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Blackboard announcements inside MOSS 2007

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We’ve developed a webpart that shows the announcements from Blackboard within a MOSS 2007 Portal environment:

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The webpart takes your Blackboard identity from the moss user profile, and fetches the system announcements and the course announcements for the current user. And it does so via ajax and some webservices.

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Train of Sunspots, November 4, 2015. Photo by James Guilford.

Train of Sunspots, November 4, 2015

An impressive train of sunspots has been making its way across the face of our nearest star this week. In the photo above: Designated AR2447 (small group to the left), AR2443 (bigger and darker, near center), and AR2445 (far right), the “Active Regions” have the potential of unleashing flares. In fact, AR2445 was the source of a flare that caused this week’s “northern lights” sighted across northern latitude locations around the world. Now rotating over the Sun’s limb, AR2445 won’t be aimed at Earth for a while — if ever again — but AR2443 has potential for high-energy flares.

Photo credit: James Guilford. Canon EOS 7D II: ISO 400, f/11, 1/1250 sec., 400mm lens with Astrozap film solar filter, heavily cropped, November 4, 2015, 2:22 PM.

Photo: Earth's Sun on May 7, 2015. Photo by James Guilford.

Earth’s Sun – May 7, 2015 @ 12:23 PM EDT

Our Sun is just past the peak of its 11-year activity cycle but has been unusually quiet of late. Many days we have seen few, if any, sunspots marking the star’s face. Over the past few days, however, there has been an uptick in activity including the passage of large sunspot region AR2339 (lower-right in our photo). The sunspot has been the source of major solar flares including one that interfered with radio communications in the Pacific region. This image is a single exposure made using a digital SLR camera held to the eyepiece of the Cooley Telescope at Stephens Memorial Observatory. A white-light filter was used for the protection of equipment and vision. A good article on the current solar cycle can be found here.


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Spoiler Alert! Your sales forecasts are B.S.

fail-2956577Salespeople are an optimistic bunch. Their steadfast conviction that every deal they are working on is going to close seems to fly in the face of their historical track records. As a person responsible for projecting your organizations sales, or worse, making decisions based on these projections, your risks are high.

Hot, Hot Hot, & Hot Hot Hot

Years ago I had a business partner who was responsible for business development for a company I had at the time. I’ll call him “Tom”, because that was his name. Tom, like most business development people was a very optimistic guy. Like most people in his position he maintained a list of prospects. In order to distinguish the good ones, he had a system where he would tag those as “Hot”. Over time, some of the ones in his “Hot” list progressed farther than others, so he created a new tag for them: “Hot-Hot”. Eventually this same phenomenon led to a “Hot-Hot-Hot”. As an eternal optimist, every contact Tom had was at least “Hot”. So did that mean that every person he met was a “Hot” prospect? No, in reality, Tom had Cold, Warm and Hot prospects, just like we all do, whatever we choose to call them. But the sales psyche has a way of rationalizing what is not always rational. So how do you forecast revenue, when your whole sales team has nothing but varying levels of “Hot” prospects?

How about some sand in your gears

Sandbagging is keeping a good opportunity to yourself until the last second. Why would someone do this? Maybe they want to be a hero. Maybe they are concerned that the deal will be taken away from them, or that they will be hounded for status updates. Maybe they are thinking about leaving and taking it with them. There are any number of reasons sandbaggers sandbag. This practice wreaks havoc on forecasting also. While it may be nice to get a surprise deal you were not expecting, it is not good if you made decisions based on a low projection, like say putting off an acquisition opportunity, that has now passed.

Metrics are good at generating Liars

If you haven’t been to a Science Fiction Fantasy movie in a while, no problem, just ask one of your sales team members to review his pipeline with you. In his mind, the guy who never called him back is still a hot prospect. The deals he did lose were due to extenuating circumstances, i.e. the competitor cheated, the client was a jerk, the specs were wrong, the estimating department blew it, etc. In most organizations, not only is the sales person’s salary tied to their closing ratio, but their very employment at the company is at stake. Is it any wonder that they blow smoke up your ass when asked about their pipeline? But we know this; we have been around the block, and we have your numbers from last month/quarter/year. So now we have to do these other calculations. Bob’s 90%, based on history, is more like 50%. Bill’s 95%, because he is so full of crap and scared of losing his job, is more like 25%. So how do you forecast when you know that everybody is full of shit? Over-optimism and bull shit seem to go hand in hand; where there is one, there is usually the other. Ironically, if you took away the specter of losing their job, and had them on a flat salary, their projections are probably not much different, still bull shit.

Leadership wants to believe

If you are the owner, CEO or Sales Manager, you are guilty also. Guilty of wanting to believe what you know is not true. You are not going to win every piece of business you go after, you never have.  How many times have you signed off on a sales forecast for your boss or board that later  proved to be off… way off. How many times have you accepted a rosy prediction, without asking that one question that might make it less rosy. Your fist pumps over a new prospect are not creating an atmosphere of honesty from your sales team when the deal starts slipping away from them. The good news is that your competitor has the same problems. You both have good and bad salespeople. When one of your bad ones squares off with one of their good ones, you are probably going to lose that business, and vice-versa. So what is the alternative to perfecting the formulas to compensate for the bull shit and optimism variables?

CRM is not the answer

At least not by itself. The fact is that CRM also does an excellent job of generating bull shit pipelines and reports, but presents them as nice looking dashboards of fiction. As a platform, CRM has all of the tools needed for accurate forecasting expect a built-in bull shit detector. Yes, you can lie to your CRM and it won’t know it. As a CRM consultant, I am frequently speaking to companies thinking about implementing a CRM system to create more accurate forecasts. I am just as often on the phone with someone who is trying to figure out why they can’t get accurate forecasts from the CRM the previously deployed. Microsoft has given us some tools and processes to help in Dynamics CRM Online, but many of these tools and processes are misunderstood, bypassed or just plain ignored. Often the conversation with the second caller, who already has CRM, revolves around their desire to implement “Best Practices” on top of the pile of crap they have made in hopes of fixing everything. I find it interesting that the people who claim to not have the budget for an expert up front, seem to find that budget times two to have the expert fix their mess later.

So what are these “Best Practices”?

Well, they are many, and they are unique to your business. If I gave you a checklist, you might hand it to some kid in your office and tell him to go implement CRM. We spend enough time fixing messes, I don’t want to be the cause of any. But I will give you a few things to ponder based on repeated sightings. Leads are not Opportunities, you need to understand why. Opportunities are Cold, Warm or Hot; you need a real criteria to define these. CRM can be deployed to enforce criteria and ask tough questions, but you need to ask the ones it can’t. Don’t bull shit yourself.

Honesty is the ONLY policy

So we all know that Buyers are Liars, but we also know that our sales team are liars to, or at least hedgers. We also know that the only way we can steer the ship with confidence is to have accurate revenue forecasts. We know that CRM can be deployed to not only track all of our leads and opportunities, but can create the forecasts we desire, provided that the data in CRM is complete, accurate and objective. We know that we can implement capabilities in CRM to enforce policies that would require our team to provide answers or information before they can progress a lead or opportunity to the next stage. But none of this works if the data is bull shit. We have to attack that from a different angle. While it is a fact that salespeople who don’t close deals will suffer financially and may well be let go, but this should not be a threat based on projections and pipelines. If it is, you are inviting inflated numbers. As a leader you should celebrate closed deals, not opportunities. Celebrating opportunities leads to pressure to exaggerate the status of that opportunity. Nobody wants to go back to the boss and tell him they lost the opportunity he high-fived them over last week. Too many leaders are asking, almost insisting, that their teams lie to them. When you fix this problem, give us a call and we’ll implement that fancy CRM system you think you need.

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Dead or Alive?

Benjamin Franklin wrote that ‘in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes’. Death appears to be a fact, as solid and bleak as the stone that closed the tomb of Lazarus. But our readings this weekend lead us to question the finality of death. In the first reading, God promises to raise his people from their graves, making them alive with his Spirit. In the Gospel, Jesus waits until his friend Lazarus is undeniably dead and buried, then demands that the stone be rolled away and calls Lazarus forth from the tomb. In Holy Week we will celebrate the central truth of our faith when we affirm that Jesus really did die, but then he rose again and he really is alive now.

We go further and say that the same is true for all who have died in Christ: our dead loved ones, though we grieve for them as Jesus wept for Lazarus, are not dead, but alive with God for ever.

Then we take one more step: because Jesus is the resurrection and the life we say, with St Paul, that his Spirit is living in us now, even before we die. We can taste, here on earth, the everlasting life of heaven. This makes us live in a new way. It changes our outlook on life and death. We begin to see the difference between real life and what passes for living.

Pope Francis asks us to reflect on the culture in which we live and to recognise what is good and what is harmful, what builds up life and what leads to death. He warns that a global economy of exclusion and inequality kills. He says that the culture of prosperity deadens us, that unbridled consumerism combined with inequality damages the fabric of society. He points to the individualism and selfishness that is weakening the bonds of family life. But he is not a pessimist: he calls us to cherish what is good and life-giving, to weep with those who suffer and to take action against everything that diminishes life.

He calls us to be confident that Jesus has won the victory over sin and death and that we are alive with his life. Wherever we hear, in our own experience or the experience of others, the rattle of the chains of death, we can put our trust in the words with which Jesus called Lazarus back to life: ‘Unbind him, let him go free’.

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Monday 1st June

9.00am Eucharistic service, Rosary & Exposition

Tuesday 2nd June

Mass, Rosary & Exposition

Wednesday 3rd June

Eucharistic Ministers, Rosary & Exposition.

Baptism Preparation meeting

Scripture Meeting

Thursday 4th June

Mass, Rosary & Exposition.
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Mass, Rosary & Exposition.

Saturday 6th June

Eucharistic Service, Rosary & Exposition

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Parish Lottery winning numbers for draw on 27th May 2015
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NO WINNER of the Jackpot of £716 (subject to re scrutiny) Estimated Jackpot for the next draw is £903 Two consolation prizes of £25 each; 404748; 405360. Many thanks to all who support our Parish Lottery and to the Team who run it for us. Your support is really appreciated!

Minibus Driver Training
As we now have four volunteers willing to undertake training to drive our parish minibus, we need to find suitable dates. Would those who have volunteered please contact the office to discuss their availability. If anyone else is willing to join the rota, this is your chance: please contact the parish office this week. You need to have a clean full licence and be aged between 25 and 69.

Are you aware of the threat of extinction to our lovely hedgehogs? The hedgehog population has declined by over 97% in the last few decades, leaving approximately 1million left in the whole country! It is estimated that this helpful garden visitor will be extinct in the UK within ten years!
One of the reasons for their decline is that hedgehogs are struggling to roam around our urban and suburban gardens due to a lack of pathways between them.
How can we help? Simply making a hole in your fence or boundary (CD sized is perfect) will help them to move around, letting a corner of your garden grow a bit wild or making a small pile of logs will give them a place to hide and find food. For more information go to

SVP (St Vincent de Paul) Old Shoes Appeal – The SVP is collecting old shoes. Please bring in any pairs of old shoes you don’t need any more and drop them into the back of the church into the plastic bin with the big `SVP old shoe appeal` sticker on. The shoes can be turned into cash to help & support under-privileged children in Liverpool. Your help in doing this would very much appreciated, please drop your old shoes off. In case you need to contact our local SVP group, their contact number is 07708 788 361.
Bellerive FCJ Catholic College are having a Past Pupils Reunion on Sunday 7th June from 2pm onwards. Contact the school on 0151 727 2064.

Preparing for Baptism
The next meeting will be at 7.00pm on Wednesday 3rd June 2015 for those
families planning to have a child Baptised (you do not need to bring the child to the meeting).
Pick up a form from the priests house to fill in, please make sure that you bring a copy of the child’s birth certificate to the meeting.

First Friday Vigil
Beginning with Mass at 8.30pm on Friday, 5th June, and continuing in prayer
until 11.30pm, this is a wonderful time to be with God our father, opening
ourselves to experience his love and praying for all our needs.
All are very welcome to join us.

WELCOME – We are delighted to welcome Blake Brian Allen Collins, Poppy Norma Jean Donnelly, John Francis Briggs Kirby, Chloe Louise Evans, Mayleigh Jade McCarthy and Hope Georgina Helen Dee who were all Baptised into our faith community last weekend.

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This  paper "The Role of Gender Stereotypes in Choice of Occupation" seeks to investigate the effect that gender stereotypes have on both male and female career preferences. The study hypothesized that career preferences are positively associated with traditional gender systems and roles…
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Download file to see previous pages... Methodology: The study selected (n=40) individuals, of which (n=30) were female, while (n=10) were male. A questionnaire was administered consisting of two major sections. One section sought to directly elicit the career preferences of the participants. The other section sought to indirectly elicit career preferences by asking participants to choose from a list of twenty eight career aspects that the participants preferred in their future career. These career aspects were then entered into the Making Better Career Decisions computer program to identify careers twenty-eight the aspects identified.
Results: As hypothesized, there was a significant relationship between gender stereotypes of suitable careers and the careers chosen by participants of their respective genders in the directly elicited career lists. However, the relationship between gender stereotypes and careers selected from the indirectly elicited lists was less significant. Differences between males and females in the indirectly elicited lists were negligible.
Conclusion: The influence of gender stereotypes on career choices can be significantly reduced if the decision is made based on the preferred aspects or characteristics of one’s future occupation, rather than the career itself, which is likely to be biased by gender stereotypes.
According to Zafar (2013), the movement of female workers into the labor force in Europe has increased steadily in the last thirty years, although a similar number of women who occupy prestigious and powerful career roles in their respective fields have not matched this. While all careers, theoretically, should be equally available to females and males, various studies have shown that this is not perceived as being realistic by both genders. ...Download file to see next pagesRead More
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Download file to see previous pages... This essay declares that the general public that includes the parents, teachers, alcohol retailers and even religious leaders have their role to play. Such is the case that this group bears the greatest responsibility since they are always in contact with young people. This group, especially the elderly can play their role well when leading as role models for the young people. It should be the responsibility of each of these people to advice young people on the dangers of such behaviors. Parents should pay close attention to their children needs ensuring they know their whereabouts and correct them whenever they sense they are going astray. In all these cases , it will be prudent to know that at their age these young people may not really use well their personal liberties and as such all these parties have the responsibility to provide guidance and where possible correction.
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Just like a song…

Adele on repeat, kimono shirts (my second skin for the season), Converse sneakers all day long… “Let me photograph you in this light In case it is the last time That we might be exactly like we were Before we realized We were sad of getting old It made us restless It was just like a movie It was just like a song” ♬ ♪ when we were young / Adele

Boboli memories

Navy blazer and red striped Tee for a subtle dash of summer flair mixed with jeans and sneakers for an easy-going feeling. I’m still missing this beautiful sunny stroll at Boboli gardens in Florence and the only thing on my mind is to find a magic way to return there soon! ♬ ♪ something’s jumping in your shirt / Malcolm McLaren

adidas Originals by Neighborhood

Adidas Originals once again collaborate with Tokyo’s NEIGHBORHOOD to bring another fresh take on classic sportswear for FW14. Strong seasonal hues breathe new life into timeless silhouettes, fusing casual and contemporary with traditional tailoring and construction. This latest collection, pays regard to the enduring originality of the two brands. Check it out, I’m sure you gonna love it! ♬ ♪ flawless / The Neighborhood

Leisurely Wandering

Sweatshirt that endorses my relaxed mood, super fluffy cardigan teamed up with wool trousers and of course Mr. Stan Smith, who is responsible for my everyday comfort. A quiet sea stroll with my new crime novel as my sole companion completes the loose feeling. Project “Calm Day” accomplished! ♬ ♪ complete surrender / Slow Club


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Down the hill from Comicon, we reviewed some movies & hung out with rappers Dr. Dilznik and The Last Rekrute, who gave Jeremy a workout on the bleep button.

Also, the show ran long, so we missed the Stan Lee panel. The sacrifices we make…..

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What are EJBs?

EJBs are Java Beans with a special ability. Normal Java Beans can be instantiated in the local JVM and the rest of the code can interact with this bean by making calls to the different methods in this bean.
EJBs are special in that they are not created in the local JVM. They are created in a remote JVM.

Structure of an EJB

When a Bean is designated as an EJB three classes are created. One the actual class where the functionality is present the second is a skeleton class which is used by the clients requiring the services of the class and the third is called the Home Interface which is used by the clients to instantiate the EJB. The skeleton class wraps the communication that happens between the two JVMs so that the developer is not bothered with the communication piece.

How are EJBs instantiated?

The following are the steps to used to instantiate an EJB

  1. Get the Home interface of the EJB using a JNDI Lookup
  2. Using the Home Interface instantiate the EJB
This creates a bean in the remote server and a handle to the remote bean is given to the code. Now the code can interact with the bean as if it were in the local JVM. The actual processing would be happening in the remote JVM.

What happens when a method of EJB is invoked?

When a function/method in the EJB is invoked the following happens:

  1. The skeleton “marshals” the parameters to be sent to the method
  2. The skeleton sends the parameters to the other JVM
  3. The function is executed in the other JVM
  4. The return value is “marshaled” and sent to the calling JVM
  5. The skeleton unmarshals the return value and gives it to the calling code.
  6. Marshalling is the process of converting the variables into a format using which it can be sent over the network to the remote JVM.

How does the communication happen

The communication used between the two JVMs was RMI, but now EJBs use Inter-ORB Communication. See for more information.  This is a communication protocol used by CORBA ORBs (Object Request Brokers) over TCP networks.

Since every method call goes over the network it slows down the system. As a result from a performance perspective one should keep calls to EJB to the minimum. If one wishes to set a set of attributes of an EJB then one should set the values in a local bean and pass this bean as a whole to the remote bean. One should not invoke the set method of the remote bean for each attribute.

What are the types of EJBs?

The following are the types of the EJBs
  1. Stateless Session Beans
  2. Session Beans
  3. Entity Beans
  4. Message Driven Beans

Stateless Session Beans

These are the most popular of the EJB types. These are Beans that are used in Web Applications and typically address one business functionality. E.g. SaveCustomer could be a Stateless Session Bean which has the business logic to be executed to store a Customer to the database.  The advantage of having Stateless Session Beans are that irrespective of the server that the end user hit, in cluster, the actual execution could happen in any of the servers where the bean is deployed.
These beans do not maintain anything in the session. So once instantiated these beans could be used for any user.

Stateful Session Bean

These are same as Stateless Session Beans except that they maintain the session of the client.  So once a bean has been used for a client it will continue to be used for that user till the session of the user is terminated.

Entity Beans

These are beans that are used to keep Objects in the application. E.g. the Customer Object. These are used to persist the data in the Object to a persistent store, usually the database and to retrieve the objects from the database. There are two types of persistence possible
  1. Container Managed Persistence: In this the container does the persistence and retrieval from the persistent store. The developer only has to say or Object.get. The container uses the metadata to achieve this persistence and retrieval. This does not give the developer to control the performance of the application.
  2. Bean Managed Persistence: In this the developer writes code to persist the data into the persistent store and to retrieve data from the persistence store. This gives the developer the control over the performance of the application. This is the more popular of the two.

Message Driven Beans

These are similar to the Stateless and Stateful session beans in that they perform one operation. The difference is that they are triggered by messages sent on a queue, instead of executing when they are invoked explicitly from some program. These beans are tied to a queue and when an appropriate message comes on the queue these message beans are invoked automatically by the container in which they are running. These are useful when we need to perform some asynchronous processing.

What are the advantages of EJBs?

Scalability: The EJBs are remote and so to achieve high scalability one can deploy the EJBs on multiple servers and be able to scale the operations easily.
Transaction Management: Typically the developer has to maintain transactions in the database to ensure the ACID properties. And this transaction management generally goes into the code. With EJBs one need to build transactions in the code. One can configure the EJBs to start or continue existing transactions as required. Thus the developer need not worry about the maintaining transactions in the code.
Security Management: Most systems require a security which says which user can execute which action. This is typically coded into the application in most scenarios. With EJBs one can configure this too. One can configure the access rights of the users to execute different functionality. This means that the developer need not do any coding for basic security checks. It will be taken care of by the container based on the configuration.

How are EJBs packaged?

EBJs are packaged as ear files. These are on top of the war files. So the hierarchy is as follows:
Ear files contain
Deployment descriptor: This gives details of how the EJBs are the be deployed, which are the EJBs, what is the type, the security metadata, the transaction meta data
War Files: These contain the web applications and contain the following:
Static Files: These are static files like images, css, javascripts etc which are required by the web application
Jar files: These contain the java classes which are to be used in the web application.

How are EJBs deployed?

Each container has its own way of packaging and deploying the EJBs.

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4 Liquid Highlighters That Will Make You Glow Like The Goddess You Are!

4 Liquid Highlighters That Will Make You Glow Like The Goddess You Are!

Beauty trends come and go, but the sculpted, three-dimensional, glowing cheekbones never go out of style. If highlighting is not part of your daily makeup routine, then right now is a good time to start. While powder highlighters have always been around, liquid highlighters are often less talked about. Whether you're looking for a subtle glow, or aiming for a glitter-heavy shine, here is a quick round up of liquid highlighters that you should consider picking up on your next shopping haul:

Oil-free and dermatologically tested, the hybrid formula of Tarteist™ PRO glow liquid highlighter can mixed easily with your tinted moisturizer, or foundation, to get a naturally illuminating coverage. Use a blending sponge or your fingertips to highlight the high-points on your face like the cheekbones, brow bones, inner corner of the eye and cupid’s bow. The Tarteist™ PRO glow liquid highlighter contains: a) Mineral pigments that soften and soothe the skin. b) Rosa damascena flower water that is distilled from fresh rose blossoms, and calms the skin. c) Squalane, a naturally occurring skin emollient that retains and delivers skin moisture.

For a more intense strobing glow, you can also pair this liquid highlighter, with the Tarte Amazonian clay 12-hour powder highlighter. Available in a convenient squeezable tube packaging, the Tarteist™ PRO glow is very creamy, and is super buildable (goes from sheer to opaque). With ultra-concentrated pearls and pigments, prepare to get a healthy, dewy glow, no matter what your skin-tone is!

With high-performance crystals, and 100 percent pure Argan oil, the Argan Enlightenment Illuminizer by Josie Maran promises skin nourishment and a radiant glow. Infused with Ancient daffodil, Madonna lily, and Poet’s narcissus, the highlighter evens and brightens your skin tone to bring out the lit-from-within face glow. Mix it with your oil, moisturizer or foundation, and experience the magic of coloured luster pigments, as they capture and reflect the light off your skin.  The champagne hue of the Argan Enlightenment Illuminizer matches the natural glow of healthy skin, and the creamy application offers a uniform spread. The pump packaging holds 15 mL of product, and retails for $26 on Sephora.

Opt for a sun-kissed tint or a buildable intense glow, with the Custom Enhancer Drops brought to you by Cover FX. Formulated with high-definition and ultra-refined pearls, you can either use the highlighter alone or add two customizable drops on top of your powder, your regular foundation or your favourite skincare product, for a liquid metal finish. The luminosity increases with the number of drops, so you have ample opportunity to customize your ideal glow to complete your overall look. Use a beauty sponge, brush or simply your fingertips to use the product. The Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops comes in a nifty dropper-accompanied bottle, that retails for $42.

Get an effortless, all-over dewy, and natural glow, with the Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector® Liquid Highlighter that’s infused with ultra-refined, light-reflecting pearls. With a unique highlighting formula inspired by the fresh, flattering glow of a  sunrise, this highlighter can be used in two ways: a) Stand-alone, where you use your preferred beauty tool to apply the highlighter to the high-points of your face, especially cheek bones and bridge of the nose. b) Mix it with your favourite moisturizer, foundation, or primer for the added illumination. The Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector® Liquid Highlighter retails for $41, and comes in seven shades:

1. Pearl: A luminescent, soft white, perfect for the porcelain skin stones.

2. Moonstone: A incandescent pale-gold.

3. Rose Gold: A rosy pink with undertones of warm-gold.

4. Opal: A white, neutral gold with soft pink undertones.

5. Champagne Pop: The bestseller from this collection. Soft gold with pink-peach undertones.

6. Prosecco Pop: Pure, ethereal gold. Perfect for medium to deep skin tones.

7. Topaz: Radiant bronze with golden undertones. Perfect for deeper skin tones.

8. Vanilla Quartz: A buttery, light gold with pink pearl undertones.

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Calculation Manager Does Not Work With IE 11 (Doc ID 2388770.1)

Last updated on APRIL 20, 2018

Applies to:

Hyperion Financial Management - Version and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

On IE11/Internet Explorer 11 While trying to open a Rule in Calculation Manager, rule will not open and pointer just spins as waiting on loading a page

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Not Able To Create Mount On JCS Server (Doc ID 2386867.1)

Last updated on APRIL 18, 2018

Applies to:

Java Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
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Unable to mount the file system from remote compute VM

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Latin American

Cha Cha

Timing: 4 Beats per bar

Tempo: 28-30 Bars per minute

The Cha Cha originates from Cuba. It got its name from the sound the feet make on the floor as it is danced 'Cha Cha Cha'.

It has its roots in Mambo and has been adapted and changed over the years. Western Cha Cha is a more stylised version of the original Cuban Cha Cha.

It is one of the five dances used in International competition style Latin American. Cha Cha is probably one of the most versatile and fun dances of the Latin American family.

Timing: 2 Beats per bar

Tempo: 50 - 52 Bars per minute

The Samba originated in Brazil and is the party dance of Rio. It is still danced extensively in Brazil, although the Samba that is danced in the Ballrooms and International competitions around the world is a far cry from the party dance of Brazil.

The Samba is one of the few progressive Latin dances. The music is lively and fun and the dance is often a popular choice amongst social dancers.

It is one of the five dances used in competition style Latin American.

Timing: 4 Beats per bar

Tempo: 26-29 Bars per minute

The Rumba is the dance of love, although it can vary from flirtatious to true love. Rumba is the most romantic and passionate of the Latin American family.

As with the Cha, the music is Cuban in its origin and has become highly stylised.

The Rumba is one of the five dances danced in Latin competitions.

Paso Doble

Timing: 2 Beats per bar

Tempo: 60 Bars per minute

The Paso Doble is the dance of the Spanish bullfighter. It symbolises the battle between man and beast and portrays the man in a very macho image. The woman portrays the flowing action of the cape as the man does battle with the bull.

The music is distinctly Spanish in its origin and there is a definite flamenco style to the Paso Doble. Although fun to dance the Paso Doble has limited use as a social dance.

The Paso Doble is one of the five dances danced in Latin competitions.

Timing: 4 Beats per bar

Tempo: 40 - 44 Bars per minute

The Jive that most people think of, the one that is danced at family parties and weddings, is generally Rock 'n' Roll Jive. Danced to great, well-known tunes from the likes of Bill Halley and Elvis Presley the Jive is still enjoyed by thousands of people worldwide.

Jive has always been a dance of the times. As musical tastes have changed, so has the style of the dance while retaining its inherent structure and its universal appeal. Whatever your musical tastes, there is a style of Jive of suit you from the Lindy Hop of the 20’s, through the Jitterbug and Boogie Woogie of the 30’s, the Swing of the 40’s,to the Rock ‘n’ Roll of the 50’s and 60’s.

The DanceSport Jive is one of the five dances in the Latin American competitions.

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Pecan Tarts….a metaphor for life?

Mood: Gaining some clarity.

In the air : Adele – Take it all –
Adele – Turning tables –
Cee Lo Green – F**K You –

Remember that line from Forest Gump, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get”? Well, I think life is like a pecan tart. At least my life is.

Sometimes life is hard, crusty and it falls apart like the shell but sometimes it has its sweet and nutty moments like the filling but in the end you realize it is just big gooey albeit yummy mess. Once you’re done, all you can do is wash your hands and move on.

Pecan tarts are a 2 step process.  First step is to make the tart shells.  The crust on these pecan tarts is a standard crust made with shortening, butter, flour, salt and water.  Let me re-iterate that I suck when it comes to making dough and I don’t appear to be getting better.  My dough was soft but very crumbly and I could not roll it out without it breaking apart.  Frustration began to set in but I refused to let this dough go to waste.  I was not able to roll it out to fit the tart forms so instead I rolled the dough into balls and molded them by hand into muffin tins instead.  I then set them in the fridge to chill while I worked on part 2.

Now time to make the filling.  The filling was made with butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, vanilla and eggs.  I mixed the butter, brown sugar and corn syrup over a double boiler just until the butter was melted.  I let it cool for a few minutes then mixed in 2 beaten eggs and vanilla.  This mixture was then poured into the tart shells.  Before placing the tarts into the oven, I sprinkled pecans on top of each.

The tarts were placed in the oven to bake for about 30 minutes at 350 degrees.  I watched the filling bubble and I could smell sweetness in the air as they baked.  My only issue was that the crust was not turning as golden a hue as I had hoped.  Even the last-minute egg wash I completed did not help.

As soon as I took them out of the oven, I placed them back in the fridge to set for 2 hours.  I was still very disappointed in the tart crust and lack of colour but how did they taste?  Damn sweet!  The filling was a good consistency, not too runny and the pecans had a nice contrasting crunch.  I suppose it made up for my lackluster crust.  I definitely will need to practice these again.


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Here's what other customers, from several different industries, have said about Swiperstrips

"Swiperstrips can really save us money. If they help our drivers avoid accidents or delays, due to poor visibility, that can save us tens of thousands of dollars"

--Tom Cronin (CEO - Dayton Freight)

"I make my living driving clients around and showing them property. If I can't see, it's dangerous for me and for them. I've even had situations where I was forced to pull over in unsafe areas to clean off my windshield wipers. I won't ever do that again. These Swiperstrips have made a huge difference for me."

--Karen Ollier (President - Limovan, Inc.)

"Safety concerns are a huge corporate initiate for us so anything safety related gets our attention. Swiperstrips are a huge step in the right direction towards fleet safety."

--Andy Meier (Safety Manager - ConEd)

"Our service department handles 100's of vehicles each week and, with Swiperstrips, we have increased our average ticket by $10. We offer Swiperstrips to every vehicle owner and nearly every one buys them because they're quick, simple and work so well."

--Brian Brown (Owner - Brown & Brown Chevrolet)

"We are here to service the public and when our maintenance trucks and snow plows can't due their jobs, we fail. Swiperstrips help our fleet drivers see in any winter conditions."

--Bob Baird (Mayor - City of Bellbrook)

"Infiniti's vehicles lead the way in consumer safety. Swiperstrips add to that safety element. Since we invest a lot in our customers, we could think of no better way to say thanks, then by making Swiperstrips available to them at every one of our dealerships."

--Scott Evans (General Manager - Infiniti of Dayton)

"Why is it that so many of the best ideas are so simple? Why didn't I think of this? Swiperstrips solve a huge problem for all our drivers and they work very well."

--Tim Prugh (GM - CVC Converters)

"As a salesperson, I'm forced to be on the road several days a week. I can't tell you how many times I've had near misses due to snow and ice built up on my wipers. Swiperstrips solves that problem and makes driving in a winter mess, much easier."

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On beginnings…

My cooking game is on point, this evening. Rocking it.

Starting something on the 1st is so cliche. And, who starts something on a Thursday, anyway? Ridiculous. So, I set out to begin a lot of things this Monday, January 5th, 2015. It just made more sense to me. And, in some cases, things were already set to begin that day:

I begin school. I’ve decided to go back to school. It’s been a long time coming and, there’s no time like the now. I feel like my life is at a point where I know I can successfully do this, even wanting to do this. And the wanting was the most important part, for me.

One of my resolutions has always been “to read more”. I’m sure I’ll accomplish that through my classes.

I’ve been cooking quite a bit, lately (picture, above, is our New Year’s Eve dinner). I’m reminded of how much I enjoy doing it, in spite of how much I absolutely hate our kitchen (apartment kitchens are the worst). I’m taking meal planning and shopping much more seriously, resulting in being able to create more complete, healthy dishes.

One of my resolutions has always been “to eat healthy”. I figure this can easily be accomplished if I simply made more meals at home. Cut out the restaurants and processed foods. And, I get to avoid the continually decreasing quality of restaurant service. It’s so difficult to find good food service lately. (and, get off of my lawn!)

With a month of my new job under my belt, I think I was able to get a good feel for what I was getting myself into. There’s a lot but, it’s all good. I’m excited. And, beginning tomorrow, I will take steps to own it. Make it mine. Take initiative. The honeymoon is over. It’s time to do work.

Here’s an obligatory paragraph on how I will “begin” to photograph more. I’ll get back to basics. I’ll photograph everything, no matter how mundane. Blah blah blah. The plan is to annoy my Instagram followers with pictures of food, while posting all of there photos to my Flickr account. We’ll see how this goes.

And on writing… Well, I’m sure that school will help me increase how much I write. And I do write quite a bit for work. I have also started to keep a journal. And, I hope to keep updating this page as well.

To beginnings…

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The Last Days of Reality

The revelation forces us to confront some unpleasant thoughts about how the world works in 2017, and where things appear to be headed. As problematic as Facebook has become, it represents only one component of a much broader shift into a new human connectivity that is both omnipresent (consider the smartphone) and hypermediated—passing through and massaged by layer upon layer of machinery carefully hidden from view. The upshot is that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to determine what in our interactions is simply human and what is machine-generated. It is becoming difficult to know what is real.

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How Civilization Started

The world has indeed got richer, but any such shift in morals and values is hard to detect. Money and the value system around its acquisition are fully intact. Greed is still good.

The study of hunter-gatherers, who live for the day and do not accumulate surpluses, shows that humanity can live more or less as Keynes suggests. It’s just that we’re choosing not to. A key to that lost or forsworn ability, Suzman suggests, lies in the ferocious egalitarianism of hunter-gatherers. For example, the most valuable thing a hunter can do is come back with meat. Unlike gathered plants, whose proceeds are “not subject to any strict conventions on sharing,” hunted meat is very carefully distributed according to protocol, and the people who eat the meat that is given to them go to great trouble to be rude about it. This ritual is called “insulting the meat,” and it is designed to make sure the hunter doesn’t get above himself and start thinking that he’s better than anyone else. “When a young man kills much meat,” a Bushman told the anthropologist Richard B. Lee, “he comes to think of himself as a chief or a big man, and he thinks of the rest of us as his servants or inferiors. . . . We can’t accept this.” The insults are designed to “cool his heart and make him gentle.” For these hunter-gatherers, Suzman writes, “the sum of individual self-interest and the jealousy that policed it was a fiercely egalitarian society where profitable exchange, hierarchy, and significant material inequality were not tolerated.

”This egalitarian impulse, Suzman suggests, is central to the hunter-gatherer’s ability to live a life that is, on its own terms, affluent, but without abundance, without excess, and without competitive acquisition. The secret ingredient seems to be the positive harnessing of the general human impulse to envy. As he says, “If this kind of egalitarianism is a precondition for us to embrace a post-labor world, then I suspect it may prove a very hard nut to crack.” There’s a lot that we could learn from the oldest extant branch of humanity, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to put the knowledge into effect. A socially positive use of envy—now, that would be a technology almost as useful as fire.

Source: How Civilization Started | The New Yorker

Black Sun: The singularity at the heart of the Anthropocene

Source: Black Sun: The singularity at the heart of the Anthropocene – Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Anthropocene

The virus in space

Not only in sheer velocity, matter is beginning to mimic information in how it travels across the planet. The advent of the standardised shipping container (“the can”) redefines quantum packets of shipment like bytes. The continuous re-routing of traffic for ride-sharers by Uber mimics packet-switching data networks. The renting of homes by people on AirBnB has something akin to peer-to-peer botnets that have outgrown any chain of hotels. In some sense, information shows matter how to move and, in return, matter tells information where to go.

Not only do algorithmic traders want to be located near trading servers to shave off light-seconds, it has been suggested that “privatised particle accelerators would generate and encode neutrinos in order to bore a sub-molecular pathway through the earth — saving up to 44 milliseconds.” Elon Musk’s proposed three-dimensional, multilayered rhizome of tunnels under Los Angeles is a part of the same philosophy in which, as Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams put it, “The earth itself becomes an impediment, something to be hollowed out in order to facilitate the circulation of capital.”

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The Device

We know how important it is for ballerinas that their pointe shoes fit as best as possible to their feet, since they allow them to stand, balance of the whole body, turn and execute the accurate and complicated skills of their dancing profession. Therefore, in order to get the best possible fitting, each ballerina tries to choose the model that best fits her foot, sews the ribbons and elastics with precision, some will super glue the tips, rip the top piece of the shank out, sew around the platform, remove the nail that connects the inner shank to the rest of the shoe, sometimes a softening of the box with a hammer o a door, etc.

Feet bunions result from inflammation and deformation of the metatarsophalangeal joint of the big toe called hallux valgus. However, the exact cause of bunion development is not clear. There appears to be a strong genetic link, suggesting that genetic inheritance of a certain gene may be involved as a causative factor. But there are also other proposed causes of bunions, including certain health conditions and daily activities. Furthermore, there is scientific agreement that classic ballet female dancers predisposed to develop bunions are at high risk of developing them, as they have increased exposure to risk factors.

Among the possible causes that can increase the development of the bunions in the dancers, stand out a technically inappropriate dance training, inappropriate dance floors due to lack or excess of flexibility and the use of inappropriate pointed shoes. It is obvious that in the last case, it is easier to point out the defects, for example: that the box of the pointe shoe is too narrow, or too wide or its geometry does not correspond to that of the ballerina’s foot, therefore, don’t fit properly. Of course, the advice to avoid these problems can be summarized with the use of the pointe shoe that best suits the foot of the dancer. And indeed, choosing the right shoe and adjusting it to its physical and technical characteristics is an arduous task that the dancers take very seriously. Even so, and taking into account the effort of the manufacturers of pointed shoes to offer a variety of models or even individualized fabrications for each dancer, the difficulty of achieving the adaptation of the shoe to the foot deformed by the bunion is considerable.

In order to overcome the mentioned difficulties, several accessories and bandages have been developed and commercialized. However, experience shows that the optimal adaptation of the shoe at the foot of each ballerina suffering from bunions, is a fine individual task that requires adequate tools to facilitate it. This was the circumstance in which Tamara Rojo found herself when, after an injury on her right foot and an unfortunate surgery in 2002, her incipient bunion became enormous. Faced with the unfortunate situation, Tamara Rojo suggested to her father the creation of a specific dilating stretcher for her pointe shoes, capable of expanding the wings of the vamp where the bunion is housed. After several prototypes, they achieved the proper device capable of reducing the oppression in the bunion, relieve discomfort, help her dance more comfortably and, in addition, use the appropriate pointe shoe size for her foot. Since 2002, Tamara uses the same first two Pointe Shoe Anti-Bunion Stretcher manufactured at the time, that bear her name.

The Pointe Shoe Anti-Bunion Stretcher by Tamara Rojo ® is a device for widening the specific area of the enveloping part of the pointe ballet shoes, to facilitate a more comfortable use of said shoes by the ballerinas who suffer from the lateral deformation of the first segment of the phalangeal metatarsal joint forming a protrusion called hallux abductus valgus (hallux valgus) known as bunion. By stretching the satin canvas at the wings area of the pointe shoes, the fitting of the ballerina’s foot suffering bunion into the pointe shoe is improved, consequently, it reduces the oppression in the bunion, relieves discomfort and helps her to dance more comfortably.

The Pointe Shoe Anti-Bunion Stretcher by Tamara Rojo ® is a premium device made on aircraft aluminum, bronze and stainless steel.

  • Portable, small and light like your mobile phone.
  • Easy to use.
  • Works with most pointe shoe sizes.
  • Works on either the left or right shoe.
  • Made from durable, lasting materials like aircraft aluminum, bronze and stainless steel.
  • Dimensions: 90 x 70 x 35 mm. (3,5 x 2,75 x 1,37 inches.
  • Weight: 400 gr (11 oz) Water and dust resistant.
The Pointe Shoe Anti-Bunion Stretcher by Tamara Rojo ® working

The Pointe Shoe Anti-Bunion Stretcher by Tamara Rojo ® is covered by our 2 years manufacturer Warranty.


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Day Seven: A Joyful Hope – It is possible.

Today calls us out even further into the waters of believing. It goes beyond an attitude of hope to a Joyful Hope. One that is so sure that God is with us that we anticipate with excitement how He is going to show up. I want to be very real and transparent beloved I am walking this road with you! I do not have a road map showing me all the high places to step so as not to slip off into fear or despair ever! Rather, I have and am walking this difficult but glorious path with you!

     When my dear husband was fighting brain cancer this past year, I envisioned all kinds of glorious ways the Lord could show Himself faithful. I knew that He was Almighty God  and had the power! I knew that my husband was His faithful servant and loved His God with his heart , mind, soul and spirit. I hoped beyond hope, as best I could, envisioning Him overcoming this assault.

     Even typing this I am reliving the way he sat in His chair every day, Bible in lap,worship music flowing and hands raised. I remember no matter how weak he would drag himself up at 4:30 in the afternoon to walk the steep hill behind our house. Doing his part , he thought, to keep his body strong and healthy. No matter, that he would stumble and fall on the rocks, he must keep trying. As He continued to decline in body and mind my heart wrestled with the Lord. Why, Lord? What does HOPE look like in this Jesus? I need you Jesus. I need you!

     He met me there! He calmed my heart, caught my tears and showed me that my HOPE had to be beyond even getting what I was requesting. My Hope had to be in Him. My good Father, Alan’s good Father, my children’s good Father. My Hope had to be such that even in the darkness there is Hope. Because of Jesus, even in the grave there is HOPE! And there is dear ones. This does not mean that we don’t experience grief or sadness but rather that we have Jesus with us in it. I  don’t have to  grieve as the world does,because my sweet Alan just happened to cross the finish line first. I can rejoice! I can rejoice because His faith has been made sight! I can rejoice through the tears because of HOPE!

     I know the things we are longing to have Hope for, may be different my friends but please don’t let fear, despair or a dark situation keep you from experiencing the joyful hope that Christ died for you to have. May I pray for you today? Send me an email at it would be my honor.

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  1. Beautifully written Tara. Thank you for sharing your joyful HOPE IN HIM in the midst of such painful heartache. Precious pictures of Alan!

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Free Short Story: My Name Is Estam

During the successful Fireside Magazine Year 2 Kickstarter, which I helped fund with my extreme (hrm…) generosity and, more importantly, unquenchable thirst for words and stories of all sorts, I made a promise. This happened in the middle of the night, and I said something like this:

If Fireside Magazine gets funded I’ll write a short story and give away for free. It’ll be about a guy with a sword.

At the time I had no idea what that meant, but for some reason “a guy with a sword” felt right. I might’ve been tired, slightly drunk, or both. We’ll never know because I have a lousy memory.

The cover for Fireside Magazine's first issue (2012)

The cover for Fireside Magazine’s first issue (2012)

Time flies, reality’s a bitch, and shit gets in the way, but here we are and here’s the promised short story. It’s called My Name Is Estam and ended up being the first of three short stories that I’ve decided to write. Part two and three are outlined but I don’t expect to get started with them until late next week at the earliest.

Anyway, My Name Is Estam is indeed about a guy with a sword. I wrote the first 3,000 words that night Fireside Magazine got funded, and when I thought I was done I realized that I wanted to keep telling the story. So I did, and in the end My Name Is Estam clocks in at just over 9,000 words. I gave it an edit pass, put some of my beta readers on it, and when it seemed to fly I passed it onwards to my excellent editor Brian, who got it back to me promptly.

Then the poor story sat on my hard drive, since I just didn’t have the time to complete the edits, export all the necessary files, and write this bloody post so that I could offer the promised short story to y’all. Yeah, I suck sometimes, I know.

Enough flavor text, here’s My Name Is Estam, a 9,000+ word short story about a guy with a sword. For free, in whatever format you fancy. Enjoy.

Download links (small file sizes):

I’d love to hear what you think of My Name Is Estam, so don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’m @tdh on Twitter, @tdh on, and there’s even a Facebook page that focuses on my writing if that’s your thing.

Oh, and do pass this thing along to anyone you think would like it. Thank you, and enjoy.

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Have you read Haunted Futures yet?

I’ve got a story in the science fiction/near future anthology Haunted Futures, together with the likes of Warren Ellis and Tricia Sullivan. Check it out!


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The Not Company is looking to start a food revolution from Chile

Technology investors, tasting an opportunity to capitalize on the triple threat of malnutrition, resource scarcity and pollution brought on by the increasing globalization and industrialization of food, are investing billions into startup companies pitching alternative sources of sustenance.

In the past five years, venture capitalists and corporations have invested over $9.5 billion into 2,100 deals around the world — all with the aim of replacing or supplementing traditional methods of growing, manufacturing, processing and distributing the world’s food, according to data from CB Insights.

The Not Company, with its headquarters twenty-two minutes from downtown Santiago in the southeastern corner of the city, may seem like an unlikely rising contender in this multi-billion dollar business of food replacement; but it’s from there that chief executive Matias Muchnick and his two co-founders are plotting to bring the potential benefits of this food revolution to Latin America — and eventually the world.

For Muchnick, a serial entrepreneur, The Not Company represents his second foray into food. The chief executive previously launched Eggless, a company selling plant-based dressings and a plant-based mayonnaise.

That first taste of the food business revealed to Muchnick a few things… including how basic and inefficient the research and development process was in the food industry.

Initially, that was the problem that Muchnick was hoping to tackle when he set out to the University of California, Berkeley to research the industry.

“I went to Berkeley and decided to go to the biochemistry department and really try to understand the data and the science,” Muchnick says. “Pharma is doing things way better than we are. So I decided to grab a lot of knowledge and things that were being done right in the pharma industry and explore this in the food industry.”

From Berkeley, Muchnick went to Harvard where he recruited Karim Pichara, an astrophysicist who was using data science and machine learning to explore the inner workings of stars. With the data scientist in tow, Muchnick added a third co-founder, Pablo Zamora, who had been doing research at the University of California, Davis on plant genomics.

So the dream team of The Not Company was formed.

The Not Company co-founders Karim Pichara, Matias Muchnick and Pablo Zamora

At the heart of The Not Company’s work, like its incredibly well-funded, once-troubled US-based competitor Just (which was formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a machine learning technology that maps the similarities between the genetic properties of plants and their corollaries in animals.

“If we can map the genome of a lentil or whatever bean there is,” says Muchnick, “you could easily understand and predict whether that bean could emulate an animal-based protein.”

Although the three founders all came together in the US, they decided to return to their home country of Chile to start the business. For Muchnick, being based in Santiago was cheaper and the talent pool for researchers was just as strong. And the distance from Silicon Valley became a draw for some recruits.

“We became these exotic guys,” he said.

But the base in Santiago also plays into The Not Company’s first strategic objective, which is to dominate the Latin American market and bring healthier foods to consumers who desperately need them.

The changing shape of malnutrition

Part of Muchnick’s drive to stay close to home is to fight the spread of the high calorie, low cost foods that are flooding Latin America — and transforming what it means to be undernourished in countries around the world.

To understand how problems of malnutrition play out in emerging markets, it helps to look at the changing fortunes of companies like Nestle, General Mills, Pepsico and fast food purveyors like McDonalds and Yum Brands (the owners of KFC).

Already nearly ubiquitous in the US and Europe, large multinational food companies are turning to emerging markets for growth, and pitching products and business models designed to appeal to low income consumers.

These products are cheap, but they’re also mostly emptied of their nutritional value, so while people won’t starve, they’ll develop other health problems.

“The prevailing story is that this is the best of all possible worlds — cheap food, widely available. If you don’t think about it too hard, it makes sense,” Anthony Winson, a professor of food economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario told The New York Times. The reality of the situation is much different, said Winson. “To put it in stark terms: The diet is killing us.”

Research data bears that out. According to a 2017 study from The New England Journal of Medicine, roughly 10% of the world’s population is now obese. That’s around 604 million adults and 108 million children, and these obesity rates are rising most quickly in emerging markets.

Malnutrition is only one side-effect of the penetration of industrial food businesses into different geographies. As the Times notes, these companies also encourage the industrialization of their suppliers — creating incentives for large scale farming which destroys forest land.

These problems aren’t confined to snack makers like Nestle or General Mills. Demand for meat for the fast food industry in these countries is leading to factory farming, which is a huge contributor to global warming.

It’s these problems that companies like Muchnick’s are trying to solve — with a low cost alternative that purports to have a much lower environmental impact as well.

The Not products

Muchnick and his team have been developing an array of products ever since their launch in 2015. Initially, the company set out to be a research and development and licensing arm for food companies, offering them healthy alternatives to existing products.

“We are a tech company, not a food company. We want to capitalize ourselves by developing products for other companies,” Muchnick told Reuters in 2016.

That was when the company began feverishly experimenting with all sorts of different food products, Muchnick said.

We made mayonnaise, we made chocolate, we made milks, and meat replacements as well… Sausages and burgers, and churrasco (which is a  kind of a roast beef, but worse),” says Muchnick of the early years of the company’s feverish experimentation. Finally, following in the footsteps of Hampton Creek, The Not Company decided to start with mayonnaise.

Chile actually represents the third largest market for mayonnaise in the world, Muchnick said, so it made sense for the company to start there. It’s also easier to manufacture than some of the more ambitious products that the company has on its road map.

Already, Muchnick says that he’s managed to capture 10% of the (admittedly small) Chilean market for mayonnaise in just 8 months in stores. The next product on the roadmap is a milk replacement that should launch in September, with NotYogurt and Not Ice Cream coming in 2019.

By 2020, The Not Company will be introducing sausages and ground meat replacements, he said.

Behind all of those products is “Giuseppe”, the machine learning software that Pichara and Zamora developed to find the links between different animal and plant proteins.

“We have mapped 7000 plants and we don’t think we need more than that,” says Muchnick. “We mapped them for their amino acetic structures… that looked like animal-based proteins.”

Giuseppe actually works across seven different databases with seven different approaches, Muchnick explained. There’s molecular data that describes the food and ingredients, spectral imaging for the food and ingredients, and then an array of data collected by the company’s in-house taste testers for things like palate, texture, aftertaste, tanginess, and acidity. “We have a lot of parameters,” says Muchnick.

Now, with a product roadmap established, the company has also raised additional capital to roll out across the market — not just in Chile, but across Latin America.

The Not Company recently raised $3 million from Kaszek Ventures and SOS Ventures to build out its manufacturing capacity.

It’s a pivot to go directly to the market that the company explicitly rejected only two years ago. “We want to become a brand company,” says Muchnick now. “NotCo today has a social currency.”

To do that, it needs to develop its supply chain. Already the company can produce 64 tons per month of mayonnaise, but it needs to continue to expand its production facilities as it looks to get into milk, yogurt, ice cream, and eventually meat.

“We’re deciding to build local processing plants,” says Muchnick. “We will begin distributing our product in Brazil and Argentina through exports. Once we have 5% or 8% of the marketshare… Then we will expand with a processing plant locally.”


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12 Best Evite Alternatives – Sites like Evite for Event Planning and Invites

Best Evite Alternatives

Evite is a social planning website for creating, sending and managing of the online invitations. It was launched in the year 1998 and is a free, advertisement-supported service. It has a simple interface that creates the online invitation through the website. This online invitation in general, is called as ‘an Evite’.

The host has to just enter the email address of prospective guests and Evite sends emails to the guests. It is one of the best online services for creating invention cards. Evite not only provides and creates platform for the creative to unleash their creative skills, it also has the system for providing party ideas as well.

In its section related to party ideas, you can positively get the best tips and advises regarding the arrangement of a party.

Below we have listed the 12 best alternatives sites like evite, all with the similar functioning and features-

12 Best Alternatives Sites like Evite

It is an online card maker which provides the freedom to use creative tools to the creators to create the professional level of invitation. Not only does it provide the tools for the purpose of setting up the invitation cards of all types and for all occasions, Anyvite also offers its users the provision of sharing the invitation cards with their friends as well.

Pingg is an online e-cards and invitation maker and invitation sending platform. It falls under the category of those unique types of online services that offers it users with a diverse range of ideas like system for party ideas etc. You can explore for unique and trending party ideas to make your day remarkable. It is the leading platform of invitation.

Celebrations is an online platform from where you can get the tools for the creation of invitation cards and also the latest party ideas. You can invite guests and also lets you choose the template by occasions like birthday or a wedding. You can choose a template according to your needs and create its respective invite instantly. All its steps and settings are provided on a single page.

Purple Trail provides you with the apt invitation solutions for every situation or event, just name, it whether it be birthday or wedding party or holidays. It comes with more than 5000 designs to choose from. You can customize it according to your wish like adding your own message, photo, embellishment. Invitations can be sent for free and there are no ads as well. If you are interested in spending few dollars then you can get your invitation card printed and delivered to the guests just like in the conventional styles.

It is an event creator as well as event management platform that helps you with the setting up the events, cards, tickets and sells and manages them online with the help of its event producer and management system. Shindigg is reliable to give great blowout bashes irrespective of the scale of the no. of guests to be invited.

It is an online invitation platform where users can avail easily and simply invite rather than online summons that are blessed with flowery fonts and dabbling champagne glasses. As the name suggests it is basically an invitation service for men. If you are planning on hosting a football match or a bachelor’s party and want to invite only boys then Manvite is the right choice for you.

Zoji caters online tools to aid you plan activities offline. Its service lets you manage events for various theme parties as well as get-togethers of social groups; be it with work friends, relatives or even BBQ buddies. It is relatively simple as- get to the site – > pick an invitation design – > input information about your event – > add attendees, and you are done. Tracking it is also simple.

PaperlessPost is an online platform where you can create custom card and invitations. It turned up to redefine the tradition of stationery. It is more of a practical solution so that you can dispatch and track online custom cards and invitations. It has wide variety of beautiful templates to offer. You can do multiple things like choosing a template and entering text accordingly or seeing the RSVP status of the guests or reschedule or totally cancel an event or share photos of the event in the photo gallery. If going for the free version it lets you invite up to 500 guests while paid version lets you invite up to 15000 guests.

If you are all tensed about how to throw a rocking get-together well PunchBowl is the solution to all your worries. It helps you plan it from the very beginning to the end. It also gives you suggestions based on your answers to questions regarding the party. It has no. of impressive party planning traits like gift gestures, potluck management, native vendor search and customizable digital invitations. It also sees if your guests can make it to the party or not.

It is an online design market place. It provides you the customizable templates of the invitation and e-cards. If, in case, you are in a hurry to send party invitation card tour beloved ones, in that case PsPrint is the best platform for this purpose. It will make you get the templates of the stylish and highly decorated invitation card.

Canva is a very easy and straightforward platform for the purpose of making elegant and creative e-cards and invitation cards.

Smilebox is an online platform for creating and sharing the invitations in an online environment quickly and easily. It deals in slideshows, scrapbooks and photo albums creation as well.

With the above Evite alternatives you can easily send customized invitations to your loved ones. They are to make your work less complicated and more organized.

  1. Hi Dharmesh,

    I like your list of evite alternatives, it’s good to have them consolidated in one place. I however did notice that two of the sites are no longer operational, Zoji and Manvite I think they closed a little while back.

    Also, I have another suggestion for the list. JustRsvp.me It’s a site that I created that is meant to simplify online invitations and RSVPs. It’s free to use.

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5 Best Free Android Emulator For PC – Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10

If you are someone who prefers to work or perform significant tasks on PC or you find it easy to test android apps on PC than on Android Device. Some wish to play mobile games on their PC than on their mobile phones. So, here in this article, I am going to talk about the best Android Emulators for PC in 2018.

Best Android Emulators for PC

Although there are lots of options available in the market which certainly makes challenging to choose the best one for you. So to make it a step more comfortable for you, we shortlisted the best ones. All the emulators are available for free and paid versions and vary upon the features making it work exactly like your Android Smartphones.

Upon our research, gaming was the most common reason for running emulators on a desktop computer. However, you can use it for running any app available on the Google Play Store. For Example, if you run the Instagram Application on the Emulator, you can easily upload photos and videos directly from your PC desktop something which isn’t possible otherwise. So here is the list of emulators but before that do look at the Minimum PC requirements to run the Software placidly.

Minimum PC Requirements for Android Emulators:

  • Microsoft Windows 7/8/10 (32- or 64-bit).
  • 3 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended.
  • 2 GB of available disk space minimum, 4 GB Recommended.
  • 1280 x 800 minimum screen resolution.

Best Android Emulators for PC

Let us begin…

1. BlueStacks 3 App Player

BlueStacks App Player is perhaps the most-known Android Emulator offering extraordinary quality and reliability. This emulator has been designed for making it user-friendly with the performance and looks just an Android Tablet or Smartphone. There are both free and paid versions available for the emulator. In the free version, you see ads and list of sponsored apps, but these are hardly discreet.

Best Android Emulators for PC

BlueStacks is primarily used for playing, and you can quickly search for games and apps after visiting the Google Play Store. Downloading and Installing apps is precisely like your Android Phone.

However, if you wish to add apps and games from other sources, you get the option to use standalone APK files too. Talking about the performance, which depends upon your system’s hardware delivering decent performance. Although using BlueStacks is a great way to bring Android to the bigger making it the best emulator for Android.

2. Nox

Nox is another very popular and fast and slick Android Emulator like BlueStacks for PC. The Emulator runs on Android v4.4.2 which is easily capable of running most of the Android Apps. Also, if you want to use Nox for your gaming seasons, you will be happy to know that Nox enables the use of your favorite gamepad, you also get an option of mapping key and perform various Android Gestures.

Best Android Emulators for PC

Nox gives you the vanilla feel of the Android and is specially designed for gamers, letting you install apps and games directly from the Google Play Store. With all that the Nox comes completely free.

Although this emulator is completely free but packs some great extras placed on the vertical bar on the right-hand side of the Window. Here you will find multiple options and tools like screen or video recording shortcut, a macro record link and an option to install 3rd party APKs on NOX.

KOPLAYER is yet another Android Emulator keeping performance in mind. Ideal for games, it comes with two modes: Speed and Compatibility. So it already clear that you can try the speed mode when you need to maximize the game performance and when you run into problems you will have the compatibility mode to get everything sorted.

Best Android Emulators for PC

It also has an excellent Multi-Manager Tool which lets you two or more situations on the emulator at once. However, KOPLAYER didn’t do as well as above mentioned emulators and went on like a bit hit and miss.

The emulator even crashed in its compatibility mode and hadn’t been updated for a year. Luckily if you get this thing running on your hardware, you are up for a treat. Despite its mainstream to run games, it can also run a wide range of apps. You can download a load of APKs from its website.

It hasn’t been updated for a year, but if you do get it running on your hardware, you’re in for a treat. Despite KOPLAYER’s focus on games, it can run a wide range of other apps too, and there are lots of APKs available to download from its website.

4. AndY

AndY is a very interesting Android Emulator based on VMWare Player. It is huge Android Emulator making its installation size weigh huge 3GB. It is equipped with lots of optional extras bundled up in the installer which are probably unwanted, so keep your eyes open and decline them.

Best Android Emulators for PC

About AndY’s design and performance we can conclude that it was designed keeping gamers in mind. This brings Android Gaming for PC to another level with support for not only PlayStation or Xbox controllers, but also for using your Android Smartphone as a gamepad itself. This makes it the most advanced Android Emulator for gaming in 2018.

Although get this emulator running is not everyone’s cup of tea and less spontaneous than other emulators listed above which is enough to put some people off. It is a disgrace because is very impressive and it will be great to see it become more accessible. Above that, you also get to root your virtual Android Device to run maximum softwares.

This is a shame because AndY is very impressive and it would be great to make it a little more accessible. Available for both Mac and Windows, it also gives you the option of rooting your virtual Android device to run more software.

5. MEmu

MEmu is one of the latest Android Emulators on the list, but this doesn’t make it less popular than others. Its full name MEmu Play itself signifies that the primary idea behind its development was Android gaming on PC. For raising the Android gaming standard, it comes with the support for Intel and AMD chips as well as for the dedicated and integrated graphics with a good level of support.

Best Android Emulators for PC

To enhance your gaming experience, it also lets you map your keyboard keys. With that, you can also install apps and games directly from the Google Play Store. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the APK on its window to install.

On the right side of the window, you will find a vertical menu with a range of additional features you can access similar to what you find on Nox. However, the only downside of this amazing Android Emulators is that MEmu runs on the much older Android v5.1.1.

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Which is the Best Android Emulator for Windows?

These are the best free android emulators for Windows PC. There is not much to do, download the emulator using the link and install it on your PC. Open the emulators and directly install apps or games using 3rd APKs or the Google Play Store and enjoy your favorite Android applications on your PC. However look at the minimum system requirements to run these emulators smoothly.

Edited by: Abhiyanshu Satvat

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About TCA

The Tennessee Communication Association is a professional organization comprised of members from institutions across the state which serves as the voice of communication scholars, faculty, and students in Tennessee.

We are affiliated with the National Communication Association.

TCA’s mission is to serve its membership in the following ways:

  • Seek the improvement of communication education at all levels in Tennessee
  • Encourage research in communication
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  • Host an annual meeting to share papers and ideas that present research and offer practical suggestions for teaching
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