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Faculty Contacts
Middle School Theatre
Our Middle School Drama Department offers a broad spectrum of classes starting in grade 5. Our student-centered approach ensures each student is supported to reach their full potential. With an emphasis on technique and personal creativity, our actors explore scenic and costume design, audition technique, vocal production, playwriting, scene study, mask work, the art of improvisation, public speaking, and more.
Dedicated to developing the student as a whole, we focus on developing empathy, resilience, independence, community, confidence, and unity in diversity.
Our actors compete at both the district and state levels, earning countless "Double Superior" marks, as well as recognition for many other awards. Actors in grades 6-8 have the opportunity to audition for our fall production and spring musical. Uniquely positioned to serve our actors, we offer training for the novice, beginner, intermediate, and advanced performer.
Theatre Awards and Accolades
Junior Thespian Superior Ratings, 2016-2020
74 Overall Superior at the Junior Thespian District Festival
47 Overall Superior medals at the Junior Thespian State Festival
5 Critics Choice Awards
Recent Productions include: Newsies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Wizard of Oz, Grease, Legally Blonde, and Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Upper School Theatre
Gulliver Prep Upper School's Theatre Department is active in the International Thespian Society at both the district and state level. Our students not only earn superior scores, but are consistently recognized with Critic's Choice, Top Honors, and Best Actor recognition. In addition to the Educational Theatre Association, we participate in other competitions, and even performed at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh Scotland to sold out audiences in early 2020!
14 Superior scenes and perfect scores at District 8 Florida Thespian Competition
Top Honors – Large Group Musical | Highest score in category in Miami-Dade County
Nia Catoggio '23
Theodore Ciperski '23
Esther Enekes '23
Gabrielle Hagenlocker '20
Alina Hernandez '21
Raul Mederos '20
Daniela Mostelac Diaz '22
Anya Paiz '21
Marco Picchetti '23
Ned Bannon '22 selected for Miami Dade Improv Team
Raul Mederos '20 selected as Best Actor in a Comedy in Miami Dade County
Gabrielle Hagenlocker '20 selected at the ESU National Shakespeare Competition Regional Winner
Sold out run at The Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland
Gulliver Prep Players 2014-2017
IB Theatre Program Assessments
In the Heights Cast Video
In the Spring of 2020, the Gulliver Prep Players were set to perform In the Heights at Pinecrest Gardens. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 crisis, the show was canceled. Gabrielle Hagenlocker '20 put together this behind-the-scenes video to commemorate the cast's journey, and give our community a glimpse of what we were unable to see.
Carlos Orizondo
Middle School Performing Arts Faculty & Drama Director
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Jessica Fox
Upper School Performing Arts Faculty & Drama Director
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Milestones are specific initiatives set that help to achieve our strategic plan goals. Examples of completed milestones in this goal include designing and implementing a capital campaign, increasing giving participation, and creating athletic sponsorship opportunities.
The Ensure Our Future goal incorporates the themes of building a culture of philanthropy and learning spaces. These themes will assist in funding our facility improvements and enhancing our programmatic offerings.
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Milestones are specific initiatives set that help to achieve our strategic plan goals. Examples of completed milestones in this goal include increasing funding and or services to meet the needs of non-traditional students, establishing of a new employee mentoring program, developing an outdoor multi-day orientation for all incoming 9th grade students, and changing the communication process so that the Gulliver difference is portrayed effectively through storytelling.
The Leverage Our Strengths goal incorporates the themes of expanding community partnerships, enhancing effectiveness in addressing diversity, equity and inclusion, increasing faculty engagement, pedagogy, marketing and branding, and supporting new students and families.
The Empower Our Students goal incorporates the themes of grading and placement, social and emotional learning, character education, and expanding student leadership. Each effort expands on the development of building student agency, well-being, leadership, and character.
Milestones are specific initiatives set that help to achieve our strategic plan goals. Examples of completed milestones in this goal include proposing new ways for students to demonstrate proficiency of standards and mastery, creating opportunities for affinity groups to meet in "open spaces", suggesting new character education policies to help promote and support student responsibility, and launching a peer tutoring program in the Upper School to improve skills taught in classes.
The Unite Our Community goal incorporates the themes of curriculum development, professional development, and progress monitoring. Each theme builds on the belief that a shared mission and vision can strengthen and align our community
Milestones are specific initiatives set that help to achieve our strategic plan goals. Examples of completed milestones in this goal include increasing opportunities for faculty to meet with library personnel around the research policy, developing a digital source of professional development webinars, and proposing updates to the current systems that help identify students with academic needs.
Applications Available September 1
Applications for the 2023-24 school year will be available on September 1. If you are interested in the 2022-23 school year, please contact our office at admissions@gulliverprep.org and a member of our team will reach out to you. We look forward to connecting with you soon!
Math Workshop
Math Workshop is a framework that allows students to learn new math content each day, practice math strategies in a variety of ways, and reflect on learning through verbal or written sharing. The predictable structure of the math workshop makes it easier for students to participate in differentiated activities.
Units throughout the year include:
Building number sense (recognizing and comparing numbers, counting objects, addition, subtraction, etc.)
Patterns (identifying, creating, and extending)
The program in the Primary School provides the foundation for the robust English language arts curriculum at Gulliver, and supports students as they develop into confident readers, researchers, and efficient writers across all content areas.
Aligned with the Science of Reading, the comprehensive ELA program affords students the opportunity to continuously practice and develop strong listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The program consists of a unique combination of elements from different research informed curricula, that emphasizes hallmarks of a structured early literacy program: oral language development, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, listening comprehension.
In Senior Kindergarten, writing instruction prepares students to craft informational, opinion, and narrative pieces.
Teacher's College Writing Workshop
Students develop their voice during Writing Workshop as they learn the writing process, including generating ideas, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Writing Workshop begins with a mini-lesson, is followed by independent writing time, and concludes with sharing of student work. In SK, students begin by drawing pictures to tell stories, labeling the picture, and then writing words to describe the pictures. Students are encouraged to write the sounds they hear in words, as well as include sight words that are posted in the classroom.
Launching Writing Workshop
Show and Tell, includes saying more about what you see
Writing Stories for Readers, including writing about true stories
All About Books, including non-fiction writing
Handwriting is taught using the Handwriting Without Tears program. Students develop their skills over time, focusing first on how to hold instruments properly, and then on size and spacing in order to form letters and write with ease. The curriculum uses hands-on, multisensory materials and was designed in such a way that it introduces shapes, numbers, and letters in an order that matches the progression of children's developmental abilities so that it is easier for them to practice, learn, and remember. The program follows research of how children learn best and includes materials that address all styles of learning.
A mathematical foundation is established in PK and JK with interactive games, puzzles, block building, and manipulatives. Our morning meeting begins by reviewing the calendar and daily schedule, incorporating the gradual understanding of time, counting, and numeral recognition. Throughout these activities, children develop an understanding of numerals, shapes, patterns, measurement, sorting, one-to-one correspondence, categorizing, and logical thinking. Various manipulatives aid students in developing mathematical problem-solving skills as they count, sort, combine, and measure with pattern blocks, counters, and tangrams.
Emergent literacy for PK and JK is integrated throughout our curriculum. Our print-rich environment helps children understand why and how print is used. Nursery rhymes and songs allow the children to hear the sounds of speech in our oral language. Active engagement with books and storytelling promote pre-literacy skills that build vocabulary, develop comprehension, and support higher levels of thinking. Over time, children learn to express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences through drawing and writing.
Creating a Classroom Community
Students in every grade spend the first six weeks of school understanding their role and learning how to be a positive member of their class and school community. Each class develops classroom expectations and discusses how to work together and problem solve when challenges arise, in alignment with the Responsive Classroom approach.
Every grade learns about various communities and the important role that the people, places and history play as they develop and change over time.
Through a project-based approach, students share and learn about themselves, their families, school, local, national and global communities. Performances, field trips, and real-life simulations support students' growth throughout their units of study.


Hello and thanks for adding us!! We will be going on our first cruise on April 12th on the Carnival Dream to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. We are very excited other than I am a little nervous.
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Warnings: this review is mostly spoiler free. The Nun is rated R16 in New Zealand. It contains horror and images of suicide.
If you're a fan or you've kept up with The Conjuring series and its various sequels and spin-offs, you're probably eagerly anticipating The Nun, which is boasted to be the 'darkest chapter' of The Conjuring universe. Going by first impressions, it would have seemed so. The concept art was some of the most terrifying I've ever seen, its effectiveness fuelled by the sneak peaks we've had of The Nun in The Conjuring 2. All the little flashes and snippets we've seen of this less than holy nun all lead up to this film – we finally get to know its origins, and why such an evil force takes the form of something we would never normally find scary.
Set in the 1950s, a castle-turned-convent deep in the isolated woods of a Romanian village makes for a prime backdrop to this potentially thrilling premise. The film starts off with fists swinging already – in the opening moments of the film, we see a nun take her own life by wrapping a noose around her neck and jumping from what seems like a third-storey window. This is what sets off the chain of events that eventually explore how the demonic nun came to be. Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) and Father Burke (Demian Bichir) investigate the unusual and strange circumstances around the nun's unfortunate demise, with the help of Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet), the token innocent bystander who was just dragged into this.
To be honest, after having watched the other movies in the franchise, I was expecting to be scared out of my wits watching The Nun, and I was low-key excited about it. However, the numerous cliched jump scares got old and predictable pretty darned fast, and soon I was playing an internal game of horror movie bingo in my head – the scene is quiet but as soon as the character turns around, the dreaded form is there? Yep, cross that out. Three or more times.
The Nun wasn't all hollow, though. The costuming and set design were pretty cool – an actual castle with some ~spooky~ history was utilised, and this made for a beautifully gothic set. And the film itself was quite entertaining, if you watch it with others. Feeling your own heart race in anticipation and hearing others gasp and titter nervously in the theatre was quite a fun experience itself. Although the film itself was filled with religious imagery (uh duh), I felt like the ins and outs of Catholicism and its relation to demonology could have been explored in more depth. This, plus a longer run-time, would have probably made for a more satisfying viewing experience.
I was looking forward to digging my nails into the armrests of the seat, to hugging my knees to my chest and to partially watch the film through my fingers, but I ended up getting more scared of my car being locked in the garage as I watched the clock on my phone tick closer to midnight.
Thank you to Roadshow and Warner Brothers for hosting us at The Nun preview screening! The reception itself was a wild ride, so they get an A+ on that aspect.
The Nun is showing in New Zealand cinemas from September 6.


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Agents working on teams report higher job satisfaction
The trend toward agent teams is strong and likely to continue in 2023
January 25, 2023, 12:30 pm By Audrey Lee
If two people are better than one, then a whole team is the best. A recent study by Side, a real estate company that offers white-label services for agent teams, shows just that. The study went on to reveal that agents working on teams had the highest earning potential along with the most job satisfaction.
Side notes that the benefits of joining an agent team include:
A positive team experience,
A priority placed on team-wide success
Increased income
And a focus on customer experience.
The survey results of agents on teams compared to those working alone were clear: agents thrive when they are working in a team.
"This study reinforced what we at Side have always known to be true: agent teams are the future of real estate," said Michelle Denogean, chief marketing officer at Side. "Teams will always outperform solo agents; they're better able to distribute the workload so each team member can focus on what they do best. Agents receive tremendous value when they join a team, and that value is compounded when they join a company led by a local expert."
Teams in 2023
Joining a team could be a saving grace during a down market, especially considering the large percentage of agents who have not experienced the challenges of a market like this one. According to a study by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), 50% of agents working today have been in the business for less than eight years.
While Side exclusively surveyed it's partner, boutique firms, their findings are supported by the RealTrends Team Profitability study which stated that "Well-run teams are, in fact, highly profitable enterprises." This survey by RealTrends included over 2,000 of the top-performing real estate teams in the country to verify that brokerages shouldn't shy away from the team dynamic.
Of the teams surveyed by RealTrends, their average gross commission revenue was $3,300,176. The teams had been in operation for an average of 10.9 years, and they operated at an agent-to-employee ratio of 3:1.
As we move into 2023 and beyond, it is clear that the most productive and profitable agents will be those on boutique teams. These agencies just may be the future of the real estate industry.


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Published On: Thu, Jan 7th, 2016
Religion / World News | By Brandon Jones
Japan's 'No Muslim' policy keeping terrorist attacks away
Donald Trump may be getting blasted with his ban on Muslims remarks, but look no further than Japan to find a successful escape from jihadists and terrorist attacks. In an article published today, titled "Have you ever wondered why there aren't any terrorist attacks in Japan?", the writer examines the country's policy towards Muslims.
"There is a simple reason we never read about jihadi attacks in Japan. There are no Muslims there. No Muslims, no terrorists," the article begins.
Quoting from the Jewish Press, here's the overall policy towards Muslims.
photo/Vera Kratochvil
"This country keeps a very low profile on all levels regarding the Muslim matter: On the diplomatic level, senior political figures from Islamic countries almost never visit Japan, and Japanese leaders rarely visit Muslim countries. The relations with Muslim countries are based on concerns such as oil and gas, which Japan imports from some Muslim countries. The official policy of Japan is not to give citizenship to Muslims who come to Japan, and even permits for permanent residency are given sparingly to Muslims."
That 2013 article notes that "Japanese companies seeking foreign workers specifically note that they are not interested in Muslim workers. And any Muslim who does manage to enter Japan will find it very difficult to rent an apartment. Anywhere a Muslim lives, the neighbors become uneasy. Japan forbids the establishment of Islamic organizations, so setting up Islamic institutions such as mosques and schools is almost impossible. In Tokyo there is only one imam."
Charisma points out that there are only 10,000 Muslims in a country of over 126 million people and that "Muslim immigration is officially and culturally discouraged, and a Japanese woman who marries a Muslim man becomes a social outcast."
"The official policy of the Japanese authorities is to make every effort not to allow entry to Muslims, even if they are physicians, engineers and managers sent by foreign companies that are active in the region."
The Japanese have a patriotic pride in Japanese exceptionalism, Japanese culture and Japanese traditions, and instinctively recognize that enculturating Islam threatens all that because its value system is so antithetical to what makes Japan Japan.
That Jewish Press article concludes: "Japan is teaching the whole world an interesting lesson: there is a direct correlation between national heritage and permission to immigrate: A people that has a solid and clear national heritage and identity will not allow the unemployed of the world to enter its country; and a people whose cultural heritage and national identity (are) weak and fragile has no defense mechanisms to prevent a foreign culture from penetrating into its country and its land."
Brandon Jones - Writer and Co-Founder of The Global Dispatch, Brandon has been covering news, offering commentary for years, beginning professionally in 2003 on Crazed Fanboy before expanding into other blogs and sites. Appearing on several radio shows, Brandon has hosted Dispatch Radio, written his first novel (The Rise of the Templar) and completed the three years Global University program in Ministerial Studies to be a pastor. To Contact Brandon email [email protected] ATTN: BRANDON
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Are there any steps you can do to get rid of zits right away?
In this posting you will find some speedy and straightforward ways on how to get rid of zits right away!
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For all orders that are in stock will be delivered by Tips@ and UPS within 3 days.
For all orders not in stock, we will confirm to you delivery time prior to accepting your order.
Orders delivered by Tips@ and UPS are usually within 3 days on collection from our store.
Once the order is dispatched, the Client can always check the situation of his order using Tips@ and UPS web page.
- If the parcel could not be delivered because of erroneous Address or absence of the collection party, Tips@ and UPS will get in touch with the client to agree a new delivery time. There will ONLY be three attempts of delivery; on non-deliver the order the transport agency will return it to our store, charging the client for the corresponding postage and packing.
- Orders made after 16:00 h can be processed on the following working day.
- Orders which been paid by bank transfer will be processed as soon as the payment is received. This normally takes 24/48 hours more. It is very important to send a copy of the payment together with the order number by e-mail so to enable to preparation of the stock.
- Orders in remote locations may be take more time to deliver.
For international shipping, the delivery time will be from 1 to 4 weeks. In case you want it quicker, please inform us at info@e-cocinasplus.com, and we will calculate an express shipping.
The international dispatches are sent by UPS.
Once the orders were collected by the transport company, an e-mail will be sent to the client with the number of reference. After this the client can trace their order through Tips@ or UPS web page.
UPS delivery company normally does not call before delivering. After the first attempt at delivery UPS will leave a card with their contact details so you can arrange a time for delivery. UPS will ONLY make 3 attempts to delivery in total. In the event of non-delivery the order will be returned our store.
All orders (due to not being able to deliver) that need to re-dispatch from our stores will incur additional delivery charges.
Invoices: Please keep your invoice or proof of purchase as you may require this for your guarantee, especially for electrical good.
If you want to find more information about the process of delivery you can contact UPS in www.ups.com, remember have to hand the number of reference that starts on 1Z59 … so they can facilitate the information to you.
We do our best to offer free shipping on all shipments, but unfortunately some of our products, mainly mirrors, furniture, tall sculptures and barbecues are not included in this offer.
Malta, Romania, Cyprus, San Marino, Luxemburg & Vatican City are not included as part of the Free Shipping promotion.
If for whatever reason EC Plus cannot fulfil your order, EC Plus reserves the right to cancel your order and within a minimum of 48 hours a refund and credit note will be created against the order made.


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This module implements the public-facing portion of the collectr API.

:copyright: (c) 2013 Cory Benfield
:license: MIT License, see LICENSE for details.

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from .models import StaticDir

def update(directory, bucket, input_directory=''):
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    Updates an S3 bucket with the contents of a directory tree. Mirrors the
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    :param directory: the root of the directory tree.
    :param bucket: the name of the S3 bucket to use.
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    d = StaticDir(directory)
    d.input_directory = input_directory
    d.update(bucket)
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Maia Makhateli and Bakhtiyar Adamzhan in the ballet La Esmeralda (Cesare Pugni), Diana and Actaeon pdd, music by Riccardo Drigo, choreography by Marius Petipa.
Maia Makhateli (Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Principal the Dutch National Ballet. Maia began her dance training at the Choreographic Institute of Vakhtang Chabukiani in her hometown. At the age of sixteen she left with her parents for the United States, where she studied at the San Valley Ballet School in Idaho. After that she danced four years at the Colorado Ballet. In 2006, she switched to the Birmingham Royal Ballet, but she found England 'too cold and grey' and auditioned for the Dutch National Ballet, where she started as a grand sujet in 2007. In 2009, she was promoted to soloist and a year later to principal.
Bakhtiyar Adamzhan is currently a Principal with Astana Opera Ballet . He was born in Saryozek, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan. He graduated from the A.V. Seleznev College of Choreography (2003- 2011). From 2011 to 2013, he was a soloist of the Abai State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. From 2013 to 2015, he was a soloist and since 2015, he has been a principal dancer of the State Opera and Ballet Theatre "Astana Opera".


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Europa League Group Stage: Which Teams Are Favorites to Scale Through?
When the international football break is over, club football will resume across the world. In Europe, the action will be intensified by the resumption of both Champions League and Europa League football.
As we count down to a new season of Europa League football, 64 teams will be heavily involved from the get-go. For the first 6 MatchDays, it'll be all about the race to qualify for the knockout stages of the competition.
When it comes to such a hectic competition, which teams are favorites to scale through to the next round?
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You can start with the bookies' favorite to win the competition, Arsenal. The Gunners have been drawn alongside Rapid Vienna, Molde, and Dundalk in Group B. Mikel Arteta seems to have put together quite a solid side that can go all the way in the competition. And the North London side will fancy their chances this time around after coming close a few years ago.
Also in with a very strong shout to scale through the group stage is Tottenham. Mourinho has strengthened his squad, and haven taken them through the qualifiers, the Premier League side will be raring to go.
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Outside England, AC Milan are one of the favorites to go all the way. Priced at odds of 12.00 odds to win the competition, and boasting one of the youngest squads in Italy, Milan look exciting this season.
After surviving a 24-penalty shootout in Portugal, they now have to find a way past Celtic, Lille, and Sparta Prague in Group H.
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In Spain, most of the top names are playing Champions League football. Nevertheless, the likes of Real Sociedad and Villarreal will be involved in the Europa League this season. From Germany, Bayer Leverkusen is the biggest name to represent the country.
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Law requiring children to be vaccinated in order to attend school goes into effect in Italy
A law in Italy requiring children to be vaccinated in order to attend school went into affect on Monday, according to the BBC .
Nicknamed the "Lorenzin law" after the health minister who introduced it, the law allows schools to suspend vaccinated children younger than six years old until they get the shots. It also fines parents of children between 6 and 16 years old about $560 if they cannot prove their children have been vaccinated.
The BBC notes the new law did result in the suspension of some students. In Bologna, suspension letters were sent to the parents of 300 children.
The law was slated to go into effect at the beginning of the school year in September, but Italy's anti-establishment Five Star government voted to amend the law , meaning it could not go into effect ahead of the new school year.
The amended law allowed for an extension of its implementation until March 10. Monday marked the first day schools could turn away students.
"No vaccine, no school," health minister Giulia Grillo said, per the BBC.
Vaccines have been a flash point for recent elections in Italy. The current Five Star government has pushed anti-vaccine rhetoric , even in the midst of a measles outbreak. Those that opposed the law falsely claim that vaccines cause autism, despite numerous studies that show no link between autism and vaccines .


December 14, 2018: An orientation session for mentors and mentees of the Mentoring Matters program was hosted at the IBA City Campus by team CDC in collaboration with the Alumni department. The IBA is extremely fortunate to have the companionship of more than 13,000 well established alumni who are always available to support their alma mater. This strong network of people allows us to come up with valuable programs and interventions for the academic development of our institute. Team CDC initiated a pilot mentoring program for the senior students of IBA with an aim to link them with our prominent industry experts/alumni who could help them out in their personal & professional development through individualized coaching.
The program tends to have the features of self-assessment interventions, career & academic counselling, and a networking platform.
All mentees were connected with their individual mentors and they were provided time to discuss the way forward and design future course of action for themselves. We are thankful to all our prestigious alumni who have kind heartedly presented themselves for this cause. We hope that this program will serve as one of the most meaningful platforms through which they can give back to the IBA.


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How Coronavirus Has Affected B2B Content Consumption: Volume III
Today, the U.S. is still trying to grapple with the realities of the virus and its widespread impact on everything from our healthcare systems to our grocery shopping habits. Every business vertical has been affected by COVID-19 to varying degrees. Those who run (or ran, rather) live events were left holding the bag while digital businesses were suddenly even more convenient and in-demand than perhaps they'd ever been before.
As we've been tracking in our COVID Impact Series, this has led to a surge in content consumption related to remote work, collaboration software, IT bandwidth, security, and the ripple effects on HR & the like. In this edition, we're looking at what happened during the heart of the Summer — June, and July — to see how interests have evolved and what it means for your business.
Total-Content Requests Rose by 26.73%
In comparing NetLine's year-over-year data, we found that the total demand for B2B content rose by 37.7% and 16.84% for June and July 2020, respectively, versus the previous year.
Removing total Coronavirus downloads from May's raw totals still equates to a 13.8% increase in overall demand – a steep decline from the 41.6% we reported in our last blog. Of course, this means that just shy of 80% of all B2B content being requested is for materials outside of the influence of coronavirus.
All in all, NetLine has observed a 28.71% average increase in YOY consumption between April and July.
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Let's Talk About Coronavirus Content Demand
When we published the original COVID Impact blog, we had reason to believe that demand in this arena would subside, only to be followed by additional waves of interest. Based on the areas of the country that had yet to feel the realities of coronavirus, we felt this was nearly inevitable.
In looking at the data depicted below, it could be argued that this is partly true, though it never approached the second level of interest we'd anticipated. If anything, June was the closest thing to a true second wave of demand.
While there was a minor increase in overall consumption in late-May, with another pop in June, weekly downloads never exceeded 10,000 after mid-March. The week of June 8th represents the closest we'd ever come to hitting this milestone again, as of mid-August, with total demand just shy of 9,500. Interest truly dwindled once we hit July with downloads bottoming out at 3,500.
Google observed an even more precipitous drop long before we did, with search volume inching upward ever so slightly in June, only to settle back into its three-month plateau.
Granted, there certainly was a fair share of Coronavirus related news that occurred within the last two months, but nothing really shifted from a medical standpoint which would have triggered another round of COVID content production and demand.
WFH & Collaboration Software Demand Soars, Only to Fall
In the middle of May, there seemed to be a resurgence in interest around content relating to work from home and collaboration software topics. As the calendar turned to June, demand plateaued, spiked, and then dipped before the end of the month.
Then we hit the first full week of July. Suddenly, the demand for this content was at an all-time high.
Why did the week of the 6th see such a massive jump in WFH downloads?
Our most educated guess would be that after weeks of steady reduction in national COVID cases, the rise in mid- and late-June lead business leaders to reevaluate plans to potentially return to their physical offices. Given the massive dropoff and subsequent leveling out in downloads in the following weeks, it's difficult to isolate one specific event, news story, or asset as being the primary driver.
Have Legal, Insurance, & HR Pros Kept Their Interests?
In short, yes they have — lawyers especially. Here's how their interests break out by topic.
Similar to our observations from April and May, Human Resources professionals were the most active group over the last two months, accounting for an average of 21.4% of total HR consumption. Tailing Human Resources were audiences from the Legal, Insurance, Marketing, and Quality Assurance fields, respectively.
Conversely, the IT audience was the least involved with coronavirus content, along with professionals from the Security Services, Agricultural, Engineering, and Design fields.
WFH & Collaboration Software
As we saw with total coronavirus content downloads, the IT audience just isn't finding the need to consume this content. COVID content did account for nearly 4% of total IT downloads during the third week of June and the first week of July, however; otherwise, COVID never exceeded 1.5% of total consumption for the group.
Those working in the Legal field continue to be the greatest consumers of WFH content, averaging just shy of 10% of total downloads for June and July. The Real Estate audience, the next closest group in terms of interest, saw large upswings of demand throughout July, especially during the last week of the month. On average, their total demand was less than half of the Legal audience's.
How Has Consumption at the Job Level Evolved?
At a high-level, novel coronavirus content has a greater hold on overall interest compared to WFH & collaboration software. Despite the fact that each topic is seeing overall demand dwindle, coronavirus content requests outpace WFH & collaboration software content by a near 4:1 ratio.
June and July saw most of its activity from higher-level management and other senior employees. The VP level was the most engaged, with COVID content accounting for 11.7% of their total consumption during this period.
One of the most interesting juxtapositions comes from the Senior VP job level, the group that finished just behind the VP level for the top spot. It's intriguing to see that although they were quite involved with coronavirus content, they had little interest in WFH and software collaboration content.
Correlation between COVID consumption and WFH consumption often go hand-in-hand, though it's certainly not a given, clearly. Still, it is nonetheless surprising.
We've already discussed the fact that Senior VPs weren't as engaged with this content. Those who were, however, were the C-Level — who once again finished at the top of the pack in this category — followed by Owners, Consultants, and Supervisors. Seeing as the majority of the downloads again came from a Senior audience, perhaps the SVP level was instructed by the C-Suite to find new avenues to expand business or simply keep things running as smoothly as they could. Whatever the narrative you insert here, it's clear SVPs were looking elsewhere.
As we near the six-month mark of "The Pause", executives are having to grapple with the long-term realities of having the majority of their employees work from home. On July 27th, Google announced that they were permitting their entire workforce to operate remotely until at least the Summer of 2021.
Decisions like these are not made lightly, considering the fixed costs of physical office spaces and the ample resources available to employees. It makes sense then why the C-Level was the most interested audience in WFH content.
Considering many businesses lost significant revenues during Q2, the prospect of remote work may be seen as a boon now that the stigma has worn off.
Legal Organizations Stay Active as Information Technology Organizations Log Off
No matter when we analyze certain industries, some narratives remain the same.
Once again, the IT field finds itself at the bottom of one of these lists.
While their demand was nearly 1/4 of the Legal group's, it would be disingenuous to say that the Computers and Technology group was completely uninterested in coronavirus content. The audience had three separate periods where COVID content represented more than 7% of total consumption. Telecommunications also wasn't eager to download content related to the virus, further highlighting that professionals who were able to work from just about anywhere before March had less of a need, organically.
Just as we see with WFH content, the Legal audience was the most active set of professionals during the last two months. In a 9 week span, the Legal group was only out "downloaded" twice, finishing in 2nd for total demand each time. As we discussed in the previous COVID Impact post, Legal teams are under near-constant pressure. No, it is not the same pressure that frontline workers may find themselves experiencing, but they are tasked with understanding how to best keep employees and employers safe during this period in time.
Regardless of industry, WFH content made up for an average of 2.2% of all downloads. The Legal industry alone saw 14.2% of their total downloads stem from WFH content. As if we needed further proof of just how serious lawyers and their colleagues are taking the shift in remote work, this stat highlights it.
While it's not too far off the pace of the average, the Retail space being the smallest consumer of WFH content isn't a surprise in the slightest. Even with eCommerce, Retail and Consumer Goods are best observed and therefore sold in person. As retail locations begin to reopen across the country in more permanent, safer ways, the idea of WFH for this group is a bit silly.
Other Details Worth Noting
We've reviewed all of the big pieces from our data deep dive but there's still more to parse through.
Smaller Organizations Are Still Mighty Curious
During April and May, we noted that businesses with 5 or fewer employees were responsible for the majority of WFH downloads. In June and July, companies of this size were still relatively active, but not nearly as engaged as those with between 10-24 employees. Organizations of this size were the most consistent and engaged with both content categories, especially when it came to WFH content.
Larger companies likely have full-time employees to handle things like IT, HR, and in some cases, legal. Smaller shops don't have this luxury, of course. Instead, decisions to work from home for an additional, unknown period of time might pose a significant risk to a business's bottom line. Leaders want to keep their employees safe, of course, but they also want to make sure they're making the best decision possible.
The Most Popular Keywords in Coronavirus Content Titles
Understanding which words compel users to take action is always a good thing to know. One of the things we've pondered since the pandemic began was how general content marketing rules — so we decided to look into it a little bit.
We took a look at more than 760 keywords to better understand how often their titles or descriptions featured the word "Coronavirus" or "COVID". Below, we have the Top 10 words or phrases for each category.
Titles Descriptions
Impact Outbreak
Business Investment Research
Data Driver Health
Customer Plan Customer
Remote Business Indicator
Work Indicator Research
Employer Lead Business
Digital Catalyst
Managing Object Storage
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With America still so divided and undecided on how to combat this virus, there's no telling how much longer this way of life, this way of working will last.
One of the Job Functions that had a minor uptick in consumption (although meaningful in the big picture) was the Real Estate profession. As businesses allow their office workers to operate remotely for indefinite periods of time, the need for giant indoor spaces diminishes rapidly. This will lead to another economic issue in a few month's time, providing another opportunity for big-money investors to come along and secure real estate at a discount.
This is just one example of what could happen.
We expect to produce one more COVID Impact piece in the Fall to get a sense of where the content market has gone during August, September, & October. Beyond that, we'll see where we are. Who knows — maybe we'll all be comfortably together on Thanksgiving without worry. Now wouldn't that be something great to give thanks for?
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Gayle announces new album, first in 16 years
Friday, July 19, 2019 – Crystal Gayle will drop her first new album in nearly 16 years, "You Don't Know Me" on Sept. 6.
Southpaw Musical Productions is putting out the album recorded and mixed by Gayle's son Christos Gatzimos. The collection finds Gayle covering the songs of artists including George Jones, Patsy Cline, Buck Owens and Eddy Arnold.
"This wasn't a stretch at all," said Gayle. "This project is a labor of love that my son, Christos, and I produced together. It is filled with country classics that I grew up singing. They are very much a part of my history, and I've been wanting to do this for a long time. I feel very lucky to have known and worked with many of the artists who had the original hits."
Each of the selections was chosen because it played a role in her musical development. Two of them point to the importance that her family had in bringing her to fame.
The opening track is "Ribbon Of Darkness," a song originally written by Gordon Lightfoot. Originally released in 1965 as a single by Marty Robbins, it became his 11th number one hit.
The song was the first one Gayle performed at her Grand Ole Opry debut.
"I was 16," said Gayle. "Loretta was sick. Mooney [Lynn] did something; I don't know what. But they let me sing in her place. In my early years in Nashville, when I was on Decca, I opened for Marty Robbins. So I've heard him sing this many times. Connie Smith also had a hit with it. So the night I was inducted into the Opry cast in 2017, I asked Connie if it was okay with her that I sing "Ribbon of Darkness."
"Crying Time" was originally written and recorded by Bakersfield sound pioneer Buck Owens. "I do a medley of Buck Owens songs in my shows," said Gayle. "When I was a kid, he worked Buck Lake Ranch in Indiana. I would go whenever he was playing there, and he'd let me sing on his show. When I was 16, he wanted me to become a regular on his TV show. He asked me, but it didn't work out."
The closing track is "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" which brings Gayle together with her sisters Peggy Sue Wright, and Loretta Lynn, for the first time. Dolly Parton wrote the song.
"Loretta and Peggy made this album very special by singing 'Put It Off Until Tomorrow' with me. It is a song that we have performed together throughout the years. This is the one and only trio performance on record. We've done the Boston Pops together. We performed together in Lake Tahoe and Reno and a few things like that. But we've never actually made a record together. Peggy Sue still comes out on the road with me, singing backup harmonies. I recorded the track, then Patsy, Loretta's daughter, asked her to sing on my album. Loretta is such an incredible singer. She got through the song right away and then went, "What's next?" We should have recorded the whole album together! Loretta had her stroke not long after we recorded this."
The track listing is:
1. Ribbon Of Darkness (Gordon Lightfoot)
2. You Win Again (Hank Williams)
3. Please Help Me I'm Falling (Don Robertson, Hal Blair)
4. Am I That Easy To Forget (Carl Belew, W.S. Stevenson, Shelby Singleton)
5. Hello Walls (Willie Nelson)
6. You Never Were Mine (Jay Lee Webb)
7. Just One More (George Jones)
8. There Goes My Everything (Dallas Frazier)
9. That's The Way Love Goes (Lefty Frizzell, Sanger D Shafer)
10. Cryin' Time (Buck Owens)
11. I've Seen That Look On Me A Thousand Times (Harlan Howard, Shirl Milete)
12. Walkin' After Midnight (Alan Block, Donn Hecht)
13. You Don't Know Me (Eddie Arnold, Cindy Walker)
14. Put It Off Until Tomorrow featuring Loretta Lynn and Peggy Sue (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
15. I Cried The Blue (Right Out of My Eyes)
Gayle has 20 number one country hits, six albums certified Gold by the RIAA and was the first female artist in country music history to reach platinum sales with her 1977 album, "We Must Believe in Magic." She was the CMA's "Female Vocalist of the Year" for two consecutive years and won a GrammyvAward Winner for "Best Female Vocal Performance" for "Brown Eyes."
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Signals That Shape The Future
How India's data labellers are powering the global AI race
BYAnand Murali
Kumaramputhur is a tiny village some 45 km northwest of Palakkad in Kerala, home to some 3,500 families and probably not much bigger than an average Bengaluru suburb. It has no primary industry to speak of. Its gender ratio and literacy rate are lower than the state's nation-beating numbers. Barring some streaks of modernity, nothing about Kumaramputhur seems remarkable.
It's in this village that Mujeeb Kolasseri, a high-school dropout, commands a team of over 200 employees working on artificial intelligence solutions for clients across America, Europe, Australia and Asia. At 28, Kolasseri is the oldest member of Infolks, a company he founded three years ago.
From a nondescript office on a highway connecting Palakkad and Kozhikode, a majority of the team is engaged in highlighting and labelling images of vehicles, traffic lights, road signs and pedestrians captured by cameras fixed on autonomous vehicles. The tougher aspect of this job is precisely marking the data captured by remote sensors called LIDAR (light detection and ranging), which creates 3D maps for autonomous vehicles to gain awareness of the objects around them.
Infolks' office building at Kumaramputhur in Kerala
Some 2,000 km away near the banks of the Hooghly river in Metiabruz, on the south-western fringes of Kolkata, some 200 women are labelling images that will be used to train algorithms in autonomous vehicles and augmented reality systems.
"They work on some of our most cutting-edge image-related projects," says Jai Natarajan, vice president of technology and marketing at iMerit, an India- and US-based data annotation company, which is to say its employees are engaged in labelling and preparing data to train AI algorithms.
Thousands of staffers at iMerit's other offices in Kolkata, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Vizag and Shillong do similar work, labelling millions of data to help train and power AI algorithms developed by companies across the globe.
With global enterprise giants embracing AI, and the datasets that feed the AI algorithms increasingly becoming proprietary, companies need a higher degree of engagement with data labelling teams in terms of requirements, quality control, feedback and deliverables.
Because of the business process outsourcing boom around the turn of the century, Indians are no strangers to such jargon and demands. Data annotation and labelling, too, is process-driven, requiring precision work and skills that even people with a high-school education can be trained on.
iMerit founder and CEO Radha Basu at the Metiabruz centre
As the first generation of such work that was mainly crowdsourced gave way to more advanced requirements, companies such as Infolks, iMerit and Playment have come up catering to global clients and making India an emerging hub for data labelling and annotation work.
"This is an emerging sector… in India and everybody has begun to realise the humongous opportunity it presents," says Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Nasscom, India's tech industry body. "AI requires properly annotated, classified and anonymised data. For this, whether you like it or not, you will use automation but you will also have to use skilled human workforce, and that is the opportunity it presents for India."
The global market for AI and machine-learning relevant data preparation solutions is expected to reach $1.2 billion by the end of 2023, from about $500 million in 2018, as per a report by research firm Cognilytica.
What is data labelling?
Data labelling and annotation is a process by which datasets — from unstructured sources such as cameras, sensors, emails and social media among others, as well as from structured sources such as databases — are labelled, marked, coloured or highlighted to mark up differences, similarities or types. This is so that when the data are fed into an algorithm for training an AI system, the algorithm can rightfully identify the data and learn from it.
Say you want to train an algorithm to understand road signs using images captured by a camera onboard a vehicle. Data annotators or labellers will go through the dataset of images and mark or highlight road signs using annotation tools and feed this to an AI algorithm to learn from. The next time the algorithm encounters a road sign during a live drive through an area, it should be able to recognize the sign. The more images of road signs the algorithm is trained on, the better its accuracy.
Infolks' founder and CEO Mujeeb Kolasseri
Driving the surge in AI or machine-learning is the access to plentiful data made available from the internet, social media, sensors and other sources. Algorithms today have the ability to absorb more data and, hence, be more accurate. As long as the data is good and clean, feeding another million datasets to an algorithm will inch up its accuracy. This has caused an unending hunger for well-annotated and labelled data for AI algorithms and applications.
Today, data preparation and engineering tasks account for more than 80% of the time involved in most AI and machine-learning projects, according to the Cognilytica report.
"If you talk about autonomous driving, one hour of video data can lead up to 800 man-hours of work," says Siddharth Mall, chief executive of Bengaluru- and San Francisco-based Playment, which works mostly in the autonomous vehicles space.
The Infolks journey
Kolasseri, after dropping out of high school, was working in the aluminium fabrication industry but had to leave due to health reasons. At home, he signed up on Amazon's crowdsourced jobs marketplace called Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and began taking up annotation jobs from companies across the globe.
"I was able to maintain a rating of 99.8 because of the quality I was able to deliver. One of the companies I worked for liked my work and approached me directly and offered me more work," says Kolasseri, who then established a six-member team to get the job done. "We initially worked from a home and in early 2016, as we began to grow, I decided to register and set up the company."
The bootstrapped operation was initially built on Rs 25,000 in investments from Kolasseri's brother and a friend, who helped set up the company and later joined its board. Today, Infolks is a growing team, with most of its employees coming from in and around Kumaramputhur.
"The company's vision is to reform our village to a global one as well as to provide economic opportunity to the youth of rural areas," says Kolasseri. About "90% of our nearly 200 people are between 20 and 25 years."
Kolasseri interacting with the team at Infolks' office in Kumaramputhur
While the team works on datasets across areas such as healthcare, robotics and agriculture, about 75% of their work is in the autonomous vehicles space. Clients include German automotive corporation Daimler and other international technology companies that Kolasseri could not disclose citing agreements signed with them.
For annotation, the company uses tools provided by clients or third-party tools if a client does not have one. "Our R&D team is developing our own annotation tool. It is currently being tested and should be launched in the next few weeks," says Kolasseri. Infolks is also setting up another office in a tech park in nearby Kozhikode district. Kolasseri hopes this will boost the company's revenue as the new location falls under a special economic zone, or a tax enclave, as well as help, expand its global client base.
India's AI back offices
Amazon's MTurk used to be a popular platform in India for finding data labelling and annotation jobs before it began restricting non-US workers. Although it lifted the restrictions later, MTurk's popularity among data labellers waned as enterprise clients began placing more emphasis on data security. Also, new crowdsourcing platforms including Spare5, Cloudfactory and Figure Eight, with a greater focus on the annotation and labelling market, had entered the market.
"I worked on the Mturk platform between 2015 and 2016 before starting the company but today there are other platforms that are coming up for crowdsourced jobs," says Kolasseri. "But with enterprise clients very concerned about data security, especially given that a lot of the datasets are proprietary, it becomes a bigger challenge for them to trust workers on such platforms."
Playment, founded by ex-Flipkart employees Mall, Ajinkya Malasane and Akshay Kumar Lal, has approached the annotation and labelling industry with a slightly different approach.
The company has developed a slew of annotation tools for various use cases as well as a crowdsourced platform of labellers and annotators trained on these tools. The company works directly with clients or with IT service companies that have clients with data annotation or labelling requirements.
"To convert raw data into annotated structured data you require front-end annotation tools, a skilled and cost-effective human workforce, and due to the large amount of data being handled you need to have the right middleware to support different workflows and manage the remote workforce," says Mall.
Playment's crowdsourced platform has more than 300,000 annotators and labellers. Of them, the company recognises about 25,000 as 'highly-skilled top players', who, according to Mall, spend nearly all day on the platform and earn Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000 a month on an average.
Playment, too, gets much of its work from international clients, a list that includes Samsung, Didi Chuxing Technology, Alibaba, Drive.ai and Continental AG. A major chunk of these works is in the autonomous vehicle segment.
iMerit's strategy is centred on its employees. About 80% of its 2,000-strong workforce come from families with incomes less than $100 (Rs 7,000) a month; about half of them are women. "We have a social mission to create technology employment among underprivileged communities and in territories where there are fewer companies or industry. We operate in cities slightly lesser known for tech and with less technology employment available," says Natarajan.
The purported altruism makes for good business sense as well. "The people we work with and the places where we work allows us to scale up the data annotation and labelling team in a very cost-effective manner and also deliver high-quality work to our clients," says Natarajan.
Although iMerit sources a major chunk of its business from the US – clients include Microsoft, eBay and Tripadvisor — about 90% of its data annotation and labelling work is handled out of India.
Automation in annotation
Companies are beginning to develop automated tools for annotation but with a lot of jobs requiring nuanced and custom annotation or labelling work, it would be some time before automated tools can achieve a high level of accuracy.
Natarajan says that unlike five years ago when AI was about differentiating cat from a dog, present-day AI handles more advanced work. "Machine-learning has moved forward, so nobody is asking us to mark for a dog versus cat. Those days are long gone. Today, every company has customised needs and very nuanced requirements, so it is not possible to automate this or automatically just throw the data and get it labelled by an anonymous set of people."
Jai Natarajan, vice president of technology and marketing at iMerit
The inevitable emergence of automated AI-based annotation tools, he says, is not a threat. "Automated annotation tools are themselves a result of good annotation to have been trained on them. These tools can take you only up to a certain level when you are trying to solve a problem, but to go beyond that you will need your custom annotation," says Natarajan.
But that may be only until the automated tools can become effective enough to create good datasets. "In the longer scheme of things, we do recognise that we are in the business of making our project obsolete. When our customer succeeds, then our project ends because the AI has picked it up," says Natarajan. "But what we also find is, it is never 100%, it is always a continuous learning and improvement process going on. Also, customers will move to the next problem and will start work again from zero."
In other words, Indian data labelling and annotation companies are yet to peak and it may be a long while before the sector goes the BPO way.
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Resting, taking it easy, embracing unproductivity, those are not things I excel at. Of course, that is kind of the point is it not? To work on our weaknesses.
One of the 1970s or 1980s English speaking Olympic or world record runners said something like, "the thing you like to do the least is what you need most and the thing you like to do the most is what you need least." There is truth to that.
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13 Women Rocking the Tech World
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If you haven't heard of these CEOs yet, you will soon.
By Rachel Payne (CEO & Co-Founder, FEM Inc.)
Having recently spoken at the L.A. Tech Summit's Shark Tank, I was inspired to see that three of the four speakers who joined me this year were women. In just one year, I have seen a significant increase in the percentage of female representation as conference speakers. The conversation about "women in tech" has changed remarkably; ultimately, this mindset shift, the openness, and pro-active willingness is what is changing the status quo. As a longtime advocate on this issue, this is an exciting moment to witness.
In light of that, here is a list of 13 women rocking the technology world. You may not have heard of them yet, but most certainly you will. My founders and I are so honored to be part of the exciting evolution for the tech industry where gender will no longer be a barrier to full and equal participation.
1. Alice Taylor: CEO & Founder, MakieLab
LinkedIn | @wonderlandblog
L.A. Tech Summit Shark Tank winner and queen of the Maker movement, Alice Taylor is pioneering a new approach to toys and children's creativity. After five years of producing and overseeing digital content at the BBC, and another four years as Commissioning Editor at Channel 4, she quit her job and founded the first 3D printing doll company, MakieLab.
The MakieLab Toymaker platform allows customers to design and customize their own dolls — called Makies — then prints and ships the unique creations all over the world. After completing the Disney Accelerator program, Alice signed a three-year licensing contract with Disney, Pixar and Marvel for Makie outfits and accessories.
2. Crystal Rose: CMO & Founder, Sensay
LinkedIn | @crystalrose
Technologist and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, Crystal Rose has founded a digital interactive agency and two technology startups to date. Fellow Shark Tank speaker (and runner-up), Crystal's latest startup venture is Sensay, a mobile messaging service that is revolutionizing helpful chatrooms by connecting advice-seekers and advice-givers via text. Crystal is also the founder and producer of LA Startup Week.
3. Sumaya Kazi: CEO & Founder, Sumazi.com
LinkedIn | @sumaya
Years of social media experience, including a position as one of the first social media managers to lead social strategy at a Fortune 500 company, brought Sumaya to her current role as founder and CEO of Sumazi.com, a social intelligence company that connects users to "the people you don't know, but should." The three-year-old company has propelled Sumaya be recognized as one of BusinessWeek's "Best Young Entrepreneurs," CNN's "Young Person Who Rocks," Silicon Valley Business Journal's "Women of Influence" and UTNE Reader Magazine's "50 Visionaries Changing Your World."
4. CEO/Founder/Inventor/Architect: ION, Gracenote, Sceneplay, Fanpulse, The Hugging Company, and more…
LinkedIn | @Sceneplay
A serial entrepreneur and inventor, Ann Greenberg has founded multiple companies fusing entertainment and technology, most recently Sceneplay, a platform that automates collaborative storytelling. Ann co-founded Gracenote, the leading entertainment data and technology provider across music, video and sports acquired first by Sony and then by Tribune. She co-founded ION as an early immersive studio doing work with David Bowie, Brian Eno and Primus. Her impressive career has spanned several successful ventures and she now shares her success as a mentor to Korea's first accelerator, SparkLabs, and is an advisor to entertainment technology companies (including mine).
5. Raina Kumra Gardiner: CMO & Co-founder, Mavin
LinkedIn | @rainakumra
As co-founder and CMO of Mavin, a mobile startup focused on affordable Internet access, Raina leads marketing strategy as the company grows in emerging markets. The company's first product Gigato is the first sponsored data platform in India that benefits both developers and end users. As if her role with Mavin wasn't enough, Raina is also the CEO of Juggernaut, an agency focused on digital, design and disruption through behavioral and brand strategy.
6. Anna Kohanski Mason: Co-founder, BurnThis
LinkedIn | @burnthis
Anna is the co-founder of BurnThis. A former Wall Street bond trader, she transitioned into the startup world in 2013 to transform her passion for fitness into a cutting-edge technology driven business. The app, marketed as "Pinstagram for fitness," allows users to post and share "fitspiration" photos, creating a community of support and motivation called the "BurnThis FitFam." The product was voted one of Apple's top health and fitness tracking apps on the App Store.
7. Ingrid Sanders: CEO, popexpert
LinkedIn | @ingridsan
As founder and CEO of popexpert, Ingrid is credited with the creation of an online platform that allows anyone to learn from experts through live video sessions and original on demand classes in a variety of topics designed to help you live a happier, healthier more productive life. The site works with thousands of experts and has paying customers in more than 90 countries. In March this year, they announced the acquisition of the Online Marketing Institute, leader in digital marketing training, and continue to grow with the launch of the Mindful Institute.
8. Danielle Weisberg: Co-founder, theSkimm
LinkedIn | @DMWeisberg
She's the youngest on the list and co-founder of theSkimm, the fastest growing email newsletter on the market. Before Danielle and her best friend Carly Zakin launched theSkimm, the two were producers and former interns at NBC News. In addition to accruing a massive subscriber list, the company raised $7.9 million in 2014, and the two founders were named on Forbes 2015 "30 Under 30" in the media category. (Editor's Note: Check out theSkimm Raises $6M to Make it Easier to Be Smarter.)
9. Debbie Stirling: CEO & Co-founder: GoldieBlox
LinkedIn | @debbieblox
One of the leading voices in the movement to encourage girls to be interested in engineering and technology, Stirling is an engineer, spokesperson and CEO and co-Founder of toy manufacturer GoldieBlox. The three-year-old company creates innovative and fun toys for girls, designed to develop confidence in problem-solving and early interest in engineering. Debbie holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Product Design from Stanford University.
10. Nicole Shariat Farb: Founder, Darby Smart
LinkedIn | @nicole_farb
Nicole did what most people dream about but never actually do: Leave her leadership role at a Fortune 100 company to follow her dream of monetizing her passion. In 2013, the former head of emerging private companies in investment banking at Goldman Sachs founded Darby Smart, an online craft marketplace. Two years later, the gross merchandise volume has increased by 296 percent and more than 2,500 designers and bloggers have joined.
11. Kara Nortman: Founder & Board Director, Seedling
LinkedIn | @karanortman
Kara co-founded Seedling alongside Soleil Moon Frye and recently partnered with Phoebe Hayman. Seedling is a lifestyle product company in 2007. With her guidance, the company now sells its toys, gifts, activity kits and party supplies in more than 20 countries. Kara is also the company's chairman and a partner at Upfront Ventures.
12. Luan Cox: CEO & Founder, Crowdnetic
LinkedIn | @luancox
Leveraging her background in financial technology and experience as General Manager of Interactive Data Managed Solutions, Luan founded Crowdnetic in 2011. Her company, a leading provider of market data solutions and funding portal platform technology to the private equity and crowdfunded securities industry, was one of 10 companies selected to participate in the Springboard Enterprises Accelerator class of 2013-Media Tech.
13. Joanna McFarland: CEO & Co-founder: HopSkipDrive
LinkedIn | @jomcfarland
Joanna McFarland was a mother of two looking for a way to make shuttling her kids around easier. That's why, after 15 years in product and general management, she co-founded a company to solve that problem. HopSkipDrive arranges rides for kids with drivers who have significant childcare experience, thereby lessening the load on parents' plates while attending to safety concerns. The company now has more than 2,000 users, 100 drivers and plans to expand nationally.
Wow, right? These women inspire me every day with their genius, generosity of spirit, resilience, optimism, compassion, endurance and dedication. Be sure to check them out and watch their progress – this will be an exciting chapter for these women entrepreneurs! Thank you!
About the guest blogger: Rachel Payne started FEM Inc., a media and technology company, when she realized that there was an enormous opportunity in entertainment for innovation. Previously, Rachel was part of several early tech ventures, including the founding team of Google.org, Billpoint (acquired by eBay), Hotwire (acquired by IAC) and she co-founded inDplay (acquired by Discovery Media Holding Company). Follow her on Twitter at @rachelpayne.
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Estevão Martins de Alvelos (1295 -?) foi um nobre e Cavaleiro medieval do Reino de Portugal, tendo sido Senhor da honra de Alvelos e o 1.º Morgado de Alvelos que o seu irmão D. Vasco Martins de Alvelos, Bispo de Lamego, instituiu em 27 de Dezembro de 1302. Foi igualmente Senhor da Quinta de Figueiredo de Alva na freguesia portuguesa do concelho de São Pedro do Sul, no Distrito de Viseu, região Centro e sub-região do Dão-Lafões, e também da Capela de Nossa Senhora do Desterro, na Sé de Lamego.

Relações familiares
Foi filho de Martim Anes de Alvelos e de Elvira Mendes da Fonseca, filha de Mem Gonçalves da Fonseca (c. 1200 -?) casado com Maria Pires de Cambra. Foi pai de Maria Esteves (1320 -?) casou com Martim Domingues.

Referências
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Last Saturday I drove to my old elementary school. It's been updated and changed by now, but I can still see remnants of the school I used to attend. Especially when, by the playground, waiting for me, is my 5th grade gym teacher and his gorgeous family!
Todd & Lindsay both teach at Andrews. It's where they met. And it's where they fell in love. They've been happily married for four years and have brought two absolutely beautiful girls into the world - Emma and Taylor. Both of them are absolutely in love with each other and their two girls.
Todd, Lindsay - It was a pleasure photographing you four! Your girls are so sweet and fun - they most DEFINITELY take after their parents! Thanks for the opportunity to photograph you all in all your adorableness!


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Q: Accessing a url from a button click in android studio So I have been trying to access a simple webpage from a button click in my app on android studio. Every method that I have tried has crashed the app when I have tried to run it. Basically I just want to click the button and then have a webpage pop up such as google. Right now I have a currently broken method that I made and am trying to use within the button click but it does not work. Any help would be appreciated.
public void openWebURL( String inURL ) {
    Intent browse = new Intent( Intent.ACTION_VIEW , Uri.parse( inURL ) );

    startActivity( browse );
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public void buyButtonOnClick(View view){
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A: You will need to launch ACTION_VIEW intent with a correctly formatted url.
public void showExternalBrowser(Activity activity, Uri uri) {
    Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
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showExternalBrowser(activity, Uri.parse("https://www.google.com"));

Note the scheme (https) and host (www.google.com) combined make a valid url.

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New Tofino, B.C., restaurant named Canada's best by enRoute
Toronto's Bar Buca and The Chase named the 6th and 7th best new restaurants, according to the annual online roundup by the magazine.
By Lois AbrahamThe Canadian Press
Thu., Oct. 23, 2014timer2 min. read
A restaurant in tiny Tofino, B.C., on the edge of the Pacific Ocean has been named the best new restaurant in Canada in enRoute's annual top 10 list.
Wolf in the Fog took top honours while Ayden in Saskatoon, opened by Top Chef Canada season 1 winner Dale MacKay, was the people's choice winner in an online poll at eatandvote.com.
Chef Nick Nutting, who leads the pack at Wolf in the Fog with his locally sourced and ingredient-driven menu, said "coming from probably the smallest town of any of the places nominated to be No. 1 is mind-blowing really."
He was in Toronto after being informed Tuesday that his restaurant, which opened at the end of June, had won.
"We definitely have a bold style when it comes to what we do," he said by telephone. "We have a lot of beautiful ingredients that we get out there and we just try to bring the flavours through in a way that's fun and exciting. There's a lot of people serving a lot of salmon dishes on the West Coast and all the standards, but the stuff we have to work with in Tofino is just that much fresher.
"We get all our fish from a dock that's one block away from the restaurant. . . . You can literally see the boats coming in . . . This time of year we have lots of foragers coming through with wild mushrooms."
The menu varies at Wolf in the Fog although there are a few constants, says the Victoria-raised Nutting, who apprenticed at Catch Restaurant in Calgary and helmed the Pointe Restaurant at Tofino's Wickaninnish Inn for five years. The best-selling dish is lightly smoked oysters wrapped in potato and fried till crispy and served with a seasonal garnish. Making the oysters approachable for those who think they don't like the bivalves has created converts out of many, added Nutting, who has also worked in New York and Montreal.
Nutting hopes the recognition achieved by his restaurant will benefit Tofino too, encouraging travellers who visit Vancouver Island to make the effort to get to the remote place.
"The culinary community has always been good out there. There's a lot of great restaurants. It's such an amazing part of Canada and to help make people aware we're out there and that we're making this incredible food on the edge of the country is pretty cool."
A panel of food professionals across the country made recommendations on the most interesting restaurant openings in their area between June 2013 and June 2014 (along with a few from late spring 2013 that missed the cut for last year's list).
International food and wine writer Andrew Braithwaite chose the 10 finalists from a short list of 30, spending a month crisscrossing the country to dine anonymously at each one.
The remaining top nine restaurants, with Braithwaite's comments, are:
2. The Farmer's Apprentice (Vancouver)
3. Le Vin Papillon (Montreal)
4. RGE RD (Edmonton)
5. Mallard Cottage (St. John's, N.L.)
6. Bar Buca (Toronto)
7. The Chase (Toronto)
8. Ayden (Saskatoon)
9. Legende (Quebec City)
10. Edna (Halifax)
Winners will be profiled in the November issue of Air Canada's enRoute magazine. The top 10 restaurants will receive their awards Nov. 20 in Toronto.
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Metal siding in Edmonton is far from being the commonest kind of opted for material. Cement and vinyl sidings continue to vie for the top position. However, metal sidings are fast catching up, and in a few years, they might be the most popular products for residential construction. In this case, aluminum and steel are the two most opted for metal sidings.
Each of these siding materials comes in a wide array of finishes with varying degrees of durability. Steel sidings are slightly more expensive than aluminum sidings. However, both metals cost far less than proprietary composite board sidings. Aluminum sidings are easier to set up as they lighter and cut easier compared to steel sidings. Unfortunately, aluminum siding are more susceptible to damage during construction and when being shipped.
During the summer, when the weather is warm and pleasant, the deck is one of the most used spots of your home. Unfortunately, because decks are always exposed to the elements, they can quickly wear down and deteriorate. Luckily, most of the common deck issues have basic solutions that than can help keep the area looking great for many years to come. In this way, you can enjoy your deck without having to worry about it getting damaged by the elements. Let's investigate some of these issues and their solutions.


The Networks Architectures and Services (NAS) section, part of the Department of Quantum & Computer Engineering in EEMCS, educates and conducts research in the broad area of complex networks, ranging from data communications and Internetworking, to other man-made infrastructures such as road-traffic networks, and to biological, brain, social, and financial sector networks. The emphasis lies on understanding these complex, real-world networks by topological as well as spectral studies. NAS also has expertise in concepts (e.g. routing, robustness) of network architectures, in the performance analysis of quality of service-aware protocols and Internet behaviour, and in strategic and business-oriented challenges for network operators.
For more information about this position please contact Prof. P. VanMieghem, Professor, email: P.F.A.VanMieghem@tudelft.nl, Tel.: +31 15 2782397.
For information about the selection procedure, please contact Mrs. M. van der Heijden, HR-advisor, email: hr-eemcs@tudelft.nl.


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According to the malaria guidance issued by the United States Food and Drug Administration, a malaria-endemic area is defined as any area "where CDC recommends anti-malarial chemoprophylaxis in travelers in the most current version of the CDC Health Information for International Travel (commonly known as The Yellow Book) at the time the donor is screened." Understanding the difference between a malaria-endemic area and a malaria-endemic country is critical in determining whether or not a US blood donor will be deferred from donation. It's pretty simple, really: Malaria-endemic areas are specific regions of countries where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that travelers take medication to prevent malaria transmission. If there are no malaria-endemic areas in a particular country, then that country, by definition, is not a malaria-endemic country. See the definitions of "resident" and "traveler" for more information on how these definitions are used.


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World Youth Championships
Sean McColl of Canada won his third world title in difficulty, Daniel Woods of Colorado finished third in his age category, and American Alex Johnson won the speed-climbing championship at the World Youth Championships in Scotland. Thirty nations were represented at the comp, which was held in the enormous Ratho climbing center outside Edinburgh. The sensational McColl, from North Vancover, B.C., has now finished first in four world youth comps in three years. He won the 16-17 age category in difficulty last year and the age 14-15 speed-climbing comp in 2002. McColl also finished first in the 2002 difficulty comp, but was disqualified after a urine sample showed traces of pseudoephedrine, a banned stimulant contained in the Claritin Extra he was taking for allergies. Alex Johnson rallied to win the speed contest despite finishing a disappointing 10th in the hotly contested girls' age 14-15 difficulty comp. Fourteen-year-old Charlotte Durif of France, who won this category, has onsighted more than 20 routes of 5.13b or harder. Other top American finishers included Daniel Woods, third in the age 14-15 category (his second top-three finish in two years), and Zeb Engberg, who just did a 5.14c at Rumney, N.H., and finished 10th in the age 18-19 category. Results (Top Three Finishers and All North Americans) Male Juniors (Age 18-19) 1. Jorg Verhoeven (NED) 2. Eduard Marin Garcia (SPA) 3. Dmitry Sharafutdinov (RUS) 10. Zeb Engberg (USA) 17. Dave Holodiloff (USA) 32. Jason Holowach (CAN) 39. Alex Honnold (USA) 41. Dan Tersmette (CAN) 42. Zack Levitt (USA) 45. Jason McColl (CAN) 50. Josh Muller (CAN) Male Youth A (Age 16-17) 1. Sean McColl (CAN) 2. Ivan Kaourov (RUS) 3. Fabien Comina (FRA) 10. Matt Johnson (CAN) 11. Paul Wallace (USA) 25. Patrick Luther (USA) 26. Zach Lerner (USA) 28. Charlie Hitchman (CAN) 44. Alex Quiring (CAN) 47. Chris Sinatra (USA) 53. Tony Berezowski (CAN) Male Youth B (Age 14-15) 1. David Lama (AUT) 2. Blagovest Lazarov (BUL) 3. Daniel Woods (USA) 11. Jj Mah (CAN) 27. Jon Cardwell (USA) 37. Zak McGurk (CAN) 37. Andrew Rothner (USA) 40. Simon Benkert (USA) 47. Marshal German (CAN) 54. Scott Kennedy (CAN) Female Juniors (Age 18-19) 1. Caroline Ciavaldini (FRA) 2. Florence Pinet (FRA) 3. Stéphanie Crouvisier (FRA) 7. Stacey Weldon (CAN) 13. Sydney McNair (USA) 19. Katelyn Dukatz (USA) 28. Nani Woollings (CAN) 30. Sammy Levy (USA) 31. Georgia Temple (CAN) 34. Jessamine McClellan (USA) Female Youth A (Age 16-17) 1. Caroline Januel (FRA) 2. Maud Ansade (FRA) 3. Chloé Graftiaux (BEL) 11. Victoria Weldon (CAN) 29. Sasha Turrentine (USA) 30. Cathy Laflamme (CAN) 32. Victoria Guido (USA) 32. Kasia Pietras (USA) 38. Stephanie Outland (USA) 43. Tedi Lockwood (CAN) 47. Sarah Jarvis (CAN) Female Youth B (Age 14-15) 1. Charlotte Durif (FRA) 2. Christina Schmid (SWI) 3. Silva Rajfova (CZE) 10. Alex Johnson (USA) 11. Autumn Duke (USA) 20. Noella Nykyforuk (CAN) 26. Elizabeth Broun (USA) 32. Meagan Martin (USA) 42. Jelisa Dunbar (CAN) 43. Celeste Wall (CAN) 47. Jessy Newton (CAN)
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