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People.BrandonU.Ca » Dr. Chenkuan Li » Humour Research
Humour Research
Q: How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None, that's a hardware problem.
A project manager, a computer programmer and a computer operator are driving down the road when the car they are in gets a flat tire. The three men try to solve the problem. The project manager said: "Let's catch a cab and in ten minutes we'll reach our destination." The computer programmer said: "We have here the driver's guide. I can easily replace the flat tire and continue our drive." The computer operator said: "First of all, let's turn off the engine and turn it on again. Maybe it will fix the problem." Suddenly a Microsoft software engineer passed by and said: "Try to close all windows, get off the car, and then get in and try again."
Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?
Because DEC 25 = OCT 31.
"Have you heard about the object-oriented way to become wealthy?"
– "No…"
– "Inheritance."
A man walks into a Silicon Valley pet store looking for a monkey. The storeowner points towards three identical looking monkeys in politically correct, animal-friendly natural mini-habitats.
"The one to the left costs $500," says the storeowner.
"Why so much?" asks the customer.
"Because it can program in C," answers the storeowner.
The customer inquires about the next monkey and is told that "That one costs
$1500, because it knows Visual C++ and Object-Relational technology."
The startled man then asks about the third monkey.
"That one costs $3000," answers the storeowner.
"$3000!" exclaims the man. "What can that one do?"
To which the owner replies, "To be honest, I have never seen it do
a single thing, but it calls itself a Consultant."
Q: How can you tell if a blonde has been using your computer?
A: There's whiteout on the screen.
A man attempting to set up his new printer called the printer's tech support number, complaining about the error message: "Can't find the printer." On the phone, the man said he even held the printer up in front of the screen, but the computer still couldn't find it!
Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Dr. Chenkuan Li
Awards and Services
Education and Teaching Experience
Mathematical Research
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E-mail: lic@brandonu.ca
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package org.hibernate.validator.cfg;

import org.hibernate.validator.cfg.context.TypeConstraintMappingContext;
import org.hibernate.validator.cfg.context.impl.ConstraintMappingContext;
import org.hibernate.validator.cfg.context.impl.TypeConstraintMappingContextImpl;
import org.hibernate.validator.util.Contracts;

/**
 * Top level class for constraints configured via the programmatic API.
 *
 * @author Hardy Ferentschik
 * @author Gunnar Morling
 * @author Kevin Pollet <kevin.pollet@serli.com> (C) 2011 SERLI
 */
public class ConstraintMapping {

	protected ConstraintMappingContext context;

	public ConstraintMapping() {
		context = new ConstraintMappingContext();
	}

	protected ConstraintMapping(ConstraintMapping original) {
		this.context = original.context;
	}

	/**
	 * Starts defining constraints on the specified bean class.
	 *
	 * @param <C> The type to be configured.
	 * @param beanClass The bean class on which to define constraints. All constraints defined after calling this method
	 * are added to the bean of the type {@code beanClass} until the next call of {@code type}.
	 *
	 * @return Instance allowing for defining constraints on the specified class.
	 */
	public final <C> TypeConstraintMappingContext<C> type(Class<C> beanClass) {

		Contracts.assertNotNull( beanClass, "The bean type must not be null when creating a constraint mapping." );

		return new TypeConstraintMappingContextImpl<C>( beanClass, context );
	}

}

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Reflecting on their VR research events over last 6 months, Catherine Allen and Emma Hughes have been bringing VR to broader audiences.
This October 2017 we've had not one, but two Artist in Residence duos join us in the Studio, both of whom will continue to develop their projects until February 2018. Here is Part 1 of the talk.
Exploring space for fun, science and profit!
Space exploration used to be something only available to scientists, astronauts.. however these days it is possible to launch your very own spacecraft to the Moon!
iLogs are not Mutual Instruments (what is an iLog anyway)?
Studio residents Lawrence Hoo and Michael Jenkins introduced their new project and art installation, CARGO. The narrative for CARGO looks at Bristol's and the African diaspora's histories and legacies.
In this episode, Studio Managing Producer, Verity McIntosh introduces some practical tools for making creative content in VR.


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Yoram Cohen
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Dr. Cohen is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Faculty member of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Dr. Cohen received his Chemical Engineering B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Toronto (1975, 1977), and a PhD from the University of Delaware (1981). He is Director of the Water Technology Research (WaTeR) and a co-founder of the Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN) that received the 2012 California Governor's Award in Green Chemistry. He is Adjunct Professor at Ben-Gurion University and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Victoria University (2006) and a Visiting Professor at the Technion (1987-1988) and at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (1994). He received the 2003 Lawrence K. Cecil award in Environmental Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the 2019 Clarence (Larry) G. Gerhold Award from the AIChE Separations Division and was elected AIChE Fellow in 2009. In 2008 he received the Ann C. Rosenfield Community Partnership Prize for his environmental research. He is a recognized expert and technology innovator in water treatment and desalination, membrane separation processes, nanoinformatics and environmental impact assessment.

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Essential medicines
50 judgments found.
Mohd Ahmed (Minor) v. Union of India, et al.
Court: High Court of Delhi
Citation: W.P.(C) 7279/2013
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Medicines, Poverty
Petitioner was a 7-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disease called Gaucher Disease (a type of Lysosomal Storage Disorder) which, if left untreated, would render him unlikely to survive. Although Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT), a monthly, lifelong treatment, would afford him a normal life, the drug, due to low demand arising from the rarity …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to health care, Access to medicines, Access to treatment, Child mortality, Children, Essential medicines, Genetic disease, Health expenditures, Health funding, Health regulation, Health spending, Indigent, Low income, Minor, Noncommunicable diseases, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Pediatric health, Pharmaceuticals, Poor, Pricing, Social security, Subsidies, Tertiary care, Underprivileged
Court: Constitutional Court
Citation: Constitutional Petition No. 16 of 2011
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Medical malpractice, Medicines, Poverty, Sexual and reproductive health
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, Right to health, Right to life
The petitioners claimed that the lack of provision of basic health maternal commodities in Government Health Facilities and the negligent, unethical behavior of health workers toward expectant mothers in those facilities resulted in violations of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda (the "Constitution"). Specifically, the petitioners claimed violations of the right to health and …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to health care, Access to medicines, Access to treatment, Childbirth, Children, Cruel treatment, Degrading treatment, Essential medicines, Health care professionals, Health care workers, Health expenditures, Health facilities, Health funding, Health spending, Humiliating treatment, Inadequate treatment, Inappropriate treatment, Indigent, Infant health, Infant mortality, Inhuman treatment, Low income, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Midwifery, Negligence, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Pediatric health, Poor, Pregnancy, Primary care, Public hospitals, Remedies, Subsidies, Underprivileged
Laidlow v The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Court: Federal Court
Citation: (2012) FC 144
Health Topics: Disabilities, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Medicines
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Freedom of movement and residence, Right to health, Right to life
The applicant was a citizen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines who entered Canada on a visitor visa, and remained in Canada illegally after his visa had expired. During this time, he was hospitalized after losing his eyesight and memory. He was diagnosed with a benign tumor affecting his brain and pituitary gland. The tumor …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to health care, Access to medicines, Access to treatment, Blind, Essential medicines, Examination, Health expenditures, Health facilities, Health funding, Health regulation, Health spending, Immigrants, Immigration, Refugees, Testing
Ochieng v. Attorney General
Court: High Court of Kenya (Nairobi)
Citation: Petition No. 409 of 2009
Health Topics: HIV/AIDS, Medicines
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life, Right to privacy
The petitioners were Kenyan citizens living with HIV/AIDS. They petitioned seeking a declaration that the fundamental rights of life, human dignity and health as protected and envisaged by the Constitution, encompassed access to affordable and essential drugs and medicines, including generic HIV/AIDS drugs. The petitioners also sought a declaration that the Anti-Counterfeit Act, 2008 and …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to health care, AIDS, Essential medicines, Generic drugs, HIV, HIV positive, Intellectual property, Patents, People living with HIV/AIDS, Pricing, TRIPS
Patricia Asero Ochieng, et al. v. Attorney General, et al.
Court: High Court at Nairobi
Citation: Petition 409 of 2009
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, HIV/AIDS, Medicines, Poverty
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
The Petitioners were citizens of Kenya living with HIV. They claimed that provisions of the Anti-Counterfeiting Act, 2008 (the Act) severely restricted access to affordable, essential medicines, including generic medicines for HIV-related diseases, in violation of their fundamental rights to life, dignity and health protected under articles 26(1), 28 and 43 of the Constitution of …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to medicines, AIDS, Antiretrovirals, ARVs, Children, Drug quality, Drug safety, Essential medicines, Generic drugs, HIV, HIV positive, Intellectual property, Manufacturing, Minor, Patents, Pediatric health, People living with HIV/AIDS, Pharmaceuticals, PLHIV, Poor, Pricing, Spurious medicines, Transmission, Underprivileged
Case 179/2011
Country: Uruguay
Court: Tribunal Apelaciones Civil 4ºTº
Health Topics: Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health systems and financing, Medicines, Poverty
Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination, Right to health, Right to life
Appellant Ministry of Public Health ("MSP") refused to provide the medicine CETUXIMAB to the plaintiff, arguing that, although it was obligated to ensure public health, it had no legal power to dispense medication directly to the population and that its refusal to provide the medicine was also consistent with the fact that the drug was …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to medicines, Cancer, Essential medicines, Health funding, Health insurance, Health regulation, Low income, Pharmaceuticals, Social security
Download Judgment: English Spanish
Case 52/2011
Court: Civil Appeals Court, 1st District [Tribunal Apelaciones Civil 1ºTº]
Citation: Docket No. 52/2011
Health Topics: Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Health systems and financing, Medical malpractice, Medicines
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to social security
The appellant, joined by his spouse and children, filed suit against defendant Catholic Workers Circle of Uruguay, an affiliated collective medical assistance institution, to recover for loss of earning capacity and moral damages. The appellant's doctor (co-defendant) at Catholic Workers Circle had diagnosed the appellant with a benign brain tumor and prescribed radiation therapy in …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to medicines, Cancer, Essential medicines, Health care professionals, Health care workers, Health facilities, Health funding, Health insurance, Health regulation, Inappropriate treatment, Negligence, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Pharmaceuticals, Pricing, Reimbursement
Case 108-2010-R
Country: Bolivia
Court: Tribunal Constitucional de Bolivia [Constitutional Tribunal of Bolivia]
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, HIV/AIDS, Medicines, Poverty
A constitutional amparo (writ of injunctive relief) petition was brought the petitioner on behalf of his minor daughter against the Department Director of the Sexually Transmitted Infections/A.I.D.S. ("STI/AIDS") Program, alleging violations of his daughter's rights to life, to health, to "legal certainty," and to petition, as guaranteed by the Bolivian Constitution. The petitioner's daughter lived …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to health care, Access to medicines, Access to treatment, AIDS, Antiretrovirals, ARVs, Children, Essential medicines, Health expenditures, Health funding, HIV, HIV positive, Indigent, Low income, Minor, Pediatric health, People living with HIV/AIDS, PLHIV, Poor, Subsidies
Case 2009-12-03
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Chronic and noncommunicable diseases, Disabilities, Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Medicines
The applicant, G.Z. was diagnosed with Gaucher's disease at the age of three. Gaucher's disease was a rare disease which can only be successfully treated with the drug Cerezyme. If the disease was not treated, it could result in early death. G.Z's parents claimed 100% reimbursement of the purchase costs of Cerezyme on G.Z's behalf. …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs, Access to medicines, Access to treatment, Budget, Children, Disabled, Essential medicines, Health expenditures, Health funding, Health insurance, Health regulation, Health spending, Minor, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Pediatric health, Pharmaceuticals, Pricing, Reimbursement, Subsidies
Download Judgment: English Latvian
Case 42755708
Court: District Court of Administrative Cases
Citation: A02405-10/18
Health Topics: Health care and health services, Health systems and financing, Medicines
The Plaintiff bought 13 packs of Sprycel, also known as desatinib, during the year and sought reimbursement for their costs. A local university hospital doctors council concluded that the Plaintiff would not survive without Sprycel treatment. According to the law of Latvia, the Plaintiff was reimbursed up to LVL 10 000 for his purchase of …Read more
Tags: Access to treatment, Budget, Essential medicines, Health expenditures, Health regulation, Health spending, Out-of-pocket expenditures, Pricing, Reimbursement
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Independently producing work submitted under one's own name.
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The Institute expects all students engaged in research, whether funded or not, and whether a course requirement or not, to adhere to the principles prescribed by the Institute and contained in Policy 6500, Research Ethics for Human Subjects; and Policy 6600, Integrity in Research.
Academic integrity requires that students do not falsely claim credit for the ideas, writing, or other intellectual property of others, either by presenting such works as their own or through impersonation.
Using cheat sheets or other sources of information in an examination, without authorization.
Communicating, in any way, with other students during an examination, to give or receive answers to exam questions.
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IZUNA employs a range of sanctions for academic misconduct which depend on the nature of the offense. Students may be required to sign and complete a Student Performance Contract, may be required to discontinue a given program, or may be suspended from the Institute.


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Q: image create photo, spaces in filename This command is the problem:
set imageCreated [image create photo backPhoto -file $imageName]

It fails for spaces in the file name, even when they are escaped with backslash.
aa-F-1s-ISO-2000.tiff  works fine
aa F 1s ISO-2000.tiff  causes error
aa\ F\ 1s\ ISO-2000.tiff causes error
Is this a bug in image create or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks -
Peter

A: It should work fine, as demonstrated below. (I used ImageMagick's convert program to get a TIFF file from a png):
% package require Tk
8.6.5
% package require img::tiff
1.4.2
% set filename "Screenshot from 2015-10-22 23:54:41.png.tiff"
Screenshot from 2015-10-22 23:54:41.png.tiff
% set img [image create photo backPhoto -file $filename]
backPhoto
% # Just to confirm this is really a TIFF
% exec file $filename
Screenshot from 2015-10-22 23:54:41.png.tiff: TIFF image data, little-endian, direntries=15, height=65, bps=23594, compression=none, PhotometricIntepretation=RGB, orientation=upper-left, width=120

At this point we have the image created and it can be displayed using a Tk label widget. I can only assume your imageName variable doesn't really contain what you think.

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Recognising our unique role as teachers in the mission of the Church, the World Union of Catholic Teachers is committed to the advancement of education in Catholic and secular schools. It provides leadership, support and a range of professional services, in partnership with its member organisations.
WUCT seeks to secure and to improve the position of school education and the people who depend on school education, worldwide. . It also believes in the importance of the religious dimension in the programme of education in schools. Moreover, it holds that schools should promote an atmosphere of inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue.
by supporting the initial and ongoing training of Catholic teachers to meet major current and future educational challenges.
by working with other international Catholic organisations where there is common purpose.
o : to establish a privileged channel of relationships among Catholic teachers and the Holy See and National Conferences of Bishops.
by informing member organisations of current ecclesiastical initiatives.
by responding, where appropriate, to the initiatives of these bodies.


A simple, stripe design features on this soft, organic cotton and wool mix scarf. Grab the matching beanie hat and you will be kept warm for the Autumn!
Care - COLD HAND WASH SEPARATELY. RESHAPE WHILST DAMP. DRY FLAT. DO NOT DRY IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT. COOL IRON ON REVERSE. DO NOT TUMBLE DRY, BLEACH OR DRY CLEAN.


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Band: Padraig Jack
Label: Good Deeds Music
Title: Making Sand
Band:Padraig Jack
Title:Making Sand
Reviewed By:Nicky Crewe
Label:Good Deeds Music
Padraig Jack's roots lie in the Aran Islands, ten miles off the west coast of Ireland. The way of life on these islands inspired poets, writers and folklorists in the early twentieth century.
As a heritage it is sure to have an impact. It's not surprising that Padraig Jack is a recognisably Irish soul singer, writing and singing in both Gaelic and English.
His father is bilingual songwriter Barry Ronan. His aunt on his mother's side is Irish poet Mary O'Malley.
Padraig Jack has appeared on television and radio in Ireland and he has been nominated and shortlisted for a variety of music awards there. His live shows and festival appearances are adding to his growing reputation, and he keeps good company with the musicians and artists he has supported, including Sharon Shannon, the Saw Doctors and Donal Lunny.
This debut album taps into the tradition, with its instrumental arrangements and its use of Gaelic, while creating a very contemporary Irish sound.
The music is upbeat, energetic and uplifting. There's a promise of what it might be like to see him live in 'Black Drapes'. The title track, 'Making Sand', is a powerful song too. The track chosen as his new single, 'Minnie', is a love song with a twist.' Hello Mum' is heartbreaking when you listen to the lyrics. One one level it's about estrangement and regret, but there's another layer when you consider the Irish diaspora and the way families were broken and divided by emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Several of the tracks are sung in Gaelic as well as English, including the bonus track 'Fighting Irish'.
Padraig Jack tells us he's influenced by Van Morrison, James Taylor, Shane McGowan and the Eagles. There's a resilience about his music that must come from his own roots and should help him establish a strong following in the future.
01) Let It Shine
02) Gospel of Matthew
03) Streetbed Ridden
04) Making Sand
05) Minnie
06) Black Drapes
07) Hello Mum
08) Long Goodbye
09) Fighting Irish
10) Smaointe Cailte
Commenting On: Making Sand by Padraig Jack
Good Deeds Music
Debut album from Padraig Jack establishes him as one of the most exciting new contemporary singer songwriters to come out of Ireland
Making Sand - CD


Here's a movie running through a demonstration of the V5 Formula Control Scale System. It's running in 'Semi Automatic' mode to minimise screen button pressing and improved batch speed. If you find a faster batch system out there, we'd love to see it!


In Union Cent. Life Ins. Co. v. Ally Fin., Inc., No. 11 Civ. 2890(GBD)(JCF), 2012 WL 3553052 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 17, 2012), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the plaintiffs' motion for commencement of limited discovery. The plaintiffs' (Union Central Life Insurance Company, Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation, and Acacia Life Insurance Company) initially alleged that the defendants violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and committed "state common law fraud in connection with the sale of twenty-one residential mortgage-backed securities." Plaintiffs moved for limited discovery against three groups of defendants: Morgan Stanley, Washington Mutual, and UBS. The plaintiffs asserted only state law claims, and not claims under the Exchange Act, against these particular defendants.
Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 ("PSLRA"), discovery is postponed in cases involving violations of the Exchange Act until all motions to dismiss are ruled upon. Defendants filed motions to dismiss, halting discovery. The plaintiffs put forth three arguments in support of their motion for limited discovery.
The court accepted neither proposition. With respect to the first proposition, the court noted that the cited cases involved the commencement of discovery after the denial of a motion to dismiss. Because the motions were pending, the cases were inapposite.
The court resolved the second proposition by looking at the plain language of the PSLRA. The statute applied to "federal securities actions" [emphasis in original] and did not specify the need for a federal security claim against each particular defendant. The court reasoned that this language was broad enough to encompass these state law claims because they were within the federal securities action.
The plaintiffs' second argument for limited discovery was that "the presence of Exchange Act claims against other defendants is not a valid basis for extending the stay to include defendants against whom they assert only state law claims." The court concluded that a discovery stay was inapplicable to state law claims that were unrelated to fraud. The actions in the instant case were related to fraud and therefore inseparable from the Exchange Act claims. Furthermore, the court explained that extending the PSLRA to state law claims was essential in cases such as this where coordination among the defendants is required.
The plaintiffs' final argument was "that the PSLRA's stay provision was not intended to apply to individual, rather than class action, securities claims." The court again looked to the language of the statute and found no limitation on the scope, holding that the PSLRA applies to individual actions.
The primary materials for this case may be found on the DU Corporate Governance website.


This morning, the Federal Communications Commission provided an executive summary (PDF) of its National Broadband Plan. I've embedded it below.
The FCC mobile broadband testing apps is likely to factor into gathering data for those speed assurances.
Taken together, better information about broadband speeds and pricing, special access reform, making it easier to build out municipal fiber, and open set-top boxes will likely have the greatest impact on consumers, while the ability to get better data on services could have the most far-reaching effect if the FCC decides to use that information to promote competition.
"Despite widespread deployment, nearly a third of Americans have not embraced broadband," said FCC Commissioner Baker this morning at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Baker spoke at the Digital Inclusion Summit, an event co-hosted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Knight Foundation to offer perspective the state of the nation's connectivity and a preview up the upcoming National Broadband Plan, due to be delivered to Congress on March 17.
FCC Chairman Genachowski said that there has been the unprecedented "open process" for the Plan, including livestreams of 40 public workshops, 70 posts at blog.broadband.gov that generated thousands of comments. That process has brought "vital points into focus," said Genachowski. Rural, minorities, disabled, senior, tribal communities are all lagging in broadband adoption and access. "The cost of digital exclusion is high and growing every day," he said. In fact, a recent study from the Digital Impact Group estimated the aggregate economic cost of digital exclusion at $55 billion per year.
While eight days remain until the release of the National Broadband Plan (See Broadband.gov), the FCC has indicated that it will include a "National Digital Literacy Corps," an update to Lifeline and work on building out public, private and nonprofit partnerships.
Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen presented a summary of the Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, comparing information to basic commodities to good streets and clean water.
"If information is a core need, and if it is to be delivered digitally, then logically to be a fully participating citizen one must have access," he said.
In voicing his support for broadband and new media literacy, Ibargüen noted a recent study from Pew Internet that the Internet has surpassed newspapers as a primary means of getting news for Americans, including many "non-traditional" means like personal feeds, social media and mobile applications. Ibargüen compared broadband to the national infrastructure projects of past generation. "I can't wait to build the equivalent of Eisenhower's highways — or for that matter the railroads under Lincoln," he said.
The Inclusion Challenge follows the Knight News Challenge, which distributed $5 million dollars for digital innovation. "Citizens should be able to see voting records or campaign contributions," said Ibargüen after his speech.
Other federal officials and members of Congress were also on hand to share their perspectives on the importance of the broadband plan.
HUD Secretary Donovan spoke of creating "a geography of opportunity" through broadband, working through private, public and nonprofit partnerships. "Too often today we can predict the outcome of a kid's life by their zip code," he said.
workforce development and financial literacy training.
Representative Lee Terry (R-NE), following Commissioner Baker, said that "90% of Nebraskans have access to broadband but "puts an asterisk next to that. It's 200 kbps. That doesn't work in 21st Century." Rep. Lee stated his support for reform of the Universal Service Fund to provide rural broadband.
Using a phrase that might raise some libertarian hackles, FCC Commissioner Copps called Internet access a civil right. "Access denied is opportunity denied," he said. Full text of Copps' remarks is available as .doc or PDF at FCC.gov.
Rep. Ed Markey, courtesy of the FCC.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) spoke at length about the importance of broadband to civic life and equal access. As the Washington Post's Cecilia Kang observed, Markey put national broadband charge for FCC in stimulus plan. And, as Kim Hart reported in the Hill, broadband funding from the stimulus has been a contentious topic.
Rep. Markey cited the precedent of E-Rate in improving digital literacy. According to Rep. Markey, 95% of US schools and libraries are now connected to the Internet, up from 14%.
Joey Durel, City-Parish President, spoke about "muni fiber" at Lafayette, Louisiana, where a "citizen-owned utility" company delivers up to 50 Mbps at costs lower to comparable commercial services.
As Durel has said elsewhere, commenting at DSL Reports, Lafayette muni fiber also supports 100Mbps symmetrical P2P.
Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) said 75% of U.S. employers require prospective employees to apply online. "Affordability is a necessity, not a luxury," she said. Rep. Matsui referred to the Broadband Affordability Act, which would amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish a Lifeline Assistance Program for universal broadband adoption to include low-income citizens. Before she spoke, FCC Chairman Genachowski gave Matsui and other members of credit due credit for the inclusion of the USF in the Broadband Plan. "I want you to hear it from me before the tabloids," he joked.
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D0CA) described the importance of connecting to a wider world, removing language barriers. He observed that people are ten times more likely to use the Internet if they've gone to college. "What we're doing in connecting all Americans to broadband is helping those families who are too distant from the rest of us," he said.
A diverse set of citizens also spoke at the Summit to share how access to broadband or technology changed their lives. Rhonda Locklear, a housing specialist for the Lumbee Tribe in Pembroke, NC, shared her pain in not being able to provide her child with broadband connectivity he needs for homework. "If our children don't get what they need, they're going to be left behind," she said.
Korean War vet and writer Garrison Phillips talked about how the OATS program engaged and trained seniors in the use of technology. Phillips said he began blogging in his 70s, thanks to digital programs aimed at seniors, and that's he's grateful for Net access to information, given the challenges posed by living in a 6th floor walkup.
For AmeriCorps volunteer Alex Kurt, the success of a tech skills program in Minnesota "only highlighted how big the problem really is. For each person I help, two to three more come saying 'I lost my job. I can't use a computer,'" he said. More information regarding the program Kurt is involved in is available at wip.technologypower.org.
Florence Pearson and her daughter speak at the Newseum. Picture courtesy of FCC.
And what does the FCC and broadband mean to Irvin Aviles, a computer technician from Baltimore? "Broad opportunities for a common community," he said, explaining how training and certification led to employment for the father of four at Time Warner Cable in Baltimore.
"If today's disparities are not addressed, our digital divide will soon become a digital canyon," said FCC Commissioner Clyburn, who said a "National Digital Literacy Corps" will be part of the National Broadband Plan.
an Online Skills portal for free, basic digital skills training.
Full text of Commissioner Clyburn's announcement of the Digital Literacy Corps is available as a PDF.
The use of social media and other collaboration technology online has been notable in many branches of government. The FCC launched Reboot.gov earlier this year, following OpenInternet.gov and Broadband.gov.
Even if FCC.gov remains dated, the FCC itself has moved quickly to use crowdsourcing tools for questions, @FCC took questions about the digital inclusion at summit using the event's #BBplan hashtag or using email sent to newmedia@fcc.gov. (Authors of "questions from Twitter," however, were not unattributed.) Several of the tweeted questions were answered and webcast at FCC.gov/live. That virtuous feedback loop using a combination of online collaborative tools and a livestream is one of the better examples of so-called "government 2.0" technology I've seen in action.
The FCC and Knight Foundation also distributed USB flash drives with PDFs of remarks, reports and relevant links, along with paper versions of the same. That move was both digitally savvy and helpful to members of the media or general audience.
As Amy Gahran pointed out in her post on the National Broadband Plan at the Knight Digital Media Center, this moment presents opportunities for community news and civic engagement.
"Large, established businesses such as cable companies, broadcasters, and telcos have much at stake and are throwing substantial lobbying muscle toward protecting their interests. Expect that the there will be changes to the plan between the time it goes to committee and the version that eventually makes it to the floor of Congress.
Gahran shared events and resources that will be of use to readers in the D.C. area and beyond in following both the debate around broadband policy and implementation.
The National Broadband Plan will be posted at Broadband.gov next week.
On March 16, Congressional tech staffers will discuss"Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Where to from Here?" Representatives of Congressional committees connected to the plan will be present, including the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
The above event is associated with BroadbandBreakfast.com, a useful blog devoted to broadband coverage.
Numerous broadband task forces, commissions, or authorities offer more local information.


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The culture war books of 2006
"There is no end to the writing of books," said the author of Ecclesiastes—and he didn't even know about the coming culture war and its nonstop tide of titles. Conservative broadsides in book form are commonplace; the New York Times bestseller list is hardly ever without a title from Ann Coulter (most recent: "Godless") or Bill O'Reilly (most recent: "Culture Warrior"). But this year, the culture war's liberal camp has issued book after book of its own. Below, see our sampling of these titles. (And it is only a sampling—otherwise there'd be no end to the listing of books, either.)
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
Author: Kevin Phillips
Salon.com says: "What he's talking about is not a Christian version of Iran, but a country ruled by an evangelical party whose electoral machinery is integrated into a network of fundamentalist churches."
The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us
Author: James Rudin
Publishers Weekly says: "What comes across as a personal distaste for conservative evangelicals derails a much-needed discussion of the consequences of religion-based political advocacy."
The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate
Author: Dan Wakefield
Publishers Weekly says: "Wakefield posits that in crafting a meaningful response to the 'Christian jihad,' liberal Christians must similarly procure 'ammunition, troops and a battle plan, a strategy.'"
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism Author: Michelle Goldberg
Publishers Weekly says: "… a potent wakeup call to pluralists in the coming showdown with Christian nationalists."
The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
Author: Michael Lerner
The Washington Post says: "'The Left Hand of God'" is ambitious, sprawling and sometimes rambling, but it serves the vital purpose of articulating a progressive religious alternative…."
The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted
Author: Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.
Publishers Weekly says: "Thundering like a biblical prophet…Hendricks…proclaims Jesus as a political revolutionary who overturned the unjust social policies of his day."
Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church: Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar
Author: Becky Garrison
Publishers Weekly says: "No Christian faction, not liberals, mainliners, evangelicals or fundamentalists, escapes the smarty-pants treatment from [Garrison]."
Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right
Author: Mel White
The Dallas Observer says: "[White] investigates the threat of the evil Christian right and its secret conspiracy to stir up the kind of hateful prejudice that gets gays killed."
The Theocons: Secular America Under Seige
Author: Damon Linker
The New York Times says: "In the end, the theocons are just too eccentric to exercise the sort of influence on America that Linker ascribes to them."
Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical's Lament
Author: Randall Balmer
Booklist says: "If he changes no minds, he still offers a welcome alternative to Religious Right railing."
Why the Christian Right is Wrong: A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Flag, Your Faith, Your Future
Author: Robin Meyers
Publishers Weekly says: "For readers who are 'indignant over the direction of this country' and feel that the time has come for 'dignified, but tangible resistance,' Meyers delivers an unambiguous, palpable blueprint."
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FORT WORTH -- Pairs upon pairs of high-heeled showstoppers were out in Fort Worth Saturday morning, but the feet filling those fashion staples were more beast than beauty.
It was SafeHaven's 'Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,' forcing the fellas to walk one mile in high fashion.
With teams like Chumps in Pumps and House of Horrors, the guys had a good time, but they were in platforms for a purpose as well.
SafeHaven's goal is to end domestic violence by raising awareness and helping victims, and these men got the message.
SafeHaven said this year's event featuring 70-80 men, more than both of their Walk a Mile events combined in 2015.


The MassDOT board approved on Wednesday a 5 percent MBTA fare hike as well as the purchase of new Green Line cars.
The new Green Line cars recently approved for purchase.
A state transportation board approved on Wednesday a fare increase to the price of riding the MBTA.
The fare hike, which will take effect in July, was approved during Wednesday's meeting of the MassDOT board, according to the Globe.
Transit officials detailed plans to increase the cost of riding the public transit system in March.
The 5 percent fare hike means that subway trips will now cost $2.10, up a dime from current prices. Bus trips will also increase a dime to $1.60, monthly LinkPasses will increase $5 to $75 and Commuter Rail and ferry single ride trips will increase between 25 cents and 50 cents each.
Also on Wednesday, the MassDOT board approved the purchase of 40 new buses and a contract to build 24 new Green Line cars. The new buses will allow the MBTA to retire older buses purchased in 1994 and 1995. They are expected to be in service by February.
CAF USA, Inc., will build the 24 new cars for $118 million. Half of the funding will come from a federal grant and the cars are expected to be delivered between the end of 2017 and the end of 2018.


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Navigating around DeepWords is pretty simple. DeepWords works very much like a search engine of sorts in that you enter your search terms (just like you would using Google) and then you would click on Search.
Below in the example, I typed in "protein powder and clicked on Search.
You'll notice that the results are shown in a table with the categories, region and estimate. You can change the order of items in the table by clicking on the column header.


CEO Herbert Diess kick-started an overhaul of the carmaker. Cutting jobs will be hard given VW's union-heavy board. But by slashing the group's excessive spending on materials like steel, Diess could squeeze suppliers instead. That would make a big difference to its thin margins.
Volkswagen on April 26 said revenue in the first three months of the year was 58.2 billion euros, 3.6 percent higher than a year earlier and slightly above the median forecast of 58.1 billion euros in a Reuters analyst poll.
The German carmaker's operating profit was 4.2 billion euros, down 3.6 percent from a year earlier and less than analysts' median forecast of almost 4.5 billion euros. VW said the worse-than-expected operating margin of 7.2 percent was mainly down to changes in the value of derivatives under IFRS 9 accounting guidelines.
VW reiterated its guidance for up to 5 percent revenue growth in 2018 and an operating margin of between 6.5 and 7.5 percent.
VW's preference and ordinary shares were up 3.4 percent and 2.7 percent respectively at 0740 GMT.


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require 'ad_manager_api/v202208/stream_activity_monitor_service_registry'

module AdManagerApi; module V202208; module StreamActivityMonitorService
  class StreamActivityMonitorService < AdsCommon::SavonService
    def initialize(config, endpoint)
      namespace = 'https://www.google.com/apis/ads/publisher/v202208'
      super(config, endpoint, namespace, :v202208)
    end

    def get_sam_sessions_by_statement(*args, &block)
      return execute_action('get_sam_sessions_by_statement', args, &block)
    end

    def get_sam_sessions_by_statement_to_xml(*args)
      return get_soap_xml('get_sam_sessions_by_statement', args)
    end

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Bless't with a Wife and Num'rous Race.
And could not be to their content.
He lived four years in Josiah Franklin's household, then in November 1719 moved to the house of his son Samuel, who had preceded him to America but had just married; and there he died (Genealogy, A.5.2.7).
Franklin remembered his uncle as an ingenious man, the inventor of a shorthand which he taught his nephew, a collector of books and family anecdotes. From early manhood this clever, gentle man composed poems of love, sorrow, and thanksgiving, rendered the Psalms into his own verse, and contrived acrostics, crosses, ladders, and other curious verse forms. Many of these were written for his children, nieces, and nephews; three were addressed to his "Name[sake]," though the child was in America and the old man was still in England.3 Punctuation, largely lacking in the manuscript, has been supplied in this and the following two poems.
The Sword has Many Marr'd as well as Made.
War fills with want, Tomorrow, and with woe.
Are the Effects of Desolating Warrs.
3. Other verses from this MS volume are printed in Hist. Mag., III (1859), 9–12, 50–1, 86–7. A commonplace book kept by the elder Franklin at Boston and his treatise on dyeing and coloring are printed in Col. Soc. Mass., Pubs., X (1907), 191–205, 206–25. For a sympathetic portrait based on these MSS see Parton, Franklin, 1, 32–8, 41–3.


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Why should you attend interest groups?
Our family history interest groups will help you advance your family history research. There is a number of different groups that cover a range of topics: Germany, Scotland, England & Wales, Ireland, DNA, Family Tree Maker, FamilySearch or Resources Interest Groups. At the monthly meetings, you learn and share knowledge about your topic of interest. Members help each other break down brick walls, learn about great places to search and how to use popular websites for researching your topic.
Check out the details below for when each group generally meets with the links to the future planned dates of the next few meetings of that group.
Most meetings are hybrid, via Zoom or in-person, at the rooms. Family Tree Maker is Zoom only and Resources is at the rooms only. The Resources Interest Group is held in the rooms with no Zoom session as locally available resources are key to the groups' discussions.
The Interest Groups' Times:
Family Tree Maker: Meets the 1st Wednesday of the month from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.
Zoom only.
Family Tree Maker Group Meetings.
Germany: Meets the 1st Thursday of the month from 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm.
Hybrid: in the rooms and Zoom.
Germany Interest Group meetings.
Scotland: Meets the 2nd Thursday of the month from 12 noon to 2.00 pm.
Scotland Interest Group meetings.
Ireland: Meets the 2nd Thursday of the month from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm after the Scotland Interest Group Meeting.
Ireland Interest Group meetings.
DNA: Meets the next Friday after the monthly General Meeting from 10 to noon.
DNA Interest Group meetings.
England / Wales: Meets 4th Thursday of the month from 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm.
England & Wales Interest Group meetings.
FamilySearch: Meets the 3rd Monday of the month from 10.00 am to Noon.
FamilySearch Interest Group meetings.
Resources: Meets the next Saturday after the monthly General Meeting – 12 Noon to 2.00 pm.
Rooms only, no Zoom.
Resources Interest Group meetings.
If you have any queries about the Interest Groups use the Contact Us form and we will forward your queries to the appropriate group convenor who will contact you. Or leave a message or comment on the Caloundra Family History Facebook Page and we will get back to you soon.


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Elizabeth Locey
Elizabeth Locey Navigation
Akashic Records – A Powerful Experience
Untying the Myth of King Midas: Release the Fear of Your OWN Golden Touch
Elizabeth February 24, 2016 Uncategorized
Untying the Myth of King Midas:
Release the Fear of Your OWN Golden Touch
In a recent channeling about alchemy and elementals, the Keepers made a point of talking about the cautionary tale of King Midas, and warned us not to take it at face value.
According to legend, Midas was a sage diplomat and great king, and he was owed a big favor by the god Dionysus. When asked what he desired most, King Midas, thinking to ensure the power, peace, and permanence of his realm by keeping the royal coffers full to bursting (no one would dare declare war on such a wealthy kingdom), asked to have everything he touched turn to gold. And so it was.
King Midas was at first enchanted with this new power, for gold is beautiful to behold and when everyday objects like a twig were transformed into gold, the combination of the natural beauty of the form and the brilliance of the gold rendered them stunning. The king ordered a banquet to celebrate.
It was at the feast that he discovered the shadow side of his new gift: when he tried to raise the cup of wine to his lips, the liquid turned to solid gold. The rich fruits on his plate likewise lost all nutritional value (not to mention suppleness) when they were turned to gold by his touch. In one version of the story, he accidentally turned his beloved daughter into a golden statue.
In this story, Midas's new "gift," then, becomes a source of despair almost immediately. In one less forgiving version of the story, Midas soon dies of starvation and a broken heart. In a happier-ever-after variant, he begs the mercy of Dionysus, who grants Midas the wish to return to his former non-gold-making state by washing his hands in a river of his kingdom, which from that day forward contained lots of gold nuggets.
All myths, legends, and fairy tales are made to entertain, but mostly to instruct.
And when I say instruct, I really mean to instill fear. The original French version of "Little Red Riding Hood" has a very telling couplet at the end which states that not all wolves are really wolves, but men who want to despoil silly little girls who are foolish enough to let them get close. There was no wood-cutter to free her and her grandmother from the wolf's belly: that was added to placate American audiences. The girl's insouciance (the teller of the tale would say foolishness) cost her—and her family—everything.
In the case of the King Midas tale, the message wasn't "don't talk to strange men," but "don't desire massive riches; don't use your god-given gifts, or you'll regret it."
In that channeling on Alchemy, the Record Keepers made it VERY CLEAR that the Midas story has been used for thousands of years to keep people in a state of fear around using their own gifts to create massive wealth. Heck, even a KING with quite a pedigree (son of the Goddess Cybele and her consort, King Gordias—he of the Gordian Knot) wasn't allowed to have all the riches he desired.
Basically, the tale of King Midas warns us to keep our desires on a leash. To keep our GIFTS hidden away from the world. To lock down our ability to create great and fulfilling abundance from our innate talents.
Have you been doing that, my darling?
Well, the message from the Divine Plane is that the time has now come to STOP hiding your brilliant, golden gifts.
From this original channeling on Alchemy came the call to do a special open-to-the-public Live Oracle Clearing and Transmission on MONEY + the Sacred Economy.
If you are alchemically drawn to register for the experience before it takes place, you will be able to ask your own questions about the sacred nature of money, the divine plan, how money (and the notion of property in general) has been shaped by the Patriarchy to the point where we don't see the marionette strings any longer. And of course, these are just examples of what you could ask, because anything that is related to money and the new sacred economy is fair game.
Come to learn how best to think about, attract, handle, keep, and exchange money in the new economy that is being birthed now, even as Donald Trump appears to be a viable presidential candidate. Get the inside scoop and be one of the first to leverage the magick available here.
Hasn't the Patriarchy kept us in the dark—fighting each other for scraps in what has been sold to us as a zero-sum-game—long enough? (This isn't male-bashing: there are plenty of men who make up the 99%.) It is more than time to level the playing field. And not with pitchforks or mudslinging, but simply by getting clear on the TRUTH.
When you untie the myth of Midas by merely slicing through that Gordian Knot of untruths about power, money, influence, and even your own divinity, you'll laugh at how simple it has been all along.
Come, darling—come take your place in the temple of transformation around money, power, and owning your gifts. Your throne and your crown are waiting.
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The used printing press we purchased had just been delivered and sat forlornly in the middle of our shop floor. Fred Hudson, our plant engineer, just stared at it, one hand on his hip, the other rubbing his bald head. The riggers who shipped the press deployed a unique method when disassembling the machine. Instead of properly disconnecting the wiring, they simply hacked all the wires off at the power source. So as Fred examined the carnage of tangled wiring, he was trying to figure out how to make all the proper connections. And of course no wiring diagrams or user manuals came with the old, used machine.
Luckily for us, Fred was a genius. He walked around the press for a few days and then pounced. Within a day, he connected all the wires and power was surging through our now running printing press.
Electronics wasn't the only thing in which Fred was expert. He knew everything about mechanical equipment, building construction, auto mechanics, HVAC, and safety. He was our resident subject matter expert (SME).
Regardless of your type of business - technology, software, analytics, marketing, healthcare, manufacturing - chances are you have a Fred or two on staff. They are often quiet, unassuming women and men who harbor a vast source of knowledge of your industry and company. That makes them an invaluable resource when it comes to creating content to help market your business. Whether you need a white paper, eBook, case study, blog post, or sell sheet, your SME's can provide the knowledge and insight to make your content pieces relevant and compelling.
Here are four ways to get the most out of your SME's when it comes to content creation.
Regardless of how quiet and reserved your SME's may be, they will open up if you can get them talking about something in the business they are passionate about. They carry around a ton of knowledge they rarely get a chance to share. Showing genuine interest and tapping into that passion often results in a treasure trove of valuable and compelling information that will interest your customers and prospects.
To get really good information from your SME's, be fully prepared for your discussion. Ask open ended questions and listen closely. Follow up and probe to get them to dig deeper. If the subject is particularly complicated, try to strip away the jargon and get them to explain in plan English. Oftentimes, SME's are so well versed in a topic, they forget that we mere mortals may not have any idea what they are talking about. Fred used to start most discussions with "As you know..." before going on to talk about something about which I was totally clueless. Don't be embarrassed to say "I don't understand. Can you please explain?" Have your SME use analogies to further clarify the subject to make it easier to convert your conversation into meaningful content.
Before you begin, ask for permission to record the conversation. Even if you are master at shorthand - something very few people are these days - you'll never capture all the content gold your SME will share. They may be intimidated at first, but once you get them talking they will usually forget they are being recorded. Having a digital record of the conversation will be invaluable later when you parse the discussion into various pieces of content.
As you convert their words of wisdom into blog posts, ebooks, or white papers, make sure you keep them involved. Let them review anything you write before publishing. This will not only reinforce that you appreciate what they had to say, it will also ensure that you haven't misinterpreted something or simply made some errors of fact. Keeping them involved will demonstrate that you truly care about what they had to say and will also make it easier if you decide to go back to them for more interesting content later.
As you put your content schedule together and scramble to do research, don't look past your internal resources. Engage your SME's and enjoy a bountiful content reward.
How do you use the knowledge of your SME's? What forms of content have you been able to put together with their help?
Pulitzer Prize winning sportswriter Red Smith once said, "Writing is easy. You just sit at the typewriter until the drops of blood ooze from your forehead." That's what it feels like for many people as they stare at a blank computer screen coming up totally empty as to what to write. The pressure builds as a nagging voice shouts in their head: More content! Publish or perish! Come up with an idea!
Writers are all too familiar with "writer's block" when typing that first sentence becomes overwhelmingly difficult.
Corporate marketing teams can sometimes face the same dilemma. You understand the importance of creating compelling content for your prospects and customers and you know it's a proven way to build relationships and drive revenue. Publishing blog posts, white papers, eBooks, or case studies is the best way to get in front of your target audience to convince them of your expertise in your field and reassure them you understand their issues and can help solve their problems.
But that doesn't make it any easier to create compelling content. Instead of a blank screen, though, you're faced with an empty content calendar. You just don't know what to write about. You're suffering from a problem I call "content block."
I've been on a number of calls with clients who want to produce a white paper, eBook, or blog post series, but are struggling with what the topics should be. To break the block, I'll walk them through a number of possible ideas and eventually we come up with relevant areas of interest we can convert into solid content.
Here are six ideas for topics that will get your creative juices flowing and help you overcome your "content block."
Discuss an industry trend. Pick a hot industry topic and provide your take on it. This will show thought leadership and demonstrate to customers and prospects that you're in tune with current trends. The many newsletters you receive contain a wide variety of issues that would interest your audience. You can also check out brochures on industry conferences and review the list of breakout sessions for a number of topic ideas.
Interview an SME. Most organizations have valuable sources of content right under their noses in their product or service subject matter experts. These individuals not only possess valuable company knowledge but they are also well aware of what's going on with your industry as a whole. Unfortunately, we often fail to take advantage of their vast wealth of knowledge. Sit down with them and ask "So what's new?" Chances are within a short time you'll have an extensive list of topic ideas and the actual content to flesh them out.
Present an opinion on an industry article. We are all inundated with both physical and electronic magazines and articles on a regular basis. It's a good bet you've come across more than one viewpoint with which you disagree. That's great. Make it your next blog post. Linking back to the original article and then providing your unique opinion on it provides your customers and prospects with two sides on a topic of interest. That's the best way to get a dialogue going while honing your thought-leadership chops.
Analyze an industry survey or report. Chances are you often find a report or survey lurking in your email inbox containing information of interest to your target audience. Digest the report, cull out the pertinent points, and put together an analysis explaining what the data means for your prospects and customers. Even if they received the same report, your spin on it could make it more specific and relevant to them.
Offer an objective discussion of a technology you offer. This one can get tricky since if your goal is to be a thought leader, you don't want to jump up on the podium and give a sales pitch. A well written brochure is helpful at certain points in the sales process, but for thought leadership purposes, you want to present a broader look at the topic. For example, one of my clients is a leader in the waterjet cutting field. We did a series of white papers and ebooks discussing the benefits of waterjet technology without specifically mentioning the company's products. We wanted to help educate our target audience and by doing so, we helped cement the company as a thought leader in a growing manufacturing space.
Give a first person problem solving example. These occur on a daily basis but often go unnoticed and unreported. That's unfortunate since they can be among the most powerful pieces of influencing content. Check with your customer service team or sales group for examples of where your product or service solved a customer problem.It can be difficult to get permission from a customer to use their name, but you can make it generic and get the same impact. The result will be similar to a case study with the familiar formula of background, problem, solution, results. This is a great way to provide your prospects with an illustration of what you might be able to do for them.
You may feel the well has run dry when it comes to content will interest your target audience, but that's really never the case. Spend some time thinking about your company, your clients, and your industry and chances are you'll be tapping away at your keyboard in no time.
What have you done to break your "content block?" Where do you find your best content ideas?
According to the latest survey from the Content Marketing Institute and Marketing Profs, three quarters of B2B marketers use blogs as part of their inbound marketing plan. Two out of three believe blog posts are effective in driving traffic and acquiring leads. There's a good chance blogging is already part of your overall marketing strategy or soon will be. When writing your posts though, you might want to consider the old saying "if you don't know where you're going any road will get you there." That's because the power of your posts comes in knowing what you're trying to accomplish with each one. Here are three kinds of blog posts that you'll likely want to use.
In this type of post, you're looking to share information about your industry or some aspect of business in general. Focus these posts on enlightening your readers about a new trend or topic. Make it interesting by adding little known facts about a issue that's getting a lot of attention. For example, this post from Dan Singer at Dyntek ties together two highly visible current events: the latest rash of credit card breaches and the release of Apple's new payment system. Both have been widely covered, but Dan discusses how a new technology called tokenization connects the two. Readers will likely come away with broader knowledge of both the Apple Pay system and a possible solution to cyber hacking.
This takes the informational post a step further by offering an opinion or suggesting an action. They're meant to be thought provoking and offer readers a clear point of view. For example, this post by Ed Marsh of Consilium Global Business Advisors relates a botched inbound marketing effort. He explains about being intrigued enough to sign up for a blog subscription but was totally turned off when he was confronted by an overly legalistic landing page. He goes on to point out the lessons B2B marketers could learn from the debacle. After reading this type of post, readers should know exactly how the author feels (you certainly know how Ed feels!) and should provoke a rethinking of their position on the subject.
These kinds of posts are important, but they should be used sparingly. They're meant to offer information on a topic but also to have a specific call to action. The goal of these posts is to get the reader to sign up for a webinar, or receive a white paper or ebook. For example, this post from Shaun Pinney at Backupify provides some tips and hints from experienced Salesforce.com administrators. At the end, he offers the reader the complete free eBook on the subject. This type of a post should provide enough information to be interesting even without the call to action. These are effective in building your prospect list, but if they're the only posts you provide, you're not likely to generate much return traffic.
Each of these posts have their place and should be part of your total inbound marketing plan. Using a combination of all of them should help maintain interest and keep your post feed fresh and compelling.
Are you using all three? Which have you found to be most effective?


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The Brigham Young Cougars' Road To The National Championship
Before getting started let me make one thing clear: Even though I believe anything is possible in college football, understand the chances for what I am about to put forward is slim to none. This is intended to be a fun, wouldn't this be great, type of post. Brigham Young Cougars fans have a small reputation of thinking every year that BYU is going to win every game and finish ranked number one in the polls. In reality, there is nothing wrong with that. It is a sign of a healthy fan base. (Don't worry, I'll tackle this issue from the opposite angle on Thursday. Stay tuned.)
This year, 2011, is a little different. BYU has moved on to independence. Now Head Coach Bronco Mendenhall is talking about playing for a national championship, and it is rubbing off onto the players. All the more reason to look into the future and predict why BYU will finish the season undefeated and look at what else will happen so BYU will win the national championship.
Game 1—at Ole Miss
The Rebels are still unsettled at quarterback, to say the least. That, in and of itself, is a recipe for losing your season opener. In case anyone forgot, FCS member Jacksonville State came into Oxford last year and left with a W. The perfect example of how Ole Miss typically struggles in season openers under Houston Nutt.
Game 2—at Texas
The Longhorns fell flat on their faces last year (5-7). Who is to say they haven't righted the ship? The 5-7 record tells me that there were some internal conflicts dividing the team. Have they been resolved? This game is early enough in the season that Texas' unsettled quarterback situation and the changes in several assistant coaches could play a major role. Don't forget that a much less heralded BYU team went down to Austin in 1987 and won.
Game 3—Utah
This will be the biggest revenge game that BYU has had in years. After Utah escaped with the win last year thanks to several fluke plays, BYU will come out breathing fire. Most reports indicate that since last November BYU has gotten better and Utah is regressing. Utah has no experience at running back. Jordan Wynn has been inconsistent in Norm Chow's new offense. Utah has lost some key players on defense, including Brandon Burton in the secondary.
Game 4—UCF
UCF had the best season in school history last year, and they return their promising, athletic quarterback. However, UCF is 3-15 in non-conference road games going back to 2002. Only four starters return on defense, and none of the top 3 wide receivers. BYU will also benefit from UCF coming off its own tough in-state battle the week before. UCF will have a short week to prepare going from a Saturday night road game to a Friday night cross-country road game. UCF will also have to deal with the altitude.
Game 5—Utah State
This is another revenge game for the Cougars. It will be easy for BYU to avenge last season's loss. Not only is BYU much, much better than it was when these two teams played a year ago, Utah State has to replace Diondre Borel at quarterback.
Game 6—San Jose State
Let's face it, the Spartans are bad, even though all 11 starters return on defense. The starting quarterback is gone. Enough said.
Game 7—at Oregon State
There is no Jaquizz Rodgers and no Stephan Paea for the Beavers. This is Bronco Mendenhall's homecoming. His "Band of Brothers" will have his back. There is no way they let him leave without a win.
Game 8—Idaho State
Teams don't lose on their bye week. Perfect record will stay in tact.
Game 9—TCU (Dallas Cowboys Stadium)
With Andy Dalton gone, the TCU offense will take a few steps back. Currently Dalton's replacement is having some health issues. That doesn't bode well for the Horned Frogs. This is another game BYU will be looking for pay back after the way TCU has dismantled BYU the last three years. The Cougar D held its own against TCU for 28 minutes last year without any help from the BYU offense. Things will be different this year.
Game 10—Idaho
Game 11—New Mexico State
I won't waste your time. Two more almost-impossible-to-lose games.
Game 12—at Hawaii
The Warriors have a tough early schedule. Four of their first six games are road games. They will be worn out and emotionally broken after having 2-3 losses so early in the year. Plus, George Salas is gone, and he is an irreplaceable wide receiver. History shows that Bryant Moniz won't repeat his 5,000 yards and 39 touchdown pass season that he had a year ago. With a less formidable pass game and a BYU secondary that has had all season to mature, the Cougars come out victorious.
Now that we have established that BYU will go undefeated, it is time to explain why they will be ranked in the top two of the BCS standings. The short answer is because BYU will be the only undefeated team in the country.
SEC Champion: Alabama
The Crimson Tide will roll this year, but they will drop one of two games on its schedule: at Penn State or LSU.
Big XII Champion: Oklahoma
The Sooners suffered a huge loss when linebacker Travis Lewis broke his foot. He will be out eight weeks. Texas will beat them in the Red River Rivalry, which, in turn, will help BYU climb the rankings.
ACC Champion: Florida State
The Seminoles will get blown out by Oklahoma, again. Playing in the weak ACC will not put a one loss Florida State ahead of an undefeated BYU.
Big Ten Champion: Wisconsin
The Badgers will trip up somewhere, just like they did at home against upstart Michigan State last year. The 2011 season is the 100th season since Wisconsin last finished undefeated.
Big East Champion: West Virginia
The Big East champion will not be undefeated. The only time that it has happened by the current members was Cincinnati in 2009. They were then destroyed by Florida in the Sugar Bowl. The Big East champion will not play for the BCS national championship, period.
Pac-12 Champion: Oregon
The Ducks will lose to Stanford in a payback game. They also play LSU in week one. Stanford will drop at least two games without Jim Harbaugh.
In case anyone is wondering about the Broncos, they will lose twice. Georgia will beat them in the season opener, and TCU will beat them in the season finale. TCU has made it a habit to go on the road and embarrass the other top teams in the MWC
BCS National Championship Game vs. Alabama
The SEC champion will get the nod to take on BYU. The difference in this game will be coaching. Nick Saban is not a very good coach at preparing his team for bowl games. In 2008, they were clobbered by Utah. The only reason Alabama beat Texas in the BCS championship game the following year is because Colt McCoy got hurt. Alabama came out flat and Texas was taking the game over. After 'Bama took a big lead at halftime, thanks to a couple of fluke plays, Saban shut it down. This nearly cost the Tide the game. Texas was within three late in the game and had all the momentum.
Alabama will also regret not being a better passing team. The BYU front seven will stuff Alabama's run game and force their new quarterback to throw the ball. That won't turn out well enough to win.
BYU will win, too, because that is what BYU does in high stakes games where everything is on the line, especially the better BYU teams. Think back to the 2009 season opener against Oklahoma, and the Cotton Bowl 15 years ago.
There you have it. Join with me to be the first to say congratulations BYU on winning the 2011 College Football National Championship.
Jordan August 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM
That would be so amazing! Too bad so many pieces have to fall so perfectly in place. I would love for this to happen, but I hope we can still find success in a season that doesn't happen exactly like this.


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Claire is participating at 2018 Speak Now for Kids Family Advocacy Day from June 26-27 in Washington, D.C. During the event, Claire will share information about her health journey and the importance of children's health care with members of Congress. Below is her story.
Like many 10-year-olds, Claire was an incredibly active kid. In fact, it was while doing a cartwheel that the first signs of Claire's health problems arose. What initially was thought to be a pulled muscle on her arm led to a diagnosis of arteriovenous malformation (AVM) of the cervical spine.
AVM is a rare, abnormal tangle of blood vessels in or near the spinal cord that can lead to a host of serious health conditions — including paralysis and loss of bowel or bladder control.
Claire was immediately admitted to the PICU at Children's Hospital of Michigan, where she eventually had surgery to remove the AVM located in her neck-area along the spine.
Following the surgery, Claire underwent inpatient therapy for several surgery-related complications — including paralysis on her right side and incontinence — until she was able to regain her ability to use the bathroom and walk short distances. Claire continued with her therapy as she readjusted to going to school and her extracurricular activities.
During a follow-up visit to check on the progression of her recovery, doctors found a second AVM that was more serious than the first. The second surgery left Claire incontinent and paralyzed once again.
Although the recovery from the second surgery has taken longer than from the first, Claire and her parents remain optimistic for her long-term prognosis. They are grateful for the care she has received at Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Despite the setbacks in her recovery, Claire looks forward to a bright future, in large part due to the commitment and care of her "village." She hopes one day to become a pastry chef and own her own a bakery.
To learn more about Claire and her health journey, check out this article from Children's Hospital of Michigan.
Join us in welcoming Claire to 2018 Family Advocacy Day!


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package com.drugfinder;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.Toast;

import com.actionbarsherlock.app.SherlockActivity;
import com.drugfinder.library.ConnectionDetector;
import com.drugfinder.library.FetchStoreTask;
import com.drugfinder.library.ItemListScreen;
import com.drugfinder.library.StoreListAdapter;

public class SearchStores extends SherlockActivity implements ItemListScreen {

	FetchStoreTask fetchStoresTask = new FetchStoreTask();
	ConnectionDetector cd; 		// Internet detector
	String url;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.list_layout);

		url = "http://smsme.info/drugfinder/api/include/getAllStores.php";;

		cd = new ConnectionDetector(getApplicationContext());

		 if (!cd.isConnectingToInternet()){
	            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Connect to Internet First",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
	            return;
	        }else{
	        	//to get buses along a route
	        	fetchStoresTask.listScreen = this;
	        	fetchStoresTask.execute(url);
	        }
	}

	  private void makeProgressBarDisappear() {
	        ProgressBar progressBar = (ProgressBar)this.findViewById(R.id.progressBar);
	        progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
	    }

	@Override
	public void displayList(final ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> items) {
		StoreListAdapter adapter = new StoreListAdapter(this, items);
        ListView listView = (ListView)findViewById(android.R.id.list);
        listView.setAdapter(adapter);
        makeProgressBarDisappear();

        listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

			@Override
			public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
					int position, long id) {
				Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "clicked list item "+ items.get(position).get(FetchStoreTask.getKeyName()), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
				Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), DrugsInStore.class);
		        i.putExtra(FetchStoreTask.getKeyAddress(), items.get(position).get(FetchStoreTask.getKeyAddress()));
		        i.putExtra(FetchStoreTask.getKeyLatitude(), items.get(position).get(FetchStoreTask.getKeyLatitude()));
		        i.putExtra(FetchStoreTask.getKeyLongitude(),items.get(position).get(FetchStoreTask.getKeyLongitude()));
		        i.putExtra(FetchStoreTask.getKeyName(),items.get(position).get(FetchStoreTask.getKeyName()));
		        i.putExtra(FetchStoreTask.getKeyPhone(),items.get(position).get(FetchStoreTask.getKeyPhone()));
		        i.putExtra(FetchStoreTask.getKeyStoreid(),items.get(position).get(FetchStoreTask.getKeyStoreid()));
		        startActivity(i);

			}
		});

	}
}


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Missouri approves wind energy power line
Missouri regulators gave the go-ahead to one of the U.S.'s largest renewable energy projects — a high-voltage power line delivering wind energy from the Midwest to a power grid for eastern states.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri regulators reversed course Wednesday and gave the go-ahead to one of the nation's largest renewable energy projects — a high-voltage power line delivering wind energy from the Midwest to a power grid for eastern states.
The proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line would stretch 780 miles (1,255 kilometres) from Kansas across Missouri and Illinois before hooking into an electric grid in Indiana that serves the eastern U.S. The US$2.3 billion project had twice been rejected by the Missouri Public Service Commission, but it reconsidered following a ruling last year by the state Supreme Court.
Missouri's approval is a big step but not the final one before construction can begin.
In November, Chicago-based Invenergy announced it was buying the project from Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners. That deal should bolster the financing, but Invenergy said the sale still needs regulatory approval in Missouri and Kansas. The transmission line also needs to regain regulatory approval in Illinois, where a state appeals court last year overturned the state's previous approval.
The Grain Belt Express project has highlighted one of the biggest challenges facing renewable energy developers in the U.S. Converting wind into electricity is increasingly affordable, but it can sometimes be difficult to get the various governmental approvals necessary to string the power lines from the remote areas where the energy is produced to the more populated places where it's consumed.
Clean Line had been working on the proposed direct-current power line since 2010 and had said last year that it still hoped to bring the project online by 2023 or 2024.
Invenergy spokeswoman Beth Conley said that timeline has not been changed by the proposed sale of the project. The power line would be the largest transmission project undertaken by Invenergy.
"The Grain Belt Express is important because it is a transformative infrastructure project that will provide access to more low-cost renewable power to American consumers and communities," Conley said.
Paul Agathen, an attorney for the Missouri Landowners Alliance, which has opposed the project, said he is considering whether to appeal the regulatory ruling to a state court. The project also could face continued opposition from some counties, which grant approval for power lines to cross roads, and from individual property owners.
Some landowners "just really do not believe that a private company like Grain Belt should have the right to take their property by eminent domain in order to put a transmission line through Missouri," Agathan said. "They sincerely believe they're being wronged here."
When Missouri regulators originally rejected the project in July 2015, they determined it would have little benefit for Missouri consumers and cited the burden it would impose on landowners in its path. Since then, the project was restructured to include a deal to sell some of the power to a coalition of Missouri municipal utilities. That helped persuade regulators that the project does have benefit to the state.
All five regulatory commissioners voted for the project Wednesday. Their written order said that "the broad economic, environmental, and other benefits of the project … outweigh the interests of the individual landowners."
"I'm excited to see it go," said commissioner Bill Kenney, who had voted against the original proposal. "We're moving toward more renewables, and I think this project is an excellent start for us in Missouri."
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5 Post Harry Potter Details Shared By JK Rowling
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True fans of the famous Harry Potter franchise know that the magic didn't end when the seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in 2007. Nor was it the end when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 wrapped up the franchise's cinematic run in 2011. Author and creator of this magical franchise, JK Rowling has kept the story going for the past eight years by sharing revelations of the franchise after the final book was published via Twitter, interviews, answering fan queries and writing on the Pottermore website. Here are our top 5 favourite post Harry Potter details shared by the author herself:
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Harry and Dudley Make Peace
Dudley is the world's biggest dick and tortures Harry throughout the story, but Dudley's last words to Harry was "I don't think you're a waste of space". And it turns out the two remain in contact, with their children playing together whenever they are in each other's areas. But don't expect these two cousins to be best buds now, as Rowling said they don't speak much to each other and only watch the children play with each other.
Neville Longbottom is Cool
Not only did actor Matthew Lewis grow up to be super handsome despite his awkward beginnings, but his character Neville Longbottom also ends up being cool according to Rowling. After the events of the final book, Rowling has revealed that Neville goes on to become Herbology professor at Hogwarts and his students thing he's cool and love him.
Dumbledore Was Gay
This is my personal favourite and I respect Rowling's continued support of the LGBT community as she revealed that the famous wizard and Hogwarts headmaster was gay. Rowling sadly revealed that Dumbledore's great love was dark wizard, Gellert Grindelwald, whom the powerful headmaster had defeated in a dual.
Ron and Hermione aren't Soul Mates
If you were hoping for Ron and Hermione's love affair to have been destiny, I'm sorry to crush your dreams. Rowling confessed that pairing the two was a mistake and that Harry and Hermione would've been a better match.
Hermione Graduated
After the whole world (magic and muggle) nearly came to an end, Hermione was the only who bothered to go back and do her N.E.W.T.s (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests) at Hogwarts. I'm so glad she went back and finished as it wouldn't have felt right for "one of the most brilliant witches in history" to be a wizarding school dropout. Ron and Harry only managed to get complete O.W.L.s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) and they only got that far thanks to Hermione allowing them to copy her work.
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