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Manila residents as well as organizers of corporate team building events are searching for places near Manila for camping. Camp sites near Manila are not so easy to find especially when safety and accessibility are part of the selection criteria.
One resort in Clark Pampanga has been identified to be the best destination for camping near Manila. The camp sites of a popular hotel in Pampanga, Clearwater Resort is generally considered to be the best camp site near Manila. The camping grounds of this resort in Clark Philippines takes full advantage of the natural ambiance of the resort.
This resort in Clark Pampanga offers glamping tents for rent but seasoned campers can bring their own gear. Located in the central business district of Philippines Clark Freeport Zone, a city that has the lowest crime rates in the Philippines, campers enjoy the natural ambiance, the lake, the large trees and the spacious outdoor amenities without having to worry about safety and security. This is of particular importance to professional event organizers tasked to bring corporate outings and team building events to a destination outside Manila. More about camping for team building events in this resort in Clark Pampanga ………
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Are You Changing the Rules of the Road?
Happy Friday, all. A while back, I announced some changes to the blog, including a partnership with Infragistics, who sponsors me. Part of my arrangement with them and with a few other outfits (stay tuned for those announcements) is that I now write blog posts for them. Between writing posts for this blog, writing posts for those blogs, and now writing a book, I’m doing a lot of writing. So instead of writing Friday’s post late Thursday evening, I’m going to do some work on my book instead and link you to one of my Infragistics posts.
The title is, “Are You Changing the Rules of the Road?” Please go check it out. Because they didn’t initially have my headshot and bio, it’s posted under the account “DevToolsGuy,” but it’s clearly me, right down to one of Amanda’s signature drawings there in the post. I may do this here and there going forward to free up a bit of my time to work on the book. But wherever the posts reside, they’re still me, and they’re still me writing for the same audience that I always do.
I don’t know if you have any control over the tags on their site, but it’s listed under “news, API, Intellisense”.
I didn’t pick the tags. I suppose for future posts that I write I could suggest tags or offer up how I would tag something on my site. Honestly, I’ve never been very good at tags. More often than not the most sensible tagging schemes for this blog have been reader suggestions 🙂

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A new original character - Mekwi, a laid back kind of guy with Native American roots. His best friend is a red panda named Chu.
Another #drawthisinyourstyle - this one definitely spoke to me and I had the most fun drawing this cutie up! Finally a sailor scout I can relate to!
My part of an art trade with a friend on Deviant Art. This is of her scarescrow-sona. This was totally fun and amazing to work on!
My own older stylized illustration of Vanellope Von Schweetz from Wreck it Ralph.
“Rose Petal Showers” as a Zazzle hat. This is one of the few designs of mine that could be considered minimalist (with the way the painting is uploaded on the hat). The original piece has real rose petals from Regent’s Park glued on. I may re-scan this one and re-upload it, though I don’t think the slight blurriness on the left side will show up significantly on the hat. You can check out my Zazzle store with the buttons at this link: https://linktr.ee/okhismakingart
"Flying in the sky with a lady in its arms,
The Platform's heading fast out to the farm.
She was harmed unknowingly and now she will become a seed,
From which the platforms now will feed until they breed." -- Drawn with fountain pens, colored with my iPad using Procreate.
Digital is great -- for composition and color. But for line art? I don't think I can ever give up the fountain pen. This was drawn with a Sailor King of Pen (M) and Sailor 1911L (EF) fountain pens using Pilot Black ink. Yes, sacrilege. Pilot ink in a Sailor. But I have some Kiwa Guro arriving soon!
A page from my moleskine sketchbook! White crows are depicted in several cultures as a good omen. They’re beautiful.
just some random unfinished panel....
Wanted to draw a row of fat corgis.
So this is the only thing im going to post :v
Portrait of musician Gustavo Cerati. Digital Illustration made with Adobe Photoshop.
part of series of doodle illustrations featuring common sayings in the UK
Just a quick lineless doodle of my OC Akane.
Acrylic on canvas 40x60 cm
Kain and Faun were my very first 2 OC's ( OC stands for '' Original Character). I made this artwork piece in 2012.
9 x 12 in acrylic
Waiting for the spring
saw stained glass window, thought of the sea, and doodled
doodling houses with ink and water color
i had become so bored of reading the articles in this hate-mongering newspaper that i decided it was a better use of my time to start doodling over the pictures.
If it's not too much to ask...
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Daily drawing (#221) of the Joe Rogan Podcast of the comedian, actor, podcast, writer and producer, Ari Shaffir. Pencil drawing and colored in Procreate.
Imaginary Friend Drawing Challenge

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He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place. He had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants. “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. “Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” So Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top. He called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.

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"An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage."--Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise Mysterious men are rounding up street children and enrolling them in a so-called "rehabilitation program," designed to indoctrinate them for the military-backed regime's imminent crackdown on its opponents. Across town, thousands of protesters encamp in a city square demanding the return of the recently deposed president. Reminiscent of recent clashes in Egypt and reflective of political movements worldwide where civilians face off against state power, Abdel Aziz deftly illustrates the universal human struggles between resisting and succumbing to an oppressive regime. Here Is A Body is a courageous and powerful depiction of the state cooptation of human bodies, the dehumanization of marginalized groups, and the use of inflammatory religious rhetoric to manipulate a narrative.
About the Author
Basma Abdel Aziz is an award-winning writer, sculptor, and psychiatrist, specializing in treating victims of torture. A weekly columnist for Egypt's al-Shorouk newspaper, she was named a Foreign Policy Global Thinker, and a Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute top influencer in the Arab world. A long-standing vocal critic of government oppression in Egypt, she is the winner of the Sawiris Cultural Award, the General Organization for Cultural Palaces Award, and the Ahmed Bahaa-Eddin Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel The Queue won the English PEN Translation Award and has been translated into Turkish, Portuguese, Italian, and German. She lives in Cairo. Jonathan Wright is the translator of the winning novel in the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and twice winner of the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. He was formerly the Reuters bureau chief in Cairo and has translated Alaa Al Aswany, Youssef Ziedan, and Hassan Blassim. He lives in London, UK.


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One of my favorite areas of our local park is being subjected to some drastic engineering. If you ask me, this looks more like an attempt to turn it into a sad place -- reminiscent of Mordor.
For the last month or so, there have been people and trucks and things all over the park's soccer field. You can see the soccer field on the right side of this panorama along with big piles of dirt. The field is bordered on one side by an area of the park that has been left in a natural state, providing habitat for birds, frogs, marsh rabbits and other creatures.
We've been seeing equipment like this for days now and wondering what was going to be happening in this area.
Dirt has been carted in by the truckload and piled in the field for some future, mysterious use.
You can see the natural area in the background of this photo along with more dirt.
All of the wooden light poles have been taken down. They are being replaced by metal ones. I do understand the logic of this from a maintenance perspective but it is a loss for the several species of birds who used the wooden poles as nesting sites.
Now we are faced with this: the wholesale uprooting of trees and other vegetation from the natural area. I'm told this is being done to make the area "safer" for children.
Another view of the area that is being "renovated." On the left side of this photo is a place where there used to be a shaded pool harboring a small population of native frogs. I doubt they will survive this mess.
What I have been told is that the land directly adjacent to the soccer field is actually owned by the public school system. Fortunately, it appears that their section of the natural area only extends in about 40 feet or so. The rest, including a small marshy wetland, is apparently under government jurisdiction and will (hopefully) remain untouched. I'm sure the city and the school district will replace what they have ripped out with some nice grass that eats resources for maintenance. Do I think the children will be any safer for all this destruction? No. But we might all be safer in the long run if our children were taught to appreciate the natural world instead of being protected from it.
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ARDEN ARCADE – One person has been taken to the hospital after an early morning fire at an apartment in Sacramento County.
The fire was first reported around 3 a.m. Wednesday near Arden Way and the Alta Arden Expressway.
One unit was involved, according to Metro Fire of Sacramento, and crews were able to keep the flames from spreading to other units.
Firefighters say one person was hospitalized with minor injuries.
Investigators believe the incident started in the bathroom.

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The Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Thursday said that the state judiciary handled no fewer than 5,958 cases and delivered 1,038 judgments during the 2017/2018 legal year.
Mr Abimbola made the disclosure during the activities marking the commencement of the 2018 /2019 legal year in the state.
According to him, the cases included both criminal and civil matters.
He said the state judiciary was poised to improve on the achievements recorded the legal year, explaining that measures to ensure quick dispensation of justice had been put in place.
“Honestly speaking, during this new legal year, we are going to see fast delivery of judgments, because a Performance Evaluation Committee has been set up at the Magistrate Court level.
“This committee, which is made up of other stakeholders like the counsels and the witnesses, is already in operation at the High Court level.
“The essence of the committee is to monitor and ensure that judges live up to expectation, and to resolve issues that can possibly delay justice,’’ said Mr Abimbola.
In his contributions, Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state said the judiciary as the third arm of government, had a significant role to play in the country’s democracy, especially as it approached the 2019 elections.
Mr Ajimobi, represented by Ismail Ali, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), noted that Nigerians would in next year head to the polls in furtherance of the country’s democracy.
“It is, therefore, the responsibility of everyone to ensure a free, fair and credible election, especially in the resolution of election disputes.
“I commend the Oyo state judiciary for speedy conclusion of election disputes that spilled out of the last local government elections.
“Such speedy deliveries give users of the system confidence in our processes,’’ Mr Ajimobi said.
The governor said his administration was committed to having a judicial system that should be the envy of all.
He said he was constantly liaising with the chief judge of the state on how best to make the bench more congenial for daily adjudication.
In his lecture at a mosque service, Kamil Oloso, urged the judiciary to fear God in their dealings and uphold the rule of law as the bedrock of democratic governance.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there were simultaneous mosque and church services in Ibadan to mark the commencement of the new legal year.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have allowed pregnant Princess Eugenie to reside of their UK house
The royal family obviously has a "what's mine is yours" attitude.
Well that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle You officially live in Santa Barbara, California. They don't have much use for their British estate. Instead of leaving it empty, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have decided to let their cousins live there temporarily.
E! News confirms Frogmore Cottage continues to be Harry and Meghan's official UK residence despite "delighted to open their home" Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank how the royals start their own family.
A source says E! News: "Meghan and Prince Harry found out their cousins were expecting and graciously offered them their house."
The insider adds, "Harry and Meghan are not being pulled out of Frogmore and they will definitely stay there when they go back to the UK."
It is an example of how the couple, even after distancing themselves from the throne, still have good relationships with their beloved family.

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The projects are creative to spark imagination and get kids writing.
Each writing project is enough writing for daily writing practice or to use independently in a literacy center.
They are designed for kids in grades K-2.
Creative Writing Projects are designed for kids to practice a variety of writing including narrative, opinion, expository, descriptive and more. Use the full page examples for better understanding, inspiration, or a starting point. Each project includes a word bank for inspiration and help with spelling tricky words.
Planning starts each project, warming up kids’ brains for writing. Plans have a place to draw a picture that relates to the writing.
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Metabolic Neurotransmitter Dysregulation can result in “food addictions.” Neurotransmitters are brain chemicals that enable communication. Imbalances create symptoms. Research has discovered that obese individuals have fewer dopamine receptors in their brain. Dopamine is the brain chemical that stimulates feelings of satisfaction.
A considerable amount of scientific evidence suggests that serotonin, another brain chemical, plays a major role in influencing appetite and eating behavior. Specifically, when humans and animals are fed diets deficient in tryptophan, an amino acid, appetite is significantly increased. As a result, binge eating of carbohydrates occurs. Amino acids are the building blocks of neurotransmitters. Low levels of the amino acid tryptophan leads to low brain serotonin levels. The brain interprets this as a sign of starvation. The brain then stimulates the appetite control centers which results in carbohydrate cravings. When carbohydrate meals are consumed, increased tryptophan is delivered to the brain which in turn produces more serotonin. This process occurs if the necessary vitamin & mineral cofactors are present such as B3, B6, C and calcium. Appetite control is essential in maintaining optimal weight & depends upon sound nutrition.
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Fats: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Good fats are essential to our well-being. Examples of good fats are essential fatty acids (EFAs) (unsaturated fats) required in the diet. Omega-3 & omega-6 are the major types. The primary omega-3 oil is alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) found in flaxseeds, soybeans, pumpkin seeds & walnuts. Fish oils, such as cod, krill, salmon & mackerel, contain the other important omega-3 oils, DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid). Linoleic acid is the main omega-6 oil and is found in safflower, peanut, and sesame oils. The most therapeutic form of omega-6 oil is gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) found in borage, evening primrose and black currant oils.
Trans fats are man-made in a process called hydrogenation where vegetable oils are treated, under pressure, with temperature up to 360 degrees Fahrenheit, with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst (e.g., nickel). This process converts the liquid oil into a substance that resembles solid animal fat. Product shelf life is improved, but human life is threatened.
Essential Fatty Acids Versus Trans Fats
Essential Fatty Acids are involved in various functions including maintaining cellular integrity and brain function. Cells have a phospholipid membrane made up of fatty acids. The brain is approximately 60% fat or lipid. In order to sustain optimal cognitive and physiological functioning, adequate amounts of essential fatty acids need to be included in the diet.
Unfortunately, an excessive amount of fat intake is in the form of trans fats. Trans fats are man-made in a process called hydrogenation. This process treats vegetable oils with hydrogen , under pressure and high temperatures, in the presence of a catalyst. The liquid oil is thus converted into a substance that resembles solid animal fat. The material is dark and smelly like grease. It has to be bleached and deodorized to become a white tasteless synthetic “fat” that is more like a plastic than it is fat. The food industry favors hydrogenation rather than using healthy fats because of increased shelf life. However, trans fats are unhealthy and unfit for human consumption. The use of trans fats in processed foods is a major contributor to health issues.
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So, you’ve got yourself $2000 and you want to make your IS300 faster. Let me guess – you’re thinking about the CXRacing turbo kit. You’ve read great reviews and you’re ready to “pull the trigger,” eh? Sound about right? Or maybe you think you’re smarter than the average joe – you’ll buy the kit and upgrade the most important parts. Pretty clever, huh?
Take it from me, that’s $2000 that could — and should — be put elsewhere. If you’re serious about putting down power, then you need to build a good foundation. In stock form, the IS300 is a respectably sporty car. It goes without saying that the 2jz-GE motor is a great platform to start with. However, there are certain areas of the car that you really should look to improve before you dump money into forced induction (not to mention, it’s my opinion that the CXRacing turbo kit is an example of being pennywise and pound foolish).
If forced induction is really what you want, don’t go into it with a fixed number like $2000 in your head. Yes, the IS300 can be boosted for less money than other cars (though not as cheaply as Civics and the like), but your build should not be limited by your budget. I understand that not everyone has super deep pockets, but here is an example: let’s say you picked up an almost-finished turbo setup for a steal of a deal, but it comes with an outdated management system like the Unichip. You take it over to a friend’s house for him to look it over, and he says that you should invest in a quality management unit. If your reply is, “I don’t have the money for that right now,” that’s a red flag. You don’t need every single goodie available for the car, but your budget should not limit the reliability and safety if your build. If you want forced induction, wait until you can truly afford it.
Now, just because you don’t have the money for forced induction doesn’t mean you can’t improve your car. Like I said earlier, you can and should take that $2000 you have and invest it into building a solid platform. Before you do anything, you should be sure that your maintenance is taken care of. With the mileage and years on our cars nowadays, chances are there is an area or two (if not more) that needs your attention. When you have confirmed that your car’s maintenance is up to snuff, proceed reading this article.
Without further adieu, I present to you – the four (technically five) best modifications you can do to your IS300 with a limited budget. Not only will these additions improve your smile-per-gallon ratio, but they’ll also provide you a car that is far more reliable and enjoyable once boosted.
- Quality tires. I cannot stress enough how important these are. Having quality tires will not only increase your car’s performance abilities, but it also will make your car safer. Many people have debated how important big brake kits are to a car’s stopping ability, but what is often forgotten is the grippiness of the car’s tires. Simple physics will tell you that friction is the force that stops a car. If you lock up your OEM brakes when attempting to stop, there is nothing more that a big brake kit will do to help. When your brakes are locked, it’s up to your tires to do the rest. Having poor quality tires will greatly hamper your ability to stop, possibly putting you in a dangerous situation. Again, I cannot stress that enough.
- Sway bars. Some call them anti-roll bars, but the point of them is to influence your car’s handling characteristics. Simply and generally put, the stiffer the sway bars, the more easily they will induce oversteer. What specifically does each sway bar do?
- Softer front bar: will increase front chassis roll; will increase front grip/traction, while decreasing rear grip/traction; will provide slower steering response; increases off-power steering in corner entry.
- Stiffer front bar will: decrease front chassis roll; decrease front traction while increasing the rear (aka, understeer); provide faster steering response; decrease off-power steering in corner entry.
- Softer rear bar will: increase rear chassis roll; increase rear grip, while decreasing front; decrease on-power steering.
- Stiffer rear bar will: decrease rear chassis roll; decrease rear traction, while increasing front traction (aka, oversteer); increase on-power steering.
Even a stiffer rear sway bar will noticeably increase your car’s sportiness. It might not add gobs of power, but sway bars make a huge difference on this car’s driving characteristics. Your car will feel flatter and more confident in each turn, thus allowing you to hit them harder and faster than you ever imagined (assuming, of course, you’ve taken modification 1 to heart).
3. Whether you prefer coilovers or a shock/spring combo, you’ll find yourself reaping the benefits time and time again. Upgrading to adjustable suspension will allow you to fine tune your car’s driving characteristics to suit your exact needs. Track day? Switch over to a stiffer setting to maximize traction. Daily driver? Even if you set it back a bit softer, you’ll still have better handling than stock. While this upgrade isn’t exactly necessary, it’s definitely not something you’ll regret. Upgraded suspension coupled with upgraded sway bars will give you lots of flexibility for adjustments.
4. Valve body upgrade. The “Toyomoto” style valve body rods were the first attempt at this upgrade, and they essentially remove any dampening between shifts. They do slam into each gear, and going into reverse can be rough. Since no company ever sold a stiffer spring to replace the OEM version, shimming the valve body is the best available budget-friendly option. Depending on what materials you use, the shims themselves could be free or very close to it (however, you will need to buy new transmission fluid). The shims make each shift noticeably more firm, but they preserve some of the stock dampening, so you won’t be jolted going into reverse or chirp your tires going into 3rd gear. Be sure to add a cooler when you do this mod, and you’ll have a stronger, much more capable transmission on your hands. We go into more detail of this upgrade here.
4a. For the manual guys – Figs Clutch Damper Device Delete. Essentially, it will improve the engagement of the clutch by removing the fluid restriction to the clutch slave cylinder. They go into more detail on this mod on their website, but at only $32, it’s certainly a budget-friendly mod with a lot of upside. Low risk, high reward as they say. This “mod” might not be as immediately noticeable as the valve body shims, but for the price it’s hard to beat it.
So, there you have it. Let’s say you spend $800 on a shock/spring combination, $500 on grippy summer tires, $400 on sway bars, and $40 on either the valve body upgrade or the CDD delete, and you’ve now spent less than you were going to spend on a suspect turbo kit and substantially improved your IS300.


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For a fabulous change from chocolate lava cake, you have to try this! This recipe is perfect for fall and currently, our Aroma Doveware mini pots come in the equally perfect fall shades! These lava cakes are so delicious, you’ll have to try and stop yourself from eating multiple ones in one sitting! The rich hazelnut flavor is enveloped by ribbons of smooth, rich chocolate. It will please the palate and send copious amounts of endorphin to the brain! Try it out today!
3 eggs (room temperature)
¼ cup (4 tbsp) melted butter
1/3 cup flour
1 cup powdered sugar (or ¾ cup for a less decadent level of sweetness)
1 cup hazelnut spread (such as Nutella®)
2 tsp vanilla extract
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Pre-heat oven to 425° F
Brush inside of Doveware Mini Pots with coconut oil (or other vegetable oil) and coat oil thoroughly with cocoa powder (or flour)
Whisk eggs in large mixing bowl; add vanilla extract; whisk in butter, followed by flour and sugar.
Stir in hazelnut spread (such as Nutella®) thoroughly and then pour into Doveware Mini Pots, filling them to about 2/3 or ¾ from top.
Transfer (without covers) to pre-heated oven for 18-20 minutes (your oven times may vary; a test is to jiggle the Doveware Mini Pots and see if the top surface moves very little). And note that the cakes will rise and may seep a little bit of “lava” from an edge while baking.
Remove from oven and optionally serve in Doveware Mini Pots after dusting with powdered sugar. Serve with the cover on for extra presentation value! (Alternatively invert cake from Doveware Mini Pots to plate before dusting and serving.)
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Last year, we published a three-part blog series* that talked a lot about the future of call centers. Much has been said over the past years about the “death” of call centers, but so far, emerging technologies (e.g., VoIP technology, Web/voice integration, etc. ), updated digital marketing strategies (e.g. CRM platforms, etc.) and healthcare’s movement toward ACOs, Population Health and its continual search for cost reduction have kept call centers in the picture, albeit in a different structure and appearance than 20 years ago. Often, in an elevated position of importance to the health system.
A recent Slideshare from Xerox again raises the notion of the call center’s demise. The first sentence states, “It looks like the call center’s days are numbered.” Really? Let’s look at the information presented in the Slideshare.
According to a Xerox survey, 42% of the survey respondents said that call centers will be nonexistent by 2025. Ironically, the respondents also say that call centers are their preferred means of communication with an organization (25% of worldwide respondents, 31% of US respondents).
So, what’s next? Survey respondents believe that automated systems will be the replacement for call centers. After all, everything else is headed towards automation – why should customer service be any different?
Considering that over one-third of call center volume is due to failure of digital channels meeting the customer’s needs, and that each call that results from a digital channel failure costs $10, if automation becomes the de facto replacement for call centers, then automation has to get it right. In the Xerox survey, while 56% of respondents said they’re fine with using a virtual assistant, the problem is when they can’t find what they need with a virtual assistant, it necessitates a call – ironically – to the call center.
The bottom line: Customers want to communicate with businesses and organizations in the fastest, most hassle-free manner possible. Businesses and organizations must keep an eye on costs while keeping customers happy. So until automated processes can meet or exceed human interaction, the call center will remain a viable option. And it may be that more call centers will evolve to a revenue-producing center.
How’s that, you say? As we noted in Part 2 of our series last year, as self-help options and user communities proliferate, only the most complex problems and issues will go to the call center. Thus, call center agents will need a wider range of skills – excellent communication skills, analytical problem solving skills, project management skills and technical training to be able to adapt to changes in technology. Today’s call center agents will have to become tomorrow’s “super agents,” able to assist customers with the most complex issues in the most efficient and effective manner. These super agents may help increase customer retention and may even provide a premium service for which customers are willing to pay because of the superior experience.
So, it appears that the end of the call center – as we know it – is on the horizon. But that’s not a bad thing, because its replacement will bring about quality, smart solutions, more and better relationships … and profit.
If your organization has a call center and you’re not already looking toward its future, you might want to start by identifying where your customer communication strategy is headed.
*Part 1: http://www.greystoneblog.net/the-call-center-sounding-a-death-knell-or-seeking-a-new-identity-part-1-where-weve-been-where-were-going/; Part 2: http://www.greystoneblog.net/the-call-center-sounding-a-death-knell-or-seeking-a-new-identity-part-2-moving-toward-the-call-center-of-the-future/; Part 3: http://www.greystoneblog.net/the-call-center-sounding-a-death-knell-or-seeking-a-new-identity-part-3-adapting-to-new-uses/


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Abigail has recently discovered Ted Ed and has been working her way through lots of sciency lessons. She now knows the best way to get ketchup to pour from a bottle, why chillies make your mouth feel like it's on fire, and how a computer works.
This week we've moved on to a lesson on metaphors.
What do you think? Some of it was a little beyond Abigail's ability, but the visuals really helped her take some new concepts on board. At 6, she's still very literal (the answer to my recent 'play your cards right' was a forlorn 'but I don't HAVE any cards') so this as nicely placed to introduce the idea of 'saying what is not true to describe what is true'.
There is space to Dig Deeper on the Ted Ed site, but I wanted to link in with a book that we already had in the house: Elephant Dance.
Elephant Dance is the story of Ravi, who is listening to some of his Grandfather's stories from India, using lots of metaphorical description. Ice cream mountains, tiger suns, and curtains of rain; the descriptions are all big and exotic, perfect to capture little minds. There are also pages of facts about life in India to come back to, but today we were concerned with all the metaphors dripping off the pages. I've tasked Abigail to to describe her world, using her new-found skills of metaphor. She's working om it now, and I'm quite sure it will come back marvellously illustrated.
You might also like The Barefoot Book of Classic Poetry, which is packed full of the finest poetry which takes you on a journey from birth to death, and lots in between. If you give describing your world in metaphors a go, I'd love to hear what you came up with.


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By Michael Bleby and Nassim Khadem
In a year where one in three firms cut staff due to tough economic conditions, one might assume that the landscape for accounting jobs is drying up.
In fact, it’s simply changing. In 2014 expect to see more offshoring and outsourcing of jobs, as well as more part-time hires and more flexible working arrangements.
The kind of talent firms hunt for is also changing. As firms seek to bolster their consulting practices, being a specialist in a nice area is key. Digital consultants and data analytics experts are among those in high demand.
Also popular are people with specific language skills. Australians taking advantage of opportunities in the Asian century will result in firms hiring more staff from Asian backgrounds.
In October the nation’s biggest firm by revenue,
The BRW Top 100 Accounting Firms survey found that there were at least 341 staff cuts that firms admitted to in 2012-13. The chief executives of the nation’s top four firms have not ruled out further staff cuts.
PwC chief executive
Dawn of a new era
Professional services consultant George Beaton says as demand for services reduces, the big four will keep heavily discounting their prices. The next step for accounting firms will be “de-equitising". Firms will seek to shift positions from full-time to part-time to try to match supply with demand.
“We think this is a structural rather than a cyclical shift," Beaton says. “It will continue well into the future."
Accounting firms are employing graduates in their thousands. While there was a 22 per cent drop in graduate hires among the top 100 firms in 2013, next year the number is expected to be roughly the same at over 2000. However, the big four firms are not boosting their graduate intakes by much. Deloitte will hire 10 extra graduates, increasing from 440 hires in 2013 to 450 next year.
PwC will only have four extra graduates (from 346 to 350). KPMG Australia will reduce its graduate intake by almost 60 people (from 369 to 310) and EY will also reduce, but only by eight people (from 336 to 328).
More women to climb the ladder
The intake of graduates is split 50-50 between men and women, but the number of women in senior positions is still dismally low.
As time passes, firms will push more women into senior ranks. They will also move staff out of underperforming areas and fight to retain top-fee earning partners. The survey found 94 per cent of firms say they expect to increase staff salaries in 2013-14.
“I don’t see us decreasing our people overall, but in some areas we will have new and different people," says
Pitcher Partners chairman
In October, the firm held its first London alumni reception since 2008. It’s an event aimed at encouraging returning former Australian employees to come back to the firm.
Rankin says whether things are good or bad the firm will always need business advisory staff. “The advice is different, but you position yourself so you’re needed," he says.
BDO cut 34 people over the past year, a figure managing partner

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A judge in Lexington has denied a motion to dismiss an Eastern Kentucky University student's lawsuit against Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.
Brent Whiteside filed the suit in January against the Philadelphia-based social fraternity, claiming the group disregarded his heath, safety and welfare when he was a pledge to the EKU chapter.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that in April, an attorney for Kappa Alpha Psi filed for dismissal, saying the national organization had no duty to supervise the local chapters' members.
In his lawsuit, Whiteside claims he was repeatedly beaten by members of the chapter as part of initiation rituals in early 2008. He was later hospitalized with kidney failure.
He seeks unspecified punitive damages.
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Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention, West Virginia Inmate Search
The Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention, located at One Lory Place, Julian, WV, 25529 is a State Prison and serves . It has a capacity of .
Those close to inmates may:
- Send inmates mail
- Deposit money into their inmate trust account
- Receive calls from them
- Visit them
If the inmate you are looking for is not on the search above, you can go directly to the http://wvde.state.wv.us/directory/office/Donald+R.+Kuhn+Juvenile+Center/ or you can call the jail directly on: 304-369-2976
Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention, West Virginia
- Facility Name Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention
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- Address One Lory Place, Julian, WV, 25529
- Phone Number 304-369-2976
- City Julian
- Zip 25529
- State West Virginia
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Visitors must schedule a visit, in line with the visitation hours of the jail, and its requirements.
Visitors must also have their government ID on them to be permitted into the visiting area. They must adhere to jail’s dress code. They will not be able to bring anything into the visitation area.
Call 304-369-2976 for scheduling a visit. http://wvde.state.wv.us/directory/office/Donald+R.+Kuhn+Juvenile+Center/ website for more information about the application process.
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All mail coming into the prison is inspected by the jail staff.
It is important that for any mail to be processed at Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention that the sender’s name and mailing address is included on the envelope.
In addition, the inmate’s full name (that they are in the jail under), the inmate’s SPN & cell block area must be listed.
The following restrictions apply for any mail sent to Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention:
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- No sexually suggestive photographs
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For full details on the most uptodate policies, visit the Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention’s http://wvde.state.wv.us/directory/office/Donald+R.+Kuhn+Juvenile+Center/.To clarify any questions you have on sending mail here, call the Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention directly on 304-369-2976.
To add money to an inmate’s trust account at Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention, you have a few options.
Don’t send cash by mail. You can deposit a money order. You may also be able to use: Touch Pay Direct to deposit money.
You can call the jail at 304-369-2976 to find out any other updated ways of depositing money for an inmate.
Inmates held at Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention are not allowed to receive phone calls. They are however allowed to put through collect calls. Some jails have also upgraded their phone systems to allow detainees to make calls directly to landlines and cell phones, which means calls are usually cheaper than if they were on a collect basis.
All calls made out can be recorded and monitored, so care should be taken about what is discussed.
The jail may limit calls to some numbers for security reasons, without providing any warning.
To find the most uptodate information on the phone policies at Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Diagnostic & Detention, call 304-369-2976.
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Saudi Arabia: An unnamed Saudi Arabian woman who was wearing a niqab, a headdress that shows only the eyes, has been arrested after running on stage to hug a male singer during a concert, according to reports. She is facing up to two years in prison and a fine equivalent to $27,000 for hugging Iraqi singer and composer Majid Al Mohandis. Videos posted online showed her holding on to Mr Mohandis while security staff tried to pull her off him. The Iraqi-born singer, who also has Saudi citizenship, continued to perform after the incident.
Al-Madina newspaper reported Tuesday the woman, whose name and age weren’t given, was arrested earlier this month at a festival when Majid Al Mohandis, an Iraqi-born singer with Saudi citizenship, was performing his solo act. The paper reports the woman acknowledges hugging Almohandis but argues she was incited to do so.
Saudi Arabia remains one of the very few countries in the world not to accept the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Social events are largely predicated on the separation of men and women; the mixing of non-kin men and women at parties or the like is extremely rare and limited to some of the modernist Western-educated families. Women who are seen socializing with a man who is not a relative, can be harassed by the mutaween, even charged with committing adultery, fornication or prostitution.
She was charged with breaking local laws against “harassment,” but there’s almost certainly another reason for the criminal charges. The anti-harassment law that came into effect last month is obviously based on Sharia principles:
- Whilst harassment can be said to have long been unlawful under Islamic Sharia principles in the Kingdom (which adopts the Hanbali school of Islamic Sharia law), the new law strengthens the position regarding harassment and sets out clear penalties for violation of its provisions.
- The law aims to protect an individual's dignity, privacy and personal freedom in accordance with Islamic Sharia rules and regulations.
In other countries, the woman would certainly have been lightly punished for harassing the singer on the scene. However, in Saudi Arabia, she faces prison time. Two years in prison for hugging the favorite singer is absolutely not an appropriate sentence.
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Dover was a great castle to visit. With great views of the English Channel and a history that will appeal to all.
Dover is a giant among castles. It has the longest recorded history of any major castle in Britain. Indeed Dover Castle began before history itself, its earliest rampart defences date back to the prehistoric Iron Age. Then the Romans built a pharos (lighthouse) here in the first century AD.


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Visitation for James “Butch” Royal, 67, Jeffersonville, will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30, at Scott Funeral Home, Jeffersonville. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, at Antioch Church Cemetery, Bloomfield. He died Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, at Baptist East Hospital with his family by his side.
He was born Sept. 27, 1946 in Linton, and was a member of Bloomfield Church of Christ. He was a retired pipefitter with Local 157 and a member of the Kentucky Cutlery Association.
He is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Marilyn Royal; two children, Hunter Royal and his wife, Sandra, and Jill Scott and her husband, Jeff; three sisters, Loessa Hayes, Suzie Felton, and Yvette Anderson and her husband, Gary; and three grandchildren, Hannah Scott, Danielle Royal and Andrew Scott.
To leave a special message for the family, please visit www.scottfuneralhome.com


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Posted 12:11 PM 11/14/2012 : 2 Teens Arrested in Connection with Weekend Shooting
MCALLEN - Officers in McAllen arrested two teens in connection with a weekend shooting.
It happened on West El Rancho Road, near 23rd Street. Shots were fired at a home, but no one was hurt.
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Malaysia’s Islamic religious police raided an LGBT Halloween party on Saturday night, arresting people engaged in cross-dressing and allegedly encouraging vice.
Activist Numan Afifi was among those arrested at the Kuala Lumpur event. He told the AFP news agency that the raid was “traumatizing and harrowing”.
“About 40 religious officers, backed by the police, entered the hall with about 1,000 participants, and they stopped the music and dancing,” he said.
Assistant Police Commissioner Noor Dellhan Yahaya has since vowed to “step up operations and inspections of clubs,” The Star newspaper quoted him as saying.
Numan said authorities divided partygoers into two groups: Muslims and followers of other religions. Authorities checked 53 men and nine women at the Halloween party, The Star reported.
Authorities then took 20 of the group’s Muslims to the Islamic Religious Department of the Federal Territories. They were all released after a few hours, but are due to return next week for further questioning.
“Some would have committed offenses under cross-dressing, while others, including me, encouraged vice,” Numan said.
Malaysia has a two-track justice system with civil courts and Islamic Sharia courts designed specifically for Muslim Malaysians, who make up 60% of the country’s population. These religious laws do not apply to the sizable Chinese and Indian communities, nor to most foreigners.
Calls for change
This latest incident in which police raided an LGBT+ party sparked outrage in the Southeast Asian country, which counts Thailand and Singapore among its neighbors.
Opposition politician Carles Santiago said the raid was a case of “harassment of a marginalized community”.
“When will we learn to respect and accept people for who they are?” he tweeted.
Others have called on Malaysia to drop its laws targeting queer people.
“These people are not criminals,” human rights lawyer Siti Kassim told AFP. “The oppression and discrimination against LGBT people must stop immediately.”
AFP material contributed to this report.
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With a stay at Hotel Campanile Nantes Est - Saint Sébastien Sur Loire in Saint-Sebastien-sur-Loire, you'll be close to Parc du Grand-Blottereau and Jardin des Plantes. This hotel is within close proximity of Hospital Saint Jacques and La Cite Nantes Event Center. Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Event facilities at this hotel consist of meeting rooms and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite. Stay in one of 49 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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The U.S. taxes it's citizens no matter where in the world they live. The only way to avoid this is to renounce U.S. citizenship. Denise Rich who wrote songs recorded by Aretha Franklin, Mary J Bilge and Jessica Simpson is the latest to renounce her citizenship. In doing so she will save millions of dollars worth of taxes. From the Huffington Post:
Can you imagine anything that would get up the nose of socialists more?
This group of busy beavers has been working away to cast the rich as "the enemy":
The Herald writing about the tax justice network:
I checked out the Tax Justice Network.
Take a look at our core themes:
A quick fisking:
We support sustainable finance for development
What they support is governments handing over more of their citizens' tax to pour into the vast corruption havens that can already not be trusted with the money they do receive. Ever heard of the saying, "pouring good money after bad'? The implication is that the rich shits of the world are "hiding" tax that could help the third world.
We support international co-operation on tax, regulation and crime
They want another useless U.N. Good luck on that one.
We oppose tax havens and offshore finance
They want to dictate to countries like Switzerland what their tax regime should be. The Swiss are onto a nice little earner and these socialists want a piece of the pie.
We support transparency and we oppose corruption
They want every financial document to be visible to everyone so we can all join in castigating the naughty rich people. Time once was that everybody minded their own fucking business and got on with the job at hand of earning a crust. We left it to the gummit to rope in the cowboys and didn't automatically assume that all politicians were corrupt.
We support a level playing field in competitive markets
This is about their only valid point. A simple tax system is the most likely to be complied with.
We support progressive and equitable taxation
So. Some organizations and individuals support no taxes. It's always going to be a play between the individual vs the collective.
We support corporate responsibility and accountability
Again they want companies to open their books and guilt them out to pay more taxes.
We support tax compliance and a culture of responsbility
At the end of this rubbish you'd be forgiven for thinking that rich people never did a days worth of work in their life. That businesses didn't create jobs.Every example of "the worker owning the means of production has failed awesomely. Some countries just don't get that for the beheading of a few rich fuckers, you get in return another bunch of fuckers who reward themselves and their mates handsomely, stifling innovation in the process. To a certain point if we ignore the very few piss soaked dole bludgers taking the piss, we have to live with the odd rich bastard with excessive wealth.
These issues affect rich and poor countries, and, like the
fight against corruption, our approach does not fit easily into either
of the old political categories of left and right.
Me: Rubbish. you are touting pure socialism.
We do not argue generally for
high or low taxes (that is for voters to decide) but we note the often better human development outcomes
in higher-tax countries and oppose the demonisation of tax that is
fashionable in some circles.
Me: It's fashionable in my circle of me and my husband because we want to keep what we earn and not have a bunch of doofuses paying themselves wages to mismanage our money.
What we do support is progressive and
taxation, which is what voters around the world have chosen. We wish to
sovereignty restored, so that electorates are given back the power to
get the tax systems they vote for.
Me: They want a revolution so they can install cosy little socialist regimes so we can all be more like Cuba.
To this end we advocate
much stronger co-operation between states on tax and regulation. This
will help us address the growing tension between global integration and a
shortage of credible international governance
Me: And the USSR broke up because it was so successful? Be afraid of anyone talking of global governance.


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Masters of Photography: Classic Photographic Artists of Our Time by Reuel Golden
From the pioneers of the early part of the century to the experimental artists who will take us into the future, Masters of Photography is an indispensable guide to over 50 of the world's best-known and most influential photographers. Arranged in alphabetical order by photographer, from Eve Arnold to Weegee, each entry contains fascinating biographical and technical details along with sumptuous reproductions of representative and groundbreaking works.
Reuel Golden is senior editor of the world's biggest magazine for professional photographers, the New York-based Photo District News. Prior to this he was editor of the British Journal of Photography for six years. He is also the author of Carlton's Photojournalism.
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Level of assertiveness among adolescent’s students: A review based literature
Harain Bhardwaj, MG Vishwas
Method: A comprehensive systematic search of published literature and journal articles from PubMed, Ebsco, Delnet and google scholar was done. Search strategy specific to each database was used. During initial search 444188 titles were retrieved and after screening of 900 full text articles, finally 5 research articles were selected based on the rigid inclusion criteria. Result: Out of 5 articles, 1st research study finding was showed that the level of assertiveness among undergraduate students is moderate in nature. 2nd result of the study showed no significant difference in assertiveness level between the adolescents based on gender. 3rd study finding suggest there was a significant increase in degree of difficulty with subordinates, followed by colleagues of South African population’s assertiveness. 4th result showed that Swedish adolescents are more assertive than Turkish adolescents. 5th The students are assertive and mean score for assertiveness of the male students are more than female students. Conclusion: Assertiveness is much important for the students to achieve more in their education as well as in personality development. Students should aware the importance of assertiveness and each student must learn how to develop the assertive behaviour. Teachers and parents should aware of it and help the students to develop such a character among students. The study may helpful for the students, teachers and parents to understand the level and importance of assertiveness in the present generation.

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US tax man accused of falsifying his own tax return
US tax man allegedly gave a false valuation on a property sale to lower his tax bill
A US tax official has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for
tax fraud and obstructing an investigation into a tax return.
Jim Liu claimed on his tax return that he had suffered a loss on the sale of
property when he had actually made a profit, reports
The indictment alleges that he provided false documents and statements during
an IRS audit of his return.


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Do you ever wonder why authors write historical fiction – after all, it’s about people they’ve never met and a time they’ve never lived in.
Well, how about this. Imagine the scene:
A young woman stands by a log fire in a wealthy merchant’s house just outside Ghent in Flanders, what is now Belgium. The year is 1340.
The woman is shivering, warming herself by a log fire. The door opens and a young man walks in, shaking the snow from his cloak. The merchant and his wife lead the couple into another room.
The man takes the hand of the younger woman and says: ‘I, Thomas Holand, solemnly vow that I will take you, Joan Plantagenet, as my wife and I will do it before a priest, as soon as I may, and I therefore pledge thee my troth.’
The young woman repeats the vow.
That’s it, it’s done. They have said the words in front of two witnesses. No church, no photographer, no DJ, no collage on Facebook.
In the fourteenth century it is all they need to do to become legally married.
The problem is that the young woman is a princess, and a valuable asset to the English crown. In her day and age she is not free to do as she wishes. She must do what her cousin the king wants her to.
That does not include marrying Thomas Holand, a landless knight with no money and no prospects, with no political value at all.
Why did this story get my attention? Well, we’ll get to that.
Of course, there were many things that were different about living in the 14th century. There was no internet, no coronavirus, no dating apps.
There was also no #metoo movement. In those days, royal women were considered chattels to be traded for political advantage. And romantic love didn’t really exist as a concept at all. Hallmark is a very recent invention.
Joan was considered a very valuable commodity indeed. Not only was she pretty, but her grandfather was King Edward I, Longshanks, scourge of the Scots. Perhaps she inherited her iron will from him.
In 1340, her cousin, King Edward III was trying to force his claim to the French throne, which precipitated the lengthy conflict that later became known as the Hundred Years’ War. (Actually 116 years, but that doesn’t have such a ring to it.)
Somehow, perhaps when she was traveling by ship with the king to Flanders on one of his many military campaigns, she met and fell in love with a bit of a rogue called Sir Thomas Holand, a knight in the king’s army. It was the perfect shipboard romance.
They married in secret shortly afterwards and Holand went off to the wars and left his young bride to face the music. What happened next is extraordinary.
When she told the king and her family what she’d done, they closed ranks against her. Even though she had witnesses who could attest her marriage was legal, the king – with her mother’s backing – forced her into a bigamous marriage with someone they thought more fit for purpose. She still refused to give in.
For ten years – yes, ten – the king, Joan’s family, and some of England’s most powerful families tried to persuade to give up her penniless husband. They exiled her and shut her up in a tower. Holand was not allowed to see her.
They did all they could to break her spirit. Though painfully young and alone, Joan refused to bend, and eventually got her way.
Joan’s remarkable history is not the only thing that drew me to the story.
As the father of daughters, I imagined what it would be to be Joan’s father. He was the one person who might have stood up for her – but he was dead. I wondered what it must have been like to be watching on, but helpless to intervene.
So my novel is more than Joan of Kent’s story. At a deeper level, it is about fathers and daughters.
That is why it has a unique perspective.
Joan went on to become mother to the next king of England. Her intelligence and political ability guided her young son through many crises. She is now regarded as one of England’s most respected royal women.
How proud her father must have been, if he were watching from the wings.
One princess. Two husbands. By order of the King.
The true story of Joan of Kent, the English princess who defied her family and her king to win the man she loved.
A princess falls in love with a handsome knight; the stuff of fairy tales, but not very remarkable, even in an age where love was hardly a prerequisite for marriage.
It is the princess, Joan of Kent, who is remarkable. Forbidden by the king to marry, she does so anyway, in secret. When the King discovers what she has done, he is furious. He needs her to make political alliances and forces her to bigamy.
But she will not give up. For ten years she defies them all. Will she succeed – and what will happen if she does?
Available as a Kindle eBook or paperback on AMAZON.


Innovatrics joins ranks of biometrics triple threats in NIST evaluations
Innovatrics is now one of the few biometrics vendors who are participating in benchmarking by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in three different modalities; face, fingerprints, and iris.
There are 19 total entries in NIST’s ‘IREX’ benchmark for biometric accuracy in iris recognition, from 15 vendors. By comparison, the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) counts more than 200 entries from participating technology vendors and research teams. Innovatrics submitted its algorithm to IREX for evaluation in December, 2021.
“Training a reliable, accurate and fast algorithm for iris was the focus of our efforts in 2021. We’ve used everything we have learned in facial recognition and applied it to irises,” Marian Beszedes, head of R&D at Innovatrics, explains.
Innovatrics Founder and CEO Ján Lunter emphasized the importance of using multiple factors to ensure high security authentication in a Biometric Update guest post earlier in February.


Cisco Live 2013 is designed to open up new horizons by providing fascinating insight into technology innovation and vision, plus training and networking opportunities. You'll be able to experience firsthand some of the Next Generation technology solutions from Cisco within the World of Solutions which this year brings you more demos than ever before.
The Cisco BYOD Smart Solution provides a comprehensive approach to effectively design, manage, and control the access of a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) network. Cisco BYOD enhances user experiences and productivity.
This complete solution starts with Cisco design guides and professional services that lead you from planning and design to day-to-day operations. This BYOD solution also provides the necessary infrastructure, including access points, controllers, security and network management.
The Cisco VXI Smart Solution combines Cisco data centre, network, and collaboration technologies along with services and an industry-leading partner ecosystem to offer a comprehensive solution that simplifies deployment, reduces costs and risks.
Along with its broad partner ecosystem, VXI has been built do deliver virtualisation, facilitate collaboration and introduce genuine workspace mobility.
The Remote Expert Smart Solution enables interactive virtual face-to-face meetings with high-definition video. Now you can easily connect remote specialists in various industry segments like banking, government, retail and healthcare advisors with customers at any branch in real time, allowing expert services in any location.
CEBT is a technological approach to simplifying and accelerating business processes. By inserting collaborative capabilities such as presence, IM, voice, video and WebEx into existing workflows, organisational agility and speed to market can be improved.
TelePresence enables everyone, everywhere to interact face-to-face, increasing effectiveness of communication through lifelike and natural communication. From software running on the latest smartphones and tablets to dedicated hardware next generation visual communications empowers people to work together to transform businesses, accelerate innovation and do more with less.
WebEx Social is a collaboration platform that combines the power of social networking, content creation and real-time communication. It helps employees increase productivity by assisting them securely share information and access resources across departments, regions and countries.
Video solutions help enhance your business by extending the power of video beyond traditional communications. Businesses can achieve pervasive use of video by capturing it on any device, transforming content so that it can be viewed on any device and shred throughout the organisation.
Highlights the comprehensive service integration available on the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR) G2 with Cisco UCS E Series server module.
Demonstrates how customers can experience the performance improvements of direct branch-to-cloud connections without compromising security.
Cisco Medianet, aided by endpoint and network innovations, enhancesapplication visibility, provides differentiation among applications in their usage of network resources, and also accelerates their troubleshooting.
Showcases how powerful Layer 4-7 application services like Cisco Application Visibility and Control and Cisco Media can simplify application deployment and delivery.
Trustec, ISE and the brand new Catalyst 3850 combine to facilitate on-boarding for both wired and wireless devices. This integrated approach enables ease of policy setting across all types of users, devices and networks.
Prime Infrastructure 2.0, Aironet 3600 Access Point and Catalyst 3850 work together to deliver one comprehensive management solution for wired and wireless networks that simplify operations and provide complete control.
Converged Access through the new Catalyst 3850 enhances the way wired and wireless is controlled, managed and monitored. Learn about consistent workflows to adopt for BYOD, enable application optimisation, enforce business policies and gain network-wide visibility across wired and wireless, while achieving high resiliency and unmatched scale.
Learn about network segmentation of employee owned devices on the corporate network with Cisco Easy Virtual Network (EVN) and Cisco TrustSec (SGT/SGACL) solution enabled by Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 4500 Switches.
Discover the possibilities of a 100% cloud managed network that includes wireless, switching, security and mobile device management for midmarket enterprises.
Cisco Physical Security solutions are scalable, flexible, and comprehensive. Built for network and security system deployments and enabled by Cisco Medianet, unified data centre, and virtualisation technologies, they support video surveillance, access control, incident management, and security operations.
The Cisco Commercial Facilities Network (CCFN) transforms the traditional siloed technology networks within buildings, Essential building services such as access control, security CCTV, lighting, HVAC, building telephony and wifi services can now all use a robust, high speed, managed IP network.
As the world's utilities modernise the electrical grid, new operations and communications solutions are needed to help reduce costs, increase interoperability, and deliver multiple applications and services. At the Connected Energy stand see live demonstrations of: Cisco Field Area Networks supporting Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) SmartMeters, Distribution Automation (DA) and Remote Workforce Management; Substation Automation addressing cybersecurity concerns; and Network Management Solutions securely managing multivendor, multi-technology and multi-service utility communication networks.
A static display of equipment to allow customers to "touch and feel" all models of: IE3000, IE2000, IE3010, C819, AIR1552, ESR5915, ESR5940
This demonstration utilises the Cisco 819 M2M router and Cisco Industrial Ethernet switches to show how telemetry can be collected from a mining vehicle and backhauled over a Cisco wireless mesh infrastructure to a central data centre. The data can be securely monitored for abnormal fluctuations from a remote location using Cisco's VPN and ASA Firewall technologies. The detection of an abnormality can be used to generate warning alerts via management systems, IP Telephony and Instant Messaging.
Harness the power of BYOD through advanced location analytics to provide an online, connected customer experience that extends to the device, in and out of a retail environment.
Cisco is first to market with the new 802.11ac standard, providing faster throughput to devices on WiFi networks.
Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (Cisco IA for Cloud) is a self-service provisioning and orchestration software solution for cloud computing and data centre automation. It helps enable secure, on-demand, and highly automated IT operations for both virtual and physical infrastructure across compute, network, storage, and applications.
Featured Products and Technologies:
The demonstration highlights the benefits of Cisco's DCNM latest release 6.1 and how it manages Cisco Unified Fabric. Cisco Data Centre Network Manager (DCNM) optimises the overall uptime and reliability of the data centre infrastructure and helps improve business continuity.
This demonstration shows the following:How Cisco Unified Fabric features such as FabricPath / vPC's can be dynamically managed with DCNM
Featured Products and Technologies:
This demo highlights the key Cisco UCS Management capabilities – Cisco's primary differentiator: Stateless servers, logical server mobility and independence from hardware-based identifiers.
This demo will also demonstrate how UCS Central, the new and easy way to grow and manage multiple UCS domains across Data Centre simplifies management and reduces complexity for both new and existing UCS deployments across multiple data centres representing the newest and easiest way to grow and manage multiple UCS domains.
Featured Products and Technologies:
These demonstrations show how Nexus 1000V provides Scalable Network isolation with full integration of vCloud Director.
Featured Products and Technologies:
See locations of wireless users visiting our Cisco Live Booth displayed on an RF heatmap; try browser-based single-click web authentication; observe navigation filtering enabled by URL blacklisting; guess and see which mobile platforms are most popular visiting our booth; see how Cisco Clean Air reporting depicts interference sources and quality.
Prime Carrier Management - Efficient Service Lifecycle Management for IP NGNs, Data Centres, and the Mobile Internet: As service providers deploy converged networks to maximise revenue opportunities, today's disjointed management systems contribute to operational inefficiencies, leading to higher costs and adversely impacting end-user experiences. Cisco Prime for IP NGN, Prime for Data Centres and Cisco Prime for Mobility help address these challenges by providing operators centralised access to cross-domain workflows. This integrated approach combined with extensive automation capabilities facilitates highly efficient execution of service lifecycle management tasks. Our demos will showcase these capabilities.
Cariden - The Cariden solution provides network planning, design, and traffic management. It offers network visibility to enable planners, engineers, and operations to perform with efficiency. Cariden has built a full traffic management platform that offers discovery, abstraction and normalisation. The platform is based on a vendor-independent discovery in its collector platform, which retrieves data from router configurations, SNMP MIBs, traffic collectors, and a run time control plane.
Network Virtualisation (nV) Technology
Simplifying Network Edge
Cisco has developed an innovative technology that runs on the ASR 9000. Test drive the nV technology via an interactive demo: with a click of the mouse you will take control of the live ASR 9000 system and see for yourself how you can turn up new services for thousands of subscribers in less than two minutes.
100G Ultra Long Haul DWDM Demo
High performance 100G DWDM System without regeneration on distance of 4700 km.
Ultra Long Haul DWDM system demonstrating 100G Transmission over distance of 4700 km without signal regeneration and 'Chromatic Dispersion Compensation'. This setup is based in Monza and utilising Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP platform with 100G Transponders. The DWDM system leverages standards based G.652 and G.652 ULL optical fibre.
IPoDWDM and nLight Technology Demo
IPoDWDM Management capabilities and Multi-Layer Integration between IP and DWDM systems.
Omni-Directional and Colourless capabilities are used to interconnect CRS3 and ASR9K routers, demonstrating Proactive Protection and Management capabilities for IPoDWDM solutions as well as Control Plane Integration for dynamic service activation and restoration achieved using GMPLS NNI/UNI interfaces.


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Investing.com | Feb 06, 2018 09:20
After last year's mind-boggling run-up in digital currency prices, 2018 has not started well for cryptocurrencies to say the least. Bitcoin, the world's biggest virtual currency by market-cap, is experiencing a rout—it's down about 65% so far this year, after finishing January at $10,284 with its biggest monthly percentage decline in three years amid growing fears over increasing regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Asia.
Reports that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent subpoenas to cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and sister company Tether, a widely traded coin pegged one-to-one to the U.S. dollar, was just the latest in a series of negative headlines to rattle the cryptocurrency market in January. The first month of 2018 also included a severe crackdown on cryptocurrencies in South Korea and China, as well as tightening regulations in Japan after hackers stole $530 million worth of virtual coins from Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, in one of the biggest-ever thefts of digital money.
That has led some traders and investors to shy away from Bitcoin, opting instead to focus on some of the other lesser known alternative digital currencies, which can potentially offer better returns than their older, more popular cousin. Below, we take a look at five of the most promising alt-coins to consider right now, sorted by market cap. In order to filter the 5,000+ coins which currently exist in the cryptospace, we decided to focus only on digital currencies currently trading in a range between $0.01 and $100 and with a market cap of greater than $1 billion, which left a total of 14 coins.
[Editor's note: Investing in cryptocurrencies is highly speculative. This post should not be considered an endorsement of cryptocurrencies nor investment advice. Do your own due diligence before investing in any asset or asset class. Anyone considering digital currencies should be prepared to lose their entire investment.]
Ripple started 2017 at $0.00652 before rallying by as much as 36,000% to close the year at $2.03. It soared to an all-time high of $3.28 on January 4, before subsequently pulling back to around the $0.60-level at time of writing. At current prices, Ripple's market capitalization is almost $24 billion, making it the third largest cryptocurrency.
Released in 2012, Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system, currency exchange and remittance network. Also called the Ripple Transaction Protocol or Ripple protocol, it purports to enable secure, instant and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no chargebacks.
Essentially, it takes the idea of banking, and in particular SWIFT transactions, and provides a much-needed upgrade by utilizing blockchain technology.
Ripple has signed up several new financial institutions to its blockchain network in recent months, bringing its clientele to more than 100, including money transfer giant MoneyGram, as well as big-name financials like Spain's Santander (NYSE:SAN), Italy's Unicredit (MI:CRDI), Switzerland's UBS Group (NYSE:UBS) and UK-based Standard Chartered (OTC:SCBFF). Additional financial institutions are reportedly set to join Ripple's growing global network this year, as it allows banks to settle cross-border payments faster and more cheaply than they currently do using conventional global payment networks.
In terms of transaction times and fees, Ripple’s network can settle up to 1,500 transactions every second, while the cost of an average transaction for Ripple is currently a fraction of a penny. Ripple investors are hoping that in the future its blockchain technology will become the new standard for financial institutions wanting to transfer funds worldwide. That makes Ripple well worth considering now.
Cardano is a technology platform that runs the ADA cryptocurrency. Launched by blockchain development firm Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) and led by Charles Hoskinson, former co-founder of Ethereum and BitShares, the platform is capable of running financial applications, smart contracts, and decentralized applications.
At time of writing, Cardano's price was $0.27400. It is currently the fifth biggest cryptocurrency in circulation, with a market cap of around $7 billion. Dubbed the "Ethereum of Japan" because 95% of the participants in the ADA initial coin offering (ICO) were Japanese, prices of Cardano rose to a peak of $1.37879 on January 4, the highest in its three-year history.
Cardano aims to become an advanced smart contract platform—its developers having invented a new Proof-of-Stake (POS) method called Ouroboros—offering more robust features than Ethereum, while also functioning quickly, efficiently, and cheaply, all while providing the same kind of 'store of value' we see in Bitcoin. Enthusiasts of the cryptocurrency have hailed it as an improved version of both Bitcoin and Etheruem all in one coin, making it a very intriguing option going forward.
Stellar is an open-source protocol for exchanging money. It was founded in early 2014 as an offshoot of Ripple because Jed McCaleb, the co-founder, had philosophical differences with the rest of the Ripple board. While Ripple is focused on providing solutions for banks, Stellar aims to help facilitate payments between individuals.
It is currently the seventh largest cryptocurrency in circulation, with a market cap of nearly $5 billion. It traded at $0.27300 at time of writing, pulling back from a record peak of $0.91990 touched on January 3. It scored a gain of around 14,400% in 2017.
Notably, Stellar and IBM (NYSE:IBM) created a partnership to increase the speed of global payments back in October 2017. The latter also agreed to use Stellar's network to develop a cross-border payments system with some large banks. Consulting firm Deloitte is also a partner.
On the tech front, Stellar's transactions settle in 2 to 5 seconds, for a tiny fraction of a penny, much quicker and cheaper than Bitcoin, and allows users to quickly exchange government-backed currencies, such as turning U.S. dollars into euros.
Online payments company Stripe said in late January it may add support for Stellar in the future, while phasing out the use of Bitcoin due to slower transaction rates and higher fees. In addition, Stellar has all the potential to become the next big ICO platform.
David Gobaud, co-founder and CEO of Mobius Network, announced last month that his company raised $39 million through an initial coin offering that was held on the Stellar network. The token sale was highly successful, reaching its hard cap after two hours, Gobaud said. While many ICOs have taken place on Ethereum, he chose Stellar because of Ethereum's scaling challenges.
Stellar's run of positive news developments looks to continue in 2018, making it a worthy investment at current levels.
NEM's price at time of writing was $0.38700. It has a market cap of around $3.6 billion, making it the 10th biggest cryptocurrency in circulation. It has lost about 70% to start the new year, after soaring a jaw-dropping 29,800% in 2017.
NEM is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and blockchain platform launched on March 31, 2015. Built with businesses in mind, NEM's blockchain is designed to offer a streamlined method to maintain a secure ledger of transactions. NEM can be used for almost any application thanks to its 'Smart Asset System'. In effect, this system gives users the ability to implement a customized blockchain for their own specific “smart contract”.
NEM has provided a list of potential use cases for their ‘Smart Asset System’. Some uses include: voting, crowdfunding, stock ownership, keeping secure records, loyalty rewards point programs, mobile payments and escrow services. Many of these are large global industries in themselves which highlights just how huge the potential NEM customer base is.
Because NEM’s blockchain software is so adaptable, the potential uses are nearly endless. NEM software is currently used in a commercial blockchain called Mijin, which is being tested by financial institutions and private companies in Japan and internationally. The developers claim that it will reduce banking institutional costs by 90% while making the banking industry more secure.
On the technical front, NEM transactions take about 6 seconds to show up and about 20 seconds to confirm, while transaction fees are only 0.01%. In comparison, Bitcoin transactions can sometimes take up to an hour or more to confirm, with fees of around $25 on average. NEM’s President Lon Wong has said, "It might be exciting to see quick price gains due to marketing and speculation, but the long-term winners will be those with consumer and enterprise adoption."
Looking at the diverse business functions that NEM can perform, it's obvious that there is a large potential customer base, signaling a bright future for the digital currency.
TRON is a decentralized open-source cryptocurrency that was founded by the TRON Foundation in March 2017. It aims to be a decentralized entertainment content sharing platform intended to allow content creators to cut down middlemen such as the Apple Store (NASDAQ:AAPL) or Google Play (NASDAQ:GOOGL) so content creators can instantly receive funds directly from consumers.
Its price at time of writing was $0.02606, giving it a market cap of around $1.7 billion and making it the 15th biggest cryptocurrency in circulation. It rallied by 7,800% in 2017 and reached an all-time high of $0.22911 on January 6.
TRON was founded by Foundation CEO Justin Sun, who appeared in the latest Forbes "30 Under 30 Asia" list. He founded Peiwo, an app aspiring to become China's Snapchat, and is considered the protégée of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) founder Jack Ma. At the age of just 26, Sun was hand-picked by Ma himself to study at the Jack Ma Hupan University for entrepreneurs, which has an acceptance rate lower than Princeton.
Sun's close relationship with Ma and the fact that various developers of Alibaba have joined TRON has sparked speculation that a partnership between the cryptocurrency and the Chinese online shopping giant is in the works. In addition, just last month TRON announced that it launched a partnership with Baofeng, better known as the Chinese (NASDAQ:Netflix) which boasts more than 200 million users.
In light of these developments it's no wonder digital expert John McAfee recently recommended TRON in a tweet as a long-term investment.
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So I was taking a photo of my friend Aaron at the beach today when this happened.
still pointin that leg in perfect form tho
Anyone up to RP?
I do almost everything except Femlock. I have few Autistic!lock which I’d very much like to play.
26 Male Survivors Of Sexual Assault Quoting The People Who Attacked Them
This needs more notes.
no one seems to care if they are guys
reminder that rape and sexual abuse happens to everyone, not just girls
I love this.

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