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BJ's Adds More Value to Same-Day Service Delivery
New program offers members unlimited or set number of grocery deliveries
Marian Zboraj
All grocery items, including fresh foods, are available for delivery in BJ's Same-Day Select program.
Following a successful six-month test of the program, BJ's Wholesale Club has launched the chainwide rollout of Same-Day Select — a membership add-on to its Same-Day Delivery service that helps customers save both time and money.
The Same-Day Select service is an upgrade option for BJ's members, allowing them to pay a one-time fee upfront for either unlimited or a set number of same-day grocery deliveries, received in as little as two hours. All grocery items, including fresh foods and everyday household essentials, are available for delivery.
"This program was designed to help our members take advantage of the benefits of same-day delivery while saving them time and money," said Tim Morningstar, EVP and chief membership officer at BJ's. "The immense success in our testing shows that our member recognizes the added value that this service provides, further contributing to the benefits of being a BJ's member."
Members have the option of selecting from two Same-Day Select packages:
Same-Day Select Multipack: 12 free deliveries for a one-year period ($55)
Same-Day Select Unlimited: Unlimited free deliveries for a one-year period ($100)
"We know convenience and value are key to our members, and with BJ's Same-Day Delivery, our members can have all the great value they expect from the club delivered right to their front door," said Monica Schwartz, BJ's EVP and chief digital officer. "We are excited to expand on our service by offering our members both a package or an unlimited option for deliveries to make the convenience and savings easier than ever."
Members can enroll in Same-Day Select online to start saving with the program immediately. Additionally, members using Same-Day Select receive in-club pricing as well as the ability to earn rewards and use BJ's coupons. Orders must meet a minimum of $60 to qualify for Same-Day Select delivery.
The Same-Day Select launch comes a few days after BJ's revealed its partnership with DoorDash, becoming the first wholesale club available on the marketplace platform. In addition to allowing both members and non-members access to BJ's products on demand, the strategic partnership enables same-day delivery from BJs.com powered by DoorDash Drive, which is DoorDash's white-label fulfillment platform that powers direct delivery for any business.
Meanwhile, BJ's may be facing legal issues: Walmart filed a lawsuit last week claiming that the warehouse club filched its patented mobile self-checkout technologies, otherwise known Scan & Go. According to the legal filing, BJ's used the innovations "without permission" when it introduced its ExpressPay feature in late 2021.
Westborough, Mass.-based BJ's operates 226 clubs and 158 BJ's Gas locations in 17 states. The company is No. 27 on The PG 100, Progressive Grocer's 2021 list of the top food and consumables retailers in North America.
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Create a playful space on your website with the secret gifts, and boost your earnings by allowing users to guess the sender. Who wants to wait until a free guess comes up if you can pay to take your chance now?
The Secret gifts add-on will bring the excitement of a game of luck to your dating website.
Site users send each other virtual gifts anonymously, and the recipient will have a limited time to guess the sender. If the guess is right, both receive a bonus to their account. The trick is to guess the sender as fast as possible because every second the bonus grows smaller.
Only a limited number of gifts is free per day, as well as the number of tries at guesses. You can earn by letting the site members pay for each subsequent guess, and by selling gift packs.


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Tra i maggiori poeti dialettali milanesi del XVII secolo, nel 1611 scrisse il poema storico La risorgente Roma e nel 1606 l'opera vernacolare Prissian da Milan (pubblicata poi congiuntamente al Varon Milanes di Giovanni Capis).

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Taliban seek return to peace deal in Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban says it wants to return to peace deal that recently collapsed
Spokesman says they want return to sharia law in return for peace
Fighting has seen more than 2.4 million people register as displaced persons
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani Taliban -- under pressure in fighting with the military -- said Tuesday it wants to return to a peace deal that recently collapsed.
The fighting in the Swat Valley region has forced thousands of civilians to abandon their homes.
That collapse sparked the ongoing massive military operation, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday.
Taliban militants in Swat Valley have announced that they are willing to disarm if the Pakistani government allows sharia, or Islamic law, to be implemented in the region, a spokesman for Taliban mediator Sufi Mohammed said.
The government rejected the offer, saying the Taliban must pull out of Swat or face arrest, state information minister Syed Sumsam Ali Shah Bukhari said Tuesday. According to Bukhari, the offer shows that the Taliban's morale is down and they are retreating.
The lastest round of fighting has killed an estimated 1,100 Taliban militants and 75 Pakistani security personnel, Pakistan's military said Tuesday. Another 226 Pakistani security personnel have been wounded, the military said. Watch journalists tour of the Swat Valley battlefront »
Mohammed negotiated the previous deal between the Taliban and the government, which called for the same arrangement.
Refugees survive on food 'cows won't eat'
Pakistan intensifies offensive against militants
That deal fell apart because the Taliban refused to disarm and moved into the Buner district, located outside of the region that the government allowed them to control.
The government has said it will only allow sharia if it does not contradict Pakistan's constitution. There are many interpretations of Islamic law, but the Taliban's version has curbed human rights, forcing women indoors, men to grow beards, and shops to stop selling movies and music.
The military operation against the Taliban in northwest Pakistan has resulted in the exodus of more than 2.4 million civilians since May 2.
The United Nations estimates that it's the biggest movement of people in Pakistan since the country was formed in 1947. It is also believed to be the fastest population flight in the world since the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
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Looking for fun summer activities for kids? Affordable YMCA summer day camps provide kids new, exciting, and challenging experiences while emphasizing core values.
The YMCA is committed to putting Christian principles into practice, and their mission is to strengthen kids, families and communities. Their programs focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.
The kids summer activities offered by the Y can be a nice alternative to traditional day care.
They offer a number of different summer camp ideas, so your kids might enjoy finding a particular camp they're interested in for a nice change of pace for a week.
I have enrolled my daughter in several programs through the Y, and she's had great experiences in all of them.
She learned how to swim in one of their summer swimming classes, and she played a couple seasons of basketball and volleyball there. And when I needed after-school care, I took advantage of their after-school programs.
YMCA summer day camps provide young people with supervised summer fun activities that teach core values, conflict resolution, and leadership skills.
Kids enjoy playing games, making arts and crafts, exploring science and technology, swimming, going on field trips, appreciating nature, and learning about different cultures.
Ocean Commotion & Water Explosions – Get ready to get wacky, wet, and wild!
Wonder Emporium – Investigate, inspect, and detect what makes things tick, tock or shoot through the air!
Where the While Things Are – It's a jungle out there!
Reach for the Stars – Sing and groove with the stars!
Prime Time Slime – It's time to get sloppy and slimy!
YMCA specialty camps give kids the opportunity to explore nature, discover new talents, and try new activities. They can pick from several activities to focus on for the entire camp.
How would they like to try gymnastics, martial arts, cheerleading, learn how to cook, or attend science camp? These are just a few of the options available.
At YMCA sports camps, kids receive specialized sports training in a day camp setting. Choose the sport of your choice.
If you're not familiar with the YMCA, I recommend finding one in your area and seeing what they have to offer.
If you're concerned about the cost of membership, they have some options available to you that might help out. For a slightly higher camp fee, you can enroll in camps and other activities without having to pay the cost of full membership.
They also have a Membership for All program that provides a 25% discount on monthly membership for families having a total annual household income of less than $50,000.
If you're interested in YMCA summer day camps, you might also be interested in other summer camp ideas.
We've got lots more free kids sports activities and games.


Home » Blog » Hiring - Not as much fun as recruiting!
Gosh, isn't it so much fun interviewing potential new employees. Not! You would think this would be second nature to me since I am a recruiter, and I spend about 75% of my week interviewing candidates. However, hiring for your own organization is serious hard work!
As a recruiter, I pride myself on being a perceptive, intuitive listener who is able to identify the right and wrong match for a particular position and organization within minutes of sitting down with the applicant. It's so exciting when I know I've found that perfect fit for my client's position.
Now, the tables have turned on me and I find myself looking for a new team member for the EKA family. It's been a very long time since I sat in the hiring chair trying to conduct an "HR appropriate" interview with a potential new hire. Believe it or not, I actually found myself googling "best interview questions to ask candidates" and other similar topics this morning in preparation for upcoming 2nd interviews for a new EKA team member.
It's so much easier to be an objective interviewer when you're not within the hiring company. This whole process has forced me to remember what it's like to be in your shoes. The worry if a new hire will be the right fit, the concern that they will leave and force us to start all over again, the general uncertainty brought about by any change to the team, and so on.
This experience has reminded me why having an outside resource and opinion is so valuable. I've also gained an even greater appreciation of the trust my clients have placed in me and my judgment in guiding them through the hiring process. I only wish I had someone to guide me through it!


The Didjeridu is used with other instruments such as the Bull Roarer and Click (or Clap) Sticks.
West Arnhem Land uses the quiet and uncomplicated patterns. Hummed notes are used in conjunction with blown notes to produce slower patterns. North-East Arnhem Land uses the first overtone, at about a tenth above the fundamental. Eastern Arnhem Land styles use the second pitch as well as a variety of techniques using manipulations of the tongue, lips and breath to create fast energetic rhythmic patterns.
The Didjeridu is often used as an accompaniment to song and dance. It is also used in ceremonial functions. A large version of the Didjeridu called a Yurlunggur is used only in ceremonies.


Using Internet of Things technology built into its machines, Illumina Inc. captures customer data that sales reps can use to increase sales and improve customer service.
Illumina Inc. began selling online last year and in March 2018 added a personalization dashboard called MyIllumina that enables customers to see vital information about the performance of Illumina equipment. The manufacturer's equipment is used in genetic research and by commercial services like 23 and Me.
Customers that create personalized MyIllumina dashboards can view this data, keeping up, for example, with the results of a sequencing experiment that can take up to five days, Grimm said.
We've weaponized the user behavior of these scientists.
At the same time, he added, Illumina turns that data into a "weapon" for the company's sales representatives by feeding results into the company's customer relationship management system from Salesforce.com Inc.
He gave an example of actual data from a smaller customer, a lab that does genetics research. After Illumina launched the MyIllumina service on March 3, three people from this unnamed company created MyIllumina accounts within a couple of weeks.
For a scientist from this company running an experiment, her MyIllumina dashboard allows her to access results of a test run from her smartphone and get alerts when there is a problem. Her boss can also access those results from his dashboard to make sure a project is on track.
And that data can be highly useful for Illumina, Grimm said. For example, if a client chooses to disclose the inputs it's using in the experiment, Illumina can see if it's using a competitor's chemicals for the test, rather than Illumina products. Illumina can also see if a machine is being heavily used, which can lead the Salesforce CRM to automatically suggest to the client's sales rep adding additional equipment.
While it's too soon to report conclusive data on the impact of the MyIllumina system, Grimm said Illumina is doing a lot more business with the client lab he cited in his presentation.
He said that customer's purchases from Illumina more than doubled to $134,000 in the first half of 2018, and that it's now making more than 90% of its purchases online.


Robert has published eight books and more than 250 articles on the themes of meditation, self-inquiry, leadership, authentic living and speaking, and spiritual activism. In the early 1990s, he wrote a pioneering column for The New Leaders executive newsletter entitled "The Corporate Mystic." He contributed original essays to three leading-edge anthologies and was interviewed for The Awakening West, a collection of conversations with contemporary Western wisdom teachers.
His résumé of speaking engagements includes more than 350 of his distinctive inquiry-based seminars, and talks to such organizations as State of the World Forum, California Institute of Integral Studies, Institute of Noetic Sciences, International Conference on Enlightenment, Inner Directions Conference, and International Coach Federation.
In January of 2012, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and told he had nine months to live. However, consistent with his contrarian nature, he lived a productive life until passing away in 2017.


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Q: C# byte[,] to string array Context

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*I look for an simple way to covert a 2D byte[,] array to an string array in C#.

*I found the function System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString() for convertig byte[] to string.
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*But what to do for 2D byte[,] array to string array. The lenght of the byte[,] is every time different.

A: byte[,] bytes = new byte[,] {
    { (byte)'H', (byte)'e', (byte)'l', (byte)'l', (byte)'o', (byte)'!' },
    { (byte)'W', (byte)'o', (byte)'r', (byte)'l', (byte)'d', (byte)0 }
};

string[] strings = new string[bytes.GetLength(0)];
for(var i = 0; i < bytes.GetLength(0); i++) {
    byte[] stringBytes = bytes.OfType<byte>()
        .Skip(i * bytes.GetLength(1))
        .Take(bytes.GetLength(1))
        .ToArray();
    strings[i] = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(stringBytes);
}

Test it online here. However, if the type were byte[][] instead of byte[,], things were a lot easier for you... Can you please clarify why you are using byte[,]?

Explanation: GetLength(int dimension) returns the length of the specified dimension - in this case, GetLength(0) is 2 (for two strings) and GetLength(1) is 6 (for a string length of 6). We allocate a string array large enough to hold all our strings. Then, for each single string (in the for loop), we first get all bytes that belong to that string. This is done using Linq: We convert the byte[,] array to a series of plain bytes (using OfType), then we Skip all the bytes that we've seen before and only Take as many bytes as we need. These bytes are then filled into the temporary array stringBytes, which is then decoded into a string.

A: Jagged arrays are much easier, since you can just traverse the array containing arrays. For them you could just have done something like:
var stringArray = byteArrays
               .Select(innerArray => Encoding.UTF8.GetString(innerArray))
               .ToList();

But since that are not the case we need to come up with something different. Multidimensional arrays are more like an excel spreadsheet where each cell contains one character.
The problem with that is that each row has the exact same amount of bytes, while the strings might have smaller sizes. The most standard approach for that is to terminate the strings with NULL (0).
Here is my working sample:
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        //different sizes for each row.
        byte[,] arrays = new byte[2,40];
        arrays[0,0] = (byte)'A';
        arrays[0, 1] = (byte)'B';
        arrays[0, 2] = (byte)'C';
        arrays[0, 3] = (byte)'D';
        arrays[1, 0] = (byte)'E';
        arrays[1, 1] = (byte)'F';
        arrays[1, 2] = (byte)'G';
        arrays[1, 3] = (byte)'H';
        arrays[1, 4] = (byte)'I';

        List<string> stringArray = new List<string>();
        List<byte> stringBytes = new List<byte>();
        for (int row = 0; row < arrays.GetLength(0); row += 1)
        {
            for (int col = 0; col < arrays.GetLength(1); col += 1)
            {
                //got a null terminator
                if (arrays[row, col] == 0)
                {
                    //check if it's for UTF8 encoding.
                    if (arrays.GetLength(1) == col+1 || arrays[row,col+1] == 0)
                    {
                        //nope. End of this string.
                        stringArray.Add(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(stringBytes.ToArray()));
                        stringBytes.Clear();
                        break;
                    }
                }

                // add all bytes for the current row.
                stringBytes.Add(arrays[row, col]);
            }
        }

        foreach (var item in stringArray)
        {
            //prints:
            // ABCD
            // EFGHI
            Console.WriteLine(item);
        }

    }
}

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Chapter 15: Break Time - 10:30-11:00am
Break time: potentially an oasis of calm in an otherwise noisy and hectic day, whether it was a Terrible Tuesday or not. 25 whole minutes to relax, pause and take a breath before the onslaught starts again.
It should be an oasis of calm, but most of the time you're still running around like a headless chicken trying to get stuff done, so perhaps oasis of chaos would be a better turn of phrase.
As a colleague recently said,
"Break duty: I really need to work in a school with no Year 7s." The reason for this perhaps controversial statement being that Year 7s in class can be quiet, eager, and at the start of the year they all do their best bunny-in-the-headlights impression, looking stunned and shocked at pretty much everything that goes on in a Secondary school. Later in the year and especially at break time, they transform into tiny yet incredibly loud, screeching things that run everywhere and apparently haven't heard the concept of 'Inside Voices'. They're also among those students - and there are worryingly quite a lot of them - who will stand out in the rain just to see how wet they can get. Having a duty area that is also a Year 7 hang out zone is not for the weak or fragile.
Break time was the opportunity to get cleared up after the last class and get ready for the next one, and because you were doing that, or at least because that's what I was doing, it meant that I never reliably got a chance to sit down and relax during it. Perhaps it was a Design & Technology thing, what with working with tools and materials rather than a set of books, that it took a bit longer to set up and pack away. If you were in the workshops, no matter how stern and dictatorial you were, there was always something that hadn't been put away so even if you didn't do the packing away yourself and got the kids to do it, it meant that you didn't get out on time.
There were times in the workshop when I was happy to play the dictator and not let the students
go until everything was perfect, but a lot of the time I was so grateful that I'd survived the lesson that I wanted the kids out of there before disaster changed its mind and decided to strike. Also, it was quicker and easier to do the packing away yourself. I know I probably shouldn't say that, that I should put the responsibility onto the students to teach them how to look after a physical space, but honestly, they were so bad at it, you had to tidy up after their 'tidying' anyway, so you might as well just do it yourself.
I suspect if there are any parents of teenagers reading this, they'll be nodding along to that. The students flung any tool in any tray, despite them being labelled and it being obvious what belonged where. They only had a vague understanding of what 'clean your bench' meant, from a less than half-hearted swipe to just standing there with their coats and bags on. Asking them to put books or resources back in a neat pile was akin to asking them to assemble a nuclear reactor with a blindfold on, although - especially with the younger years - there was always one OCD child who took enormous pleasure in tidying up the books after my traditional grumble about the state they'd
been left in.
Despite the possibility that there was a bit more clearing up to do int he D&T Department, there was on undeniable advantage to working in our corridor: food.
My waistline might complain about it, but on the whole I certainly didn't mind that barely a week went by when a recipe was being demonstrated by Lorraine and the spare results were put in the office for everyone to enjoy. It would be on these days when I'd get a chance to eat my 'breakfast', even though it would probably more correctly be called brunch at this time in the morning. Remember, I'd been up since 5:30am, at work since 7:00am and this was the first time that I had eaten. I probably still didn't feel like eating, but it was on offer, free, and my willpower has the breaking strain of a very weak thing indeed.
Usually, despite my atrocious sense of smell (something I suspect was a good thing when you're around over 1000 children on a daily basis) I'd be able to smell if something had been cooking across the corridor, and if the students were working away or I had a free lesson, it wasn't unknown for me to wander into the Food room just out of sheer nosiness and opportunism. As you'd expect, some of the students were very protective of what they'd made, but I was surprised at the amount of them who would freely offer up things for you to taste. Sometimes this was a blessing, and one would graciously accept a morsel.
With other students, perhaps the ones who only had a passing acquaintance with hygiene shall
we say, you were a little more reluctant to accept food from.
"Oh no, I couldn't possibly, I'm already stuffed, I just had my breakfast, you're too kind." accompanied by a swift exit; sometimes being British and being able to rely on manners to get you out of something was very handy indeed.
There were a couple of scavenging opportunities that were better than all the others. The first was when the Year 11s were doing their cooking sessions for their coursework. This was good for a teacher on the scrounge because they actually needed people to taste their food as part of their evaluations, so I was actually doing them a favour by lurking around the Food room trying not to look too hungry.
Tasting their creations was a little hit and miss as not all of them had the same amount of culinary flair, but they all tried, bless them. If you timed it right, you could move from one cooking station to the next, grazing on their products as if you were at an open buffet, pausing only to fill out their little sensory evaluations before moving onto the next one. Some might say that Italian, Mexican and Chinese food don't sit together very well, but they'd be wrong.
Admittedly, some of them pushed the 'You can't have too much garlic' maxim to breaking point, but at least that meant that you had weapons-grade breath for the rest of the day and the kids wouldn't be getting too close to you. As Lorraine would often say - or more accurately, lament - the students' presentation skills could do with some polishing and refining (pure teacher talk for that it looked like someone had either thrown the food at the plate or just thrown up on the plate), but it was free food, so I really didn't care.
The second food opportunity was when the students put on a Chinese banquet to celebrate Chinese New Year. Lorraine, our Food Technician Bernie and the students went all out and put the results out at break time for the other staff to come down and shamelessly stuff their faces appreciate the effort the students had put into the project.
Fool that I was, I missed the food bonanza the first year that Lorraine did this, and kicked myself when I kept hearing how good it was. So I made the effort next time, and wasn't let down - it was brilliant, and the students really had worked hard indeed, so all credit went to them, although the credit went to them while I was shamelessly stuffing my face. Despite being only across the corridor from the Food room, I still had to get in quickly because the event had been advertised by an e-mail out to All Staff. This meant one thing: the PE staff would be coming.
By coming, what I actually meant was: The gluttons from the PE staff would descend like vultures on a zebra carcass and hoover up anything that they could. It's not that they were greedy as such, but the PE boys just had certain appetite levels and you'd better be quick if you wanted your fair share, and be prepared to use vicious elbow action to get it. On Parents Evenings when we were provided with food beforehand, you had better be ready and waiting in the staff room for it, otherwise it would be slim pickings after the PE lot had descended on the spread. One member of the PE team, who shall remain nameless >coughMattcough< could be counted on to eat as many of the satay chicken skewers as possible, and it really was a sight to behold to see fistfuls of them being consumed with all the grace and elegance that a PE teacher could muster.
Word had gotten around about the Chinese banquet, and it was definitely time to deploy the elbows to get my fair share. It's one of those things about being a teacher that while you were very aware of the hierarchy in school, and you at least put on a show of deference and respect to those higher up on the ladder than you, when it came to semi-social occasions that involved food, any social structure went out the window and it was every educator for themselves.
Generally though, the food on offer was a little less grand, and it was either scones or if your luck was in, mini-quiches left on the table in the office. As our Head of Department was on an eternal diet, that just meant there was more for the rest of us. Because they were demonstration items, designed to be small, quick and easy to make in an hour's lesson, they were also small, quick and easy to eat, and it was only with the smallest twinges of guilt that I would find excuses to make multiple trips to the office to 'Get Something From My Desk' just so I could snag another scone
as I went past them.
There have been a couple of times when I've actually been on a diet and done pretty well on it (as opposed to saying I was on a diet, but giving up mere hours into it due to boredom/hunger/stress/lack of willpower), but having free food on offer as often as we did really didn't help the state of my love-handles. To give myself credit, just as I was doing better at drinking throughout the day, I had been doing better with not only bringing in lunch from home, but also a snack - and a healthy one at that - in the last year or so when I was teaching, so I didn't need to rely on the possibly not-so-healthy food from demonstrations to keep me going.
Despite it being break time, and allegedly not having to deal with students unless I was being unspeakably harsh to them by keeping them in for some misdemeanour, there were students in
my room that I needed to look after. Well, I didn't need to, but my professional distrust of teenagers meant that I couldn't allow them to be in there by themselves.
It had been suggested that the students needed somewhere to go at break and lunch that wasn't the canteen (always a zoo and not the calmest of places) or the playground (we were in England, not known for being the driest of places), so their tutor rooms had been made accessible to them. No-one saw that this was going to be a disaster in the making… oh, wait, yes they did. Most of us thought that this was a recipe for disaster, especially those of us who had workshops or practical areas for our tutor rooms.
Not only were the students allowed in their tutor rooms, but they were allowed to eat in there, and the original plan called on them to be unsupervised during this time. The thinking was that they now had somewhere to go, and they were responsible for the space, and if it was left in a mess, they'd be banned from the room for the following day, getting them to learn the lesson on tidiness. I'm sure I wasn't the only tutor to suddenly find things to do in their room at break to keep an eye on what was going on.
Inevitably, the handful of my tutor group to use our room on that first day were banned for the next day. Okay, maybe I was a little exacting on my definition of 'food waste', but there had definitely been a couple of crumbs left near the computers which I felt completely justified my decision to kick them out. I'm not saying that my mob were lazy, or rubbish or slow on the uptake, but for the first week or so they were kicked out every other day, and I even whipped up a sign and laminated
it (teachers love any opportunity to laminate something. My friend Sandra even bought her friend Beth a laminator for Christmas when she was doing her teacher training, and was told that it was one of the best presents she'd ever received when it was unwrapped) as I was getting bored of writing out a sign every day and I anticipated on using it again and again.
They eventually caught on and got a bit better, but they never really quite got it. Even with me popping in and out to surreptitiously keep an eye on them, they still managed to leave something around, despite me repeatedly telling them that they were responsible for the state of the room.
This just meant that I had a little less break than I already had, but it had to be done if I didn't want to be picking up crisp packets and biscuits from various locations in the room.
If I'd kicked the tutor group out for the day and wasn't tidying up, I didn't really spend much time in the office. Despite what you might think having ploughed your way through this book, I have a very low tolerance for whittering, aimless chat, and most of the time I just couldn't face it during the school day.
Having said that, I could whitter away quite comfortably with Kate, and if she was on duty at the bottom of the stairs at the end of our corridor, I'd happily join her for a chat. We'd cover the usual topics: who was really annoying us, catching up on any gossip and of course, generally moaning about anything that came to mind. Break duty was a good time to do this, as passing students reminded us just who was extra annoying and gave us an excuse to harangue them about their uniform or any work that they had left to complete for either of us.
It got to the stage that if either or both of us were sitting on the stairs, students would just turn around and walk away if they saw us, because they knew it just wasn't worth the effort, and I do wonder if this exclusion zone was my super power. At least it almost guaranteed a peaceful 15 minutes or so.
A frequent visitor to these discussions was Kate's friend Lucy, who worked upstairs as the Art Technician. Lucy was always cheery and a good laugh, except on Thursdays when she was still feeling the effects of Wine Wednesday and was a little delicate from the previous evening.
Another option, as it was close to our corridor, was to pop upstairs and spend some time with my good chum Miss T in the Art Department.
Miss T and I had started at the same time, and had qualified in the same year, although she had worked at the school as an LSA for a few years before her training. As I've already mentioned, Miss T was completely bonkers, and had claimed to be 47 for the first three years that I knew her, but she was so incredibly passionate about her subject; Art teachers generally seem to have more licence to be quirky (mad) than other teachers, and Miss T fitted this role perfectly.
She was always worrying that she wasn't a good teacher, ignoring the fact that she was completely brilliant and had most of the kids eating out of the palm of her hand. Like the rest of us though,
she focused on the relatively few students who played up or who had poor behaviour, and forgot the others who tried really hard and produced stunning artwork. Miss T did far more planning than I ever did, and put far more effort into her lessons, but still thought she was a bit rubbish and needed to try harder. As such, although she was always pleased to see me, she rarely sat down durning my break time visits, and bustled around clearing away work or getting ready for her
next class.
Miss T could always be relied on to have food on her, and ever the mother, she'd press some on
me whether I was hungry I was not, although there was many a time when I was grateful to have
a nibble on the cracker and cheese she gave me.
If she did eventually sit down, Miss T would give me a very fast running commentary on her life, both inside and outside of school, with barely a pause for breath and often at such a pace that I only had the opportunity to smile and nod along at the appropriate moments. To a semi self-imposed hermit like myself, living vicariously through Miss T's exploits showed me that there was very much more to life than school and crashing out exhausted at home.
Miss T worked part time at school, and was a working artist in the rest of her time, something I always admired and was frankly jealous of. She was always telling me of some art fair she'd been to or was going to, and she always kept me up to date with where the art market was, whether people were buying or not. Even better, and more involved and lengthy, were her tales of her Rock 'N' Roll life. She'd recently discovered dancing and was an enthusiastic participant in the scene that hosted it in various venues in the South East.
There was an ever-evolving cast of characters that accompanied these tales. As we were discussing private matters in front of students more often than not, Miss T and I had developed a shorthand of code words over the years, so to any earwigging student, it must have sounded like we were talking absolute gibberish, and probably cemented both our reputations as being bonkers, but it was all good fun. These stories were also punctuated by our fits of giggles and Miss T's braying laugh as we both cackled over some incident or another, and many a bemused glance was thrown our way by students over the years.
Just as entertaining as Miss T's dancing stories, perhaps even more so, were her stories about her daughter, Dolly.
In the time that I was working in Kent, Dolly went through her GCSEs, A Levels, Foundation Year and finally her Art degree, and I can say without doubt that she is one of the most creative, conceptual artists I have ever come across. Her photography has a haunting beauty about it, and I've even bought a piece from her because it was so stunning. She was also just as barking mad as her mum, although those wiser than me would probably choose to say that she was 'committed' to her artwork instead. A classic Dolly tale involves her hauling a huge, gilt-framed mirror for about a mile from the carpark to one of the beaches in East Sussex so she could take some reflective photos with it. That she wanted to place the mirror in a protective habitat, and had to apologise profusely to the park manager was all part of the experience (I have had to do this myself as an Art and then later Design student - it's amazing what you can get away with if you explain it as being part of an Art project. I think the most embarrassing thing I did was lie down in the middle of a bus station so I could get foot-level photos. Everyone just carried on walking by, so I probably wasn't the first student to have tried it.). Most of Miss T's Dolly stories involved some mad project or other, and I could only shake my head at the ludicrousness of it all, but was secure in the knowledge that the results would be amazing.
I don't know if it was just our school or if every school is like this, but we did seem to have more than our fair share of completely mad people on-staff, and slightly worryingly quite a few of them worked in the D&T Department.
Sam, bless her, was not in the D&T Department, but rather was part of the Performing Arts team. She was in the same training cohort as Miss T and myself, so we got to know her really well because we had to attend the same NQT meetings. Sam's main aims in life, apparently, were to get married and to get everyone in the world to understand just how amazing dance was. As far as I could gather, and I became quite good friends with Sam, her desire to get married was an excuse to wear a big, flouncy dress and have a party that more or less celebrated her position as the centre of the known universe.
Sam didn't seem to have the best of luck in fulfilling this plan though, and she had a series of partners who she was convinced was The One and that they'd be popping the question any day now. When I first met her, her partner at the time was a sub-mariner who spent most of his time under water, something even I could see wasn't the strongest foundation for future happiness.
As part of her marriage and dance-inspired madness, Sam - despite being a university graduate and (I assume) passing all of her teacher training criteria - had some very large and curious gaps in her knowledge base.
While on a round the world trip with one of her partners (a trip that involved the gentleman concerned buying a television and a Sky subscription for his beach hut in Thailand so he could watch the rugby - who said romance and adventure is dead?), Sam had a revelation that the stars moved. When I and a few friends were told this story, there wasn't a lot that could be said in response, and we just had to chalk it up to there not being enough room in Sam's head for boring stuff like general knowledge as her passion for dance took up a lot of extra space instead.
Sam loved dance. She loved it with a burning, intense passion that surprisingly wasn't matched by everyone else at school, but it's often the case that teachers who are enflamed with passion for their subject get the best out of their students. Such was Sam's passion and enthusiasm though, she was under the impression that anything could be taught through the medium of contemporary dance. Rightfully incensed when one or two less-than-supportive colleagues scoffed at this idea, Sam challenged them to name a subject - any subject! - and she would would get her troupe of students to teach that subject through the medium of dance.
When the totally easy and straightforward subject of quadratic equations was thrown forward, Sam grasped the bull by the horns and started to choreograph like a thing possessed. Then she had to go away and ask what quadratic equations were and what they were all about, but enthusiasm is half the battle.
Now, I wasn't present unfortunately at the triumphant performance of Quadratic Equations For Dummies (via Dance) as school performances make me itch all over, but I'm told it was spectacular, and the students really outdid themselves. Whenever I ask anyone who did see it whether it did in fact teach them about quadratic equations, I never seem to get a straight answer, but the general consensus is that Sam was convinced that it did and wouldn't hear otherwise.
Sadly Sam and her own brand of educational madness didn't stay at our school and she left for pastures new.
Also of note while we're talking about the Performing Arts Department was Shanu, also in the same training year as Miss T, Sam and I. The only thing to note about Shanu was that she regularly used her break times to call her parents to have a bit of a chat and let them know how she was getting on.
"Awww… how sweet." I can hear you say, dear reader, and yes, it is sweet, especially considering that her parents lived in Hong Kong and she'd give them a call a couple of times a week. I don't think that the Performing Arts Head of Department was especially happy when she got the phone bill as part of her budget report that year…
The last but certainly not least mention for the Performing Arts Department goes to Grace, one of the Music teachers that was at our school over the years. Like Sam, Grace was extremely passionate about her subject, but perhaps overestimated her own abilities a tad.
It said something that when her A Level Music class jokingly suggested that she perform a song at the upcoming Christmas Assembly - an invitation she accepted with much gusto - even they had to admit that they'd made a mistake and created a monster. Deaf to all criticism and pleas not to perform, many a rehearsal was had and according to the school gossip mill, her rendition of 'Valerie' was going to be something special - bear in mind here that 'special' is an educational code word for something that wasn't quite right. Those of us who were perhaps a bit more observant than others noted that the word 'good' had not featured anywhere in the reports of what was going on.
Again, coward that I am, I wasn't present for the fateful performance as I suddenly had to attend to some very, very urgent tutor business that possibly involved me ringing a parent, and sadly there were no phones in the Sports Hall where the Assembly was being held. Yes, I ran. Christmas Assemblies were painful at the best of times, with the staff being encouraged to put on a bit of a show for the students. What exactly we were supposed to be showing them, I'm not sure - how to torture a Christmas song? Just how badly they were going to dance when they reached middle age? This last feature of the floor show always caused sniggers to ripple through the staff as the Head would put the call forth via e-mail, asking for any 'swingers' to help with the Assembly. No one was ever sure whether he knew all the meanings of the term, but no one wanted to be the one to explain it to him.
The results of the request for swingers was a handful of staff bobbing and swaying along, apparently with severe hip disorders, while singing along to some Christmas song or other, in front of a hysterical, baying audience of students while the rest of the staff tried to look anywhere but at the front of the hall. There were several gentle souls like myself for who the excitement was all too much and had to leave lest we become overwhelmed. Muttered phrases along the lines of,
"Good god that's awful." could only be chalked up to sensory overload.
So it was that I was unwilling unable to see the performance by Grace, but apparently in a somewhat surprising show of support, the students decided to drown her out by joining in and singing along with her. Sometimes the kids showed a surprising amount of empathy and what could have been a horrific Assembly was apparently really quite good. Not that I'm sorry I missed
it mind you.
Enough of the Performing Arts Department - we had more than enough home-grown madness to share in the D&T Department. While it could be argued that I supplied more than enough insanity for all concerned, I was the model of sanity when compared to some of my ex-colleagues.
First up is Ruth, a cheerful and always happy young teacher who was the third Food teacher to be
in the department while I was there. There was a veneer of normalcy to Ruth, but it was a very thin one. She always wore her hair in bunches, which the students always thought was hilarious, and while they might not know her by name, or even what subject she taught, mention the teacher with the bunches, and they'd all know who you were talking about.
Ruth's favourite phrase was,
"I 'ate fish!" which she would trot out at any given moment in a comedy accent, and it got so that
it was mere background noise that you could tune out quite successfully. She'd say it so often, even in class, that it got to the stage where you'd hear one of the students saying it now and again, and you'd know that they'd had a Food lesson recently.
What Ruth was really known for though was her singing. Not the quality of her singing, just that she would do it at the drop of a hat, whether she was in a class, the corridor or the office. Her singing was apparently a big draw in her lessons, and the students appreciated her own brand of madness. Like Sam, it was easy to forget that Ruth was a highly educated individual, even when she was doing her Masters in Education while she was working in the department.
Last but certainly not least on the cast list of insanity was Jill. Jill was an older lady who started off as a supply teacher at our school, but when a more permanent position came up she got the post, and while being a bit of a generalist, she mostly taught Textiles. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that Jill was completely barking, in a special I-don't-have-a-clue, hippy-inspired form of insanity. Compared to her, I am the poster child for being sane and balanced.
As it happened, she lived quite close to where our lovely Head of Department at the time, Thackery, lived and he gave her a lift into school a few times, something that he recalled with a slight, haunted look in his eyes whenever we talked about it afterwards. Jill needed a lift not because she couldn't drive - she could - or because he didn't have a car - she did - but because she didn't know the way from her house to the school. This was a bit of a puzzler since she'd already been to the school a few times before getting the permanent post, but because he was an all-round lovely guy, Thack dutifully gave her a lift.
According to his version of the story - which I have no reason to doubt at all - she made him stop every mile or so, so she could take a picture on her phone.
"What a delightful lady, so entranced by the beauty of the Garden of England!" I hear you cry, but you would be mistaken. Jill made Thack stop the car to take photos so that she would have a visual record of the journey, and she'd be able to find her way to school again. Whether she made him stop on the way home too Thackery never said, but I wouldn't be surprised if she did. I also have a totally believable vision in my head of her holding her phone up while driving, matching the photos to the scenery, swiftly followed by her driving into a hedge. I also wouldn't be surprised if Jill was one of those people who only drove at 23 miles an hour, so there'd be relatively little damage done.
Jill had a surprising turn of phrase, and while every teacher has dropped one clanger or another at some point, Jill seemed to have more than her fair share. As is often the case, so regularly in fact that we could have made a fortune if we'd decided to start charging the kids for our services, a student once asked Jill to sew the button back on his trousers. He was apparently more than a little stunned when he was subsequently ordered with much authority and gusto to,
"Get in the cupboard and take your trousers off!" by Jill. This was in the days when half the D&T Department were in huts as the new building was being constructed, and we had built-in store cupboards in our rooms. Just how Jill was going to get the removed trousers was anyone's guess, and the poor lad was apparently going to have to stay in the cupboard, which had no light in it, while the offending garment was being repaired. Considering how flighty Jill could be, and how easily distracted she could get, he may have been in there for some time.
He was so stunned at the command to drop trou however that he declined the kind offer and mumbled something to the effect that he'd manage to get through the day somehow. That this was one of the larger lads in the school and Jill was more on the diminutive side made the show all the more side-splittingly funny for the class that got front-row seats for the show. Naturally, Jill completely missed the point and had no clue what everyone was laughing about or why the strapping lad before her had been reduced to a quivering jelly-like state.
She had once admonished a class, who I assume weren't really paying attention, to:
"Listen like beavers!" the meaning of which escapes me to this day.
With another boisterous class, she told them off for their abundant noise levels by telling them that,
"You're so noisy I'm having to close my chakras!" which I'm sure went over the heads of our students, who had something less than a passing understanding of Eastern meditation practices.
It was these last two phrases that would never fail to put Miss T and I into fits - Miss T had shared
a tutor group with Jill and had first-hand knowledge of someone more bonkers than she was.
Perhaps Jill's coup de grace was when she left our school. These were the days before budget cuts and we had an all-staff barbecue at the end of the academic year to celebrate our survival and to send off any staff that were leaving us. Sadly, Jill was moving on to pastures new, pastures that probably had more rainbows and unicorns in them than a temporary teaching room.
As is appropriate on occasions like this, speeches were made. I'd like to point out that my own leaving speech was brief to the point of non-existence, mainly because even after much deliberation I still didn't know what I was going to say. I could opt for the crazy version and have a rant about the state of education, but even I knew that wouldn't go down well, despite many of the audience no doubt agreeing with me - it was considered bad form to rant about the school and/or education in your leaving speech. I could go for a long-winded, narcissistic, self-congratulatory speech as a previous colleague had done, but as the only thing that was remembered about that speech was how long and boring it was, I decided it probably wasn't my best bet.
Reading out a self-penned poem and bursting into tears like another colleague didn't quite seem me, so that option was left on the shelf, as was the choice to pick my favourite hymn and make everyone sing along, as an infamous teacher from before my time had made everyone do at his leaving do. I wasn't in a place where I could pull off humour, so in the end I fell back on a short quote and left it at that.
All anyone can remember of Jill's leaving speech was that it contained a brief rant about her dismissal, that started with,
"Well, I've never been sacked from a job before!" which was still entirely accurate, as she hadn't been sacked from this job either, so why she was apparently so angry about it was anyone's guess.
That wasn't the last we heard from Jill - I fielded a phone call from her some time later; she was asking if it was okay if we did some references for her, as she was applying for a job as a Life Skills teacher, despite all the evidence that suggested that she was singularly unqualified for the post.
All I could stumble out was that I'm sure everyone would be delighted to give her potential new school references and to wish her luck in the interview.
Enough madness for now. As this was a Terrible Tuesday, and we'd just had the Year 11s, there were sadly no baked goods to greet me as I dutifully checked what was happening in the office (nothing). Everyone was off doing their own thing, and at least one of us should be on duty somewhere, although whether they'd remembered was another matter entirely.
With no distraction on-hand, I retreated to my room, as I had the next group to get ready for anyway, and I might as well get that job done. Not that there was a huge amount to do as I already had the resources ready and the students would be working on the computers, so there wasn't really much to do other than find the right file for my presentation, panic a little when I couldn't
find it, sigh with relief when I realised it was right in front of me, and open it up. With the projector turned on and it plugged into my laptop, that was the extensive preparations done.
I've often found that when faced with some genuine, honest to goodness free time, I didn't know what to do with it. Not enough time to do anything productive, but too much to just sit and collect myself. Heading up to the staffroom was an option, but it would be semi-dead as always, with the same few teachers in there having the same rambling, ranting conversations that usually took place, and I wasn't annoyed enough to join in with that today. Never keen to venture into the corridors at break time unless I really had to, it looked like I'd just be staying here. There were only
a few of the gentlemen from my tutor group in here today, quietly chatting as they always did, only today I could actually hear them as they weren't drowned out by the cackling and overly-loud chat of the ladies.
So I did what I always did in quiet moments like these - I totally abused my internet privileges. That's a slight over-exaggeration as I wasn't looking at anything dodgy, just not anything remotely school-related either, although I could probably give some credible excuse if push came to shove. That's the great thing about design, you can justify looking at an awful lot of random things in the name of 'research'. Having said that, there have been a couple of times when dodgy stuff has er… 'come up' at school, although not in my personal experience I hasten to add.
There was the time when, projectors still being a novelty, one of the Geography teachers was using it to put some resources from the web on the wall behind him. Unbeknownst to him however, a pop-up had appeared, as they often do, and was showing several ladies who were apparently very close friends doing something very naughty indeed. After a couple of eye-opening but admittedly educating seconds, at least for the lads in the room, one of the students pointed out to the teacher that something was amiss and he should look behind him. I can only imagine the look of horror that would have passed across his face when he turned around, and the mad scramble to close
the window in question. Thankfully our firewalls were somewhat sturdier these days, but I always extended my laptop screen anyway, so I could check what was on my laptop before moving it over to the projected screen.
A close friend of mine had to have a little conversation with the head of IT services one day, as it turned out that there were some naughty website addresses in his browser history. In a somewhat embarrassing few minutes, my friend found out that while he may have been looking at certain things at home, his browser history was automatically checked by our system when he brought it back to school. He was gently but firmly told to be more careful in future. I never took my laptop home, not to avoid having naughty web addresses on my laptop, but because a) I generally refused to do work at home so there was no point in taking it home, and b) I am pretty much a techno-idiot and had no idea how to change the internet settings on our laptops, and couldn't be bothered with the faff of finding out how to change them when I had my own computer at home, and I didn't care how many naughty addresses were on that.
My usual destinations when it came to web surfing at school were fairly limited: National Geographic because it was too pretty not to look, a design website that I really did look at for genuine research purposes and because it was just cool. News websites and a certain massive online encyclopaedia were also favourites, and I'd just look up things that I thought were interesting and wanted to know more about on Wikipedia; yes, I really was a Life Long Learner, and more often than not I had a tab open in my browser window that I'm sure most people would find very boring.
Some light browsing under way, the warning bell for the end of break sounded, giving me a five-minute warning before the next class. As I had the Year 7s next, and they were still in their Keen Phase, quite a few of them were already lined up and waiting to come in, those brave (or foolish - didn't they know who I was?) ones sticking their heads in the room out of sheer eagerness. Sadly, that would soon disappear as their transformation into hardened, cynical Secondary school students was completed.
Stifling a sigh, I got up from my desk and mentally readied myself for an hour with the 7s.
Fatigue Lv: 3 - manageable, rising in anticipation of the energy-sapping Year 7s
Preparation Lv: 5 - PowerPoint fired up and ready to go - I'm all over this!
Fear & Dread Lv: 45 - the Year 7s just irritate me sometimes
Fake Anger Lv: 17 - the Year 7s need to know who's boss
Real Anger Lv: 1.5 - general, background irritation starting to kick in
People who have annoyed me: 7 - those eager Year 7s should leave me alone at break time!
Time remaining in the day: 5 hours, 50 minutes


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Q: Remove Coupon Code from invoice I want to remove the coupon code from magento invoice.

essentially the second row must look like
Discount : -Rs374.90

Any help would be highly appreciated

A: You can rewrite the method _initTotals from the block Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Sales_Order_Invoice_Totals and make it look like this:
protected function _initTotals()
{
    $this->getSource()->setDiscountDescription('');
    return parent::_initTotals();
}


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Soulja Boy Has Been Arrested For Violating His Probation
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Soulja Boy is back behind bars after a judge ruled at his court appearance today that he violated his probation in multiple ways including having ammunition at his house.
Soulja Boy was taken into custody following his hearing after the judge said that he had failed to do his court-ordered community service, @tmz_tv reported. Soulja is also accused of conspiring to falsify evidence that he completed the community service.
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Ha studiato filosofia presso l'Università di Gadjah Mada a Yogyakarta. Scrive romanzi, racconti e sceneggiature per film. Le sue opere sono tradotte in più di 22 lingue. Il suo romanzo, Cantik Itu Luka, è stato incluso nella lista dei 100 libri notabili da The New York Times.

Opere
Romanzi
 Cantik Itu Luka (2002). Yogyakarta: AKYPress & Penerbit Jendela.
 Lelaki Harimau (2004). Giacarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama. (ed. italiana: L'uomo tigre (2016). Metropoli d'Asia.)
 Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas (2014). Giacarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
 O (2016). Giacarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

Racconti
 Corat-coret di Toilet (2000). Yogyakarta: Yayasan Aksara Indonesia.
 Gelak Sedih dan Cerita-cerita Lainnya (2005). Giacarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
 Cinta Tak Ada Mati dan Cerita-cerita Lainnya (2005). Giacarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
 Kumpulan Budak Setan (2010, con Intan Paramaditha e Ugoran Prasad). Giacarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
 Perempuan Patah Hati yang Kembali Menemukan Cinta Melalui Mimpi (2015). Yogyakarta: Bentang Pustaka.

Saggi
 Pramoedya Ananta Toer dan Sastra Realisme Sosialis (1999). Yogyakarta: Yayasan Aksara Indonesia.

Collegamenti esterni
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Radney Foster Blends Rock and Redemption on New Album, Revival
Guests Include Dierks Bentley, Jack Ingram and Darius Rucker
by Craig Shelburne 9/16/2009
Fifteen years ago, Radney Foster was dating Cyndi Hoelzle, a Nashville-based journalist who would often make him "Saturday night/Sunday morning" mix tapes.
"On one side, it would have all the honky-tonk Saturday night songs," he recalls. "If it was a country thing, it would have Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and all this honky-tonk stuff, and the other side would be all the hymns and gospel things they had done." For example, you might get the feisty innuendos of "Tiger by the Tail" followed in short order by the quiet reverence of "In the Garden."
Needless to say, the formula worked. He and Hoelzle have been married for 13 years, and he draws on that same "Saturday night/Sunday morning" concept on his revealing new album, Revival.
"I know musically there are times when it's certainly gospel flavored, and there are certainly gospel themes on the whole thing, and I would say there are even two or three gospel songs on it, but it's not really a gospel record," he says. "My hope would be that someone of no faith, Christian faith, Jewish faith, Muslim or anything in between would listen to it and say, 'Oh, OK, I get it.'"
Foster wrote the rousing opening track, "A Little Revival," with two of his closest friends, Jay Clementi and Darrell Brown. (A stripped-down version closes the album.)
"We all come from different parts of the political spectrum," Foster says, "but we all come from a place of faith and really different walks of life. We said, 'What does everybody need? What does this country need? What do people need?' Then we started talking about revival. I started singing it — 'Hallelujah, a little revival!' It just took off from there."
Indeed, it still does. The album's soul-baring second track, "Forgiveness," gives way to a party anthem, "Until It's Gone," with Dierks Bentley singing along. "Trouble Tonight," written and performed with Jack Ingram, was written after Foster tried to convince his wife to go skinny-dipping. Naturally, it segues into "Shed a Little Light," complete with gospel singers who are ready to testify.
"I think he is just very honest," Ingram says of Foster. "He isn't afraid to lay himself out there and talk about being in love and talk about getting hurt and everything in between. The things that are interesting about songwriters are the highs and the lows."
During the making of Revival, recently released on his own label, Foster enlisted director Jeff Horny to film a 90-minute documentary about the album as well as his life. Certainly, his life story has its share of twists and turns.
As one half of Foster & Lloyd, Foster climbed the country charts in 1987 with a peppy hit single, "Crazy Over You." Plus, many artists from that era were hitting the Top 10 with his compositions, too, including Holly Dunn, the Forester Sisters, Sweethearts of the Rodeo and Tanya Tucker. In 1992, Foster landed his own Top 10 solo hit, "Just Call Me Lonesome," followed a year later by "Nobody Wins."
However, by the mid-'90s, his singles barely charted. He was divorced from his first wife who took their son, Julian, to live with her in France. That time in his life is reflected in "Forgiveness," one of the most eloquent songs on the album.
"We had to figure out how forgive one another and go on and be parents," he explains. "Sometimes that's harder, and sometimes it was easier. That's what sparked that. You can walk around hating somebody, but you're the only person that really gets hurt out of it."
Foster also mourned the loss of his father, John Radney Foster, in 2008. The song was written a month later with Clementi, who was also grieving the loss of his grandmother. Foster says they both found catharsis in the collaboration.
Now, Foster's life is back on the upswing. Julian enrolled in Nashville's Belmont University this fall. And the songwriting credits have piled up again: Dierks Bentley's "Sweet and Wild," Brooks & Dunn's "Again," Kenny Chesney's "Somebody Take Me Home," the Dixie Chicks' "Never Say Die" and "Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)," Sara Evans' "A Real Fine Place to Start," Jack Ingram's "Measure of a Man," Gary Allan's "Half of My Mistakes," Pat Green's "Three Days" and Keith Urban's "Raining on Sunday," to name a few.
Urban himself has declared Foster's 1999 album, See What You Want to See, as his favorite album ever. Foster's still actively writing, too, after signing a new contract with Sea Gayle Music, a publishing company co-founded by Chris DuBois, Brad Paisley and Frank Rogers.
Darius Rucker says he heard one of Foster's newest songs and called him personally to reserve it for his next album. As lead vocalist for Hootie & the Blowfish, Rucker previously recorded two of Foster's compositions –"A Fine Line" and "Before the Heartache Rolls In."
"He is by far my idol in country music," Rucker says. "When I open my mouth to sing country music, I try to be Radney Foster. There's no two ways about that. For me, today, he's about as country as anybody. When you listen to a Radney Foster record, you know you're listening to a country record."
For Revival, Rucker sang harmony on "Angel Flight," a spiritual ballad about National Guard pilots who fly their fallen brethren home.
"I've never shied away from the fact that I am a person of faith," Foster says. "But I've never been overt about it either. When I had a couple of watershed moments in my life, it all sort of happened at once. You know, my dad died, but my son is coming home from France after 13 years and going to be a freshman at Belmont. You've got these highs and lows on the rollercoaster of life, and it can't help but make you reassess."
Now that the record is done, he's asked if his head is a lot clearer.
"Oh, yeah!" he replies, before immediately changing his mind. "Well, I take that back. I think my heart's a lot clearer. I think my soul has a little more peace than it did before, but I think my head is about to pop off because there's so much work to be done."
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Using the 12 keys that Joyce outlines will help you develop life-changing habits for a healthier lifestyle, no matter what your current level of health. By following her simple, yet effective tips on eating, exercise, rest, and stress management, you will unlock a new level of well-being, empowering you to live the fulfilling life you were meant to lead.
A great book that can be carried in your bag or just left in the car for when you have a moment.
Each chapter or key focuses on something different you can do to have a better life.
All very good keys to a great life.
It's a small chapter but I really loved Get God's Help. As a Catholic I pray. It is something I have started doing as I've gotten older every night and sometimes different times of the day if the mood strikes.
Asking God for what I want instead of just praying for things. While I pray, I have never thought about asking for what I need and want in my life. I have learned over the past few weeks to really pray and talk to God from a completely different place.
Master Your Metabolism was another great chapter. Full of all things we truly know if we were to spend anytime actually thinking about the reason our body is a certain way. I am totally going to learn how to fig it so I can burn more calories.
Lastly I also loved Take Responsibility. During times in our lives we need to take responsibility for where we are in our lives. It can be hard to look at and we all make mistakes, we are human after all so this is to be expected. Taking a moment to really see where you were responsible and face it. Let go of self loathing, self disrespect and playing the victim. We are all the stars of our own reality. Be a star!
After each chapter there is a section called Act On It where you can add your own notes.
This is truly a keeper and if you are into self help, this is for you!


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Learning & Values Kabbalah, Chassidism and Jewish Mysticism Contemporary Works The Mystical Tradition Let Your Wellsprings Be Dispersed Abroad
Achshur Darei?! - Is the present generation more fit?
By Jacob Immanuel Schochet
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The fact that Jewish mysticism came into the open in ever-increasing stages only over the past 500 years, and especially in the last two centuries which followed the advent of the Baal Shem Tov and Chassidism, would seem to raise a problem.
The Talmud has an expression in the form of a rhetorical question: ``Achshur darei - Is the present generation more fit?" After all, the course of time is subject to a continuous deterioration in spiritual status: ``If the earlier generations were like angels, we are but like plain humans; if they were like humans, we are like donkeys...." How, then, is it possible that our later generations should merit a manifestation of Pnimiyut haTorah that was precluded from our much greater predecessors? How is it possible that in our lowly times we are told to study subjects that were kept from our ancestors who exceeded us in both their piety and their scholarship? What should make us more meritorious?
There are, however, two basic answers.
The permission and obligation to study and promulgate Pnimiyut haTorah is an integral part of the evolutionary development of eras that culminates in the Messianic era, independent of the people and their status. Time does not stand still. Thus we are closer to the predetermined time of the Messianic redemption than our predecessors. (Isaiah 60:22 states that the Messianic redemption will be ``in its time," i.e., a prefixed time. That same verse, however, also states ``I shall hasten it," which implies before the appointed time! The Talmud resolves the seeming contradiction: ``If they are worthy, `I shall hasten it;' if they are not worthy, it will be `in its time.' See Sanhedrin 98a. Zohar I:116b.)
We live in the period called ikvot Meshicha, `on the heels of Mashiach,' the period of his imminent coming. (For this term, and its significance, see Talmud Sotah 49b; Or Hachayim on Genesis 49:9, and on Deuteronomy 7:12.) The study of, and involvement with, Pnimiyut haTorah, is related to this, as already stated above, as follows:
As we move ever closer to the light of Mashiach, we already perceive a glimmer of that light. Ever more is revealed and manifested in anticipation of the final goal. The open manifestation of Pnimiyut haTorah, therefore, is an effect of the era itself.
Pnimiyut haTorah is not only an effect of ikvot Meshicha, but also a preparation, a cleansing and elevating process, to ready ourselves, to make us fit and receptive to the Messianic redemption with all the new revelations and manifestations that come with it.
We are indeed not greater or better than our predecessors. They superseded us in every respect. Nonetheless, they did not merit the Messianic redemption. We shall merit it, though not by virtue of being superior. We shall experience it either because the predetermined time of itself coincides with our own, or by virtue of the accumulative merit of all the generations up to our time. In the words of an ancient proverb, we are ``like a little person standing on the shoulders of a giant": though the little person is much smaller than the giant, by virtue of standing on his shoulders he can see much further.
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Praise the Lord for Pastor Hoob who shared Christ's love with these hurting people in practical ways. Along with a Jesus Well that supplied life-giving water for the village, a Bridge of Hope center was also opened in the area! Now the children are learning and growing in Jesus and excelling academically.
God is using Jesus Wells and Gospel for Asia's Bridge of Hope to turn these dire situations around for good.


Pizza lovers, rejoice! Local pizza shop Whirled Pies is now operating the restaurant portion of popular venue Cozmic at 199 W. 8th Ave. Don't worry, though — you can still catch all your favorite shows and events at the venue, because all but the restaurant has remained the same.
Bui says Whirled Pies at Cozmic offers the same menu of pizza, salads and calzones as the first establishment on Monroe Street, which is still open and operational.
Everything is made from scratch, she says, with local meats and organic veggies. The only difference between the two restaurants is that the Cozmic restuarant will not have a happy hour.
For now, Whirled Pies at Cozmic is open from 5-9 pm or later if a show is playing past 9 pm. Bui says the restaurant at Cozmic offers five to six taps with local beer and cider, as well as wine by the glass.
Whirled Pie co-owners Eowyn Bondurant and Kaj Kaldahl are running the Cozmic restaurant while Bui continues to man the Monroe location, Bui says.


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Linkin Park Celebrate 15 Years of 'Minutes to Midnight'
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Linkin Park are honoring the 15th anniversary of their third album, Minutes to Midnight, with a new digital deluxe edition that's available now.
Originally released May 14, 2007, Minutes found the rap-metal group working with famed producer Rick Rubin, branching out from the sound of Hybrid Theory and Meteora and pushing the guitars and late vocalist Chester Bennington's talents further to the front. Lead single "What I've Done," later heard in that summer's blockbuster film Transformers, became one of the group's biggest hits, reaching No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100; other singles include the Top 20 anthem "Shadow of the Day" and the hard-driving "Bleed It Out." The album itself topped the charts in more than 15 countries, becoming one of the bestselling albums of the year.
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The new digital deluxe edition includes four rare bonus tracks: non-album songs "No Roads Left" and "Across the Line," a live version of "Given Up" and a "distorted remix" of "What I've Done."
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One of the biggest reasons Cooper hired assistant Max Kattwinkel to become the football program's new head coach - the first one in 14 years - this past offseason was continuity.
Kattwinkel has been at the school for six years as the team's offensive coordinator, arguably six of the most successful years in Cooper football history, at least at the Class 3A level. So with the duties of athletic director and head football coach being split up for the first time, the school went with someone they knew to keep change at a minimum.
Little did Kattwinkel know one of the first changes the program experienced was within himself, not with the program.
"It really was kind of chaotic that first month," said Kattwinkel, who was hired in late January. "The part I had the hardest time with was not being around the kids as much and being in more of a managerial type of situation. That took some getting used to, but it calmed down and now hopefully I can get back to being able to coach and be around the kids again."
Once he had is own routine down, however, Kattwinkel set about changing the routine of the players.
If there's one thing the 2012 season taught the Cooper coaching staff, it's that it needed to be just a step faster both mentally and physically. The Pirates missed the playoffs this past season for the first time since 2009 thanks to three one-point losses in District 2-3A play. One missed play here, a lack of an effective kicking game there, and the Pirates found themselves sitting at home.
"It was the most frustrating year we've ever been through," Kattwinkel said. "We felt like going into the year we had the talent to win, but we had some injuries, some key injuries, and it was just the little things. We weren't executing, the kicking game wasn't what we needed it to be. It was a good group of kids, and walking away from it we felt we should have done a better job than we did."
So the offseason was spent changing some of those little things, both from a player and a coaching perspective.
For the players, Kattwinkel implemented a different weightlifting regimen that targets what he calls a "total body lift" in order to strengthen joints and prevent season-ending injuries. He had also already planned on cutting back on some contact work during the week before the UIL passed a rule limiting it to 90 minutes per week, choosing to use that time to work on concepts and the mental side of the game.
But the changes weren't limited to the players. He's also requiring all coaches, regardless of whether they coach offense or defense, to know what the entire team is doing from a planning and scheme perspective.
The Pirates are also changing offensive and defensive schemes, going to the read-option on offense to take advantage of Keane's running ability and prowess reading defenses, while turning to the TCU 4-2-5 scheme to improve their pass coverage.
Stanton certainly proved he can run the football, amassing 1,193 yards and 11 touchdowns in earning All-South Plains honors. He'll have senior linemen Stetson Smitherman and Brandon Richardson back to lead the way after Cooper averaged 357 yards per game a year ago.
Otherwise, the Pirates offense will be all new this season.
Kattwinkel will choose from juniors Kolton Ehlers and Dakota Gruben to fill in at tailback, both playing on the junior varsity last season as the starting quarterback and running back, respectively. Expect senior John Lange to also work into the mix.
On the outside, Kattwinkel likes his skill set with senior wideout Zak Odom and junior tight end Evan McHugh.
The Pirates have a little more experience to work with on defense, but not a lot, and for new defensive coordinator and Shallowater native Keenan Kitchens, that experience is pretty spread out through the three levels on the field.
Seniors Jeremy Reeves at tackle and Montana Vega at end are both returning starters on defense, as are senior outside linebacker Keevan Prather and inside linebacker Marcos Lopez. Also look for big things from junior Ricky Mendez.
The secondary will be anchored by safety Nathan Offutt.
"Without sounding overconfident ... I really like the role that we're in," Kattwinkel said. "We're going to be an afterthought in the district race. We're out to prove people wrong, and I think we have the kids to do just that."


To understand the 'big' picture and how the intersection of technology innovation, upcoming verticals and business landscape is driving the growth of Big Data ecosystem.
Big Data has become popular buzzword in recent times. There is lot of hype as with the case with any emerging and disrupting technology. There are a lot of nascent technologies and some are maturing fast to have widespread adoption. Big data is applicable to wide variety of industries and becoming even more relevant with the advent of cloud, broadband and social media. In this session I will talk about how the innovation in Technology and new market opportunities are fueling the growth of Big Data movement. I will talk about what different industry players address what part of the bigger puzzle and how they all fit together to form a complementary and thriving ecosystem.
Sharad heads the Technology platform group at InMobi where he leads the development of hadoop and big data platforms. He is a Apache Hadoop committer, PMC member and is active in hadoop community for over 4 years. He has been involved with Hadoop 2.0 since it was in concept stage. He is the author of YARN core runtime libraries and Map-Reduce Application Master. He is also Apache Avro committer and worked on Avro during its early days. Prior to joining InMobi Sharad was Architect at Yahoo. Earlier he worked on search platforms and several middleware technologies at AOL and Oracle. Sharad holds BTech from IIT Delhi.


Coram/CVS Health is looking for a meticulous warehouse/logistics professional to join our Columbia team as a Warehouse Supervisor! This rewarding opportunity allows you to work closely with our Pharmacy team where you will gain experience in the growing home health/home infusion field. At Coram, we believe that Warehouse Supervisors are a key part of maintaining organization in our branches, therefore creating a positive experience for our patients. In this dynamic role, you will lead a team of Warehouse Associate's by assisting with the picking/packing, shipping/receiving, and inventory of medical products. The ideal individual for this role will be able to lift medical supplies weighing a minimum of 25-pounds at a time.
Supervise receiving/distribution operations and organization of warehouse to company standards.
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Assist in the scheduling and coordination of patient deliveries.
Participate in periodic and annual inventories.
Provide training and supervises operations personnel.
Manage hiring, coaching and performance appraisals.
Typical work hours for this position are Monday – Friday, 9 :00 AM – 6 :00 PM , with on-call responsibilities every 4 weeks. This is a full-time, permanent career that offers excellent Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, a competitive 401k, and additional benefits.
With Coram/CVS Health, you'll have an exciting opportunity to utilize your healthcare and customer service experience with a team who are passionate about making a difference in patient's lives. You can have an impact by providing the best care, education, and support to our patients, improving their overall quality of life! Coram/CVS Health is a Fortune 7 company and national leader in the home infusion and enteral nutrition fields. The word "Coram" derives from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart"... and our dedication to our customers is truly from the heart.
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