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Industry veteran Laurent Ezekiel started in his new post at WPP last week, making it the perfect time for Campaign US to catch up with the newly minted chief marketing and growth officer.
Laurent, who previously served as North American and international president at Publicis’ Digitas, is reporting directly to WPP Chief Executive Mark Read and working closely with Chief Client Officer Lindsay Pattison.
In an internal memo when Ezekiel was hired, Read penned: "Laurent’s combination of skills – as a modern marketer with experience in technology, data, client services and new business – is rare in our industry and this is an important new role for WPP as we continue to reshape our company around the needs of our clients."
Find out what Ezekiel thinks about the future of holding companies and what he’s most excited about in his new role below.
What do you think the future holding companies will look like? Partners.
Describe the biggest challenge facing adland right now. Complexity.
What advice do you have for young people in the industry? (Be) Open.
Name the biggest turnoff when it comes to client relationships. Inertia.
How would you describe the ethos of WPP? Optimistic.
Fill in the blank. The most important piece of technology to focus on going forward is... AI.
What is the most overrated tactic or logic used in advertising today? Short-termism.
And since this is your first full week, tell us what you're most excited about in you new role. People.


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November 4, 2013 – The Managing Board of SMA Solar Technology AG lowers the sales and earnings forecast for the fiscal year 2013. The amended forecast predicts sales of €0.9 billion to €1.0 billion for the SMA Group. In addition, the Managing Board expects a loss of €80 million to €90 million. Previously, the SMA Managing Board expected sales of €0.9 billion to €1.3 billion and in the best case scenario to break even before one-time items in 2013. The reasons for amending the forecast are the decline in the European markets, which was stronger than expected, and the resulting negative sales and earnings of the Medium Power Solutions division as well as the ongoing restructuring of Zeversolar.
"As the world market leader, SMA is particularly affected by the changed conditions on the global photovoltaic market. The market is characterized by high price pressure worldwide. Furthermore, we have a strongly declining demand in our core markets in Europe, that cannot be compensated by the new Asian and American markets. As a result, we adjusted the structures to the changed market conditions and devaluated assets. In addition, there are the start-up losses of Zeversolar. In total, SMA will close the fiscal year 2013 with a loss of €80 million to €90 million," explains SMA CEO Pierre-Pascal Urbon. "With more than €300 million Net Cash at the end of 2013 SMA continues to have a very solid balance-sheet structure and can finance its further development from its own resources."
"With our existing strategy and the measures already introduced, we have taken the necessary steps to be able to return to profitability and sales growth in 2014. Especially the cost reduction and personnel adjustment measures already started will be fully effective for the first time in 2014. With launching the Sunny Tripower in the U.S. and Japan, we will also profit from the strong growth expected in these regions. In addition, we will launch first products from our completely newly developed product platforms. SMA offers highly innovative solutions exactly tailored to the requirements of our future energy supply, which allow us to set ourselves apart from competitors particularly in this attractive growth segment," says Urbon.
In 2014, the SMA Managing Board therefore expects the group's sales to increase to between €1.0 and €1.3 billion and to reach its profitability again.

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It’s friday the 13th…..oooooo. Yeahhhh!
Yanzel Alvarez-Una Diabla
Jory Boy & Almighty-Nada Serio
Chacal ft. Arcangel-Dame Una Senal
The twangy indie rockers get retro & competitive in their new music video made while in quarantine. | read
Throw on that hazmat suit and head to the beach to jam out to Milk for the Angry and this new single. | read


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Example Game has replaced this project as of Engine 4.23 Please use the Example Game forum thread.
Built to scale! Open Source / Free*
Included competitive eSports features
Player data persistence (rank, level, score, etc)
Detailed feature descriptions
Connect players and teams of players into games. Customizable to tune to your games specific requirements. Designed to scale without limits.
Run tournaments without the need for any external tournament management software. Designed to scale.
Factions, Seasons, Control grid, and resource collection.
Built in ELO ranking system. You can implement your own, or use an external API.
Standard friends support which shows current game playing, server or match location, and online status. Invite friends to a party from here.
Shows the most recent players that you’ve come in contact with. Invite players to your friends list from here.
Party / Team
Group up with friends and compete together.
Player Data Persistence
All information related to the player is retained. A player keeps all of this data when joining new matches.
All servers are controlled and allocated dynamically. Servers are only online for the duration of the match. Keeping servers offline when not in use saves money.
- All game code, and the UETOPIA plugin are open source, and free. You are still bound by Epic’s license agreement. The backend is free to use, but must be configured correctly or server uptime charges may apply. Follow the walkthrough to get set up.
This is beta! The codebase is stabilizing, and there are no unresolved issues. However, there may be undetected bugs, that will require fixes. Additional features and functionality will be added as they become available.
Questions / comments? I’d love to hear from you.

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a new spot for blackberry by blac ionica, celebrating split screen storytelling.
Two more works from chop chop. the first one is created out of the material from the unnamed soundsculpture. the second is a new music video for the Wankelmut Remix of an Asaf Avidan track: One Day. Hope you enjoy it !
Chop Chop have been very busy shooting and digitally creating with their conceptual artists collective. here´s an overview of their latest works. We know it´s a lot of stuff. But since WACC is a collective, involving 9 artists at the moment, doing just one thing at a time simply isn´t enough.
Anyway all of this is worth watching! Please click the pictures in order to see the films and feel free to contact us for any questions !
We are happy to represent the Another Film Company directors roster for the german market. You HAVE TO take a look at the awesome works of Jakob Strom or Who?, the hilarious pieces from Damien O´Donnell and Stephen Pipe, or the masterpieces by Jeff Stark and Sam Washington, the dazzling animations by Eallin, Babanuki and of course Blac Ionica, mouthwatering tabletops from Jonathan Lovekin and Martha Delap.
Fantastic directors for even the most delicate boards !
New York based digital artist Jesse Newman came up with this stunning piece of art, which probably most of you have already seen. In January 2010, he put his professional career on hold to complete an ambitious personal project he had begun for his family years before. An epic visual tapestry delicately interweaving reflections on the environment and spirituality through the rich imagery of Greek Mythology, REBIRTH of GAEA depicts his three children as GAEA (Goddess of Earth), EROS (God of Love), and INNOCENCE and his wife as CHAOS. Initially solely a side project, Jesse was caught off guard by the intense interest shown — feedback which encouraged him to pursue turning his passion into a way of life. As a result, REBIRTH of GAEA premiered at Art Expo – New York in March 22, 2012.
Before this he was working for many clients, including commercial projects for Avril Lavigne (perfume), M&Ms, HP and Verizon, but also on feature films like Armageddon for example or designs for Jay-Z. For the film „shapeshifter“ Jesse was the lead compositing artist and lead designer. We are very much looking forward to working with him in the near future ! His new showreel will follow shortly.
Congrats to Steffen Alberding for receiving an honorary mention at the „ADC Nachwuchspreis“ with his 3 graduation pieces „Wall of death“, „Herzblut“ and „Remake“ !!! Go to his directing reel to see all 3 films and get an idea why the ADC-Jury HAD to decide this way. Great work and again: congratulations Steffen !
this is amazing. unnamed soundsculpture by daniel franke and cedric kiefer from chop chop. a piece of art based upon a dancer and the innovative use of new technologies, kinect in this case. various forums like motionographer and creative applications featured this exciting new style in electronic performance. we can´t wait to try this ourselves!
The AME Awards recognized the great Marketing idea of AS&S and Lukas Lindemann Rosinski with a bronze prize in the category „Social Media / Use of Media“ and a shortlist in „Media Services“. Here you can see all materials that were entered into the competition, including the musicvideo by We are Chop Chop and the casefilm by Henning Christiansen (please see the last news-post below as well). Congratulations once more !
Here´s the news on WUV.

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Electric Motorcycle News
The latest in electric motorcycle news from CES 2019 and beyond.
Harley-Davidson announced their Livewire production schedule last year, but at CES they announced pricing. The base price for the bike is $29,799, and you can reserve one at dealers now for $1000 down. Average range is claimed at 110 miles per charge and 0-60 MPH in 3.5 seconds. H-D also started offering information about their H-D Connect technology.
They’re also starting to push out more information on their other electric bikes. Not much information, but photos:
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A Haunted House
'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass'
Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's daring experimentations with style and form more evident than in her short stories, which shimmer and flash with their author's peculiar genius. Collected by Leonard Woolf and published after her death, this is a complete collection of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction. It is a fascinating and vivid introduction for readers new to Woolf, and a necessary companion for devotees.
Includes 'A Haunted House', 'Kew Gardens', 'A Mark on the Wall' and 42 other pieces.
Page Count: 336 pages
Imprint: Vintage Classics
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By Nelson Kiva in Kiboga
KIBOGA - Two of the six people from the same family admitted at Kiboga government hospital on Monday after they suffered food poisoning have died, doctors say.
19-year-old Stephen Sserugo and his grandmother were mentioned dead by doctors on Tuesday night.
The other four victims of the food poisoning were transferred to Mulago hospital in Kampala on the night of the two deaths to try and save their lives. Their condition had worsened.
Kiboga hospital officials are yet to give a final report on the exact cause of the sickness.
On the morning when all the six were admitted at the health facility, they had stomachache, headache, diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Initially, the medics had confirmed that is it was food poisoning. But that was not an official confirmation.
One of the nurses on duty had hoped they all would recover.
The hospital’s medical superintendent, Michael Misitwa said a team of medical personnel from the hospital and Kampala are still investigating the exact cause of the sickness.
One of the relatives of the victims said she ate the same food as the others that Sunday night but that she did not get sick.
“We ate the food which was matooke and beans at around 8pm on Sunday night and we went to sleep, but all of a sudden at around midnight, all the other [family] members started complaining of stomachache which developed into vomiting, diahorrhea and fever in the shortest period,” she recalled.
“The same food we had shared it [sic] with neighbors who up to now are not complaining of anything, which makes me think that we have been attacked by a strange disease or witches,” she added.
One of the deceased, Sserugo, was a Senior Four student of Bamusuta Secondary School. Their late grandmother was reported to be in her 70s.
The others, who are still battling for their lives are a Senior Four student of the same school, and three other boys – two of them aged five and the other a four-year-old.
The boys were staying with their grandmother in Kyanga village, Kiboga town council.
Kiboga district Criminal Investigations Officer Stephene Ssemanda confirmed the deaths and called for calm.
He said that police is exploring all avenues to comprehensively investigate the matter.
However the incident has attracted general public condemnation from residents who have called for serious investigations to establish the actual cause of the sickness and deaths.

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Water Fitness Class: Mon, Wed, Fri at 8:00AM to 8:45AM | $7.00 per class
This low-impact class concentrates on using a full range of motion. Participants work major muscle groups to increase flexibility, strength, and endurance.
Water Fitness Plus Class: Mon, Wed, Fri at 12:00PM to 12:45PM $7.00 per class
These classes offer beginner to intermediate level workouts adding hydros and noodles to increase resistance through the water. This class takes place in shallow and deep water.
All classes are taught by a certified instructor. Class times may change with swim program sessions. The front desk will have current times available.

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Old Ping Shan Police Station
Historical Background and Architectural Characteristics
The Old Ping Shan Police Station is one of the still existing
pre-war police stations in the New Territories. The lease of the
New Territories in 1898 necessitated the provision of a police
presence to ensure security and to provide government services.
The Police Station was constructed by the Public Works Department
and opened on 22 April 1899. Ping Shan Police Station served as
the only police stronghold in the area until Yuen Long spanisional
Station was set up in 1965. Since then it ceased as a police station
but continued as the training centre and headquarters of the Police
Dog Unit. The premises were formally handed over to the Leisure
and Cultural Services Department in late 2002.
The Ping Shan Police Station consists of a two-storey structure
with an embracing arched verandah and a single-storey ancillary
block. Possessing unique architectural and historic significance,
the building was accorded Grade 3 historical building overlooking
the Ping Shan Heritage Trail linking up with a number of unique
monuments such as the Tang Ancestral Hall, Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda
and Kun Ting Study Hall etc.

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Written by: Ron Bricker
Successories posters are those austere prints you see in corporate environments that usually show one dramatic image – a waterfall, a sunset – accompanied by a motivational word and a pithy sentence.
Oddly enough, it's well-nigh impossible to find any real examples of these damn things online. The Successories web page only offer illegible low-res versions, and a simple Google search for "successories" returns no useful results.
Well, maybe a few useful results:
So without further ado, here are some of my own inspirational posters from the world of Indiana Jones. Enjoy!


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New developments in information-seeking and library services on the Miami University Middletown campus.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Coffee, Tea and Hot Cocoa @ the Library
Need a break from the cold weather? Or a recharge in between finals? The library has free coffee, tea and hot cocoa available all week to provide some warm relief and a caffeine boost. Stop on by when you have time.

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Intelligence is a complex and multifaceted trait that extends beyond traditional metrics like IQ tests. It's also not a one-size-fits-all quality, and different personality types may manifest intelligence differently. In our contemporary world, discussions around intelligence are often confined to test scores and academic success, leaving out other essential facets such as social or emotional intelligence. However, a thorough exploration of the 'smartest' personality types yields a richer perspective on what it means to be intelligent, highlighting that success in life is not determined solely by cognitive abilities.
When it comes to personality, each of us embodies one of sixteen types as classified by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI personality types). This article ventures into the realm of these types, exploring the nuances of intelligence they represent and the individuals who’ve exemplified their distinctive brand of brilliance.
Dispelling the IQ Myth
The long-standing emphasis on IQ as the definitive measure of intelligence is somewhat misleading. While IQ tests can provide a snapshot of an individual's cognitive abilities within the context of specific patterns of questions and problem-solving, they are far from capturing the entirety of intellectual prowess.
The limitations of IQ as an exclusive intelligence gauge are profound, especially when considering the areas beyond logical reasoning that contribute to smart behavior. Emotional intelligence, or EQ, which encompasses self-awareness, emotional management, empathy, and social skills, is a critical component of overall intelligence not measured by IQ tests.
In this light, we explore how the personality dimensions presented by MBTI types contribute to different expressions of intelligence.
Relevant Articles: Rarest Personality Type
Ranking the Personality Types for Intelligence
This subjective ranking prompts a deeper inquiry into the criteria and biases that inform it. The intent here is not to validate a hierarchy but rather to understand the complexities of each personality type's intellectual profile.
Each type has inherent strengths and potential growth areas; therefore, it's more productive to view intelligence through the lens of the individual type’s unique capabilities and areas for development.
Known for their spontaneity and enjoyment of the present, ESFPs excel in practical skills that demand quick reflexes and adaptability. While they may not conform to conventional expectations of 'intelligence,' their emotional attunement allows them to connect with others and read the room with exceptional accuracy.
ESFJs are the caregivers and pillars of their communities. Their intelligence shines through nurturing and support, often taking on roles that use their organizational skills. Their memory is often noted as remarkable, especially where they can leverage it in service of others.
Independent and gentle, ISFPs are known for their creative talents and acute sensory awareness. Their intelligence is seen in their aesthetic sense and ability to notice subtleties others might miss, making them adept at non-verbal communication.
ENFPs are visionaries who see the world through an idealistic lens. Their intelligence is in their ability to inspire and galvanize others toward their cause. They’re quick thinkers who can access a wide breadth of information, making them conversational polymaths.
Dependable and detail oriented, ISFJs are custodians of traditions and caretakers of those around them. Their intelligence lies in their dedication to duty, meticulousness, and unparalleled memory, often serving as the institutional knowledge of their various teams.
Confident and organized, ESTJs are natural-born leaders who excel at structuring environments for maximum efficiency. Their intelligence is practical and goal-oriented, ensuring that they manage to get things done with precision and foresight.
ENFJs are charismatic and influential, often finding their place in the service of others. Their intelligence is in their interpersonal skills and their profound insight into the motivations of people. They are the architects of vision and community, able to unite diverse groups under shared goals.
The quiet and observant ISTPs often have an excellent understanding of how things work. Their intelligence is seen in their mechanical and technical aptitude, dissecting systems and finding the most efficient solutions.
INFPs are the dreamers and mediators, their intelligence lies in their ability to empathize deeply and see the world in a way that transcends logic. They are often writers, artists, and visionaries, able to convey complex emotions and concepts in ways that resonate universally.
Bold and action oriented, ESTPs excel in the here and now. Their intelligence is tactical, always ready for the next challenge and able to find innovative solutions under pressure.
The debaters and innovators, ENTPs thrive in bouncing ideas and challenging existing paradigms. Their intelligence is in their creativity and their ability to see connections and possibilities that others often overlook.
The protector and counselor, the intelligence of INFJs is often considered enigmatic. Their strong moral compass and deep understanding of human nature allow them to strategize and act with remarkable insight, often foreseeing the implications of events long before they unfold.
Commanders by nature, ENTJs are assertive and visionary, using their intelligence to drive toward their ambitious goals. They are strategic thinkers who possess an exceptional ability to see the big picture and marshal resources accordingly.
Responsible and realistic, ISTJs are committed to upholding time-honored institutions and methods. Their intelligence is practical and often seen in their clear-sighted problem-solving, rooted in their deep respect for tradition and order.
The archetype of the intellectual, INTJs’ intelligence can often be perceived as intimidating. They are strategists and visionaries with a keen insight into systems and the possibilities for change. Their independence of thought and self-confidence often lead to innovative solutions and foresight.
Finally, according to the ranking, the INTP type is considered the ‘smartest’ personality. Their strengths lie in their quest for understanding and their open-minded approach to problem-solving. They are relentless in their pursuit of knowledge, often excelling in fields that demand theoretical depth and innovation.
It's clear that the valuation of intelligence is subjective, influenced by societal norms and, often, the traits of the assessor. While these rankings can serve as a starting point for a discussion on MBTI and intelligence, it's crucial to approach the topic with nuance and an open mind.
Read more: Can You Trust Personality Tests
To humanize these personality types, it's illuminating to examine notable figures who embody the intellect and success associated with each MBTI category. These individuals are not mere stereotypes; they're complex and multifaceted, illustrating the diversity within each type.
- Albert Einstein, often thought to be an INTP, is a symbol of intellectual achievement, contributing to fields beyond his initial domain of physics.
- Bill Gates, seen as an INTJ, is renowned for his visionary style, seeing the potential for a computer on every desk long before it became a reality.
- Mother Teresa, commonly believed to be an ENFJ, is a paragon of emotional intelligence and selfless service to humanity.
- Mark Zuckerberg, associated with the ISTJ type, displays the conventional traits of an introverted thinker in his resolute and principled approach to building Facebook.
Looking beyond these exemplary individuals, a comprehensive understanding of intelligence and personality traits necessitates considering the multitude of factors that inform an individual's success and fulfillment in life.
Beyond the List: True Intelligence
Lists and rankings serve a purpose in organizing information and guiding discussion, but they should never be taken as gospel, especially in the nuanced realm of human intelligence. The true essence of intelligence lies in the capacity of each personality type to contribute uniquely to society. This contribution takes various forms, from the book-smart scholar to the emotionally astute mentor, from the daring explorer of new frontiers to the meticulous caretaker of community well-being.
The discussion prompted by ranking intelligence within the context of personality types is valuable, but it is not definitive. It should encourage a broader, more inclusive dialogue about the ways in which we recognize and celebrate the diverse expressions of intelligence within our shared humanity.
The Significance of IQ Tests
It's worth noting that the MBTI and its corresponding intelligence rankings are not scientifically proven or universally accepted. While IQ tests have been used historically to measure intelligence, they have also been widely critiqued for being culturally biased, favoring certain types of intelligence over others, and lacking in predictive power.
Furthermore, placing too much emphasis on a single number as a measure of intelligence can be limiting and even harmful, as it fails to recognize the vast spectrum of human potential and downplays the importance of emotional intelligence, creativity, adaptability, and other valuable traits.
In closing, what truly makes a personality type 'smart' is their nuanced understanding of the world and their unique ability to impact it positively. It's the diversity that comes from combining the various strengths of the 16 types that yields the richest collective intelligence, advancing our society and our collective understanding.

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The grime artiste was number three on the list. The 27-year-old in June pledged £10 million ($13 million) to UK organizations and movements fighting for racial equality, justice reform and Black empowerment. The award-winning rapper, in a statement, said: “I’m lucky enough to be in the position I’m in and I’ve heard people often dismiss the idea of racism existing in Britain by saying ‘if the country’s so racist how have you become a success?!’ and I reject that with this.
“I am not the UK’s shining example of what supposedly happens when a black person works hard. There are millions of us. We are not far and few. We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born.
“Black people have been playing on an uneven field for far too long and this pledge is a continuation in the fight to finally try and even it.”


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In 1990, Christine Albright was diagnosed with her greatest fear, multiple sclerosis.
After being told that it was incurable and she would live with it the reset of her life, but “knowing” there was an answer and listening to her instincts, she began healing the MS.
After four years of intense inner healing Albright completely healed herself from the disease. She has been symptom-free for 21 years and established the MS Alternative Healing Center in Arvada, CO, which has been active for the past 13 years.
Albright joins hosts Andrea and Lisa to explain the steps she took to heal her own body, as well as tips you can incorporate into your own life.


Music like this, up-beat, carefree, bouncy electronic that is radio friendly, kid friendly and just plain fun – I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to create music like this again. It is just so pure, you have nothing to worry about when listening to this music. I guess many kids of the generation after me will never know, or understand this music like I do and even then my understanding and connection to this music is weak at best.
I do like this song, yes it is annoying. So annoying in fact that one of my previous bosses got it stuck in his head and would always hum the tune when the office was quiet. Knowing it annoyed me, during my holiday time he left me a few voicemails of the song. This song brings back happy memories of this harmless joke, and I think for many this song brings back happy memories too. It’s just that a happy song.
You don’t get the popular mix on this CD single that you find on many of the compilation albums of the time, instead you get an extended cut of the original song for the first track. The second is your standard hardcore house remix with thumping bass, if that is your kind of thing. The third track is a completely new take on the original song by legendary Tin Tin Out, which could stand up as a separate release on its own. But does kind of loose a bit of the silliness of the original with this heavy handed edit.
The sad thing is that Tina did not get this memo, and decided to start giving a crap almost 10 years after the band went down the toilet. Why did she take this long? Maybe she wanted to quit the business, or maybe she was bitter from the split but why on earth she created this I don’t know. Its so revolting it has caused me to come all this way to write this damning review.
Like I said in my review of Rachel Stevens (another S Club member chasing a solo career) most can afford high quality musicians and songwriters to try and ignite their solo career and sadly usually fail not because the music they are making is sub-par but that it cannot compete with all of the other mediocre shit that floats atop the pop landscape.
Well Tina clearly does not have the money to spend on such luxuries, and instead has made a song with the same budget a 16-year old has when making his hot new EDM tracks on SoundCloud. Tina is trying to tap into the popular EDM-pop market that was and still is very popular in the chart at the moment, but has created a mess of a song. With strained vocals (stop going RAHHHHHHHHH), terrible mixing, strange double-tracking that doesn’t work, lame as fuck lyrics, and the most uninspired backing beat I have heard in a while all you (the listener) end up with is a headache and maybe some mild confusion as to why such a monstrosity exists. The music video that goes along with the track is also complete garbage and looks like a students first attempt at Adobe After Effects.
Tina clearly has no pride or confidence in this song as she disabled both ratings and comments on the video, knowing that the public were likely going to dismiss this song and tell her to do something more worthwhile with her time.
Anyway, I’m sure she’ll recover the £80 she lost making this track with the upcoming S Club 7 reunion tour.


MADISONVILLE, Ky. (WFIE) - Madisonville-North Hopkins seniors will get the chance to make some memories Saturday.
They’re hosting a graduation ceremony, but are making some changes due to COVID-19.
They will have staggering times in 30-minute intervals.
Officials say cars can enter through the main entrance and will be directed around the building to watch the ceremony.
School leaders say the changes are so they can follow social distancing guidelines.
We’re told they’re asking graduates not to gather on the campus.
Those ceremonies will happen between 3 and 5 p.m. Saturday.


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Services Offered by Enterprises and Organisations in Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park
Notice! There are bacteria in the well of the Open and Reservable Wilderness Hut of Hannukuru. Water must be boiled before use.
Following enterprises and other organisations offer services in the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. They have a cooperation agreement with Metsähallitus and they follow the principles of sustainable nature tourism (www.metsa.fi) when operating in the national park.
Tourist entrepeneurs operating in the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park need a cooperation agreement with Metsähallitus. In order to get an agreement, make an application and email it to kirjaamo(at)metsa.fi.

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Change your attitude towards paying your bills, and change the likelihood you will suffer from bad credit. That is the single best thing you can do to prevent bad credit in the form of defaults, and now, the dreaded late payment notation. It’s not rocket science of course, but changing your financial attitude and stopping [...]
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We look at Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey’s Federal Budget in detail to determine what the possible ramifications could be for those who will buy a home in the future. Whether you agree with the decisions handed down or not, we look at how the choices in 'Federal Budget 2014' could impact home buyers both [...]
Media Release 'Protect your credit file' campaign fights identity theft. 16 May, 2014 As the Attorney-General announces rates have ballooned to 1 in 5 Australians affected by identity theft, a credit reporting advocate is running an awareness campaign aimed at reducing the numbers affected by this terrible crime. Graham Doessel, who is Non-Legal Director of MyCRA [...]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released Housing Finance figures for March 2014. The number of commitments for owner occupied dwellings reveal growth has taken a slower pace despite differing predictions from economists. We take a look at the ABS Statistics and what they might mean for the Australian housing market, as well as [...]
Significant changes to Australian credit reporting have been implemented with amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). There is new information available to some Credit Providers on Australian credit reports, and with this has also come an increased obligation for all Credit Providers to provide accurate, up-to-date and fair information on credit reports. There have [...]
There has never been a more important time in business to consider the privacy of your customers. Personal information is more accessible than ever before, and with that, comes the need to create and define boundaries around personal information in the private sector. New laws have just been implemented which expand the scope of privacy [...]
MyCRA Lawyers is a proud partner for Privacy Awareness Week (PAW), held 4-10 May 2014. Privacy Awareness Week is held every year to promote awareness of privacy issues and the importance of the protection of personal information. This year is focused on our new Australian Privacy Laws, which came into force on 12 March 2014. Find [...]
Media Release Beware guarantor loans for desperate first home buyers. 24 April 2014 First home buyers desperate to get a foothold in the property market are receiving financial help from Mum and Dad or other family members at increasing rates through family guaranteed loans, but a consumer advocate warns there is no financial benefit for [...]
Is your website or online service running OpenSSL? Or are you an internet user who gives out personal details or uses services within OpenSSL? Then your security may be at risk. According to internet security experts ‘Heartbleed’ is a major vulnerability in common encryption software which is affecting many websites and online services. Heartbleed is [...]
Media Release Be careful where you live because it can affect your credit score 15 April 2014 Australia's new credit laws have some consumers on edge and checking their credit score to ensure they're not blacklisted - but a consumer advocate for accurate credit reporting says beware, your credit score can be lowered by where [...]


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Cosmetics Giant Faces China Dilemma
L’Oreal’s push into the Chinese market creates a dilemma for the French cosmetics maker, according to Bloomberg, because China requires animal trials for new beauty products while the EU prohibits the practice:
China is the only major market where companies must test their mascaras and lotions on animals. Rabbits are killed or ingredients dripped into their eyes during Chinese tests, according to London-based animal-rights group Cruelty Free International.
And niche brands such as L’Oreal’s The Body Shop, and Boulder, Colorado-based skin-care maker Pangea Organics, which refuse to do animal tests, are blocked out of the Chinese cosmetic market. L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics maker, sells its namesake beauty products in the country, while P&G sells products such as Olay and Head & Shoulders. [Source]
L’Oreal last week made an offer to purchase Chinese facial mask maker Magic Holdings International for $840 million, as it seeks to tap further into the world’s third-largest cosmetics market. The company told Bloomberg that it was working with the Chinese authorities on alternative approval methods.


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BRASELTON, Ga. -- A 63-year-old Lawrenceville man is facing a charge of first-degree vehicular homicide after police said he caused a fatal crash.
The accident happened around 5 p.m. on Ga. Highway 347 near Braselton Georgia. Police believe the first vehicle driven by Michael Jesperson was traveling east on the highway in the left turn only lane. A motorcyclist, 70-year-old William Frey of Duluth, was heading west.
The Georgia State Patrol reports that Jesperson turned in front of Frey. The motorcyclist then hit Jesperson's Ford Ranger and was ejected. Frey died from his injuries.
Now Jesperson faces one count each of failure to yield while turning left, driving under the influence and homicide by vehicle in the first degree - a felony offense,


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WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WGHP) -- More than 75,000 people have signed a petition calling for the removal of a judge who gave no jail time to a child rapist.
WWNY recently reported that 25-year-old Shane Piche will not serve any jail time, but will be on probation for 10 years and register as a sex offender.
Piche worked as a school bus driver and admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl who was on his bus route.
Jefferson County Supreme Court Judge James McClusky noted Piche had no prior arrests and there was only one victim, according to the Watertown Daily Times.
“A New York judge just let a child rapist off with no jail time and—unbelievably—justified it by saying he 'only' raped one girl. 'Only' one—these are the words of Judge James McClusky,” the petition states. “Judge McClusky cannot be trusted to protect survivors of sexual assault, and he needs to be removed from the bench.”


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In a previous post, I criticized articles in the USA Today and elsewhere (all citing data from the conservative Cato Institute), which claimed that federal government workers earn almost twice as much as private sector employees (including salary and benefits). I argued that en masse comparisons of public and private sector workers don’t tell us much, since the jobs that comprise the two sectors are very different.
For a more useful comparison, we need to understand not only that most public sector workers are professionals, but also that they tend to be more experienced, and more quickly promoted, than the typical private sector employee. For example, a lead research scientist will earn more than his or her staff scientists, whether they are working in the public or the private sector. So, if public sector employees in a given occupation tend to be more experienced or have more authority or responsibilities, they will appear “overpaid” even though they are not.
So, how does the public/private wage gap look when we compare professionals in the two sectors by both occupation and experience/responsibilities?


Abbey and Pope set for recalls
George Abbey is likely to make his first start of the season in the match against Millwall on Saturday. With Baudet and O'Donnell ruled out he will is in contention to partner Chris McCready at the heart of the defence.
Abbey replaced the injured Baudet at Doncaster and with not many other alternatives it look as if the former Port Vale man will get the nod.
Tom Pope could also be recalled to the side after being rested in recent weeks. We have missed an aerial presence and he could be drafted in to partner Lee Barnard.
Meanwhile, Millwall have signed former Rotherham hot shot Will Hoskins on a month's loan deal. He will go straight in to the side that visits the Alexandra Stadium.
They have also extended the loan deal of Jamie O'Hara, O'Hara is well know to Barnard as they both were in the same Tottenham reserve side last season.


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Conventional cardiac surgical procedures after orthotopic heart transplantation are generally uncommon. We report the case of a 67-year-old man who had severe symptomatic aortic stenosis develop 9 years after heart transplantation. After joint evaluation of the cardiovascular team, transcatheter aortic valve implantation was preferred due to patient medical conditions. The CoreValve prosthesis (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) was inserted percutaneously into the femoral artery. At 4 months postoperatively, the patient is asymptomatic in New York Heart Association functional class II. This case report provides evidence that transcatheter aortic valve implantation is safe and suitable for selected patients with severe aortic stenosis and a history of heart transplantation that must improve allograft function.
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I find the "is this progress" question a little silly - are we going to reject something that makes it easier for women to do their jobs as the 'wrong' kind of progress? The problem is that women's lives are tightly controlled by gender segregation, both by the law and the societal prejudices that make them unwelcome in male dominated spheres, and any way that they can adapt to those conditions while maintaining their ability to advance their careers and act with agency is progress. Should their well-being be subordinated in the name of delayed gratification for observers who won't be happy until the Kingdom has a gender-neutral legal code and attitudes? Because it seems to me that's where the idea comes from - this isn't the way it's supposed to be, aka like our mythically secular and equal societies in the West, so it isn't progress.
And, as a side comment, I am fairly certain that, given the choice to stay in a women's-only luxury hotel where I was pampered, I might very well take it. This place looks sort of awesome. The hotel's Director, Lorraine Coutinho, considers this a selling point:
"The need for privacy within public spaces for women worldwide is increasing and we're just filling a demand that already exists," she says, noting that there are women-only hotels "all over the world, from Berlin to the US," a "pink beach" in Italy, a "ladies' special" train in India, and female-only compartments on Brazilian trains.
"Regardless of where we are in this world," she adds, "I think women are finding the need to have spaces that are dedicated to themselves."


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Cutler expects to play for Bears against Packers
Cutler says "unless something drastic happens, absolutely" he will be ready to play against the Packers after leaving Sunday's loss at Minnesota with a sore neck. He says he got treatment yesterday and "should be ready to go later in the week."
Cutler spoke during his weekly appearance on the "Waddle & Silvy Show" on Chicago's WMVP-AM 1000.
Cutler was hurt during a hit from Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen in the fourth quarter, and he stayed in for the remainder of the drive before coming out. Cutler missed a game against San Francisco on Nov. 19 because of a concussion.
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PLACES – Another week another get away.
It’s time to pack your bags, because we are taking you to the Regina Experimental in Biarritz.
A magnificent hotel that has everything you need/want.
It screams summer, beach, sun and relaxation.
The hotel has been decorated by interior designer Dorothée Meilichzon: Local inspirations, neo-Basque architecture, Art Deco, or the art of living by the sea.

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In the city of Ombrazia, saints and their disciples rule with terrifying and unjust power, playing favorites while the unfavored struggle to survive.
After her father’s murder at the hands of the Ombrazian military, Rossana Lacertosa is willing to do whatever it takes to dismantle the corrupt system—tapping into her powers as a disciple of Patience, joining the rebellion, and facing the boy who broke her heart. As the youngest captain in the history of Palazzo security, Damian Venturi is expected to be ruthless and strong, and to serve the saints with unquestioning devotion. But three years spent fighting in a never-ending war have left him with deeper scars than he wants to admit… and a fear of confronting the girl he left behind.
Now a murderer stalks Ombrazia’s citizens. As the body count climbs, the Palazzo is all too happy to look the other way—that is, until a disciple becomes the newest victim. With every lead turning into a dead end, Damian and Roz must team up to find the killer, even if it means digging up buried emotions. As they dive into the underbelly of Ombrazia, the pair will discover something more sinister—and far less holy. With darkness closing in and time running out, will they be able to save the city from an evil so powerful that it threatens to destroy everything in its path?
Discover what’s lurking in the shadows in this dark fantasy debut with a murder-mystery twist, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kerri Maniscalco.
Content Warning: various types of violence (shooting, poisoning, beheading), graphic descriptions of blood/bodies, death of parents/ friends/ siblings, a parent depicted with memory loss/confusion, PTSD and flashbacks, descriptions of war, prejudice, religious intolerance, hallucinations, paranoia, alcoholism, and mentions of self-harm.
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M. K. Lobb is a fantasy writer with a love of all things dark— be it literature, humour, or general aesthetic. She grew up in small-town Ontario and studied political science at both the University of Western Ontario and the University of Ottawa. She now lives by the lake with her partner and their cats. When not reading or writing, she can be found at the gym or contemplating the harsh realities of existence.
Her debut novel SEVEN FACELESS SAINTS will be published February 7, 2023 by Little, Brown (Hachette). The sequel, DISCIPLES OF CHAOS, will follow in early 2024. M. K. is represented by Claire Friedman at InkWell Management.
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My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars
I received a digital ARC from the publisher via TBR and Beyond Tours in exchange for an honest review and place on this blog tour – thanks!
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this book! I am always a bit hesitant diving into a new YA fantasy series, as I find that sometimes there is a lack of world building in favour of characters, but Seven Faceless Saints does an excellent job at balancing between character building and world development. I instantly fell into the writing of this book, and had a hard time putting it down until I was finished.
Ombrazia is a city state that seems to be heavily influenced by Italian/Roman references. I quite enjoyed the way that the state itself was built up in this book, and I look forward to the next book’s building up of the other/rival state as I think that is one piece of the story I felt was missing here. The magic was built into the story seamlessly, in a way that did not feel like an info dump which I have been getting used to in fantasies recently.
Damian and Roz are both very complicated characters, and at times it did become a bit overwhelming. They have a very complicated, imo toxic, relationship with one another. I hope that there will be more development between them in the next book, otherwise I think the skip over the lovers to enemies to lovers(??) again might have been too soon. All I am asking for is a true slow burn!! Will I ever find it again???? Stay tuned.
At the heart of this books is the murders, and Damian and Roz’s attempts to solve them. I do have to say, Damian does not make a very good detective. There were a lot of red flags I saw and wanted to shake some sense into him to see them too. His worldview is cracking, especially with the ending of the book, and I hope in the next book we will get to see more development. That being said, the mystery was really well written and although I had my suspicions, they came together in a way I hadn’t entirely been expecting.
All in all, Seven Faceless Saints was an impressive debut! I really enjoyed this story and Lobb’s writing, and I imagine I will be continuing this series when the next book comes out.
Seven Faceless Saints released February 7th, 2023
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The New Jersey Legislature declined to increase the state minimum wage from $7.15 per hour before ending its session for the extended summer recess, despite a strong December 21, 2007 recommendation by the State of New Jersey Minimum Wage Advisory Commission that the state minimum wage be immediately increased to $8.25 per hour (the poverty threshold wage for a three-person family in 2007).
However, on July 24, 2008, the federal minimum wage increased from $5.85 to $6.55. This is the second of three increases provided by the federal Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. The third federal minimum wage increase to $7.25 (which will be above New Jersey’s state minimum wage, in the event it is not raised in the interim) will become effective on July 24, 2009.
Note: This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the New Jersey eAuthority.

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Founders have asked the firm to take a more active role in managing its tokens — this fund will give it that ability to engage further, it said
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Sporting a new Twitter bio and NFT auction, one of the world’s largest and most successful venture funds signals a new focus
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This capital raise is the third round of funding for CertiK within the past four months, bringing its total amount raised to over $140 million.
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“What is Art?”
That’s the age-old question that came to me when viewing Theo Jansen’s unique creations at the Peabody Essex Museum recently.
Jansen is a Dutchman who’s spent 25 years working with PVC conduit—material usually used by electricians—to create increasingly complex machines that “walk,” either with or without human assistance.
Because they walk, they seem a bit alive (as opposed to things on wheels.)
And because the best place for them to walk is the beach, they’re called Strandbeests, which in English translates to beach beasts, or beach animals.
You can see more here.
I had the opportunity to push a smaller Strandbeest back and forth across a carpeted floor inside the Peabody Essex Museum, but the video isn’t good enough to share. Here’s a detail.
Jansen talks about the Strandbeests evolving over time, but it’s really him who’s done all the work and made all the improvements, and while he would like the animals to keep evolving at the hands of others, the odds are that they’re at (or near) the peak of their evolution now.
Jansen is 67 years old, and having his moment of fame among the U.S. art world, but after this what?
When Jansen is gone will his creatures “survive?”
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The Astros’ offense erupted again as they closed their 2014 home schedule with an 8-3 win over the Mariners.
Collin McHugh's last start was ended by a sharp comebacker to the left wrist. That won't prevent him from making his next start on Sunday afternoon.
If the Seattle Mariners wish to bounce back from their latest defeat, they likely need to continue their road success against Houston's Collin McHugh.
Jose Altuve tied the Venezuelan single-season hits mark on Friday. On Saturday, he broke that record previously set by Magglio Ordonez in 2007.


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Mixed media refers to an art form which combines various traditional art media e.g paint, ink, and sculpture. Pixel Art is the form of digital art which is created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are created on a pixel level. I have already spoken about pixel art and created lesson plans (linked below) but I thought it would be a great idea to combine pixel art with photographs.
Comics and cartoons have been around for a long time and no-matter what the reading ability everyone enjoys them. Cartoons and comics are approachable because they combine both words and images. Children can draw, play and use their incredible imaginations to brings fantasy worlds and characters alive.
I have been into comics since I first read my friends Iron Man when I was 8, now comics are everywhere and have emerged from the cult into the mainstream with films such as The Avengers and Spiderman.
In my class I have used various comics, online comic creators and Comic Life to enthuse the children to make their own comics. We then published them on the school blog so children could download them and read their comics on their smart phones, tablets and computers. Here are the results!
As a start to the new school year I like my pupils to leave a mark so that the classroom feels like theirs, I encourage ownership. One way of doing this is by creating a Mangatar (a Manga Avatar). For the uninitiated manga is Japanese comics and animation, some of your pupils might talk about Naruto, One Piece or Bleach- these are all manga. Manga is a distinctive art style which usually is characterised by big eyes, crazy hair and tiny mouths and noses.
I use faceyourmanga.com to create a mangatar and get my pupils to write their targets for the half term underneath. I usually have the mangatar laminated with a white space underneath so the pupils can write their targets, one we have discussed what they could be. It means as well as responding to feedback in books the pupils are also looking to fulfill their individual target too.
I usually print screen the mangatar from the website, paste it onto Word and enlarge it so that it fits an A4 page. Have some fun with your class and see what they com up with. Oh, a word of advice... don't let your pupils use masks, gadgets or tattoos as they feature smoking and the 'finger.' Otherwise have fun!
I don't know about you but in my more megalomanic dreams I've ruled the world. Now I know this isn't possible, mores the pity, but I have figured out a way to create my own world by using Photoshop and GIMP, the image and photo manipulation and editing software. Photoshop is quite pricy but is the worlds leading software in the field, however GIMP is free and does an amazing job too.
Within a few minutes you could create an amazing planetoid, similar to the ones seen below or like the ones in Mario Galaxy.
To create these wonders of the world just follow my guide and pretty soon you have have your own world, created by your fair hands. Here are a few examples of the planets I made with a step by step process. If you follow my link at the bottom of the page it will take you to my lesson plans and guide on TES.
Computer games are a relatively new media and there are storytelling elements contained within. Using computer games we can immerse ourselves in these worlds, interacting with the storytelling. We can become active participants rather than passive observers.
When planning our new lessons on the theme of 'Beside the Sea' I remembered playing the game Endless Ocean. I knew that the game would be perfect for our sequence of lessons as it was so open ended, the sandbox gaming would lend itself perfectly to providing great learning opportunities.
Games mechanics are built upon a marriage of narrative and gameplay. Stories are fixed designed experiences whilst computer games let players change things, even when it’s simply walking across an island like in Dear Esther. Eschewing traditional gameplay mechanics this interactive world immerses and engages the player through the use of amazing visuals, beautiful audio and wonderful prose. What I have learnt through game based learning is that neither the game nor the story contained within, are that important but rather it is how you use the game.
As a teacher we can use games to provide children with a deep emotional and exciting experience. To contextualise the learning I planned a sequence of lessons using the wonderful picture book Dougal's Deep Sea Diary. The book contained a simple narrative of a salary man going on holiday and finding Atlantis. To immerse the children in the world of diving I used the book alongside Endless Ocean. The computer game allowed the pupils to become stimulated and engaged. Over the two weeks in Literacy the children created adverts for the imaginary island of Manuarai, wrote diary entries, newspaper reports and wrote poetry. I also incorporated D and T into the sequence of plans and got the children to create dioramas of the underwater world. I have shared some of the work here with you below and if you have been inspired by all this, download the plan and use it yourself!
The word myth comes from the Greek word 'mythos' which means 'to tell a story'. Myths are the oldest and most powerful of all story forms, they were usually passed on through spoken word as books had not yet been invented. They often carry an important message for a culture or group, their function was to explain, to teach lessons, and to entertain.
Myths are stories that give people a relationship with the universe, the passing of time, and with their environment. Some myths give the official view of creation, others are a way to explain natural events.
Every culture has its own myths that are centuries old and even now through various mediums the creatures and monsters from myths and legends emerge.
For a certain generation of people the name Ray Harryhausen is synonymous with myths and legends. the mention of his name conjures up many images of wonderful creatures. Ray Harryhausen was a legend, a genius, an artist, a filmmaker, a magician, but more than all of that he was an inspiration. His work has inspired many generations including such luminaries as James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. Harryhausen showed us that even as adults, we could play with monsters and get away with it. Harryhausen created 'Dynamation' (stop motion using silicon figures he created), the technique he used to create such matinee classics such as 'Jason and the Argonauts' and 'Clash of the Titans'.
Using the work of Ray Harryhausen as inspiration, we created a sequence of lesson plans for the 'Myths and Legends' unit of Literacy work. We also used the wonderful book 'Monsterology' to ground the work in information text style writing.
Below are examples of work achieved in year 6 using this sequence of lesson plans. Also in my year 2 class we modified the lesson plans and achieved great results creating an underwater mythical beast. To link with our 'Flotsam/Beside the Sea' lesson plans (check out the links below to go to those lesson plans and examples of work created).
I love picture books, they are an amazing resource as they use visuals to tell a story, as a result they are accessable to pretty much everyone. The images in picture books can use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil, among others to tell their story. Over the last few years we have been spoilt for choice where picture books are concerned, with celebrated authors including Shaun Tan, Oliver Jeffers and David Wiesner. When jumping into our new topic of 'Beside the Sea' with our year 2's we chose David Wiesner's Caldecott Medal Winning book 'Flotsam' to entrance and engage our children.
Using the book as inspiration the children created their own mythical sea creature, drawing and painting them for display.
They then wrote descriptions for their creature, describing its features and key information such as what it ate, where it lived and how to befriend it.
Finally, the children created an information page, usually found in non-fiction books. The work they created was amazing and I'm sure you'll agree, very exciting!
'Green Screen' has been around for years, it's the effect that makes actors look like they're floating in space or fighting aliens. Most commonly it is used in weather reports where the presenter stands in front of a green screen and discusses the graphics that move on the screen. In the past 'Green Screen' has been expensive but with this ipad app by Do Ink for £1.99 it has never been easier or cheaper to enjoy this effect!
In my class we have been creating playscripts and the children performed the play using finger puppets. The background was put in after we filmed the performance, the children found a creative commons image on the internet and using the Chroma tool (matching the background to the green screen colour of the background) brought the story alive by giving it an appropriate setting. The effect is simple and with more time and care the results could be much more professional but for this performance the result is good enough for the children to share with their parents on the Fronter page.
I would recommend the Do Ink Green Screen app as I can see many uses for it in the future. The app added a whole new dimension for the children in my class in year 2 and encourages play.
A QR Code (it stands for "Quick Response") is a mobile phone readable barcode that's been gaining in popularity over the past few years.
In its simplest sense think "print based hypertext link" - simply encode a URL into the QR Code and then point a mobile phone (or other camera-enabled mobile) at it. If the device has had QR Code decoding software installed on it, it will fire up the browser and go straight to that URL.
But it doesn't stop there - a QR Code can also contain a phone number, an SMS message or just plain alphanumeric text, and the scanning device will respond by opening up the correct application to handle the encoded data appropriately courtesy of the FNC1 Application Identifiers that are embedded in the encoded data.
I thought that often we have a reception area in schools where parents and guests are waiting and having QR codes up on the wall would give the visitors something to do whilst waiting. The QR codes used in this display link to book reviews which the children created using Weebly. It is a fun and simple way to encourage visitors to just scan one of the QR codes and read the reviews, this does away with linking into Fronter or other MLEs and is simple and intuitive. I have created a QR code to a book review that I have created. Why don't you download a QR code reader on your mobile or tablet (they're free) and give it a try?
Scan these QR codes to see what is possible. I'm hoping to introduce QR codes across the school as a way to encourage multilingualism, so everyone can access the displays and work that the children produce.
Here is a few QR codes I have created, give it a try and see where it takes you!
Kinetic typography is an animation technique that mixes motion and typography to express ideas. In animations the text can fly, grow, expand and change in order to empower the message it is telling. It is impressive how a simple text with the right tone, pace and use of typography can evoke emotions and help the viewer concentrate more on what's being said and understand it better. We used Adobe After Effects to create Kinetic Typography for the poems the children had written in Literacy, thinking about the figurative language being used and how to convey this through type and motion. Here are a few examples that I like, I obviously didn't use the Inglorious Basterds one in class though, I just like the effects shown!
The work is impressive but took a while to produce as After Effects is a complex industry standard software, used in Hollywood as well as advertising across the world. Kinetic Typography can be achieved using Powerpoint and is quite effective although less impressive and comprehensive, however as a software most schools will have it is easy to achieve and cheap! Give it a try to liven up the children’s work! Meanwhile here is an example of the work one of my year 8 pupils did, not bad for a few hours work! The lesson plans are located in the 'lesson plans' tab and resources are in the 'dropbox' account... use them as you will!
'Dear Photograph' is a simple idea done oh so right. To quote the website banner, 'Take a picture of a picture, from the past, in the present'.
You take an old photograph and go back to where the photo was taken, holding up the old photograph to show the transition of time. I think as teachers we could use the idea of 'Dear Photograph' to show our pupils how things have changed over time and get them to reflect on this. It would be a very useful part of the Geography unit 'Where We Live', the unit about the local area. I did the 'Dear Photograph' below, have a read!
I was looking through my old family photo albums and came across this picture which I think was taken in the early 90's, I would have been around 10 or 11 then. I've done my reflection on the photograph and I have to say it brought back waves of nostalgia. Give it a try yourself and see which photo speaks to you from your family album!
At first glance the pictures look like beautifully created landscapes including verdant grass, luscious waterfalls and ominous looking mountains. However closer examination will show you that these are not paintings at all but wonderfully arranged food items carefully and precisely photographed. These pictures are the work of the London based artist Carl Warner who specialises in food landscapes.
Using Carl as an example the children in year 9 made food art or ‘foodscapes’ if you will, using the techniques practiced by Carl Warner. The children had to think carefully about their composition and lighting. Once the food was photographed (thanks Charli) the children then went about manipulating and editing the images in Photoshop to create some wonderful landscapes. Here are a few examples of the children work. I’m sure Carl would be very impressed, I am! This sequence of lesson plans could easily be adjusted for younger year groups and once children have a basic knowledge of Photoshop there is nothing here that is overly complex, but it does help to develop knowledge of composition.
Animation is a fun way for children to express their ideas through a medium that blends art, storytelling, drawing, illustration, design, graphics, sculpture, acting, staging, art directing and filmmaking into one amazing form capable of transforming its creators into magicians. Animation is unbounded by time or reality. It brings to life visions and ideas that are the artist’s creation, limited only by their imagination. With this in mind GoAnimate is a fun software used in-browser that lets you make animated videos for free. Animations can be made in as little as 10 minutes and you don’t have to worry about drawing as it has pre-made characters available, you can create your own cast of characters but will have to become a paying member. There are a variety of packages available but we used the free option which had the limited characters but was more than enough for what we had in mind.
The children were given the task of creating an animation for Halloween. Each pair of children created their own account and their videos were kept private until they had finished and then made public. The children felt very excited as their work was published online and they could share it with the world. To publish on YouTube you have to be a paying member but for our purposes we just placed the links to the videos on our school website. Here are a few examples of our work which were created by children aged 11. Enjoy!
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Electronic Publishing (or e-publishing) is fast becoming the most common method to distribute books, magazines, and newspapers to people. The explosive growth in tablet reading devices, an environmentally aware society and the prevalence ofonline vendors such as Apple's iTunes bookstore, Amazon's bookstore for Kindle, and books in the Google Play Bookstore has seen the e-publishing marketplace grow at a remarkable rate. In the UK in 2012 e-book sales were 89% higher than in 2011, totaling £145 million, but physical book sales totaled £982 million, i.e., almost seven times as much. In America the number of e-books bought were significantly higher due to the higher number of adopters with tablets.
What I am interested in is the fact that most schools have not taken advantage of this technology to any great effect. We live in the current climate of cutbacks across the public sector, schools have had their budgets slashed and one of the real implications are for resources. In England we have had a huge wave of people from Europe come into the country with little or no English. Yet the dual-language books are very expensive or difficult to find. Why not use the best resource we have, the children in our classes to make their own books in other languages and why not make these books freely available and easy to download?
With my mind set on changing the status quo I got my children to e-publish their stories and made their stories available through our school blog as well as through the use of QR Codes around the school building. This led to an increase in dual-language books being available across the school and didn't cost us a penny!
Since starting on this initiative we have over 24 books available on our school blog and next academic year we hope to increase this further. To make identification of the language easier you can use a variety of different QR Code image makers, so you could end up with something like this:
Here are a couple of dual-language books my children have made. Hope you enjoy them!
Sploder is an in-browser game creation software that runs in flash. It is free to join and a great tool to teach the basic of game design.
The website has the following as its Mission Statement:
We aim to create a place where young people can express their creative ideas and reward each other through positive feedback and encouragement. With our diverse set of game-making tools, members can discover many different ways to design game levels, make stories with narratives, and challenge themselves and their players.
We believe that the world can be changed by creative people who use their minds to make the world better. By offering a place where people are rewarded for creativity in the context of games and play, we hope to point them toward a path to a more creative future.
As a mission statement this is great and really appealed to me, as the games are simple to make offering 5 game creation options. Sploder regularly updates their games and the in-games tools are updated occasionally.
Sploder is an excellent tool for teaching the basic of simple game design but the site is not perfect for children. Once a game is published people can comment upon it and not all the comments are polite and constructive. Also as a teacher there is no way to batch create username and passwords, as a result I had to create each account individually which took a fair amount of time. All accounts have to be linked to an e-mail address, which I did not want to do due to e-safety issues, so I created faux e-mail addresses which worked well as it doesn’t ask for a confirmation code however this does mean that if that passwords can’t be retrieved via e-mail so I would advise keeping all usernames and passwords stored somewhere in a Word document! Sploder is a wonderful teaching tool but as a drag and drop game making site there are limits as to what can be produced.
The children were tasked with making either a platform game or retro arcade game. I had the children working in pairs as I felt they could work together to solve problems and support each other. They worked carefully and produced some wonderful games which I have linked below.
Give it a go, see
what you think and maybe create your own!
Limbo is an indie game which was released on Xbox Live Arcade in the Summer of 2010. In the game the player guides an unnamed boy through dangerous environments, to what end.... is revealed later. The game is beautifully presented in monochromatic black and white tones with filters and lighting effects to add to the mood. The soundtrack is sparse and minimalist to add to the eerie atmosphere. There is no onscreen HUD (Heads Up Display) and so the game is an immersive experience. The art style is reminiscent of the great Lotte Reiniger and German Expressionism, leaving a lot up to the viewers imagination.
As a gamer I was in awe of the game and even though the game features traps, buzz saws and other inappropriate content later on the first few minutes or so of the game are an excellent story writing stimulus and is safe to use. I planned a sequence of lessons with some EAL children to develop their vocabulary, specifically their use of adjectives. The lessons took place once a week over 4 weeks, in which time we listened to the ambient soundtrack, watched my play-through of the first few minutes of the game (using careful editing I avoided any inappropriate material) and wrote the story in draft and then types and illustrated it. I converted the finished file into a pdf. and placed it on our school
website so that parents could put it on their Kindle, ipads, iphones
etc. Here is the work we produced.
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore is an Oscar winning animated short and app for ios. The short was shown in 2011 and received great critical acclaim for it's simple but beautifully told story of a man's journey from the mundane to fantastical in premise similar to The Wizard of OZ. In year 4 teachers used the app to support the Literacy topic of stories set in imaginary worlds. The teachers used the app to engage the children first, connecting the iPad to the IWB, that way they could either read the story aloud or have the programmed narrator read the story. Once engaged the children had an opportunity to play the mini games contained within he app, as well as the usual swiping and pinching there are some other activities such as playing the piano, creating words using alphabet cereal and writing and seeing the letters float away in the breeze.
The children then thought about their hobbies and what they were interested
in and planned a scenario for their story. After initial planning they began to
write their stories and the work they produced was great. However I want to
share the EAL work here as I feel that this is the most interesting. The Morris
Lessmore app was a great way to engage the EAL children as the images and
animation connected with them, even if they didn’t totally understand the
narrator. These EAL children created a bi-lingual story, using their home
languages and English to create wonderful stories. I have placed two stories
below, have a read and see what you think! (thanks go to Jeanette Haywood, the teacher who led the sessions and whose children produced the following work)
I have placed a one-off lesson plan in the 'lesson plan' tab above, use and enjoy!
Creating fantasy artwork requires a lot of imagination as well as expertise in softwares which are used to create such amazing pictures. Anything is possible; whether it’s a demons lair, a floating castle in the sky or even an old witch in the woods. However to know how to use the software well enough in order to achieve these images is daunting and very little software is as daunting as Adobe Photoshop. Having been the industry standard for over 25 years being an expert in Photoshop takes a lot of practice and time, but I wanted to be able to use it to a good standard to teach it to my pupils. I used a variety of video tutorials and written guides I found online and practiced for a few hours over the summer until I felt I was confident enough to teach the children, this with no prior experience with the software at all.
As teachers we want our children to be creative and imaginative individuals. We use a variety of ways to encourage our pupil’s artistic side including images, books and music. However often the children will think of common ideas they have read in books, seen in films or even played on computer games. In those media the characters may be well rounded and have personality but often the children will insert a character they know and assume you will know their back-story and history through a process of osmosis. I’m sure we have all been there, marking a writing assessment when a famous character pops up- be it James Bond, Harry Potter or Master Chief! The name drop aside many of the characters in the children’s stories are one dimensional ciphers with very little personality or characterisation.
I thought that if the children could create an image of their story world using high end tools it would encourage them to make a more consistent, deeper and richer world. In year 7 none of the children had used Photoshop at all. I introduced the children to the basics of Photoshop using the Influence Map lesson plans I created for year 8. The children were then asked to find a wide variety of images they wanted to use for their fantasy landscape and use the tools taught to them to create a fantasy setting. I taught some of the more complex tools including layer masks, opacity, colours, curves and filters. This is the result after 6 sessions with Photoshop and I think you’ll agree that the work produced is very impressive.
To people of a certain age the high point of pixel art was the 80’s and 90’s. Pixel art was brought to the mainstream with the release of game consoles in the early eighties and reached it’s zenith in the 90’s. These decades saw the rise of computer games, but as the years went by and the computers became more powerful pixel art became replaced with more polished and smoother graphics and textures. However in recent years there has been a renaissance in pixel art, fuelled in part by retro geek-chic but also by smart phones and other digital devices that allow classic games from bygone eras to be played on the go. Pixel is back baby!
Those 8-bit and 16-bit graphics we all loved back then often evoke feelings of nostalgia and take us back in time. Nostalgia aside, pixel art is a wonderful art form in its own right and many of us have come to love it. With so few pixels to work with pixel artist’s had to make each one count and count they did, there are many iconic images that are seared into gamers consciousness. The recent rise in the indie game scene has seen many new studios and indie developers using the pixel art style to create their games as it compliment their work and makes game production more accessible and financially viable. To this end I created a series of lessons where the children had to produce graphic illustrations using pixel art as their inspiration. When creating the lessons I was pleasantly surprised by how many of the children could identify the various old-school pixel art computer characters, the children easily identified such icons as Mario, Pacman and Sonic but the more obscure icons such as Samus Aran and Donkey Kong were quickly recognised too. Pixel art will feature heavily in our game creating sequence of lesson plans later in the school year but for the meantime here are some examples of the work the children did.
I am a huge fan of Deviantart and came across the meme called the Influence Map, where you fill in various sized squares on a gridded template with various things that influence you as a person. You can literally put anything in these squares-- photos of locations or people, artist's work, computer games, TV shows, music, movies and books. You name it, you can put it in there. Fill the grid by placing more prominent influences as larger images. These are all personal and not all the choices are obvious, but I did limit the children to just one computer game and one cartoon otherwise you don’t get a nice mix of influences.. It is a fun activity and great as an introduction to Photoshop. I used this to teach myself some of the Photoshop basic and once confident I did it as a lesson with the children. For those people who do not have Photoshop there is a freeware available that does the same job called gimp, download and enjoy!
Here are a few examples of the work I and the children did:


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On Monday night I went to see Tony Hadley at the Royal Albert Hall. I had such a good time, despite the fact that my back had been playing up all day and I could only waddle around!
The night was billed as him playing his favourite songs and Spandau Ballet hits and it was just that. The first half was a mixed bag of songs and the second half was as he said ‘sing along with Tony’.
I’ve always thought he had a great voice and that’s why I wanted to see him live and he holds his own without the rest of Spandau.
I’ve seen Spandau Ballet a couple of times now and I’ve missed them playing Round and Round but that was rectified this time around. It’s just a shame my Mum couldn’t make it as she was supposed to as it’s one of her favourite songs too.
The Royal Albert Hall is such a lovely venue, if you can go and see something there one day. I saw a leaflet about them doing tours so I want to go back as I think that will be very interesting. I might finally find out about the shapes hanging from the ceiling that fascinate me so much! I assume they are to do with acoustics.
It was a longer show than I was expecting, finishing around 11pm when most concerts finish around 10.30pm and ending on Gold and Frank Sinatra’s My Way really rounded the night off with a bang.
I’m sure I’ll be seeing Tony and Spandau Ballet again one day, the lure of someone with such a good voice is just too strong in the modern world of auto-tune and computer generated voices.

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Cognizant: Social, mobility, cloud biz seeing traction
Cognizant Technology's CFO Karen McLoughlin during the 2013 Credit Suisse Annual Tech Conference last week said the firm is getting a good reception in the marketplace to some of the SMAC solutions that it has build for certain industries and its clients.
"We are seeing great traction out of our SMAC Stack for social, mobility, analytics and cloud. And as you mentioned earlier in the year, we talked about that business was on track to do $500 million this year and we are still on track to do that.
"I think what's been interesting for us is the growth has been frankly a little faster than we expected it to be at this point," she said when asked about the status of the company's SMAC target.
McLoughlin added that over the next three to five years Cognizant expects Horizon 3 business to become a "meaningful part of revenue" and to become a meaningful part of its growth story and the company is on track to do that.
The company sees growing momentum across the three key segments of its Horizon 3--new technology architectures.
This includes SMAC, new markets and industries (such as Latin America and public sector) and new delivery models (such as pay-as-you-go, risk-reward).
Cognizant president Gordon Coburn had earlier said: "Our Horizon 3 offerings continue to gain significant traction with our clients and serve as a good illustration of our strategy of re-investment for long-term growth. In addition, we continue to invest in other areas within Horizon 3, including newer markets and industries."
The firm posted a 15.4% jump in net profit for the quarter ended September 30, 2013 at $319.6 million from $276.9 million year-on-year (y-o-y). Revenues were up 6.7% to $2.31 billion on sequential basis and 21.9% ($1.89 billion) on a y-o-y basis.
Buoyed by a strong set of numbers, the New Jersey-headquartered company revised its full year revenue target.
For 2013, it now expects revenue to be at least $8.84 billion, a growth of at least 20.3% over 2012. It had given a guidance of 19% growth in revenue ($8.74 billion) compared to 2012.


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Plum Bukhara Store Dry Tizabi
One of the first-class plums available in the market, which will be one of the very good choices for selection, is the dried aloe bukhara, which due to its special method of production, has taken this name and is also considered a very tasty and highly special plum series. Now the sale of fresh and high-end aloe bukhara is done by the largest dried fruits store and you can register the necessary orders from it.
How to dry plum bukhara tizabi
Plum is a very popular food product that is usually used for the preparation of different foods and in cooking, and the way it is consumed will be different than other fruits, as mentioned above, one of the types of this product is aloe bukhara tizabi which has made a high sale.
In the following, we want to discuss some points about how to dry plum bukhara, which are as follows:
- To dry this plum, as the name implies, they use a sharpening method.
- This method is used by east and west Azerbaijan provinces.
- The way it works is to combine some potassium carbonate powder with water and green oil, and then a solution called tizab is obtained.
- Now put the plum in this solution and dry using it.
- Finally, plums should be exposed to direct sunlight to be fully prepared.
Alo Bukhara Tizabi Khoshk Shopping Mall
If you go to the best steam plum shopping center that this center is also at the top of them, you can buy a variety of dried aloe bukhara with a very privileged quality and fresh one, and you will get products with the best taste and color.
All the plums here contain a lot of purity and are prepared using the best sharpening solutions and are also organic and coarse plums.
These products also have other great advantages such as long shelf life and therefore will be in good condition of warehousing and transportation.
Finally, it may be better to get to know a few of the most important properties and benefits of aloe bukhara tizabi as well:
- This product is the best treatment for problems such as obesity and overweight.
- It leads to diluted blood and prevents its concentration and diseases associated with this problem.
- For those with fatty liver, consumption of plum bukhara is highly recommended.

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Miller and Williams, two titans of American theater whose Broadway success as playwrights seems unimaginable today, had much in common. Both men's most famous plays were directed by Elia Kazan, notorious for disclosing names of communist sympathizers to the House Committee on Unamerican Activities.
After early critical acclaim, Miller and Williams later in their careers were disparaged by critics, although both kept writing plays. Their most famous works retain their box-office power when revived.
The esteemed playwrights can also be seen as polar opposites. The gay Williams, a drug and alcohol addict, is a prominent example of the tragic artist who wasted his talent, despite all of his success. Miller stands as a model of of the macho male artist, famous for marrying Marilyn Monroe. (Photo above)
Although Miller sought Hollywood success, writing and producing the flawed film "Misfits" for the troubled Monroe, his plays never translated well to the screen, unlike Williams'. Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "The Night of the Iguana" are considered film classics.
Williams' plays glow with magical poetic dialogue. With all of his theatrical power, Miller can produce turgid, stilted lines. Both men created characters that will endure in the world's culture.
Created by Miller's daughter, the filmmaker and artist Rebecca Miller, "Arthur Miller: Writer" delivers an engaging portrait of the author of "Death of a Salesman," "The View From the Bridge," "All My Sons" and "The Crucible."
Filmed over 20 years at Miller's home in Roxbury, Conn., the documentary shows Miller as a likable, conscientious man who, unlike Williams, achieved tranquillity. After his tumultuous marriage to Monroe, Miller enjoyed a long and happy marriage to the Austrian photographer Inge Morath, Rebecca's mother.
In an early segment, Miller acknowledges Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" as laying the groundwork for "Death of a Salesman." Miller says that Williams' unsparing dealing with sexual themes freed him to honestly handle social issues in his play.
"Death of a Salesman" is closer in spirit to another Williams Broadway smash, "The Glass Menagerie." Both are "memory plays" that blend impressionistic and realistic elements. Williams' domineering mother Amanda Wingfield is a female version of Miller's Willie Loman. Amanda and Willie hold the same grandiose delusions about their families and doomed aspirations for their children.
The film briefly looks at the McCarthyism of the 1950s, which led to blacklists of movie and theater artists who held communist sympathies. Unlike his onetime friend Kazan, Miller refused to reveal names to the congressional committee, receiving a fine and a suspended jail sentence. Miller says in the film that the committee called him to testify after his marriage to Monroe because it needed a shot of publicity after its investigation had waned.
The Miller documentary examines the decline of the theater as a centerpiece of American culture. Williams' "Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Miller's "Death of a Salesman" continued for an astounding number of Broadway performances. In postwar America, a serious play, like a serious novel, could enjoy immense popularity.
While he never came close to the success of "Death of a Salesman," Miller kept writing, although he admits he felt he was now "shouting into a barrel." His later theatrical work likely will remain obscure, but his late memoir "Time Bends" is a classic.
Miller's daughter shows her father as a complex, conflicted man. His courage, kindness, empathy, humor, equanimity and relentless creative drive overcame his setbacks. He was an American artist-wise man whose example still shines brightly.