The letter wishes Adam a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and looks forward to catching up in the new year to discuss lighting projects. The sender signs off wishing the best from Antony and team.
The document discusses mutual funds as an investment vehicle. It provides an overview of mutual funds including their concept, organization, advantages and disadvantages, types of schemes, computing net asset value, investment strategies, myths and facts, comparison to direct equity investments, factors to consider when choosing a fund, the worldwide and Indian mutual fund industries, performance, common investment blunders, and taxation of mutual funds. The document aims to educate investors about mutual funds and help them make informed investment decisions.
Digital PM Summit 2014: A Date is a DateTera Simon
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The document highlights the challenges in project management, noting that nearly 70% of projects fail to meet deadlines or budgets due to poor planning and unclear goals. It advises on the importance of clearly defining expectations, effective communication, and realistic timelines, while emphasizing the need to identify and address potential issues early on. Additionally, it underscores learning from past mistakes to prevent future project failures.
This document summarizes the author's experience creating their resume and HTML projects for a web design course. It discusses the table format used, challenges with initial page setup and color combinations. Problems encountered included deprecated HTML tags and differing browser displays. The author was pleased with the final resume and HTML restaurant site, which included additional pages. Webhost issues included forced templates, frequent downtime and slow uploading. Recommendations are made to use Webs.com for webhosting and to help classmates. The author reflects positively on the course and classmates.
North Carolina's digital transformation project aims to enhance user experience, unify government services, and ensure web accessibility compliance. The initiative involves various agencies and focuses on meaningful and device-agnostic content, utilizing a responsive design framework. Key goals include improving navigation, following WCAG guidelines, and ensuring all features are accessible and user-friendly.
ConvergeSE: State of the state - Digital transformation of NC State GovernmentTera Simon
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The document discusses the digital transformation of North Carolina's government web presence, focusing on enhancing user experience and compliance with web accessibility standards. Key goals include unifying government services, ensuring content is meaningful and findable, and creating a device-agnostic design. It outlines various strategies for design and development, emphasizing responsive frameworks, a digital style guide, and best practices for web accessibility.
Digital PM Summit 2015: Become a Meeting WhispererTera Simon
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The document discusses the prevalence and challenges of meetings, emphasizing that professionals spend significant time in them and often express dissatisfaction. It outlines common complaints about meetings and provides guidelines for improving their efficiency, including creating firm agendas, managing time, and limiting attendee lists. The author stresses that effective meetings should aim to share information, make decisions, and foster collaboration while minimizing distractions.
The document describes the roles and equipment used in a polling station for voting. It mentions the president who oversees the voting process, state police who observe it, voters who cast secret ballots, ballot boxes to collect votes, voting booths for privacy, and a smartcard reader used to identify voters electronically. It also references the software and hardware that coordinates the equipment and tabulates the anonymous votes.
The document discusses security procedures for electronic voting at a polling station. It mentions verifying the identity of voting system components like the main board, memory card, and smartcard reader. It also recommends taking photos of components and using a wireless signal detector to check for potential vulnerabilities. The president and state police oversee the security of the voting process.
This study assessed the potential antifungal activity of extracts from four species of Himalayan lichens. Lichen samples were extracted using acetone, methanol, and chloroform solvents. The extracts were tested for antifungal activity against seven pathogenic fungi using a disc diffusion assay. Acetone and methanol extracts showed differential inhibitory effects against the fungi compared to chloroform extracts and a synthetic antifungal. Principal component analysis revealed acetone and methanol extracts were more effective against some Fusarium species than the positive control. The results suggest lichen extracts may have potential as natural fungicides.
Managing Scope Creep & Client ExpectationsTera Simon
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The document discusses the importance of managing client expectations and scope creep in project management. It outlines essential skills such as adaptability, communication, and relationship building while categorizing different types of clients. The text also identifies various forms of 'creep' that can affect project delivery, emphasizing the need for clear goals and effective communication.
Lichens ecological functions and role in ecosystem servicesDr. Himanshu Rai
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Lichens provide several important ecosystem services:
1) Lichen-dominated biological soil crusts play a key role in soil formation, mineral cycling, and water retention by increasing infiltration and moisture retention.
2) Some lichens are used as a food source for humans and animals, provide nesting materials, and create habitat.
3) Lichens produce valuable secondary metabolites that have applications in medicine and human health.
4) Lichens are effective bioindicators of pollution and climate change due to their sensitivity, and can be used to monitor environmental conditions via changes in diversity.
Chinese tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant and is an important part of Chinese culture and history. There are several types of Chinese tea including green, white, oolong, and black teas which differ in the level of oxidation of the leaves during processing. Chinese tea is consumed throughout the day for health, pleasure, and as part of meals and traditions. The practice of drinking tea originated in China thousands of years ago.
How to Eat an Elephant: Or Tackle Most Any, Huge Enormous ProjectTera Simon
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This document discusses managing complex projects and provides tips for doing so successfully. It notes that project management involves untangling complexity and making projects tangible. Some key skills needed are adaptability, collaboration, communication, expertise, and leadership. When tackling large projects, it's best to break them down into smaller pieces that can be addressed one at a time. Thorough documentation is also important. The document warns about different types of "creep" that can affect projects, like scope creep, effort creep, hope creep, and feature creep, and provides ways to identify and address these issues. Overall it emphasizes the importance of clear goals, flexibility, communication, and attention to details and potential problems.
FLOURISHING THROUGH SENSES: FROM Ab‘SENSE’ to Pre‘SENSE’ to Es‘SENSE’ to Re-...Samuel Thuo
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A presentation By Samuel Thuo, The Senses Architect to FxD Community for a PechaKucha Format titled: Flourishing Through Senses: From Ab‘sense’ to Pre‘sense’ to Es‘sense’ to Re-sensing the World
In a world where skyscrapers rise and senses fall, this presentation explores how architecture can either numb or nourish our humanity.
? Act I – Ab‘sense’: The Crisis of Sensory Deprivation
We begin in the concrete jungle, a habitat built for function, but not for feeling. Glass, steel, white walls. Children indoors, glued to screens. Cities that silence rain and sterilize smell. We've lost touch with the sensory essence of living. We're living in a pandemic of nonsense environments.
? Act II – Pre‘sense’: The Power of Sensory Grounding
We rediscover presence in barefoot steps on soil, bark under fingertips, beams of sunlight through timber, whispers of wind and scent of wet earth. Flourishing starts when all senses are awake, not just sight. It’s a return to how we once knew the world, intimately, bodily.
? Act III – Es‘sense’: Remembering Our Sensory Nature
Flourishing is rooted in our essence, as sensing, emotional beings. We learn from nature’s flow, from indigenous African architecture, from animals in tune with their environment, and even from cooking. These are acts of multisensory design, where wisdom is embodied, not abstract. Beauty is not in the eyes of the beholder, but all the senses of the beholder.
? Act IV – Re-sensing: A Vision for the Future
It’s time to re-sense the world. Pallasmaa said that architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world, and this mediation happens through the senses. We must go back to creating senseful environments that allow this dialogue between us and the world. Homes like Falling water that merge with land. Playful spaces for children. Healing cities filled with texture, sound, and smell. Bodies that root into nature. We must shift from building cold structures to designing sensescapes that foster wellbeing.
Transformative Storytelling_ Insights from the Sankofa Writing Intensive.pdfDr. Rema
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The intensive is structured around workshops and individual writing sessions to facilitate deep reflection and discovery. Participants engage with various genres, from memoirs to reflective essays, each chosen to amplify the introspective process.
Digital PM Summit 2015: Become a Meeting WhispererTera Simon
?
The document discusses the prevalence and challenges of meetings, emphasizing that professionals spend significant time in them and often express dissatisfaction. It outlines common complaints about meetings and provides guidelines for improving their efficiency, including creating firm agendas, managing time, and limiting attendee lists. The author stresses that effective meetings should aim to share information, make decisions, and foster collaboration while minimizing distractions.
The document describes the roles and equipment used in a polling station for voting. It mentions the president who oversees the voting process, state police who observe it, voters who cast secret ballots, ballot boxes to collect votes, voting booths for privacy, and a smartcard reader used to identify voters electronically. It also references the software and hardware that coordinates the equipment and tabulates the anonymous votes.
The document discusses security procedures for electronic voting at a polling station. It mentions verifying the identity of voting system components like the main board, memory card, and smartcard reader. It also recommends taking photos of components and using a wireless signal detector to check for potential vulnerabilities. The president and state police oversee the security of the voting process.
This study assessed the potential antifungal activity of extracts from four species of Himalayan lichens. Lichen samples were extracted using acetone, methanol, and chloroform solvents. The extracts were tested for antifungal activity against seven pathogenic fungi using a disc diffusion assay. Acetone and methanol extracts showed differential inhibitory effects against the fungi compared to chloroform extracts and a synthetic antifungal. Principal component analysis revealed acetone and methanol extracts were more effective against some Fusarium species than the positive control. The results suggest lichen extracts may have potential as natural fungicides.
Managing Scope Creep & Client ExpectationsTera Simon
?
The document discusses the importance of managing client expectations and scope creep in project management. It outlines essential skills such as adaptability, communication, and relationship building while categorizing different types of clients. The text also identifies various forms of 'creep' that can affect project delivery, emphasizing the need for clear goals and effective communication.
Lichens ecological functions and role in ecosystem servicesDr. Himanshu Rai
?
Lichens provide several important ecosystem services:
1) Lichen-dominated biological soil crusts play a key role in soil formation, mineral cycling, and water retention by increasing infiltration and moisture retention.
2) Some lichens are used as a food source for humans and animals, provide nesting materials, and create habitat.
3) Lichens produce valuable secondary metabolites that have applications in medicine and human health.
4) Lichens are effective bioindicators of pollution and climate change due to their sensitivity, and can be used to monitor environmental conditions via changes in diversity.
Chinese tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant and is an important part of Chinese culture and history. There are several types of Chinese tea including green, white, oolong, and black teas which differ in the level of oxidation of the leaves during processing. Chinese tea is consumed throughout the day for health, pleasure, and as part of meals and traditions. The practice of drinking tea originated in China thousands of years ago.
How to Eat an Elephant: Or Tackle Most Any, Huge Enormous ProjectTera Simon
?
This document discusses managing complex projects and provides tips for doing so successfully. It notes that project management involves untangling complexity and making projects tangible. Some key skills needed are adaptability, collaboration, communication, expertise, and leadership. When tackling large projects, it's best to break them down into smaller pieces that can be addressed one at a time. Thorough documentation is also important. The document warns about different types of "creep" that can affect projects, like scope creep, effort creep, hope creep, and feature creep, and provides ways to identify and address these issues. Overall it emphasizes the importance of clear goals, flexibility, communication, and attention to details and potential problems.
FLOURISHING THROUGH SENSES: FROM Ab‘SENSE’ to Pre‘SENSE’ to Es‘SENSE’ to Re-...Samuel Thuo
?
A presentation By Samuel Thuo, The Senses Architect to FxD Community for a PechaKucha Format titled: Flourishing Through Senses: From Ab‘sense’ to Pre‘sense’ to Es‘sense’ to Re-sensing the World
In a world where skyscrapers rise and senses fall, this presentation explores how architecture can either numb or nourish our humanity.
? Act I – Ab‘sense’: The Crisis of Sensory Deprivation
We begin in the concrete jungle, a habitat built for function, but not for feeling. Glass, steel, white walls. Children indoors, glued to screens. Cities that silence rain and sterilize smell. We've lost touch with the sensory essence of living. We're living in a pandemic of nonsense environments.
? Act II – Pre‘sense’: The Power of Sensory Grounding
We rediscover presence in barefoot steps on soil, bark under fingertips, beams of sunlight through timber, whispers of wind and scent of wet earth. Flourishing starts when all senses are awake, not just sight. It’s a return to how we once knew the world, intimately, bodily.
? Act III – Es‘sense’: Remembering Our Sensory Nature
Flourishing is rooted in our essence, as sensing, emotional beings. We learn from nature’s flow, from indigenous African architecture, from animals in tune with their environment, and even from cooking. These are acts of multisensory design, where wisdom is embodied, not abstract. Beauty is not in the eyes of the beholder, but all the senses of the beholder.
? Act IV – Re-sensing: A Vision for the Future
It’s time to re-sense the world. Pallasmaa said that architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world, and this mediation happens through the senses. We must go back to creating senseful environments that allow this dialogue between us and the world. Homes like Falling water that merge with land. Playful spaces for children. Healing cities filled with texture, sound, and smell. Bodies that root into nature. We must shift from building cold structures to designing sensescapes that foster wellbeing.
Transformative Storytelling_ Insights from the Sankofa Writing Intensive.pdfDr. Rema
?
The intensive is structured around workshops and individual writing sessions to facilitate deep reflection and discovery. Participants engage with various genres, from memoirs to reflective essays, each chosen to amplify the introspective process.
Aimee White Visual Thinking, Graphic Design, Livermoreaimeewhite13
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5. Dear Adam,
Have a Great Christmas and new year. I
look forward to catching up in the new
year and discussing lighting projects.
All the best from Antony + team.