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Hubs use disc brakes & include rotors compatible with AMP full suspension mountain bikes. Used on some of the first full-suspension bikes made in the early 90s. Some noise from disc brake design. May not work with standard disc brakes. | 2019-04-19T21:10:01Z | https://store.bicycleczar.com/26-Amp-FX-aluminum-disc-7-speed-135mm-schrader-cl-p/12180260.htm |
Another Traxxas product that should have been included with the sensor.
Another part that I needed to complete the telemetry system for my Brushless E-maxx. I've said it countless times before and I'll say it again: This should have come with the sensor!!! A zip tie, a plastic piece and a tiny rubber sliver. Almost 3 bucks. Wow, just... wow. I wouldn't even be upset if the sensor would be more expensive with this included. It's just inconvenient that I had to wait another week for this piece after I got the sensor, hence the 3 star rating. Not R/C planet's fault of course.
I bought this for my slash 4x4 without telemetry. It works. | 2019-04-26T10:05:16Z | https://www.rcplanet.com/traxxas-mount-temperature-sensor-tra6535/ |
RidgewayGirl: Both tell the life story of a woman in short story form, with compassion and an unflinching eye.
thelittlematchgirl: both are stories about women some people will find unlikeable and some will want to be friends with.
Ciruelo: A strong willed and contrary woman is the foundation of each book.
I saw the movie before I'd read the book, which didn't give me the sense of how it was written. Such a unique format! It's episodic, with each chapter written about completely different people, and only some in Olive Kitteridge's "voice." (those were my favorite chapters) However, all tie together, b/c all of these different and unique characters have had some sort of interaction with Olive.
I used Amazon's review because I was not in love with this book. It had a crazy amount of good reviews but the main character, Olive, was not likable. Not even a little bit. I hated her even minute in this book. And then I watched the miniseries on HBO and she was equally awful on there. She wasn't nice to her husband (she cheated on him), she was terrible to her son, she didn't have any friends, she never wanted to be touched or hugged.....she was just a weirdo.
The story was long and drawn out over most of Olive's adult life. The book weaves in and out of her story and others and how she fits into their stories. You really had to pay attention.
Each of the 13 tales serves as an individual microcosm of small-town life, with its gossip, small kindnesses, and everyday tragedies. Not all the minor characters stand out the way Henry and Olive do, and there are a pile of them to keep straight by the end. I also couldn’t quite place how one story, “Ship in a Bottle,” meshed with the rest. But those are small flaws far outweighed by the book’s compassion and intelligence.
The pleasure in reading “Olive Kitteridge” comes from an intense identification with complicated, not always admirable, characters. And there are moments in which slipping into a character’s viewpoint seems to involve the revelation of an emotion more powerful and interesting than simple fellow feeling—a complex, sometimes dark, sometimes life-sustaining dependency on others.
For my mother who can make life magical and is the best storyteller I know.
For many years Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads, or summertime roads, when the wild raspberries shot their new growth in brambles along the last section of town before he turned off to where the wider road led to the pharmacy.
Olive had sat in her bedroom and wept like a baby, not so much for this country but for the city itself, which had seemed to her to become suddenly no longer a foreign, hardened place, but as fragile as a class of kindergarten children, brave in their terror.
She showed him the library built the year before Henry's stroke, with its cathedral ceilng and skylights. He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, "Stop that," as though he were reading her diary.
Who, who, does not have their basket of trips.
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. - "Pharmacy"
Angie... felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late. - "The Piano Player"
But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different. - "A Different Road"
Olive felt something she had not expected to feel again: a sudden surging greediness for life. - "Security"
She did not want to leave it yet.
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her; a lounge musician haunted by a past romance, a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive's own adult child who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.
As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought into a deeper understanding of herself and her life - sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty.
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
Elizabeth Strout's book Olive Kitteridge was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. | 2019-04-20T10:21:16Z | https://www.librarything.com/work/10112735/ |
Newborn sleep is erratic and it can be hard to know what your baby’s needs are at this tender age. You are busy navigating, breast/bottle feeding, bum changing, recovering from birth, managing the influx of well-wishers, it can be hard to manage all of this and remember that sleep is important too. Let me take the guess work out of it all for you. This is a great solution for parents who want to get their baby off to a great start with sleep habits from day 1. I would meet with you before or after your baby is born and walk you through what to expect at every stage of development and how to navigate it. You will receive a sleep plan, coaching and lots of support as you find your feet in parenting. Now, do not be fooled, this does not mean you don’t not get to hold your baby to sleep, who doesn’t love baby snuggles!? Rejoice, you do! And as a qualified Maternity Nurse, I will help you focus on nourishing feeds so that all of your baby’s needs are met for a strong beginning.
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We will be playing a unique show this weekend at the Vortex! Eeyore's Aftergathering will include a silent disco this year, which means that you will be able to watch us and listen to us play live in the theater, but also have headphones to hear the show in high-fidelity anywhere in the venue... And in the unlikely event that you get bored with a song, you can switch over to listen to one of the DJs for a moment! This is Austin Silent Disco's inaugural event, and we are excited to be a part of it! | 2019-04-23T06:21:57Z | http://www.dimitrisascent.com/ascend/category/silent%20disco |
The Florida Relay Services is a communications system that allows hearing persons and Deaf, hard of hearing, or speech-impaired persons to communicate by telephone. Florida Relay customer service is available 24 hours a day 365 days a year at 1-800-676-3777 (English) or 1-800-676-4290 (Spanish) For more information visit Florida Relay Services at: www.ftri.org.
Compassionate Care Spanish-language HelpLine: 877-658-8896.
Are you caring for a loved one who is seriously ill? Do you have questions about grief and where to find support? Do you have questions about hospice services and end-of-life care?
Cuidando con Cariño is a toll-free HelpLine that offers information and resources for people living with or caring for someone with a serious illness. Our bilingual staff can answer questions on grief, caregiving, advance directives and other end-of-life issues. They can also help you find community hospice or palliative care programs and services. Call the Compassionate Care Spanish-language HelpLine today for a compassionate, listening ear and free information.
Transitions — a free program in Marion County for those with life-limiting illnesses but who are not ready for hospice care.
GovBenefits.gov — Your Benefits Connection: GovBenefits is a partnership of many Federal agencies and organizations with a shared vision— to provide improved, personalized access to government agencies.
Aging with Dignity: Advocates for the needs of elders and their caregivers, with a particular emphasis on improving care for those at the end of life.
Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD): ABCD is a non-profit public charity dedicated to social, professional, and policy reform aimed to improve the care system for patients with serious illness, and their families.
On Our Own Terms: Based on two years of research and production, “On Our Own Terms” takes Bill Moyers to the front lines of the movement to improve end-of-life care and reports on the best models for change.
Monarch Center at Sylvia’s— Hospice of Marion County’s offer free grief workshops to the community. Available to children, teens and adults.
Beliefnet: A multi-faith independent site which features articles of the nation’s most accomplished and respected journalists in the fields of religion, spirituality and morality.
CareGiver: An information resource on long-term care.
Dying Well: Resources for people facing life-limiting illness, their families, and their professional caregivers.
Caring Bridge: Free, secure personalized websites that support and connect families and friends during end-of-life care.
Learn about the dying process.
To arrange for a speaker or training, call 352-854-5230 or email bgamba@hospiceofmarion.com.
www.transitionsfl.com – monthly groups meet for programs, lunch and tip-sharing for caregivers.
Monarch Center at Sylvia’s – free community support for those who have lost a loved one.
Florida Palliative Equipment, LLC, dba Accent Medical — an authorized non-profit durable medical equipment supplier, serving the tri-county area. Accent Medical sells directly to the public through its warehouse and at its new store located at 920 Bichara Blvd in The Villages.
Center for Comprehensive Palliative Care, LLC and Availacare— programs to provide pain and symptom management for those in any stage of illness. When you are facing a serious illness, you need relief from pain or other symptoms, such as fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite and shortness of breath. Relief from stress; support for your family. The Center works directly with your physician.
Florida Hospice and Palliative Care, Florida hospice organization References to hospice programs throughout Florida, all of which are Medicare and Medicaid certified and fully licensed.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States.
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine: The only organization in the United States for physicians dedicated to the advancement of Hospice/palliative medicine, its practice, research and education.
Growth House, Inc.: Resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care.
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association: The mission of the HPNA is to promote excellence in Hospice and palliative nursing.
Hospice Foundation of America: General information about Hospice.
Hospice Net: Comprehensive website for both caregivers and patients, with many articles dealing with Death & Dying and Caregiving & Grief. | 2019-04-26T08:19:17Z | https://www.hospiceofmarion.com/services/resources/ |
Joel Berry II withdrew his name from NBA Draft consideration after only 48 hours last week and will return to UNC for his senior season, and Carolina basketball will reap the benefits of his decision.
Berry’s career has already been one for the history books after only three years under Roy Williams’ tutelage. Berry has captured ACC Tournament MVP, Final Four MOP, an NCAA Championship, and will have his jersey hanging in the Smith Center rafters if he never scores another point in Chapel Hill.
While Berry will be the key to the Carolina attack, he knows he can still take his game to higher places in his last campaign.
One key to Berry’s approach will be how he meshes with his new teammates. Berry will log major minutes with players he spent very little time with on the court.
The departures of Nate Britt, Kennedy Meeks, and Isaiah Hicks to graduation, along with the early departure of Justin Jackson to the NBA ensures that Berry’s senior leadership will be more valuable than ever.
Along with those departures, the status of rising sophomore Tony Bradley also complicates the makeup of UNC next season. Bradley would be the featured frontcourt player in Williams’ inside-outside style, but first-round draft projections could see the Bartow, Florida native bolt to the NBA.
If Bradley goes pro, Berry’s options in the post will be limited. UNC will see NCAA tourney hero Luke Maye return, and the Heels have signed three post players from the high school ranks. None of those players will provide the post presence Carolina enjoyed last year.
The lack of post experience will put even more pressure on Berry to expand his game. Berry will have plenty of opportunities to improve upon last season’s 14.7 points and 3.6 assists. Rising sophomore point guard Seventh Woods will also give Berry the chance to slide over to shooting guard some next year.
If UNC wants to again return to the top of the college basketball mountain, Joel Berry II will be the main cog in the machine. UNC is lucky to still have him in baby blue. | 2019-04-19T11:19:44Z | http://www.allsportstalk.net/ncaa-sports/college-basketball/berrys-return-bolsters-unc-next-season/29118 |
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Found it. When you’re using the line continuation (_ at the end of the line), the Translator can get fooled.
How does it happen that VarWordWidth does not work?
Yes, I’ve found the continuation symbol sometimes is not always effective… not sure if this is the issue affecting the ‘reserved words’ problem.
I used Print to display a ONE line text field containing a variable called VarWordTo and it worked perfectly.
I used the same variable in a multiline text field (with line continuation characters) and the first half of the text field, up to and including … ", VarWordTo, "… did NOT show at all, but the remainder of the text field DID show… I replaced … ", VarWordTo, "… with … to … and the whole text field displayed, but with ‘To’ capitalized, color blue and bold.
My sense is that you are right, it’s the line continuation character that’s causing the problem… my workaround will be to eliminate the line continuation character for text fields, using separate ‘expressions’ for each line and replace ‘reserved words’ in the text with variables.
We’ll be fixing the problem with reserved words in line continuation strings.
Print "This is test of using a variable ", VarWordWith, " a Print text."
So are you all set then?
I’m all set now, George… thanks for your patience! | 2019-04-22T12:40:31Z | https://discuss.appstudio.dev/t/using-reserved-words-in-print-texts/49 |
Description: Care and working center Toncka Hocevar is a social welfare institution. We offer help and support to adults with mental disabilities and co-occurring disabilities. We organize daycare and institutional care. Within programs of daycare, adults with special need do different forms of occupations. It helps them to stay active, to develop new knowledge and skills, to be socially included. Daily around 237 adults are attending programs of daycare in 5 different units in Ljubljana. In every unit, there is a team of professional mentors (special educator, social worker, occupational therapist) and working tutors. Inside units work is divided into smaller groups of 15-25 adults. Around 90 adults are living in our residential houses.
Besides the occupation and living, we organize numerous other activities that are offered to our users: we make trips, attend events and various institutions, celebrate birthdays and New Year’s together. We are also active in the field of sports, attending competitions under the organization of the Special Olympics.
Tasks of the volunteer: The volunteer will work in a daycare center and also in residential houses.
Support daily activities: occupational workshops, sports and therapeutic activities, cooking activities etc.
Develop new activities: music/dancing workshops, learning of foreign language etc.
Support daily activities: following up leisure activities, keeping the house clean, preparing meals etc.
Volunteer will live in a single bedroom in a student apartment in Ljubljana with other volunteers or students, near our center. Kitchen, bathroom and laundry facility will be shared with other volunteers or students.
Volunteer gets a meal while working and eat with other workers.
Volunteer gets a monthly bus ticket for transport in Ljubljana.
We are looking for young people who are open-minded and communicative. Creativity, self-motivation and proactivity are a plus! It is desired to have some handwork skills or other talents (dancing, cooking, music, sport). Volunteer should enjoy working with adults with special needs.
Si estás interesado envíanos tu CV y tu carta de motivación (en inglés) a oficina@ongsci.org con el asunto ”CES en Eslovenia”.
¡No lo pierdas esa oportunidad increíble! | 2019-04-19T20:24:31Z | https://ongsci.org/oferta-ces-con-adultos-con-discapacidades-en-eslovenia/ |
Energy research and development is on the move. The Energy Game Changers initiative highlights historic and current effects of research efforts from universities across the US as they deliver a cheaper, cleaner, and more secure national energy system.
Revolution is a strong word that is genuinely applicable to the field of energy today, both in the way it is produced and the way it is used. The challenges ahead are compelling and the sooner we take advantage of our resources and our capacity for innovation, the brighter our future will be.
The purpose of the Stanford-MIT Energy R&D Game Changers project is to highlight new ideas for how to produce and use energy in a careful way. We at Stanford University, MIT, and other leading research centers have joined together to recognize new, important, and potentially game-changing energy technologies. Twenty-five scientists convened at Stanford’s Hoover Institution in 2011 to review specific projects. The group met again the following year at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). Some of the most compelling results from those meetings were presented at a conference cosponsored by Hoover and MITEI in Washington, DC, in March 2013.
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All of these ideas are portrayed against the backdrop of our three key objectives: national security, economic well-being, and an improved environment.
As Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz said when he was director of the MITEI, there is tremendous research capacity in the United States and elsewhere to carry out aggressive work on this important agenda. The United States needs to exploit this capacity by devoting scientific, engineering, and entrepreneurial resources to the energy area on an unprecedented scale. The fruits of this research and development, combined with the creative juices of the American entrepreneurial culture, will shape our future. | 2019-04-20T19:13:22Z | http://www.energygamechangers.org/ |
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for snow and ice in Derbyshire on Friday and Saturday.
The warning is in force from 5pm on Friday until 9am on Saturday.
It states: "A band of rain and hill snow will increasingly turn to snow to lower levels through Friday evening and overnight into Saturday.
"This band will gradually ease during Saturday morning as it moves south-westwards, allowing ice to form as it clears.
"Icy patches are likely on untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths." | 2019-04-20T04:14:26Z | https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/weather/met-office-issues-snow-and-ice-warning-for-derbyshire-1-9062828 |
Ethereum Dark (CURRENCY:ETHD) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 20:00 PM Eastern on March 25th. One Ethereum Dark coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0248 or 0.00000673 BTC on major exchanges. During the last seven days, Ethereum Dark has traded flat against the U.S. dollar. Ethereum Dark has a market cap of $37,271.00 and approximately $0.00 worth of Ethereum Dark was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Sequence (SEQ) traded up 16.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0134 or 0.00000340 BTC.
42-coin (42) traded up 24.6% against the dollar and now trades at $13,493.31 or 3.41463750 BTC.
LiteDoge (LDOGE) traded 13.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000001 BTC.
BitBar (BTB) traded down 2.1% against the dollar and now trades at $4.72 or 0.00119378 BTC.
AquariusCoin (ARCO) traded up 11.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0827 or 0.00002093 BTC.
WomenCoin (WOMEN) traded up 58.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
Scrypt hashing algorithm. It was first traded on September 20th, 2017. Ethereum Dark’s total supply is 3,019,862 coins and its circulating supply is 1,500,000 coins. Ethereum Dark’s official website is www.ethereumdark.net. Ethereum Dark’s official Twitter account is @ethereum_dark and its Facebook page is accessible here.
Ethereum Dark can be traded on the following cryptocurrency exchanges: Cryptopia. It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum Dark directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Ethereum Dark should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as GDAX, Coinbase or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Ethereum Dark using one of the exchanges listed above. | 2019-04-19T05:28:03Z | https://www.coinblock.asia/2019/03/25/ethereum-dark-market-cap-hits-37271-00-ethd/57177 |
Welcome to the 39th edition of The Weekly Bull Report.
Princess Ubolratana Mahidol, the sister of Thailand’s king has joined the race to be the country’s next prime minister.
President Trump’s 2019 State of the Union – Full Transcript.
Theresa May will plead with MPs for more time to renegotiate the Irish backstop in her Brexit deal.
The business of kidnapping. Read about it here.
Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of blackmail and extortion.
The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology. Read or listen here.
Cannabis may help relieve autism symptoms.
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Namaste Technologies ($TSXV: N) Founder and CEO fired for self-dealing.
Honest Company co-founder Christopher Gavigan has a newly funded hemp CBD startup called Prima.
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On this day in history, February 10th, 1996: Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a chess game against a reigning world champion. Despite his defeat in the first game, Russian world champion Garry Kasparov proceeded to win the match by 4-2 games.
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs.
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon.
Free Hugs Campaign: Sometimes a simple hug can make you feel a lot better, and there is evidence that human contact boosts feel-good chemicals in the brain. Watch it. | 2019-04-25T04:35:09Z | https://internetbullreport.com/the-weekly-bull-report-february-10-2019-%F0%9F%97%9E/ |
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If you are really trying to catch fish, it’s definitely going to happen. So don’t even worry about it. But what should you do once you are snagged?
Wait, let me back up. First, if you never want to get hung up, stay at the house. If you rarely want to get hung up, however, use only weedless lures. Scum frogs, grass mice, floating plastics, weedless jigs – all are good for throwing wherever and whenever you want. The next lure on the depth chart is definitely a spinnerbait. This lure is relatively weedless as well and can access most places. When thrown over a limb or other obstruction, slowly reeling it back over can usually keep this lure from snagging. For all other hangups, read on.
Say you’re working a likely looking shoreline full of stumps and trees and your first cast of the day overshoots your target and gets hung up. Most people immediately give up after a cast like this and automatically head for the lure, disturbing fish they might have caught.
Sure, that’s an option, but it isn’t your only one and it shouldn’t be your first. If you make a bad cast over a limb near the water, lower the lure to the water and twitch it on the surface. If a fish hits, it’s going to absorb the lure’s hooks, which would otherwise snag the lure. Then you can pull your fish over the obstruction, assuming, of course, you’re using heavy line. If no fish strikes, make a judgment call. If it’s a huge tree trunk where the lure isn’t visible, you’ll have to pull the lure over the trunk. Raise your rod tip and experiment on how hard to jerk. Usually a simple twitch of the wrist is good enough to get it away from most obstructions. That also allows the lure to stay close to the stump once it’s back in the water. Getting untangled is not enough; turning a bad cast into a great cast is the most important part. If your lure is hung in a tree limb and it’s too high to entice a fish, get the lure swinging. Then while it’s swinging away from you, use a gentle twitch to flip the lure free from the branch. However, if you surmise that swinging the lure above that limb will entangle it in another limb, let out enough line so that the lure lowers to the point where you can retrieve it by hand.
Now, a worse-case scenario of events. You throw your lure and it gets entangled in a pine tree, a piece of netting, a rope, or a crack in a boat dock. This is simple. Give a slight tug on your lure. If it won’t come, go get it.
When fishing with a crankbait or spinnerbait, watch your line. When the line stops as you continue to reel, the lure is about to go over an underwater limb. If fishing with a floating crankbait, stop reeling and allow the lure to float to the surface. If fishing with a sinking lure, such as a spinnerbait, raise your rod top and gently twitch the lure with your wrist above the obstruction. Then you can continue reeling. What if your line stops with a big fish? A possibility, yes, but 99 percent of the time the lure will make some sort of other movement such as a left or right swing when a fish takes it. Second, watch the emergent structure to guess where the submergent structure is. If fishing with a suspending or sinking lure, simply lifting the rod tip while reeling will allow the lure to move over most underwater structure.
If the lure is snagged beneath the water, you have multiple options. First, reel until the rod tip is touching the lure. Then push the rod tip away from you in the opposite direction that the lure was originally swimming. If fishing with a baitcaster, keep your thumb on the spool. If this doesn’t work or if your rod tip becomes entangled with your lure, you’ll then be able to release your spool to prevent your rod from breaking if the tip is bent too far in one direction. Second, move the boat to the opposite side of the snag and pull. This allows your lure to come out the same way it came in. This also works well if you can’t reach your lure with your rod tip. If fishing from the bank, change the angle. If you can’t get on the opposite side, move as far to the left or right as possible and pull. Third, there are several companies who make tools that connect to your line and slide down to free the lure from a snag. When fishing deepdiving crankbaits, this is sometimes the only way to untangle a lure without losing it.
Fourth, if fishing near riprap, use the bow technique: Tighten your line, then use your fingers and pluck at the line from the reel to the first eyelet as if you were playing a guitar. The momentum of the pluck may jar your lure loose beneath the water. This technique works best with monofilament line because of its ability to stretch. If none of these techniques work, position the boat on the opposite side, reel down as far as you can in the water with your thumb on the spool, and pull toward you. This will either break the limb, break the knot or straighten the hook. The problem with this technique is when fishing with braided lines that can exceed tests of over 100 pounds. You must also make sure that when pulling, you are pulling straight so the rod tip is not broken in the process. And with all of these techniques, protect yourself from flying lures – a three dollar fishing lure isn’t worth losing an eye over. The object when getting unhung is to get your lure out of trouble and put it in a fish’s mouth as quickly as possible. Learning these techniques will allow you to have the confidence to make casts in areas with better structure for fish. Don’t try to throw in the trees on purpose, but make sure you’re not pulling back on casts that might have otherwise landed right in a fish’s living room. When you start having more confidence making casts whenever and wherever you want to, you’ll see your fishing success increase dramatically. | 2019-04-18T19:29:45Z | http://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2014/03/fishing-hangups/ |
I loved all of Faith Mortimer's Dark Minds Psychological Thrillers-but after having waited it seemed like forever for Paradise Prison--this is the best one hands down! Twists, turns and parts had me shivering in fear-but I could not put it down-I read it straight through. And the ending will have you wondering--will this story be continued or is life really as cruel as it seems in this novel.
I really don't want to give away any of the story--you really have to read it. But fair warning--it is not for the faint of heart!
Amazon Top #14 author rank for mystery, #27 mystery, thriller & suspense, #55 literature & fiction #5 bestselling author on Nook Books. Faith's books have made the Kindle Top 100 Paid List numerous times.
Faith is a British author from Hampshire, England. Since 2005 she turned her hobby of writing into a career. During childhood, she dreamed of writing novels which readers would love, & spent many hours writing short stories which she read to her sisters. Born in Manchester & educated in Singapore, Malaya & Hampshire, England.
You know it's a winner when you can't put it down! I love a good thriller, espeically with great twists and turns!
Oh boy! Now I must try this series!
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The inspiration behind this recipe came from one, rainy night after work and my husband’s sweet tooth. Around 9:30 at night, we just had to make the trip to our local VI (Village Inn) to pick up not just a slice, but a whole French Silk Pie. On the car ride over it was full of me saying, “Seriously?!” Or “Are you pregnant?” (jk) to my husband’s late night cravings. But sure enough, we got ourselves a classic French Silk pie and were on our way. Naturally, it was on a Tuesday, so we missed the “free slice Wednesday”. Couldn’t he time his cravings a little better?! Either way, he got his pie and he was happy.
But along the way, I couldn’t help but inform him (maybe just a few times) that I could make that pie better than he could buy it. He happily agreed and told me to go ahead and try and he would be more than willing to eat it. He also agreed to me giving him a pie to the face, so that will be coming soon! ?
So, I knew this pie had to be something good. Something elevated above the classic French Silk Pie. Why not make it tripe chocolate?! Perfection. I love to use Ghiradelli chocolate and you can find it at your local grocery store so that makes it even more perfect. It delivers a full, robust chocolate flavor with smooth undertones. Select a good quality chocolate as it is going to be the star of this dish.
This pie turned out to be one of our favorites and we midnight-snacked on it for the rest of the week. No guilt, all pleasure. Put this pie on your family table and it will not disappoint! Plus, you could just get lost in all of those chocolately layers.
Bake the pie crust in a pie plate according to the instructions listed on the box. After it is golden brown, set aside to cool completely.
In three seperate bowls, microwave each kind of chocolate for approximately 35 seconds, or until melted. Stir each chocolate until smooth.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, whip 3 cups of heavy cream until stiff peaks form, about 5 minutes. Divide the whipped cream evenly betweeen three new bowls.
Starting with the dark chocolate, fold the dark chocolate into one of the whipped cream bowls. Be careful to not over mix and lose your fluffiness from the whipped cream. After the dark chocolate is incorporated, spread the mixture in an even layer on the bottom of the pie crust.
Repeat with the milk chocolate and layer it on top of the dark chocolate. Move onto the white chocolate and follow the same instructions and layered on top of the milk chocolate inside the pie plate.
Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Before serving, whip the last cup of heavy cream until stiff peaks form, and spread evenly on the top of the chocolate layers. Sprinkle with chopped chocolate pieces and serve. Keeps in the refrigerator well. | 2019-04-19T15:07:28Z | https://kjandcompany.co/2016/12/04/triple-chocolate-french-silk-pie/ |
It’s probably not unreasonable to think that many of us were/are guilty of this position – after all 10 years ago who would have suspected that newspapers would drop in circulation and the advent of e-books would result in the decline in book shops?
But now I think we can agree that the digital revolution has happened and is here to stay! But many still don’t really know how to equip their businesses to join the new digital age – just creating a 4 page website is no longer enough! There are so many opportunities to talk to the people you want to target, maybe too many in your eyes – so where do you start, what channels should you be using, how will you differentiate yourself from everyone else using digital media?
Questions like these may just be answered by an industry tool called SOSTAC (created by Dave Chaffey and PR Smith).
Situation analysis – look at where you are now in terms of your e-marketing activities. Do you have an online presence? How is your brand perceived? What is your competition doing that maybe you are not?
Objectives – think about where you want to be? What do you want to achieve for your brand, will going online help? If your target audience are unlikely to surf the web then don’t jump on the bandwagon because everyone else is!
Strategy– so now you’ve figured out where you want to be, how will you get there? Ensure you understand your main objectives and use these to guide your strategy. Don’t do anything without having an overall strategy first!
Tactics – now this is the fun part where most people leap too before the previous steps, what tools will you use to achieve your goals? Social media, email marketing, SEO…the list goes on, choose a mix of what suits your brand best. If you’re a travel company Instagram is a secret Goldmine for you, posting pics of all those wonderful & exotic places but if you’re in the finance world this route probably won’t be right for you – think about your brand/business needs.
Actions – so you’ve set your goals, planned what you want to do and how your going to do it – it’s time to think about your team. Who will implement your plan – external agency? What internal resources do you have?
Control – finally, it’s time to measure your e-marketing and think about how you manage the strategy process.
And there you have it! It may seem ridiculously simplistic [and undoubtedly you will need to give more consideration to each stage that we have highlighted] but using this tool could provide the framework you need to help you on your way to digital marketing success. | 2019-04-20T01:22:38Z | https://stockdalemartin.co.uk/marketing-general/making-the-most-of-your-digital-comms/ |
Is being contented equal to happiness? Is being happy equal to being contented?
To me this is hard to determine as there are people I know who are contented with their lot, but are not completely happy as they would like more. The same can be said for being happy. There are those who can be said to be happy but not contented because again they would like more.
What do teachings from philosophers tell us about contentedness vs happiness?
The main difficulty here is that 'happiness' has a variety of senses. The following analysis may help, however.
'Content' has made only a brief appearance so far. LLoyd Thomas goes on to address the relation of happiness to contentedness in more detail, however.
Contentedness is one of the standards by which the fourth use of' happy ' is applied. Generally speaking, contentedness is not so much a separate standard for the happy life as an aspect of all standards for the happy life. Part of being happy in the fourth use is recognizing that one's life measures up to the standards set for it. However, there is a sense in which contentedness may appear to be a standard in its own right to be set beside other standards. It, may be suggested that one may be happy by merely being contented. One may be more easily happy if one does not set one's standards (i.e., one's genuine standards) too high and so can be reasonably sure of attaining them.
The pseudo-standard of contentedness is closely related to one form of asceticism. If one takes this approach to its extreme, the happy life will be one in which only the most minimal demands are made so that the chances of satisfying these demands are good. The person who tries to adopt contentedness as his ideal has confused the requirement that any life, if it is to be happy, must satisfy the standards set for it with those standards themselves. He has made the satisfaction of a standard itself into his standard. Having done this, he thinks his best policy is to lower such genuine standards as he has as much as possible. Such an approach to the happy life, besides being confused, may fail in practice. If success is too easy, one may be dissatisfied with what one has got even when one succeeds. This is another aspect of the point that one is not completely free to choose one's standards for the good life. Not only may they be the wrong standards for a certain person; they may also be too high or too low. It is probably true that a lowering of standards for the good life will most often lead to people not being happy rather than being unhappy.
Mill claimed that one may be more contented, but not necessarily more happy, with a pleasure of lower quality than with one of higher quality. It might be argued that this does amount to saying that a person may be happier with a pleasure of lower quality. Hence Mill cannot say both that an action is right if it leads to the greatest happiness, and that it is right if it leads to most pleasures of high quality. For someome may be happier (i.e., more content) with a pleasure of lower quality than with one of higher quality. This objection to Mill depends on the assumption that 'happy' means the same as ' contented'. Mill denies this so that he can consistently claim that a person who enjoys superior kinds of pleasure may be less content but not less happy than one who enjoys inferior kinds.
Hope this goes some way towards clarifying the relation of happiness to contentedness.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged philosophy-of-mind happiness or ask your own question. | 2019-04-26T04:51:46Z | https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/52971/contentedness-vs-happiness |
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The Eleventh Histocompatibility Workshop, organized by Kimiyoshi Tsuji and held in Yokohama, Japan in November of 1991, included 524 laboratories (of whom 244 submitted data for central analysis) from 53 different countries. The workshop was organized into six general components: serology, DNA typing, complement studies, anthropology, disease association, and transplantation. This workshop saw the widespread introduction of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology with sequence specific oligonucleotide probe (SSOP) hybridization as an HLA-DNA typing method. A total of 195 laboratories worldwide used the standard workshop panel of HLA class II primers and probes in transplantation, disease association and anthropological studies. Eighty-five of the B-lymphoblastoid cell lines from the 10th IHIWS reference panel were typed to the allele level for class II loci with the workshop PCR/SSOP reagents. In addition, a number of other HLA-DNA typing or matching techniques using PCR-amplified DNA were described, including the reverse dot blot, PCR-RFLP, hybridization protection, PCR heteroduplex formation, single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) and direct sequencing assays. At the conclusion of the Workshop, it was decided that, in the future, all serological specificities would be named on the basis of correlation with an identified sequence, eliminating the need for a provisional “w” in the specificity designation. The report on Nomenclature for Factors of the HLA System, 1991, published in the workshop proceedings, listed 41 A-locus, 61 B-locus, 18 C-locus, 61 DRB1-locus, 14 DQA1-locus, 19 DQB1-locus, 8 DPA1-locus and 38 DPB1-locus alleles. The 87 new HLA allele sequences identified in the 11th Workshop provided further documentation of the extraordinary diversity of the HLA complex that can be detected by the multiplicity of DNA typing methods now available.
Reference: Tsuji K, Aizawa M, Sasazuki T, eds. HLA 1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. | 2019-04-24T14:55:20Z | https://www.ihiw18.org/workshop-history/ihiw11/ |
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By Antigone Barton on July 28, 2014 .
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA —Nearly every plenary speaker at the International AIDS Conference last week, from political leaders to scientists to community activists, called for greater attention to stigma and discrimination as a barrier to achieving success in the global AIDS response. What an important step forward!
I began my work on stigma and discrimination 15 years ago because of an exploratory qualitative study I was conducting with colleagues in Botswana and Zambia. The study explored community perceptions of what was at that time newly rolling out Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission programs. We didn’t ask directly about stigma or discrimination in the study, but it was a repeated theme that raised itself, spilling out in the interviews with women, men, community leaders, and health providers.
When we shared that data at the AIDS conference in Durban in 2000, my very first AIDS conference, the immediate and rather strong response was to brush aside the evidence. The response then was that there was no need to consider stigma as a factor to address as part of PMTCT programs, that it was simply a matter of making the services available. More than a decade later, much progress has been made through an impressive scale-up of PMTCT services globally leading to significant progress in reductions in the number of children newly infected with HIV. However, 240,000 children were still newly infected with HIV in 2013.
A retrospective study of PMTCT retention in Swaziland presented at the Melbourne conference clearly illustrates the challenges that are still being faced. Of 2,129 HIV-positive pregnant women identified in the study, only 317 (20%) were still in the program after three months. The authors end by stating that there is a need to understand why women are being lost to follow-up. Yet we know that stigma and discrimination is certainly one of the explanations: There is growing evidence of the cumulative negative effect of stigma on the PMTCT cascade — the many steps that a woman needs to adhere to over a long period of time, once (if) she knows that she is living with HIV. Yet stigma reduction is rarely an integral part of the delivery of PMTCT programs. It is doubtful that we can make the final push to the goal of the elimination of all new child infections without tackling stigma and discrimination.
In all fairness, back in 2000, responding to stigma was a challenge. We didn’t have a robust body of knowledge on HIV-related stigma and discrimination. We didn’t fully understand the issue, or how to respond to it. We lacked tested and validated measures, programmatic tools, or piloted interventions. Stigma and discrimination was something we sensed in our guts, felt in our hearts, and knew intellectually was important, but had little idea of how to concretely respond to it.
That is no longer the case. Any “excuses” we had for inaction — based on a lack of understanding or knowledge of stigma and discrimination 14 years ago in Durban — no longer hold true. There is now clear evidence that stigma and discrimination undermine HIV prevention, care, and treatment. Recent reviews of the literature have shown the negative effect of stigma on uptake of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa, linkage to care , and adherence to antiretroviral treatment. We understand what the immediately actionable drivers of stigma are, and what we need to do to respond to them. Stigma-reduction tools and successful intervention strategies developed over the past decade provide the basis for action, while standardized stigma measurement tools allow us to monitor progress. And, just this year, stigma indicators at the population and health facility levels were approved by the UNAIDS monitoring and evaluation reference group (MERG).
The good news is that the measurement and programmatic tools to implement integration of stigma reduction into healthcare facilities and into health systems strengthening already exist. Every public health professional — from donors to direct care providers — should understand the evidence on stigma and discrimination, and engage in developing solutions to improve access and outcomes for those most marginalized from life-saving prevention, care, and treatment.
For more information on the Health Policy Project’s work on HIV-related stigma and discrimination, see: www.healthpolicyproject.com/index.cfm?id=topics-Stigma. Learn about the Stigma Action Network here.
Dr. Nyblade made an oral presentation at AIDS 2014 on Creating stigma-free health facilities: Lack ofr HIV care policies, protocols, materials, exacerbate health worker fear of HIV transmission and stigmatizing avoidance behaviors, evidence from 6 countries, as well as two poster presentations. Her presentation can viewed here.
UNAIDS (2014). The Gap Report, Geneva, Switzerland.
K. Kudiabor, B. Nhlabatsi, C. Chouraya, M.A. Mahdi, H. Hoffmand and G. Woelk (2014) A retrospective study of PMTCT retention in Swaziland. Poster presentation THPE421.
Musheke, M., Ntalasha, H., Gari, S., McKenzie, O., Bond, V., Martin-Hilber, A., & Merten, S. (2013). A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Public Health, 13(1), 220.
Govindasamy, D., Ford, N., & Kranzer, K. (2012). Risk factors, barriers and facilitators for linkage to antiretroviral therapy care: a systematic review. AIDS, 26(16), 2059-2067.
Katz, I. T., Ryu, A. E., Onuegbu, A. G., Psaros, C., Weiser, S. D., Bangsberg, D. R., & Tsai, A. C. (2013). Impact of HIV-related stigma on treatment adherence: systematic review and meta-synthesis. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 16(3Suppl 2).
L. Nyblade, A. Stangl, E. Weiss, and K. Ashburn (2009). Combating HIV Stigma in Health Care Settings: What Works? Journal of the International AIDS Society. 12(15) 1758–2652.
Stangl, A. L., Lloyd, J. K., Brady, L. M., Holland, C. E., & Baral, S. (2013). A systematic review of interventions to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination from 2002 to 2013: how far have we come? Journal of the International AIDS Society, 16(3Suppl 2).
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Born a Capricorn in the Chinese Year of the Sheep, Mel is most definitely governed by ovine signs. Beneath the charming, witty and conservative aspects of both these signs, they are both also cursed with phenomenal pessimism. For the Goat, this is the result of an underlying feeling of worthlessness, while for the Sheep it is because life does not match up to its expectations. However, if given reign, this deep depression can warp the positive aspects of each sign. Genial humour becomes cruel sarcasm, generosity becomes selfishness and a seeming passivity becomes a bubbling violence.
Unsurprisingly, the most capricious of the two signs is Capricorn and those who are in the grip of its darker aspects are advised to undertake rigorous meditation to realign their astrological Yin and Yang. Mel is currently exposing the darker sides of his ovine signs and needs to be wary that any destructive tendencies do not become cyclical patterns. For all the bad press about Mel Gibson, there are equal amounts of good, showing that when he is in control of his Sheep and Goat signs, he is a balanced and good-humoured individual. | 2019-04-23T22:17:12Z | http://www.startemple.com/news-and-stories/Mel-Gibson-Braveheart-or-Mad-Max.html |
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What do you get when you cross Waldo with a Mind Flayer and cast him in Weekend at Bernie’s? You guessed it. You get Xur!
The mysterious Agent of the Nine is back this weekend and he has a cache of Exotic Items available for purchase. Check out this article from the folks at Game Rant for details. | 2019-04-24T02:08:04Z | http://www.happyhourfromthetower.com/2017/04/28/xur-location-and-items-april-28/ |
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The Israel Antiquities Authority unveiled a rare ancient seal that underscores the bond of the Jewish people to Jerusalem.
The Israel Antiquities Authority held a special press conference in Jerusalem's City of David on Sunday to unveil a rare coin from the Second Temple era.
The cartouche – or seal – never seen by the public before, is the size of the modern New Israeli Shekel coin and bears the Aramaic inscriptions “it is pure” and a two-letter abbreviation for the name of God.
It was discovered near the Robinson’s Arch at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount. Archeologists say the soil layer above the Herodian road where the seal was found was dated to the first century BCE.
Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Antiquities Authority, and Professor Ronny Reich of Haifa University, who oversaw the excavation, explained to reporters the significance of the coin.
"This is the first time an object of this kind has been found. It is direct archaeological evidence of Jewish activity on the Temple Mount during the Second Temple era," they said.
"Products being brought to the temple had to be stamped pure – which is what this seal was used for," they added.
Such seals are mentioned in the Mishna and discussed in the Talmud – but the cartouche unveiled today does not match any of the four inscriptions included in extant texts.
"What we know is brought down from the surviving literature," the archeologists said. "Here archeology has brought us something new."
Minister of Culture Limor Livnat and Minister of Education Gideon Saar joined dozens of students for the unveiling.
Saar said, "The seal shows the deep connection of Israel to the City of David. It is important excavations like these that demonstrate our bond to Jerusalem. Everything uncovered here strengthens us."
In addition to the seal other artifacts were discovered dating to Second Temple period, and some to the days of the Hasmoneans – such as oil lamps, cooking pots made of clay, a jug containing oils and perfumes, as well as coins of the Hasmonean kings such as Alexander Jannaeus and John Hyrcanus. | 2019-04-18T16:39:34Z | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151057 |
Home > Golf Instruction > Shot Making > Shot Making Lessons > Controlling Trajectory: How Low Can You Go?
How low can you hit the ball? Most golfers never try to hit the ball low in practice. Then when they suddenly find themselves under a tree or hitting into a gale force wind they give it a try, but usually to no avail. Their planned low trajectory shots suddenly pop up quickly into a world of trouble. Hitting the ball low to keep out of trouble (trees, high wind, etc.) is necessary, but a low ball flight can give you a more controlled shot even into a slight breeze. Don't underestimate the importance of adding this shot to your arsenal.
Picking a lower lofted club can sometimes be the easy answer, but not always as you want to make sure you don't over shoot the target. Altering just a few things in your set up and swing can allow you to use the club you need for the distance at hand, but still keep the ball underneath trouble.
There are really 3 main things you need to alter in order to get your trajectory to come down.
You will read hundreds of articles online recommending that you play the ball back further in your stance and finish low with your swing. Both important and good advice. Playing it back after all helps you to catch the ball on the down arc with a more hooded or shut face thus lowering your trajectory. Finishing low allows most people to keep focus on hitting down with a forward leaning shaft as opposed to scooping the ball up into the air.
The most important aspect of hitting shots low however, is under mentioned and under taught in my opinion. That is your weight distribution or center of gravity. If your sternum and head are in front of the ball and remain there throughout the swing you will smother the ball or knock it down with a forward leaning shaft. If however, your head, sternum, center of gravity and therefore weight start back or back up during the swing you will balloon the ball upwards with a backward leaning shaft.
It is important when you set your weight forward to keep it there until the finish. Many start forward with good intention, but fall back during the swing. A more skilled player may be able to start more centered, but make an aggressive move through the ball to knock it down. With your weight more left you will want to focus on a wide arc or U shaped swing. Leaning forward often makes you pick the club up steeper. To avoid this think of long arms and a wide arc with less angles.
You want to bring your trajectory down and hit a low shot.
Play the ball back of center in your stance and set your weight, particularly your sternum, in front of the ball. Make a normal swing keeping your weight forward and finishing low. Try to make more of a wide, U shaped swing. Your hands should feel like they stay well ahead of the club head on the way down. | 2019-04-19T13:02:14Z | https://www.mygolfinstructor.com/instruction/shot-making/controlling-trajectory-how-low-can-you-go-/ |
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Decades have passed since she first uttered those words to me. We were in Kindergarten then, yet she spoke them with such certainty that, even as an adult, I couldn’t shake the feeling that she had meant something by them. Whenever I’d ask her to explain what she meant, however, she’d just smile and laugh at me, as though it were obvious. What was it, I wondered, that she could see, yet I could not?
Sometimes, during recess, I would sit alone on a bench and squeeze my eyes shut, flexing the lids as hard as I could. I thought that maybe, if I did it just right, I could find my grip, and tie together whatever inner threads had come loose. Colorful, phosphene patterns emerged from the darkness, and when I saw them, I thought that I was getting somewhere; yet, whenever I opened my eyes once more, the world outside myself looked exactly the same as I had left it.
As I aged, and began to seek higher wisdom, I delved into the lost history of optics. I read about Goethe’s clash with Newton over the origins of the spectrum, Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color, and even the Book of Secret Anatomy’s revisionist view of human evolution. I learned about the third eye chakra, and the third eyes wedged into the skulls of iguanas, and the role of the pineal gland in human consciousness. From there, I attempted to untangle the whole of my worldly perceptions through meditative practice. I found Enlightenment at a monastery hidden away in the Rocky Mountains, yet even then, when I would ground myself and return to reality, the universe beyond my skull looked exactly as it had when I was still a child.
Despite the fact that I hadn’t seen her in decades, she returned to visit me in my visions. I found myself at the playground of the gods-to-be, a world unto itself, where the monkey bars ranged from mountain to mountain. I looked down at her, and she looked up at me, and I asked her again what it was that she had meant when she’d told me that my eyes were untied.
Childhood memories often exist in their own universes.
Strange truths often emerge from mundane sources.
The children of the gods may be the only gods left.
Humanity left the universe, and the gods followed. They left behind their cities, their treasures, their rockets; but most importantly, they left behind their children.
Divine and ageless, they filled the void with their laughter. Their intellect was perfect, yet their nature remained naive. They chose to hold an endless birthday party for all things, accepting space and time as a continuous fluid independent of all clocks and calendars. The fiery cores of earth-like planets were converted into massive ovens to satisfy their perpetual desire for cake.
Every league out in darkspace had given their war comet a nom de guerre; for instance, the Bubblegum Battalion had their tried and true Fuchsia Machsine,whose engines were hidden beneath a thick shell of rose quartz and adhesive snow (30% marshmallow by volume). Despite their name, they were, in fact, all out of bubblegum, and had been for upwards of three months now. Their comet was drifting through the abyss after a humiliating defeat, having been outfoxed and outgunned by Licorice Laboratories’ Malted Marauder.
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Geogaddi, Boards of Canada’s sophomore album, was engineered so as to last for exactly sixty-six minutes and six seconds. Their fixation on the repetition sixes is clear throughout its content, right down to the title of track sixteen: “The Devil is in the Details.” Even the cover art is composed entirely of six-sided figures, a seemingly endless kaleidonoid procession of hexagons within hexagons. When the LP suddenly emerged in 2002, it debuted at a collection of six churches worldwide, in a ritual of unknown intent.
The average seashell found along a shoreline is fixed at the same frequency as the body of water that birthed it. When held to the ear, the same, steady undulation of waves can be heard, sliding in and out of time. For this reason, they make excellent souvenirs for tourists, providing instant access to memories of better climes.
Meanwhile, the spiraling apex of a black conch’s shell can be twisted in several places like a radio’s dial. The larger the mussel, the more precision that can be attained while tuning its abandoned hermitage.
Among alligators and crocodiles alike, there exist elders who remember the flavor of mammoth's blood, and even some whose gnarled backs bear scars from the fire of an asteroid's impact. Their kind have persisted for untold millions of years, long enough for evolution to nest their brains within our own like matryoshka dolls.
The human body is not a mere brain-driven machine of nerve and bone. Every subsection of its anatomy is an independent ecosystem of organisms (or organism-like structures), each with their own motivations and metabolisms. Though much of this zoology occurs beneath a veil of skin, it is still a phenomenon that can be seen with the naked eye. When one looks upward into cloudless daylight, they just might see the spectral outlines of lifeforms known as lucigens.
In the lands east of the Ural Mountains, there is said to have once grown a plant whose fruit was a fully-grown lamb fastened to the soil by its umbilical stem. To some, this beast was known as the borometz, and to others, as the Yeduah. It survived by grazing on the grasses surrounding its roots, though it could never wander beyond its own tether to the earth below. Any separation from this stem would result in its immediate death.
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Kissing was invented in the city of Thusk, a seaport with thousands of citizens, yet only one dentist. Her services were scarcely needed, for the civic biologists had rendered most of her profession obsolete.
I wanted to believe the tales of Polybius, the arcade game that drove its own players to madness. It was the perfect urban legend, for the details of its telling reinforced its own state of unverifiable limbo. Any and all cabinets which may or may not have once existed were seized by the powers that be, leaving an empty-handed public to speculate about whether or not they’d ever actually been there to begin with.
There are two separate sources of gravity competing for control of the city of Hyperboleon. These operate perpendicularly to one another, drawing objects towards two separate grounds whose horizons meet at a right angle.
The glyphs of the Folorsine alphabet are neither read horizontally, nor vertically; they march towards the eye as a procession of phosphenes, parading one after the other through the iris’s gates. This is not a language that is interpreted from a page, so much as swallowed by the brain. It is still actively used, though its spoken form has not been heard for centuries.
An irregular grid of clouds formed in the evening sky, simultaneously violet and orange.
The Hoover Dam is said to be filled with human bones. So the story goes, during its construction, workers who fell into the structure’s wet concrete were left inside, as those in charge believed that the cost and risk of retrieving their bodies would be too great. For those who believe this tale, the dam doubles as a colossal tombstone for those buried within.
Imagine, for a moment, a broadcast of the original Twilight Zone where Rod Serling never appears. In such an episode, the characters within are forced to contend with a reality that, without warning, is subjected to the influence of a “fifth dimension,” where the laws of humanity lose all meaning. After being assailed by this anomaly for roughly half an hour, its influence fades away, and the world continues rotating onward.
The captain’s wrist bore a living tattoo of a compass rose; as the icy waves tossed her vessel about, its ink contorted so that its longest petal would always point north. Its pigment conspired with the iron in her blood to reveal the world’s magnetic winds. It hadn’t yet proven useful on this journey, as the tramontana had been making itself obvious for weeks, yet she knew that it would soon become a necessity.
The coyote awoke one morning to find that his roadrunner was gone.
He’d disappeared, beyond the asymptotic horizon which outlined their desert, that unreachable boundary between two nowheres. Together, as predator and prey, they’d followed the same highway westward for thousands of miles, always encroaching on that same horizon, yet finding no end to the repetition of sagebrush and sand.
The human mind does not actually move forward through time; it is far more accurate to say that it sinks through it. The passage of time is a constant, ambient force like gravity, rather than a willful motion. When one closes their eyes and attempts to resist it, there is no traction or grip to be found that might stall the inevitable descent.
Objects wrought from wood occasionally remember being alive. The circuits of their quiet minds can be seen in the contours of the grain, sleepily churning through memories. No matter how deeply carved, sawn, milled, or polished, there is always an aspect of the original arbor that endures. What remains is no longer alive, of course, but it is more than capable of haunting.
Gremlins are known to live in the engines of airplanes, the spindles of hard drives, and the pipes of boiler rooms. No space within human industry has ever proven hostile enough to prevent their occupation, making them some of the hardiest lifeforms on this planet. Furthermore, they are notoriously difficult to capture, or even to spot; their presence is only ever known in hindsight, evidenced by chewed-through wires, rust-addled screws, and corrupted data.
Some mathematicians go so far as to call their work the language of God. In their hubris, they refuse to admit that they write in a language that is very human: one with its own idioms, clichés, and platitudes. In order to prove supposed mathematical truth, they routinely employ the same handful of phrases and arguments, yet are startled when these phrases and arguments are echoed back to them in the same language that they began with.
There exists an incantation which, if uttered properly, can duplicate the mind and body of whosoever dares to utter it. There exists another, similar in nature, which allows one’s own reflection to be drawn out of any mirror. Lastly, there is one which causes a perfect opposite of the self to appear in juxtaposition with the original, causing both to immediately cease to exist.
As it turns out, all three of these incantations can be learned by parrots.
The end of the world is neither exactly a time or a place; rather, it is a four-dimensional surface, curved and chaotic, which courts the path of the planet on its journey through space-time. Were one to visualize it using only three dimensions, it would seem almost ribbon-like, a black helix of fluttering death. Asteroids entangled by this dark fabric are certain to be drawn into the Earth’s gravitational pull.
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President Poroshenko commended the EU’s decision to extend economic and sectoral sanctions against Russia.
"It is symbolic that on the eve of Christmas and New Year the EU Council has decided to extend the economic and sectoral sanctions against Russia for its aggression in Donbas," the President noted on his Facebook page.
"During the negotiations in the European Council last week, I believed that the pro-Ukrainian unity in the EU remains unwavering and the price of aggression will continue to grow for the Kremlin," the Head of State said, recalling his recent visit to the institutions of the European Union in Brussels and the meeting with the leadership of the EU and NATO.
"However, real battle is still ahead, as the Kremlin is actively preparing for the next electoral year, namely, attempts at revenge in Ukraine and creation of a Europe of alternative values," the President warned.
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For birth, death, marriage, and other public records, please reach out to Polk County's Register of Deeds. | 2019-04-25T08:56:47Z | https://www.nccourts.gov/locations/polk-county |
GodEngine is the fifty-first Virgin New Adventures novel. It features the Seventh Doctor travelling for the first time with Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester, but without Bernice Summerfield. Set on Mars before the 22nd century Dalek invasion, it sees a reappearance of the Ice Warriors. It explores their culture in detail and how it was influenced by the Osirians.
"We're on Mars, we're surrounded by Ice Warriors, and the TARDIS has been destroyed. Business as usual, I suppose."
Stranded on Mars, the Doctor and Roz team up with a group of colonists on a journey to find much-needed supplies at the North Pole. But when their expedition is joined by a party of Ice Warrior pilgrims, tensions are stretched to breaking point. Meanwhile, Chris finds himself on Pluto's moon, trapped with a group of desperate scientists in a deadly race against time.
The Great Death has affected Mars.
The sleeping fever is a deadly disease that affects the Ice Warrior civilisation.
Ice Lord Falaxyr is one of the surviving members of the Eight-Point Table. He was working with the Daleks.
Erica Dortmun is the daughter of Dortmun.
Michael Anders, Rachel's brother, was a hero to the Ice Warriors, having died defending a Martian nest against an Arcturan attack force.
There is a crater called Sutekh's Cauldron, named after the Osirian god.
Liis-arrat-Ixx is a military nest used by the Ice Warriors.
T'Ran-ikk-Liis is an Ice Warrior settlement.
Samples of an Osirian star-sapphire are found of Mars.
The Daleks are the allies of the Ice Warriors. They are also the enemy attacking the solar system.
The Riis-utt-Ssethiss are an elite Martian assassination sect.
The Doctor gives Roz a Nimon gravity device.
An Osirian WarScarab was an object of Osirian construction.
GodEngine explains why the Daleks in TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth were removing the magnetic core.
In TV: The Stolen Earth there is an alternate suggestion of these actions.
Draan is the son of the Ice Lord known as Slaar, who was defeated by the Doctor in his second incarnation in TV: The Seeds of Death. | 2019-04-19T04:57:13Z | https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/GodEngine_(novel) |
Our Library holds the Ethical Society’s collection, which is the largest and most comprehensive Humanist Research resource of its kind in the United Kingdom.
Why not find out more by watching our fantastic video with comedian and historian, Iszi Lawrence?
Work and voluntary opportunities at Conway Hall are advertised here.
Some of the people at Conway Hall.
Come and take a look. There’s more than you thought!
Travel and accessability to and from Conway Hall. | 2019-04-20T03:15:32Z | https://conwayhall.org.uk/about/ |
The first thing a buyer sees when viewing homes for sale is the landscape. Often the first question a buyer has about that landscape is whether or not there is a pool. In South Florida, the swimming pool is a center for family life, entertaining and recreation. When a buyer asks, “Can we add a pool to the property?” you want to provide an accurate answer and connect with an expert in the field that can guide them through the process.
Because most buyers want to put their own mark on their properties, enhancing the landscape so they can enjoy that outdoor living space is a priority. Do you have a landscaping and pool provider partner you can rely on as a go-to and supportive resource for your buyers?
Realtors benefit when they can offer landscaping and pool services as an extension of their professional services. You can make sure buyers’ questions are answered before the sale, and include any important concessions in the deal that will allow their backyard dreams to come true.
After all, knowing the landscape’s needs, costs and possibilities could be the different between making a sale or having the prospect walk away.
As a long-standing affiliate partner of The Florida Keys Board of Realtors, our team of 85-plus trained experts can assist realtors (with little or no out-of-pocket expense) so you can focus on achieving buyers’ and sellers’ goals.
Here’s how partnering with Reef Tropical as your landscape and pool “team” can benefit your clients who are buying and selling homes and position you as a realtor of choice.
It is wintertime and I have a beautiful home in South Florida that I am sharing with my family and friends. In addition, my wife and I are planning a holiday party. In our preparations, besides the usual food, drinks and décor, I always focus on my outdoor living space. This space encapsulates the first impression and delivers a unique interactive experience for my guests.
As the president of Reef Tropical Pool and Landscape, here is what I have done to prepare.
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The trees that cause the most damage include: Australian pine tree, Mahogany, Ficus, Laurel Oak, Queen Palm and Tabebuia. Taking these precautions may help reduce property damage and keep your family safe.
Water usage is a major topic amongst vacation homeowners (second homes), contractors and managers this time of year (May – June) in South Florida. No one wants a high water bill. It is dry, hot and the days are long. Irrigation systems are running and weekend rentals are easy to sell. In this post, we will tell you what you can do to investigate any current high usage. In addition, we will go over systems or services you can put in place to prevent future occurrences. | 2019-04-22T00:14:17Z | https://www.reeftropical.com/blog/topic/hiring-a-pro |
Garmin is a brand known in the market for providing the users with a wide range of advanced products such as navigation software, fitness products and also special latest sport watches. But as we can see the brand has a lot to offer to the users therefore the users often find themselves trapped into confusions when it comes to purchasing any of the Garmin products.
In such a scenario the best option is that the users take help from the Garmin tech experts and ask them as to which product will be best suited for their specific requirements.
However, here in this particular blog we will discuss features and some other specifications of some of the popular Garmin sports watches therefore we can say that this particular blog will help the users in getting a clear deep view of all the popular watch models to the users and hence will make it easy for the users to decide which model they should buy for themselves.
This Garmin watch model forerunner 25 is an upgraded version of the forerunner 15 that was launched in 2015 and hence we can say that the forerunner 15 has got itself improved with a lot of latest features.
This particular watch model is recommended if you are a beginner level runner and do not really need much of features.
• It is advisable that the user prefers this model above other Garmin models because it comes with a heart rate monitor GPS tracking feature and many other fitness features to offer to the user.
Some of the issues that the users face with a forerunner 30 is there is no touch screen also the display of the watch is comparatively smaller.
This particular model is recommended because this is the only watch in such a huge range of Garmin watches that comes with a heart rate tracking device therefore we can say it’s a budget friendly watch.
This is a model recommended for the sports person keeping in mind the comfort it provides and also keeping in mind the easy to use features of this particular watch and also it is very light in weight as compared to other Garmin watches.
We have tried to provide the user with a clear feature prominent view of almost all the significant Garmin watch models still if the user needs any more information then he or she should connect with the Garmin Customer Service. | 2019-04-26T05:39:57Z | http://www.garmincustomerservice.co.uk/best-watches-offered-by-garmin-in-2019.php |
The day (technically very early morning) we got back to SF, my sister Kodi and husband Ryan came into town! Ryan had meetings all day, but Kodi and I were able to party lots!
We went to Mr. Holmes for breakfast, and spent the rest of the day at the SF Moma! It was so fun, and I'm glad she was here to go with me! We literally spent 5 hours in that place, it was awesome.
Ryan took us out on the company card for dinner both nights, and we always finished it off with ice cream at Bi-Rite. It was pretty much awesome! | 2019-04-23T10:53:33Z | http://www.wethezs.com/2016/08/the-day-technically-very-early-morning.html |
Former Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. served as the featured guest at the first joint reception hosted by the Clemson Architectural Foundation and the Humanities Advancement Board.
Joseph P. Riley Jr. left an immeasurable mark on Charleston and the city also was his guide. Image credits: Gary Coleman.
This type of collaboration was exactly what happened Thursday, Jan. 31 at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston.
The event was sparked by an idea from Greg Edwards, a member of the Humanities Advancement Board, and was developed by Lee Morrissey, the College’s interim associate dean for academic affairs and the founding director of the Humanities Hub.
Their concept came to fruition as a gathering shared with the local alumni club and the city’s celebrated former mayor.
Joe Riley served 10 terms as mayor, making him not only an institution in Charleston, but also one of the longest-serving mayors in the country. In his time as mayor, he was known for spearheading innovative redevelopment projects that took Charleston from a decaying urban center to a top cultural destination.
Richard E. Goodstein and Kate Schwennsen flank guest speaker Joe Riley Jan. 31 at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston.
Asheley Scott St. John, president of the Clemson Architectural Foundation (CAF), and Pam Robinson, a recent chair of the Humanities Advancement Board (HAB), introduced the former mayor.
Riley’s remarks revolved around how the city of Charleston has been his best teacher throughout the years.
“The city was always teaching us. It taught us lessons of historic preservation and leadership; it taught us lessons of scale, of quality, of material, of balance and so much more,” he said.
Because of this, Riley knew it would be important to establish a Clemson presence in Charleston, where students in architecture could have the experience of living and being taught by the city.
Pam Robinson, left, represented the Humanities Advancement Board and Asheley Scott St. John is president of the Clemson Architectural Foundation.
This vision prompted the formation of the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2019.
Over the years, Clemson has expanded in Charleston, now offering programs in both undergraduate and graduate architecture and landscape architecture, along with master’s programs in historic preservation and resilient urban design.
Attendees at the event included CAF and HAB board members, Clemson officials and alumni, and architecture industry leaders. Among the guests were Frank Lucas, founder of LS3P, and Thom Penney, CEO of LS3P, both to be inducted this spring into the Hall of Fame of the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. Betsy Goodale, a current member of the Hall of Fame, also attended the reception. | 2019-04-23T00:26:58Z | http://newsstand.clemson.edu/charleston-event-paves-path-for-collaborations-between-architectural-humanities-boards/ |
Whitchurch CE (VA) Primary is an outstanding primary school (Ofsted November 2012) and is a fantastic place to learn and grow. This website reflects what we have to offer but there is so much more… do come and visit.
We give children and their families a wonderful start in life. We pride ourselves in being a happy school and successfully create an environment where education becomes a lifelong adventure, where children are valued as individuals and their every success is celebrated. | 2019-04-19T04:16:58Z | http://whitchurchschool.org.uk/ |
Home → Church Plant → Some of Our Churches Are Dying, Why Plant More?
“Our Churches are old and dying and now you are encouraging us to plant new ones? That is Ok in places where the Church is growing, but here, why should we have to do that?” – These were tough question asked by one of my colleagues during a recent Pastors’ Meeting where I had the privilege to attend and present. He was not being negative, he was just struggling with reality, which is also the reality in several places in North America. This question is a valid question for many Pastors, Lay Leaders, Church Members, and Conference Administrators; why should we plant new churches if our existing churches are old and some are dying?
Experts tell us that churches that reach maturity, have a life expectancy that spans between 70 – 100 years, just like us humans. Although very sad, it is normal and expected that churches will get old and die, there is no dishonor in a church dying with dignity after having served its purpose. | 2019-04-24T23:52:29Z | http://nadchurchplant.org/some-of-our-churches-are-dying-why-plant-more/ |
“Oh, I have a work permit. House cleaning. You can see the temporary clearance upgrade listed right there…” she pointed to a few lines near the bottom. | 2019-04-23T02:09:06Z | http://www.agincourtdb.com/2010/05/sf-drabble-150-eternal-vigilance.html |
Some dog owners across the East Riding are breaking the law by failing to keep the details on their dogs’ microchip up to date.
It’s a year since the new law came into force which requires all dogs to be microchipped with the correct details and since April 2016, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s dog warden team have prosecuted six owners and issued 64 notices to amend details or have the dog chipped.
On 5 April, 2017, three owners appeared at Beverley Magistrates Court all charged with failure to have their dog correctly microchipped as required by the microchipping of dogs (England) regulations 2015.
Andrew Jewitt of Trinity Road, Bridling was fined £440, given costs of £210.12 and a victim surcharge of £44.
Lindsay Larman of Baptist Place, Bridlington was fined £440, given costs of £210.12 and victim surcharge of £44.
David Mark, of Maple Cottages, Broadgate, Walkington was fined £440, given costs of £294.65 and a victim surcharge of £44.
On 29 March, 2017, David Gill of New Burlington Road, Bridlington failed to appear at Beverley Magistrates Court where he was also facing the same charge of failing to keep the details on his dog’s microchip up to date.
The case was proved in his absence and he was fined £60, given costs of £210 and a victim surcharge of £30.
Two more dog owners were prosecuted by the council in December.
“These owners could have quite easily avoided a court appearance and heavy fines if they had just updated the details on the microchip.
“Not only is it a quick and simple process, which costs around £16 – significantly less than the fines and costs imposed by the courts, but these owners would have had a number of chances to update the microchip before being taken to court.
“The council does not provide microchips but organisations such as the RSPCA and The Dogs’ Trust, as well as local vets quite regularly have events where dogs can be microchipped for little or no cost. | 2019-04-20T15:37:22Z | http://www.hu17.net/2017/04/13/east-riding-dog-owners-fall-foul-microchipping-law/ |
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language is strictly prohibited in the music. | 2019-04-18T10:17:31Z | http://swedengrandprix.com/running-order.html |
Gavin Varejes is not only known as a serious sports enthusiast, but also as a generous philanthropist. Year after year Varejes combines these two passions to bring together golf days or nights, held in aid of charity, in which his friends, clients and associates takes part.
2015’s Richmark golf event took place in October at the Randpark Golf Club. The theme was ‘Sporting Celebrities’ and well-known sport stars like John Smit, James Small, Wayne Fyvie and Gary Teichman joined other players in the game. After the golfing event, there was a dinner and an auction where sporting pieces were auctioned off for charity. The 2016 event proved to be as successful as the previous year’s festivities.
Richmark Holdings held the annual golf event in 2016 at Houghton Golf Club on the 3rd of November. The field comprised of nine holes played by 128 players who were comfortably navigating the field assisted by fluorescent tees and balls.
The event raised a sizable amount for charity and the CEO of Richmark Holdings Andrew Dunn proudly handed over two cheques to two beneficiaries. One was given to Joint Aid Management (JAM), and another to The Kirsty Watts Foundation. Each cheque was for ZAR200,000. Gavin Varejes and Richmark are delighted to have been able to provide this support.
Richmark Holdings, Gavin Varejes and Andrew Dunn would like to extend their heartfelt thanks to all the clients, colleagues and friends who made the event possible and contributed to its success. The team is looking forward to at least another decade of backing these deserving charities through many more games of golf. The next event is due to take place on the 24th of November 2017. | 2019-04-20T04:34:43Z | https://www.gavinvarejesbio.co.za/gavins-blog/gavin-varejes-takes-part-in-golf-night |
Experience the sights of this fantastic region on our Western Triangle Tour. 8 days touring with us will introduce you to some of the iconic sights and cities in California (& Nevada). We visit Las Vegas, Mammoth Lakes, Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, Monterey / Carmel, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara & of course Los Angeles.
Travel through the desert to the man-made paradise of Las Vegas. Enjoy this boomtown resort, featuring non-stop casinos, fabulous entertainment, great restaurants and attractions.
Enjoy a day of leisure in Las Vegas. Visit some of the spectacular hotels, take one of the many optional excursions offered or simply relax by the pool. Las Vegas has something for everyone so take the whole day to explore this world-famous city.
Today, journey through the Mojave Desert before ascending into the High Sierras, and the resort of Mammoth Lakes. This picturesque resort is famous as both a summer and winter destination, and provides breath-taking scenery and stunning views of surrounding areas.
Leaving the Yosemite area, travel through the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California’s gold country, on the way to “The City by the Bay”. Upon arrival, enjoy city sightseeing of one of the most beautiful cities in America. Highlights include Union Square, Chinatown, Golden Gate Park and Fisherman’s Wharf with a view of infamous Alcatraz Island across the bay.
Hotels are correct at the time of going to press, but are subject to change. | 2019-04-19T15:09:13Z | https://www.thetravelwarehouse.net/tour/western-triangle-tour |
He was not yet 20 when he moved to Delhi to take up a job. India was still undivided then.
He had done his schooling and graduation out of hostels in what is now Pakistan. He would beam from ear to ear as he related his youthful pranks, his cheeks turning brilliantly rosy. Times without count he narrated how their stern warden shone his torch into their eyes to assure himself they were asleep, and how they scrammed the moment his back was turned. How his best friend beat up a roommate for stealing his alarm clock, and how in turn he had taken the rap (literally, a thick wooden stick) for him. How movies were such a big thing in those days, how they travelled by train to Lahore just to watch one.
Hostel at school meant living on a sprawling campus outside Sialkot, many many miles from home. It meant being hustled out into the icy, windy open for a bath at 4 in the morning. The boys queued up for their bucketful as a bull walked around a deep well to work a wonderful contraption that brought up warm water. The tinkling of the bells slung around its neck could be heard for miles, he’d say.
Bath over, teeth chattering, they would dash indoors for the hot milk served in big earthen mugs. He’d go into the campus gurdwara to say his prayers, his friend completing his namaz separately. Then they got together for the sumptuous morning meal in the hall. All vegetables came from the institution’s backyard.
Food was served in generous doles, but those wallops of ghee on top came from tins the boys had fetched from home. The tins were zealously guarded, for not all could afford them. His friend had no tin of his own, so half the ghee his grandma so lovingly packed for him would go into his friend’s plate. They also shared precious dry fruits and nuts, woollens, books, stories, smiles and tears. He was quite brash, even foolhardy; his friend was reticent and in his cool-headed way the perfect foil to him.
Time whizzed by. They turned into fine young men, skipping classes to play hockey and then attending extra classes together, visiting home once in a fortnight or two. Through the bone-chilling cold and the searing heat, the two were inseparable at school and on their journeys home and back.
In the cruelly hot summer, they would sneak out for a splash in the nearby canal. When it was time to head to their respective villages, each would carry his slate and books on his head and firmly hold the other’s hand as they crossed the fast-flowing river that cooled their dehydrated bodies.
Then school-leaving time arrived. The two were perched on their favourite spot on the boundary wall, sharing a packet of roasted peanuts.
It was the usual, silent camaraderie they enjoyed. Suddenly his friend spoke up. “Will you remember me after today?” he asked tremulously. “Of course, no question,” pat came the reply.
“I’ve always dreaded this day. I have written a nazm for you, brother,” his best friend said, pulling out a scrap of paper, and forthwith recited a beautiful but melancholy melody.
With a faraway look he’d recall bits of the poem. “I went away to college, he back to his village. I always thought one day I would look him up, till Partition happened and that path I thought would wait for me disappeared without trace,” said the man who had moved to Delhi.
He lived for seven more decades, but did not get over the childhood buddy he couldn’t meet again. Deprived of their farmland and all other property, locating his family and his wife’s after a traumatic separation, helping them all resettle, these were like a bad dream after some years. What he never forgave the Partition for was eliminating any chance of reunion with a friend who wrote a nazm only for him.
Yes, dear, indeed. How we all swam merrily in the great ocean of his affection! | 2019-04-23T12:09:00Z | http://www.brookandpebbles.com/2012/02/melody-from-past.html |
Mocha is a 16-month-old brindle female born born May 15, 2012. She was not individually registered with the NGA, but her sire is Super Lee and her dam is CTW Marguerite. Mocha was at a schooling farm, but has not raced. She joined GALT when her owner could not pay the boarding fees at the farm. Mocha, Latte, and Espressa are littermates.
Mocha has passed an initial cat test, but needs to spend time with them in a foster home. | 2019-04-22T18:47:13Z | http://galtx.org/hounds/mocha.shtml |
Is there a way to turn down the volume of the ringtone from an incoming call? The ringing from my phone via BT makes my ears bleed!
Get someone to call you in the car. While the phone is ringing, turn the volume down before answering it. It should remember the level you turned it down to next time.
I had to swap my COMAND unit since my CD player broke, I have the PIN from the donor unit and thought I'd enter it somewhere in this Engineering Menu, but there is nothing there? Am I missing it somewhere? Everything works fine but just no sound.
Please help, this Mercedes is starting to drive me crazy. PUN intended.
I've not seen anything that resembles a pin entry in there but some of that stuff is obscure.
If I recall you just aren't getting sound but everything else seems to work? Do you have Navi, Video or Sirius?
My initial thoughts might be that it's not properly coded or wired to the amp that is in the trunk. Have you tried to run any of the diagnostics? Is there a fuse for the amp? That might be worth checking too.
cannot access the secret menu and when the radio function is selected it just says device unavailable and 're boots a couple of times. I have managed to access the normal system menu and reset it but still no radio. Nav, DVD and memory cards all work.
Any ideas how I can reset the config ?
I have now managed to access the engineer mode as i'd changed the mode to Japan. I'm in the UK and only have the options of ECE, japan or US. I have changed to ECE and have now got my radio back. However every time I open the door the system now restarts ? Is there a list of the engineering operations explaining what they do ? | 2019-04-20T06:30:35Z | https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w204/287945-comand-secret-engineering-menu-4.html |
They are good jeans leggings hence jeggings. Good fit. Rise is OK. Sits on the waist. Good length. Soft fabric. Well packed and quick delivery. Recommend.
Very comfortable and good quality. Look great for going out or casual wear.
may not be figure hugging but are comfortable to wear. | 2019-04-21T02:21:26Z | https://www.romanoriginals.co.uk/Denim-Jegging-40713den |
SOLD!! 6407 Wimberly Road in Willow Springs. Welcome to the Country! Private and secluded Mini-Farm in Willow Springs on almost 10 Acres with plenty of room for the kids and animals! Beautiful custom 3 bedroom brick home with 3100 + square feet, large covered front porch, back deck and screened porch, and 2 car garage.
Enjoy the spacious kitchen with granite counter tops and bar! There is a first floor master with trey ceilings, and large and private master bath with whirlpool tub and separate shower.
The large family room with gas fireplace has access to the screened porch.
Featured Properties on Home Page, New Sidebar, Properties 6407 Wimberly Road in Willow Springs, Willow Springs Farms for Sale, Willow Springs home for sale, Willow Springs NC. permalink. | 2019-04-26T01:41:13Z | https://www.legacyfarmsandranchesnc.com/willow-springs-mini-farm-10-acres |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just closed its customer-contributed photographs competition. Called "it's time we MET," visitors to the Museum were invited to enter the contest by downloading their photos of their visits to the museum on Flickr. The winner will be announced soon.
"'It's Time We Met,' our first visitor-contributed photo contest, was a huge success! Visitors just like you posted hundreds of photographs taken at the Main Building or at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens, all depicting how they've shared their Museum experience with friends and family. The Museum's judges are now in the process of selecting the winning photograph, which will be used in the "It's Time We Met" marketing campaign." | 2019-04-20T07:35:09Z | https://outsideinnovation.blogs.com/pseybold/2009/04/index.html |
Say goodbye to your boring, old vinaigrettes and hello to Sweet Garlic. Use it to dress any salad, marinate your favorite meats and seafood and even spread as a condiment on sandwiches. The sky is the limit!
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An arrangement for determining radio coverage provided by a telecommunications system to a user of a mobile device is disclosed. In the case of a GSM or UMTS mobile device, if the device is in the idle mode (step A) and if a paging operation is not scheduled (step B), the mobile device records and stores on the mobile device a characteristic of the radio coverage provided when the mobile device is at each of a plurality of locations visited by the user of the mobile device (step C). The arrangement also enables retrieval of the recorded and stored characteristic so that radio coverage provided to the device for the user at the locations can be evaluated. If the telecommunications system includes a plurality of networks, the mobile device will record and store the characteristic for each of the plurality of networks. The arrangement then enables the radio coverage provided by the respective networks to be evaluated, and an informed choice as to the best network for that particular user can be made.
The present invention relates to a method of determining radio coverage provided by a telecommunications system to a user of a mobile device. The present invention also relates to a device for determining radio coverage provided by a telecommunications system.
More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a method of providing subscriber guidance for network service provider selection based on the radio coverage provided by candidate telecommunications systems, actual subscriber usage patterns and available operator tariff structures; and also relates to a device for determining radio coverage provided by a telecommunications system without interfering with the normal subscriber operation and usage of the device.
Currently, if a potential user of a mobile network wishes to determine whether that network will provide satisfactory radio coverage for their usage requirements, the user must consult publicly available coverage maps provided by mobile network operators (MNOs), and typically available on MNO websites. The network coverage of the information provided by network operators is typically derived from propagation prediction tools and is often for outdoor service levels. The coverage maps often do not reflect the quality of radio coverage actually available in specific locations and/or in buildings. The lack of granularity and accuracy in publicly available network coverage maps make it difficult for customers to make informed decisions about network choice. Often potential subscribers to a network either have to switch network operators to gain accurate information and real coverage quality or seek anecdotal advice from customers of other networks which may not accurately reflect the performance of their own device or be relevant for the locations frequented by that user.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,392,017 discloses an arrangement for assessing wireless network quality. When a user of a mobile device makes a request for service from an information service provider this request is sent to the information service provider including information about the device and its location (for example using GPS). The arrangement determines network quality by measuring the number of attempts that are required to successfully transmit data between the mobile device and the information service provider. The system does not measure network quality at the mobile device.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,158,790 discloses an arrangement where a mobile device reports signal quality measurements to a network. The network stores the signal quality measurements together with the location of the device (obtained, for example, by GPS). The mobile device generally sends measurements as they are received to the network. However, when the network quality is insufficient to allow the mobile device to transmit the data immediately to the network, the mobile device stores quality and location data. These data are subsequently transmitted to the network when a connection of sufficient quality becomes available. The network analyses the quality and location data provided by many mobile devices to estimate the location of “dead zones” within the network service area.
It would be desirable for a potential customer of a mobile network to accurately determine the radio coverage quality in the important geographical areas specifically for that customer, including deep in-building locations, and preferably from all network operators based on actual radio measurements.
In one aspect the present invention provides a method of determining radio coverage provided by a telecommunications system to a user of a mobile device, wherein the telecommunications system includes a plurality of networks, the method including operating the mobile device to record and store on the mobile device a characteristic for the plurality of networks of the radio coverage provided when the mobile device is at each of a plurality of locations visited by the user of the mobile device, and enabling retrieval of the recorded characteristic to evaluate the radio coverage provided at the locations by the respective networks to the device for the user.
In the embodiments to be described below, by recording and storing network quality data on the mobile device, and enabling retrieval of the recorded and stored characteristic of the radio coverage to evaluate the radio coverage provided to the device for the user at the locations, the user of the device is able to determine how the telecommunications system will perform for them at the locations that they visit and using their particular device. Compared to known arrangements, the embodiment provides information about the radio coverage of the telecommunications system specific to a particular user and device, and is therefore more accurate than the information that can be provided by the known arrangements. The quality of the radio coverage is not estimated but is measured in each of the relevant locations.
In the embodiment to be described the telecommunications system includes a plurality of networks, and the operating step includes recording and storing the characteristic for each of the plurality of networks. The enabling step then enables the radio coverage provided by the respective networks to be evaluated. For example, the telecommunications system may comprise a plurality of cellular telecommunications networks (PLMNs). Often in a particular geographical area (such as a country) several PLMNs, which are owned by different operators, are potentially available to users. In the embodiment, by enabling the radio coverage provided by each of the respective networks to be evaluated, the user can determine which network provides the best coverage for their particular needs.
The characteristic of radio coverage recorded and stored may be signal strength and/or quality.
The method may include the step of retrieving the characteristic recorded at each of the locations and presenting radio coverage analysis to the user. By such an arrangement the recorded and stored data can be provided to the user in a convenient form that is easily understood—for example as a personalised coverage map.
The method may include retrieving the recorded characteristic of each of the locations and calculating which of the networks provides the best radio coverage for the user at the locations visited by the user.
The mobile device may also be operated to record and store on the mobile device telecommunications services used when the mobile device is at each of the plurality of locations visited by the user of the mobile device. The method may then optionally include calculating the cost of services and recommending a network based on both radio coverage quality and cost. In the embodiment to be described in detail below, a recommendation engine application is implemented on the mobile device which records services used and radio coverage quality. This information and network tariff information is used to calculate a recommendation for the user of the best network according to quality and cost criteria that the user may set. The user is then able to make an informed decision about the choice of network based on coverage quality, usage patterns and tariff structures. This empowers the user to select a network that is best for their particular usage patterns and cost/quality preferences. For example, some users may be willing to make some compromise in network coverage quality if this results in significant cost savings.
The telecommunications system may be a cellular telecommunications system such as a 2G (GSM), 3G (UMTS) or 4G (LTE) telecommunications system. The characteristic of the telecommunications system that is recorded and stored may relate to a cell broadcast channel of the cellular telecommunications system. The mobile device may be operated to store and record the characteristic of the radio coverage while the mobile device is in an idle or inactive communication state, the operating step being interrupted when the mobile device is required to operate in an active communication state, such as when a voice call is made or when user data is sent/received between the mobile device and the network. Preferably, the operation of the mobile device to record the characteristic of radio coverage is scheduled during the idle or inactive communication mode so that it does not interfere with or conflict with paging operations between the telecommunications system and the mobile terminal that also occur during the idle or inactive state. Such paging operations allow the telecommunications system to determine the location of the mobile terminal. By recording the characteristic of the telecommunications system during the idle or inactive communication state, and when paging operations are not being performed, the embodiment provides for recordal of the telecommunications characteristic without interfering with or compromising other tasks normally performed by the mobile terminal. No modification to other elements of the telecommunications system is required for the mobile device to record the characteristic data. Advantageously, the embodiment makes use of the times during which the mobile device is otherwise not performing useful activity to collect information about the telecommunications system for use by the user.
The invention also provides apparatus as defined in the independent claims.
FIG. 3 is an information flow chart, describing the discrete information collections which are combined in order to derive recommendation suggestions to the mobile user.
In the drawings like elements are generally designated with the same reference sign.
Key elements of a mobile telecommunications network n, and its operation, will now briefly be described with reference to FIG. 1.
Each base station (BS) corresponds to a respective cell of its cellular or mobile telecommunications network and receives calls/data from and transmits calls/data to a mobile terminal in that cell by wireless radio communication in one or both of the circuit switched or packet switched domains. Such a subscriber's mobile terminal (or User Equipment—UE) is shown at 1. The mobile terminal may be a handheld mobile telephone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a laptop computer equipped with a datacard, or a laptop computer with an embedded chipset containing the UE's functionality.
In a GSM (2G) mobile telecommunications network, each base station subsystem 3 comprises a base transceiver station (BTS) 2 and a base station controller (BSC) 4. A BSC may control more than one BTS. The BTSs and BSCs comprise the radio access network.
In a UMTS (3G) mobile telecommunications network, a radio network controller (RNC) 13 may control more than one node B 6. The node B's and RNC's form base station 7 and comprise the radio access network.
Corresponding elements are provided in an LTE (4G) mobile telecommunications network: The eNodeB of an LTE network replaces the BTS/NodeB and also incorporates the BSC/RNC functionality.
Conventionally, the base stations are arranged in groups and each group of base stations is controlled by one mobile switching centre (MSC), such as MSC 2 for base stations 3,4 and 5, and MSC 6 for base stations 7,8 and 9. In practice, the network will incorporate many more MSCs and base stations than shown in FIG. 1.
Each subscriber to the network is provided with a smart card or SIM which, when associated with the user's mobile terminal, identifies the subscriber to the network. The SIM card is pre-programmed with a unique identification number, the “International Mobile Subscriber Identity” (IMSI) which is not visible on the card and is not known to the subscriber. The subscriber is issued with a publicly known number, that is, the subscriber's telephone number, by means of which calls to the subscriber are initiated by callers. This number is the MSISDN.
The network includes a home location register (HLR)/home subscriber server (HSS) 10 which, for each subscriber to the network, stores the IMSI and the corresponding MSISDN together with other subscriber data, such as the current or last known location of the subscriber's mobile terminal. The HSS is the master database for the network, and while logically it is viewed as one entity, in practice it will be made up of several physical databases. The HSS holds variables and identities for the support, establishment and maintenance of calls and sessions made by subscribers.
When the subscriber wishes to activate their mobile terminal in a network (so that it may make or receive calls subsequently), the subscriber places their SIM card in a card reader associated with the mobile terminal (terminal 1 in this example). The mobile terminal 1 then transmits the IMSI (read from the card) to the base station 7 associated with the particular cell in which the terminal 1 is located. In a traditional network, the base station 7 then transmits this IMSI to the MSC 6 with which the BS 7 is registered. In a network using the functionality described in 3GPP TS 23.236, the base station follows prescribed rules to select which MSC to use, and then transmits this IMSI to the selected MSC.
MSC 6 now accesses the appropriate location in the HLR/HSS 10 present in the network core (CN) 12 and extracts the corresponding subscriber MSISDN and other subscriber data from the appropriate storage location, and stores it temporarily in a location in a visitor location register (VLR) 14. In this way, therefore the particular subscriber is effectively registered with a particular MSC (MSC 6), and the subscriber's information is temporarily stored in the VLR (VLR 14) associated with that MSC.
When the HLR 10 is interrogated by the MSC 6 in the manner described above, the HLR 10 additionally performs an authentication procedure for the mobile terminal 1. The HLR 10 transmits authentication data to the MSC 2 in “challenge” and “response” forms. Using this data, MSC 6 passes a “challenge” to the mobile terminal 1 through base station 7. Upon receipt of this data, the mobile terminal 1 passes this data to its SIM and produces a “response”. This response is generated using an encryption algorithm on the SIM and a unique Ki on the SIM. The response is transmitted back to the MSC 6 which checks it against its own information for the subscriber which checks it against information that it has obtained for that subscriber from the HLR 10 in order to complete the authentication process. If the response from the mobile terminal 1 is as expected, the mobile terminal 1 is deemed authenticated. At this point the MSC 6 requests subscription data from the HLR 10. The HLR 10 then passes the subscription data to the VLR 14.
The authentication process will be repeated at regular intervals while the mobile terminal 1 remains activated and can also be repeated each time the mobile terminal makes or receives a call, if required.
Each of the MSCs of the network (MSC 6 and MSC 2) has a respective VLR (14 and 11) associated with it and operates in the same way as already described when a subscriber activates a mobile terminal in one of the cells corresponding to one of the base stations controlled by that MSC.
When the subscriber using mobile terminal 1 wishes to make a call, having already inserted the SIM card into the reader associated with this mobile terminal and the SIM has been authenticated in the manner described, a call may be made by entering the telephone number of the called party in the usual way. This information is received by the base station 7 and passed on to the MSC 6. The MSC 6 routes the calls towards the called party via the MSC 6. By means of the information held in the VLR 14, MSC 6 can associate the call with a particular subscriber and thus record information for charging purposes.
The MSCs 6 and 2 support communications in the circuit switched domain—typically voice calls. Corresponding SGSNs 16 and 18 are provided to support communications in the packet switched domain—such as GPRS data transmissions. The SGSNs 16 and 18 function in an analogous way to the MSCs 6 and 2. The SGSNs 16, 18 are equipped with an equivalent to the VLR for the packet switched domain. GGSN 19 provides IP connectivity for the CN 12, for example to Packet Data Network 20 (such as the Internet).
The network of FIG. 1 includes two Radio Access Technologies (RATs): 2G (GSM) and 3G (UMTS). A telecommunications system may comprise a plurality of telecommunications networks (and each of those networks may include more than one RAT). Each of the networks may be under separate legal ownership. Roaming of user from one network to another network may be allowed in some cases and may be forbidden in other cases.
From the description above, it will be understood that the coverage area of a mobile telecommunications network is divided into a plurality of cells, each of which is served by a respective base station.
Mobile networks such as 2G (GSM) or 3G (UMTS) telecommunications networks have an active state of communication with their mobile terminals and an inactive/idle state of communication with their terminals. When in the active state, as the mobile terminals move between different cells of the network, the communication session is maintained by performing a “handover” operation between the cells. In the inactive/idle state, as a mobile terminal moves between different cells of the network the mobile terminal performs “cell reselection” to select the most appropriate cell on which to “camp” in order that the mobile terminal can be paged by the network when mobile terminating data is destined for that mobile terminal.
Calculations to determine whether to perform a handover from one base station to another base station are performed by the network, whereas calculations whether to perform cell reselection are performed by the mobile terminal.
In a mobile network operating in accordance with the 3G (UMTS) Standards, a mobile terminal device (UE) has a so-called “RRC (Radio Resource Control) state” which depends on its state of activity. In the respective RRC states different functions for mobility are executed. These functions are described in technical specification 3GPP TS 25.304/25.331.
For 2G and 3G, a mobile terminal is in active communication when it has a CS (Circuit Switched) connection established.
In 2.5G, GPRS PS (Packet Switched), active communication can be defined as the GPRS Ready state. In 3G UMTS PS, active communication can be defined as the RRC connected mode state that is CELL_DCH, and thus excluding CELL/URA_PCH RRC connected mode states.
In 3G UMTS PS, CELL/URA_PCH and CELL_FACH can be defined as inactive states. In GPRS, the Standby state can be regarded as an inactive state.
Either one or both of the CS and PS active communications may occur in the mobile terminal.
The RRC states will now briefly be described.
A dedicated physical channel is allocated to the UE in uplink and downlink.
Dedicated transport channels, downlink and uplink transport channels and a combination of these transport channels can be used by the UE.
No dedicated physical channel is allocated to the UE.
The UE continuously monitors a FACH (forward access channel) in the downlink.
The UE is assigned a default common or shared transport channel in the uplink (e.g. RACH) that it can use anytime according to the access procedure for that transport channel.
The position of the UE is known by UTRAN on cell level according to the cell where the UE last made a cell update.
No dedicated physical channel is allocated to the UE. The UE selects a PCH (paging channel) with the algorithm, and uses DRX for monitoring the selected PCH via an associated PCH.
No uplink activity is possible.
The position of the UE is known by UTRAN on cell level according to the cell where the UE last made a cell update in CELL_FACH state.
No dedicated channel is allocated to the UE. The UE selects a PCH, and uses DRX for monitoring the selected PCH via an associated PCH.
The location of the UE is known on UTRAN registration area (URA) level according to the URA assigned to the UE during the last URA update in CELL-FACH state.
In the CELL_DCH state a network-driven handover is performed when necessary, as described in 3GPP TS 25-331. In this state a mobile terminal scans the pilot channels of up to 32 intra-frequency cells neighbouring its current cell. The mobile terminal forms a list of the best cells for possible handover based on the received signal strength and/or quality (i.e. the error rate in the received signal). The information in this list is passed to the UTRAN RNC on an event-driven basis, e.g. when the signal strength or signal-to-noise ratio of one of the cells exceeds a threshold. The information list is used by a handover algorithm implemented in the UTRAN RNC. The algorithm that determines when handover occurs is not specified in the GSM or UMTS Standards. The algorithms essentially trigger a handover when the mobile terminal 1 provides a measurement of a neighbour cell received signal at the mobile terminal 1 below a predetermined quality received threshold, which typically has a relation to the quality of the received signal from the serving cell (e.g. better quality by some margin).
In the “CELL_FACH”, “CELL_PCH”, “URA_PCH” or “idle mode” the mobile terminal controls its own mobility independently and starts a cell switch (reselection) when a neighbouring cell has a better quality than the current cell, as described in 3GPP TS 25.304. A similar procedure is also used in GSM/GPRS mobile networks, as described in technical specification 3GPP TS 05.08 (UE-based cell reselection).
In general, a mobile terminal in “idle mode” states and in RRC connected mode (inactive) states “CELL_FACH”, “CELL_PCH” and “URA_PCH” performs periodic measurements of its own as well as of a series of neighbouring cells—typically of the BCCH or other cell broadcast channel transmitted on the RF carrier of each base station. The broadcast control channel (BCCH) is the downlink channel that contains parameters needed by a mobile in order that it can identify the network and gain access to it. Typical information includes the Location Area Code (LAC) and Routing Area Code (RAC), the MNC (Mobile Network Code) and the BA (BCCH Allocation) list. The measurements are not made continuously, as this would be wasteful of battery power. Instead, these measurements are performed at a frequency determined by a Cell Measurement Cycle Length (CMCL). Information about the neighbouring cells is broadcast in the system information block 11 (SIB11) or system information block 12 (SIB12) of the broadcast channel (BCH) as described in 3GPP TS 25.304 and 3GPP TS 25.331.
A switch from the current cell to a neighbouring cell generally takes place in the aforementioned idle/inactive states when a neighbouring cell is technically better than the current cell. It is thus ensured that a mobile terminal is generally located in the cell of a mobile network in which it needs the lowest possible transmitting power in order to contact the closest base station (NodeB) and/or has the best reception conditions.
When a calling party (whether a subscriber within the mobile telecommunications network or outside it) attempts to call a mobile terminal within the network, that mobile terminal must be paged. Paging is a process of broadcasting a message which alerts a specific mobile terminal to take some action—in this example, to notify the terminal that there is an incoming call to be received. If the network knows in which cell the mobile terminal is located, it is only necessary to page in that cell. However, if the mobile terminal is moving within the network (that is, cell reselection has been performed), the precise cell in which the mobile terminal is located may not be known. It will therefore be necessary to perform paging in a number of cells. The greater the number of cells in which paging must occur, the more use of valuable signalling capacity within the network.
However, if the HLR/HSS 10 is to always have an up-to-date record of the cell in which each mobile terminal is located so that the current cell which is occupied by a terminal is always known, this will require a large amount of location updating signalling between the mobile terminal and the HLR/HSS 10 in order that the HLR/HSS 10 has up-to-date records of the cells occupied by each mobile terminal. This is also wasteful of valuable signalling capacity.
As indicated above, the HLR/HSS 10 is updated each time a mobile terminal moves from the coverage area of one MSC to another MSC and from one SGSN to another SGSN. However, typically the area covered by a single MSC and SGSN is large, and to page all the cells covered by a single MSC and SGSN would require a significant amount of paging signalling.
The problems of excessive use of signaling capacity by paging a multiplicity of cells or performing a multiplicity of frequent location updates is solved in a to known manner in 2G and 3G networks by dividing the coverage area of the mobile telecommunications network into a plurality of location areas (LAs) and into a plurality of routing areas (RAs).
A location area relates to a particular geographical area for communications in the circuit-switched domain. Typically, although not necessarily, a location area is larger than the area of a single cell but is smaller than the area covered by one MSC. Each cell within the network broadcasts data indicative of the identity of its location area (LAI). The mobile terminal uses this data to determine when it has moved into a new location area. The terminal stores its last known location area on its SIM. This information stored on the SIM is compared with the location area information broadcast by the local cell. The identities of the two location areas are compared. If they are different, the mobile terminal determines that it has entered a new location area. The mobile terminal then gains access to a radio channel and requests a location area update (LAU). The request includes the now out-of-date LAI. If the MSC/VLR is the same for the new and old location areas, the network can immediately authenticate the mobile terminal and note the change of location area. However, if the mobile terminal is moved to a different MSC/VLR, the MSC/VLR addresses a message to the HSS/HLR. The HSS/HLR notes the new location and downloads security parameters to allow the network to authenticate the mobile. It also passes on subscription details of the user to the new VLR and informs the old VLR to delete its records. The new MSC/VLR allocates a new TMSI to the mobile.
A routeing area relates to a particular geographical area for communications in the packet-switched domain. Typically, although not necessarily, a routeing area is larger than the area of a single cell but is smaller than the area covered by one SGSN. A routeing area is typically, although not necessarily, smaller than a location area. There may be many routeing areas within one location area. Each cell within the network broadcasts data indicative of its routeing area (RAI) in addition to the data mentioned above indicative of the identity of its location area. The mobile terminal uses this received data to determine when it has moved to a new routeing area. The terminal stores the last known routeing area on its SIM. The information stored on the SIM is compared with the routeing area information broadcast by the local cell. The identities of the two routing areas are compared. If they are different, the mobile terminal determines that it has entered a new routeing area. The mobile terminal then gains access to a radio channel and requests a routing area update (RAU). The routeing area is updated in the same manner as the location area, as discussed above.
The mobile terminal listens for pages from the network only periodically—at a frequency defined by the “DRX cycle length”.
DRX (discontinuous reception) is a technique that allows the mobile terminal to power down significant amounts of its internal circuitry for a high percentage of the time when it is in the idle or inactive mode while enabling the mobile terminal to be is aware of when page requests for it may be transmitted. The technique works by dividing the mobile terminals within a cell into a set of groups. The group in which a mobile terminal resides is then known locally at both the mobile terminal and the base station. All paging requests to each group are then scheduled and sent at a particular time, which is derived in conjunction with the IMSI of the mobile terminal and some BCCH (Broadcast Control Channel) transmitted data. Thus both the base station and the mobile terminal know when relevant page requests will be sent and the mobile terminal can power down for the period when it knows that page requests will not occur.
In addition to the page requests mentioned above, repeated (or global) paging operations may be performed by the network (typically every two to ten seconds). The mobile terminal is configured to be activated to listen for such repeated (or global) pages at the required time intervals.
Typically a mobile device is associated with a SIM that is issued under the control of a particular PLMN. This PLMN is the “home” network. The user will have a contract with the home network for the provision of telecommunications services. The identity of the PLMN is stored on the SIM.
Conventionally, a mobile device is arranged to retrieve the home PLMN information from the SIM (that is pre-stored on the SIM) and to monitor RF carriers for BCCH for the home network (only). When radio coverage is available from the home network, this allows the mobile device to select the best cell within the home network on which to camp. The home network may comprise a plurality of radio access technologies (such as 2G and 3G). When the network is so arranged, BCCH for all the radio access technologies of the home PLMN will be monitored.
The home network is identified on the SIM and in the BCCH by its mobile network code (MNC). The SIM may also include a list of PLMNs (identified by their MNC) with which the home network has a roaming agreement. Such a roaming agreement allows the user having a contract with the home network to obtain telecommunications services from a visited network when they are roaming in the coverage area of that network. Agreements between the respective networks allow the visited network to be reimbursed by the home network for telecommunications services used by the visiting mobile device. A home network will typically have roaming agreements with networks that cover different geographic areas to the home network, typically networks located in a country different to the country that the home network serves. The SIM may also store a user defined list of networks, i.e. networks that are preferred by the user.
The SIM may also store a list of PLMNs to which the home network forbids access.
Upon power on or after a period where no network coverage is available, the mobile device will select a PLMN. Conventionally, a mobile device will initially try to select the network with which it was last registered, the identity of which is stored on the SIM. Usually, this will be the home network.
To expedite registration on the last selected PLMN, the mobile device uses information that it has stored about the last selected PLMN, such as the carrier frequencies and/or the list of neighbouring cells. On each stored RF carrier frequency, the mobile device searches for the strongest signal cell and reads its system information to verify the PLMN to which the cell belongs. It also reads the system information for PLMN identity, which includes the MMC. The mobile terminal then decides whether the chosen cell is acceptable or whether at least one acceptable cell belonging to the network exists. If an acceptable cell for the PLMN is available, the mobile terminal attempts registration.
If there is no stored last selected network, or if that network is unavailable, the mobile device searches for all other available networks using either the automatic mode or the manual mode, and then selects one of those networks.
2. Each network in a user defined network list stored on the SIM, if present, in order of priority.
3. Each network in a list of networks defined by the home network and stored in the SIM, in order of priority.
4. Other networks, according to a quality criterion, in random order.
5. Other networks that do not fulfil the quality criterion in order of decreasing signal strength/quality.
In the steps above the availability of the networks in each of the available radio access technologies is determined.
The quality criterion referred to in items 4 and 5 above may be the Received Signal strength Code Power (RSCP) being above a particular predetermined value on the Common PIlot CHannel (CPICH). For example, this predetermined value might be greater than or equal to −95 dBm for UMTS and −85 dBm for GSM.
If the mobile device cannot register on any PLMN identified in items 1 to 3 above, it then attempts to register on other PLMNs identified in items 4 and 5 above. If registration on a network is not possible, then an available network is nevertheless selected by the mobile device and only a limited service is available. The mobile device will then enter a “limited service” state in which it is possible to make emergency calls (to designated emergency numbers) only.
The manual selection mode is different in that the mobile device displays all networks that it finds by scanning all frequency carriers. This scanning will identify both allowed and non-allowed networks (non-allowed networks being those on which registration is not possible). All the networks are displayed to the user, and the user makes a manual selection from the networks. The mobile device then attempts registration on the selected network even if that network is not listed as an available network in the SIM. If the user selects an available network in the forbidden network list, generally the network will reject the attempt to register on that network. If an attempt to register on a network is rejected then the network is nevertheless selected by the mobile device and the “limited service” state is entered in which it is possible to make emergency calls (to designated emergency numbers) only.
The procedures mentioned above for selecting a PLMN are described in 3GPP TS 43.022, 25.304 and 45.008, all of which are fully incorporated herein by reference.
From the above discussion it will be understood that mobile terminals operating in accordance with the known Standards are capable of monitoring signal quality/strength data from a plurality of PLMNs.
The embodiment of the present invention advantageously uses this existing functionality to determine the radio coverage provided by one, or more than one, telecommunications network/PLMN.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart which shows the steps performed to determine the radio coverage provided by a plurality of cellular telecommunications networks/PLMNs. The steps of the flow chart may, for example, be performed by an application that is run by a processor of the mobile device. The application interacts with the firmware of the mobile device and uses the existing capability to measure the radio coverage provided by a plurality of PLMNs—which is described above.
To configure and schedule the execution of the measuring process, a scheduler can be implemented, combining information such as location, time of day and battery status. The user could then simply activate the process and leave it running or choose to customise when the process is run based on a location change event, or time of day. Also the scheduler may take into account the battery status to prevent completely draining the battery.
For example, a user might run the application on their mobile device during a normal day so that the quality of various networks is measured at their home, on their journey to work and on their journey home again.
At step A the scheduler determines the location of the mobile device 1. The location may be provided by GPS, cell triangulation mobile device locating techniques or any other suitable mobile device location technique. It is then determined if the location of the mobile device 1 is within a range set by the user. If the location is not in the range set by the user, the procedure ends (and the process may be restarted after a predetermined time period). The user might set a location range if they are only interested in the coverage in a particular area (for example, an area that they frequent). The user might not be interested in coverage in an area that they visit only once.
At step A the scheduler also determines the current time. The time may be provided by a clock on the mobile device, which is synchronised with the network. It is then determined if the time is within a range set by the user. If the time is not in the range set by the user, the procedure ends (and the process may be restarted after a predetermined time period). The user might set the time range so that measurements are not made during periods that the user will not be moving around—such as when sleeping at home or when at a fixed place of work. Making measurements at these times may not yield any useful information and would waste device battery power.
At step A the scheduler further determines the power supply status of the mobile device. If the device is running on battery power, and the battery is in depleted state (e.g. with less than 20% capacity remaining), the procedure ends (and the process may be restarted after a predetermined time period).
At step B it is determined whether the mobile device is in its idle mode/inactive state or in its active state. In the example of a 3G mobile device, the mobile device will be in an active state if it is in the CELL_DCH state discussed above. Such a terminal will be considered to be in the idle mode or in active state if it is in the CELL_FACH, CELL_PCH or URA_PCH states mentioned above. In different radio access technologies, the definitions of the active and idle/inactive states will be different, but the same principle applies.
If the mobile device is in the active state, the radio coverage measurement procedure is not performed.
If the mobile device is in the idle state/inactive state, it is then determined whether a paging operation of the types discussed above is scheduled at step C. Whether or not a paging operation is scheduled may be determined, for example, with reference to the DRX cycle length value discussed above, or any other suitable mechanism. If a paging operation is scheduled, the radio coverage measuring procedure is not performed.
If a paging operation is not scheduled, then, at step D, the mobile device records a characteristic of the radio coverage provided by the current cell and neighbouring cells of all available PLMNs. It will take coverage measurements and statistically analyse the coverage quality of all the available network operators. The scan will not be limited to the network operator who supplied the operation SIM card in the device. This is achieved through configuring the device to scan and list all alternative operators and poll through them while in idle mode to assess the quality through the signal strength and quality of their cell broadcast channels (e.g. GSM, BCCH). The characteristic for that location is stored in a table in the mobile device. Data indicative of the location is recorded together with the radio coverage characteristic data. The location information may be provided by GPS, cell triangulation mobile device locating techniques or any other suitable mobile device location technique.
After the recording/scanning operation is completed the algorithm returns to step A. Further, during the recording/scanning operation, it is detected whether the user initiates an operation, such as making a voice or data call, which would result in the mobile device leaving the idle mode and entering the active mode. If this occurs, the recording/scanning operation is stopped and the algorithm returns to step A, and the recording/scanning operation is not continued until the mobile device enters the idle mode again.
The application runs autonomously on the mobile device and does not need a continuous network connection to the home PLMN. As indicated above, the application is configurable by the user to adjust the interval between which the characteristic of the radio coverage is recorded. The application may also be configured to record the characteristic of radio coverage when the mobile terminal is at particular geographic locations.
The stored data may be accessed by the user (or another party) to evaluate the radio coverage provided at the locations visited by the user. The data may be presented in various forms. For example, the data may be presented as a table, showing the signal strength measured for each PLMN at a particular time and/or location. Alternatively or additionally, the data may be presented as a map, showing pictorially the signal strength at each location. For example, the signal strength recorded could be indicated by a particular colour or shading.
The radio coverage provided by the different PLMNs may be indicated in separate maps or in a single map, with the radio coverage provided by the respective networks indicated by a different colour or shading. The data may be displayed to the user using the display of the mobile device. Alternatively, the data may be transferred from the mobile device to another device, such as a personal computer to allow analysis of the data by the personal computer and display on the more powerful graphical user interface of the personal computer. The data may be transferred to the personal computer by a wireless connection via the home network or by another wireless connection such as Bluetooth or infra-red, or by a cable connection, for example.
The map may also highlight the location of particular places that are of significance to the user, such as their home, place of work and travelling route to work. This will enable the user to determine in a simple manner whether sufficient radio coverage is available at the places that are important to the user.
The map may allow the user to determine which network provides the best coverage at the places that are significant to the user. A user may select a network which provides high quality coverage at the home and place of work and may be willing to select a network that perhaps does not provide coverage for a small portion of their journey on the way to or from work.
As an optional enhancement of the embodiment of the invention, the application which performs the steps described above in relation to FIG. 2 may be enhanced to include a subscriber recommendation engine. The functions performed by the subscriber recommendation engine will now be described with reference to the flow chart of FIG. 3.
At step a the recommendation engine is configured. Time periods at which the network characteristics should be measured are set. The locations at which the network characteristic should be measured are set. A battery charge criteria for permitting measurement of the network characteristic are set. These aspects may be set manually by the user or may be configured automatically using data obtained from a remote source that is obtained by the mobile device 1 from the Internet via the network core 12 and the base station of the network with which the mobile device is registered. Alternatively, the settings may be default settings provided by the engine.
In addition to the settings discussed above, particular networks (Mobile Network Operators, MNOs and Mobile Virtual Network Operators, MVNOs) may be specified for which radio quality measurements will be made. Thus, the engine may be configured to exclude from the measurements some networks. This may be advantageous if a user knows that a network cannot not meet their requirements, or if the user has some other reason not to use a particular network.
At step b the engine obtains details of the tariffs of the networks in which the user is interested, as specified in step a. These tariff details may be pre-stored on the mobile device 1, or may be retrieved by the engine from a database via the Internet, network core 12 and the base station of the network with which the mobile device is currently registered. For example, the tariff information may include the cost of a voice call of a predetermined length, the cost of sending an SMS message and the cost of downloading a predetermined amount of data for each of the networks in which the user is interested.
At step c radio coverage quality measurements are made in accordance with the procedure described in relation to FIG. 2. These measurements are made when the time, location and battery criteria specified in step a are satisfied.
At step d during the period that radio coverage quality measurements are made (i.e. when the time, location and battery criteria set in step a are satisfied), the engine records the usage of the mobile device by the user. For example, the type of service used is recorded, such as voice call, SMS transmission or data download. The location at which the service is used is also recorded (which may be particularly useful if a network has differential charging at different locations). The time at which the service is used is also recorded (this can be particularly useful if the network has differential charging at different times of day). The quantity of the service used is also recorded (services such as voice calls are typically measured in terms of seconds, whereas services such as data download are typically measured in terms of data quantity). Typically, these services will always be obtained from a single network—the user's home network.
At step e the engine calculates the recommendations for the user. That is, the engine at step e uses the information captured at steps b, c and d to calculate the best network for the user at the times and locations specified, and for the network specified. This recommendation may be based on the recorded radio coverage quality at the times and locations specified. The engine will determine which network provides the best coverage quality and will recommend that network. Alternatively, at step e, the engine may recommend the network which has the lowest cost for the service types used, as recorded at step d. The engine may consider both radio coverage quality measurements and the cost of the services on each network and make a recommendation based on both quality and cost. The user may specify the relative importance of cost and coverage quality, and the engine may take this into account when making a network recommendation. Although network coverage quality is important to many users, a significant proportion of users may choose a network with slightly lower coverage quality if this results in significant cost savings. The engine may be configured by users to take into account their individual cost/quality preferences when making its recommendations.
The calculations performed by step e of the engine may be performed continuously as the data is gathered in steps b, c and d. Alternatively, the calculations performed at step e may be performed at a particular time, for example when measurement periods specified in step a ends.
It should be understood that steps b, c and d are not necessarily performed in alphabetical order. Steps b, c and d may be performed concurrently.
From the above discussion it will be apparent that the present invention provides a self-contained single user device that measures all the available networks.
In the embodiment described the telecommunications system comprises a plurality of cellular telecommunications networks (PLMNs). The invention is also applicable to a telecommunications system comprising other types of telecommunications networks, such as WiFi and other wireless technologies. The telecommunications system may comprise a plurality of different types of telecommunications networks.
The application run on the mobile terminal described in the embodiment provides a user with a convenient, accurate and personalised assessment of the coverage quality provided by different network operators based on the users particular geographic requirements. Advantageously, the application uses existing hardware capabilities of the mobile device which allow the mobile device to scan all available networks and determine the signal strength/quality thereof.
whereby the particular user can determine which of the plurality of networks provides the best coverage for his or her particular needs, and is provided with a personalized assessment of the coverage quality provided by different network operators based on locations that the particular user visits.
2. The method of claim 1, including retrieving the recorded characteristic of each of the locations and presenting a radio coverage analysis to the particular user.
3. The method of claim 1, including retrieving the recorded characteristic of each of the locations and calculating which of the networks provides the best radio coverage for the particular user at the locations visited by the particular user.
4. The method of claim 3, including operating the particular mobile device to record and store telecommunications services used when the particular mobile device is at each of a plurality of locations visited by the particular user of the particular mobile device.
5. The method of claim 4, including calculating the cost of the services, and recommending a network based on both radio coverage quality and cost.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the telecommunications system is a cellular telecommunications system and the characteristic relates to a cell broadcast channel of the cellular telecommunications system.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating step is scheduled to allow paging to be performed.
9. The apparatus of claim 8, including a retriever the recorded characteristic of each of the locations and to a present radio coverage analysis to the particular user.
10. The apparatus of claim 8, including a calculator to calculate which of the networks provides the best radio coverage for the particular user at the locations visited by the particular user.
11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the recorder is operable to record and store telecommunications services used when the particular mobile device is at each of a plurality of locations visited by the particular user of the particular mobile device.
12. The apparatus of claims 11, including a calculator to calculate the cost of the services, and to recommend a network based on both radio coverage quality and cost.
13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the telecommunications system is a cellular telecommunications system and the characteristic relates to a cell is broadcast channel of the cellular telecommunications system.
14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the recorder includes a scheduler to record the characteristic according to a schedule so as to allow paging of the device to be performed.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes determining the radio coverage provided by the telecommunications system specifically for the particular user of the mobile device.
16. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the apparatus determines the radio coverage provided by the telecommunications system specifically for the particular user of the mobile device.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes generating a personalized coverage map that highlights the location of particular places that are of significance to the particular user.
18. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the recorder generates a personalized coverage map that highlights the location of particular places that are of significance to the particular user.
Combined Search and Examination Report issued on corresponding application No. GB1007510.9 from the Intellectual Property Office of Great Britain (8 pages).
Extended European Search Report issued on corresponding application No. 11275075.7 dated Aug. 11, 2011(11 pages). | 2019-04-18T13:51:21Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US8538428B2/en |
I’ve had some sort of water leak going on under the kitchen sink for a while. One day last week the opportunity to address that leak finally arose. It was a perfect day for an indoor DIY project – rainy.
To locate the source of a leak it’s always best to start with a dry area, if at all possible. After removing the sink cabinet contents, I thoroughly wiped the water supply lines and the inside of the cabinet dry with a towel. There was also a tiny bit of mold forming so I wiped it off using a mold remover. Starting with a dry area allows you to easily see new drips.
I turned on the cold water tap and let the water run for about a minute. No leak. Next I tried the hot water tap. Ah hah – there it was!
I turned off the hot water tap, and with a dry paper towel, wiped off the current drips, then turned the hot water tap on again to see exactly where it was leaking from. My first thought was that the water was leaking at one of the connections between the faucet, the water softner and the water supply lines. As it turned out that wasn’t the case.
Upon closer inspection, the drips appeared to be coming from within the kitchen faucet itself. Like many people, I turned to the web for repair help, but the only leak repair instructions to be found were for dripping spouts or leaks at the base of the spout. My kitchen faucet was leaking underneath. Looked like I’d be replacing it.
As with the leak repair, once again I went to the internet to begin my search for a new kitchen sink faucet. The kitchen faucet styles were vast and the prices ranged from dirt cheap to unbelievably expensive! It didn’t take me long to rule out the high end faucets. Math may not be my strong point, but it was pretty easy to figure out that a $300+ faucet was an unnecessary expense. I also wanted to see if I should get a new water softner, so I made a visit www.watersoftener-review.com to see what the prices looked like. They were more than I had as far as a budget, so I opted to skip this for now.
In a small community the selection can be somewhat limited. I live in a small town and for me to buy locally, it meant finding something in one of only two stores. This is where online shopping comes in very handy. You can do your browsing, comparison shopping, and purchasing without ever leaving home.
If, however, you are in a hurry and are looking for next day delivery, you may just find it worthwhile to take a trip to a larger town or city and buy in person.
Please note points 4 and 5 listed under shopping advice. Yes, I did dismantle the old before having the new. No, I didn’t find anything I liked in the local stores. And yes, it meant a speedy trip to the city to find something to replace it with because delivery would take too long.
Although I didn’t follow my own advice exactly, I did still find the internet helpful for looking at the different options and giving me a guide for pricing.
The kitchen sink faucet I chose to buy was a Moen – a one-handle kitchen faucet, model 87485. That’s it pictured above at the beginning of this post. Simple, but stylish with a slight gooseneck faucet appearance. The price – a reasonable $129.00.
Installation was a breeze. The installation instructions were clear, and because there were no extra features like a soap pump or a pull-out spray, it was extremely quick too. With my old faucet already removed it was simply a matter of following the diagrams to put the very few pieces together and tighten the connections.
The first step to take when replacing a faucet is to turn off the water. In most cases there will be shut-off valves on each of the two water supply lines inside the sink cabinet. Obviously, my water was already turned off because I’d already removed the old faucet.
Slip supplied round rubber gasket over bottom parts of faucet and slide up into place.
Slide base plate up over bottom of faucet parts.
Feed bottom of faucet parts through the top of the deck to the inside of sink cabinet.
Inside the sink cabinet, place bracket on the underside of deck, align it so mounting stud comes through the hole provided.
Connect and tighten nut on mounting stud.
Pull copper pipes apart by about 3″. Connect water supply lines using two adjustable wrenches – one to hold the end of the copper pipe (A) steady and the second to tighten the connector (B) on the water supply line.
9. Turn water back on, open tap, and check for leaks.
An extra helpful piece of information I can give you is to tell you to label your hot and cold water supply lines before disconnecting them from your old faucet. This is easy to do with a piece of masking tape. Run your hot water tap until the water is hot and heats up the supply line, then attach a piece of tape to that warm line.
That way after connecting the water supply lines to your new faucet you’ll have no worries about crossing the lines and getting cold water from the hot side and hot water from the cold side.
The toughest part of replacing my kitchen sink faucet was removing the old one. The most inconvenient part – rinsing dishes in the bathroom sink until I picked up the new faucet! | 2019-04-18T18:48:47Z | https://www.suzyrenovator.com/kitchen-sink-faucet-replacement/ |
One word could easily describe the Broadway hit Billy Elliot. Awesome! Although I am a big fan of the show Billy Elliot, I often have to describe the show to callers to my ticket service Applause. It seems that although the show is based on the 2000 film of the same name, there are lots of people that haven't yet seen the film.
Billy Elliot on Broadway follows the film very closely and is about a teenager who develops a love for the dance. He comes from a coal mining family tradition from outside of London. It seems the miners are on strike and the town is in a declining state. You can imagine that in the 1980's London, during the Margaret Thatcher leadership era, that young Billy's family might not be too happy with his choice to try and gain admission to London's Royal Ballet School. After all, what would everyone think? His dance teacher does an amazing job training him and then getting him an audition at the school.
Billy Elliot on Broadway has an interesting story with excellent music by Elton John and lyrics and book by Lee Hall. Direction is brilliantly portrayed by Stephen Daldry who handled the same duties in the film version. Choreography is by the very talented Peter Darling. Although the musical is considered to be one of a somewhat "darker" nature, Billy Elliot has lots of funny lines in it along with fantastic dance scenes and beautiful music. You'll want to buy yourself the CD right after seeing the show. It takes 4 young actors to alternate the role of playing Billy Elliot. And they are one talented bunch indeed. Lookout for Billy's friend Michael who often steals the show with his extremely colorful wit and character.
Broadway and film veteran Gregory Jbara stars as Billy's dad and Carole Shelley as his grandma with Kate Hennig playing Ms. Wilkinson.
I loved Broadway's version of Billy Elliot and think you should probably consider going to the Imperial Theater yourself to catch the show. If you need advice on obtaining tickets, our ticket guru's are here to assist you.
Applause Ticket Service is a licensed ticket agency for Billy Elliot and all the Broadway Shows. We are open seven days a week to help. We even stay open till midnight now so we can talk to people from all over the country at their convenience. Most of the other ticket companies go home early but that's OK with us. We'll serve people whenever they need us. | 2019-04-21T04:11:59Z | http://blog.applause-tickets.com/2009/12/billy-elliot-on-broadway.html |
Franconia, NH 2/23/2012: Michael F. Coyle, CBI, CExP™, member of The BEI Network of Exit Planning Professionals™, recently earned the designation of a BEI Certified Exit Planner (CExP™). The BEI CExP™ designation is the standard for Exit Planning certification. Through training, rigorous testing and in-depth Exit Plan Creation coursework, Michael has advanced is expertise in providing comprehensive, professionally executed Exit Planning services to owners of privately held businesses.
“Exit Planning Professionals who successfully complete the BEI Certified Exit Planner program have come to be known as premiere Exit Planning Professionals because their in-depth knowledge and demonstrated application of The BEI Seven Step Exit Planning Process™ perfectly positions them to counsel business owners and their advisors on a wide array of business issues ranging from building value within a business to identifying exit objectives, addressing key employee incentive planning and retention issues, incorporating business continuity planning, and establishing wealth preservation,” said John Brown, President of Business Enterprise Institute.
The business owner community benefits from engaging an Exit Planning Professional who holds the BEI CExP™ designation by having greater confidence that the service they receive is professional in quality, adheres to ethical and industry standards of practice, and meets a level of expertise BEI deems credible and worthy of one of its certified members.
CenterPoint Business Advisors was formed in 2004 to assist business owners throughout New England in planning for and executing a successful exit from their businesses. CenterPoint offers a suite of professional services including; Comprehensive Exit Planning; Business Valuation & Appraisal; Value Building Consulting; Business Intermediary services.
← When is the Right Time to Sell Your Business? | 2019-04-26T03:43:24Z | http://cpointadvisors.biz/michael-f-coyle-earns-certifiied-exit-planning-cexp-designation/ |
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#2 : Nobody parties like a nerd.
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#3 : Kitties gotta Kitten.
#4 : If you've had 3 hours of sleep, the theme song from the opening credits of Star Trek - Enterprise will seem so inspirational and touching that it will bring tears to your eyes.
#5 : It's National S'mores day! Expect a recipe for S'more Pies later TODAY!
Thanks for the link to the glasses! I just got some Christmas shopping done... heh heh heh. | 2019-04-26T13:03:59Z | http://www.meettheshannons.net/2011/08/in-world-full-of-uncertainty-there-are.html |
Worcester’s own J.P. Ricciardi joined ESPN as a “Baseball Tonight” analyst this spring after being relieved of his role as Toronto Blue Jays General Manager. The St. Peter’s High School star and West Boylston resident has spent three decades in baseball as a front office executive, scout, minor league manager and player. While ESPN’s press relations staff wouldn’t let him divulge whether Stuart Scott or Chris Berman is more annoying in person, they did allow him to take a few other cuts.
How’s the transition to media member gone for you? Used to TV makeup yet?
It’s been great. The people at ESPN have been outstanding. I’ve had a chance to work with some very talented people. I didn’t have much TV experience before ESPN, but they’ve made it easy for me to step right in.
Do you hope to be back in the front office of a MLB team next year?
I don’t have a timetable. I’m really enjoying myself at ESPN, and we’ll see what comes down the road. If there is a front office position which is appealing to me, I’ll look into it, but I’m really enjoying my current role with ESPN.
Which GM in baseball did the best job for his team this year?
Jon Daniels with the Texas Rangers because they were able to acquire Cliff Lee and add a few other pieces without surrendering much payroll.
OK, you’ve got be Red Sox GM here for a minute: Re-sign Adrian Beltre after this season if he requires a 4 or 5-year deal? What about Victor Martinez?
Both are very good players and they can be assets to your club. I’d entertain bringing both back, but the market will dictate the deal lengths. It largely depends on who else is out there as a potential suitor and their offers during the free agency process.
Central Mass seems to keep producing good young baseball players. Is there something unique going on here?
Central Massachusetts has always been a baseball area. Baseball has traditionally been the No. 1 sport. There are very good Little League, High School and AAU programs in the area, as we’re continuing to see good players come from this area.
Favorite spots in Worcester to catch a game?
My house. I really enjoy being at home, watching all sorts of sports with my sons. We watch anything and everything. The first thing we turn on each morning is SportsCenter.
Ever run into the Philly Phanatic or San Diego Chicken in the ESPN bathroom?
No, but the first meeting I attended at ESPN was a who’s who in entertainment and sports. Nearly every on-air person at ESPN was there, covering all sport categories. ESPN is a great avenue to pick people’s brains to discuss how things cross over to all sports, not just baseball. | 2019-04-24T22:12:08Z | https://www.worcestermag.com/2010/09/09/two-minutes-withjp-ricciardi-102463084 |
Featuring: Live music by the Trocadero Orchestra (different acts weekly) and a dance lesson from Sugar Swing.
Jeannine Fournier, left, with Stan Losiak during the first Swingin’ City Sunday of the year at City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 6.
Mary Ash, left, with Charlie Dalton during the first Swingin’ City Sunday of the year at City Hall.
Lorraine Dorosh, left, with Larry Dorosh.
Dom Mar, left, with Peixiang He.
Christine Selwood, left, with Brian Walker.
Fran Lavergne, left, with Ed Fankhanel during the first Swingin’ City Sunday of the year.
Jean Lee, left, with John Lee during the first Swingin’ City Sunday of the year at City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 6.
Alex Brownlee, left, with Luke Dion.
Teresa Henderson, left, with Keith Henderson.
Judy Pachal, left, with Doug Pachal.
← Miranda Kerr: What’s in My Bag? | 2019-04-22T22:13:20Z | https://wsoe.org/social-seen-swingin-city-sundays/ |
Gmail has continually made improvements to the functionality of the software and on occasion they improve the software so you can customize the look with different themes. To change themes in Gmail you can go to settings and click on themes, from there you can choose from various themes that Gmail has put in there.
Now Gmail has customized their create your own theme to where you can upload new pictures.
Before the ability to only changes text colors, link colors and background colors was the only option. This is a common situation in how Google treats their software in regards to making it actually work first and then later offering the ability to personally theme the software. Google Chrome was the same way in the beginning when there were no themes and then there was the Chrome Web Store.
(In the picture above I made it so it does not show my emails). Yes I am a huge Los Angeles Lakers fan and so of course I had to customize my theme with the Lakers logo especially now that we are in NBA playoffs season. GO LAKERS!
Customize your own Gmail today and let us know what you did to make it your own. | 2019-04-18T13:20:58Z | https://innovationsimple.com/uncategorized/customize-gmail-with-personalized-backgrounds/ |
Timberline Readying the Slopes for Opening FRIDAY! Click to Read of other openings!
Charleston, WV –The mountains of West Virginia will be receiving more natural snow in the next couple of days, as two more resorts, Winterplace in Raleigh County and Timberline Resort in Tucker County open for the season. Timberline will begin offering skiing and snowboarding on Friday (tomorrow) and Winterplace will be dropping the ropes on Sunday. Canaan Valley Resort, also in Tucker County, is scheduled to open for the season on December 26. Snowshoe Mountain Resort has been open since the middle of November and is offering the most open terrain in the region.
In addition to this week’s natural snow, the temperatures in the higher elevations are now very good for snowmaking operations, allowing the resort’s to cover the slopes as quick as possible. The snowmakers at all of the resorts are working around the clock to provide the holiday skiers and snowboarders as much open terrain as possible. When snowmaking conditions were at their best this week (in the teens), over 20,000 tons of snow was being produced in West Virginia per hour, that’s enough snow to cover 20 football fields with a foot of snow made each hour.
Early season reservations have been strong as the resorts are again projecting to attract around 800,000 visitors to the mountains. “It’s great to get open and operating for the season,” says Terry Pfeiffer, President of Winterplace and the West Virginia Ski Areas Association. “If the current weather conditions continue, we will be in very good shape for the upcoming critical holiday season.” The top states providing skiers and snowboarders to West Virginia slopes are Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida.
The ski and snowboard season traditionally, weather permitting, continues through early April. The five-month long ski season in West Virginia has an estimated economic impact of over $250 million and 5,000 jobs at the resorts and other related companies. For more information on skiing and snowboarding in West Virginia go on-line at www.goskiwv.com .
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Next articleTwo More West Virginia Ski Areas Open for the 2012/2013 Winter Season! | 2019-04-26T05:47:03Z | http://www.skisoutheast.com/timberline-readying-the-slopes-for-opening-friday-click-to-read-of-other-openings/ |
Classic Legends Pvt. Ltd. is proud to announce the launch of its first three Jawa Motorcycles dealerships in Chennai. Close on the heels of the launch of twenty new dealerships in India in Delhi-NCR, Pune, Bengaluru, Nashik, Dehradun and Mumbai, Classic Legends has opened new dealerships in Adyar, Chromepet and Anna Nagar. These new dealerships are open at the following locations: Adyar, Chromepet, Anna Nagar.
The Jawa and Jawa forty two are priced at INR 167,000/- and INR 158,000/- respectively (ex-showroom, Chennai) the Dual Channel ABS variants will be priced at Rs. 175,942/- & Rs. 166,942/- respectively. | 2019-04-21T08:57:10Z | https://chennaivision.com/jawa-motorcycles-first-showrooms-in-chennai/ |
The highlight scheme in build 3075 is very ugly and primitive. On www.intellij.org there's a CSS syntax file that worked for Idea 4.5.2 and it's much better (it's not perfect, but it's much better than what's in 3075 at the moment).
To convice yourself, try with a REAL CSS file and compare the two.
done it already :) But still, please, post the issue to the tracker. | 2019-04-25T03:07:14Z | https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206265929-CSS-highlight-in-css-files-is-very-ugly |
Recently, the UK government has presented a mass surveillance law which has managed to get the attention of the internet users from all over the world, as the recommendations given in the draft are in no way acceptable for any person who wants to ensure his privacy. Here are the insights to the law and its impact on British people.
The British government is using a legislation to grab the private information of its people. Once the law is in effect, the government authorities would be given the right to get access to the private information of the people, including their audio calls, emails, and text messages. This is nothing compared to what you will be reading next. In the legislation named Investigatory Power Bill, it is suggested that the internet authorities should be ordered to save the browsing history of every single person and keep it safe for 12 months so that the police, security agencies and other government authorities can get access to it whenever they want.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time the UK government has presented this law. It presented a similar law in the past which was rejected for obvious reasons. Other similar laws based on online monitoring have already been rejected in the United States, Canada and various other European countries due to the privacy concerns of the people.
Home Secretary Theresa May was the one presenting the law and she supported the law by saying that there has been a huge increase in hacking attacks in the UK. What she did not mention was that previously, hackers used to exploit the privacy of British citizens by hacking into their computers and smartphones. Now, the UK government plans on doing it. She also said that civil liberties groups will be consulted while preparing the final draft of the legislation. Whether or not the suggestions and recommendations of these groups will be accepted is another question that remains to be answered. Jim Killock, who happens to be the executive director of the Open Rights Group, had a quick read of the lengthy document and stated that this seems to be “an attempt to grab even more intrusive surveillance powers”. Also it “gives the state intrusive hacking powers that can carry risks for everyone’s internet security”.
Fortunately, Apple, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other big companies are off the radar as the UK government has taken back its requirement to remove the encryption from the messaging service of all these tech icons. | 2019-04-20T14:11:49Z | https://www.mobistealth.com/blog/uk-government-adopt-russia-style-mass-surveillance-system/ |
The Quik Jig Pocket Hole Joinery System features an automatic depth control system that allows for easy set up for different material thicknesses. Variable spaced bushings allow a variety of positions for the pocket holes. Self-adjusting clamp adjusts automatically to material thickness. Repeatable clamp makes multiple pieces quick and easy. Screw length gauge recommends the appropriate screw length for material thickness. Built-in drill bit collar set up does not need to be changed for different material thicknesses. Removable dust port can be hooked up to a Porter Cable Dust Extractor or standard vacuum.
Rear-exit dust collection: use with or without a vacuum. Removable for convenience. | 2019-04-20T10:17:21Z | https://www.grizzly.com/products/Porter-Cable-Quik-Jig-Pocket-Hole-Joinery-System/T22380 |
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Hi, I’m Gene Barr, president of the Pennsylvania Chamber.
Welcome to this month’s Pennsylvania Chamber Minute.
On Tuesday, November 6th, voters nationwide will head to the polls for General Election Day. Here in Pennsylvania, there are a lot of important elected positions on the ballot – governor, all of Pennsylvania’s Congressional delegation, one U.S. Senate seat, all 203 seats in the state House and 25 of the 50 state Senate seats. In advance of this pivotal election, ChamberPAC – the political arm of the Pennsylvania Chamber – has endorsed 106 candidates for the state House and 17 candidates for the state Senate. After careful evaluation, we believe these individuals will prioritize the impact of legislation on the state’s broad-based business community, and work to introduce and pass legislation that will improve Pennsylvania’s overall competitiveness.
As the Pennsylvania Chamber continues our efforts to inform voters of the reasons why these candidates would be the best representatives for their respective districts, we’re equally stressing a more basic message – the importance of casting your vote. To that end, we are encouraging all registered voters throughout the Commonwealth to find their polling place prior to November 6th and determine who will represent their best interests. We are also supporting a U.S. Chamber-led “Get Out the Vote” campaign that promotes employers talking to their workers about the value of supporting pro-growth, pro-jobs candidates for public office. Electing these qualified individuals will help to promote opportunity and job creation across the Commonwealth and build a stronger economic future for all.
I encourage you to visit the website VoteForJobs.com to learn more about the U.S. Chamber’s initiative, and to visit the ChamberPAC section of our website – PAChamber.org – to see the full list of endorsed candidates. With only weeks to go before Election Day, it’s imperative to let workers across the Commonwealth know that the single most important tool that each one of us has is our voice, and our vote.
Thanks for spending a minute of your time with the Pennsylvania Chamber, the Statewide Voice of Business. | 2019-04-18T16:32:53Z | https://pachamber.org/advocacy/videos/chamber_minute/2511/PA_Chamber_Minute_October_2018/ |
The Cardijn Community International invited Jose Luis Palacio, son of Jose Serapio Palacio, his wife Stella Maris, and their daughter Belen, the granddaughter of Jose, to visit India for the CCI International Congress planned for Chennai from 6 - 8 December 2015.
Owing to the floods there, the conference has now been postponed until May 2016.
However, we plan to hold commemoration services in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu and in Chennai later this week, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Jose Serapio Palacio. | 2019-04-21T06:33:22Z | http://pepepalacio.josephcardijn.com/commemoration-2015 |
Download sheet music for Tom Vitacco including new and popular songs such as, Center and All I Really Want. Each purchase of digital sheet music from PraiseCharts includes permission for up to 5 copies making it even easier to play and enjoy music from popular Tom Vitacco albums. Browse top albums, popular worship songs and all Tom Vitacco sheet music. | 2019-04-20T22:12:27Z | https://www.praisecharts.com/profiles/458/tom-vitacco-sheet-music |
1) Chip Berlet, an investigative journalist, research analyst, scholar and activist who has written about racism and intolerance for over four decades, discusses recent media focus on the so-called "Alt-right," and what these right wing activists actually believe. He'll also examine the significance of their leadership of the Trump for President campaign, and their entry into the upper echelons of mainstream GOP politics.
2) Michael Beer, Director of the group Nonviolence International, assesses the ongoing civil war in Syria, with a focus on the recent Turkish military invasion into northern Syria. He'll also talk about prospects for any breakthroughs in current U.S.-Russian cease fire talks taking place in Geneva.
3) Greg Palast, an investigative reporter, whose stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic. He'll discuss his new article in Rolling Stone Magazine, "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters," and the new film documentary, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits."
4) Paula Panzarella an organizer with Connecticut Fight the Hike campaign, discusses the United Illuminating electric utility's plan to once again increase their rates on the distribution charge portion of customers' bills. Connecticut customers already pay the highest rates for electricity in the continental United States. UI is now owned by Iberdrola, one of the world’s largest utility companies, with over 31 million customers. | 2019-04-21T14:36:10Z | http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/156837 |
The Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Data Analysis Program takes the raw data collected from the program's more than 2,500 pavement test sections and converts these into useable information. The program addresses a broad array of topics—from field validation of pavement design procedures, to studies of variability in traffic and materials data, and to the investigation of the development of pavement roughness. Some analysis findings have led to the development of products, such as Rigid Pavement Design software and LTPPBind. All analysis findings, however, provide valuable insight and direction to guide future LTPP data collection and analysis efforts.
Since 1999, the national level analysis of the LTPP data has been guided by the “Strategic Plan for Long-Term Pavement Performance Data Analysis.” The Strategic Plan was developed by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Expert Task Group on LTPP Data Analysis, recommended by the TRB LTPP Committee and adopted by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as the basis for selecting LTPP analysis projects and evaluating progress in LTPP data analysis. The plan sets forth strategic objectives supporting the goal "to develop knowledge, relationships, and models to facilitate improved pavement design and reliable performance predictions." Each strategic objective, in turn, is supported by several more focused "product objectives," which are color-coded to represent criticality and numbered to indicate sequencing.
The Expanded Data Analysis Plan, which is an up-to-date version of the Strategic Plan, shows ongoing, completed, and anticipated near-term LTPP data analysis projects, as well as closely related National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) projects.
Summary of Key Benefits, 1989-2015. | 2019-04-26T11:43:42Z | https://highways.dot.gov/research/ltpp/analysis/analysis |
Thanks for your interest in North Dakota Tourism’s Advertising Campaign. Our photo and video shoot has received a bit more attention than normal thanks to Josh Duhamel. He’s a North Dakota boy who has made it big but has never denied his North Dakota roots. He continues to tout the many positives of North Dakota on talk shows, events, social media and often returns home to see family and friends and support North Dakota causes. Josh has even invested in tourism and hospitality businesses in North Dakota.
The campaign uses stunning imagery that intimately captures the unique North Dakota experience. | 2019-04-25T09:10:46Z | https://www.ndtourism.com/information/advertising-campaign |
Is Technology a Threat or Savior for Estate Planners?
Let’s face it, humans are very busy. Technology is changing manual processes to create efficiencies. Technology is evolving every day and moving toward replacing jobs that entrepreneurs feel there is an opportunity to disrupt. As technology continuously evolves, we have seen little movement in estate planning technology until recently.
It appears more and more startups are targeting the practice of document drafting and particularly the area of estate planning. Start-ups like Estate Guru and EP Navigator target financial advisors to move their instant document service through the market. Their primary focus is to produce on the spot documents for advisors’ clients while advisors are in the discovery stage. They even find attorneys in each state to attach their names to the documents. | 2019-04-21T20:52:14Z | https://www.yourefolio.com/technology-threat-or-savior-estate-planners |
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After what seemed like interminable, passive silence– and even the perception that releasing his long-form birth certificate was a form of defeat– President Obama finally addressed Donald Trump at the Correspondents’ Dinner. It was classic Obama jiu-jitsu: I realized he was waiting for the right opportunity to strike back, and then he did so with an impossible mix of wit, aggression, and class. I was so taken with the way in which the Master Tactician delivered his message that my wife had to remind me to breathe during his speech.
You’d think that I’d be in complete agreement with those who viewed Trump’s birther accusations as a new low point in American Politics. Even members of the press expressed remorse at covering Trump’s missives, regretting that they were somehow contributing to their legitimization. Yet in this case, I’m glad that the birther controversy got so much media attention. Over the course of this controversy, you see, public opinion began to shift in a critically important way.
I’m not referring to public opinion about Donald Trump. Rather I’m referring to public opinion with respect to the role of racism in perceptions of Barack Obama. Leading up to the Correspondents’ Dinner, several outlets ran prominent stories that explored how accusations of Obama as “foreign” and “not one of us” may actually reflect a coded or hidden type of racism (see e.g., this post by Fareed Zakaria). While these are powerful arguments, in this blog and this blog I explore the difficulty of using individual examples (e.g., reactions to Lebron James, or to Yoko Ono, or to Obama) as instances of discrimination. This is because individual examples are, by nature, neither definitive nor systematic, and can often be explained in other ways.
And yet, through Trump’s involvement, the birther controversy somehow became the example that proved the point.
Just the other day, my colleague Sam Gaertner sent me a paper he just published with Eric Hehman and Jack Dovidio in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. These colleagues found that when evaluating President Obama, White’s levels of racial prejudice was directly related to perceptions of Obama as un-American, which in turn predicted ratings of poor performance. These relationships were not evident for perceptions of Vice President Biden, which underscores the idea that the President’s race is a strong factor driving perceptions of his being “un-American.” I was going to blog about it– and then I found out USA today had already covered it (you can read that coverage here). By now, even David Letterman seems convinced of the relationship between racism and the over-persistence of calls for proof of citizenship from Obama. In short, the idea has gained much wider traction than even a few weeks ago.
While the rhetoric around Obama’s legitimacy as an American citizen has been difficult, I feel we are stronger as a nation because of this incident. It seems that now, the public is more willing to accept that we are not, in fact, post-racial, as was so fervently claimed following the election of Obama. But even more importantly, it seems we are more open to the notion that discrimination can be manifested in subtle, cloaked ways.
The point here is not to declare whether Trump is in fact racist or not. Instead, the point is that, from this controversy, the nation has come closer to recognizing and understanding the concept of symbolic prejudice. It’s akin to when people might say, “It’s not that I’m racist, it’s just that the dresses of those gypsies are too provocative,” or “I don’t have anything against Mexicans– but that Mariachi music is just so ugly.” In this case, the insistence by some that Obama is not “one of us” is a symbolic form of prejudice. It’s a fine line between interpreting these statements as either pragmatic or prejudiced, but the birther controversy has given widespread recognition to the second possibility.
And this recognition is an important step in addressing continuing differences in the standards to which people of different races and ethnicities are held to in this country.
Cross-posted from Psychology Today; Copyright 2011 by Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton; all rights reserved.
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Very interesting point of view. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Rodolfo, for your well-stated and important insights. Their contemplation in identifying and correcting those differences in the standards to which the symbolically flagged “different” people are unfairly held, is of course the appropriate emphasis for their use. But Man’s elaborate, thoughtful and deliberate inhumanity to Man, when seen in enslavement, persecution, and “final solutions”, leaves a wake of scars that degrade every contemplative moment of a kind person’s life in one way or another. We must remember…to avoid reliving it. That’s a given.
But we must also keep up-to-date on the latest symbolic manifestations of the hate, to avoid innocently seeming, by the most well-intended public utterance, to have become a party to that hate. One wonders if we’ll ever get to The Golden Rule.
donald trump is a low class jerk.only in america! | 2019-04-18T23:01:19Z | https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2011/05/05/why-getting-trumped-has-been-good-for-america/ |
STEAM Night @ Washington Elementary!
Parents, students and staff at Washington Elementary took part in a STEAM night Thursday at the Home of the Mustangs. A large number of folks were on hand for the event which included pizza and drinks for all as well. What is STEAM you ask?
STEAM provides an avenue for formally teaching the inter-relationships of how subjects relate in real-life. STEAM-style education can be enjoyably and meaningfully delivered in more engaging and deeply embedding ways within the already well-established realm of education.
Engineering & the Arts, all based in Mathematical elements.
You can read more about STEAM at this link - you can enjoy dozens of pics of the event as well. GO MUSTANGS!! | 2019-04-21T08:08:47Z | http://usd353.com/node/275 |
There was a time when chandeliers were either carefully centered over the formal dining room table or reserved for the entry foyer of a grand mansion. Today, chandeliers are found in a wide variety of new locations in modern homes. From master bathrooms to bedrooms, chandeliers are providing a luxury touch throughout the home.
The effect of a chandelier in décor depends entirely on choosing not only the correct style, but the proper size as well. Chosen well, a chandelier can add a sophistication and elegance to any space.
Once you’ve decided on the style of chandelier, it’s time to choose the correct size. The most important element is the size of the room.
Larger room – 14’ by 14’ or more: choose a larger chandelier of 24” to 36” or even a bit bigger if the space permits.
Chandeliers come in many styles and sizes. Finding one which suits your taste is easier than ever. By choosing the right size, you ensure that you achieve your desired effect. | 2019-04-25T23:44:17Z | https://www.treugroup.com/blog/choosing-a-chandelier-how-to-pick-the-correct-size/ |
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A happily single woman is seen as an oxymoron, because you know a woman’s life is hollow without a man to come home to. Do I really have to explain that was sarcastic and don’t take it out of context, okay that first sentence was sarcastic and shouldn’t be taken out of context. Society constantly questions her; is she really happy, are her standards too high, does she need to date outside her race, is she having out of wedlock children and littering? She’s damned if she do, damned is she don’t. If she’s celibate she’s bitter, if she’s doing her she’s a heaux. Cold world. No Snuggie.
I respect the bachelorette. I’ve spoken at length on the necessity of being single that if you don’t take that time to fully understand what you want and what you bring to the table, you will find yourself continuously and listening to Keyshia Cole Radio on Pandora. CC is someone who comes to mind as she’s pretty much gone from 0-60 in every relationship she’s had and despite being “engaged” twice, with a tattoo of another man she finds herself alone. Well not alone, just in another doomed relationship. On the other end of the spectrum is a friend solely focused on her career but of course the whispers of “where her man doe” get louder. Hell, her own mother asked me to go after her, a few times.
As for the men in her life, she dates, she entertains, seldom commits. What separates her from the player mentioned before is that she’s honest and forthcoming about just not looking for that right now. Not that she’s completely shut down the idea of marriage but her priorities have changed; number one, her own happiness. As someone who personally finds dating highly annoying, I can ride with that. Be free, be spontaneous, be able to come into your next relationship with as little emotional baggage as possible. If a woman tells me she’s happy being single, I tend to believe her. She’s not in denial, she doesn’t have 3 cats, she’s not being promiscuous or just oblivious to her own unattractiveness. After all it would be hypocritical to judge a woman for not wanting to be in a relationship when bachelors want that same respect. Every single person isn’t playing games or bitter. | 2019-04-26T04:09:53Z | https://stanoffewwords.com/2013/08/08/todays-word-is-bachelorette/ |
Born: 4 May, 1934, in London. Died: 30 December, 2012, in London, aged 78.
Alexander Schouvaloff had long standing connections with the arts in Scotland, principally through the Festival, but he was a keen observer of many arts companies here. He was an authority on the Diaghilev company and especially its famous designers – Pablo Picasso, Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. Schouvaloff wrote widely on the period and curated a hugely successful exhibition (Parade) at the 1979 Edinburgh Festival in the Edinburgh College of Art that was acclaimed for its design ingenuity. It was so successful, in fact, that it transferred to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Alexander Schouvaloff came from an aristocratic and diplomatic Russian family. His father won an Oscar for his designs for Moulin Rouge (directed by John Huston).
Schouvaloff attended Harrow School where he showed early theatrical talent, playing the title role in a complete version of Hamlet. While at Jesus College, Oxford he came with the Oxford Theatre Group to the 1954 Edinburgh Fringe.
Schouvaloff did his national service with the Royal Military Police at SHAPE in Paris and, in 1965, became George Harewood’s assistant for one year and then for two years worked with Peter Diamand at the Edinburgh Festival.
Both directors concentrated on the music and opera programme and gave Schouvaloff a free hand to develop theatre projects. He brought such adventurous productions as Pop Theatre’s The Trojan Women with Flora Robson and Cleo Laine and The Cherry Orchard by The Prospect Company with Lila Kedrova.
He is particularly remembered in Edinburgh for the Parade exhibition in 1979. In fact, Schouvaloff used the wide-open spaces of the College of Art admirably and while it displayed many costumes it was the magnificent designs by Bakst that Schouvaloff showed with particular panache.
In 1974 he was appointed the founder curator of the Theatre Museum, which came under the auspices of the V& A. The museum had many theatrical collections which had need of a permanent home – not least Richard Buckle’s mainly Diaghilev costumes which had been seen at his famous 1954 Edinburgh Festival exhibition. Schouvaloff had to overcome increasing political and financial setbacks – at one point there was a high profile campaign, Save the Theatre Museum.
Schouvaloff and Sir Roy Strong, curator at the V&A, eventually decided on a building on the piazza at Covent Garden, close by the Royal Opera House. Schouvaloff was keen to include all aspects of British theatre from music hall to circus, mime and pop.
After many delays the museum was opened by Princess Margaret in 1987 with Schouvaloff rightly calling it a “collection of collections”.
It was opened to the acclaim of the press and the public thronged through its galleries. But for all the museum’s perfect location the space itself was not ideal. The entrance from Drury Lane was rather gloomy and the basement, where most of the exhibits were shown, appeared claustrophobic and lacked dramatic rigour.
Worse, the initial enthusiasm and good relationship between Schouvaloff and Sir Roy deteriorated and there was a degree of acrimony in their dealings. Schouvaloff’s relations with Sir Roy’s successor, Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, proved no happier and he left the museum in 1989.
It was a disappointment as Schouvaloff had displayed much patience and tenacity in getting the museum opened. Indeed, as an adjunct to the museum’s activities he had mounted a reading of the complete works of Shakespeare over several days. The readers included many of the leading actors of the day, such as Eartha Kitt as a vibrant Cleopatra.
Schouvaloff concentrated on writing books, including Stravinsky on Stage and Léon Bakst – The Theatre Art, and contributed to several catalogues for international exhibitions.
Schouvaloff was twice married. His first marriage to Gillian Baker was dissolved. He is survived by Daria, whom he married in 1971, and a son by his first marriage. | 2019-04-21T20:35:22Z | https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-alexander-schouvaloff-former-edinburgh-festival-assistant-director-1-2763433 |
It’s fun to check out all the beautifully designed rooms we see done by the interior designers on Houzz.com. They make it look so easy, don’t they? But there are lots of ways to make mistakes — oh yes, I’ve made some too and learned the hard way! I’ve compiled a list of the Top Ten Decorating mistakes — see Part 1 here — and hope they help you with your design dilemmas. | 2019-04-23T18:43:10Z | http://interior-design-portland.com/getting-the-room-right-avoid-the-top-ten-decorating-mistakes-part-2/ |
A goal is a dream with a plan. How are you at making plans? Sticking to them? The reason goals fail, resolutions fail is because people make them nicely vague.
If you have “Write a novel” on your goal list without any thought as to what you need to do, you may find you struggle a bit.
It’s another reason “To Do” lists fail. We add dozens of things to our to-do lists thinking well they aren’t many things on it… forgetting that some of those “To Do’s” are actually big jobs that will take a lot of time.
There’s a tip that says you give every goal 20 Steps.
If you break your goal down into manageable pieces you will have a better chance at succeeding at it.
Firstly, these are just an example, of how you COULD use your steps. Also, the steps aren’t meant to be done quickly or all within the same time-frame.
Some, such as “plotting novel”, could take months/years. Whereas others like “researching publishers” could take just a few weeks.
Secondly, you don’t always have to follow the steps in order. For example, you could be building your following/platform before the manuscript is finished.
In fact, I’m all for doing that – as I said in my post Things You Should Be Doing Now.
The idea of making up 20 steps is just to give you ideas of how to achieve what you want. Rather than seeing the whole thing and being overwhelmed, you break it into steps. Each of the 20 steps can then be broken down again.
Sometimes a big goal needs to be broken into pieces. It can help give a clear picture of what you need to do. Also, make a note of the steps then take some time to re-arrange them into the correct order.
Have you ever used the 20 Step Method? Maybe you have your own method that works. Share it in the comments below!
Thanks to everyone who gets through to the end of my sometimes long posts, it’s totally appreciated!
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I have never seen the 20 Step Method. While looking up information on your “Master List” I came across this post. I hope to add it to my writing routine. Well done.
I’m useless at breaking it down into an actual plan. Useless!!!
What a great way to attack it though.
lol yeah, I used to just see this big goals and lunge at them…which didn’t work at all. I think 20 steps is a good number without being to busy.
Thanks Pearl. Yeah, I like the idea of small pieces – I find big goals can be so overwhelming so I end up just sitting there staring at them with no clue how to begin. | 2019-04-20T05:16:21Z | https://arimeghlen.co.uk/2016/12/02/how-to-use-the-20-step-method-for-goals/ |
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Francesca Caccini (1587--ca.1640) was an accomplished composer, singer, and instrumentalist in the tradition of the Florentine Camerata. Her 1618 volume Il primo libro delle musiche was dedicated to her patron the Cardinal de' Medici (1596--1666).
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Ronald James Alexander (1961-1990) received a Master of Music Degree at the University of California at Davis, and, at the time of his death, was enrolled in the Ph.D. program in musicology at Stanford University. An avid sports enthusiast and versatile musician, he studied classical guitar and lute at California State University at Sacramento.
Guitarist and lutist Richard Savino is active as featured performer, concerto soloist, and accompanist. His recordings include a collection of monodies by Barbara Strozzi with soprano Emanuela Galli and Ensemble Gallilei (Stradivarius, Milano). He is presently Professor of Music at the California State University at Sacramento. | 2019-04-21T13:42:26Z | https://books.google.am/books?id=BuKPg_VsJI4C |
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Process mixture, in batches, in an electric blender or food processor until smooth. Return mixture to Dutch oven; whisk in half-and-half and peanut butter. Reduce heat to low and simmer 15 minutes, stirring often.
Serve with Nutmeg-Molasses Cream and chopped toasted pecans.
For the Nutmeg-Molasses Cream, beat whipping cream at medium speed with an electric mixer until soft peaks form; gradually beat in molasses and nutmeg. Chill until ready to serve. | 2019-04-21T18:43:21Z | https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/sweet-potato-peanut-soup |
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SOUTH PASADENA >> In two weeks, the City Council will seek to hire a principal management analyst who will usurp the deactivated transportation manager position, City Manager Sergio Gonzalez said.
The new job title is part of South Pasadena’s new “management generalist series,” an employee strategy the City Council adopted on July 17.
The Freeway and Transportation Commission unanimously voted to approve the principal management analyst title on Sept. 17. City Council approved the move on Oct. 2, nearly two months after Gonzalez fired former Transportation Manager Dennis Woods.
Woods worked as the transportation manager for nearly five years. During that time, he secured $400,000 in grant money to implement the bicycle master plan, supported the effort to have Caltrans-owned houses return to private ownership and hosted forums for the SR-710.
Because personnel matters are confidential, neither party gave details about the parting. However, both sides said Woods did a superb job in identifying problems and promoting solutions.
For now, Gonzalez and a transportation intern have taken up Wood’s position with the help of Special Legal Counsel Antonio Rossmann, City Strategist Mike Roos and transportation consultants.
The new hire will earn about $84,000 to $112,600. The post’s pay ceiling is about $3,800 less than the cap for a transportation manager.
Yet Woods said he saved South Pasadena a lot of money during his tenure.
Both South Pasadena residents and the City Council have acknowledged that streets such as Hanscom Drive and Hawthorne Street need to be better maintained. The cobbled Rollin Street has recently been repaved.
Under the principal management analyst’s job description, the No. 1 item is to provide direct support to the city manager on all SR-710-related issues. But because it is a generalist position, this person could spend up to 50 percent of his or her time doing project management or providing support for other program areas within the city manager’s office. | 2019-04-22T22:53:09Z | https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2013/10/09/south-pasadena-to-hire-principal-management-analyst-to-replace-transportation-manager/ |
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