Knife edge pools, natural pools and lagoon pools are a thing of the past — well maybe not the past; but they are so 2017.
Homeowners in 2018 are prioritizing customization and architectural changes over anything else when it comes to their pool design choices.
Smart pools, colourpop pools, and tiled pools are the top three trends homeowners love.
With most of the United States firmly entrenched in the middle of summer, the idea of escaping the heat and going for a swim is something we have all thought about. In fact, lounging by the pool on a hot day is just about as good as it gets. Who wouldn't want to be doing that at this very moment? Swimming pools are inherently the best part of summer, and represent at least a little of what everyone wants: relaxation and a place to get away from it all.
With the direction pool designs of 2018 are heading, it is entirely possible to create your own paradise in the backyard. However, the amount of options available is enough to make your head spin. There is literally an application or addition for anything you could imagine. Each promises to enhance your pool experience, but what trends are actually worth following? What is everyone else doing this summer?
A lot has changed since summer 2017 — out with the knife edge pools in with the smart pools; however, certain characteristics remain the same. People still want relaxation. People still want luxury. And people still want customization. But 2018 took the best from 2017 and brought everything to the next level. Technology is involved, architecture is changing, and things are getting fiery (which you'll learn more about soon). So without further adieu, let's dive into (pun intended) the top pool design trends of 2018.
Are home buyers getting smarter? That's debatable; but homes are undeniably getting smarter every day! More and more shoppers are opting for "smart" devices in many aspects of their lives. Smart TV's, smart phones, smart thermostats, smart locks; the list could go on and on. So what about smart pools? Well, 2018 made the dream of smart pools possible.
A smart pool allows homeowners to control the maintenance and inner workings of their pools straight from their home or computer. Think about this: say you're sitting in a movie at the theater and you'd love to dive into a hot pool immediately after the showing. But, oh no! You forgot to turn on the heater before you left. With a smart pool, that "oh no" becomes an "oh yes", because from the recliner chair at the movies, it's easy to turn that heater on with the simple push of a button.
Smart pool technology options are currently somewhat limited. So keep on the lookout for more companies opting for automated pool care.
Gone are the days where pools are required to go from shallow at the entrance to deep at the other side; 2018 is the year where pools are starting to take on various depths!
These days, people are using there pools for more than just swimming or jumping off a diving board. Lap swimming, as well as water sports like basketball and volleyball require a pool to be relatively shallow throughout. Not only will guests of a shallow pool have the ability to participate in such sports, they also won't have to worry about their smaller children wandering off into the deep end. Some pools are even shallow at both ends but slope a few feet in the middle.
Ultimately, the homeowner must decide how he or she plans to use the pool most often before making a decision on depth.
When it comes to making a home more appealing — weather it's the interior, exterior, or in this case, the pool — a proper paint job is sure to freshen up a space. In 2018 particularly, more and more buyers are opting for pools that pop with colors and/or unique designs. When deciding what color to pick for your pool, think about the atmosphere you want to create. Cool colors like blue and green will evoke a more relaxing feel, while brighter colors like yellow and orange will be more dramatic.
The right color can drastically change the vibe of your back yard, so don't just into a project before being sure of your decision. If you really want to take it to the next level, consider hiring someone to paint a design at the bottom of your pool. Whether you opt for a geometric design or a realistic masterpiece is up to you; but no matter what – your neighbors will say "wow".
Note however, that you may want to avoid going overboard with the color if you are planning to sell your house in the near future. You might love the way a bright orange bottomed pool looks, but that certainly won't be everyone's taste. Keep your choices more subtle if you want to attract potential buyers.
Tile is taking over in 2018, especially in the backyard design world. Just as a unique mosaic tile backsplash would make a kitchen pop, a unique tiled pool can make your backyard pop. Homeowners looking to adopt the tile trend can opt for a number of materials like glass, pebbles, stones, slate, ceramic, porcelain, and so much more. They can also choose to tile part of their deck, their pool's trim, or even their entire pool!
Popular tile styles include grecian-inspired blues and whites, stone and glass combos, as well as natural slate. The best part about adding a tile design to a pool is the reflection of the sun that is created due to the mixture of glass, water, and light. Nothing says luxurious like a glistening pool.
Fortunately, adding a tile design to a pool can be relatively affordable. Newer application processes make mosaic installation less labor intensive and therefore less expensive!
Whether you opt for tiki torches, market lights, or well-placed LEDs, lighting is key when it comes to backyard landscape. So why not take your pool to the next level by going all out with a fire pit or other fiery decor. From fire pits to fireplaces to fire sticks, the combination of fire is as functional as it is aesthetic. Throw epic backyard barbeques in the summer or curl up by the fire in wintertime. Either way, your backyard will be the envy of the neighborhood.
No more than a decade ago, infinity pools were all the rage in upscale neighborhoods and resorts. Clean lines and simple aesthetics, which have become synonymous with an equally impressive view, come together in a seamless effort to recreate the perfect atmosphere. However, it appears as if their time has come. The next evolution of the infinity pool has officially arrived: knife-edge pools.
Otherwise known as "the new infinity pools," knife-edge pools take the original concept and apply it to every side of the pool. Instead of water spilling over one edge, the knife-edge allows for water to spill over on all sides. The beauty, however, is in their simplicity. These pools force water over the edge, where it accumulates in a subsequent trough. When the overflow fills the subsequent slot, the collection of water creates a mirror-like effect. Depending on the pool's construction, the water may appear to float on the surface of the deck or serve as an elegant barrier. Regardless, the resulting water collection creates a modern aesthetic that can't be replicated by previous pool styles.
Knife-edge pools have gained a lot of momentum in a short period of time. This style has already started to supplant standard pools, and looks to be the next evolution of swimming pools. For all intents and purposes, knife-edge pools are the hottest pool trend in 2015.
Natural pools have been around for quite some time, but they have recently grown in popularity due to their environmentally friendly approach towards sustainability. True natural pools actually filter water through the plants and rocks that surround them, rendering chlorine all but irrelevant.
Al Rizzo, of Connecticut-based Rizzo Pools, says nature-inspired pools surrounded by rocks and fed by cascading waterfalls have become popular in the northeastern states. "These pools not only give the feeling of swimming and relaxing in a forest pond, but the sound of running water is also very soothing," he says.
Swimming pools are about as unique as the individuals that buy them. Each can be tailor-made with specific dimensions, materials, features and many more attributes. There are seemingly endless features that award pool owners the ability to customize everything to their particular tastes. However, this season has already dictated the latest trends. Outside of the pool design itself, owners are finding it more appealing to surface the pool with something other than gunite or plaster. The most popular pool surfacing materials of 2015 include pebbles and glass tiles.
Pebble Surfaces: Pebbles have become one of the most popular pool surfacing materials in 2015 for a number of reasons. Not only are they much easier on the feet of swimmers, but they are also more durable and come in a wider variety of colors. They are also the top surfacing choice for pools attempting to replicate a more natural atmosphere.
Glass Surfaces: Glass tiles are quickly becoming one of the top pool trends for 2015. In fact, tile surfaces started gaining popularity last year because of their depth of color and smooth texture.
Integrated Water Features: Nowadays, no pool is considered complete without the addition of a water feature. Of course, said features can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but waterfalls remain the most prominent. The inclusion of a waterfall has withstood the test of time, and looks to have cemented itself as the most popular water feature addition. The popularity of water features continues to grow with "pool waterfalls and water fountains showing up more and more in modern pool designs with adjustable water flow, pressure and height settings," said a spokesman from Install It Direct. Waterfalls can take the form of fountain bubblers, water sconces, and even secluded grottos set behind a wall of water. Some waterfalls even include waterproof LED lights to make the features appear more vibrant.
Overflow Spas: Spas are a rather ubiquitous addition to pools everywhere, no matter where you live. However, spas can be as unique as their larger, cooler counterparts. One of the most popular custom features to added to pools this year is the overflow spa. Not unlike the previously mentioned knife-edge pools, overflow spas pump water over the edges, where it may be recycled back into the pool or spa. Some of the more creative designs will witness the spa rise out of the pool itself, as to blend seamlessly into one coherent look.
Both beach and lagoon pools, as their names suggest, have attributes that mimic their natural counterparts. In particular, these styles of pools boast sloped entryways reminiscent of walking into a lagoon or the ocean.
In essence, sloped entryways are taking the place of traditional steps. The gradual slope is great for families and those who want to keep cool by the pool without being fully submerged. However, it is as much a safety feature as it is a trend. These pools can accommodate children and the elderly, or anyone else that may have trouble getting into and out of a traditional pool.
Did we miss any of your favorite pool designs from 2018 or years passed? Let us know in the comments below!


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The eclipse begins at 9 a.m. PDT with the path of totality sweeping across parts of 12 states and lasting until about 11:45 a.m. PDT. Only the places along that path – Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina - will be able to see a total eclipse.
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Unfortunately, California is not in the path, so here in the desert we will only be able to see a partial eclipse of about 60 to 75 percent. But even that is fun to watch.
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Q: Differentiate between a user changing the Checkbox.Checked value, or it programmatically changing I see that Checkboxes have a CheckedChanged event. is it possible to tell whether it was changed programmatically, or by the user actually checking the checkbox?
I've got a large grid where the user can type in a filter, or use checkboxes for a sort of "Quick filter" that offers common filtering parameters. Then say they go and modify the filter through the textbox, I was checking whether or not I should programmatically (un)check the CheckBox controls so that it reflects the filter in the textbox.
    private void genericCheckbox_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        UpdateFilter();
    }

    private void UpdateFilter()
    {
        if (gdcSVNDefaultView.RowCount == 0)
            return;

        gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString = BuildTableFilter();
        gdcSVNDefaultView.BestFitColumns();
    }

    private void gdcSVNDefaultView_ColumnFilterChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        lblTotalFileCount.Text = gdcSVNDefaultView.RowCount.ToString();

        if (gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString.Contains("Normal"))
            cheNormalFiles.Checked = true;
        else
            cheNormalFiles.Checked = false;

        if (gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString.Contains("bin") ||
            gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString.Contains("obj"))
            cheBinObjFolders.Checked = true;
        else
            cheBinObjFolders.Checked = false;
    }

With some very light testing, this seems to work just as I want it to. But I'm afraid that there's some sort of 'infinite loop' case where the ColumnFilterChanged event will fire because of the UpdateFilter method being called when the CheckedChanged event happens, which could in turn cause CheckedChange to happen again since the ColumnFilterChanged manipulates the Checkboxes.

A: In general you may use the Click event CheckBoxName_Click which is called only when the user click the checkbox (and not when you set the checkbox checked property from code), as the event name suggests.

A: Using flag for this purpose is OK:
bool suppressCheckedChanged;
private void gdcSVNDefaultView_ColumnFilterChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   suppressCheckedChanged = true;
   //.... your own code
   //....
   suppressCheckedChanged = false;
}
private void genericCheckbox_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if(suppressCheckedChanged) return;
    UpdateFilter();
}

UPDATE
Using flag is the best way (the most concise and convenient) I think. However, after some searching on the internal implementation of CheckBox.cs, I've found that the internal field checkState is used. the Checked property is designed just for convenience. The CheckedChanged event is raised in the setter of the CheckState property. So by modifying the checkState field, we bypass the CheckedChanged event raiser. Because the field checkState is not public, we have to use Reflection to change its value. That's why this code is a little lengthy compared to using flag.
This is the code for you, note that this is just a reference to open wide the knowledge on this problem, as I said using flag is much more concise and the code is also coherent:
//Use this extension method for convenience
public static class CheckBoxExtension {
  public static void SetChecked(this CheckBox chBox, bool check){
    typeof(CheckBox).GetField("checkState", BindingFlags.NonPublic |
                                            BindingFlags.Instance)
                    .SetValue(chBox, check ? CheckState.Checked :
                                             CheckState.Unchecked);
    chBox.Invalidate();
  }
}
//then you can use the SetChecked method like this:
checkBox1.SetChecked(true);//instead of checkBox1.Checked = true;
checkBox1.SetChecked(false);//instead of checkBox1.Checked = false;

A: I'd probably detach and then reattach the handler, e.g.
private void gdcSVNDefaultView_ColumnFilterChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    cheNormalFiles.CheckedChanged -= genericCheckbox_CheckedChanged;
    cheBinObjFolders.CheckedChanged -= genericCheckbox_CheckedChanged;

    // do stuff...

    cheNormalFiles.CheckedChanged += genericCheckbox_CheckedChanged;
    cheBinObjFolders.CheckedChanged += genericCheckbox_CheckedChanged;
}

A: A bit of a dead thread, but I recently had to solve this and I leveraged the Focused property on the checkbox to glean whether or not a user pressed it or if it was triggered programmatically.
I believe all that would need to happen for your use case is wrapping the UpdateFilter() call with a conditional that looks at the Focused property:
private void genericCheckbox_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // Only update filter if the checkbox was triggered by the user
    if (((CheckBox)sender).Focused)
    {
        UpdateFilter();
    }
}

private void UpdateFilter()
{
    if (gdcSVNDefaultView.RowCount == 0)
        return;

    gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString = BuildTableFilter();
    gdcSVNDefaultView.BestFitColumns();
}

private void gdcSVNDefaultView_ColumnFilterChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    lblTotalFileCount.Text = gdcSVNDefaultView.RowCount.ToString();

    if (gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString.Contains("Normal"))
        cheNormalFiles.Checked = true;
    else
        cheNormalFiles.Checked = false;

    if (gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString.Contains("bin") ||
        gdcSVNDefaultView.ActiveFilterString.Contains("obj"))
        cheBinObjFolders.Checked = true;
    else
        cheBinObjFolders.Checked = false;
}

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Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 – February 20, 2001) was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer.

Early life and education
Born in Elgin, Illinois, Meadows was educated in science, receiving a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College in 1963 and a PhD in biophysics from Harvard in 1968. After a yearlong trip from England to Sri Lanka and back, she became a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a member of a team in the department created by Jay Forrester, the inventor of system dynamics as well as the principle of magnetic data storage for computers.

Career
Meadows taught at Dartmouth College for 29 years, beginning in 1972.

Meadows was honored both as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment (1991) and as a MacArthur Fellow (1994). She received the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990. Posthumously, she received the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award for 2001, presented by the Conservation Law Foundation.

Meadows wrote "The Global Citizen," a weekly column on world events from a systems point of view. Many of these columns were compiled and published as a book by the same name. Her work is recognized as a formative influence on hundreds of other academic studies, government policy initiatives, and international agreements.

Meadows was a longtime member of the United States Association for the Club of Rome, which instituted an award in her memory, the US Association for the Club of Rome Donella Meadows Award in Sustainable Global Actions. The award is given to an outstanding individual who has created actions in a global framework toward the sustainability goals Meadows expressed in her writings.

Work

The Limits to Growth

In 1972, Meadows was on the MIT team that produced the global computer model "World3" for the Club of Rome, providing the basis for The Limits to Growth. The book reported a study of long-term global trends in population, economics, and the environment. The book made headlines around the world and began a debate about the limits of Earth's capacity to support human economic expansion—a debate that continues to this day. Meadows was the book's lead author, and it had three coauthors: her husband Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III.

The Balaton Group
In 1982, Donella and Dennis Meadows created an international "network of networks" for leading researchers on resource use, environmental conservation, systems modeling, and sustainability. Since its foundation, the members have met at Lake Balaton, Hungary, every autumn. While the formal name for the network was the International Network of Resource Information Centres (INRIC), it became more popularly known as the Balaton Group, after the location of its meetings.

The Academy for Systems Change
Meadows founded the Sustainability Institute in 1996, which combined research in global systems with practical demonstrations of sustainable living, including the development of a cohousing (or ecovillage) and organic farm at Cobb Hill in Hartland, Vermont. In 2011, the Sustainability Institute, originally adjacent to Cobb Hill, was renamed the Donella Meadows Institute and moved to Norwich, Vermont. Additional organizations that sprang from the Sustainability Institute include Sustainable Food Lab, Climate Interactive, and Sustainability Leaders Network. In 2016, the Donella Meadows Institute was renamed for a second time, and now operates as the Academy for Systems Change: https://www.academyforchange.org

State of the Village report
In 1990, Meadows published the State of the Village report under the title, "Who lives in the 'Global Village'?" which likened the world to a village of 1,000 people. Since then, "If the world were a village of 100 people", derived from her work but further reducing the numbers to those of a village of 100 people, has been published by others in English, Spanish, and Japanese.

Twelve leverage points

Meadows published Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, one of her best-known essays, in 1999. It describes the most and least effective types of interventions in a system (of any kind).

Personal life
Meadows died of cerebral meningitis in 2001 at the age of 59.

Selected publications
 Donella H. Meadows, et al. Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind, New American Library, 1977, paperback, ; Universe Books, paperback, 1972, 0–87663–165–0 (scarce); ISBN Universe Books, hardcover, 1972,  (scarce); digital edition of 1972 printing, produced by the Dartmouth College Library.
 Dennis L. Meadows, Donella H. Meadows, Eds. Toward Global Equilibrium: Collected Papers, Pegasus Communications, 1973, hardcover
 Donella H. Meadows, John M. Richardson and Gerhart Bruckmann, Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modelling, John Wiley & Sons, 1982, paperback,
 Donella H. Meadows and J. M. Robinson, The Electronic Oracle: Computer Models and Social Decisions, John Wiley & Sons, 1985, hardcover, 462 pages,
 Michael J. Caduto, foreword by Donella H. Meadows, illustrated by Joan Thomson, Pond and Brook: A Guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments, University Press of New England, 1990, paperback, 288 pages,
 Donella H. Meadows, Global Citizen, Island Press, 1991, paperback 197 pages,
 Donella H. Meadows et al. Beyond the limits : global collapse or a sustainable future, Earthscan Publications, 1992,
 Dennis L. Meadows, Donella H. Meadows and Jorgen Randers, Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1993, paperback, 320 pages,
 edited by Sandi Brockway, foreword by Marilyn Ferguson, introduction by Denis Hayes, preface by Donella H. Meadows, Macrocosm U. S. A.: Possibilities for a New Progressive Era..., Macrocosm, 1993, paperback, 464 pages,
 Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis L. Meadows Limits to Growth-The 30 year Update, 2004, hardcover
 Donella H. Meadows (2008) Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chelsea Green Publishing .

See also
 Amory Lovins
 Cobb Hill
 Dennis Meadows
 System dynamics
 DYNAMO (programming language)
 Academy for Systems Change

References

Further reading
 Ikeda Kayoko, C. Douglas Lummis, Si El Mundo Fuera Una Aldea De 100 Personas/if The World Were A Village Of 100 People, Paperback, 64 pages, . Japanese/English version:

External links

Donella Meadows Project
Guide to the Papers of Donella H. Meadows, 1941-2007, in the Dartmouth College Library
The Global Citizen, bi-weekly column by Meadows
Another link for Global Citizen
The website of the Balaton Group (International Network of Resource Information Centers)
 Cobb Hill website
A copy of her original Global Village report (based on 1000 people)
 The Miniature Earth project based on Donella Meadows text

1941 births
2001 deaths
American environmentalists
American women environmentalists
Carleton College alumni
Dartmouth College faculty
Ecological economists
Environmental scientists
People associated with criticism of economic growth
Harvard University alumni
MacArthur Fellows
American non-fiction environmental writers
American systems scientists
Vermont culture
Sustainability advocates
Women systems scientists
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American scientists
People from Elgin, Illinois
People from Hanover, New Hampshire
People from Plainfield, New Hampshire
People from Hartland, Vermont
American women academics

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Uber's CEO is gambling with his company's future
In American business, it has long been argued that crime doesn't pay, but bad behavior often does. That may be changing — and fast. Just ask Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber, who The New York Times recently described as a businessman willing to win at any cost.
Although it's hard to imagine, Kalanick may be putting his mighty Uber at risk. And that risk bears a hefty price, since these days the fortunes of a company are not just in the hands of customers, but of anyone who chooses to share an opinion.
Start with the viral video that catapulted Kalanick into the public eye and triggered a massive outcry a few weeks ago. He was captured in a heated exchange with an Uber driver, shouting at the hapless driver who claimed he had lost money working for the company's high-end black car service, "Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own [expletive]."
With the footage caught on the driver's dash cam, Kalanick was finally forced to take responsibility for both his words and actions — but especially after the story leaked on social, and soon afterward, mainstream media. Kalanick issued a statement on the company's blog, in which he said he needed to "grow up." He wrote, "This is the first time I've been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it."
That video may have had a more negative impact on Uber's brand than even the revelations from Susan Fowler, the female software engineer who documented her account of persistently ignored claims of sexual harassment at the company. And a more negative impact than the resignation of its SVP of engineering over undisclosed claims of a prior sexual harassment suit. In these two incidents, Kalanick did take responsibility, apologize and attempt to rectify the situation.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Uber's brand is shaped by a fundamental attitude of opportunism that risks undermining its relationships with the very people on whom it depends for success: drivers and riders. Uber is now having trouble recruiting and keeping their drivers happy, and riders have shown a willingness to defect to competitors like Lyft.
Some say the reports of Uber's brashness are just business as usual with founder-led tech companies: the definition of Silicon Valley disruption. Indeed, Kalanick and a handful of investors are part of a long tech tradition of maintaining their boundary breaking rights by holding the majority of their company's equity — a tradition that allows them to act by their own code of conduct, as obnoxious as it may be.
Board members rarely intervene in public to take a position on the behavior of their CEOs. In Uber's case, board member Arianna Huffington did step up in public to investors and media. She forcefully took a position to investigate and address accusations of sexual harassment at the company. But hers is an unusual act: According to a Harvard Business Review study, fewer than 40% of board members comment in public on alleged company or CEO misconduct.
And Huffington's move might have hurt more than helped, backfiring with some observers who thought she let Kalanick hide behind her credibility rather than forcing him to step forward and take responsibility.
In the past, there was an argument that none of these types of allegations really mattered to a bottom line. Badly behaved CEOs generally found neither themselves — nor their companies — worse off with investors or financial markets. In that same study, of 38 companies involved in incidents of CEO bad behavior, 11 exhibited positive stock price returns when CEO misbehavior made the news.
However, in today's society, bad behavior creates challenges to a company's reputation that persist: References made to a CEO's actions continue to show upshow upshow upshow up in online searches an average of almost 5 years after the initial event. Along with plain common sense, this makes it even more surprising that Uber's CEO is seemingly oblivious to the number one rule of the contemporary marketplace: You're not in control; every consumer out there is.
Uber is bound at to find its brand and reputation in a truly vulnerable position, which some reports suggest could negatively impact the company's valuation going into an IPO.
It used to be that companies would target a smaller slice of a larger consumer market and attempt to attract those most likely to be interested in what they sell. What's new today is that forward-looking companies know they now need to spend their time talking to virtually 100% of consumers, including people who don't even buy their products. Demanding to be respected, and not just as ATMs dispensing revenue into corporate coffers, consumers today act more like constituents in electoral politics: They have access to the media to air issues and the power to vote a brand in or out, regardless of whether they buy the actual product.
Even Kalanick once seemed to recognize this. "We're in a political campaign," he said at a technology conference some years ago, referring to the taxi industry and suggesting the candidate was Uber. But Kalanick hasn't made the connection that the real constituents casting the decisive votes are consumers.
Their rising cry reflects an ever-increasing sense that they've just had enough. In the broad activism we're seeing around sexual harassment, hiring and pay inequality, discrimination, privacy violations and the like, people are clearly pushing back against institutions and people who are failing them.
One CEO recently told me that central to her role is protecting the reputation of the multibillion dollar company she leads. She knows, as Uber is learning, that anyone can attack a brand's reputation and destroy value it's taken years to build.
Uber's biggest challenge to future growth may in fact be its CEO's blind spot to this tension between reputation and revenue. Every consumer has unprecedented power, literally at their fingertips, to punish a brand for bad behavior and take their business elsewhere.
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One of our top picks in Scopello.Tenute Plaia is an agriturismo set outside the medieval village of Scopello, with views of the sea and 0.6 mi from the characteristic Faraglioni rocks. It borders the Zingaro Natural Reserve and offers free Wi-Fi.
Rooms at the Tenute Plaia have air conditioning, satellite TV, and mini-bar. They all have private entrances and an private bathroom with hairdryer.
On site guests can enjoy delicious Sicilian dishes and great wines produced in the farm. A buffet breakfast is served every morning, including a buffet of local and homemade products. Wine tasting can be organized upon request.
Free parking is available at Tenute Plaia Agriturismo. There is also a hot tub and a sun terrace equipped with sun loungers. The staff can help guests to organize snorkeling, diving, and several excursions.


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Brendan Nathaniel Angelides, mieux connu sous le nom d'Eskmo, est un auteur-compositeur de musique électronique résidant à San Francisco. Son style se rapproche du dubstep et il est très apprécié par les amateurs du genre, mais l'artiste préfère définir sa musique comme la fusion d'influences diverses :

À l'origine son nom d'artiste, choisi pour un projet de fin d'étude, devait être Eskimo. Pour une raison inconnue le  a disparu, il apprit plus tard qu'un autre auteur de musique électronique avait déjà choisi le nom Eskimo.

Biographie
Originaire du Connecticut, Eskmo tombe amoureux très tôt de la musique et commence à jouer dans des groupes au lycée. Il est connu pour sa participation à la bande originale de la série 13 Reasons Why.

Discographie

Albums studio
 1999 : Machines On Task
 2001 : Illuminate
 2003 : Ascension
 2010 : Eskmo
 2015 : SOL

EP
 2009 : Hypercolor
 2009 : The Willow Grail
 2011 : Eskmo (Ambient P-Stretch Mixes)
 2012 : Language
 2013 : Terra
 2014 : B-Sides Unreleased Vol.1 (2008-2012)
 2016 : SOL B-Sides

Singles

 2002 : Cower / Lord Of Life
 2003 : Blue Tundra / Atlantis
 2004 : Time To React / Basement (w- Backdraft)
 2005 : Cliffside / Embryonic
 2005 : Only A Few / Forces Of Spirit
 2006 : No Man's Land / Waterfight
 2007 : Speakers Corner (w- Quest)
 2007 : Speaking In Tongues / Inastance
 2007 : Jetski / Sand Dunes
 2009 : Let Them Sing
 2009 : Agnus Dei / Harmony
 2010 : Hendt / Lands And Bones (w- Eprom)
 2010 : Sister, You Have Got To Listen
 2010 : Cloudlight / Come Back
 2011 : We Got More / Moving Glowstream
 2014 : California
 2014 : Aspen
 2015 : Mind Of War

Remix

 2008 : Speakers Corner (Remix)
 2009 : Jetski / Sand Dunes (Remix)

Mixes

 2009 : Colorbrain Mix
 2011 : Exclusive Ninja Tune Mix
 2013 : Earth and Words Mix
 2014 : Movement Mixtape

OST

 2017 : Billions (Original Series Soundtrack)
 2017 : 13 Reasons Why (A Netflix Original Series Score)
 2018 : 13 Reasons Why (Season 2 - Original Series Score)
2019 : 13 Reasons Why (Season 3 - Original Series Score)

Références

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Amon Tobin

Liens externes
  Site officiel d'Eskmo

Auteur-compositeur américain
Musicien américain de musique électronique
Artiste de Ninja Tune
Artiste de Warp Records


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Have You Scrutinized Your Supplement Providers Lately?
Sure—they may look the same or even taste the same, and the labels are likely to contain similar (if not identical) lists of key ingredients. Does this mean that they are all the same? Certainly not! In fact, numerous manufacturers state that their products meet or exceed all GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) standards, but do they really? It appears that the only objective way to determine the credibility of a manufacturer's GMP status is to see its certification. Why go through all that trouble? Because end-products from questionable, non-GMP-certified manufacturing processes may lead to less safe and less effective supplements for your patients. Therefore, be sure to distinguish the products made by GMP-certified manufacturers from the rest!
Please note that obtaining GMP certification is very expensive—which is why most nutritional supplement manufacturers are not officially GMP-certified. But make no mistake—no amount of funds can grant a GMP certification unless the company successfully meets the rigorous standards of all GMP requirements!
(2) Comprehensive Scientific Evaluation of Ingredients.
Ingredient selection makes the biggest difference in the quality of final product. Bargain nutritional supplements are often made with low-cost ingredients—forms or types of nutrients that may not be most efficacious. So, how do you VERIFY the quality of ingredients? The required comprehensive scientific evaluation of ingredients is available only through sophisticated scientific analysis performed at a hi-tech laboratory. Unfortunately, only few companies have invested the resources to implement such testing.
Simply selecting and utilizing ingredients based on potency are not enough. In fact, thorough safety reviews of ingredients are crucial to high quality nutritional supplements. Why? Because spending time and money to conduct adequate literature reviews for safety, or having qualified professionals perform safety reviews can have positive, long-term effects on the health of your patients.
Nothing compares to human clinical assessment for demonstrating the potential effectiveness of nutritional products. The ultimate measure of quality is safety and effectiveness, which can be evaluated in human clinical studies.
(5) Scientific Staff and Facilities.
True quality cannot be achieved without the expertise of truly qualified scientific staff. These dedicated individuals excel at what they do and help establish the safety and effectiveness of nutritional products for your patients.
These Are the Best Supplements?
We have all heard this, "These are the best supplements." I always find it interesting how so many different brands can all be the very best. Whenever I hear this, I ask myself, is this true?
Purity, digestibility, ease of compliance, formulation and cost are the main factors I use to rate a nutritional supplement or product.
Since most of the hundreds of vitamin companies only get their raw materials from a handful of major suppliers, purity is most commonly affected by how those materials are transported, stored, processed, packaged and shipped. No matter how exotic or expensive the form of a given nutrient is, if it is not handled properly at every stage, it will not deliver as promised.
If a representative or company brochure states that I should change products because theirs is more easily digested, I again request evidence proving the product I use or recommend is inferior. Those who advocate liquids and food concentrates often use this argument to support products.
Proponents of liquid supplements use digestion to sell their products. They typically show me literature that says close to 100 percent of their product is absorbed, compared to only 50 percent of the leading brand. What they do not say is that the amount of nutrient in liquid is much less than in a capsule or a tablet. Therefore, if only a fraction of a tablet or capsule is absorbed, the amount of nutrient the patient receives must be equal to or greater than the typical liquid dose. I am not opposed to liquids when marketed correctly.
There is no question I am biased toward the importance of getting micronutrients from a diet rich in unrefined whole foods. An unhealthy diet with supplements is still an unhealthy diet. Advocates of food concentrates claim their products are better digested because they are in whole-food form.
Unfortunately, we do not recommend pills in the place of whole foods. They are used to supplement additional amounts of a given nutrient that are required to alter a patient's physiology due to a wide variety of causes, including disease, injury and deficiency. I have yet to see a study that shows small amounts of a vitamin or mineral naturally present in a food concentrate are better than normal supplements when one is therapeutically addressing a specific condition. And if pharmacological amounts of a nutrient are required, a handful of food concentrate pills is needed. For example, a food-based product that contains 50 mg of calcium or vitamin C would need to be dosed at 10 pills a day to get 500 mg provided by a typical vitamin C or calcium supplement.
Compliance is a huge issue when I recommend supplements. The number of total products, the number of doses, the number of pills per dose, the size and shape of the pills, and aftertaste are important issues that will either improve or reduce compliance. I always try to recommend the fewest number of products with the lowest number of doses, and containing the smallest number of pills, that will resolve the problem or condition I am treating.
Why am I recommending this product?
What amounts of this product are required to achieve a given result?
Are those amounts backed by research?
What products does the patient already eat?
What kind of diet does the patient consume?
These will all influence your determination of whether a product is good for a specific person. When analyzing a product, look at the ingredients and the amounts recommended. If you have any questions, go to a reference text or the computer and look for human studies involving the forms of product and doses you are considering. Are the amounts per dose and the duration of dose similar to positive human studies? Could you find human studies? If the only evidence is a testimonial, the only thing you've confirmed is the power of placebo.
I was thinking about all the things I would say regarding cost. I had a long list of examples, but I used my editing pen because this can be boiled down to one simple sentence: Any time you can safely save a patient money, do it.
So, what is the best supplement? It is the most affordable product that fulfills the patient's individual needs not met by their current diet and supplements, to correct a deficiency or treat a condition. The best supplement allows ease of compliance by providing a sensible number of total products, a realistic number of daily doses and a small number of total pills per dose.


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A Port Alberni Nativity
By Kevin Annett
The last Christmas we were all together hangs over memory like the fog that year in the Alberni Valley. It was a time of gathering, two years and more of labour summoning so many together where once there were but a few. And it was a time of ending.
The church stewards had warned me to expect an overflow crowd at the Christmas Eve service, and like overgrown elves they had busied themselves around the building, stringing wires and sound systems in the cold auditorium kept that way to save money. The snows had come early, and our food bank was already depleted.
With my eldest daughter, who was but five, I had walked to the church one morning in the week before Yule, pondering the cold and the sermon, when I met the one who would pierce the fog that year for us. She stood patiently at the locked door, her brown eyes relaxing as we approached. Her bare hand gestured at me.
"You're that minister, ain't you?" she mumbled to me, as daughter Clare fell back and grabbed my hand. Before I could answer, the stranger smiled and nodded, and uttered with noticeable pleasure at her double entendre, "They say you give it out seven days a week!"
I smiled too, gripping Clare's hand reassuringly and replying, "If you mean food, we're a bit short, but you're welcome to whatever's left."
She nodded again, and waited while I unlocked the door and picked up Clare, who was clinging to me by then. The basement was even more frigid than the outside, but the woman doffed her torn overcoat and sighed loudly as we approached the food bank locker. "For all the good it'll do . . ." she said, as I unlocked the pantry and surveyed the few cans and bags lying there.
I turned and really looked at her for the first time. She was younger than she had sounded, but a dark, cancerous growth marred her upper lip, and a deep scar ran down her face and neck. Her eyes were kindness, and in that way, very aboriginal.
"I'm sorry there's not more . . ." I began, since back then I still saw things in terms of giving. But she shook her head, and instead of saying anything, she looked at Clare, and the two of them exchanged a smile for the first time.
I stared, confused, at the cupboard so bare, and heard her finally utter, "Them people in church, you know what they need?"
I set Clare down and shook my head.
"They need Him. They sing about Him, and pretend they know Him, but hell, they wouldn't spot Him even if He came and bit 'em on their ass."
I smiled at that one, and even dared a mild chuckle.
"You doin' a Christmas play for the kids?" she continued.
"I bet it's the usual bullshit with angels and shepherds, right?"
"That don't mean nuthin' to those people. Why don't you do a story about . . . well, like, if He came to Port Alberni to be born, right now."
I finally laughed, feeling very happy. She smiled too, walked over to the cupboard and picked up a small bag of rice. Donning her coat, she nodded her thanks, and said, "My bet is Him and Mary and Joseph, they'd end up in the Petrocan Garage, down River Road. The owner there lets us sleep in the back sometimes."
And then she was gone.
I didn't try explaining the stranger to anyone, ever, or what her words had done to me. All I did was lock the food cupboard and lead Clare up to my office, where I cranked up the heat and set her to drawing. And then I sat at my desk and I wrote for the rest of the day.
The kids in church were no problem at all. They got it, immediately. The Indians who dared to mingle in the pews that night with all the ponderous white people also took to the amateur performance like they had composed it themselves, and laughed with familiarity as the holy family was turned away first by the local cops, and then hotel owners, and finally by church after church after church.
It was mostly the official Christians who were shocked into open-mouthed incredulity at the coming to life of something they thought they knew all about. As the children spoke their lines, I swear I saw parishioners jump and writhe like there were tacks scattered on the pews.
"Joe, I'm getting ready to have this kid. You'd better find us a place real friggin' quick."
"I'm trying, Mary, but Jehovah! Nobody will answer their door! I guess it's 'cause we're low lifes."
"Look! There's a church up ahead. I bet they'll help us!"
If you believe the Bible, whoever He was loved to poke fun at his listeners and shock them out of their fog, and our play would have made him proud. As the eight-year old girl who played Mary pleaded fruitlessly for help from a kid adorned in oversized clerical garb, and was covered in scorn by the young "priest," I heard a sad moan rise from the congregation.
But things took a turn when Mary and Joe came upon an Indian, played by one of the aboriginal kids. "Sir, will you help us? My wife's going to have a baby . . ."
"Sure!" replied the native kid with gusto. "I got a spot in a shed behind the gas station down the road. The owner lets us all sleep in there!"
And in a contrived scene of boxes and cans scattered where our communion table normally stood, Mary had her baby, as erstwhile homeless men with fake beards and a stray rez dog looked on, and one of the witnesses urged Mary to keep her newborn quiet lest the Mounties hear his cries and bust everyone for vagrancy.
Voices were subdued that night in the church hall over coffee, cookies and Christmas punch, and the normally dull gazes and banalities about the time of year were oddly absent. The Indians kept nodding and smiling at me, saying little, and not having to; and the kids were happy too, still in costume and playing with the local stray who had posed as the rez dog in the performance that would always be talked about. It was the white congregants who seemed most pregnant that night, but they couldn't speak of it.
It was one of my last services with them, and somehow they all knew it, since we had all entered the story by then. For a churchly Herod had already heard a rumor, and dispatched assassins to stop a birth, and me, even though it was already too late.
My daughter Clare was not running and rolling with the other kids, but in her manner joined me quietly with her younger sister Elinor in tow. Our trio stood there, amidst the thoughtful looks and unspoken love, and person after person came to us and grasped our hands, or embraced us with glistening eyes. An aging Dutch woman named Omma van Beek struggled towards me in her walker and pressed her trembling lips on my cheek, and said something to me in her native tongue as the tears fell unashamedly from both of us.
Later, when we were scattered and lost, I would remember that moment like no other, as if something in Omma's tears washed away all the lies and loss that were to follow. And perhaps that looming nightfall touched my heart just then, for I gave a shudder as I looked at my children, almost glimpsing the coming divorce, and I held my daughters close as if that would keep them safe and near to me forever.
The snow was falling again as we left the darkened building, kissing us gently like it had done years before when, as a baby, Clare had struggled with me on a toboggan through the deep drifts of my first charge in distant rural Manitoba, on another Christmas eve. The quiet flakes blessed us with memory, like a benediction, and settled in love on the whole of creation, even on the unmarked graves of the forgotten children up at the old Indian residential school.
The old Byzantine icon depicts Jesus as a baby, hugging his worried mother while she stares ahead into his bloody future: her eyes turned in grief to the viewer, yet his loving eyes seeking her, past the moment, past even his own death.
The image may still hang in the basement of my church, where I left it.
A Canadian clergyman, Kevin Annett has for nearly twenty years led the movement to bring to light and prosecute atrocities in Christian "Indian residential schools", and win justice for survivors. Expelled in 1995 from his former United Church of Canada for exposing murders in that church's Indian residential schools, and persecuted and blacklisted for his efforts, Kevin is now an award-winning film maker, author, social activist and public lecturer who works with victims of church violence and genocide all over the world.
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The Territory of Guam (Gu�h�n in Chamorro) is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an organized unincorporated territory of the United States. Its indigenous people are the Chamorros, who first inhabited the island approximately 3,500 years ago. The capital is Hag�t�a, formerly Agana (pronounced Aga�a). Guam's economy is mainly supported by tourism (particularly from Japan) and its United States armed forces bases. The latter takes up one-third of the entire land mass of the island. The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes Guam on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
Guam was first discovered by sea-faring people who migrated from southeastern Indonesia a few thousand years ago.
On March 6, 1521 Ferdinand Magellan came across Guam on his expedition to circumnavigate around the globe. He and his crewmen were greeted by the Chamorros, the descendants of the ancient people of Guam. They may never have seen Europeans before, but they practiced trading with other sea-faring islanders in the vicinity and assumed these Europeans did the same. In small, fast and efficient vessels called "flying proas", they welcomed the Europeans with food and drink. According to Chamorro folk history, the Chamorros expected to be paid in return, such as with the iron that they saw on Magellan's ships. From the Europeans' point of view, they thought the islanders were a gentle and gracious people. When � having not been recompensed for the food and hospitality they had given � the Chamorros stole upon Magellan's ships and took iron for themselves, Magellan was angered and battled the Chamorros, leaving homes burned to the ground and people dead. He and his men left and continued their journey around the world. Angry at the 'larcenous' natives, he first dubbed Guam and the rest of the Mariana Islands "Las Islas de los Ladrones", (The Islands of the Thieves), but in 1668 their name was changed to "Las Marianas" after Mariana of Austria, widow of Spain's Philip IV.
In a matter of decades, Guam was colonized by Spain and for the next few centuries the island existed as such. It was an important stop along the Spanish trade route between the Philippines and Mexico for whaling ships and other industries. The original inhabitant population dwindled significantly as a result of disease and rebellion against the Spaniards. Much of the adult male population was killed. Still, a population of those who identified themselves as Chamorros remained, though the culture and bloodlines began to incorporate Spanish and other European religion, customs, and language.
On June 21, 1898, Guam was captured by the United States in the bloodless Battle of Guam during the Spanish-American War. By the Treaty of Paris, Spain officially ceded Guam to the United States. Since then, Guam served as a way station for American ships traveling to and from the Philippines.
The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia wrote, "Guam is 32 miles long, from 3 to 10 miles broad, and about 200 sq. miles in area. Of its total population of 11,490 (11,159 natives), Agana, the capital, contains about 7,000. Possessing a good harbour, the island serves as a United States naval station, the naval commandant acting also as governor. The products of the island are maize, copra, rice, sugar, and valuable timber."
During World War II, Guam was attacked and invaded by the Japanese armed forces shortly after December 7, 1941. Most U.S. military personnel evacuated prior to the invasion. The Japanese military occupation lasted from 1941 to 1944 and was a brutal experience for the Chamorro people, whose loyalty to the United States became a point of contention with the Japanese. Some American servicemen were still on the island and were hidden by the Chamorro people. The Battle of Guam started on July 21, 1944 with American troops landing on the island and Guam was recaptured from Japanese military rule on August 10 in an Allied victory.
After World War II, the U.S. military had a heavy hand in the running of the island. This eventually led to resentment, and political pressure for greater freedom for the island in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, under President John F. Kennedy, the United States eventually granted U.S. citizenship to the Chamorro people and gradually the island obtained semi-autonomous status through the Organic Act.
The U.S. military installations on the island are some of the most strategically important bases in the Pacific Ocean. When Navy and Air Force bases in the Philippines were closed after the expiration of their leases, most of the forces stationed there were relocated to Guam.


Why can't I throw the image background out of focus?
I just purchased the Canon HF-G25 camcorder and I was wondering why is it when I set the aperture to f1.8 the background is still clear and isn't blurry behind my subject?
However, Depth of Field is affected by more than just the iris setting; it also depends on the amount of zoom being used (more zoom = shallower depth of field) and critically, the image sensor size.
Since in nearly all camcorders, especially consumer ones, the sensors are actually pretty tiny especially compared to something like a full-frame DSLR, actively trying to get a blurred background is very difficult.
As you suggest, you need to 1) open the iris wide (use an ND filter on the front to reduce the light if you need to, so that you can keep the iris fully open), 2) Zoom in as much as you can (so stand back as far as you can from the subject), and 3) put as much distance between the subject and the background as possible.
There's nothing you can do about the sensor size of course, that's a physical feature of the camcorder!
Most consumer camcorders are like this in part because the average purchaser wants everything in focus rather than doing 'filmic' looks.
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Are microinteractions details? Damn right: The magic is all in the details.
The "micro" in "microinteractions" implies it is about the small things. Small? Yes. Unimportant? Absolutely not! Microinteractions is about those critical details that make the difference between a friendly experience and traumatic anxiety. As Dan Saffer points out in his Preface, designers love to get the big picture right. It's a wonderful feeling. No problem is too large. But even if the big picture is done right, unless the details are also handled properly, the solution fails: the details are what control the moment to moment experience. It is timely details that lead to seamless interaction with our products. Alternatively, it is the lack of attention to those details that lead to frustration, irritation, and eventually an intense dislike of the product. Yes, the big picture matters, but so too does the detailed picture. It is attention to details that creates a smooth feeling of accomplishment.
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Ken Caryl Ranch resident Jason M. Dahl is pilot of United Airlines Flight 93 when Al Qaeda terrorists hijack the plane to attack the United States. Passengers aboard the flight, believed to be targeting the White House or Capitol, fight back and succeed in thwarting the terrorists, crashing the plane near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. No survivors.
Lockheed Martin moves all rocket building to Alabama. Waterton Canyon location to be converted to satellite engineering under the name United Launch Alliance.
Major fire strikes Golden's historic Loveland block housing the Old Capitol Grill on Washington Avenue. Firefighters succeed in saving the building, confining the blaze to the second floor.


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Tired - Michael Mercer:preacher. teacher. writer.father. husband. follower.
What do you do when you're tired?
On Sundays I take a long afternoon nap between worship and small group (If I can). I drink coffee almost every morning. That is basically it for my physical feeling of tired. But what about emotional tiredness or social tiredness or just being worn out from a long project, a hectic school semester, business trip, having company at your house, monotony of life. How do we handle that tiredness? We can simply sleep that off. And if we want to be good at our job or school or even keep our job and stay in school, we must "push through." That's what we say, "We gotta push through." That phrase alone says that we aren't energized at the moment.
There are seasons in every job or degree plan or activity we engage. There are also natural rhythms we have as individuals, families, and communities. Right now I get up before 7am and am in bed by Midnight every day. I know that my body could use more sleep, but this is the rhythm of my family at the time. I find my "push through" moments at work by finding great joy and fulfillment in what I do. If I'm overwhelmed I might do one of two things; either grab my journal notebook and begin to think about my sermon or next sermon, blog idea, or book idea and I might find some older men I have come to know and find a way to play dominoes with them and talk about life.
There was a time where if I couldn't get my alone time I would be unbearable to be around. It gave me energy to be in solitude. Now it seems that I gain so much energy from presenting a sermon or engaging with other people. I can't explain it, but it helps me get through the overwhelming, tiring pieces to what I do.
My family and I are getting ready to take a vacation together soon. I'm ready. I feel tired, but not physical tired, just time to take a break from my normal rhythm and switch it up for a week.
Right now I am so excited about our vacation that I'm focused on the idea of rest, but there are more rhythms than just rest. A natural rhythm for humans includes work, social engagement, love (romantic love), rest, learning, eating, and play. It would be interesting if there were an app on our phones that allowed us to track how much of each of these we participate in each day. Would we have healthy rhythms that would lead to healthy seasons that would help us to break from having more and more "push through" moments.


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In April 2018, Exportech embarked on a roadshow with 3 major objectives. One was to showcase FingerTec biometrics solution and Exportech's management solution, second was to provide explanation on the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance which will be implemented this coming 25th May to their resellers and third was to provide the resellers with training sessions on the hardware as well as solutions. The almost 2-week roadshow covered 3 main cities in Portugal namely Porto on 6 April 2018, Lisboa on 10 April 2018 and Faro on 17 April 2018. There were a total of 120 resellers who attended the sessions and all in all, they were satisfied with the performance of FingerTec devices and the entire solutions presented by Exportech.


I wanted to make the clouds have a movement and a light that defied the perceived rules of nature and the artistically prescribed 'rules of transcribing nature'.
No hand of God to move these clouds, no gravitational pull, no movement of earth. Ungodly, unknowable, filled with satellites, and the deaded strangely painted eyes of unobtainable beauty.


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During this project in Woolwich, on a lot bordering the Kennebeck River, the client was on-site every day, which made it easy to communicate. It helped to make this project into exactly what they wanted. The siding is Hardi brand shingle plank, a cement product with a 50-year warranty. The trim color was custom blended to match green of the Marvin windows cladding, which finish off the exterior of this architect-designed dwelling.
The sun porch, seen here at the rear of the house, has interchangable screens to storm panels in winter. The interior of the sun porch is warm. It overlooks a stream running into the river. Structures such as this bring the outside in year-round--even in Maine.
The entryway leads to laundry area with a farmers sink. The split Dutch door was custom crafted to keep the family dogs contained. A slate floor, and other "farmhouse" fixtures lend an air of country informality while remaining attractive. The living room is anchored by a custom fireplace. The hardwood floors are underlaid with radiant heat. The quarter-sawn oak cabinets were built by same company as the kitchen cabinetry. The mantel represents design collaboration between carpenter and home-owner.
Here is the formal entrance with stairs. The client brought a picture of the newel post from a magazine. Our carpenter matched it, down to the lighted inside. The fir door has a natural finish and sidelights, making the entry bright and inviting. The master suite overlooks the river through stock windows combined in unique configuration to provide custom look. Twelve foot ceilings add to the spaciousness.
The master bath includes awhirlpool tub with Porchet fixtures.
The surround is custom-built with a removable panel for maintenance. Tile protects the floor, tub-deck, and backsplash.


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Kansas Tennis Gets Rematch with Kansas State in Opening Round of Big 12 Championships
2011 Big 12 Tennis Championship Bracket
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas tennis was awarded the 10th seed for this week's Big 12 Tennis Championships, and will face No. 7 Kansas State in Thursday's opening round, as announced Sunday by the Big 12 Conference.
Kansas comes into the tournament at 9-12 overall and 3-8 in the Big 12. K-State is currently 15-6 and 6-5 in conference action. The Jayhawks fell 5-2 to the No. 45-ranked Wildcats in Saturday's regular season finale. With the loss in the Sunflower Showdown, the all-time series moved to 39-10 in Kansas' favor. Paulina Los and Erin Wilbert were KU's winners in the contest, with Los defeating Nina Sertic 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 in No. 4 singles and Wilbert downing Petra Chuda 6-1, 7-6.
The Jayhawks will square off against K-State at 10 a.m., Thursday at the Baylor Tennis Center in Waco, Texas.


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Distance and aircraft type by airline for flights from John Wayne Airport to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
In 2009, we learned that Delta Airlines flew around 204,185 passengers from SNA to ATL.
Based on FAA data, it only takes about 222 minutes to fly the shortest flight between SNA and ATL.
Way back in 2009, 204,185 passengers flew from Los Angeles to Atlanta. Today, this number has significantly increased.
In 2009, the following list of airlines offered the shortest flights from Los Angeles to Atlanta: Delta Airlines.
The most recently built aircraft flying from SNA to ATL in 2009 was Boeing's B737-7 flown by Delta Airlines. The B737-7 took flight for the first time in 1998.
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full to the brim adj.
The freeroll schedule for Club PokerNews is full to the brim with so many events. Le calendrier de freeroll PokerNews pour club est plein à ras bord avec tant d'événements.
I reckon so. I have to say I AM full to the brim with LOVE right now. Je dois dire que je suis plein à ras bord avec AMOUR en ce moment.
My 2 freezers are full to the brim with my vegetables and fruit. Mes deux congélateurs sont pleins à ras bord de légumes et de fruits.
There is a huge amount to see here and every little store is full to the brim with odds and ends and little pieces of history. Il ya une quantité énorme de voir ici et chaque petit magasin est plein à ras bord de bric et de broc et de petits morceaux de l'histoire.
michael52 | 2014-09 | Place is always full to the brim on weekends, although more places have been provided for 50 available. michael52 | 2014-09 | Endroit est toujours plein à ras bord le week-end, bien que plus d'endroits ont été fournies pour 50 disponibles.
In other words, the whole world is full to the brim. En d'autres mots, le monde entier est plein jusqu'à ras bord.


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Luiza Cruz
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Born:16 March 2000 (19 years)
Luiza Cruz from Brazil won the European Cup Cadets Berlin in 2017. She took a bronze medal at the Cadet World Championships in Santiago de Chile in 2017. She won silver with the Brazilian mixed team at the Cadet Worlds in Chile in 2017. She took silver in the mixed team event at the Junior worlds in Nassau. She won the European Cup U21 in Berlin in 2018. She claimed a bronze medal at the Junior European Cup in Leibnitz in 2019. She took silver at the Junior Panam Championships in Cali.
New juniors pick up confidence for Worlds in Bahamas
As so many times the Juniors of Russia proved to be the top nation. At the Junior European Cup in Berlin the Russian team took three gold medals, one more than host nation Germany, that was a bit unlucky with five lost finals. Also Kazakhstan, Brazil and Georgia claimed three titles. Read more
Helena Vukovic sets hometown Samobor in judo fire
Croatian heavyweight Helena Vukovic is one of the outstanding talents in her category but didn't have a dominating season so far. Vukovic kept the best for last and took the victory in the +70kg category at the Cadet World Championships in Santiago de Chile. The small town of Samobor now hosts Cadet European Lara Cvjetko and world champion Helena Vukovic, Samobor is a good town for breeding judo talent. Read more
Russian cadets Kazbek Naguchev and David Babayan capture third season victory
The Russian cadets remain strong this season. At the Cadet European Cup in Berlin Russia took the most gold medal and their talents such as Kazbek Naguchev and David Babayan captured their third victory in 2017. Read more
Brazilian cadet Laura Ferreira remains undefeated in Bad Blankenburg
Laura Ferreira (16) picked up her third victory in a row. The cadet from Brazil won the Thuringia Cup in Bad Blankenburg in Germany on Saturday. Competing in the Junior category Ferreira took the victory U44kg and it was her the victory in three weeks in her European Tour. Her March tour started in Zagreb at Cadet level, Coimbra at Junior level and this week in Bad Blankenburg also at senior level. Read more
1 Lauro de Freitas 2019
5 Berlin 2019
2 Cali 2019
3 Leibnitz 2019
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China sentences second Canadian citizen to death ahead of centenary
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Tensions between China and Canada are rising following the arrests of citizens in both countries. File Photo by Fred Dufour/EPA-EFE
April 30 (UPI) -- A second Canadian citizen was sentenced to death in China on Tuesday for manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine.
The decision comes after another Canadian national, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, had a 15-year prison sentence increased to a death sentence, the BBC reported.
The Chinese decision to sentence to death Canadian citizen Fan Wei comes at a time when the two countries are experiencing unprecedented tensions over citizens in custody.
In December, China detained Michael Spavor, head of Paektu Cultural Exchange, at the Chinese border city of Dandong. He was arrested on charges of "harming [Chinese] national security," but details on the reasons for his detention were not provided by Beijing. Ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig is the other Canadian in Chinese custody.
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The arrests came after Canada detained Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei. Meng was arrested in Vancouver at the request of the United States.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned Schellenberg's death sentence, but the Chinese government refuted the remarks and has said Canada was practicing "double standards."
On Tuesday the Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong province said Fan Wei was the leader of a drug ring. A defendant of an unknown nationality but identified as Wu Ziping was also conferred the death sentence, according to the BBC.
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China takes a tough stance on narcotics that may date back to the 19th century, when the country fought the Opium War against Britain. The Qing dynasty began to sentence Chinese drug traffickers to death as early as 1838, according to historians.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has evoked his country's "humiliation" at the hands of Western powers on previous occasions.
On Tuesday he called on Chinese youth to build community and "take responsibility" in order to "realize the great revival of the Chinese people," according to Chinese network CGTN.
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Xi was speaking at an event commemorating the centenary of the May Fourth movement, a student-led mass protest in 1919 that condemned Chinese concessions to Japan at the time.


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Reverse Ritual
Understanding Anthroposophy Through the Rhythms of the Year
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Why Reverse Ritual?
Custom Ceremonies
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January 30, 2019 UncategorizedHazel
30 January 2019 – "Speaking with the Stars": As dawn begins to brighten on Thursday morning, Antares, Jupiter, Venus, & the waning crescent Moon form a graceful arc in the southeastern sky.
But the stars of this show are Bella Luna & Venus, so close they could be kissing.
Rudolf Steiner's Lectures on this day
516 BCE – The Second Temple of Jerusalem finishes construction
1128 – Birthday of Alanus ab Insulis, Teacher at Chartres. Rudolf Steiner speaks about him in many of his Karmic relationships lectures:
"…By the twelfth century a certain School had come into being — as it were through inner necessity — a School in which the afterglow of the old Platonic seership lit up once again. It was the great and illustrious School of Chartres. In this School were great teachers to whom the mysteries of early Christianity were still known and in whose hearts and souls this knowledge kindled a vision of the spiritual foundation of Christianity. In the School of Chartres in France, where stands the magnificent Cathedral, built with such profusion of detail, there was a concentration, a gathering-together, as it were, of knowledge that only shortly before had been widely scattered, though confined to the small circles of which I have spoken. ..There, for example, we find Bernard of Chartres, Bernardus Sylvestris, John of Salisbury, but above all the great Alanus ab Insulis. Mighty teachers indeed! When they spoke in the School of Chartres it was as if Plato himself, interpreting Christianity, were working in person among them. They taught the spiritual content and substance of Christianity. The writings that have come down from them may seem full of abstractions to those who read them to-day. But that is due simply to the abstract trend that characterises modern thinking. The impulse of the Christ is implicit in all the descriptions of the spiritual world contained in the writings of these outstanding personalities. I will give you an idea of how Bernardus Sylvestris and Alanus ab Insulis, above all, taught their initiated pupils. Strange as it will seem to the modern mind, such revelations were indeed given at that time to the pupils of Chartres.
It was taught: New life will come to Christianity. Its spiritual content and essence will be understood once again when Kali Yuga, the Age of Darkness, has come to an end and the dawn of a new Age breaks. And with the year 1899 this has already come to pass for us who are living at the present time; this is the great and mighty change that was to come for humanity at the end of Kali Yuga, the mighty impulse given two decades previously through the advent of Michael. This was prophetically announced in the School of Chartres in the twelfth century, above all by Bernardus Sylvestris and Alanus ab Insulis. But these men did not teach in the Aristotelian way, they did not teach by way of the intellect. They gave their teachings entirely in the form of mighty, imaginative pictures — pictures whereby the spiritual content of Christianity became concretely real. But there were certain prophetic teachings; and I should like by means of a brief extract to give you an indication of one such teaching.
Alanus ab Insulis spoke to the following effect to a narrow circle of his initiated pupils: — 'As we contemplate the universe to-day, we still regard the Earth as the centre, we judge everything from the Earth, as the centre. If the terrestrial conception which enables us to unfold our pictures and our imaginations… if this conception alone were to fertilise the coming centuries, progress would not be possible for mankind. We must come to an understanding with the Aristotelians who bring to humanity the intellect which must then be spiritualised so that in the twentieth century it may shine forth in a new and spiritual form among men. We, in our time, regard the Earth as the centre of the Cosmos, we speak of the planets circling around the Earth, we describe the whole heaven of stars as it presents itself to physical eyes as if it revolved around the Earth. But there will come one who will say: Let us place the Sun at the spatial centre of the cosmic system! But when he who will thus place the Sun at the centre of the spatial universe has come, the picture of the world will become arid. Men will only calculate the courses of the planets, will merely indicate the positions of the heavenly bodies, speaking of them as gases, or burning, luminous, physical bodies; they will know the starry heavens only in terms of mathematical and mechanical laws. But this arid picture of the world that will become widespread in the coming times, has, after all, one thing — meagre, it is true, yet it has it none the less. … We look at the universe from the Earth; he who will come will look at the universe from the standpoint of the Sun. He will be like one who indicates a "direction" only — the direction leading towards a path of majestic splendour, fraught with most wonderful happenings and peopled by glorious Beings. But he will give the direction through abstract concepts only.' (Thereby the Copernican picture of the world was indicated, arid and abstract yet giving the direction…) 'For,' said Alanus ab Insulis, 'everything we present through the Imaginations that come to us must pass away; it must pass away and the picture men now have of the world must become altogether abstract, hardly more than a pointer along a path strewn with wonderful memorials. For then, in the spiritual world, there will be One who will use this pointer — which for the purposes of world-renewal is nothing more than a means of directive — in order that, together with the prevailing intellectualism, he may then lay the foundations of the new spirituality … there will be One who will have this pointer as his only tool. This One will be St. Michael! For Him the ground must be made free; he must sow the path with new seed. And to that end, nothing but lines must remain — mathematical lines!'
A kind of magic breathed through the School of Chartres when Alanus ab Insulis was giving such teachings to a few of his chosen pupils. It was as if the ether-world all around were set astir by the surging waves of this mighty Michael teaching.
And so a spiritual atmosphere was imparted to the world. It spread across Western Europe, down into Southern Italy, where there were many who were able to receive it into themselves. In their souls something arose like a mighty Inspiration, enabling them to gaze into the spiritual world.
But in the evolution of the world it is so that those who are initiated into the great secrets of existence — as to a certain degree were Alanus ab Insulis and Bernardus Sylvestris — such men know that it is only possible to achieve this or that particular aim to a limited extent. A man like Alanus ab Insulis said to himself: We, the Platonists, must go through the gate of death; for the present we can live only in the spiritual world. We must look down from the spiritual world, leaving the physical world to those others whose task it is to cultivate the intellect in the Aristotelian way. The time has come now for the cultivation of the intellect. Late in his life Alanus ab Insulis put on the habit of the Cistercian Order; he became a Cistercian. And in the Cistercian Order many of these Platonic teachings were contained. Those among the Cistercians who possessed the deeper knowledge said to themselves: Henceforward we can work only from the spiritual world; the field must be relinquished to the Aristotelians.
These Aristotelians were, for the most part, in the Order of the Dominicans. And so in the thirteenth century the leadership of the spiritual life in Europe passed over to them.
But a heritage remained from men such as Peter of Compostella, Alanus ab Insulis, Bernard of Chartres, John of Salisbury and that poet who from the School of Chartres wrote a remarkable poem on the Seven Liberal Arts. It took significant hold of the spiritual life of Europe. What had come into being in the School of Chartres was so potent that it found its way, for example, to the University of Orleans. There, in the second half of the twelfth century, a great deal penetrated in the form of teaching from what had streamed to the pupils of Chartres through mighty pictures and words — words as it were of silver — from the lips of Bernardus Sylvestris, of Alanus ab Insulis. ~Rudolf Steiner, Karmic Relationships Volume VI, Arnhem, 18th July, 1924
1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1882 – Birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States
1889 – Deathday of Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 10,500 people
1948 – Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. A year earlier on this same date, W.J. Stein sent him Steiner's Threefold Social Order
1956 – Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
POD (Poem Of the Day)
~Beneath the crust of ice I hear
A ready roar
Rumble up from the tap root
Of the dogwood tree
It knows my secret name
Witch will rise with the sap
When Brigid-Bride calls me…
~hag
Today as the temperatures drop below zero, I am turning to Dr. Seuss for help in formulating a few leading thoughts. I am remembering a story he told of dining in a restaurant with his uncle, who ordered a popover, which Dr. Seuss described as a 'puffy muffin that's hollow on the inside'. "To eat these things," said his uncle, "you must exercise great care. After much chewing you may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the hot air!"
Drawing a lesson from these wise words, I say thank you to the good Doctor; for that's darned good advice to follow when partaking of the world's bill of fare: digestion begins with the chewing; be careful what you swallow; masticate thoroughly; & be sure to spit out all the empty air!
& so it is, that today, (& everyday) I will work to apply these principles.
Stay cozy – relax with pep
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Spring's in full swing, and you know what that means—it's time to eat some artichokes. Aside from their nutritional triumphs (artichokes are an excellent source of antioxidants, namely vitamins C and K, as well as folate and fiber), their mild-yet-addictive taste and malleable texture make them a valuable team player in dips, casseroles, and veggie-heavy lasagna. That doesn't mean they can't hold their own, though—just try them in a soup or salad, or to really appreciate, grill up a batch.
Serve with whole-wheat orzo or fettuccine to sop up the rich sauce.
While it may seem simple, there's nothing ordinary about this arugula and artichoke toss. This recipe easily doubles for a crowd. Place greens in a large bowl, add dressing, and mushrooms, and toss to coat. Top with parmesan cheese, if desired.
Lunch: Keep hunger pangs away with these healthy and delicious dishes! 150 calories and under. Lose weight the 5:2 way. This healthy, quick and easy recipe is featured in the lunch section of the new 5:2 Starter's Guide to The 2-Day Diet. The book provides a selection of over 100 tasty recipes to help you meet the daily 500 calorie allotment for the 2 days of intermittent fasting, as required by the 5:2 Diet.
You've heard that people eat with their eyes. Well, it's not true. That's impossible. People do, however, respond to color in ways both physiological and psychological. Lasagna, of course, is a classic comfort food. And monochromatic color schemes are recognized as soothing. This, then, is an exercise in making lasagna both soothing and comforting. The result is rich, subtle, and luxurious, highlighting the flavors of artichoke and fennel with the bright touch of lemon. Add a glass of crisp white wine and a frisée salad with a drizzle of olive oil and a pinch of salt, and all your stresses will melt away.
As delicious as they are, artichokes have a compound that makes wine taste sweet. Tangy goat cheese brings both into balance. Serve the bruschetta with a Sauvignon Blanc that balances refreshing citrus acidity with some oak for richness. The recipe comes from chef and cookbook author John McReynolds of Stone Edge Farm Estate Vineyards & Winery in Sonoma, California. You can start with a fresh artichoke, as he does, or use frozen hearts if you're short on time.
Shrimp, artichoke, linguine, and a homemade alfredo sauce come together in this 30-minutes dish.
The women behind the blog Dirty Gourmet, dirtygourmet.com, pack up these savory homemade cakes as an alternative to trail bars. They're great for a snack or a trail lunch with a handful of nuts. You'll need 4-oz. ramekins for baking.
Step up your Caesar salad game with crispy artichokes and grilled chicken. Toss kale with half of dressing and top with chicken, onion and artichokes. Drizzle with remaining dressing, sprinkle with pepper and serve. Tip: Slice the chicken with the grain for a smooth and even cut.


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Home Business Only Indian to Feature in 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' by Fortune
Only Indian to Feature in 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' by Fortune
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is the only Indian to Feature in the list of 'World's 50 greatest leaders' published by Fortune magazine.
Fortune's third annual 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders' list features leaders from across the globe, who are "transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same". The list is topped by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
47-year-old Aam Aadmi Party chief, Arvind Kejriwal, is ranked 42nd on the list. Fortune credits Kejriwal for his efforts to curb air pollution in Delhi through the scheme of allowing vehicles of odd and even numbers on roads on alternate days.
South Carolina's Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley is at 17th on the list with another Indian- American Resham Saujani occupying the 20th place. The list includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2), Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (3), Pope Francis (4) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (5).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi couldn't find a place in the list.
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