554,432-bit bank is organized as 4,096 rows by 512 columns by 16 bits or 4,096 rows by 1,024 columns by 8 bits.

Physical size of the RAM  is fixed, so if your data is half the size you can store twice as much - or to be more accurate: You can store twice as many 8-bit words as you can store 16-bit words.

Inputs A0-A9 (x8); A0-A8 (x16) provides the starting column location.

Which means you use 10 address pins in 8-bit mode (x8) and 9 address pins in 16-bit mode (x16). So what you tried is actually defined in the datasheet and absolutely fine.
Some SDRAMs have the option to work in a 8-bit or 16-bit mode which means for those devices you can always use the full RAM. Other SDRAMs don't have that option and if you use them with a 8-bit databus you are not using the full memory. I guess it depends on how exactly their internal address decoders work.


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"The Mother Project" was created through a collaborative process lead by Darcey Engen, assistant professor of theatre arts at Augsburg College. The six mothers, Jeany Parks, Nanci Olesen, Darcey Engen, Maria Asp, Sonny Case, and Erin Carlson Sutton, began to create the new work through writing exercises accounting their individual journeys through motherhood.
According to Engen, these women were drawn to "The Mother Project" because they had each grown restless trying to find a place where their experiences were told. Motherhood is seldom described as central narrative in literature, television, dramatic literature or cinema. "The Mother Project" begins to address that deficit.


The Swedish brand Acne Studios are expanding in the U.S by opening a grand 230 square meter global flagship store on Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, New York.
The store, that opened on November 10th, features gold as its signature tone with metallic interior and walls, and fitting rooms in aluminum. It's the only Acne store with those elements, which makes it a must-visit when in New York, especially for us fashion lovers. With elements from the interior designer Max Lamb, the store might even be confused for a museum. And, maybe, that has something to do with Acne Studios' fast way towards reaching an even more exclusive crowd.
Max Lamb who has been collaborating with Acne Studios for quite a while has designed the interior in the 230 square meter New York store. For this exclusive location, Lamb has created bronze benches, stools and a golden heavy desk. He's also designed the custom-made, colorful, rugs that give a fun and smooth impression of being interesting spots throughout the store.
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On episode 49, we give our holiday tech tips. Most of us will be traveling to spend time with family this Christmas and we share a few tips to help out our less than tech savvy family members. On the show, we drink Lloyd Christmas from Alvarado Street Brewery.
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DCDC Leadership Transition
This year marked several significant milestones in leadership and administration for Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC). In a planned transition phased in over the past year and a half, Dave White assumes the role of Principal Investigator and Director. Dave has been with DCDC since its inception; first as senior project personnel in DCDC I, then as co-PI and Associate Director for DCDC II.
Founding Director and PI Patricia Gober stepped down to assume a new position as Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. Gober, however, maintains a research faculty appointment with Arizona State University and continues to contribute to DCDC as senior project personnel.
Charles Redman, Founding Director of the School of Sustainability, continues his role as co-PI and co-Director, positions he has held since DCDC was established.
Additionally, Kerry Smith, Regents Professor, W. P. School of Business, and Kelli Larson, Associate Professor, School of Sustainability and School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, have been added to the Executive Committee, which also includes, along with White and Redman, co-PIs Margaret Nelson, Associate Dean at Barrett, The Honors College, and Craig Kirkwood, Professor Emeritus, W. P. Carey School of Business.
Dave White is Associate Professor of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. He is also co-director of the Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC), Senior Sustainability Scientist with the Global Institute of Sustainability, and affiliate faculty with the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.
His work focuses on understanding and enhancing the linkages between science and policy for environmental decision making. He has developed and studied processes, outcomes, and institutional forms of boundary organizations for the co-production of knowledge and decisions; identified divergent perspectives between stakeholder groups at the science-policy nexus; and tested competing methods for gathering information on sensitive topics from decision makers. This work has contributed to the development and refinement of new tools and techniques for collaborative environmental decision making such as the DCDC WaterSim model. White is the author of more than two dozen articles about the interactions of science and society published in journals including Science and Public Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, Environment and Behavior, and Society and Natural Resources. He is a recipient of the ASU President's Medal for Social Embeddedness. White received his PhD in Forestry from Virginia Tech in 2002.
DCDC II is one of four National Science Foundation (NSF) funded programs studying Decision Making Under Uncertainty. The NSF is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. DCDC is a research center administered by the Global Institute of Sustainability.
For additional information about Decision Center for a Desert City, please read our most recent annual report to the National Science Foundation.


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The museum offers Savignéen back to the days of the legendary "Sea faluns" dating back 15 million years. A collection of fossils of marine animals (sharks, shellfish, ...) and terrestrial (mastodons, crocodiles, monkeys, ...) represents the fauna that existed in Touraine in a sub-tropical climate.
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There are cleaning products all over our homes and offices: on washing up to worktops, clothes, floors, furniture, ornaments and windows, to name a few. However, in this battle against grime, dust and germs, there is a risk of actually creating a worse scenario.
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To clean the air in your home or office, try using natural products instead of spray fresheners. There are many ways of creating great odours by boiling herbs or cinnamon and other cloves or by burning aroma oils.
If you are going to replace your old toxic cleaning products, don't just throw them in the rubbish or pour them away down the drain. Try and recycle them as they can cause harm to the environment, animals or the local water supply, which means you and me.
If you employ a house cleaner, then make sure you ask the right questions and do the right amount of research about their methods. Enquire about what products they use and about how green they are. Some cleaners promote the use of green products and should be valued over others that use older, more toxic varieties.
Be more aware of what is getting into your home.
Take your shoes off at the door, and wash your hands when you get in. Think of the toxins and germs that may be spread about your home if you don't make small changes to your daily routines. It doesn't need to be a major overhaul, rather a few small steps that will ultimately, it will make you feel cleaner, healthier and happier.


We recently received a request for Joan to write an assistant with some tips on persuading her executive to invest in her attendance at the 2016 Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. We found that many of you may actually want to access these tips as well as we're often asked for tips on getting approved for training. We're posting Joan's message here for that purpose.
Thank you for your interest in our conference. We have an excellent theme for 2016, The Revolutionary Assistant.
You were asking about what you could share with your executive to talk about cost associated with conference.
My first word of advice is to not use the word "cost." Immediately that can send a negative to an executive. Instead you want to use the word "investment" because that is what your company is doing. They are investing in education for you that they will get back from your learning and executing the good ideas you learn at our conference.
When you approach you executive, you should first talk about the benefits of attending the conference and what you will learn. Then talk about Office Dynamics' 25 year history in training and development and 22 years' experience hosting conferences. The last item you discuss is the investment for this great opportunity.
Your benefits should include the list of topics below which is "what you will learn." Tell your executive that you will be able to network with 350 other high-level individuals from more than 85 organizations in various industries. Thus gaining the value of different views, ideas and perspectives. You will learn best practices from other attendees and techniques you can take back to your role and company.
An introduction to Compression Planning—a thinking model to move ideas into action; includes being able to take skills and build them into your role and crate opportunities that might not otherwise rise up.
Becoming a productivity Ninja with technology tools.
Take intelligent risks, instead of fearing uncertainty.
Challenge the comfort zone, instead of being complacent.
Engage in courageous communication, instead of hiding from difficult conversations.
Advocate for change and improvement, instead of resisting it. Or merely adapting to it.
Seek innovative solutions, instead of dwelling in problems.
Leverage emerging technology, instead of ignoring or fighting it.
Step up to obstacles, instead of hesitating or running away.
Create opportunities, instead of waiting for them to appear.
While our conference is administrative focused, many of the skills and competencies we will address at the 2016, can be utilized by anyone in the workplace. Even if you are not a secretary you will benefit greatly from the concept of being "revolutionary" and all the presentations.
You will have exposure to at least 10 subject matter experts. We are still working on enlisting our speakers. If you divide $1395.00 by 10 that equals only $139.50 per speaker. That is extremely reasonable. If you hired each subject matter expert for an hour as a coach, it would cost $250.00/hr. or more.
The Office Dynamics conference is comparable to other large conferences for assistants when it comes to registration fee, however the value ratio is much higher than other administrative events.
What are your best practices for getting approved for training? Have you found it difficult to gain approval?


Scientific and political awareness of the greenhouse effect and human influence on the climate has existed for over three decades. During the 1980s, there was a strong environmental movement and a political consensus on the issue, but in recent years, climate change denial – denying that changes to the climate are due to human influence on the environment – has increased which makes the case for understanding why this is so.
The comprehensive project: "Why don't we take climate change seriously? A study of climate change denial", is now collecting the world's foremost researchers in this area. In the project, the network will examine the ideas and interests behind climate change denial, with a particular focus on right-wing nationalism, extractive industries, and conservative think tanks. The goal is to increase understanding of climate change denial, and its influence on political decision-making, but also to raise awareness among the general public, those in power, research institutes, and industry.
Groups such as Klimatsans (Climate Sense) or Stockholmsinitiativet (The Stockholm Initiative) in Sweden, as well as lobby groups like the Heartland Institute in the USA, which supports and spread climate change denial.
Parties such as the Sweden Democrats, who work against different forms of climate policy.
For example, when people in positions of power make decisions such as the construction of Sälen airport in the Swedish mountains, running totally counter to the climate policies they claim to support.
When people act as though as they unaware of climate change, and, for example, fly several times a year to foreign countries.
Krange, O. Kaltenborn, B.& Hultman, M. (2018). "Cool Dudes in Norway: Climate Change denial among conservative Norwegian Men". Environmental Sociology.
McCright, A., Dunlap, R (2011) "Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States" Global Environmental Change.
Forchtner, B., Kroneder, A., & Wetzel, D. (2018). "Being Skeptical? Exploring Far-Right Climate-Change Communication in Germany". Environmental Communication.
Supran, G; Oreskes, N (2017). "Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977–2014)". Environmental Research Letters.
Bohr, J. (2016) "The 'climatism' cartel: why climate change deniers oppose market-based mitigation policy". Environmental Politics.
Dunlap, R, & Jacques (2013) "Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks. Exploring the Connection". The American Behavioral Scientist.
Anshelm, J., & Hultman, M. (2014). Discourses of global climate change: apocalyptic framing and political antagonisms. Routledge. London.


BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) Davion Buster scored a season-high 21 points, including a go-ahead 3 with 34 seconds left, and Lamar won its seventh consecutive game, defeating Stephen F. Austin 81-79 on Saturday.
Lamar trailed 43-40 at halftime but led for good, 80-79, on Buster's 3 and V.J. Holmes iced it with 1 of 2 free throws with one second to play.
Nick Garth added 20 points and six assists and Josh Nzeakor had 17 points and nine rebounds for Lamar (18-12, 11-6 Southland Conference). Christian Barrett added eight rebounds.
Shannon Bogues had 26 points for the Lumberjacks (14-14, 7-9). Davonte Fitzgerald added 18 points and eight rebounds and Kevon Harris had 16 points.
The Cardinals improve to 2-0 against the Lumberjacks on the season. Lamar defeated Stephen F. Austin 82-67 on Feb. 9. Lamar finishes out the regular season against McNeese State at home next Saturday. Stephen F. Austin plays Abilene Christian on the road on Wednesday.


EMRG recruits new members every September so apply early and on time!
All interested candidates must be certified in Standard First Aid and CPR-C. Please keep in mind that EMRG is a volunteer organization so all shifts are unpaid and will serve as volunteer hours. If you are passionate about preserving human life and are willing to make specific time commitments, then you are encouraged to apply for the team.
If interested in applying, read the candidate requirements on the EMRG Candidate Application Form located on our pamphlet or online, and then fill out your information.
We are no longer accepting applications to join EMRG. Please enquire about our next recruitment session.
Thank you for your interest in EMRG.


I participated at Startup Weekend Montreal (#swmontreal) July 12-14, 2013. A 52-hour challenge to launch a StartUp. I joined a team named Today in the City and the goal was to bring all events in the city into 1 place.
The idea of the service/app over the course of the weekend pivoted to niche focus on Indie music in Montreal and Toronto.
The dev team built an Aggregator and an API to feed the jQuery Mobile Site (which was built to later be wrapped in PhoneGap and deployed as a Native app).
My contribution over the 52-hours was Account Management/Organization, Wire Framing (UX) and Front-End Development (jQuery Mobile).


Something exciting is coming to Diego Dalla Palma in February….
To preserve the well-being and beauty of the skin, we know that the correct hydration is vital for all ages and for every kind of skin.
When the skin is dehydrated, it can experience cracking, premature ageing, flaking and dryness.
Thanks to the ageing process and the harmful actions of external agents and lifestyle, levels of hyaluronic acid decrease and skin loses hydration, softness and elasticity.
What can be done to prevent this? Diego Dalla Palma has the answer!
A line for all ages, both for younger and more mature skins. Powered with different nourishment and intensity levels, to meet every need.
Not just a simple moisturising line, the new range also includes an anti-ageing plumping action. Boosted with HYALU4PLUMP, experience the hydro-balancing treatment designed to quench the skin's thirst and restore firmness to dehydrated and dry skin.
Hyaluronic acid is one of the main structural and functional elements of the skin. It is the most important component of the dermis - the deepest and supporting layer of the skin- preserving the turgidity and the firmness.
It also has an essential role in protecting the optimal level of hydration in all skin layers.
HYALU4PLUMP is a calibrated complex of 4 different types of hyaluronic acid of different sizes.
Hydration and filling for an anti-age and plumping action.
OBJECTIVE: To protect the correct hydration level of the skin; slowing down the appearance of wrinkles and signs of time; give relief and comfort to dehydrated and dry skins. To make the skin hydrated, firm, vital and young looking.
WHO IS IT FOR: From 25 years old; people who have dehydrated, dry, fragile, with a feeling of discomfort and "tightness" skin, prone to wrinkles; people who are affected by external agents (sun, wind, cold, air-conditioning. Perfect to combat the first wrinkles.
DURATION: 45 minutes (+2min for very dry skin).
Launching in mid-February 2019, contact your Chleo Enterprises representative for more information or contact Chleo Enterprises directly on 01 4080820 (IRE) /028 906 17403 (UK) or by email: info@chleoenterprises.ie .


Part 20 of the game Assassin & # 39; s Creed 3 Remastered (AC3 Remastered) includes a Review and main Campaign of Mission 20 for PS4 Pro, Xbox One X, Nintendo Switch and PC. The re-mastered game tutorial from My Assassin & # 39; s Creed III will present the Complete Game Story Campaign. This remastered AC3 game tutorial will include Release, a Review, all missions, quests, bosses, new game, Xbox One X, PS4 Pro, single player and more until the end of the individual player's story! Thanks Ubisoft for Assassin & # 39; s Creed 3 Remastered!


Autorevue Supertest 2011, Produced by Daleyelama. Directed by Christian Clerici, edited by Clemens Fischer.
See the the first Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 crash happened on August 2011 in Padua, Italy at Minute 7:00. These are exclusive and copyright protected Scenes.
To get such a car you have to spend about 312.000 euros and a lot of patience (at least 18 months of waiting). The unlucky Lamborghini Driver crashed into a truck during an overtaking manoeuvre on a rural road in the province of Padua. After the Aventador hit the truck it spun and hit a telephone pole, traffic sign and a fence before landing in a ditch. The Aventador driver wasn't injured in the accident, nor was the truck driver. The Car has been completely damaged.


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Sinema Breaks Word On Opposing Senate Minority Leader Schumer
Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
David Krayden Ottawa Bureau Chief
November 15, 2018 12:47 PM ET
Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat who won a narrow victory to represent Arizona in the Senate, reportedly won't oppose the continued leadership of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Despite promises to the contrary, Sinema is saying that she won't oppose Schumer because he is not facing any opposition, according to Politico. (RELATED: Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Slated For Victory As Vote Count Heading Her Way)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)
She once assessed Schumer's candidacy differently.
"I won't support him," she told Politico in July. Sinema is a former environmental and peace activist and appeared to try to to represent herself during her campaign as a moderate Democrat just right for the traditionally red state of Arizona — the home of conservative icon Sen. Barry Goldwater.
Schumer remains the minority leader after getting unanimous backing on Wednesday and no dissent from Sinema, Fox News reports.
Sinema quickly moved to explain her rationale in a statement sent to Politico:
"Arizonans know I will work with anyone — in either party — to get things done for our state," she said. "It's time for a new approach on both sides of the aisle and I look forward to working with my colleagues to cut through the dysfunction and deliver results for Arizona."
"Had there been a challenger for minority leader, I would have considered new leadership and a fresh perspective," Sinema claimed. "I will continue to put Arizona over party." (RELATED: Exclusive Sinema Says She'll Work With Republicans On Border Wall)
Some Republicans don't agree with her claims any more than they believed that Sinema's more liberal past was all history.
"Kyrsten Sinema sells out Arizona in record time," declared the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican PAC.
Sinema's opponent in the Senate race, Republican Rep. Martha McSally, was a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who ridiculed Sinema's past positions on the military and the environment. McSally's campaign unearthed an old radio interview that had Sinema telling listeners, "I don't care" if they opt to fight for the Taliban against U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. McSally called that kind of talk indicative of "treason" and rendered Sinema "disqualified" for the Senate. Sinema was also caught once describing stay-at-home mothers as "leeches."
Reps. Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema will face off to represent Arizona in the Senate. [SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images and Rich Fury/Getty Images for Human Rights Campaign (HRC)]
McSally conceded to Sinema on Monday with the Democrat approximately 38,000 votes ahead in the final tally.
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The following RV's have been confirmed correct by local news and police reports, some cases include special notes from the actual persons involved and/or their families. From what I have been told, I'm the only person in the world who's is doing something like this. This is a shame, as we all have the ability to do what I do, and much, much more.
Cynthia Sommer - set free!


Migrating from On-Premises Exchange (2007+) to Office 365 - This course show you how to migrate from On-Premises Exchange Server to Office 365. We walk you through the process of preparing the Source and Destination email systems for the migration. We provide detailed steps for preparing and running the migration project in MigrationWiz.


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Bill Green: Inventor, Mentor and Guardian of IBM Products
By Trish Hall
Growing up, Bill Green loved animals. And so, when he started college at Michigan State, he chose the pre-veterinary program. But when it was time to declare his major, he hesitated. A friend was studying packaging, and intrigued, Green took a course.
"This was something new, and it was exciting,'' Green says. "The science behind it was so interesting—a little bit of physics, a little bit of art." He not only stayed with packaging but remained at the university to get his master's degree in the field.
Nearly 23 years later, Green is still intrigued by packaging—figuring out how to make it more logical, most sustainable and more easily tracked. At IBM he is a player-coach, both a creative scientist working with emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things and an advisor to others throughout the company. And Green's work has contributed to a more sustainable environment.
IBMBill Green at the International Safe Transit Association's 2019 TransPack/TempPack Forum, in Denver.
His title is a mouthful: he is a Senior Technical Staff Member, Asset Transit Security and Protection, based in Durham, N.C. To reach that rank, he had to be approved by a board that looked at his leadership abilities and technical achievements.
"If IBM ships something," he says, "it is under me." That means he is responsible for between a quarter-million and a half-million shipments a year. "Often," he says, "IBM is shipping really big, expensive equipment, like mainframes." His job is to get them all over the world without sustaining so much as a dent.
Patents in Packaging
Green has 12 patents to his name and several more in the pipeline. One was granted for his breakthrough creating packaging that is both strong and sustainable.
"It was kind of a simple thing, but it had a big impact," he says. "I call it the hybrid pallet."
All-wood pallets are heavy and resource-ravenous, but sturdy enough to withstand the poking of a forklift's large tines. IBM considered shifting to corrugated cardboard pallets, but the tines would rip through them.
Green's hybrid pallet is wood where the forklift engages but paper on top, reducing the amount of wood used—and the carbon footprint for the shipment.
To improve processes, Green works with technologies including the IoT and artificial intelligence to track packages and their welfare en route. Are they so cold that condensation could develop during transit? Were they turned over on their side, so that they might sustain damage? Did they get on the wrong truck and end up in the wrong place?
IBMBill Green with his patented Hybrid Pallets.
Green also works on the development of hardware so that products are strong, and thus require less packaging. "If you make a product that is really weak, what has to happen?" he says. "I have to add a lot of cushioning and make boxes bigger. I can't put as many on a truck or a plane. It costs more to ship. It uses more fuel, creates more waste. Take that same product and make it twice as strong, and it can use half the cushioning and half the space in a plane or a truck."
Since 2009, Green says, IBM has avoided using 8,700 tons of packaging material by thinking this way.
An IBMer Through and Through
Green has spent his entire career at IBM, starting in 1997. As he and his wife, Karla, were finishing graduate school—she studied behavioral psychology—they agreed that they'd move for whichever one got a job first.
While in his final year of graduate school, at a function for young engineers and high school students, Green recognized someone from IBM he had previously met. When the IBMer left the room, Green ran after him and handed him his card. A job offer ensued.
Growing up, Green lived in various cities with his parents—his father was a musician and his mother a hospital administrator. Now, he's put down roots in Cary, N.C., a city often included on "best places to live in America" lists, with Karla and their three children, ages 18 to 12: Ella, Mattie and Owen.
In his years at the company, Green says, he has always felt comfortable as an African-American IBMer. "I have never walked the hallways or looked around and said, 'I'm the only one.' There has always been representation here and it's been at all different levels. I could be myself at work."
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Organizations were recently recognized with Call2Recycle's Leader in Sustainability award for 2012. The Leader in Sustainability award honors organizations that demonstrate the strongest commitment to sustainability through their consistent participation in the Call2Recycle program.
Call2Recycle first established the Leader in Sustainability award last year to recognize high-performing organizations in Canada and has extended the award in 2012 to include U.S. participants. Each honoree receives a plaque recognizing their achievement. Of the Canadian recipients this year, many are second-time honorees, demonstrating the continued strength of their battery recycling programs.
Through the efforts of our Leaders in Sustainability—and all of Call2Recycle's partners—more than 10 million pounds (4.7 million kilograms) of batteries were diverted from landfills in 2012. These organizations are setting a strong example of environmental consciousness and demonstrate that together we can have a tremendous impact on our surroundings.
Call2Recycle would like to congratulate all of the recipients on their achievement and thank them for their exemplary participation.