For Yani Kulow, it is as important to give clients great service as it is to give them an exceptional salon experience.
in the opening of the business.
chemistry. Early in her career, she worked with Lancome, advancing her way to the position of regional makeup artist. She was also with Rolf's, providing makeup expertise and appearing on 'Good Morning Arizona' numerous times. An alumnus of Carsten Institute, Kulow soon realized she wanted to share her special brand of beauty vision with her clientele in her own salon. Her love of art, hair, makeup and fashion are now evident throughout FlirtSalon and the story of the name itself is as defining as the owner and her team.
The name 'Flirt' came about when Kulow was faced with the task of finding a name for her new salon that conveyed that special "it" quality. An admirer of Czech artist Alfons Mucha, Kulow loved his technique in combining the beauty of flowing hair and budding romance completed in an art-deco style. She discovered that Mucha had orchestrated a painting called "Flirt" that depicted the beautiful and romantic qualities that Kulow was searching for in a salon name.
queens! I thought, 'How cool would it be to sit there and have someone do my hair and makeup?'" she recounted.
approach to customer care. The salon also incorporates unique art and jewelry (that are also for sale) and serve as a stylistic component in the salon.
For Yani Kulow, it is as important to give clients great service as it is to give them an exceptional salon experience. She explained the five distinct messages of service conveyed to clientele. "We are professional. We care. We listen. We can be trusted. We have time for you," Kulow explained.
At Flirt Salon, there is much more to love beyond the exceptional hair care services. In addition to haircuts and color, other hair services include extensions, hair glossing, corrective color and toner. Waxing services run the gamut from eyebrow tinting, shaping and design, to facial, leg and Brazilian waxing. Make-up application and threading are also available. The peaceful treatment room at salon is a quiet respite from the rest of the world where various techniques of massage are offered. As a fully-licensed massage establishment, clients can choose from Swedish, Therapeutic, Sports, Reflexology or Cranial-Sacral massage.
licensed massage therapist. Katie Lawson, hair designer and color specialist, Jessica Divis, hair artist, Nancy Heroabadi advanced stylist and threading specialist and receptionist, Gabi Smoudi round out the team.
that focuses on quality. "Everything we do at Flirt, I stand behind," explained Kulow.
While waiting in the salon, I observed a customer leaving after Yani Kulow had cut her hair. The shoulder length blunt cut was beyond perfect. In fact, it looked like a work of art, with every hair falling perfectly in place, a gorgeous symmetry, sleek lines and a beautiful shine. Flirt Salon has definitely arrived.
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HomeGovernments What does DC stand for ? Magistrate Role and duties of DC
What does DC stand for ? Magistrate Role and duties of DC
what does DC Stand for?
DC Stands for Deputy Commissioner.
Who Is Deputy Commissioner (DC)?
Deputy Commissioner also known as the Deputy collector is a heard of the administration also known as a revenue officer of a district level. Deputy Commissioner is appointed at the district level and he or she is responsible for the overall district level and he or she perform our duty by law.
Deputy Commissioner is appointed for the district or decision to work and perform their duties. He or she has very concerned about analyzing and finding the issues of the target areas and getting resolved the issues. Are responsible to take care of and help people to give their basic rights bylaws.
DC Key Roles?
The Role and responsibilities of the Deputy Commissioner are so many and here ill elaborate and discuss all the roles and responsibilities of DC.
Deputy Commissioner working and coordinating for all the offices within the district and the DC guide and to communicate the government offices to do work as per policies as they set according to the law of the government.
Role and responsibilities of Deputy Commissioner.
To communicate with the people of the district and know about the issues they are facing and give them relief from the problem which they have.
Take care of the peace in the areas where he or she is appointed.
To utilize the law and order.
The most significant responsibilities are to the supervision of the government and private areas they follow the law and procedure or not.
To convey the right message to the people about the law and procedure of the government, if they convey the right message to the people about law and procedure then people will aware of the policies then things will be better accordingly.
Take care of traffic issues. Deputy Commissioner has the authority to command and give instruction to the concerned authority to take action and implement the laws of the site and work on it according to law and procedure.
Deputy Commissioner is also responsible for the collection of Revenue.
Deputy Commissioner has the authority to implement the law within the are
Responsible to listen to the issues of the district and getting them resolved.
Following are the role and responsibilities of any Deputy Commissioner in any sector. he or she perform our duties and focus on the above-mentioned points. and work for the district and try to get resolve the issues from the area. And also an Assistant commissioner (AC) appointed for tehsil level to work and look after the things.
Who Appoint Deputy Commissioner?
The government appointed the Deputy Commissioner for each decision / District of the areas. There are many districts and Tehsil all over the ever country, So Government decides to appoint DC for every district and AC for every tehsil.
Also, Assistant Commissioner is appointed for each tehsil. One assistant Commissioner shall be appointed for one Tehsil.
Deputy Commissioner salary?
As we talk about the salary of the civil services, they have high power but salary are mot enough according to power, authority. They perform strict and tough duties all the time.
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Knowing how to purchase the right kind of snowboarding equipment is vital to the time you are going to spend in snowboarding and learning about and also being sure of the proper length as well as width of your snowboard is but one facet to purchasing the proper kind of snowboarding equipment. No doubt, the length as well as width of a snowboard will have a significant impact on how well you enjoy your snowboarding and so.
Let me tell you all about the time that I went to snowboarding classes and why I absolutely think that you should go out there and do the same. When you learn something new it provides and excellent sense of well being and can result in many hours of fun and enjoyment that can come as a result of the new skill that you have attained.
Burton snowboarding equipment is very popular and items such as the Burton Custom Snowboard are great examples and in fact, they are used very often by riders and even by professional snowboarders who find it suitable and to ensure that they stay happy with their Burton snowboarding equipment, Burton has constantly been striving to improve every aspect of their snowboarding equipment by incorporating new innovations each year.
Snowboarding continues to grow as a sport and so; the numbers of different snowboarding equipment too have grown which means that you are going to have a lot of options to choose from. Given the large numbers of snowboarding brands becoming available, you may not always be able to know which the best snowboard equipment for you is, and with hundreds of brands to choose from your best bet in identifying the ideal snowboarding equipment would be to read up various snowboard equipment reviews.
Snowboarding is one of the most popular sports in the world today. It is one of the most fun and enjoyable activities to do in the wintertime, and one that everyone should try at least once. Snowboarding, although many people do not think so, does not have to be an expensive sport as you only really need a few basic pieces of equipment to get started.
You can liken snowboarding to surfing on snow instead of on water and from the time that it first grabbed the imagination of the public in the sixties to the present, it has gone from strength to strength and it was even included as an event in the Winter Olympic Games held in Japan in the year 1998.
Snowboarding is an adventure sport, much younger than surfing, skateboarding and skiing. Its history runs back to the 1960s, when this sport was developed in the United States, after conceiving inspiration from the predecessors of this sport. It is an item in the Winter Olympics too. Just like skiing, surfing and skateboarding, snowboarding also involves moving at good speed. The surface is snow and the movement is downward from a snow covered hill or mountain top. The rider can balance himself/herself on a snowboard, jumping over the hillocks and performing amazing stunts while in the air.
Although snowboarding became a Winter Olympic Sport in the year 1998, people have been enjoying the sport for many years now. Snowboarding was developed in the US in the 1960s and became immensely popular by the 1970s. The first snowboard is believed to have been developed by Sherman Poppen in 1965 and was nicknamed the Snurfer.
A beginner should have a board that has a beveled edge (so the edges don't catch as easily), has a little flexibility, and is sort of hourglass-shaped like a maxi-pad, so that it is relatively easy to turn. The most important thing is that the boot always moves with your foot. Since the boot is bound to the board and you are controlling it with your feet, if your foot moves within the boot, your foot movement will not translate into board movement.
Snowboarding is an exhilarating, awesome experience, recently popularised worldwide by the winter Olympic Games in Turin, but whether you are new to snowboarding or an old hat at it, there are five essential items you need to seriously consider taking on your snowboarding holiday.


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Nexus explore 360 degree storytelling in "Rain or Shine"
Nexus has been commissioned to produce an immersive new story for Google Spotlight Stories, a narrative format for 360 degree, interactive stories on mobile platforms. Spotlight Stories, a project within Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group, is a mobile storytelling format that combines mobile engineering with filmmaking in a new type of "On device" interactive experience. Users can explore a 3D story and follow the action with the freedom to look anywhere in the story world.
Since launching in 2013, Google Spotlight Stories has worked with several acclaimed filmmakers. The first four stories, "Windy Day" (by Oscar-winning director Jan Pinkava), "Buggy Night" (by Mark Oftedal), "Duet" (by animation legend Glen Keane) and "HELP" (by The Fast & the Furious' Justin Lin) are now playing on the Google Spotlight Stories app available on Android and iOS. The software, which is currently in pre-Alpha stages of development, allows a user to look around and control a scene by changing their visual viewpoint to follow a story, just like in real-life and in real-time, but via a smartphone screen. It's a little like AR, only less gimmicky and more story driven.
Nexus has been commissioned to produce an immersive new story for Google Spotlight Stories, a narrative format for 360 degree, interactive stories on mobile devices
Nexus has been chosen to work closely with the ATAP Spotlight Stories team in the making of "Rain or Shine" in an effort to utilize their recently launched new Story Development Kit (SDK). The kit enables both teams to explore the opportunities the software presents from a 'storytelling' perspective, and provide direct feedback on technical capabilities to the Google ATAP development team. Nexus' Felix Massie will direct "Rain or Shine," which follows Ella, a charismatic young girl who loves being outside in the sunshine. The film's hook, however, is that whenever she puts her sunglasses on she's thwarted by her very own raincloud, which instantly appears above her head and lashes her with unwanted rain. The story warmly illustrates (quite literally) Ella's frustration in wanting to wear her shades in the sunshine, and follows her amusing but futile attempts to dodge the rain.
Massie said of the concept: "Spotlight Stories allows us to create a 360° storytelling experience that you can see through your phone. Using everyday technology, the user holds their own phone and can choose where to look and how to follow the story. Because the user has full control of the experience, it's been an exciting challenge to create a rich immersive world. While the story and narrative will always play out in a linear way, like a normal short film, the way you experience the narrative in Spotlight Stories can change on every viewing. In essence, Spotlight Stories is another world viewable via your phone."
"Rain or Shine" follows a charismatic young girl who loves being outside in the sunshine, but whenever she puts her sunglasses on she's thwarted by her very own raincloud
Said Chris O'Reilly, executive creative director of Nexus, added: "It's a real privilege to be chosen to help develop a totally new form of storytelling for the world's most ubiquitous screen, the mobile phone. We tried to really focus on the unique creative opportunity and carefully reconsidered every part of the filmmaking process from script, through staging, art direction and lighting. This journey has been equal parts creative innovation, in making the most of this new storytelling format and technical innovation in working alongside the ATAP team as they have pushed the boundaries in mobile 360⁰ film. We're very excited by the results."
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Like many fathers from his generation, my dad was probably like many of the dads across America. His parents emigrated here from Europe at the turn of the century as did many; some from Italy, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Austria and other parts of Europe. Many had acquired trades in their home land as tailors, brick layers, butchers, plumbers, electricians or common laborers who built the great roads and bridges of our country.
Their fathers were hard working, blue collar men, not known for wearing their hearts on their sleeves. They were focused on going to work, caring for their families and putting food on the table. Although many of these men cared deeply for their children, they seldom showed it either in words or in the form of emotion. In their generation, that was not what a man was supposed to do.
So, that was the parental model for our fathers, for my father and that's how many of them interacted with us. It's not because they didn't love us, rather it was about how they were raised and what they knew. They wanted the best for their children, yet they were comfortable with the emotional distance and the unspoken words between father and child. It was how their fathers interacted with them and so it must be how a father should behave with his children.
As a young child, I respected and at times feared my father. He wasn't a great hulk of a man, not a drunkard, nor was he prone to any form of violence but he was stern and his word was law. He taught me how to catch and throw a baseball properly as most fathers teach their sons; how to choke up on the bat to make contact with a pitch. He taught me how to bait a hook and cast a rod off a jete at Point Judith in Rhode Island. I'll never forget how angry my mother became with him when she learned that he had taught me how to make a fist and box, so I could protect myself in a fight if need be.
My dad was a big car buff. My favorite car was his 1957 Ford Fairlane, red and white with the fancy fins and the roaring V-8 engine. I was only five years old when he first purchased that car and I remember how sad I was five years later when he sold it. I always hoped that someday, that car would be mine. He was his own mechanic and so, he taught me how to fix a flat tire, how to properly wash and wax a car and tune the carburetor on the engine so it would hum.
He taught me how to do all those things, many of which I became very good at and was proud of. But, he never taught me how to say "I love you." As a kid, I never thought about it much, I mean, I never heard any of my friends fathers say "I love you" to their sons either, so it really wasn't a big deal. He'd attend my baseball and football games when he could, although he always stood at a distance, away from the crowds and the hoopla. At times he would say, "good job son or great hit," but I don't ever remember him saying "I love you."
When I was in high school, he was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, which is kidney cancer. In those days, based on the lack of technology and the knowledge of cancer, most people only lived one year with such an illness. They would surgically remove the tumor and hoped for the best. My dad wanted to live, so he searched for a surgeon who would do something that they weren't doing in those days, remove the entire kidney. My dad figured, what the hell, I've got two and if it increases my life expectancy, I'll take the chance. He lived another twelve years after that initial surgery.
As a young boy, I was scared but I also remember this sense of great pride and admiration. As a result, I sat down and wrote him a letter when he was in the hospital, after the initial surgery. I told him how much I admired him and how much courage I thought he had; how I learned from him to not be afraid when life challenges you. I remember signing the letter at the end and saying "I love you."
The following year, I left home to attend college in Boston. We lived in New York, outside of the city, so it was far enough away, three hours, that I could only come home to visit on occasion. From the moment I left for college and with each and every visit, my dad still never said "I love you" but he began to do something that he never did before; he began to hug me. From the day I left for college, with each return visit until the day he died he would always hug me hello and goodbye. That was his way of saying "I love you."
And now you know "why I love hugs!"
Larry Agresto is a Life & Success Coach and the founder of Peak Performance Coaching.
He is also a writer, author and speaker. His work and writings focus on change and transformation. His latest work "The Power of Magical Thinking," is about empowering people to realize their "true potential," enabling them to live the fulfilled life they've always hoped for.
Shifting from the "automatic pilot"behavior of negative past experiences and limited thinking, one becomes capable of being truly present once again. In doing so, we begin to experience the unlimited thinking of the present moment, which in turn empowers the opportunity for unlimited possibilities into our lives.
He has written several e-books; "The Principles of Success, The Journey, What's Stopping You and The 21 Day Breakthrough." His latest e-book is entitled "The Power of Magical Thinking."
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Marie, Hello from Boston. Thank you for your message and Kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the article and it touched your heart. I enjoyed writing it as well. Have a great week! Think Magic, Larry
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This is one of the best articles I've read. I enjoyed how it both tugged on my heart and warmed my soul. it reminded me of my relationships with my father who made his transition when I was 12, my stepfather who I have just recently reconnected with after many years and my father-in-law who stood in for both of them. Thank you so much for sharing.
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This position will need to have a relationship-based attitude and be willing to always look for the solution! Our associates are our most valued customers and we are committed to their business success. This position will also be responsible for the appearance of the Market Center common areas. They will ensure the office is neat and prepared for business.
The office concierge will assist in the management of the office by providing support to the rest of the leadership team.
Answer phones and e-mails properly with warmth and friendliness
Greet everyone with a smile—be positive and cheerful
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Q: Speed up UIImage creation from SpriteSheet I'm not really sure I got the title exactly right, but I'm not sure where my problem is exactly.
I need to load an array of UIImages from an spritesheet, which I'll then use as animations in a UIImageView.
The spritesheet is generated with TexturePacker, which generates the huge atlas (2048x2048) and a json with the sprites descriptions.
Until now, I've had it working without issues, even loading 100 frames in just 0.5-0.8 secs which I was really happy with.
The problem is now I need to load the spritesheets from the Documents folder (they are downloaded, so can't be integrated in the app), so I have to use UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile instead of UIImage imagenamed.
This makes my loading time increase by 5-15 seconds depending the number of frames in the animation.
I'm guessing the problem is that because the image isn't being cached, is loading it for every frame, but I don't see why
This is the code:
// With this line, perfect
//UIImage *atlas = [UIImage imageNamed:@"media/spritesheets/default-pro7@2x.png"];
// But with this one, incredibly looooong loading times
UIImage *atlas = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"media/spritesheets/default-pro7@2x" ofType:@"png"]];

CGImageRef atlasCGI = [atlas CGImage];

for( NSDictionary* dict in frames) {

    NSDictionary *frame = [dict objectForKey:@"frame"];
    int x = [[frame objectForKey:@"x"] intValue];
    int y = [[frame objectForKey:@"y"] intValue];
    int width = [[frame objectForKey:@"w"] intValue];
    int height = [[frame objectForKey:@"h"] intValue];

    NSDictionary *spriteSize = [dict objectForKey:@"spriteSourceSize"];
    int realx = [[spriteSize objectForKey:@"x"] intValue];

    NSDictionary *size = [dict objectForKey:@"sourceSize"];
    int realWidth = [[size objectForKey:@"w"] intValue];
    int realHeight = [[size objectForKey:@"h"] intValue];

    //Initialize the canvas size!
    canvasSize = CGSizeMake(realWidth, realHeight);

    bitmapBytesPerRow   = (canvasSize.width * 4);
    bitmapByteCount     = (bitmapBytesPerRow * canvasSize.height);

    bitmapData = malloc( bitmapByteCount );

    //Create the context
    context = CGBitmapContextCreate(bitmapData, canvasSize.width, canvasSize.height, 8, bitmapBytesPerRow, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast);

    // Clear background
    CGContextClearRect(context,CGRectMake(0.0f,0.0f,canvasSize.width,canvasSize.height));

    // Get spriteRect
    CGRect cropRect = CGRectMake(x, y, width, height);
    CGImageRef imageRef = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect(atlasCGI, cropRect);

    //Draw the image into the bitmap context
    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(realx, 0, width, height), imageRef);

    //Get the result image
    resultImage = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);

    UIImage *result = result = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:resultImage];

    [images addObject:result];

    //Cleanup
    free(bitmapData);
    CGImageRelease(resultImage);
    CGImageRelease(imageRef);
}

I can even try an upload system profiler sessions which show where is taking so much time loading

A: Well, I finally figured out where the problem was. After looking more carefully with Instruments Time profiler, I noticed a lot of time was spent in copyImageBlockSetPNG , which was what made me believe first that I was loading the image from disk for every frame. turn out, somebody already had this problem Does CGContextDrawImage decompress PNG on the fly?, and it ended being true that I was loading the memory each frame, but not from disk, instead it was being uncompressed from memory in png format for every frame.
In that post theres a solution, which consists in writing the image to a context and getting from it an uncompressed copy of the image.
That works, but I found other way which I believe It's a little bit more efficient
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]
                                             forKey:(id)kCGImageSourceShouldCache];
NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:@"path/to/image.png"]];
CGImageSourceRef source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((__bridge CFDataRef)(imageData), NULL);
CGImageRef atlasCGI = CGImageSourceCreateImageAtIndex(source, 0, (__bridge CFDictionaryRef)dict);
CFRelease(source);

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Explaining Deliverance
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Graham Dow explains what deliverance is. He counters modern day issues with deliverance using Scripture. He gives real-life examples alongside instances of deliverance from the New Testament. In this book you will learn:
Ways in which evil spirits can enter our lives
How to discern them
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How to gain true freedom
Graham Dow writes in a sensible, theologically sound way, with caution and authority.
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This is a difficult subject but this book makes is accessable.
Easy to read and inspires confidence
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I read this booklet from a slightly sceptical point of view and found myself actually agreeing with nearly all of it. The terminology may be a little off putting to some, but the truth is undoubtably there. More than that, I have found it very useful to apply the theology presented here in my own life.
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A straightforward review and summary of the mainstream beliefs and practices of the Christian churches in relation to evil spirits and deliverance.
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I read this short book in one sitting and as a christian who had only a basic understanding prior to this book I found it well worth a read. Bishop Graham has a wealth of experience in this field and I would recommend his book to anyone who wishes to learn more about this topic, I especially liked his anecdotal evidence.
Geoffrey Graham Dow (born 4 July 1942) is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Carlisle from 2000 to 2009, the 66th holder of the office. He is a well-known Evangelical.Dow was ordained a deacon, followed in 1968 by ordination as a priest. From 1975 to 1981 he taught as a university lecturer at St John's College at the University of Nottingham in the subject Christian doctrine (Christian Doctrine). In 1981 he became a pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Coventry and held that office until 1992. Dow's successor as Bishop of Carlisle was James Newcome.Dow held several church honorary offices. From 1981 to 1987 he was a member of the Bishop's Council for Ministry, from 1982 to 1985 also of the Bishop's Council of the Church of England. Since 1982 he was a member of the deanery and a member of the diocesan synod. From 1992 to 1997 he was also Chairman of the Board of Socil Responsibility of the Diocese of London. He was a member of the Board of Directors (Governor, 1981-1992) and Trustee (Trustee, 1987-1992) of the Blue Coat School in Coventry.Dow is married to Molly and they have four adult children.
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The manufacturing unit is equipped with state of art facilities backed by strong R & D cell and testing lab to produce affordable custom designed SPV products. The company has all facilities to manufacture and test the products under one roof."


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Wilfred Season 3 Episode 5 "Shame"
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Wilfred Season 3 Episode 5 "Shame" airs on Thursday July 11 starting at 10 pm on FX.
Episode Synopsis: "Shame" – Wilfred helps Ryan pick a roommate.
Show Summary: Wilfred is a half-hour, live-action comedy about 'Ryan,' a young man struggling to make his way in the world until he forms a unique friendship with 'Wilfred,' his neighbor's canine pet. Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ryan the man how to overcome his fears and joyfully embrace the unpredictability and insanity of the world around him.
Wilfred is based on the critically acclaimed Australian series of the same title and was originally adapted for FX by David Zuckerman (Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill). Zuckerman also serves as an executive producer along with Reed Agnew, Eli Jorné, Jason Gann, Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz of Prospect Park, Randall Einhorn, and Joe Connor and Ken Connor of Renegade, producers of the Australian version of the series. Einhorn also serves as director. Wilfred is produced by FX Productions. The Australian version of Wilfred was written by Jason Gann and Adam Zwar, directed by Tony Rogers and produced by Jen Livingston.
Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Happy Feet) stars as 'Ryan,' and Jason Gann, who co-created and starred in the Australian series, plays the title character 'Wilfred.' Series regulars also include Fiona Gubelmann as 'Jenna,' Ryan's beautiful neighbor and Wilfred's owner, and Dorian Brown as 'Kristen,' Ryan's uptight sister.
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A brief history of ANNs and an explanation of the intuition behind them. This part aims to give the audience a conceptual understanding with few mathematical barriers, and no programming requirements.
Step-by-step construction of a very basic ANN. Although the code will be written in Python, it will be intuitive enough for programmers of other languages to follow along.
Using the popular Python library scikit-learn, an ANN will be implemented on a classification problem. High-level libraries reduce the work for a researcher implementing ANN down to tuning a set of parameters, which will be explained in this part.
Prior knowledge: This workshop assumes familiarity with programming and an interested in machine learning. Completeion of D-Lab's Python FUN!damentals or R FUN!damentals workshop series will be sufficient.
Technology requirement: To follow along in parts 2 and 3, it is suggested to install Python via Anaconda. Instructions can be found here.


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A Couple Of Good Ones: Otis English - The Persian Leaps
Otis English - Young Kids, Old Love.
Background promo - Otis English speaks to the darkness within while simultaneously dragging you into the light. With a big voice, beautifully twisted lyrics and a natural storyteller approach to performing, Otis has arrived in time to replenish the current well of truly meaningful artists. If his voice doesn't break your heart, his lyrics, a window into his strange and nomadic history, definitely will.
Otis' upbringing was far from ordinary. His history reads more like a chain of mishaps and tragedies than it does the upbringing of a songwriter. From accidentally burning down his childhood home to watching his father's health drastically deteriorate while living out of his car, Otis doesn't glaze over the negative and the challenging parts of life. Instead, he takes those experiences and makes them bloom into beautiful melodies. With a pen and a guitar, he turns discomfort into something beautiful and relatable.
This wanderer now sets out a bold, new adventure. Otis will be releasing his debut EP in collaboration with indie label Crooked Paintings. This upcoming collection of songs is cinematic, but unapologetically gritty in the best kind of way. It's catchy, inspired, and exactly what you want to hear from an artist who demands your attention, not with antics, but with honest, insightful stories and an undeniable voice.
'Young Kids, Old Love' starts out with plenty of energy, and just builds from there. It's a melodic indie style song, with unrestrained commitment and very distinctive vocals, that carry the whole thing off.
The Persian Leaps - See Me Unaware.
Background - "Your City, Underwater" will be available September 16 on CD and digital, but the single, "See Me Unaware" is now out. "The Persian Leaps" began as a phrase singer/guitarist Drew Forsberg doodled in a notebook margin during a college Greek Archaeology course. He wrote music independently under that name for years, until finally assembling a full band in 2012 to perform and record driving, chiming music influenced by My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, Guided by Voices and Teenage Fanclub.
The Persian Leaps adhere to a disciplined schedule of concise releases: each fall brings an EP of five songs totalling fifteen minutes or less. In 2013, the Persian Leaps released debut EP Praise Elephants, which NME Magazine described as a "celestial guitar jangle". The band completed a follow-up EP Drive Drive Delay in 2014, praised by XS Noize for its "instantly catchy melodic harmonies layered on top of droning guitar." In 2015, the band released High & Vibrate, an EP championed by The Big Takeover for its "big-time hooks, upbeat attitude, classic power-trio punch."
The band recently completed their 4th EP, Your City, Underwater. The EP features songs about terminal illness, social anxiety, and impending climate doom—leavened with enough hooks, harmony, and distortion to leave you wanting more. Land Ski Records releases Your City, Underwater on September 16, 2016.
There is a full on indie rock, feel to 'See Me Unaware'. Not surprising with a classic power trio delivering the goods. What is a plus is, the fine vocals and harmonies that equally deliver the melody, along with a tight rocking feel. The EP sounds promising.
2016 New Music Otis English The Persian Leaps


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Q: How to secure store password in a JCL FTP? I have the following code to send a file through FTP using JCL:
//FTP00001 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=50
//OUT      DD   SYSOUT=*
//AMSDUMP  DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN    DD   DUMMY
//SYSPRINT DD   DUMMY
//OUTPUT   DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN  DD  *
123.234.345.67
myuser1
p4ssw0rd
ascii
cd infos
PUT 'EF35.LMINFO.D180203' info_180203.txt
QUIT
/*

It works like a charm, the problem is that I don't want to put the credentials hardcoded inside the JCL. How could we hide them so anyone who has access to the JCL can't see the connection details? I'd like to hide the credentials from the output too, but note I still want to see the rest of the info: bytes transferred, possible error messages, and so on.
I thought in putting the SYSTSIN content inside a file, but I'd face the same problem: anyone who has access to the file, will see the user and pass. Therefore, what is the best method to sort this out?

A: The way I have seen it done is like this:
//FTP00001 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=50
//OUT      DD   SYSOUT=*
//AMSDUMP  DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN    DD   DUMMY
//SYSPRINT DD   DUMMY
//OUTPUT   DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN  DD  DSN=AA.SOMETHING.LOGIN,DISP=SHR
//         DD  DSN=AA.SOMETHING.FTP,DISP=SHR
//         DD  DSN=AA.SOMETHING.LOGOFF,DISP=SHR

where AA.SOMETHING.LOGIN would contain
123.234.345.67
myuser1    <- replace with ACID for this job
p4ssw0rd   <- replace with password for the ACID

AA.SOMETHING.FTP would conatin
ascii
cd infos
PUT 'EF35.LMINFO.D180203' info_180203.txt

AA.SOMETHING.LOGOFF would contain
QUIT

This JCL would run via a batch ACID and only the ACID would have read/write access to the AA.SOMETHING.LOGIN file. So the FTP server would need to add the ACID as a user. That is really the only way to do it. You are right though, anyone with access to AA.SOMETHING.LOGIN can see the credentials, but because we separated the login information from the FTP commands, there is no reason to need access to the login files unless the username/pass or the IP address changes. So you would be able to change anything in the files you have access to. You could also take it a step further than put the IP address in a separate dataset so then you can edit/view literally anything except the login credentials. That would look like this:
//FTP00001 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=50
//OUT      DD   SYSOUT=*
//AMSDUMP  DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN    DD   DUMMY
//SYSPRINT DD   DUMMY
//OUTPUT   DD   SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN  DD  DSN=AA.SOMETHING.SERVER,DISP=SHR
//         DD  DSN=AA.SOMETHING.LOGIN,DISP=SHR
//         DD  DSN=AA.SOMETHING.FTP,DISP=SHR
//         DD  DSN=AA.SOMETHING.LOGOFF,DISP=SHR

This also allows you to change the server, FTP commands and logout/cleanup all without having access to the login credentials.
The only real downside to this is if you ever need to update the login credentials, you either need to:

*

*Request access to the file

*Write another JCL that will run with the ACID that has access to that file to update it

Even with that in mind, I still think this is the best way.

A: harrison4 pointed out that the IBM Communications Server has an architected form of this solution that can use either a dataset or a USS file.  It is documented in the "z/OS Communications Server: IP User's Guide and Commands" manual to which harrison4 linked in his comment:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halu001/netftp.htm
It may go without saying, but I'll say it anyway.  It is always bad practice to store passwords in datasets or files unless they are encrypted (not encoded, encrypted).  If you must do this, be sure that the file permissions or security manager profiles restrict access to the file/dataset as much as possible.


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The Hudson River Way is a 2002 pedestrian bridge that links Broadway in downtown Albany, New York with the Corning Preserve on the bank of the Hudson River. The bridge crosses Interstate 787.

History
The Hudson River Way was intended to spark downtown and riverfront growth in Albany.  The bridge's 8.5 million dollar cost was covered by the municipal government, the New York State Department of Transportation ($3.3 million including an Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act grant), and over 11,000 individuals, businesses, and other organizations who purchased personalized bricks to support the bridge's construction, which started in April 2001.  These bricks now pave the structure.  The grand opening was on August 10, 2002.

Murals
The bridge has thirty concrete nine-foot obelisk-lampposts that feature trompe-l'œil still-life paintings by AlbanyMural Ltd .  The Hudson River Way paintings were awarded the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award in 2004 for exceptional quality.

Sponsored by individuals and organizations, each mural depicts a historical period or event in Albany's history, from prehistoric times to the present. Many of the paintings are based on archaeological artifacts in area museums. Research for the composition of the paintings took 18 months and involved dozens of experts and historians from across the Capital District. The paintings themselves took two years to complete and were executed by principal artist Jan-Marie Spanard  and assistant artist Koren Lazarou.

The paintings are made of a permanent pigment called potassium silicate. This same material has been used on exterior architecture in Western Europe since the mid-19th century and around the world in the past half-century. Very few American artists create paintings with potassium silicate mineral coatings, but these are the only pigments that can be applied to a stone or concrete substrate that will last indefinitely without fading or lifting from the surface. The Potassium silicate paints used on the Hudson River Way were produced by a German company called Keimfarben. By 2018, however, many of the murals had faded.

External links

Hudson River Way at albany.org

Buildings and structures in Albany, New York
Transportation in Albany, New York
Pedestrian bridges in New York (state)
Arch bridges in the United States
Bridges in Albany County, New York

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...on the Gozitan food scene for the last 25 years. Husband and wife team, Leli and Jane, joined by their son, Paul, have justifiably been rated one of the best restaurants on the Island year after year.
The family set high standards and constantly strives to improve their menu with new twists to modern classics. Tmun regulars as well as Paul and Jane all have fond memories of their original restaurant in Xlendi but since 2008 the restaurant has took up residence in Mgarr harbour where diners can relax in a more modern environment whilst literally dipping their toes into the sea.
Sitting outside Tmun, enjoying a beautifully prepared meal whilst watching the local fisherman bring in their catch is a joy to be-hold. Tmun is renowned for it's seafood, as you would expect due to the location, but also serves excellent meat and vegetarian dishes. The wine list is very impressive, boasting over 300 local and foreign wines.
Please note that reservations by email are only accepted 24hrs in advance.
Please allow 24hrs for a confirmation.
If you require immediate assistance, please contact us by telephone.


"Formidable Beast". What better way to toast the fall than to have a bottle of this formidable, dual character brew. At first smooth with mellow overtones of sweet berry fruit, a bite of bitterness suddenly cuts through, long, deep and lingering. Brewed with Rye Malt, it is naturally "blood red" in colour. Unlike the mythical wolf-like creature said to roam the bleak moorland surrounding Newcastle, this is real, so consider yourself warned!"
This offering pours a copper in colour. One finger of slightly off-white head dissipates quickly. Filtered and clear of any hop haze or particles. Decent amount of evevesance.
Malty nose. Some leathery notes. Slight earthiness. Nothing too over powering.
Light in flavour. Minimal sweet berry flavour that leaves quickly for a slight bitterness with earthy finish. Hint of a metallic flavour. Nothing overly exciting.
This was less than spectacular. The flavours were not very well balanced or pleasant. While a step up from most macro brands, this is underwelming. A very light ale that is nothing of note. I would give it a "C-" .
*This beer was provided by Newcastle as a sample for review.


Event Report: "PARADISO: CHAPTER 1" Escape Room Experience!
in: Books/Art/Culture,Game and Toy Reviews,News | September 2, 2016 - 5:13 pm | by: Ken W. Hanley | Comments Off on Event Report: "PARADISO: CHAPTER 1" Escape Room Experience!
"Are you a friend of Mr. Chen?," asks the representative of The Virgil Corp, who welcomes you to the PARADISO: CHAPTER 1 experience. Of course, you nod, and sign your releases, but it's a telling first impression: once the game has started, there's no turning back. With a group of up to 10 participants- some friends, some complete strangers, you soon receive a text message with a clue imperative to solving the puzzle before being escorted to the escape room itself. That's where things really get freaky and fun, and soon, you're neck-deep in the mind-bending puzzle rooms, claustrophobic atmospheres, and intense immersive scenarios that are just as likely to turn you against your cohorts.
Created by Michael Counts, the interactive theater madman behind THE WALKING DEAD EXPERIENCE, PARADISO: CHAPTER 1 throws you head-deep into a sci-fi-inspired conspiracy thriller. But aside from the compelling storyline and interactive theatrical performances, PARADISO goes above and beyond the normal escape room experience by creating a real interpersonal agency within the narrative. PARADISO doesn't just feel like a giant puzzle, but actually feels like a race against time, especially by the time you're face-to-face with a ticking time bomb. And with every team member playing a specific role to get past the various challenges, there's nary a boring moment for any member of the group.
PARADISO also does a great job of keeping the entire experience fun, as the challenges are far from impossible even though one participant's misstep can spell doom for the group. With the overall creepiness of the game peaking through at every corner, there's barely a second where your mind is rushing to find out how to escape the labyrinth of brain-busters. Furthermore, PARADISO tries throwing the occasional curveball- often tied to the layered overall universe of the game- and can trick you into working against your own interests if you're not careful. It's this attention to detail and dedication to interactivity that makes the experience worthwhile, whether you beat the game or not.
From wicked twists to desperate decision-making, you could tell by the look on our faces that PARADISO was an intense and reinvigorating escape room experience. Michael Counts has once again created a paranoid, well-crafted immersive theater experience, and one that offers something a bit more demented than your run-of-the-mill puzzle room. PARADISO: CHAPTER 1 comes highly recommended, and if you happen to find yourself in the heart of NYC, being a friend of Mr. Chen can pay off big time if you can keep your head.
PARADISO: CHAPTER 1 is located on 38 W. 32nd Street in New York, New York. To reserve your PARADISO experience, be sure to check out their official website HERE.


Listowel Golf Club was founded in 1994 and designed by the late great Eddie Hackett, located on the banks of the River Feale. The course has numberless mature trees, which come into play together with the river.
The clubhouse is basic at present but there are plans afoot to build a new clubhouse in the future. The course is the brainchild of the Barrett family and they continue to make improvements to this very picturesque course in the town of the scribes, John B. Keen, Brian McMahon "The Master" and the late Mick McCarthy.
The Tides B&B in Ballybunion has special offers to suit most budgets to meet with the current climate we live in. So why not make a weekend or midweek break and include the Listowel Golf Club as part of your get away package.


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India > West Bengal > Dakshineshwar Kali Temple
Dakshineshwar Kali Temple
Dakshineshwar - situated in the city of joy is one of the infamous holy places in Kolkata entirely dedicated to the goddess Kali. This is among the largest temples in Kolkata along with an architectural treasure. Built in a conventional Navaratna approach, it has a height of over 100 feet. With the massive courtyard, the 12-spired temple is lined by 12 other temples which are devoted to Lord Shiva.
This sacred place is founded by the known Rani Rashmoni in 1855. 31st May 1855 was Jagannath Deva Snanyatra which is celebrated as a holy tithi was chosen for the inauguration of this temple. At present days, Dakshineshwar is among the top few visitors destination in Kolkata and is widely known among the pilgrims of the world. At this known destination, Rama Krishna Paramhansa who was a religious thinker acquired the spiritual vision and promoted the union of different religions.
Visitors from different part of the world visit this place to feel the divine serenity and become a part of the sacred arti that take place on the evening. Being located at north a distance of just 20km from central Kolkata, it becomes easy for people to visit this blessed destination. From here, visitors can get a view of the Vivekananda Bridge.
History of the Holy Dakshineshwar Temple
During the early 1800s, Dakshineshwar was just a normal village, like any other along side of the eastern bank of River Ganga. The entire area was surrounded by dense forest. Rani Rashmoni who belonged to the Kaivarta caste and was popular for the philanthropic activities on her pilgrimage had a dream. In her dreams, she was instructed by Goddess Kali to construct a Kali temple.
Being a dynamic woman and after watching such a dream, she was entire moved and she immediately instructed to look for a great site to start constructing the Kali Temple. After a long search made by her people, finally, they found a 20-acre land which is now famous as Dakshineshwar. In 1847AD, on her instruction, building of Dakshineshwar Temple was initiated signifying union of all faiths.
The idols of the Goddess and Gods were decided to install on a great and holy day of snana-yatra. The entire temple is dedicated to the powerful Sri Sri Jagadishwari Kalimata Thakurani. The compassionate woman instructed that pilgrims from different castes and religions will be allowed to enter and offer prayer. Post the construction and inauguration, Rani Rashmoni lived for five years nine months and passed away on February 1861. The amazing architecture, serene ambiance, peace of River Ganga and the power of the almighty can be felt when you visit this sacred temple.
Prominence of Dakshineshwar Temple
One of the known religious reformers Sri Ramakrishna Paranhans is related with this infamous Dakshineshwar Temple. He's visited this sacred place with his brother to perform holy rituals. As per the legends, Dakshineshwar was the temple where he got his divine enlightenment. At this very place, he got the vision and acquired a glance of the Goddess Kali.
This temple was constructed under the patronage of the famous Rani Rashmoni after getting a divine dream of Goddess Kali.
This temple comprises twelve similar shrines of Lord Shiva surrounding the premises. Each temple has the black stone that is known was Shiv Lingas.
Here you can find the significant Panchavati Garden where you will observe the worshippers of five historic trees known as a place for meditation.
Belur Math located at a distance of just 3km from the holy place is another tourist attraction.
The serenity and elegance of Dakshineshwar attract people from the corners. The power combined with the tranquility of this temple makes it a must-visit location in Kolkata.
How to Reach Dakshineswar Kali Temple
By Train: Dakshineswar railway station is situated on the Sealdah - Dankuni (on the Howrah-Bardhaman chord line) rail route. It is almost mid-point on this route, about 14 km from Sealdah and 10 km from Dankuni railway station. A total 22 pair of Dankuni (20) and Barai Para (2) local/EMU train runs every day in this route and there is a stoppage in Dakshineswar. Some long-distance express trains like Kanchanjunga Express, Uttar Banga Express, Kanchan Kanya Express also stop at this station.
By Road: Dakshineswar is well connected to Kolkata city and Barrackpore Trunk Road is the major link road in this region. You can reach at Dakshineswar by various government and private buses from the different part of Kolkata and Howrah city. You can also hire an Ola or Uber or yellow taxi or white no-refusal taxi or any other cabs to reach the Dakshineswar Kali temple.
By Air: Kolkata Airport (CCU) at Dumdum is the nearby airport to Dakshineswar, about 12 km driving distance.
So, just visit Dakshineshwar and become a part of the sacred world of serenity and divine power.


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Dwight Howard suspended one game after picking up 16th technical
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Dwight Howard and Udonis Haslem got into it Thursday night. It was Haslem's first game of the season and he was ejected 2:40 into it after getting in the face of Howard after the Sixers big man had knocked him to the ground in a rebound battle.
Dwight Howard and Udonis Haslem were getting HEATED in Miami: pic.twitter.com/zgzjDEznnk
— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) May 14, 2021
Howard picked up a technical foul in all that, his 16th of the season, meaning he faces an automatic suspension for one game. The NBA made that official on Friday. Here's the official wording from the league:
Under NBA rules, a player or coach is automatically suspended without pay for one game once he receives his 16th technical foul during a regular season. For every two additional technical fouls received during that regular season, the player or coach will be automatically suspended without pay for an additional game.
Howard will be out tonight (Friday) when the 76ers take on the Magic. If the 76ers win the game, they will clinch the No. 1 seed in the East.
Howard feels he gets some reputation technicals that other players would not. Here is what he said last month, via Noah Levick at NBC Sports Philadelphia.
"I have felt like I'm being targeted, but I'm just going to continue to play as hard as I can," he said. "I want all the Philly fans to know that I'm out there giving 130 percent every night. The calls might not go my way, I might seem a little frustrated, but I'm out there to help this team win a championship. Sometimes the refs do give me some calls that I feel are unwarranted, even the technical fouls.
Dallas' Luka Doncic remains one technical foul short of the threshold.
Check out more on the 76ers
Watch Harden run onto court from bench mid-play to defend
Watch Embiid score 47, lift 76ers past Jokic, Nuggets 126-119


As previously discussed in our blog "Teaching and Learning – An Untamed Approach" teaching is most effective when students work things out for themselves and they are more motivated and engaged when they have control over their own learning. Flipped learning is a teaching technique that allows these two things to happen fantastically.
In a nutshell this concept involves the students being exposed to the new learning content outside the classroom, which frees up the class time to explore and apply the information in different ways.
So if you want to flip the learning in your classroom make sure you include these core elements.
Good luck and let us know if your teaching and learning experience flipped or flopped with this technique by adding a comment below.


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  fs = require('fs'),
  _ = require('underscore');

var log = logging.getLogger(process.env.PKGCLOUD_LOG_LEVEL || 'debug');

var client = pkgcloud.providers.azure.storage.createClient(config.getConfig('azure', 3));

client.on('log::*', logging.logFunction);

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  container: process.argv[2],
  remote: process.argv[3]
}, function (err) {
  if (err) {
    log.error(err);
  }
});

dest.on('end', function () {
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});

dest.end(source);

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Understanding the reporting and disclosure requirements for the different types of debt regarding debt restructuring is imperative. The manager of this company has requested an explanation of the above regarding bonds payable, notes payable, and capital leases. This paper should satisfy any questions about these topics.
According to Kieso et al., (2007), like a bond, a note payable is valued as the present value of its future interest and principal cash flows. Amortization of any premium or discount should be over the life of the note.
According to Kieso et al., mortgage notes payable should be reported on the balance sheet as a liability. A brief disclosure of the property pledged should be included in the notes. If the liability is payable at maturity, the liability should be classified as a current liability as the time approaches and if the liability is payable in installments, the current installments are a current liability with the remainder of the balance as a long-term liability.
For the lessor, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recognizes three types of capital leases; the sales-type lease, direct financing lease, and the leveraged lease. For the lessor, disclosure requirements include the general nature of the leasing arrangements, the total future minimum lease payments receivable with separate deductions for executor costs and uncollectibles, unguaranteed residual values accruing to the government, minimum lease receipts for each of the five succeeding years, any unearned income offset against initial direct costs, and total contingent rentals of the period. (Griffin-Valade, 2011) For the lessee, disclosure requirements include a description of the general leasing arrangements, the gross amount of assets recorded under capital leases presented by major asset class, and the total amount of accumulated depreciation. In addition, a separate identification of related obligations as capital lease obligations in the balance sheet with classification as current or non-current as appropriate is required. Additionally, disclosure of the minimum future lease payments in total and for each of the next five years, presenting a deduction for imputed interest to reduce the net minimum future lease payments to their present value should be included (Griffin-Valade, 2011).


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Huawei Announces IFA Keynote for September 3
By Roxana Ion
As IFA approaches, Huawei has confirmed its participation at the tech conference, with the keynote scheduled on September 3rd.
Rumors suggested that the Chinese manufacturer was about to launch the new flagship Kirin chipset in early September. Could it be that Huawei is waiting for the IFA event to unveil it? That could be the case.
However, Huawei hasn't announced yet the products to be unveiled at IFA, but the poster suggests a variety of smartphones, smartwatches and smart TVs.
There are a few questions left though. For starters we are wondering whether the expected Huawei Mate 40 series will be teased at the event, as the Mate phones should be the first handsets to be launched with the new Kirin chipset, or if they will be the last Kirin-powered flagships, considering the TSMC banned from manufacturing chips for HiSilicon starting mid-September.
Huawei's license allowing the company to develop OS updates to dedicated devices has expired, and we are now wondering what will happen to future Android support for our handsets.
However, the temporary general license could be renewed as it would significantly help rural telecom firms in the States, as some of them are using Huawei's equipment in their networks. We are hoping the company will talk about this situation as well.
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Martha and George Washington were married on this day in 1759. While the couple is well-known among Americans, there are plenty of things about George and Martha Washington that you are not aware of. Here are five facts you probably didn't know about the First Couple.
George Was Eight Months Younger Than Martha Martha Washington was born on June 2, 1731, in New Kent County, Virginia. Her mother gave birth to her in a bedroom at their home at the Chestnut Grove plantation. About eight months later, on February 22, 1732, George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. George's birthplace was approximately 100 miles north of where Martha was born. Being the oldest in the marriage was new for Martha, her first husband had been 20 years her senior.
George Had To Compete For Martha's Hand In Marriage After Martha's first husband, Daniel Custis, died in July 1757, George had to compete for Martha's hand against a wealthy tobacco planter named Charles Carter. Carter was about twice Martha's age and had already fathered 12 children from his previous marriage. Though Carter's wealth and status certainly would have made him a tempting suitor, the prospect of taking on such a large family was no doubt daunting to the 26-year-old Martha. George and Martha began their courtship in March 1758, about eight months after her husband died.
Martha Was A Wealthy Woman When She Met George Perhaps Charles Carter's wealth didn't impress Martha because she was very wealthy in her own right. In fact, Martha owned numerous properties and more than seventeen thousand acres of land across various counties. She also owned herds of cattle and sheep, as well as almost 300 slaves who worked on her tobacco plantation. Martha was actually the wealthiest woman in Virginia when George proposed to her, and her social and economic status likely meant a lot to the future president. Marrying Martha quickly advanced George's social status and pushed him into Virginia's high-class society.
They Couldn't Have Children Of Their Own Together While there isn't any documented evidence of the reason why, historians reasonably suspect that George was the problem, not Martha. After all, in her previous marriage Martha had given birth to four children. Her two eldest children died, and George became the legal guardian of the two youngest children. It's possible that George was infertile, and if so, his condition might have been brought on by his bout with tuberculosis when he was younger.
Martha Was In The Room When George Died George Washington died on December 14th, 1799, of a throat infection. He passed away in his bedroom in his home at Mount Vernon, with Martha sitting at the foot of his bed. His last words followed instructions he gave his secretary, Tobias Lear, to "have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead" After Lear confirmed that he understood his mentor's final wishes, George spoke his final words: "Tis well." Martha passed away on May 22nd, 1802, about two and a half years after George died.
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A good SEO link strategy is crucial for your SEO success!
Links are the "Gold of SEO". SEO agencies and website owners all over the world have developed different methods to create links. On this page I will show you some of the most common methods that you can use to get links to your own site. There are of course many more methods, only your imagination sets the limits. In our SEO services we analyse your current back-links and internal link structure to understand how it helps or hinders your positions in the search results page.
All links intended to manipulate PageRank or a website placement in Google's search results can be considered as part of a link system and a violation of Google's webmaster guidelines.
The first thing you should look at when selecting or creating links is relevancy. We do not recommend that you ONLY go for links with high Page Rank. There are many factors that contribute to a high ranking in search engines and only links with high Page Rank will not accomplish this. It is shown that even sites with low Page Rank can reach a good position in the search results. Relevant links are more important than links from sites with high Page Rank. Relevant links from sites that has content in the same substance or area as your site does. If your site is all about real estate the best is of course to get links from other websites about real estate. Is doesn't look natural that a real estate website has a lot of links form websites about cars or horses.
The anchor text or the link text is an important factor of how the search engines assess a specific page or website. The search engines associate your site from the link text on incoming and internal links. If inbound links have "real estate" in anchor text, it will improve the relevance score of "real estate" for your website.
Using your main keywords to much in your anchor text is not good for your ranking, the best way to build links is to vary the anchor text and mostly use your company name, domain and mix it with generic anchor texts. Testing has shown that you can be safe of using keywords in about 30% of the anchor texts. This will give you the best chance to rank high in search engines on more search phrases.
Methods to acquire links to your website.
Link exchange is the oldest and most common form of SEO link strategy. Webmasters have exchanged links since the time before search engines used it as a variable in their ranking algorithms. Since the search engines have put more focus on links, they started to devalue reciprocal links – that is, two-way links where one website links to another which links back to the first site. Today reciprocal links are, in most cases, not directly harmful, but in general they do not really give effect. Especially not if the link exchange is used in a large scale.
For that reason, web masters instead use of three- or four-way link exchange.
A three-way link exchange is when one web master has an additional site where the link is placed. Site A links to Site B, and Site B links to Site C. This way it is not a reciprocal link, but both websites get a link.
Four-way link exchange is preferred by the majority today. This is possible when two web masters have two sites each. You link from one site to the other webmasters main project website and then you get a link back from a completely different website to your main project.
The benefits with link exchanges is that they are often relatively easy to acquire since it is such an established strategy, that in most cases benefits both web masters.
The disadvantage with link exchange is that because it is such simple link strategy, many web masters abused this method. This means that the link you may get, come from a website that links to many other websites. This devalues the link value you get.
Paying for links is one of the most successful models for link acquisition. This can either be done by contacting SEO agencies that help with this, or simply contact the individual website owner and offer to pay for them to place a link on their website. The fact that the web master who owns the website has a clear incentive to make you as a paying customer happy, often result you get a link from a relevant website in a relevant context – but of course this can also get abused.
The big advantage of paying for links is that you can scale up your link building in a time efficient manner. If you pay for a link you should demand to see where the link is placed so that you are able to remove it/change it if you suspect that the link causes you to drop in positions.
In Google's own policies state that they do not want the website owners to actively acquire links – and paying for links is therefore against their guidelines.
A successful link bait can be more effective than any other way to build links. A link bait means simply that you are creating content that is so attractive that you get links from other site owners who want to tell their readers about your content.
A link bait can be anything from creating a completely separate site with a unique feature that many will benefit from an educational video that many appreciate. An example of link bait is actually the SEO school that you are currently reading at.
Once you have succeeded in creating content that you think will attract many links you have to make sure to reach out with it to increase the circulation. For the example, you can use social media or simply contact the site owners that you think may be interested in writing about what you created.
If you manage to create an attractive link bait, it can at best be an inexhaustible source of new links.
We are awash today with an infinite number of messages on the Internet, so that manage to create content that stands out can be both time consuming and costly. And even when you put both hours and money are you sure you're able to reach out with your content.
The guest blogging to get links is becoming a popular strategy in recent years. The guest blogging involves contacting another website owner and ask to write a post on his site. I post links you back to your own site.
That guest blogging is often appreciated from both side, then you get a link to your site and you get blogs with new content that can potentially lead to new readers, new inbound links and the opportunity to appear on the new search phrases. It may also mean that you will have a relationship to build on that could eventually lead to more and new partnerships in the future.
When you guest blog, it is important that you write unique content and do not offer many site owners to publish their names.
By guest blogging, you can choose the anchor text of the link, the text is in and on which site it is. This means that you have good control over your link and can design it according to your own preferences.
Like many other link strategies have guest blogging from Google's perspective abused. Therefore, they have gone out with that guest blogging on a large scale is against their guidelines and can be harmful for your site.
Link Directories are sites that exist only to link out to other sites. Often they purport themselves to be portals or "home pages" with links to interesting content, but it is almost always on link directories created with SEO in mind.
Previously, link directories a great way to get links to their own site, but today there are few directories that are worth registering for. If you want to register to a directory so make sure it is a Swedish directory and that you have the ability to remove the link if you change your mind.
If you work in a narrow segments with low competition in the search results may be sufficient to enroll in one or a few link directories to quickly take positions.
The link power you get with you via link directories is usually very little, if any, then the link often end up far down the structure or along with many other links. For registrations to many link directories your site may additionally cause damage, especially if you register your site to the Swedish foreign catalogs when catalogs themselves often have a poor link profile will spill over to your site.
Blogging can be a great way to build relationships with other bloggers or people who are interested in your area of specialization and thus build up your authority and credibility in the subject. This in turn may lead to other sites referring to your blog through citations and in some cases links.
Do you have a popular blog with well written content can be a good source of links. Writes also very often the opportunities to vote on more phrases in the search results to increase, in that you have more text and chances are someone looking for a phrase or a topic that you are treating increasing.
Blogging only for the purpose of getting links is rarely cost effective. It's hard to blog and it takes particular time. You need to have time to do research, you have to have something engaging to write about and there must be an audience that is interested in what you are dealing with in the blog.
Links to social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) does not bring any link power. Many "shares" or "likes" does not directly improve your SEO or positions in the search results. But these channels are excellent for spreading it's content and create relationships with readers. In the long run this may give you links from your followers that engage in your content.
Social media is just what it sounds like – a social medium. It is about building relationships and encourage involvement. If you succeed in doing this, the possibilities of getting links from individuals and organizations who appreciate your work relatively large.
It takes time and effort to work with social media. Merely work with social media in order to get links is not the way to go. You should have a broader perspective and a different agenda than just links whatsoever to begin working with social media.


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The American abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher once said, "It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top."
This quote particularly resonated with me at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships in Sacramento, Calif., last month: Beecher's words pushed my teammates and me to exhaust every ounce of energy and strength that we had on the racecourse. When I started to think that the pain was perhaps too great to endure, these words are what sustained me until crossing that finish line. Why would we want to finish at the bottom of the hill when we could get the view from farther up?
Anyone can get in a boat and paddle their way to the finish line. But if you don't put in the effort, crossing the finish line will not be nearly as rewarding. The time dedicated and sacrifices made leading up to IRAC made crossing the finish line a powerfully rewarding moment. Crossing the line, we closed the end of our season feeling on top of the hill, with an optimistic view for the coming seasons.
But Beecher's words apply to more than just athletic competitions: They can also relate to academic pursuits, career goals and other personal ambitions. Moreover, the concept of the hill is important to keep in mind for people of all ages and backgrounds.
For some students, it is easy to be lost in a haze over summer break, becoming lethargic and apathetic to opportunities that require higher degrees of mental or physical exertion. Nevertheless, it is important to continue challenging ourselves and to consciously seek ways in which we can further excel in the various facets of our lives.
We, as humans, love challenges. Very few people would say that they enjoy endeavors that require no effort. The actual act of suffering may not seem worthwhile; yet, it is the process of successfully conquering a challenge that eventually feeds into greater satisfaction and fulfillment. Nothing that is truly rewarding can be done effortlessly, without a little suffering or loss.
There are different degrees to which people are willing to suffer. Still, I firmly believe that those who choose to suffer — even when it is difficult in the moment — are those who experience the greatest satisfaction in the long term. They are the people who see challenges as opportunities for future contentment. They understand the potential reward of the future, and thus, they accept the momentary hardships in exchange for future satisfaction.
One can wander through life aimlessly, but one will be destined to end up at the bottom of the proverbial hill. Yet, there is no sense of accomplishment or pleasure at the bottom of the hill. Meanwhile, the people who have climbed to the top of the hill are in high spirits.
Suffering in the moment earns eventual satisfaction: the view from the top of the hill. Those who choose to challenge themselves see the potential fulfillment and rewards that lay ahead of them. In contrast, those who shy away from the climb may avoid suffering in the moment, but in return, get no satisfaction — no magnificent view from the top of the hill and no reason to celebrate. Ironically, the very people who choose to avoid struggling in the short term by not climbing up the hill will eventually suffer later on when they realize the potential fulfillment of the climb.
Naturally, most people do not consciously want to suffer, and yet suffering — challenging ourselves, undertaking endeavors that will pay off in the long run, even if they force us to struggle in the moment — is a necessary part of our lives. This summer, find a hill to climb and make the effort to reach the top. Though in the moment the challenge may seem too difficult to surmount, the struggle could ultimately be a rewarding experience.
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Productivity enhancement represents, indeed, an advantage both for the supplier and the client: on the one hand the supplier benefits from costs savings, while on the other hand the client can rely on a partner that offers quality performances in short times. Bruschi has always considered this subject a core aspect, as a matter of fact through the years Bruschi has taken several measures in order to achieve an ever-increasing process improvement.
Process improvement can be developed through a well-defined action plan, which takes into consideration the complexity of elements that characterizes the production department. Production is indeed composed not only of machinery, but also of product design, technologies, operators and planning activities, to mention some of the most important components of this structured system. To improve the production process it is therefore crucial to have a comprehensive view of all these elements, in order to implement a strategy that is functional on multiple aspects.
The introduction in a production system of automated machinery equipped with state-of-the-art technologies generates relevant benefits in terms of reduced lead time, costs reduction and achievement of quality standards requested by clients. The replacement of workforce with automated systems allows, indeed, to obtain a faster process, consequently enhancing the whole lead time. In addition to that, automation leads to a reduced likelihood of error compared to manual operations. This translates into a relevant production costs reduction, which is further increased thanks to energy and material saving that automation generates. The introduction of automated machinery in the production department produces another significant advantage that allows quality control improvement, too. As a matter of fact, operators that previously dealt with manual operations on the component thanks to automation can take responsibility for other activities with a higher added-value, such as quality control.
A process improvement project of a specific component, for a client of the sector of small appliances, has obtained excellent results in terms of increased productivity and decrease of manual activities of operators. Process improvement project has been developed in order to solve a situation of misalignment between production capacity and client's demand. Through the introduction of automated systems this gap has been narrowed, thus achieving an optimized cycle time. After several studies and researches it has been possible to apply some changes to the process, which have brought to significant benefits: an increase of 33% of production capacity and a decrease of -95% of manual activities made by operators.
Simulation of the die casting process represents another essential element that impacts on process improvement: with simulation software engineers can indeed foresee material reactions inside the mold. This process is feasible thanks to a thermos-fluid dynamic analysis of the mold, known as CFD simulation (Computational Fluid Dynamics), which allows the engineer to detect potential defects, such as cold laps and hot spots, on the die cast. The simulation stage proves especially helpful to obtain an optimized mold design before starting with the production process. During this stage it is indeed possible to select the best mold design parameters to apply, so that potential defects on the piece are previously detected and, consequently, production costs and further mechanical operations are reduced.
Scrap reduction can be achieved through an accurate planning of the whole production process of a component. First of all it is necessary to carry out a product and process analysis that focuses on the causes of scrap. To identify these causes engineers must use simulation software to foresee every stage of the production, from design to finishing operations. Once again simulation proves to be an indispensable tool for zinc die casting process improvement, because it allows engineers to avoid defects and to check technical properties before starting with the component production, thus producing a consistent costs and lead time reduction. Once scrap causes have been figured out it is possible to proceed to the outlining of potential solutions to apply, identifying the most relevant steps in the production process and constantly checking them.
The expression cycle time defines the period of time required to produce a product. Cycle time represents a central variable in the production of a component because a reduced cycle time results in a reduced lead time, which is the period of time needed to accomplish a customer's request in terms of supply. An optimized lead time generates an increase in the client's satisfaction, because it allows the supplier to meet deadlines and standards demanded by the client. As a consequence, in order to guarantee a rapid and efficient service, cycle and lead time have to be enhanced to the maximum extent possible. Cycle time can be shortened paying attention to different aspects of the production process, especially to simulation stage and to technological systems of the production department. First of all, as already mentioned, it is important to simulate production and defining the best process parameters to apply for the production process. In this way potential defects will be avoided from the very beginning and, consequently, it will be possible to eliminate further mechanical operations. Another core element for cycle time shortening is the technological system of the foundry, whose technological innovation level can generate relevant time reduction during the production process. As a matter of fact, automated machines lead to optimized cycle times and to more accurate operations, discriminating factors for the achieving of performances requested by customers. Furthermore, periodical checks on machinery help understanding how cycle time can be further improved.
Process improvement is a crucial element in the management of a business because it leads to production costs reduction and faster productive processes. With the aim of reaching these benefits it is therefore necessary to introduce automated technology and simulation software in the production process, and to optimize scrap reduction and cycle time. With the outlining of a precise process improvement plan lead time can be shortened and, as a result, client's satisfaction will be increased.
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A single mom, Cathy Zagar works as a full-time Purchasing and Subcontracting Administrator at a company that provides offshore survey services. A self-described "soccer and competitive dance mom," she also counts bunco, hiking, and scrapbooking as regular activities. And now, amongst her achievements, she can finally include having earned her Bachelor's degree.
Cathy had started college right out of high school, but dropped out after being hired as a clothing buyer. She worked in the apparel field for the next 20 years before landing her current job, but the desire to finish her degree never left her. After mentioning this fact to her sister's friend, who happened to be a Student Advisor at Ashford, Cathy began to look into enrolling. "I found that the online program fit my schedule. Ashford offers a great selection of classes."
Admittedly, fitting school into her already full schedule was a challenge at first. "I learned the art of time management in a big way!" She also confesses that she had always been more focused on the social rather than the academic aspect of school, and that effective goal-setting was never a strength of hers. "But by going to Ashford, I have forced myself to set a goal, find a way to get there, and execute."
And she did so with flying colors. At age 43, Cathy graduated with honors in October 2011 and was inducted into the Alpha Sigma Lambda honor society. "I never thought that I could achieve honors!" she exclaims proudly. Cathy's mother, sister, and daughter accompanied her to Clinton, IA for the commencement ceremony. "It felt great. I'll never forget them calling my name. You can even tell by the picture, as I was grinning from ear to ear. Then I heard my family cheering from the crowd, and I knew that they were proud of me and of what I have accomplished."
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