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{"text": "Small and medium size businesses in West Somerset that have been hit hard by the severe flooding may qualify for extra help to get them back on their feet.\nThe Repair and Renew Grant provides flood affected homes and business premises with up to £5,000 of grant funding to establish flood resilience measures to reduce the risk of future flooding and/or minimise the impact of future flooding. All properties flooded between the 1 December 2013 and 31 March 2014 are eligible for support.\nPlease complete the necessary application form available under Related Documents on this page and return to Julie Harcombe, Taunton Deane Borough Council, Deane House, Belvedere Road, Taunton, TA1 1HE.\nSome households/businesses have been reluctant to submit claims for the Repair and Renew grant, fearing that an application/claim will result in increases in future insurance premiums/excesses.\nPlease see the GOV.UK website to view a letter from the Director General of the Association of British Insurers allaying such concerns and encouraging the take up of this grant to improve resilience against future flooding.\nIf you have any questions regarding your eligibility please call 01823 356559, where your call will be logged and passed on to the necessary department."}
{"text": "Macdonald overhauled first-round co-leader Jared du Toit, who had a second consecutive day of (-4) 68 to sit at (-8) 136.\nMacdonald had 115 yards to go on the par-4 9th and hit his 54-degree wedge shot to 5 feet and then watched it roll into the cup for a closing eagle. \"That was a great way to end the round,\" said the Purdue Boilermaker senior. \"It was a pretty solid day for me, but I still think I left a couple out there.\"\nMacdonald, starting on the 10th hole, made three birdies on his front nine and one bogey and then added two more birdies before his closing eagle. \"I think there's only four holes out there where par is a decent score,\" said Macdonald. \"The rest, you have a chance to make a good number on if you hit the right shot and putt the ball well.\"\nMacdonald has an ambitious summer ahead. Not only is he flying out east to play the Monday qualifier for the RBC Canadian Open next week, he'll also try to Monday qualify for the PGA Tour Canada stop in Calgary and then it's off to the Canadian Amateur and the U.S. Amateur before he heads right back to Purdue, where, as the only returning senior, he'll be expected to lead the young squad.\nDu Toit started on the back 9 and made six birdies and two bogeys, rounding the turn at (-4) 32. But after narrowly avoiding disaster by finding his wayward drive on the second, du Toit made bogey and couldn't get anything going until a birdie on the par-5 8th hole.\n\"I'm happy with the score, but I couldn't get anything going in my last nine holes,\" said du Toit. \"I said before the tournament that I'd take even par on everything but the par-5s and if I can make birdies there, I'd be happy. I'm at 8 so that's a good score going into the last two rounds.\"\nDu Toit was actually more happy for his brother Russell, who made the cut on the number. The brothers were finishing at the same time, Jared on 9 and Russell on 18, and Jared was happy that he would have to look for someone else to caddy for him for the final two rounds.\n\"I've played lots of rounds with Stu and I'm looking forward to playing with him tomorrow,\" said du Toit. \"He's a great player and that's a good round he shot today.\"\nMacdonald's playing partner, Brayden Eriksen of Pheasant Glen GR, also shot (-6) 66, but his came about because of nine birdies and only three bogeys. Eriksen now sits in third place, at (-4) 140 and will play in the final group on Thursday.\n\"I got on a really good run of birdies, from 15 to 18, where I made four in a row,\" said Eriksen. \"I think the biggest break for me is on 16, where I short-sided myself and hit a flop shot just trying to get it close and it went in for a birdie. That gave me a boost and I made a couple more on 17 and 18.\"\nEriksen said he was impressed with how well Macdonald played, as well as their third, first-round co-leader Conner Kozak. \"Stewie played great both days and Conner played well, but he didn't putt like he did (the first day),\" said Eriksen. \"It was a good group and I hope to play with them again.\"\nAs for Kozak, who finished with a (+3) 75 to sit at (-1) 143, eight strokes behind, he was happy to have a front row seat for the fireworks. \"They were lights out today,\" said Kozak. \"Brayden was making birdies everywhere and Stu, well, you heard the roar when he holed out on 9. I used up all my putts yesterday and I just couldn't get the ball in the hole today.\"\nTroy Bulmer of Predator Ridge also had a very good round, making seven birdies and only two bogeys en route to a (-5) round of 67 that moves him to (-2) 142 and seven strokes behind Macdonald. \"This is my first BC Am and it's good because I had to play through the supplemental to get into the field,\" said Bulmer, who's originally from Saskatchewan. \"I made my birdies today and I'm getting a better feel for the greens.\"\nIn other notable news, Shaughnessy's Kamyar Yamini got a big roar on the third hole when he made an ace from 152 yards with a 9-iron. \"It was a knock-down 9 and it was actually my second ace in the last month,\" said the UBC-bound student. \"I made one during the practice round at Black Mountain for the high school championships and it was my third one overall.\"\nYamini ended up shooting his second consecutive even-par round and sits nine strokes behind Macdonald. \"This is my first BC Am and I've made the cut so I'll just go out tomorrow and try to go low. It's out there.\"\nThe cut to top 70 and ties came at (+7) 151 with 79 golfers making the cut. Marine Drive's Doug Roxburgh shot a (+6) round of 78 to finish at (+8) 152 and missed the cut for only the second time in the 49 BC Amateurs he's competed in. \"I just didn't play well enough,\" said Roxburgh.\nNewly crowned BC Junior champion Jake Scarrow had a big bounce-back round of (-4) 68 after shooting (+1) 73 during the first round. At (-3) 141, Scarrow is only six back, a margin he knows well, as he trailed Ziggy Nathu by that many strokes in Osoyoos last week with only 17 holes to go. Scarrow erased that margin in just 10 holes and ended up winning by two strokes.\n\"Today was about getting myself back into a position where I could move up in the last two rounds,\" said the Lab@Northview golfer who's going to the University of Idaho next month. \"I need to get a good start tomorrow, see if I can make some birdies and post a score. You can go low here, especially if the wind is down.\"\nDefending champion Jordan Lu of Marine Drive had his second straight (-1) round of 71 and sits at (-2) 142, seven strokes behind. \"I couldn't get anything going these two days,\" said the University of Washington sophomore. \"I would miss fairways, get flyer lies and then have to work hard to two-putt. I didn't have many birdie opportunities. I grinded both days.\"\nThe third round of the 113th BC Amateur at Fairview Mountain begins at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, with players going off both the 1st and 10th tees."}
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{"text": "8 800 1006817\n8 812 9822248\n8 981 11171178 800 10068178 812 98222488 981 1117117\nwe Offer a number of events that will occur in the Northern capital during new year celebrations in 2018, which will help to spend the new year holidays visitors to the city, renting apartments these holidays.\nno surprise the fact that we all want fun and joy to celebrate the new year. To prepare mentally, buy gifts for friends and family, decorate the Christmas tree and decorate the house. All of us during the Christmas holidays you want good mood, merriment, gifts and of course the miracle.\nMany expect the new year's eve to spend with loved ones and close friends, and of course at home, as the New year is still a family holiday, although there are those who are planning to celebrate the new year at a party, out of town or during the journey.\nIf You are one of those who is going on a voyage on the new year holidays in Saint Petersburg, you have fun new year's eve in different places: restaurants, night clubs, cafes and bars, but without a doubt the center of the celebration will be the Palace square.\nFrom 23:00 on 31 December 2017 at 4:00 on the 1st January 2018 at the scene, located on Palace square will be held a festive concert with participation of variety stars.\nthe stage Itself will be a stylized Palace of Ice.\nin addition to discos and karaoke with the stars the battle of choirs and orchestras, which will perform Christmas songs and musical compositions of similar subjects.\nthe Walls of the Winter Palace and General staff building will be illuminated with lights and projections, laser show, so that will be a full sense of the discos on the street.\nAt three in the morning assigned to the fireworks, to see that best not on the square itself, and on the quays and in particular on the Palace. This stunning light-show, which will remain in the memory forever.\nAlso all the winter holidays at the Palace square will be held a festive fair. However, such new year fairs will be scattered throughout the city.\nAmong these places we can say about the constant, Ostrovskaya square, pioneer square and many other places. There you can buy Souvenirs for Christmas and Christmas themes and not only...\nsince 9 PM December 31, on Nevsky Prospekt will be no problem to take a walk and enjoy the view at the Christmas decorations of the center.\nIn anticipation of the New year and the new year's eve Saint Petersburg metro will work around the clock. Will also work for some types and routes of public transport. So that you can many places to visit and lots to see.\nthe Celebration this year will begin with the formal arrival in the city on the Neva 23 Dec Ded Moroz from Veliky Ustyug.\nHowever, new year's events are not limited to meeting the new year. A lot of theaters Available will present a variety of plays and productions especially for the New year and Christmas.\nThere is another interesting event in life of Petersburg, is a traditional festival of ice sculptures Ice Fantacy.\nOne of the sites which will be the Peter and Paul fortress.\nthe Festival will also be open December 23, the day of the arrival of Santa Claus. For the manufacture of various ice fantasy will be used pure ice from the river was brought to the Northern capital of the Arkhangelsk region.\nThis review of the Christmas event is not complete, because their range is very wide.\nDear friends, the company Hi-Tech Home wishes You a happy New year and Christmas invites You to her house on the banks of the Neva river to the Northern capital. Our apartments at Your service. the Rush time before the New year there are quite a few!"}
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{"text": "Content: Mediating the Postwar World\nAs important as the ideological differences were, the convergence in the normative outlook of the board and the military, seems equally important. The pamphlets addressing postwar domestic issues all share the same underlying premise, holding up an ideal that was essentially white, heterosexual, and upper middle class. It is not surprising that the target audience is clearly enlisted men who were young, white, and male. To make the point explicit, the authors often use the device of injecting a Private (sometimes promoted to Sergeant) Pro and Private Con on different sides of an issue (in the pamphlet on war marriages, they are called Private Hasty and Private Wait). In every instance where this device is used, their differences are viewed by an omnipotent narrator as arising, at least in part, from ignorance of the “facts.”[44] But whatever the differences, the omnipotent narrator typically aligns with certain norms and ideals.\nApart from their general exclusion as participants in the discussion, women are typically depicted in domestic, maternal, or sexualized roles. Given the largely male military audience, it’s hardly surprising that pamphlets treating the subject of women directly—Do You Want Your Wife to Work after the War? and Can Wartime Marriages Work?—present them in highly objectified terms, as a problem to be solved. However, throughout the pamphlets women are often depicted as disturbing domestic harmony—in a pamphlet on consumer credit, for instance, women are depicted as potential spendthrifts who threaten to plunge the family into debt (Figure 1). And despite the pro-and-con debate on whether working women should return to the home after the war, the pamphlets typically depict only male figures as workers, producers, and managers.\nWhile the texts express a measure of ambivalence about the future role of women, the images in the pamphlets, prepared by military artists, are less ambivalent. In a wide variety of pamphlets, women are depicted in sexualized contexts ranging from the young Eskimo woman casting an appraising glance over three single G.I.’s (in a pamphlet encouraging young men to move to Alaska), or the bare-breasted women in a pamphlet on the Pacific Islands, and the happy mother of triplets in the pamphlet on working women.[45]\nEqually striking in the pamphlets is the near total absence of people of color except in exoticized settings like the Pacific Islands. The only mentions of African Americans appear in the pamphlet on crime and in a picture of black sharecroppers in the pamphlet on farming.[46] In this the pamphlets reflect the characteristics and the attitudes of their audience, most of whom felt that African Americans needed no further benefits in the postwar world.[47]\nDespite this dearth of treatment,.”[48] The AHA’s executive director seconded this response, noting that “the Board could sponsor no pamphlet that was not realistic and objective and in consonance with such a study as that by [Gunnar] Myrdal.[49]\nIt would be a mistake to dwell overlong on what is excluded or marginalized in the pamphlets, since the overt intentions of the pamphlets are just as intriguing. Middle-class economic roles are generally privileged throughout the pamphlets, as (typically men) are directed toward business or other forms of white-collar work, such as business and civil service careers. There are a few exceptions to this norm, including an entire pamphlet devoted to farming and a few asides in the pamphlet encouraging men to move to Alaska, where they could “use their hands.”[50] However, even in pamphlets that don’t address a specific career, this orientation toward a middle-class norm recurs throughout the pamphlets. In the pamphlets on postwar housing and borrowing, for instance, the ideal is a single-family suburban home—a class ideal that is reinforced by images of white men in suit and tie pondering their future dwelling.[51] And throughout, the pamphlets emphasize individual striving and economic achievement as key measures of success in the postwar world.[52]\nThe pamphlets privilege a white upper-middle-class lifestyle throughout, and place a particular accent on the veterans returning to a golden future as consumers of a plethora of new goods. This has a particularly technological accent in the series, as pamphlets prepare them for purchases of new radios, televisions, cars, and even private planes.[53] This image of technological opportunities reflects the culture of the time, as a review of the periodical literature reveals a profusion of stories of technological progress in support of the war effort, supported by advertising from war-related industries who plowed some of their war profits back into ads that promoted their own technological creations on behalf of the war effort.[54]\nThe significant level of technological hubris is suggested most clearly in the pamphlet Will There Be a Plane in Every Garage? which cautions against expecting that the title proposal will come to pass, while nevertheless leaving open the possibility. The authors note that “until private planes can do everything that automobiles can do, and fly as well, they will not displace the automobile.”[55] This is reinforced visually with pictures of a father returning home from work in the family helicopter. The postwar world envisioned by the pamphlets offered not only near limitless possibilities for personal economic progress, but intimately tied the notion of personal progress to vast new levels of consumer opportunities made possible by technological progress.\nThe pamphlets also privilege a middle-America view of the world, which is probably not surprising given that the staff of the project were all from the Midwest (with most coming from Minnesota).[56] In discussions of the lived environment of the postwar world, for instance, urban settings are represented almost exclusively as sites of danger and crime, which are juxtaposed with rural and “hometown” settings, which are depicted as places of opportunity and community.[57] In Is a Crime Wave Coming? the authors lay out the social science data on urban crime rates, but generally ignore issues of crime and disorder outside of the city. To reinforce the implications of the data, the pamphlet’s images are typically urban, dark, and intentionally disturbing, in a way that viscerally connects crime to the urban environment (see Figure 2). This is in sharp contrast to the pamphlet on hometown life, which is filled with idyllic images of small towns that are lighter aesthetically, and in tone and spirit. This reinforces a narrative that emphasizes optimism and the nurturing environment of small-town life, noting that, “Going home will not mean going back but going forward from wherever you and your community find yourselves when victory comes.”[58]\nThis notion of forward progress is extended to the political level, as the pamphlets are clearly aligned with the early New Deal vision of America. Throughout, they reassure veterans by emphasizing planning and interventions by the government at the local, state, and federal level. Beyond the obvious issue of benefits in the G.I. Bill and the benefits provided for education and housing,[59] the accent in most of the pamphlets is on the amount of planning and preparation for their return. This extends down to the local level, in the pamphlet on hometowns, which offers a number of small-town models of planning boards preparing for jobs, housing, and veterans services.[60]\n[44] Cf Do You Want Your Wife to Work After the War? (EM 30, 1944) and Can War Marriages Last? (EM 31, 1944).\n[45] What Has Alaska to Offer Postwar Pioneers? (EM 20, 1944), ii–iii and What Will Become of the Pacific Islands after the War? (EM 45, 1945), 8 and inside back cover.\n[46] Shall I Take Up Farming? (EM 35, 1945), 19.\n[47] Stouffer et al., American Soldier.\n[48] Thomas K. Ford, unpublished memo, “Comment on the Manuscript about Race Question,” 28 March 1944, Box 384, AHA Papers.\n[49] Guy Stanton Ford to Theodore C. Blegen, 30 March 1944, Box 384, AHA Papers.\n[50] What Has Alaska to Offer? 8.\n[51] Shall I Build a House after the War? (EM 32, 1945).\n[52] C.f., What Will Your Town Be Like? (EM 33, 1945); Shall I Go into Business for Myself? (EM 39, 1946).\n[53] Does It Pay To Borrow? (EM 36, 1944); Will There Be a Plane in Every Garage? (EM 37, 1945); What Is the Future of Television? (EM 27, 1945); and How Far Should Government Control Radio? (EM 28, 1945).\n[54] My review of Newsweek and Business Week turned up regular featured items on new scientific and technological advances in almost every issue between 1943 and 1945. Similarly, each issue contained at least three or four advertisements from business promoting their inventions of radar and new types of steel. The significance of the military in promoting a general (as opposed to purely military) technological optimism in this way, seems like an interesting avenue of further inquiry.\n[55] Will There Be a Plane in Every Garage? 3.\n[56] “G.I. ‘Think-Pieces’ Get Start Here,” Minneapolis Tribune, 19 August 1945, 3, which notes that in addition to Blegen, Guy Stanton Ford was the former president of the University of Minnesota and Thomas K. Ford had been an editorial writer on the Tribune. Estimate of other authors’ Minnesota connections based an incomplete list provided to the AHA Council in Box 382, AHA Papers.\n[57] What Will Your Town Be Like?\n[58] What Will Your Town Be Like? 5.\n[59] Should I Go Back to School? (EM 34, 1945); and Shall I Build a House after the War? (EM 32, 1945).\n[60] What Will Your Town Be Like? 1–3, 13ff."}
{"text": "20 years ago, if you wanted to broadcast a video to the world, you needed to work in the Media industry. But now, anyone with a smart phone or a camcorder can be the star of their own show. In 2007, The movie Once was made with two rented \"handy cams,\" a cast of amateurs, and it won a Grammy Award.\nMy very first Wine Living video was done with a $200 Kodak flip camera and iMovie. It was a modest beginning, but looking back at it now, I can see it wasn't very engaging.\nYes, technology has made it much easier to produce video. But there's a big difference between making something that entertains friends and family, and telling a story that is interesting to total strangers. Over the past two years, I've learned just how much effort it takes to make good content. I thought I would share some of my process.\nPREPARING FOR A VIDEO:\nGood Video Begins With a Purpose.\nMy first video will always hold a special place in my heart, but the truth of the matter is that it had no real point. You can't just start talking on camera and expect it to be interesting - there has to be a plan. Fortunately, there is no shortage of topics to talk about when it comes to wine and spirits!\nA few of the things that go into the preparation of making a Wine Living video.\nOnce I've decided on a topic, I then:\n1) Collect The Facts\nMake an outline of the topic, the people involved, the locations and the important points. What do I want to say? For Wine Living, the goal is to help people who know little to nothing about wine. My approach must be simple, easy to relate to and fun.\n2) Start Contacting People\nWineries and Distilleries, Restaurants and B&Bs are cool places, but they're still serious businesses. I can't just show up and start recording video without asking. Long before I go, I make a list of key individuals and contact everyone ahead of time.\n3) Set Up the Schedule\nMost locations would like to know what time I'm showing up. Wineries only have a few people on staff and the owners/winemakers are not always on site. If you're interviewing people, they need to know when. Once I have all of the locations and contacts, I create the schedule.\n4) Write a Story/Script\nAt this point I complete the story, with a beginning, middle, and end. It has to have continuity and flow from front to back.\nA video shoot can be hectic and confusing. It's easy to forget little details when you're on camera. Improvising is risky, so I print my story in large type and hang it by the camera. It helps keep me on point. I use a script less these days, but it's still good to have.\n5) Storyboard the Project\nPeople are surprised to find we don't shoot scenes in the same order that they appear in the video. This is because we can't visit every place in a linear fashion. Things can get confusing without a way to keep track of details.\nA storyboard is like a map, a schedule and a script, all on one matrix. It tells us where we need to be, what I'm saying at on camera and what the scene looks like. We can check each shot off as we go. This way, you don't miss any parts.\n6-10) Last-Minute Flim-Flam\nThese are the other little bits needed before the shoot: Maps, Contracts, Equipment Manuals, a notebook and Business Cards to keep things on track.\nLearning what works and what doesn't takes a lot of trial and error!\nON THE SHOOT\nContent is King, Gear is Queen!\nI'm a Content Creator, Graphic Designer, a musician, and a D.I.Y. kinda guy. Oddly, I've never been a gear-head. Even when I played guitar in bands, I kept my rig simple. I felt the real talent should be in my hands; the equipment should amplify that.\nI feel the same way about video too. The equipment should never get in the way of telling the story. If something takes longer to use than it actually helps, it's time to drop it.\nChasing technology can really get out of hand. In the first year of Wine Living, I bought no less than three cameras; two of them were over $1200 apiece. The \"conveyor belt of consumerism\" never stops rolling out new gear, but the madness has to end at some point. I'll make do with what I have for a few years.\nYou don't need much, but it pays to have some high-quality stuff. Here is what we usually take to a shoot:\n1) Camera\nThis is the most important tool: It should be good. You'll see the camera looks like a 'regular' one. These days, the DSLRs (Digital Single-Lens Reflex) actually shoot better quality video than most dedicated video cams.\nWhen I enlist help, we shoot with two cameras to get different angles and B-Roll. B-Roll is the additional non-speaking footage that gets spliced into a scene.\n2) Sound Equipment\nOn a visit to the Cinque Terre in Italy, it rained the entire time and my camera ended up recording nothing but wind and rain. The video was fine, but you couldn't hear my voice. I didn't find out until we got back home. Big mistake! I now use wireless clip-on mics.\n3) Lighting\nLighting matters! This is one of those things you won't notice until you see it. I have two battery-powered LEDs that are adjusted to look like daylight. I use them to fill in facial shadows and highlight background features.\n4) Juice\nVideo equipment has to be portable and quick to set up. Everything runs on rechargeable batteries these days. I have a ton of backups and chargers in my bags.\nThe \"Crew\"\nI often do WL videos by myself. But when I have a big project, I call for help! I have a very supportive wife (she is my main cameraman) and I also have a circle of very creative friends. My buddies at Primer Studio have been a huge source of support with their camera work and visual direction. I can't thank the people who help me enough. It would be almost impossible to do some of the videos I've done, without them.\nKeep Moving!\nThe Day of the shoot is a whirlwind. Contrary to popular belief, there is very little wine drinking going on in a Wine Living video! Most of the day is a juggling act of remembering lines and details, doing interviews and driving from location to location, fixing gear and replacing batteries. From start to finish, there are challenges. You just have to keep moving: All the while, making the on-camera delivery convincing and fun. The day almost always ends late, with a shower, a quick meal, then you crash into bed, exhausted.\nAFTER THE SHOOT\nEditing Makes or Breaks a Video.\nThis is where the footage comes together to tell the story. I literally have to sit and review every take we did to get the best version. That's the most time-consuming aspect of editing. I then choose how to cut them, arrange and enhance the picture and audio. All of this sets the tone and mood for the video. Good editing gives a video an emotional depth that viewers can feel more than they can describe.\nEditing in the home studio. The microphone and headphones are for doing my Voice-Overs.\nEquipment & Software\nYou need a nice computer to edit video. It has to be fast, have lots of RAM, and a good video card. I'm using a souped-up IMac and Apple's Final Cut Pro X to do my editing. I also have lots of backup storage (video files can eat up space very quickly).\nVoice-Overs\nThese are the parts of a video where my voice is recorded over top of footage to articulate part of the story. V-O can also be used to fix areas where the audio is messed up. You'd be surprised how many times I get back from a shoot and realize we're missing audio.\nTitles and Text\nOne of the last things to go in the video are all of the names and titles you see on the screen. See those business cards scattered all over my desk? That's how I make sure everyone's name and title is correct.\nMusic Track\nMusic plays a big part in video. Two very different pieces can change the vibe immensely. The track has to sit nicely behind the narrative, enough so that you hear it, but not so much that it's distracting.\nBy the way, you can't just use your favorite artist's song. You have to pay a licensing fee to use a piece, and some of the more famous tunes can run as high as $100K (yes, thousand) for one use. A little out of my budget. Fortunately, I can buy music from indie artists at more affordable prices.\nGO LIVE!\nThis is the fun part. I get to put my baby out there into the world and see how the audience receives it. If I've done the story justice, people connect with it. My online metrics tell me how many are viewing it and which videos resonated the most.\nAt this point, I distance myself from the project for a little (or move on to the next). I may wait a week and then revisit it. Michelle and I will grab a glass of wine and put it up on the HDTV to give it the, \"Living Room Test.\"\nTHAT'S ALL FOLKS!\nPretty simple, eh? Making engaging, effective video content is certainly not easy, but in the past two years I've learned a lot and it's getting easier. With each project, I'm more prepared and a little better in front of the camera. I have a great support team, have traveled to some amazing locations and met some really fine folks. Plus I get to drink wine. Tiring as it may be, it's a pretty cool gig.\nI welcome the challenge of entertaining and educating people with each new project. Every bottle has a unique story in it. My job is to uncork, decant and serve it up in the most enticing way possible.\nCheers!"}
{"text": "Russell Real Estate Services, a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, has partnered with Delta Media Group as their online technology provider.\nWith seven offices and over 400 real estate agents, Russell Real Estate is one of the oldest, largest and most successful real estate brokerages in Ohio.\nDelta Media Group is in the process of building a custom-designed Web site for Russell, incorporated with Delta Media Group’s renowned lead management system. The system is built to increase leads, the speed at which agents respond to the customer, lead management efficiency, lead conversion and more.\n“We’re proud to work with an industry leader like Russell,” Delta Media Group vice president Jonathan Blood said. “Our Web systems often become the go-to site in the market, and Russell is a great company with a great tradition to carry that label.”\nRussell joins a list of other successful members of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World from Ohio to rely on Delta Media Group as their Web technology provider, including Cutler Real Estate, Burgan Real Estate and Mayo & Associates Realtors.\nSeveral other members of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World have recently partnered with Delta Media Group, including Patterson Realtors, Ridge Real Estate Enterprises, The Home Team and Weidel Realtors.\nDelta Media Group is a preferred partner of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World. For more information, please contact me at scutright@deltagroup.com.\n-Sean Cutright\nTuesday, September 16, 2008\nRussell Real Estate Services selects Delta Media Group as Web technology provider"}
{"text": "From Donna’s Desk\nSpring is in the air and as March sets in, Easter looms and the start of the new tax year is just around the corner, it is time to have a spring clean; to brush away the business cobwebs of winter hibernation, to take a fresh look at the green shoots of your business, to sow the seeds of a successful summer and then to harvest the rewards. Just like the evolving seasons which need to be respected and behaviour adapted based on environmental conditions, your business needs the right amount of planning, food, water and light to help it grow. Spring is an invigorating time of year for most of us and it should be for your business too.\nTake a clean piece of paper and a sharpened pencil. Right down the three things which will make a real difference to your business this year. Now for each of those ‘goals’ identify the things which need to happen to ensure you achieve those goals. What do you need to do this quarter, this month, this week and today to ensure that in 12 months time, you have achieved those goals?\nEnjoy this month’s newsletter and as always, if you have any thoughts, comments or content for us, please let us know.\nPrivate messages made public. Who’s watching you?\nEmployers are being warned against ‘snooping’ on staff, despite the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that this is actually allowed under certain circumstances.\nBogdan Bărbulescu, an engineer in Romania, had been using Yahoo Messenger to chat with his family as well as professional contacts, and had asked the ECHR to rule that the company had breached his right to confidential correspondence by accessing his personal messages.\nHe claimed that his employer had violated his right to correspondence and was in breach of the Constitution and Criminal Code by accessing his communications. However, his complaint was dismissed on grounds that his employer had complied with dismissal proceedings and the complainant had been informed of company regulations which stated that it was “strictly forbidden” to use computers, photocopiers, telephones, telex and fax machines for “personal purposes”. Bărbulescu appealed, claiming his e-mails were protected by legislation – the right to respect for private and family life, the home and correspondence. However, mold any more. Employees often respond to work emails on personal devices outside of usual working hours so it makes sense that, on occasion, they may want to engage in social correspondence during the working day on a work device.”\nOur advice is to ensure that you have a clear policy on the use of company facilities for personal use and on your right to monitor communications into and out of your business. This policy needs to be documented and communicated to all staff and, as with all policies and procedures – applied consistently throughout your business.\nEmbedding policies by communicating them, ensuring adequate training is provided and keeping an audit trail such as signed acceptance forms will all help to reinforce your policies and provide you with a defense should you ever need it in an employment tribunal.\nIn business, give and take is essential, especially where you require your staff to work long hours and to monitor emails in an evening or over a weekend. Allowing employees to use company equipment for personal use can buy you credit with your staff and encourage them to go the extra mile, but you still have a business to run and your staff need to know and respect the difference between reasonable use and abuse.\nAsk the Expert!\nOne of my employees is on a zero hours contract but most of the time works he works 9am – 5pm, five days a week. Is that acceptable or should I change his contract?\nThe Government has recently issued revised guidance for businesses which employ workers on zero hours contracts. The guidance gives examples of what is considered “inappropriate use” of zero hours contracts and states that zero hours contracts should not be used as a permanent arrangement for an employee who works set hours each week, even if the hours worked are part-time. For example if an individual is asked to work, from 9am to 1pm, Monday to Wednesday for a 12 month period, it may be more appropriate to offer that worker a permanent part-time contract or even a fixed-term contract.\nZero hours contracts would only be applicable if the hours you are asking an employee to work are variable from week to week and day to day, and are therefore not consistent. Zero hours contracts are rarely appropriate to run the core business, but might be useful for unexpected or irregular events such as bereavement leave or where the business has varying levels of workflow i.e at different times of the year.\nFurthermore, from 11 January 2016, employers are no longer able to restrict zero hours employees from working elsewhere whilst in employment with you. Zero hours employees have the ability to make a complaint to an employment tribunal if they have been dismissed or subjected to a detriment or they had been prohibited from working for another employer. No qualifying period is required to bring this type of claim.\nAs a result of these changes and the guidance issued, businesses need to review whether employing zero hours employees is in fact appropriate. Ultimately it will depend on the individual circumstances, but due consideration should be given to issuing such employees with a standard full or part-time contract instead.\nIf as a result of these changes, you need to change the contract of employment for any of your staff, you should seek advice before issuing an existing employee with a new contract as prior consultation needs to take place. It is imperative that the new contract reflects the fundamental terms contained within the zero hours contract, such as the rate of remuneration and job role, so that the worker does not suffer any detriment by the change.\nNew Pay Rates\nAs you already know, there is a new National Living Wage coming into force in April. This means that if you employ anyone over the age of 25, you must pay them at least £7.20 per hour.\nAs a quick guide, the following rates apply as a minimum from 1st April 2016:\nCalculating Holiday Pay\nThe majority of employees are paid their annual salary in 12 equal monthly instalment, but new case law now means that it is no longer just the basic pay which is paid when an employee is on annual leave.\nThere has been hours and hours of tribunals and appeals involving Unison, British Gas and an employee called Locke. I am not going to bore you with the details here, but if you pay a sales commission to an employee whilst they are away on annual leave, you still need to pay them commission as if they had been at work.\nThe industries we expect this to affect the most are estate agents and recruitment agents, but there will be numerous businesses all around the country now trying to find a legal way of calculating pay while an employee is on annual leave. We do expect further case law in this area as various scenarios are ‘tested’, but we would prefer our clients not to be the guinea pigs!\nThe way in which each employer will deal with this change will vary depending on their contracts of employment, commission structure and the nature of their business. We will ensure that we raise annual leave pay with our clients over the next couple of months, but if you think this change affects you, please do call your nominated HR advisor for a personal discussion.\nQuotes of the Month\nMarch is the month of Mother’s day and National Women’s History. Through the centuries, many courageous women have stepped forward to fight inequality and to champion causes for the benefit of society. Their work to break down barriers has allowed future generations of women to pass through with significantly less resistance.\nIn 1975, International Women’s Day was developed. Women’s History Week is a progression of that, and Women’s History Month is a further extension. Throughout the month, various community events, internet blog series and television programmes will be staged to look back on women’s’ achievements, to celebrate the progress made by women around the world and to remember that there is still plenty of work to be done .\n- “Parents can only give good advice or put them [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank\n- “As you become clearer about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” – Oprah Winfrey\n- “Seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.” – Chrissie Wellington\n- “Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” – Margaret Thatcher\n- “People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.” – Indira Gandhi\nMissed business opportunities if you don’t have your phones answered properly – Jacqui Frost\nEach month we bring you the thoughts, learnings and insights from a guest writer. This month, it is our privilege to introduce you to Jacqui Frost, founder of The Office Genie, a call answering service and back office support company.\nOpportunities Are Never Lost…\nI recently came across a quote that literally sums up the reason for my entire businesses existence in just two short sentences. It read…\n“Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss. Seize the moment”. salon after salon or garage after garage sales process as simple as possible, but do you think that playing telephone tag is the simplest way of selling? Unfortunately, in our fast paced and desperately competitive world, by the time you call them back to make the sale, they’ll more than likely have purchased their goods elsewhere, resulting in a missed opportunity.\nAnswering your phone really could be the difference between £100 profit or £10,000 profit – which would you prefer? I understand that many industries require hands on work, work that you can’t simply drop just to answer the phone so you need to ensure you have measures in place which means your business can be available even when you aren’t.\nWe at The Office Genie offer telephone call handling support, meaning that we can take your calls, book your appointments and take your payments all whilst you focus on the job in front of you. We grant the wishes of business owners by giving them more time whilst increasing their customer acquisition and retention rates. Our Genies are experienced, professional receptionists and PA’s that provide first class customer service to all of our clients for just a fraction of the cost of a full-time employee.\nIt’s time to seize the moment!\nTime Out!\nWhat HR terms can be found in the word search?\nAnswers can be sent to us at admin@dohr.co.uk\nAnswer to last months’ Time Out!\nThe answer to last months’ time out, yes, you got it!\nSETTLEMENT AGREEMENT\nCalendar\nThis new section of our newsletter is designed to help you think about the people you have in your workforce, plan for absences, be sensitive to their causes & beliefs and facilitate conversations around some of the issues raised and how they might impact on your employees and as a consequence, your workplace.\nThis month, you need to be aware of the Easter Weekend and ensure that you correctly calculate, deduct or pay for your bank holidays in line with your company policies and procedures.\nMarch is:\n- Awareness Month for:\n- Prostate Cancer\n- Ovarian Cancer\n- Cerebral Palsy Awareness\n- Save Your Vision Month\n- Women’s History Month\nWelcome to New Readers:\nLee Bradburne\nSimon Hutchings\nChris Schemilt\nMatt Hardy\nSnezana Knowles"}
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{"text": "Subaru knows how difficult it can be to find a sedan that gives you the features you want at a reasonable price. The 2018 Subaru Impreza is the answer for Oviedo area drivers, with an affordable MSRP and all the features that the competition simply can't offer.\nWhat you'll notice immediately about the Impreza once you get behind the wheel is the Continuously Variable Transmission, which comes standard. The CVT provides a constantly smooth ride, totally eliminating the jerkiness of a gear shift that the Elantra can't shake. The standard All-Wheel Drive on the Impreza means you can navigate any terrain you need to without sacrificing any of the fuel economy that makes the Impreza an attractive option.\nInterior Features and Specs\nAt our Subaru dealer serving Oviedo, we know how important it is to make sure everyone in your car is comfortable. The Impreza has an impressive 112.1 cubic feet compared to the Elantra's 95.8 cubic feet. The more spacious front headroom, front legroom, rear legroom and front and rear shoulder room means your passengers won't be sitting on top of each other.\nStandard convenience and comfort features like standard heated exterior mirrors and standard heated seats cement the Impreza ahead of the Elantra, which doesn't come available with either of those features. To further enhance your driving experience, Subaru offers the option of a power moonroof, fog lights, and a roof rack, none of which are options on the Elantra.\nContact us today to schedule a test drive of the Subaru Impreza 2.0i Premium or to ask any further questions about it."}
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{"text": "They’ve been around for decades, but will an industry push towards environmentally acceptable alternatives see traditional scheduled extinguishing agents become a thing of the past?\nFM-200, NAF-SII, Halon 1301. Generations of fire protection professionals have come to appreciate the effectiveness of these traditional ozone depleting substances (ODS) and synthetic greenhouse gases (SGG), but as their name suggests, they’re not so great for the environment.\nODS damage the Earth’s protective ozone layer, allowing more harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun to reach the earth, and SGG contribute to global warming which traps heat in the atmosphere.\nStill, these agents are widely used across the industry, despite a number of readily available environmentally acceptable alternatives on the market.\nInert gases, FK-5-1-12 fluid, CO2 fixed fire suppressions, water sprinkler systems, water mist systems, hybrid water mist/inert gas systems, condensed aerosols and oxygen reduction fire prevention (ORFP) systems are all available for a variety of uses, but unlike their predecessors have no ozone-depleting potential and nil or very little global warming potential.\nThe Fire Protection Industry (ODS & SGG) Board, also known as the FPIB, has been working hard to shed light on the benefits of using these alternatives when designing a new or upgrading an existing fire protection system.\nA webinar I hosted in May talked industry members through the benefits and uses of alternatives, and discussed the need for an industry-wide transition.\nIn the webinar I gave an example; if we took a typical sized system with about 250kg of scheduled extinguishing agent HFC-227ea, that would relate to about 805 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent.\nIn terms of greenhouse gas emissions, it would be equivalent to 172 passenger vehicles driven for a year, or in terms of emissions, 4.4 rail cars worth of coal burnt. This is why we talk about transitioning.\nFPIB’s discussion couldn’t have come at a better time – Australia’s gradual hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) phase down began on 1 January 2018.\nThe phase down is part of a government push to convert industry away from the traditional agents through a gradual reduction in the maximum amount of bulk HFCs permitted to be imported into Australia.\nThe aim is to achieve an 85 per cent reduction in imports of HFCs by 31 December 2035, and a greater industry move towards environmentally acceptable alternatives, as agreed to in the Montreal Protocol.\nThese alternatives each have their own extinguishing mechanisms, benefits and uses.\nInert gases reduce the oxygen in a risk environment to the point that fire cannot be sustained. In most cases it also prevents oxygen in the room from decreasing to an unsafe level.\nFK-5-1-12 fluid, of which Novec 1230 is a common brand name, is a man-made clean agent that can be used in occupied areas. It suppresses the fire by removing the heat and interrupting the combustion process.\nCO2 fixed fire suppression systems contain carbon dioxide in liquid form. When released into the area being protected it decreases the percentage of oxygen available for combustion.\nWater sprinkler systems are still one of the most useful and cost-effective ways to put out a fire. These systems control the spread of fire to allow egress out of the building and protect the building from the fire growth, and can be used for Class A fires involving combustible materials. They are not suitable for Class B liquid fires.\nWater mist systems discharge very fine water droplets. The mist controls, suppresses or extinguishes fires by cooling the flame and surrounding gases by evaporation. Environmentally friendly, these systems are highly effective at extinguishing large flammable liquid fires.\nHybrid water mist systems are a combination of clean agent inert gas and water. The mist is produced by having nitrogen injected into the water stream at the nozzle. This creates extremely small droplets and acts to reduce the oxygen concentration in the protected risk.\nCondensed aerosol fire extinguishing agents consist of very fine, usually potassium-based particles suspended in a gas. The particles interfere with and stop the fire chain reaction. While very efficient, condensed aerosols are not classed as clean agents as they leave a residue after discharge.\nOxygen reduction fire prevention (ORFP) systems prevent, rather than supress, fires. These systems use a technology that produces hypoxic air by partly filtering out oxygen from the ambient atmospheric air to below 15 per cent. At this level, common flammable solid materials and liquids cannot ignite.\nWhile the industry should consider these systems, rest assured there is no urgency to do anything.\nYou do not need to go out and replace systems that you have immediately because of this phase down.\nSupply will continue and HFCs already in the country won’t be impacted, however, there are a number of points along the life of the system where alternatives can be considered.\nPossible times to switch to an alternative include during a facility upgrade or change, at the time of the 10-yearly pressure testing of cylinders, when there is a change in the fire risk of the protected areas or following a discharge.\nHowever, no change over should be carried out without proper planning and consideration.\nPlans should include an analysis of the alternatives to determine which is the best system for the job, taking into account cost, application, space and storage needs, amount of agent required, discharge time and speed and maintenance.\nIt’s also essential you engage with your service provider to ensure a smooth transition and the safe decommissioning of an existing system.\nIf you haven’t got a plan and you have a discharge, you’re under a lot of time pressure then to come back and make sure your system or facility is protected.\nFor more information, go to"}
{"text": "Cebu Paradise, History So Affluent\nBy Junfil N. Olarte\nThe Philippine Islands would never be in its present popularity had it not been for the stroke of luck which led to the discovery of Cebu by the great explorer Fernando Magallanes who first sighted Samar, Cebu’s neighboring island, on March 16, 1521. Unlike many of its interesting destinations, this central part of the Philippines certainly does an important milestone voyagers from all continents probably should do a visit before heading anywhere of the nation’s ample tourist attractions.\nMy travel to Cebu provides several important guides and reviews, from its famous historical features down to its awesome island resorts, and some recommended hotels to stay. Tourism reporting about one’s own country could either be biased or rhetoric. I say so because that writer might only be looking all at the optimistic or else doing such subjects largely for endorsement purposes.\n“Travel + Leisure”, a New York based magazine, has just classified Cebu as one of the best islands in Asia, ranking 3rd, where it follows the islands of Bali (1st) and Maldives (2nd). And to that, I can add that this article provides no rhetorical content and aims to give every travel junkie in the world an idea, perhaps a closer view, of what Cebu Island has to offer.\nFamous Attractions\nCebu as the oldest Philippine city gets itself prominent historical landmarks, both castle and house of worship. My first day in the city begins with a few European travel journalists—along with some Chinese, Koreans and Japanese, French, German and Russian tourists—visiting the 272 year-old Fuerza de San Pedro (or Fort San Pedro). It is the oldest and smallest Spanish citadel in the country built in the year 1739.\nThe historical sight situates itself right at the coastal vicinity of the city where it still retains archaic canons positioned atop its triangular crown. The fort’s three bastions attached to the building (La Conception, San Ignacio de Loyola, and San Miguel) still remain solid, as the main entrance below are found some historical photos or illustrations that depict the arrival of first Spanish expedition and the imaginary drawing of what Fort San Pedro may have looked like in the late 16th century.\nThe accurate date of construction of the stone fort is uncertain. Although old Spanish document its city tourism has made available to me stated that the first work started on May 8, 1565, with Miguel Lopez de Legaspi. Little was known about the activity of the fort from the time it was built until two centuries later in 1739, when Governor General Tanon, the Spanish ruler of the islands at the time, made an official detailed account about the fort back to the King of Spain.\nI climb up and take a walk around its observatory roof garden. It is faithfully restored by the city government. 14 vintage canons are still there. Also, there is museum within the fortress which displays rich and aged historical artifacts. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance to set eyes on what‘s inside because it is for the moment closed for renovation. And such relics in the museum (said to be old Spanish documents, paintings, and sculptures and diggings of Fort San Pedro) were already pulled out and transferred somewhere.\nOne of the ladies in-charge of the fort says the historical attraction receives many visitors everyday from different parts of the world, “but this month Chinese tourists gain the highest number of visits,” she explains, “and that simply means Fort San Pedro is justly famous.”\n“Basilica Minore del Santo Niño”. This ancient spiritual edifice, also known as the Santo Niño Church of Cebu, rests on its actual location at downtown point Cebu City where the succeeding Spanish adventurers first erected it in wooden materials way back 1565. The stiffing 12:00 noon sunlight takes me to wait a few hours at a sheltered place after finally finding an apt position to photo-shoot on such very old structure, and acquires the necessary information from its office I could have needed for documentation.\n“The area where this church stands now,” narrates the Office Keeper, “is the original setting in 1565 when the first Spanish mass was heard and done.” He further explains that the reconstruction of the church with hard stone bricks began in 1735 up until it was complete in 1739. The Philippines’s oldest church until now maintains its soaring façade that blends Muslim, Romanesque and neo-classical architectures.\nBecause of the growing number of churchgoers, pilgrims, and tourists, the historic house of worship could no longer accommodate them. And its minster authority put up a pilgrim center outside (just within the Basilica compound) where priests solemnize mass in the open, theater-like venue. Right beside it are sets of lined candle holders where Catholic devotees pray over. The church is said to be miraculous and even allures non-Catholic foreign visitors because of its affluence in history.\nA few steps onward the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño is the 490 year-old “Magellan’s Cross” where, according to recorded history, the explorer Fernando Magallanes had planted the cross on this very site on April 21, 1521, as engraved below its replica of “tindalo” wood. It is believed that such replica has encased the original cross planted by Magallanes, signifying the birth of Christianity in Cebu and the Spanish colonization of the country.\nAdditional historical features located nearby the foregoing attractions are the “Casa Gorordo Museum”, the “Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral”, and the “Cathedral Museum”, while the uptown city area gets itself the “Taoist Temple” and “Tops”. These attractions located around upper vicinity of Cebu City do not belong to such historical features. But they do offer a tremendous treat to tourists.\nCebu Taoist Temple is the center of worship for Taoism the substantial Chinese community of Cebu had built in 1972. It is open to worshippers and non-worshippers alike that also provides overlooking view of the city. “Tops”, being at the highly elevated spot in Busay Hills, gives more breathtaking panoramic view of entire Cebu. The city also owns a world-class festival called “Sinulog”.\nIsland Resorts/Hotels\nCebu City has many hotels around. If you find a place to stay easy to get to the above mentioned historical attractions, then you should be somewhere in Fuente-Osmeña, the heart of the city, very safe and accessible to shopping stores and travel tour offices. One hotel I know in the area is Cebu Midtown Hotel that provides complete facilities, excellent food, with WiFi internet reception. There are cheaper hotels too at around US$10 in the downtown area, but I wouldn’t guarantee its safety especially to foreigners.\nFood is not a problem anywhere in Cebu City as long as you eat Asian cuisines. There are a number of local and foreign fast food outlets, and so are wine and beverages. You can drink as plenty as you can. The city’s tourism has listed several recommended places to eat. Visit its website as linked at the end of this article.\nCebu’s splendid island beach resorts point to the city’s outside northern and southern directions. The northern part in Mactan Island is more preferable as it provides accessibility to global travelers. Cebu International Airport is located right in Mactan Island or now named Lapulapu City. Mactan to Cebu City (and vice versa) takes approximately 20 to 30 minutes travel depending on traffic conditions, passing through Mactan bridge that connects the cities of Mandaue and Cebu. The following are ideal resorts and hotels to stay in Mactan:\nShangri-La’s Mactan Island Resort\nCebu Beach Club\nCebu Hilton Resort and Spa\nCebu White Sands\nCordova Reef Village Resort\nCostabella Tropical Beach Resort\nDays Hotel Mactan-Cebu\nEGI Resort and Hotel\nMaribago Bluewater Resort\nPlantation Bay Mactan\nTambuli Beach Club East Wing\nTambuli Beach Club West Wing\nWaterfront Hotel Mactan\nThe southern part of Cebu has several places of interest too. It is the Island of Badian which catches my attention most. Situated around 97 kilometers southwest of Cebu City, the area is famous for beautiful corals, reefs, and white sandy beaches. Of particular is “Badian Island Resort & Spa”. This resort offers a lot of leisure services to guests, including water sports and a brief excursion to the magnificent “Kawasan Falls”. Going to this place needs one to be in Cebu City as a hub, and then find a travel agency within the metropolis for assistance.\nGetting here\nTravelers from different parts of the world can fly down direct to Cebu through the following airline companies:\nAsiana AirlinesCathay Pacific AirKorean AirQatar Airways Singapore Airlines\nFor more detailed information guide on Cebu contact: Cebu City Tourism Commission, 2nd Floor CHAC Bldg., Osmeña Blvd., Cebu City, Philippines. Email: info@cebucitytourism.com Website:\nThis article has first appeared at\nJunfil is the Author of the book “Pearl of the Orient Seas: The Philippine Islands (Its History, Culture, Women, Tourist Attractions, & Natural Wonders)” which is set to come out by June 2011, published by Lulu Press, Raleigh NC USA and will be channeled through online book outlets as Amazon.com, Google, and Barnes and Noble.\nPublished on 2/14/11"}
{"text": "Dr Kenneth Marek\nKenneth Marek is Distinguished Scientist at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders. Dr Marek’s major research interests include identification of biomarkers for early detection, assessment of disease progression and development of new treatments for Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. He has authored numerous neurology and neuroscience publications on these topics. Dr. Marek is the principal investigator of several ongoing multi-center international studies (including the Parkinson Progression Marker Initiative (PPMI) and the Parkinson Associated Risk Syndrome (PARS)) study. Dr. Marek serves as a special scientific advisor to The Michael J. Fox Foundation. He also was a co-founder of Molecular NeuroImaging, a company providing discovery and clinical neuroimaging research services."}
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{"text": "Pratumnak\nDetails\n- ฿25,000 /month\n- Condo , Condo\n- Bedrooms: 2\n- Bathrooms: 2\n- Size: 105 Sq Meters\nBeautiful two bedroom, two bathroom with 105 Sqm of living space and furnished and decorated to a high standard you will not be disappointed. Enjoy evenings at home and sit outdoors on the private balcony. also have amenities incorporate a gym, 24 hour security and underground parking. It is quite a convenient place to commute to all other parts of Pattaya."}
{"text": "US move on Myanmar sanctions sparks jubilation, dismay\nGWEN ROBINSON, Chief editor, Nikkei Asian Review\nWASHINGTON --.\nThe U.S. president did not give details on the timing of the move, particularly concerning procedures to remove most of the 111 individuals and groups who remain on the longstanding \"blacklist\" of specially designated nationals who are blocked from doing business with U.S. companies. Many of the sanctions are renewed each year under a so-called \"emergency order\" signed by the president which declares that Myanmar is a \"security threat\" to the U.S.\nAdministration officials said the lifting of the emergency order would ease trade across most industries. They were unclear as to how far remaining sanctions would be abolished, saying details would be specified in an executive order to be issued by the White House at a \"later stage.\" But some U.S. curbs would remain, they added, primarily restrictions concerning issues such as trade with North Korea, drug trafficking, human rights abuses and other matters, which could see certain individuals continue to be blocked from doing business with U.S. companies.\nBroadly the measures would remove one of the last obstacles to fully normalized U.S. relations with Myanmar, and would mark the full entry of the former pariah state into the international community. \"This is a hugely important move, both symbolically and practically -- and not just for business,\" said one Yangon-based Western diplomat. For U.S. companies alone, said Judy Benn, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, lifting the sanctions \"will help level the playing field for US business in Myanmar.\"\nEqually significant is Suu Kyi's new willingness to end the sanctions regime -- a stark reversal of her earlier support for maintaining sanctions. Speaking in Washington on Wednesday she said that the \"time has come\" to remove U.S. curbs as her country opens up and becomes an attractive investment prospect. \"I've always said that I have no use for businessmen who are incapable of making profits, so I expect your businessmen to come to our country to make profits so that we can make profits for us as well,\" she added.\nTo many observers Suu Kyi's words were the most concrete sign yet of confidence in her new and sometimes uneasy relationship with the powerful military. The timing of the sanctions decision shows the extent to which Washington waited on final approval from Suu Kyi to proceed -- confirmed by a White House official who said the timing was \"really up to her.\"\nMyanmar's armed forces control a quarter of all parliamentary seats and maintains veto power over changes to the military-backed constitution, which bars Suu Kyi from the presidency due to restrictions on nationals whose family members -- in this case her two sons -- hold foreign citizenship. The military has repeatedly blocked Suu Kyi's attempts to amend the charter's restriction, warning the charter should not be tampered with.\nBut since her administration came to power after a landslide election victory last November, military commanders have shown an unexpected degree of flexibility and compromise, not least with Suu Kyi's move to create the position of \"state counselor\" for herself, equivalent to the role of prime minister in a Westminster democratic system.\nU.S. officials and Suu Kyi herself have indicated determination to maintain pressure on the military to agree to constitutional reform. In her meeting with Obama, Suu Kyi pledged to continue working to amend the constitution.\n\"We have a constitution which is not entirely democratic, because it gives the military a special place in politics,\" she said at the White House. \"But we do not think that politics is the place for the military. So we will continue with our efforts to amend our constitution to make our country the purely democratic union that our founding fathers dreamed of.\"\nWith its promise of new investment amid surging interest from Western companies, the sanctions decision also removes one of the biggest challenges in Suu Kyi's push to build the country's economy and generate jobs after decades of harsh military rule.\nU.S. corporate representatives indicated strong interest from the American business community in investment opportunities in Myanmar. Alex Feldman, head of the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council, said that Obama's announcement \"recognizes the remarkable progress that Myanmar has made in reforming its political, economic and legal system.\"\nThe council, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have said that taking Myanmar companies off the sanctions list would reduce the steep due diligence costs faced by U.S. companies and would open up \"more than half\" of the economy, dominated by sanctioned entities and individuals. While big U.S. names such as Coca-Cola, GE, PepsiCo, MasterCard and others have set up operations in Myanmar, most U.S. companies and banks have shied away from one of Asia's last untapped markets for fear of official penalties.\nFeel good, feel bad\nObama's decision, in his final months in office as the U.S. prepares for presidential elections in November, follows earlier moves to ease restrictions on Myanmar -- initially under the administration of former President Thein Sein. The latest came in May, just after Suu Kyi's administration took power, when Washington announced it would lift sanctions on key Myanmar state-owned banks and timber and mining companies, and loosen curbs on American involvement in Myanmar.\nDespite the \"feel good\" nature of her current U.S. visit and the obvious warmth between Obama and Suu Kyi, who initially met in 2014, human rights campaigners around the world responded with fierce criticism. Many groups protested that the U.S. was moving too fast too soon and was \"throwing away\" its leverage over Myanmar's military, widely condemned in the past for human rights abuses and its pervasive control of the political system. Others argued that Washington was giving up any influence over the overall process of democratization.\nHuman Rights Watch for example said that sanctions targeting military officials \"shouldn't be fully lifted until the democratic transition is irreversible.\" A spokesman for Global Witness which monitors business interests in Myanmar's lucrative natural resources sector said the news was \"a major setback\" for anti-corruption efforts in Myanmar. Lifting curbs before Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy-led government can fully implement reforms \"effectively invites U.S. companies to do business with some of the worst figures from the country's past, which could have devastating impact on the ground,\" said Juman Kubba at Global Witness.\nThese and other groups argue that the military retains major political and economic interests, and continues to engage in illegal trade in goods including jade and timber.\nThe U.S. moves do not just benefit U.S. companies, reason supporters. Despite the perception that this will be the starting gun for U.S. companies to play \"catch-up\" in Myanmar, Obama's announcement has also been warmly welcomed by non-U.S. companies and officials as well as local Myanmar businesses.\n\"Certainly the lifting of many of the remaining U.S. sanctions and the granting of U.S. GSP [referring to Generalized System of Preferences] to Myanmar will remove a potential complication for European multinational companies that also have operations in the U.S.,\" said Chris Humphrey, executive director of the EU-ASEAN Business Council.\nThe European Union lifted sanctions in 2013, granting Myanmar GSP and other benefits under its \"Everything But Arms\" scheme - a move that has allowed for more trade and investment between the EU and Myanmar, he noted. \"Additionally, the EU is currently negotiating a bilateral Investment treaty with Myanmar,\" he added.\nKen Tun, chief exeutive of Parami Energy, said it is high time for U.S. companies to enter the country's lucrative oil and gas sector. \"Myanmar is among the world's fastest growing economies and one of the largest exporters of gas in Southeast Asia, and we offer potential big discoveries of energy resources - now we're open for business for U.S. companies, also in renewable energy and infrastructure, as 70% of Myanmar is not electrified with limited infrastructure in place. It's time for them to come,\" he told the Nikkei Asian Review.\nApart from easing or eliminating the blacklist of sanctioned nationals, the U.S. moves restore Myanmar to the GSP, a program that grants developing nations special trade preferences. In Myanmar's case, it would effectively reduce the duties on around 5,000 types of products exported to the U.S.\nMost of the 111 individuals and groups on the SDN list are under sanctions due to alleged ties to drug trafficking or money laundering. While a separate measure will be needed to remove the ban on importing jade and rubies, nearly all the U.S. sanctions imposed on Myanmar over the past two decades can be terminated by Obama if he certifies to Congress that Myanmar has met key conditions set out in the 2003 Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act.\nKey questions ahead\nMany questions remain concerning the sanctions move, noted Aaron Hutman, a lawyer at Washington-based law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.\n\"The breadth of the announcement caught a number of people by surprise. The return of GSP trade status will be welcome of course... but while it's quite promising news, we are waiting on the executive order that will implement the change,\" he told the Nikkei Asian Review. Key questions, according to Hutman, include:\nFirst, how SDNs, or sanctioned individuals and groups, will be treated. \"Will some be moved to sanctions listings under different authorities? Also, some Myanmar SDNs are listed under narco-trafficking authorities so the removal of the sanctions regime would not delist them without specific action.\"\nSecond, he noted, \"what announcements will follow on the banking and anti-money laundering side, particularly as special measures still are in place under the [U.S.] Patriot Act?\"\nThird, \"what changes will come on the export control side from the U.S. Commerce Department and Directorate of Defense Trade Controls? There are special controls for MEC [the military-controlled Myanmar Economic Corporation conglomerate] and other parties and an arms and defense services embargo is still in place. \"\nEric Rose, a lawyer who has advised U.S. companies on Myanmar sanctions, told media that a big concern was the continuation of significant potential legal obstacles to U.S. business in Myanmar. \"This is work in progress, which will be passed, with an uncertain outcome, to the next president and Congress,\" he said.\nAnother Washington-based lawyer who did not want to be named said \"it really will be fascinating how the administration implements here. Leaving even a small number of key SDNs on a list or under sanctions -- for example MEC and Asia World Co. [the construction and logistics conglomerate controlled by blacklisted Steven Law] -- could cause some of the chilling effect to linger...That said, it will be a big and very welcome change, and maybe enough of a push for business to move ahead.\"\nGet Insights on Asia In Your Inbox\nMore in International Relations\nFollow Nikkei Asian Review\n- The best content posted\n-\n- The latest headlines tweeted\n- Follow @NAR"}
{"text": "Inf media 3x more than any other type of content.”\nAnd the concept of relaying information through visuals is nothing new.\nIf you think about it, cave paintings and hieroglyphics dating back to 30,000 BC accomplished the same thing.\nThey were far less sophisticated but demonstrate just how hard-wired we are when it comes to visual information.\nSo it’s easy to see why infographics have become so ingrained in content marketing.\nThey get results!\nUnbounce even went so far as to say “infographics are the most powerful tool in your content marketing arsenal.”\nAnd like with any piece of content you create, you’ll want it to be SEO friendly.\nBut here’s the thing.\nDoing SEO for an infographic demands a slightly different approach than the one you would use for a conventional blog post.\nIn this post, I explain the most vital components of infographic SEO to ensure yours gets proper visibility in the SERPs.\nThe biggest hurdle\nLet me start by saying infographics are technically just images.\nThey are typically saved in image formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.\nOf course, they’re much more robust and contain far more information than a regular image, but that’s how Google views them.\nThis is important to know because Google can’t “read” images like it can text-based content such as a blog post.\nFortunately, there are several other elements that you can optimize.\nStart with keyword research\nYou won’t be able to take advantage of keywords in the actual body of an infographic, but there are a few areas where you can insert keywords.\nThat’s why you’ll still want to do some keyword research to identify a primary keyword phrase as well as a couple of secondary phrases to target.\nLet’s say I was planning on creating an infographic about productivity hacks.\nA quick search on the Google Keyword Planner shows me that “productivity hacks” is low competition, which is good.\nThe only issue is that it’s a short-tail keyword with only two words.\nBut I could still probably make it work, especially if I added “infographic” to the end of “productivity hacks.”\nIn terms of secondary keywords, there are a few possibilities.\nThe bottom line here is to perform keyword research like you would for any other type of content.\nThe only difference is how you go about inserting those keywords.\nFile name\nSelecting the right file name is vital.\nThis is one of the main factors that Google will analyze to determine what your infographic content is about.\nYou need to get it right.\nI shouldn’t even have to say this, but you’ll obviously want to stay away from anything generic like Image001.png.\nThis tells Google absolutely nothing and is going to be a strike against your infographic SEO.\nA better choice would be something like productivity-hacks-infographic.png.\nIt’s short and sweet and lets Google know exactly what your content is about.\nJust make sure you’re not doing any keyword stuffing, using the same phrase multiple times or anything else that’s spammy.\nBut you already know that.\nAlt text\nEqually important is your alt text.\nThis is the text alternative of an image that lets someone know what an image contains in the event that it doesn’t load properly.\nScreen readers for the blind and visually impaired will read out this text and thus make your image accessible.\nMore importantly, this gives you another opportunity to explain to Google what’s in your infographic.\nJust follow best practices for your alt text and describe as succinctly as possible what your infographic is about.\nIn this case, I might want to use “Infographic explaining 15 productivity hacks.”\nURL\nYour URL is important for obvious reasons.\nAs I mentioned in a post from NeilPatel.com that referenced Google’s top 200 ranking factors from Backlinko, when it comes to the significance of URLs, here is what we know:\n- URL length is listed as #46\n- URL path is listed as #47\n- Keyword in the URL is #51\n- URL string is #52\nI’m not going to cover the nuts and bolts of URL optimization here.\nYou can find that in the post I just mentioned.\nBut I will tell you that you want to aim for a short URL that contains three to five words and a max of 60 characters.\nThis advice comes directly from an interview with Matt Cutts, so you know it’s gold.\nWhen it comes to keywords, be sure to include one or two of them in your URL.\nResearch from John Lincoln and Brian Dean found that this is the sweet spot and considered as part of URL keyword best practices (at least for the time being).\nH1 tag\nAlthough you can’t capitalize on the H1 tags (or H2s, H3s, etc.) in the body of your infographic, you can still place one above your infographic so Google can “read” it.\nHere’s an example:\nSee how the same keyword phrase that’s in the actual infographic is used as an H1 tag at the top?\nThis is a simple yet effective way to give your infographic a bit more SEO juice.\nWhile H1s may not be as big of a ranking factor today as they were a few years ago, they certainly don’t hurt.\nAnd they can be especially helpful for infographics where you have a limited amount of text to work with.\nMeta description\nAh, the good ol’ meta description.\nHere are a few best practices to adhere to when creating one for your infographic.\n- It should be between 135 and 160 characters in length.\n- It should include your keyword phrase (once).\n- It should accurately describe the content within your infographic.\n- It should have a CTA at the end to encourage search engine users to click on your content.\nGetting it just right should make your infographic go further with Google and help you rake in more organic traffic.\nFor more on creating a killer meta description, I recommend reading this post from Yoast.\nSupporting text\nI really like hacks, shortcuts, loopholes, etc.\nCall them what you will, little tricks like these are what help you gain the edge on the competition.\nAnd there’s one specific hack I would like to point out in regards to infographic SEO.\nIt’s simple. Add some supporting text at the beginning.\nHere’s a great example of what I’m talking about:\nNotice that it’s nothing fancy.\nIt’s just a few paragraphs that expound upon the infographic and offer a quick preview of what it’s about.\nThis is helpful for two reasons.\nFirst, it provides a brief description for human visitors, which should hopefully pique their interest and make them want to check out the infographic.\nSecond (and more importantly), it supplies Google with additional text to crawl and decipher meaning from.\nThis helps your infographic get found and increases the likelihood that it’s indexed under the right keywords.\nSo it’s a win-win situation.\nThere’s no reason to go overboard and write 1,000 words of supporting text, but 100 words or so can be a great help.\nAn added plus is that you can throw in a couple of internal links to relevant pages on your website.\nDon’t force it, but try to work in some internal links as well.\nLoad time\nBack in 2010, Google announced that page speed was a ranking factor.\nContent that loads quickly will get preference.\nNot only that, a faster load time tends to translate into a lower bounce rate, more time spent on your site and so on.\nThe point I’m trying to make here is that you should be conscious of how long it takes your infographic to load.\nKeep in mind that infographics are fairly bulky images, so this can definitely be a concern.\nGenerally speaking, PNGs, GIFs, JPEGs, BMPs and TIFFs load the fastest, so keep this in mind when choosing a file format.\nYou can also test the loading speed of your infographic with this free tool.\nJust type in the URL.\nThen click “Analyze.”\nGoogle will analyze it and grade it.\nIf there are any issues, Google will provide you with specific advice for speeding it up.\nConclusion\nDoing SEO for an infographic isn’t dramatically different from doing SEO for any other type of content.\nIt incorporates many of the same techniques and strategies.\nThe main thing you have to work around is the fact that an infographic is an image and therefore Google can’t “read” it like it can regular text-based content.\nFortunately, there are several ways to get around this and ensure your infographic is perfectly optimized for search engines as well as humans.\nBy covering all the bases, you’ll position it to climb the rankings and achieve maximum visibility in the SERPs.\nDo you have any other recommendations for doing SEO for an infographic?"}
{"text": "adoption, discipleship, foster care, obedience\nMay was foster care awareness month. And I wanted to write something all month. But the words would not come. I wrote and re-wrote and trashed posts in my head all month attempting to come up with just the right words. I am finally convinced that the right words just do not exist. And I have to write this anyway. So. Here I am again. Baring my soul and my convictions for all to see. And as I do, my prayer is that you see Jesus.\nA few months ago, I wrote this post about how you can participate in foster care without being foster parents. These things are just as important as the role of foster parent. And while I still believe that not everyone is called to participate in foster care as a foster parent, I firmly believe more people have been called than are currently offering their homes to children.\nThere are approximately 314,000 protestant churches in the US. I have attempted to find the approximate breakdown for Louisiana and Lafayette parish. Based on extremely scientific research, there are a lot. You’re welcome. Let’s just say there is an average of 100 people per church. And get real. Some of those churches average thousands. That totals somewhere in the neighborhood of 31 million people. I wrote this post about 2 years ago with the most up-to-date foster care statistics at that time. I have been working with our home development worker to get current statistics for this post but haven’t had any luck. But things have not changed much in regard to the numbers since that post 2 years ago. And in case you’re like me and rarely click the links in posts, the short of it is this: There are over 400,000 kids in the system with over 100,000 of those free for adoption.\nAll of the numbers talk to say this: This should not even be an issue. DCFS should be turning people away because they have too many people wanting to care for these children. With the number of churches and professing Christians in the US, we should be doing more. Praying is not enough. Giving clothes is not enough. Giving food is not enough. There should be more men and women in the middle of the battle. There should be more homes than kids, not the other way around. All the people in all the churches in all the land might not be called to foster care and/or adoption.\nBut I’m willing to bet that a whole lot more have been called than have answered.\nI did some extremely scientific research and asked my friends on Facebook what fears/concerns/questions they would have if someone called and said some kids would be coming to stay for a while. Some had practical concerns. {What do I need to have for them? Do I need to be prepared to care for sickness? Will they be going to the same school? Do they have any allergies? How long will they be staying? Etc.} Others allowed themselves to be extremely vulnerable in sharing their fears and concerns. {I can barely handle my own. How broken will this leave me when they are taken away from our home? How will this affect my own kids? How will this affect my time? How will this affect my finances? What will other people think?}\nFear is a deadly deterrent. Just think back to the Garden. Adam and Eve were fearful that God was keeping His best from them. Their fear led to their sin. And often, our fear leads to our sin. Fear isn’t a sin in and of itself. It is our action or inaction in the face of fear that is the sin.\nIt is allowing our fear to deter us from obedience that is the sin.\nAnd I get it. I really do. I was where you are. I’m the girl who said I would never adopt through the foster system. I was completely against it. Some days I’m still scared. It is scary. It is uncertain. It is hard. It is time consuming. It is exhausting. It is excruciatingly hard. I want to give up all the time. I want to go back to my nice little life before I knew. Before my family was taken on the ride of our lives. Before our lives were filled with messy, chaotic, uncertain days. But once you know, you can’t go back and just not know.\nSo here we are. This is my challenge, my charge, my rebuke. Call it whatever you like. But, dear people, we are not doing enough. I can’t tell you how many times I hear, “I wish I could do what you do.” Then do it. What is it, exactly, that is so unique about what we do? We just open our chaotic, messy, broken, imperfect home and hearts to kids who need it. We stepped out of the boat and started walking toward Jesus. And most of the time, I am like Peter and I start looking at all the waves around me. We don’t have a big enough car. We don’t have enough beds. What if we get hurt…again? What if our boys get hurt…again? What will people say about us? I don’t have enough time. How will we manage? And sometimes these waves overwhelm. And everyday we have to cry out to the Master of the waves to help us. But at least we got out of the boat.\nDo not let your fear of the waves keep you from getting out of the boat.\nOur pastor has been preaching on what it means to be a disciple for a few weeks now. Each week, I’m reminded of how it relates to this foster care journey. After Jud’s most recent injury, we took ourselves off the call list for new placements for a little while. And it was so nice. I won’t lie. No doctors appointments trying to explain why I don’t have insurance cards or medical histories. No court dates. No family visits. No lawyer visits. No home visits. No running around like a crazy person. Ok. Maybe I still did this. But you get the point. And I wondered if we could just walk away from it all. I wondered if we could go back to our normal-ish lives and take care of the 2 kids we have and just forget the world. And then our pastor preached this sermon. On the day after we got back from vacation and it would have been super easy to just sleep in. On the day we were supposed to be in nursery with all the church babes. But instead we found ourselves sitting there listening to a call to obedience, once again.\nI don’t know about you guys, but I have to be called to obedience over and over and over. Because I am selfish. I want to do things my way. I want to have a comfortable life of ease. But like I said before, I cannot suddenly not know. Even if my humanity could, Jesus will not allow it. So I found myself sitting through a message about how disciples do not desire a life of ease and comfort over the things of Jesus. And I was reminded of all the things I know about foster care. I was reminded of the kids who find themselves in situations that require them to leave their families and go live with perfect strangers. They can’t just walk away from all the appointments and the shuffling back & forth and the inconvenience and the utter heartache of it all. So how can I? How can I go back to my life of ease and comfort and normalcy when they can’t? And that’s how we ended up back on the call list.\nMy question to you, kind people, is this: how can you? How can you go back to your normal, comfortable, easy lives when you know there are kids who can’t? There are kids that you potentially have room for, physically & emotionally and you just keep on walking? People are called to different things, yes. Absolutely. And you may not be called to foster care. And that’s ok.\nBut some of you are and you’re too comfortable to listen.\nThere should be far more believers actively caring for these kids. Housing them. Advocating for them. Mentoring them. Grieving with them and for them. And loving them.\nBut if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 1 John 3:17\nBeautifully written! Boy, our life sure is crazy since jumping on this foster care ride, but God has given us a son and a daughter that I never knew I needed! They may only be “mine” for a while, but GOD is GOOD and I am so glad I followed where HE led!\nI am so thankful for your pursuit of obedience through foster care! Grace & peace to you, sister.\n100,000 kids yet we still turn away the many married lesbian and gay Christians willing to adopt because their sins are different than ours.\nAndy,\nActually, homosexuals are allowed to foster/adopt. But thank you for your concern."}
{"text": "Q&A with Drew Courtney\nStory Links\nThis week the top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team looks for its fourth consecutive ACC Tournament title when it travels to Cary, N.C. The Cavaliers, who won their seventh consecutive ACC regular season title, open play Friday at 9 a.m. against the winner of the Miami/NC State first-round match. VirginiaSports.com caught up with sophomore Drew Courtney to preview the tournament and discuss the season thus far.\nQuestion: With the emphasis that this program puts on winning championships, how excited are you to start the postseason?\nCourtney: I am so excited. This is the time of the year we play for. The season is kind of long and there are a lot of matches, but it is definitely fun to get that part of the season out of the way and start the postseason. We are working hard this week to get ready for it and it should be fun.\nQuestion: The team just completed its fourth consecutive 11-0 ACC regular season and is looking for its fourth consecutive ACC Tournament title. Is there a lot of pride in keeping those streaks in tact?\nCourtney: It is in the back of our minds, but it isn’t something we really think about. It is something to take pride in. The ACC is a great conference with a lot of talented teams and players and to win as many matches as we have is a great accomplishment. It is something we hope to keep going this weekend.\nQuestion: With the success you have had, how do you handle the fact that you play every match with a target on your back and you know you are going to get every team’s best effort?\nCourtney: That is what happens when you are the No. 1 team. It is your job to go out every match and prove that you are the best. You know that your opponent is going to give you their best effort every match, so you need to be ready every single day. In some ways that is difficult, but it is also a great challenge and those challenges are what make you a better player.\nQuestion: Midway through the dual match season, the doubles teams were mixed up and you started playing with Michael Shabaz. As a duo you have had some good results and will likely make the NCAA Doubles Tournament. How has that partnership developed?\nCourtney: It has come together really well. Lee [Singer] and I were playing well earlier in the year, but coach wanted to change some things and I started playing with Shabaz. He and I have bonded well, have had some success and are having some fun out there. We like to use our serves to our advantage and take control. As we continue to play together longer, I feel like we are becoming a stronger team.\nQuestion: Last year was your first ACC Tournament. As you prepare for your second, is it any different now that you know what to expect?\nCourtney: Last year I went into it knowing I was going to give 110 percent in every match and that is the same this year. I know what to expect now in terms of the atmosphere and the facility, but that doesn’t really change my approach on the court. My plan is to go out there, play well and get the job done for my team."}
{"text": "How To Comply Withand Get Married To Macedonian Ladies: Total Overview\nMacedonia is actually a small nation positioned in the facility of Europe. The nation has altered its label lately for Northern Macedonia. To make it simpler, our experts will continue calling it Macedonia in this short article. This state is situated in the mountain location. For a long period of time, Macedonia was actually referred to as an agricultural nation. This realm of economic climate is actually still leading. Wealthy food and fine environment have created Macedonian girls incredibly attractive. They are actually prominent for their countless merits. Continue analysis to discover everything about Macedonian new brides.\nWhy are actually Macedonian Mail Order Brides so Popular?\nMen that have dated Macedonian girls admit that they have actually been actually enticed bothby the appearance as well as character of these girls. Macedonian ladies have typical Balkan and also Slavic appearance, withminor special components. For example, Macedonia girls are a little muchshorter than their next-door neighbors. For the most part, they possess black or even dark hair (the job of Macedonia due to the Footrest empire has not do without consequences).\nMacedonian females possess good characters along withpopular feminine parts. They perform certainly not tend to get plump. Muchof them remain skinny and look healthy and balanced for a bigger component of lifestyle.\nAs for the character components, Macedonian women are kind, however not without some Southern flavor. They just like loud talks and quarreling withtheir close friends often. However, when it relates to a chance to assist, a macedonian women are going to never state ” no “. Often it appears that Macedonia is certainly not a state however a significant pleasant loved ones.\nMacedonian mail order brides are popular given that they can create significant and nurturing families, without detractions, but along withsufficient enthusiasm for creating your life exciting.\nWhat are actually Macedonian Brides Like\nIn Macedonia, girls wed when they switch20. Spouses are actually more mature than other halves. The particular customs play on the brides’ ‘ side in this particular state: a Macedonian bride-to-be leaves behind a home of her parents and relocate to the house of her hubby. It indicates that before marital relationship, a guy should locate his spot to stay. That is actually why many males wed when they get older or do certainly not marry whatsoever.\nMacedonian wives apply. They have acquired used to the hard work in this agricultural state. Consequently, Macedonia is among a couple of countries that carries out refuse food items materials from abroad at all. It may supply its populace simply.\nIn basic, dishes take an unique location in this particular mountain range state. The topographical editorial markets increasing grapes and also making red or white wine. The climate makes it possible for many different veggies to expand as well as fructify numerous opportunities a year. These elements cause some of the richest as well as remarkable foods in Europe. Every Macedonian other half can substitute a gourmet chef in an advanced bistro. From childhood years, Macedonian girls assist their female relatives to conduct home obligations. They know exactly how to cook, different handicraft traits, and applying.\nA macedonian woman can easily work doggedly in addition to guys. As a whole, there is no strict variation of household functions. Women can easily create careers, while guys learn just how to raise kids. In a modern Macedonian loved ones, bothmoms and dads love youngsters. Moms and dads acquired utilized to helping them even after they mature.\nAs for the connection in between sexual activities, Macedonia is actually pretty a democratic nation. Bothcompanions are actually obliged to show care as well as love. A Macedonian spouse will certainly always be actually a close friend to her husband. She is going to sustain him and provide him a great tip. A husband must shield her coming from all the hazards, while a partner needs to make sure a delighted and also calm ambience in the home.\nMarrying a Macedonian lady is an excellent concept for those who seek a calmness and happy quiet life.\nWhere can you fulfill singular Macedonian girls?\nMacedonia is actually a little state. Nevertheless, it has many things that draw in vacationers. By lots of folks, it is looked at the facility of Eastern European gastro tourist. Definitely, the local food is an incredible mix of flavors, tastes, and also shades. Lovely and singular Macedonian females seem bothin the metropolitan areas and also in the countryside. Generally, the population favors living in urban regions.\nYou may likewise comply withsome Macedonian mail order bride-to-bes online. It is feasible if you handle to locate a trustworthy Macedonian dating website withseveral active individuals and interaction opportunities.\nHow to Discover a Reliable Macedonian Romance Website?\nDating services could be harmful for those who are actually not accustomed to all of them. New dating sites show up daily, so it may be testing to select a trustworthy service. Below are actually some pointers that are going to help you check a potential functionality and determine if it is good for you or otherwise.\nMacedonia is actually a small state. Women coming from this nation are actually unusual, compared to various other nations. You need to discover a web site that permits looking for Macedonia especially. If you can not discover the state in the searchcourse, try two traits: callback that a nation has actually transformed its name to Northern Macedonia, or even try to find the solutions that concentrate on Central as well as Eastern International ladies.\nYou need to examine the protection procedures of the web site. It needs to possess the updated antivirus software, the HTTPS web protocols, and also spam defense. If any one of your computer’ s safety bodies begin believing a site, speak withthe help staff (it ought to be offered 24/7).\nTranslation and deciphering help is vital when it pertains to Macedonia ladies. They are actually not incredibly pleasant along withEnglishor even French, and also you perhaps carry out not know just about anything from the Macedonian foreign language. Thus, a website of a dating company ought to have the inbuilt interpretation software program, and also the solution should provide you withan online interpreter during the course of the 1st date.\nPay attention to communication indicates the web site advises. The even more diversified they are, the better your odds are actually. Handsome guys may organize video recording phone calls. Shy guys can utilize online conversations and overcome Macedonian females withbeautiful terms. Eachof all of them should have the ability to deliver their partners quick presents and flowers throughthe site.\nCheck these criteria and see if your website fulfills them. If the response is certainly, you will be able to comply withand court a Macedonia woman.\n5 Tips on Dating a Macedonian Girl\nAttracting a female coming from this warm as well as blooming nation is actually very easy and also complicated simultaneously. It is simple due to the fact that the state is actually certainly not incredibly rich, and also lots of girls dream concerning weding a guy coming from a prosperous nation.\nThe primary challenge for eachmale is the populace gap in between males and females in the nation. It is 40% and also 60% likewise. It indicates that girls in Macedonia are certainly not robbed of guys’ s focus. Macedonian individuals need to love on their own as well as look remarkable, as well as gals only require to pick. However, sucha situation is certainly not a major hurdle for a man who dreams concerning a Macedonian woman. If you are actually sucha guy, pay attention to the abiding by pointers:\n- Asking a Macedonian lady for a date may be effortless. Women in this condition get along and also interested. However, it would be actually hard to prepare an impressive date. You need to have to be gentle and also caring along withyour sweetheart. Try to astonishher along withvarious presents and also romantic tasks (restaurant gos to, romantic excursions, and so on) Do not fear to devote a lot loan for the very first time: every buck will return to you.\n- A traditional Macedonian female has actually acquired made use of to the long pleasing process. She expects you to be patient sufficient, without advancing her. Permit her decide if she likes you and ready to proceed your connection herself.\n- Men in Macedonia have actually always been popular for their effort and also carefulness. A capability to make money as well as to give a family members is actually thought about the main merit for a man. Program your Macedonia girl that you may be a supporter of your future loved ones withher. Allow her ignore straightforward necessities.\n- Learning the Macedonian language and lifestyle are going to impress your Macedonia woman. They are a bit challenging, however the initiatives deserve making an effort. Do certainly not count on that your Macedonian gal will know Englishcompletely. You’ ll need to communicate withher after the dating time period.\n- Finally, Macedonia is actually a state where people observe as well as protect conventional loved ones worths. A Macedonia girl gets married to swiftly, so she carries out not possess any time for single going out with. If your macedonian woman starts courting you, she expects you to propose. Do not squander this odds, as well as perform certainly not start a connection if you do not expect marriage in the nearest future.\nRemember these tips as well as act adequately to attract your exclusive Macedonian new bride.\nConclusion\nMacedonian bride-to-bes are actually a great possibility for guys seeking healthy loved ones. These persistent and also beautiful ladies possess several skills males like in their partners. They are excellent cooks, extremely gifted mamas, and also competent house cleaners. WithMacedonian ladies, you possess an odds for a lengthy and also pleased lifestyle."}
{"text": "When Pierron Police Officer Russ Rieke attempted a traffic stop about 11 a.m. Tuesday, little did he know it would take four hours to find out who was inside the vehicle.\nThanks to the assistance of the Bond and Clinton county sheriff’s departments, and at least five citizens, Rieke was able to arrest two Greenville residents shortly after 2 p.m. north of Jamestown.\nTaken into custody were William Carson and Melody Ripperda. Both are 21 years of age and from Greenville.\nAccording to Rieke, Ripperda has been charged with alleged unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.\nCarson, the alleged driver, faces charges of alleged aggravated fleeing and eluding an officer, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, driving while license suspended and speeding.\nOfficer Rieke reported he observed the car travelling eastbound on Rt. 143 through Pierron and attempted to stop the driver for alleged speeding.\nThe officer tried to catch up to the car. When he did, he got the license plate number and then let the other car continue on.\nAbout 30 minutes later, police received a citizen’s tip that a car had been abandoned in Jamestown and the two occupants fled from it on foot.\nRieke said Bond County’s K-9 Unit was requested. One individual, who was hunting, received notice of activity on his trail camera and a review of it showed two people walking by.\nAs the search continued, police received word a grey pickup truck was leaving Jamestown with three subjects in it.\nOfficer Rieke said the truck was stopped north of Jamestown. Carson and Ripperda were inside and arrested."}
{"text": "The Tim Grounds Super Thang Goose Call is the ultimate short reed style goose call on the market today. This call is made of Acrylic and has no problem hitting those hard to reach high end tones as well as the deep tones. Top choice of professional guides. This call is, of course, hand tuned by Tim..\nThis new short has the nasty low end of a Real Thang and the full power and pop of the Super Mag. If its in the field or up on stage the Super Thang has what it takes to get the job done.\nTim Grounds Super Thang"}
{"text": "Did I happen to mention the Phillies are in the World Series? Oh yeah! This is one sports filled weekend at our house. We have the Flyers, Eagles and Phillies all playing within 24 hours. My husband is a happy man. I don’t mind either, but these sports are not good for the diet. I will be cooking up some snacks for the games. What does this have to do with my spaghetti recipe? Absolutely nothing. But I had to mention it.\nHere is another healthy weeknight recipe. I almost always use whole wheat spaghetti for the health benefits you get. This time I used whole wheat, flax seed spaghetti that I purchased at Trader Joe’s. To cut down on fat, I used turkey rather than the beef or pork used in a more traditional Bolognese. I also drained the turkey after it was browned. If you add enough herbs and spices, you will not lose any flavor. The picture isn’t the greatest because the steam kept getting in the way. I apologize but we didn’t want to eat cold spaghetti.\nCome back next time and I will tell you how you can BOO your neighbors for Halloween.\nSpaghetti with Turkey Bolognese\n1 lb whole wheat spaghetti\n1 TBS olive oil\n1 1/4 lb ground lean turkey\n1 jalapeno, seeded and minced\n2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced\nhandful fresh chopped parsley\nhandful fresh chopped basil\n1 TBS dried Italian seasoning\n28 oz can crushed tomatoes\n1 TBS sugar\nsalt and red pepper to taste\ngrated Parmesan for serving\nCook spaghetti in a large pot of salted water according to package directions. Drain and keep warm. In a Dutch oven, heat olive oil to medium and brown the ground turkey. Drain after it is fully cooked. Add jalapeno, garlic, parsley,basil, and seasoning and cook for a minute or two. Add tomatoes and sugar. Cover pot and simmer on low for 25 minutes while stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Toss spaghetti with sauce and serve with grated cheese. This makes 4 to 6 servings.\nI love whole wheat spaghetti too – every little bit helps! Go Phillies!\nHave fun watching all the games! Love using ground turkey in pasta not sure why more people don’t.\nGreat use of ground turkey, people always think turkey is dry but not if done like this\nThat spaghetti looks so thick – nice! I’ll have to check that out the next time I am at Trader Joe’s.\nI try to sub whole wheat for regular, but hubby can always tell! 😀\nI was craving spaghetti and wa-la, I came upon your sight. Looks good. I haven’t had it with whole wheat before noodles, but I think I’ll give it a try. Thanks.\nI love pasta with ANYTHING on top!\nI could eat it plain w/ butter.\nI buy Trader’s pappardelle, they are great.\nWe are on for Monday lunch!\nWhere are we going?\nI have some ideas………….\nI use ground turkey often as a substitution for ground beef. I normally drain and rinse ground beef as well as ground turkey. Congrats on the Phillies!! I’m an Indians girl, and it was a very sad, sad season for me.\nLOL! Yes, my hubby is a happy man too (he’s from Philly).\nHave a good weekend. Don’t you just love Trader Joe’s?\nGreat swap with the turkey here.\nI would love a plate of that right now. Good luck to your teams!\nHow about those Phillies?! We’re Yankee fans in our house-but I’m glad the Phillies are doing well. I love that flax spaghetti!\nShould I mention that the Giants and 49ers suck but at least I have the Sharks? I seriously doubt the day all three teams in my area have good years at the same time….\nWe use whole wheat often ourselves! Have fun watching the games!\nI’ve never tried it with turkey. Sounds delicious!\nThis looks great, I just tried that same spaghetti from Trader Joe’s last night, we liked it.\nI love Spag Bol, this is one of the few dishes my hubby makes. I have to admit ours is not so healthy, we use beef, and have homemade garlic bread with ours.\nThis certainly sounds like a more wholesome alternative. 🙂\nI’ve never made whole wheat spaghetti, I’m gonna have to try this!\nAhhh…Who can wait for steam to go down? You want hot spaghetti. I figure HEY at least you took a picture. Still looks good.\nI love bolognese. Never tried making it with turkey mince – sounds like a good lower fat alternative\nhi Lisa\nFlax Seed in Spaghetti is a smart healthy idea along with turkey and whole grain pasta:)\nI’ve an award waiting for you at my blog,please collect:)\nWaiting for you boolicious recipes:)\nOhhh, spicy! I love the whole wheat pasta, it’s my absolute fave. This just looks great Lisa!\nGo Phillies!! This pasta looks aweome. I love pasta and don’t make it enough.\nHa Ha- sports are not good for our diets as well. I always have to make something fun to watch the games.\nWe’re sad about the Red Sox, but I hope your team wins for you!\nYummy turkey idea!\nwhat a healthy treat… 🙂\nlooks yummo! i was kinda hopin’ the cubs would have been playing the rays….:(\nGoooooooooooo Phillies! And go turkey bolognese as well!!!\nGo Phillies!! Gotta love bolognese, just made some last night-it’s one of my favorites, not as healthy as yours though!\nI’m laughing because I get a lot of steam in my pictures too!\nI love this Lisa, looks delicious! I haven’t made a sauce like this in a while…maybe tomorrow! Thanks for the idea!\nTell me about sports not being good for the diet…I’m struggling over here!\nIt looks great to me! I love whole wheat pasta!\nThis looks like a great dish Lisa. I love ww pasta. Once I got used to it, I prefer it now. The turkey sounds like a great addition too!\nI’ve been meaning to try the flax seed pasta from Trader Joe’s but keep forgetting to buy it! Thanks for the reminder 🙂 Hope you had a successful sports weekend!\nSounds delicious. I know what you mean about steam-it’s a toss up every night. Great pics or great food? We always opt for the great hot food! Go Phillies!\nmmm, lisa, that looks great! I made meat loaf out of ground lean turkey tonight…so good!\nWe have the sports fever in my House too… Rays, Bucs and Lightning! Tampa is a huge sports town!\nLove your healthy spaghetti\nGround turkey is just so versatile!\nOooh pass me a fork so I can twist this delicious spaghetti around it yum!\nGreat healthy option using turkey instead of beef. 🙂\ni was looking for the sugar in your ingredients! I’m amazed at how many ppl don’t use it in the sauce!\nThis looks so warm, comforting and filling. We sometimes BOO in our neighborhood, but it hasn’t happened this year (yet).\nThis looks a great Lisa with whole wheat spaghetti – just perfect!\nRosie x\nI’ve used that spag. from Trader Joes. Brilliant. Love this recipe. I just found you on Foodie Friday. Great site and very colorful. Nice job."}
{"text": "Black Ray Ban Aviators Black Lens.\nThe passenger may be just one of several others in a vehicle, all going to different destinations. Traffic can be, and usually is, horrendous. And the driver from the journey TMs first leg is often not the same person behind the wheel for the return trip..\nLess than 10 seconds to go, isu down three. They get the ball in the right guys hands. But jordan barnes struggled today..”.\nAprs la fermeture d’un petit restaurant et aprs avoir offert un verre deux employs librs de leurs obligations, ceux ci s’empressent de me faire goter, gratuitement, les alcools locaux qui ne sont pas au menu. Aprs quelques verres, ceux ci m’invitent un spectacle extrieur qui se termine aux petites heures du matin. Soucieux de mon bonheur et de ma scurit, ils m’avisent de bien scuriser mes poches, de rester prs d’eux; bref, ils me traitent comme un frre.."}
{"text": "Wessex FM News\nBus Operator Expands Service for Olympics in Weymouth\n8:18am 23rd July 2012\nYou're being urged to get ahead of the Games in Weymouth as bus operator First is altering their services.\nThere are now more buses on some routes to provide a faster more efficient service over the Olympic period.\nAlthough some routes will be altered slightly fare prices will remain the same.\nMore double decker’s will hit the road to help cope with larger numbers.\nSign up for the latest local news direct to your inbox"}
{"text": "LXBN This Week Ep. 3: Facebook’s IPO, Oracle v. Google, POM’s \"Juice Wars\" and U.S. v. Roger Clemens\nWritten by Kevin O'Keefe in LXBN on May 29, 2012. In this week’s episode, they discuss the many different angles on Facebook’s big initial public offering, the big Oracle/Google battle over Android, POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola and the second go-around in the Roger Clemens perjury trial.\n- Starting with the Facebook IPO, we had LexBlog Network authors cover this from numerous perspectives. We’ll start with Scarinci Hollenbeck‘s excellent Tax, Trust & Estate News, which has been all over the story, and James F. McDonough, Jr.‘s recent post on the IPO’s impact on estate planning is a good example. Steven Berk of the Corporate Observer had an excellent piece on how the botched IPO may really hurt smaller investors. That’s part of the reason we’re starting to see securities suits surrounding the IPO, which Kevin LaCroix discusses at length on The D&O Diary. Then, on the lighter side of things, we have Daniel Clement of the New York Divorce Report offering up some commentary on Mark Zuckerberg’s interestingly-timed wedding.\n- While the Facebook IPO stole the spotlight, Oracle v. Google saw its fair share of national coverage as well. Google comes out ahead in this round of the bout as a federal jury in San Francisco ruled that Google did not infringe on either of the two Oracle patents in play during its development and implementation of Android. Seattle’s John Whitaker—author on the Copyright Infringement Advisor—has been commenting on this story every step of the way. His most recent post offers the point that software patents may have run their course.\n- POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola is the latest installment in what’s become popularly known as “The Juice Wars” as POM continues its crusade against juice-makers who are allegedly misrepresenting the levels of pomegranate juice in their beverages. Kelley Drye attorney August Horvath does an excellent job covering this case for the firm’s blog, Ad Law Access. Horvath also comments on how POM’s ill-advised crusade has resulted in the FTC taking a closer look at POM’s own advertising.\n- And lastly we have the second go-around in United States v. Roger Clemens. This is the government’s second try at convicting Clemens of perjury for lying about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs during his time as an all-star pitcher. Like we saw with Oracle v. Google, coverage of this story was really driven by a single dedicated author; that author this time is Tennessee attorney Lee Davis of Athletes in Court. He’s covered this case every step of the way thus far, and I’d expect him to do so as the case continues, so be sure to visit his publication if you’re interested in the case."}
{"text": "Wondering what the best way to get from Venice to Switzerland would be . Don't see any cheap flights from Venice to ZRH, so thinking about a train. Would like to most probably end up in the Engandine, although Bern or Berner Oberland would be fine. Would rather not hire a car.\nTravel from Venice to Switzerland?\n37 Replies \| Jump to last reply \|\n37\nTry this website for train connections and schedules:.\nAlthough this is the site of the German Railroads (Deutsche Bahn), I find it the easiest to maneuver. It covers all the trains that you could conceivably take. Just look at a map, pick out the in-between stops you would like to make, enter them as \"via\", and see what comes up.\nThe fastest connection (6 hours) is via Milano, but there are also others, some of them quite scenic, but also longer with more changes, such as Venice-Verona-Innsbruck-Feldkirch (both Austria), Zuerich.\nI would consider Luzern as your destination--easy train connections via Milano.\nHi kenav,\nIt's quite a spectacular trip from Milan to the Engadin -- go on the Bernina Express from Tirano, over the Bernina Pass, to Pontresina and St. Moritz. I think that would be the easiest and also the nicest route. More information at\nUnlike treplow, I find the Swiss site to be the fastest and easiest to navigate (no need to input traveller's age, for instance); it's at\nWhere in the Engadin will you be going? How are you plans for that destination shaping up?\nHave fun!\ns\nswandav - Do you mean - we should first get to Milan and then to Tirano and then via the Bernina express to Pontresina, etc? Three different trains? Also, isn't there a \"regular\" Swiss train that does the Bernina route but doesn't cost as much?\n(Our plans are very loose right now.)\nHi kenav,\nYou can get the entire train schedule, with changes and duration, at the site I gave you above. You owuld just use \"From Venice,\" \"To Pontresina,\" \"via Tirano\" to get the exact route.\nIt's a very long trip, though, about nine hours. So you may want to break your journey at Milan or at Poschiavo, a great little town.\nYes, there are lots of regular trains that run over the same route as the \"scenic\" and marketed BE. The only difference in price would be the reservation fee for the BE, about 5 chf.\nGood luck!\ns\nSeems very loooong!! Maybe should rethink this and keep just to Switzerland.\nWhile I love the Bernina Express, I don’t think it’s the best way to get yourself and your bags from Venice to the Engadine. First off, you will have to arrive into Tirano by 2:30 pm or you will miss the last Bernina Express train, as that is the time it departs Tirano (at least in summer, it goes a bit earlier in winter, see the schedule). So you have to take the first train out of Venice early that morning and really hope that the trains in Italy are running smack on time that day. Second, the cars are not really made to carry luggage and it may be a bit of pain finding space for your stuff. There are “regular” Swiss trains that go this same route and would take luggage and are cheaper, see rail.ch for the schedule. They run about hourly from what I can see.\nIf you are planning to spend time in the Engadine, you can of course do the Bernina Express train ride as a separate half day trip, as you can get it from St Moritz or Pontresina. The St Moritz to Tirano portion is the high glacier portion, the St Moritz to Chur portion is quite lovely through a gorgeous valley, this valley can also be done as a walk and you can see the train bridges. The Chur to Zurich portion is quite pretty but not worth IMO doing unless you are going on to Zurich. You can take “regular” Swiss trains for any of these portions, you don’t have to buy the Bernina Express tickets, but those trains are the only ones with the observation cars so it is nice to do that for the glacier portion from St Moritz to Tirano and back if you can.\nTo get from Venice to the Engadine, I would suggest you do one of the following:\n1. Take the train to Lake Lugano (5 hours) and then take the great Palm Express bus ride up in the Engadine (3 hours). This would take about the same time as going via Tirano and taking the Bernina train route, but would be a different experience, as this is a gorgeous ride up over the Splugen Pass and Majola Pass and through some lovely ancient towns like Promontogno and Stampa (You could rent a car and do the drive too, but if you would prefer not to then the bus works). You could spend a night or so in the Lake Lugano area first. This itin could also be done by taking a train to Lake Como and getting the Palm Express from Chiavenna, but going via Lugano only requires 1 change in Milan and so may be easier and will save you about an hour versus going through Como. (Although Como for a night or two is certainly lovely as well. )\n2. Take the train from Venice to Zurich (6-8 hours, night trains are available and may be a good option), then take the very lovely 3.5 hour train ride up to the Engadine. This route is in fact the first part of the Bernina Express, you just don’t have the panorama cars (don’t need them on this part of the route) and don’t pay the higher Bernina prices. (I don’t include the ride to Guarda in this, as it takes a tunnel and is not as scenic as the route up to St Moritz, Pontresina, etc). The bit from Chur to St Moritz is very very lovely (and as I note above, can be done as a walk down through the valley.)\n3. Drive from Venice to the Engadine. This actually is not a long drive and the part from Como to the Engadine up through the passes is a great drive. You could train to Lugano and rent from there if you wanted to rent and drop off entirely in Switzerland.\nI agree that the train via Austria would be very scenic, but to get to the Engadine from Venice via that route would take I think like 12 hours or more, and of course you want to do it during the day as that would be the point, otherwise take the Venice-Zurich night train. I think that you really want the train that goes via a change in Villach in Austria , as I believe it is more scenic than the one that goes via a change in Porta Nuova which takes the Brenner Pass (which I think goes through a tunnel, others may have more precise info on this route). I have taken the one via Villach and it really has some great mountain scenery.\nWOW!! I really have to print this out and get a map and mull over all the information you've given me. Thanks Cicerone.\nHI, SORRY TO JUMP IN THE CONVERSATION..\nBUT IM GOING ON THE SAME TRIP ALSO NX 2 WEEKS.. CAN U PLS TELL ME WHICH STATION TO STOP IN LAKE LUGANO..?\nNEED TO PURCHASE TICKETS BUT SO MANY NAMES OF STATION COME OUT .. TQ\nI assume you want to go from Venice to the St Moritz area in the Engadine region. If that is the case, my suggestions are below. If you want to go somewhere else in Switzland, please let us know as the below would not be helpful to get to other parts:\n1. IMO the best train stop for you is the Lugano main train station (also called Lugano FFS, but on the Swiss Rail site at rail.ch is it just noted as Lugano). From Venice you only have to change trains once (in Milan) to get to Lugano main train station. See rail.ch for timetables. I think your only option is the train departing Venice at 6:20 am arriving Lugano at 10:10 am.\n2. The Palm Express Bus will depart at 11:55 am from the bus station called Lugano Stazione Nord, which is a 3-4 minute walk from the Lugano main strain station. When you get off the train in Lugano, go to the main station building and exit the front door, turn left and walk maybe 100 meters to the bus station. (There may also be signs in the train station directing you toward the Lugano Stazione Nord bus station). See for a plan of the station and it shows the location of the bus station at Stazione Nord. You could also most likely just walk along Track 1 inside the station (with tracks on your left) and you will come to the bus station at the end of the covered portion of Track 1.\n3. Note that from October 29 the Palm Express only runs on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, see\nfor the schedule. I believe a reservation is required for this bus, which you should be able to do through the rail.ch website.\n4. Not sure where your end destination is, but you could consider getting off the bus someplace like Sils Maria or Silvplana and taking a look around, have a meal locally. You can then take a regular Swiss Post Bus on to St Moritz in 15-20 minutes from there. Both are in lovely lake settings surrounded by mountains. You can take a cable car in the Sils area up the mountain.\nJust a personal observation, in November you may encounter a good bit of fog or clouds on this route, so please adjust your expectations accordingly. In the higher elevations in late Nov and early December you should have nice views, but coming up from the lake, the lower elevations may be in clouds. The journey would still be interesting, IMO, but may not be as pretty as in other months. Also bear in mind that the sun will set around 4:30 pm and it will be dark by just after 5 pm most days.\nseat61.com/italy\nseat61.com/switzerland\nThe Cisalpino(pendolino train now eun by trenitalia.it)\nworks best for me for this via Milan Lugano Chur Zurich\nSuper nice... other more circuitous routes that is my fav...\nWOW! So detail.. tq so much!\nLots of good advice here, but two additional comments:\nPoschiavo is not a good stopping off choice on Sundays; almost everything will be closed.\nThere's something going on with the runs from Milan to Basel/Zurich and vice versa. I did that route three weeks ago and it was a complete mess. The regular rolling stock (pretty nice trains) were replaced with an old, run-down, filthy (the windows were covered with crud, no opportunity to enjoy the view) and uncomfortable train. It ran an hour late. It was supposed to go from Milan to Zurich but at Arth-Goldau the train crew apparently were too disgusted to continue - I heard this announcement: \"please exit the train at Arth-Goldau to catch a REAL (emphasis mine) train to Basel or Zurich. This journey is finished.\"\nThe normally super-cool 7:03 am train that runs daily from Basel to Venice also has been replaced with a run-down substitute. (at least that was the case on my two journeys to Lugano in October)\nHi Dayang\nWhy dont you take a flight via Easyjet () from Venice Marco Polo to Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport and then a train to Zurich . Its less than EUR 30 on every alternate day. A train from Basel to Zurich is around EUR 20/23 and its about 1.5hr.\nWe have used Easyjet for numerous ocassions and will be flying from Madrid to Basel and then train to Lucerne too this coming December.\nEarlier this year, we took the train from Milano Centrale and change train to Lucerne via Arth-Goldau.\nI need inputs for my travel via train from Venice to Zurich in July, 2012. Our stay in Switzerland will be 3-4 Nights (Before we head to Paris)\nI understand there are no direct trains, we will have to change. I was hoping to make my train journey from Venice to Zurich to be a trip in itself (staying 2 Nights in between).\nCan i possibly take Bernina or Glacier express as the part of the trip? Any other trains i could take?\nI am interested to see the Mt. Jungfrau , Interalaken & Lucerne region. But that being said i am open to recommendations.\nI am looking for a Beautiful train journey with spectacular views, scenic valleys, cliff side journeys and postcard swiss towns!\nHoping to do an interesting train journey from Venice to Zurich instead of a flight and then taking trains to cover these regions.\nThanks in advance.\nI came back from Venice into Switzerland (Vevey) by a day train that transfered at Sion. It was a L-O-N-G boring ride quite honestly. I'd gone to Venice from Vevey by overnight sleeper train (but this route doesn't run any longer).\n@ Suze - Makes sense. I also dont want to spend a precious vacation day travelling on a boring train ride.\nI agree with sabhaida. Easyjet will probably be the least expensive and the quickest. You could always take the flight from Geneva to Venice if you wanted to do spend a day or two around there instead of going to Basel.\nHere are some thoughts:\n1. Do you have to go to Zurich for a particular reason? If not, you have some other options. You only have 3-4 days. If this were my trip, I would spend none of it in Zurich (and I used to live there). The countryside is what Switzerland is all about. Especially in July.\n2. You could take the Bernina Express as part of this trip; with luggage this will be a little bit of a pain, although doable. However, rather than going to Zurich, an easier and much more logical way to end this trip is to stay in the lovely Engadine area (St Moritz, Pontresina, Davos or the utterly charming Guarda). This area would tick all the boxes on your wish list, and would not have the throngs of tourists who will be in Interlaken in July (there will be some of course, but not the bus loads you will see in Interlaken and the Jungfrau). This area has, IMO, prettier towns, as for example Guarda, plus the odd castle thrown in.\nTo take the Bernina Express as part of a trip from Venice, you would take the train from Venice to Milan (2.5 hours), then Milan to Tirano (2.5 hours). You need to be in Tirano by 1:30 pm or so to catch the Bernina. There are 2 departing in the afternoon, one is a local which departs at 2:02 pm, and the other departs at about 2:20 pm. See the timetable and other info at. If you take the express, you can get off at St Moritz from where you can get another train to other places like Guarda (about an hour).\nYou want a reservation for the Bernina, and IMO you want the first class panorama cars, which give the best views (not a whole lot of luggage room, however, but perhaps the train staff can assist.) The first part of the journey is the part up over the glaciers and this will take you down into St Moritz. You can then spend a few days in this area. If you like scenic train journeys include time on the Bergun-Fillisur journey (which is also part of the Bernina, but is also on just the regular train line between this area and the lowland of Zurich. You can also do an easy downhill walk around this train line.)\nWhen you are ready to move on the Paris, you can continue your journey by taking the train to Zurich (If you go from Guarda you may take a tunnel which is not as scenic as going from St Moritz or Pontresina). In Zurich you can switch to the fast train TGV to Paris (4 hours). For then TGV, you most likely would want a reservation, see the rail.ch website for info on all trains in Italy and Switzerland. All\n3. It is possible to take the Glacier Express for part of this as well. The logical way to do this would be take a train to Chur in Switzerland (10 hours and several changes, this may not be an attractive option.) From Chur you would take the Glacier Express either to St Moritz or to Zermatt. The St Moritz trip would be quite a bit less interesting than doing the Bernina, as you would miss the glacier portion. The Zermatt end would be the more interesting, but I have to say that the Glacier Express is my least favourite of all the “scenic” trains in Switzerland. It’s a little bit on the long side and a little dull (which is hard to do for Switzerland). See for info on the Glacier Express. Zermatt is of course quite lovely and interesting for 3-4 days and you could take side trips to places like Saas Fe which will be less crowded. If you want to go to Zermatt from Venice, then really the best thing to do is just take the regular train, it’s a little over 7 hours, and the last hour or so is the same as the Glacier Express in any event.\n4. A very scenic way to make the journey from Venice to Switzerland is to go via Austria. You might even consider skipping Switzerland and spending the 3-4 days in a place like Innsbruck, where you can get up into the mountains, and there will be somewhat fewer tourists (although probably not many, and it is a bit cheaper. The train journey is through the Italian and Austrian Alps and is quite lovely (have done it in winter most of the way), and takes about 8 hours and requires changes (non stops go via the tunnel which skips the mountains. Going via Villach is what you want as that is in the mountains.)\n5. I can’t end this post without putting in a word for the Lake Geneva region which is just lovely in July. (And there is a the jazz festival potentially, don’t know your dates, but see Although I agree the train journey there is not the most scenic, it’s 6 hours with no changes if you take the 4:30 pm train, so really that bad as journeys go. You get most of the day in Venice, can have dinner on the train, and it will still be twilight when you arrive at 10:30 pm. Look at staying in Vevey, Lausanne, Montreux or small towns along the lake, from where you can do walks in the lovely Lavaux vineyards above the lake and get Alp views, take the fun cliffside incline railway up to Rochers-de-Naye and do walks up there or just take in the views, or take the train for an hour or so up to Châteaux D’oeux in the mountains (or even take part of the Golden Pass, IMO the part from Montreux to Zweisimmen is the most scenic, see for info). (I would not stay in Geneva itself which is not as charming as the towns further down along the lake.) Guidebooks or sites like\nand and\ncan give you info on both. From the Lake Geneva area you can take a train in about 4 hours to Paris.\nWe took the fast train from Zurich, via Milan to Venice. It was an enjoyable journey--fast. We did buy first class seats--and we were almost the only ones in the train car.\n@Cicerone - Thanks a lot. This is great and very detailed information. It really solves our dilemma of doing a train journey, spend 3-4 days in Switzerland (Pretty Towns) and connect for our onward journey to Paris.\nI am so tempted with the option 3 as Austria is on our list as well\nAppreciate your time and inputs !\nHello Cicerone,\nWe will be flying into Switzerland in October, arriving approx 15th Oct and need to be in Milan by the evening of the 24th Oct, air tickets not yet finalised so we choose our entry point. We would like to take some scenic rail trips and spend a few days based in one place walking and exploring, I was originally thinking of both the Glacier and Bernina rail journeys on our way to Milan but am now unsure after reading the above. What would suggest?\nIf you can be flexible on where you fly into, I would choose Geneva and start there.\nThere is no need to go to the time and expense of taking both the Bernina and the Glacier Express, IMO. There are many scenic rail journeys, some “official” (like the 2 you have mentioned and the Golden Pass) and some unofficial (like the little train up to Rocher de Nayes on Lake Geneva, the hilariously charming cog wheel up to Mt Pelerin, or the train ride up the mountain to Wengen in the Jungfrau). Don’t forget about cable cars which offer tremendous views (but which in October I must warn you may be closed for repair in some places as that is between seasons in many mountain areas). Taking and paying for a day-long “official” scenic train journey in Switzerland is not really that important, as so many train journeys are scenic in themselves. (Most any journey from Geneva to Zurich will include a lovely 20 minutes or so along the Lake Geneva through the vineyards with the snowy Alps in the distance above the lake.) And great rolling stock, smooth tracks, wireless access and in-seat power; it’s all a joy. That being said, of the 2 train trips you mention, I prefer the Bernina and you could fit it in your schedule.\nOctober 15 is probably too late for the wine harvest season in Lake Geneva, which generally is September; but you never know, keep your eye out on the web and elsewhere for harvest festivals. Otherwise, weather should be pretty good, although the vineyards may be brown as they will have mostly been harvested. Walking is still great and you can of course drink the previously harvested wine with no problem... My comments at #5 in the above post would apply generally to that region. Ferries will be running on an abbreviated schedule, if at all, during October, but I think you can work around that fairly easily, as you can use trains.\nYou may want to think about whether you want to take 2 days or so to go to Zermatt and see the Matterhorn. It’s a pretty easy train ride. If you decide to skip Zermatt, then either take the Golden Pass train to the Interlaken area and spend a few days there, or go the faster route to Zurich and then on to Guarda or elsewhere in the Engadine/St Moritz area. Or as you have a good chunk of time, you may be able to do Lake Geneva, the Jungfrau and the Engadine/St Moritz area. It would depend on your interests and how often you want to move.\nFrom St Moritz you can take the Bernina to Tirano and then a train to Milan.\nYou could also consider going from Tirano to Lake Como or one of the other lakes; mid-October is the end of the season but I think you would still find good weather and fewer crowds. Another fun way to get to Como or Lake Lugano from St Moritz is to take the Palm Express bus up and over the passes (they don’t run all days in October as the passes start to close, see). This would mean that you would have to skip the Bernina Express.\nYou really have many options, you might want to do some more reading and see how to budget your time. My point is that to spend 2 entire days on “scenic” trains out of 8 days or so days in Switzerland may not be the best use of it. I would take shorter train rides and spend more time walkinig and exploring.\n@ Cicerone - As per to your point 5 from Comment on April 10\nIf we take a train from Venice to Geneva, spend 1 day 2 nights there in one of the smaller towns (Vevey, Lausanne, Montreux).\nday 3 - Leave for Interlaken/Luceren Regios. Spend 2 day and 2 nights exploring the BO area.\nDay 5 - Leave for Paris via Zurich TGV\nDoes that make any sense?\nYes it does, will write with some more thoughts shortly.\ncheck out the Swiss Pass for that type of train riding, zigzagging across the country - valid on many mountain trains in Lauterbrunnen area, inclduing 100% the fabulous excursion Lauterbrunnen - aerial cable car to Grutschalp - cliffside train to Murren, cable car down to Gimmelwald and then plunging back down to Lauterbrunnen Valley floor in a thrilling gondola and take postal bus back to Lauterbrunnen - 100% covered by a Swiss Pass - and if you want to take the long long cable car ride from Murren to Schilthorn - the famous Schilthorn/Piz Gloria made famous in James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Service the pass will get you 50% off that.\nCan also use in fully covereage on lake boats on Lake Geneva - wonderful rides from Montreux, even over to Evian-les-Bains in France and boats on Lake Geneva - could use it to go to Basel and then buy a Basel to Paris ticket from there.\nGreat sources of info on Swiss trains and passes and other things like the Half-Fare Card, Swiss Card, Swiss Transfer Ticket, etc check out these IMO fantastic sources -; and www. ricksteves.com. Between Montreux and Interlaken the pass is 100% valid on the famous Golden Pass specialty scenic train with domed observation cars and commentary en route, etc.\nI've been reading the above info with interest, and wonder if I might beg the patience of knowledgeable contributers with another question?\nThree of us are traveling from Paris to Venice the end of September. We had planned on the Thello sleeper train, until learning Switzerland is amazing with Glaciers, old villages etc.\nInstead of training overnight, maybe we should depart Paris early by train, spend 1 night in Switzerland, then continue onto Venice the following afternoon. Alternatively, would flying to and from one location in Switzerland be more practical?\nAny advice is appreciated. It is our first trip to Europe.\nThe one place I would stay in Switzerland would be Interlaken - smack on a main rail line between Paris and Italy - try for 2 nights but even if one you will see the majestic mountains by taking a 20-minute train ride from Interlaken to Grindelwald - for awesome awesome views of the mountain.\nthanks. I will check train routes and times to see if this works for me. wish I knew more about Switzerland BEFORE I tied my travel dates to France and Italy. We learn by our errors I suppose!\n>>>Alternatively, would flying to and from one location in Switzerland be more practical?<<<\nIt seems flights between Paris/Switzerland and Switzerland/Venice are usually high.\nPerhaps Switzerland would be better for your next trip since you seem locked into some dates in France and Italy.\nHitashi here are my thoughts and suggestions:\n1. I just read your post closely and see you are only giving yourself 1 day in the Lake Geneva area. That is a bit of a waste, IMO, as it will be hard to see much in one day. You will have to budget your time very carefully. If you only have 3 days to spend in Switzerland, it would I think be preferable to pick one area of Switzerland and spend more time in it. (Your other posts seem to indicate 4 days, which is still pretty short; but if only have 3 days, I would skip either Lake Geneva or the BO. Maybe toss a coin. You won't be unhappy with either.)\n2. I would avoid Lucerne as you have a very short time as it is, and you don't need to spend any time in a Swiss city. You will have just come from Venice, and Lucerne can't compare. Ditto (even more so) on Interlaken, a rather charmless town. The Swiss countryside is what you want to see. Even Vevey or Lausanne can't compare, so don't spend a lot of time in either, but spend it on the lake, walking up in the vineyards or a place like Rochers-de-Naye. (Vevey does have a nice Saturday wine/farmers market that is worth a stop if you are there on a Saturday.) If you get a rainy day, the old town of Lausanne is pleasant. If you have more than 1 day, the castle at Chillon is worth considering, esp if you get rain.\n3. To get from Lake Geneva to the Interlaken area, you can take a train. Here are some suggestions:\n--if you truly only have 1 day in Lake Geneva, then you need to take as late a train as possible at the end of that 1 day. You have some choices of departures as late as 8:30 – 9 pm from Lausanne or Montreux which would put you into Wengen (see below) between 10 pm and midnight. Of course most of that will be in the dark, but as the sun sets after 9 pm in July you will get the benefit of some of this in light (these trains don't take the Golden Pass route, mentioned below, but some parts are quite pretty). See rail.ch for info on train options. (Do yourself a favour and either send your luggage ahead – see below – or store it in Lausanne or Montreux on the morning of your only day in Lake Geneva so you don't have to backtrack to your hotel to collect bags. Smaller stations, like Vevey, also have luggage lockers or manned storage, see the rail.ch for information.)\n-If you have more time, and can take the train to the BO at some point on your 2nd day in the Lake Geneva area, then I would opt for the Golden Pass on that second day. This is one of the best \"scenic trains\" in Switzerland, IMO. See for info. If you can, you might want to think about breaking this up with a stop in Châteaux d'Oex or Gstaad for a couple of hours, and a look around there (from either you could take a regular Swiss train on to finish the journey and don't necessarily have to take the Golden Pass, esp from Gstaad which is almost the end of the best part of the Golden Pass in any event). If you are an early riser, there is a 7:45 am Golden Pass departure from Montreux which might work well to stop for breakfast in Gstaad, and then take a later train onto Spiez (lunch may also work). The 9:45 am Golden Pass has some seats in the very front of the train underneath the engineer and you get a stunning perspective (these trains are like the Japanese bullet trains; the seats are \"Golden Place Panoramic avec place VIP\". You need to book those ahead of time.). There is a Golden Pass which leaves Montreux at 5:45 pm which would also work if you wanted to have a longer time in the Lake Geneva area.\n--If time allows, IMO the best way to do this trip, is to take the Golden Pass train to the town of Speiz in the BO, and then a ferry for an hour or so down Lake Thun to Interlaken West, then a train up to Wengen. (Stopping in Gstaad or Châteaux d'Oex is optional but would also be enjoyable.) This will be a longish day, but you will be able to see a lot that way. A ferry on Lake Thun is one of the sublime Swiss experiences, IMO, as there are great mountain views all around and the lake is a lovely colour. Sitting out back with a cold beer as you glide along watching the snowy Alps is one of my top 10 travel experiences anywhere. Also, you will be able to do all of this in daylight and see a lot in your short time. Spiez is worth a little stroll in itself, as it has a small castle and church on the lake. In July, everyone's window flower boxes and gardens will be out in force, which are a delight. Just snoop around. (Same with Lake Geneva by the way, but the German side of course does it with more precision.)\n--for ferry schedules on Lake Thun see. You can coordinate the ferry departure with the arrival of the train. There is a bus connecting the train station and ferry pier, it takes about 10 minutes between the two. The bus will be timed to meet the train when it arrives and get to the ferry pier before the ferry departs (this is how Switzerland works). (However, if you take the 5:45 pm Golden Pass, then you can't ferry as far as Interlaken West as the times don't work. You could consider a shorter ride to Merlingen, and then a train to Wengen; or a longer ride in the other direction to Thun, and then a longer train ride up to Wengen. See the train and ferry schedules. Or overnight in Spiez and do the ferry the next day.)\n--to make the trip easier, I would suggest sending your luggage ahead of you by train. If you drop it off by 9 am at major stations, it will be in Wengen (or other major mountain towns) by 6 pm, see for info. This is an excellent service from Swiss Rail. This will allow you to stop off in Gstaad or elsewhere and not worry about luggage, and also will be a bit easier when taking the ferry from Speiz. (Note that the Montreux baggage office does not open until 8 am, so if you are taking the 7:45 am Golden Pass train you would have to send the luggage the night before, and just go with a small carry on. Or bring some of your luggage with you and send larger pieces ahead the day before. I've done the trip with and without bags, and just prefer not to have bags if I can avoid it. You can store bags in Gstaad for a few hours if you end up taking bags with you.)\n4. Wengen is my personal favourite town in the BO. I prefer it to Grindlewald (which is even more touristy as it gets the bus tours), and it offers more in terms of lodging and restaurants than Murren. Lauterbrunnen is at the bottom of the valley and I personally would not consider staying there.\n--In Wengen, you could do the wonderful Maennlichen to Kleine Schiedig walk, which takes about an hour and is quite easy. Or take the Top of the Jungfrau train. Or possibly do both, as the walk begins or end (depending on which way you do it) near the Kleine Schiedig train station, from where you can get the Top of the Jungfrau train. You could also do the train first, come down and do the walk from Kleine Scheddegg to Maennlichen in the afternoon. How much you can do will depend on weather and your inclination. There are some easy short walks in Wengen, and a nice walk down to Lauterbrunnen (nice going up too, but obviously far steeper). Bring gloves, a hat and layers for any Swiss mountain town; as the weather is rapidly changeable and it can be snowing at the top of the Jungfrau, sunny in Wengen and hot on the lakes.\n5. If you wanted to skip Lake Geneva, you can also get to the BO from Venice by train in 6 - 6.5 hours with only 1-2 changes. There are 3:20 pm and 4:20 pm departures which would put you into Wengen at 10:45 or 11:45 pm (the latter requires a short bus ride from Interlaken to Lauterbrunnen rather than trains all the way). Alternatively, you could take the train to Spiez, which you can reach in about 6 hours with only 1 change (Milan or Brig). You could overnight in Spiez and then spend the morning on the lake and then go up to Wengen from there. If you took the 3:30 pm or 4:20 pm from Venice, you would be in Spiez at 9 or 10 pm, with just 1 change.\nThere is also a 7:00 am train from Venice which arrives into Speiz at 2 pm (one change in Milan), from which you could take the ferry down the lake and then go up to Wengen. That may be a good use of time.\n6. From Interlaken it is 5 hours to Paris by train, an easy trip. (You need about an hour to get down from Wengen to Interlaken Ost train station.) The latest train is 4:40 pm – arrive 9:30 (change in Basel). Would be light for most of trip.\nLinblue, I have some thoughts for you which I will post in another message, as I don't want to confuse the two.\nLinblue here are my thoughts and suggestions:\n1. Trying to choose where to go in Europe can be daunting for a first timer. There are so many options, and you probably have a limited amount of time. It's hard to tell what to do. The more you read, the more overwhelmed you can become; one place seems more interesting than the last. I would first say to go with your initial choices, as they probably represent what interests you most.\n2. I would also note that both France and Italy have \"glaciers, old villages, etc\" so you don't have to go to Switzerland just for those. (Austria and Germany also have them, and Austria's would be less touristed and quite a bit less expensive than Switzerland's. The train ride to Venice through parts of Austria is one of the best in Europe, IMO.) So if villages and glaciers are part of your interests, you may be able to include them in your existing itin. (As I don't know what else that includes besides Paris and Venice, it's hard to advise).\n3. While Switzerland does have glaciers and old villages, I am not sure that setting aside only 1 day to see them is the best way to do so. Also trying to do this in the Interlaken area is not the best choice, IMO, as few of villages in the area which are accessible in that short of a period are \"old\". While perhaps charming in their own way, they may not be quite the picturesque Swiss villages you may have in mind. (They are surrounded by some lovely countryside, however.) I am not entirely sure you will see a glacier in the Bernese Oberland in that short a period of time. I suppose from parts of the Jungfrau you are looking at glaciers, but one snowfield looks a lot like another to me. If your idea means that you have to give up a day in Venice, I personally would not do it for just 1 day in Switzerland (and I used to live there). Not worth the hassle.\n4. Late September is a bit questionable in terms of weather. The saying there is that summer lasts from June 1 to September 1. There is not much of an autumn. Some cable cars close down for annual maintenance, and resorts start to close and stay closed until right before Christmas. It is generally OK until mid-October, but you may find some closures in late September. The ferries are still running on a summer schedule, which is a good thing. However, it may be foggy and rainy and quite cool to cold in the higher elevations. It will be a matter of luck on the day you are there. If you only have 1 day and it turns out to be a rainy one, you may be wishing you had skipped Switzerland. There is not a lot to do in the Interlaken area in bad weather (fondue and wine do help, however).\n5. All of the above notwithstanding, when weighed against the night train from Paris, IF you have the time to take a day off of your itinerary, and don't mind a bit of a hassle with bags, etc, breaking up the journey with an overnight somewhere in the mountains is not an entirely terrible idea. The night train from Paris departs at 7:30 pm and arrives in Venice at 9:30 am, which is 14 straight hours, more time than I personally like to spend on a train, much as I enjoy train rides. So if you want to break up that journey a bit, my suggestion would be as follows:\n--the very fastest route between Paris and Venice goes via the French Alps (just under 10 hours). So you might break up the journey with an overnight there, perhaps in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne or Modane or the French side or Bardonecchi on the Italian side. It's 4 hours on the train there (no changes; 5 hours with a connection in Lyon), and another 5-6 hours on to Venice after that. I have not been to the French towns, so can't offer any sightseeing thoughts, but perhaps others can. I have been to Bardonecchia which has some gorgeous mountain views, and you can get cable cars up pretty easily as it is a very small town. It would be a scenic train journey on both ends, as you will be in the French and Italian Alps for a good bit of it (although some of it will be in tunnels.) On the way to Venice, you will change trains in Torino, site of the winter Olympics in 2006 to give you an idea of the landscape (the snowboarding was held in Bardonecchia). You will also change trains in Bologna, which IMO is absolutely worth a stop to see (and even an overnight there). The other advantage of France or Italy is that it will be cheaper than Switzerland in terms of accommodation and meals.\n--Another alternative is to take the morning day train via this scenic route and overnight in Bologna (8 hours 1 change in Torino), have a walk around and a great meal in Bologna -- to prepare yourself for the tourist onslaught that will be Venice. Or just take the day train entirely to Venice in the 10 hours to see the countryside.\n--if you still feel the need to go to Switzerland, then take a train from Paris to either Speiz, Thun or Lucerne. A train to any of these will take 4.5 - 5 hours and require 1 change. This will be the very pleasant and fast TGV trains. Spend the day/night in the area. See the suggestions for Speiz and Thun above – take a ferry and go up to Wengen if time allows. I would say to base yourself in Speiz or Thun for a hotel rather than up in the mountains as you have limited time. The advantage to this area over the French/Italian Alps are the huge lakes, the disadvantage is that it is a bit further from the mountains. While I am not a huge fan of Lucerne, with such a short time it could be a good place to go in that you can get a ferry trip in and also get to either Pilatus or Rigi mountains pretty easily. Also if the weather is bad, there is more to do there as they have an old town that is quite pretty. Lucerne is tourist central, so just look it up (including on this Fodors site) for a list of things to do. It is rather expensive for hotels and meals (as is all of Switzerland.) If I were choosing, I would choose Spiez, but Lucerne would work if you want more of a city.\nWow, thank you.\nI've given up the overnight train from Paris to Venice idea. It seems a waste of an opportunity to see our surrounds & so many hours confined on a train doesnt entice us.\nThat said, we have 1 night free on our way to Venice. Given a detour through Switzerland doesn't add much time and offers a quiet picturesque village to rest in, we will take that route. Ism especially attracted to the sound of Thun and its quick accessibility by train transfer. I've researched the map of the village and selected a promising looking hotel that i have booked for our night. Within easy access from the train station and right on lake Thun.\nThe suggestion about ferrying down lake Thun has really got our attention. How good is that! I am not sure yet if ithe ferry would be our in coming journey to Thun or outgoing towards Venice via Milan. Either way, it is an excellent idea and I will try to book the journey to include it.\nIi was finding trains difficult to price and follow schedules but have been given really helpful advice & links in another post. Although it is too soon to see the date we travel through Switzerland, it seems regular trains run through Basel that connect links to Thun. Alternatively Geneve & Berne do as Owell. The time between Paris to Thun or Thun to Venice is roughly about 5 hours per leg. Not bad especially with scenic views.\nCold weather could be a problem, not for me but my daughters. They wear woollens even in summer! But they'll survive and are so keen to see Snow! What a treat! We've never seen snow.\nI'll take a look at the ferry idea and let you know hoe I go. Thank you all for your detailed advice and expert knowledge about ithis part of the world.\nHello Cicerone,\nthank you for your help earlier, our plans have now changed and I am looking for ideas on how to see some of Switzerland in a small window of opportunity, leaving from Venice on Monday 8th October 12 and need to arrive in Milan by the late anoon of Friday 12th October, so really only 3 days to be somewhere and explore, some scenic train journeys included would be nice, your help will be greatly appreciated,\nYour message above says you depart Venice on October 12 and have to be in Milan on October 12 as well, so it is not quite clear. It appears you may have 3 weekdays in md-Ocotbet in Switzerland. With that short a period of time, and in October, I am not sure it is worth the time and trouble to do the scenic rail trips in the mountains. October can be a bit iffy in the mountains, and you may end up with fog and rain obscuring the views; and as you only have a very limited time, this may not be the best use of it.\nWith that short a period of time, I would suggest the Lake Geneva area. You can do at least part of the Golden Pass. There are also shorter rail trips like to Rochers-de-Naye and the splendid incline railway up to Mt Pelerin.\nThe Jungfrau/Interlaken area mentioned above may work as it is a pretty easy trip from Venice and then back to Milan. You can do short rail trips there like up the Jungfrau. (October could be foggy there.)\nThe Bernina Express train is a possibility, but see if it works with your schedule. I don't think it will work really well on an itin that is in Italy between Venice and Milan. Getting back to Milan could take longer than you may want.\nYou could of course stay closer to Venice and go to the Italian Alps (e.g., Bolzano or Cortina), as that won't take you nearly as long for similar mountain vistas as Switzerland (or cost nearly as much money).\nOctober is great weather in many parts of Italy; so perhaps you could consider taking your time between Venice and Milan. I know that Cinque Terre is already on your itin as is Rome and Florence; I could easily break up 3 days among those places. I am guessing Modena may not be the top of anyone's list right now, but that may be one place to consider. Bologna is quite interesting even if it does not have mountains.\nI want to go from Venice to St Moritz, Pontresina.. Engadine area... as discussed above in May 2014, final destination Amsterdam (probably by train or airplane) I plan to spend 6-7 days. Any recommendation for the route and places to stay? Many thanks.\nVenice to Lake Como - stay on the lake a few days in say Bellagio - hop the train from Varenna to Tirano then the Bernina Pass Railway to St Moritz\nsome days there\ngo via Chur to Zurich - fly or take the overnight train from Zurich to Amsterdam."}
{"text": "Located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center is one of seven nursing homes in the city. This facility received an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average rating. This facility truly has plenty going for it. We were also pleased to find that this nursing home did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.\nBedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center\n- Nursing Home\nUpdated Jul 1, 2019 by Nick Reese\n9 Pope Street,\nNew Bedford MA 02740\n71.36% estimated occupancy 1\nNote: Data for Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center has not been updated recently. This page shows historical performance which may not be representitive of current service levels.\nQuick Details\nFacility Inspections\nTo pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection grades. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.\nLong-term Care Quality\nAmong this facility's other achievements is its superb long-term care score. We awarded them one of our most impressive scores in that area, with a score of A. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.\nDoes this page answer your questions about Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center?\nNurse Quality\nThis facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing grade is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This nursing home provides frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.\nShort-term Care Quality\nThe next area we rated was short-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a grade of C. This actually proved to be this facility's weakest area. This is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.\nRating Over Time\nCompared to national and state averages across all facilities.\nBedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics\nMinimizes Pressure Ulcers\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 6.44% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers\nThis is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.\nMinimizes Serious Falls\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 3.62% of Patients had Serious Falls\nThis tells you the percentage of residents who have had a fall which resulted in severe injury.\nMinimizes Urinary Tract Infections\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 2.45% of Patients had UTIs\nThis datapoint indicates the percent of long-term patients which suffered from UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.\nAppropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 18.96% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication\nThis is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to patients for many conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.\nAppropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 18.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication\nThis figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.\nManaging Depression Among Residents\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 1.95% of Patients\nThis metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting signs of depression.\nAppropriate Vaccine Usage\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 91.63% of Patients\nThis datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.\nResidents Maintain Autonomy\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 15.18% Percentage of Patients\nThis metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.\nAbility to Keep Residents Mobile\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 19.01% Percentage of Residents\nThis metric tracks the percent of long-term stay patients that retained mobility levels.\nShort-term Care: Rehospitalizations\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 19.01 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized\nThis indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.\nShort-term Care: ER Visits\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 10.9 Percentage of Patients\nThis indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.\nShort-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement\nIn Bedford Village Care and Rehabilitation Center, 71.03% Percentage of Resident\nThis indicates the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. 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{"text": "Friday, May 03, 2002\nA good link on task analysis \"strategies and practices\" by Bettina Lankard Brown.\nOf course an important first step in determining the training or education needs of a population is to define what I expect them to be able to do. \"What tasks need to be accomplished?\" Once this determination has been made, then I can begin to assess the learning/training \"gaps\" or \"needs\" of each individual learner.\nThis will allow me to apply a construcitivist or problem-based approach to group-based information communication technologies (ICT) learning. Once the tasks (problems) to be accomplished have been defined, I can begin to define a strategy to address these same needs."}
{"text": "It seems that with having most of the teams arrived home in their respective countries, one month after the race, more and more videos and documentaries are starting to appear.\nThe University of Calgary Solar Team published this movie which is part documentary and part mood video:\nThe Dutch Nuon Solar Team’s adventures were featured in an episode of Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet:"}
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{"text": "Summer has arrived in force, but we’re not all lucky enough to get away. Have you ever fantasized about buying a house in the tropics? Ant Press author Patrick Youngblood did, and his book, The Coconut Chronicles was the result.\nBefore you, too, take the plunge, read The Coconut Chronicles, a lighthearted romp about a Puerto Rican home renovation that went seriously awry. Come along for the ride as Patrick and Michael battle inebriated gardeners, concrete-munching termites, and five-foot iguanas.. Featured in the New York Times."}
{"text": "Round 3 of the riotous \"Defender Challenge By Bowler\" Land Rover rally is going down June 7th at Southwell Racecourse; featuring 44 stage miles in Sherwood Forest.\nIf you're in the area, try and check it out! Otherwise the rest of us can scan YouTube for highlights on Sunday; no live stream option for this event yet.\nTracks will be dirt roads and loose gravel tracks with stages through the Sherwood Pines. Seven teams will be represented tomorrow, all driving Land Rover Defender 90s modified by Bowler. Race organizers still expect more teams to join in as the series progresses... I guess that means they're not getting too caught up in season-points or anything like that.\nMark Cameron, Global Brand Experience Director, Jaguar Land Rover, said:\n\"We're extremely pleased with the reaction that the Defender Challenge by Bowler race series has had so far. For a brand new rally series to already have seven registered teams by only the third round is a great achievement and goes to show how well the series has established itself in such a short space of time. It's also clear from the spectator reaction that rally fans are enjoying the added dimension these Bowler-prepared Land Rover vehicles are adding to racing across the UK.\"\nImages: Land Rover, one modified by Andrew Collins\nDISCUSSION\nVery nice. I wonder if the British forces are going to join in.\nThey have a little history of rallying Landies."}
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{"text": "Fired Unicef boss hits back\nCharity insist they cannot legally reinstate high-profile former executive director as she has already cashed her €200,000 severance payment\nIt should have been the publicity coup of the year for Unicef Ireland. But the “overshadowing” of golfer Rory McIlroy’s visit to Haiti as a goodwill ambassador for the charity led to the sacking of Melanie Verwoerd, the organisation’s high-profile executive director.\nYesterday Verwoerd released a statement and correspondence with Paul Connolly, chairman of the charity, in an attempt to correct “misleading statements” about her departure by the board of directors, which last week denied she had been sacked by email.\nUnicef also said Verwoerd had cashed a €200,000 cheque, which it described as a settlement worth two years’ salary. A charity source said it received legal advice stating it cannot reinstate her because she cashed her severance payment.\nYesterday Verwoerd reiterated she had been…"}
{"text": "M\nSports\nPlenty at stake\nScott Chancey\nFAIRHOPE, Ala. — Demetric Bennett was on the South Alabama team bus Wednesday, traveling some eight hours to Western Kentucky for tonight’s key Sun Belt Conference matchup.\nAnd you didn’t have to ask him twice about what’s at stake.\n“The regular-season conference championship will be determined,” said an excited Bennett, a former star at Monroe before signing with Southern Methodist and eventually transferring to South Alabama. “We’re playing for first place.”\nAnd most importantly, playing for the conference driver’s seat heading into the Tournament.\nA South Alabama win tonight would put the Jaguars in position for at least a co-championship and top seed in the tournament near the end of the regular season. The Hilltoppers are 21-5 overall and 13-1, while the Jaguars — led by Bennett’s 20.1 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game average — are right there with Western Kentucky at 21-5 and 13-2.\nA win tonight would not only give the Jaguars the tie-breaker, but begin to cap what’s been a stellar season for the Jags.\n“It’s been good,” Bennett said. “We’re trying to make it back to the NCAA tournament.”\nBennett and his teammates won the regular season and tournament crowns in 2006 and reached the NCAA\ntourney, only to fall in the first round, 76-50, against eventual national champion Florida. A basket by Bennett pulled South Alabama within one at 9-18 late in the first half of that game, but the Gators went on a 10-0 run after that and never looked back.\nAlthough South Alabama won the regular-season title again in 2007, the Jaguars fell short in the tournament and had to settle for the NIT, where they lost, 79-73, in the opening round against Syracuse.\nSouth Alabama has only won one NCAA Tournament game, and that was in 1989 at Atlanta’s Omni (where Philips Arena now is located) when the Jaguars defeated Alabama, 86-84, in the first round.\nWhile South Alabama is trying to return to the NCAA tourney, even ESPN recently recognized Bennett’s 3-point shooting. In a column by renowned writer Pat Forde, he paid homage to the fact Bennett has made 76-of-184 from beyond the arc and had 15 20-plus point games (he has even scored more than 20 in six of the past seven contests). Bennett had his best game this season during a 71-67 win against Mississippi State in which he dropped in 39 points.\nBennett says he has not only become a high-octane scorer, he’ still always focusing on improving some aspect of his game.\n“I’m just gaining experience,” Bennett said. “All the time you work on the things you’ve been doing, working on the things you’re doing good and getting better at them. Then, you’re working on the things you have not been doing good at and trying to get better at those.”\nSouth Alabama coach Ronnie Arrow, who also coached the Jaguars from 1987-94 and coached them to their lone NCAA tourney win, sees more to Bennett than just a high-caliber scorer.\n“He’s a very good player who brings different dimensions to the team,” said Arrow, who came back to take over after John Pelphrey left to take over the top coaching job at Arkansas. “I think when people come to see him play, the word is he’s just a tremendous shooter. He’s very consistent on shooting the ball. We need him, though, to get him as hungry on rebounding and the other things to showcase his true talent.”\nHowever, the bad news for the Jaguars is this: Although South Alabama could move closer to winning at least a share of yet another regular-season title and clinch the top seed for the conference tourney today, the Jags will probably have to win that, too, to make it to the exclusive NCAA bracket.\n“To be considered as an at-large bid is always good. But we need to win the Sun Belt tournament championship (to ensure we have a shot),” Bennett said.\nThe Sun Belt Conference has not been granted an at-large bid since 1994.\nSouth Alabama, however, will host the championship game (the first round is played on campus sites), and hopes it assures itself a spot in the Big Dance by winning the title game March 11.\nAnd Arrow believes much of that fortune will depend on Bennett.\n“He’s a guy we go to when we need to get points, and he’s a guy we want to be a leader for us, to get us where we want to be,” Arrow said, “And that is the NCAA tournament.”\nBack to today's Sports>>\n© 2007 The Albany Herald/Triple Crown Media"}
{"text": "Netflix has a good catalog of music documentaries. I watched the ones on Nina Simone, The Eagles & Quincy Jones. Here are a few thoughts.\n1) What happened, Miss Simone?\nAn academy award nominated film, this was almost heartbreaking to watch. It takes you through an honest journey of how a wonderfully talented Nina Simone went from being the darling of the music industry to being an outcast! Her fall from grace as the industry dealt with her fight against racism and discrimination during civil rights movement, and her personal battle against domestic abuse and bipolar disorder. One of the most celebrated and storied singers of her time, she won several awards but the same industry that put her on a pedestal refused to hold her hand when she rebelled against a discriminatory culture. It makes you wonder what would have happened to her had the world been a perfect place to live? Would she has soared into newer heights?\n(Image credit:)\n2) History of the Eagles\nThis emmy award winning documentary showcases personal accounts of each Eagle on the band’s birth, evolution and sustained success. It makes you feel intensely! You feel Glen Frey's burning ego from his frank thoughts. (I am not saying his ego was bad. On the contrary, I think it was justified given his talent! ) You feel Don Henley's charisma through his years as the Eagles’ drummer and lead vocalist. you feel bad for Don Felder and feel excited for Joe Welsh's come-back after personal battle with drug abuse. This documentary opened my eyes and ears to their comprehensive work! I have to admit, until I saw this, the only song I knew of the Eagles’ was “Hotel California”!\n(Image credit:)\n3) Quincy\nI was let down heavily by this documentary. Having been introduced to Quincy Jones through several books and a documentary on MJ, I wanted to see more on how Quincy came to be one of the biggest, most successful music producers in the world. Since it is a show directed by his daugher, Rashida Jones, you can see that it is a very carefully crafted show and is a little bit on the emotional side. I have no problem with that, but the fact that it could have been more! Life of a legendary producer like Quincy cannot be all detailed in just 2.5 hrs. It should have been lengthier and more nuanced in my opinion.\n(Image credit:)"}
{"text": "Adobe's annual MAX conference in Los Angeles serves as a venue for in-depth software training sessions for creatives and a platform for new product announcements. The big news from this year's show is the release of a new fast video-editing app called Premiere Rush CC.\nBut Adobe also showed off: previews of a full Photoshop version for iPad; Project Gemini, a mobile drawing and painting app; and Project Aero for AR design. The company also has a major update to its XD interface design and prototyping app, along with feature adds to many of the Creative Cloud professional media apps.\nRush to Post Video\nRush is a new quick video-editing app for mobile and desktop that syncs projects between the two. It targets those frequent social video producers and is available for Windows, Mac, and iOS, with more platforms to follow.\nThe interface resembles that of the simplified Lightroom CC, and will be welcomed by those who are intimidated by Premiere Pro's massive assortment of tools, menus, and panels. The software makes it easy to cut, add transitions, titles, and soundtracks. Rush also simplifies exporting video projects to multiple social outputs in one step and with the required format specs.\nRush is available with full Creative Cloud subscription or as a standalone for $9.99 per month.\nFull Photoshop on the iPad\nAdobe also demonstrated a fully capable version of Photoshop running as an iPad app. Yes, that means all those layers, blend modes, gradients, filters, and masks will be editable on the leading tablet. Of course, the interface has been redesigned to work well with touch and pen input. And it saves to the standard .PSD format, so you can take projects started on iPad to the desktop. Photoshop for iPad will launch in 2019.\nProject Gemini and Project Aero\nIn a similar vein to Photoshop, Project Gemini is an iPad drawing and painting app without all the complexity that comes with the bigger, more traditional image-manipulation app. It's intended purely as a creative app for artists working on iPads. It combines both raster and vector drawing capabilities, and effects like water running on watercolors and oil paint smearing are surprisingly realistic.\nGemini lets you dock its control panels or work in full screen mode. For now, it's is in closed beta, but you can apply to join the beta program, or follow the team's Instagram account.\nMeanwhile, augmented reality (AR) is popping up everywhere, and Project Aero is a new AR authoring tool that integrates with Adobe Dimension and Photoshop. At MAX, the company showcased a demo in collaboration with Adidas of an AR-powered retail store for a vision of the future.\nXD and More for CC Subscribers\nOther Adobe Creative Cloud apps get feature adds today as well, many of which take advantage of Adobe's Sensei AI technology to anticipate designers' needs.\nXD, the interface design and prototyping tool in particular received lots of attention, with over 60 new features. One of the coolest is support for AI-powered voice apps. It also gets plug-in support, animation tools, and integration with Illustrator and After Effects.\nAll Creative Cloud subscribers now can take advantage of Adobe Fonts (formerly TypeKit) in their print and web projects. That's a choice of over 15,000 fonts! Premiere Pro users get new tools to make widespread changes to colors in videos, Photoshop gets improved Content-Aware Fill, and Illustrator gets a more powerful and flexible way to build gradients. Ligthroom CC can now import from Apple Photos, and Lightroom Classic's tethering is improved. InDesign gets a new Properties panel, and Audition gets new intelligent audio cleanup, just to name a few of the large numbers of improvements in the suite."}
{"text": "\nMy Favorite Complication\nA French woman asked me from the driver's seat where to turn. I pointed to the street and she emphatically and in a strong French accent told me that the homes lining the road were \"lovely.\" Rebecca nodded along, agreeing with her mother's pronouncements.\nGet the latest posts delivered right to your inbox"}
{"text": "Red patches, or \"hot spots,\" on a Labrador retriever's skin are easy to recognise but often require a veterinary diagnosis. Labradors, like many other heavy-coated breeds, are susceptible to skin irritation caused by reactions to both external and internal allergens.\nIdentification\nRed patches on a Labrador retriever are diagnosed by visual examination of the skin. Red patches, which can be inflamed and accompanied by a discharge, often occur with flaky skin, hair loss, itching and brown discolouration. Red patches are usually the result of the dog's body releasing an overabundance of histamines to combat an allergen.\nExternal Causes\nRed spots can be caused by allergies to environmental allergens. Parasites, particularly fleas, are a common cause of allergies and red spots on the skin. Dogs are often allergic to flea saliva, not the flea itself. Some Labradors are allergic to grass and plants or cosmetic ingredients such as shampoos. Eliminating external allergens one at a time helps with diagnosis.\nInternal Causes\nFood allergies are often the cause of Labrador allergies and red patches on the skin. Grains and beef are usually eliminated in the effort to identify food allergens. Labradors with food allergies can be prescribed a hypoallergenic diet. Removing the cause of itching will eliminate a dog's scratching that creates hot spots.\nTreatment\nCorrect diagnosis of the allergen causing red patches allows parasites that cause external allergies must be consistently controlled with topical insecticides. Serious allergic reactions to flea bites are often resolved with oral anti-parasite medication. Bedding and outdoor areas should be treated to kill parasites. In addition to determining and eliminating the cause of allergies, hot spots can be treated by trimming the fur around the red patch, keeping it clean and dry, and applying antibacterial ointment. Serious cases may be relieved with steroid injections and oral antihistamines.\nCare\nIt is important to limit a Labrador's scratching, chewing or licking of red patches. In serious cases, an Elizabethan collar that fits around a dog's neck makes it difficult for a dog to reach irritated skin.\nConsiderations\nRed patches on a Labrador's skin can be caused by factors other than allergies. Mange causes red skin irritation, flaking and itching. Wounds can also cause red patches, especially irritation caused by close clipping with grooming tools. Thyroid imbalances cause skin irritation and must be diagnosed with blood tests."}
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{"text": "Dr. Lindsey J. Patman, MD\nOrthopaedic Surgery, Presbyterian Medical Center Orthopedics\n- 8300 Constitution Ave NE\nAlbuquerque, NM 87110\n- 1 Office Location\n- (505) 559-4666\nDr. Lindsey J. Patman graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 2007. He works in Albuquerque, NM and specializes in Orthopaedic Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. Dr. Patman is affiliated with Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital.\nGender: Male\nYears in Practice: 7 Years\nLanguages Spoken: Not Available\nMedical School: University of Texas Medical School at Houston\nGraduation Date: 2007\nHospital Affiliations: Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital\nSpecialties: Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Sports Medicine"}
{"text": "Coffee. We want it, we need it, and we love it. Making great tasting coffee doesn’t always have to involve using a coffee maker or coffee machine (boring!). Now I know you’re probably thinking, “I use my coffee machine to make coffee because I’m in a hurry.” Okay, well that’s alright too, but what if your coffee maker stops working? What if you’re switching to a minimalistic off-grid lifestyle and do not want a coffee maker as part of your arsenal of survival items (though if you carry an item that boils water, you wouldn’t really need anything extra to carry) in your off-grid home? If I’m slightly going on the right path, then this read is for you. And, no you don’t have to be a coffee expert to make coffee without a coffee machine. Here are a few ways to brew you a nice cup of coffee without machines or coffee makers. Remember, great tasting coffee will always come from high-quality fresh coffee beans and ground coffee. More on this later.\nThe Pan or “Cowboy” Method\nFor this method, you will need a heating source (campfire, rocket stove or anything that brings water to a boil), water, a pot or pan, and grounded coffee.\nPour water into your pot or pan. When deciding how much water, add a little extra as the extra water will be left in the pan along with the coffee grounds. Bring water to a boil. Once the water is boiling, add coffee. Once the coffee is added to the boiling water, remove the pan from the heating source immediately. This is to prevent from overcooking your coffee. Next, wait until coffee settles at the bottom of the pan, about five minutes. Slowly pour coffee into a cup, taking care that coffee grounds do not transfer into your cup (if you don’t mind, a little is fine). You can now enjoy a cup of coffee.\nTwo Cup Method\nFor this you will need a heating source, 2 clean cups or mugs (even better if the cup or mug has some sort of spout and preferably one of the cups or mugs is made out of material that can be used in place of a pan or pot to boil water in), a glove (to protect against burns), water, and coffee.\nTo make coffee, boil water in one of the cups. Once boiled, pour in coffee. Pour enough coffee according to your preferred strength and the size of the cup or mug you will be drinking from. Once the coffee is poured into the boiling water, immediately remove it from the heating source. Use the glove to safely remove mug away from the heat. Let it brew for about 4 minutes, add a minute for a stronger tasting cup of coffee. Next, when you see coffee grounds have settled at the bottom of the cup brewer, with the glove still on, pour coffee gently and carefully into the other clean cup. It can be a little difficult at first, but it is doable. Leave coffee grounds and leftover water in the cup brewer. Enjoy your coffee!\nThe Cheesecloth or Handkerchief Method (AKA Pour-Over Method)\nFor this method, you will need the basics already mentioned above (heating source, water, coffee, cups or pan) with the addition of a clean cheesecloth or a handkerchief to serve as a do-it-yourself filter or strainer, and maybe a rubber band or some binder clips.\nTo make your coffee, choose your preferred method to bring water to a boil. In a cup, prepare a cheesecloth or handkerchief and hold it in place on top of a cup. Secure it by hand, rubber band or binder clips. Measure your preferred amount of coffee and put it into your DIY filter. Once the water comes to a boil, pour enough water to only wet the coffee grounds. Let the hot water settle with the coffee for about 30 seconds (coffee experts call this “blooming”). After this, continue pouring hot water into the filter a fourth at a time in 30-second intervals until all water has seeped through. Remove the filter and enjoy your cup of coffee.\nThese are only a few ways you can brew up a nice cup of coffee without using a coffee maker or coffee machine. Whichever method you choose, making great tasting coffee starts with high-quality coffee like those from Gimoka Coffee (a producer of premium Italian coffee). If you want to level up your coffee game, purchase high-quality coffee beans from them, then grind them yourself at home. By doing this, you can make ground coffee according to your preference. For those who are in a hurry and can’t quite part from using a coffee machine, Gimoka Coffee also offers coffee pods and ground coffee to purchase."}
{"text": "GRM033C71A104KE14D Part Information\nDetails for GRM033C71A104KE14D by Murata\nMurata Parts\nFeatured Distributor\nStock Information\nDetails\nPart Specifications\nAlternative Part Descriptions\n- CAP, 0.1UF, 10V, MLCC, 0201; Capacitance:0.1µF; Voltage Rating:10V; Ceramic Capacitor Case:0201 [0603 Metric]; Capacitance Tolerance:± 10%; Dielectric Characteristic:X7S; Product Range:GRM Series; Operating Temperature Min:-55°C; RoHS Compliant: Yes \| Newark Electronics\nFrequently Asked Questions\nWhere can I find additional details, specifications and documents for a GRM033C71A104KE14D?\nAdditional datasheets, footprints and schematics for GRM033C71A104KE14D are listed in our Part Details tab. You can also find the GRM033C71A104KE14D image and similar parts on this details page.\nWhat pricing and inventory information can I view?\nDistributor pricing and stock information is available for GRM033C71A104KE14D in the Pricing & Inventory tab next to part details. You can view GRM033C71A104KE14D price breaks, MOQs, lead times, inventory and SKUs from distributors.\nWhat category does GRM033C71A104KE14D fall under?\nThe GRM033C71A104KE14D is listed under Murata Parts.\nCan I view similar or alternative parts?\nYou can view similar parts to GRM033C71A104KE14D when available in the Murata Parts range under the specifications section at the bottom of the details page.\nWho can I contact for technical support of the product?\nSubmit any questions directly to the customer support team of the distributor listing the product. For the GRM033C71A104KE14D you can contact the distributor directly for product support, shipping queries etc.\nIs the GRM033C71A104KE14D RoHS compliant?\nYes. This part has been flagged as RoHS Compliant by Farnell.\nWhich authorised distributors for GRM033C71A104KE14D have stock available?\nAuthorised distributors including Newark Electronics have stock available or on a lead time for GRM033C71A104KE14D.\nHow do I check stock and lead times for all distributors?\nStock availability and lead times will be displayed for GRM033C71A104KE14D often in real-time on the comparison pages.\nWhat if I can't find stock of GRM033C71A104KE14D?\nYou can fill out our help required form which you can use to request a quote for GRM033C71A104KE14D from some of our verified obsolescence suppliers. Alternatively, contact us via our web chat in the bottom left of your screen and one of our team will try to help."}
{"text": "GOTY 2011: Best Indie Developer Nominations\nThe Indie sector's been growing quite steadily this year, with more and more indie developers receiving their moment in the spotlight and seeing rather successful releases. Games like\nRight here is our list of nominees for Best Indie Developer. It's been a good year as as we've seen quite a number of indie games released to considerable reception. Games like Joe Danger, Minecraft, Magicka, and Orcs Must Die! have dotted the release calendar this year! Take a look.\nBest Indie Developer of 2011 Nominees\n- Arrowhead Game Studios\n- Frozenbyte\n- Gaijin Games\n- Hello Games\n- Mojang\n- Nicalis\n- Supergiant Games\n- Robot Entertainment\n- Team Meat\n- Terry Cavanagh\nCheck back next week to find out who nabs our 2011 Best Indie Developer award!\nYou may also be interested in:\nYou need to login or register to comment on this news story."}
{"text": "Several years ago communications with the equestrian community were extremely limited or nonexistent leading to concerns between the local forestry office and horseback riders using Florida Forest Service trails. When a trail issue arose we would reach out to as many equestrian organizations as possible to try and resolve matters. Some of the groups refused to work with each other and it was difficult to get a united effort to make changes in the forest. As the local land manager dealing with issues relative to the recreation use and in this case equestrian matters, we were trying to get enough folks together to make some positive changes in trail use for the horseback riders in the forest.\nMany if not most of our trails in the Croom Tract of the Withlacoochee State Forest, were located on sandy roads and utilized by local 4 X 4 truck users. This situation was dangerous and needed improvement. Initially, the response was diverse and no two clubs agreed with the other. As tempers rose we ended up suggesting the idea of forming an equestrian club to unify and represent all horse owners in the central Florida locale.\nThere was little trust among the equestrian community for the land managers, and a frustration among the land managers with the equestrian users. Without the building of trust that comes with a working partnership - where both sides can sit down, listen to the other; understand their issues and constraints, the situation was not going to improve.\nLittle did we know that Truman Prevatt and Kathy Thompson would take up the challenge and create the Florida Forever Back Country Horsemen. We had our early disagreements, but it has been a few years now and this club is now one of our stronger partners working to bring a better experience for horseback riders and educating the public on the land management issues we face on a daily basis.\nThe first order of business was to build trust. This trust not only had to be built between FFBCH and Withlacoochee Forestry Center (WFC), it had to be built between FFBCH and the equestrian groups. The reason the BCHA was selected when FFBCH was organized was its principles were in line with what needed to be done. WFC didn’t have the resources to implement the changes that needed to be done nor did they have the resources to maintain the trails. There was a large population of equestrians that were not at that time active in volunteering to help the Center maintain the equestrian trail system. There was a three year effort the WFC personnel and FFBCH worked together to define reroutes of trails off roads to make them safer and provide a more pleasant experience for equestrians. Working together we have put together a system where the reconnaissance and most of the maintenance on the horse trails are done with volunteer efforts.\nThe Florida Forever Back Country Horsemen has become a well established equestrian organization working hard to promote better relations with the local agency, fostering good trail etiquette, providing better trail identification and overall trail maintenance, running clean up campaigns, and most importantly providing a strong leadership role in resolving trail issues in our state forests.\nToday after four years of work, the Croom horse trails are a model trail system. The trails are laid out in a set of loops of varying lengths. There is a loop for those that want to go out for a short walk in the woods to enjoy a sunny Florida winter day. There is a loop for the endurance rider that needs a long training ride. There is a loop for everyone in between. There are over 45 miles of equestrian trails in the Croom tract and with the connection to the Withlacoochee State Trail there is over 55 miles of equestrian trails for the horsemen to enjoy. We are now working for funds to print a new Croom Horse Trail brochure that gives a detailed map of our work.\nWe believe the partnership forged between the FFBCH and WFC is a case study on how a good private-public partnership should work and a testament to the founding principles of the Back Country Horsemen of America.\nReport Abuse\|Powered By Google Sites"}
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{"text": "The dens fits into a groove in the C1 bone, or atlas, and it enables your head and neck to move properly. Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia Chiari malformation occurs when the bottom part of the cerebellum moves outside of its normal location by dipping through the opening in the occipital bone and entering the top part of the spinal canal.\nFor autosomal dominant inheritance the risk of passing the abnormal gene from affected parent to offspring is 50 percent for each pregnancy regardless of the sex of the resulting child. In this case, you may not require any treatment. Your doctor may recommend avoiding contact sports or other high-impact activities, which may worsen compression. During the early fetal stages, the majority of the skeleton is made of cartilage.\nGenetics and inheritance KFS can occur as an isolated anomaly or as part of another syndrome. Courtesy of WikipediaKlippel-Feil syndrome is associated with other spine and bone disorders, including scoliosis which is present in more than half of those affected and atlantoaxial instability. When dislocation or subluxation partial dislocation occurs at the atlas and axis, they become misaligned.\nFeil subsequently classified the syndrome into 3 categories: The disorder is characterized by KFS; hearing impairment due to failed transmission of sound impulses from the inner ear to the brain sensorineural deafness ; and a condition known as Duane syndrome in which there are abnormalities of certain eye ocular movements. Historically, KFS was associated with a classic triad of symptoms, specifically abnormally short neck, restricted movement of the head and neck, and a low hairline at the back of the head posterior hairline.\nRecessive genetic disorders occur when an individual inherits the same abnormal gene for the same trait from each parent. There are 4 types of Chiari malformation, which have different causes and treatment options. Klippel-Feil Syndrome KFS Image coming soon Kl. Treatment Treatment for individuals with KFS aims to provide relief from any symptoms and supportive care.\nHowever, researchers have determined that these symptoms may define one class of KFS, which accounts for less than 50 percent of affected individuals. Causes In most individuals with KFS, the condition appears to occur randomly for unknown reasons sporadically.\nPosted by: Shakamuro \| on October 2, 2012\nIn addition to the fusion of certain vertebrae, KFS can be associated with a wide variety of additional anomalies affecting many different organ systems of the body. View Sources Arnold Chiari Malformation. Recessive genetic disorders occur when an individual inherits the same abnormal gene for the same trait from each parent.\nIn other cases, KFS may be inherited as an autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive trait. 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{"text": "NORMAN — Assistance League of Norman Holiday Home Tour set Friday, Saturday\nWith the holidays just around the corner, the Assistance League of Norman will once again host its annual home tour.\nThe tour gives individuals in the community an opportunity to preview Norman homes, community and lifestyles. The Holiday Home Tour will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday.\nTickets are on sale for $20 from any Assistance League member and participating retailers: Brockhaus Jewelry, 2107 W. Main St.; Cayman’s, 2001 W. Main St.; Christmas Expressions, 2214 W. Lindsey St.; Havenbrook Funeral Home, 3401 Havenbrook St.; Kerns, 2001 W. Main St.; Mister Robert, 109 E. Main St.; Theos Marketplace, 3720 W. Robinson St.; Tulips, 570 Buchanan Ave.; and at the homes during the event for $25.\nOne of this year’s tour homes is that of Robert and Libbi Holbrook.\nThe couple have created a family atmosphere in their ranch-style home, which is a part of a deep Norman history.\nBuilt in 1955, the home was constructed on a former site of a pond owned by “Big Boy” Johnson’s Dairy. The Holbrook family took residence of the home in 2006 and renovated it down to the studs.\nOutside exists a new patio, outdoor kitchen, cabana, fireplace and a TV for game day celebrating. A new bar was designed to look like an antique, ordering custom moldings and utilizing unique paint treatments.\nThe Holbrook home, 216 Foreman Circle, is one of the five homes to be featured in the Assistance League’s Holiday Home Tour. Other homes include Stan and Cheryl, Berry 712 Juniper Lane; Andy and Elizabeth Greenhaw, 1901 Pine Oak Circle; Michael Pullen and Jim Allred, 402 Scarlet St.; and Steve Skidmore and Jim Helberg, 1901 Quail Creek Drive.\nThe proceeds from the event will help fund the philanthropic organization’s seven programs. The largest, Operation School Bell helps build a foundation for learning by providing children with new clothing, shoes and hygiene kits so they can arrive in the classroom ready to learn.\nFor local news and more, subscribe to The Norman Transcript Smart Edition, or our print edition."}
{"text": " 0 0 toshiembalaje toshiembalaje2020-08-12 00:46:102020-08-12 00:58:29Ways To Get Pre-Approved For The Boat Loan\nWays To Get Pre-Approved For The Boat Loan\nWays To Get Pre-Approved For The Boat Loan\nYou’re sailing gently over the deep waters that are blue wind in the hair, a martini in your hand. The sun’s rays is shining, and there’s perhaps perhaps not just a care in the field.\nIt’s the fantasy for countless of us, and yet this indicates ever away from reach.\nAs seductive as this fantasy is, the absolute most important things you may do is make certain you’re not overextending your self. In the event that you can’t manage to purchase a watercraft and also you purchase one anyway, you’ll just spend time at ocean fretting about exactly just exactly how you’re going to cover your debt off. Read more"}
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{"text": "From time to time we shine a spotlight on some of our most exciting projects from the years gone by. We consider ourselves highly privileged to have had the opportunity to work with such distinctive companies and are extremely proud of all that we have accomplished together.\nBranding a holiday experience on a yacht\nChallenge\nThe successful company Yacht Week provides sailing holidays with or without skipper in various destinations to groups of friends. They were looking to add a new concept to their portfolio for people who are out-grown the Yacht Week concept called Yachts and Friends. “How can we attract a new target audience and the Yacht Week audience who now have kids” was the briefing from our client.\nSolution\nSkyne developed a brand proposition based on the aspirational image associated with sailing and the holiday experience Yachts and Friends offers; explorative yet relaxed. This proposition appeals to the entire family from the younger to the older generations. The identity and digital activation reflects the positioning by portraying the pure character of the sea combined with classic nautical elements.\nResult\nThe brand Yachts and Friends is now a well known name for the sailing enthusiasts. The concept is expanding to new destinations every season and attracting families with and without sailing experience. Feedback from customers learned us that the positioning was spot on, and most importantly: the financial results are beyond expectations.\nServices provided\nInsights &\nOpportunities\nDesk research\nStrategy &\nStory\nBrand positioning\nConcept &\nDesign\nBrand identity design\nImplementation &\nActivation\nDigital activation"}
{"text": "Publishing Terms\nHere are terms you’ll need to know in order to understand the world of publishing.\n- Advance: the money paid before the book is on the shelves based on a prediction for how much the publisher believes the book has the potential to earn (usually calculated as 1/3 of the royalties for the first print run).\n- Agency Agreement: a contract between the writer and the agent, outlining the relationship.\n- Agent: a person who represents the writer, opening doors to publishers and negotiating contacts and the relationship between the publisher and the writer.\n- Big Six Publishers: six large publishing houses, all found in New York. They are Hachette, Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster.\n- Book Doctor: freelance editors who are paid by the writer to help them rework their book before representation.\n- Copyediting: searching for mechanical errors in the manuscript and stylistic inconsistencies.\n- Editor: the person at the publishing house who will help you get your manuscript in order contentwise.\n- Galley: a proof of the final manuscript that the writer can examine before the book goes to print. Galleys are sometimes also sent out to reviewers.\n- Independent Press: traditionally, a small press (in other words, anyone who is not a subsidiary of the Big Six). There has been a movement in the self-publishing world to rename self-publishing “independent publishing,” but traditionally, independent publishers pay the author and contain all the same protocols as the Big Six publishers.\n- Proofreading: the final examination of the manuscript for any errors before the printing.\n- Publisher: the person at the publishing house who is responsible for overseeing the life of the book from acquisition to publicity.\n- Royalties: the percentage of the book sale that goes to the author.\n- Self-Publishing: utilizing a “print-on-demand” system, authors can pay to have their book created and sold through online outlets such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com.\n- Small Press: any press that is not one of the Big Six."}
{"text": "Throwback Thursday takes us back to the adventures of the time-displaced samurai and his quest to make his way home. “Episode XIX” is a melancholy episode even for a show about a wandering warrior stranded in a dystopian future. After a short action sequence involving our hero saving a village from the tyranny of the Cossacks, the show takes our hero on a journey home… or what’s left of it. Without realizing it, Jack‘s (Phil LaMarr) wanderings have led him to the ruins of the home he knew as a child prompting several memories including playing the once lush fields, his first encounter with a samurai (in a reference to Lone Wolf and Cub), and using his wits to stand-up to bullies. Jack makes a cute kid, and it’s fun to get to see a more carefree version of the character in his youth before the evil that is Aku.\nThe episode has limited dialogue, some words of thanks near the beginning, the shock of surprise at Jack’s realization where his travels have led him, taunts from bullies, words of wisdom from his father, and a new cry for help breaking Jack out of his reverie. However, the show’s visuals easily carry the emotion of the story as the samurai staggers through the ruins of his childhood home in the harsh wind (a sharp contrast to the lush flashbacks). Even the small bit of dialogue used in the episode could easily have been removed. Jack’s return is bittersweet both in how unrecognizable the area has become and what stirs memories from his past. However, since this isn’t the home Jack aspires to return to, the samurai takes his leave in hopes of one day returning back to his own time."}
{"text": "Our aim is to listen and assist where possible in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation. We cannot change any organisation, that change has to come from within.\nUnderstand the organisation, the people and the issues. Maximise the strengths and minimise the weaknesses change for the better not just for the sake of change.\nStep one: Understand the organisation. All organisations are different but most have grown organically from an original idea or purpose. It is rare that the growth in the early stages is planned, or if it is, that the result matches the plan. Once an organisation is \"established\", planning can be more focussed as the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation should now be clearer. Frequently this later stage of planning, probably because of the pressures of survival, focuses on specific aspects such as sales and marketing or sometimes just product improvement. This is understandable as these probably appear to be the important areas at the time. Standing back is difficult for anyone in the midst of running a company and it takes either a crisis or a third party to enable a broader, more rounded overview.\nStep two: Identify issues. The first point of interest here, is probably what the owner/leader(s) really wants to achieve. In most organisations this \"purpose\" is what drives the company. Here purpose does not mean \"mission statement\" although there may be connections. Getting at the real reason why someone runs or leads an organisation can be hard and sometimes painful - but it needs to be done. Without the leader leading, little will or can happen. Identifying the normal organisational problems and needs is far simpler.\nThe next area to look at is probably the employees - talking to employees helps, asking what the organisation can do for them is even better. Letting employees decide is better still - but needs care, obviously. Next up is customers (clients, users, consumers etc). Again the simple thing is to ask. Talk to customers, ask what is good and bad about the relationship - engage with the end user, they know better than anyone what works and what doesn't.\nThen there are the suppliers. Does the organisation look after its suppliers? Does that sound a strange question? Shouldn't they be looking after you, the customer? Well, yes, of course but this is a relationship, and as in any healthy relationship, each side looks after the other.\nFinally there is the rest of the world. How does the organisation fit in to the grand scheme of things? What is its impact locally and globally? How responsible and responsive is the organisation to environmental concerns?\nStep three: Find the bright spots. Almost any organisation has people or systems that are effective and some that are not so effective. It can certainly pay to focus on what works. Try to find out what really works and build on it.\nStep four: Survey (any remaining) areas of concern. Hopefully, after the previous steps, what needs to be addressed and what can be addressed, should now be a bit clearer. If step three works well then other issue may resolve themselves.\nCarefully crafted questionnaires can help but nothing beats discussing any remaining issues with the \"stakeholders\". The people affected will undoubtedly have a view on what needs to change. If the stakeholders are also \"engaged\" and \"aligned\" with the purpose of the organisation then the clues to resolution should be that much clearer.\nStep five: Plan of action, how to fix stuff. If steps one, two and three were successful the actions that need to be taken and the route to improvement should be relatively straightforward. Here it is worth understanding what really motivates people. Research\nhas shown that three basic concepts motivate people - Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.\nStep six: Metrics; Has it worked? Closely tied in with the previous steps should be the consideration of how the effectiveness of any steps taken are measured.\nStep seven: Lather, rinse and repeat. Even if all problems seem to have disappeared - which is unlikely, at least on the first iteration - it can do no harm to run through this process at regular intervals - stuff happens.\nThe principles of SMART\nmight be helpful.\nOur goal is to help an organisation become:\nAn organisation that the leader (or leaders) is proud of, and wants to lead.\nA place where the workers want to work.\nA seller that customers want to buy from.\nA buyer that the suppliers want to supply.\nAn organisation that the community want to have in its midst.\nNot forgetting that there needs to be some fun in the mix!\nAs I say elsewhere; the best person, in the best job, enjoying working in the best organisation - what could be a better start?\nContact William to explore these ideas."}
{"text": "If you are looking for a way to better meet the needs of your customers, you may have thought about integrating your business. This is one of the biggest trends today, and there are numerous reasons why you should invest in IBP. The business world is changing quickly, and you need to make sure you can keep up. The only way you are going to do this is if you integrate your business. What are some of the top reasons why you should invest in integrating the various elements of your company? Take a look at the list below, and reach out to professionals who can help you invest in integrated business planning.\nYou Can Provide Better Service To Your Customers\nThe first reason why you need to integrate your business is that you can provide much better service to your customers. The most important thing you need to do if you want to remain competitive in the modern era is to provide exceptional customer service. Today, customers have higher expectations than they ever have in the past. Therefore, you need to make sure that you are up to the challenge, providing the service they expect. By integrating the various departments of your business, your employees will have an easier time figuring out what they need to do to help your customers. That way, your customers are going to be happier, which means they will return to your company for future purchases.\nYou Can Improve Your Company Culture\nNext, you can also improve company culture. Company culture is more important today than before. Employees went to work and a happy environment. If your departments are integrated, people are going to get to know one another better. Therefore, they are going to be more willing to help each other out. If your departments communicate well, you can provide exceptional work environments for your employees. That way, you will have an easier time convincing them to stick around. By keeping your employees happy, you can reduce employee turnover, which is better for the productivity of your business..\nAn organization’s culture defines.\nConversely, an ineffective culture can bring down the organization and its leadership. Disengaged employees, high turnover, poor customer relations and lower profits are examples of how the wrong culture can negatively impact the bottom line.. Culture also provides an informal control mechanism, a strong sense of identification with the organization and shared understanding among employees about what is important.\nYou Will Free Up the Time of Your Employees\nFinally, you will also free up the time of your employees. When your departments are integrated, it is easier for your employees to figure out what to do. They know who to ask, they know where to go, and they can troubleshoot better. Therefore, there is less waste of time during the day. Nobody likes to feel like their time is being wasted. As a result, you need to do everything you can to show your employees that you value your time. If you integrate your company, you can do exactly that. Your employees will be more productive for your company, driving revenue. They will also be happier, which means they will stick around for the foreseeable future. Give your employees more free time.\nInvest in Professional Business Integration Services\nIn the end, these are just a few of the many reasons why you need to make sure you integrate your business. Even though your department are used to working separately from one another, this is not how you are going to ensure our success in the modern era. If you are integrating your company for the first time, you may not exactly know where to begin. Fortunately, there are professionals who can help you. Reach out to a team of experts, and figure out what you need to do to integrate your company. That way, you can stay one step ahead of the competitors in your industry."}
{"text": "Monthly Wrap-up April 2022: Edge AI, No-Code, LoRaWAN, CAN Bus, and more\nFor this Monthly Wrap-up, we’ll cover 3 exciting event recaps, 5 amazing community-built-up projects, 3 IIoT solutions, and their application stories, 2 new product surveys, and 2 scale-up projects manufactured by Seeed!\nHey community,\nHow is everything going? We were brought into the lovely May by the 5-day International Workers Day Holiday. Now, let’s summarize a bit for April. For this Monthly Wrap-up, we’ll cover 3 exciting event recaps, 5 amazing community-built-up projects, 3 IIoT solutions, and their application stories, 2 new product surveys, and 2 scale-up projects manufactured by Seeed!\nHope you’ll enjoy a good read.\n📰 News that You Might Wanna Know️️\n01 2022 Seeed Studio Product Launch: Cutting Edge IoT and AI Technology to Digitalize the Wild\nFor those who missed our annual product launch where we unveiled a series of 12+ AIoT solutions for outdoor applications, covering devices from low-power sensors to ultra-long-range gateways featuring Edge AI, here are concise and to-the-point highlights from the event.\n02 Seeed Studio Codecraft Recognized Finalist by Edtech Awards 2022\nA piece of exciting news to share is that right after being recognized by the Bett Awards 2022, our Graphical Programming Platform for Edge Machine Learning Codecraft, is nominated as a finalist in the artificial intelligence (AI) solution category of the EdTech Awards 2022. Read more.\n03 Edge AI Partner Program: Accelerate Your Next-Gen AI Product, Deliver AI Solutions Across Industries Together\nWe’re launching our Edge AI Partner Program where we call for Edge AI solution makers to join to collaborate for full AI solutions to achieve digital transformation. If you are working on AI products based on NVIDIA Jetson Platform including Jetson Nano/ Xavier NX/ AGX Xavier/Jetson AGX Orin, feel free to join our Edge AI Partner ecosystem. More to read here.\n04 Earth Day 2022 Special: Calling for Sustainable Fellows for “IoT Into the Wild Initiative”\nOn Earth Day (April 22), Seeed Studio announces an online kick-off meeting for “IoT Into the Wild Initiative” Fellows, to join forces and resources of multi-stakeholders from various sectors for wildlife conservation, climate crisis, carbon neutrality, and environmental conservation efforts. With this initiative, we aim to create digital solutions with the community for scenarios in the wild. Click to learn more.\n05 Smoother and Richer Search Experience for Seeed Official Store Is Now Available\nThis year, we have invested significant resources into improving the search function on the website. And now we’re happy to share that the search speed has improved quite a lot and you can find it more user-friendly. Click to learn more here.\n🤖️ Community Project Spotlight\n01 Seeeduino XIAO Weather Station Using Expansion Board by Boian Mitov\nBoian Mitov shared with us how to build a simple weather station using a Seeeduino XIAO Expansion board, DHT11 Temperature & Humidity sensor and Visuino program. Check the full tutorial on Instructables.\n02 Over-Fermented Fruit Fermentation Using WIO Terminal by Ahmad Radhy\nMonitoring over-fermented fruits by using WIO Terminal and Multichannel Gas Sensor, connected to Qubitro Cloud through MQTT. Full tutorial here.\n03 eHealth Robot Arm by Jaime Andres Rincon Arango\nIt’s a project eHealth Robot Arm by Jaime Andres Rincon Arango. The project aims to be a healthcare system for elderly people or people living alone. By using a Elephant Robotics’s myPalletizer Robot Arm, with the reTerminal as the robot control system, as well as Seeeduino XIAO with its expansion board that integrates an OLED LCD, the eHealth Robot Arm is a system that allows the measurement of some bio-signals through a robot. It could be a personal tool that continuously monitors health in an automatic and intelligent way. More to read.\n04 Google MediaPipe and Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino by CAVEDU\nInspired by the idea of Murtaza Hassan on YouTube, CAVEDU created this cool project with Google MediaPipe and Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino, which uses gestures to control LED breathing lights! The tutorial in Chinese can be found here.\n05 A Seeeduino Pokémon Gyarados by Seeed COM Team\nThe Gyarados is 3.5 meters long, powered by a Seeeduino Lotus. It has a transparent and luminous spine, a whole-body skeleton made of linden wooden pieces, and a frosted translucent skin made of Polypropylene plastic sheets. It can light up and generate smoke when we dance with it with its skeleton. The step-by-step tutorial can be found here.\n🔩 New Open-Source Products & Updates\n01 New Release: Please Meet reTerminal E10-1 Expansion Board\nFeaturing multiple bridge IC and high-function peripherals, this expansion board gives the reTerminal the power of rechargeable and portable functions, enhanced wireless communication and industrial data transmission along with audio capability. It is now available on Seeed official store. Check it out here.\n02 LoRa E5 CAN Bus Vehicle Monitoring Device on Its Way\nWe’re designing a Vehicle Monitoring Device based on a Seeed LoRa E5 and CAN Bus. With this device, you can build a LoRa sensor network where you can use the onboard CAN Bus to read the sensor data of the car and send the data back through LoRa. Any input and feedback for the product design before we move forward to manufacture the product would be appreciated. Shout out your voice here.\n03 Event Replay: Learn Your Customer with AI by Zenus Smart Camera\nIn April we partnered with Panos Moutafis, Co-founder & CEO at Zenus to host an webinar to get to learn retail customer profile with AI. The webinar covers how Ethical Facial Analysis helps to capture relative footfall, customer demographics, and customer satisfaction. Watch the replay now.\n04 Wiki: Few-Shot Object Detection with YOLOv5 and Roboflow on Seeed Edge AI Devices Powered by Nvidia\nYOLO is one of the most famous object detection algorithms available. It only needs a few samples for training, while providing faster training times and high accuracy. We will demonstrate these features one by one in this wiki, while explaining the complete machine learning pipeline step-by-step where you collect data, label them, train them and finally detect objects using the trained data by running the trained model on an edge device such as the NVIDIA Jetson platform. Also, we will compare the difference between using custom datasets and public datasets. More details here.\n05 Webinar Replay: Connect your ROS Project to the Cloud with Nimbus\nIt’s a collaborative webinar with Cogniteam, presented by Dr.Eli Khalastchi. During the webinar, Dr.Eli introduced Nimbus, a Cloud-based solution that allows you to manage your autonomous robots just drag and drop. More to read.\n💻 IIoT Solutions & Their Success Cases\n01 Feel Like a No-Code AI Deployment Tool?\nOur product team is working on a Browser-based no-code AI tool with the aim to make AI deployment more accessible for developers at our Nvidia Jetson powered-up Edge Computing devices. With this tool, you can drag and drop the 4 blocks to deploy an AI Algorithm to recognize 80 different items through COCO dataset in just 4 steps. Currently, we have made 3 blocks available in the tool, including a video feed block, a detection block with a pre-build AI model, and a video view block. More to read.\n02 How We Tested the Long-Range Communication of the new Generation of SenseCAP LoRaWAN S210X Series\nIn order to make sure the communication distance and stability, we carried out a series of tests in both urban scenes and line of sight environments to get a better understanding of the network connection and delivery rate of the new Generation of SenseCAP LoRaWAN S210X Series sensors, data logger, SenseCAP M2 Data-Only LoRaWAN Gateway and two LoRa Antennas. What is the maximum distance for the communication ranges in the two scenes mentioned above? The test results are out here.\n03 Smart Retail: Know Your Customer, Drive Agility in Operation\nwe’ve been partnering with Zenus, Inc., a leading startup that offers a fully-integrated smart camera solution for behavioral analytics consumer behavior, to provide an all-in-one solution sentiment analysis powered by the NVIDIA Jetson to simplify the process of sentiment analysis and fulfill the retailers’ need to know their customers better. More to read.\n04 Intelligent Transportation System for Traffic Management\nWant to learn more about how NVIDIA Embedded powered AI solutions can leverage the smart cities applications? For today’s post, let’s dive into solution examples of pedestrian & bicyclists detection in a Cityscape, Real-time car and people detection, automatic license plate recognition, and AI-enabled traffic management camera. Learn more here.\n🏭 Manufacturing with Seeed\n01 Fusion Case Study: LoRa E5 Powered Indoor Air Pollutants Monitor\nEver wanted to get more detailed insights into the air quality of the home where you are staying a long time? Mircea-Iuliu Micle built up a project to monitor indoor air pollutants based on LoRa E5 with the support of the Seeed Fusion PCBA service. The device features a custom 4-layer PCB, with two antenna options, using a USB cable for power. Read more here.\n02 The Best LoRa-E5 Fusion Case Study Campaign to Explore 3 IoT Possibilities of LoRa E5\nWith the aim to support global developers to accelerate their IoT project development, our Fusion team has been offering a 100% sponsorship for Lora-E5 projects with our Fusion PCB Assembly Service! Here we’d love to share 3 amazing case study projects powered up by Seeed LoRa E5 Module and our Fusion PCBA prototyping and manufacturing services. More to explore.\n for prototyping and manufacturing."}
{"text": "Subject: Re: [OMPI users] mpirun command gives ERROR\nFrom: Constantinos Makassikis (cmakassikis_at_[hidden])\nDate: 2012-07-19 08:06:53\nHi Paul,\ncan you give us some additional information\n- on your compilation command line ?\n- the application you're trying to run ?\nJust in case, did you try checking points 1. and 2. of the error message\nin the application you're trying to run ?\n--\nConstantinos\nOn Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 07:34:50PM +0800, Abhra Paul wrote:\n>\n> _______________________________________________\n> users mailing list\n> users_at_[hidden]\n>"}
{"text": "Did, told his department appointed psychologist – the day he was found dead across the street from Fresno Police Jerry Dyer’s home – that he was going to “confront” Jerry (a physical confrontation was understood), the day that Jerry Dyer had Captain Al Maroney fire him.\nLaw enforcement eyewitnesses and other official Fresno city and county personnel have come forward to say that they were at Jerry Dyer’s home and saw Chief Dyer – covered in Jose Moralez’s blood, in a state of shock – being asked by – based upon information and belief, a Fresno Sheriff Lieutenant – if Lt. Jose Moralez’s death was “self-defense”, and to which Chief Jerry Dyer did not respond – twice.?\nBased upon information and belief, after Jerry Dyer shot Jose Moralez point blank in the chest – Jose Moralez’s body was moved across the street and placed at the side of the adjacent road, near his truck; his dead body and scene made to look like a “suicide”, as all official reports would later declare..\nAfter telling his department appointed psychologist that he was going to “confront” Chief Dyer about his unjust firing and – based upon information and belief, threaten to expose Jerry for his corruption and felonious behavior – Jose would telephone his wife, Yolanda Moralez (a recently retired Fresno Police Detective) after leaving his son and daughter at home, saying to.”\nIt is a fact that Jose’s department appointed psychologist met with Jose the morning of the day of his death – at Jose’s urging – to which his psychologist would later vehemently say that Jose was “not suicidal”, but rather incensed at Chief Dyer, and was planning to have it out with him – physically..)\nTo further cloud the issue and make the official Fresno County Sheriff version even more unbelievable, it was an anonymous motorist from Los Angeles, who allegedly found him – in the dark of the night in a rural area – there, calling 911 and reporting these circumstances in fine detail as if they knew the area very well.? It was given back to his widow and in all Fresno County Sheriff department Police Reports, is identified by serial number but, when the gun was ran by CHP in a vehicle stop a few years later, that gun came back to the officer as NO RECORDS FOUND; not registered to Fresno Police Lieutenant, Jose Moralez.?\nFresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, would claim to have been at a local restaurant the night of Jose Moralez’s death until 9:00 pm or so and then came home but, the local restaurant owner and employees could not corroborate his alibi of having been there. They said he wasn’t!\nIn early August, a Fresno County Sheriff Sergeant, who was a deputy and one of the first responders the night of Jose death (so he claims in that fashion), would reveal by his statement to this writer and to Jose’s family that, Chief Jerry Dyer was NOT at home as he claimed in official reports but rather “…drove up” to the “suicide” scene, which was well after midnight, after having left his “office”, presumably.\nThis, now Sergeant, tripped up and effectively threw Chief Dyer under the bus, exposing him by corroborating the fact that Chief Jerry Dyer was in fact NOT inside his home innocently, when Jose allegedly fired the lone shot into his chest from across the street, as Chief Jerry Dyer himself, claimed.”?!\nCORRECTED: The investigation was NOT conducted by current Fresno County Sheriff, Margaret Mims, as previously written here, but at the time of Joe’s death, Margaret Mims was with the department and based upon information and belief, is well aware of the competing circumstances.\nProfessional and Personal Blackmail Against Chief Jerry Dyer?\nBased upon information and belief, IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT OR PERSONALLY HELD BELIEF WITHIN THE FRESNO POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT THAT LT. JOSE MORALEZ DID NOT COMMIT SUICIDE and not just a personally held belief or popular conspiracy theory in fact, it is said to be well-known that…’. Yolanda worked homicide and Major Drug Buys, along with CCAT and VCSU; she knew Jerry Dyer well and emphatically believes/knows that Jerry Dyer murdered her husband, Lt. Jose Moralez, and a cover up by the Fresno County Sheriff and Coroner’s Office – ensued.\nNot only did Yolanda conduct her own investigation into this matter, but a former Fresno County Sheriff Investigator/Deputy – now a highly regarded and successful Private Investigator, did as well, and the findings are astonishing, revealing that Fresno Police Lieutenant Jose Moralez could not have committed suicide as claimed by the Fresno County Sheriff, Coroner and Police Department, and that the Sheriff’s & Coroner’s Office investigation is flawed to the point of utter corruption. phone?\nTheir claim was that releasing the phone records to Yolanda Moralez, Joe’s widow, would pose a security concern, as she would then have access to the Fresno P..D. personal cell phone and home numbers yet, Yolanda Moralez was the recently retired Detective Yolanda Moralez of Fresno Police Department and already had the phone numbers of the entire Fresno Police Department, which is not unusual as department personnel are given Call Out Sheets for this very purpose, to have the phone numbers of departmental personnel for contact purposes.\nWhy did Yolanda Moralez’ attorney, KEVIN LITTLE, fail to amend the complaint and fail to show up in Court, causing Yolanda Moralez’ lawsuit to be dismissed with prejudice?!\nBased upon information and belief…INTIMIDATION.\nMrs. Moralez didn’t even find out about the dismissal of her lawsuit until a hearing had been conducted and the City of Fresno’s Motion for Dismissal was granted by Judge Ishii; she found out by receiving a letter from the Court in the mail, not even from her incompetent and corrupt attorney, who should be disbarred for his actions.. Despite Jose having an exemplary career with the department for more than 30 years and set to be one of its next Captain’s, he was the subject of an Internal Affairs Investigation surrounding an extra marital affair; the stated cause of his termination was an email he sent to a female departmental employee.\nIt is well-known within the department and in Fresno that Jerry Dyer himself has had extra marital affairs, illegal steroid use, numerous physical confrontations, public and private drunkenness, and even his admitted sexual relations with an underage teen girl which amounts to child molestation or statutory rape, and to which Jerry would ADMIT TO recently (to Yolanda Moralez and her children), in no way denying it (he has publicly skirted the issue but has not denied it). Yet, the good ol’ white boy that Jerry was and is, earned him protection from his then Chief and cohorts and despite all of his unworthy behavior, that should’ve resulted in termination and would’ve for a minority – no doubt; rose to become Fresno’s current Chief of Police, even as based upon information and belief, he is officially retired and on contract, reaping a whirlwind of benefits and money, said to be at about “a million dollars” annually.\nShame on the City of Fresno! They continue to protect this unworthy law breaker.\nI know first hand that Jose Moralez was not a kiss ass and not part of Jerry’s copulating crew of suck ups; he was genuinely hurt and in fact, enraged by Jerry’s hypocritical treatment of him and felt betrayed after being loyal to him all those years. – LITERALLY –. Whether it’s Jerry Dyer, or one of his cronies – the circumstances surrounding Jose Moralez’ death; ruled a suicide, have all the markings of a homicide and it deserves to investigated properly with Fresno Police Chief, Jerry Dyer as a prime suspect.?! They’ve done nothing but dismiss evidence and testimony – flat-out, FAIL TO INVESTIGATE, even when family members and Fresno Police Officers and Fresno City Mental Health personnel have come to them with incriminating felonious evidence against Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer and the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department!.\nJerry, whose life lived to that point had been less than exemplary and hardly worthy of admiration, supposedly became a born again Christian and one who has the audacity to take credit for Joe’s personal faith in Jesus Christ; Jerry loves to exalt himself and receive glory! Yolanda screamed at him that night,\n“God showed you so much mercy; you failed to show Joe any mercy!”\nIn one way or another, Jerry Dyer, the Fresno Police Department and City of Fresno, has destroyed the Moralez family.\nJoe’s blood cries out for justice and the family has not rested, not only have they had to live with the mental cruelty of injustice, but the security of their own homes have been compromised; she and her oldest son especially, have lived with the reality of surveillance and Yolanda Moralez has lived under the threat and fear of death in retaliation for not letting this issue go.\nFresno Police Department – Ruled by Intimidation – Retaliation and Threats of Violence and Death\nBoth current and former Fresno Police Department law enforcement personnel, as well as city politicians and others who have known Fresno Police Chief, Jerry Dyer for many, many years, tell stories of how Jerry Dyer USED to be BUT STILL IS; alleging first hand that “Keith Foster” is nothing compared to what Jerry is, and once vehemently claims what many in the Fresno Police Department know very well, that he is a narcissist, terrorizing his police department with – based upon information and belief – murder, threats of violence and intimidation.. Even if Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer is not Jose’s murderer – which based upon information and belief is nearly impossible to believe at this point – City of Fresno, The Fresno Police Department, The Fresno County Sheriff and Coroner’s Office, and Yolanda Moralez’ attorney, Kevin Little, based upon information and belief, are the poster boys for incompetence and corruption; the people of Fresno County, and especially Yolanda Moralez and her family, deserve for this matter to be taken seriously in a quest for justice.\nCitizens of Fresno and Fresno County, are you pleased with the potential reality of paying Jerry Dyer, Margaret Mims, the Fresno County Coroner and all others involved in, based upon information and belief, a criminal cover up of epic proportions, especially after Jerry Dyer’s right hand man, Keith Foster, also suspected of involvement in this matter, stands by and laughs all the way to the bank with millions of dollars in wages and retirement?! You are known to be one of Jerry’s henchman, along with Robert “Bobby” Nevarez and others – based upon information and belief – you guys, at the very minimum – along with Keith Foster and others – know the truth about Lt. Jose Moralez’s death, but are too cowardly to stand up for law and justice – the truth – afraid of that coward and false prophet Jerry Dyer, who, while he names the name of Jesus Christ, according to his own employees, robs, lies, cheats and kills.:"}
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{"text": "Meet Matthew Green. A normal guy on a not-so-normal journey.\nHe has embarked on a personal mission to trek across the great landscape that is, the United States of America.\nMatt started in New York City and, within 6 months, plans to end up in Oregon. There is significance to the start and endpoints – he started at Rockaway Beach, New York and will end at Rockaway Beach, Oregon (now that’s pretty cool to me !)\nWhy is Matt doing this? Simple – because he can. No real agenda, no sponsorship, no official cause. Matt has been an avid walker for years and decided it was time he stepped out (pun intended) and took up the adventure of walking across the country.\nHe’s got his rough route planned out, he’s got his comfortable shoes, and he’s carrying a tote box full of essential supplies (gotta respect the anti-chafing stick; I know since I run marathons…)\nToday is day 88 of his trek and Matt is chronicling his adventure both on his blog and through a nice online photo gallery.\nFollow Matt online here and to show him some support, drop him an email at: matt@imjustwalkin.com.\nHere’s highlights from his photo gallery:\nGood luck Matt – we’ll be watching the journey !"}
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{"text": "We will become the architects of health care delivery programs that bring to every citizen of the state the finest health care that society has seen.\nWith these words, Malcolm Moos, the tenth president of the University of Minnesota, celebrated the groundbreaking for Health Sciences Unit A in 1971. Unit A was the first in a series of interconnected facilities designed to integrate interprofessional education and optimize health care delivery. Based on commissioned studies and committee recommendations during the 1960s, health science education was brought together under the newly created administrative body of the Academic Health Center as well as physically in a complex of buildings, tunnels, and skyways.\nAlso during the groundbreaking ceremony, the Board of Regents charged the newly formed health sciences administration and faculty to remember\nIt is the Health Sciences facilities which we are here talking about today [that] will be implemented physically by a moral and intellectual commitment to see that all people of our state, those in the inner city and those in the out edges of the state, without regard to the particular circumstance in which they find themselves economically, will have available to them the degree and the facilities of health care which are adequate and appropriate to the dignity which each man has as a human being.\nThe building was completed in 1973 for a total cost of $45 million and was home to the School of Dentistry, teaching laboratories for basic sciences, and departments from the School of Public Health and the Medical School upon its opening.\nIn 1983 the University officially changed the name of Health Sciences Unit A to the Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower to commemorate President Moos' commitment to the expansion of the health sciences on campus.\nRead the full remarks made at the groundbreaking ceremony on April 1, 1971."}
{"text": "If you were watching the news Friday afternoon, you may have noticed some familiar faces. Students in Tamara Greene and Lindsay Brown’s third-grade class at Cottage Lane Elementary School Zoomed with StormTeam4NY meteorologist Matt Brickman on Friday, as part of the station’s Weather Kids program and were featured in a short segment during the broadcast.\n“In third grade science we investigate typical weather conditions expected during a particular season in a region of the world and how weather is connected to water processes in Earth systems,” explains Greene. “Our students explore weather and climate by analyzing daily weather forecasts and learning how weather affects us. We also investigate how scientists record weather patterns across different times and areas to make predictions.”\nTo prepare for the session, students brainstormed questions about weather and the role of a meteorologist. Thanks to NBC 4 New York for sharing the clip!"}
{"text": "Gloria Carlineo lost her bid to unseat state Rep. Scott Petri, the incumbent Republican representing Bucks County’s, 178the Legislative District — and not a single vote has been cast yet. Indeed, Pennsylvania’s April 24 primary election is months away.\nIt wasn’t voters who knocked Carlineo out of the race or party bosses or some long-ago closeted skeleton that suddenly emerged to scare off votes for the rising tea party star. It was the state Supreme Court that did it by rejecting the official plan to remap Pennsylvania’s House and Senate districts. More accurately, it was the bipartisan Legislative Reapportionment Commission that knocked Carlineo and numerous other would-be candidates out of their prospective races statewide by producing a reapportionment plan that the court rejected.\nThe court didn’t say why it rejected the plan, though the justices said they would eventually explain their decision. Our guess is — and considering we’re talking about Pennsylvania — politics polluted the process. Consider that Senate Democrats had appealed the plan, arguing that it wasn’t constitutional because it improperly sliced and diced more cities, townships and boroughs than needed. In essence, they claimed that the Republican majority on the so-called “bipartisan” reapportionment commission cut and paste districts in ways that would ensure the re-election of incumbent Republicans.\nLegislative districts, including congressional districts, are reapportioned or remapped every decade. Changing boundary lines are determined by population shifts. The process is complicated when political objectives are imposed, a corrupt practice known as gerrymandering. You know when it happens because you can see it. On the map, gerrymandered districts tend to have tentacles that reach deep into areas with desired registration, splitting and splintering cities, towns and townships in the process.\nAs undesirable as the outcome is, gerrymandering has long been a custom in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. What’s different this time is that the court said no. Hopefully, that historic development will leaded to needed reform of the reapportionment process. Meanwhile, some practical problems remain.\nWhile Senate Minority Leader Dominic Pileggi, a member of the commission, said a new plan could be drawn up in days if the court-ordered fixes are minor, time is running out. This Tuesday, Feb. 7, is the day that county boards of election around the state must publish the Notice of General Primary, which outlines what will be on the ballot. According to Deena Dean, director of the Bucks County Board of Elections, that notice will include a paragraph that the 2001 plan will remain in effect until a “revised” plan is approved.\nNine days later, on Feb. 16, candidates must file their nominating petitions. March 5 is the deadline for the Pennsylvania Department of State to send a certified list of candidates to county boards of election.\nCarlineo and all the candidates will need to know which communities are or will be in their districts; or, as in Carlineo’s case, if they’ll even be a resident of the district. Perhaps those deadlines can be pushed back, though state law dictates those dates. If so, the issue needs to be resolved quickly so candidates have time to present their ideas to voters.\nIn Bucks County, nine out of 10 legislative districts are affected by the reapportionment plan. That represents a lot of voters. Notoriously slow Harrisburg needs to kick it into high gear.\n© 2012. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.\nWelcome to the discussion.\n1 comment:\nJimmy Bradley posted at 9:14 pm on Sun, Feb 5, 2012.\nThe supreme court just saved Carlineo a lot of her own money by preventing the embarassing situation that will occur this April."}
{"text": "Saturday, September 5, 2020\nThe Exiles\nIn 1840, a young Aboriginal girl named Mathinna is taken from the only family she has ever known to become an eccentric trinket for the governor’s wife on Van Dieman’s Land, a penal colony in Australia. The British who reside there are intrigued by this unique young lady that quickly learns their language and their manners. Evangeline Stokes is a governess for a wealthy family in London. She becomes the conquest of their handsome elder son and their naive decisions have landed her in prison. She is lovely, well educated, pregnant and sentenced to be shipped to Van Dieman’s Land. On the ship Evangeline befriends Hazel, another young convict sentenced to seven years for stealing a spoon. During the long passage the two women form a special bond and help each other in any way possible. The chapters of this novel alternate between Mathinna, Evangeline and Hazel. The history is fascinating and the writing is superb but something about the plot felt scattered. I cannot be more specific without spoilers but it took way too long to capture my attention. It is a solid good but I was hoping for more. ⭐⭐⭐"}
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That’s it you just melted Jason’s heart completely!!✨🌸\n✨🌸Really enjoys it!^^✨🌸\n🌸✨🌸✨🌸✨🌸✨🌸✨🌸✨🌸✨\nMichael🕸 ✨🌸Has a bigger sweet tooth then he’ll ever admit✨🌸\n✨🌸Probably was home while you were baking the cake but was in his on world at the time ✨🌸\n🌸✨Bonus points if bring the cake to him✨🌸\n🌸✨He enjoys the cake a lot!✨🌸\n✨🌸Will give you small head pats as a thank you!✨🌸\n✨🌸If you try to feed him some he might be a little more hesitant compared to jay but he’ll cave eventually (he can’t say no to you y/n!)✨🌸\n🌸✨Again he would never tell you this but he finds it super sweet you baked him a cake simply because you love him✨🌸\n🌸✨Will get extra protective of you!✨🌸\n-Moshi🌸✨\nmy headcanon for what he looks like underneath the mask\nThe general vibe I get from imagining Michael as a parent is basically “I had to chug three energy drinks to keep up with half of this thing’s energy”\nSummary: The photograph scene with RZ Michael but it's you instead and you two get all soft with each other. ( @unnerving-presence )\nGender Neutral reader\nWarnings: Slight knife mentions, dead person mention, murder mention, it's Michael Myers that should give you enough warning-\nGenre: SFW, Fluff.\n×VSC×\nI haven’t written anything seriously in quite a while so excuse my horrible and rusty writing skills. Hope you enjoy though! If anything seems wrong just point it out aaaaaaa\n-Fic under the cut\n×××\nYou woke up slowly, eyes fluttering open and almost thinking you hadn’t opened them at all from how dark it was. You were sat up against a rough wall, maybe a building of sorts, but you couldn’t tell. As your eyes got used to the dim lighting of this place, you looked around. Everything was blurry at first but you could tell there was some sort of being, a person lying motionless a few feet away from you.\nThe shaky lighting of the Jack-o-lantern next to them was almost funny if it weren’t the fact they were one of the people that had accompanied you that night. You swallowed down a lump in your throat and sucked in a breath that you didn’t know you needed as you crawled over.\nWhat you couldn’t see was the large figure watching you from the shadows just up ahead.\nAs you tried shaking them awake, tiredly crying out their name and cradling their head, he made his move. He was silent, like an owl stalking his prey. But this was different. You could see it as you snapped your head over to him. He wasn't creeping up on you, no, he was making sure you knew he was there.\n“Who are you?! What do you want?!” You called out to him, a sob in your voice as the huge man made his way towards you with a knife in hand.\nMichael had to steady his breathing as he got closer to you. You had definitely gotten even more attractive as the years went by. He had gotten so lost in your new, mature features that he had forgotten how scary he looked like this. When Michael saw your eyes flicker over to the knife in his hand, screaming to not hurt you, he dropped it hastily.\nClank.\nNow he had your attention.\nOnce he was close enough, he dropped to his knees and took an extra second to admire you before reaching into the left pocket of his boiler suit and pulling out a worn photograph. You watched his actions intently. What was he doing? What did he want from you? Why wasn’t he killing you?\nHis hands were covered in grime and blood, the result of having killed so many people that night. But he was so gentle with the picture, treating it as if it meant absolutely everything to him as he slowly handed it to you.\nYou took a moment, scanning him for any ill intent. Once you didn’t find any, you hesitantly took the picture from his grasp. And that’s when your heart almost stopped in your chest. You recognized this picture. You had a copy of it framed in your home.\nThe picture contained two children, you and your best friend Michael when you two were about eight years old. He had an arm around your shoulders while you did the same to him, a wide smile on both your faces while you grinned at the camera. You remembered this day like it was yesterday.\nYou had finally lost your bottom left tooth when eating an apple with Michael at the park. The two of you had excitedly chatted about how to hide the tooth and guess how much money you would get from the ‘tooth fairy’ when you went to sleep. You had decided on splitting the money between you and him since he ‘had been there when it fell out so he deserved at least half for such an amazing moment.’\nYou could go on for hours about that day, just not now.\nThe sunny sky of the park faded into the moment you were stuck in and when you looked up, the man no longer had his white mask on. Long strands of dirty blonde hair hung over his face and trailed down his shoulders. If you squinted, you could see the dark bags under his baby blue eyes. The same eyes in the picture.\nYour brows furrowed and you took a minute to go from the picture to the man kneeling in front of you until your hand dropped down to set the picture aside. It was him. It was Michael.\n“Michael..? Is- Is that you..?”\nMichael could feel his body slump forward in relief, giving a small nod as you made your way over to him. He was still quite nervous, don't get him wrong, his knife was closer to you than it was to him and he kept his eyes trained on your hands while they moved across the soft soil you were situated on.\nBut you had forgotten about the knife as soon as you realized who was in front of you. “Oh, Michael….you look so tired..” You said softly, now sitting on your legs as your hands slowly reached up to cup his face. Surprisingly, he didn’t stop you from doing so. Those blue eyes you loved so much softened as they scanned your face as if wondering why you weren’t scared of him.\nYou used a hand to brush away those strands that covered his face, now revealing his full face to your eyes. He had some facial hair covering his chin and a bit above his upper lip. It was a bit scratchy but somehow soft at the same time. You could almost feel just how relieved he was from your actions, going all the way to letting his eyes droop shut as a long sigh was exhaled.\nYou sat there, running your fingers along his face until a huff was heard from Michael. You giggled and pulled him a bit closer, pecking his cheek with a smile. “You grew up to be so handsome Michael..” You cooed at him, laughing as he used his hands to bring you up and into his lap, resting his head against your chest. Your hands ran along his back and shoulders, allowing the shape of Haddonfield to hold you so close.\nAfter so many years of being locked up in Smiths Grove,\nMichael Audrey Myers was finally home.\n×\n×Vexelier×\nso i had a dream last night where i was just having a tough day, things weren’t going right and al my friends were mean to me for some reason?\nand then i got home and i got to hug michael while i was crying and he held me back it was so niceeehwwhhw 😓😓😓\nRead some excellent MyLaurie fanfics from Slasherslasher and Burningsoftly and now I want to see a story where Laurie is being hunted by a copycat killer, see how she deals with that, and how our favorite stalker would as well. I don't know I'm just bored and staving off Christmas for as long as I can.\nso I wanted to post this for Halloween but then some stuff came up and I lost all motivation for it so its short amount of slashers, I will probably try to update it later and add some more!\nRz Michael Myers:\nCan’t understand how someone can like a day this much, I mean he has his own reasons for “enjoying” Halloween but they obviously differ from yours\nEats all of the candy you bought for trick or treaters\nActually enjoys doing Halloween crafts with you, not that he will tell you (hey we all saw his collection of masks and other crafts)\nNow the night of Halloween he is a bit… busy but hey take what you can get, it is Michael after all!\nBubba Sawyer\nLoves holidays but really loves Halloween because you can dress up as whomever you want!\nIf you dress up he would really like to do your makeup if you would let him?\nYou guys can't decorate too much because of lack of stuff but Bubba will try his very best!\nBrahms\nDon't make a mess or he will definitely throw a fit\nHide the candy from him or he will eat it until he is sick\nAnd no you cant have trick-or-treaters, not that anyone would come to the Heelshire Estate but\nJed Olsen\nOne of his favorite holidays don't you know?\nAll the costumes, all the masks\nWants you to dress up in something revealing because you know, he's like that\nBo Sinclair\nWhat's so great about Halloween?\nHe doesn't really understand why but if you're happy then he doesn't care\nVincent Sinclair\nLike Bo, he doesn't understand why and is glad you are happy\nWill dress up with you, but it's not like you guys are going where\nThomas Hewitt\nHoyt doesn't really like Halloween so he never really celebrated it so he is interested in what you love so much about it\nLikes to watch you get ready in your costume\nLikes the way you decorate the house for spooky season\nHe is excited for next year\nLester Sinclair\nWill take you into town to get things\nWill even take you to trick or treat?? If you want that??\nright before he broke out of Smith's Grove\nMichael: Well, well, well. If it isn’t all the rage I've been shoving down for 15 years.\nFrom the official novelization of Halloween (2018) by John Passarella\nMichael is confirmed cat-person\neating dogs and petting kitty cats\n\"Michael Myers murdered five people. And he’s a human being we need to understand? I’m twice divorced. And I’m a basket case.\"\n- Laurie Strode\nexcerpts from white god ; 875 - 483 ; afab! reader, heavy religious undertones\nYou expected very little when you asked Michael to accompany you home after service; even his curt nod was enough to shock you. You had spent the entire Mass glancing at him in the corner of your eye, watching his blank stare, the hand on his knee, and the occasional roll of his shoulders for any sign of discomfort. Deep in your thought, you nearly jumped when Michael set his palm on your knee.\nHis hand was warm and heavy in your lap - fingertips just brushing the exposed skin of your thigh while his palm was restrained by the fabric of your dress. Your head shot up, catching Michael’s dark eyes with yours. The low light in the room highlighted the deep blue color and separated it from the black pupil that bore into you. A pressure gathered in your chest; a sudden feeling of penitence wrapped around your throat.\nMichael nodded towards the end of the pew before you could do something stupid. It had been emptied, and the attendant was waiting for you to join the others in line for Communion. You quickly stumbled across the bench, taking your place with a soft apology. Michael, per usual, watched and waited from his seat. You clasped your hands over your chest and forced yourself to look forward.\nYour heart thumped against your wrists making your chest batter against your Christmas attire like a ram. Every step felt as though the floor was ready to eat you whole, and as you approached the Father, you began to worry. The downcast eyes of Christ above you filled you with dread - you were unfit to receive a share of His body and blood.\nBut it was too late to slip away, hide in the furthest bathroom, and walk yourself home.\n“The body of Christ.”\nYou swallowed the little saliva in your mouth, tongue parting your glued lips to whisper, “Amen.” Your jaw stuttered when you opened your mouth, hyper aware of the Priest laying the bread on your tongue. You dared not swallow, but the disc melted into paste after your first few steps, sliding down your throat when you inevitably pushed your tongue back.\n“The blood of Christ.”\n“Amen.” You responded quietly, hesitant to receive the chalice. Still, you raised it to your mouth, allowing only a few drops of wine to pass your lips. The woman attendant looked upon you with pity. The alcohol burned every part of your mouth, feeling as though you swallowed hellfire as it dragged itself down your throat.\nYou hurried down the long walk back to your seat. Michael stood at the end, having moved to let others file in comfortably. You rushed your last steps and ended up tripping over your own boots. Though only a stumble, Michael caught you by your arm and held you steady. His grip was gentle, yet firm, and unbearably hot despite the thin layer of clothing separating you. You composed yourself, expecting his iron to bend once you were stable. But his hand only wandered up your forearm, ghosting over it until he reached the end of your sleeve, where he stretched his fingers and wrapped them around your palm. He moved your joined hands into the pew, guiding your small steps and corralling you inside, sealing off the only exit with his body before letting you go.\nHe sat back down and you kneeled, folding your hands and holding them to your head. You breathed in the lingering frankincense, giving the image of Jesus molded to the cross one last look before closing your eyes and praying.\nSoul of Christ, sanctify me;\nBody of Christ, save me;\nBlood of Christ, inebriate me;\nThe words faltered in your head.\nSoul of Christ, sanctify me;\nBody of Christ, save me;\nBlood of Christ, inebriate me;\nThey halt again. You open your eyes and sighed, the vision of the Son’s disappointed gaze filling your mind. A stone weighed heavy in your belly; you closed your eyes and started your prayer with a plea.\nLord, forgive me for all I have done.\nSoul of Christ, sanctify me;\nBody of Christ-\nMichael’s large hand tapped your shoulder. You looked around to see everyone had finished their prayers. You hurriedly sat yourself next to Michael and raised the kneeler. He took the hand closest to him, laced your fingers together, and gave you a gentle squeeze.\nsave me;\nHis eyes were small oceans that you were sure to drown in. Even in the brief moment before the Father began to speak again, you could feel your consciousness slip - suddenly overtaken with the inexplicable urge to kiss him.\nIf the Devil had eyes, you were sure they looked like Michael’s.\nAnd they darted to your lips, lingering for all of a second. You blinked, and it was as though he had never looked away. He pulled away first, sitting back flat against the wooden bench with a roll of his shoulders. You didn’t miss how he looked downcast at your hands before returning to his blank stare, straight at the Father. You turned your head, watching the man speak below the statue of Jesus.\nBody of Christ, save me;\nLord, forgive you for what you were about to do.\nMichael grabbed the back of your knees, slowly bending them back to rest on his shoulders. He leaned forward, lifting your hips as he crawled over you, caging you between your bed and his strong frame. You crossed your arms over your chest, shielding yourself from his icy stare.\nHe pushed his hips forward, the rough material of his jeans dragging across the warm, wet patch on your panties. A soft whine started in your throat, morphing into a dreamy sigh when he took your wrists and held them by your ears. He thumbed at your pulse, rough fingerprints tracing the veins up to your palm. They glided over the tendons and slid through the divide between your fingers.\n“Michael,” You spoke into the space between you. With his weight split across his forearms and the knees under your hips, he was near parallel to you - folding you in half with his size. He looked down at your lips, quickly glancing back up to meet your gaze. He dipped his head, brushing his lips against yours with an unpolished confidence. Your words left you, and you reciprocated with a soft coo and docile, meek movements.\nThe kiss would’ve been chaste if not for the fire set across your skin - by Michael and his light touches and his breath over your lips. He squeezed your hands once before pulling away, leaving the last contact between the plush of your lips. He sat back on his legs, looking at you with downcast eyes. The Devil’s eyes.\nIn the pools of dark blue, you could see the cross nailed over your bed reflected. The limp body of Christ contrasted his own; the man above sat tall, perfectly straight as he pulled his shirt over his head. The muscles in his abdomen rippled under the soft fleshy skin. He wasn’t the Devil; Michael was something to fear.\nYou watched as He unbuckled his jeans, pushing them midway down his thighs before He dragged you up the expanse and hooked your knees on his shoulders once again. You felt like a teenager about to be fucked silly while your parents where still in the house - half-dressed and high on the feeling of doing something forbidden. A cardinal sin of the flesh.\n“Michael,” You raised your hand and held it over his chest. He locked eyes with you, thick hands still groping your thighs. When you failed to respond, his eyes walked across the expanse of your body, from your exposed chest to the dress bunched up around your waist and past your hips back up your thigh. His gaze darked, and He soothed the plush bleeding through his fingers. He brought his lips to the flesh, encompassing it in the warmth between his teeth, biting- kissing darkened bruises to mark his path. Your breath hitched, and you raised your hand again. “Michael… I want to do this properly.”\nenjoyed? consider leaving a donation ☆\nSuch aesthetic\nMichael Myers reacting to his s/o who's afraid of giving him affection\nHe doesn't react when you give him affection as you both started a relationship.\nHe just stands there, motionless as you give him hugs, give him quick pecks on his masks' cheek. He doesn't know what to react, he doesn't know the emotion for that\nIt was hard at first, you having to give him as much affection as you can, which he won't give you back at the same time. You were fine with that, you didn't wanna be needy for his while you give him yours.\nHe had a rough day, he was pissed. Unfortunately, he had found you out of the house and with another person. He thought it was just a friend, but when he came close, you guys were holding hands giving each other affectionate names.\nWhen you came back and closed the door, you yelped as you find him behind you, his shoulder visibly shaking. When you greeted him with a hug, he had shoved you away from him.\nYou were confused and hurt, why did he do that? ‘Maybe his just having a bad day.. Yeah maybe he was.’\nYou shrugged it off, waiting for him to cool off for a few days. It took a whole three weeks, you greeted him with affection after five days of waiting for him to calm down.\nHe ignored your greeting. Sometimes going in the middle of the night to kill. You were concerned, why is he like this? Did you do something? ‘You fucked up again.’\nAfter a whole month of giving him affection, you gave up. He doesn't look at you, nod at your words or let you hold his hands. You were done, maybe you did fuck up..\nWhen he came back, he had found you on the desk with a pen and your diary. It was the middle of the night, you were clearly wasting your time writing something probably stupid.\nWhen he went to visit you on your room again, he was surprised to see you still writing, but it was slow. You were clearly tired, and you didn't rest? Are youa fool or something?\nIt was midnight when he found you watching tv in the living room, giving him a weak ‘welcome back..’ . You were out of your mind.\nHe had went upstairs in the morning to see you asleep, he took a step closer to inspect your face. You had eye bugs under your eyes, hair clearly messy. He was still confused of your behavior\nIt has been a week with the way you were acting. Going out of the house almost everyday, he thought you were meeting up with that person again. So he followed you until you went inside a hospital.\nHe was bewildered. Were you hurt? He went home to wait for you after that. He doesnt wanna accept that he's going soft, the shape couldn't be going soft.\nWhen you took a step inside the house, you were quickly pulled to the side, you shriek as you felt someone grip your shoulders. It wasn't rough or gentle. It was firm\nYou opened your eyes to see a familiar white mask. ‘Michael.. ’ you felt his palm on your face, expecting a slap or grabbing your jaw like sometimes. You were surprised to feel his palm on your face, gentle.\nYou were in the verge of breaking down now, you caught his wrist and held it away from you. You shakily sighed and shook your head as you step away and descend upstairs. Michael was stuck on the floor, he was visibly shaking. Why won't you take his affection? What the HELL is your problem?\nWhen you went to sleep that night, he had snuck inside. Staring down at your diary, he took it and flipped a page.\n“Michael has been acting very strange, is it my fault? Should I go ask him like what normal people in relationship does? Maybe not. I'm not sure what will happen if I do ask him.., he had also shoved me away, causing me to accidentally getting hurt. It's fine, I hadn't told him about it, afraid he'll ignore me if i talk to him.”\nMichael was, to say the least, shocked.\n“I think I'll stop giving him affection, it seems that he doesn't like it.. I feel ashamed that I didn't notice right away”\nHe flipped another page, then another, and another. Until he's now shaking with anger, fear, and sadness. He needs to make it up to them tomorrow.\nSo he did, occasionally patting your head whenever he passes your form. When he did place his hand on your shoulders, you were tense. He doesn't want you to be scared of him. He placed his other hand on your face as you tightly closed your eyes.\nIt took a few days for you to know that he only wants to give you the same affection you gave him, you had went less and less on going to therapy and hanging out in the house. Occasionally just writing something on your diary.\nMichael was, happy that you're not tense with him anymore, but he still doesn't get why you only pat his hands. He thinks that you only go outside to either go to the hospital or meet up with that person again to give them all of your affection from him.\nHe was angry that you're meeting up with that person, so he took it in his hands to follow you everywhere you go. Park, college, store, except for the hospital. He had found you in a coffee shop with a person. He went back home after that, going on a tantrum and breaking things. He was surprised no one heard the crashing noises and called the cops or came to the house to check on it\nWhen you came home, the house was a mess. There were magazines on the floor, pictures of things you had gotten broken or either ripped. You were shocked, mad, and upset.\n“MICHAEL! Why the hell!?”\nHe had stomped his way down the stairs, a knife in hand with blood in it. You guessed he went out again and did some killings. You were frustrated, you wanted to cry or do something.\nWhen you both were on the same floor, you had demanded why he did this, and he actually just let out an angry groan or grunt. You stared at him, eyes telling him to ‘go on’\nHe had also almost stabbed you, probably got mad or frustrated, you didn't know why. You were hurt and upset, you guys rarely got into arguments.\nAfter that you guys had ignored each other, the other going out of the house more often, and the other sulking inside the house or bedroom.\nYou had almost unalive yourself after 3 weeks of total torture. Michael finding you with a knife near your chest, where your heart is. If he didn't almost found you, he might had go on a rampage.\nSo when you broke down infront of him, clenching his dark blue jumpsuit and venting in his arms. He was stunned, he didn't want to go that far. Sure, he wants you to feel bad and apologize to him for doing that, but you were too stubborn and knew you wouldn't do that first.\nAfter the incident, he had shown more appreciations of your affection to him, hugging you from behind when you stood in the living room, lost in thought. Or when you hug him as a greeting.\nA/N:\nPhew, that was long(´∀`). I hope you pals, gals, and non-binary hoes have a nice day. And remember, if you feel guilty, don't keep it to yourself, find a paper or a spare notebook and write your day in it.\nI don't like this one so I'm sorry if it isn't really that good, I'll try my best next time(^▽^)\nI drew a greeting into Russian DBD ASK....again\nTranslation:\nDo you have any questions?\nMichael will listen to you, but can you survive after this?"}
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{"text": "The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 seems to be the runaway hit tablet this year as far as Android is concerned. Although no numbers have been reported we feel safe in suggesting that way more Galaxy Tab 10.1’s have been sold compared to Motorola Xoom’s of course only time will really tell.\nWhen Samsung Mobile’s former CTO Omar Khan showed off the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Orlando Florida at CTIA this March, he also showed the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. They hinted that the Galaxy Tab 8.9 would be released sometime this summer. While there are about 7 weeks left in the summer, it’s definitely time for the rumors to start.\nIf the Amazon UK site has correct information it’s showing that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 will be released next week on August 11th. This story actually jives with us more than just a rumor, I mean it is Amazon. Of course the other thing to point out is that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 originally released in Europe and then was re-tooled and released in the United States.\nMore after the break\nAt 8.9 inches the Galaxy Tab 8.9 is still pocketable in a suit jacket or sport coat pocket. It’s also the perfect middle ground between the original 7″ version of the Galaxy Tab released last year and the Galaxy Tab 10.1.\nAlso according to Gottabemobile the 7″ version of the Galaxy Tab is due for a refresher this fall. The new version should sport a dual core 1.2 ghz Exynos processor along side 1gb of RAM, 2gb of ROM and an SD Slot. Unlike it’s predecessor the new version of the 7″ Galaxy Tab is expected to run Android 3.x Honeycomb.\nSource: Gottabemobile"}
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{"text": "Dating Website\nIf you’re gay, bi, trans, or queer, then there’s no better place to find love than Grindr. Signing up is easy — you can either choose to enter your details in the old-fashioned way by filling in the form, or you can quickly sign up with your Facebook account.\n- Unclear, but the interface is definitely more in-depth than the apps that ask for only 240-character bios.\n- In an age where meeting IRL can be tricky, Happy Hour demystifies any anxiety.\n- Now, it feels like the ultimate trump card to finally be off the apps for good.\n- While you are never to blame if someone behaves in a predatory or disrespectful way toward you in the online dating world, there are things you can do to stay safe.\nWhen you have the guts to speak up, you’ll be amazed at how quickly other people will empathize with your experiences and share their own. Does all this sound like you—or is this unfamiliar territory? Unfortunately, even in 2021, talking about our mental and emotional health is stigmatized. It’s high time we learned to speak more openly about our thoughts, feelings, and moods and how we can improve our mental strength.\nDating\nCamilla, who met both her current boyfriend and her ex on Bumble, says that she prefers to swipe, and that messaging first makes it “less likely to get a misogynistic message in my experience”. Grindr is a popular app where gay, bi, trans, and queer people go to connect.\nBut it might mean that people are actually finding relationships. The weekly churn of Black People Meet is nearly four times higher than Grindr, and the churn of eHarmony is more than 6 times higher. Tinder ranks 2nd in the 18–29 demographic behind Bumble, a service that permits only women to initiate conversations. The key to online dating is knowing what you want and finding the site that’s most likely to provide good matches in this area.\nFree Online Dating\nWhen they ask why you’re on the app, it’s not a therapy session. No need to say who dumped whom, or how you felt about that, or how you’re afraid you’ll die alone in your apartment, eaten by your cat. Yet, where Tinder acts as a gateway app from which some daters move onto apps more aligned with their specific desires, for others it remains the best of the bunch. Raya is known as the “celebrity dating app,” but you don’t technically have to be a celebrity to join. HER is an app designed for lesbian, bisexual, and queer people and it takes a really unique approach to the app dating experience. In 2020, our study found that Hingewas responsible for pairing 12% of newlyweds who met online—a 9% increase from 2019.\nOnly Facebook Dating is totally free, and that’s only if you don’t consider your existing personal Facebook profile data to be currency. Plenty of Fish is the dating app for singles who don’t want to dip too far into their wallets to make a connection. In the site’s words, it’s the app that’s “designed to be deleted.” The app lets your friends weigh in and vet your matches before you set sail. While it’s most popular with cis men seeking cis men, every shade of the rainbow can find their match here. Users who have a few more laugh lines and silver strands may find kindred spirits on an app with more people in their demographic.\nFake profiles, inaccurate pictures, and cam-porn spam abound online. You need an app that cuts through that noise, allowing you to put your best foot forward, and find someone who is not a bot and clicks with you. In fact, dating apps and websites have given single people a convenient new way to connect with people.. From your ol’ reliable Tinder app to more recent home screen additions like the Bumble app or Plenty of Fish, the world of online dating has something for everyone. Dating is no longer defined by outdated heteronormative and patriarchal “traditions”—or at least, it shouldn’t be."}
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{"text": "Would you please give me pros & cons on PCs vs Macs?\nMy 8+ year old Dell finally was put out to pasture. Wasn't really fond of it...so I'm not real upset. It wasn't quite dead, but so slow & full of problems it was time.\nTransferred much of the contents to a refurb HP. Am now having problems w/that. Not really worth explaining...suffice to say it doesn't boot-up quickly. Takes about 3 to 4 minutes. I could call an excellent remote PC tech that has helped me in the past. Should I do that before making a decision on a new purchase?\nAn aside: Both the Dell & HP are XP. Yes, I know MS is discontinuing support at the end of this year. I don't think I care...never had problems (that I know of) w/the OS. I \"like\" XP. Have heard that windows 8 is a disaster. Don't want that one at all.\nOr...I could buy a spanking brand new computer. I'm pondering that.\nSon & brother have Macs; swear they're worth the extra $$$'s.\nNot convinced.\nWould so appreciate what you all have to say about each. Can you help me w/pros and cons?\nYou get what you pay for most of the time when it comes to a PC. If you want a nice PC, you have to pay for it (and even the higher end PCs are still cheaper than an equivilant Mac, if such a thing exists). Windows 8 is a train wreck. 7 is still viable and if you liked XP, then you'll probably dislike 7 (at least at first). I'm a fan of using what works, and learning to adapt (but since 8 is geared more towards tablets, I don't recommend it as a system for desktop computers. You can modify and change the hardware in a PC pretty easily and the hardware selection is vast. The software available is also vast and provided by a number of options.\nMacs look pretty. They are more generally more expensive and the internal parts normally fall into the middle of the road. They won't be the top-of-the-line but they won't be outdated either. It is difficult to modify a Mac because hardware is proprietary (unless you want to get into work-arounds).\nA lot of what you're buying is Apple's customer service and support. They are great (as long as you're under the time-frame you get it for free. The same could be said for Dell or Asus though.\nI'm not a fan of Macs because of their price and the attitude that \"it's better than anything you've ever thought about getting, so it's worth an arm and a leg\". However, I can see why people use them.\nMacs are simple to manage for someone who just wants to turn it on and browse the web or use available software. There aren't a lot of things that can go wrong with them because Apple allows very little modifying. It works for some people and it doesn't work for others.\nI game a lot and like the option to have more powerful processors and graphics cards. Obviously, I can't use a Mac for that. I also didn't pay a lot for this beast of a machine I have, but I understand that most people wouldn't need that much for what they are going to use it for.\nApple makes a good product, but not for me\n@capguncowboy: Very thoughtful answers. Thanks so much!\nI think you've pretty much said what I've been thinking. Still not convinced that the cost of a Mac is worth it. Yet, I'm unsure. I am the type of person who thinks a car should start when you put the key in the ignition & turn it. Same w/computers...I don't like to 'work' to get it to perform. IOW...I'm pretty lazy. And not computer-savvy. Have no desire to be. I do understand some things. Have been known to fix problems.\nNot a 'gamer.' Don't need fifty-jallion megabits of whatever. Just a simple person who wants a simple...price effective machine.\n@gmwhit: Don't get me wrong. You can get a PC with equivalent hardware to a MAC for far less money. And as long as you're just using it to browse the web, send emails and look at photos, then you don't need anything fancy. Asus is a good brand that sits on the low end of the price range but touts a great customer rating and even offers the same features as some higher end PCs. I'd highly recommend looking into them before finalizing your decision.\nIf your friends are into Macs then get a Mac. If you are not tech savvy then you are going to need to lean on your friends that are when problems arise. Personally, though, I would buy a gaming level machine with Windows 7/8 (even if you're not a gamer - they are just faster all around). Such a machine will having a longer useful life than the machines you have had. The $1K laptop Woot was selling a few days ago would have been great but is not available now (perhaps next Woot off? or Moofi?) NewEggFlash.com has a Dell Alienware Desktop Refurb on special until tomorrow.\nI have tried several times to post a response here and keep getting the \"oops\" message. Short answer, buy a nice android tablet and a PC desktop. BTW, I still ♥ you. ;>)\nI am a mac user.\nI like that I don't worry about updates and patches and problems.\nI like that it is friendly and easy to figure out, and support is great. I like that mac products work together so easily.\nI am not a gamer. Just your average computer user.\nMy parents have a PC and they are always needing something fixed or repaired or something done to it. They can't do it, so if falls on me. After switching to a mac 10 years ago, it drives me crazy to go back to the way PCs are set up. It makes me want to rip my hair out at times.They are not as user friendly and are always getting sick. They have a nice machine too, that they spent some bucks on. Was more than they needed but they bought from computer store their friend's grandson owns.\nMy suggestion. If you live near an Apple store, go in and play for a day or two.\nI think they sell themselves. For me, it's worth the extra cost.\nFor others,used to PC, some would rather save bucks and have the extra bother.\nIf your only complaint with your \"newer\" computer is the slow boot-up time, you may want to consider an easy solution: instead of completely shutting the computer down, just put it into \"stand by\" or \"hibernate\" mode. I just started doing that with my Dell XP machine and it only takes about 30 seconds for the PC to come back to life!\nThank you to all who have responded. Wanted to hear what others had to say; you've related your personal opinions and experiences. I'm grateful. Not sure what I'll do yet. Still pondering.\n@nortansark: Not friends; they're relatives. (Oh, duh! One wonders what I might mean w/that comment, yes?) They live far away. Cannot rely upon them to 'help' me every time I have a problem/whine. Not interested in gaming, or a huge machine. Appreciate your input.\n@robingraves: Thank you for your kind words. A tablet? Don't think so. I could be wrong, though. I do have a wonderful IBM/Lenovo refurb ThinkPad. It is truly is a \"work horse.\" Want something more, I guess. Like a 'big boy' PC or Mac.\n@ceagee: Ah...... Thanks so much for your personal experience w/a Mac. I can (actually am) relating to this!\ncontinued....\ncontinued...\n@dealseekerdude: Yes! I am now leaving my refurb HP on. My ThinkPad is also 'on.' Only possible problem is lightening storms. Have had a LOT of hardware fried in the past. (I live in Florida...the capital of lightening strikes that will destroy electronics. Had one that hit my house & went into the hallway to destroy my thermostat. But that's off-topic and another story.) Am very leery of leaving anything 'on.'\nAnd another thank you to @capguncowboy for all your thoughts.\nIf you are convinced that all macs have to cost and arm and a leg check out this Apple refurb machine. It still comes with a warranty from Apple at 509. Otherwise check out the newest version at about 699. You say that you already have a desktop so this way you can reuse your existing monitor and keyboard/mouse (the parts of your computer that don't affect speed).\nThe only people who think Windows 8 is a disaster are the people who've either never used it or used for 10 minutes, saw the start screen, and decided it was trash before even giving it a chance. It's well worth it to upgrade to a W8 machine, especially if you're still running XP. The performance and security improvements are vast.\nI'd always recommend a regular PC myself. For one, you can get an equivalent, hardware wise, to a Mac for FAR less money. Secondly, you're already used to the Windows ecosystem, and Mac OS does a lot of things frustratingly differently, and a lot of times in pretty silly ways. Then there's the fact that Windows has far more compatibility with desktop programs than Mac OS does, and this might be especially important if you ever bring work documents home, as something like Office on Mac is a mess.\nI have recent experience regarding your issue. I have a 10yr old son who uses our desktop machine. The desktop's performance rapidly deteriorated once he started to become a computer user because of unwanted software that overwrites the sytem or browser (add-on from Ask.com's search engine, etc).\nUpgrading the machine over the years as always a cost effective way of keeping it current w/o spending big bucks. Over the past year though, I have talked to Apple users who have older machines with little to no problems. It made me wonder how much I'd spent on my PC over the years vs what they paid. They also didn't experience the level of frustration I did when trying to address problems.\n(cont'd) I did some research and decided the Mac Mini was a very cost effective solution to my problem. Had it for 2 months and are very impressed. You can get one for under $600 and get all the quality and service the Macbook users have come to expect. You can get Parallels software that will allow you to run your current Windows programming with the new Mac Mini too. The cost is around $60 and it works great. I don't regret the switch.\n@stryker4526: One of the PCs I have used daily since Christmas is Windows 8 and I still don't like it. I find those danged metro pages nothing but exasperating. They'd be fine for a touchscreen-- in fact I can't tell you how many times I have poked this laptop in the non-touch screen because it is so obvious that's what supposed to be happening that I act on instinct before I remember to use the keyboard. I keep it on \"desktop mode\" at all times, which makes it function mostly like a Win7 device, except for a few annoying things like having to beg the danged thing to pop up the taskbar that will allow me to turn it off. This machine is for personal use only. If I were trying to use it at work it would long since have been thrown out a window.\n@gmwhit: I am a fan of XP as well, and several of my home computers are still using it. But I bought a laptop a couple of years ago with Windows 7, and although it took a little adjusting I like it fine. We have Win7 at work now, too.\nI never liked using a Mac (and I imagine I wouldn't like Windows 8, not only because of the offensively bright colors/contrast) because I need a task bar. I get one-track-minded easily.\nIf you want a Mac, NewEggFlash will have a Refurbished Apple MacBook Pro MC725LL/A with an Intel Core i7 2.20GHz and 17.0\" screen going on sale tomorrow morning for a week. Won't know the price until it goes on sale, but the NewEggFlash prices tend to be decent.\nWhen I was facing the same choice I considered what app/programs/features I intended to use. Then I figured which platform fit that list best.\nApple stuff simply works. Most of it is very well built and a lot of fun to use. It's all a bit too conformist for my tastes. But the quality and value is hard to deny.\nI decided to go with a Windows 7 pc. Newer i7 processor, ssd and a ton of ram. also a Nvidia 660 gpu mainly for multiple display support. This just works too. And if you build it yourself the quality is in the hands of someone that you can blame. Adding an ssd is vital as it yields a boot time of 45 seconds or less 80% of the time.\nIt is hard to go wrong either way as long as you are certain going in that your program, app and feature needs will work on the platform that you choose.\nwindows 8 is terrible, but 7 is actually really good.\nwhat do you want to use the computer for? I've had experience with both. My wife is in graphic design, so she only uses Macs. They are nice, but they are pricey, and in our experience prone to hardware failure. We've had 3 mac laptops since we've been together. the touch pad on one died (out of warranty of course), the screen on another died (one of the few components on the computer not covered by warranty... of course) and our last one had to have something behind the keyboard replaced for some reason. it was covered by warranty but still a pain. on the flip side, i've never had hardware failure on a PC. sure, i've had a hard drive die from time to time but thats a pretty standard failure and one of the main reasons you should always back up onto an external drive. although, i do tend to buy higher end PC's which may explain why i never have hardware issues. I hear HP is prone to hardware problems cont...\ncont.... alot of people will tell you that macs are \"more intuitive\" and easier to use. that may be true if you've never used a computer before, but if you're like me, and have grown up using windows, its hard to make the transition to an apple OS.\nbeing a gamer, and someone who likes 3rd party tools, and the ability to do some customization, i am a PC fan. Apple is terrible for games, or customization of any kind. again, it all boils down to how much you want to spend, and what you want to use the computer for. I dont hate macs, but i prefer a good high end PC.\nApples used to have technologically superior hardware - before they switched to Intel CPUs. Now you just pay for OS X when you buy a Mac. OS X is great, although some people give it more credit than it deserves. Most windows users would be fine with OS X, although they would likely be fine with Linux as well which would save them money (rather than cost them additional money).\nBeyond that there is no meaningful difference. Neither is more reliable than the other from a hardware standpoint, though OS X is less susceptible to viruses and worms only because fewer are written for it. Really OS X gets fewer viruses for the same reason that people who live in NYC don't catch malaria very often; the exposure just isn't there.\nGuess where I'm going to divert the PC vs Mac discussions the next time we sell a MacBook?\nEdit: Seriously, someone downvoted me?\nSo I am going to be honest, I did not read all the comments but I did search for Chromebook and did not find anyone mentioning it.\nIf you only browse the web...\nOnce again, thank you for all your responses/opinions. It does help me clear the fog. Still undecided, but your answers have been so very helpful.\nAn aside: @thunderthighs I LIKE the people here on ATC. Do not go to 'the other side' very often. Not comfortable there. My question was not intended to start a debate over which is best. I simply wanted honest answers & personal experiences. I am so pleased to get that.\nAgain, thanks. Much appreciated!\n@thunderthighs: You got downvoted? Gasp! Wasn't me. But then you knew that, yes? I'm always downvoted by someone. It's a poser, isn't it?\n@lparsons42: Great analogy.\n@gmwhit: \"Just a simple person who wants a simple...price effective machine.\"\nDebate should have been over as soon as you said this. Price-effective is the exact opposite of any Apple product.\nApple\n+standard \"high\" hardware/software quality\n+warranty/support included (part of cost)\n+\"simple\" (i.e. doesn't give you complicated options so you don't screw up)\n+\"fewer\" virus/malware problems due to simply being a smaller target (i.e. NOT more \"secure\")\n-price (i.e. over-priced)\n-less customization\n-not actually \"really simple\" if you're used to Windows (but you'll get used to it eventually)\n-did I mention price?\nNon-Apple\n+cost-effective (great deals)\n+more settings/options w/ hardware & software\n+compatibility with older windows software (if you're into that sort of thing)\n=warranty: you can pay for it if you really want it\n=virus/malware protection is a must and extra (although there are free alternatives)\n-quality varies from manufacturer to model: from crap to better-than-Apple\nShort version from someone who admittedly dislikes Apple and Win8, plus a couple of other options to consider:\nApple Pro: Good asthetics, newbie-friendly UI, very 'clean' in terms of bugs and malware\nApple Con: Expensive, poor software selection, very customization unfriendly\nWin7 PC Pro: Gold standard for software, can get any specs you want, very economical, .NET is awesomesauce\nWin7 PC Con: Much higher malware risk than other options, upgrade path is tied to Microsoft who may not care about PCs anymore\nLinux PC Pro: OS is free and very lightweight, malware is almost nonexistent, not shackled to any particular company and its insane fantasy\nLinux PC Con: Configuration is a nightmare, even less software selection than Apple, community (support) is mired in politics and demagoguery\nChromebook Pro: Dirt cheap, ideal for the web-and-email crowd\nChromebook Con: Sucks at everything else, requires Internet to do anything, Google sees everything you do\nIt's hard to make a recommendation without knowing what you use a computer for, but when in doubt a Windows PC is the best choice because it's equipped to handle anything and lacks a truly crippling weakness compared to other options. As stupid as Microsoft has been lately, there's good reasons why nothing else has come close to threatening Windows dominance.\nJust an update. Am still using my refurb HP. Leaving it on.... That's okay, so far. Have not called upon my remote PC tech to fix the start up problem. (Did I mention that? It really doesn't matter.) Also have the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad connected/running. A back-up, of sorts.\nWanted to thank all of you again for your input. Much appreciated!!\n31 Answers answer\nSort By:"}
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{"text": "Brothers,\nThis is a letter sent out by the head of Labor Relations Rod Doerr today. Ive highlighted the really amusing parts in red. Please be safe and screw their attendance policy, If your sick stay home. do whats best for you and your family.\nFraternally\nPaulo\nUnion Pacific understands that there is concern among its employees regarding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Union Pacific takes these concerns seriously. While the risk of contracting the virus in the United States is still considered low(fun fact only Washington state and NY have more cases than CA….so I call BS ), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warn that this situation is evolving and likely to continue changing. To minimize the impact of COVID-19 on its employees, Union Pacific has already taken certain actions and plans on taking more. The actions employees can assist are described below.\nUnion Pacific has updated its Pandemic & Natural Disaster Planning website to provide extensive information on COV-19 and the Company’s policies. A link to that website is provided below, but there is also a link on the UP Employee’s Homepage. This website is the best way for employees to receive up to date COVID-19 information and the Company’s actions in response as letters and emails will not remain relevant for long. Please encourage your members to check this site often since it will be updated frequently.\nAs we all know, Union Pacific is critical to the nation’s ability to respond to the pandemic. We are critical infrastructure to interstate commerce that serves businesses and municipalities throughout this country. We transport food, chemicals that clean our water supply, medical supplies, and basic essentials along with consumables. Our ability to serve the public will in large measure will affect the nation’s ability to meet the challenges and quickly recover from this unprecedented event.\nActions Taken\nUnion Pacific has updated its Pandemic & Natural Disaster Planning website to provide extensive information regarding COVID-19, the Company’s policies and actions, and any other relevant information. In particular, there is a FAQ section that employees will find useful in answering questions they may have. There is a link to the website on the UP Employee’s Homepage, but can also be found at this address:. This website will be updated frequently to provide the latest information.\n• Mr. Lance Fritz, Union Pacific’s President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board, is co-chairing the Business Roundtable CEO COVID-19 Task Force(im sure that will help us all…while hes having a meeting were in a petri dish). This national effort provides Union Pacific unparalleled information and resources to the latest information provided by the Federal Government and business leaders around the Union States.\n• The Company developed a relationship with the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) a number of years ago providing us access to doctors and staff at the National Bio Containment Center. These doctors are on retainer for consultation purposes.\n• The Company developed a Pandemic Response Protocol with assistance from UNMC. A Pandemic Planning Team (Team) has been activated as part of the protocol. Members of this team include health and safety professionals. This Team is responsible for collecting, analyzing and developing responses to the most current information from various sources. The Team is currently working closely with the various relevant government agencies and public health organizations and thoroughly evaluating next steps. The Pandemic Response Protocol can be found in the Coronavirus section of the Pandemic & Natural Disaster Planning website.\n• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) information is available by speaking with your manager. Company Mangers are stockpiling this material, which may take some time due to limited inventory from suppliers.( please ask your manager for said stockpiled material)\n• Travel restrictions have been initiated. No employee is authorized on company business to travel abroad or domestically without prior approval by Senior Management. The Travel Policy and any subsequent updates can be found in the Coronavirus section of the Pandemic & Natural Disaster Planning website and UP’s Homepage.\n• The new TE&Y Attendance Policy as did the prior Policy remains unchanged as it relates to sickness.( literally the next sentence ) Union Pacific does not want anyone to report to work while ill. One employee in each Operating Region (Senior Director of Operations Support) has been approved to grant “points” relief when an employee reports illness with proper medical documentation. Further an employee has been appointed to address illness related attendance issues in Engineering / Mechanical along with non-Operating Departments..\n• In-Cab Disinfectant is being used in the locomotive toilet rooms and control stand / conductors desk.(let me know when you find it) The latest research indicates the virus can survive only hours on hard surfaces. Employees are asked to further wipe down these surfaces with wipes provided through the OrrBit Safety Supplies Application or your manager. Further, locomotives are being equipped with a bottle of an antimicrobial solution (Clorox solution) that will be available for crew use to further disinfect surfaces. These bottles will start appearing in locomotive cabs as long as supplies last.\n• We anticipate communities will issue forms of travel restrictions / curfews in the days to come. We are working to obtain a letter from officials with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) that would allow the bearer of such a letter to traverse curfew lines / access company property due to our “Critical Infrastructure” designation. The attached letter should suffice with local government and law enforcement officials until the FRA letter is issued.\nRequested Assistance\nPlease remind your members that the CDC and the World Health Organization recommends the following personal protection techniques:\n• Avoid close contact with people with acute respiratory infections.\n• Wash hands frequently and use hand sanitizer, especially after direct contact with ill people or their environment. The CDC recommends washing hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water aren’t available, use an alcohol-based sanitizer.\n• Use antiseptic wipes on shared areas — such as computers, hand scanners, doorknobs, locomotive cabs and tools — before and after use. These wipes may be ordered by way of the Safety Supplies OrrBit App for TE&Y. For other crafts see your local manager.\n• Avoiding touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.\n• Covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Place the tissue after use in a resealable bag or used drinking bottle before discarding to prevent further spread of the virus.\n• People with symptoms of acute respiratory infection should maintain distance, cover coughs and sneezes with disposable tissues or clothing, and wash hands frequently.\n• If you or a family member is experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness, please contact your physician for guidance.\nFinally, if one of your members is sick, remind them to stay home.\nUnion Pacific will continue to monitor the COVID-19 outbreak and keep you informed via the COVID-19 link on the Union Pacific Online page. Further, Union Pacific’s Health and Medical team can be reached through the Employee Service Center to answer your questions.\nBy working together and following prevention practices and, most important, by showing consideration for others, we can all help maintain a healthy workplace.\nSincerely,\nRod Doerr\nVP Labor Relations\nUnion Pacific Railroad"}
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