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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Growing flowers

Today is the 10th Anniversary of the first public demo of Project Petunia. The very first demonstration happened on Fyanica #6 party 14th July 2001. You can find some pictures and the videos about the demonstration here. (Page is Hungarian, so be prepared… ;)

 *Sigh* Ten years of my life. Like it was yesterday.

  1. happy Anniversary
    hope this will bost your motivation to the jit projekt. can estamte how fare u are before wee will se an beta ??. 10 / 25 % 40/50 ??

  2. Thanks.

    I would say around 10-15%, but on this weekend I want to step ahead finally. I tried to organize some dev time finally, I hope nothing is coming along... :P

  3. how is the projekt comming alone hope you have time and motivation lately...

    see you.. and thanks

  4. Sorry guys, not too much to say. I am fighting with the code and had some trouble with my Amiga (but now it is fixed).
    I will let you know as soon as something interesting happens.

  5. thats great. a 1000 thanks... i will drop by another time... and iff i get around a few buks i will trow in some more...

  6. happy anniversary dear keep it up thanks


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CDN are planning a series of events around ‘coding in colleges’, which covers a range of subject areas (not just Computing Science!). All of the resources for each session can be found here.

CoderDojo for Colleges

There’s been a shift in recent years with learners encouraged to develop their programming skills alongside mainstream Office skills. CoderDojo is movement that began in 2011, setting up computer clubs for young learners (7-17) with almost 3,000 members signed up in Scotland in ‘14/15.

CDN ran a customised CoderDojo; event for colleges, led by John Bell who runs CoderDojos in Castlemilk and Bridgeton. It was a chance to see what young learners were doing – in school and out, to give an idea of what kind of skills might be coming through the colleges. View the programme here.  The session involved:

•    An introduction to programming via the BBC Micro:bit, CoderDojo style!
•    Participants required no previous experience of programming
•    We provided the kit, they brought their sense of adventure

Coding requires intelligence, yes, but more than that it requires a willingness to learn, an ability to break down problems into smaller problems and perseverance. Many mere mortals have these skills, not only Geek Gods.

Coding event

                                     Participants at the workshop embarking on their first ‘MakeyMakey’ task

Below you can see the presentations delivered at the session and resources used to support the activities:

John Bell

 Lorraine Johnston

Instructions to programme Micro:bit Pedometer– download here

Solutions to additional tasks – download here


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Over 70 delegates joined the ‘Everyone needs to Care – developing a highly skilled, supported and engaged care workforce’ event on Wednesday 27 September 2017.

The conference brought together an audience of senior management and workforce leads from across Scotland’s social care services – including health and social care partnerships, independent and third sector care providers, the NHS and Scotland’s colleges.

The event explored the following key themes:

  • Integration and the changing models of social care delivery
  • the shared challenges and opportunities this presents to Scotland’s care workforce
  • the new national care standards and how colleges and service providers can work together to ensure workforce training and skillsets meet evolving care service needs and re-design
  • developing attractive career pathways in care
  • a career in care in 2025 – the skillsets required for our future care workers

View key highlights and presentations below:


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Fujitsu partners with Positek RFID LP

Fujitsu Frontech North America and Positek RFID LP will form a new company to expand the market for washable RFID technologies and increase investment in related products and solutions.
Positek RFID L.P. creates and installs custom-designed laundry management solutions that enable companies to improve productivity by reducing labor and merchandise costs and tracking, sorting and managing inventory. Jeff Markman will continue his leadership role, as president of the new company. Herb Markman will also be actively involved with Positek RFID Inc. and assume the position of Chief Technology Officer.

“Our business relationship with Positek through the years has been very successful. By creating this new company, we will enable Positek to achieve even greater strength and market success as industry moves towards digital transformation,” says Michi Sugawara, President and CEO of Fujitsu Frontech North America. “Positek RFID Inc. will continue to be operated as an independent business with a long term goal of expanding its presence in the North American market.”

“We are excited to form a closer working relationship with Fujitsu,” says Herb Markman, CEO of Positek RFID L.P. “Fujitsu is a forward-looking company with exceptional product development. We are confident that this relationship will allow us to become even more agile and grow our market while giving our customers confidence in our long term success.”

RFID is a powerful technology that is used to track everything from airline parts to clothing and accessories purchased from your local department store. Washable RFID enables garment and linen rental companies, as well as hotels and hospitals, to track their inventory to ensure that adequate stock is available when and where it is needed, as well as to reduce loss. Positek develops RFID tracking solutions for the textile maintenance market and Fujitsu has significant technology in Digital Solutions and the Internet of Things (IoT). The combined resources will allow Positek RFID Inc. to expand to other markets outside of the textile maintenance industry.

“I am delighted to announce that our subsidiary, Fujitsu Frontech North America, has entered into this new business relationship with Positek,” says Kazuhiro Igarashi, president and CEO of Fujitsu Frontech Limited. “We believe that the partnership with Positek will bring us a further expansion of the RFID solutions business in North America and development of new market segments, by making full use of Positek RFID’s sophisticated integration technology and extensive customer base.”

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What is Lean? Why Do You Need It?

It’s a management system that aims to better serve customer needs with less time, less space, less hassle, less money, fewer people… less less less less to do more.

If you’re in the software business (actually, most services to business), and you want to grow organically – without simply buying capacity through adding staff – you need to grow the business faster than our costs. Which means billing customers more with (relatively) less time, space, people, investment… you get the picture. Without becoming Leaner, you will thrash around, over-obsess on mis-targeted cost-cutting without ever being able to increase your leverage.

Being Lean

What does being Lean entail?

It’s actually quite simple at heart — it’s

  1. An appreciation of what the customer will pay for (aka value).
    In our case, this is often the realisation of business ideas as working systems. It’s the only thing that justifies our existence, by the way. If we don’t create value for customers, we die, and deservedly so.
  2. An understanding of what tasks actually create that value (aka end to end processes),
    Creating value happens as the business idea is transformed into working systems; as it is elaborated into detailed expressions of how the system will work, from text to code on the production system. As organisations, we do this best in standardised processes — we consistently do the right thing in the right order at the right time.
  3. A progressive engineering-out of everything else (aka waste).
    From one point of view, Marx was right: value is created by hands-on work — by technical team members, not by management. It’s very easy to assume therefore that where technical team members are working hard, they must be creating value, but this simply isn’t true.

    In many Lean assessments, you discover that as many as 9 out of 10 process steps don’t add any value – they don’t perform the transformation that the customer is paying for. The way we achieve being Lean is removing the mindset of working hard is connected to creating value, and look to remove work that doesn’t create value. Less work, more output, more revenue, less stress for all involved. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

Most Software Can (and Should) Be Lean

Most of the methods for becoming Lean arose from manufacturing where standardised processes can be consistently improved to engineer out the opportunities for waste, but when you talk about this in a Software context, you regularly get pushback on the grounds of uniqueness.

(You want to know a secret? Almost every industry and every organisation claims to be unique, far more unique than they actually are. It’s 80% Everybody love ME ME ME for I am a UNIQUE BUTTERFLY posturing and about another 15% misplaced fear of manufacturing as Dark Satanic Mills where no-one’s allowed to think. Lean started from the standpoint of using the intelligence and creativity of everyone, particularly the shopfloor people who actually create all the value)

But I fundamentally don’t think that’s true to anything like the extent claimed. Most enterprise software delivery actually takes place to enhance or repair existing functionality, rather than to uniquely create something new. Functional changes and fixes are normally delivered as ongoing work efforts by standing teams.

A Project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product. The temporary nature of projects indicates a definite beginning and end.

An ongoing work effort is generally a repetitive process because it follows an organisation’s existing procedures

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This doesn’t mean that projects can’t utilise ongoing work: think of a house build project; many components of the build such as doors – even bespoke ones – are produced using continuous methods. In many enterprises, change is sponsored via Project vehicles, but delivered by continuous work.

Software Change is most effectively and efficiently delivered without overhead that Projectised delivery requires to manage the Risk that comes with uniqueness – it is more akin to traditional manufacturing and continuous service delivery where some variables may be tailored, but the overall process is an ongoing work effort.

The appropriate model for most Software Delivery is usually not that of a Project, but of a Production Line, where Lean methods work better than anywhere else.

This is analogous to the paradigm shift that Henry Ford went through – prior to his production system, every car was built as a Project: a unique, temporary endeavour, delivered by its own unique team. Ford’s system significantly reduced the cost of delivery, while raising quality, rate of delivery and employee satisfaction; all characteristics that business sponsors of Software Delivery constantly (and rightly) demand.

Besides, in the era of capable enterprise software, 80% of a client’s needs are delivered by core functionality that’s common across industry, and the vast majority of the rest is can be achieved with configuration & data. As Schmidt & Lyle observe:

The distinction between “assembly” and “development” is fuzzy at best. As software development tools have continued to mature and morph over the years, the line where development stops and configuration begins has continued to move. In any event, the intent with the [Integration] factory is to truly achieve a metadata-driven assembly process rather than a custom development process.

Yes, there’s a place for custom-build, unique software, just as there’s a place for custom-build, unique cars — just ask Red Bull Racing. And often it is in rarified, highest performance environments — settings like stock trading where the speed of light across the Atlantic is a limiting factor. But for the hugest market segment, true custom coding is like craft build of individual cars — stone dead.

How Do You Start the Lean Journey?

Yes, there are many tools and methods available — Kanban, 5S, Pull Production, Takt Time, Kaizen workshops and more. But to focus on these is an over-simplistic, entirely wrong way to go about becoming Lean.

The fundamental shift is one of culture.

We must build a culture that enables, supports and rewards improvement.

At its heart, everyone in the business (and I mean everyone — from the apprentice to the executive) needs to develop strong mental circuits not for solutions, but for how to develop solutions — a fundamental shift from quick fix jumping to answers to the longer term, more painful but more successful process of deeply understanding problems before jumping to fix them.

To do this, everyone needs to develop the habit of asking 5 simple questions every day:

  1. What is your target condition here?
  2. What is your actual condition now?
  3. What obstacles are now preventing you from reaching the target condition and which one are you addressing now?
  4. What is your next step?
  5. When can we go and see what we have learned from taking that step?

To be remotely successful at this, you need sponsorship from the highest level in your organisation to take the time to ask the questions, respond to them and to coach it pervasively throughout the business. It’s not additional to the day job — it is the day job.

Can You Change To This Model?

Henry Ford put it best:

Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re certain to be right.

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Live! With Kelly

Monday, January 15th, 2018

And veronica from the series "riverdale," camila mendes. We continue our jan-you-ary with powerball pilates. Plus, how to have your perfect pet could put the big bucks in your pocket.

All next on "live!"

♪ And now, here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest!

Ryan: Good morning, hello!

[Cheers and applause] with me?

Ryan: Kelly does an amazing sunday night chinese dinner.

Kelly: I order take-out. Don't get excited.

Ryan: Is I don't do anything special. We don't want to pose. She said special? I just ordered chinese and anyone who wants to come comes over and the kids are there.

Kelly: The whole reason we did this is my dream growing up and all my life until we finally moved up town was to have a lazy susan. I don't know. Of my are small.

I will grow from new jersey. I saw one ones that I thought it was the most glamorous, genius things ever. So we have a table. You've seen it. We have a table where the lazy susan is recessed right to the table.

Ryan: It's a built-in -- while back.

Kelly: I don't want to brag, but it's pretty amazing. You just spin it and you want to wonton, here it comes.

Ryan: The problem is, there's a conflict on this. If y delicious.

Ryan: It smells like massage oil, smells like of spot. Cucumber drinks make me feel like I'm at a spot.

Kelly: I feel refreshed and healthy.

Ryan: Gin drinkers are psycho. A new study is out. I'm just reading the headline, folks.

Kelly: Mark told me that. You're psycho.

Ryan: If you like a gin and tonic, you might be a psychopath. Have you ever been told that?

Kelly: Any psychopaths? And june drinker?

>> I love gin.

Ryan: I'm glad you read the last row as a psychopath. Makes me feel somewhat comfortable. So for me, I've had to go bad experiences growing up on this planet.

One, black sambuca. Two, jen. Don't even say the words.

Kelly: Sambuca is something my uncle would have liked coffee.

Ryan: It taste like licorice and back in the day when I was living with louis and we had two roommates at living in burbank and one week can we decide to go to this club in century city way back.

Kelly: Century city, give it up for the cc.

Ryan: This is back when dr. Dre was doing that song california knows how to party. It was back then. So I went and I apparently had black sambuca because the next morning.

Kelly: Apparently I had black sambuca.

Ryan: I woke up with a big knot on my forehead. I had roommates so I had to go in and asked them what happened last night at the century club? And they said we don't know.

We saw you sitting in the lobby of this century club with a big softball on your forehead. So to this day, we still can't quite figure it out. The only thing I can think is at some point, I must've been at the urinal.

And I just hit it on the top of the porcelain. I didn't get clocked. Needless to say, black sambuca is not my friend. It makes me quite psycho. It's dangerous.

Kelly: You want to hear good news? This is actually good news. There's a study that tequila is good for your health and I know you like tequila.

Ryan: Thank you, I do. Everybody smiles.

Kelly: Tequila fixes everything.

Ryan: Give me some good news.

Kelly: British scientists of course. They revealed that a shot or two of tequila is actually really good for you. It's a probiotic, which gelman then backstage dr. Gelman who was an expert on all things actually said "I believe it's a prebiotic."

Ryan: It might be.

Gelman: The bacteria likes to munch on.

Kelly: There saying it helps you maintain a healthy bacteria and I hate this word, gut. It contains folk tins, which is a molecule that occurs in asparagus and artichokes which y your poa smells funny.

And it says it stimulates the production of insulin so tequila lowers your cholesterol, it contains agape.

Ryan: Why are we drinking coffee?

Kelly: It's a nonhangover tequila. Nonhangover tequila.

Ryan: We drink it like water.

Kelly: We do. That's what I'm having right no now.

Ryan: I didn't know there was in asparagus chemical tequila tie-in.

Kelly: Isn't that interesting? They're also saying it contains less calories, so there you go because it's also.

Ryan: The calories and what what? Then heavy cream. Then fettuccine alfredo, less calories then fettuccine alfred alfredo. That'sni the sentence? Less calories, other stuff.

I have not seen this in the city but there's an article about who would like to try different things to work out, it's good to stay fit. In new york city, there are a lot of classes to do trade

Kelly: I like classes. I know you're like a lone wolf.

Ryan: Just because I've seen myself and I don't need other people to see me do it.

Kelly: I need to be shamed into doing it. I need to know that other people -- my friend barry always says you should not work out publicly. People are judging you.

And I said first of all, no they're not. Because they're too busy trying not to die themselves. But I like the idea that people might be judging me because then I'm ashamed if I quit so I keep going.

Ryan: I do, but I'm so insecure and have thin-skinned, I can't stand it. So I do it by myself. They have naked yoga apparently.

Kelly: Which, by the way, #ew.

Ryan: They are going to have a naked jim with naked gym classes.

Ryan: I needed tequila. But it's a total body workout, uses your body weight as resistance to work the glutes, the legs, and the court.

Kelly: Talk about shame.

Ryan: Every workout ends with the group stretch.

Kelly: Now I'm signing up.

Ryan: There's a sign-up sheet at the door on your stretch where my costretch partner is not wearing pants.

Ryan: Anything to get people to work out here in new york city.

Kelly: As much as I like you guys, I don't want to be doing downward dog behind you.

Ryan: Is no full loaded.

Kelly: No. Let's just show it. Let's just show gelman in his yoga position. It should that naked. You don't really need to picture it naked because you can kind of see through the pants. Himself.

Ryan: Shall we?

Kelly: Sure, why not? Curtis 50 cent jackson is here.

Ryan: Fiddy.

Ryan: This is so interesting, this trifecta, but veronica who plays her husband's daughter on "riverdale" is here. Camila mendes. Essentially stepdaughter, right?

Kelly: Your my stepdaughter is here.

Ryan: Is she here? And she okay? That she need anything?

Kelly: She's my daughter only if my daughter is nice to me. Camille is nice to me. See how different it is? And we continue jan-you-ary.

Ryan: Can't have any of that around here.

Kelly: Premature confetti. Happens as we age. Happens. Jan-you-ary, we continued this week with the hottest workouts to start your year off right. We're going to be trying powerball pilates, where you get your powerball ticket.

You scratch it off.

Ryan: Will see, maybe it is.

Kelly: There it is, you're in a plank and you scratch off.

Gelman: Is a pilates ball.

Kelly: I'm pretty sure I know that you are in a plank scratching off your powerball ticket.

Ryan: We will see and will tell you how your pet can actually win some big bucks. You and your pet or just your pet?

Kelly: Look at you guys, the front row just came to life. They're like did you say pet?

Ryan: Shall we? It's time for snow way travel trivia.

Ryan: That is mercy. From brazil.

Kelly: Honeymoon are. Where is the lucky --

>> Can I ask them to stand up?

Kelly: Of course you can.

Ryan: Where is he from? He's from where?

Kelly: This is international. I like it a lot.

Ryan: I don't think our show airs in either of our places. So I'm ryan, this is kelly.

>> I know you, but I have to promise them something special to come with me.

Kelly: I want to know. Gelman, speak for yourself right I want to know exactly what it was. We'll talk about it during commercial breaks just in case.

Ryan: Congratulations and welcome.

Kelly: Will try chelsea and iowa iowa. I bet your promise involves a new gym.

[Phone ringing]

Kelly: Ringing, that's a promising sound.

Ryan: First step. Kelly hoped she doesn't answer, I hope she does. Looks like kelly is going to win this one.

Caller: Hello?

Ryan: Chelsea?

Caller: Yes?

Ryan: Its ryan seacrest end kelly ripa. You're on the air with us right now. How are you?

Caller: Good, how are you?

Kelly: We are looking at

Caller: I can't believe this is happening right now. I could probably throw up.

Kelly: Us too but we were totally different reasons.

Ryan: What are you doing right now?

Caller: Okay. I wanted a puzzle for christmas so my husband got me a map of the world and I've been doing that for the last week. So I'm doing that and just playing with my baby.

Kelly: That's nice. So you're looking at a map of the world?

Caller: I'm putting together a map of the world.

Kelly: Oh it's a puzzle. A puzzle. I can't hear.

Ryan: So you roll out like this.

Kelly: I was like, okay. You got this. Let's spin the wheel. Here we go.

♪ So we can find out where we need to go.

Ryan: We want to do the world that puzzle as well.

Kelly: This is great. The fairmont riviera maya in mexico. Seven days, six nights. It includes all meals. That means all meals.

Ryan: Every meal. A private boat tour, which means it's private. So, you know, you can get freak freaky. Anyway, it's a prize valued at $7500. You have 20 seconds in only one guess, good luck.

Caller: Okay.

Ryan: Here we go. So chelsea, last week, what did kelly say I sent her to help with her cold?

Kelly: Yes.

Announcer: Congratulations! You and a guest will enjoy seven days and six nights on the fairmont riviera maya in mexico. The magic of the mayan culture intertwines with world-class facilities at the aaa five-diamond verified resort.

Enjoy richard sandoval's greatest cuisine at four renewed restaurants. On property boat tumors. The willow stream spa. The only course in mexico to host an official pga tour event.

Your prize is valued at approximately $7,500!

[Cheers and applause]

Caller: Thank you guys so much.

Kelly: That prize look so nice. I just want to get there right now. I want to be there. I want to be your travel companion.

Caller: You can be. I'll tell my husband that he can stay with the baby.

Kelly: Said the baby to my kids. My kids can watch the baby. Just kidding, they are really not capable of that. Listen, you helped get did make the day of a member of our studio audience who will receive $500 package from cuisinart.

These pick a number between 1 and 235.

Caller: 24.

[Cheers and applause]

Ryan: Chelsea, have a great day, have a great trip. Thank you for watching us.

Caller: Thank you so much, by!

Ryan: Curtis "50 cent" jackson" right after this.

Announcer: Still ahead on "live," from "riverdale," camila mendes. Jan-you-ary continues with a lesson in powerball pilates. Coming up next, curtis "50 cent" jackson" ."

Curtis "50 cent" jackson.>> Kel

Ly: On tomorrow's show, from the new series, "the assassination of gianni versace: American crime story," ricky martin will be here.

Ryan: And from the new series "the resident," matt czuchry will be here.

Kelly: And we continue jan-you-ary. I thought it was done.

Ryan: The whole month. It's the whole month of jan-you-ary.

Kelly: Jan-you-ary all month long. We are going to do the hybrid body boost workout with fitness expert jen widerstrom.

Ryan: There are rumors that gelman is going to extend jan-you-ary into february.

Kelly: We have that to look forward to.

Ryan: He's a grammy award-winning rapper, over 30 million albums. Please welcome curtis 50-cent jackson.

Kelly: Hi!

Ryan: Hi, buddy.

Kelly: Help yourself, ladies.

>> I will always help myself!

Kelly: We prepared them. We saw curtis backstage, and I've got to tell you, the suit is everything. You should wear it every day but I love it.

Curtis: I'm going to try to wear it a couple of days.

Ryan: What is your regiment because obviously, you're staying very fit.

Curtis: I train usually in the morning I got up and train with my trainer.

Curtis: I go to the gym and I pick up weights, maybe not as big but I've been doing it for 20 years, and I still wear boy suits. And I mean this honestly.

What am I doing wrong?

Curtis: You probably just have a high metabolism.

Ryan: I have a high metabolism.

Curtis: I can't make an assessment that fast.

Ryan: Years on a towel now now?

Curtis: He's five.

Kelly: That's a good age.

Curtis:k t did you take him o times square? , should you have to pay those guys?

Curtis: Not much. They were excited. I said wait, take a picture. He had too much to eat.

Kelly: Iron man is really.

Ryan: What is he into at his age at five right now?

Curtis: He really likes "star wars." I got him the "star wars" special edition lego set. So big that it was like something for me to do. You get toys for kids that are really for you.

That's when you're being a good parent.

Kelly: Did you put it all together?

Curtis: Some of it.

Kelly: He put it together and you like don't play with it, you're going to mess it up.N: Yn 84-year-old grandfather, and this is so cool. We heard that you take him on a trip every year.

Curtis: Every year because I'm not around a lot because I'm moving around doing everything season.

Ryan: What did he want to do?

Curtis: Now he's requesting that wherever we stay is flat. He doesn't want to go up the stairs and stuff like that. But other than that, he just wants to hang out.

He was even asking me take me to one of those clubs where those girls that.

Ryan: He wanted you to take him to one of those clubs.

Curtis: I didn't know how that would go over.

Kelly: He didn't take it?

Curtis: Have my 84-year-old grandfather in the strip club?

Kelly: You have to take in.

Ryan: When we come back, 50 cent will tell us about the rigorous training for his brand-new film right after the break.

Announcer: Still ahead on "live," from "riverdale," camila mendes.

>> So this is what's up. For the past 16 years, my daughter's protection has been my responsibility and my responsibility only. For the first time in her life, I've got to hand you that responsibility.

Your mama will weep if she has to will around the rest of your life.

Kelly: That's a scene from "den of thieves" ." It's a bank heist film, right?

Curtis: We had a military experience. The guys in our background come back to society without everyone being privy to thexp kind of ba. They come into an area where there a combat criminal element.

That scene was my 16-year-old daughter is getting ready to go to a sweet 16 problem or something in her day comes.

Kelly: And you indoctrinate him?

Curtis: That's where you're not cool to your kids anymore. They're developing developing their own social circle. I'm just trying to do it. She's not going to listen to me, so I need to talk to him.

So I can get him on my side and on my team.

Kelly: See you brought him into that room full of those me men.

Curtis: It's a different approach.

Ryan: Was a military training involved in this for you? Three we trained for two weeks before we even started the film, tactical training in gerard ande regulators went and they were doing law enforcement protocol.

We were training, she just had a code. When it started getting cold, he looked around and he was like I'm not going to do this. I'm a driver. He is like do I have to do this?

Kelly: He didn't understand what he had to endure the training.

Curtis: Everybody had to do it. He's like why? I'm the driver.

Ryan: Can't I just sit in the car with the heat warmer on the seat?

Kelly: I'm on his side.

Ryan: "Den of thieves" in theaters nationwide friday january 19th. Curtis jackson, everybody.

Kelly: Is coming up, camila mendes is here. Stick around.

Kelly: All right. Welcome back, everybody. Now, look into this. She plays my baby daddy's other baby mama veronica on the hit show "riverdale." Please welcome the beautiful and talented camila mendes.

[Cheers and applause]

Camila: Hi! Hello! Hi!

Kelly: How are you?

Ryan: Good to see you again. How are you?

Kelly: Congratulations on your cosmo cover.

Camila: Thank you.

Kelly: I got very excited. I was like I know them! I got so excited.

Camila: I was talking to somebody, it's tangible for the older generation of a symbol of success.

Ryan: The older generation, I get it.

Camila: I'm referring to you.

Ryan: You growing up moved 16 times or something.

Camila: I moved 16 times but I wasn't a military brat or anything.

Kelly: Have ever talked about this with mark because he was in the military and he's moved probably about the same amount of times.

Camila: That's crazy. We do need to talk about that. We haven't talked about it. It's an interesting way to grow up for sure.

Kelly: Where did you live?

Camila: Virginia and then to atlanta, back to virginia, back to atlanta, orlando, brazil for a year, and then we moved to south florida but all over south florida.

Fort lauderdale miami.

Kelly: Were you in a federal protection program?

Camila: That's funny pete I really hated it at the time, but now I'm very grateful for it. It kind of shaped who I am.

Kelly: Especially now as an actor, so much of your life is on the go.

Camila: And on kind of comfortable with that. I adapt to things very easily.

Ryan: You ended up graduating from school here.

Camila: Then I moved to go there.

Kelly: How did you find your agent?

Camila: So I interned for them when I was in my junior year and in my internship I was like the one assigned me? Can you audition me and if it goes well?

Then they said sure. At that point, we were all friends. It was a small office.

Kelly: "Riverdale" is your first major role.

Camila: I graduated a semester early. And if I hadn't, I would've had to drop out of college at the very end just to shoot the pilot.

Ryan: When they saw you, they wanted to sign you up right away.

Camila: It was a long process. And by the end of it, by the networks test, they told me it would be another girl and they're going to let her go but we are going to open up another nationwide search.

Ryan: Just what you want to hear. And now, a nationwide search for veronica. Here we go.

Kelly: It's interesting because when lily was here, she was saying is kind of a similar thing. She thought the job that she thought they didn't get the job.

Camila: We were told no and the beginning. The first two weeks, I was sitting there waiting to find out and my contract had expired. I was like oh, my god.

Am I not the one?

Kelly: I can't picture that show without you. You are such a stand out. Thank you.

Kelly: "Live with kelly and o take a commercial break, but we will talk about that.

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>> This weeks, "live" has the stars of "the assassination of gianni versace: Beginning with ricky martin.

Kelly: Do your best vicki martin.

Ryan: Ricky martin.

Kelly: So good.

>> And "the resident"'s matt czuchry.

>> On behalf of the students and faculty here at riverdale high, welcome to your new school. To ease this transition, set up a registration desk where you can get your locker assignments, class schedule, and a list of courses and extracurriculars.

We encourage each and every one of you to drink deeply from the cup at riverdale.

Camila: Drink deeply from the cup.

Kelly: That's a scene from riverdale. The teen schools are merging. The fringe schools.

Camila: Has been mysteriously shut down. So all of the south side kids are to riverdale so there's going to be some tension. And veronica is there to ease the tensions.

Kelly: She really is a very socially.

Camila: She's a mediator.

Ryan: What's going on with veronica and archie and wh swee.

Camila: He's great. They are stronger than ever but there's going to be -- this is a story line I really like -- someone who comes in and approaches archie for information about the family business.

So that's going to kind of cause them. Yes.

Kelly: The character.

Camila: I call him mark.

Kelly: It's very interesting because I loved that there is that office there with the fireplace and your portrait is hanging over the office.

Camila: Is so creepy.

Kelly: Mark does have an office, albeit not at all as great glamorous as the one on your show, but there is a picture of lola hanging over.

Camila: No way could I have to see this.

Kelly: It's really strange.

Camila: I want to bring that painting home with me one day. I just want to put it in my living room and scare people with it.

Kelly: You won a teen choice award for scenes dealer. And I couldn't agree more, by the way. So where do you think your big surfboard?

Camila: I send it to my dad's place and is an art guest room. It's very disturbing. It's funny because we joke about it on set. Every time I do a scene, I said did I just steal that same?

I'm sorry, I really stole this scene.

Ryan: Yes, I did. "Riverdale" of wednesday's 8:00 P.M. On the cw. Good to see you. Thank you for coming.

Kelly: You look so pretty. Play powerball pilates.goi

Announcer: Tomorrow on "live," from the new series "the resident," matt czuchry.

Ryan: So this week, we are going to get you moving as part of our b-6 push to help you conquer your greatest challenges. It's called powerball pilates with marc santa maria from crunch.

Kelly: Hi, mark. So physically, I don't think you play powerball while doing pilates but this is a great way to hit the lottery.

>> Absolutely. It's going to get you in shape to win more money.

Ryan: What is it truly? You can use a beach ball or any kind of blown up ball you can use. This one has some sand in it, some material that's about two and a half pounds so it will keep the ground.

We warm up our crunch and you have to roll it back up. So you're just going to shift the sand, get used to that movement. You want to hear it shake. If you want to hear that shake movement down.

If you want extra level, you can take that leg back. My athletes at home, you can add a little extra hop. That's nice point, ryan. Warming up the core, you're going to take that spin.

Nice, that was awesome. The big core movement here. You want to shift from palm to palm. You should feel of the left palm, right palm. And then you're going to shake what your mama gave you.

Stand in the middle, brace your core. Bonus round if you can take it up high and take it on down. So that's our warm up. Are you starting to feel that?

Kelly: I'm also on sudafed. Could be that.

Marc: You're doing amazing. Sit down, take a little break. Get down on your blue ball.

Ryan: Hello, blue ball.

Marc: So now you're going to get in your blue ball and shift away to the side, let your cheeks just hang off. Work your thighs. Now shift over and get the other side.

Once you're ready, boom. Rise up, and roll on your blue ball. There you go. Nice, one more move. Awesome. It works your thighs and your glutes.

Kelly: This is one of those things where you're sore the next day and you go to sit on the toilet and you can't. Can you like what happened?

Marc: Next move. Good core move. We're going to take our palms on the floor, place your shin on the blue ball.

Kelly: Went to get the lottery ticket?

Marc: Here's where you would scratch off your lottery ticket in a plank. Reverse scratch, scoop your belly button and then pull it. The couple of these get your core going.

Ryan: Let it out?

Marc: Now type your toe down. A little cardio element. Transition, then bonus, let's do a pipe. So get up to the sky.

Kelly: Can you see my crack?

Marc: Push up if you want. Pop it and that's our second section.

Kelly: And then pop it?

Ryan: So that's section two.

Marc: Our last section.

Ryan: I feel on fire.

Marc: A beautiful mermaid. Mermen, were women. Come up to your side, imagine this is your big old finn, you're lifting it up and you're going to use your obliques.

Smash the ball with your thigh. That helps.

Kelly: I just did the complete opposite.

Marc: Smash the ball, then bonus lift. There you go, keep those legs up. Awesome. There you go.

Kelly: Sexy curves.

Ryan: It is between my legs legs.

Marc: High rob, inner thigh. Above the knee. Now smash the ball, just squeeze it. Bonus round.

Kelly: You get a free class if you break the ball?

Marc: A free membership.

Kelly: I'm very good at breaking balls.

Marc: Last exercise. You're going to face each other because you guys are great partners together, you work well together. I know you guys love contact.

But no, this is a work out. Work. Take your ball, you're going to lean back, going to tap the floor, and then you're going to toss it. You don't have to lean back all the way.

Ryan: I've got you.

Marc: Yes, and back. And you come right back up. You swing up. Yes.

Ryan: Is heavy.

Marc: So couple of reps of these. This is one you can do at home, even for this one, a smaller one if you have it. You do how long is the work out if you do it?

Kelly: You know it would be nice, a pad of some kind. That would've been nice.

Marc: You guys are doing amazing.

Ryan: Is really good.

Kelly: This is really good. Make sure you check out this class. Marc santa maria everybody. Coming up next, your pets.

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Kelly: Check this out. This is so cool. Debbie anthony from virginia is a photo she took with ryan after our interview about dating and wearing a diaper.

Ryan: On the second day and wearing a diaper.

Kelly: Just so you know, where did you hear that first? I said it because my friend where the diaper when he goes to times square.

Ryan: We should give you some context. They were in times square on new year's eve and had to wear diapers.

Kelly: You're not allowed to go to the bathroom coming up to stay in this area for hours on end. A lot of people get there at 10:00 A.M. And we are talking midnight, no going to the bathroom.

Where do you go? You go in your pants. In a diaper. One day will all get there.

Ryan: We hope. This is from carissa patton in new hampshire. Our 10-week-old bengal kitten loves watching you guys every morning. Your voices immediately bring her out from our kiddie tower and she runs over to enjoy you both.

Kelly: That's really sweet.

Ryan: If you look closely, the neighbors school is right there.

Kelly: I didn't realize that was that sweet is that kitten. I thought that bangles were tigers. I had no idea.

Ryan: They originated as a kitten

Kelly: They grow so fast.

Ryan: Have a great day, see you later.

[Cheers and applause]

Announcer: He or she is, ellen degeneres!

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Ellen: Have a seat, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Back at you. Back at all of you. Thanks for being here. Happy martin luther king jr. Day.

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Did y'all have a good weekend?

[Cheers and applause]

That's good. I would love to hear what you did one at a time, that would be great. What did you do this weekend?

>> I slept in.

Ellen: You slept the whole weekend? That's great. All right. I'm kidding. I know what you did because I went through your instagram photos and a lot of you post somewhere and stuff.

Which is fine, it's your private account. But momost of yours aren't private. I don't understand why people post embarrassing photos to instagram. What if somebody important sees it, like your boss or even me?

Then I can show them. But you're probably thinking, alan, I've never posted anything embarrassing on instagram and I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about deanna armstrong.

That's I'm talking about. Deanna?

>> Hey, ellen.

Ellen: How are you doing?

>> Good, how are you.

Ellen: Let's just see what you posted, okay? Let's see.

>> Oh, my god.

Ellen: Throwback to the night I don't remember, lol. I'll bet you remember this now. So, you're thinking, I'm going to mike getting handcuffed, somebody take a picture of this because I want to post it?

You're asking me what it was? I don't know. What did you do to get handcuffed?

>> That's my brother-in-law.

Ellen: And this was like a role-playing thing or what's happening?

>> We were at the colorado river and I thought it would be funny since he is in his gear to handcuff me.

Ellen: Oh, ha ha. Yeah. There somebody I think you might want to meet and get along with. Pedro peralta, where's pedro peralta? Hi, how are you?

>> A little scared now.

Ellen: A little scared? Okay. Well, don't be scared. I just want to talk to about this photo. A photo and a comment, "then and now." Some things never change bread you seem to enjoy sleeping on a bathroom floor.

Speaker that's actually not me, it's out of my best friends.

Ellen: You posted, this is not you, this is one of your best. He didn't love it.

Ellen: What's his name?

>> Julio vasquez.

Ellen: So julio, that's him and now.

>> That was like two years in a row, or maybe a year between that.

Ellen: That's a shame, really. He's your friend?

>> Unfortunately.

Ellen: Maybe not anymore now that we've got this. Or maybe this is a good wake-up call for him, I don't know. All right, jackie fontes, where's jackie one test?

Hi, how are you?

>> I'm great, thank you for asking.

Ellen: You posted a kid jumping into a pool in slow motion, so let's take a look at this.

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Board of Higher Education Kerala has performed 10th examinations for the students of the state in March this year.The tests held in various centers of the state, as well as pupils from numerous parts of the state, has actually taken part in the exams conducted from March 8th to 25th march 2017. The board efficiently carried out the evaluation for trainees as per the timetable each the sources the board has currently begun the answer sheet evaluation once it completes the tabulation of Kerala SSLC Result 2017 will certainly be introduced on May Fourth.

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5 Tips for Managing an Efficient Global Supply Chain

global supply chainDoes your business buy from suppliers in an international supply chain?

In the face of competition and economic pressures, global supply chains are under more and more pressure to deliver their products at a greater value, on-time and at a lower cost. But if one link in the supply chain is broken, (for example, a delayed payment or late shipment), the consequences to your small business can be problematic.

So what can you do to better manage this process and reduce the downstream strain on your business?

Tips for Managing Your Global Supply Chain

Find Someone with Expertise to Help Oversee Foreign Suppliers

Whether your supplier is in Asia, South America or Europe, small businesses can benefit enormously from the services of an in-country representative. There are many global supply chain management consultants who offer these types of services, which include vetting international suppliers and navigating export regulations, taxes and logistics in that location.

Try to find one who has expertise in that country and who spends a good amount of time there. Although you’ll incur some costs, the payoffs in reduced liabilities, taxes and shipping will be well worth it.

A licensed customs broker can also help navigate laws and regulations and help you prepare the documents needed to import goods, as well as facilitate communication between the importer and the U.S. government. You can search for certified customs brokers at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America.

Explain Your Buying Patterns and Schedules

Be sure to set clear expectations in regards to your anticipated annual buying scale and schedule. To do this, you’ll need a good handle on your sales forecasting. If you are sourcing goods overseas, shipping those goods will take time, so you need to have a good picture of current demands for your inventory and how these are forecasted to shift in the future.

Also, be sure to ask your supplier for regular updates on their inventory data.

Don’t Rely on Just One Supplier

When it comes to effective supply chain and inventory management, redundancy is everything. Have a back-up supplier (one is good—you don’t want to manage too many suppliers).

Not only will they prove invaluable in the event of production or logistical issues, they can also give you some competitive leverage and help ensure you maintain the best cost base across your suppliers.

Build Goodwill

Building good relationships with your suppliers can lead to mutual benefits such as better terms at the negotiation table and improved production and delivery schedules. Try to treat your suppliers as partners, and look for ways that encourage them to view you in the same light. You can do this by paying them on time, cutting some slack on one-off mistakes and being flexible.

For example, are there things you can do to help them cut costs or better fulfill your order such as being flexible about certain delivery schedules, order volume or ordering alternative product lines?

Don’t forget communication. If you are able, try to meet directly with your suppliers. Get to know and respect their cultural and business backgrounds and train your entire team to be aware of and sensitive to any differences should they arise.

Save Costs and Reduce Risk by Sourcing “Made in the USA” Products

If you do find that global supply chains are simply too risky for your business or you find that you can’t make the minimum orders for importing inventory or goods, consider options for sourcing more from domestic suppliers.

Turnaround time from overseas factories can be substantially slower than domestic suppliers. Sourcing domestic goods can help you meet demand more quickly and react on the fly to market demands.

For many small business owners, it’s a common truth—investing in a domestic supply chain rather than trying to cut costs from the onset by sourcing overseas can save money in the long run.

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Elias Hanna Syriani (1938-2005) was born on 7 January 1938 into an Assyrian Christian family in Jerusalem, which at the time was part of the British Mandate of Palestine. When Elias was 10 years old his community became part of the newly created state of Israel. Soon after, Elias's father was imprisoned by the state of Israel and released to Jordan two years later. Elias's father suffered a mental breakdown in prison, such that upon his release he was unable to work. As the oldest son, Elias was called upon to help support his family. He worked as a machinist. Later, Elias joined the Jordanian Army, serving for nine years. During this period of his life, Syriani was also well known as a singer for a Jordanian radio station.

In 1974, Elias Syriani was introduced by a mutual friend to Teresa Yousef, a Jordanian woman who had immigrated to the United States (then living in New Jersey). The two exchanged letters briefly until their marriage was arranged by their families. With his marriage to Teresa, Elias immigrated to the United States to join his new wife. The couple settled near Chicago, Ill., and had four children, each two years apart: Rose, Sarah, John and Janet.

In 1986, Elias lost his job as a machinist, so the family decided to move to Charlotte, N.C. According to those close to the family, after Elias and Teresa moved to Charlotte, Teresa began to dress in a more American fashion and began working outside the home at a nearby gas station deli. Elias disapproved of these changes and the couple argued about it, Elias often becoming very abusive. Police were called to the Syriani home ten times within the span of two years. In one incident, Elias tried to strike Teresa with a baseball bat. Teresa took her children to a battered women's shelter, then to relatives in New Jersey. But she soon returned to Charlotte.

In 1990, Teresa filed for divorce and secured a restraining order that required Elias to leave their home. Several days later, as Teresa drove home from work with 10-year-old John in the car with her, Elias blocked her car with his van and approached her car door. Elias opened Teresa's door and began striking Teresa with a screwdriver in the head, face, arms and hands. Even as their son John tried to stop him, Elias struck Teresa 28 times with the screwdriver. John ran to get help and, as neighbors came out of their houses, Elias fled. After 26 days on life support, Teresa succumbed to a fatal two-inch puncture wound to her brain. She was 40 years old. Syriani was arrested, tried, and sentenced on 12 June 1991 to die by lethal injection.

After the murder of their mother, the children - Rose, Sarah, John and Janet - wrote their father out of their lives. They were sent to be raised by two aunts, Elias's sisters. Of the four children, only John (at age 18) had ever visited their father at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. All of this changed in 2004, when the four children began to consider a visit to see their father in prison. Sarah was about to be married and wanted to visit her father in order to "cleanse her heart." Eldest daughter Rose wanted her father to know how far she had come without him in her life. In August 2004, all four children visited their father. All four children tell a similar version of that emotional day - each relaying how, almost immediately during the visit, they began to feel great sympathy for their father. They returned the next day. Each of the children, all by this time in their 20's, found that day and in the days that followed that their anger was turning to forgiveness. After leaving Raleigh, the children continued to correspond with their father.

The visits with their father led the four children to begin advocating for commutation of their father's sentence. They arranged a meeting with North Carolina Governor Mike Easley, where they told Governor Easley that they "lost the most when their mother died... but now they have their father back, and they have the most to lose again." Despite their personal attempts to persuade Governor Easley to commute their father's sentence, Easley denied the appeal for clemency in mid-November 2005. After nearly fifteen years on North Carolina's death row, Elias Syriani was executed on 18 November 2005.

Referenced Works / Suggestions for further reading:

Kelley, Pam. "Forgiving a Father." The Charlotte Observer (N.C.), 26 June 2005.

Tomlinson, Tommy. "Dad killed Mom, but they can't picture him gone." The Charlotte Observer (N.C.), 13 November 2005.

Office of the Clark County (Ind.) Prosecuting Attorney. "Elias Hanna Syriani." Death Penalty Case Files. 2005. Clark County Prosecuting Attorney, Jeffersonville, Ind. Accessed 21 February 2008."http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/syriani997.htm".


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Gervais confronts his mortality in laxative form

Jeez, it just doesn’t pay to get your hopes up, you know? You see a preview for a movie about a guy who hates people and then sees ghosts and hates them too, and he’s played by Ricky Gervais, and you naturally think: hot damn! For once they got it right. What could be more soothing at this moment in our history, what could be a better match for our mood of frenzied loathing than this little celebration of abhorrence? But it’s all a scam. It’s sickening how they lure you in with Gervais’ porcine blandishments!

Oh sure, it starts out fine. It’s all Gervais at first, and one cannot but admire him for his sheer ice-cold accuracy in portraying human beings as pathetic grotesques, showing no mercy. He can reduce the most hardened viewer to squirming discomfort in two minutes. Here he’s playing the full spectrum of detestation, as a man who is himself dreadful and can also see how dreadful everybody else is. For Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic dentist who can suddenly see dead people, the supposed cosmic wonder of this development means just one thing: a lot more people to avoid.

This pedestrian reaction nicely undercuts our assumption that death makes people more interesting. Good one, writer-director David Koepp! Turns out “death doesn’t make you smarter” and provides no big insight into the afterlife or anything else. People’s souls on the Other Side are just as tiresome as they are on this side. They’re just like live people but even more annoyingly monomaniacal and less able to do anything effective about their monomania.

Uninvited ghosts

So far, so promising. Then the dirty tide of plot washes in: the noodgiest of the ghosts, Frank (Greg Kinnear) compels Bertram to save his widow Gwen (Tea Leoni) from what he regards as a disastrous new suitor. Bertram sets himself up as a rival suitor and pretty soon falls in love with Gwen himself….Yuh-huh. Well, plausibility ain’t everything in movies. So, slogging on: in order to win her, Bertram has to start empathizing with people, and helping the ghosts solve their noodgy problems, which in turn solves the live people’s problems, and finally he learns that, living or dead, everybody’s really, really nice, once you get to know them, and blah blah blah right down the crapper.

It’s insulting, is what it is. They pull you in with some bracing misanthropy and ghosts, and then unleash a rotten, messy romantic comedy on you. (Can no one rid us of this disgusting genre?) They even give Gervais’ character a back-story to explain his hatred of people. It’s the old one about a disappointment in love, which has been getting steadily less convincing since Dickens got by with it in A Christmas Carol a hundred-fifty years ago. I think, by now, we’re ready to face a few hard truths. People are extremely, eminently hate-able. Always have been. We go out of our way to be, we build up whole political and economic and social systems designed to favor, reward, and reproduce the Hateful Bastard. And when I say “we,” I mean “they.” I’ve been in the struggling anti-Bastard camp for years, and yes, the pay’s terrible, thanks for asking.

At first the movie seems like it might be headed toward some sort of semi-believable solution, suggesting that although Bertram Pincus is never going to be a grinning people-hugger, he might be happy if he could meet someone else who’s weird and self-sufficient and suits him. But the sloppy romantic comedy conventions are too strong. It’s not enough that two people get together and aren’t immediately repulsed again—that’s a miracle in itself—no, there must be fifty miracles, and every person and ghost must hug, and every rock and tree must rejoice, all bathed together in syrupy golden light. The ending’s like The Simpsons’ version of a Disneyland parade, with the shouted slogan, “Hurray for Everything!!” And these days, nobody needs that kind of aggravation.

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Win an aFREAKa onesie!
(16 May 2017)

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Win an aFREAKa onesie!

Get your animal on with this onesie! You can win Ewan's Springbok onesie if you answer the question correctly...

How to enter: SMS the keyword "ONESIE”, your name and the correct answer to the question – where do onesies originate from? - to 33728

Competition opens: Tuesday, 16 May 2017 06:30
Competition closes: Tuesday, 16 May 2017 17:00

SMS' will be charged at R 1.50 (one rand and fifty cents) per SMS entry. Free or bundled SMS' do not apply.

Important clauses which may limit our responsibility, place an obligation on you to indemnify us, involve an acknowledgment of any fact or involve some risk for you will be in bold and italics. You must pay special attention to these clauses.

1. Introduction

1.1. The Expresso aFREAKa Onesie Competition (Competition) will be run by Cardova Trading (Pty) Ltd and association with aFREAKa clothing.
(collectively the organisers/we/us/our).
1.2. Each person entering the Competition (entrants/you/your) and/or accepting a Prize in terms of this Competition agrees and accepts that the Competition rules as set out in these terms and conditions are binding on him/her.

2. Competition Period

Entries for the Competition will open at 6h30 on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 and will close at 17h00 on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 (Competition Period).

3. Who can enter

3.1. In order to be eligible to enter the Competition:
3.1.1. you must be a legal, permanent resident of the Republic of South Africa;
3.1.2. if you are younger that 18 (eighteen) years of age, you must be assisted by a parent/legal guardian, who approves of, and consents to you entering the Competition and to your possession and use of the prize; and
3.1.3. you must be a natural person.
3.2. Notwithstanding clause 3.1, you are not eligible to enter this Competition if:
3.2.1. you are a director, member, partner, employee, agent or consultant of the organisers of the Competition, or any other person who directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by the organisers;
3.2.2. you are an immediate family member of any of the persons specified in clause 3.2.1; or
3.2.3. you are a supplier of goods or services in connection with the Competition.

4. How to Enter

4.1. SMS the keyword "ONESIE”, your name and the correct answer to the question – where do onesies originate from? - to 33728 within the Competition Period.
4.2. Once you meet the requirements set out in clause 3 above and this clause 4, you will automatically be entered into the prize draw.
4.3. You may enter the Competition as many times as you like to increase your chances of winning.
4.4. SMS' will be charged at R 1.50 (one rand and fifty cents) per SMS entry. Free or bundled SMS' do not apply.

5. How the winners are determined

5.1. We will randomly draw 1 (one) winner (Winner) by means of an automated system within 3 (three) hours from the closing time of the Competition.
5.2. We will contact the Winner within 24 (twenty-four) hours from the prize draw on the cell phone number from which the entry was sent. If a Winner is not contactable within 24 (twenty-four) hours from the prize draw, and after we have made at least 3 (three) attempts to contact the Winner, that Winner will forfeit the prize and we shall have the right to select a different Winner on the same conditions except that we will only be required to make 1 (one) attempt to contact each further Winner drawn.
5.3. The Winner will be required to provide a copy of his/her Identification Document as required in terms of the Consumer Protection Act, 68 of 2008. If the Winner fails to provide a copy of his/her Identification Document within 3 (three) days from being requested to do so, the the Winner will forfeit the Prize and shall have no claim against us.
5.4. The Winner may be announced on the Expresso show and posted on the Expresso Website, or social media platforms.

6. The Prize

6.1. The Winner will receive 1 (one) Springbok aFREAKa Onesie which was worn by the Expresso Presenter on Expresso on the competition date to the approximate total value of R 450.00 (four hundred and fifty rand) (Prize).
6.2. The Prize excludes all items not mentioned in clause 6.1 and may differ from images or items used in marketing material for the Competition.
6.3. We will contact the Winner per telephone to obtain all necessary information or to make necessary arrangements for delivery and the Prize shall be delivered to the Winner at an address within the Republic of South Africa within 20 (twenty) business days from confirmation of the Winner. Should the Winner fail to provide adequate delivery details or to accept the Prize within 20 (twenty) business days from being contacted by us, the Prize will be forfeited and the Winner shall have no claim against us.
6.4. The Prize, or any part thereof, may not be exchanged for cash any other item. Prizes are not transferable. We reserve the right to substitute the Prize, or part thereof, with any other prize of a similar commercial value.

7. General

7.1. Any reference to the organisers includes the directors, members, partners, agents or consultants of the organisers, where the context allows for it.
7.2. In case of a dispute regarding the identity of a Winners herein, the owner of the SIM card used to enter the Competition will be deemed the Winner, even though the handset may have been used by another individual to enter the Competition.
7.3. We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions within the competition period should it be deemed necessary in our sole and unfettered discretion.
7.4. The organisers' decision regarding any matter concerning the Competition and/or arising out of these terms and conditions, including the determination of the Winner, is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
7.5. Where relevant, if a Winner does not accept the Prize as required herein, if an entry is not valid for whatever reason, if a Winner has breached these terms and conditions, if a Winner renounces the Prize or we deem such Winner to have renounced the Prize, we reserve the right to declare the Prize forfeited and/or choose a new Winner.
7.6. Nothing in these terms and conditions is intended to, or must be understood to, unlawfully restrict, limit or avoid any rights or obligations, as the case may be, created for either the entrants or the organisers in terms of the Consumer Protection Act, 68 of 2008.
7.7. We will need to process your personal information to validate your entry as well as to contact you for marketing purposes and, if you are a Winner, to make the Prize available to you. By entering this Competition, you specifically and expressly consent to us processing your personal information for these purposes and contacting you for marketing purposes.
7.8. We assume no risk and/or liability whatsoever for the failure of any technical element in the Competition which may result in your entry not being successfully submitted and/or the Winner not successfully receiving or taking up the Prize.
7.9. Once the Winners accept the Prize, such Winners accept such Prizes at their own risk.
7.10. We assume no liability whatsoever for any direct or indirect loss, harm or damage arising from your participation and/or any use of the Prize awarded in terms of the Competition. All persons, entering this Competition, indemnify and hold us harmless for any loss, damage, harm, death or injury (whether arising from negligence or otherwise) which may be sustained as a result of his/her participation in this Competition and/or his/her use of the Prize, or the use of the Prize by a third party.
7.11. If required by the Minister of Trade and Industry, the National Consumer Commission or for whatever other reason, we will have the right to modify or terminate this Competition with immediate effect and without notice of such modification or termination. In such event, all entrants hereby waive any rights, which they may have against us and hereby acknowledge that they will have no recourse or claim of any nature whatsoever against us.

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2017-03-05 16.58.59

SWAN ATTACK! Well, not really, but close…

This time of year swans are rampant throughout the lakes, rivers and parks of Ireland. These magnificent birds are beautiful and fun to watch but not always friendly to encounter. Early this spring, Mr. Grump came to live in the little bog lake near our home. He, maybe she, as I don’t really know how to identify which is which on a swan? Looked so lovely swimming around the pond. From time to time we brought bread crumbs to feed him along with the other ducks, but we soon found out that Mr. Grump doesn’t love to share, which is how he acquired his title. He would follow us around the little lake, sometimes even coming on shore to hiss or fluff his feathers until we gave him some food. We learned quickly to keep our distance and keep moving.

One day Mr. Grump had a fish hook hanging from his beak. He greeted us with a healthy warning hiss before settling back into the lake and waiting none too patiently for a treat. I called the local veterinarian clinic to make sure someone was aware of the injury. They said a couple of fishermen and people from the Aviary had spent several unsuccessful hours trying to catch the bird to free him from the hook and they would continue to try. Thankfully, on our next walk we saw Mr. Grump without the contraption.

For about a month Mr. Swan has gone missing from the little lake and just today we noticed that a group of six young swans have taken his place. This afternoon on a family outing to another lake we saw a swan that looked strangely like Mr. Grump. Though I am not an expert on the subject, and most swans look the same in my opinion, I could swear that this has to be “our bird;” for, just like Mr. Grump, this lonely swan followed us around the lake, hissing and puffing up his wings at us. Wary of our fowl friend we kept our distance and did not get out our picnic until we were far away, however, the lovely looking, unfriendly bird, decided this just wasn’t good enough! Several times he raised his wings high and arched his neck charging straight toward us, my husband had to throw a couple rocks at the water to get him to turn away more than once, fearing that the swan would attack our toddlers.

You know, everyone in Ireland always has a story to tell, so sometimes I wonder what Mr. Grump’s story is? Some say swans mate for life…did his spouse pass away, get hunted by a poacher, or caught in a trap? I guess we’ll never know..

Heather Cammack
I came to live in Ireland several years ago following the love of my life…an Irish man. Now I’m happily married and the mother three. We live in the country with a view of an ancient castle ruins out our back windows and each day I am grateful to be alive, to be loved, to be here.


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Change is Good

Change Is Good

Today’s the day. Something’s different around here. Can you guess what it is? Oh, that’s right. This is an entirely different site than it was this time yesterday. Which is awesome! Welcome! I’m glad you made it.

I’ve been working on this design for the past five months, and I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to finally show you guys what I’ve been working on. And, I’m especially jazzed about what this rebrand means for Ex Vitae.

For a while now, I’ve felt like Ex Vitae was missing somethingMostly, this blog felt like a few stabs in the dark at what could be considered good, sharable content. But, (for the most part), I didn’t feel like I was being authentic to myself in the types of content I was creating. And I suppose that perceived inauthenticity was a lot of the reason I dragged my feet in finishing the design/code – I just didn’t know what I wanted to do with this space. And so I bided my time, waiting for the lightning bolt to strike. And strike it did, courtesy of my mother. As you do.

The site isn’t quite finished, but I figured if I didn’t set a hard deadline for launch, I’d never get it out. In any case, I’ll be making a few small changes over the next couple of days – mostly just polishing the code and making it friendly for all different kinds of devices. Which, by the way, is one of my favorite parts of the new design – it’s super readable on your mobile device! Pretty neat, no?

So, in honor of this brand new EV, I bring you my (belated) new years resolution for this space:

  1. Post more regularly
  2. Share as much of my own photography as possible
  3. Share more of my own experiences
  4. Create a newsletter so that readers can keep up with me in an easier-to-digest format

Please share your thoughts/comments about the new digs – What do you think?? What should I change?? Your feedback is what keeps me going around here, and I’d love to hear what you think. Also, what are your new years blog resolutions? What are you working on right now? Let me know – I’m happy to support in any way I can :)

  • Kate Amunrud

    Love the new look! It looks great!

    Love your goals, too. =]

    • Amanda Dillon

      thank you thank you!! It’s definitely still not done (working on a new about page as we speak), but hey, it’s something, right?


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