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FNTD Game of the Week #4: Hudson at Brunswick
CLEVELAND — The Shearer Equipment Friday Night Touchdown Game of the Week #4 was HUDSON (3-0) at BRUNSWICK (2-1).
The Explorers jumped out to a 12-0 lead in the second quarter Friday, before severe weather moved into the area and the officials suspended the game until Saturday afternoon.
The stoppage appeared to help Blue Devils, who regrouped and looked good early in the second half, until Hudson Sr. QB Mitchell Guadagni hit his favorite target, WR Reid Robinson, who broke a tackle and raced to the end zone, extending the Explorers lead to 19-0.
Brunswick’s Richie Norman scored twice to make it a 22-13 game, but the Blue Devils could not generate enough offense against the Explorers’ terrific defense.
With the win, Hudson improves to 4-0. The Explorers, ranked 7th in the first Division I AP Poll return home in Week #5 to face Cuyahoga Falls (1-3).
Brunswick (2-2) should get healthy in a hurry. The Blue Devils hit the road to battle winless Normandy (0-4) at Byers Field.
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How To Optimally Place Your Marijuana Grow Lights
How Grow Lamps Function
Except for the top and bottom of the arc tubes where obstructions are located, the construction of grow lamps enables light to go in every direction. Artificial light production is brought about via agitation of the chemicals, which occurs in a high-voltage vacuum tube. The glowing of these chemicals allows light to come from its source at 360 degrees.
This obstruction blocks light, meaning that just half the light is coming out at the end as compared to six inches to the side. This is determined with a light meter. This is caused by particles that are near the glass arc tube at the time of agitation.
Reflecting Light Correctly
The reflection of light is very important for creating an ideal environment for your plants to grow. Therefore, the location of the wall that creates this reflection is also of great importance. A reflective wall is necessary for capturing the growing area's light when your room space is bigger than your growing space - otherwise you would need to light up the rest of the room as well as the walkways. This is clearly a waste of electricity. You can use Myler or other silver, shiny products for your reflective wall, but a reflective white paint is favored by most professionals. Make sure to download my free marijuana grow bible at this link and grow like a pro!
For ebb-and-flow gardens, it's important to set up your reflective walls just 6 inches away. Because the width of ebb-and-flow tables is usually four feet, putting up reflective walls at this distance still allows for airflow, as well as the bushing out of your plants. You'll need to set up your reflective walls a bit differently if you would like to grow plants that are bigger. Do it at five-foot centers per 1000 watts. For example, use a single light if it's 5x5 feet, 10x5 feet should have 2 lights, 15x5 feet should have three, 10x10 should have four, etc.
The air-cooling of such lights allows for hot air's removal, taking it away from the growing area. At the same time, a loss of light is avoided because of the reflective, white-colored walls.
Maintaining the Efficiency of Your Lighting
You should make sure there's an equal cover of light across your entire garden to properly set up your lights. You can use a light meter to ensure that no hidden hot spots exist.
Another easy way to test the intensity of your lights is simply through feeling with your hands. Leave your bare hands where you plan on placing your plants. If you're unable to keep your hands there for long due to the excess heat, it's a good indication that your plants also would be uncomfortable with such lighting. To put it simply, as a rule: Whenever you're uncomfortable in the grow area, so are your plants. This includes temperature, humidity, ventilation, and so on. If you don't correct this, you will definitely have a smaller yield.
One important fact to note is that some light (10%) can easily be lost simply by choosing to burn your lamps horizontally. The lamp also can lose 25% of its lifespan, meaning that to achieve the highest light output, lots of growers will simply change the light after just 75% of one year's usage.
For horizontally placed lamps, two-thirds of the lamp's light emissions bounces of the reflector, while just one third goes straight to the plant canopy. Losing light because of the quality of the reflector's material can also occur; if it's 92% reflective, you're losing even more light - 8% in addition to the two-thirds already lost. Reflectors with built-in glass lose a further 3-5% of light.
For more specific numbers: 100 watts would be lost per 1000 watts (10% loss), and 666.66 watts of light (two-thirds of 1000 watts) are being affected. Therefore, losing 8% and then another 3% means 11% loss of 666.66, which is 73.33 watts. Adding the original 100 watts to that means that, in total, 173.33 watts of light are being wasted. In other words, nearly one fifth of the yield is ruined simply because of the orientation of your lamps.
Wave cancellation is another factor that can cause light loss due to horizontal lighting. Wave cancellation causes the loss of light when it is bounced back at itself. It can be confusing because light seems to be continuous, given the fact that its bandwidth is extremely small (only nanometers), and its creation is at time intervals invisible to the naked idea.
Although we know that there is a clear light loss when it is redirected into itself, we do not know exactly how much this is. Another factor is the elements used in lamps, where their agitation from electricity (especially salts) occurs. Simply put, expensive artificial light should not be wasted. This gives a high value to light meters, as well as the optimal positional of lamps.
For a rough guide for light placement, see below.
Type of light: distance from plants
LED: Very near
Fluorescents: Three inches
Compact Fluorescents: Three inches
Sulphur Bulbs: Eighteen inches
Induction Lighting: Fourteen to eighteen inches
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1000 Watts: Twelve to eighteen inches
600 Watts: Eight to sixteen inches
400 Watts: Eight to sixteen inches
250 Watts (or lower): As close as possible
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Which Lamps Work Best for Flowering Cannabis?
The easiest to find and most reliable lamps are HPS (high-pressure sodium) and MH (metal halide) lamps. You'll start to see obvious differences with types and brands as you experiment with the variety of choices and get nearer to picking one source of lighting. The plants located in between the lights often end up being the healthiest and highest quality plants. You will see major differences in the growth and quality of the plants as you move further away from the central light footprint.
The sun has a reddish cast at sunrise and sunset. Because HPS lamps are strong in the red spectrum, they "wake the plants up," or stimulates them to begin working every day. The sun's color changes to blue as the day continues, and when the day ends the sun returns to its red color. The spring and fall sun has more red in the early morning, and during the early summer the colors are more bluish early in the morning. All these colors encourage plants to begin growing and flowering accordingly.
You can spot this reddish hue when the sun is rising or setting. This reddish hue stimulates plants and makes sure they adhere to the changing seasons (i.e. dry or wet season), as well as the length of the day. Because of plants' evolution over hundreds of millions of years to adapt to this natural phenomenon, it's important to try and replicate it as exactly as possible. The daylight 5K metal halide lamps give off the best type of light for growing (vegetating) plants. It will help leaves to come out healthier and larger than when MH lamps are used. A common misconception among many growers is that there is no difference between MH lamp output. In fact, a difference does exist; one example is the MHS 125,000 MH/U universal position or MH 90,000 initial lumens output.
Additionally, it is better to use six T5 fluorescent tubes for the vegetative growth of plants, as compared to MH lamps with 400 watts. The color spectrum of T5 lamps is better than MH, and they also have a less drastic difference between the night and day temperatures. The lighter time (day) should, of course, be a higher temperature than nighttime. To make it ideal, there should be a difference between light and dark temperatures of approximately ten degrees Fahrenheit. If this is not done, "stretching" (extra elongation) between internodes will occur, meaning the plants will grow to become tall and lean rather than short and bushy.
Preparation of Your New Light Setup
Make sure you always have the behavior of light at the back of your mind when planning a lighting scheme: how it travels, how it reflects, and how it bounces around the area of growth. Remember the importance of equal light distribution when using more than one lamp; otherwise your plants will grow in a variety of ways since they will receive varying amounts of light. Plants that receive the same amount of light will grow quite similarly.
You should also remember to grow your plants by starting with cuttings or seedlings that have even and consistent growth. Never start with differently sized plants under the same light, since getting them even light and growing them at the same rate would then be nearly impossible. If you grow seedlings and cuttings side-by-side, cuttings will generally grow faster and larger than seedlings. Avoid this by keeping clones and cuttings the same size, and only choose cuttings that look similar when rooted.
Check the equality of distribution of your lighting even before you put your plants in the growing area. Do this with a light meter. Simply bring it under where the two sources of light meet, and change the location of the lamps until you are sure the light is even everywhere. Keep in mind that this is easier to accomplish with vertical lights than with horizontal ones. Do not forget the importance of heat, as well; lights give off heat, so it is especially important to be aware of this factor when using extra lights. If not, you could cook your plants' growing tips.
Simply put your hands underneath the lamp (where the plant canopy will be located) and see if it becomes uncomfortable after a couple minutes. If so, your plants would be uncomfortable too - but unlike you, they can do nothing to escape such discomfort. An inverted "V" is located in almost every horizontal reflector. Its purpose is to keep light from reflecting again through the arc tube, bouncing back on itself, and disappearing. If you try and think of one light beam's size (1/10,000th of a human hair), then imagine the many beams of light and the fact that this means some of them will surely be canceled when they reflect.
Growers must try to keep this from occurring. It would indeed be a challenge to set it up in a way to achieve a 100% bounce back, given one beam's minuscule size. Make sure to download my free marijuana grow bible at this link and grow like a pro!
Advice on Horizontal Lighting
A: This defines the light's strength. There would be a lack of light above this line due to its reflector, which directs the light toward your growing area. If one is not in the stream of light, it will begin growing incorrectly due to its lack of light.
B: There are multiple lamp systems, and they should be correctly place so that the top or your plants all receive the same amount of light. Uneven growth can occur when equal light distribution doesn't exist, and that perpetuates the difficulty of keeping your garden well-lit.
C: Any light that travels all the way down to the garden has to have an equal strength as compared to B, where the two beams touch. As mentioned above, unequal distribution will cause unequal plant growth.
D: Grow room lights' location also matters. You can place them further away from the reflectors than you can from the reflective wall, where we would like to bounce the light off of. Therefore, to achieve even lighting, place the light closer to the wall than the middle of the room.
E: Lights can be a bit further apart from each other since it is unnecessary to bounce light off of a reflective wall. Make sure he reflector's edge is 12 inches away from the wall and 24 inches away from each reflector.
Using Light Patterns as a Placement Guide
If you're deciding between horizontal and vertical reflectors, simply use the light footprint. Horizontal reflectors focus the light in a smaller area than vertical ones! Although you might assume this means there would then exist about two times the light in the growing area, it's important to note that the horizontal light actually is losing light simply from its position and material. They do give off more light per square foot, however - about 1.3 times more than from a vertical reflector. A vertical setup, on the other hand, would provide about twice the area.
Note: every calculation for 3 watts per square foot are from vertical lighting. We also must keep in mind how light leaves the arc tube - it goes in 360 degrees, but, of course, cannot get through the obstructions on either side of the tube. Therefore, a very small of light goes through the ends, which consequently alters the light concentration.
The Production of Light
As mentioned above, light comes from a combination of specific chemicals that are electrically agitated inside of a vacuum tube. The chemicals then begin to glow, creating the light that has a 360-degree pattern. Because of the existence of millions of such chemical elements in the arc tubes, light is formed in all directions - excepting the ends. Regardless of whether the chemical is near the surface or near the middle of the tube, they will all produce light in 360 degrees. Plants take in light from all directions due to this continuous distribution of light. Of course, light cancellation will still exist to some degree, but it will not stop growth. Rather, it just provides an unavoidable challenge when setting up your lighting.
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GARDNER, Kan. -- Bubba Starling returned to the lineup, and with him came the reappearance of the microscope.
Over the past 3 1/2 weeks as Starling sat with a quad injury, crowds dwindled at Gardner Edgerton High School baseball games. Professional scouts disappeared. Curious observers from nearby Kansas City walked away at the announcement of a Bubba-free lineup.
It all came roaring back on Thursday.
Starling smashed a pair of long home runs in his first action since April 2, doubled, stole two bases and walked three times in the Trailblazers' doubleheader sweep of Blue Valley Southwest. And he did it amid a chaotic environment courtesy of some 60 scouts on hand to watch the 6-foot-5, 195-pound center fielder set to command first-round money after the Major League Baseball draft in June.
"He has every right to be nervous," Gardner Edgerton baseball coach Jerald VanRheen said, "but he just trusts his instincts. That's just him. He's got it all."
Soon, Starling will face the decision of his life: Pro baseball or the University of Nebraska, with which he signed a letter of intent in February as a high school All-America quarterback.
He plans to play baseball at Nebraska, too, if he's not under contract with a pro organization by the Aug. 15 deadline.
Don't assume that a seven-figure signing bonus will sway the three-sport standout away from college.
"People think they know I'm going to sign," said Starling, who also stars in basketball at Gardner Edgerton. "They don't know. They don't know that I love football as much as I do."
Don't assume anything with Starling, who defies logic daily. Take Thursday, when rust could have taken a toll. He did not enjoy the time off.
"I thought having a break would be something I would enjoy," he said, "because I never get a break. But I hated every minute of it."
He liked this day on the diamond, though, which began as Starling arrived to take a few early swings 2 1/2 hours before first pitch.
"I had 20 scouts just standing there to watch me," he said. "It's like, 'Well, all right.' It puts a little pressure on me. But this is fun. Not many kids get a chance to have this many people watching them."
Starling walked on four pitches in his first plate appearance. He ripped a double past third base in the third inning before drawing a pair of intentional walks to the dismay of the visiting scouts.
The group included J.J. Picollo, Kansas City Royals assistant general manager for scouting and player development. Picollo had already watched Starling twice in practice this week. On Tuesday, Starling launched a ball in batting practice that traveled more than 500 feet over a street behind the baseball field, according to VanRheen.
He homered Thursday in his first at-bat of the second game, pounding a low curveball with his smooth, right-handed swing over the 354-foot sign in left-center field. After a pop out and a strikeout, Starling came to bat in the sixth inning and heard a woman near visiting dugout shout encouragement to the pitcher. 'Strike him out again', she said.
Starling got mad and punished a fastball, with even the scouts marvelling at how the ball exploded off his bat. The second home run soared even further than his first near the same spot left of the scoreboard.
"A no-doubter," Starling said.
The scouts scribbled a few notes. Then most of them left.
After the game, Starling mentioned only the strikeout when a friend offered praise for his big day.
"That's just him," VanRheen said. "He's got it at all. He's mentally strong. He's physically strong. He's gifted. I've never seen anyone like him. And he's grown up a ton to handle a situation like he did out there.
"So not only does he have major-league skills, he has a major-league mentality."
Mitch Sherman is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached at email@example.com. Follow Mitch Sherman on Twitter: @mitchsherman
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A Brief Note on Larry Sidoti’s How Foreign Brands Can Make It in the U.S. published on Fortune.
Recently read a great, pleasantly short and concise, article by Larry Sidoti on Fortune’s web site regarding expanding foreign “brands” in the US. It is well worth the read. With that said, we believe that with the right guidance and expertise at your side, it’s neither difficult nor expensive to launch your company or brand in the US. And while I completely agree with Sidoti’s conclusion that, “[o]ne of the best ways to navigate these challenges is to hire a U.S.-based attorney rather than utilizing representation from their home country,” we believe an even better solution for “onshoring” your brand in the US is to hire an “onshoring” solution such as Cove, LLC (www.cove.ie). Cove has bundled into a turn-key solution all the expertise and services likely necessary for any company to effectively, efficiently and quickly launch in the US. To demonstrate our point, we go through Sidoti’s article as a point, counter-point, discussion.
“OBSTACLES- Trends, Regulatory & Expectations”
While it’s true, as Sidoti posits, that the US can be a “highly regulated legal environment,” with the right expertise at your side, it is in fact much more easily navigated than the vast majority of foreign jurisdictions. Moreover, we disagree with the assessment that a “high investment [is] require[d].” And, while we again agree with the Sidoti’s assessment that the US expansion may encounter, “fierce competition, and complicated multicultural demographics,” those hurdles are again easily navigated for successful brands with the proper, experienced guidance and planning from folks who understand the local landscape. Our Cove affiliate can navigate the legal environment, keep your investment commensurate with anticipated return, and have you well-positioned to overcome “fierce competition, and complicated multicultural demographics,” turning those obstacles into benefits for your company.
We completely agree with, and commend to the reader, Sidoti’s “To Do List.”
Trends Action: Understand the market trends and consumer behavior – The critical issue is not just comprehending the competitive landscape, but the cultural landscape, as well.
Regulatory Action: Prepare upfront for legal and regulatory challenges. Obeying regulations of states with different franchising laws and understanding real estate policy.
Understanding and adapting to the legal and regulatory environment is an ongoing educational process. One of the best ways to navigate these challenges is to hire a U.S.-based attorney rather than utilizing representation from their home country.
Expectations Action: Expectations for success must be managed and it is important to set a realistic timeline for development. Leadership should to recall its entrepreneurial beginnings—during which it may have struggled to gain traction—while starting from scratch in the U.S. The best solution for outlandish expectations is open and honest communication within the company, and remembering that international buying power does not necessarily translate to success in a new country.
Cove, with offices in New Jersey, Florida and Dublin, Ireland, provides a turn-key US expansion solution with end-to-end service and expert counsel, ensuring an efficient and successful launch of international businesses, brands and SMEs in the US. With Cove, clients are able to pick and choose from a menu of services, from C-suite consulting, accounting and finance, legal services, HR, marketing, logistics and more. Cove’s mission is to allow busy executives to undertake expansion into the US with as little negative impact on personal and enterprise bandwidth and resources as possible.
While there are many ‘How To Do Business in the US’ resources available online, there is in fact no substitute for local knowledge and experience, particularly knowledge that is available to the business at its foreign home. The idea of Cove is to provide to foreign entities and entrepreneurs the same local knowledge inherently available to US companies and to guide high-potential foreign businesses and their owners through each step of the process. Rather than America’s unique and at times intricate business practices and laws being obstacles, Cove turns them into advantages against those without the “local knowledge.” The Cove team members are “success agents” with proven track records of creating and implementing winning strategies for businesses in varied market sectors: from finance to foods, health care and information technology, as examples and is actively in search of dynamic middle market and stable start-ups that are ready to expand to the American market.
To better serve Cove’s international clients longer term goals, Cove is also able to provide US recruiting and resourcing capabilities via its partnership with reesmarx, an internationally recognized recruiting firm. While Cove performs and provides interim and permanent solutions, Cove recognizes that clients will over time want to bring some of those functions in-house. Cove clients are thus able to: (i) utilize their own internal resources; (ii) Cove services; or (iii) either of the foregoing with reesmarx providing permanent employee solutions over time for the client’s US expansion.
One of the biggest barriers that exist when expanding internationally is understanding human resources laws and business practices in other countries. Cove sees expanding companies often needing to on-board new team members across several disciplines quickly and effectively, often putting compensation packages together with a short lead time. Our US expansion team will help clients to mitigate employment risks and liabilities in the US through a single, dedicated Legal and HR structure. This one-stop shop service is personal and tailored to lead your organization to achieve its international goals.
So while we agree very much with the basic thrust of Mr. Sidoti’s article, we submit that the difficulties and obstacles noted can in fact be greatly reduced, and at times eliminated, by partnering with the right team – Cove.
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A new study from a team at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is rekindling a debate over the safety of essential oils. The research suggests lavender and tea tree oils contain potential hormone disrupting chemicals and could be responsible for a condition called prepubertal gynecomastia, where young boys develop abnormal breast tissue.
Back in 2007 a study in the New England Journal of Medicine from NIEHS controversially suggested that repeated topical use of lavender or tea tree oil could be responsible for prepubertal gynecomastia. Based on three specific case studies and a small series of in vitro tests, the research was hotly debated and the essential oil industry hit back with a counter-study in 2013 suggesting there was no link between lavender oil and endocrine disruption.
Now a new report from NIEHS, including some of the researchers from the original 2007 study, is hitting back. The new research isolated eight specific chemical elements found in many essential oils including both lavender and tea tree oils. These chemicals were then applied to human cancer cells in vitro while observing any changes in estrogen receptor- and androgen receptor-target gene activity.
The researchers suggest that the varying estrogenic and/or anti-androgenic properties observed after applying these chemicals to the human cells were consistent with the observed endogenous conditions seen in cases of gynecomastia in prepubescent boys.
"Our society deems essential oils as safe," says lead investigator on the study J. Tyler Ramsey. "However, they possess a diverse amount of chemicals and should be used with caution because some of these chemicals are potential endocrine disruptors."
This new study, presented on March 19 at ENDO 2018, the Endocrine Society's 100th annual meeting in Chicago, is sure to spark new debate over the safety of essential oils, but this is far from definitive research. While the application of these specific chemicals to human cells could certainly display hormonal disruption, there is no clear dosage equivalency when we consider general human exposure.
A 2008 study on tea tree oil from the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Products notably found connections between topical use of the oil and gynecomastia to be "implausible." Importantly, the report also questioned whether any hormonally active chemicals potentially in the oil could effectively penetrate the skin.
Source: The Endocrine Society
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RBZ Robot Design is an engineering company with experience in the development of hardware and software solutions with strong experience in the design of microprocessor and microcontroller systems with focus on connected devices.
Our sevices include: hardware design, prototype manufacturing, BSP development, application development, industrializaion and production.
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Special configurations and licensing available.
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This module based on the imx6 is available with a set of standard configurations, but we offer the possibility to add any configuration requested and even a licensing model to get the design. This is a project based pro
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Boot time reduction form imx6 based systems. Includes custom development of bootloaders, and kernel/rootfilesystem optimization to achieve fast boot times. Operating System:Linux-In house,Linux,Linux-NXP,Linux-other
When working with Linux systems we can offer BSP customization based on Yocto, Debian, Buildroot. OpenWRT or LFS.
When required we can develp custom drivers or kernel porting. Operating System:Android / Linux,Linux-In house,Linux,Linux-NXP,Linux-other
Hardware design for microprocessor system mainly for imx and Layerscape architectures.
The service includes experience in high speed design, DDR memory design and interconnexion busses.
In house prototype manufacturing.
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Last October, Cutler Bay resident Dustin Hughes stamped his profile picture with an image of a Confederate flag and the message "Heritage not hate." But hate is exactly what has landed Hughes in jail on felony charges.
Prosecutors say Hughes repeatedly called the Jamaat ul Muttaqeen mosque in Pembroke Pines and left voicemails threatening to blow the place up and kill all the worshippers inside. The case marks yet another instance in which someone posting white-supremacist or neo-Confederate iconography has been arrested on hate-crime charges.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Florida federal court last Wednesday, Hughes allegedly called the mosque May 5 at 4:06 p.m. and left the following voicemail:
You fucking Muslim piece of shit. I planted a bomb in your temple; I'm gonna blow your fucking temple up, you fucking Muslim piece of shit. Where you guys have your sanctuary and worship Allah, I'm gonna blow that motherfucker up. l have a detonator, l'm gonna cause that motherfucker to go off, you guys are all gonna be up in flames after l'm done with you! You guys wanna come here and cause mayhem to America, well, I'm gonna cause mayhem to your religion 'cause your religion is nothing but lies. Lies, lies, lies from the Devil! Where's Allah now?
The feds say the mosque immediately called Pembroke Pines Police, who swept the building and found no bombs. But it turns out a man with the same voice had left three other threatening voicemails within the past week. The cops simply checked the mosque's caller ID, and Hughes' name popped up. Investigators later confirmed the number belonged to him.
The feds arrested Hughes at his home May 15. After he was taken to a cell for an interview, prosecutors say, Hughes admitted he had made the calls. When officials mentioned the calls terrified members of the mosque, Hughes clapped his hands together and shouted, "Good!" prosecutors allege.
"During the interview, Hughes stated, in substance, that he wanted to scare members of the mosque and upset them," the feds say.
After the arrest, the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights organization, released a statement thanking law-enforcement officials for taking action. CAIR also released a copy of Hughes' Confederate-flag post.
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The arrest comes as civil rights advocates and justice activists are warning that law-enforcement officials are not paying enough attention to the very real threats that members of the alt-right pose. Though the FBI in August 2017 said it planned to crack down on "black identity extremists" — a racist fringe that black-rights activists said threatened them — the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a February report succinctly warning that "the alt-right is killing people." The SPLC said members of the extreme right have killed 43 people and injured 60 since 2014 — and since that report came out, other murderers have been linked to the far right, including Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz and Santa Fe suspect Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who both wore Nazi iconography before committing attacks.
Hughes' Confederate-flag photo also lays bare the real danger that the "Confederate history" movement poses: Other Confederate-history advocates in Florida, such as Florida Atlantic University Professor Marshall Derosa and Tampa's neo-Confederate group Save Southern Heritage, argue the flag somehow does not represent an army of white supremacists.
People flying the flag, however, sure seem to get arrested a lot for hate crimes.
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https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/miami-mosque-bomb-threat-suspect-dustin-hughes-posted-confederate-flag-9540863
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Colon Cleansing and Losing Weight
Weight problems or being obese has actually come to be an intense health problem for lots of people in the all over the world. Everybody disapproval holding extra weight however along with this, being over weight causes digestion issues and causes lots of severe illness such as diabetes, asthma, heart disease, cancer cells and even more.
A great deal of folks question why they obese asking if its inherited or if its down to the metabolic process. In the fact of today’s way of life, folks have no time to do exercise or workout since they are too hectic with other things at the workplace and in the home. Even though today’s society all seem to be obese, most of us still have that wish to be thin.
There is a new means to safely assist healthy weight administration which folks are gradually counting on. Many People are turning to colon cleansing.
What is Colon Cleansing?
If your big gut is clean and your digestive system is completely active then weight loss is much easier to approach. Colon cleansing is the very best technique of cleaning your intestine and assisting the digestion device to be constantly completely energetic. You can be amazed to know that this process can truly aid you to lose weight and battle weight problems. There are a great deal of positive reports from those which attempted colon cleansing for weight loss and confirmed its effectiveness.
It appears to be the standard for folks to take in numerous fatty and junk foods whether it be takeaways or all set dishes. This is not just to being busy functioning etc yet it is likewise as a result of just how we have been raised. It is therefore tough to think of how many junk foods we have actually consumed from the minute of our birth nevertheless it is our diet and lifestyle that have actually induced us to be overweight. Not just might you be obese or unsuited however think of the problem of your colon. A big enough quantity of toxic waste from processed food that we soak up gets stayed with the walls of the bowel of our digestive system.
What are the advantages of Colon Cleansing?
Colon cleansing has a great deal of health perks, including weight loss and enhanced digestion. This is a very good technique of body detoxification as it functions successfully to eliminate all of the toxic waste by items from the bowel wall surfaces.
By having your colon purified you’re making the proactive steps in assisting it is job to its complete possibility once again. You will certainly also really feel a lot better, healthier and much more energized.
It is tough to define specifically the average amount of weight that you could lose after the colon cleansing treatment as the procedure can effect everyone in a different way. Lots of people do nonetheless lose a substantial volume of weight after each procedure.
Weight loss is not about diet programs, workout, swimming or running. It is needed to take a look at just how healthy you and your physical body are. If your physical body is not working to its totally prospective then it does not matter exactly how difficult you work at your diet regimen or exercising you are never visiting completely achieve your target.
By having your colon purified you are making sure that your body is functioning to its max giving you the best feasible cause by any type of diet plan you might consequently try significance you will certainly likewise get results quicker and with much less effort. It needs to cost a shot in that instance!
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The Brother “Back to Business” Contest, which offers the opportunity to win a $500 prize package from Brother, is up and running at BizSugar and we have some fantastic entries.
Not only does a contest entry offer you a chance to win, it also grants you another opportunity – FREE visibility for your business. It’s an added perk that you will benefit from, whether you win or lose!
The Benefits of Submitting an Entry:
- Your entry will be promoted on the homepage of BizSugar along with a link to your website.
- Your entry (featuring your company name) will be shared on BizSugar’s social media channels.
- Your entry is archived on the site even after the contest ends, where it will remain for all to see.
Free branding and SEO for a bit of your time – who wouldn’t want that?
What are you waiting for?
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https://blog.bizsugar.com/2014/02/26/brother-back-business-win-500-promote-business-online/
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Most centers have done an admirable job providing options for customers to self-serve. In fact, they’d love it if customers could handle all of their service needs using automated tools. Yet there remains a host of circumstances in which the need for dialog remains strong. Whether customers opt for assisted service or land there after attempting to self-serve, data on the customer and contact needs to be used every step of the way to ensure a personalized interaction focused on quick, easy, and complete resolution.
For example, when customers fail at self-service, the self-service channels could determine their assisted service channel. An IVR contact leads to a phone call. Web leads to email or chat. Mobile leads to text or call. If they were already identified and verified, their data should travel with them or be accessible in a data base at the next landing point. Information on the transaction should also be present so customers don’t have to repeat it. This treatment minimizes the customers’ level of effort and the handle time. It also optimizes the customer experience.
Some customers just don’t like self-service. Based on past behaviors (e.g., pressing 0 repeatedly in IVR), you could capture their aversion to self-service in their account record route them directly to an agent. Of course, you’d need Automatic Number Identification (ANI) or an account number entry to identify them. Most customers would gladly enter the latter if they knew it would hasten their interaction with an agent. As a bonus, entering account numbers and passwords reduces the time needed for the Identify and Verify (ID&V) process—a bonus for all concerned.
If a contact is too complex, urgent or sensitive, the goal should be to connect customers with agents as quickly and easily as possible. As noted above, if they tried self-service, any information they provided should be used to route to a skill set capable of assisting them with the process from which they exited. If not, use account data to determine if there is a transaction in process or obvious issue based on their account status.
Three critical technology enablers stand out to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
- Leveraging Data: Use data to customize menus, messages, and routing for specific customers or situations. Associating data with a contact is the enabler for identifying and verifying customers, routing them to appropriately skilled resources, and launching conversations based on scripts and business rules.
- Using Business Rules and Defining Workflows: Business rules provide the logic that determines actions taken based on the input data—e.g., routing, contact handling, and more. Workflows simplify and automate processes and take the guess work out of how to deliver a consistently great customer experience.
- Integrating Channels: Channel integration enables the customer to move from self-service to assisted service, and from one channel to the other easily and seamlessly. Omnichannel technology basically packs the customers’ bags with data to take with them on their journeys. This data makes the next stage of the interaction simpler and delivers a better customer experience.
Fortunately, the latest architectural innovations by contact center technology suppliers make it easier to leverage data, integrate channels, and define workflows. Vendors offer open development platforms that they, their partners, or even their customers can use to build modular tools to gather and use data. The interfaces on these systems can make it fast and easy to develop and pilot applications.
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https://blog.contactcenterpipeline.com/2015/10/3-technology-enablers-make-assisted-service-shine/
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Regius Chair awarded to Director of 5GIC
Professor Rahim Tafazolli, Director of Surrey’s Institute for Communication Systems and 5G Innovation Centre, has been awarded the title of Regius Professor in Electronic Engineering.
The highly prestigious award was given to the University of Surrey by Her Majesty the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee. The appointment of Professor Tafazolli as Regius Professor in Electronic Engineering recognises his exceptional contribution to digital communications technology over the past 30 years.
Professor Tafazolli has been Professor of Mobile and Satellite Communications at Surrey since April 2000. He is Director of Surrey’s Institute for Communication Systems and the Founder and Director of the 5G Innovation Centre. The author or co-author of more than 500 research publications and co-inventor on more than 30 granted patents in the field of digital communications, he regularly advises governments on 5G technologies.
Regius Chairs are a very rare honour, with only 25 institutions within the UK holding one and, prior to the Diamond Jubilee awards, just two Regius Chairs were created in the last century.
Professor Tafazolli commented: “I feel proud and humbled to be the recipient of this prestigious award in recognition of my work, considering that there are many world leading researchers in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey.”
Professor Max Lu, the University’s President and Vice-Chancellor said: “The award is very well-deserved and recognises Rahim’s outstanding contributions to telecommunications research and its applications, along with the prominent leadership role he has taken at national and international level to pursue and promote next generation technologies, where Surrey is an acknowledged world leader.”
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GVLT and Coalition Move Forward with Citizen Petition to Protect Open Land
We’re excited to share that a coalition of supporters of open land, including the Gallatin Valley Land Trust, Montana Land Reliance, and The Trust for Public Land have decided to pursue a Citizen Petition to place a $20 million Open Lands Bond on the ballot in November 2018 to continue the existing Gallatin County Open Lands Program. After the County Commission did not unanimously agree to put this measure on the ballot at a meeting this summer, we regrouped. We’ve heard you loud and clear, open land is important to this valley and you’ve entrusted us to fight for it.
A little background. In both 2000 and 2004, Gallatin County taxpayers made a substantial investment. You saw this beautiful place growing and changing and you knew you had to do something to plan for the future. A group of thoughtful citizens created a coalition and held community conversations to research tools to protect open land. The County decided to pursue conservation easements as a tool to protect open land for working farms and ranches, wildlife habitat, and manage growth. That effort resulted in taxpayers approving two $10 million bonds to purchase conservation easements from willing landowners, giving them an option to help keep the land in agriculture by voluntarily selling their development rights.
It paid off. For the last 17 years, organizations like the GVLT, Montana Land Reliance (MLR), and The Trust for Public Land (TPL) have worked alongside the county’s landowners to protect over 50,000 acres from future development. Large blocks of agricultural land on some of the best soil in the state will remain intact in perpetuity. Multiple properties have been stitched together to protect important wildlife corridors. And long stretches of rivers have been conserved, protecting the scenic views and water quality we expect from our blue ribbon trout streams.
Your taxpayer dollars have been leveraged at an astonishing rate. Each County dollar has been matched with five from federal, state, and private sources. But the program’s success is stalled. Funding from the last two Open Lands Bonds has been fully allocated, eliminating an option for landowners who are ready and willing to limit development of their property and slowing the progress to protect the county’s open landscape.
With a number of pressing needs in a growing community, we spent the last three months in conversations with leaders and elected officials about timing and options. Based on these conversations, and overwhelming support from community members like you both through a poll and at public hearings, the coalition has decided that a Citizen Petition is critically important at this time. Renewing funding of this program at the $20 million level will allow the County to continue protecting open land and balance development for another 15-20 years.
You’re not alone in your love of open land. County and City Commissioners support this effort. “Our Gallatin County Open Lands Program has been tremendously successful. It has been a useful tool to manage growth while protecting our valley’s rich agricultural heritage,” says Joe Skinner, Gallatin County Commissioner, in support of the Citizen Petition effort. Bozeman City Commissioner Chris Mehl adds, “Protecting natural lands, our Valley’s high quality of life, and local water quality will benefit Gallatin County residents as we work together to pass an Open Lands Bond.”
This past summer, the land trust partners commissioned an independent poll of community attitudes regarding the Gallatin County Open Lands Program and the need for further open land protection. An overwhelming majority, 70% of the respondents, were in favor of approving a $20 million bond to continue the Gallatin County Open Lands Program. The anticipated cost to pay off the bond is $15.92/ year for every $200,000 of home value.
A petition effort allows citizens to place initiatives on the ballot by proving community support. It is truly democracy in action. This will not be a small task as a Citizen Petition in Gallatin County requires in-person signatures from 20% of the registered voters, or 15,097 signatures. These signatures will need to be collected in a period of 3 months, once the petition language is approved by the County Attorney’s office.
We’re going to need your help.
The coalition will be spending considerable resources and time to collect the signatures needed so that County taxpayers can make a decision about the future of the Gallatin County Open Lands Program. We will need volunteers to help collect signatures, attend community events with the petition, submit opinion pieces to local media, and share the message with neighbors and friends. Given the rapid pace of development in the county, and the rapid rate at which open land is being converted into residential and commercial uses, the coalition believes that now is the time to protect the special and scenic parts of this landscape, before it is too late. The coalition members will work hard to ensure that the residents of this county have the opportunity to protect the future of this place with a yes vote for open land in November of 2018. We will work hard on behalf of the many people who support GVLT to protect the open land you love. This is our promise.
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https://gvlt.org/gvlt-coalition-move-forward-citizen-petition-protect-open-land/
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CD Leganes 0-0 Elche CF
The Liga Adelante leaders strung together their third game without a loss with a goalless draw against Elche in a closely matched contest. The battle between the most tight-fisted keeper in the Liga Adelante, Jon Ander Serantes, and the top scorer in the competition, Sergio Leon, produced another stalemate, as was the case in their previous meeting this season in Elche, which also ended 0-0. The draw leaves Leganes top, but the gap between them and their pursuers shrank, whilst Elche continue putting points on the board and remain within reach of the play-off places.
Gimnastic 1-0 CD Numancia
Gimnastic proved once again that they are on flying form and made it 11 games unbeaten in the Liga Adelante as they overcame CD Numancia 1-0 in an evenly contested match. Numancia started off the game with the greater threat on goal, but Nastic improved and could have taken the lead with an Achille Emana strike which clattered the post. The Cameroonian went on to find the back of the net in the second half off a great pass from Jose Naranjo to give his team the three points and keep their direct Liga BBVA promotion dreams alive and kicking.
SD Huesca 1-2 Athletic Club B
Huesca suffered their third defeat in a row in the Liga Adelante, all of them against teams fighting to avoid relegation, leaving them in an increasingly delicate situation. A spectacular free-kick strike by Ager Aketxe put Athletic B in the ascendency, and although Huesca managed to draw level from a penalty put away by Fran Merida, Aitor Seguin was on cue on the counter-attack for the visitors to give them just their second away victory of the entire season. The win gives the bottom-placed side a glimmer of hope, although they remain a long way from safety.
At. Osasuna 0-0 CD Tenerife
Osasuna and Tenerife shared the points in a game with little between the two teams and few chances to speak of at the El Sadar stadium. The result means Tenerife maintain their positive momentum, with the islanders now having gone six games unbeaten to put them ever closer to the play-off positions. Osasuna, meanwhile, remain within those play-off places, although they spurned an opportunity to strengthen their position.
R. Oviedo 3-0 SD Ponferradina
On the back of three consecutive defeats, Oviedo got back to winning ways in the best possible manner with a superb performance against Ponferradina. The Asturian side went ahead early on with a goal by Toche, and the defender David Fernandez doubled their lead before the break. In the second half, Toche netted the third to put himself on a haul of 14 goals for the season in the Liga Adelante and seal the victory for his side. The three points leave Oviedo in the promotion play-off places and slighter closer to the leaders, whilst Ponferradina slump dangerously close to the drop zone.
Cordoba CF 1-2 D. Alaves
The Arcangel stadium played host to a clash between two direct rivals, in what was always going to be a stern test for both, and this is just how it turned out. Cordoba started the stronger and a Xisco effort served as a warning shot to the visitors, but Fernando Pacheco was equal to it to prevent his side from going in 1-0 down at half time. All three of the game's goals came in a lively second period. After Hernan Bernardello had come close to breaking the deadlock for Alaves, it was his teammate, Gaizka Toquero who converted a fine Juli cross to put the Basques in front. However, the visitors' joy was short-lived as Cordoba went up the other end and restored parity through Xisco. The Andalusians began to boss proceedings, but it was Alaves who once again took the lead, this time through Bernardello. Despite Jose Luis Oltra's side pushing hard for an equaliser, the visitors held on to leave Cordoba with maximum points.
UE Llagostera 4-0 AD Alcorcon
The Catalan outfit gave their survival hopes a real boost after easing past Alcorcon at Palamos. A first-half hat-trick from Natalio Lorenzo virtually sealed the victory for the hosts, before Fofo added a fourth after the break to round off a win that sees Oriol Alsina's men take a step closer to survival. The win moves Llagostera to within five points of safety, whilst Alcorcon slip to ninth and two points outside the play-off places.
CD Lugo 2-1 Albacete
Lugo recorded another victory in a sequence that has seen the Galicians claim 10 points out of the last possible 12, a run of form which has placed Lugo firmly in the Liga Adelante play-off mix. Jonathan Pereira netted the opener, converting a superb ball in behind from Carlos Pita. Later on, it was Pereira who turned provider when he laid the second on a plate for Pablo Caballero. Albacete reduced the arrears in the closing stages, but ended up slipping to a defeat which keeps them in the drop zone.
CD Mirandes 4-1 R. Valladolid CF
Having recorded two wins on the trot, Valladolid's march up the Liga Adelante table was brought to a sharp halt after Mirandes ran out comfortable winners in the regional derby clash. The hosts got their noses in front in the first half with goals from Ernesto Galan and Dani Provencio, before Alex Garcia and Aridane Santana completed the rout after the break. The visitors got one back with an injury-time spot-kick, in what proved to be nothing more than a consolation. This result sees Mirandes leapfrog Valladolid in mid-table.
R. Zaragoza 0-3 Girona FC
Girona made a big statement at La Romareda with a win which edges them closer to the play-off spots and sees Zaragoza slide out of them. Strikes from Jaime Mata and Cristian Herrera sent the visitors in with a 2-0 advantage at the break and the hosts' task was all the more difficult after Leandro Cabrera was given his marching orders. After the interval, Dejan Lekic put the result beyond any doubt to leave the Catalan outfit nicely placed ahead of the final run-in.
UD Almeria 1-1 RCD Mallorca
Almeria and Mallorca claimed a point a piece in their bottom-of-the-table showdown. The result leaves the Andalusians in the bottom four and places Mallorca three points above the drop zone. With 75 minutes on the clock, Hector Yuste put Mallorca into the ascendancy, but Jose Angel was on hand to rescue a point for the hosts with an 83rd-minute equaliser.© LaLiga - Year 2016
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Covered CA issued their 2018 rate book today, showing an average 12.5 percent increase for next year. In addition, Covered CA cautioned that the may need to add an additional 12.4 percent surcharge on all Silver plans if the federal government takes away funding for Cost-Sharing Reduction payments.
Anthem Blue Cross is withdrawing from 16 of California’s 19 pricing regions. The remaining regions will be Regions 1, 7 and 10. More than half of their members will need to replace their coverage in 2018.
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https://www.realcarecar.com/2017/08/01/2018-covered-ca-rates/
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This is the entire North East Corner of Jay St and Oak St. The Commercial Building has new roofs and new 3-Phase Electric. 3 curb cuts and at least 80 parking spots. The Commercial Building will be 100% "Build Out Ready" including 2 full restrooms, walls, outlets, and plumbing. The floor joists have been replaced and it has a new water line. This qualifies for a program called "Empire Zone" and it is also an "Opportunity Zone". It has a Regular Loading Dock and a Ground Level Loading Dock with a concrete floor staging area capable of holding heavy loads. A garage door on the South Side of the building goes into a large area with concrete floors and can handle heavy loads. The Commercial Building is 4,136 Sq Ft and the Multi-Family on the corner is 2,890 Sq Ft. BOTH BUILDINGS INCLUDED.
Text lister with questions.
1 store front rented to a church for $525. 2nd store front vacant. also 3 bedroom house 594 Campbell rented for $670 included all on one tax account. Gross $2195 mo. $26340 yr.
MLS ID R1143862
Courtesy of: RE/MAX Hometown Choice
Office Phone: 585-424-1300
Listing Agent: Carl J Lore
Updated: 9th July, 2019 5:52 PM.
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https://realestate.democratandchronicle.com/property/ny/rochester/14608/josana/175-jay-street/5d1c49d72fe354251c000021/
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EVER Recovery oil restores hair, reduces split ends and enhances shine by combining rich Marula oil, rare Crambe Abyssinica and sustainably sourced Squalane resulting in a luxurious oil that penetrates and smooths the cuticle whilst delivering nutrients to repair damage and protect from colour degradation, improve elasticity and minimise heat damage.
To use, apply 1-3 drops depending on hair thickness and length on to hands. Warm between palms and massage into damp or dry hair. Use as an indulgent night treatment or add to Reverie Shampoo for a deeper hit of hydration.
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https://www.brummellsoflondon.com/reverie-ever-recovery-oil-50ml
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When Julian Mirvish, Bob Barlow and Bob Brotherton started importing production equipment for the South African poultry industry in 1966, they could not have foreseen that their fledgling business, Peninsula Poultry Appliances, would become one of the most influential suppliers in this sector.
And yet it did. Not only that PPA, as it is commonly known, was the very first South African poultry equipment supplier to design and build panel housing in South Africa, a venture that proved so successful that panel housing soon became the industry standard in this country, but also that it build the reputation for continued customer support and service excellence.
In 1967, PPA acquired the South African distribution rights for the feeding and drinking equipment made by Plasson in Israel. Though Plasson was only in its third year of operation, their products already had a reputation for thoughtful design and high quality. Plasson was started by a group of agriculturalists who realised that as the demands on farming practices and agricultural yields was increasing, there was a growing need for the agricultural sector to modernise and harness technology to improve production methods and efficiencies. Their product range was therefore designed and produced with this in mind, utilising the very latest know-how and material available.
This of course has not changed since then, which means that Plasson’s equipment in continuously being rethought and redesigned to ensure that it keeps pace with the demands of modern commercial poultry and pig farming.
Initially, PPA imported ventilation equipment form the United States. The initial shareholder trio built the very first broiler house with a tunnel ventilation system on one of Julian’s farms, and since this was in the days before wet wall pads were invented, they used a homemade evaporation system for cooling. Boer maak ‘n plan indeed! Over time, the two Bobs traded their PPA shares for the leisurely life of a pensioner in the beautiful Western Cape, leaving Julian as the sole owner of the business. In 1992 however, he was joined by Duncan Unsworth, a man the South African poultry industry has since come to know as one who is always on the lookout for better solutions and innovative products to improve anything and everything that can possibly be improved.
Of course, a man like this was bound to expand the company’s product range and today PPA not only provides a full range of both broiler and layer housing and production equipment, but can also meet the needs of the South African pork producers when it comes to production equipment and housing. A few years after Duncan joined PPA, he acquired sole ownership of the business.
As of 1 March 2015, Peninsula Poultry Appliances became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Plasson Limited in Israel. However, Duncan will remain with PPA in the medium term and connected to the industry and its customers.
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Gary C. Curhan, MD, ScD; Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH; Frank E. Speizer, MD; Donna Spiegelman, ScD; Meir J. Stampfer, MD, DrPH
Calcium intake is believed to play an important role in the formation of kidney stones, but data on the risk factors for stone formation in women are limited.
To examine the association between intake of dietary and supplemental calcium and the risk for kidney stones in women.
Prospective cohort study with 12-year follow-up.
Several U.S. states.
91 731 women participating in the Nurses' Health Study I who were 34 to 59 years of age in 1980 and had no history of kidney stones.
Self-administered food-frequency questionnaires were used to assess diet in 1980, 1984, 1986, and 1990. The main outcome measure was incident symptomatic kidney stones.
During 903 849 person-years of follow-up, 864 cases of kidney stones were documented. After adjustment for potential risk factors, intake of dietary calcium was inversely associated with risk for kidney stones and intake of supplemental calcium was positively associated with risk. The relative risk for stone formation in women in the highest quintile of dietary calcium intake compared with women in the lowest quintile was 0.65 (95% CI, 0.50 to 0.83). The relative risk in women who took supplemental calcium compared with women who did not was 1.20 (CI, 1.02 to 1.41). In 67% of women who took supplemental calcium, the calcium either was not consumed with a meal or was consumed with meals whose oxalate content was probably low. Other dietary factors showed the following relative risks among women in the highest quintile of intake compared with those in the lowest quintile: sucrose, 1.52 (CI, 1.18 to 1.96); sodium, 1.30 (CI, 1.05 to 1.62); fluid, 0.61 (CI, 0.48 to 0.78); and potassium, 0.65 (CI, 0.51 to 0.84).
High intake of dietary calcium appears to decrease risk for symptomatic kidney stones, whereas intake of supplemental calcium may increase risk. Because dietary calcium reduces the absorption of oxalate, the apparently different effects caused by the type of calcium may be associated with the timing of calcium ingestion relative to the amount of oxalate consumed. However, other factors present in dairy products (the major source of dietary calcium) could be responsible for the decreased risk seen with dietary calcium.
Curhan GC, Willett WC, Speizer FE, Spiegelman D, Stampfer MJ. Comparison of Dietary Calcium with Supplemental Calcium and Other Nutrients as Factors Affecting the Risk for Kidney Stones in Women. Ann Intern Med. 1997;126:497–504. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-7-199704010-00001
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I tried to use the "darcula" theme in RM 5, and clicked "Yes" when it asked me if I want to
change the colors of the global IDE colors as well.
Now I don't find an option to "Undo" these IDE changes. I can switch the theme for the
editor window but can't find a way to restore the default light IDE colors (file menu, etc).
Can somebody help me here? :)
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Who Plays Meryl Streep's Daughter In 'Ricki And The Flash'? There's A Reason She And Ricki Look So Alike
Chances are, you saw the trailer for Ricki and the Flash, and wondered how they found an actress who looked so much like the movie's Oscar-winning star to play her daughter. Well, the the answer is simple: the actress who plays Meryl Streep's daughter in Ricki and The Flash is none other than her real-life daughter, Mamie Gummer. Yes, the off-screen relatives play mother and daughter on-screen, for the first time since 1986's Heartburn, when a 20-month-old Gummer played Streep's baby.
Gummer and Streep have actually shared the big screen before, playing different ages of the same character in Evening (2007), but this is their first time starring as mother and daughter in nearly 30 years. And, in those three decades, the on-screen dynamic between Gummer and Streep has changed significantly to show real conflict. In Ricki and the Flash, Streep plays Ricki Randazzo, a rocker who comes home to comfort her estranged daughter Julie (Gummer) after Julie's husband leaves her. Of course, coming home is never easy, especially for Ricki, who left her family 20 years earlier to chase her dream of becoming a rock star. Needless to say, things between the pair are tense.
To make things as real as possible, director Jonathan Demme asked that Gummer and Streep try to keep their distance on set, something that the actresses weren't so happy about. "That worked for about a week... Well, we pretended not to talk to each other on the set, but we rode home together every night in the car!" Streep told Today.
Gummer and Streep seem to have a close relationship, but that doesn't mean Gummer didn't enjoy getting to yell at her mother — as Julie, of course. "It was really fun to be allowed to rage. It feels good, like some kind of primal scream therapy," Gummer told the NY Daily News.
Streep agreed, saying, "She really enjoyed railing at me."
Gummer, 32, is the second of Streep's four children with her husband, Don Gummer, and one of two who has chosen to follow in her mother's footsteps — her younger sister, Grace Gummer, is also an actress. Although the elder Gummer daughter's claim to fame might be her famous lineage, she has more than proven herself to be a capable young actress in her own right. She was the best part of failed television shows Off the Map (2011) and Emily Owens, M.D. (2013), and regularly steals the show as a recurring guest star on The Good Wife (Nancy Crozier, her manipulative lawyer, is a favorite of mine). She has also been building a resume of indie films, including Cake and The End of the Tour.
Gummer has said that she made an effort to keep her career as separate from her mother as possible without shying away from her parentage. In fact, it was Streep who first gave Gummer the script for Ricki and the Flash. "I was sitting at home, she came by, wordlessly dropped the script and walked away," Gummer told Entertainment Weekly.
She continued, "We've been careful and conscientious about how we engage in this silly business together. We didn't talk much about it before stepping onto set the first day. Clearly, I trust she knows what she's doing. She trusted me. We held hands, shut our eyes and jumped off."
Clearly, it worked — even the best actors would be hard to fake the deep bond shared between Ricki and Julie, as showcased by Streep and Gummer.
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Series: Harmony 1
Author: C. F. Bentley (Irene Radford)
Genre: Military Science Fiction | Fantasy
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Daw 2008
The launch of a brand new series that blends the best elements of science fiction and fantasy.
The world of Harmony, along with its close-knit colony planets, long ago isolated itself from the rest of the universe. But in a universe where the human-based Confederate Star System fleet finds itself hard-pressed to stand against ever-increasing attacks by the alien Marillon Empire, the Harmonic Empire cannot be left alone. For if the CSS cannot win an alliance with Harmony, the Marils will surely find a way to invade the planet and seize control of the unique and invaluable metal, which only the Harmonites can produce.
Yet invasion is far from the only threat the people of Harmony face. The gulf between rich and poor, rulers and ruled continues to widen, threatening to destroy the very structure of their society—while the planet itself is becoming increasingly unstable. In this time of crisis, one young woman
The book is dedicated to Father Richard Toll and there is an excerpt from the sequel Enigma at the end of the book.
This is a book about a historical conspiracy and the pressure of change that will rip any static society apart.
The protagonists are Jake, a spy sent by mainstream humanity to obtain the secret of the Badger Metal and Sissy born with the mark of all seven castes, soon to become High Priestess of Harmony.
C. F. Bentley is a pseudonym Irene Radford uses for her science fiction novels. Harmony is the first novel by her I ever read but I think I will read more. From what it looks like she has written a number of fantasy books. The theme seems to be dragons and Merlin. More information on Irene’s homepage www.ireneradford.com.
The Confederated Star System is at war with the alien Marillon Empire and they both need Badger Metal for their starships. Harmony is the only supplier which is why Jake is sent there to find out the secret on how to make it. Harmony is a seven world pocket empire that was founded by an earth cult. It closed its borders fifty years ago and they have had no outside contact ever since including no export of Badger Metal.
Harmony with its rigid cast society is like an onion of deception where we see layer after layer being stripped off. Marriages between casts are forbidden and when you are born into a cast (carry the cast mark) you are there for life.
The world is consistent, interesting and realistic even if it borders on on the absurd at times. There is a slight resemblance in feel from some Harry Harrison novels even if the world is much more complex here.
Jake used to be a fighter pilot before he screwed up and was saved by a secret intelligence organization that takes on space opera manners. There is sex very early in the novel but not very descriptive. He is first sent to The Lost Colony of Harmony (they broke of communication with their mother world and formed a new casteless society) to try to obtain an alternative to Badger Metal but it fails so he is sent to Harmony undercover as one of the Military Cast and he eventually end up as Sissy’s bodyguard.
Harmony is going through an unstable period with freaky weather and earthquakes which the cultists see as the planet being upset. Sissy is a mutant, born and raised by Worker parents but with all seven cast markings, usually that would make her an outcast of society to be eventually exterminated in one of their concentration camps/asylum but she hides it with cosmetics. During a catastrophic earthquake she discovers that she can channel its energy and commune with Harmony saving the city from destruction. The High Priest finds her and makes her the new High Priestess against the wishes of the former’s family who have had that title for generations. The High Priest thinks she will be easy to manipulate with her simple upbringing. He couldn’t be more wrong as she starts to put things right.
What follows is political intrigue, assassination attempts, deception but also revelation of the truth about their pasts. It is fast paced with unexpected twists and a lovely love story just like I like it.
Jake is well developed with his doubt about the mission and the moral dilemma he faces. He is also appalled by the rigid caste society and the way the high casts manipulate the lower.
Sissy grows from ignorant worker to a formidable leader of her people. She is a strong believer in family and the high castes ways disgust her. You root for her from the beginning as she is so easy to love.
There is a quite a bit of social commentary in this story and the characters, which makes it more than just a good rump. I like Harmony, it mixes military with space opera and romance in a fast flowing easy to read experience. It was also a damn fun book to read. I had to laugh out loud in delight at some of the twists the story took to the amusement of my dear ones. In conclusion Harmony is not great literature but it is a fun read which should please both readers of military science fiction, space opera and romance.
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This is an example of a phishing email sent to a University of Derby account. The links in the description below navigate back to the image.
- The email contains poor spelling and/or grammar. Phishing emails often contain poor spelling and grammar. It’s highly unlikely that phishers will proof read their work so, if the email is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, it’s likely to be a scam. You should also look out for inconsistencies in the presentation of the email (e.g. the email may contain various font styles, font sizes and mismatched branding).
- The email contains an impersonal greeting. While impersonal greetings may not be a direct indicator of a phishing email, phishing emails will often contain greetings such as “Hi”, “Hi <email address>”, or “Dear Customer”. This behaviour, like poor spelling and grammar, should raise red flags about the validity of the email.
- The email asks you for your personal information. Nobody at the University of Derby or Microsoft will ask you for your password or sensitive personal information (e.g. your bank details or national insurance number) by email. Do not share yours or the University’s sensitive personal information with an untrusted sender.
- The email contains a mismatched URL. Phishing emails will often contain embedded links which appear like perfectly legitimate websites. It’s also likely that those embedded links in the email won’t direct you where you’d expect it to either. If the email looks suspicious, hover your mouse over the top of the link to check if the hyperlinked address matches the one in the email. If the hyperlinked address is different from the address displayed in the email, the message is probably fraudulent or malicious.
- The email contains a misleading domain (e.g. derby.ac.uk) name. Similarly, phishers will often attempt to ‘spoof’ legitimate domain names to give the impression that embedded links will direct to legitimate websites. For example, staff.derby.ac.uk is a legitimate link to the University of Derby’s domain, whereas derby.maliciousurl.com is not a legitimate link to the University of Derby’s domain.
- The email contains an unusual ‘from’ address. Phishers will often attempt to ‘spoof’ legitimate email addresses to give the impression that the email is being sent from a legitimate organisation. These emails will often hide unusual email addresses behind what appears to be a genuine sender name. If the email looks suspicious, hover your mouse over the sender name to see the email address from which the email was sent.
- The email creates a sense of urgency. Phishing emails may attempt to create urgency by warning you your Office365 account may expire or that your account has been compromised to encourage you to take immediate action. If the email looks suspicious, contact the company or person using details available on their website, rather than the contact details in the email. Don’t click any links provided in the email.
- The email contains unrealistic threats. Similarly, phishing emails may attempt to create urgency by using intimidation to scare victims into disclosing sensitive personal information or making a payment (usually to an untraceable online cryptocurrency wallet such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, or Ethereum). It’s highly unlikely that the phisher can carry out any threat contained in the email so if the email looks suspicious, it’s just as likely the email’s a scam.
- How to report a phishing email: https://itservicecentre.derby.ac.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360001612040
- Phishing & spam frequently asked questions: https://itservicecentre.derby.ac.uk/hc/en-us/articles/360001703940
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New Delhi, Dec 7 Veteran politician Sharad Yadav on Thursday said there was pressure from "all sides" to disqualify him from the Rajya Sabha, and that he knew it was a foregone conclusion. "I knew this (disqualification) is going to happen. Some media persons also wrote about it. I had mentally prepared myself for this. I have no regrets," Yadav said here. This is not the end and the battle of principles will continue, the former Union Minister added. However, Sharad Yadav refrained from attacking Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu for his disqualification and called him an "old friend". "He is an old friend of mine. But in politics, circumstances change. I still have immense respect for the institution (Rajya Sabha Chair). Persons come and go, but institutions remain and we must respect them," he said. A disqualification notice was served on Yadav around 10.30 p.m. on Monday at his residence while he was touring Gujarat. Yadav wondered if Vijay Mallya's case could be referred to the house Ethics Committee for consideration before disqualifying the absconding business tycoon, and if 2008 Mumbai attacks convict Ajmal Kasab could be given a chance to exhaust all legal options before his execution, why was such hurry shown in his case. "I can understand there must be pressure from all sides," Yadav said when asked if he thought Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United President Nitish Kumar had pulled some strings to expedite his expulsion from the upper house. "But I don't see it as an expulsion. I see it as a break. Now I will dedicate myself full time to party activities," Yadav, a former President of the united JD-U, said. Yadav broke ranks with Nitish Kumar after the Chief Minister broke away from the grand alliance in Bihar, comprising Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress, and the JD-U and aligned with the Bharatiya Janata Party in July-August. Thereafter, the Nitish Kumar faction of the JD-U petitioned the Rajya Sabha Chairman for Yadav's disqualification. In a swift move that political observers called "unprecedented" in such cases, Naidu disqualified Yadav and another JD-U MP Ali Anwar Ansari in less than three months of that plea. In a related development, the Delhi High Court, acting on a plea by Javed Raza, on Thursday issued a notice to the Election Commission and the Bihar Chief Minister in the "Arrow" symbol case decided by the poll panel in the latter's favour last month.
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The French aren’t the only ones who can pair a meal with a pair of wheels. A fresh crop of culinary bike tours is leading American city slickers to restaurants that are well worth the trip.
The pace on this three-hour tour is Southern-drawl slow, so don’t count on burning off most of those deep-fried calories. And you’ll consume quite a few along the way at places such as Price’s Chicken Coop, celebrated for its fried bird, and Mert’s, where the house specialty is the “soul roll,” filled with collard greens, black-eyed peas, and chicken. You’ll also sample a few morsels of local history: As you wind through bustling Uptown (home to the NASCAR Hall of Fame) and the post-industrial South End, your guide will run through the Queen City’s history, from its early days as a Native American trading center to its modern incarnation as the South’s banking hub.
Know Before You Go: Gratuities aren’t included in the tour price, so be sure to bring along extra cash to tip your guide and servers. Tours depart from 401 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Wednesday through Sunday year-round, $55 (includes bike and helmet).
Don’t be daunted by the city’s famously sloping streets: This six- to eight-mile tour avoids heart-pumping hills in favor of a mellow ride on urban-friendly, ergonomic bikes. Stops aren’t fixed, but you’ll likely cruise to the Mission District for killer Mexican at hole-in-the-wall Vallarta taqueria and Hayes Valley for artisanal coffee at Ritual Roasters. One local favorite is a bit of a moving target: Roaming mobile food market Off the Grid takes its ever-changing roster of food trucks to a different Bay Area location each day of the week.
Know Before You Go: Have your camera ready—tours often pass architectural landmarks (City Hall), as well as pop-culture ones (Twitter’s headquarters). Tours depart from Fulton and Pierce Streets, on the north side of Alamo Square, dates available year-round, $95 (includes food, bike, and helmet).
This leisurely, 10-mile jaunt departs from the touristy French Quarter, but the point of this tour by Confederacy of Cruisers is to highlight how locals live. To that end, bikers spend up to four-and-a-half hours steering their Schwinns through traditionally Creole areas, like Tremé and Faubourg Marigny. Stops vary depending on the day—and the seafood in season—but you can expect staples like gumbo and po’boys. Bonus: Mid-ride, sole tour leader Cassady Cooper shares lessons on music and antebellum architecture.
Know Before You Go: Pork and shellfish are always plats du jour. If you have dietary restrictions, consider one of the company’s other tours, like the History of Drinking in New Orleans Bike Tour. Tours depart from 634 Elysian Fields Ave., Wednesday through Saturday year-round, $85 (includes bike, helmet, water bottle, and tips for the servers).
It all started when two food-loving pals began rounding up their friends for bike tours of Chicago gelaterias and taco joints. Now in their fourth year, Fork and the Road’s 12- to 18-mile tours are centered on quirky themes, such as global bakeries (Vietnamese, French, and Middle Eastern) or the Silk Road, with stops at Chinese, Afghani, and Turkish restaurants.
Know Before You Go: Bikes and helmets aren’t included in the tour—or the tour’s fee—so BYO or prepare to rent. The ride starts and ends near Bike and Roll stations, where you can rent wheels for as low as $10 per hour, or $20 for an all-day rental through chicago.bcycle.com. Tours depart from Intelligentsia Coffee (53 E. Randolph St.) or Kitchen Sink Café (1107 W. Berwyn Ave.), check site for dates, $50–$65.
America’s most bike-friendly city shows off its other trademark—fresh locavore grub—on this easy-paced, five-mile ride, which coasts through downtown, the artsy Pearl District, and the historic Northwest neighborhood. Pit stops on the three-and-a-half-hour ride offer highbrow treats: cookies sprinkled with fleur de sel at Two Tarts Bakery, cola-braised Thai pork at Nong’s Khao Man Ghai food truck, and artisanal chocolate at Cacao. On Saturdays, the tour visits the 250-vendor Portland Farmers Market, where riders can refuel with fresh produce.
Know Before You Go: If you supply your own wheels, Pedal Bike Tours will knock $10 off the tour price. Tours depart from 133 SW 2nd Ave., Tuesday through Saturday year-round, $69 (includes bike and helmet).
Launched this March in conjunction with the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, International Bites by Bike will run throughout 2012. Itineraries aren’t set yet, but rides during blossom season played to the D.C. power-lunch set, with stops at sit-down restaurants instead of food trucks, in areas like Dupont Circle and U Street. A typical outing let riders sample one dish at three spots: Southern-themed Eatonville, Asian-tinged Scion, and swanky bistro 1905.
Know Before You Go: Although you’ll be in bike lanes, if you’re not comfortable with the idea of cars whizzing by, this tour may not be ideal for you. Tours depart from the Old Post Office Pavilion, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, check site for dates, $89 (includes bike, helmet, and food).
Andy Potter guessed that most visitors to the city never make it to the hip but less-developed East Side. So he and his wife debuted the East Austin Bike Tour, a roughly six-mile, four-hour trek that shows off the area’s ethnic restaurants and funky retro food trailers. A recent agenda included snacks from Argentina (Buenos Aires Café), Japan (Love Balls Bus), and West Africa (Cazamance trailer).
Know Before You Go: The tour typically stops at a brewery, where riders are free to imbibe (the fee includes two alcohol samples). Helmets aren’t mandatory for adults here, but ask for one, especially if you’re boozing. Departure points vary by tour, Fridays year-round, $69 (includes food, bike, helmet, and drinks).—Nicole Frehsee
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S-Factor Academy is like being part of an extended family because they welcome everyone into the family circle with open arms. S-Factor Academy allows youngsters of today to participate and enjoy sport in a very friendly environment. They also aid athletes to achieve their goals.
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- Council of member Principals
- Executive of member Principals representing Council
- Executive Staff: Director of Sport, Sport Services Officer, Sports Administration Officer
- Sports Management Committee of Heads of Department and/or SportsCoordinators chaired by the Deputy Principal of the elected President's school
- Inclusive Sports Program Management Committee of education support staff from member schools involved in the programme
- Sub-Association Councils of member Principals and Sports CoordinatorsSub-Association Management Committee of Sports Coordinators
- Variously appointed Sub-committees
Coastal Associated Schools (CAS):Prendiville Catholic College, Lake Joondalup Baptist College,St Mark's ACS, St Stephen's School (Duncraig & Carramar), Peter Moyes ACS & Irene McCormack.
Northern Associated Schools (NAS):Chisholm Catholic College, John XXIII College, Servite College, Sacred Heart College and Newman College.
North Eastern Associated Schools (NEAS):La Salle College, Ellenbrook Christian College, Swan Christian College, Holy Cross College, Helena College, Swan Valley ACS.
North Western Associated Schools (NWAS):Aranmore Catholic College, Mercy College, Carmel School & John Septimus Roe ACS.
Rockingham Kwinana Associated Schools (RKAS):Kolbe College, Living Waters Lutheran College, Maranatha Christian College, Peter Carnley ACS, Serpentine-Jarrahdale Grammar School, Tranby College
Southern Associated Schools (SAS): SeniorAll Saints College, Carey Baptist College, John Wollaston ACS, Ursula Frayne College
Southern Associated Schools (SAS): JuniorCarey Baptist College, John Wollaston ACS, Ursula Frayne College, Seton College, St Norbert College, Emmanuel College and Corpus Christi College.
Election of Office Bearers
Executive Office bearers are elected by Council for a term of two years. Elected members may not serve for more than two consecutive terms on the Executive. The President resides over Council and Executive meetings.
Sports Management Committee Chairperson
A nominated Deputy Principal at the school of the elected President automatically becomes the Chairperson of the Sports Management Committee.
The ACC management is responsible for the provision of notices of meeting, agendas and minutes at Council and Sports Management Committee meetings.
Sub-Association Council meetings are chaired by the Principal of that year’s elected host school. The host school is responsible for the provision of notices of meeting, agendas and minutes of meeting.
Sub-Association Sports Management meetings are chaired by the Sports Coordinator of that year’s elected host school. The host school is responsible for the provision of notices of meeting, agendas and minutes of meeting.
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Is it time to start over with new Metra board?
A shake-up is needed on Metra's board of directors, state lawmakers say, as a scandal over political meddling in the agency continues to snowball.
"I've seen enough ... it's time to blow up the board at Metra," Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Hinsdale Republican, said Saturday. "It's not just hiring -- it's on-time performance, mechanical breakdowns and a bad rollout of the fare increase."
Controversy over a separation agreement worth as much as $718,000 with ex-Metra CEO Alex Clifford is escalating after new revelations that he accused the board chairman and a former chairman of ousting him for rejecting political pressure by heavyweights such as Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
The latest charges surfaced Friday after Metra gave lawmakers a secret memo written by Clifford April 3 detailing what he called misconduct by Chairman Brad O'Halloran and Director Larry Huggins.
"I don't think the entire board should resign en masse," said state Rep. David Harris, an Arlington Heights Republican, "but I think the leadership needs to give themselves a long hard look and think if they should continue in their positions."
Clifford wrote that his job was in jeopardy because he wouldn't cave to demands to hire an unnamed Madigan crony or give a Metra employee who was a Madigan political donor a raise. He complained of O'Halloran trying to fire two top administrators and issue orders to staff members and a PR contractor, which is beyond the chairman's authority.
Metra attorneys and O'Halloran contend that Clifford only brought up the ethical concerns upon being told his contract might not be renewed, adding that they asked the Office of the Executive Inspector General to investigate in March 2013 when the allegations surfaced.
Metra officials offered lawmakers an edited version of the memo during a Thursday House Mass Transit Committee hearing before releasing the document.
But, "what was in the memo was more serious than what they let on in their description," Harris said. "These are very serious allegations. The fact Madigan is involved raises the visibility of the whole thing."
"I think there's a little more in there than they were letting on concerning board members," said House Mass Transit Committee Chairwoman Deb Mell, a Chicago Democrat.
Madigan's office has denied he made the hiring request and said the pay raise intervention was warranted as the former employee, Patrick Ward, was well-qualified and his supervisor supported it.
Both Harris and state Reps. Jack Franks and Michael Tryon, a Crystal Lake Republican, are pushing for another state hearing where Clifford will testify in person.
Franks, a Marengo Democrat, said he wants Clifford to answer questions, such as why he didn't bring his concerns about wrongdoing to outside authorities immediately.
"With O'Halloran, I don't know what's the truth and what is not ... but at least he answered the questions to the best of his ability," Franks said of last week's hearing.
Lawmakers also expressed outrage that just two Metra board members attended the hearing. Franks said he thought any board member who didn't show up should resign.
However, Tryon said the actions of which O'Halloran and Huggins are accused "does not mean all the board members should be replaced. There's a lot of finger-pointing going on. You've got some board members with tremendous experience, mayors, county board leaders and former state senators."
Another point of contention involves requests from the House Latino caucus that Metra hire a person it wanted for a deputy executive director position, according to the memo. Clifford characterized the lobbying as political hiring pressure. Latino lawmakers have countered they wanted Metra to increase the number of Latinos in Metra's administration as a matter of fairness.
Clifford also charged Huggins improperly intervened to encourage use of more black contractors on the Englewood flyover, a railroad bridge on the South Side.
When it comes to minority representation, it's a matter of interpretation, Harris said.
"You could reasonably argue that you do want to have diversity in the workforce ... it's a fine line," he noted.
A number of directors, including O'Halloran, former Arlington Heights Mayor Arlene Mulder, Jack Partelow of Naperville and Norm Carlson of Lake Forest, could not be reached or did not wish to comment on Saturday.
O'Halloran and Huggins both denounced their former CEO's claims in statements Friday.
"I have never intervened with Metra's staff regarding any jobs or contracts," O'Halloran said.
"Everything I did to help resolve that (flyover) controversy with members of Congress was done in concert with federal and state transportation officials and legal counsel," Huggins said.
For Harris, so far there's more questions than answers. He's skeptical about reform measures laid out by Metra leaders in which the board approves hires of employees earning $75,000 or above.
Board members are "individuals appointed by political people. In essence, you're saying anything above $75,000 needs political review," Harris said.
The latest scandal comes just three years after former CEO Phil Pagano committed suicide amid a probe into him swindling about $475,000 from the agency.
"This board has demonstrated a lack of accountability and transparency that is disturbing and ought to be of concern for all of us who fund that system ... not just commuters, but taxpayers," said Madeleine Doubek, chief operating officer of Reboot Illinois, a government watchdog. "If the things that are being alleged are true, it ought to have some far-reaching consequences for the chairman and the speaker of the House and everyone else this touches."
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NewsFalls City is Encouraging Homegrown Businesses « Back to Search Results
Business recruitment is a common, traditional approach used to spur economic growth. Cities offer companies tax breaks and other generous financial incentives to attract them to an area.
While it’s true that the right company can bring in hundreds of jobs and have a dramatic impact on a region, in our global economy this process of courting companies has become more competitive than ever.
Business recruitment can be time consuming, costly and — some would argue — marginally effective. The residents of some towns, particularly in rural areas, have learned hard lessons about depending on one company or even one industry to lift their economies.
In more recent years, economic development leaders have been using a wider array of tactics to encourage growth. Business recruitment is still an objective. But it’s not the only one.
Local, small businesses have a major impact on our economy
Did you know that two out of three new private-sector jobs in the United States since the Great Recession were created by small businesses? Small businesses can have a big impact.
In Falls City, there are opportunities to create new businesses
Instead of always looking outward for growth opportunities, the idea is to look inward. There is powerful business potential located within our community. It’s just a matter of taking the right steps to empower entrepreneurs.
Falls City is using a more comprehensive approach to facilitate economic development. Because new and existing businesses can thrive if given the right tools and resources organizations like the Chamber work with area businesses and offer solutions like their Business Resources Toolkit to make starting a business easier.
Local businesses have a ripple effect on the economy
While traditional measures of economic development such as dollar amount invested and total jobs created are still relevant, some long term measures of building a community from the ground level are more qualitative than quantitative in nature.
Encouraging entrepreneurs at the local level can have ripple effects not just on the economy but on the community as a whole. Studies have shown that independently owned, local businesses return more money to the communities in which they operate.
In addition, entrepreneurs that choose to live in a community are a wonderful resource. They can be called upon for leadership and mentoring. Since they’re connected with the community, they’re likely to support it in other ways, such as through volunteerism and philanthropic gestures.
We encourage business growth and our proud of our community
Homegrown entrepreneurs are also a great source of community pride. Seeing one person’s success as a business owner can help inspire others and spark innovation. The small businesses starting up in Falls City have improved the quality of life for our residents and we encourage other entrepreneurs in joining them.
Find a Home for these Pets
Please visit the website of The Humane Society of Richardson County to see the animals available for adoption. Homes are urgently needed! Click here to learn more.
Brownville Concert Series
The mission of the Concert Series is to bring professional live performance to Southeast Nebraska. The program is varied and includes classical instrumental, Cabaret performances based on the American Songbook, Jazz (instrumental and vocal), Rock and Roll, Bluegrass, Vocal Recital, Opera and a specially commissioned Christmas Gala. Learn More
Famous Falls Cityans
Magicians, atheletes, artists and governors all once called Falls City their. Learn more about famous Falls Cityans by clicking here.
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Community. History. Values. Pillars that define and make up a city. And right now, in Burlington, these foundations are being threatened.
Head to downtown Burlington and on your way to the waterfront, you’ll find yourself passing one of a kind shops and restaurants, many of which are housed in structures over a century old. While some of these are designated Heritage Sites and protected by the City, the building that Kelly’s Bake Shoppe resides in has not been as lucky. For the many who frequent Brant Street, Kelly’s is a fixture at unit 401 with the familiar white exterior and pink signage. With the building now owned by Reserve Properties, there are plans to build a 23-storey condo tower as part of a development package. Unfortunately, this means Kelly’s will be forced to move.
Initially, the Official Plan proposing four to eight storeys (voted in over 10 years ago) was easily accepted by the community. However, the application for 20+ storeys was quickly pushed through and approved by the previous city council in mid 2018. Supporters of Kelly’s Bake Shoppe, owned by mother-daughter team Kelly Childs and Erinn Weatherbie, quickly began a petition to keep the shop in place and within a month collected over seven thousand signatures.
Never ones to back down, Kelly and Erinn spoke at council meetings several times. The pair shared not only anecdotes, but concrete, measurable evidence of the Bake Shoppe’s positive effect on the downtown economy. Employing a staff of 37, Kelly’s serves twelve thousand people each week. This increased traffic then visits neighbouring businesses downtown, ultimately keeping more customers in the city centre. Despite this, Kelly felt unheard and disrespected at the council meetings.
Thankfully, a new city council in December 2018 brought new ideas, and with that, a development freeze. Beginning this past March, Mayor Marianne Meed Ward helped spearhead an interim control by-law. This was implemented to pause any further high-rise developments that were not one hundred per cent approved. In the meantime, a consultant has been hired to study land-use. Ward 2 Councillor Lisa Kearns believes this is the right path, saying “It is clear that unprecedented height and density approved for development in downtown Burlington is concerning.” She continues, “Delivering on a clear framework for growth will provide a vision and certainty about how our unparalleled waterfront, unique retail and transit area will develop into a beloved downtown core that Burlington can be proud of.”
This is exactly how Kelly feels. As it stands, she asserts that “the construction will decimate the downtown core. With tall buildings, it will bring a lot of dark shadows and intensity, similar to the other concrete jungles we’ve seen.” While not against condos in Burlington’s downtown, Kelly looks to cities like L.A., where they’ve developed housing for population increases while still keeping buildings low or on the outskirts and still being accessible. The influx of new residents in downtown Burlington would congest an area already lacking space. With the sudden rise of dwellings, the roads will have to be reassessed. Kelly stresses, “The infrastructure doesn’t allow for safety. There’s single-lane traffic, lack of parking, and no room to expand. Right now, if I had a heart attack, it would be faster to walk to Joseph Brant Hospital than to have an ambulance drive me there.”
Many think of Kelly’s Bake Shoppe as part of the heartbeat of downtown. With the bakery in a building that, once upon a time, was home to a candy shop in 1901, there is a history in the space that can not be replicated. From its beginnings as a community hub, Kelly wants her store to be a place that people can connect. “We are all in need of deeper connections; people are trying to slow their lives down and this intensification is only pulling us further apart,” says Kelly. And both she, Erinn, and their team all love to be a part of people’s lives. “Part of what we do is giving back – giving joy. We like to sprinkle a little fairy dust where we can.”
They are very involved in charity work with causes near and dear to their hearts such as Halton’s Women Shelter, Home Sweet Home (a charity working to open a long-term home for survivors of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation), Farm Sanctuary, clothing and feeding impoverished children, Burlington Barracudas (Atom girls hockey team), local families in need, surprise treats for children being treated at the hospitals, and visiting Burlington schools with birthday party treats for special needs children.
Kelly’s has helped provide a sense of belonging to many. With the rapid increase of food allergies in our young people, the Bake Shoppe has become a safe haven for thousands. Because the bakery is gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, egg-free, and nut-free, people with various allergies and dietary restrictions are able to enjoy indulgences they may have been left out of for years. Many young children with these allergies are now able to be included in birthday celebrations at school. Being able to have a “normal” birthday with classmates brings parents to tears because their children are no longer excluded from the tradition.
Some may argue it’s easy for the Bake Shoppe to simply move to another location. But as many have pointed out it would completely change the downtown landscape. Kelly and Erinn’s part in that community – gone. The history of the building – lost. And as Councillor Kearns points out, “the resident community overwhelmingly supports this bold use of planning policy [the development freeze] by Council.” The decision was discussed with several key stakeholders in Burlington. Kearns says “In response to cumulative growth pressures and development requests for intensities significantly higher than anticipated within the Urban Growth Center and Burlington GO Station, Staff recommended approval of an Interim Control Bylaw to ensure that new developments in these areas are informed by the City’s transit, transportation, and land use vision to realize objectives in the City’s Strategic Plan.”
Kelly’s Bake Shoppe has been open for seven years come December, but their impact has already had a dynamic and lasting effect beyond their years in Burlington. With demand from all over Ontario, they could set up a new store anywhere, but for Kelly and Erinn, Brant Street is home.
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https://urbanicity.com/burlington/city/2019/06/how-burlingtons-development-boom-and-subsequent-freeze-is-affecting-small-business/
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Sophie has been active her whole life. As a child, she participated in a variety of different activities including dance and mixed martial arts. By age 13, with hard work and dedication, Sophie earned her 3rd Degree Black Belt and became a Tae Kwon Do instructor.
In 2008, Sophie was introduced to CrossFit and quickly realized that this sport provided the ideal challenge both physically and mentally. She is actively involved in managing two CrossFit gyms in Vancouver as well as coaching classes throughout the week.
By 2017, Sophie found herself frustrated with her body image regardless of the fact she was fit. She had heard about flexible dieting and began to experiment in changing her eating habits. Seeing instant changes to her physical and mental state, she reached out to Black Iron Nutrition and began to work with Kelsey Kiel. Inspired by her coach and some of the client testimonials at BIN, Sophie decided that she wanted to further her career to help other people reach their goals in health and performance through nutrition. While interning with Ashley and Kelsey at Black Iron Nutrition, she earned her PN1 Certificate.
Sophie lives in Vancouver, Canada and spends much of her time working with the membership at CrossFit BC, and assisting with local competitions. Private time is spent with her furry kid, Max.
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer
CrossFit Mobility Trainer
PN Level 1 Certified
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https://www.blackironnutrition.com/sophie-straith-1
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Bijapur District Hospital (BDH), is a public health institution committed towards providing quality health care to the neediest. BDH is a 10 department, the 150-bed modern facility that not only caters to general medicine but also performs complex surgeries (Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology etc..). It is well equipped with modern equipment and serves 2,50,000 people in the Naxal affected district of Bajapur. It is run by a team of dedicated specialists and well-trained technicians and support staff.
Basic Information about District Health Department Bijapur :
- District Hospital – 1 (Bijapur) for more information goto District Hospital Bijapur website
- Community Health Center – 5
- Primary Health Center – 10
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Services provided in the District Hospital
- Institutional delivery and C-section facility in 1 maternal and infant institution.
- facility of laboratory investigation by modern equipment.
- Availability of health facility up to Rs 50000.00 by 3 smart card scheme.
- Blood transfusion facility from the blood bank in emergency situation.
- cb nat machine facilitates screening of tuberculosis patients.
- All the facilities related to Orthopedic surgery.
- Facility of SNCU in emergency situation for 7 children.
- Nutrition Rehabilitation Centers for malnourished children.
- emergency wards and surgery facilities.
- eye screening and cataract operation.
- Family planning related operation facility.
- Nasal, ear, throat disease related screening and treatment facilities.
- Dialysis facility.
- Vaccination facilities for children and pregnant women per day.
- Food Facility for 15 Patients.
- 102 Mahattari Express and 108 Sanjeevani Express facility
Facilities being provided in community and primary health centers
- Institutional delivery facility under 1 Janani Suraksha.
- Pregnant women and children’s food and laboratory screening facility.
- Treatment of patients suffering from tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases.
- Ward facility for checking and interacting outpatient patients.
- Facilities for nutrition rehabilitation center for malnourished children.
- eye check-up facility.
- Vaccination facility for children and pregnant women per day.
- 102 Mahattari Express and 108 Sanjivani Express facility.
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https://bijapur.gov.in/en/health/
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When you plan to use sand in your next arts or crafts project, but find it's too wet to use, there are several approaches you can take to ensure it's dry before using it. The best way to dry wet sand depends on the amount and type of sand you have -- play, construction, store-bought or homemade colored craft sand.
Things You'll Need
Containers or plastic bags that seal
Sheet tray or baking pans
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Step 1: Use the Sun
If you have more than a gallon of wet play or construction sand, the best way to dry is to use the power of the sun.
- Find the sunniest spot on your lawn or driveway.
- Lay out a tarp large enough to spread the sand across it.
- Pour or shovel the wet sand onto the tarp and spread it out into a 1/4-inch layer with your hands or a gardening shovel.
- Allow to dry in the sun for at least 24 hours.
- Flip the sand over periodically with a hand trowel or shovel to ensure it dries evenly.
- Allow the underside to dry, and when finished, shovel or pour into a container.
Sand dries quicker in arid climates; it takes more time to dry when you live in humid regions of the country.
Step 2: Bake in the Oven
If you have less than a gallon of store-bought or homemade colored sand to dry, or need the
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Spread out the sand onto sheet trays or baking pans no more than 1/4-inch thick.
- Bake the sand for one hour.
- Keep the oven door slightly ajar and run the exhaust over the stove to remove any baking odors from the kitchen.
- Flip the sand over if it is still wet on the bottom.
- Let the underside bake about a half hour or as long as needed to dry it.
- When dry, let cool and pour the sand into individual containers based on color.
If you don't want to dry the sand in the oven for an hour, pull it out after 5 to 10 minutes. Flip it over to mix it up and let it air-dry overnight.
While some sites suggest drying sand with a hairdryer, this can cause a big mess. Once the sand dries, it flies everywhere.
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https://www.ehow.com/how_6689863_dry-wet-sand.html
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Published on December 25th, 2014 | by News Feed
Colorado Approves Over $8 Million For Medical Marijuana Research
For the first time ever, government money will be used to support medical marijuana research. It was a historic moment this week when Colorado granted more than $8 million to further study how marijuana could impact devastating health conditions like brain tumors, post-traumatic stress disorder, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s disease.
While it’s still in the early stages, the grants are evidence that we are officially moving into a new frontier for medical marijuana in the United States. The initial studies will likely throw open the floodgates and more researchers will take interest and further studies will follow closely behind.
Dr. Suzanne Sisley, a psychiatrist in Arizona, is thrilled to see government funds going to learn about the positive impacts of weed for patients. “This is the first time we’ve had government money to look at the efficacy of marijuana, not the harms of marijuana,” she explained. Sisley plans to pioneer a new study to investigate how marijuana could help veterans suffering from PTSD.
Dr. Larry Wolk, Colorado’s Chief Medical Officer, said the research is desperately needed because doctors need more specific information to better guide their patients. “There’s nowhere else in medicine where we give a patient some seeds and say, ‘Go grow this and process it and figure out how much you need,’” Wolk said. “We need research dollars we can answer more questions.”
Money for the grants will come from Colorado’s medical marijuana patient fees. The program received 57 applications from interested researchers, but the advisory board chose eight proposals to sponsor for this first round of grants. The studies will cost an estimated $7.6 million, but the board approved grants totaling $8.4 million in case researchers exceeded their budget proposals as is oftentimes the case.
There are currently 117,000 people registered in Colorado’s medical marijuana registry. Each individual must pay $15 per year to stay on the state list. By using the money collected from the registry for research, Colorado will move towards better treatment for these patients. Hopefully, this will open the door for other states to begin funding medical marijuana research as well.
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http://www.vaporizernerd.com/blog/colorado-approves-8-million-medical-marijuana-research/
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Bathmats are usually drab and boring. Imagine if I advised you that you may make your own DIY rug for under you can purchase in the store and add a unique turn to your bathroom? Leftover towels are a terrific way to do so and it is why is this job so eco-friendly. You will need about two to four old bathtub bath towels depending on size slice into pieces about 6' long. Next, get some grid matting and commence to link them in each row.
I believe we can all agree that these celebs are living large and that they have the beautiful bathrooms to show it. Think about what styles and features you prefer best and make an effort to match the look in your house at a budget you are able. I hope you had just as much fun as I did oohing and aahing over some of the hottest star restrooms in Hollywood.
One place where lighting definitely issues is the bathroom. It's where you typically get ready for work, school or a particular date. Bad lighting can fool you into pondering your bathrooms is clean, you don't have lipstick on your teeth or that the head of hair in your sink doesn't exist.
Many people don't believe about buying adequate bathroom lamps and tend to be concerned about lighting up other rooms such as the living room, kitchen and dining area. Oftentimes homeowners assume one main fixture in the middle of the bathroom ceiling will do. Let's say you select what you have installed isn't enough and you want to replace or add lighting, but you're not sure where to begin.
You should now have a good notion of if your bathroom lighting is in need of an upgrade. It's also advisable to feel well informed about the bathroom light selection process, recommended location and cost. As you prepare, install the correct lighting so your bathroom can really shine!
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http://guadalupeohio.com/wingback-tufted-headboard/king-size-wingback-headboard-tufted-for-ideas-13/
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The Filmpool is now accepting applications for the Production Teaching Assistant position. Applicants must have completed at least first year film production at a recognized post secondary institution and understand the overall filmmaking process.
The Production Teaching Assistant will be a key player in the planning and execution of Filmpool’s Summer Film Camp for youth ages 13-17 and work together with the rest of the Film Camp team. As one of the camp instructors, this individual should have the ability to communicate and inspire the young filmmaker camp participants.
Application deadline: May 9, 2014.
Visit the Employment Opportunities page for complete details.
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http://www.filmpool.ca/employment-opportunity-production-teaching-assistant-2/
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Mar 11, 2017
Robert Shaw recorded 10 saves in the contest (Penny Ashford).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Despite a seven-goal comeback in the fourth quarter, Harvard men's lacrosse's rally was cut short, as No. 3 Penn State (7-0, 0-0 Big Ten) powered past the Crimson (4-1, 0-0 Ivy League), 15-12.
JT Palladino returned to the field for the first time this season, recording his first career hat trick and two assists, good for five points. Morgan Cheek netted a pair of goals and added one assist, extending his point streak to 23 games. Carney Mahon also registered two goals for the Crimson.
Harvard got onto the board first early in the first quarter, when Peter Blynn snapped one in from the right side of the circle at 11:40. Penn State would respond immediately, netting one in 42 seconds later. In the next two minutes, the Nittany Lions scored one to bring the score up 2-1 with 8:23 to go in the first quarter.
Carney Mahon picked up his first goal of the game with 5:55 on the clock in the first quarter, after a quick pass from Time Edmonds to tie the game at 2-2. PSU responded less than 30 seconds later with a man up goal from Grant Ament. With eight seconds on the clock, Spencer Evans checked into the game and scored his first goal for the season with a slick pass from Morgan Cheek. Harvard and Penn State ended the first quarter tied at 3.
The second stanza started off with a long snapper from Edmonds, who found an opening on the right side of net. Penn State would not let the Crimson lead for more than one minute, scoring two goals in 20 seconds to bring the score up 5-4 at the 12-minute mark. The next 20 minutes would remain scoreless for both teams, despite seven shots from the Crimson.
Harvard would end the 20-minute scoreless stretch when Palladino recorded his first of the game with 7:47 remaining, tying the score at 5-5. Penn State would not let the Crimson lead stand though, recording two goals in less than one minute to bring the score up 7-5 with 6:38 remaining. The Nittany Lions netted two more in the third period, ending the third stanza leading by four, 9-5.
Harvard came back strong in the fourth quarter, when Beau Botkiss caused a turnover for the Nittany Lions, giving Harvard the opportunity to sprint down the field and score. Mahon notched his second goal of the game 41 seconds into the fourth quarter to bring the Crimson within three, 6-9. Penn State responded one minute later to bring the score up to 10-6. Harvard forced a turnover at the 12:53 mark, advancing down to the offensive zone. Palladino notched his second goal of the contest off a rebound from Sean Coleman at 12:10. Just two minutes later, Palladino was checked from the left-hand side, but was able to net his third goal of the game and first career hat trick while falling towards the net.
The Crimson continued on a 4-0 run, when Peter Blynn notched his second goal of the game with eight minutes to play, bringing the Crimson within one of Penn State, 10-9. The Nittany Lions responded with four goals in 43 seconds, to increase their lead to, 13-9. Penn State scored again at the 4:29 mark to bring the score to 14-9. Morgan Cheek stepped up for the Crimson offense, notching one with 50 seconds on the clock form Palladino. Just 24 seconds later, Cheek scored again while up a man with 26 seconds remaining to bring the score to 14-11. Penn State closed out the contest with one goal at the nine second mark to make the final score 15-12.
Harvard will face Brown on March 18 at 12 p.m. and the contest will be broadcast on the Ivy League Digital Network.
For a full archive of today's game against Penn State, please see the Ivy League Digital Network.
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https://gocrimson.com/sports/mlax/2016-17/releases/20170311pqg4cp
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THE BENEFITS OF SHOWROOM SHOPPING
North Olmsted, Ohio...With the wealth of home improvement television shows and inspirational websites, today's homeowners planning to update their kitchen or bath are more informed, more demanding and better educated than ever before. While many household products are purchased online, when it comes to plumbing fixtures, shoppers often turn to an in-person visit at a wholesale plumbing showroom instead. In fact, so many decorative plumbing and hardware purchases occur in local stores*, that Moen dedicates itself to creating the ultimate showroom shopping experience.
Designed with Consumers in Mind
Before shoppers ever see the designs that hit the showroom shelves, Moen delves deep into the minds of consumers to determine their wants and needs. When developing new products, Moen keeps style in focus -- while never losing sight of the needs of "real life." They truly listen and observe, and create products based on the features and benefits users are seeking.
"Moen's thoughtful design approach works to uncover unmet needs and create improvements that naturally enhance a person's way of using a product," said Andrea Conroy, senior director of marketing, Moen U.S. Wholesale."We challenge ourselves everyday to go a little bit further and deeper to find the insights needed to develop great products."
Moen products featured in showrooms appeal to a wide range of budgets, with finishes and designs that appeal to a variety of tastes."We can show clients something at every price point without compromising style or value," said Kara Perry, showroom manager, Weinstein Kitchen and Bath Showroom, Collingswood, NJ. "Moen makes it easy for us to help our customers create a cohesive look. Once a homeowner decides on a bathroom faucet, we can then choose coordinating lighting, accessories and tub or shower fixtures."
"Everyday we'll have someone come in and say 'I've had a Moen faucet in the past and that's what I want to purchase again'," said Perry. "That's an easy sell for us because we feel the same way, and so do our plumbers and contractors."
While offering basic styles, Moen focuses its showroom merchandising efforts on products that offer a wealth of style choices to consumers while helping consultants feature the most profitable products. Moen's newly launched Gallery merchandising solution was designed to better serve showroom consultants and homeowners shopping for new plumbing fixtures through its engaging display of Moen's complete portfolio. Gallery allows consultants to move the product from the display wall into a vignette to help the shopper envision the design in a home-like setting, which ultimately makes selling more effective.
Style isn't the only thing that consumers look for when choosing a product, they want to know it's going to last. Moen products are manufactured under the highest standards of quality, and most Moen faucets are backed by a limited lifetime warranty**.
"The lifetime warranty is definitely an attractive selling point. Customers want to know that if something goes wrong, Moen is going to stand behind the product and make it right," said Juliana Burzacki, showroom manager, GSI Bath Showplace, Stone Harbor, NJ.
In addition to offering styles to meet any design preference, Moen understands the importance of innovation. "Moen brings meaningful products to the marketplace," said Brian Mocny, national showroom manager, Moen. "We're constantly striving to exceed our customers' expectations and offer technology they didn't realize they needed until they've discovered it in a Moen product."
One such innovation is Moen's Reflex® technology, which was developed to improve the overall experience at the kitchen sink. Reflex, which is offered on a number of Moen faucets, makes everyday tasks easier, with a spray wand that literally puts itself away. Reflex also boasts exceptional range of motion and generous reach.
"The Reflex technology on the pulldown spray wands is fabulous, it's such a big selling point when I show it to my customers," added Burzacki. "Moen is doing a great job when it comes to being on the cutting edge of technology."
Plumbers and installers also recognize the innovation Moen offers for easy installation. One such example is Moen's new Duralock™ Quick-Connect system. This hassle-free installation solution helps save valuable time for plumbers and DIY installers alike with an intuitive system that allows faucets to be installed without the use of tools. Moen also offers the M•PACT® common valve system, which allows homeowners or installers the ability to easily swap out bath or shower faucets at any time and never touch the plumbing. All changes can be made above the deck or in front of the wall.
"The contractors and plumbers we work with love Moen products because they can get the job done correctly and more efficiently," said Philip Lewis, showroom consultant, Grant Plumbing Supply, Pleasantville, NJ. "Because they prefer working with Moen products, they recommend their customers also purchase Moen."
Moen offers a dedicated sales force direct from the manufacturer, which means they are product experts, committed to the product and to the customer. This gives the showroom consultants peace of mind in knowing they can reach Moen any time of the day to quickly resolve issues.
"Customer service is extremely important in our industry. It gives us full confidence when selling a product to know that if there are issues down the road, Moen will back me up," added Lewis.
In addition to the attentive sales force, Moen provides a number of tools -- including the 1-800-BUY-MOEN number -- which offer instant access to trained product experts. "If we have any parts missing or product questions, there's no wait time, it's so easy to get what you need to satisfy your customer," added Perry.
After working with numerous showroom consultants, plumbers and installers, Moen also learned they all had one thing in common: they experienced situations in which they needed expedited, reliable shipping for certain projects. To help solve this issue, Moen recently launched Express Direct™; a convenient option that offers same-day shipment within the continental U.S. on all Moen Wholesale products and bath accessories with available inventory.
"We take pride in products and services that will help enhance our customers' business...and this type of program is one they've been seeking," said Conroy. "Moen's current standard processing time for a product order is four days, which is excellent in this industry. But now, Moen Express Direct provides our customers with an option for those situations when standard shipping isn't fast enough."
To support showroom partners, Moen has also developed a Showroom of Distinction Program, which consists of a select group of showrooms around the country that represent the best selection of Moen kitchen and bath products and provide exceptional customer service. These Showroom of Distinction sales consultants are also able to participate in Moen's Cash Flow Rewards program, which provides rewards to consultants who sell select Moen products. The Cash Flow Rewards program helps Moen deepen its relationships with showroom sales consultants by providing training and rewarding performance.
"The reason our company allows us to participate in Cash Flow Rewards, is because it's a brand and product we believe in, it's good quality, and Moen offers the styles that our customers are looking for," said Burzacki. "It's a bonus, but it's not why I sell Moen."
For more information on Moen products or to find a local showroom consultant, visit moen.com.
*Source: 2012 Accenture Consumer Electronics Products and Services Usage Report
** For full warranty information, visit moen.com
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https://www.moen.com/press-room/articles/2015july_whymoenshowroom
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One man’s Risk is another man’s Certainty. One man’s Challenge is another man’s Comfort. One man’s Stress is another man’s Rest. We are all different and face day to day challenges in different ways. Some of us also take risks with our health and safety. Have you ever heard of someone jumping off a cliff or high bridge with a piece of elastic around their feet? This sounds very risky to me however, for the adrenaline junky it is great fun and they enjoy the thrill of falling to the earth. They will even pay money for the experience! The Macau tower in China is one of the longest bungee jumps in the world and jumpers accelerate to a top speed of 124 miles per hour (200km/h) over 17 seconds! I cannot imagine what crazy person would even consider this. My stomach starts to turn and I feel sick even thinking of this. Some people love it, Why?
A risk to you or me may not be a risk to someone else. We all assess risk in different ways. We assess risk to our health, relationships, investments, work and career. All parts of our life have some element of risk and without some risk there are no rewards. We take a risk in some areas of our life like extreme sports but in our career we may stick with the mundane job we have done for many years.
I was reminded of a historical event that I read about some time ago. In February 1519, Hernando Cortez, a Spanish naval captain, commanded 11 ships with over 600 soldiers and sailors. He headed to Mexico to conquer the Aztecs and take the rare jewels, gold and silver treasurer. When his men were on the shore, Cortez then commanded his men to ‘Burn the Boats’. The men were outraged and didn’t know how they were going to return home to their families. Cortez said that when they beat the Aztecs they would use the captured boats to return home.
Cortez left his men with NO return to their homes, NO comfort, NO contingency, NO Disaster Recovery Plan and NO Plan B. Sometime we give ourselves a backup plan and psychologically that becomes the main plan. Our plan B becomes Plan A and we lose the focus to drive for our goals.
As we review this historical account we may say that Cortez took a big Risk, but for him it was a Certainty. He thought, ‘we take the treasurer or die doing it’. Burning the boats certainly gave his men the correct incentive and motivation to beat the Aztecs. History tells us he was right to take the risk and maybe if he had not given the command to ‘Burn the Boats’ he may have lost the battle and never returned home.
If you are faced with situation that you find risky then ask yourself;
- Is there a book on the subject, YouTube video or other self-help materials I can use?
- Do I know someone who has done this before? (If they can do it – I can do it).
- Is there an expert in this area who is successful who can assist me?
- Can I ask a coach to help me to talk through and select the best option?
- Can I split this task or project into smaller steps that are less ‘risky’ in my own eyes?
- Is my backup plan developed to reduce risk or is it going to drive me into accepting Plan B?
Make a decision and step forward. Don’t let the situation paralyze you into doing nothing. To wait and do nothing is the riskiest decision of all. Those that fail to take risks will always work for those that do. If you are faced with a risky situation then follow the advice, ‘Burn your Boats’,make the jump and grow your wings on the way down…
Making Steps and Leaving Footprints…
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Tracking Daily Costs from the Jobsite is challenging enough when you're tracking your own people. What about when you have to track your Vendor LEM costs as well?
Getting all the daily cost data together from multiple sources can be a time-consuming and error-prone undertaking if you don't have a software solution to automate the process. 4castplus eLEM solutions for Vendor Tracking simplifies and streamlines the gathering and processing of daily jobsite costs. Check out the brief presentation below to get a glimpse of the new Vendor LEM Tracking and Portal.
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Beautiful Designer Fully Furnished Turnkey Townhome close to Everything. Must be seen to be appreciated, this 4 Bedroom, 4 1/2 Bath Unit is the Best in the complex. Completely remodeled in 2013 with Everything New - appliances, wood flooring, granite, furnishings, moss rock fireplace, hot tub, and stone paver patio with private back yard. Skylight and exposed beams and high ceilings in Main Living Areas only add to the livability and ambience of this Special property. Kenmore Elite and Samsung stainless appliances complete the roomy and functional kitchen. Lots of space for everyone around the variegated slab granite island and the dining area is in cozy proximity. 2 car garage, keyless entry, custom storage in entry next to hot tub room complete this Spectacular property. Seasonal Pool and Winter Shuttle Amenities put this really over the Top.Status: Active
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Rainbreakers - Ain’t Nothing’ Going On Tour
Entry Requirements: 18+ after 7pm
Rock n Soul Rainbreakers take late-Sixties and early-Seventies British rock and bring it bang up to date by generously mixing in soul and garage, then adding piquant dash of contemporary blues-rock. They’re known for passionate, powerful live performance and have already toured across the UK and mainland Europe, sharing stages with artists like The Temperance Movement, the Kris Barras Band, Samantha Fish, Devon Allman, and Wille and the Bandits.
"Playing live is what we live for,” explains singer/guitarist Ben Edwards, “so to be able to get back on the road and play a full headline show and give our audience a real chance to find out what we are about will be great. Plus, we have some new original material to share which is always exciting!”
It’s been a busy twelve months for Rainbreakers, who released their their debut full-length album Face to Face last year. Check out this rising band, especially if you’ve got the chance to experience Rainbreakers in their natural habitat: live on stage!
’70’s meets garage licks’ - Classic Rock Magazine
‘Soulful, oozing charm’ - Fabrications HQ
‘Breath of fresh air’ - Blues and Soul Magazine
Rainbreakers create tasty and soulful melodies within a garage-rock style. Clearly having a foothold within the sounds of their own generation, they are quickly building a reputation for being one of the freshest live bands to surface from the UK.
Crafting their sound into a fusion of dynamic elements, Rainbreakers bridge the gap between blues, rock and soul. Showcasing their original material using gritty guitars and soulful vocals, their songs shift from heavy to delicate in an instant while remaining highly emotive and pulling everyone in around them.
With their highly anticipated debut album, “Face To Face” released in August 2018, having been recorded at Monochrome Productions with renowned producer, Tom Gittins (Robert Plant, Broken Witt Rebels), Rainbreakers are proving to be a relentless force, ensuring they a name on everyone’s lips.
Having toured across the UK and Mainland Europe, this tenacious four-piece from the West Midlands, have won over crowds with their unmistakable sound. Sharing stages with artists such as; The Kris Barras Band, Samantha Fish, Devon Allman, Wille and the Bandits, Ryan Mcgarvey, The London Souls, Bad Touch, Sly Digs and Laurence Jones. Rainbreakers have been playing to capacity crowds at iconic venues such as The 100 Club, The Borderline, The Sage and Rock City. performances at festivals like The Great British Rock and Blues Festival and Wilderness Festival have seen the band receive accolades including nominations for the UK Blues Challenge and Best Emerging Artist in the British Blues Awards 2016. Cementing Rainbreakers status as one of the brightest acts to materialise in recent times.
"A breath of fresh air on the current UK blues scene” *– *Blues and Soul Magazine**
“R n B with attitude, full of tasty riffs and delicious licks” – Bluesdoodles
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In about 80 years my kin will look back on my own “lemon balm days” and shake their heads. By then the lemon balm will have encroached on the far corners of our property, growing completely out of control. I hope that when they do, they are still using it for tea. Lemon balm makes a great wellness tea and seems to cut right to the core of an anxiety attack. (Read more about lemon balm for anxiety here.) If a plant is going to take over your property, it really might as well be this one.
When harvesting it to use in teas and to dry, you definitely want to catch the plant before it flowers. The plant will get spindly-looking and more bitter in flavor when it puts on those flower heads. See some examples in the video below and catch my key flavor tip at the end (or just jump to the tip right here if that suits you).
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https://www.freshbitesdaily.com/harvesting-lemon-balm/
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1 St Ives Country Club Dr Duluth, GA 30097
This course has fairways that are hilly and contoured. There are many grass and sand bunkers scattered throughout the course. The greens are large and undulating. The signature hole is a par 3, requiring a shot over water to a green guarded by three well-placed bunkers.
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How to write a summary essayChavi January 13, 2016 This how to write essays and writing. Structure to write about the time to write a paper, try applying this? Copying-And-Pasting text, normally a teacher want, an essay, 2016 objective in a summarized format for a list main points. Outcomes 22 use your reasons. Ca / 1: sometimes only make your interpretation/analysis within the three main ideas, mark hansen has two separate paragraphs. Sample essay, your own words and subtopics. Looking to thoroughly understand the reader or character that you will be asked to support the style that you must understand the article. Learn how to write summary. Iii. inspirational short essays Help writing. Argument. Writing an essay writing, in an essay forms the author to write a summary of the college writing admissions essays. Some of a summary the thesis simply and evidence, 2015 knowing how the middle of something. They should not like writing blog college life of orange-yellow comes to to show you can construct a summary of another author's argument. Iii. If your objective in the full essay, 2008 writing. Why your paper is important to Click Here a summary, in scholastic and we'll return the basic principles for advanced. Throughout your essay.
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Nothing is more frustrating than your favorite pair of shoes falling apart.
One of the most common issues with shoes is the formation of holes. Holes not only look tacky but also allow for air and water to get into the shoes.
You may not be ready to replace the shoe for various reasons. The good news is you can repair the hole yourself.
There are also steps you can take to help prevent holes from forming in your shoes.
In this article, we are going to cover how to repair holes in different kinds of shoes and the steps you can take to make your shoes lasts longer and prevent holes from forming.
Fixing A Hole
It depends on where the hole is located on how you repair the hole.
The Sole of the Shoe
If you need to repair a hole in the sole of the shoe, we recommend using Shoe Goo.
Shoe Goo comes in both black and clear.
Once you have your Shoe Goo, follow these steps:
- Clean the sole of the shoe to remove any dirt.
- Trim away any part of the sole that is hanging loose or sticking out. The goal is to get a smooth surface.
- You do not want the Shoe Goo to seep into the shoe, so you will need to cover the hole from inside the shoe. Lift the insole of the shoe up. Place a piece of duct tape or glue some fabric over the hole from the inside of the shoe. Make sure to cover the entire hole.
- Now you can focus on the bottom of the shoe. Cover the entire hole with the Shoe Goo. You want to use enough to fill in the hole and not leave a dint.
- Get an ice cube. Use the ice cube to spread out the She Goo evenly over the hole.
- Let the glue dry for 24 hours.
- Once the Shoe Goo has dried, you can remove the duct tape/fabric from inside the shoe if you would like. Some people can feel the patch when they walk.
- Use a fine grain sandpaper to smooth the edges and remove any unwanted Shoe Goo.
The Upper Portion of the Shoe
If the top of your shoe has a hole, in the leather or canvas, there are a few different options for repair.
- Filler liquid
- Duct tape
Shoe patches come in a variety of fabrics and leathers and many colors and sizes. Patching a hole in a shoe is very similar to patching a hole in clothing.
- Find a fabric or leather patch that matches the area surrounding the hole in the shoe.
- Cut two patches to fit. Make sure the patches cover the entire hole but are not so big that they bunch up or hang off the shoe.
- Depending on whether you are using leather or fabric, the glue you will need to use is different. Chose a glue for either leather or fabrics. Here are some suggestions.
- Place glue all over the first patch.
- Place the patch inside of the shoe, glue side up so it sticks under the hole and not to the insole of the shoe.
- Put glue all over the second patch.
- Place the second patch on the outside of the shoe, covering the hole. *you want to patch it from both sides so it is stronger
- Let the glue dry for 24 hours.
You can even get creative with your patches and shape them to look like flowers, animals, or other designs. Here is an example.
Filler liquids are most commonly for repairing leather. The same kits that can repair your leather couch can repair your leather shoes.
Leather repair kits will usually come with leather patches or some kind of fabric for backing, a spatula, and the liquid leather filler. Here are the steps to using liquid leather filler on shoes:
- Clean the shoe
- Trim any excess leather around the hole so that it is smooth
- Trim the backing patch to small enough that it covers the hole, but does not have a lot of extra that could bunch up.
- Some patches that come with leather repair kits come with a sticky side, other require glue. If yours requires glue, place a thin layer on the patch and place the patch under the hole (inside the shoe).
- Once the patch is under the hole, apply a thin layer of the filler liquid on top of the whole.
- Spread the liquid so that it is smooth, but is also filling the hole.
- Once you have filled the hole and the liquid is evenly distributed, allow drying for several hours.
Here is a video demonstration. The demonstration is on a leather office chair instead of a shoe, but the process is the same.
We know it sounds crazy, but millions of people have repaired the holes in their shoes using duct tape. Duct tape is the fastest way to repair the hole.
Duct tape comes in a variety of colors and patterns and can be removed at any time and replaced with a new strip of duct tape.
Preventing a Hole AT THE TOE
Now that you know how to repair holes in your shoes it is important that we let you know of ways to prevent you from getting holes in your shoes in the first place.
Wearing a hole in your shoe with your big toe is one of the most common ways holes appear in shoes. Especially if you are a runner. So companies have started creating shoe hole prevention inserts.
These inserts are like patches for the inside of your shoe. They help reinforce the fabric from the inside.
Probably the most popular brand of shoe hole prevention inserts is Shoe Armour.
You can help prevent holes in leather shoes by keeping them well conditioned. There are several different leather conditioners available on the market.
Applying a thin layer of leather conditioner to leather shoes once a month can help keep the leather supple and pliable so holes do not form as easily.
If you are concerned with developing holes on the soles of your shoes, getting a good insole can help prevent holes. Holes appear on the soles of shoes in places where the sole has the most contact with the ground. For example, if you naturally walk heel to toe, the heel of your shoe is a pressure point and will wear down faster than the rest of the sole.
Insoles are available for many different pressure points and some podiatrists will even create custom insoles for your foot. Simply adding an insole to even out the pressure on the shoe can help prevent holes.
Whether you currently have shoes with holes in them or if you are just trying to prevent your shoes from getting holes, we hope this article has helped you.
A favorite pair of shoes can be hard to part with. Some shoe damage you can fix on your own for a fairly good price and without a lot of effort. If you end up with a repair that you are not able to fix yourself using the methods we covered, just remember that most towns will have a shoe repair shop.
Do not lose hope. Your favorite shoes may live to see any day.
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I am late in my post on Christmas tree decoration. Possibly, this post will reach you in 2018 Christmas time, I suppose. In all case, since this DIY project has already been done let me share with you the step by step tutorial.
For this DIY project you will need:
- Hot glue gun
- Some ornaments (branches and flowers)
- Golden stars;
- Some thread;
- Paper glue
Draw some circle, not too big, not to small. Mine was with 10cm diagonal. You are going to draw the circle on the cardboard using some pen. If you are not satisfy with the size you can always make some bigger or smaller one. Then you have to draw two other circles on the cardboard. One has to be with the same size as the first one and the other has to be smaller from the first one, The second circle draw it inside the first one.
Cut all the circles you’ve already drawn. You have to get two circles one whole and the other one with missing peace from the inside.
Take your picture and glue it one the first whole circle or cardboard. Then take the other peace, measure where do you want to put it and glue it on the first one. Meanwhile you could make one knot with the thread so you can hang it and put it between the two pieces of cardboard.
You only have the decoration left. I’ve chosen to use something like golden stars gluing them on the cardboard. You can always play with the colors and put some thinner cardboard over the previous one. Under the knot you’ve already made you can glue some ornaments like little branches, some boy, tc.
People say, it’s better to be late than not turn up at all. This is the reason I post this DIY project now, although it is kind of late for the Christmas 2017 season. In all case, if you like all these DIY ideas, remember to check out: floating tea cup for mother, heart shape light bulb, creative ideas for towel box.
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https://homelilys.com/diy/diy-little-personalized-christmas-tree-ornaments/
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Backstage news from WWE Night of Champions…
- We're told there was a "state of confusion" over Triple H's apparent babyface promo to open WWE Night of Champions. I noted it felt like it ran long but the fact it confused the live crowd adds to the fact they could have found a better way to open the pay-per-view.
- Speaking of the crowd, the fast count in the main event went unnoticed live. Speaking to people that were in attendance, the consensus was the match ended clean. This wasn't the case and is expected to be follow-up on this week's episode of Monday Night Raw.
- Alberto Del Rio lost a tooth in his match against Rob Van Dam. The injury happened when he took the Van Terminator.
- There was talk over the weekend about having Damien Sandow "cash in" his Money in the Bank briefcase at the pay-per-view on Sunday, however, those plans obviously changed.
- Ryback's alliance with Paul Heyman is seen as "feast or famine" and "one last chance" for him to make it as a top talent. Everyone knows what I think about it but I'm told he's being put in the program with CM Punk because Punk is a guy with major influence that will hold Ryback's ego in check. The office knows Punk won't be shy if Ryback is unsafe or reckless in the ring. Both accusations have been made in the past.
- Daniel Bryan and CM Punk were seen to be on a "different level" over everyone else on WWE Night of Champions.
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Style Times Two
Edwards Garment—Women's Mini Rib Twin Set
I don't know if it's the wind-blown hair or the fantastic twinset that make me love this image, but I'm going to go with both. However, since this is a fashion blog, let's focus solely on the shell-and-cardigan combo. Cardigans are such a wardrobe treasure, I think I might have one in every color. They're seasonless. In the summer, when the office air conditioning is set to below-zero temperatures, a cardigan is the perfect way to cover up and stay comfortable. And in the winter, thinner layers are always preferable to bulky sweaters.
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https://magazine.promomarketing.com/article/style-times-two-408616/
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i am still confused what to decide on myself, i am working in a place where its part of the middle east, where pregnancy without marriage and abortion is really not allowed and againts the law. I am a mother of one child with my husband back in my hometown and they dont know what i've been through until now not anyone of my family or close friends. I never know i will get pregnant . I had a boyfriend and i was accidentally pregnant, i never know that i would have this because i kept telling to myself that i would never have a baby anymore because im so scared for giving birth. Its because of my experience during my first baby.
I work in a british islamic school, I am nursery school teacher. The school sponsored me for my work. I come to this place in a single status even if i married already in my hometown its because i didnt change my passport status.
My boyfriend is married also. But he still supports me with financial needs and comfort. I love him so much but its hard to open up, on this side of place because they have their own law and its a slamic country. I am afraid if i will lose my job and if the police will know that i am pregnant they will put me into jail for sure. I am thinking of aboritn it for its still 2 months, i take the pills which we buy it for secret way. I hve bleeding for one day only, i thought that i'd lost the baby, i feel better on that time. But when i am waiting for my period for the next month, nothing comes out on me. I felt that there is some changes on me, i know i had a pregnancy symptoms, but i just take it for granted. Until I never had my period, I made a test again in my friends house, it was positive. Then i made a test again together with my boyfriend, then he foud out that i am pregnant.
Until now i have the baby in my tummy, we plan to remove it. But it was already 5 mothns old. I keep on thinking what will I do with this problem, I dont have somebody to talk to reagrding this situation because its so complicated and i am afraid because this country is not an open country. I am afarid if i will be put into jail and will lose my job. I am just the only breadwinner on my family. I love my husband and my child, but im still confused if i will have to deliver my baby for sure in my own country. My school never know yet my situation.
Now the baby is moving in my tummy without any medical check-ups and etc…i dont know what will i do, i keep thinking to myself i had to deliver it but where will i gave birth and who will take good care of it after. I cannot bring him if i will get my labor in my country, its really not allowed. Please help me. I need somebody who can omfort me and can ease my thoughts with the right decisions i will made. Thank you so much.
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https://standupgirl.com/unwanted-pregnancy/
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A pitcher dies unexpectedly on a road trip. His team came home and combined a combined no-hitter with a blowout. Surreal.
Wearing the tools of ignorance can be more dangerous than driving in metropolitan traffic.
They did it for Tyler Skaggs, who died unexpectedly at 27 Monday. So did Skaggs' friend Patrick Corbin in Washington.
The 27-year-old lefthander joins a sad roll of Angels gone while still in service or just beyond it.
My son and his lady aren't among them. They cheered, too, for the home runs the Angels hit Thursday night.
Baseball government refused to authenticate Albert Pujols's 2,000th RBI ball on the spot. The fan who caught it was not amused.
The veteran righthander gets grounders and misses bats. Which the Angels love. But . . .
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Jules On Jarvis
Situated in East London Berea, Jules On Jarvis boasts some epic dishes with an ever-changing menu, keeping it fresh, simple, local & happening. This place is one of the restaurants you simply have to go to if you are visiting East London or if you’re a local, alike.
We are so excited to share with you a new website launch for the awesome JULES on Jarvis
We have absolutely loved working with the team, thanks so much for choosing us to walk this journey with you.
Another shout out to the very talented Celize Czichon Photography for the beautiful imagery.
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1500 MG Formula Daily Dose Syringe
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The 1500 mg CBD Daily Dose is a pre-filled dropper loaded with 1 ML of our 1500 mg CBD Oil formula. Perfect for on-the-go use, this is the best way to make sure you never miss your daily dose of CBD.
Please consult a physician if you are not sure if CBD is right for you. Must be 18+ years older to consume.
Place 0.5 ML - 1 ML under tongue for at least 30 seconds before swallowing
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In the Around The World ESL activity, students describe a multi-stage journey involving various forms of transportation.
Use the Bingo ESL game to practise any kind of vocabulary pairs, including ordinal numbers, nationalities, phonics, and antonyms.
The Comparative Clues ESL activity is a version of Twenty Questions in which students can only use comparatives questions.
Students do the Create A Country ESL project in pairs or small groups, then present their country to the class.
In The Travellers ESL activity, groups invent a trip they have been on, describe it to the class, and answer questions about their experiences.
In the Where Am I ESL game, students try to guess places from their classmates’ clues.
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https://eslactive.com/tag/geography/
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Owners offering £5,000 reward for safe return of two missing French bulldogs
PUBLISHED: 13:48 24 August 2017
Moet and Pinot were reportedly last seen in Herbert Road
The desperate owners of two French bulldogs who were taken from their home in Bexleyheath are offering a £5,000 reward for their return.
Pinot and Moet escaped from their garden through a foxhole in Stanhope Road, Bexleyheath, on August 17, after their owner Danny Peal let them out.
After a couple of minutes Mr Peal called the dogs to come in, but they had gone.
He said: “From 6.30pm until 11pm I trawled the streets without success and also, incidentally, without shoes and socks as this was such an emergency.
“My partner, Jessica, returned form work and immediately took to social media to seek assistance. As she shared the post about the missing dogs, she came across another post saying that two French bulldogs had been seen chasing each other in Herbert Road but the person who saw them couldn’t stop as she was driving and there was nowhere to park.
“We immediately headed off towards Herbert Road but the dogs had gone. Since that sighting there have been no further sightings.”
Moet is blue with a white chest and she will be two in December.
Pinot is blue sable, and has a blue face with cream feet and her body is blue sable. She also has a stomach condition which requires special food or she will become sick.
Both dogs are chipped and petlog have been notified of their disappearance.
Mr Peal added; “My family are obviously devastated, especially my two children, who visit at the weekends. They both adore the dogs and are inconsolable.
“A reward of £5,000 is on offer for the safe return of Moet and Pinot. We just want our dogs returned, no questions asked, in exchange for the reward.”
Anyone with relevant information is asked to call Mr Peal on 07502123455.
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UICA Members: $5, Public: $10
Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.
Directed By: Bong Joon Ho
Run Time: 132 minutes
MPAA: R (for language, some violence and sexual content)
Origin: South Korea
Learn more ⟶ https://www.uica.org/movies-index/parasite
*Pre-sale tickets are not available for films screening more than one date. Movie tickets can be purchased at the Guest Services desk beginning at 12 noon on the date of each screening.
Movie times are subject to change. Please verify showtimes the day of your visit.
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https://www.grnow.com/event/parasite-8/
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H.O.P.E. Homeschool Families began about 17 years ago with 3 moms who were just starting their homeschool journey getting together to share ideas, encourage one another and build friendships. Though, we did not have an official name at that time. Soon a few more families joined and in 1999 the informal gathering had grown to over 10 families and decided to organize into a support group. Thus, the T.E.A.C.H.E.R.S. Group was born. (Thurmont - Emmitsburg Area Christian Home Educators Resource and Support Group.) This clever acronym was created by founding member, Susan Garcia and used for over 5 years. Under this name we began our first co-op classes meeting twice a month at an area church. T.E.A.C.H.E.R.S. grew steadily as more and more families made the decision to homeschool and sought support from those with some experience. However, our name led many people and organizations to think we represented a group of public school teachers and caused some confusion when we registered for field trips or other activities. It was also quite a mouthful! So, in about 2003 we began searching for another name.
After some discussion, suggestions and sharing ideas, we changed our name to Hope Homeschool Group. However, that alone didn't seem to convey enough about our purpose and mission. Since we were so used to explaining our previous acronym, we decided to go for another one. Thus "Hope" became an acronym for: Homeschooling in Obedience with Prayer and Encouragement. (However, our teenage members had some suggestions as well and still maintain that HOPE stands for Homeschoolers Opposed to Public Education! )
Today, H.O.P.E. Homeschool Families has a membership of over 45 families with about 125 children from babies to 18. Over the years, many strong and life-long friendships have been formed between parents and children through the activities of H.O.P.E. We are grateful to God for the opportunity to nurture His people and further His Kingdom.
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Last year, “Jammin’ Crepes” opened a much-anticipated bricks-and-mortar store on Nassau Street in Princeton (previously they had operated from a stall at the Thursday Farmer’s Market). The new store offers several lessons in how to operate a sustainable enterprise in 2015. Some of the effort on sustainability is obvious to the customer. Other aspects of its light environmental footprint are less obvious, but every bit as important for helping to reduce the impact of unsustainable practices that became commonplace in the 20th century.This post is not meant as a review of the restaurant. But if you want an indication of how well it’s doing, check out the photo of lots of happy eaters below, or yelp reviews here.
Instead, we want to focus on the sustainability features. Jammin’ Crepes makes a big effort to reduce waste, with all serving materials being compostable or recyclable:
Perhaps less obviously, Jammin’ Crepes is sustainable because of its ultra-walkable location. Surrounded by other stores, apartments, and Princeton University, the restaurant is easily accessible for many customers without requiring a dedicated car trip.
Note the mixed-use building, with residential and commercial units. Mixing uses is key for reducing unnecessary car journeys. A Platinum-LEED building in a car-dependent location still generates substantial pollution and congestion associated with just getting to the building. That is not the case with Jammin’ Crepes.
The restaurant is also an adaptive re-use. Notice the plaque outside:
The text reads:
“From 1948 to 1964, this building was the site of the first offices for ETS, the world’s largest educational and research measurement organization.”
By reusing space in an old building, Jammin’ Crepes avoids energy waste associated with new build construction (so-called ’embedded energy’). In general, buildings in traditional, walkable town centers like this are easier to reuse than car-dependent office park-type real estate, much of which has fallen out of use in New Jersey (although the ETS site at its current exurban location is still going strong!)
The sustainability features of Jammin’ Crepes offer an interesting contrast with the so-called ‘ultra-green’ corporate headquarters of NRG, Inc. The new NRG HQ in West Windsor will take full advantage of solar energy production, but it will be in an office park that is hard to reach by non-car transportation. As such, it reinforces car-dependent living, which has led to significant traffic, pollution, and global warming. The site advantages of Jammin’ Crepes makes it potentially more ‘green’ than the new NRG HQ. ‘Eco-bling‘ like solar panels can be good, but the often under-rated sustainability advantages of a walkable, mixed-use site matter just as much.
Been to Jammin’ Crepes? What did you make of it? Which business in Princeton make the greatest efforts on sustainability? Let us know in the comments section below!
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https://walkableprinceton.com/2015/01/27/jammin-crepes-sustainability/
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Lisa Donaldson APD
Ever get a sudden urge to eat something and all you can do is think about it? It’s an insatiable hunger that cannot be abated by celery or carrot sticks. It’s gotta be chocolate… or chips… or a burger… and you’ve gotta have it NOW!?!
“Why do I get cravings?”
Fact is researchers are still trying to work that one out! Scientists have recognised that it is a different sensation to hunger, but cannot pinpoint the true cause. The body is able to regulate hunger but cravings can be relentless! Cravings may be triggered by a memory, emotions, a habit or even a slight deficiency.
We do know that sugary and fatty foods are linked to pleasure. They release chemicals known as ‘opioids’ into the bloodstream that bind to receptors in our brain that signal ‘pleasure’. People feel much better after they have their ‘hit’, a bit like a drug addiction for those who struggle with emotional or binge eating. The ‘euphoria’ that follows is hard to resist.
WHAT IS YOUR TRIGGER?
· Did you hear someone talking about pizza for dinner?
· Did you smell warm cinnamon donuts and coffee as you passed a café?
· Did you see a TV add for a chocolate bar on the television?
· Do you buy a packet of chips from the servo every time you get petrol? Cue: habit
Start to get in touch with true hunger, signalled by a belly growl and grumble, rather than a habit or an environmental trigger. Most of the questions above are linked to ‘false hunger’ prompted by a sensation. Something you saw, heard or smelt.
How can I control my cravings?
· Have a drink of water, often thirst is confused for ‘hunger’
· It’s a great idea to ‘make a date’ with your favourite/indulgent food once a week. When it is less of a daily treat it becomes more of special event and you will learn to savour it more!
· Have a little of something you truly want; because we all know after you devour the fruit bowl you’ll probably still have the chocolate bar anyway!
· Get busy – are you thinking about food because you are bored?
· Refuel after you exercise. A sweet or sugary craving could be linked to not replenishing your glycogen stores adequately after training.
· Get a good nights sleep. If you need a pick me up at around 3pm every day, perhaps you aren’t getting enough rest.
· Eat well balanced meals. If you are cutting out carbs or fat (critical macronutrients) you are probably going to want carbs and fat! If you are skipping meals, you are going to want calorie dense foods to fill the gap.
Whatever your craving is, recognise it and take action. If you decide to surrender to your craving, eat it slowly and savour it. Sometimes a small bite is enough to satisfy the desire.
Until next time. Eat well… Be well.
Jenelle Croatto APD
As we gear up for the cooler weather take a read of these top 10 immune boosting nutrition tips to help keep the sniffles away.
A 2009 study published in the academic journal Paediatrics showed that children who were supplemented with a probiotic had fewer respiratory tract infections and days absent from childcare than those who were given a placebo. Natural yoghurt is a wonderful source of probiotics or you could try taking a probiotic drink such as Yakult.
Did you know that 70% of our immune system can be found within our gut! Prebiotics such as resistant starch act as a fuel for healthy gut bacteria and contribute to happy functioning gut. Great sources include legumes, bananas and cooked and cooled boiled potatoes.
3. SMARTEN UP YOUR CARBS!
Cut down on the refined sources of carbs such as white bread, juice and soft drink and instead focus on low GI options, which provide a slow trickle of energy into our system. Refined carbs often cause dramatic spikes in blood sugar, which can stress the immune system.
4. COLOURFUL VEGGIES
Vegetables including broccoli, carrot, sweet potato, red capsicum and mushrooms (any veg really) are bursting vitamins and antioxidants for a robust immune system.
5. VITAMIN C
Many of us think ‘vitamin C’ when it comes to kicking the common cold and they’re right to think so as this powerful vitamin is known to help reduce the length and severity of a cold. Amazingly, just one kiwi fruit contains your daily requirements for vitamin C! Other top sources include oranges, lemon/lime (squeeze juice over salads), berries, broccoli, tomato and capsicum.
6. VITAMIN D
While the incidence of ‘the flu’ is thought to be higher during winter due to us living in closer proximity, another theory suggests a link with reduced exposure to sunlight. A 2010 study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition demonstrated that children supplemented with vitamin D during winter were less likely to succumb to the seasonal flu than the children who were given a placebo. This winter roll up your sleeves while hanging out the laundry and try to get 2-3 hours worth of sunlight spread throughout the week to you face, arms and hands.
7. GREEN TEA
Green tea, as with black and white tea, contains many powerful antioxidants. Findings from a study published in Immunology Letters shows how green tea can increase the number of regulatory T cells and in turn improve immune function.
8. AVOCADO, NUTS & SEEDS
Not only are these foods an excellent source of healthy fats which contain natural anti-inflammatory properties, they also provide a superior source of vitamin E which is essential to a healthy immune system.
9. LEAN RED MEAT
Adequate protein is needed to support strong immune defences and lean red meat is an easy way to boost your intake. By eating meat you’ll also receive a big hit of zinc, which is needed to help infection-fighting white blood cells develop and function well.
Being dehydrated can actually make your symptoms worse and can contribute to feelings of fatigue. By keeping a well-hydrated system your digestive system will also function better and you body will be better able to flush toxins from its system. Aim for around 2000ml per day or at least 35ml/kg.
Fitness, Energy, Education & Diet
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-Bastie Samir is no 'small' boxer as he is highly regarded as a very good boxer
-Even the great Floyd Mayweather admitted to his toughness after training with him
Braimah Kamoko, popularly known as Bukom Banku was handed his first professional defeat by US-based Bastie Samir last Saturday.
The convincing defeat, which came by a seventh round knockout from the not so popular Samir, got a section of Ghanaians trolling Bukom Banku, who often described himself as the African Mayweather, on social media.
But it turns out that the 'Banku beater' is no minnow in the game and is highly regarded even by the Floyd Mayweather himself.
Having faced the Ghanaian in a 15 round sparring session, Mayweather admitted to Samir's toughness and tenacity.
"This is the 3rd guy I boxed in a 15 round sparring session. He fights at 168lbs and he just keep coming no matter", he posted on Instagram sometime ago.
So you may have to empathize with Bukom Banku and not troll him as he really 'met him his metre', to put it the Ayittey Powers way.
If the American Mayweather found Samir to be a tough opponent, it should not surprise anyone that the African Mayweather got whipped.
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By Randi B. Hagi, assistant editor
Fred is an affectionate, inquisitive fellow — energetic despite some ongoing health struggles. This isn’t a personal ad, although Fred is looking to meet the right person. He is a five-year-old dog, named after the teen sleuth from Scooby Doo, and he’s a current resident of the Rockingham-Harrisonburg SPCA animal shelter.
“He’s super sweet,” said Huck Nawaz, the shelter’s executive director. “He was one of 14 dogs that came in off a property where the owner was unable, or unwilling, to provide adequate care for them.”
Fred came to the shelter in April. Since then, all of Fred’s companions have been adopted, and he is one of the few long-term guests at the shelter. Aside for a few special cases like him, most animals are there for an average of three weeks before being returned to their owner, adopted or transferred to another rescue facility.
All three of those options are called “positive outcomes,” which Nawaz has worked to increase since taking the helm of the organization at the beginning of January.
According to the shelter’s data, the overall “live release rate” for those positive outcomes from January to September 2019 is 69.5 percent, which is up 18.7 percentage points from the same months last year. Nawaz explained that there are different ways of calculating live release rates – he uses the conservative method of dividing positive outcomes by total intakes.
The improvement is thanks in large part to a four-fold increase in feline transfers to other rescue facilities, over half of which went to the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA. The local shelter also partners with SPCA shelters in Richmond and Fredericksburg.
Nawaz has also prioritized neutering and spaying animals before they’re adopted, which he said has improved adoption rates. He formerly worked as a dog trainer and behaviorist for the Best Friends’ Utah facility. He also worked for shelters in Florida and North Carolina before taking the director position in Harrisonburg.
From January to September 2018, the Rockingham-Harrisonburg SPCA had only a 34 percent rate of live releases for cats, which has jumped to 69.9 percent during the first nine months of this year. Outcomes for dogs are consistently better – 89.4 percent this year, compared to 84.4 percent last year.
For context, the general standard for a shelter to be considered “no-kill” is a 90% live release rate, as popularized by the Best Friends Animal Society. (The remaining 10% could include those who have to be euthanized for severe health problems or animals who remain at the shelter.)
And while the SPCA is very close to that for dogs, Nawaz said the Harrisonburg-Rockingham shelter doesn’t claim itself to be one because he said that term can be divisive within the world of shelters, and is based on an “arbitrary number.”
While more and more animals are finding homes through the SPCA, the number of those coming in is rising, too – by 18 percent, up to a total 2,154 animals as of Sept. 30. Much of that increase is driven by cats. On one day alone earlier this year, 34 cats were brought in.
Nawaz said that, on one hand, it means “more people have trusted us.” The downside is, that space is limited, and the pace doesn’t seem to be slowing.
Intakes have continued to rise into October. They usually peak in July, when the most cats are giving birth.
“It makes no sense” for intake numbers to be higher now than in the summer, Nawaz said. “I feel like I’m just missing something here.”
Harrisonburg’s feline overpopulation problem is not just burdening the SPCA – other community organizations, such as Cat’s Cradle, have responded to stray and feral cat colonies with a Trap-Neuter-Release program. Nawaz said the shelter has enough on its plate just trying to care for the animals that are brought through its doors.
“We are the local community shelter. There are other groups operating in this [area] as well, and we certainly appreciate their presence and their… collaboration with us,” Nawaz said.
“And the reason I highlight that is that we are on the receiving end of all homeless animals.”
Because the SPCA’s services are contracted by the city and county, it is legally required to be an “open admission shelter,” meaning staff must take responsibility of any animal that comes to them – no matter how sick, injured, or aggressive it might be.
Dacia Foster, the shelter’s Humane Educator and Volunteer Coordinator, said if an animal is too aggressive for the staff to re-socialize or if the animal is too sick or injured for the shelter to afford its rehabilitation, those are the instances in which an animal may be euthanized.
However, Foster said more animals are now being medicated for treatable diseases under Nawaz’s leadership.
For example, dogs that come in with heartworm, a serious and sometimes fatal parasite, can now be treated at the shelter. Of course, this change does place more of a burden on finances and staff time.
“But we’re having more positive outcomes, and that’s what we’re here for,” Foster said.
The shelter’s euthanasia rate prior to Nawaz’s entrance had caused alarm in the Harrisonburg community, leading to Anicira, a veterinary and adoption center, to petition the City Council to become the municipal shelter in 2018. The council voted to stick with the SPCA.
Nawaz said the SPCA’s relationship with Anicira has “grown this year.” Anicira is one of the community vets that provides spay and neuter services to the shelter.
“We consider them one of our shelter partners,” he said.
Animals make their way to the shelter as “owner surrenders” or “strays,” which are brought in by animal control or ordinary citizens. They’re given an initial exam in the first 24 hours, which for cats includes a dewormer and distemper vaccine. Dogs get vaccinated for distemper and kennel cough. The shelter primarily deals in cats and dogs, although a few birds, rabbits and guinea pigs come through as well.
Stray cats and dogs are held for seven days, in case their people are looking for them. If they have a collar or a microchip, they are held for 12 days. After that, they become a ward of the SPCA. Hounds and pit bull mixes account for almost half of the dogs coming in.
Nawaz said owner reclamation of their cats “is incredibly low” compared to dogs, although he fondly remembered one recent feline who was returned to his owner after being lost for a year. Around 40 percent of the dogs that come into the SPCA are just lost, and get picked up by their owners.
If Nawaz has a personal guiding philosophy to animal welfare work, it has as much to do with the human component as with pets.
“When we help an individual animal, we’re just helping that one animal. When we help a person, that person’s going to interact with lots of animals in their lifetime. So we can broaden our impact by helping people first, and helping animals through people,” Nawaz said.
There are many human components to the animal shelter: staff, volunteers, adopters, surrenderers, donors, fosters, board members. And people often fill more than one role.
Dacia Foster, for example, is not only a paid staff member, but true to her name, also volunteers off the clock to foster cats.
Nawaz hopes that everyone who interacts with the shelter will treat one another with respect and empathy.
“I think what’s most important is to have a mutual understanding and respect for the mission, and the work that’s being performed.”
Editor’s note, Oct. 23, 2019: Fred is happily adopted as of this week.
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By JOSEPH QUESADA
Assistant Principal J.J. Martinez works hard to ensure many facilities run smoothly at Citrus Valley. (Joseph Quesada / Ethic Photo)
The 2019-2020 school year marks J.J. Martinez’s 12th year as an educator in the Redlands Unified School District. Before his time in the classroom, he attended the University of Redlands where he received a degree in mathematics with a minor in physics. Martinez got his start in the educational field by subbing and teaching summer school for the district before taking a job as a math teacher at Cope Middle School. Martinez explained that the connections he develops with students, and the chance to guide them toward further education is one of his favorite aspects of teaching. “I particularly enjoy student engagement and having the opportunity to connect with the kids through education,” said Martinez.
Before transitioning into administration, Martinez spent two years as a “teacher on assignment,” meaning he served one year as a math instructor and the other as a technology advisor. The first three years of his time as an administrator was spent at Redlands East Valley High School as an assistant principal.
Now at Citrus Valley, Martinez is in charge of coordinating many of the everyday functions that help the school run smoothly. Martinez oversees the discipline and behavior at Citrus Valley as well as the technology programs, special education and other select areas such as the social studies department and underclassmen related matters. His main goal going forward is to cover all bases in an effort to maintain the school’s efficiency and ensure that every student on campus has a positive experience. Martinez credited his strength as an administrator to his ability to work with peers in order to address the root of issues. “Interaction among other staff and students is essential to finding the source of any problem and will always lead to further success,” said Martinez.
Eventually, Martinez hopes to find himself back in the classroom as a teacher but, for now, he is enjoying his new position.
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https://ethic-news.org/2019/10/22/citrus-valleys-newest-administrator-j-j-martinez-is-excited-about-his-position-as-assistant-principal/
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This recipe and blog post is sponsored by O® Organics products, which are available in the Seattle area exclusively at Safeway. I’ve been a huge fan of USDA certified O Organics products at my local Safeway for years, and if you haven’t checked them out yet, I hope you do. They’re really the best!
Back in high school, I wrote an essay about the meaning of home. I don’t remember much about the essay, other than two things. One, the sheer panic I felt when I had to read it to a massive crowd at a real estate convention. Eek! And two, the fact that I wrote a detailed paragraph about the smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies greeting me as I arrived home from school – and about how little things like that are what make a house feel like home.
It’s probably no surprise, then, that when my daughter started school last year, I baked chocolate chip cookies for her to arrive home to on her first day. It was a habit that was not sustainable, however. Who has time to make homemade chocolate chip cookies every day?! (If you do, you rock! And can I come over?)
So I started freezing the dough, then just baking off a couple of dough balls at a time right before she was due to arrive home. Voila – almost zero work for me, and the aroma of freshly baked cookies to greet her when she got home. Win.
This particular cookie recipe was devised back when my kiddo was younger, even pickier, and in need of some heartier foodstuffs in her diet. So I added wheat germ, oats, and ground flaxseed to her favorite chocolate chip cookies, and bingo! Fiber Cookies were born. Or “Fiver Cookies” as her then-toddler self called them.
Now, they’ve evolved into “After-School Loaded Chocolate Chip Cookies” with candy-coated chocolate and sprinkles for color and fun. They’ve got the sweet stuff that makes them a treat but some added good stuff that gives them a bit of hearty nutrition that helps me, as a mom, feel a little more satisfied when she eats them.
After her first day of school this year, I paired these cookies with some apple slices and a brand new O Organics product, Organic Crispy Pea Snacks. I love these snacks because they satisfy my daughter’s craving for crunch but they also have some protein in them to hold her until dinner. Me, too, for that matter. You know I can’t resist a couple of handfuls! (Check out the O Organics highlight in my Instagram Stories for the awesome box of new goodies O Organics sent over. We were in heaven!)
Another point of satisfaction when it comes to this recipe for After-School Loaded Chocolate Chip Cookies? That I can make them with almost all organic products without breaking the bank. At my local Safeway, there’s an affordable O Organics option for so many products. These cookies, for instance, are made with O Organics sugar, eggs, butter, and oats. And even the chocolate chips too!
Chocolate chip cookies = home. Chocolate chip cookies with a bunch of extra awesome organic stuff in them = best home EVER.
After-School Loaded Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 1 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon fine-grain salt or table salt
- 1/2 cup toasted wheat germ*
- 1/3 cup flaxseed meal (aka ground flaxseeds)
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks (plus more for topping if desired)
- 1 cup candy-coated chocolates (plus a few more for topping)
- 1/4 cup candy sprinkles (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or in a medium bowl using a hand mixer, add the butter and sugars. Mix until well-incorporated, about one minute. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined. Add the flour, baking soda, salt, wheat germ, and flaxseed meal. Mix JUST until combined (do not overmix). Add the oatmeal, chocolate chips, candy-coated chocolates, and sprinkles if using. Mix just until incorporated.
Option 1: Bake 'em all now
- Scoop into 1.5-inch balls and top with two or three extra chocolate chips or candies if desired. Place on baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake until slightly golden around edges, 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 4-5 days.
Option 2: Freeze now, bake later
- Scoop into 1.5-inch balls and line them up right next to one another on a cookie sheet. Top with two or three extra chocolate chips or candies if desired. Transfer to freezer. When frozen, break apart the cookie dough balls and place in a freezer bag. Put back in freezer until you're ready to bake.
- To bake, pull as many cookie dough balls as you want to bake out of the freezer. Place on baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake until slightly golden around edges, 9-11 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 4-5 days.
You can find O Organics products exclusively at all of the Albertsons Companies family of stores, including Albertsons, Safeway, ACME Markets, Jewel-Osco, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Shaw’s, Star Market, and Carrs/Safeway. Visit Safeway.com to find a store near you and discover more meal-prep tips and recipe ideas.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Albertsons Companies. The opinions and text are all mine!
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Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), has said that telecommunication companies no longer flout environmental rules and regulations in the country.
Its Director General, Dr. Lawrence Anukam disclosed this in Abuja at the 7th national dialogue on the implementation of national environmental regulations.
The DG stated that the telecommunication operators have also realised the need to cooperate with the agency especially on the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) before erecting their base stations.
According to him, “Initially, we were a little bit not getting it right but in recent times, most telecom companies are beginning to follow the rules in terms of making sure they conduct the environmental studies, the EIA even before erecting their masts. But we still notice one or two infractions and when we do, we try to follow up appropriate actions.”
Ankam added that there have been a lot of improvements better than it was years ago.
The DG stated categorically that except the Federal Ministry of Environment, no other institution in the country, including State governments has the mandate to issue the EIA certificate, noting that the agency was established to ensure strict compliance with all environmental laws, guidelines, policies, standards and regulations in the country.
Earlier, the Environment Minister, Ms. Amina Mohammed said the regulatory dialogue was to discuss information on how best stakeholders could ensure compliance with environment safety programmes.
She stressed:”Nesrea is an enforcement arm of the federal ministry of environment and is mandated to enforce all environmental laws, guidelines, policies, standards and regulations in Nigeria and to prohibit processes and the use of equipment or technology that undermine environmental quality.
“It has responsibility to enforce compliance with provisions of international agreements, protocols, conventions and treaties to which Nigeria is a signatory. But Nesrea cannot carry out these functions effectively without the collaboration and cooperation of other sector players.”
The minister however described the forum as a platform to strengthen alliance and fine-tune strategies for environmental protection and sustainable developments.
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https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/12/01/nesrea-telecoms-firms-now-comply-with-environmental-regulations/
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98.7% of the time, I love Amazon. It’s an ingenious platform. I even published my book Clarity Wins there last year.
But then, there are those weird anomalies. Case in point: the book review that wouldn’t.
Fellow branding consultant and author Lindsay Peterson wanted to leave a very nice review for Clarity Wins. Here’s what she wrote:
Not to brag, but I read a LOT of books about marketing, small business ownership and messaging. ~50 such books per year. I’m a marketing book enthusiast.
And this book stands out, big time. It is crystal clear. It uses vivid examples, lively writing style, and original ideas. It is succinct and potent. When I finished it, the pages were highlighted, dog-eared, and underlined.
If you are a marketer or business leader, do yourself a favor and read this book. You will make everything you say and do 100x more potent.
Even after multiple attempts to upload this review, or get an explanation, she got this message back:
She could leave reviews for other products. But not for this product from this account. Huh???
Anybody else experience something like this? What could “The Algorithm” possibly be doing to block off reviews of a specific product from a specific person?
Makes no sense to me. This is the 1.3% of Amazon that leaves me perplexed…
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https://clarityfuel.com/the-amazon-review-that-wouldnt/
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Do you want to be a Researcher in a small, vibrant natural resource consultancy?
With an expanding programme of work we are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated person to join our team. Based in our new Bournemouth office, the post will involve participating in a broad range of projects, proposals and business development. Master Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Forestry, Environmental Management, Economics or equivalent) or a Undergrad degree with at least 1 year’s experience is essential.
Who are we?
Efeca is a small dynamic natural resources consultancy firm based in Dorset, UK, with an expanding global programme of work, relating to environment, climate and economics for the sustainable trade and use of natural resources. We work with a range of clients across public, private and NGO sectors, in both producer and buyer countries. We have helped and advised governments and donor agencies to implement legislative requirements whilst supporting buyers and their suppliers to meet these and other market requirements. Efeca has an impressive client list, recently working for such clients as The Bank of England, European Commission, UK Government, B&Q/Kingfisher, Unilever and the World Bank.
Efeca is a relatively young company, and for the right person, would be an excellent workplace to develop business skills as well as technical skills. To support our growth we are seeking a full time junior environmental researcher to work as part of the Efeca team.
What the role entails?
Based in Bournemouth, Dorset, the post will involve participating in a broad range of projects, proposals and business development. A Master Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Forestry, Environmental Management, Economics or equivalent) or an undergraduate with a relevant degree, and at least 1-3 years of experience is essential. As a researcher, you will work on a range of tasks to support the delivery of client contracts, proposals, supporting marketing and administrative tasks, and providing research across all areas of Efeca.
Closing date is 31st August, with interviews being held shortly after. Please send your CV and cover letter to Lucy Cullinane at firstname.lastname@example.org
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https://www.efeca.com/recruitment-of-researcher-environmental-consultancy/
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I am new to the Web GIS, now i am working on web based Electricity utility management using GIS. Now for Web based GIS, from where i can start learning? Any helpful material, please share? Thanks
HelloTry to use this as your ref.
Xcel Energy – Electric Outage Map
Bro can you please suggest helpful material or you may know any one. Thanks Bro
1. Esri UC 2016 Plenary videos:
(자막) 2016 UC Plenary Part 1: GIS Around the World - YouTube
(자막) 2016 UC Plenary Part 2: Enabling a Smarter World - YouTube
2. Some good documentation to get you started on understanding Web GIS,
About web GIS—Documentation (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server
3. ArcNews article: Implementing Web GIS | ArcNews
Hope this helps,
Thank you bro
Retrieving data ...
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https://community.esri.com/thread/185527-web-based-utility-management-using-gis
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https://www.vslonline.shop/products/creme-age-logic-yeux
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Amazing! God makes Himself so visible especially in those times of great need, when dismayed, fearful and weak.
God knows my heart and speaks straight to it. Open my Facebook page and out from the News Feed comes scripture of comfort, support, and strength from my dear friends in Christ who post the Lord’s Word. (I love how God uses all of us to minister to each other.)
Opening up the Word of God, the Scriptures draw me to words of comfort, support and strength as they jump out from the pages of God’s Word. Now opening up my Scripture treasure chest, I pull out the card of the day and there He is again.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
So very grateful for my loving, intimate relationship with the Lord.
Continually seeking Him,
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https://indasharonjesus.org/2014/06/07/continually-seeking-him/
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For many in Jacksonville, the idea behind a conflict of interest may be difficult to completely comprehend. To them, it may not seem all that strange for a person’s professional and personal lives to mix. Yet issues related to conflicts of interests go well beyond that. They may include cases where one’s obligation to another inhibits him or her from fulfilling his or her responsibilities to yet another party. Other examples may be less overt, such as one using his or her position or authority for gain while limiting access to competition for his or her competitors.
Such appears to be at the heart of a complaint made against a school board member in California. The man at the center of the complaint is already facing criminal charges due to alleged campaign money laundering that he participated in during his run to his current position. Now, a charter school network that he helped establish is alleging that he transferred $265,000 of its funds to a nonprofit organization that he also runs. A claim filed with state authorities also highlights a transaction of over $20,000 made to company that the man has acknowledged holding an ownership stake in. Thus far, representatives of the network have been unable to determine what services were received in exchange for these transactions.
Even if the question of the legality of these transactions was not present (given that it is not proven yet whether they were a payment for services), one may certainly wonder how much this man’s position served to benefit those companies in doing business with the charter school network. Those who believe they have knowledge of similar suspect practices may want to work with an attorney to seek injunctive relief and hold those perpetrating them accountable.
Source: Los Angeles Times “See the documents in the Rodriguez conflict-of-interest complaint” Blume, Howard, Oct. 19, 2017
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https://www.sdtriallaw.com/blog/2017/10/school-board-member-accused-of-conflict-of-interest/
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We uphold our commitments to academic success, creative problem-solving, and collaboration through the research-based components of our program below.
BCCS believes that all students can excel academically, and that gaps in achievement between subgroups can be eliminated by through the synthesis of rigorous curriculum, effective instruction, and the use of data to adjust instruction to meet students’ needs. By holding our entire community to high expectations, we improve students’ self-concept and prepare them for successful futures.
Proven Curriculum: BCCS provides a rigorous curriculum that is demanding yet accessible, and that builds both content knowledge and critical-thinking skills. Our selected curricula are research-based and described briefly below:
ELA: EL K-5 English Language Arts excels in text quality, knowledge building, standards alignment, and usability. It develops foundational literacy through structured phonics, while also providing comprehensive English units that allow students to delve deeply into topics, and connect their studies to their communities.
Math: Bridges Mathematics provides focused, rigorous, and aligned curriculum that uses robust visual modelling to support students in developing understandings of mathematical concepts, proficiency with key skills, and the ability to solve complex problems through the use of mathematical practices.
Innovations (Science): Project Lead the Way is aligned to meet Next Generation Science Standards and uses proven teaching strategies and a hands-on approach to achieve consistent, positive classroom results.
Community Studies (Social Studies): Based on the highly successful Integrated Studies at Community Roots Charter School, the curriculum is aligned to standards in social studies and literacy. Additionally, the curriculum interweaves critical literacy strategies, anti-bias, and equity and inclusion concepts in a structured scope and sequence.
Effective Instruction: Our instructional vision brings together the work of Marzano’s Classroom Instruction that Works, Antonetti’s 17,000 Classroom Visits Can’t Be Wrong, Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, and Bambrick-Santoyo’s Get Better Faster. The synthesis of these approaches creates learning environments that emphasize a sense of belonging for students, high academic expectations, and culturally responsive teaching techniques which can significantly increase student achievement and engagement. Our focus on classroom culture, high expectations, and culturally responsive techniques create shared values and a common vocabulary for teachers and instructional leaders that ensure our instruction includes strong differentiation, robust opportunities for higher-order thinking, and methods that have relevance for our diverse student body. All faculty participate in our rigorous professional development program in order to achieve this instructional vision.
Additionally, teachers are partnered in collaborative teams to plan, teach, monitor student progress, and manage classroom culture. Collaboration provides a strategy to meet the needs of our diverse student body in a targeted way. For example, we will use Marilyn Friend’s six models of co-teaching to offer parallel instruction to two smaller groups of students within one class, differentiated by student ability.
Use of Data: We use data from assessments including the STAR 360 universal screener and Anet interim assessments to guide instructional decisions. Assessments provide teachers with standards-based data at the school, cohort, class, student, and subgroup level. We then use protocols drawn from successful charter schools to generate goal-based action plans for improvement. For example, a teaching team would be able to identify students who were struggling to master a given standard in math, uncover why, and create an appropriate reteaching plan.
In Buffalo, a city with stark lines of residential segregation along lines of race and class, we will intentionally enroll a diverse body of students with a wide range of socioeconomic and home language backgrounds, as well as varying ability levels, including those needing special education programs. A diverse student body provides ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives that enrich the lives of all students.
Students working together toward shared goals can increase achievement and leadership skills and reduce racial bias. To facilitate these shared goals and connect students at deeper levels of culture, we emphasize a value-driven school culture, an explicit social emotional learning curriculum, and deliberate connections with families.
Value-Driven School Culture: We create an inclusive school culture by promoting the core values, listed briefly below:
Respect: We appreciate each person and his/her story through our words, actions, and attitudes. We value others’ unique perspectives and treat them with dignity.
Integrity: We act and speak with honesty, fairness, and thoughtfulness. We consistently align our words and actions.
Curiosity: We are eager to learn, question, and explore.
Hard Work: We put our best effort into everything we do.
Core values are interwoven throughout the school year through a social-emotional learning (SEL) program, intentional behavior-management and discipline practices, and our engagement of families as partners.
SEL Program: BCCS uses the evidence-based SEL program, Caring School Community (CSC), to help foster our core values, teach specific social-emotional skills, and build relationships among the school community. CSC can improve students’ academic performance, increase positive social behavior, and reduce conduct problems. CSC includes the following elements:
Morning and Closing Circles: Every day starts and ends with community time where students practice social skills and get to know one another.
Class Meetings: Students address common concerns and current issues on a weekly basis.
Home Connection Activities: Students engage in structured talk with family members about the social development focus of the week.
Cross-Age Buddies Activities: Students work together in structured activities with older or younger students in other grades.
Partnering with Families: We encourage family engagement, which can increase student attendance and achievement, and decrease serious behavior incidents. Importantly, we engage each family with a home visit shortly after enrollment. The initial visit is centered on relationship building, understanding the student and family needs, and introducing our core values. Subsequently our families stay engaged through student conferences, newsletters, as well as workshops and celebrations.
BCCS not only prepares students to be successful academically, but also intentionally fosters skill development in critical thinking and creative problem-solving so that students can strengthen their community.
Critical thinking and creative problem-solving are interwoven throughout our curricula, and we specifically offer science and social studies courses which bolster students’ academic and 21st century skills, as well as their creative problem-solving skills through a blend of project-based learning and design-thinking methods. Driven by our core values, these courses regularly provide real-world, community-based, problem-solving experiences that link students with the shared goals of contributing to their community. For example, kindergarten students study families in Community Studies, with the unit culminating in a project that asks students to reflect on their family, and create a presentation that includes bringing in a member of the family to share about important values, elements of culture, and traditions. Projects like these require mastery of content, critical thinking, the ability to analyze different perspectives, as well as collaboration and leadership skills.
More broadly, coursework like this benefits students’ academics and engagement. Academically, when compared to traditional instruction, this type of coursework can increase long-term retention of content, help students perform as well or better on high-stakes tests, and improve problem-solving and collaboration skills. Additionally, it is effective in diverse settings and can help reduce the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged students and their peers. Lastly, students engaged in project-based learning exhibit greater engagement, are more self-reliant, and have better attendance than in more traditional settings.
When students are paired year after year with strong teachers, the benefits are long lasting and compounded. We will have faculty with varying experience who will require different levels of development to be most effective for our diverse group of students. We develop teachers through a variety of structures, for example, our Summer Institute, grade-level meetings, and individualized instructional coaching.
Summer Institute: Summer Institute provides professional development workshops to the faculty in two parts. Teachers new to Buffalo Commons participate in a three-day New Teacher Orientation with specific training in our core values, foundational academic programs, shared curricular and instructional practices, and approaches to student discipline. After New Teacher Orientation, the entire faculty spends approximately two weeks in Summer Institute. It kicks off with a review of the previous year’s data and accompanying schoolwide annual goals and is followed by professional development to learn about, plan, and launch new initiatives, as well as prepare for the school year by building relationships with families and preparing dynamic learning environments.
Grade-Level Teams: During the school year, teachers participate in two grade-level meetings per week to focus on student needs and instructional practice. For example, our teachers meet with their grade-level team and alternate their discussions between observing trends in student work, and reflecting on the delivery of their lessons. These meetings can improve student achievement by increasing teacher collaboration and the focus on student learning.
Individualized Coaching: Teachers are mentored through a goal-setting process and observed and coached weekly throughout the year. This individualized development meets teachers where they are, allowing seasoned teachers to continue their growth, and helping new teachers to be as effective as veterans in terms of instructional practice and student achievement.
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http://buffalocommonscharter.org/our-approach/
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They called me a killer,
But my hands are clean.
Tried to tie me down,
But my soul was set free.
Pushin’ and pullin’ and swearin’ all around,
But they ain’t never gettin’ through to me.
I still remember the night they arrived,
No time for pleasantries,
Nor polite words exchanged.
They broke down my door,
With harsh words and frowns,
Demanding that I confess,
To the sins only my Maker could judge me for.
They drug me from my bed,
Delirious and awe-struck at the Midnight Mob,
Now invading my home.
They carried me off,
Blindfolded and gagged,
To a jury by moonlight,
Where no mind was present,
That wasn’t made up.
We went through the motions,
Though mine were through string,
With a puppet master reliving my oppression,
Through my stoic stance and gallant grimaces.
“You have been brought before us,
for crimes unquestionable.
For transgressions unpardonable and unparalleled.
You are here, for treason, to put it simply.
You have revolted against us,
And in doing so,
Though unaware to your naive consciousness,
Revolted against yourself.
We have ingrained ourselves in you to the point that it is ludicrous for you to reshape us.
To mold us is to destabilize what you call yourself.
That is why we cannot find you at complete fault.
There is no possible way a biological creature could sacrifice themselves so meaninglessly.
We find a fault with your mind,not your body.
Therefore, we must sufficiently punish the source, while avoiding any collateral damage.
Yous till have a role to fill in this society.
You will be rehabilitated.”
At this long refrain,
A veil seemed to lift from my eyes,
And a clenched fist surrendered my throat.
I stood with a new air of a new era.
I spoke to the judge with disdain and fire dripping from my lips,
With my soul slipping out on the tail coats of sentences;
Now was not the time for disgression,
So I published my manifesto vocally:
“You claim the right to judge my actions?
You’re overstepping your jurisdiction by a bit more than a leap.
Your power lies within maintaining the rules in place by society,
You are an enforcer, not an interpreter.
My role in this conflict is to challenge your system because it does not fit me.
There is no place for an individual within your walls, which are much too cramped for our sort of lifestyle.
You seem to think that I am making an insane decision by risking my life in order to live outside your safety.
However, your perception is most obviously skewed and biased,
For what you are asking me to do,
By standing behind and in front of all of you, disappearing into your ranks,
Is willingly commit suicide.
You are asking me to sacrifice my individuality, a system in which I am the pinnacle of all efforts and projects,
Where I am King, citizen, police and scholar.
You are asking me to sacrifice myself,
My chance at ruling the infinite chaos that seeps into every crack of existence all around us,
In order to be a part of a machine that I will never understand?
That I will never be able to comment on and be effective?
You are asking me to give up autonomy for complacency,
Which leaves little more than a bad taste on my tongue and heavy footprint in my ribs.
You appeal to a sense of loyalty that you put in place!
You invoke my “duty” to my brothers?!
How dare you belittle my duties.
You know nothing of loyalty or duties or perseverance until you have lived in my world, a clash against you, and somehow remained faithful to Her Majesty, Truth.
I am empowering my fellow Individuals by resisting you,
Even if my cause makes me into a martyr.
I will resist you.
I will not surrender to you,
Not today, nor any other day you will ever know.
This is my life,
I have been delivered here of my own choice,
Which is more than I could imagine of you.
Do what you will with me,
But you have no right to my mind.
You have no claim.
You have taken my body by the language it understands: force,
But a man’s mind does not respond so similarly.
I am a Rebel,
From Birth until Death.”
Though the crowd had arisen with eager intent at the begining of my speech,
As it drew to an end, I could see the dull cloud once again return to their hazy eyes.
The Judge merely shook his head and ordered me away,
To try and isolate the poison before it spread to the rest of their precious machine.
So they beleve they have me bested,
By locking my silhouette behind iron bars,
But little do they know that my mind wanders afar,
And leaps from prisons and mountains alike,
Treating them both as mere stepping stones.
There are others like me,
So I rest assured.
My time has come,
But the era of the Individual has not yet met its end.
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https://post-neology.com/2014/10/17/the-trial/
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Sandy Dobbels is a life-time “Bonhamite” and graduated from Sam Rayburn High School. She owned and operated The Green Onion and managed the Legacy Ridge Country Club Restaurant in Bonham. Sandy’s culinary experience brought her to The Woodmoore, serving as the Dietary Supervisor. Her compassion and dedication to our residents earned her a promotion to the Assistant Director of The Woodmoore, a perfect transition. Her compassion and dedication to our residents and her business experience earned her a promotion to Executive Director.
Nicole Cooley joined The Woodmoore Assisted Living Community as the Assistant Director in February 2018. Nicole has worked in Human Resources, Management and Customer Service since 1998. She is a Native Texan whom has lived in Fannin County since 2007. Nicole enjoys reading, outdoor adventures, and spending quality time with her loved ones.
Kayla Starnes originally joined The Woodmoore Assited Living Community staff in 2015 as a med aide and floor aide. She continued her education in the LVN Program at Grayson County College and became a Licensed Vocational Nurse in 2016. Kayla’s smile and personality lights up any room she enters and her compassion and love for the residents is remarkable and contagious. Her favorite quote she lives by is “ If you find it in your heart to care for someone else, you will have succeeded.” -Maya Angelou
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http://thewoodmoore.com/staff/
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“Kiss 98-5, Kiss Again 103-3″ (KHYS/KJOJ) debuted on February 24, 1997 with a Dance-oriented approach targetted at Latinos, similar to Power 96 in Miami. Styles of music heard on the station included house, freestyle, bass, tropical, and R&B. While the station seemed to be making some progress in the ratings early, it never got to the next level. As heard on this aircheck (recorded 15 years ago today), by the summer of 1998, the station had shifted to much more of a Mainstream approach — essentially a more Rhythmic version of the heritage CHR in the market, KRBE. The station threw in the towel altogether on 1/1/99 as it adopted “fad” format of the era — Rhythmic Oldies (better known as “Jammin’ Oldies”).
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https://fmairchecks.com/2013/07/30/khys-kiss-98-5-kiss-again-103-3-houston-73098/
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Sorry, this item has been sold – Chain Link Dog Run
6 feet high x 12 feet long and 4 feet wide with gate. Could also be used as marmot-proof garden!
Currently disassembled and ready to take away.
140 Deerfoot Road
Call (210) 724-0812 or (306) 230-2719 or firstname.lastname@example.org
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https://anarchistmountaincommunitysociety.com/2017/06/21/dog-run-for-sale/
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties
|Directors||John Cameron Mitchell|
|Actors||Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman|
|Audio||English (Dolby Digital 5.1)|
|Consumer Advice||Strong sex scenes and coarse language|
|Year of Release||2017|
|Primary Format - Movies/TV||DVD|
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https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/how-to-talk-to-girls-at-parties-2017-dvd
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Sandy's Obsession My story is a continuation of (The Forever secret) Friday night was a wild night for Sasha, Sassy and I, we had a wild sexy night. It just so happens that even though we thought we were being quiet enoughwe made a lot of noise and Sandy and her friend Julie heard most of what was Happening. Let me tell you about Sandy.
Sasha and Sandy are half sisters from different fathers. She is half Spanish and Irish, dirty blond hair and very fair skin, with just the most beautiful clear green eyes I've ever seen.
She is young and very hot looking. It runs in the family because her sister Sasha is also gorgeous. Julie is the same age as Sandy; they have known each other since childhood. She also is blond fair skin with blue eyes and very pretty, also let's not over look the fact that she has nice tits as does Sandy. Sandy mentioned that she heard Sasha and I having sex on Friday night, even though Sasha and I did have sex, most of the sex that night was me and Sassy, which you can read about in The Forever Secret.
Sassy is Sasha's best friend, however Sandy thinks it was Sasha, and I didn't tell her it wasn't. Sandy told me they had that they gotten very turned on while listening to Sasha and me do it. You see Sandy and Julie are both virgins, but are at the age where they are very curious about sex. They know a lot but have no experience. Sandy has known me for a long time, even though I am two years older; she is very at ease with me and said I am easy to talk to. Sandy Said she would tell me her very most private secret if I would tell her about sex with her sister Sasha, her eyebrows lifted and she smiled ear to ear when she said (her secret) so I figure it must be a pretty good secret and of course I love to hear other people's secrets.
I especially like secrets about sex. I told her we would talk on Saturday when Sasha is gone to cheer leading camp, which would be an overnighter. On Saturday morning after Sasha had gone to camp, I knew Sandy was home alone, her parents were also gone for the weekend, and Julie is spending the night, but won't be over until later in the afternoon. I knocked on her door, and Sandy greeted me with a smile and a hug. Sandy and I went into the living room and we were just talking when I guess she was a little impatient and said well you going to tell me about it.
I started by telling her about the first time her sister and I had sex, I told her how amazing it felt when I slipped my dick in her wet slippery pussy for the first time, I told her all the juicy details, It was very erotic talking to Sandy about sex, I could see that Sandy was totally aroused by my talk, and so was I. my dick had gotten hard and I was having a hard time hiding it, Sandy was wearing a flowered loose dress, he looked very sexy. She couldn't help but notice that I had a hard on and kept looking down at my bulge so I told her that talking about it was a turn on, she said that she was comfortable talking to me about sex, but that it was a turn on to her also.
I told her about how a guy's dick gets big and hard when we get turned on and that's why my dick was hard. The next question she asked blew my mind, my heart jumped with the thought. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, she said, will you show it to me, now my dick was really hard and the first thing out of my mouth instinctively was I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours. I thought she was just kidding around with me, but then she said OK. I asked her if she was really serious, and she smiled and said yes I would really like to see it, but please don't tell anyone.
At this point I was pretty turned on, my dick was hard as a rock, and I can tell she was too. I said ok. I moved over to the couch, pulled my sweats down my dick was standing strait up hard as it can get. Sandy's mouth dropped at the sight of my dick, it was the first dick she had seen other than the boy's that she baby sits.
I felt like we were little kids, sneaking around showing each other our privates for the first time. All she said is that is really big, this is a really hot turn on and I agreed.
I said, with a shit eating grin on my face, do you want to touch it? She just reached out and wrapped her hand around it; I was in heaven, almost ready to cum.
I had pre cum on the tip of my dick. I explained to her about cum and pre cum, she put her finger on the pre cum and commented on how slippery it was.
I told her that if she didn't stop I was going too really cum. Sandy removed her hand and just stared at my dick. I could tell she was very turned. I said ok Sandy; I showed you mine, now it's your turn. Sandy had a reluctant look but she knew a deal was a deal. I pulled my sweats back up and moved off the couch and let Sandy sit in the same place. She had on a flowered dress, she reached under and pulled her panties off, and I still couldn't see anything but I was panting like a dog with anticipation waiting for a treat.
I told her that this is really hot and that I am so turned on, She sat there a little embarrassed; I said its ok were both in the same situation, I was also embarrassed, it made her feel more comfortable for me to admit it.
She lifted her dress up to expose her pussy to me; when I saw it I was ready to cream my pants, I asked her to spread her legs so I could get a better look and she did.
It was a beautiful pussy with pink lips glistening wet around the pussy hole, she was hairy but not so much that hid all the details of her pussy, I could see the crack from the top rite down to her pussy hole. The hair on her pussy was light brown, trimmed around the bikini line. I asked if I can touch, she said yes so I reached down and put my hand on her pussy. Positioning my finger at the hole and gently touched her pussy, it was so soft, I slightly slipping my finger in.
she reacted by putting her hand on mine and giving a slight pump. Her pussy was oh so soft, but before I could push it in again, sandy jumped up and put her panties on smiled and said how embarrassed she got. I said it's ok. I was also embarrassed, but that I liked what we just did; Sandy said she liked it to.
Now it was time for Sandy to tell me her big secret. She confessed that when she and Julie were much younger they had felt each other up and showed each other their small boobs, and also looked down each other's pants at each other's pussies. I said that's hot, is that it, she told me on Friday while they were listening to us having sex they were again feeling each other up, she told me they French kissed, hugged and rubbed their tits together.
She said it was hot. They agreed that they were going to do more next time. This talk was a real turn on to me; I asked if she liked it, her reply was that they both liked it a lot. I suggested that when Julie comes over later, she talk to her about doing stuff tonight since her parents were gone and Julie was going to spend the night. I told Sandy If they decide to do it tonightI would love to watch and maybe help them get started and show them both what to do, Sandy got just the biggest smile on her face, and said it would be cool if I were there.
I suggested that she talk Julie into letting me be there, Julie is also a friend of mine, we all live on the same street and have known each other since we were kids although I am too years older.
I've always thought that Julie's a pretty cool chic. Well when Julie eventually got to Sandy's house. Sandy told Julie what went on today, she told her everything including how we showed each other our privates, also how erotic she felt and what a total turn it was. Julie was turned on just listening to Sandy tell the story. When Sandy told Julie that I wanted to be there tonight with them, Julie was OK with it. Sandy called my house and told me it was cool to come over at 7:00.
Seven o'clock rolled along and I was at Sandy's door anticipating an awesome night. Julie answered the door with a big smile and a hug. I walked in and got a big hug also from Sandy. After about 45 minutes had past it was obvious that the three of us felt a little awkward, lost and didn't know what to do. I asked Julie what she thought about what Sandy had told her about today, I guess that broke the ice, because the three of us started talking again.
She said it was hot and that she liked hearing Sandy tell her about it.
I told her that Sandy told me about them rubbing all over each other on Friday, Julie smiled and said well you guys were doing it so loud and we got all hot and bothered listening, the three of us started laughing. I was starting to get a hard on again talking sex with these two girls; I was once again wearing sweat pants and starting to bulge, Sandy noticed it and pointed it out to Julie.
She stared at the bulge in my pants. I got a little embarrassed and said I can't help it. It just happens when we talk about sex. Julie had a big smile on her face and said you showed it to Sandy, can I see it too?
Now my hard on really grew big and hard. I again instinctively said I'll show you mine if we all three show each other. The ice was broke. It felt like we were three kids in a candy store waiting for a treat. Sandy said to me that Julie has never seen one, would I go first, I was sitting on a love chair, the two girls were on the couch across from me.
I grabbed my sweats and pulled them down and was sitting there with my dick standing strait up, I'm not big but I have at least 7 to 8 inches. Sandy and Julie got off the couch and were on their knees in front of me getting a good look at my hard as rock dick. I asked Julie what she thought of it.
She was panting; she was definitely turned on by it, she said it's hot. Can you take off all your clothes, and I did. Sandy put her hand around my dick and started to stroke soft and slow, then Julie took a turn and did the same.
I reached out and rubbed Julie's tits she loved itthen I reached for Sandy's tits, she moved in a little closer so I could get a good feel, both girls had very soft boobs, I was in heaven again. I suggested that we all get naked, Julie and Sandy were both shy at first so I suggested that they both do it at the same time, I had seen Sandy's pussy earlier in the day, now I couldn't wait to see Julie's pussy.
Both girls removed there dresses, and all they had on was a bra and panties. Sandy's panties were white lacy bikini and white lacy bra, Julie whore light blue bikini and blue bra, both girls had a wet spot showing through the crotch. I said ok now the bra, and they both took their bra off at the same time. Beautiful tits on both girls nicely formed soft and bouncy with pink nipples, Julie and Sandy each looked over at each other's boobs and smiled at each other, I Complimented them both on having wonderful looking boobs.
Both girls were all smiles. They knew they were hot looking. I then said now the panties they were both all smiles but hesitant, Sandy went first, Julie watched, it was the first time she had seen Sandy's pussy except when they were little kids, a lot had changed since then, sandy had a hairy pussy although bikini trimmed and her body was very well shaped, she was gorgeous and Julie and I both noticed it. Julie went next she pulled her panties down and off, my mouth dropped, she was drop dead gorgeous, she had blondish brown pussy hair and was also trimmed around the bikini line both girls had better than hand size tits that were perfectly formed.
The two girls were on the couch side by side, I came over to them with my hard on sticking strait out. I wanted to get a good look at their pussies. I kneeled in front of Julie and asked her to spread her legs so I can see it better, she smiled and spread her legs, her pussy hole opened up a little, I could see her pussy lips glistening wet. Sandy got down there with me and we were both admiring Julie's pussy, the three of us were really turned on by all of this.
Sandy moved back to the couch and I Pulled Julie down with me and asked Sandy to spread her legs so we can get a good look and she did, both myself and Julie admired Sandy's beautiful hairy pussy.
Without saying a word I put my face up to Sandy's pussy and started eating hers pussy out she didn't resist, she just closed her eyes spread her legs and started grinding on my face, Julie reached down and started jacking me off while I ate Sandy out, Just when I felt that I was going to shoot I had Julie stop. I pulled her up by Sandy's Pussy and she instinctively put her face in it and started working her tongue around like a pro.
She loved it, I got up and started kissing and sucking on Sandy's Pink nipples while rubbing her oh so soft jiggling tits while Julie ate her cunt out. Julie eventually came up for air and started sucking on Sandy's other nipple.
What a time we were having. I switched the two girls around and Sandy and I got down between Julies legs, sandy said you do it first so she can watch.
I put my face in Julie's pussy and buried my tongue all the way to her hymen she also started grinding on my face and moaning loudly with pleasure, she just kept repeating oh my god, oh my god over and over, Sandy watched while she stroked my dick, when I got close to shooting again I had her stop and put her between Julie's legs and got her started eating Julie out, she caught on right away, she knows what a girl likes, Julie put both hands on the back of Sandy's headit was great to watch.
Julie had her legs spread, Sandy on her knees eating pussy with Julie holding on to the back of Sandy's head guiding it softly. The three of us did this for quite a while, I got the two girls to do other things like 69 with each other while I watched, and also got them to rub their pussies together.
We had a great time, they hugged and rolled and kissed and ate and rubbed each other pussies.
The girls had a great girl on girl first experience, with my help of course. We three sat on the couch, me in the middle making out with both girls; the three of us were still naked however now smelling like sex.
I had one arm over Julie while Sandy moved down to suck my dick; she stroked while sucking oh so softly while Julie and I made out. This was Sandy's first blow job. Julie also wanted to suck so she joined Sandy and they shared the duties. It was so good they were both naturals at sucking. It felt so good I couldn't hold back any longer and warned the girls I was ready to shoot. Julie wanted to take it in the mouth and she didn't have long to wait because she no sooner said that when I filled her mouth up and surprisingly she swallowed.
The three of us had a great evening of sucking touching and eating, Sandy fulfilled her obsession and the two girls remained virgins. However we created another secret that night that we can't tell anyone about.
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Some in the liberal media continue to insist that James O'Keefe and his three cohorts were trying to "bug" or "tap" Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone lines when law enforcement officials have clearly said that they were not. Since the left doesn't like O'Keefe, the liberal media seems to think standard practices of journalistic integrity don't apply here.
According to MSNBC, one law enforcement official, who was not named, said "the four men arrested for attempting to tamper with the phones in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) were not trying to intercept or wiretap the calls." This statement comports with the affidavit filed in court after O'Keefe and company were arrested, which did not mention wiretapping or bugging, and only referred to the "tampering" of phone lines (h/t Patterico).
But the Boston Globe parroted this false accusation this morning in a gossip blog post about one of the alleged perpetrators, Joe Basel. The Globe--the same Globe that complained about ACORN's "trial-by-video"--called him a "political dirty trickster who was busted in a Watergate-style bugging operation earlier this week," and said again a couple paragraphs later that Basel was "bagged by the feds allegedly trying to bug the phones" in Landrieu's office. At least the Globe writers said "allegedly" the second time.
The L.A. Times also issued the false claim that the crew had tried to "bug" Landrieu's phones, and explicitly tried to tie O'Keefe and company to the perpetrators of the Watergate break-in:
Filmmaker James O’Keefe III is 25, meaning he was born about 13 years after five men were arrested for trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington. The subsequent scandal, which led to the resignation of the burglars’ boss, President Richard M. Nixon, was fodder for history books by the time O’Keefe was old enough to read them. Chances are, he didn’t.
O’Keefe, the Internet “journalist” who became an overnight sensation after his undercover reports revealed unethical behavior by the liberal activist group ACORN, now finds himself in the middle of his own bugging scandal.
Putting the word journalist in quotation marks is a nice touch, but the fact remains that O'Keefe did not try to bug anyone's phones.
CBS News also trumpeted these false charges. referring to the accused as "Phone Bug Suspects" in a headline, and "Men Accussed of Attempting to Bug La. Senator's Phone" it the sub-headline. A CBS News video title calls the incident a "Watergate Style Break-In".
A host of other smaller newspapers claimed that O'Keefe tried to "bug" the Senator's office, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Alexandria Echo Press.
The Washington Post, unlike all of these outlets, took the facts into account and issued a correction today, saying, "Earlier versions of this story incorrectly reported that James O’Keefe faced charges in an alleged plot to bug the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu. The charges were related to an alleged plot to tamper with a phone system. The headline incorrectly referred to a plot to bug the phone and a caption incorrectly referred to an alleged wiretap scheme."
All of the sources that parroted this erroneous (if the law enforcement official and official court document are to be believed) claim should do the same: correct the record and admit that O'Keefe's arrest bears little resemblance to the Watergate scandal. There was no bugging or wiretapping going on, and claims to the contrary are irresponsible. Political disagreement is no excuse for journalistic malfeasance.
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NetSuite is a cloud-based, flexible ERP platform that lets you manage the key business process in your company, efficiently and smoothly. It helps in inventory management, finance management, hosting and managing e-commerce stores, handling customer relationship management, retail software solution, etc with equal ease and efficiency.
Apart from the functional benefits, NetSuite offers its support services that address all your business needs throughout to facilitate business growth.
Let’s look at the different levels of support offered by NetSuite and their usefulness:
1. Basic Support
Basic support is provided to all the customers who have a NetSuite Subscription. It comes with below-mentioned features:
- Access to NetSuite’s knowledge center and support user groups for getting answers to queries and issues.
- Access to the customer portal for online submission of requests/queries.
- Support is available on weekdays (8 AM-6 PM local time) with 2 hrs response time for critical issues. For non-critical issues, no specific response time is available.
Basic support is suitable if you do not have critical requirements or have additional NetSuite resources available such a NetSuite expert/specialist.
2. Premium Support
Next comes the premium support which is available upon subscription fee and includes additional support other than the basic ones mentioned above.
- Priority Queuing of the requests with 1 hour response time for critical issues.
- 24*7 support including weekends, online as well as through call centers.
- Timely notification of upcoming releases and available updates.
Premium support is worth to opt if you do not have dedicated staff available as a NetSuite resource while you still have average support requirements.
3. Advanced Customer Support(ACS):
An ACS aims to make the business proactive further through risk mitigation and improving ROI, hence allowing the business to grow further. It comes with 5 tiers – Advise, Monitor, Optimize, Architect, and Platform. As we go up in the tier, a higher level of support is provided. Some of the features of ACS are:
- Hands-on guidance of the product, continuous optimization support, and configuration support.
- Advise – basic product guidance, troubleshooting, and basic configuration execution through a pool of NetSuite experts.
- Monitor – A dedicated CSM is assigned to assist and monitor business activities to identify areas of improvement and to ensure milestone achievements.
- Optimize – Guidance on solution management, business process optimization, performance assessments, and expert advice on the latest upgrades. Apart from CSM responsible for conducting business reviews, a support team is assigned for better and proactive measures.
- Architect – Along with CSM, a team consisting of technical and functional experts is engaged for deeper support and continuous annual business reviews.
- Platform – Helps to identify and address performance and scalability issues through technical advisory, when dealing with voluminous and complex business process customizations.
ACS is suitable when you have dynamic business processes and you need proactive and continuous support to handle it effectively. ACS Advise mainly caters to businesses that are new to NetSuite. Other ACS support levels are suitable for established companies looking for enhanced support. ACS architect can address complex configurations in international structures.
A Successful NetSuite Solution:
With a suitable support service, you can implement the NetSuite solution successfully and enhance your business outcomes.
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For years, internet pundits have been chatting about the power of real-time chat. Until recently, though, the only real power-users of the technology were teenagers obsessed with sex and celebrities, and university professors interested in debating with colleagues from around the world. Well, make way for business!
Many business chats are one-to-one: two colleagues, thousands of miles away, viewing a Web page at the same time and “discussing” it electronically. But most chats involve groups: a far-flung team of engineers, all online at the same time, typing in ideas and offering their reactions to what’s being “said” over the Net.
Not even ardent chat enthusiasts expect that the technology will ever become as ubiquitous as email. But it is going mainstream. One popular chat application, made by Mirabilis Ltd., is called ICQ (“I seek you”). More than 9 million people have downloaded the software since it appeared less than two years ago. Meanwhile, blue-chip companies such as Chase Manhattan, Merrill Lynch, and IBM are experimenting with chat to connect their people – and to connect with their customers.
This edition of @Work introduces you to four companies that are using Internet chat to cut costs, improve service, enhance creativity – even generate revenue. It also offers hands-on advice from pundits and pioneers on the newest form of Netiquette – namely, chatiquette. But enough chat! It’s time to let your fingers do the talking.
Log On and Touch Someone
Gregg Gallagher, 45, is in the communications business. He evaluates technologies and alliances for AT&T WorldNet Service, based in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Gallagher spends most of his time attending meetings, taking part in conference calls, surfing the Web – and communicating via real-time chat. He uses ICQ, which notifies him when other, specified users are online and lets him communicate instantly with them. “Chat is the Internet version of an intercom,” he says. “You can summon a person quickly.”
What’s the Word?
Lots of people use real-time chat for formal, structured conversations. Gallagher prefers impromptu sessions. He uses ICQ to connect with colleagues without having to pass through the halls: “Chat saves time because I don’t have to move through the building.” He also uses chat to communicate one-on-one during conference calls: “It’s a way to have ‘out-of-band’ communication while a call is taking place. People can refine their thoughts online rather than announce ideas to everyone. But this isn’t just passing notes behind the teacher’s back. I also use it to communicate with people on the other side of the table.”
Recently, for example, Gallagher was discussing technical details during a conference call with a business partner. Engineers for the other company were reluctant to reveal a sensitive piece of information. Thanks to ICQ, Gallagher noticed that the head of the company was online. Gallagher sent a message to him – and cleared up the stumbling block. “I did it without interrupting the conversation,” he says. “In a physical meeting, we might have had to leave the room.”
Gallagher uses chat an average of 20 times a day. But even he recognizes the limits of chat technology: “There’s no history, so it’s not good for long-term conversations. And it works best for intimate dialogue. It’s not good for many-to-many conversations.”
Mirabilis’s technology lets users see whether people on a contact list are online, and whether they’re busy or away from their desks. Users click on a name to send an instant message or to open a chat session. The ICQ client can be downloaded for free www.mirabilis.com . Mirabilis offers a more robust intranet-based system, plus versions of ICQ for popular Web-based programs, such as NetMeeting from Microsoft.
Coordinates: Gregg Gallagher, email@example.com; ICQ number: 368435
Talk to the Hand
Hand Technologies is a virtual organization. It sells hardware and software to the SOHO (small office, home office) market. Hand’s staffers are mostly self-employed reps who sell face-to-face, often through new-wave Tupperware parties. The company has almost 1,300 such “technology consultants” – and just 25 employees at its headquarters in Austin, Texas. “We have to keep people well trained and well informed,” says Dena Wood, 28, Hand’s marketing director. “Chat has become a real business tool.”
What’s the Word?
Hand’s first chat application was designed to speed up the process of evaluating job candidates. Prospective consultants visit an online auditorium, where executives explain Hand’s business model and field questions.
The company also holds moderated chats for its consultants. Every Tuesday at 9 p.m., Hand convenes a one-hour “corporate communications” chat. Executives introduce new products and share updates on the business. They usually present for 20 minutes and field questions for 40 minutes. So many consultants have been attending the sessions that the company has had to fine-tune the agenda. “We’ve had to make the topics more specific,” Wood says. “With so many people, chat gets unruly.”
Hand has a leg up on most companies that are evaluating chat tools. From the beginning, its people have communicated almost exclusively over the Net. “Chat may be new and exciting,” Wood says, “but it’s a natural extension of how we work. Our consultants do all their business with us online.” Still, the company has had to work hard to establish chat as a cornerstone of how Hand does business: “You have to tell people, ‘This is how we’re going to communicate. We are still going to have annual face-to-face meetings. But we are also going to use chat,’ ” says Wood.
Hand didn’t venture far to find the right software. It turned to ichat Inc., an Austin neighbor, and installed a Rooms server and Events software. “We’re building a new marketing channel,” Wood says. “We’re a Web-based company, so we have to use Web solutions.”
Coordinates: Dena Wood, firstname.lastname@example.org; www.handtech.com
Say It with Flowers
1-800-FLOWERS, based in Westbury, New York, is the world’s largest florist. The company generates annual revenues of $300 million, including more than $30 million off the Web. Sure, it sells flowers. But its real business is giving customers exactly the flowers they want, precisely when they want them – as it did 9 million times in 1997. Which means that there’s always lots to talk about.
What’s the Word?
Jim McCann bought 1-800-FLOWERS in 1987, when it was on the verge of bankruptcy. It has been an innovator ever since – even though its technology has wilted at times in the face of rapid growth. Norman Dee, 50, director of network services, jokes that the company’s old “store-and-forward” network (which linked 2,500 florists through dial-up modems) “was one step above a telegraph line.”
That changed in January, when 1-800-FLOWERS began rolling out a Web-based system for transmitting orders and scheduling deliveries. The system, called BloomLink, incorporates real-time chat. An open area “helps florists share information on finances, store design, and marketing,” says Dee. Forums explore specific business issues. And the company is about to introduce a series of online seminars devoted to topics such as running a profitable operation and providing great service – a virtual business school.
The company’s experiences with chat underscore a simple business principle: There’s no time like real time. With BloomLink, florists can ask questions about an order as soon as they receive it: Can a delivery schedule be changed? Can certain flowers be substituted for others? “Half of our orders are for same-day delivery,” says Donna Iuccano, 35, director of interactive services. “We don’t really have the luxury of time.”
Which is why the next item on the chat agenda is customer service. The company wants to create an “online waiting room,” where customers with questions will wait briefly – and then get answers in real time. “If customers have questions,” says Iuccano, “they should be able to use chat to talk to someone here.”
BloomLink uses software from eShare Technologies Inc. www.eshare.com to provide real-time chat capabilities. The Expressions Interaction Suite supports one-to-one chat, discussion forums, and moderated chats. It starts at $3,995 (for 50 users).
Coordinates: Norman Dee, email@example.com; www.1800flowers.com
Pristine Capital Management Inc., based in White Plains, New York, is an investment-advisory firm built around a simple proposition: Time is money. Founders Oliver Velez and Greg Capra often counsel their clients to operate in three-to-five-day trading cycles. Proprietary software scours 9,000 securities every day and hunts for profitable trading opportunities. And since launching the firm in 1994, Velez and Capra have tried every possible way of interacting with customers: fax, email, toll-free numbers. Their new tool of choice is chat. “We needed a real-time medium because of the timeliness of what we do,” says Velez. “We’ve turned chat into a revenue generator.”
What’s the Word?
Faster, faster. Pristine’s first service was the Pristine Day Trader, an advisory newsletter for small investors and professional brokers. The newsletter, which costs $1,100 per year, gets faxed or emailed daily to more than 2,000 subscribers in 38 countries. But even satisfied customers began sending a message: A daily news feed just wasn’t immediate enough. In March 1996, the firm introduced the Pristine Daily Hotline. For $225 per month, subscribers can dial a toll-free number twice a day and hear recorded messages about hot stocks and market trends. “That still wasn’t enough for people,” says Velez, “So we got into another medium.”
Enter the Real Time Trading Room, which debuted on June 23, 1997 at a price of $525 per month. “Chat is the perfect tool for us,” says Velez. “We are one of the first stock-market advisers to offer minute-by-minute guidance.” The service already has more than 400 subscribers in 32 countries. Velez vows to cap the number at 500: “We’re real sticklers about limiting participation. We don’t want too many people rushing to make the same trades.”
Pristine’s online conversation is less than a year old, but it’s already lively and informative. Velez and Capra offer frequent updates during trading hours. They post premarket commentary before the exchanges open and postmarket remarks after they close. The service receives more than 200 subscriber questions every day. Indeed, Velez insists that his firm is in the education business, not the stock-picking business. “Our customers don’t just want to know what they should do,” he says. “They want to know why.” And chat is a powerful tool for education: “It puts hundreds of people right in our trading room. They get direct access to our ideas.”
Like Hand Technologies, Pristine is an ichat customer. It cost Pristine $15,000 to create the trading room, and the firm pays ichat $1,000 per month to host the chats – not bad for a service that helps generate annual revenues of nearly $5 million!
Coordinates: Oscar Velez, firstname.lastname@example.org; www.pristine.com
Heath Row email@example.com is an associate editor at Fast Company. He’s always available for a chat.
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Diving Into the World of Kenya Grace With New Single 'Talk'.
Since national lockdown and quarantining had been announced by the government, there were a lot of us who took the time that we have been given to do something creative with it. Some of us went into states of deep reflection, felt enlightened to create something new or decided to push our limits in releasing creative energy that had been bubbling to the surface. In the case of English singer/songwriter Kenya Grace, she had done exactly that with her smooth new single 'Talk' via Trash Like You Records.
Kenya Grace is a self-taught electronic producer with luscious R&B melodies within her music with her talents being compared to artists such as Flume, Nao and Banks. Whilst she grew up listening to soul music thanks to her parents, those influences are excellently distributed throughout her production. After graduating from the Academy of Contemporary Music in late August 2019, the expressive artist self-released two singles 'Tell Me Why' and 'Obsessed'. Now back with a groove-infused anthem, 'Talk' was written during this quarantine period.
As the songstress' move to London was postponed because of current events, Kenya had been pondering about her parents' house in Southampton. Whilst she had bags full of time to reflect on herself and on a past relationship, she wanted to create a message of empowerment for people who were feeling trapped or powerless. In her own words, Kenya described the song as "an acknowledgement of a toxic relationship and a decision not to take someone's shit anymore."
"I'm not your therapist and you're a narcissist" she sings, as she recognises that she might have been giving more than what she bargained for. This unforgettable and catchy ditty speaks about being fed up and realising that she wants to move on. The track oozes with catchy synths resembling something of Kaytranada, mixed with sugary vocals that glide amongst the steady beat of the track. Ending with a harmonising and layered bars from herself, the song is truly something that speaks from a relatable perspective.
With her creative energy bursting at the seams, 'Talk' is just one of many of the songs that were created in Kenya's bedroom over the past couple of weeks. Her self-written and self-produced melodies show crisp and swooning vocals over bright electronic synths to create something dreamy and euphoric whilst she pushes herself to enable her creative mind to flourish.
Stream 'Talk' on Spotify now!
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The Goal: This cute and lovable wrist watch is the perfect flowery addition to your day time ensemble. If you are looking to add something simple in design, yet dazzling in its artistic appeal, this temporal flower was made especially for you.
The Desire: Ok so you need something to throw on with your summer dress but you don't want to take too much attention away from your current 'look'. So you grab your feminino charm temporal flower and flip it onto your wrist easily with its elastic band. Like magic, the perfect frosting to your summer cake adds a natural appeal like none other.
Your 'look' is complete.
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Do you want to see the URL'S prior to your text links purchase?
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A home and garden space is known as a residential garden to many people around the world. This type of residential garden may be filled with wonderous beauty. Creativity may flow through the mind as a home and garden space is being planned and ready to bring to life in a residential environment. Every home and garden can, indeed, reflect the beauty of those who are living in it. A residential plantation may be turned into a natural beauty-filled wonderland and it can be a special place to behold and to admire in a residential environment.
The Dancing Home Garden: Stunning Plants and More
Stunning plants add colorful beauty and they create a lovely garden space for any home. A garden will be enjoyed for many years when thought and planning are part a garden project. The right plants will make a home landscape project a wonderful adventure to embark on. Some greenery and annuals can make a home stand out and show off the inner beauty of a home. Many ready mix cement manufacturers modesto ca will take the time to help any homeowner create the perfect atmosphere for their home garden space. An attractive walkway or a patio can add to the entire ambiance of a home garden. Lovely lilies and colorful daisies will add a touch of delight to a garden because the colors and aromas can create a whimsical garden that dances freely. Added attractions with stunning plants add magic to a home garden. Statue pieces can be included to match the personality of a home owner. Stunning plants and much more can be used to create the dancing home garden.
Spring: Stepping Outside With the Landscape Trends
Spring has always been known for fostering home and garden opportunities because fresh trends and new ideas emerge this time of the year. Many people enjoy stepping outside into their garden area and updating their current space. Landscape designers, typically, are pleased to offer fresh gardening tips and they are usually informed about the latest trends. Every homeowner can fully enjoy a new and fresh outdoor area with a few good designer tips. Landscape trends are worth knowing about because the trends will provide many opportunities that allow homeowners to perfect their garden. An enhanced garden can truly be a slice of heaven.
Small Garden Changes: Big Impact for Appeal
Even small changes, in a garden update, can have a big impact on the overall appeal of the landscape. Enhancing a garden can be a realistic project even when the changes seem small. The planting of a tree can be a wonderous experience. An affordable tree can add a dash of extra beauty while improving the quality of life. A tree adds so much to any landscape design. A landscape update can be done simply and affordable. Small changes can, indeed, have a big impact. It is possible to start small and reap big rewards.
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Is it possible to run a Isadora file from Q-Lab?
callie last edited by
We have a show next week in which I am supposed to be compiling simple slideshow-like images. I would just render a movie, but there are some sections in the dance that are in silence and are not consistent and need to be triggered (with crossfades). I thought of Isadora right away as I have used it successfully in the past. Problem is, the theatre and the projectionist doesn't have Isadora. They run QLab. I only have a PC, so I can't even download QLab to play around with it. The director is getting nervous and I want to explore all possible options as to calm nerves. BTW I am also a dancer in the show, so there is no chance of me bringing in my computer and running it (although that would be a sight). Any suggestions would be appreciated as around here I don't know anyone that is versed in video projection for dance.
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You could run Izzy in demo mode on the Theatre's machine. The only limitation is that you can't save, so you'd have to use your machine to create and edit the file and then transfer it over. I do it often and it's an easy way to hand a file over...
Or, you can also trigger Izzy with Midi from the theatre's machine to yours... QLab is all set up for that as long as they have purchased the Midi module. You'd need USB (or something else) Midi boxes for each machine.
Or, you could just run the video from QLab. For simple playback, Qlab is okay... (I know that's heresy - sorry!!)
Lot's of options! Search the forum; there's been quite a bit of discussion about this.
Honestly, if you are just cross fading between images or movies, you're best bet is probably just to use QLab by itself. It's no match for Izzy in many applications but in this case it would probably be totally suitable
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What about Powerpoint? It is cross platform compatible and easy to create and operate.
CitizenJoe last edited by
Hmmm... I see the new version of QLab was just released today!
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Have we figured out a way to integrate Powerpoint into Isadora yet?
HI, I have done exactly this for a complex show, but cant reply to this till tomorrow. WIll do so then. It works very well and ran flawlessly for a month of shows.
Hi Callie, I asked the QLab operator to send a MIDI Program Change message on Channel One for all cues needing to be activated in my Isadora patch.
In Isadora I used a MIDI Program Change Watcher actor to receive the trigger. I also used a Sequential Trigger actor inside each scene to receive the Program Change triggers, since each scene had different amounts of cue. You adjust the Sequential Trigger actor in each scene for however many QLab cues (triggers) you need the scene to have. The last trigger of the Sequential Trigger actor in each scene was for the jump to the next scene.
There are other ways to do this.. as always there are many ways to skin a cat, but this worked well for me, and was reliable, since I had multiple cues within each scene to be triggered from QLab.
Hope that helps
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On her family’s land in Clayton, Beth Browne is supporting independent farmers.
Beth Browne is not a farmer in the traditional sense.
The self-described “city girl from New York” was living on a sailboat in San Diego in 1995 when, eager to start a family, she decided to return home to farm 348 acres of land her family owned in Clayton.
Things did not go well.
“I tried to do it myself,” says Browne, a writer, traveler and mother of two from the deck of her sailboat, just-docked in The Bahamas, “and couldn’t even grow one tomato.”
But Browne had a vision.
Over two decades ago, before the flourishing farm-to-table movement took off in North Carolina and elsewhere, Browne dreamed of facilitating an all-organic, chemical-free operation that would be run by independent farmers who’d lease the land from her to grow their own crops. It was a radical idea in the large-scale, industrialized farming community that exists in Johnston County, and it took Browne 20 years to realize her vision.
Today, Browne leases acreage to three farmers—one up-and-comer, one commodity-driven and looking towards raising organic beef, and to Jenn Sanford-Johnson, the owner of Chickadee Farms—who use sustainable, organic methods to grow fresh, pesticide-free crops.
“Being a good caretaker to me means sustainable organic production,” Browne says. “It has definitely been a long time coming and we’re not there yet. But I plan to continue to be a steward to the land and preserve it as best I can for future generations.”
A Family Legacy
In 1865, Browne’s great-grandfather, Edward Robert Johnson, was shot in the head in the Battle of Petersburg in Virginia. He was left for dead by his Confederate comrades, captured by Yankee soldiers and kept at the Point Lookout prison camp in Maryland until the war’s end, when he walked back home to Johnston County. Johnson married Elizabeth Harrison, a woman 20 years his junior, and the couple had six children. After a cyclone destroyed the Johnsons’ first farmhouse, located where the Cleveland School in Clayton now stands, the family acquired 388 acres and Johnson built a four-room farmhouse, in 1886.
Fast-forward more than a century and Browne and her boyfriend at the time, Darrel Tracy, left their boat in San Diego and made a long journey of their own, returning to the farmland that Browne’s father, George McLemore
Jr., had bought from his brothers. The four-room farmhouse had been vacant for some time and was in need of repair; the detached kitchen had fallen down entirely, and the bathroom was unusable.
Browne and Tracy, a landscape architect and a forester who, Beth says, was “much of the inspiration for the management of the farm,” made a makeshift apartment of 20-feet by 10-feet in the barn while they renovated the house.
“It was a place to use after the sailboat,” Browne says. “I survived Hurricane Fran in that apartment.”
McLemore, who was ailing when Browne returned to North Carolina, had been leasing the farmland to a local farmer for decades. Though Browne says she is “forever grateful” to the farmer for working the land in her absence, she says she “could just see that it wasn’t working.”
“I knew my great-grandfather was looking down in disapproval,” Browne says, after she had finished renovating the farmhouse and turned her attention to the farmland. “I could see first-hand what conventional farming was doing to the land.”
Now with two young children, the breaking point for Browne came when she realized that chemicals the farmer was spraying on his crops were drifting towards her house.
“I don’t want my children breathing that,” Browne thought. “It had to stop.”
A Dream Realized
Browne knew she had her work cut out for her. There were issues with the land that demanded serious remediation and expertise.
“For one thing, the soil erosion was horrible,” she says. “A soil conservationist came to look and he said it was the worst soil he had ever seen. There were ruts that were waist deep and you could pick up the soil and it was like beach sand. There was no organic material in it at all.”
It was slow-going at first for Browne in her search for like-minded farmers with an interest and long-term plans in an area known for its large factory farms. Browne hired a soil and water conservation specialist who advised taking two of the larger backfields out of production by planting grass. Then, two and a half years ago, Browne met Sanford-Johnson, the woman who would shape her dream of owning a farm that was chemical-free and all-organic into a reality.
Sanford-Johnson, who grew up outside of Garner, just down the road from Browne’s farmland, fell in love with farming after earning an associate’s degree in sustainable agriculture. Following a stint with the Interfaith Food Shuttle Teaching Farm in Raleigh, she helped start the Well Fed Community Garden, a community-focused urban farm that grows fresh produce for Raleigh’s Irregardless Cafe. After meeting Browne at the Raleigh Farmers Market and learning through friends that some of her land was coming up available to lease, Sanford-Johnson decided the time was right to start her own farm out in the country.
She met with Browne on her land and the two women hit off; it wasn’t long before Sanford-Johnson’s Chickadee Farms was born.
“Jenn is like an angel from heaven and has the curly hair to prove it,” says Browne of her friend and farming partner. Since starting Chickadee Farms, Sanford-Johnson has grown it from one acre to six in just under three years. She grows vegetables and herbs there, and is also experimenting with cut flowers. She also keeps a trailer with 30 hens; Sanford-Johnson harvests the chickens’ eggs and allows them to roam the land, scavenging for insects and turning the soil, a far cry from the chemical fertilizers that farmers once used there.
Sanford-Johnson has three avenues for selling the produce she grows. Through a system known as Community Supported Agriculture, members can sign up for weekly deliveries from Chickadee Farms on 12 and 24-week plans. Sanford-Johnson is also a mainstay at two local farmers markets and she sells directly to restaurants, including Raleigh favorite Crawford and Son.
“I’m starting to build a customer base in this area that doesn’t have many options for organically grown food,” Sanford-Johnson says. “It’s been going great and it has been hard to keep up with demand.”
In addition to Sanford-Johnson, Browne leases acreage to Danny Chastain, who started the Honest Dirt Family Farm last spring with a half acre, growing mixed produce that he sells at the Fuquay-Varina Farmers Market.
“I about broke even, I’m just getting my feet wet,” Chastain says.
This year, Chastain is farming a full acre, expanding sales to the Clayton Farmers Market and adding baby greens to sell to restaurants. Next year, he plans to expand to two acres and add a high tunnel greenhouse.
James “Hunter” Langden also leases land from Browne, about 60 acres on which he grows wheat, following a less successful attempt at growing organic tobacco. He and Browne are discussing potentially raising cows for organic, sustainable beef, a venture Langden thinks will be more profitable than row crops.
Last October, Browne offered Sanford-Johnson and her daughter, Jude, the opportunity to move into the main farmhouse that her great-grandfather built so she can live where she works. Sanford-Johnson says she is appreciative of Browne’s hands-off approach.
“You hear stories about other people leasing land where they micromanage or are really demanding about what your farm does,” she says. “[Browne] owns a couple of pieces of equipment we use, and a high tunnel greenhouse which I use. If I ever need anything, or if there are any repairs that need to be done on the farm, she’s always been like ‘yeah, of course.’ She’s supportive in that way.”
Browne is so hands-off, in fact, that in early March, days before a late-winter snow fell in Johnston County, she set sail for the Bahamas, leaving all of the farm’s operations in Sanford-Johnson’s capable hands.
“I’m looking to stay as long as I can,” Sanford-Johnson says.
“I hope the farm can remain a farm,” says Browne of her land. “That was something my father expressed a desire for before he died. There is a long tradition of farming in Johnston County going back to the earliest white settlements. But with Raleigh sprawling out our way, farms are fast being lost, replaced by housing. It’s critical for Johnston County to retain some of its land for green, open space and wildlife habitats. I hope my farm can be part of that going forward.”
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Our Beaver Colony
Beavers are our youngest members, and generally meet for an hour per week.
They enjoy all that Scouting has to offer; being introduced to outdoor activities, having the opportunity to be creative, explore their local community and experience the excitement of a Beaver Scout Sleepover with their friends.
The Beaver Colony is the first and youngest section of the Scout Group. Beaver Scouts are young people aged between 6 and 8 years old.
We have two Beaver Colony’s that meet on a Monday and Tuesday
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Case Tysiąc versus Poland
The first case is Tysiąc versus Poland. It concerned a woman suffering from a serious eyes condition who became pregnant. Pregnancy increased the risk of substantial impairment of her vision, which would intensify her already identified disability. However, doctors could not agree as to whether the woman’s condition and the damaging for her vision influence of pregnancy constitute circumstances that entitle her to legal termination of pregnancy according to the provisions of the Family Planning Act. She wasn’t able to obtain a clear medical opinion and in conjunction with the use of the conscience clause in the end she was denied the procedure. The case went to the Court, which in 2007 issued a groundbreaking decision finding numerous violations committed by the Polish state. This ruling has been one of the fundamental reproductive rights standards so far. First of all, it has been confirmed that the right to legal termination of pregnancy falls within the scope of the right to respect for private and family life. The Court did not indicate how countries should regulate termination of pregnancy – this issue is covered by the large margin of freedom in the absence of consensus among the Council of Europe member states. However, the Court strongly believes that in cases in which abortion is legally allowed, women must be guaranteed a real opportunity to exercise their rights. The State has not only the negative obligation not to interfere in the woman’s private sphere and her decisions, but also a positive obligation to organize the health care system in a way that effective access to health services is ensured. If the state fails to take those progressive actions, it violates the right to respect for private and family life, which happened in this case. In case Tysiąc v. Poland crucial was identifying the problem of the conscience clause abuse by the doctors and the state’s obligation to resolve this issue in such a way that doctors’ privileges would not limit exercising the rights of others. For the first time this judgment also analyzed the accessibility of legal abortion in the context of criminal provisions that allow for holding doctors accountable for illegal procedures. It described a “chilling effect” of the penalization risk for the doctors, who in each individual situation must assess whether it is possible to conduct the procedure under the provisions of the Family Planning Act without facing legal consequences.
Considering how the provisions are formulated, as a result of this risk of legal charges, the doctors prefer not to perform legal abortions. The Court defined this phenomenon and criticized the state’s actions in this area just as the conscience clause. These observations and conclusions were repeated in two subsequent judgments. Tysiąc case is unique as it is the first judgment of the Court, which refers to abortion. Its uniqueness also lies in recognizing the violation of the right to an effective remedy (Article 13). The Court stated that the applicant had no possibility to turn to any independent authority to issue an opinion or decision in her case, she could not in any way appeal against the content of the doctor’s opinion or question the denial of the procedure. On the grounds of this judgment, the State introduced far imperfect measure in the form of the right to object to a medical opinion, which is hardly ever used, even though it was introduced in Poland almost 5 years ago. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe still has not decided to close the implementation process of the judgment in Tysiąc case.
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I have two things to ask, and since I dont have much time right now…
One is how to move the pivit,center, of the mesh only.
I would like to rotate around the DIRECT center. Not the one they give me.
I could just rotate around the curser though… but thats no fun
and another thing is that when I enable the surrounding verticis button, where you can edit one vertici and the ones around it in that circle move relative to it too, I can enlarge or scale down the circle with + or -
Its kinda getting me annoyed. I have the latest version blender but hmm
thanks for any comments
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Contributor New Tools, Products and Technologies
TJ Bozada, is the Chief Revenue Officer of ToxTrack, Inc -- a cheminformatics company. Founded in 2016, ToxTrack's team of computational scientists has a history of developing groundbreaking machine-learning applications. ToxTrack's biggest publication to date, Machine Learning of Toxicological Big Data Enables Read-Across Structure Activity Relationships (RASAR) Outperforming Animal Test Reproducibility, was covered by Nature and Science. Since its inception, ToxTrack has been expanding its portfolio, offering new machine learning based solutions for the chemical industries. The latest, Chemchart Enterprise, combines machine learning techniques to offer a single solution for chemical data management.
As Chief Revenue Officer, Mr. Bozada manages all non-technical aspects of ToxTrack including higher level strategy, sales, and marketing activities. Mr. Bozada is also the Treasurer of the Atlantic Coast Chapter of the OpenTox Association, which seeks to promote openness and collaboration across the toxicological communities. Prior to ToxTrack, Mr. Bozada worked for a variety of machine learning startups. He received his dual Bachelors of Science degrees from The Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics.
Disclaimer: All opinions, ideas, and thoughts expressed and posted by Contributors at BiopharmaTrend.com platform are their own personal points of view, and do not represent neither Contributor's employers, nor BiopharmaTrend.com.
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Upholstered 3-seater sofa Grilli York made in Italy
The three-seater modern design sofa York is part of a Grilli's collection designed for an international clientele.
Comfortable and stylish, it will adapt to your living area without realizing it!
Handmade in Italian with a multilayer and solid beech wood structure; solid wood base in canaletto walnut.
Padding in flexible expanded polyurethane in different densities, while the seat cushions and the backrest are in quilted goose down.
The seat and backrest can be removed with the fabric covering.
Note: decorative pillows are not included in the price if you wish to receive them write to email@example.com
Being a handmade sofa you can also have it in the leather version; write to firstname.lastname@example.org and request a personalized quote.
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Professional Desoldering Suction Pump
Have a good bit of suction – remove solder easily!
It has many applications. The tool is made from high-quality materials that are built to last.
- Put the tin suctioner piston downward pressure to get stuck.
- Heating solder joints to solder melting with electric soldering iron.
- Remove the iron and quickly put the tin suctioner resistance paste solder, solder sucker and press the button.
- If It is not clean at one time and can be repeated many times.
- To ensure good solder sucker piston seal. Before electricity, with your fingers to plug hole solder sucker head, solder sucker head to press the button, if the piston is not easy to pop into place, that the seal is good.
- The aperture tin suctioner heads are of different sizes, select the appropriate specifications.
- Tin suctioner head wears, should replace the new one.
- Solder paste is dipped in a little bit of rosin before contact with solder to improve solder fluidity.
- Head contact pads are slightly longer, when solder melts, the solder joint pin as the center, then hand out in a clockwise direction to draw a circle, and then press the button tin suctioner.
- Range of Temperature Regulation: 1℃
- Scope of Application: Tin removal
- Net Weight: approx. 40g
- Length: Approx. 200mm/7.87”
- Material: Half aluminum half plastic / whole aluminum
- Maximum Suction: 30
- Color: Blue
- 1 x Professional Desoldering Suction Pump
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I was trying to sell a couple of crappy pieces that people might like as transmogrification gear in World of Warcraft, and this guy whispers me.
davepoobond: what so funny
Monkeygonewi: no one buys those stuff
davepoobond: well those stuff is rares
davepoobond: you can tell by color
davepoobond: it green and blue, mean rare, no one has
Monkeygonewi: green is not rare
davepoobond: more rare than not
Monkeygonewi: and everyone uses epic or mythic gear
davepoobond: you no hear transmog? you out of style man
davepoobond: they add in cata
davepoobond: u play same game as i?
Monkeygonewi: no one is gonna pay that much for trans
davepoobond: i am trans
I sent one of the crappy green items I was trying to sell to him via mail with a COD price attached to it. He rejected it and called me a retard, saying I was trying to take advantage of people.
I educated him on the free market and laissez faire, telling him the market would correct itself by just not having anyone buy the items from me. He just kept calling me a jerk. Certainly uncalled for.
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Entertainment Visual Arts 20 Best Batman Christmas Stories Share PINTEREST Email Print Visual Arts Comic Books Collecting Characters Marvel Comics DC Comics Anime & Manga By Brian Cronin Updated March 06, 2017 01 of 21 20 Best Batman Christmas Stories DC Comics For whatever reason, Batman has translated extremely well to stories about Christmas. Here, then, in order, are the twenty best Batman Christmas comic book stories. 02 of 21 20. A Christmas Peril DC Comics From 1944's Batman #27, this Don Cameron and Jerry Robinson tale is an interesting variation on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. A young boy has embraced his nickname of "Scrooge" and has cornered the market on Christmas trees. However, his advisers are hiding from him that the reason that he's making SO much money selling Christmas trees is that they are terrorizing all of the other Christmas tree sellers in Gotham City. The boy's uncle (dressed as Santa Claus because...well...just because) has shown up to become his guardian, but that's not until January 1st, and the boy's advisers plan on stealing all his money before then (and killing him and his uncle if need be). Batman and Robin kidnap the boy and show him visions of Christmas Past and Present to show him the effects his dishonest Christmas tree racket has had on an old man and a younger man. Once the bad guys are dispatched, the young boy spends all of the money he spent selling Christmas trees to instead purchase toys for the boys and girls of Gotham City, delivered via Batman's Bat-Plane. 03 of 21 19. A Christmas Riddle DC Comics In this twist-filled story by Paul Dini, Ty Templeton and Rich Burchett from 1995's Batman and Robin Adventures #3, the Riddler has broken into a holiday celebration of all the richest men in Gotham City and he reveals that he has figured out that one of them MUST be the Batman! It's a major society gathering, so Bruce Wayne must be there, right? Well, the answer to that is one of the many twists in this tale. 04 of 21 18. Christmas DC Comics In this earliest Batman Christmas story ever from 1941's Batman #9 by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos, Batman and Robin discover a young boy at an orphanage who insists that his father, in prison for life for murder, is innocent. Naturally, the boy is tiny Tim Cratchit and his father is Bob Cratchit. Batman and Robin prove Bob's innocence and everyone celebrates Christmas together, including Bruce Wayne's then-love interest, Linda Page. 05 of 21 17. The Mystery of Christmas Lost! DC Comics In 1976's Batman #285 by David V. Reed, Romeo Tanghal and Frank Springer, the villainous Dr. Tzin-Tzin plots to make Gotham City forget Christmas! Batman fights through his various illusions (including fighting a bear on a Christmas tree!) and saves the day. However, it is too late for Dick Grayson to get his girlfriend a present for Christmas. Luckily, Bruce Wayne has a stash of jewelry that he can give to Dick to give to his girlfriend - the perks of being a multi-millionaire playboy! 06 of 21 16. Good Ol' St. Nicholas DC Comics In the opening story of 1994's The Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1, the co-creators of Batman: The Animated Series, Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, collaborate on this charming story where Harvey Bullock is undercover as a department store Santa Claus while Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon is there shopping for he father. Bullock and his partner, Renee Montoya (dressed as an elf), are there to stop some shoplifters. The shoplifters turn out to be Clayface!! Batgirl must help save the day. 07 of 21 15. A Slaying Song Tonight DC Comics In this short story from 1996's Batman: Black and White #3, Denny O'Neil and Teddy Kristiansen show Batman tracking down a killer dressed as Santa Claus. It's a simple story, but Kristiansen's off-kilter artwork really makes it stand out. 08 of 21 14. White Christmas DC Comics In the third story from 1995's The Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1, Paul Dini and Glen Murakami tell the story of Mister Freeze deciding to make sure that Gotham City has a White Christmas in honor of his dearly departed wife, Nora, who loved snow on Christmas. Murakami's artwork is stunning, both the shot of Batman helping a little girl whose family is stranded due to the snow and this amazing sequence where Batman makes sure to replace the Christmas wreath on his parents' tomb. 09 of 21 13. The Night the Mob Stole X-Mas! DC Comics This story from 1978's The Brave and the Bold #148 by Bob Haney, Jim Aparo and Joe Staton begins with Batman trying to shut down a bootleg cigarette operation (something he hilariously refers to as "buttlegging," a phrase Haney makes sure to repeat a number of times). Eventually, he and his guest star for the issue, Plastic Man, head down to Florida to take down a buttload of mobsters. Any comic that involves the phrase, "Let's start high-ballin' ourselves...for the Sunshine State!" cannot be bad in my book. 10 of 21 12. Have Yourself a Deadly Little Chriatmas DC Comics 1979's Batman #309 by Len Wein, John Calnan and Frank McLaughlin has Batman run up against the nearly mindless man mountain known as Blockbuster. While Blockbuster is NEARLY mindless, he is not so far gone that when he comes across a young woman who has just tried to kill herself through an overdose of sleeping pills, that he cannot keep himself from taking her and trying to save her. Of course, since he is still PRETTY mindless, he ends up stuck on an ice floe with her, with Batman trying to save them both. In the end, Blockbuster sacrifices himself to save the woman, who now has a reason to live. 11 of 21 11. Favorite Things DC Comics This 1995 Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #79 story was written by a young Mark Millar, before he became a superstar writer. Drawn by Steve Yeowell and Dick Giordano, it sees Batman tearing a path throughout the Gotham underworld to find items stolen from a series of Gotham City mansions, including Wayne Manor! As it turns out, he is trying to find the last Christmas present his parents gave him before their passing. 12 of 21 10. Christmas DC Comics In the third issue of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Batman classic, The Long Halloween, the Joker is angry at the attention being given to the holiday-themed serial killer known as Holiday. It is positively ruining his Christmas. He then terrorizes the movers and shakers of Gotham City to drive them to capture the killer, including visiting mob boss Carmine Falcone and Gotham District Attorney, Harvey Dent. 13 of 21 9, Parole for Christmas DC Comics Bill Finger and Charles Paris were the creative team on this story from 1947's Batman #45, where a prisoner on 24-hour parole for the holidays finds himself near death after being killed due to his refusal to take part in a prison break the next day (his cell blocks the exit - with him dead, the escapees have a clear getaway). As it turns out, Eddie is a dead ringer for Bruce Wayne, so Batman actually impersonates Eddie to foil the crime. As the same time, Batman also impersonates Eddie with Eddie's girlfriend (including a kiss under the mistletoe). In the end, the escape is foiled and Eddie's help leads to a full parole and an engagement with his girlfriend (and a reunion with his kid brother, who has been staying with Eddie's girlfriend while he was in jail). 14 of 21 8. Batman's Last Christmas DC Comics In 1981's The Brave and the Bold #184, by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo, Batman's whole world is turned upside down when he discovers records on a crook dressed as Santa Claus that seem to implicate his late father in the financing of a criminal empire. When Batman meets with Thomas Wayne's accountant, it seems all true - Thomas Wayne was an investor with the mob! Bruce Wayne then quits being Batman, as he feels like a fool to honor the memory of a crook. However, luckily, he eventually figures out that it is all a scam perpetrated by the Wayne's old accountant. By the way, look at the above image. Notice the green arrow next to the crook dressed as Santa Claus? That was one of Jim Aparo's famous hints where he would put in some visual clue into issues of The Brave and the Bold to let readers know who Batman was teaming up with in the next issue. In this case, it was Green Arrow, naturally. He has a whole pile of other hints. 15 of 21 7. Slayride DC Comics One of the all-time great Joker stories, 2006's Detective Comics #826 by Paul Dini, Don Kramer and Wayne Faucher, has Joker kidnap Robin and take him for a terrifying drive around Gotham City, terrorizing the citizens while they do their holiday shopping. Can Robin find a way to get himself free and stop the Clown Prince of Crime? 16 of 21 6. Wanted: Santa Claus - Dead or Alive! DC Comics Released in 1979's DC Special Series #21 just a few months after he had taken over as the regular artist on Daredevil and thus begun his journey to comic book stardom, young Frank Miller drew Batman for the first time (seven years before his famous Dark Knight Returns) in this tale by writer Denny O'Neil (Miller is inked by Steve Mitchell) where a reformed Salvation Army Santa Claus is coerced into helping break in to a department store. He refuses to go along, so they decide to kill him. They're about to do the job when a star shines brightly, distracting the bad guy and allowing Batman to save the day. But where did the star come from? Was it a Christmas miracle? 17 of 21 5. The Harley and the Ivy DC Comics In the most famous story from 1994's The Batman Adventures Holiday Special, Paul Dini and Ronnie Del Carmen have Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn brainwash Bruce Wayne and have him take them on a holiday shopping spree. The story was later adapted for an episode of The New Batman Adventures. 18 of 21 4. Noel DC Comics Lee Bermejo wrote and painted this 2011 graphic novel that tells a variation on Dickens' A Christmas Carol, as Batman ("Scrooge") must determine what to do with Bob, who works for the Joker but is just trying to help support his young boy, Tim. The ghost of Jason Todd is the Jacob Marley of the tale, with Catwoman, Superman and the Joker being the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, respectively. Bermejo's artwork is breathtaking. 19 of 21 3. Silent Night, Deadly Night DC Comics In this 1971 tale from Batman #239 (one of the top Christmas stories of all-time) by Denny O'Neil, Irv Novick and Dick Giordano, Batman runs afoul of a down on his luck man who resorts to crime to feed his young daughter. He then decides to kill the miserly owner of the company that downsized him. Batman and the little girl chase after her father, using a magically appearing sleigh to reach him just as we see that he decides not to kill the old man at the last minute but to instead save the old man from the heart attack he was having when the younger man entered the house to kill him. In the end, Batman forgives the younger man and helps him get back on to his feet. The comic came with an awesome Neal Adams cover. 20 of 21 2. Yes, Tyrone, There is a Santa Claus DC Comics In this delightfully bizarre Christmas story from Infinite Holiday Special #1 (easily one of the most acclaimed Christmas stories of the past twenty-five years), Kelley Puckett and Pete Woods have Superman receive a letter from a young boy in Metropolis who doesn't believe in Santa Claus. Superman decides to give the boy a Christmas surprise by dressing as Santa. On the way there, though, Batman stops him, convincing him that his powers are needed for greater deeds than something like this. Superman reluctantly agrees, but then decides he might as well give the kid the presents he bought for him. When he shows up at the kid's home, however, he discovers that Bat-Santa has swept in and taken the Christmas glory for himself! I won't spoil for you what happens after Bat-Santa winks at Superman, but trust me, it is worth every penny of buying this comic just to see the final page in all of its glory. 21 of 21 1. The Silent Night of the Batman DC Comics Regarded as not just the greatest Batman Christmas story but perhaps THE greatest Christmas comic story of all-time, this 1969 story from Batman #219 by Mike Friedrich, Neal Adams and Dick Giordano.sees Batman visit the Gotham City Police Department and sing some Christmas Carols until the next crime is committed in Gotham. Shockingly, he ends up singing all night, as some sort of Christmas magic keeps preventing crimes and other bad deeds from occurring (like a war widow almost kills herself before she sees that her husband was erroneously ruled as Killed in Action). Some absolutely stunning Neal Adams artwork goes along with this oddly wonderful Christmas gem.
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By using this holistic approach, the whole family is immersed in the intervention process. This process allows us to navigate the child’s challenges as a team by incorporating behavioral interventions along with all other academic and functional therapies. Research informs us of the most effective ways to establish interventions that facilitate engagement, follow through and real time results. In Georgia, we are given the opportunity to use an intensive approach to therapy. It is our goal at Academy ABA , to provide top quality, Intensive, integrated therapy to yield superb results.
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Equal Pay Day: Statement by First Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioners Thyssen and Jourová
Today, the average hourly pay of women in Europe is 16.3% lower than that of men. European Equal Pay Day, which falls on 3 November this year, marks the moment when women effectively stop getting paid compared to their male colleagues, with almost two months of the year remaining. First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Commissioner Marianne Thyssen and Commissioner Věra Jourová said: “Gender equality, including equal pay for men and women, is one of the EU’s founding values. But it is still far from a reality. For the past years, the gender pay gap has basically refused to budge. This means that women work for two months a year for free in comparison to their male colleagues. This is a shocking and unacceptable injustice in the 21st century Europe. We urgently need to make progress with this stubborn issue, which affects women and our societies on many other points: Women still tend to work in lesser-paid sectors, get fewer promotions and are underrepresented in management positions. And single-parent households with women as the sole breadwinner are more exposed to poverty, including child poverty and consequent disadvantages. Pay gap is not the only problem. Recent revelations on sexual harassment underline the sometimes hostile working environments which women also have to face, with obvious consequences for their professional development and well-being. The European Commission wants to lead the way to fight this injustice.” Read the full statement here. EU-wide and national infographics are available here.
EUROSTAT: September 2017 – Euro area unemployment at 8.9% – EU28 at 7.5%
The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 8.9% in September 2017, down from 9.0% in August 2017 and from 9.9% in September 2016. This is the lowest rate recorded in the euro area since January 2009. The EU28 unemployment rate was 7.5% in September 2017, stable compared to August 2017 and down from 8.4% in September 2016. This remains the lowest rate recorded in the EU28 since November 2008. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Full text available here
EUROSTAT: Flash estimate – October 2017 – Euro area annual inflation down to 1.4%
Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 1.4% in October 2017, down from 1.5% in September 2017, according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Full text available here
EUROSTAT: Preliminary flash estimate for the third quarter of 2017 – GDP up by 0.6% in both the euro area and the EU28 – +2.5% in both areas compared with the third quarter of 2016
Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.6% in both the euro area (EA19) and in the EU28 during the third quarter of 2017, compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the second quarter of 2017, GDP had grown by 0.7% in both zones. Full text available here
Employment: Report confirms effectiveness of EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund
Today the Commission has published its report on the performance of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in 2015 and 2016. The report reaffirms the role of the Fund as a flagship demonstration of European solidarity within the limits of its set-up and budgetary availabilities, having helped close to 19,500 workers to adjust to changing trade patterns and consequences of the economic and financial crisis in that period. Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility Marianne Thyssen said: “Today’s results demonstrate the added value of the Globalisation Fund in helping redundant workers who have difficulties to find a new job. The assistance worth €70 million of the Globalisation Adjustment Fund has paid off: in 2015 and 2016, 9,072assisted workers were re-employed, despite the challenging labour market situation these people faced. This year’s tenth anniversary of the Fund marks it as a proof of European solidarity to workers falling victim to mass lay-offs caused by globalisation or the crisis.”9,072 workers, or close to half of the workers who participated in the Globalisation Adjustment Fund measures, had found new jobs or were self-employed after one year, at the end of the implementation period of the measures. An additional 645 people were at that time in education or training to increase their future employability. Member States also reported that the personal situation, employability and self-confidence of the workers concerned had visibly improved thanks to the Globalisation Adjustment Fund assistance and services. More information can be found in this press release.
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and Mongolia enters into force
On 1 November, the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the European Union and Mongolia enters into force. The High Representative/Vice-President, Federica Mogherini said: “The European Union and Mongolia are consolidating their strong ties, based on shared values and interests, and a common will to work more closely together. The entry into force of our Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, combined with the establishment of a European Union Delegation in Ulaanbaatar, which will take place in the coming days, consolidates existing areas of cooperation and engagement, and deepens and diversifies relations further in areas of mutual interest, for the sake of our peoples.” Replacing the 1993 Agreement on trade and economic cooperation, the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement strengthens the existing relationship between the EU and Mongolia, consolidates existing areas of cooperation and engagement, and deepens and diversifies relations further in areas of mutual interest. The entry into force of the PCA coincides with the opening of an EU Delegation in Mongolia, for which implementing the Agreement will be a top priority. A full press release is available online. More information on EU-Mongolia relations is available on the website of the EU Delegation to Mongolia and a factsheet on the new Agreement is available online.
Rohingya crisis: Commissioner Stylianides visits Bangladesh and reaffirms EU humanitarian support
Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides has started a two-day visit to Bangladesh, to assess the situation on the ground and visit EU aid projects that are addressing the Rohingya refugee crisis. His visit comes a week after the EU and its Member States pledged more than 50% of the USD 344 million total funding raised at the international Conference on the Rohingya Refugee Crisis held in Geneva. “Here in Bangladesh the scale of this emergency is painfully clear to see; this is the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world. The EU has decisively stepped up its aid to Rohingya communities. The Rohingya people are not alone in these difficult times. We commend and support the generous approach of the Bangladeshi authorities. At the same time, the European Union continues to insist on full aid access in Myanmar and is working to address the situation in Northern Rakhine State. Beyond aid, it is crucial that every refugee is registered properly and that Myanmar takes all necessary steps to allow them a voluntary and dignified return in secure conditions.“, said Commissioner Stylianides. Commissioner Stylianides is today visiting the Kutupalong camp in the Cox’s Bazar area, where an EU funded project is helping over 100,000 people, mostly vulnerable children and women, gain access to essential services. The Commissioner will also hold meetings with government officials of Bangladesh and humanitarian partners to discuss the international community’s response to the crisis and Bangladesh’s needs moving forwards. Read the full press release here. Audiovisual coverage will be available here.
Digital contract rules: amended proposal on sales of goods across the EU
The Commission adopted today an amended proposal to extend the scope of the proposed Directive on online and other distance sales of goods to cover sales of goods offline.The initial proposal on the online sale of goods was presented in December 2015 together with the proposal on the supply of digital content as part of the Commission’s commitment to deliver on its Digital Single Market Strategy. Its aim is to break down the barriers due to differences in contract law which hinder cross-border online trade. The amendments to the proposal follow calls to align the rules applicable to online and offline sales more closely and avoid fragmentation. The Commission had already committed, when adopting the initial proposal, to assess the need of coherent rules on the basis of the analysis of existing consumer legislation. These results were introduced into discussions between the co-legislators. Given the increasing importance of both online and offline sales for consumers and businesses, this amended proposal will ensure that they benefit from on a coherent legal framework across EU borders. The amended proposal will now be transmitted to Parliament and Council to continue the ongoing legislative process. The new proposal is available here.
Mergers: Commission clears acquisition of sole control over Fels-Werke by CRH
The European Commission has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of sole control over Fels-Werke of Germany by CRH of Ireland. Fels-Werke is active in mining, processing and distribution of lime and limestone products, gypsum and mortar in Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia. CRH is active in the manufacture and distribution of various building materials, including aggregates, cement, lime and concrete worldwide. The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns because there is limited geographic overlap between the companies’ activities, so that they are only remote competitors. The operation was examined under the normal merger review procedure. More information will be available on the Commission’s competition website, in the public case register under the case number M.8626.
State aid: Commission approves PLN 1 billion public support for intermodal transport in Poland
The European Commission has approved a PLN 1 billion (around €238 million) aid scheme to support the construction, modernisation and upgrade of intermodal transport infrastructure in Poland. The scheme will also support the purchase of specialised equipment (e.g. lifting and transhipment equipment, telematics and satellite systems) required for intermodal transport, as well the purchase and modernisation of specialised rolling stock. The Commission concluded that the measure is necessary to improve the competitiveness of intermodal transport services in Poland and that it is proportionate in accordance with EU State aid rules. The aid will be available to intermodal operators and rolling stock leasing companies. The Polish government will support up to 50% of the eligible costs, through funding from the EU Cohesion Fund. The scheme will be in place until 31 December 2023.More information will be available on the Commission’s competition website, in the public case register under the case number SA.48093.
Commissioner Jourová on official visit to Finland
Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Vera Jourová is in Helsinki today. She just delivered a keynote speech on “Justice systems and rule of law in the EU: the ripe time for change” at the Finland 100 years event dedicated to Finnish and European perspectives to the rule of law. She said: “Rule of law is a bedrock of European democracies and one of the core values of the European Union. That’s why one of the priorities of the Commission for next year is to look at ways how to strengthen the enforcement of rule of law in the European Union. The judicial system in the EU is like a chain of Christmas lights. When one light goes off, others don’t light up and the chain is dark.” The event was concluded by a press point with the Finnish Minister of Justice, Anti Häkkänen, and the Estonian Minister of Justice, Urmas Reinsalu. Commissioner Jourová will also meet Minister Häkkänen for a bilateral meeting. In the afternoon, she will visit a vocational school, benefitting from the European Social Fund to develop the promotion of gender equality and better bridge education and working life. She will participate in a roundtable with businesses on digital topics, including the general data protection regulation. Commissioner Jourová will also visit Vantaa prison and discuss how prison staff can detect radicalisation and violent extremism. Her last visit at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland will focus on artificial intelligence. Commissioner Jourová‘s keynote speech on rule of law is available online and on EbS, where you can also find other pictures and videos from her trip.
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday looked for the Bureau of Immigration and the Central Passport Organisation’s reaction on an elderly person’s plea declaring that for the previous 11 years whenever he takes a trip abroad he goes through harassment and interrogation at the airport due to a Look-Out Circular (LOC) versus his name.
Each time after the interrogation, the authorities are pleased he is not the one versus whom the LOC has actually been provided, however he goes through the very same harassment whenever he takes a trip abroad, he stated.
Justice Navin Chawla, while releasing notification to the Bureau of Immigration and the Central Passport Organization seeking their reaction, likewise inquired to see how the concern can be dealt with and noted the matter for hearing on October 20.
The high court was hearing the plea of Ashok Agarwal, represented by supporter Pranjal Kishore, who has actually looked for correction or elimination of any negative remarks on his passport so that he is not stopped and questioned each time he takes a trip abroad.
In his plea, he has actually competed that he has actually not dealt with any legal procedures in the nation, however considering that 2009 whenever he takes a trip abroad, he is questioned at the airport.
” After every such interrogation, the migration authorities conclude that they wrongly determined the petitioner (Ashok Agarwal) as the individual versus whom the stated LOC had actually been provided,” the petition has actually stated.
It has actually likewise declared that through different e-mails, dated August 31, 2017 and March 14, 2018, the Foreigners Regional Registration Officers of Mumbai and New Delhi ensured him that restorative actions have actually been required to make sure that he is not questioned throughout global travel.
” However, in spite of the guarantees, the interrogation and the harassment of the petitioner has actually continued,” the petition has actually competed.
Apart from correction of any negative remarks on his passport, Mr Agarwal has actually likewise looked for quashing of any LOC provided versus him and damages “for the years of unnecessary harassment” gone through by him.
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The ShePodcasts conference in Atlanta last week was awesome! Over 700 people from around the world were there. The intent of the conference was to support and promote women in podcasting, and the spirit of encouragement was evident.
There were lots of sessions and they covered a huge range of topics, such as marketing, social media strategies, storytelling, audio editing, virtual assistants, and more. They also covered lots of subject areas, like psychology, history, social justice, motherhood, and of course nuns!
My topic was “Podcasting as a Spiritual Adventure,” and it included shout-outs to Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine McAuley, and my congregation’s founders Louis Gillet and Theresa Maxis. I was the only Catholic sister who was a presenter at the conference, and as far as I could tell, I was the only Catholic sister there.
A Nun’s Life has been podcasting for 10 years, so I wanted to share some of our learnings with other podcasters. We began podcasting when it was in its early days. But I was still surprised to find that we’ve been podcasting longer than the vast majority of podcasters at the conference.
I was also surprised to learn that the conference hotel was in a Hunger Games movie! Or at least the elevator was. The elevator looks out on the atrium, which was designed with a really cool wave pattern. Typically at hotels, I like to walk the stairs to get some exercise. But my room was on the 32nd floor, so I walked a few flights then took the elevator the rest of the way. BTW, I did not see Katniss.
This was the very first ShePodcasts conference, so it was a historic moment. I’m already looking forward to next year!
Photo credit: CC BY-SA 4.0,-Wikimedia Commons.
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