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Avaya Delivers the Next Big Thing for Developing Digital Business Communications and Customer Service Smart Apps
Avaya Breeze Provides a Next-Generation Technology Platform With a Framework, Development Environment, and the Industry's First eCommerce Delivery Mechanism for Embedding Open, Mobile Digital Communication
March 07, 2016 08:00 ET | Source: Avaya Inc.
ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - Mar 7, 2016) - Enterprise Connect 2016 - Booth #1707 -- More than two-thirds of IT executives plan to increase spending on mobile, customer-facing and cloud migration applications over the next two years as part of digital transformation initiatives. But first, IT executives must overcome a significant skills gap that will affect their ability to carry out such initiatives at customer speedi.
It's a conundrum Avaya has solved with Avaya Breeze™, an entirely new way to develop business communications applications.
At Enterprise Connect, Avaya will showcase Avaya Breeze, the next generation of the Avaya Engagement Development Platform -- the technology platform that profoundly simplifies application development while delivering built-in capabilities for enhanced mobile, customer-facing and hybrid/cloud requirements. Avaya will also unveil the Avaya Snapp Store - the first eCommerce app store for business communications.
Click to Tweet: .@Avaya Unveils Breeze for Digital Business Communications and Customer Service Smart Apps http://bit.ly/1TjzC1E
Components of the Avaya Breeze technology platform include:
An open framework that brings the necessary attributes for communication in the digital age: embedded, multi-platform, mobile, fast, low risk, and workflow enabled -- a key requirement to automate previously manual processes to improve digital experiences.
A development platform for rapid creation of new workflow-based applications within a matter of hours or days versus months.
A delivery mechanism -- the Avaya Snapp Store -- that allows a single integrated experience via browsers and native smart apps for entirely new customer experiences.
Open connectors/APIs that enable simple, integration with existing business communications services and access to the billions of devices in the Internet of Things.
The Avaya Snapp Store is a focused, ecommerce-enabled marketplace for Avaya Breeze applications -- or Snap-ins -- from Avaya and 3rd party developers. Snap-ins -- easily consumable, prebuilt connectors, fit-for-purpose apps and/or developer code -- enable companies to quickly build workflows, customer journeys and other unique applications. The Avaya Snapp Store makes it easy to find, access and download Snap-ins by simply using a credit card for purchase. Developers can create Snap-ins and be on-boarded in the store within weeks.
Gary Barnett, SVP and GM, Avaya Engagement Solutions, said:
"Now, Avaya delivers on the promise of open, mobile engagement with a platform that allows companies to easily design and embed applications into workflows via a powerful, simplified, software-defined architecture and infrastructure for communications. This game-changing technology is built for digital business where companies need the flexibility, speed and the freedom to easily create unique value for their customers. Avaya Breeze liberates them from the confines of monolithic, vendor-locked platforms."
Avaya is issuing a challenge to the industry to creatively address the major challenges facing businesses and consumers today by developing new apps on Avaya Breeze to help resolve them. To date, thousands of developers from global enterprises have participated in Avaya Breeze Bootcamps and webinars, and are using their lab systems and Avaya Collaboratory accounts to design, build and test Avaya Breeze applications. This week, five of the growing list of third party developers will showcase their Avaya Snap-ins in the Avaya booth at Enterprise Connect, including:
eGain's Knowledge Snap-In sends a contextual SMS link to customers on IVR so they can easily use web self-service, without losing their place in the phone queue.
WEBTEXT uses its global network of SMS messaging gateways to seamlessly connect Avaya contact centers to their customers and the carriers.
Moxtra's mobile-first business messaging and document sharing service Snap-In enables rich, persistent collaboration across teams, providing continuity as customers increasingly move between devices.
Verbio's Voice Authentication Snap-In addresses increasing concerns about security and identity theft by authenticating users in a fluid and unobtrusive way.
Approved Contact's Snap-In provides a worker with more control over who can contact them and when, acting as a personal gatekeeper.
Those interested in developing to Avaya Breeze and/or creating Snap-Ins can learn more by going to the Developer portal at: http://bit.ly/20ZwM0T. For a list of Avaya Breeze Bootcamps and hackathons being held globally, visit: https://www.avaya-learning.com/lms/#/training/catalog/edp
"I sat there, and I'm not an engineer, but I was dragging and dropping, building a whole workflow for a Web calling service, saying, 'When this happens, play this IVR message.' I recorded the message myself, put that in there … and in about two minutes we had a Web calling service Snap-In."
Daniel Bergan, Head of Strategy and Transformation, Westpac
"More than half of the companies are using or planning to use APIs to embed communications capabilities into their apps, while another 25% are looking at using them to build custom apps. Platforms like Avaya Breeze offer organizations the ability to deliver enhanced business value and execute on their digital strategies by integrating communications and collaboration into workflows, business processes and existing applications."
Irwin Lazar, VP and Service Director, Nemertes Research
Tags: Avaya, customer engagement, applications development, contact center, digital transformation
Avaya is a leading provider of solutions that enable customer and team engagement across multiple channels and devices for better customer experience, increased productivity and enhanced financial performance. Its world-class contact center and unified communications technologies and services are available in a wide variety of flexible on-premises and cloud deployment options that seamlessly integrate with non-Avaya applications. The Avaya Engagement Environment enables third parties to create and customize business applications for competitive advantage. The Avaya fabric-based networking solutions help simplify and accelerate the deployment of business critical applications and services. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.
Certain statements contained in this press release may be forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "potential," "predict," "should" or "will" or other similar terminology. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While we believe these are reasonable, such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. These and other important factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. For a list and description of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to Avaya's filings with the SEC that are available at www.sec.gov. Avaya disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
All trademarks identified by ®, TM, or SM are registered marks, trademarks, and service marks, respectively, of Avaya Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners
Follow Avaya on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, and the Avaya Connected Blog.
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If you're suffering back pain during pregnancy, please talk with your Doctor of Chiropractic first before you do anything.
Preparing for a baby's birth can come with excitement, joy and of course as to be expected physical discomfort. Back pain is a normal and common complaint with 70% of women suffering lower back pain in the months leading up to delivery, especially during the final trimester, but there are a few things you and your chiropractor can do to manage your back pain so that you can keep the focus on what's most important – getting ready to welcome your new arrival.
There are a numerous reasons why you can develop back pain during pregnancy. Your hormones are changing and adapting to the pregnancy. This can involve the soft tissue changes, weight gain, changes to your spinal alignment and your exercise and activity levels change.The hormones that are released during pregnancy allow joints and ligaments in the pelvic area to become more pliant and loose, in preparation for the birthing process. The downside of this softening is that it can affect the natural support your back normally receives, particularly as the weight of your baby increases.
Low back pain is most commonly experienced later in the pregnancy as the baby is larger and heavier, a growing baby also causes your center of gravity to shift. This causes your abdominal muscles stretch and weaken, making it more difficult to maintain good posture and challenging your natural spinal alignment and the muscular support system you have developed. Other changes such as the increase in breast tissue can also accentuate this spinal shift.
Some of these tissue and mechanical alignment alterations are good for the body, in order to distribute weight gain to the middle of the body where, structurally, it's the strongest. But in a woman whose structure is weak where stress is magnified, low back pain can be the result.If pressure is placed on the sciatic nerve or presses on a spinal disc, pain may extend through the hips, buttocks and legs. It is not uncommon however to experience back pain early on as the body begins to adapt.
The Chiropractors at Back to Basics Chiropractic can assess the new areas of stress on your body treat these areas and offer great advice to help stabilise and support your spine. It is very important if you are planning on starting a family to visit your chiropractor and address any spinal issues early as women who lack flexibility and strength in their back and abdominal muscles and those carrying more than one baby also may be more susceptible.
To optimize your chances of keeping back pain at bay, there are a variety of preventive measures you can take.
A Chiropractor may be able to assist you during your pregnancy and provide home advice during your pregnancy. Keeping physical and active is also important to keep your body at its best performance to maintain your muscles strength and be able to adapt to you changing body. It is also important to keep flexible to help avoid injuries. While your body is undergoing these changes you should endeavour to maintain the best posture you can.
Adapting to the changes in the centre of gravity will become easier and cause less strain. Modifications can also be made while you are sitting and lifting to modify your activity to help prevent injury and strain. While lifting you should remember to squat and keep your back straight as you lift. Twisting and bending can be detrimental to your spine. It is important when you are sitting for long periods you have numerous small breaks and changes of position.
When seated try and have your feet slightly raised and use a back support if necessary. The Chiropractors at Back to Basics Chiropractic can give you great advice and recommend products from our range specifically to meet your needs. Reducing your level of stress by getting enough sleep allows for better healing and strength. Sleeping on your side is important as the pressure of the baby while on your back can be a contributing factor to back pain. Listen to your body and no not push it past its limits.
Chiropractic care can provide relief for some pregnancy related discomfort and conditions. Chiropractic treatment uses various techniques to provide optimal movement of your spine and to help address any muscular pain or irritation. Chiropractic can also help with stabilization and can provide at home exercises to help with the stabilization of your spine helping to reduce the lower back pain.
Hot or cold therapy, in the form of a warm bath, a hot water bottle, or an ice pack.
Physical therapy specifically designed to address the needs of your changing body as your pregnancy progresses.
Anti-inflammatory/analgesic medications, as recommended by your Doctor.
Complementary treatments such as massage therapy, and acupuncture. They may provide some relief for pregnancy-related discomfort, and perhaps some stress relief as well.
It is important to discuss any therapy options with your obstetrician or medical doctor. It is important to speak to your doctor if you're experiencing dull, cramping low back pain, your back pain is severe, starts suddenly, or is accompanied by fever, you experience back pain as well as vaginal spotting or bleeding and you develop numbness or weakness in your legs, buttocks, groin, or genital area.


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Last weekend I got fences for preventing animal from cops.
There is subsidy for installing fences, not for individual but group.
So we took amount of fences which people wants, and made one group order.
Total estimate is about 2000 dollar.
It is a lot if I buy them.
I will have inspection, it all become free of charge.
On the day of delivery, we separated those tans of fences to each others.
Since I don't have the truck, some of neighbor brought them to my house.
My total amount are 73 lower fenced, 73 higher fences, 110 struts, 219 anchors.
even it is just one anchor. otherwise I won't finish putting all in one monthe.


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use crate::access::AccessErrorKind;

/// Validates that an index `name` consists of allowed chars. This method does not check
/// if `name` is empty.
pub fn is_valid_identifier(name: &str) -> bool {
    name.as_bytes()
        .iter()
        .all(|&c| is_allowed_index_name_char(c) || c == b'.')
}

/// Validates that a `prefix` consists of chars allowed for an index prefix.
///
/// Unlike [full names], prefixes are not allowed to contain a dot char `'.'`.
///
/// [full names]: fn.is_valid_identifier.html
pub fn is_valid_index_name_component(prefix: &str) -> bool {
    prefix
        .as_bytes()
        .iter()
        .copied()
        .all(is_allowed_index_name_char)
}

/// Checks that a character is allowed in an index name.
///
/// Only these combination of symbols are allowed:
/// `[0-9]`, `[a-z]`, `[A-Z]`, `_`, `-`.
pub fn is_allowed_index_name_char(c: u8) -> bool {
    match c {
        b'0'..=b'9' | b'A'..=b'Z' | b'a'..=b'z' | b'-' | b'_' => true,
        _ => false,
    }
}

// Allow because it's looks more readable.
#[allow(clippy::if_not_else)]
fn check_valid_name<F>(
    name: &str,
    predicate: F,
    allowed_chars: &'static str,
) -> Result<(), AccessErrorKind>
where
    F: Fn(&str) -> bool,
{
    if name.is_empty() {
        Err(AccessErrorKind::EmptyName)
    } else if !predicate(name) {
        Err(AccessErrorKind::InvalidCharsInName {
            name: name.to_owned(),
            allowed_chars,
        })
    } else {
        Ok(())
    }
}

/// Checks that provided address is valid index full name.
pub(crate) fn check_index_valid_full_name(name: &str) -> Result<(), AccessErrorKind> {
    if name.starts_with("__") && !name.contains('.') {
        return Err(AccessErrorKind::ReservedName);
    }
    check_valid_name(name, is_valid_identifier, "a-zA-Z0-9 and _-.")
}

pub(crate) fn assert_valid_name_component(name: &str) {
    check_valid_name(name, is_valid_index_name_component, "a-zA-Z0-9 and _-").unwrap();
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
    use assert_matches::assert_matches;

    use crate::{
        access::{AccessErrorKind, FromAccess},
        Database, ListIndex, TemporaryDB,
    };

    #[test]
    fn index_name_validation() {
        let db = TemporaryDB::new();
        let fork = db.fork();

        let e = ListIndex::<_, u32>::from_access(&fork, "".into()).unwrap_err();
        assert_matches!(e.kind, AccessErrorKind::EmptyName);
        let e = ListIndex::<_, u32>::from_access(&fork, "__METADATA__".into()).unwrap_err();
        assert_matches!(e.kind, AccessErrorKind::ReservedName);
        let e = ListIndex::<_, u32>::from_access(&fork, "__system_index".into()).unwrap_err();
        assert_matches!(e.kind, AccessErrorKind::ReservedName);
        let res = ListIndex::<_, u32>::from_access(&fork, "__SYSTEM.INDEX__".into());
        assert!(res.is_ok());

        // spell-checker:disable
        let e = ListIndex::<_, u32>::from_access(
            &fork,
            "\u{441}\u{43f}\u{438}\u{441}\u{43e}\u{43a}".into(),
        )
        .unwrap_err();
        assert_matches!(e.kind, AccessErrorKind::InvalidCharsInName { .. });
    }
}


Coudy.Com is the internet division of Dan's Creative Portraiture. We are located at 754 North Main Street in Coudersport, PA. Coudersport is located in rural north central Pennsylvania and is the county seat for Potter County. Potter County is also known as God's Country because of its scenic landscapes. The purpose of the web site is to provide help via the Coudersport Computing Club for people to understand their computers better. To provide information and photos of Potter County, we will try to put up things that are not found on other sites. And last but not least, to promote our Web Design abilities.
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Join CREW and CUSEC this February for:
Equitable Access to Affordable Earthquake Insurance: A Resilience Challenge
This 2-hour webinar takes a deeper look at both the key difficulties and the potential of insurance as a tool for stronger recovery after an earthquake.
Panelists for this event include:
Dr. Carolyn Kousky, who is Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Her research includes examining principles for an inclusive insurance market and both public and private sector changes that could help expand access to affordable and appropriate disaster risk transfer tools. See also her new book, Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future.
Lynda Foster, who co-chairs the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Advisory Council at California Earthquake Authority (CEA), where she is also the claim manager and a former community and agent liaison. She is a member of CEA's strategic initiative team considering equity in the earthquake insurance coverages that CEA provides.
Kate Stillwell, who is the founder of the parametric earthquake insurance company Jumpstart and President of Parametric Insurance at Neptune Flood Insurance, where she is engaged in the development and piloting of a new community/group-based disaster insurance product.
Douglas Heller, who is Director of Insurance at the Consumer Federation of America and a member of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance. Recently, he worked with the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) to address concerns about affordability and coverage options; to increase CEA's engagement with low-income tenant and homeowner advocacy groups to identify barriers that prevent consumers from purchasing earthquake insurance; and to consider the importance of retrofitting multi-family units.
Save the Date and Register Today
Funding for this event is provided by FEMA / National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP)


Being charged with a DUI / OVWI has an immediate impact on your driver's license. Unlike most crimes, you do not have to be convicted of DUI / OVWI for it to affect your license. When it comes to your driver's license, merely being arrested for DUI / OVWI is enough for the State of Indiana to begin punishing you.
In most situations the arrested person is pulled over and they agree to take the certified chemical test. If that person's Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) is .08 or above then the court typically suspends that person's driver's license for a period up to 180 days or until the court notifies the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) that the case is resolved. Remember, that this driver's license suspension goes into effect simply because the person was arrested – a conviction is not necessary.
Having your license suspended because you are accused of drunk driving is a serious, possibly life altering punishment. Most people must be able to drive in order to maintain employment and not be a burden on their family. Thankfully, Specialized Driving Privileges are available in Indiana.
A Specialized Driving License is generally available to individuals who did not refuse the certified chemical test. While a Specialized Driving License is generally available if you meet specific requirements, there are numerous hoops to jump through and each judge generally has their own way of doing things. It is important to speak to an experienced attorney immediately if you need a specialized driving licences.
If you have a prior conviction or convictions for DUI / OVWI your license situation can be much more problematic. If you have prior DUI / OVWI convictions it is as important as ever to contact a DUI / OVWI Criminal Attorney who has experience dealing with DUI / OVWI criminal charges. Hardly a week goes by where Attorney Marc Lopez does not get a phone call from someone who pled guilty to a DUI / OVWI charge and their license was suspended for 5 years or 10 years because the Indiana BMV determining that the person was a Habitual Traffic Violator.
Attorney Marc Lopez represents individuals accused of drunk driving and other criminal charges in the greater Indianapolis, Indiana area. Call Attorney Marc Lopez today at (317) 489-9611 or contact him through e-mail.
Request Free 18 Page DUI / OVWI Special Report. Answers to Questions. And things that can be done now to improve the situation.


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Guillaume Ebrard,  est un prélat français, évêque de Digne au  .

Il serait évêque de Digne en 1326, mais on ne sait pas beaucoup de cette personne.

Source
 La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana), Paris, s.d.

Évêque de Digne
Clergé français du XIVe siècle

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Maithai Huajaisin (en thaï ไหมไทย หัวใจศิลป์), né Monchai Raksachart (en thaï  มนต์ชัย รักษาชาติ), surnommé « Phra Ek yai » (« พระเอกใหญ่ ») et aussi  « Le Michael Jackson de l'Isan » , est un chanteur de musique traditionnelle thaïlandaise appelée Luk-thung et Mor lam, né le  dans la Province de Nakhon Ratchasima en Thaïlande.

Carrière
Maithai Huajaisin est chanteur depuis 1994. Il est le dernier membre à rejoindre le groupe Sieng Isan.

Avant sa carrière avec Sieng Isan, Maithai avait participé aux chansons Rak Sao Nakhon Sawan et Hen Ther Thee German (Rendez-vous en Allemagne) de Lookphrae Uraiporn. Il a sorti son premier album Bao Phan Phuen Mueang en 2007.

C'est une des vedettes du Luk thung avec les chanteurs Suraphol Sombatcharoen, Sayan Sanya, Yodrak Salakjai, Chai Muengsingh et les chanteuses Pumpuang Duangjan, Pongsri Woranuch et Jintara Poonlarp.

Discographie

Label Topline Diamond
 2003 -  (Rendez-vous en Allemagne)
 2004 - บักสิเด๋อ (Buk See Der)
 2015 - หัวใจยอมให้ตั่ว (Tem Jai Yom Hai Tua)

Label GMM Grammy
 2007 - บ่าวพันธุ์พื้นเมือง (Bao Phan Phuen Mueang)
 2008 - นักสู้หัวใจเซิ้ง (Nak Soo Huajai Seng)
 2009 - เวลคัม ทู ทำนา / Welcome to Thamna
 2010 - บ่มีสิทธิ์เหนื่อย (Bor Mee Sith Nuei)
 2011 - Chanson สิงห์คะนองลำ (Sing Khanong Lam) (avec Monkhaen Kaenkoon)
 2012 - เบอร์ 5 สังกัดพรรคเพื่อเธอ (No.5 Sangkad Phak Phuea Ther)

Notes et références

Chanteur thaïlandais
Naissance en janvier 1968
Musicien de mor lam
Naissance dans la province de Nakhon Ratchasima


Born in 1969 in Paris.
Invader was born in 1969 near Paris. He studied at the Fine Arts school in Rouen. In 1998, he started his "Invasion" with a project entitled "Space Invader", revisiting the universe of the famous video game of the 1970-80s. He has worked all around the world: Paris, London, Milan, Berlin, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, etc. He lists them on a map available on its website.
Since 2005, he has been developing his "Rubickubiste" project using Rubik's Cubes, giving a 3D aspect to his creations. His has done quite a remarkable work – in June 2011, he placed his 1000th Space Invader in the street. Since then, he has continued his invasion freely, using bigger tiles.
"Invader" à la Citylights gallery, Melbourne.


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Eight Black-led Community Development Organizations in New Orleans share $750,000 from new foundation-backed fund
Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) has launched the New Orleans Community Development Organization (CDO) Fund, an initiative that will provide critical operating support to Black-led New Orleans nonprofits that serve as anchors of the city's neighborhoods. Eight local organizations will share the CDO Fund's first $750,000 in philanthropic funding, using it to enhance their work and support their communities throughout the recovery from Covid-19. The CDO Fund is part of Enterprise's Equitable Path Forward initiative to dismantle the deeply-rooted legacy of systemic racism in housing and community development.
The New Orleans CDO Fund is supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, Kresge Foundation and JPMorgan Chase. Modeled after a similar fund in Detroit that launched in 2020, the Fund will provide financial and technical assistance, support neighborhood Covid-19 recovery, help to create affordable single-family homes and ensure the grantees can develop and train new staff.
"The financial and technical assistance that Jane Place will receive from the CDO Fund will help increase our capacity to develop the quality, permanently affordable rental housing our community needs. We are in pre-development for our most ambitious project to date. Knowing that we will be able to turn to Enterprise for support over the course of the project will help ensure its success," said Veronica M. Reed, executive director of Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, one of the grantees.
Enterprise hopes to expand the fund to invest in Black-led neighborhood stewards across the city for the long term and will continue to seek additional funding.
"Black-led community organizations have always been essential in New Orleans, and they proved invaluable over the past year as our neighborhoods weathered the economic and health impacts of Covid-19," said Michelle Whetten, vice president and Gulf Coast market leader, Enterprise. "We are thrilled to bring this funding model to New Orleans after seeing its success in Detroit, particularly as we work toward the goals of our Equitable Path Forward Initiative. We are thankful to our like-minded funders—Ford, Kresge, and JPMorgan Chase—for making this resource possible."
"What we've learned in Detroit is that Community Development Organizations that are deeply rooted in place have a powerful understanding of neighborhood histories, desires and assets. This puts them in a unique position to advance community priorities," said Chantel Rush, managing director of Kresge's American Cities Program.
As Enterprise's CDO Fund model continues to expand across the country, first in Detroit and now into New Orleans, grantees from across the country will participate in virtual gatherings where they can share information and experience that will help them to best support their communities.
"We are proud to support this effort. We believe Black-led CDOs are essential to bringing about affordable housing and recovery from the coronavirus pandemic in New Orleans," said Jacqueline Burton, acting program officer of Ford Foundation's Cities and States. "We are inspired to see this cohort model design and look forward to this group of organizations collaborating with those in Detroit to share lessons and best practices for realizing equitable outcomes for these cities."
"Strengthening community-development nonprofits in New Orleans is vital to stabilizing the communities hardest hit by the pandemic—and to laying the foundation for an inclusive recovery. JPMorgan Chase is invested in seeing New Orleans thrive and is proud to be partnering with Ford, Kresge and Enterprise in this important work," said Erika Wright, vice president of philanthropy in Louisiana for JPMorgan Chase.
The eight New Orleans community organizations receiving support through the CDO Fund are:
Broad Community Connections
Crescent City CLT
Efforts of Grace, Inc.
Home by Hand, Inc.
Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative
Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative
Sankofa Community Development Corporation
Ujamaa Economic Development Corporation


On the road to the 2017 NYC Marathon, I took to the roads of Central Park for the UAE Healthy Kidney 10k. After running three identical four mile races, I was looking forward to running a different course, even if it was longer and ran up Harlem Hill.
Unlike the previous races, we started on the west side of Central Park and headed north, running us in the opposite direction of the previous races. We started down at 62nd street and headed north to the rolling hills of the west side of the park. Up and down those hills led us past the 102nd street transverse and towards the daunting Harlem Hill. I was mentally distracted and didn't even notice that I was running up the hill until I crested it and passed the halfway point of the race. A little further east and we turned down the east side of the park, when the 70 degree heat and limited shade started to get to me. I walked once or twice on the east side of the park on the way south, but running down Cat Hill was a nice change from running up it the previous three races. We reached the bottom of the park and looped around back up past the start line for a few more blocks to the finish line.
The unexpected heat was a detriment to my race, but I was still able to complete it in 1:05:18. I would have preferred to complete it in under 10 minute miles, but the 10:31 per mile isn't too bad. And with my fourth race completed, I have the Brooklyn Half Marathon to look forward to this coming Saturday.


Lenovo announced one of its newest notebooks just last month, the Lenovo Flex 14 and Flex 15, which is yet another portable computer in their stable of devices that is able to offer a not-so traditional experience. We've seen the ThinkPad Twist and the Lenovo Yoga, but this time, the Flex series of notebooks only has the capability to extending its display up to 300 degrees. This means its keyboard can be flipped upside down to only allow for the Flex's screen take center stage, which just so happens to be a touchscreen display.
Lenovo is releasing 14- and 15-inch models of the Flex, and for this review, we're checking out the Flex 14. The Lenovo Flex 14 weighs in at 4.3 lbs, features a 14-inch 1366 x 768 touch display, a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 Haswell CPU and 8GB of RAM in addition to its unique way it can be used. With that said, let's take a closer look at how much of unique experience the Lenovo Flex 14 offers in our review.
I've reviewed a number of laptops that can be twisted and turned to offer a new perspective on your content. I reviewed the ThinkPad Twist, and just recently, the Dell XPS 12 2013 Edition. I certainly enjoy how laptop manufacturers are rethinking how their users can interact with their Windows 8 machines in a number of ways, but this isn't something that I personally look for in a computer.
Since I spend a lot of time writing, one of the most important factors of any laptop I review is its keyboard. My personal preference is a keyboard that is more clicky than it is spongy. I also look for a light machine as when I travel to various press events, I would prefer not feeling completely drained at the end of the day. Nowadays, I don't need a really powerful machine, but it should be able to keep up with being able to have several web browsing windows open as well as photo editing tools.
One of the main selling points for the Lenovo Flex 14 is the fact that you can move its screen far past what you normally could in most notebooks all the way back to a 300 degrees. As a result, the Flex 14 can be used as a traditional notebook, but when you flip its screen, its keyboard and touchpad both face downward, resulting in the ultrabook being used in its stand mode. It's certainly a neat concept, although we didn't get much use out of this feature as we're sure Lenovo expects its customers to as we really found no good enough reason to completely hide the keyboard and trackpad from being used. If you're looking for that specific of a feature from your ultrabooks, then the Flex 14 may just be what you've always been looking for.
When you first feast eyes on the Flex 14, you'll be met with the ultrabook's 14-inch display, which features a resolution of 1366 x 768, which seems a bit on the low side considering the size of the screen. We'll get more into that in our display portion of our review, so let's continue taking a look at the Flex 14's industrial design. The display has a small area of the screen that is blacked out prior to getting to the notebook's bezel, which seems a bit strange as Lenovo could easily make the screen larger instead of blacking out a portion of the LCD.
Once you make it past the blacked-out areas of the screen, you'll be met with a black bezel which measures in around ¼ of an inch on its sides, 1 inch on top and nearly 2 inches at the bottom. The top bezel is where you'll find the Flex 14's webcam in the middle and the Lenovo logo at the top-left area. The bottom has two thin rubber stumps that are found on either side of the display's Windows button. There's a portion of the display that is hinged into the Flex 14's base, which is how it's able to flip itself around to extreme angles. Flipping the screen is relatively easy, although you have to put a bit of force in order to move the display to the angle you want it to sit at. The rear of the display is covered in a black, rubberish material and is completely smooth. At the top left portion of the display's rear, you can see a Lenovo logo displayed in a reflective material.
The underside of the Flex 14 has a number of vents available at different portions of the area. There's a long vent in the middle of the underside, two vents close to the front corners and another vent located at the left side that wraps around the side of the ultrabook. Two thick rubber stumps sit just above where the corner vents are located while two elevated rubber stumps are located closer to where its battery is located. There are two switches that need to be activated in order to remove the battery of the Flex 14, which is located at the edge of the underside of the base and can easily be slid in and out.
The keyboard on the Flex 14 feels a bit plasticky, although it gives a nice clicky feeling when typing on it. When typing, we detected a very slight sponginess at the end of each key press, which means those of you who enjoy a clicky keyboard will enjoy the keyboard the Flex 14 offers. The keys on the keyboard seem to be rounded out a bit, which we needed to get used to while using the ultrabook, although the arrow keys were in an area where our fingers never landed on them correctly as we ended up pressing the CTRL key more often than not when attempting to access the arrow keys. It doesn't help the arrow keys are pretty small when compared to the other keys, and some additional keys, like Home, End, PgUp and PgDn are just thrown in at the end of the keyboard on the right side. We're not sure who came up with the keyboard layout of the Flex 14, but it isn't one of our favorites.
The palm rests are smooth as the base of the Flex 14 is made of a magnesium material, making moving your palms around while you type or use the trackpad easy. There are two rubber triangles at the edges of the base that your wrists may come in contact with, depending on how far on the palm rests you go. The purpose of these triangles is to give the base a slight lift when the screen has been flipped, resulting in the keyboard facing downward. If you have larger hands, you might come in contact with these rubber triangles more often than not, so keep that in mind if you're considering buying the Flex 14.
The trackpad offers a completely opposite experience than what we had with its keyboard as it's extremely smooth and we found it easy to navigate with it. As with most trackpad, you're able to lightly tap it to input a mouse click, while you can also perform a hard click on the bottom left portion for a left-mouse click, and the right portion performs a right-mouse click. A thin strip of reflective material also surrounds the trackpad, which helps in finding it among the overall dark black and grey colors of the Flex 14. It also adds a nice touch to its overall look.
Ports: Lenovo pulled out all the stops when it put together what ports would be available on the Flex 14 as it has quite a few available on the sides of the ultrabook. Starting with the left side, you'll find the Flex 14's power adapter, a row of vents, an RJ45 port, HDMI port and a USB 3.0 port. The right side is where you'll find the ultrabook's power button, a button for Lenovo's OneKey Recovery program, two USB 2.0 ports, a 2-in-1 SD/MMC card reader, a headphone / microphone combo jack and a volume rocker.
For the Lenovo Flex 14 having a 14-inch display, the resolution on it is only 1366 x 768. We expect these days an ultrabook this size to have a resolution a little bit larger than that, considering we're now entering the age of notebooks that have ultra-high resolution displays.
The Flex 14 features a touchscreen display, which makes sense considering the notebook would be completely useless when the screen is flipped around the keyboard, resulting in both the keyboard and touchpad facing downwards.
Images on the Flex 14's display looked as good as you'd expect a display with a 1366 x 768 to do, which when you consider we have Full HD and ultra-high resolution notebooks on the market, isn't very good. High resolution images and videos don't pop out as well as they should, and the display also seems to have a slight bluish tint to it giving everything viewed on it an unnatural bluish look.
Lenovo didn't say what the nit brightness of the Flex 14 was, but if we had to guess, we'd say the display has 300 nit brightness considering we felt comfortable using the ultrabook when its brightness was turned up 100% of its full potential. This means using the Flex 14 outdoors would probably make it extremely difficult to see what exactly is being displayed, especially on a sunny day.
The Lenovo Flex 14 comes with a 720p HD camera, which will certainly come in handy if you decide to use the ultrabook in its stand mode. For the purpose of our review, we put the Flex 14's webcam up against the webcam on the recently reviewed Dell XPS 12 2013 Edition, which features a 1.3MP webcam capable of capturing images at 1280 x 1024 pixels.
The Flex 14's webcam performed pretty well as the colors, contrast and brightness of the image didn't seem to look strange in any way. Some of the darker portions of our test image look slightly pixelated, but most people won't notice it through regular use. There's also an extremely slight glow to the photo if you look closely. When compared to the XPS 12's webcam, the Flex 14 certainly offers a better experience based on just much more real to life the image is, considering the XPS 12's image looks too bright.
The Lenovo Flex 14 features some nice internals as the demo unit we were lent for our review runs on a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 4th-generation Haswell processor, the improved Intel HD Graphics 4400 and 8GB of RAM. Lenovo may have skimped on the Flex 14's display, but it looks like they're making up for it with the specs they have thrown into the notebook. With that said, let's see just how powerful the Flex 14 is by running some benchmarks on it.
The Lenovo Flex 14 performed well on our PCMark 7 test as it scored a 4518. This is slightly less powerful than another Haswell-equipped machine we recently reviewed, the Dell XPS 12, but its score is still good enough where you shouldn't notice much of a slowdown when you're multitasking. We've actually seen better scores from some notebooks we reviewed previously that have last-generation processors, so we're sure Lenovo can improve how the Flex 14 performs if they decide it needs to be refreshed.
The majority of ultrabooks that have been released over the years have never performed well in our 3D Mark 11 benchmarks as these machines weren't built to be considered gaming machines. The Intel HD Graphics 4400 is a step up from the widely used Intel HD Graphics 4000, but Lenovo Flex 14 scores a low P719. You may get away with playing some flash-based games or games that don't push the system very hard, but don't go expecting to play Battlefield 4 or Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag on this ultrabook.
Our Geekbench benchmark found the Intel core i5-4200U processor to be pretty powerful as the Flex 14 scored a 5085. This is a good score when you consider the processor will most likely be used for ultrabooks, hybrids or some AIO PCs, but the king of the Geekbench still seems to be the Razer Blade Pro, which is a gaming laptop that has some seriously powerful specs.
As important as it is to see just how powerful a portable computer is, we also like to take into considering its weight versus its power. The Lenovo Flex 14 is a pretty heavy ultrabook as it weighs in at 4.3lbs making it one of the heaviest ultrabooks we've reviewed, and the heaviest ultrabook we've seen featuring Intel's new Haswell processor. Let's just hope the Flex 14 performs well enough to warrant lugging around that kind of weight around.
The results of our performance relative to weight equation, the Lenovo Flex 14 seems to be leaning more on the side of it's weight not being worth the impact you'll get out of the ultrabook. Sure – the monitor on the Flex 14 can be moved around at extreme angles, but if you want to travel light, that feature may leave you feeling achy at the end a long work day.
Battery life is one of the most important factors to consider when you're looking to purchase a new notebook. We know having a portable computer that can keep up with the amount of work or pleasure you plan on using it for is important, but what's the point of buying a notebook when its battery only lasts 15 minutes on a full charge? The Lenovo Flex 14 has a removable 48Whr battery that can slide in and out underneath the base of the monitor.
We're sure if you are considering purchasing a notebook, you're probably going to want to use it at some point. That's why we perform a number of tests to see how much the battery will drain in real-world situations. One of the first tests we perform is a local video test, which we play a 1080p video for an hour while the screen's brightness is set to 50%, keeping the notebook's Wi-Fi on. Once we reached an hour of play time, we noticed a drop of 16% in the battery life of the Flex 14. This means you should expect a little over 6 hours of playback when watching local videos.
The second test we perform on our notebooks is a streaming video test. For this test, we stream a YouTube video set at 1080p for an hour, once again keeping the screen's brightness to 50% and the Wi-Fi on. At the end of the hour, we noticed a drop of 16% in the Flex 14's battery, which means if you're watching streaming 1080p video, you should expect a little over 6 hours of playback before your battery is drained.
Now that we've reported on how long the battery of the Lenovo Flex 14 will last, we also like to take note of how long notebook's we review will take to fully recharge themselves. For this test, we had the Lenovo Flex 14 recharging for an hour with its lid closed, forcing it into standby mode. After an hour of charging, we noticed an increase of 38% in the battery of the Flex 14, which means it'll take you a little over 2 ½ hours to fully charge the ultrabook.
Lenovo certainly put some thought into its Flex series of ultrabooks, although we still can't see why anyone would want to own something this specific. We've seen hybrid notebooks that allow you to either shift and chance the computer to offer multiple uses, as well as come apart to become a more portable tablet. But the Flex 14 is unique in that it's a laptop that can only double as an LCD stand with touchscreen controls.
The Flex 14 has some nice specs, battery life and webcam, but considering its weight and how limited its use outside of being just an ultrabook is, we think Lenovo provided a good notebook with a less interesting secondary use. We think you'll only get full use out of the Flex 14 if you happen to require something as specific as an ultrabook that can have its display extend to an extreme length.
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Good Morning Stampers! The weather is rainy and dreary here, so it is the perfect time to sit down and stamp. This week is a fabulous color challenge that I am hoping will bring back the spring weather. Here is this weeks challenge, we hope you find inspiration in the colors and play along. Be sure to come back and leave a link to your creation so we can come to your blog and check it out!
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Watch it here.
In 2013, Russia enacted laws banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" [to children] and blocking same-sex couples from adopting children. A 2014 Human Rights Watch report documented an uptick in anti-gay violence and harassment in Russia since the laws were passed. *
In the clip above, an outtake from 60 Minutes' two-part interview with the Russian president, Putin says he supports equal rights. "The problem of sexual minorities in Russia had been deliberately exaggerated from the outside for political reasons, I believe, without any good basis," he tells Charlie Rose.
In the U.S., Putin points out, some states still have laws on the books against same-sex relations. (This is partly true; all such laws were invalidated in 2003 by the Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas.)
[Missing quote where he condemns such anti-gay laws:
"I would definitely condemn that. I believe there should not be any criminal prosecution or any other prosecution or infringement of peoples' rights on the basis of their race, ethnicity religious or sexual orientation. We don't have that."]
In Russia, Putin adds, "We have no persecution at all.* People of non-traditional sexual orientation work, they live in peace, they get promoted, they get state awards for their achievements in science and arts or other areas. I personally have awarded them medals."
Putin also defends Russia's controversial gay "propaganda" law. "I don't see anything un-democratic in this legal act," Putin tells 60 Minutes. "I believe we should leave kids in peace. We should give them a chance to grow, help them to realize who they are and decide for themselves. Do they consider themselves a man or a woman? A female? A male? Do they want to live in a normal, natural marriage or a non-traditional one? That's the only thing I wanted to talk about. I don't see here any infringement on the rights of gay people."
CBS News.
Bear in mind this is an instant translation and may not be precise; (legal) 'prosecution' and (social) 'persecution' appear to be confused for one. [Here's a dimwitted intern at GT getting it wrong. PS And Attitude!].
I wish Russia would repeal their silly little law, but you'd have to be a complete gaytard and/or a stooge of American empire to think 'PUTIN = HITLER!!!'
* Some flaws in the Human Rights Watch report.
Update: Russian LGBT youth group we said was banned clearly not actually banned, Pink News reports.
Labels: children 404, Putin, Russia
Paul Canning 5 October 2015 at 01:54
"I wish Russia would repeal their silly little law"
OMG! Fans self. Collapses. 'Did he really say that?' Bitch is a Russophobe.
Blairite!


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The third season of So You Think You Can Dance, a televised Dutch-Belgian dance competition show, based on an American show by the same name, premiered on August 29, 2010. Dan Karaty, Jan Kooijman, and Euvgenia Parakhina reprised their roles on the judging roles with newcomer Marco Gerris joining the panel as well. Dennis Weening and An Lemmens continued to co-host the program.

Hip-hop dancer Floris Bosveld was announced winner on the November 28 finale and won €25,000, a choice of dance school scholarships in the (U.S.) and a role in Dutch dance film Body Language by Johan Nijenhuis.

Selection Process

Auditions
As with the second season, initial open auditions were held in Antwerp over two days, with excerpts shown as the first four episodes on the season.

Bootcamp
111 dancers were accepted beyond the first round and attended a workshop at the ArtEz complex in Arnhem. During the first day, hopefuls were separated into four groups to study four different styles (hip-hop, lyrical hip-hop, modern, and jazz) and then tested on their acquisition of the styles, with 60 competitors cut after this first round. The remaining contestants were then tested on the second day in a cha-cha round run by choreographers Roemjana de Haan and Koen Brouwers.

On the third day of the Bootcamp process, the judges announced that this season's foreign component to the process would be held in Moscow, Russia but that only 24 dancers would proceed to this point.  Each judge picked one dancer to advance to this point of the process automatically and the remaining dancers were required to perform solos for one of the remaining 20 spots. Arriving in Russia, the remaining 24 dancers learned that the last Bootcamp round would feature ballet training.  After observing the dancer perform a classical pas de deux from Swan Lake the judges made their final selections for the season's Top 18 dancers.

Live Shows

Top 18

Male Contestants

Female Contestants

Elimination Chart

Performance

Live Show 1 (October 10, 2010)

Results Show 1
Group Choreography: Top 18: "Animale"—Don Diablo feat. Dragonette (Hip-hop; Choreography: Roy Julen)
Dance For Your Life solos:

Nieuw Couple:
 Junes Lazaar & Evelyne De Weerdt

Live Show 2 (October 17, 2010)

Results Show 2
Group Choreography: Top 16: "Bad Romance"—Lady Gaga (Pop; Choreography: Cora Ringelberg)
Dance For Your Life solos:

Nieuw Couple:
 Junes Lazaar & Agar Dedeene Y Comez

Live Show 3 (October 24, 2010)

Results Show 3
Group Choreography: Top 14: "Storm"—Vanessa-Mae (Modern, Choreography: Ed Wubbe)
Dance For Your Life solos:

Nieuw Couple:
 Cagdas "Caggie" Gulum & Agar Dedeene Y Comez

Live Show 4 (October 31, 2010)

Results Show 4
Group Choreography: Top 12: "Dynamite"—Taio Cruz (Hip Hop, Choreography: Roy Julen)
Dance For Your Life solos:

Live Show 5 (November 7, 2010)

Results Show 5
Group Choreography: Top 10: "Push Push" en "Party O'Clock"—Kat DeLuna (Hip Hop, Choreography: Roy Julen)
Solos:

Live Show 6 (November 14, 2010)

Results Show 6
Group Choreography: Top 8: "Slow Me Down"—Emmy Rossum (Hip Hop; Choreography: Roy Julen)
Solos:

Live Show 7 (November 21, 2010)

Results Show 7
Group Choreography: Top 6: (Flamenco; Choreography: Bettina Castaño)
Eliminated
 Enora Oplinus
 Stefano Giuliani

Finale (November 28, 2010)

Judge Jan Koooijman, having once said that he would himself dance on the stage if the series ever garnered a million votes for a single show decided to perform instead for the finale of season 3 for the landmark of a million viewers, which occurred earlier in the season. dancing a duet with season 2 winner Smekens Els  to modern choreography by Ed Wubbe.  The finale also featured the announcement that series had been picked up for a fourth season.

Results Show Finale
Group Choreography: Top 18: "Ridin' Solo"—Jason Derülo (Hip-hop; Choreography: Roy Julen)
Gastdansers: Jan Kooijman & Els Smekens: "Creep"—Radiohead (Modern, Choreography: Ed Wubbe)
Eliminated
Natascha Dejong
Solos:

Battle:

Runner-up
Lorenzo van Velzen Bottazzi
Winner:
Floris Bosveld

Theatre Tour

External links
 Official website, vtm (Belgium)
 Official website, RTL (Netherlands)

References

Season 03


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The following examples — in San Francisco, Singapore, and New York City — are airport spaces where people actually enjoy spending time. A bonus: Each is connected by public transportation to a pretty nice destination in its own right.
What's now San Francisco International Airport (SFO) was built in a cow pasture 13 miles south of San Francisco in 1927. Ninety years later, SFO is the seventh-busiest airport in the United States. Its setting is hardly rural — the Bay Area is one of the most densely populated places in the country. But it isn't strictly urban either: The airport is perched on the rim of San Francisco Bay, the largest wetland on the Pacific Coast.
That sense of space extends to SFO's Terminal 2 (T2), where an award-winning renovation that debuted in 2011 is holding up admirably. T2 was designed by the global architecture and consulting firm Gensler, which took pains to incorporate the local aesthetic and culture into its plans. In a nod to San Francisco's diverse and patchy weather patterns, the spaces are conceived as "microclimates," and filled with work by local artists and commissions based on Bay Area themes. Likewise, the airport's restaurant options include a range of locally sourced, organic food and wine — the Bay Area was a pioneer in the farm-to-table-movement.
Organic may not be the first word that one associates with a 798-room hotel with a 10-story atrium, but it's an accurate way to describe a recent top-to- bottom renovation of the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, 10 minutes from SFO by shuttle. It's most obvious in the hotel's interior, which took its cues from the surrounding salt marshes and bay, layering blue- and gray-toned walls and floor coverings with stone, metal, and wood. The renovation removed several trees from the atrium, which opened it up to a flood of natural light. Artwork subtly references local geography and history, including a large-scale wave-like sculpture over the registration desk and a piece that incorporates a silvery recycled airplane propeller.
The Hyatt Regency's renovation closed a sports bar and unveiled a new food-and-beverage concept, 3 Sixty, that combines a bar, lounge, restaurant, and market. Menus that change with the seasons are designed to support local farmers and food purveyors, according to General Manager Irby Morvant, and feature organic produce, free-range poultry, seafood, and other locally grown and produced items, including beer, wine, cheese, and oysters. "This hotel truly reinvented every touch point," Morvant said, "from the experience of arriving, to the guest rooms, to the meetings and events space, the social space, and dining." Morvant hosted Convene on a site visit soon after the renovation was complete.
It also offers a sense of serenity that's designed to be more than skin deep. That meant equipping guest rooms with new beds, floor-to-ceiling blackout shades, and double-pane windows that cut decibel levels in half.
This may be all you need to know about how Singapore Changi Airport compares with the average airport: The founder of travel and food blog The Hungry Geek wrote earlier this year that as a high-school student living in Singapore, he often went to Changi to find a quiet place to study.
The airport's carpeted floors and no-announcements policy cut down on noise, and there are plentiful places to sit down and relax — just a few of the reasons Changi has been named the world's best airport for the fifth consecutive year by Skytrax World Airports Awards. Its innovative features read like a list of Best Airport Ideas Ever, including a theater screening free movies; a swimming pool open to travelers; a rooftop cactus garden, water-lily garden, and butterfly garden; a 24-hour medical clinic; sleeping lounges; baggage storage; and business centers.
And the world's best airport is about to get even better, when Terminal 4 officially opens later this year. Terminal 4 has been highly anticipated by locals — 200,000 tickets to attend an open house were quickly snapped up. Among the new facility's features are an exterior "greenwall" with 16,000 plants, a massive kinetic sculpture incorporating music and light, a "Heritage Façade," where retail outlets have been built to resemble historic shops in Singapore, and a six-minute theatrical production based on Singapore's culture presented on a digital theater screen. The terminal will also introduce automated operations intended to decrease wait times, with passenger check-in, bag-drop, customs, and boarding all configured to be self-service and use facial-recognition technology.
In 2019, a multiple-use complex called the Jewel is scheduled to open as an attraction for local residents as well as travelers. It will feature a suspended canopy bridge, gardens and mazes, bounceable "sky nets," the world's tallest indoor waterfall, slides, and additional water features.
It's nice to know that the world's best airport hotel is just a walkway away from the world's best airport. Since 2012, Skytrax has named the 563-room Crowne Plaza Changi Airport as the top airport hotel in the world — a designation the property also received in 2016 from Condé Nast Traveler.
Lush and plentiful gardens are another thing that the airport and hotel share. Vogue has described the Crowne Plaza as "more Zen tropical resort than airport hotel." Many rooms overlook a landscaped courtyard or terraces, while others are perfect for watching planes take o and land — but not hearing them, because rooms are soundproofed against runway noise. The attention to experience extends to the hotel's event space, which spans 8,000 square feet and features six meeting rooms, including one with sparkling LED lights embedded in the ceiling to resemble sunlight filtering through a canopy of trees and tree-trunk-like walls.
The Crowne Plaza also has a few special services designed to take the stress out of international travel. Hotel representatives will meet registered guests upon their arrival at the airport, and each room is equipped with a smartphone, which guests can use to make complimentary local and international calls.
But pay attention to JFK over the coming years. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $10-billion plan to upgrade the airport earlier this year, and there have been a flurry of signals that new ways of thinking are taking root there. One innovation is JetBlue's 24,000-square-foot farm planted outside Terminal 5, where the airline grows herbs and vegetables, including its No. 1 crop: blue potatoes for use in the blue potato chips it serves on flights.
Another surprise, also in Terminal 5, is a 4,000-square-foot rooftop lounge, which offers seating (on the grass, benches, and chairs), a children's play area, and a dog park, dubbed the Woof-top Lounge.
When the Trans World Flight Center, which served as the terminal for TWA airlines, opened at JFK in the early 1960s at JFK, it had a distinctly futuristic appeal. But when the terminal reopens in 18 months as the TWA Hotel, visitors will feel as "if they are stepping back in time to 1962," said Tyler Morse, founder and CEO of MCR Development in New York City.
Designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the TWA terminal was considered to be the embodiment of the jet age. "It was one of the most iconic buildings in America," Morse said. "It was a sight to behold." Closed in 2001, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Restoring the terminal and adding hotel rooms, meeting space, and dining and entertainment was "an extraordinarily audacious" idea, Morse said. "We dealt with 22 different government agencies and had 30 meetings with preservation groups." The restoration of the terminal will preserve furnishings designed by midcentury modernists such as Warren Platner and Charles Eames, and a green-marble fountain by sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Developers also will rebuild the original flap board that announced flight departures.
The finished hotel will have 505 guest rooms — in towers flanking the original terminal — and 50,000 square feet of event space, including 42 meeting rooms and two ballrooms. "It will be a world-class hotel, with all the amenities," Morse said. The property will offer eight restaurants and six bars, and resurrect three of the terminal's lounges: the Paris Café, the Lisbon Lounge, and the Constellation Club.


First and second-year Tepper students recently attended the Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) conference in Minneapolis. One student reflects on the power of LGBT spaces in MBA programs.
On October 11, 2018, the LGBT community will mark the 30th anniversary of National Coming Out Day. While there have been some significant improvements in how LGBT people are treated in society, National Coming Out Day is a reminder of the power and significance that coming out has in the community.
As an out gay man and a first-year MBA student, I've often contemplated what role, if any, my sexual orientation has on my career and place in the workplace. In addition to clubs like Out&Allied organization, Tepper is also a member of the Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) consortium, a group of top-MBA school LGBT students and alumni exploring LGBT issues in business.
Being LGBT in the work place: The conference featured talks from business leaders focusing on issues like the value of the Pink dollar, organizing employee resource groups (ERG) in the workplace, how to address discrimination, and more.
Network with top companies looking for LGBT talent: Additionally, the conference provided first and second-year students with an opportunity to network with recruiters from elite consulting companies, banks, tech companies, CPG firms, non-profit organizations.
Connect with other LGBT MBA students and alumni: Finally, ROMBA provides LGBT students with the ability to network with one another. It's rare in business to encounter such a large gathering of future gay leaders. ROMBA was an excellent opportunity to meet those who will be leading organizations in the future.
Coming out of the conference (pun intended), I have a few thoughts on the power of groups like Out&Allied and ROMBA. First, although there has been some discussion in the LGBT community around the continued value of coming out and LGBT-specific spaces, ROMBA reinforced for me the importance of LGBT organizations in business. When I met another ROMBA attendee, I immediately knew that we shared at least one thing in common. From this shared identity, we could build a meaningful professional relationship.
It's striking to me how easy it was to start a personal and productive conversation with a fellow LGBT at ROMBA. Conferences like ROMBA help LGBT people see themselves as leaders who can bring their whole selves to the workplace.
Additionally, it's striking to me how otherwise ordinary stories still feel transformative when put in an LGBT context. To illustrate – the actor George Takei was the keynote speaker at the conference and delivered a rousing call-to-action. While his speech was incredibly motivating, I was struck by the power of a more personal part of his talk. When George shared how proud he was to marry his husband, he had the rapt attention of everyone.
I love going to a friend's wedding as much as the next person. I can't say though that I've ever been as moved by a wedding anecdote then I was hearing George speak about his marriage. It was this moment when it made me realize how rare such a story was. Gay marriage is a relatively new phenomenon and it still has the power to amaze and transfix a gay audience. Similarly, LGBT leadership in business remains unheralded and rare, and the Tepper MBA's at ROMBA aim to change that.
Oh My!!!! George Takei delivers the keynote speech at ROMBA 2018.
Business schools like Tepper are incredibly welcoming places where students feel confident sharing all the layers of their identity. This isn't the case in all businesses, and LGBT leadership in the world's largest organizations remains thin. Leaders like Tim Cook at Apple and Beth Ford at Land O' Lakes are great pioneers. Nevertheless, there is still a need for LGBT leadership to ensure that all places of business are welcoming. If you're thinking about pursuing your MBA and you're LGBT, make sure to look at ROMBA and Tepper. They could both be instrumental in accelerating your business career.
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David is a 2020 MBA candidate at the Tepper School of Business seeking a product management position in tech. Before business school, David led the marketing team at a B2B software startup in Seattle, WA and he was a Teach For America corps member in Colorado. Outside of work, David is an avid runner, cyclist, hiker, and camper. He is an active fundraiser and bike-rider for AIDS/LifeCycle, a 545-mile bike ride from SF to LA that supports the SF AIDS Foundation and the LA LGBT Center. His AIDS/LifeCycle team is the Pork Peddlers — united by bacon to end AIDS. He's a little too obsessed with his tuxedo cat Figaro.


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The case against the three suspended Police Officers has been adjourned again over prosecution's inconsistencies.
Justice Vui Clarence Nelson raised his concerns regarding the long period of time since the adjournment of this case.
Prosecutor Lucy Sio asked the court for another adjournment for prosecution because she said they are still not ready to make their final submissions.
Up until now, final submissions from counsels have yet to be submitted.
"This matter was adjourned from a month ago, and my concern is for the defendants who are under suspension," said Justice Vui.
He said this matter should have been dealt with a long time ago.
Toleafoa was represented by lawyer Leaota Raymond Schuster while Pau Tafaogalupe Mulipola appeared on behalf of the two officers and they both agreed to the application for another adjournment.
Justice Vui then adjourned this matter to 12:30pm on the 23rd November 2016 for all counsels to present their final submissions on this matter.


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Adnan Hassanpour () is an Iranian-Kurdish journalist who was sentenced to death in Iran in 2007 and reversed a year later. He was re-tried on the capital charges of espionage and working with outlawed parties.
In September 2016 he was released, after almost 10 years in prison.

The sentence to death on moharebeh charge in summer 2007 and later to 31 years in prison by the Appeals Court, has reduced again to 15 years imprisonment.

In April 2007, after being held for four months in detention, without access to a lawyer, Hassanpour was charged by Revolutionary Court prosecutors with "espionage," "acting against national security," and "active armed resistance against the state", which is punishable by death under Iran's Islamic Penal Code. The Supreme Court of Iran confirmed his death sentence on July 17, 2007, but it was reversed by the Head of the Judiciary on 3 September 2008 who sent it back to the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj for review. According to his lawyer, Sirvan Houshmand, "the legal case against Hassanpour rests purely on evidence from interrogation reports obtained during his detention," lacking any other corroborating evidence, and interrogators in Iranian prisons, (according to human rights groups), "routinely subject detainees to physical and psychological ill-treatment to obtain coerced confessions."

Early life
Adnan Hassanpour was born to a Kurdish family in Mariwan, Iranian Kurdistan. He has one sister, Leili Hassanpour. Hassanpour is the cousin of Abdolvahed "Hiwa" Botimar, a journalist and environmental activist who was also tried in secret and accused of being an "enemy of God".

Political Views
Iran follows the Sharia Law, which the governing officials in most Islamic Republics interpret as the inequality of rights between genders, religions, sexual orientation, as well as any other practices that go against Islam. Hassanpour disagrees with this and was an advocate of cultural rights for Iranian Kurds.

Career
Before he was arrested, Hassanpour worked for several publications where he emerged as a great defender of rights to expression. He was managing director of the Marivan Literary Association from 2001-2004 and edited the association's literacy magazine, Rawat. He also worked with foreign media such as Voice of America and Radio Farda, which broadcasts in Persian to Iran. Among the many publications he worked with, Aso was the most infamous. Hassanpour is the former editor of the journal, which was banned in Iran in August, 2005. This publication was critical of the establishment and how it violated the cultural rights of citizens.

Adnan Hassanpour Arrested
In 2005, Hassanpour was summoned to shed light on the way the magazine covered protests in Iran. These summonses led to his subsequent trial and sentencing, as well as the demise of Aso. He was unexpectedly arrested on January 25, 2007, two weeks before his scheduled trial. In April 2007, after being held for four months in detention, without access to a lawyer, Hassanpour was charged by Revolutionary Court prosecutors with "espionage," "acting against national security," and "active armed resistance against the state" (moharebeh), which is punishable by death under Iran's penal code. The revolutionary court in the city of Marivan condemned Hassanpour to execution solely based on interrogation reports produced by the Ministry of Intelligence. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of spying and being a threat to national security.

Adnan Hassanpour deprived of his legal right to furlough
Adnan Hassanpour has spent 7 years in prison, making him the longest standing prisoner among journalists. He was serving his sentence behind bars in Sanandaj prison, deprived of his legal right to furlough, without a single hour of release during these years.

Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International have spoken out on behalf of Hassanpour.

Legacy
Adnan Hassanpour, a journalist and advocate of cultural rights for Iranian Kurds, is a member of the Kurdish Writer's Association. Hassanpour is the winner of the 2007 Reporters without Borders' Press Freedom Award and the 2007 Press Freedom prize from Italy. He was known for writing articles and books on the subject of Kurdish discrimination in Iran.

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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently announced that he will step down as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. The Ontario Liberals are now holding a leadership race to replace Mr. McGuinty. Whoever wins that race at the January 25, 2013 Ontario Leadership Convention will immediately become Ontario's next premier.
In the spirit of non-partisanship that is core to all our activities, we are releasing an open letter to anyone who chooses to run for leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. That letter is set out below. It explains who we are, and asks each candidate to make commitments on our agenda for achieving a fully accessible Ontario for all persons with disabilities.
We ask each candidate to commit to the AODA's goals, to ensure Ontario is on schedule for full accessibility by 2025, to maintain and not cut back on any gains made to date, to keep all the Liberal Party's prior commitments to us, to meet with us if they become premier, and to continue the Liberal Party's practice in each Ontario election since 1995 of making disability accessibility election commitments in letters to us.
We will make public any responses we receive. We will not endorse any candidate for Liberal Party leader. We are seeking through this effort to help keep our long term campaign for an accessible Ontario moving forward.
* Circulate this open letter to friends, family and your local media.
* Help us obtain positive answers from any candidates who run for leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.
We, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance, are a non-partisan voluntary community coalition. We are united to achieve a fully accessible Ontario for over 1.7 million Ontarians with disabilities, through the prompt and effective implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. (AODA) Our supporters include persons with disabilities, people who have not yet gotten a disability, and community organizations concerned with the rights of persons with disabilities in Ontario.
Our predecessor coalition was the Ontarians with Disabilities Act Committee. From 1994 to 2005, the ODA Committee spearheaded a province-wide accessibility campaign. It led to the enactment of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2001 (passed by the Harris Government), and later, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005 (passed by the McGuinty Government).
We, as well as our predecessor coalition, have been widely recognized by all parties in the Legislature, as well as the media, as a leading non-partisan voice in Ontario, advocating to make Ontario a fully accessible province. We have worked very extensively with the McGuinty Government since 2003 on the development of, and later the implementation of, the AODA.
We are now asking each candidate for the leadership of Ontario's Liberal Party, a short list of important questions. These aim at ensuring that Ontario achieves the goal of full accessibility on or before 2025, the end date that the AODA requires. As a non-partisan community coalition, we do not seek to get any party or candidate elected. We do not endorse any candidate for leadership of any party. We will make public all responses we receive to this open letter from any candidate for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership.
Our predecessor coalition, the ODA Committee, took similar action during the Ontario Liberal Party's last leadership campaign. As well, during each of the last five provincial elections, starting in 1995, the ODA Committee, and after it wound up in 2005, the AODA Alliance, have solicited election commitments from Ontario's major parties, on the issue of accessibility for persons with disabilities.
Starting in 1995, the Ontario Liberal Party has made written election commitments on accessibility legislation for persons with disabilities, in each of the past five Ontario general elections. These commitments have been set out in letters from the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party to the ODA Committee in the 1995, 1999, and 2003 elections. After the ODA Committee wound up in 2005 with the passage of the AODA in that year, the Ontario Liberal leader made these commitments in letters to the AODA Alliance in the 2007 and 2011 Ontario general elections. These commitments were signed in the 1995 Ontario election by Liberal leader Lynn McLeod, and in the following four Ontario general elections by Dalton McGuinty.
Fourteen years ago, on October 29, 1998, the Ontario Legislature unanimously passed a resolution setting out eleven important principles that a strong and effective Disabilities Act should fulfil. That resolution was introduced into the Legislature by Liberal MPP Dwight Duncan, at the request of our predecessor coalition, the ODA Committee. Right after that resolution was passed, Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty took part in a joint Queen's Park news conference with ODA Committee Chair David Lepofsky. At that news conference, Mr. McGuinty, then Ontario's Opposition leader, committed that a Liberal Government would implement a Disabilities Act that fulfilled that resolution.
In 2005, all the three Ontario parties in the Legislature voted unanimously for the Liberal Government's AODA. In the 2007 and 2011 Ontario elections, at least some of the major parties, including the Liberal Party, committed to strengthen the AODA's implementation.
To see the 2007 Ontario Liberal Party's election commitments on disability accessibility.
To see the Ontario Liberal Party's 2011 Ontario election commitments on disability accessibility.
Our coalition's mandate is to address disability accessibility issues in Ontario. We do not wish to leave any impression that accessibility is the only disability issue that will require the attention of Ontario's next premier.
We look forward to working with the leaders of all parties now and in the future on the shared goal that all the major parties have endorsed, of achieving a fully accessible Ontario on or before 2025.
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Bethlehem Steel (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) recently installed a 55 watt/square foot TXLP cable system on one of its truck and rail scales, where customers truck in scrap steel to be weighed on a daily basis for reimbursement.
Due to cold temperatures, snow and ice, the truck scale was "seizing", delaying the trucks from leaving the weighing area – a major inconvenience for Bethlehem Steel's customers.
The company installed Nexans cables in the scale and around its perimeter. This kept the scales dry to prevent freezing, as well as at a more uniform temperature to minimize metal contraction and expansion.
As a result, the scale now works all year long – no freezing, no seizing! And, because the 480-volt, three-phase design was compatible with the existing electrical service, Bethlehem Steel did not need to make an additional investment in new electrical equipment.
Due to the project's success, Orbit has since provided similar systems for truck scales throughout the United States.


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Adam is having a bit of writers block lately so meet Maddies mama, Aymee! (Or in my house known as MiMi... ) She has so graciously stepped up to fill his spot for awhile... Yay! Love you Aymee! Hope your enjoying your baby bash!
What separates the young adults from the full-blown adults? At which point do you cross over? Is the right of passage turning 18? Moving out on your own? Buying your first car (when you buy it, not your parents)? Having a child of your own? When you buy a home?Age 18 separates minors from legal adults. But as we all know when you're 18, you're still just a kid--but with legal responsibility for yourself, the right to vote, and the right to buy cigarettes. I was a mature, responsible 18 year-old, but still a kid nonetheless. When I turned 25, I had one of those "oh my god" moments. I realized I was now a quarter-century old (not saying that's old, just that it's a milestone), and that I was in a new age box: no longer 18-24, I was 25-30. "Holy cow!" I said to myself. I reflected on my past, and made decisions about my future. What it this transition that made me a "grown-up?" I have felt like an adult for a little while now; getting married, moving all over the Midwest, paying bills, etc. But I'm about to turn 26 and still don't feel the term "grown-up" applies. I feel like a twenty-something; a twenty-something with a husband and daughter. That's not weird to think about; it's the "grown-up" part. Grown-ups are those we look to for guidance on how to do this thing appropriately named growing up, mainly because they're already there. My mom's a grown-up. My boss is a grown-up. …Or are they?As a kid, you assume an adult knows all the answers. But it's so not true! Adam was once told (about parenting) that adults don't know all the answers. But you take what you know and try to direct your child in what you think is the best direction. We've still got no clue what we're doing! We're still carefully stepping around in the dark, making decisions about moving forward into the unknown. Only now, there are less people offering to guide us and more people looking to sell us a map, and we are expected to make the "right" decision. Not one of us has had a miraculous transformation from child to grown-up. We're the same children we were before; only now, we have become more confident with walking around in the dark.So maybe that's the answer to my question. Maybe having a kid does make you a grown-up, but we don't see the transformation from our point of view. Maybe the transformation can only be seen from the eyes of the ones we are now leading: our children.
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