Is Potters Fortnight a luxury we can no longer afford or an important link to our past?
Whether you call it Wakes Week, Potters Fortnight or something more colloquial, there's a fair chance you'll have memories of this annual event.
The Potters Fortnight was the two-week period every year when manufacturing industry in North Staffordshire and the Potteries shut down.
Falling into line with the school holidays, the region would see a cessation to the day-to-day working norm.
Businesses and factories would become still as their workers and families took trips away to the coast or remained at home, only venturing as far as 'ourgate'.
However, the 21st century has brought rapid change to our day-to-day lives.
Is this new age challenging our ways of working, especially when it comes to the demands being placed upon manufacturing?
For decades, our production industry sat rigid in its annual structure – that for two weeks a year, tools would be 'downed'.
The notion behind Wakes Week was to give workers time off with their families.
Industry argued that 'blocking out' these two weeks each year was more productive for manufacturing than opening up holidays to any time of the year.
Operating on 100 per cent staff for 50 weeks rather than 70 per cent for three to four months each year, was one of the explanations given to justify the Potters Holiday.
The other reasoning was to make sure families spent time together, which in turn would make for a happier workforce.
Perhaps sadly, this may no longer be true.
I remember myself going to spend those two weeks with my grandparents as my mum and dad had to work.
Of course, this was no issue on my part because I knew no different. What was the Potters Holiday? At the age of seven I had no idea, and even if I had, I wouldn't have cared.
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My mindset brings me to the point in question, which we now face in the 21st century.
Is Factory Fortnight still relevant?
The reason, in my young age, that I had no idea of this annual holiday was because neither of my parents worked in the industries associated with its implementation.
My mum has pretty much always worked in an office environment, and my dad, although an industrial engineer, was never subject to the remit of the Potters Holiday.
Looking back at those relevant manufacturing industries, such as the potbanks, their decline is part of the reason that has led to the traditional two-week shutdown disappearing.
Of course, there are still thriving, growing manufacturing businesses across North Staffordshire but the landscape of industry has altered from what it once was.
By 1998 the last pit had closed, parts of the pottery industry were being outsourced, and the dawn of the internet and the seven-day week was building.
This 'new age' of consumer demand, on industry, had of course been developing throughout the 1980s.
New technology was enabling businesses to make products faster and cheaper, while logistics were also becoming far, far faster in getting goods to sale.
It is this technological dawn that changed our expectations and evolved our consumer demands.
How we think about buying now, with regard to service and accessibility, is vastly different to four decades ago.
Today is far different to five years ago. It's moving that fast.
So, going back to the impact on Potters Fortnight, we simply don't have, nor allow ourselves, time to stop as a whole unit for two weeks solid.
If we did choose to, then we would be in fear of our jobs being automated.
of festivities are no longer as key to who we are as a society, as they once were.
Where there was once two or three routes of employment, there are now hundreds of ways to earn a living and all with an expectation of the 24-hour day, seven days a week.
And as for those industries that founded the Potters Holiday, they too have become indoctrinated into this new world.
This new world is built on non-stop supply and demand, which sadly seems to leave little room for a set annual holiday.
It's obvious that our lives aren't the same as they were in the 1960s and 70s.
These days there seems to be little time for standing still and it can be hard to find time for big family holidays or get-togethers.
However, it's not all negative. To quote Bob Dylan, 'For the times they are a-changin'. Plus, we still have a heritage to pass on.
Without the progress of some of our regional industries over the past 30 years, they wouldn't be around for future generations to see.
The pottery industry, which we are known for, is in a resurgence and making its name once again on the world stage.
So although we live in a world that may no longer have time for the Potters Holiday of the past, we can look forward to a future where we will always be Potters.


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Липа Генри () — крупное листопадное дерево высотой около 20-25 метров, вид рода Липа (Tilia) семейства Мальвовые (Malvaceae); ранее род Липа обычно выделялся в самостоятельное семейство Липовые (Tiliaceae).

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Липа Генри имеет стройный, прямой, сильноразветвлённый ствол, покрытый серой корой. У молодых деревьев она обычно светло-серая, гладкая, однако с возрастом становиться трещиноватой. Крона достаточно плотная, округлой или овальной формы. Почки желтые, опушенные или гладкие.

Весной на дереве появляются небольшие, красноватые, очередные листья, с зелеными жилками, однако по мере роста они становятся темно-зелеными или изумрудно-зелеными, имеют сердцевидную, немного асимметричную форму, но среди этих лип иногда встречаются экземпляры с овальными или яйцевидными листьями. Черешки небольшие — от 3 до 5 см, округлые, желтые или зеленовато-желтые, густо покрытые белесым, войлочным опушением. Листья имеют острую или заостренную вершину, зауженное или вогнутое основание, рельефное жилкование и острый, реснитчатый край. Каждая ресничка заканчивается тонкой, острой, слегка изогнутой иголочкой, что делает лист этой липы похожим на лист насекомоядного растения. Верхняя часть листа гладкая, блестящая, нижняя покрыта густым, мягким, коричневатым опушением.

В конце лета на липе Генри начинают появляться многочисленные, мелкие, обоеполые, ароматные цветы, с длинными, плоскими, зеленоватыми или зеленовато-желтыми прицветниками. Они собраны в многочисленные, многоцветковые, поникающие цимозные соцветия. Цветы пятираздельные, симметричные, с узкими, чашеобразными чашелистиками. Окраска венчика обычно белая или кремовая.

После опыления на липе начинают появляться очень мелкие, пятиугольные, нераскрывающиеся, плоские, односемянные плоды, покрытые коротким, волосяным опушением. Они легко переносятся ветром на большие расстояния. В культуре это растение размножают преимущественно при помощи черенкования или прививки.

Корневая система поверхностного типа, с многочисленными, длинными, сильно разветвлёнными корнями.

Число хромосом 2n = 164.

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Липа Генри — эндемик Китая. Растет преимущественно в Шэньси, Хунани, Цвянсы, а также в бассейнах рек Янцзы, Хубэй и Хэнань. В диком виде оно достаточно часто встречается на склонах холмов и гор, в кустарниковых зарослях и в смешанных или лиственных лесах, на высоте от 600 до 1300 метров. В низинной местности она был выращена искусственным путём интродукции.

Официально в культуру это растение было введено в 1901 году, хотя в Китае его выращивали в качестве декоративного и лекарственного многолетника ещё во втором тысячелетии до нашей эры. В наши дни липа Генри — это достаточно редкое дерево, которое культивируют преимущественно в странах с умеренным и субтропическим климатом на территории всего Северного полушария. Липа Генри — это ценный медонос.

Рекордсменом стал экземпляр, посаженный в 1946 году, в 2010 году он достиг высоты 15 метров, с диаметром ствола в 44 см.

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Employees of FrieslandCampina in several countries have celebrated World Milk Day today. In Malaysia FrieslandCampina has celebrated World Milk Day with consumers. World Milk Day has been initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
Celebrating World Milk Day has been a tradition for FrieslandCampina Malaysia in the recent years. This year, on Sunday 29 May, FrieslandCampina had a huge event. "We chose a Sunday to be able to attract an audience of several thousands of people and as much media attention as possible. This was a great success", says Bas van den Berg, managing director FrieslandCampina Malaysia. This year there was a taste election with the slogan 'Choose your favourite flavour so you better enjoy all the goodness of milk. Drink more, do more'. Each of the four flavours of milk drinks was linked to a local celebrity. World Milk Day was the culmination of a campaign that lasted three weeks. The election attracted one million unique visitors on a special Dutch Lady Facebook page and resulted in 232,000 votes.
In several locations employees of FrieslandCampina celebrated World Milk Day.
The location of FrieslandCampina Professional in Lummen (Belgium) was dominated by World Milk Day.
Employees of Corporate Research in Deventer (Netherlands) had breakfast together on World Milk Day. Milk, yoghurt, fruit and cereals were available. All employees were asked to participate in a survey regarding their breakfast habits. And of course they all raised their glasses to milk.
At the central office in Amersfoort (Netherlands) a special team distributed milk among the employees. During lunch all employees were surprised with a singing act about the goodness of milk. In the afternoon there were milk cocktails.


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Waller Bacon  (c. 1669 – 1734), of Earlham Hall, near Norwich, was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 24 years between 1705 and 1734. He was active in drafting bills in Parliament, possibly on the strength of his legal background.

Early life
Bacon was the only surviving son of  Francis Bacon of Gray's Inn and his wife Elizabeth Waller, daughter of Thomas Waller of St Andrew, Holborn, Middlesex. and Earlham. In 1679 he succeeded his father. He was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1679 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on. 23 February 1686, aged 16. In 1693 he was called to the bar. He married (with £2,000), Mary Porter daughter of Richard Porter of Framlingham, Suffolk on 4 April 1695. She died in 1701 and he married as his second wife, by settlement of 28 August 1703, Frances, who was probably the daughter of Rev. Edward Nosworthy, rector of Diptford, Devon. He leased the Earlham estate from his mother, and succeeded to this and other property on his mother' death in 1704.

Career
Bacon was appointed a deputy-lieutenant for Norwich by December 1702. At the 1705 English general election, he stood at Norwich on the Whig interest with the backing of  Lord Townshend,   but  there was a double return, and he was not seated as Member of Parliament until 6 December 1705. He voted for the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705. In January 1706 he was on a committee to draft a bill to regulate duties on coal imports into Great Yarmouth, following popular pressure from Norwich and Norfolk.. In February he reported a petition of some army officers for relief and was ordered to bring in a bill to this end. He voted in February 1706 for the Court over the 'place clause' in the regency bill. In December, he was appointed to draft another bill on Yarmouth coal duties, which he brought successfully through the House. In February 1707 he reported another petition of army officers for arrears of pay, and introduced a bill in March to state the accounts of the regiments concerned. He was returned again at the 1708 British general election. He was appointed in January 1709 to a drafting committee for a bill to continue the Wymondham–Attleborough Road Act. In 1709 he voted for the naturalization of the Palatines.  In January 1710 he helped to progress a bill to regulate hackney coaches, and in March reported a private estate bill. He voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710.  He became a  bencher of his Inn in 1709. He was defeated in contests at Norwich in 1710 and 1713.

Bacon came back into Parliament for Norwich at the  1715 British general election. He showed himself to be a loyal supporter of Walpole. In 1714  he obtained a place as Commissioner for victualling, which he gave up in 1717 to follow Walpole into opposition. He became a Freeman of Norwich in 1718. In 1721, following petitions from wool manufacturers, including those of Norwich, he introduced a bill, which became law, to prohibit wearing calico. After Walpole's return to power he secured another place in 1722 as commissary of musters and stores in Minorca. At the 1722 British general election, he was returned unopposed for Norwich. He was returned again in  1727  and 1734.  He voted regularly with the Government.

Death and legacy
Waller died on 11 November 1734, leaving two surviving sons.

External links
National Trust Collections, Places Articles – Portrait of Waller Bacon MP

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De Rally van Australië 2014, formeel 23rd Coates Hire Rally Australia, was de 23e editie van de Rally van Australië en de tiende ronde van het wereldkampioenschap rally in 2014. Het was de 529e rally in het wereldkampioenschap rally die georganiseerd wordt door de Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). De start en finish was in Coffs Harbour.

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Volkswagen herpakte zich na hun verlies in Duitsland en bewezen in Australië nogmaals de houdgreep die ze op dat moment hadden op het kampioenschap; het zou aan het eind voor het eerst in hun geschiedenis het volledige podium bezetten. Illustratief voor de loop van het seizoen, waren het Sébastien Ogier en Jari-Matti Latvala die om de overwinning streden. Toen Latvala wat verloor op de tweede loop van de langste proef van de wedstrijd, leek Volkswagen in het kader van een aanstaande titel bij de constructeurs windeieren te kiezen en bleef de afstand tussen de twee tot aan de finish redelijk constant. Ogier greep naar zijn zesde overwinning van het seizoen, Latvala eindigde nog maar eens tweede en Andreas Mikkelsen profiteerde van een tijdstraf die Kris Meeke kreeg toebedeeld nadat hij op een van de proeven had afgesneden, en maakte dus een Volkswagen top drie compleet. De Duitse grootmacht verzekerde zich met dit resultaat van hun tweede opeenvolgende titel in het constructeurskampioenschap.

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Power Stage
 Extra punten werden verdeeld voor de drie beste tijden over de 9,23 kilometer lange Power Stage aan het einde van de rally.

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Constructeurs

 Vetgedrukte tekst betekent wereldkampioen.
 Noot: Enkel de top 5-posities worden in beide standen weergegeven.

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Three Taxes People Love to Hate
Few people enjoy giving money to the IRS, but some types of taxes are viewed more unfavorably than others. Here are three worthy candidates vying for the title of most-hated tax.
Penalty Tax on Individuals without Health Insurance
As you probably know, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) imposes a penalty on individuals who fail to have so-called minimum essential health insurance coverage for any month of the year. This requirement is commonly called the "individual mandate," and individuals must pay a penalty for noncompliance with the mandate.
You may be exempt from paying the penalty, however, if you fit into one of these categories for 2016:
Your household income is below the federal income tax return filing threshold, which is generally $10,350 for singles, $20,700 for married joint-filing couples and $13,350 for heads of households.
You lack access to affordable minimum essential coverage.
You suffered a hardship in obtaining coverage.
You have only a short-term coverage gap.
You qualify for an exception on religious grounds or have coverage through a health care sharing ministry.
You're not a U.S. citizen or national.
You're incarcerated.
You're a member of a Native American tribe.
How much can the penalty cost? That's a tricky question. If you owe the penalty, the tentative amount equals the greater of the following two prongs:
The applicable percentage of your household income above the applicable federal income tax return filing threshold, or
The applicable dollar amount times the number of uninsured individuals in your household, limited to 300% of the applicable dollar amount.
In terms of the percentage-of-income prong of the penalty, the applicable percentage of income is 2.5% for 2016 and beyond.
In terms of the dollar-amount prong of the penalty, the applicable dollar amount for each uninsured household member is $695 for 2016. This amount will be adjusted for inflation for 2017 and beyond. For a household member who's under age 18, the applicable dollar amounts are cut by 50%.
The final penalty amount can't exceed the national average cost of "bronze coverage" (the cheapest category of ACA-compliant coverage) for your household. For 2015, the national average cost for bronze coverage was $207 per person, per month or $1,035 per month for a family of five or more. Numbers currently aren't available for 2016, but they'll probably be somewhat higher. Meanwhile, the important thing to know is that a high-income person or household could owe more than 300% of the applicable dollar amount but not more than the cost of bronze coverage.
Important note: If you have minimum essential coverage for only part of the year, the final penalty is calculated on a monthly basis using pro-rated annual figures.
Example: You're unmarried and live alone. During all of 2016, you have no health coverage. Your income for the year is $100,000. Your tax return filing threshold for the year is $10,350. Assume the monthly national average premium for bronze coverage for one person is $215 for 2016, which amounts to $2,580 for the entire year (12 × $215).
In this example, the percentage-of-income prong for 2016 is $2,241. That's 2.5% of the difference between $100,000 and $10,350.
The dollar-amount prong is $695.
The tentative penalty amount is $2,241 (the greater of $2,241 or $695).
In this example, the annual national average cost of bronze coverage is assumed to be $2,580 for one person who's uncovered for all of 2016. Therefore, the final penalty amount for failing to comply with the individual mandate is $2,241 (the lesser of $2,241 or $2,580).
Penalty Tax on Employers that Pay Employee Health Insurance Premiums
The ACA also established a number of so-called "market reform restrictions" on employer-provided group health plans. These restrictions generally apply to all employer-provided group health plans, including those furnished by small employers with fewer than 50 workers.
The penalty for running afoul of the market reform restrictions is $100 per employee, per day. This penalty can amount to $36,500 per employee over the course of a full year. Even worse, the penalty can be assessed on employers who offer an employer payment arrangement in which the company's health plan simply reimburses employees for premiums paid for individual health insurance policies or pays premiums directly on behalf of employees.
This penalty doesn't apply to employer payment arrangements that have only one participating employee. Therefore, a business can still use such an arrangement to reimburse or pay for individual health policy premiums for one employee (such as the owner's spouse) without triggering this expensive penalty.
Many S corporations have set up employer payment arrangements to cover individual health policy premiums for employees who also own more than 2% of the company stock. Under long-standing IRS rules, amounts paid under such plans are treated as additional wages that are subject to federal income tax but exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes. Qualifying shareholder-employees can deduct the premiums on their individual federal income tax returns under the provision for self-employed health premiums. These plans are also exempt from the $100 per-employee-per-day penalty. But S corporation employer payment arrangements that benefit other employees are still exposed to the penalty.
Medicare Surtax on Net Investment Income
The 3.8% Medicare surtax on net investment income was also enacted as part of the ACA. Taxpayers who are hit with the net investment income tax (NIIT) can have a marginal federal tax rate as high as 43.4% (39.6% top federal income tax rate plus 3.8% NIIT). The NIIT can potentially affect anyone with consistently high income or anyone with a major one-time shot of income or gain, say, from selling some highly appreciated company stock or a highly appreciated personal residence. For purposes of the NIIT, net investment income includes the following after subtracting related expenses:
Capital gains, including the taxable portion of gain from selling a personal residence and capital gains distributions from mutual funds,
Dividends,
Interest, excluding tax-free interest (such as municipal bond interest),
Most royalties,
The taxable portion of annuity payments,
Income and gains from passive business activities (in other words, activities in which you don't spend a significant amount of time),
Rental income,
Gain from selling a passive ownership interest in a partnership, limited liability company, or S corporation, and
Income and gains from the business of trading in financial instruments or commodities.
You're exposed to the NIIT only if your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) exceeds the applicable threshold of:
$200,000 if you are unmarried,
$250,000 if you are a married joint-filer, or
$125,000 if you use married filing separate status.
The amount hit by the NIIT is the lesser of: 1) your net investment income, or 2) the amount by which MAGI exceeds the applicable threshold. MAGI is defined as regular adjusted gross income plus certain excluded foreign-source income net of certain deductions and exclusions. (Most individuals are unaffected by this addback, however.)
There's some good news about these three most-hated taxes: With thoughtful advance planning, they can often be avoided or significantly reduced. For more information about these taxes, consult a WFY tax advisor here.
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It's hard to experience the undiluted blend of love and hate more plainly than when strapped into the heavily bolstered Recaro seats of a 2019 Ford Mustang Bullitt while the sound of wind buffeting invades the cockpit through a driver's-side window left open just a crack. Oscillating pressure inside the cabin made mincemeat out of eardrums and even though it would have been easy to relax my white knuckle-grip on the wheel to shut the window while traveling at speeds too ludicrous to mention, it was the aural treat of the reworked 5.0-liter Coyote V8 that gave reason to persevere.
Since Bullitt hit the big screen in 1968, San Francisco has become a city that keeps the masses out through prohibitively expensive living costs and a pace of life that'll turn youthful thick black hair brittle and grey—a far cry from the easygoing peninsula that gave Warner Brothers and Steve McQueen the keys to the city so the pair could shoot one of film's most iconic chase scenes. It's for that reason that Ford invited us to drive the 2019 Mustang Bullitt through Northern California's most iconic driving roads instead of the populated San Francisco hills that once sent McQueen and his Mustang flying—somewhere we wouldn't bother likely Ford stockholders and general members of the 1%.
As the third Bullitt in the Mustang story, the first two being released in 2001 and 2008, the 2019 Mustang Bullit commemorates the film's 50th anniversary and simultaneously reminds us that the current fastback 'Stang's design is so dang good it can yank all eyes to it whether slathered in bright colors and loud stripes or subdued by the removal of chrome horse-shaped badges and the application of dark shades of green or black paint. Unlike a clip from Michael Bay's latest breastaurant shoot-em-up thriller, Bullitt, both the car and movie, is the essence of the gentleman badass—thrice distilled and remaining static under pressure.
The Mustang Bullitt is the virility of adolescence with the poise of an Ian Fleming double-0, unleashing fury with bullseye precision enabled by a steady hand. To keep with that ethos, Ford didn't do much to the exterior when it came time to outfit the latest iteration of the Mustang GT with Bullitt clothing. Though buyers can choose to have the body painted in Shadow Black if the original movie car's Dark Highland Green won't do, Henry Ford will be happy to hear that there is only a single trim option: gloss black.
Subtle chrome accents provide a glimmer of light to the sea of dark paint and lines the outer edges of the grille, borders the edges of the side windows, coats the "Bullitt" lettering and bullseye logo at the rear, and surrounds the lips of retro 19-inch wheels that've had their faces painted in Henry's favorite shade of black. Behind those rims are the only inconsistencies in the color palate aside from the orange turn indicators up front: red Brembo brake calipers put in place to remind occupants that frictional forces provide a better insurance policy than any policy Geico can muster.
With the Bullitt able to reach a top speed of 163 mph provided the driver has enough runway and gall, there's legitimate need for that kind of stopping hardware, but evidence of this Mustang's bloodlust won't be found inside the mature dark interior. Whether fitted with the standard black leather seats or the optional bolstered racing seats with green Recaro logos stitched into hide to match the threaded trim of the door panels, dash, and center console, the only real hints that this 'Stang is any different from a regular Mustang GT come from liberal splatters of the word "Bullitt" around the cabin.
It comes engraved into the chrome doorsills, the bullseye logo that replaces the pony on the steering wheel to match the faux gas cap at the rear, and is placed on a plaque that contains the vehicle's chassis number positioned where it will either impress or be looked over by passenger seat inhabitants. Aside from that, it's up to a white cueball shift knob, echoing the one McQueen's right hand violently jerked around while he was chasing a black Dodge Charger containing two fleeing assassins, to remind those lucky enough to sit inside this 'Stang that it is more special than a GT.
The six-speed manual from the GT, the only available transmission option, was reworked when the pony car underwent its 2018 facelift and while it doesn't make the fastback coupe as easy to hustle around town or track as a Mazda MX-5, it fixes the finicky clutch and vague engagement point of the previous six-speed to the extent that it gives this generation of Mustang a new lease on life. An added bonus: a rev-matching function can make three-pedal novices look like the real McQueen during downshifts. And then, as if the sleek muscular Mustang body in a ninja outfit wasn't enough, there's that fantastic Coyote V8 to take in.
Using nothing more than the 87mm throttle bodies from the GT350 and an ECU retune, Ford coaxes an extra 20 horsepower out of the naturally-aspirated 5.0-liter V8 for a grand total of 480 ponies. Torque remains steady at 420 lb-ft, but those numbers almost seem arbitrary when the new active exhaust starts to pipe up and lends its take on the 1960s through the four Black Nitro Plate exhaust tips.
It may be hard to believe if you bought all the marketing jumble about flat-plane crank V8s having superior soundtracks to cross planes, but trust when we say that this 5.0 sounds better than the 5.2-liter Voodoo in the GT350. Yes, the track-bred GT350's redline is a total treat—sounding like a bucket of bolts in a blender, each one shouting at the rest to spin faster and hit that magic 8,200 RPM mark—but the Bullitt's impression of a carbureted Ford V8 from the late 60s yields the crisp sonorous bass of collected anger, a highly irritated radio voice muffled by the nostalgia of a hotrod-era sepia filter. Since the Bullitt's V8 delivers horsepower linearly, there's plenty of incentive to dig into the throttle for another soundbite after each apex is dealt with.
It's there, in the throes of the wrestling match between human and machine where Mustang shoves driver into buttery leather seats and driver responds by pinning throttle to firewall, straining tendons and stretching Michelin Pilot Sports while a violent vice grip clutches the cueball shifter and steering wheel, that nirvana is found. In that frame of mind, even the most sane of Bullitt drivers will find themselves bounding past dark green Volkswagen Beetles on the hunt for black Dodge Chargers. With the Mustang GT Premium and Performance packages coming standard on the Bullitt and adding those colorful Brembos, a beefed-up anti-roll bar, a larger radiator, and a limited-slip differential, this version of the Bullitt Mustang might even catch up to the bad guys before leaving city limits.
The most enticing difference between the new and old Bullitt is that the new car wields the spoils of modernity to compartmentalize its personalities, dealing with San Francisco's chaotic density with easy shifts, a soft suspension and the convenience of Ford's SYNC 3 infotainment while stowing its manners and pulling out some aggression on the winding roads of Skyline Boulevard.
With numerous ways to alter the variable hardware loaded onboard, a driver can customize steering weight, steering sensitivity, exhaust loudness, and suspension stiffness (provided the box for the optional MagneRide damping suspension is ticked) using steering wheel buttons and the 12.4-inch digital gauge cluster or by toggling through the long list of drive modes that include Normal, Sport, Drag, Track, Snow/Wet, and two customizable MyMode settings. As one might expect, none that kind of kit does not come cheap but stays within reason by not straying too far north from the base price of a loaded GT.
The Mustang Bullit starts at $47,590 including destination (essentially $5,000 more for the Bullitt outfit, 20 extra horsepower, and an exhaust that rattles off aural masterpieces), but the price needle can be pushed forward by adding a few features. The first $2,100 buys the Bullitt Electronics Package, which includes blind spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert, a 12-speaker H&K sound system, ambient lighting, and the full suite of SYNC 3 navigation features. The worthwhile MagneRide damping system piles on another $1,695 while the bolstered Recaros add $1,595, pushing the grand total to $52,980.
That might be a lot of money for a Mustang, but the Mustang Bullitt is a lot of car. Stuck in Golden Gate traffic on what's arguably one of the most eminent sections of California's famous Highway 1, a curiosity took place. Flanked by two Hertz Mustang convertibles, those EcoBoost models that are rented out to tourists so they can experience California the way they think locals do (you can spot them by watching for retracted convertible tops in dreary jacket weather), it was the Bullitt that bridge crossers launched their pointed index fingers and camera lens towards.
The Bullitt's shade of downcast green could hardly win a shouting match against tints of Ruby Red and Triple Yellow sported by the rentals, but it was the hearty chortle of the 5.0-liter, the faint scent of smoke slithering from the singed rear tires, and the maniacal laugh yours truly was sending into the San Francisco Bay that projected McQueen's star power onto a bridge full of guests wanting to see what America is all about.


Everyone wants to buy from the best. Here are three ways to position yourself as an authority in your field and to bump up sales at the same time.
When it comes time to make a purchase, customers want to know that they're getting the best value possible. For many shoppers, their first step to achieving that goal is to turn to the experts for advice and recommendations. And that spells opportunity for small business entrepreneurs.
The best way to position your business to reap sales from these customers is to become the expert that they turn to for information. However, you don't become known as an expert through wishful thinking. Try these three strategies to establish your credibility.
Earned media coverage has the dual benefit of increasing exposure for your business as well as adding to your credibility as an expert. You can find opportunities for free press both online and offline.
Sites such as HARO and ProfNet connect experts with journalists. Sign up as a potential source and have queries from reporters sent directly to your inbox.
Meanwhile, newspapers -- particularly small local publications -- may be on the look-out for free and fresh content to print. Offering to write a column in your niche could be a win-win for you both.
There's a reason that Home Depot lets you come in on a Saturday morning to build a free birdhouse. The same holds true for the local financial agent who provides a complimentary luncheon seminar on retirement options.
These types of events add to the company's and the individual's reputation as experts in their respective fields. Making them free creates goodwill and helps ensure a larger audience.
As a bonus, many of the people who attend free events and seminars are ready to buy. They want to put their newfound knowledge or inspiration to use, and you happen to be there, ready to sell.
If you are going to be an expert in your field, you need to know your industry inside and out.
Using a computer doesn't make you an expert on computers, and your own personal experience isn't necessarily enough to make you the go-to person in your field. For example, if you sell insurance, you may know your state's regulations quite well, but unless you keep up-to-date on national trends in the industry, you probably aren't qualified to comment on issues occurring in other states.
Subscribing to trade publications and getting involved in industry associations are two ways to ensure you can speak intelligently on major facets within your niche.
If you want to boost your brand recognition and improve sales, think about promoting yourself as well as your business. With expert status comes the opportunity to expand name recognition for your firm as well as to pitch your services.


Probably not, because it has already done before, and we rarely remember those who come in second.
In April 2014, Scott and Julie Brusaw launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise money for their groundbreaking Solar Roadways technology. In May, they added a very clever video titled, "Solar Freakin' Roadways," which instantly went viral and has been seen by over 18 million people around the world.
This is an example of a well-executed grandstanding effort - cutting edge technology tied to an ingenious video and a George Takei tweet.
To better understand the last question, can the average person on the street name more artists, movie stars, writers, musicians, inventors, celebrity CEOs, scientists, poets, scientists, chefs, cartoonists, athletes, film producers, political leaders or mass-murderers?
Banksy – Everyone loves a mystery and the fact that no one has been able to discover his or her identity keeps people paying close attention to the brilliant graffiti art showing up randomly on the sides of buildings. Banksy's work grew out of the underground scene in Bristol, England and is now more popular than ever.
Dale Chihuly – An American glass sculptor, Chihuly has garnered worldwide attention with his large-scale glass installations in botanical gardens. The contrast between glass and nature is nothing short of breathtaking.
Psy (Park Jae-sang) – As a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer, Psy has become an international celebrity because of his hit single "Gangnam Style" which was the first YouTube video ever to be downloaded over 1 billion times.
Simon Sinek – Authors have found that being a good speaker also sells books. Attracting over 20 million views as a TED speaker, Sinek is the author of the best-selling books, "Start With Why" and "Leaders Eat Last."
Edward Snowden – As a former CIA intelligence officer, Snowden gained worldwide attention after leaking classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA). What Snowden unleashed will have ripple effects for decades to come. As a result, Snowden is a much sought after speaker, through live video webcasts from his current home in Russia.
PewDiePie (Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg) – A Swedish video game commentator, Felix is now the highest earning YouTube celebrity.
Katy Perry – This young pop singer has more Twitter followers (more than 60 million) than anyone else including Justin Bieber.
Pete Cashmore - As CEO and founder of the world famous blog Mashable, Cashmore is one of the youngest and richest bloggers in the world.
Jane McGonigal – Jane is one of the best-known gaming industry evangelists and her TED talks are themed around how the world would be a better place if we all played more games.
Michael Arrington – Michael has become known as the "Prophet of Silicon Valley." His site, TechCrunch, updates its news so often now that you can get minute-to-minute tech news.
Malala Yousafzai – 17-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner from Pakistan is the youngest ever to win the prize. Malala grew to prominence as a human rights activist promoting education for women in her native Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan. Her actions led to an attempt on her life in 2012 where she was shot in the head and narrowly survived.


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Ciemny Mur – skalny mur w prawych zboczach Doliny Bolechowickiej we wsi Karniowice w województwie małopolskim, w powiecie krakowskim, w gminie Zabierzów. Jest to teren Wyżyny Olkuskiej w obrębie Wyżyny Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej. Dolina Bolechowicka, wraz ze znajdującymi się w niej skałami znajduje się w obrębie rezerwatu przyrody Wąwóz Bolechowicki, dopuszczalne jest jednak uprawianie w niej wspinaczki skalnej.

Ciemny Mur znajduje się powyżej Zamarłej Turni, w skalnym grzbiecie wznoszącym się w prawych zboczach doliny. Na zachodnią stronę opada na odkryty trawiasty teren skalistym, poszarpanym urwiskiem, na wschodnią, do Doliny Bolechowickiej pionową ścianą o wysokości około 6 m. Stoki pomiędzy tą ścianą a Zamarłą Turnia porasta las. Na wschodniej ścianie Ciemnego Muru są 3 drogi wspinaczkowe o trudności od VI+ do VI.2 w skali trudności Kurtyki. Jak dotąd są bezimienne i nie mają zamontowanej asekuracji.

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Formacje skalne Wyżyny Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej
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Hello everyone! As some of you may know, the TP&T team went on a cruise last week. We haven't wrote any articles since before the cruise, but we hope to in the coming days! Today, I guess you could count this as an "article," but it's really telling you our plans for the theme park season. This week I'm in a place with spotty wifi, but it's good enough to write articles (the middle of nowhere), but instead I think we should talk about the events coming in the future!
Kings Dominion-It's our home park after all, but we can't be there opening day!
Busch Gardens Williamsburg-Possibly for Tempesto's opening!
Carowinds-I need to cure my Fury Fever!
Six Flags America-It's decent enough to get a yearly visit.
Kennywood-In the area and brand new for us.
I'm letting you know that we probably won't be at any media days, and there's a good chance we don't get to the parks on the opening days of rides, but we can't wait to provide you with news and reviews of these parks! California will be our highlight of the year! We will fly out there and start with the Adventures by Disney Southern California tour. We will visit Walt Disney Studios, Disneyland, and even Imagineering! We are looking forward to this awesome experience. Afterwards, we plan to stay in California and visit Magic Mountain, Knott's, Universal, California's Great America, and Discovery Kingdom. We are looking forward to a year of theme parks and travels! We can't wait to announce further information on the parks we will visit. This is the TP&T Team saying, have a magical day and a theme park filled season!


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// TODO (rantuttl): Modify to support command line options we need
// Package options contains flags and options for initializing an apiserver
package options

import (
	"time"

	"github.com/spf13/pflag"

	"github.com/rantuttl/cloudops/apiserver/pkg/api"
	genericopts "github.com/rantuttl/cloudops/apiserver/pkg/genericserver/options"
	serveropts "github.com/rantuttl/cloudops/apiserver/pkg/server/options"
	"github.com/rantuttl/cloudops/apiserver/pkg/backend"
	corev1 "github.com/rantuttl/cloudops/apiserver/pkg/apigroups/core/v1"
)

// ServerRunOptions runs an apiserver.
type ServerRunOptions struct {
	GenericServerRunOptions *genericopts.ServerRunOptions
	Backend			*serveropts.BackendOptions
	SecureServing           *genericopts.SecureServingOptions
	InsecureServing         *genericopts.InsecureServingOptions
	Authentication          *serveropts.BuiltInAuthenticationOptions
	Authorization		*serveropts.BuiltInAuthorizationOptions

	EnableLogsHandler         bool
	EventTTL                  time.Duration
	MaxConnectionBytesPerSec  int64
}

// NewServerRunOptions creates a new ServerRunOptions object with default parameters
func NewServerRunOptions() *ServerRunOptions {
	s := ServerRunOptions{
		GenericServerRunOptions: genericopts.NewServerRunOptions(),
		Backend: serveropts.NewBackendOptions(backend.NewDefaultConfig(api.Scheme, api.Codecs.LegacyCodec(corev1.SchemeGroupVersion))),
		SecureServing: genericopts.NewSecureServingOptions(),
		InsecureServing: genericopts.NewInsecureServingOptions(),
		Authentication:  serveropts.NewBuiltInAuthenticationOptions().WithAll(),
		Authorization:	serveropts.NewBuiltInAuthorizationOptions(),
		EnableLogsHandler: true,
		EventTTL:          1 * time.Hour,
	}
	return &s
}

// AddFlags adds flags for a specific APIServer to the specified FlagSet
func (s *ServerRunOptions) AddFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
	// Add the generic flags.
	s.GenericServerRunOptions.AddUniversalFlags(fs)
	s.Backend.AddFlags(fs)
	s.SecureServing.AddFlags(fs)
	s.SecureServing.AddDeprecatedFlags(fs)
	s.InsecureServing.AddFlags(fs)
	s.InsecureServing.AddDeprecatedFlags(fs)
	s.Authentication.AddFlags(fs)
	s.Authentication.AddDeprecatedFlags(fs)
	s.Authorization.AddFlags(fs)
	s.Authorization.AddDeprecatedFlags(fs)

	// Note: the weird ""+ in below lines seems to be the only way to get gofmt to
	// arrange these text blocks sensibly. Grrr.

	fs.DurationVar(&s.EventTTL, "event-ttl", s.EventTTL,
		"Amount of time to retain events.")

	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableLogsHandler, "enable-logs-handler", s.EnableLogsHandler,
		"If true, install a /logs handler for the apiserver logs.")

	/* FIXME (rantuttl): Consider using similar approach to CAL comms, although may be hardcoded.
	fs.StringVar(&s.SSHUser, "ssh-user", s.SSHUser,
		"If non-empty, use secure SSH proxy to the nodes, using this user name")

	fs.StringVar(&s.SSHKeyfile, "ssh-keyfile", s.SSHKeyfile,
		"If non-empty, use secure SSH proxy to the nodes, using this user keyfile")

	fs.Int64Var(&s.MaxConnectionBytesPerSec, "max-connection-bytes-per-sec", s.MaxConnectionBytesPerSec, ""+
		"If non-zero, throttle each user connection to this number of bytes/sec. "+
		"Currently only applies to long-running requests.")

	// Kubelet related flags:
	fs.BoolVar(&s.KubeletConfig.EnableHttps, "kubelet-https", s.KubeletConfig.EnableHttps,
		"Use https for kubelet connections.")

	fs.StringSliceVar(&s.KubeletConfig.PreferredAddressTypes, "kubelet-preferred-address-types", s.KubeletConfig.PreferredAddressTypes,
		"List of the preferred NodeAddressTypes to use for kubelet connections.")

	fs.UintVar(&s.KubeletConfig.Port, "kubelet-port", s.KubeletConfig.Port,
		"DEPRECATED: kubelet port.")
	fs.MarkDeprecated("kubelet-port", "kubelet-port is deprecated and will be removed.")

	fs.UintVar(&s.KubeletConfig.ReadOnlyPort, "kubelet-read-only-port", s.KubeletConfig.ReadOnlyPort,
		"DEPRECATED: kubelet port.")

	fs.DurationVar(&s.KubeletConfig.HTTPTimeout, "kubelet-timeout", s.KubeletConfig.HTTPTimeout,
		"Timeout for kubelet operations.")

	fs.StringVar(&s.KubeletConfig.CertFile, "kubelet-client-certificate", s.KubeletConfig.CertFile,
		"Path to a client cert file for TLS.")

	fs.StringVar(&s.KubeletConfig.KeyFile, "kubelet-client-key", s.KubeletConfig.KeyFile,
		"Path to a client key file for TLS.")

	fs.StringVar(&s.KubeletConfig.CAFile, "kubelet-certificate-authority", s.KubeletConfig.CAFile,
		"Path to a cert file for the certificate authority.")

	fs.StringVar(&s.ProxyClientCertFile, "proxy-client-cert-file", s.ProxyClientCertFile, ""+
		"Client certificate used to prove the identity of the aggregator or kube-apiserver "+
		"when it must call out during a request. This includes proxying requests to a user "+
		"api-server and calling out to webhook admission plugins. It is expected that this "+
		"cert includes a signature from the CA in the --requestheader-client-ca-file flag. "+
		"That CA is published in the 'extension-apiserver-authentication' configmap in "+
		"the kube-system namespace. Components recieving calls from kube-aggregator should "+
		"use that CA to perform their half of the mutual TLS verification.")
	fs.StringVar(&s.ProxyClientKeyFile, "proxy-client-key-file", s.ProxyClientKeyFile, ""+
		"Private key for the client certificate used to prove the identity of the aggregator or kube-apiserver "+
		"when it must call out during a request. This includes proxying requests to a user "+
		"api-server and calling out to webhook admission plugins.")

	fs.BoolVar(&s.EnableAggregatorRouting, "enable-aggregator-routing", s.EnableAggregatorRouting,
		"Turns on aggregator routing requests to endoints IP rather than cluster IP.")
	*/

}


The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has just released a 319-page report titled "OECD Communications Outlook 2007" (PDF). As you may have guessed by the title and the size, it's a comprehensive look at the state of the telecommunications industry around the world. Of particular interest is the section on broadband deployment, which tracks usage, deployment, and pricing trends over the past couple of years. Overall, broadband has become faster and cheaper, especially in countries where there are a large number of cable and DSL providers.
DSL prices fell on average by 19 percent from September 2005 to October 2006, while comparable speeds jumped by 29 percent. Cable broadband also got cheaper, dropping 16 percent in price while getting 27 percent faster.
Data source: "OECD Communications Outlook 2007"
The OECD ranked countries both on affordability of broadband packages and price per megabit. Somewhat surprisingly, the US is at the cheap end of the spectrum when it comes to the range of prices, coming in at number four behind Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland. As of October 2006, the cost per month of broadband service in the US ranged from $15.93 at the low end to $191.20 at the opposite extreme. Swedish broadband ranged from $10.79 to $46.74, Denmark from $11.11 to $105.10, and Switzerland's from $12.53 to $55.65. If AT&T's hard-to-find $10-per-month DSL were considered, the standing of the US would surely improve.
Keep in mind that in the US, that $15.93 is likely to buy you a 768Kbps/128Kbps DSL connection, while the $19.87 per month minimum in Japan will result in much faster service.
On the other hand, when the metric switched to cost per megabit per second, the US did not fare so well, slipping to 12th out of the 30 countries ranked. In the best-case scenario, broadband in the US cost $3.18/Mbps but could be as expensive as $20.74/Mbps. As one might expect, given their high speeds and low broadband costs, Japan and Korea were at the top of the list. Japanese broadband is as cheap as $0.22/Mbps, while Korea is $0.42/Mbps. Sweden performed very well in the cost per megabit category too, with prices as low as $0.35/Mbps.
The OECD notes that the broadband situation is better in areas with multiple broadband options. "Price decreases and improved services have been the most marked in markets characterized by intense competition," says the report. "Competition may be the product of regulatory intervention, as in the case of local loop unbundling, or may be the result of new infrastructure-based competition."
The countries with the lowest cost per megabit per second are generally characterized by two things: a significant fiber infrastructure and a healthy amount of competition. In Japan and Korea, for instance, fiber is widespread, resulting in the fastest residential broadband speeds available anywhere. In Europe, the regulatory environment allows consumers in many countries to choose from any number of DSL and cable providers. When Nobel Intent correspondent Chris Lee moved into his flat in the Netherlands, he had no less than three cable and three DSL providers competing for his business, including one company—KPN—that offered both. France is another country with abundant broadband competition—and it has the fifth-cheapest broadband in the world in terms of price per Mbps.
In contrast, the Federal Communications Commission's policy of deregulation has left most consumers faced with duopolies (at best) and de facto monopolies (I live over 20,000 feet from the nearest DSLAM in Chicago, so DSL isn't an option for me). The situation is such that the nation as a whole is a broadband laggard, according to one FCC commissioner. As a result of the FCC's policies, competition based on price and speed is spotty at best, and fiber deployments are in their early stages.
The FCC's vision of competition entails different broadband modes (e.g., cable versus DSL) rather than different providers offering the same type of service, which is why there have been rumblings about an "open access" requirement for the upcoming 700MHz auction. The FCC is on the wrong track, according to the OECD's reasoning. "Regulatory decisions across most OECD countries to allow the fixed PSTN's incumbents local loop to be unbundled has been a major factor in the development of OECD communications markets and stimulating the development and competitive provision of broadband offers," explains the report.
If speed is your thing, your best bet is to live in Japan and Korea, both of which offer 100Mbps speed, or move into Verizon's FiOS coverage area in the US; according to the OECD, Verizon's fiber offering is the third-fastest residential service in the world. Cable providers in six countries now offer speeds of greater than 20Mbps, with another 17 countries offering cable Internet speeds of 10Mbps or faster.
Fiber is becoming more popular worldwide, says the OECD, and not just due to a desire to offer faster speeds. The big driving force is bandwidth: the triple-play is not just a US phenomenon, and broadband providers around the world want enough bandwidth to be able to offer a solid HDTV lineup. The study points out that while many of the fast networks under study use ADSL2+ for last-mile connectivity, it's not enough to support multiple HDTV streams. As a result, fiber-to-the-premises deployments like Verizon's are becoming increasingly popular worldwide.
Overall, the OECD's report paints a positive picture for much of the developed world when it comes to broadband. Things are looking up in emerging economies too, with what the OECD calls the BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) seeing significant growth in broadband penetration. BRICS countries are among the fastest-growing ICT (information and communication technology) markets in the world, with their share of global ICT spending doubling between 2000 and 2006. Broadband still costs significantly more in those markets, both in terms of monthly service fees and cost per megabit, but the outlook is good there.


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That's right, my Southern Perspective peeps! For those of you who started with me in March 2014, we've been together for five years or 60 months or 260 weeks, plus a few extra weeks by now. I haven't turned in a column every week along the way, but barring one hiatus, I haven't missed too many.
We've discussed the obviously Southern things, like grits and GRITS (Girls Raised in the South). We've also talked about the things in our lives which don't get much attention, like Spanish moss. Most people don't think about Spanish moss unless it's killing their trees, or they get chiggers from it.
Subjects of local and regional interest are always popular here, too. I've celebrated Pensacola's pride in being the home of the Blue Angels and discovered that Florida doesn't have an official state dog. It's impossible to do the research I do for this column and not learn a whole bunch about where I live.
Going to the dogs: Is it time for Florida to get an official state dog?
And history. There are so many weird and fascinating facts about how we came to be who we are that I can't just not share them with you. I must say the piece on the silk and lace shawl which Queen Victoria gave to Harriet Tubman as a sign of respect was probably my favorite history one. I also loved the column about the French casket girls and how they helped populate this region. It runs a close second with me.
Do you enjoy the food here? What kind of a dumb question is that for me to waste my space on? Of course you love the food here. There's only so much to be said, however, about boiled peanuts and collard greens. It's been lucky for me there's also red velvet cake, pimiento cheese, Jello molds and … the list goes on.
There are so many other categories, it's hard to fit them all in. For instance, you've read about "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (entertainment) and how opossums are immune to snake venom (nature). We're about even so much more than all of these things, and I can't wait to discover and discuss them with you.
I also need to give the excellent people at Pensacola News Journal a shout-out for allowing me this space. They're really cool about all of the weird topics I choose, like the Florida Skunk Ape.
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November 01, 2015 - 4 minute read
Catherine Standridge '13 studied music education at Concordia University Irvine, earning her degree and her teaching credential. Her student-teaching assignment led to a full-time job and an opportunity to help restore music education to an entire school district.
"Orange Unified School District didn't have a music program in any of its elementary schools," says Standridge. "Unfortunately, when budgets are cut, art is the first to go, even though it helps with the tests students take and their brain development in a way that academics can't."
When budgets are cut, art is the first to go, even though it helps with the tests students take and their brain development in a way that academics can't.
Standridge's supervisor Sandy Streeter, Instrumental Music Director at El Ranchero Charter School, decided to take the ambitious step of creating a proposal to present to the board of education to try to bring music education back to every elementary school in the district. Standridge became her right hand person on the project.
"During the process of trying to re-implement the program, Catherine was instrumental in researching and presenting information that was gathered to sway the school board in a positive direction," says Streeter.
"We worked really hard together for a year and a half in tandem to create a proposal for the board of education," says Standridge. "We looked at surrounding districts—Irvine, Yorba Linda-Placentia—to see what worked best for us and what we could implement."
In the process, Standridge learned how to put together a budget, a schedule, and more.
"It really taught me a lot about what goes on behind the scenes and how to implement the program," she says.
The climactic moment came at the board of education meeting last fall when Standridge and Streeter presented the proposal. "[Catherine's] attendance and perseverance was a driving force during negotiations." After two years of work, the school district would have music instruction in its elementary schools again.
"They announced that it had passed and they were granting us over $2.5 million," says Standridge. "I was ecstatic."
The board immediately hired its own team to implement the proposal—and though Standridge had been one of the authors, she still had to apply to be a teacher in the program.
"It was really nerve-racking," she says. "They interview you and then have a teaching observation where they have kids play instruments they have never played before. They acted as if it were the first day in band class, and I had to teach them how to make a sound on their instrument. It was pretty intense, and I was so nervous I wasn't going to get the job. Luckily, I did pretty well."
Now Standridge teaches in the program she helped create. Starting this September, every fifth and sixth grade student in all 27 schools in Orange Unified can take band, strings, or an elective wheel. They enjoy brand new instruments, books, and music stands. They can choose from flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, violin, viola, and cello. They learn the basics of music, music history, ear training, and get "a good musical foundation," Standridge says.
"I feel awesome. I can't believe it happened," she says. "We worked for so long, and I felt it would never happen because of all the red tape and money. So much had to be done. When it was approved I remember telling everyone I knew. I have a lot of music education friends. I wanted everyone to apply."
Streeter, who is near retirement, told Standridge that she was a big reason she pushed for this program. "I know that the future of the music programs in OUSD will be in great hands, with teachers like Catherine."
"Sandy won't see the benefits of this, but she told me she wouldn't have done the proposal if she didn't see something in me and think I could help carry this program into the future," Standridge says.
Standridge is the first student-teacher the veteran educator has hired in 37 years.
The ultimate impact is on students who "are doing awesome," says Standridge. "Every day after classes the kids thank me and say, 'This is so much fun. This is the best thing that happened to me, and I love playing music.' They're in the very beginning stages of playing, but they're getting there."
Students may even take their instruments home to practice and bring them to school twice a week.
Standridge had a great experience at CUI, she says. She went on the first Around-the-World Semester® and found it "completely life-changing," she says. She fell in love with many of the countries—and with Erik Olsen '12, whom she will marry next spring.
Standridge credits CUI professor Herb Geisler with setting her on her present path.
"He's the one that placed me in the school I work at now, so I pretty much owe everything to him," she says. "Going to Concordia was totally God. I had my mind set on something else and when it came time to choose I just said, 'I'm going to Concordia.' It was exactly where I needed to be and God knew that. I always have felt that God has led me wherever I need to go."
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Near-Earth object
Solar System object whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth
(Redirected from Near Earth Object)
Flyby of asteroid 2004 FH (centre dot being followed by the sequence). The other object that flashes by is an artificial satellite
Asteroid 4179 Toutatis is a potential hazard that passed within 2.3 lunar distances
A near-Earth object (NEO) is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it close to the Earth.
Their least distance from the Sun, their perihelion, is less than 1.3 AU.[1][2] NEOs include near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and near-Earth comets.[2]
They include more than ten thousand near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), near-Earth comets, some solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to be tracked in space before striking the Earth. Collisions in the past have had a significant role in shaping the geological and biological history of the planet.[3]
In some cases NEOs hit the Earth. Most of these meteors explode harmlessly in the upper atmosphere. But some NEOs are dangerous. We try to find out when one is going to hit Earth using impact prediction. On 30 June 1908, a meteorite of around 45 metres in diameter[4] exploded over the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River.[5] It released an energy of 10–15 megatons of TNT[5] and destroyed roughly 2,000 square kilometres of forest.[6] Such an explosion, similar to one of the biggest nuclear weapons, could have razed London about as far out as the M25 ring road.[6] However, because the location was remote, no deaths were recorded. The Association of Space Explorers estimates that a Tunguksa-like event happens two or three times every thousand years on average.[4] An asteroid roughly 10 km in diameter is thought to have hit Earth 66 million years ago and caused the K/T extinction event, including the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.[7]
Frequency of small asteroids ~1 to 20 meters in diameter hitting Earth's atmosphere
Near-Earth asteroid
Asteroid impact prediction
Near-Earth asteroids classification
↑ An astronomical unit (AU) is the semi-major axis of the Earth's orbit. That is the longest distance of the Earth from the Sun.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "NEO Groups". NASA. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
↑ Richard Monastersky (1997). "The call of catastrophes". Science News Online. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Asteroid threats: a call for global response" (PDF). Association of Space Explorers. 2008. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Farinella P.; et al. (2001), "Probable asteroidal origin of the Tunguska Cosmic Body", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 377 (3): 1081–1097, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20011054 Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
↑ 6.0 6.1 Napier, B; Asher, D (2009), "The Tunguska impact event and beyond", Astronomy & Geophysics, 50 (1): 1.18–1.26, doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2009.50118.x
↑ Schulte P.; et al. (2010), "The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary", Science, 327 (5970): 1214–1218, doi:10.1126/science.1177265 Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
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Persado, charity: water Author Powerful Story
Nearly one in 10 people — 663 million people — live without clean and safe drinking water. That's twice the population of the United States. charity: water is on a mission to fix this crisis and reinvent charity for a new generation.
Donors play a huge part in helping charity: water provide people with this basic human need. Through the support of donors, they've funded more than 35,000 water projects across the world, bringing clean water to communities in need. Recruiting more monthly donors will bring charity: water and the communities they serve closer to solving the global water crisis.
Many of charity: water's donors are Millennials, and therefore, Facebook advertising has been an integral part of their acquisition strategy. They are constantly testing different iterations of imagery, messaging and calls-to-action to find what best engages their audiences. Though this trial-and-error approach has yielded moderate improvements in engagement, they've struggled to learn exactly what story and messaging resonates most with new audiences.
Related: How Persado's AI helped clean water charity take 'trial-and-error' out of Facebook ads via The Drum
Enter Persado
charity: water wanted to increase their donor base and engagement, but not without answering an important question: "Why?" They wanted to know what inspires people to become donors. What about a specific story was inspiring someone to join the mission to give all humans access to clean and safe drinking water? They began using Persado's AI technology, which not only drives results but delivers deep insights into the "how" and "why" behind those outcomes, to experiment and learn at a greater scale.
Artificial Intelligence + Narrative Intelligence Find (And Tell) the Story
charity: water used The Persado Message Machine to generate 16 Facebook ads across 1,024 permutations spanning a range of the non-profit's core brand narratives: community, transparency and mission. This approach allowed them to pinpoint precisely which stories were the most powerful for different age segments and genders.
"Together we're unstoppable" was more powerful than phrases like, "help us make history" and "end the water crisis of our time," which are a part of charity: water's mission statement. The sense of community drew people in, perhaps not surprising as developing a community on social media is huge for brands right now — they're even creating Facebook groups to foster loyalty rather than simply relying on ads to do the trick in garnering conversions. Also, language evoking the emotion Encouragement outperformed imperative language in charity: water's control.
Imagery had the most significant impact on engagement for charity: water. The close-up image of the woman resonated most across all audiences tested, the mother-and-daughter worked best with women and the 1% audience look alike. Emotional language was the second biggest contributor. Encouragement phrases like, "We need your help" outperformed phrases like "A call-to-action," which conveys Anxiety, a historically top-performing emotion across industries and regions. Remember: This won't be the same across the board. Best practices aren't necessarily what's best for your brand. It's important to experiment and find what your audience wants to supercharge growth.
"Growth matters for charity: water," explained Scott Harrison, CEO and Founder of charity: water. The more we grow, the more people we can help. The work that we've done with Persado has allowed us to understand what messages resonate most with our audience and has enabled us to scale those learnings across platforms and even internationally to help us grow."
charity: water plans to continue using insights generated by Persado more broadly across Facebook and hopes to run more experiments in the future.
We care about getting our message and story out there to potential new donors. By design, this requires us to test outside-the-box while still staying true to our core vision. Persado helped kickstart a new era of testing at charity: water, helping us discover in a very data-driven way what aspects of our vision inspire donors the most, and how we can use the right words and imagery to connect more strongly with different audiences."
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Woman Forced To Drag Paralysed Husband To First Floor At Andhra Govt Hospital After Being Denied Stretcher
IndiatimesUpdated on Nov 18, 2016, 10:55 IST
In the past couple of months, a number of incidents have been reported from across the country, in which medical staff have been indifferent to the plight of patients. Be it the Odisha man who had to carry the body of his dead wife or a UP teenager who died on his father's shoulders.
Now, in yet another case has been reported from Andhra Pradesh.
A woman was forced to drag her ailing husband on the ramp of the Guntakal Government Hospital in Anantapur after the staff allegedly expressed inability to provide a stretcher to carry him.
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The man, identified as Srinivasa Chary was brought to the hospital by his wife with symptoms of gastroenteritis. The staff there bluntly told her that they did not have stretchers. Left with no option, the woman dragged Chary from the ground floor to the first floor of the hospital even as other patients and attendants watched on.
The patient's wife Sree Vani had asked the hospital staff to provide her a stretcher or a wheelchair so that she could carry her husband to the consultation room on the first floor.
Also Read: Odisha Hospital Which Refused To Provide Ambulance To Transport Dead Body Gets Clean Chit
"I told them that I will push the stretcher. But, the staff did not provide the stretcher," Vani said adding that she was forced to drag her husband on the hospital ramp after waiting for an hour in vain.
Hospital administrative officer, Dr Mallikharjun, said he would inquire into the incident and initiate disciplinary action against all those responsible for the inhuman act. He said he came to know about the incident late though it took place on Wednesday.
Also Read: Denied Admission In Hospital, 12-Year-Old Kanpur Boy Dies On His Father's Shoulder
The hospital authorities promised to take action against the erring staff after local MLA Jitender Goud visited the ward. Vani said Chary has been paralysed after he suffered a stroke. He used to work as a security guard in Hyderabad.
Vani said Chary has been paralysed after he suffered a stroke.


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A growing Spiral Dynamics Influence in the Middle East
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As proud as I am of Centre for Human Emergence – UK (CHE-UK) , as grand as our ambitions are – and partially redesigning the United Kingdom is pretty ambitious!! – as committed to them as I am and as daunting as the challenges we face are, it seems at times relatively 'small beer' compared to what the Center for Human Emergence Middle East (CHE-ME) is up to.
Our members don't live in a semi-hot war zone, with the ever-present threat of real violence (whether terrorist activities – suicide bombers and rockets – or heavy-handed military responses such as in Gaza at the start of this year). The UK might be bothered about corruption in government, desperate to recover from what is being labelled as the worst recession since the 1930s, very unsure of itself as a multi-cultural society in certain parts of the kingdom and iffy in its relations with the EU whilst at the same time being uncertain as to the changing constitutional relationship between its 4 constituent countries. But CHE-ME is faced with a real and frequently violent conflict between one country (Israel) and the stateless land of a dispossessed people it occupies (Palestine), with that stateless land split both geographically and politically. CHE-ME is faced with 2 wars – Israel vs Palestine and Fatah (aka Fateh) vs Hamas – both in fragile ceasefires that threaten to boil over into murderous warfare at any moment.
So it's a pleasure for me once again to draw attention to the work of Elza Maalouf and CHE-ME – which, it should be stressed, is strongly supported by Integral Israel. In the 5 years since Rafael Nasser first invited Spiral Dynamics co-developer Don Beck to present to Integral Israel on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, enormous progress has been made behind the scenes – particularly in terms of building Palestinian capacity for self-government so that Palestine can be a full and competent partner to Israel in designing a viable and sustainable 2-state solution.
As Elza reports in her article for the Common Ground News Service, '6th Convention Fateh's and the Building of a Nation', the Convention has made clear recommendations to the Fatah-led government of President Mahmoud Abbas that a new national agenda needs to be designed based on economic development. Many of those who voted for positive change at the Convention had been through some form of training and/or briefing by Maalouf & Beck.
What it seems CHE-ME is beginning to bring about is a major shift in sections of the Palestinian consciousness. That shift is from the old anti-Israeli/Palestinians-as-victims ethos PURPLE and BLUE had got them locked into – which RED demagogues have so ruthlessly exploited for the past half-century and more – into the first stirrings of an ORANGE-driven entrepreneurial culture. The old Palestine, an alienated and divided society embittered with hatred towards Israel and split into its own warring factions, all but invited Israel to occupy and suppress. A new Palestine geared towards the well-being of its people and the economic prosperity of the region must be an attractive proposition as a trading partner for Israel.
The emergence of the ORANGE vMEME, as Beck lays out in his development of Muzafir Sherif's Assimilation-Contrast Effect, breaks up the log jam of intractable positions by working towards a new and better future.
But, in her big picture perspective, Maalouf knows that Hamas can't be left out of these developments. So, in her Common Ground article, she points out that the olive branch needs to be offered to Hamas. (Though their work to date has been mostly with Fatah, she & Beck have made some inroads into Hamas and know that there are potentials for change and voices of reason all too often missed in the Western media's portrayal of that terrorist organisation.)
So, some wonderful news of progress in one of the world's most troubled and dangerous regions!
For those interested in progress in the Middle East, may I also recommend Bitter Lemons, an EU-funded site dedicated to helping Israelis and Palestinians understand each other's points of view on the issues which are seen to divide.
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Jon Twigge says
Saturday, June 7th 2014 at 07:42
Wednesday, August 26th 2009 at 06:00
Absolutely agree!
To support, assist and strengthen this process from Europe and North America is such a challenge. And will reveAL THE FULL POTENTIAL of natural design solutions and perspectives.
While other approaches like presencing and organizational learning are building acupuncture like energy systems around the planet too they do do not adress the basic codes from purple to blue. (AS its my impression)
At the same time red-purple hotspots all over the globe are impacted by the growing momentum of this work. It will be interesting to see how this influence can and will be supported from f.e. European countries like UK or Germany. And in toto from the yet lame foreign policy function of EU.
Within entreprenurial approaches and think tanks. Networks of citizens and cultural hubs in the region. City cooperations and partnerships, global projects in soft infrastructure like healthcare and education, global media and the emergence of social media networks.


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Q: LDAP query in Active directory I am writing a LDAP query in Active Directory.
I want to search a user in Active Directory in Specific OU.
I run LDAP Query (&(&(objectCategory=organizationalUnit)(objectClass=organizationalUnit)(ou=Hosted*)SAMAccountName=vvishwakarma)) but didn't work
Remember I want to search SAMaccount in specific OU not entire Directory

A: first off, You are using the wrong objectcategory & objectClass.  You can probably leave out the objectcategory & class all together unless there is a chance there is a group with the same samAccountname.
What does this give you?
(&(objectClass=user)(ou=Hosted*)(SAMAccountName=vvishwakarma))

A: I hope this will solve at least some of your problems.
The first thing you need to do is remove incorrect objectCategories and objectClasses.
Next you should set your searchDN to the root of OU you wish to search:
For example, if you wish to search through your:
domain.local
    |- OUNameLvl1
        |-OUNameLvl2

SearchDN=OU=OUNameLvl2,OU=OUNameLvl1,DC=domain,DC=local

Then you can try with:
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=vvishwakarma))

EDIT: I just realized you said you're doing this in Active Directory.
If using Active Directory Users and Computers, you can define a custom query where you will do the same as described above - place your search root to OU you wish to search through and then use the same LDAP query.

A: Ok, this is a super old question but here's hoping it's still useful.
I got this working by setting my ldap query base to the OU in question. ( Source ).
While you would normally set your base to the DCs involved, I got it to work by setting by base to the DN of the OU I wanted. OU=Ops,DC=Big,DC=Co, for example.

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# 428 David Siegel $5.82B
Random fact: Founded world's first integrated personal financial services site.
Siegel is the co-owner of Two Sigma Investments, a New York-based hedge fund that manages about $60 billion in assets using a quantitative analysis investment strategy. Siegel founded Two Sigma Investments with co-chairman John Overdeck in 2001 after earlier stints at Tudor Investments and D.E. Shaw & Co.
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Siegel's fortune is held in Two Sigma Investments, the hedge fund he co-founded in 2001 with John Overdeck and Mark Pickard. Overdeck has about $5.3 billion in assets in the firm, based on an analysis of the 2022 Form ADV filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The billionaire owns half of Two Sigma, according to the Form ADV. The company is valued based on assets under management of $60 billion as reported on the company's website and the average price-to-assets under management of three publicly traded funds Sculptor Capital Management, Janus Henderson Group and Man Group. A 5% liquidity discount is applied.
Siegel declined to comment on his net worth through spokesperson Hannah Fuchs in November 2022.
David Mark Siegel attended Princeton University, where he graduated in 1983 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, according to a 2001 profile in Princeton Alumni Weekly. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied at its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and received his PhD in computer science.
His first job after MIT was at D.E. Shaw, a New York quantitative hedge fund. There he founded an online backoffice services provider, FarSight Financial Services, which was later sold to Merrill Lynch in 1999 for about $30 million, according to a 1999 Wall Street Journal report. Siegel was also Shaw's first chief information officer. The executive also started his own foray into the dotcom bubble around that time, founding blink.com, a combination website bookmark organizer and social network, according to the Princeton profile. Later, Siegel joined Paul Tudor Jones's Tudor Investment, where he was chief technology officer.
Siegel then co-founded Two Sigma Investments with John Overdeck and Mark Pickard in 2001. They aimed at bringing technology and data science together and developed systematic trading systems. The company thrived in the aftermath of the Great Recession, seeing its assets under management triple between 2009 to 2011, according to a report by Alpha Magazine. Today, Siegel and Overdeck own Two Sigma and are co-chairmen of the company, located in the SoHo district of Manhattan. Pickard retired in 2001, sold his stake to his partners in 2006, and remains president emeritus.
The billionaire is on the board of a series of non-profits, including the Scratch Foundation, a programming-focused non-profit he cofounded in 2013. He lives in Scarsdale, New York, with his wife Dana Matsushita.
1983 Graduates Princeton with degrees in computer science and engineering.
1999 Founds blink.com, a website to organize web bookmarks.
1999 D.E. Shaw sells FarSight, an online backoffice division Siegel formed.
2001 Co-founds Two Sigma Investments with John Overdeck.
2004 Two Sigma loses petition to be exempt from SEC 13F filings.
2006 Firm sues a former software developer for stealing intellectual property.
2011 Two Sigma AUM triples from 2009 levels, reported Alpha Magazine.
2014 Sees a 47 percent gain for the year at Two Sigma.


The Impressive Antique Shop Dolls House has extra large bay windows which are ideal for displaying all the tempting wares inside.
The 'Antique Shop' has potential for displaying every type and design of furniture and ornamentation you can think of, however it would be just as effective as a gown shop, high class drapery, milliner's establishment or any other type of shop you want to create.
With its elegant frontage and large windows, it could easily be converted into a private residence and would be ideal for displaying interior lighting effects.
Please note the house is unpainted.
This charming and practical basement is designed to compliment the Antique Shop. It will extend the accommodation and enhance the appearance of this property. Comes complete with wooden railings, Steps, Cills and lintels.
The Dolls' House Workshop is a family-owned business in the United Kingdom. Their dolls houses are highly collectable and are built for lasting quality and superb detail from their dedicated British workshop.


I try to change the condition record for material with validity period of one year starting next year Jan 1st. Since that material is already exists in the system with validity period of current date to 12/31/9999, it is not saving my changes. When increase price by 5%, it is not giving any problem but when I display to see the changes "Environment-Changes-Per condition record", it is giving an popup box saying "Change documents for conditions not yet save are not possible"
I try to delete material condition with longer period. It is deleting at that moment but when I come back and see still that material exists with longer period.
how do I deal with this problem to solve?
At any given point in time you can have only one valid condition record with a validity period.
You issue would be solved.
just to add to the above update, this is happening because you might be giving the same validity period and the system is prompting a message saying that you already have a valid condition record . Now you are ignoring this message and this is when you will see this pop up.
So have the validity dates in order and then save the records and the issue would be solved.


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