When my son was little he love, love, loved animals. Because he was a loud, impulsive, and hyper child, the animals (particularly cats) didn't love him back. Because he couldn't love real animals as much as he wanted, he collected stuffed animals and gave them lots and lots of love.
I'm sure that you can think of a kid or two who, like my son, might not be able to experience the joy of caring for real, live animals. Try this idea for a dramatic play area to give all of your kids the opportunity to shower animals with lots and lots of love. Perhaps dramatic play will even help kids with self-regulation so that they can start caring for real-life animals.
Imagine the sweet giggles of delight you will hear when you set up an animal shelter in your classroom.
Your kids will not only have fun, but they will also learn why animal shelters play an important role in our community.
Most of the printables in this post are available in my store, but you can find a free printable to download at the end of the post.
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The first thing that you need to do when transforming your dramatic play area into an animal shelter is find some cute and cuddly animals.
I recommend the stuffed variety.
If you don't have many stuffed dogs, cats, or bunnies ask parents, friends, and your neighbor Bob. In no time, I bet you will find people who are willing to donate a few gently used stuffed animals to your classroom.
Think about all of the big hugs that these soft bundles of cuteness will get. These stuffed animals are the luckiest stuffed animals EVER!
Some animal shelters keep animals in cages, kennels or crates. You can set up small animal kennels or animal carriers in your dramatic play center. If you don't have any of these, you can use plastic tubs/containers to house animals. Use old towels or baby blankets to make a soft, comfortable bed for the critters.
Don't forget to add small food and water bowls.
Some animal shelters, particularly cat shelters, allow animals to roam around in a room. Make animal beds by placing a pillowcase or small towel in the bottom of a basket or shallow box. Use baby gates to make a little play yard where dogs can play.
Ask your kids if they have ever visited an animal shelter. What was it like? They might be able to help you with additional ideas.
A few months ago, I found some clear plastic jars at my craft store. The craft store displays them by all of the slime supplies, so they think I bought them for slime storage. I use them to store my little erasers, counters, and every treasure imaginable. I bought a bunch of them.
We found that the little jars also make a great pet food container for a pretend animal shelter. You can also cover a small, empty potato chip can with paper to make a pet food container.
Fill the containers with pom-poms, crumpled paper, or dry beans to serve as pretend dog and cat food. Inexpensive pet bowls are available at the dollar store or thrift store. Plastic deli containers or yogurt containers will also work great as a food and water bowl.
Small travel containers work perfectly as medicine bottles. You can fill them with crumpled tissue paper, small pom poms, or even craft noodles. Do not use empty prescription bottles. We do not want to encourage children to play with prescription bottles.
Use aprons, smocks, vests, or colorful t-shirts as a uniform for shelter employees or volunteers. A white button-down shirt from the thrift store can serve as a coat for the veterinarian.
Now that my son is older and much less impulsive, animals do like him. He and I volunteer together at a local cat shelter and I can tell you that there is plenty of cleaning to do there. Lots of cleaning.
Provide a desk area complete with phone in your shelter. Kids need to manage the day to day tasks of running an important non-profit.
Don't forget to add a non-working computer or electronic device. Employees need them to keep records for all of the animals, to communicate with volunteers, and to design an amazing website.
Kids can also create animal posters in the office area.
We found the best dog in the world after reading his profile on a poster in the lobby of a dog shelter. His poster told us that he loved kids, that he was crate trained, and that he wouldn't eat our cat. We had to check him out and, I am so grateful that we did.
Supply your office with paper, markers and don't forget the tape so that kids can hang the posters all over the room.
A Reading Area: Some shelters encourage kids to come in to read to the animals. Add some lounge chairs and books.
Donation Boxes: All shelters appreciate donations. Use a box with a slot in the top for cash donations. Kids can stick play money in the box to support their shelter. Use additional donation boxes to collect food, blankets, toys, etc. You can even use this as an opportunity to do a community service project and collect real donations for a local animal shelter.
Additional Pet Supplies: Use your imagination to find additional props to add to your shelter….brushes, combs, cat toys, leashes, dog toys, etc.
One of the things that I love about the dramatic play center is that kids have so much fun that they don't even realize that they are learning. There are many ways that you can add some literacy opportunities to your dramatic play center.
Use this printable to help your kids make collars for each animal in the shelter. They can customize the blank tags with a letter or name.
Guess what?….. This can be a great fine motor activity too.
Hole Punch – Provide a hole punch to add a hole in the top of the tag.
Stringing the Tag – Finally, they can string the tag onto a pipe cleaner color. Up the wow factor and fine motor challenge by adding beads.
You can provide additional literacy opportunities by letting kids make schedules for shelter employees and volunteers, design a web page mock-up for the shelter and create name cards and posters for the animals.
Additional signs, forms, labels, and word cards can be found in the Animal Shelter Dramatic Play Set found in my store.
I hope you find these ideas helpful as you set up an animal shelter in your dramatic play area. Enjoy watching your kids give lots and lots of love to the pets.


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Video Games for Your Family or Kids
3 November, 2013 by Scott Steinberg	Family Tech, Play	No comments
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Technology for parents & kids: Hints, tips, online safety strategies & more.
While gaming has certainly matured over the past few decades and more adults are playing them now than at any time since arcade machines were the rage, video games are hardly for the 18 and up set alone. Some of the best titles around are made not specifically for kids, but with more of an all-ages focus in mind, seeking to provide something enjoyable for children, adults, or even the entire family who wants to team up to conquer new challenges. Here are some of this year's releases which fit that bill.
Rayman Legends – Despite a high-profile demo garnering attention on the Wii U last year, this follow-up to Rayman Origins was delayed to an August release so that it could also be released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The left-to-right gameplay is slightly similar in some ways to games such as New Super Mario Bros. Wii U, specifically the ability for up to four to play at once on one screen. On the Wii U, a fifth player can join in with the GamePad controller and manipulate the environment to help others along.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix – Square Enix has finally announced the eagerly-anticipated third installment in the series that dared to answer the question of what would happen if characters from their stable of role-playing games met those from the wonderful world of Disney. But as that isn't due for a while yet, they're biding their time by re-releasing the original game and its side-story follow-up, Re:Chain of Memories, in high definition. This collector's package also includes a motion picture retelling of the events of another installment, 358/2 Days, as a nearly three-hour cinematic compilation.
Skylanders Swap Force – The title that managed to fuse toys and video games like no other before it is back for a third round. As the name alludes to, the Swap Force is a group of 16 new Skylanders characters who are able to swap out their top and bottom halves to gain new powers and abilities throughout 256 possible combinations. A solid 17 new levels await, and as before, you can continue using characters from previous Skylanders games, complete with all their levels and abilities still intact.
Disney Infinity – Disney knows a good thing when it sees it, and when it saw Activision's Skylanders, it wanted a piece of that action. The result is Disney Infinity, which allows you to not only purchase figures of different Disney characters from hit series ranging from The Incredibles to Monsters University and Pirates of the Caribbean to Phineas and Ferb, but also different world and power discs, which dictate where you play and what added abilities you have, respectively. The star attraction, however, is the Toy Box mode, where you can mix characters and items from different Disney worlds to create your own fun.
Pikmin 3 – Ever wonder what it's like to be the size of an ant? The latest title from the creator of Mario puts you in control of a crew of three tiny spacemen who have crash-landed on a mysterious planet where everything around them is enormous. Everything, that is, accept the friendly plant-people known as the Pikmin, who do their humble best to help our intrepid explorers to take on fierce predators and solve puzzles to claim the large pieces of fruit needed to provide sustenance to their hungering homeworld. A new Bingo Battle multiplayer mode also allows you compete with a friend as you each race to collect the four fruits needed to form a row on your card.
The Wonderful 101 – What do you get when you cross Power Rangers with Pikmin, and multiply them by 20? You get the Wonderful 100 (the other one is "you"), a team of superheroes who travel en masse and use the power of Unite Morphing to create large Green Lantern-esque constructs, from the Unite Fist and the Unite Sword to the Unite Gun and Unite Bomb. The more heroes you have in your team, the more powerful your attacks. And you'll need that power if you're to stop the giant forces of the invading alien terrorists known as the GEATHJERK. Additionally, up to four other players can join in for cooperative gameplay by using Wii U Pro Controllers.
DuckTales Remastered – Those who grew up with DuckTales in The Disney Afternoon are now old enough to have their own children, but the everlasting appeal of Disney's characters and stories provides a unique opportunity for them to share this adventure with a new generation. Capcom, WayForward, and Disney have come together to remake the classic '80s Nintendo Entertainment System title with high definition graphics, new features, and a reunion of all the surviving cast members from the show– including the 93-year old Alan Young as Uncle Scrooge and the 96-year old June Foray as Magica De Spell! This version of the game was originally released as a download-only title, but is also being released at retail for $19.99.
WWE 2K14 – A perennial favorite, World Wrestling Entertainment's latest outing comes under the flag of a new publisher in 2K Sports. Boasting numerous new improvements to improve the feel and dramatic tension of the action, WWE 2K14 is also celebrating 30 years of WrestleMania with a single-player campaign of the same name. A whopping 45 matches look back on and allow players to recreate landmark moments throughout WWE's history, from the rise of Hulkamania in the 80's to the rise of New Generation stars such as Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart in the early 90's, and beyond. Pre-orders get to use the Ultimate Warrior as a playable character, and a special "Phenom Edition" of the game will also be available, containing extras based on the Undertaker, such as his "American Bad***" biker persona.
Rocksmith 2014 – Whereas Guitar Hero and Rock Band allowed music fans to pretend they were playing a guitar, Rocksmith 2014 actually teaches you how to do so by plugging in an actual electric guitar or bass. Designed as a replacement to the previous 2011 release, rather than a sequel, this version features 85 lessons and other features, including different modes to help players learn, improve, and further challenge themselves. Meanwhile, those who purchased the original will find value in the newly-added songs and modes now included.
Need for Speed: Rivals – Whether you're on your fifth vehicle or aren't even old enough to touch the pedals without receiving a severe scolding, who doesn't love the thrill of fast cars? Need for Speed: Rivals follows on from the series' prior Hot Pursuit installment with players taking on the role of either a speeding racer or the police officer tasked with stopping them. Cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes are included, with the new "AllDrive" system allowing you to switch between them seamlessly. And for the hardcore car enthusiasts, there are numerous customization options for the numerous brands of cars featured in the game, including Ferrari, who hasn't been a regular part of the series since 2002.
High-Tech Holidays: 2014 Wish Lists
1 November, 2013 by Scott Steinberg	Play	No comments
Even if you're not a self-professed gearhead or gadget enthusiast, it's impossible to avoid technology's growing influence: From smartphones to tablets, streaming media extenders to cutting-edge gaming systems, high-tech advancements are increasingly permeating all facets of everyday life. Happily, as a working parent, business owner, and longtime fan of consumer electronics, I'm pleased to say that it continues to open doors for today's end-user – literally hundreds of options in every connected category now offer incredible (and incredibly accessible and affordable) ways to work, play and have more fun. Being a practical man though, I'm all about picking the mobile devices and gadgets that are laser-focused on everyday value. As you can see from some recent collections of awe-inspiring new gadgets and accessories we've assembled, the key to picking the right high-tech gear is choosing the gizmos, accessories and features that make life simpler and more enjoyable on a day-to-day basis.
With so many options to pick from in every area of consumer electronics from HDTVs to digital cameras, we already try to strike a balance in terms of performance and practicality when it comes to helping friends and family compile their wish lists for the 2014 holiday season. As you'll quickly see from top reviewed picks such as the iPad Air, PlayStation 4 and Garmin nuvi 3597LMT HD, most of our selections offer a wide array of both entertaining and practical uses, and are continually being expanded via additional software downloads. (Many free of charge – score!) You, see when it comes to choosing the best technology gifts for the holidays, it's important to focus on maximizing bang for the buck, and buying devices that not only serve a variety of exciting functions from social networking to beaming down streaming videos, but can also double in place of other gadgets. If you take a look at some of the recent suggestions we've compiled (you can see several collections at eBay, where we'll be regularly updating readers with recommended picks) from the best travel gadgets to innovative new ways to work and play, you may notice a running theme. Specifically, that all include selections that don't just meet a variety of needs and interests, and boast features you're likely to use on a running basis, but also are easily expandable to become even more entertaining and useful over time.
If you're buying on a budget, no need to fear either: Plenty of chic smartphones, eye-catching tablet PCs and accessories, and high-tech toys for kids of all ages can help get you connected. And if you look online, you'll notice a promising trend: More and more great options are available to choose from with each passing day, and quickly falling in price. Whether it's a Kindle Fire HDX tablet or Beats by Dre Studio set of headphones that's caught your eye, a quick glance online reveals dozens of deals available in every category, so you can pick up some serious high-end hardware without breaking the bank. Better yet, it's not just actual devices that are getting an upgrade either. As with downloadable apps, courtesy of growing online and Internet multiplayer capabilities, today's best video games and family-friendly game choices for every system no longer end, but rather begin with what's in the box instead. Across the board, these upgrades add up to devices, online services and apps that are more compelling, more varied, and more useful with each passing day.
Moreover, you don't have to be a self-professed geek to get the most out of any of these choices either. Thanks to the growing popularity of touch-screens, hyper-intuitive applications and speedy setup procedures, users of every experience level will quickly find today's top mobile devices and gadgets increasingly simple to enjoy. So if you haven't put high-tech gear and accessories on your list of top picks for friends and family this year, I highly recommend doing so. You'd be amazed just how much of a hit technology can be with all interests and ages – and how much the entire gang will get out of the experience. As an added bonus, thanks to widespread Internet access, growing availability of streaming media and increasing social network and sharing capabilities, realize – most devices make for gifts that keep on giving.
We invite you to stay tuned throughout the holidays as we continue to bring you a growing selection of top choices to keep an eye on, and make the gift-giving process easier. To keep up with many of our favorites and share your own collections, be sure to stay tuned to our top picks, which we'll continue to post at eBay, and check back regularly over here at TechSavvyMag.com as well. Stick around, and you may be surprised at just what kind of sparkle the season has to offer. We're thrilled and delighted to help share these highlights with you and yours – especially with so many great gadgets now easily affordable and accessible to a skyrocketing number of enthusiasts.
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Back to School Gadgets and Tech
19 August, 2013 by Scott Steinberg	Life	No comments
While it's hard to believe just how fast summer has flown by, the new school season is finally here and in full swing for students of all ages. With millions of teens, tweens, and school-aged kids returning or preparing to head back to classrooms nationwide, now's the perfect time to consider giving your family's learning experience a 21st century upgrade. Offering a more engaging and interactive approach to lectures, lessons and guided instruction, technology provides a great hands-on complement to traditional teaching methods, helping kids get more out of every learning exercise. Here, we've teamed up with some top tech companies to highlight a number of great gadgets that can enhance education both inside and out of the classroom.
Right off the bat, one tip to keep in mind when shopping for a new computer, laptop or tablet is to start by picking an operating system that offers students lots of learning tools. With Windows 8 devices, for example, you get support for programs like Office 365 University, multitasking tools like Snap, study apps like Flashcards Pro, and free online backup and sharing with SkyDrive. There's a wide range of Windows 8 devices for every need and budget as well: The OS is available on desktop, portable and tablet PCs alike. Right now, Microsoft is currently running a "Chip-In" program where friends and family can contribute money towards the purchase of a Windows 8 PC as well: Microsoft will actually chip in a 10% discount with free shipping and no tax – a great deal, especially if you're on a budget.
One of many great laptops that runs the operating system and comes highly recommended for college and high school students is the HP Pavilion 11 TouchSmart Notebook, which is powered by the latest AMD A-series dual-core processor. In plain English, that means that students can enjoy a super-powerful, touchscreen laptop that's well-suited to education or entertainment purposes. Lightweight and portable, the system also happens to be surprisingly affordable, clocking in at under $400. One feature you'll especially enjoy about the HP TouchSmart notebook is that it can also resume from sleep mode in seconds for fast access to email, social media, music and more, given built-in AMD Start Now Technology. A fun and user-friendly study tool, it's also an unexpectedly cost-conscious solution as well.
If your student is one of many who uses their iPhone to access educational apps and study, organize and learn, then you also know that battery life can be a concern as well. Thankfully, Duracell's Powermat iPhone 5 solutions offer a way to more than double your iPhone 5's battery life so you're never caught without power. Its handy AccessCase protects your device, while snap-on, snap-off battery attachments let you pack as much power as you need and a portable TravelMat allows for easy to-go wireless charging. The company also just came out with its new wireless backup battery line called Go Power which works with both micro and regular USB port devices – i.e. many popular mobile gadgets. It offers three backup battery power options, so no matter how long students are away from power sources, they can keep their devices from dying.
If you're looking for more awesome educational apps and gadgets, you might also check out the following solutions, just a few of many high-tech learning tools now available to students.
Evernote – Clips and stores text, photos, web pages and more so you never lose track of your thoughts.
PBS Parents Play and Learn – Offers fun games and activities that teach kids about math, reading and more.
Graphing Calculator – Saves you from buying a standalone scientific calculator.
Learn With Homer – Introduces children to the magic of reading.
Studious – Helps with planning and organizing homework assignments.
Kindle Paperwhite – The popular eBook reader offers on-demand access to thousands of textbooks, books, and periodicals.
Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case – Protects your tablet PC while adding a travel-friendly physical keyboard, great for typing longer documents.
Microsoft Surface Pro – Provides a powerful and versatile hands-on portable computing experience, marrying the best features of tablet PCs and traditional laptops.
Parrot Zik Headphones – In addition to awesome audio quality, these critically-acclaimed cans also offer noise-canceling capabilities, handy when studying in shared spaces or during late-night cram sessions.
From massively online open courses to learning apps, it's clear that technology is quickly reshaping the face of education. The good news for kids, parents and teachers alike: You can't find a better tool to instantly grab and engage students.
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First a caveat: I have nothing against technology. In fact, I am a big fan of it and believe that it has delivered great benefits to humankind. This article is about the WAY that it is often implemented, not about the technology per se, because human nature is such that anything that is imposed on us will initially be resisted, or even become outrightly rejected.
What I have seen is that at that handover point to the implementation team the entire project focus changes, from the broader perspective of delivering business benefits towards mostly just getting the technology installed on time and on budget. The project plan suddenly moves to reflecting milestones and deliverables that largely focus on the technology, while the end users often become a bit of an afterthought. "Oh, we'll give them training." is an often-encountered response.
Why is that wrong? How many sales reps do you know who love filling in forms? I have seen CRMs that demand the sales reps to fill in dozens of fields for each client interaction. Are you surprised that they then balk at this task and that process compliance and technology utilization rates reach nowhere near their projected targets?
Let's face it, sales reps don't view CRM systems as a sales support tool. They see them as a sales management tool, and what's more, one that expects them to give up their personal knowledge and client relationship information. They often feel that giving up this personal information makes them more vulnerable to job loss when their employer organization decides to downsize its sales force. In their minds, filling in CRM data is not only boring, time consuming, taking them away from selling but also reduces their personal job security.
According to Accenture, 85% of technology projects fail to deliver the anticipated business benefits. Is it any wonder? Are you surprised to hear that most CRM implementations take two to three years before they start to deliver the business benefits that the vendor promised would happen in a much shorter time frame?
So, what is the solution? For a start, you don't do what seems to be the standard way that consultants like to work and that many technology projects seem to be implemented. All too often, I have seen consultants and technology experts come into an organization, work predominantly with the executive team and with the IT department on a process and technology solution that is then imposed on the end users with only the barest minimum of consultation. The catch-all that I have witnessed, as far as the end users are concerned, is often just a group email addressed to them with a list of the proposed solution features, and the laconic offer to "Let us know if you disagree with anything."
Are you surprised then that when the new tool is switched on, the end users do not naturally embrace the change, and often outrightly resist the new solution, complaining it does not work the same way, nor better than the old?
My recommended approach is to include those people early and comprehensively who are most immediately impacted by the new process and technology solution, namely the end users. What's more, the very people that help to craft the solution, will be far more likely to embrace it after implementation and they will be far less likely to resist change. So, in my opinion, most business technology implementations are conducted the wrong way around, i.e. focusing on the technology, not on the people using it.
Why is it then that most business technology implementations, particularly as far as CRMs are concerned, seem to focus on the technology first, and on the people last? So, are most business IT solutions implemented the wrong way around? Are CRMs putting people last? What do you think ?
My team works with Sales and Marketing teams in medium and large B2B organizations. We hear all the time how sales reps complain that Marketing doesn't produce high enough quality sales leads. There are statistics around that, that say that Sales only follows up on about 15% of the leads that Marketing provides. That's 85% of leads being wasted!
Sales says that Marketing doesn't produce "qualified" leads and Marketing says that it isn't their job to "qualify" them; that their job is only to generate enough general interest in their business offerings for prospective customers to just contact Sales. While they are really unqualified leads often Sales refers to them as "Cold Leads" or tire-kickers, rather than a real genuinely interested buyer.
That is the crux right there: Marketing may think that just a name and a phone number are a sales lead, whereas sales reps ideally want a ready purchase order and probably the accompanying payment for the product or service they are selling. Ideally, Marketing people argue, they want to be order takers, not sales people.
The old sales funnel is dying and the Buyers' Journey is upon us, which means that the entire way organizations attract interest and sell things is changing dramatically. Organizations that do not adjust to the new paradigm really risk being left behind only to go the way of the dinosaurs.
My experience, with a lot of different organizations, is that there often is no coordinated effort between Sales and Marketing on how to manage leads. Instead of an agreed, documented and managed lead nurturing program often the initiative is handled solely by Marketing and then imposed on Sales without much collaboration between the two.
This results in sales leads of various quality being simply thrown "over the fence" for the sales people to follow up and then weave their magic. Marketing gloriously acclaims that they have successfully generated X number of leads. While Sales exclaims that they aren't worth their attention.
If the organization doesn't have a mutually agreed plan in place on what constitutes a lead and how to handle them, then the leads will most likely end up wasted with the response from the sales rep something like this: "I called them and they weren't interested," or even worse "I called them and they didn't remember making an inquiry about our product." I believe this is where the "Death of a Lead" happens, because what happens to a lead once it is handed over to a sales rep will demonstrate of how much value it was to start with.
In many organizations the quality of the feedback from Sales to Marketing is either non-existent, very poor or at best rudimentary. What is missing is a structured, measurable and - most importantly - consistent and constructive way for Sales to inform Marketing of what works and what does not.
Once Marketing receives constructive feedback from all Sales reps it can then make informed decisions on how to better support them. So, if we can close the feedback loop between Sales and Marketing we can create what we call a virtuous cycle of collaboration that stops wasting time, money and effort on both sides and allows both teams to live up to their full potential. We call that Sales+Marketing Collaboration, some call it Smarketing.
But no matter what anyone calls it, most would call it Nirvana. And wouldn't it just be a wonderful thing?
Sales and Marketing are two of the most customer-facing functions in any sales organization. As the key revenue-generators they are what a customer gauges the business on and they are the organization's present and future growth engines. So you would think that there can be no higher priority to the senior management team than to ensure these two vital teams work together as effectively as possible in order to present the best possible image to the market and to entice customers to buy from us, rather than from our competitors.
Additionally, there is a whole lot of evidence that closer Sales+Marketing Collaboration lifts Sales Productivity, and I can show you that a lift of just 5% in Sales Productivity can yield a 20% increase in profit. So, Sales+Marketing Collaboration should be a BIG DEAL.
So, what stands in the way of getting Sales and Marketing teams to support each other more effectively ? The following is a collection of high level mistakes that we have compiled for you. Contact us for more detailed information.
The worst mistake one can make is to turn a blind eye to problems. Yet, denying that there is a problem, that there is room for improvement, and merely accepting the status quo can magnify issues that would be otherwise manageable. For too many companies, sales and marketing departments are working in their respective silos, blissfully unaware of the need to adapt to the changing world that surrounds them. Too many organizations have taken this path and have suffered for it. How did Kodak miss the digital-camera revolution? How did Canon not see the threat from smartphones with in-built cameras? Show initiative and address the problem.
2. Relying on "Quick Fixes"
The world is increasingly impatient and our attention spans are becoming shorter. Combine that with the short term results outlook in many sales organizations and it is no wonder that when problems arise we look for quick fixes. However, shortcuts rarely work when it comes to sales and marketing collaboration. When sales reps do not make their targets, many organizations try to fix the problem with short-term solutions.
This is a popular panacea but according to the nineteenth-century German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, 87% of new knowledge is forgotten within 30 days. What do you think happens 30 days after sales training?
The rationale for this popular choice is as follows: if X number of reps bring in Y amount of revenue, more reps will bring in more. However, bringing more reps into a flawed sales and marketing environment will not yield the desired results .
Surely, this is the way to boosting sales results? Well, it would be if all your sales lead creation and management processes were perfect, if sales and marketing were working harmoniously together to generate, nurture, hand over, close and report on leads perfectly. If that is not the case, why would you want to spend good money creating more leads only to see them dry up and lead nowhere thanks to a flawed process? Stuffing more leads into a flawed sales process will not resolve a sales effectiveness problem. The best thing here is to fix the cause, not the symptom.
Sales and marketing obviously need to work together. For such cooperation to be possible, cross-functional processes need to be in place to make sure that both sides are in alignment. Not having a intermediary in place to intermediate between Sales and Marketing is a gross oversight. Get a referee.
Collaboration is a deeply inter-personal matter, it relies on people doing the right thing. When attempting to foster a cooperative relationship between Sales and Marketing it is important to address the human dimension as a priority. Only then will it be appropriate to move on to HOW each department can support the other, what tools should support them or what joint processes and metrics we should use. People come first.
I have nothing against technology, as long as it is deployed properly. It seems though that there are vendors out there that offer their latest whizz-bang technology by promising the world. It is pretty obvious that even the most sophisticated technology will remain ineffective if you don't have your people and your business processes aligned first. Technology is good, use it wisely.
When change touches on aspects of corporate culture, implementing reforms can be an uphill battle. As laudable as it might be for middle managers or junior staff to attempt to make cultural changes, such optimistic projects are often doomed to failure unless they have executive buy-in. Get the boss involved.
Too often, we expect overnight results, and sometimes even that's not fast enough. The fact is, any change must be given time to work its way through the system if it is to have any chance at producing the hoped-for results. Hasten wisely.
Now it's your turn, please go check out Peter Strohkorb's acclaimed consultancy: How are you aligning sales and marketing in your organization? How are you solving the age old problems of CRM with proper implementation and enablement? What are your thoughts on Peter's powerful thought-provoking contribution and advice above? Perhaps drop him a line in the comments below if you agree or have a different opinion. He's raised some critical issues that all business people must endeavor to collaboratively resolve in the information age.


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Eventi
 Il 28 maggio del 585 a.C. il filosofo greco Talete predisse una eclissi solare.

Il fenomeno era giudicato di cattivo auspicio, tanto che interrompe una battaglia della guerra tra Persia e Lidia: i due eserciti, terrorizzati, si rifiutano di combattere e le due nazioni, in guerra da sei anni, si accordano per una tregua.

Per questo prodigioso evento la data ebbe grande importanza nell'antichità e fu utilizzata accanto alle prime Olimpiadi e alla fondazione di Roma come cardine delle datazioni.

La data è anche per noi contemporanei importante perché è il primo evento storico di cui conosciamo esattamente la data.

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UforChange works to ensure every young person confidently pursues a future rich with opportunity. UforChange seeks to achieve this goal through its Core Arts Program, offered to over 30 young people every year, along with a series of industry partnerships that lead to workshops and events, which empower another 350 youth every year. Since 2009, UforChange has served over 2459 youth from all over the Greater Toronto Area, graduated 612 from our Core Arts Program from which 323 joined post-secondary education, and to whom we offered 555 paid employment opportunities and 665 volunteer opportunities.


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Performance audit 140
Assurance review 1
Service delivery 4
Grants administration 2
Policy development 2
Asset management & sustainment 1
(-) Remove Veterans' Affairs filter Veterans' Affairs
(-) Remove Parliament filter Parliament
Defence 204
Treasury 153
Taxation 127
Social Services 116
Attorney-General's 110
Prime Minister & Cabinet 69
Immigration 67
Regional Development 65
Centrelink 60
Foreign Affairs 59
Infrastructure 50
Customs 48
Cross Government 47
Trade 44
Border 36
Fisheries 35
Forestry 26
Published: Thursday 30 September 2010
Direct Source Procurement
The objective of the audit was to assess how well agencies had implemented the CPGs and relevant FMA legislation when undertaking Direct Source procurement.
The audit examined whether selected agencies had developed a sound procurement framework; appropriately classified procurement methods when meeting external reporting requirements; implemented the CPGs and relevant legislation when Direct Sourcing; and established effective procurement monitoring and review arrangements.
The ANAO selected four FMA Act agencies to provide a cross-section of the 104 agencies that reported procurement activity in AusTender in
2008–09. The agencies selected for audit were:
the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA);
the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (Innovation);
the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA); and
the Australian Crime Commission (ACC).
The ANAO examined a stratified random sample of 645 procurements valued at $10 000 and over, across the four agencies. More detailed testing was undertaken for the 285 Direct Source procurements in the sample.
Across Agencies
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 9 of 2010–11)
Published: Wednesday 29 September 2010
Green Loans Program
On 3 February 2010, Senator Christine Milne wrote to the Auditor General raising concerns about DEWHA's administration of the Green Loans program and requesting a performance audit of the program. Issues raised included: uncapped assessor numbers; problems with the delivery of the program; the quality of assessor training and assessments provided to households; the lack of an audit facility within the program; and equitable access to work under the program.
In light of Senator Milne's request and other concerns in relation to the administration of the program, the Auditor-General agreed on 25 February 2010 to conduct a performance audit of the program. The objective of the audit was to examine key aspects of the establishment and administration of the Green Loans program by DEWHA and the program's transition to DCCEE. Particular emphasis was given to the program's three main elements:
training, registration and contracting of assessors;
scheduling, conduct, and reporting of home sustainability assessments, and the associated payments to assessors; and
provision of green loans to householders, and the associated payments to participating financial institutions.
The audit also examined the extent to which steps had been taken by DEWHA and DCCEE to assess whether the Green Loans program was achieving its objectives.
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts; Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
Published: Friday 21 May 2010
Campaign Advertising Review July 2009 - March 2010
As part of the ANAO's role in reviewing proposed advertising campaigns for compliance with the June 2008 Guidelines, the Auditor–General advised the JCPAA that the ANAO would provide regular summary reports on its advertising review activities to Parliament. Section 25 of the Auditor General Act 1997 provides for the tabling of such reports.
The Australian Electoral Commission's Preparation for and Conduct of the 2007 Federal General Election
During the preparation of the ANAO's Planned Audit Work Program 2006–07, JSCEM suggested that the ANAO consider a possible performance audit into the efficiency and effectiveness of the AEC's management of elections. JSCEM's suggestion was considered in the planning and preparation for this performance audit, which focuses primarily on the AEC's administration of the CEA in the lead-up to and conduct of the 2007 general election.
Australian Electoral Commission
Published: Monday 7 September 2009
Campaign Advertising Review 2008-09
As an element of the arrangements implemented to support the role of the ANAO in reviewing campaigns' compliance with the Guidelines announced on 2 July 2008, the ANAO advised the chair of the JCPAA that the ANAO will provide regular summary reports to Parliament. Section 25 of the Auditor-General's Act 1997 provides for the tabling of such reports.


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Прибрежный аквальный комплекс у мыса Казантип (, ) — гидрологический памятник природы, расположенный на территории Ленинского района (Крым).

В 2021 году постановлением правительства России от 26 апреля 2021 года N 648 был преобразован в государственный природный заказник федерального значения «Казантипский морской».

История
Статус памятника природы присвоен Решением исполнительного комитета Крымского областного Совета народных депутатов от 22.02.1972 № 97.

Является государственным памятником природы регионального значения, согласно Распоряжению Совета министров Республики Крым от 05.02.2015 № 69-р «Об утверждении Перечня особо охраняемых природных территорий регионального значения Республики Крым».

Описание
Статус памятника природы присвоен с целью сохранения, возобновления и рационального использования типичных и уникальных природных комплексов. На территории памятника природы запрещается или ограничивается любая деятельность, если она противоречит целям его создания или причиняет вред природным комплексам и их компонентам.

Памятник природы занимает прибрежную полосу акватории Азовского моря, что примыкает к мысу Казантип — севернее села Мысовое.

Памятник природы полностью входит в состав водно-болотного угодья международного значения
«Аквально-скальный комплекс мыса Казантип» (с 2013 года) и частично (57 га) — в границы Казантипского заповедника (с 1998 года).

Природа
Объект охраны — прибрежный аквальный комплекс (участок акватории).

Мыс Казантип далеко вдаётся в море и имеет форму брахиантиклиналь с пологим наклоном пластов на крыльях.

Здесь сосредоточены галофитные биоценозы и морские макрофиты. Аквально-скальный комплекс имеет большое значение для водоплавающих птиц (например, цапли большой белой, цапли малой белой, огари), как места для гнездования. Аквальный комплекс — важное место нереста, нагула и зимовли местных видов рыб. В акватории Азовского моря обитают краснокнижные виды, например мизида аномальная (Hemimysis anomala), мизида зубчастая (Hemimysis serrata), травяной краб (Carcinus aestuarii), морской крот (Upogebia pusilla).

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Памятники природы Крыма
Гидрологические памятники природы
Ленинский район Крыма
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Brian Williams — the disgraced former NBC Nightly News anchor — is trending on Twitter at the moment. In case you didn't know, he's on MSNBC now, where today he quoted music lyrics and described the missiles raining down on Syria thusly: ""Wow, the beauty of our military weapons. What a sight." Yeah, Brian. What a sight, huh?
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GREEN MEADOWS, P.E.I. - A 34-year-old man from the Morell area was taken into custody Monday for care and control of a motor vehicle while impaired.
On Dec. 10, Kings District RCMP responded to a complaint in Green Meadows where a man, who was believed to be impaired by alcohol, had just driven into the driveway of the home.
A person from the residence approached the running vehicle where they noticed the man passed out behind the wheel.
The resident took the keys from the ignition and returned to the home to call 911.
Officers arrived at the scene, and the man was taken to the RCMP Montague office where he refused to provide adequate breath samples.
He was held in custody and later released when it was safe to do so, although his vehicle was impounded for 30 days.
The man is scheduled to appear in Georgetown provincial court in January.


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Q&A: Why Can't COVID-19 Be Eradicated and Other Lingering Questions
Crystal Watson answers more COVID-19 questions.
More than two years into the pandemic, people still have questions about COVID-19. Crystal Watson, DrPH, MPH, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, recently returned to Public Health On Call to talk through some of the queries listeners have sent to publichealthquestion@jhu.edu.
This article was adapted from the July 1 episode of Public Health On Call Podcast.
Why could smallpox be eradicated, but not COVID-19?
There are a number of factors that made smallpox eradicable and that make SARS-CoV-2 impossible to eradicate.
First, smallpox only infected humans, whereas SARS-CoV-2 has many animal reservoirs. Even if we could stop transmission in humans, it could always spill over again.
Second, smallpox was straightforward to identify, but COVID is much harder. With smallpox, there is a characteristic rash. With COVID, you have flu-like symptoms which makes it hard to distinguish from other illnesses.
Third, smallpox was also primarily transmitted through respiratory droplets and close contact, making it less transmissible than SARS-CoV-2, which can spread through droplets and aerosols.
Lastly, herd immunity was much easier to reach with smallpox than COVID. Smallpox infection or vaccination provide long-lasting immunity and protection against the virus—lifelong in some cases. Right now, COVID is ubiquitous throughout the world. The virus is changing quickly and causing reinfections. Even if you've had it once, you can get it again.
Is it true that long COVID may be less likely with omicron?
We're still getting data on this. One study published in the Lancet showed somewhat lower odds of developing long COVID with omicron vs. delta.
We need to keep in mind that this may change with new subvariants. It still means long COVID in a lot of people, because omicron is infecting many more people than delta did. Even though the odds may be slightly lower, this is still a big issue.
What is the actual risk of long COVID?
We probably underestimate what long COVID might do to our lives. It's still important to prevent infection for myself and my family, because we don't want long COVID syndromes that could impact us for the rest of our lives in some cases. That influences me to take more precautions, like wearing a mask and testing before I travel.
Is it okay to use expired COVID tests?
Tests do expire and, when they do, they're less likely to give you an accurate result.
Check with the test manufacturer or the FDA's website [because] a lot of these tests have expiration dates that have been extended. The [FDA] has looked at the tests and found they work longer than initially thought. (Learn more about expired tests from the COVID-19 Testing Toolkit.)
Am I more likely to get severe COVID from someone who has never been vaccinated, or someone who is vaccinated and boosted?
Severity of COVID is probably related to a number of different things, [such as] a person's susceptibility to severe disease, given underlying conditions and factors like their immune system response.
In some cases, the amount of virus they are exposed to can influence how sick a person gets. For instance, people who are not vaccinated can have a higher viral load and potentially pass on more virus to other people. People who are unvaccinated also shed the virus for a longer period of time.
Generally, people aren't at much higher risk of severe infection from an un- or undervaccinated person because the main factor is susceptibility.
Do you think the guidelines* around testing will change, now that reinfection can occur within weeks of recovery?
*Current CDC guidelines state: Most people with a history of test-confirmed COVID-19 who remain symptom-free after recovery do not need to retest or quarantine if another exposure occurs within 90 days after their initial infection.
In some ways, this has changed already—we have much greater availability of at-home antigen tests. People are using these tests to rule out COVID in many different situations. The CDC recommends using tests if you have COVID-like symptoms, if you've had a known exposure, as screening for schools or work or large gatherings, and in some cases, before and after travel.
PCR tests can be much more sensitive and pick up the virus for some time after a person is no longer infectious. That recommendation probably won't change.
Should people who still test positive after taking Paxlovid be treated again?
Right now, there's not much evidence to support a longer or new treatment course if someone is continuing to test positive after taking Paxlovid. We know from clinical trials that some people have persistent positive tests after they receive treatment. Most people in trials didn't have symptoms if they were still positive and there was not a high likelihood of those people being hospitalized or becoming severely ill.
There were many challenges in responding to SARS-CoV-2. How is the world responding to the emergence of widespread monkeypox?
This is a very different scenario than we've seen with monkeypox in the past. We're trying to ramp up our capacity for testing, surveillance, and messaging to make people who are vulnerable aware of the symptoms and the risks they face.
Although we have two vaccines stockpiled in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world that can be helpful against monkeypox, they are in limited supply. We're racing to catch up on what to do if we need more vaccines.
We have work to do to build up our public health response capacity to new infectious diseases. Our global cooperation and coordination needs improvement, even after COVID. Monkeypox has existed for some time—it's endemic in some countries in Africa. Now that we have global cases, we need to make sure that people in Africa also have access to the treatments and vaccines that we're working on in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Crystal Watson, DrPH, MPH, is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an assistant professor in Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Where We Are in the Pandemic
An Update on COVID Vaccines


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Chris Matthews' Producer Allegedly Gets Into Shoving Match With Republicans
"Hey Chris, how's that tingle up your leg?"
Despite the fiery political atmosphere, this week was largely civil at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. The exception to the rule came when some innocent heckling of MSNBC host Chris Matthews allegedly turned into a shoving match between one of Matthews' producers and a few GOP convention attendees. The Hollywood Reporter tells the story:
A scuffle involving an MSNBC producer and two men who heckled host Chris Matthews was being investigated by security officials Thursday night a few blocks from the Republican National Convention.
Matthews was hosting a show at a makeshift outdoor stage near the Tampa Bay Times Forum after Mitt Romney accepted the GOP presidential nomination. During a break, two men shouted, "Hey Chris, how's that tingle up your leg?" The comment was a reference to Matthews' 2008 comment that a Barack Obama speech sent a "thrill up his leg."
According to witnesses, a shoving match ensued.
"Then this short dude who works for MSNBC pushed them," said Toby David, who came to the defense of the two hecklers. Another witness, Kim Churchman, added, "One of them was smiling and didn't know it was coming, and the guy just shoved him."
Apparently, aside from being physically violent, the MSNBC producer was extremely rude during the incident, asking one of the witnesses "You want to get in trouble too?" when the other man tried to intercede. Evidently, hearing an entire convention of people described as racists for three days straight leaves a mark.
Video of the interview with Kim Churchman, another witness, is also available here:


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EU states decided last month to draw up the list in a bid to discourage the most aggressive tax dodging practices.
But eight of the 17 jurisdictions currently listed are set to be quickly removed from the list after they offered to change their tax rules, according to EU documents seen by Reuters.
Panama, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Barbados, Grenada, Macao, Mongolia and Tunisia are the jurisdictions that EU officials have recommended be delisted.
The removal of Bahrain was also initially considered, but its delisting was eventually not recommended, the documents show.
The proposal will be discussed at a meeting of EU ambassadors on Wednesday and is expected to be adopted by EU finance ministers when they meet next week in Brussels for monthly talks.
Jurisdictions set to remain on the blacklist are American Samoa, Bahrain, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Namibia, Palau, Saint Lucia, Samoa, and Trinidad and Tobago.


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Centropyge aurantia, appelé plus communément poisson-ange nain doré est une espèce de poissons de la famille des Pomacanthidae (ou poissons-anges) et du genre Centropyge, genre regroupant les poissons-anges nains.

Il a été décrit officiellement pour la première fois en 1974 par John Ernest Randall et Richard C Wass, à partir de spécimens issus du port de Pago Pago, à Tutuila, dans les Samoa américaines.

Son nom scientifique, issu du latin , fait référence à la couleur générale de ce poisson .

Cette espèce vit dans les récifs peu profonds de l'océan Pacifique occidental.

Description

Le corps de Centropyge aurantia arbore la forme typique des Centropyges: il est ovale et comprimé latéralement. La couleur classique du corps est orange foncé à rougeâtre avec les flancs marqués de stries verticales dorées et sinueuses. Les nageoires dorsale, anale et caudale présentent quelques bandes submarginales sombres et sont liserées de bleu électrique. Son œil est lui-même entouré d'un anneau bleu foncé. Les écailles sont de type cténoïdes. Une épine, caractéristique des Pomacanthidae, de couleur sombre, est présente à la base de l'opercule.

Les juvéniles sont d'une couleur cuivrée, et les stries dorées apparaissent au fur et à mesure qu'ils grandissent.

Centropyge aurantia a la particularité de posséder de très grands yeux situés tout près d'une bouche minuscule. Le profil de son corps est plutôt haut, à tel point que lorsque le poisson dresse toutes ses nageoires, il peut sembler de forme presque circulaire.

Sa nageoire dorsale contient 14 épines et de 16 à 17 rayons mous tandis que la nageoire anale a 3 épines et de 17 à 18 rayons mous.

Cette espèce atteint une longueur totale maximale de 10 centimètres, ce qui en fait le plus petit poisson du genre Centropyge.

Répartition géographique

Le poisson-ange doré se trouve dans l'océan Pacifique occidental. Son aire de répartition s'étend de l'est de l'Indonésie aux îles Fidji et Samoa, en passant par la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et les îles Salomon. Il est présent jusqu'en Australie, où il a été observé au Nord de la grande barrière de corail, au large du Queensland.

Habitat

Centropyge aurantia est une espèce habituellement rencontrée en eaux profondes (jusqu'à 20 mètres de profondeur) sauf en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée où elle a parfois été observée à moins de 3 mètres de profondeur.

Ce poisson timide vit dans des zones comportant de nombreux récifs coralliens et des affleurements rocheux, se cachant souvent dans des crevasses entourées d'algues et d'éponges de mer.

Alimentation

Centropyge aurantia est un poisson omnivore se nourrissant d'algues, de petits invertébrés, et de détritus, déchets organiques provenant de plantes ou d'animaux morts en décomposition

Comportement

Centropyge aurantia est un poisson terriblement timide et timoré qui est très rarement observé à l'état sauvage. En effet, sa nature méfiante le pousse à préférer les fourrés coralliens denses dans lesquels il passe la plupart de son temps cloîtré et loin des plongeurs.

Dans un article du blog du Musée Bishop, le plongeur et ichtyologiste Richard L. Pyle  parle de cette espèce qu'il a rencontrée et observée à Pohnpei et qu'il qualifie de "fantôme" à cause de sa nature méfiante et de sa tendance à se dérober à la vue des plongeurs. Selon lui, il semblerait que ce poisson très cryptique en journée devient plus actif le soir, lorsque le soleil se couche.

Centropyge aurantia est un poisson généralement solitaire qui devient anxieux en présence d'autres individus à proximité. Il ne se regroupe en petits harems de quelques individus qu'au moment de la reproduction.

Reproduction

Comme les autres espèces de poissons-anges, Centropyge aurantia  est une espèce hermaphrodite protogyne, c'est-à-dire qu'elle est d'abord femelle puis se transforme en mâle sous des stimuli de croissance et sociaux. Le poisson le plus dominant se transforme en mâle lorsqu'il n'y a pas d'autre mâle dans les parages. Au moment de la reproduction, ce poisson-ange forme de petits harems composés d'un mâle dominant et de quelques femelles. Les gamètes sont émis dans l'eau. La fécondation est externe et les œufs puis les larves sont pélagiques.

Aquariophilie

Centropyge aurantia est relativement rare dans le commerce aquariophile. Étant donné sa rareté, son prix est relativement élevé: un spécimen coute entre 160 et 280 euros en 2021.

Très timide et craintif, Centropyge aurantia vit dans des tunnels rocheux ou des crevasses, et ce comportement se retrouve en aquarium. Il faut donc le loger dans un aquarium de type récifal lui offrant de nombreuses cachettes où il se dissimulera la plupart du temps. Il faut également éviter de maintenir ce poisson solitaire avec d'autres Centropyges ou même d'autres poissons-anges qui le stresseraient trop .

Il est réservé aux aquariophiles expérimentés.

La température de l'eau doit être maintenue entre 5°C et 28°C, et le pH de l'eau doit se situer entre 7 et 9.

Origine des noms

Nom français
poisson-ange : ce nom, utilisé pour désigner tous les Pomacanthidae, est dû à la forme de leurs grandes nageoires dorsale et anale ressemblant à des ailes. Cette caractéristique est néanmoins moins prononcée chez les Centropyge du fait de leur petite taille.
nain : les Centropyges étant des poissons-anges de petite taille, ne dépassent jamais plus de 15 cm dans la nature, ils sont communément qualifiés de nains ou de pygmées.
doré : fait référence aux lignes dorées présentes sur la livrée de ce poisson.

Nom scientifique
Centropyge: le terme vient de deux mots en grec ancien,  signifiant « aiguille » ou « pointe », et  signifiant « fesse », en référence aux rayons épineux de la nageoire anale de ce poisson.

aurantia: ce mot latin féminin désigne l'orange (le fruit) et, par dérivation sémantique, « de couleur orange ». Il fait référence à la couleur générale de ce poisson.

Espèces ressemblantes

Centropyge bispinosa a peu de chance d'être confondu avec Centropyge aurantia dans sa forme classique bleu profond à violet avec les flancs orange vif marqués de stries verticales orange rouge plus foncées, mais dans sa forme orange il lui ressemble beaucoup.
Centropyge loriculus est orange avec quelques larges barres noires et verticales. Il vit dans le Pacifique tropical, de l'Indonésie à la Polynésie française.
Centropyge shepardi est orange avec de fines stries verticales noires. On le rencontre uniquement dans le Pacifique tropical Nord-Ouest.
Centropyge ferrugata a un corps de couleur grise dans sa partie supérieure et orange dans sa partie inférieure, avec de larges points noirs alignés verticalement. On le rencontre dans le Pacifique tropical Nord-Ouest.
Centropyge potteri, a un corps orange dans sa partie supérieure et noir dans sa partie inférieure, et est strié de lignes verticales bleues. On ne le rencontre qu'à Hawaï.

Liens externes

Espèce

Taxinomie et classification

Bibliographie

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Notes et références

Genre de perciformes (nom scientifique)
Pomacanthidae


Solving puzzles has become an intricate part of our lives. For a lot of people, solving crossword puzzles while drinking their morning tea, or while riding their everyday train to work is like an everyday schedule. And why not, solving puzzles is a great way to use your free time, which also has a good effect on your health. Watching crossword puzzle tournaments and the masters solving puzzles in the shortest time, gives us all a true boost to solve our daily puzzles faster and just like the professionals. However, solving the tricky puzzles is not an easy task. You need to know the right tricks and follow the tips carefully. So, here are some of the best tips to solve crossword puzzles to help you master crossword puzzles like all National Crossword Puzzle Champions.
The first step to solving puzzles is to start with easy puzzles and build-up your confidence. Once you learn to solve the easy puzzle, your confidence and vocabulary increases with each passing day. Most puzzles get difficult with each progressing day of the week. The easiest puzzles come on Monday and then get difficult on Saturday.
With every puzzle, learn small tips and tricks to solve the puzzles yourself. Earlier, dictionary definitions proved to be extremely helpful in solving crosswords. However, with the modern puzzles that also include sports, culture, geography, history and current events, you need to keep yourself updated with the news. So, keep reading and learning.
If you are unfamiliar to a crossword puzzle, there is no shame in checking it out in Google. Experiences such as these help you learn from your mistakes and make you better in solving the crossword puzzles.
All Crossword puzzles have fill-in-the-blanks with additional clues given with them. They are simplest of all and great confidence boosters. So, if you are a beginner, make sure that you read the clues and solve the fill-in-the-blanks first.
When you solve crosswords every day, you will notice that the same words are often repeated. These small words are something you can commit in your memory.
Also, when solving the small words in your puzzle, common letters and consonants are used widely, such as 'Oreo', 'Era' and 'Idea'.
And finally, the most important tip of all! Never lose your patience and cool while solving your daily crossword puzzles. Crosswords can be really challenging and also at times frustrating, especially when you are not able to solve the puzzles. And once you start losing your cool, even the simplest puzzles turn into difficult ones. So, breathe in and breathe out a couple of times, especially when you cannot find the right solution for your crossword puzzles. Compete against your own-self and overcome your own hurdles while solving the puzzles.


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One Track Mind: BLDGS
by Aaron Leitko July 17th, 2009 August 29th, 2020
Standout Track: "Spirit High Way," which induces the same calm and peaceful feelings that one might experience upon ingesting certain illicit substances. Guitars chime and gurgle like so many blobs bouncing around a lava lamp. The inevitable crescendo peaks early but holds steady. Also, it's really loud. But when the song's six blissful minutes are up, you'll still be able to pass that pee test.
Musical Motivation: "It's sort of a spiritual meditation thing," explains guitarist Collin Crowe, an Arlington resident. "The songs aren't really about anything, we just want it to be, like, a burst of happiness." As a result, the BLDGS aesthetic skews new age. "We talk about spirituality when we talk about band politics," says Crowe. "I mean, our songs aren't political. We're more into dashikis and mysticism."
Shirt Tales: When it comes to astral travel and out-of-body experiences, BLDGS is covered—but traversing the United States has been another issue. A few weeks ago, the band finally managed to secure a 1985 Dodge van for $650 from a BMX enthusiast who rendezvoused with the band in an Ikea parking lot. "He was shirtless the entire time, but there was really nothing shady about it," says Crowe. But he recalls another experience that hit the group's bar for sketchiness. "The week before, we went to this other guy's house to buy a van. We called him on the phone and told us he wasn't at home, but my friend saw him peering at us through the window. He was also shirtless."
BLDGS performs Friday, July 17, at Velvet Lounge.


Paw Talk - Pet Forums > Dogs and Cats > Cats > Help! Please! My cats mad!
Help! Please! My cats mad!
Hello everyone! I need help because my 2 almost 3 year old spayed female cat is so mean! I got her when she was 8 weeks old at an apple orchard with my aunt and cousin. Whe were in the car and she was playing with my hair tie .And maybe terrirized her a little to much. I mean putting cloths on her and when I got mad at her I threw her ( not to hard) away from me. Also a few times I picked her up to hard and hurt her ( but she loved me after) and I know now what i did and i am so sorry now, I dont think she remembers because she was almost 3 months old then. So when I got older and she got older we mutured and now she is my little princess eatting fancy feast once a week. She really never really purred and slept with me maybe once. She has what i like to call a " purring blanket" where she kneads it.
Every since she was 1 she was always scratching and biting me and my mom. After she got spayed she was nice for a week and then she was back to her old self. I have a bird and she never goes after him. She never hisses or growls at me but her eyes grow black and her tail slashes, so i sit right where i am and watch tv or something and than she attacks my arm! I want to get a new 3 month old kitten but I am not sure how Sky will act towards Moon. My mom says that Sky is so mean that she will kill the kitten. Is this true?
To be honest, when you got your kitten it was going through its growing up stages. By traumatising it during those stages you have permanently ingrained certain fears, wants, and behaviours into your cat. However, it would be handy to know exactly what you mean by 'biting and scratching'. From your one example (tail lashing, pupil dilation, attacking arm on couch) it sounds like a cat that never learned people's body parts are not good play toys.
As for never sleeping with you and not purring; every cat has a different personality. Some purr loud, some drool, some lick, some sleep on people, etc.
If Sky has some serious behaviour issues I wouldn't get a new kitten at all. By doing so you are interrupting her normal life and she may develop some worse habits. I would work with the cat you currently have before upsetting her.
As for introducing cats; some cats get along swimmingly, other tolerate each other, and some attack all other cats. You never know until you try. It's highly unlikely Sky will kill the kitten but you MUST follow proper introduction procedures. You cannot toss two cats together and expect things to go well.
Thank you so much! She still watches me while i sleep though. She really likes to keep to herself and sometimes i go over and pat her than when she looks angry i stop patting and sit next to her. If i end up getting the kitten should i leave them together in one room for a day or two, because my dad and other websites say to do that? She will rub against my leg during feeding time and meow at me too. She also sleeps on this stoop in the bathroom when im in the shower and when i get out and talk to her she moves her jaws up and down and makes a noise like "kakaka"! She is so cute!
Absolutely NOT. Cats are extremely territorial. You don't put two strange cats in a room together. You keep them separated, while you exchange scents (such as by rubbing a shirt that smells like you on one cat then the other, back and forth, every day), and let them get used to the idea of one another through/under a door or a screen.
Then, after the new cat has been to the vet, you introduce them in a controlled situation and you don't leave them alone together until you are sure that they will not hurt one another.
I'm sorry Sky has this personality formed by her early abuse. I'm also glad you know better now. It's probably not too late to teach her not to attack you.
Do you play with her, with interactive toys? Keep a box of throw toys handy. When you see her get all wild eyed as you described, start throwing the toys for her to chase, instead. Distract her from what she is about to do, in other words.
Be sure to play games with her every day. Games such as, the throwing toys and chasing them, but also, string on a stick, where she chases and leaps and runs after something hanging off the end of a stick, as you drag it around.
Thank you for answering my post! I will do as you say.Yes i do play with her until she lays down to fall asleep. She loves playing with a hacky sac but i sowed it twice and then when i first noticed the beads falling out i instantly took it away from her and now play with long strings and feathers hanging from a stick. Cant complain for a dollar! I know what i did wrong and i really wish i didnt do it at all, if i could go back in time that would defiantly be one of the things i would change. I know she will still be alive when i live by myself and she will probably have a whole new makeover with her attatude! Not just from old age but from your advice!
She sounds like a happy girl, and I'm sure she can be redirected often enough to learn to leave your body parts alone.
my guess she attacks sometimes from over simulation you give your energy to her, cats don't normally enjoy being patted, i would only pet her head not her full body, and try playing with her with a string toy or ball and get her energy out on other things. She may be wanting more activity and play time. lasers are good as well. tired pets are happy pets.


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New Delhi, Aug 21, 2017 : The physical police verification for getting a passport will soon be a thing of the past as the government plans to connect the service with a robust national database of crimes and criminals that will check the antecedents of applicants at the click of a mouse.
Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi said the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Project (CCTNS) is expected to link with the passport service of the Ministry of External Affairs and it will replace physical police verification for passport applicants with online verification in a year.
"Police in some states are already using CCTNS for passport credentials. Police will be given hand held devices to go to an applicant's address and his or her details will be uploaded with the network. It will minimise contact with police and reduce time," he told reporters here.
Mehrishi was speaking after Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched a digital police portal under the CCTNS project, which aims to create a national database of crimes and criminals and connect country's all 15,398 police stations with it.
He said with the port, mandate of the CCTNS has been expanded by incorporating citizen centric services tenant verification, which could be done with the consent of the person being verified, quick registration of FIR in any crime and connecting the network with criminal justice delivery system.
Asked about the safety of the database, the home secretary said possibility of hacking was always there but enough safeguards have been put in place and the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre has been roped in for the task.
The home minister said the digital police portal will provide citizens, facility for online complaint registration and request for antecedent verification.
"The police portal will provide 11 searches and 46 reports from the national database for state police and central investigation agencies. Central investigating and research agencies have also been provided logins to the digital police database to access crime statistics," he said after launching the portal.
Singh said the CCTNS has enabled 13,775 out of 15,398 police stations to enter 100 per cent data into the software. He said as of now the CCTNS national database has around 7 crore data records pertaining to past and current criminal cases.
Singh said the CCTNS project will help in realising the Prime Minister Narenda Modi's dream of 'Minimum Government Maximum Governance'.
A home ministry official said the CCTNS will facilitate pan-India search on complete national crime and criminal database that is accessible to the investigating officers throughout the country.
The CCTNS project will interconnect about 15,398 police stations and additional 5,000 offices of supervisory police officers across the country and digitise data related to FIR registration, investigation and charge sheets in all police stations.
The project has been extended by the government for one year till March 2018.
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These include services like police verification for various purposes like issuance of passport, reporting a crime and online tracking of the case progress, online reporting of grievances against police officials, accessing victim compensation fund and legal services etc.


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Saul Nash ties fashion, cars and gaming together for new collaboration
Fashion |In Pictures
Image: Mercedes-Benz; Photography by Justin French, set design by Isabel + Helen and movement direction by Saul Nash
British fashion designer Saul Nash, who won The Queen Elizabeth II Award earlier this year, has unveiled a limited-edition capsule collection with Mercedes-Benz and SK Gaming.
The collaboration, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz eSports partner SK Gaming, features two limited-edition pieces designed by Nash, a jacket and a long-sleeved compression T-shirt that combines "the functional demands of everyday sportswear with fashionable style".
The reversible jacket and shirt are designed mostly in black to reflect Mercedes-Benz's sleek aesthetic, along with feature accents of SK Gaming's lilac-blue colour scheme. Both are made of recycled polyester, with the compression shirt including lycra for an ideal body-hugging fit, as well as thumb loops, a half-zip on the high-closing collar and an extended back to emphasise "the sporty functionality of the collection".
Saul Nash collaborates with Mercedes-Benz and SK Gaming
Commenting on the capsule collection, Nash said in a statement: "This project was an exciting space to explore three worlds that at first instance may not fit together. But the beauty of gaming is that anything is possible as there are infinite possibilities.
"It was inspiring to create garments through the lens of Esports, marrying this with the sleek design and exquisite heritage of Mercedes-Benz, whilst envisioning this in the world of movement that I'm grounded in. With performance wear grounded so much in movement, the question was how we could bring gaming which is often a static sport to life through movement."
Julia Hofmann, head of brand collaborations and branded entertainment at Mercedes-Benz AG, added: "Our heartfelt congratulations go to our partner SK Gaming on the 25th anniversary. Every collaboration gains from new impulses, and we are all the more pleased that together with Saul Nash, we have succeeded in creating a new connection between the worlds of fashion and Esports.
"With this exclusive collection, we want to appeal not only to Esports enthusiasts, but also to our customers and fans who value an active lifestyle that is functional in everyday life while exuding a modern look."
The Saul Nash capsule will be available for pre-order on November 30 via SK Gaming's website, with prices ranging from 89 to 150 euros. Customers will receive their items in 2023.
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Galloway: We need to believe
Central Coast Mariners left-back, Scott Galloway says his side are taking plenty of confidence from their performances against Melbourne City and Sydney FC but the next challenge is turning those performances into three points.
The message is clear from Paul Okon to his team and that's to believe. Belief from his players that they have the quality to match it with every team in the Hyundai A-League.
Galloway arrived on the Central Coast this season from Melbourne Victory and says that the side's last two performances breeds confidence that they can climb the Hyundai A-League ladder.
"We take plenty of positives from our performances against Sydney FC and the week before against City," Galloway said. "We're showing that we can match it with anyone and we should be getting results against the top teams, we're starting to make a statement.
"It's not about the top teams having an off day because we're doing it consistently now, it's about us playing the type of football we know we can play," Galloway said.
After the side's morale boosting 2-2 draw with City on New Year's Eve and a performance that saw the Mariners become the first team to put two goals past Sydney FC, Galloway said that belief is at an all-time high.
"The message from Paolo is believe," Galloway said. "We need to believe in ourselves, we've matched it with the big teams and should even be getting results so to those who didn't believe before, believe now because we've proven it time and time again," Galloway said.
The 21-year-old scored his first goal for the Mariners that equalised against Sydney FC which was followed by a passionate celebration in the north-western corner.
"It felt good to score," Galloway said. "It was good to show a bit of passion; I don't score too many goals so I had to make the most of the celebration.
Galloway credited his Mariners teammates who he says have made the transition from Melbourne to the sunny Central Coast a seamless one.
"I'm loving it here on the Coast, it's been really good," Galloway said. "It's a great team, a great club and a great bunch of boys so I'm enjoying playing football week-in-week out.
"It's been such an easy transition; I've played under Paolo before and with many of the boys so it's been very easy – the guys that I met for the first time welcomed me with open arms as well.
The Central Coast Mariners depart for Wellington on Friday morning and three points is the number one priority.
"Three points would be huge," Galloway said. "We've dropped six points against them and Wellington should be a team that we should be getting points against. It's always a tough trip to Wellington but to go there and get three points away is what we are aiming for," Galloway said.
The former Victory man made a switch to Yellow & Navy to secure more game time and says that his body is holding up well after posting 11 games to his name this season.
"The body is holding up well," Galloway said. "It took a couple of games to get used to but now I'm starting to find my fitness and hit my peak levels which allows me to get more forward which I like to do and run out the games making the full 90 rather than cramping at 60," Galloway said.
Hyundai A-League 2016/17 – Round 15
Wellington Phoenix vs. Central Coast Mariners
Venue: Westpac Stadium, Wellington
kick-off: 5:35pm (AEDT)
Official hash-tags: #WELvCCM & #CCMFC
TV Broadcast: Fox Sports 505
Radio Broadcast: 96.3 Coast FM