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Remote controled 7 colour RGB car interior LED lights kit
7 Light Colorus: Red, Green, Blue, Purple, Aqua, Yellow and White
Strip length: 22cm; Width: 1.2cm
Strip light cable length: 2*123cm + 2*173cm
Material: Plastic + ABS
Number of LED: 4x 12 SMD LED
Voltage: DC 12V
LED chip type: SMD-5050 RGB
Car Charger Cable Length: 45cm
Modes: 4 colour changing modes
Remote function: On/Off, Change colour, Change flashing pattern, Change flashing speed
High quality RGB LED strip lights, waterproof, anti-collision, anti-corrosion
Wireless IR control, change the colour as you wish
Remote control range up to 6 meters
With 3M sticker on the back of the light, easy to install.
Universal fit on any Cars, Pickups, Trucks, SUVs, Trailers, RVs, Motorcycles or even Garden, Home Interior Decoration and Disco Party
4 x 12 LED strip lights
1 x Cigarette lighter power plug (can be also connected directly to any 12V interior power source)
1 x Remote control
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This is a standard equipment on many modern cars. It is a computerised system that monitors and checks any faults that may arise, eg. if a bulbs fails an error massage appears on the dashboard.
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Ultimate X Match for the World Tag Team Championships
The Wolves (c) vs. The BroMans vs. The Revolution
The Wolves meet The BroMans (Jessie Godderz, DJ Z) and The Revolution (Manik and The Great Sanada) to defend their tag team championships.
At the opening bell, the challenging teams each single out a member of The Wolves. Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards come back quickly and clear the ring as they gain control of the match.
Angelina Love distracts The Wolves, preventing a suicide dive to the outside. DJ Z rushes up from behind, but he’s sent flying over the top rope into The Revolution. The Wolves make the first attempt to scale the wires and claim the titles. Jessie Godderz makes the save.
Jessie and Manik send Eddie Edwards to the outside, then both teams team up against Davey Richards. Manik tries to dupe Jessie and secure the win for The Revolution, but a dropkick sends Manik crashing to the mat.
The larger members of The Revolution and The BroMans hoist their smaller partners onto their shoulders as they attempt to reach the titles in the center of the ring. The Wolves leap from the turnbuckles to collide with their challengers. Everyone is down in the center of the ring.
The Wolves double team Manik and DJ Z before they’re caught by with a double clothesline by Jessie. Jessie climbs the turnbuckle, but Sanada makes the save by blinding Jessie green mist!
Eddie Edwards connects with a hurricanrana from the top rope. Davey Richards follows up with a double stomp. The Wolves scale the wires to claim their championships.
Winners: The Wolves
Austin Aries addresses the theft of his “Feast or Fired” briefcase by The Beat Down Clan. Aries demands the return of his briefcase, which guarantees him a World Championship match.
Accompanied by Samoa Joe, Low Ki enters with possession of the briefcase.
Aries challenges Low Ki to a “winner takes all” match for the briefcase and X-Division championship. Low Ki and Samoa Joe attack; Low Ki says Aries will have to go through Joe first.
Austin Aries vs. Samoa Joe w/ Low Ki
Capitalizing on the pre-match attack, Samoa Joe batters Austin Aries into the corner. Joe connects with a clothesline in the corner. Aries comes back with a series of punches and kicks, but he’s grounded by a front slam from Joe.
Joe drives Aries shoulder-first into the ring post before sending him crashing into the steel stairs. Joe rolls him back into the ring, then Aries connects with a series of rights. Aries is powered down with a bell-to-belly suplex.
Joe places Aries in a crossface hold. Aries breaks free, only to be met by a stiff kick that takes away any momentum Aries had. Joe connects with another shot to the face, but missed a splash attempt near the ropes.
Aries leaps to the outside as he drops Joe neck first across the middle rope. From the top rope, Aries connects with a missile dropkick; he follows up with a second dropkick. Joe counters a brainbuster attempt into an armbar; Aries reaches the ropes.
Aries counters a muscle buster and connects with two discuss forearms. Joe is sent to the arena floor. Aries suicide dives to the outside. He connects with Joe; Low Ki attacks, earning Joe the disqualification.
Winner: Austin Aries (via DQ)
Post-match: Low Ki and Joe double team Aries. Aries dodges an attack with the briefcase that connects with Joe. Aries takes out Low Ki and reclaims his briefcase. Rockstar Spud emerges from the back with his “Feast or Fired” briefcase containing a contract for an X-Division Championship match.
TNA X-Division Championship
Rockstar Spud vs. Low Ki (c)
Low Ki’s down in the center of the ring. Rockstar Spud lifts him and rushes up the ropes to connect with an Underdog! Spud makes the cover for three!
Winner: Rockstar Spud – New X-Division Champion
Post-match: Spud celebrates with the fans until Samoa Joe gives chase.
Backstage: Magnus attacks Bram in the parking lot!
The brawl spills into the backstage area before finally reaching the Impact Zone. Magnus chases Bram into the ring. He connects with a series of stiff rights and kicks before grabbing a chair.
Magnus attacks Bram’s spine and appears to be poised to slam the chair across Bram’s throat until officials get involved. Magnus breaks free twice to continue his assault.
Mickie James rushes to the ring. At first, she appears to be in line with the officials, but she quickly shifts her attention to Bram. Mickie lays in a stiff kick to the groin and a series of rights of her own. The officials work to separate Mickie from Bram.
Bram rolls out of the ring and starts to climb up the ramp. Magnus gives chase. He catches Bram before he escapes and powerbombs him onto the ramp!
Triple Threat Knockout’s Championship
Awesome Kong vs. Gail Kim vs. Taryn Terrell (c)
Gail Kim and Taryn Terrell double team Awesome Kong to start the match. Together, they take Kong off her feet. Kong’s dominance follows as she launches Gail into Taryn.
Kong counters a suplex attempt by Taryn while Gail Kim attempts a dropkick. Gail bounces off Taryn and Kong slams Taryn onto Gail. Gail and Taryn again attempt a double team, but Kong puts them both down with shoulder blocks. Kong tosses Gail and Taryn across opposite sides of the ring.
Gail connects with a kick to the head and Taryn attempts a clothesline from the second rope. Kong counters by catching Taryn mid-air with a powerful clothesline! Kong positions Gail for an Implant Buster. Gail counters and pulls herself onto Kong’s shoulders!
Gail lands a series of shots to Kong’s face, but Taryn sneaks in with a roll-up. Kong powers out and connects with a double clothesline! Gail dodges a splash in the corner by slipping out onto the apron. Kong grabs her head and drives her face-first into the ring post!
Taryn unleashes a flurry of punches before connecting with a dropkick from the turnbuckle. Kong stumbles and Taryn connects with a crossbody. Kong powers out of a pin attempt at two.
Kong counters the Taryn Cutter, then she climbs the ropes. Kong misses a splash from the turnbuckle. Taryn connects with the Taryn Cutter! Kong powers out again at two!
With a running dropkick, Taryn sends Kong to the outside. Gail Kim is back up and she and Taryn battle on the turnbuckle. Gail shoves Taryn to the mat before leaping onto Kong with a crossbody!
Gail and Taryn again meet on top of the turnbuckle for a second time. This time, Gail connects with a rolling powerbomb! Somehow, Taryn’s out a two and she counters Gail’s Eat Defeat with a schoolgirl to retain her title.
Winner: Taryn Terrell
Backstage: James Storm tells Matt Hardy, “The time has come.”
Backstage: Kurt Angle says he’s still one of the best in the business.
James Storm vs. Matt Hardy
James Storm is accompanied by the rest of The Revolution.
Hardy and Storm begin their battle on the ramp! Hardy gets Storm into the ring and the bell sounds. Hardy fends off Sanada before loading the ring with an array of hardcore weapons, including chairs and trash cans.
As Hardy climbs into the ring, Manik grabs his ankle, creating a distraction that allows James Storm to capitalize. Storm mounts a chair in the corner. As he turns, Hardy connects with a garbage can! Storm and Hardy trade blows with the can and its lid.
Hardy connects with a leg drop, but Manik and Sanada prevent him from reaching the top rope untouched. Storm sets up two chairs in the center of the ring before superplexing Hardy onto the chairs!
Hardy kicks out at two! Storm directs Abyss to deliver a bag of thumb tacks. Storm pours the bag onto the mat. He appears to be attempting a second superplex, but Matt Hardy counters, sending Storm crashing into the pile of tacks!
Hardy connects with an elbow drop from the top rope! Storm’s out a two! Hardy connects with a Twist of Fate! Abyss interrupts the referee’s count and The Revolution attacks Hardy.
Matt Hardy counters each of their attacks, but ultimately, he’s driven head-first into the chair in the corner by James Storm. Hardy kicks out of a pin attempt at two before delivering a second Twist of Fate!
Abyss slides a cowbell into the ring and Sanada sprays mist in the eyes of Matt Hardy. Storm connects with a cheap shot to the back of the head; he follows it up with two Last Calls and a three count.
Winner: James Storm
Post-match: Storm says he’s the reason Jeff Hardy’s out of professional wrestling. He says Matt can visit Jeff in the hospital. Storm takes a cheap shot with the cowbell to the back of the head before saying there’s always room for one more in The Revolution.
TNA World Heavyweight Championship
Kurt Angle vs. Lashley (c)
The bell sounds and for the first time ever, Lashley and Angle meet one-on-one.
Lashley powers Kurt Angle to the mat with a shoulder block. He follows it up with a leg sweep, a clothesline and a takedown. Angle’s able to escape a headlock and connect with a belly-to-belly suplex.
Angle grounds Lashley with an ankle lock, after three German suplexes! Lashley reaches the ropes, but upon rising to his feet, Angle sends him over the top rope with a clothesline. Angle pursues Lashley around the ring, but enough separation is created to allow Lashley to drop Angle over the guardrail!
Lashley drives Angle into the apron and drops a series of elbows across the back of Angle’s head. Lashley stomps and chokes Angle in the corner before connecting with a vertical suplex.
Angle battles out of a submission by Lashley, but he’s powered down again with a clothesline and locked into an armbar. Lashley whips Angle into the corner. Angle explodes with a back elbow and follows up with a diving shoulder block.
Lashley and Angle trade blows in the center of the ring. The exchange culminates with three more German suplexes from Kurt Angle! Angle attempts an Angle Slam, but Lashley counters with a huge spinebuster!
Lashley rushes across the ring, hoping to connect with a spear – but Angle sidesteps and connects with five more German suplexes! Angle locks in the ankle lock! Lashley refuses to tap, counters the hold and powers Angle to the mat with a slam.
Lashley attempts another spear, but again, Angle counters – this time into a school boy that he turns into another ankle lock. Lashley rolls through, sending Angle head first into the center turnbuckle.
Angle counters another spear attempt into the Angle Slam! Lashley makes it out at two. Lashley powers Angle down with another clothesline following a high back elbow. He follows up with a hanging vertical suplex and a spear!
Angle just barely gets his shoulder up before three! Lashley ascends the ropes. Angle attempts to throw Lashley from the top rope, but Lashley counters, sending Angle back to the mat. Angle moves and Lashley comes up empty with the splash!
Angle connects with a crossbody from the top rope. Lashley rolls through and locks in an ankle lock of his own! Angle makes it to the ropes. Lashley misses a clothesline, which allows Angle to score a second Angle Slam.
Lashley powers out a two. He locks Angle into a cross arm breaker. Angle rolls toward Lashley and turns the hold into an ankle lock! Angle drags Lashley to the center of the ring and increases the pressure on the hold. Lashley taps!
Winner: Kurt Angle – New World Heavyweight Champion
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P.F. Chang's offering free spicy chicken today only
A local news station is in hot water over a graphics mishap. Time
P.F. Chang's is continuing its celebration of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics by renaming one of their dishes and a free offer.
Today only, the restaurant chain is changing the name of their popular P.F. Chang's Spicy Chicken dish to Pyeongchang Spicy Chicken. You can receive a free order of Pyeongchang Spicy Chicken with any entrée purchase. The offer is valid for dine-in only.
To get the free spicy chicken you will need to download a bar code at www.pfchangs.com.
Contact Susan Selasky at email@example.com. follow @SusanMariecooks on Twitter.
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Always on the cutting edge of innovation, Google and UC Berkeley have teamed up to deliver lectures and symposia for free via Google Video, reports UC Berkeley News.
UC Berkeley will be the first university to have its own Google Video web site which will offer 250 hours of content as well as links to UC courses and events.
"Google appreciates the opportunity to partner with progressive universities like UC Berkeley to make undiscovered lectures and entire courses available to our users," said Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, who received both his doctoral degree (1982) and master's degree (1979) from UC Berkeley. "UC Berkeley's content - much of which wasn't easily accessible online - will enhance the comprehensive and diverse range of offerings by Google Video."
"Coursecasting" is the next wave in educational technology, allowing students as well as the general public to download audio and video recordings of class lectures to their computers and portable media devices.
"Google Video is a wonderful extension of our open video program," said Obadiah Greenberg, product manager for webcast.berkeley.edu. "The ability of viewers to play back video on a variety of devices; the ease of sharing and embedding videos via email and blogs; and access to community aspects such as user ratings and comments help us to broaden our reach and build community around our video."
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In the name of full transparency, I need to let you know that I have yet to parent a teen. However, I've earned my credibility on the front lines:
My Masters Thesis explored therapy with teens and how to work with their “resistance”. (Coles notes version: teens won’t engage in new behaviors just because we want them to. It’s our job as the adult – therapist or parent – to understand where teens are coming from FIRST and then help them understand the benefit of a different way of relating)
I’ve been providing therapy to teens for two decades and I genuinely love their angst and anguish trying to figure the world out and where they fit in. I remember my own thoughts and feelings as a teenager in vivid technicolor.
My 12.5y old has perfected the sigh, the eye roll, and is a solid two inches taller than me so I’m getting a feel for having a teen right in my own home.
There are discipline programs for unruly dogs where you drop off beloved Rex for a few weeks at a trainer’s who will whip them into shape (not literally with a whip). After the successful reform program, the trainer teaches you how to maintain the gains and you have a lovely, well behaved, furry family member. I often sense that some parents would like me to offer the same service, but for their teenagers. Leave them with me for six weeks, I’ll teach them to be a respectful, responsible member of society and hand them back to you. To be clear: I do not offer any such service.
I have a way to conceptualize teenage behavior that may help reconnect you to feelings of empathy and patience. Your teen is actually an overgrown toddler - the similarities are striking. Just like in this scene from Father of the Bride where Steve Martin’s character sees his adult daughter as a four year old. Imagine your child as they used to be, all chubby, wide-eyed toddler adorableness and remember when you did when they had a mid-afternoon meltdown. As Mammas, we get good at thinking though our checklist – are they hungry? Did they sleep? Have they burned off energy at the park? Did they have some quiet time? We do the exact same thing with babies – Are they wet? Do they need a diaper change? Gassy? Hungry? Tired?
For teens, our checklist is a little more extensive, but it’s always good to begin with the basics. Time for a quick psychology lesson or refresher. In 1943, the American psychologist Abraham Maslow published a paper where he outlined a Theory of Human Motivation. He argued that until our basic physical needs were met (food, water, sleep), we wouldn’t be able to move up the ladder to more sophisticated needs (safety, security, friendship). When we’re scanning through the list of what our kids need, we’re actually working our way up Maslow’s theory to see where they’ve become derailed. Scan through their physical needs and address those first. Next we move on to other areas; how is school going? Friends? Self-image? Once you can identify which area (or areas) your teen is struggling with, you can help them through it.
Or try to help them through it. This is where it gets more sticky and turbulent than with your cherubic toddler. You may try to help and they’ll figuratively (or literally) slam the door in your face. Repeatedly. Even worse – you may feel yourself slipping down into the muck, donning your own boxing gloves, and entering the ring to square off.
Don’t do it.
A friend of mine with two kids now in university offered a warning years ago, “Just wait until your kids are teens, they’ll tell you everything that’s wrong with you”. It’s true; teens are masters at pushing our buttons. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes inadvertently. Take a breath. Label the behavior and walk away to cool off. Look at your own needs in the moment. None of us are at our best when we’re tired, hungry, stressed from a long day. Meeting a tantruming teen with your own tantrum, screaming, or sarcasm won’t fix the situation or help your teen learn to manage. Toddlers are social creatures, they want to connect, and cuddle and feel important. They can’t always identify and articulate what they’re feeling. Ditto for teens. When they’re feeling insecure and confused, they can’t identify or articulate their emotions. Teens also want to connect and feeling important, but they’re too big and too cool to crawl into your lap and let you soothe them.
Before pulling out your hair or making empty threats, find your patience. If you’re going to successfully guide your teen through these young adult years, you will need to summon the most mature version of yourself. Be the adult. Do your research. For a great list of books and resources that will help you understand what’s going on in your teen’s brain, take a look at my Pinterest board on parenting teens. Try, try, and try again to connect with them. Go heavy on the praise, and crystal clear on boundaries. If you want to have a better, more respectful relationship with your teen, it needs to start with you. Help them to feel connected, respected, and understood. Put in the effort now, and you’ll both reap the rewards later.
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17th - 19th SEPTEMBER 2019
DUBAI WORLD TRADE CENTRE
OPEN TIMES: 10:00 - 18:00 DAILY
Zeitaku Omotenashi Magazine, is delighted to become a Media partner to The 7th edition of The Hotel Show Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom’s premier food and hospitality industry event will return once again from 21 – 23 April 2019 at the Jeddah Centre for Forums and Events.
With 100s of brands from all across the world showcasing products across interiors, lighting and design, HORECA, F&B and more along with 6,500+ professionals including hoteliers, chefs, restaurateurs, architects, designers, engineers, developers and everyone working in hospitality, The Hotel Show Saudi Arabia aims to offer an all-encompassing platform for all aspects of modern hospitality and provides a 360 degree view of the food and hospitality market.
Alongside the exhibition, the show will host free-to-attend CPD certified conference and the 3rd Inter-Hotel Culinary Competition endorsed by World Chefs and Saudi Arabian Chef Association bringing kitchens from some of the Kingdom’s leading hotels to compete over the period of three days.
To book a stand, please click here
To register your interest to visit the show, please click here
Highlights from Hotel Saudi Arabia 2018
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mermaids calm ocean coloring collection fantasy be taken away to a calm underwater world with this mermaid themed collection by bestselling coloring designer selina fenech mermaids by selina fenech is filled with inspiring designs of beautiful mermaids dolphins and aquatic creatures fairy art coloring book fantasy art coloring by selina selina fenech s coloring titles have 1500 5 star amazon reviews and sold over 100 000 copies a favorite among the adult coloring munity discover the elegant design inspiring scenes and sense of magic that makes selina fenech s books so popular coloring sampler hier sollte eine beschreibung angezeigt werden se seite lässt s jedoch nicht zu llewellyn worldwide advanced search january february 2018 issue get the free app for your tablet and mobile device now available in the itunes store and the google play store also available as a pdf file
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Syrian Kurdish-led fighters take Hajin, last town held by IS
BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters captured the last town held by the Islamic State group on Friday, after three months of ferocious battles in the militants’ single remaining enclave in eastern Syria, activists and Kurdish officials said.
The fall of Hajin marks an end to the extremist group’s hold over any significant urban area, which in three years shrunk from large swaths of Iraq and Syria the militants once held to this small enclave near the two countries’ shared borders.
The capture of Hajin, however, does not mark the end of the group which still holds some villages nearby and has a scattered presence and sleeper cells in both countries.
As the offensive by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces intensified over the past days under the cover of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition, IS fighters withdrew south to areas east of the Euphrates river and west of SDF positions along the border with Iraq. Among the villages still held by extremists in the enclave are Sousa, Buqaan, Shaafah, Baghouz and Shajla.
The latest push has also raised questions about the fate of IS leader and founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi who has not been seen in public since he announced his self-styled caliphate in 2014 from a mosque’s pulpit in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Last month, IS suffered a severe blow when the SDF said it captured Osama Owayed al-Saleh, a top aide to al-Baghdadi.
“It is a very difficult battle,” SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali told The Associated Press by phone from Syria where he said IS fighters are still attacking Hajin. He added that most of IS fighters besieged in the enclave are among the most experienced gunmen who came to the area from Iraq and Syria.
“There are still villages to be taken but Hajin was the most important as it was the base for commanders from where they directed military operations,” Bali said.
Iraqi Maj. Gen. Qassem Mohammed, in charge of operations in areas close to the Syrian border, said artillery strikes by the U.S.-led coalition on the Iraqi side of the border targeted Hajin and areas around it.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the SDF took Hajin early in the morning, after fierce fighting under the cover of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition. It said some IS fighters withdrew to nearby villages and that fighting is still ongoing in fields outside Hajin as SDF fighters chase out the extremists.
Europe-based activist Omar Abu Layla of the DeirEzzor 24 monitoring group confirmed that the town had been recaptured, adding that some IS fighters are still holed up in small pockets on the edge of Hajin.
Abu Layla said that disagreements among IS ranks over hierarchy between Iraqi and Syrian fighters helped “speed up the collapse” of the extremist group’s defenses in Hajin.
Nuri Mehmud, spokesman of the Syrian Kurdish militia known as People’s Protection Units, or YPG, also the main component of the SDF, said “intense fighting” is still ongoing in small parts of Hajin.
The area is home to some 15,000 people, including 2,000 IS gunmen who fought back with counteroffensives and suicide attacks. Over the past days, hundreds of civilians were able to flee the enclave toward areas controlled by the SDF east of the Euphrates River and government-controlled regions on the river’s west bank.
The Observatory said that since the SDF offensive began on Sept. 10, 922 IS gunmen, 539 SDF fighters and 324 civilians have been killed.
The Syrian Democratic Council, the political wing of the SDF, denounced Turkey’s threat of a military operation against the YPG and called on Syrians of all ethnic and religious groups to unite ahead of a possible Turkish attack.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intensified his criticism of U.S. support for the Syrian Kurdish fighters, saying Friday that Turkey would clear the key northern town of Manbij. Over the summer, the two NATO allies had struck a “road map” to Manbij of the YPG, which Turkey considers a terror organization linked to an insurgency within its own borders.
The Turkish presidency released a statement Friday saying Erdogan spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump and they agreed on the “need for more effective coordination” in Syria. Erdogan reiterated “Turkey’s legitimate security concerns” regarding the YPG.
Erdogan argued the U.S. has not kept its promises to push the YPG east of the Euphrates River.
“If you don’t take them out, we will also enter Manbij,” he said. American troops are stationed in Manbij, which was cleared of IS in 2016, and Washington and Ankara recently started joint patrols around the town.
Erdogan’s threat comes days after he announced his military would launch a new cross-border operation into Syria “within a few days” to fight the YPG east of the Euphrates.
On Thursday, a Turkish soldier was killed in the northwestern town of Afrin after an attack from nearby Tel Rifat. The Turkish military and allied Syrian opposition fighters took the town from the YPG earlier this year.
Associated Press writers Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul and Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad contributed to this report.
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https://apnews.com/eebd0879a33b4dc0b06157bd5cc47083
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The walls at the Silicon Valley headquarters of KeepMedia.com are almost completely unadorned, the carpeting threadbare, the cubicles in large part vacant. It’s the stage of office decor at which one can’t be sure whether the tenant company is just coming into existence or on the road to extinction.
In this case, it’s the former. Yet KeepMedia, an online archive of articles from popular magazines, is a Redwood Shores, Calif., start-up built, in a sense, from the lessons of one of the dot-com era’s most spectacular busts.
That was Webvan, an online grocery delivery service that burned through $850 million in venture and shareholder capital before going out of business in 2001. The experience taught Webvan’s founder, Louis Borders, some tough lessons about how quickly to scale up a big idea. The answer, he found, is: not very.
“From a vision and strategy point of view, you have to separate your grand vision from your launch opportunity,” he was telling me not long ago in a spartan conference room at KeepMedia central. “You must not only be modest but have a compelling business in and of itself. And we’re a very modest start-up.”
In today’s Silicon Valley, Borders is something of a throwback. His eyes burn with an entrepreneur’s fervor as he outlines the idea behind KeepMedia, which launched its subscription service less than two months ago.
He still uses expressions such as “elevator story,” the once-common term for a pitch sufficiently boiled down to be delivered during an elevator ride. He still talks in terms of 100% growth rates, and about the right timing to get into great businesses. And in an age when sworn entrepreneurs are still thin on the ground in Northern California, he’s still capable of saying: “I love start-ups.”
No Stranger to Start-Ups
Consumer-oriented start-ups have been in bad odor in the venture finance community for several years now. But not to the 51-year-old Borders, who has founded two famous specimens of the category.
The first was Borders Books, which he started with his brother Tom in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1971. The original store, which Borders describes as the outgrowth of his hobbyist love for books, grew into a pioneering chain of superstores.
Eventually, the brothers sold it to Kmart Corp., which coveted its inventory management software designed by Louis Borders. Kmart merged Borders with its Waldenbooks chain and eventually spun the unit off as an independent entity in 1995.
In 1996, Borders launched Webvan as a hybrid online ordering and home delivery service focused initially on groceries. Like the bookstore in its late incarnations, Webvan was founded as a broadly appealing consumer service backed by exceptional technology -- in this case, an elaborate system of software and hardware governing everything from the mouse-clicked order to the assembly of the package, delivery by one of a fleet of trucks and inventory restocking.
Webvan was born at a time when a good story and even a distantly beckoning opportunity could attract hundreds of millions of dollars in investment capital. The company was showered with money like an only child showered with Christmas largess. Like many dot-coms, it got hooked on spending money even faster than it came in.
“At Webvan we got caught up in spending too much,” Borders recalls, speaking in the soft drawl that still gives away his Louisville, Ky., upbringing. To serve its launch market in the Bay Area, the company built an Oakland warehouse the size of seven football fields and equipped it with a staggeringly complex network of conveyor belts, color-coded bins and carousels of goods.
And why not?
By late 1999 the company already had raised about $850 million, including $375 million from a public stock offering that valued the fledgling operation at more than $4 billion. The mantra at the time was Get Big, Fast. Webvan mapped out a nationwide expansion well before the kinks had been ironed out in the Bay Area.
To this day, Borders maintains that the only flaw in Webvan’s business model was its overexpansion. “Webvan had a good business, but it grew too fast,” he says. “It didn’t have the model honed enough; we just needed a little more time to handle the demand.”
As a company that had to roll trucks to serve its customers -- with all that implies about dealing with delivery routes, traffic and capital equipment -- every step in scaling up increased the complexity of the operation exponentially.
Riding Another Elevator
It’s probably no accident that Borders has left such physical interaction with the customer out of the model for his new company, which so far he has funded himself at an undisclosed level. (He says he expects to undertake a round of venture or strategic financing in the next year.)
The elevator story of KeepMedia is that it’s a sort of digital newsstand.
For a fee of $4.95 a month, subscribers gain access to the archived articles of more than 25 general interest magazines, including Esquire, Forbes and BusinessWeek. They can search the online library by topic or text, store favored articles in an electronic drawer or e-mail them to friends. They also can annotate articles and ask the system to alert them to other offerings similar in subject matter, style or even reading level. They also can subscribe to print versions via the site, which gives them accelerated access to the most current articles.
By comparison to Webvan, whose executives used to boast of owning a critical pipeline into the customer’s home, KeepMedia is the essence of modesty. This is not to say it’s entirely above putting on airs: The site bills itself as affording access to more than 140 publications in all, but at least 108 of those are trade organs such as Waste Age and Refrigerated Transporter rather than general interest periodicals.
Of the latter, the pickings are still somewhat slim. Borders certainly will have to expand significantly the inventory of top-shelf publications to attract a critical mass of subscribers. Two magazine giants, AOL Time Warner Inc. and Conde Nast Publications Inc., have not yet signed up -- Time because it is still trying to get its own fee-only site for its namesake newsmagazine as well as Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated and its other lofty titles off the ground, and Conde Nast (Vanity Fair, the New Yorker) because it apparently is slowed by what Borders calls an institutional conservatism.
The publishers also are, presumably, waiting to see if the public is yet ready to pay money to obtain reading material online. Numerous earlier attempts at consumer-oriented pay-per-view or subscription models have failed. Borders maintains that their timing was off or their format uninviting. Contentville, a venture by publishing entrepreneur Steven Brill, confused users with its mix of magazine stories, academic dissertations and whatnot.
“They were putting up theses and John Doe’s thinking about the new world order,” Borders says. “Consumers didn’t know if they were reading high-quality content or garbage.”
The notion of charging for information on the Web has faced customer resistance for years. Among major newspapers, only the Wall Street Journal, which boasts specialized material and a well-heeled audience, charges a fee for online access to all its current content.
But that’s changing. At the urging of its America Online service, Time Warner has started making some or all material from People, Sports Illustrated and its other magazines available only to its AOL or print subscribers. The Los Angeles Times recently placed the entertainment and culture content of its Calendar section behind a fee-only firewall.
Timing the Market
“Timing is everything,” Borders says. “Only 10% to 15% of the reading public has paid to read online, but the rate’s growing at 100%. That’s the exact time you want to start.”
He adds that publishers have only recently gotten used to the idea of turning over their material to an independent online distributor, preferring to host their own Web sites, even after discovering this was not as easy as it looked. “They thought information technology was one of their core competencies,” he says. “They’ve now given up on that idea.”
He’s trying to bring the publishers along with a revenue-sharing scheme that grants them a healthy 40% or more of the money paid by users to access their articles.
Borders believes that his subscription model leaves plenty of room for creative pricing to serve a varied market.
“There may be content we’ll sell for $25, like a business report,” he says. “Look at us as a cable TV service. We’ll have a broad-based subscription service but also pay per view with special subscription rates for certain sports or business content.”
Theoretically, this is a model that also can service media other than print. Borders talks speculatively about eventually providing audio and video content to his customers. But in the current style of thinking big but executing small, he acknowledges that the time’s not quite ripe.
“One thing we did right was steer away from the music business,” he says. “With all the legal stuff, it’s a hellhole right now, and I wouldn’t want any part of it.”
Moving beyond magazines at the moment is more than KeepMedia could handle, anyway. That’s the lesson of Webvan, Borders says: “I learned that you definitely need to prove your business model before you step on the gas.”
Golden State appears every Monday and Thursday. Michael Hiltzik can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-22-fi-golden22-story.html
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Your cell phone number is about to be handed over to telemarketers.
Carjackers are sticking flyers on rear windows so they can grab the car when drivers step out to remove the flyers.
Microsoft will pay you $245 for every person you forward an e-mail to.
False. False. False.
It continues to amaze me how many people will blindly forward these and other wild claims to friends and family members. I've received more than I care to count, and no matter how earnest the latest come-on ("This really happened to a friend of mine!"), I know that 99.9% of them are false.
That's because I'm a regular visitor to Snopes.com, which catalogs and debunks the hundreds of Internet hoaxes and urban legends that continue to make the e-mail rounds.
The next time one of these often-amusing, sometimes-frightening messages lands in your inbox, copy the subject line, head to Snopes, then paste the subject into the search field.
When you reach the page that shows the "False" nature of the legend, copy the URL, return to the e-mail, click Reply All, and paste it in. (I like to add something like, "Don't believe everything you read!", just so I can feel extra smug.)
In other words, break the chain, people! Stop forwarding this nonsense to people you supposedly care about. Yes, I'm talking to you, Mom.
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/169129/Find_Out_if_That_EMail_is_Really_a_Hoax.html
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Eric Cyphers began cello at the age of 6 and has since studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and has toured extensively through North America and Europe. As a concerto soloist Eric has appeared with many orchestras playing the major cello repertoire, and has performed for Barak Obama, Pope Francis, and the Dalai Lama. He has played for Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Lang Lang among other leading musicians.
On the academic side, Eric conducts National Institute of Health funded research on Neuroplasticity. He spends mornings in the Interventional Radiology Angiosuite, and afternoons in the classroom. Once his undergraduate is complete Eric plans to attend medical school to become a Neurosurgeon.
Eric explains the connection between his diverse interests in his Ted talk.
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https://www.tedxcmu.org/eric-cyphers
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Frank & Joe's marks third anniversary Saturday with specials, giveaways, birthday frap
Second location under construction in hospital district
Frank & Joe's Coffee House, a beloved feature of Wichita Falls, is celebrating its third birthday Saturday in Parker Square, and construction is underway on a second location in the hospital district.
This 3-year-old's birthday party at 2919 Bob Ave. will feature giveaways from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., free cupcakes while they last, drink specials all day, soccer stars, free hot dogs and a birthday frappuccino.
Named for two of city's original movers and shakers -- Franklin M. Kell and Joseph A. Kemp, the coffee house has two entrepreneurial women behind its success.
A mother-daughter team -- Carol Murray, founder, and Jessica Edwards, co-founder -- have each brought their strengths to bear on the venture, and those strengths have seen Frank & Joe's to its third anniversary.
"We're super excited because that means the community is behind us and is supporting us," Jessica said.
"It's fantastic," Carol said.
One of Edwards' talents is creating Frank & Joe's unique drinks.
The coffee house has a tradition of releasing a new one every birthday. This year's incorporates Lolly's Cookies, a locally made chocolate chunk cookie for sale at Frank & Joe's.
According to a post on the coffee house's Facebook page, the drink tastes as close to "Lolly's Cookies as you could get in a cup!"
Jessica and Carol's gifts are complementary.
"It's takes all kinds of people to run a business, right?" Carol said. "I'm more in the background, in the administrative area."
She zeroes in on details and organization while Jessica is the face of the business, out and about in their adopted hometown.
"Jessica's genius is in the marketing, social media and putting us out there," Carol said.
Perhaps they share a quality in common: determination.
"Failure is not an option for us," Carol said.
Besides those Jessica-created beverages, the 3,500-square-foot coffee house also offers beer and wine, food, indoor and outdoor seating, a cozy fire place area, and a conference room and smaller spaces for rent.
Frank & Joe's in Parker Square is open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m. to 10 p.m Friday and Saturday, and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
No date has been set yet for opening the new location at Ninth and Brook Avenue near United Regional Hospital System.
But on Thursday, Carldon "Card" Murray, Carol's husband, and Ryan Edwards, Jessica's husband, were busy working to get the approximately 2,000-square-foot space ready.
Ryan was applying finishing touches to a long bar that he and Card, also Jessica's dad, made from pieces of wood.
"We felt like this was kind of an underserved area of the community," Carol said. "We just want to provide an opportunity for people to get away."
The hospital district Frank & Joe's will aim to serve busy medical professionals who work 12-hour shifts and have a scant 30 minutes for breaks.
The second coffee house will be open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week.
Seating, as well as a conference room, will be available inside. But the drive-through will be larger, and the second location will be convenient to grab a drink and go.
Jessica said the second location will also feature a juicing bar.
Hiring for the new location will begin within the next few months, and Frank & Joe's will have a job fair, she said.
In addition, you will know you are in a Frank & Joe's.
"Our signature look will stay the same," Jessica said.
Large painted lettering is already up to signal a new Frank & Joe's is coming to Wichita Falls, and Jessica, the creative dreamer, thinks the new coffee house could help spur something bigger.
"This whole area could be developed, and it could be so cool," she said.
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https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/2019/06/28/frank-joes-coffee-house-celebrates-birthday-saturday/1590023001/
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Android Gingerbread Update for Samsung Galaxy mini and Gio Smartphones released
More Android Smartphones released early have started to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread update and here is joy for those who have been using Samsung’s most affordable Smartphone named Samsung Galaxy mini and Galaxy Gio with Android 2.3 update.
Android 2.3 Gingerbread brings not only improved performance and battery life, but also boosts system security and gives a slight refresh to the UI of Google’s platform. The OTA update for these Smartphones are yet to be released and if you don’t want to wait for the OTA, then just head to the source link to know more about the update. After downloading the XXKPF update for the Galaxy mini and the XXKPA update for the Galaxy Gio, enjoy all the new features of Gingerbread.
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http://techprezz.com/2011/06/android-gingerbread-update-for-samsung-galaxy-mini-and-gio-smartphones-released/
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Getting from A to B in Bluebell the motorhome is quite different to getting from A to B in our little Yoda the Skoda. We need to consider many different factors when planning our jaunts in the motorhome, but mainly the issues we run into (sadly literally in one case back in 2010!) are our height and weight. We’ve used the standard Garmin satnav for 4 years now, and don’t get me wrong, its been ok, but this year we found ourselves looking at new satnavs and particularly one which we can input our vehicle dimensions in, so that the best route is found having taking these into account.
For the last year or so we’ve used Google Maps as a secondary sat nav, although because it uses data to download the map it relies on having a decent internet signal, something which we are not blessed with sadly, even in not so deepest Norfolk! We enjoyed using the phone as a sat nav, finding the screen on my iPhone 6 a good size for clear mapping.This led us to looking into an App based sat nav,which works offline and more specifically one which we could enter Bluebell’s vehicle dimensions into. Enter “CoPilot Caravan Europe”
At £49.99 I wondered if it was a bit pricey as I don’t tend to pay more than £4.99 for an app, but then Keith reminded me that actually having looked into Caravan/Motorhome/HGV sat navs, we were hard pushed to get one for less than £100. We decided to give it a go, and trial it on our recent Scotland trip- a handy test as most of the time we were without Mobile data.
After download, a user friendly screen prompts you through set up, with clear and easy instructions to navigate through. There are lots of options to tailor the app to your own personal requirements, something which we found useful- we could even personalise the welcome to say “Welcome Lydia and Keith” – not the most important factor on a sat nav I realise, but a nice touch nonetheless- (I’m such a girl!!) You have the option to display safety camera alerts (and change how much distance ahead you want to be warned of them) and set it to save battery, another useful tool when you’re doubling your phone as your sat nav. Finally it’s time to enter those important measurements- the app allows you to input your Height, Width, Total Length and Total Weight. You can also select how it should naviagate- the fastest route or shortest.
I like the fact that you have the option of which maps you want to download- having got the Europe version of the app, I had the option of downloading “Europe”, “Eastern Europe”, “Western Europe” then the individual countries as separate maps. This was useful for me as I have limited storage on my iPhone 6, so I was able to just download UK, although when we go to Germany over the summer I have the option of downloading “Western Europe” or just “Germany”.
On The Road
With CoPilot you have the option to save certain addresses as favourites. For those one off entries, its easy to input, especially if you have the postcode of your destination. You get the option to select a “cross street” too, making pinpointing your destination much easier.
There are several ways to view the app whilst navigating- the one we preferred was the larger instructions with a mini picture of the next junction and a countdown to the next junction. This made navigating really easy. Other options included a smaller instruction but more details for future junctions. I guess this would be useful for the passenger if they are navigating you. It reminded you several times which junction to take on a roundabout and although that was a bit annoying, it was useful and saved us going round roundabouts several times…ahem!
We LOVED the fact that it was easy to change the proposed route by a simple drag of your finger. For example- our route up to Loch Lomond from Norfolk wanted to take us up to Edinburgh on the A1. We wanted an overnight stop at Carter Bar border crossing near to Jedburgh so simply dragged our finger to the route we would rather take and it automatically updated. Fab. Equally you could add via’s etc and also it comes with an extensive list of POI – even more when you are online.
Traffic Updates are included for a year, however depend on Mobile signal. Our journey home was affected by a huge accident on the A1- we were delayed for nearly 3 hours (ouch) but sadly it didn’t do a great job in prewarning us (and we had 4G).
We travelled nearly 1500 miles using the app and in general we were extremely happy with how it worked. The only criticism was that sadly it did still try and take us on single carriageway A roads near to Inverness rather than the duel carriageway A Roads (it wanted us to take the A833 to Beauly to cut off the corner of Inverness, rather than staying on A82 then A9. It thought it would save 30 mins but when we ignored it, suddenly the ETA decreased by nearly an hour!) If we could get an update to make sure that duel carriageway roads take priority then for us, it would be 5*. Until then, we give it a very useful “does what it says on the tin” 4*. We look forward to using the app in Germany over the Summer.
In Summary– yes it’s nearly £50, but it made travelling round in a great big motorhome much less stressful and we were confident we weren’t going to find ourselves in a tricky bridge situation! We will still continue to use a road map alongside the app, but, find me a motorist that doesn’t do that!
Additional Accessories to make life easier
Phones are so much more than phones nowadays aren’t they? Here we are using my phone to guide us 300 miles up to the Scottish Border, whilst using Spotify to serenade us- what happens when we arrive at the border at 01:00 – I have no battery left to take the obligatory “we have arrived” selfie! This was a worry for me- read into that what you will… ;0)
Our Solution – a decent Apple Certified Car Charger and Phone Holder for Air Vent, Magnetic Cradle Car Mount
Everywhere we went, despite using my phone as our sat nav and DJ, my battery was 100% charged and ready for #selfie action!
I was given this app for free by CoPilot Caravan in return for an honest review of their product. All opinions are strictly my own having extensively tested the product.
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https://adventuresinamotorhome.com/2016/06/14/on-the-road-with-copilot-caravan-app/
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“It’s about using your voice right now, as a woman and standing up to be counted” said Maria, the designer for Zero + Maria Cornejo. For her Spring/Summer 2019 collection, she wanted to show that contemporary, diverse, inclusive, and standing in solidarity in her collection. These are the power women that are loved and are unafraid to demonstrate the power of their femininity. Throughout the collection you could see this.
There was grace and simplicity with this collection. The clothing shapes wrapped and hugged the models form, clean, womanly, and unembellished. There was a special energy that came from the collection which included natural materials of Brazilian modemist design. Which inspired the grounding aesthetic for the collection, contrasting natural and sustain-ably developed textiles alongside high-tech paper-light plisse rain-coating, graphic textured jacquards or gleaming, evening satin. Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring/Summer 2019 collection were all rendered in a palette of canvas, indigo, mud black, guava and stone.
There was iconic work done by Chilean artist Gracia Barrios which you could see printed on the collection. 84% of this season’s collection was made in New York City. The denim is gold certified while a sustain-ably source viscose, now used throughout every collection is mixed with an organic linen for dresses and separates.
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https://thegarnettereport.com/fashion/zero-maria-cornejo-ss19-show/
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16 November 2018: Nominations invited for the second term of the Aotea Conservation Park Advisory Committee. Nominations close 4.30pm, 14 December 2018.
For nomination forms and further information contact Fenella Christian on +64 9 429 0044 or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
16 September 2016: First meeting of the new Aotea Conservation Park Advisory committee at Claris, Great Barrier Island with 10 members sitting for a three year term.
17 December 2015: The Minister of Conservation made appointments to the Aotea Conservation Park Advisory Committee.
10 April 2015: The Minister of Conservation opened the new Aotea Conservation Park. The Park was gazetted on 9 April 2015. Aotea Conservation Park opened media release 10 April 2015.
Nominations were invited for the Aotea Conservation Park advisory committee.
20 July 2014: The Minister of Conservation approved the proposal to create a conservation park on Aotea / Great Barrier Island. It will be called Aotea Conservation Park. Work is underway to survey the Park so it can be gazetted and officially opened.
- New Aotea Conservation Park approved - media release 20 July 2014
- Map of Aotea Conservation Park (PDF, 365K)
- Decision report and analysis of submissions (PDF, 3,090K)
Some information has been deleted as it is considered sensitive due to current Treaty of Waitangi settlement negotiations
For more information about Aotea Conservation Park contact:
Phone: +64 9 429 0044
Note: Includes low quality scans.
Submissions closed: Friday 28 February 2014
Aotea / Great Barrier Island is a unique and diverse environment and is one of the Auckland region's last great wild areas. DOC manages approximately 60% of the land on Aotea. A large part of the conservation land on the island is managed as stewardship areas.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment recently released a report on stewardship areas in New Zealand. It identified areas within the conservation estate that have significant conservation value, yet have the relatively low legal protection status of stewardship areas. In response to this report, the Minister of Conservation directed DOC to investigate changing the status of the stewardship areas on Aotea.
DOC has carefully considered possible options for changing the status of stewardship areas on the island. The most appropriate option identified is the amalgamation of all stewardship areas on Aotea into a conservation park.
Conservation parks are managed to protect their natural and historic resources, and to facilitate public recreation and enjoyment. A conservation park could have many benefits for Aotea, and could be a significant opportunity to secure its future as a local and national treasure.
Only land held under the Conservation Act will be included in the conservation park. This includes all stewardship areas, and the existing Hirakimata-Kaitoke Swamp Ecological Area and Wairahi Forest Sanctuary, which will retain their special status.
No private land or any other publicly owned land (e.g Auckland Council reserves) is involved. Changing the status of stewardship areas on Aotea will not preclude the use of the land for future Treaty of Waitangi settlements.
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https://www.doc.govt.nz/get-involved/have-your-say/all-consultations/2013/aotea-conservation-park/
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Many donors create endowed funds in honor or memory of an individual, or to serve a specific purpose that is important to the donor. The donation can be used completely or invested so that interest from the invested funds provides a gift each year in perpetuity for Covenant to use according to the donors' wishes. Previous endowed gifts have created our current building, scholarships, teacher renewal funds, and professional development opportunities.
Ways to give to start an endowment fund:
Give Cash or Securities All donations are tax deductible.
The gift of highly appreciated stocks are deductible in the full amount of the stock on the day it was given without the donor paying capital gains taxes.
Include Covenant Christian High School in your will or estate plan.
A bequest may be for a specific amount or for the residue or any portion of the estate.
Give a gift of life insurance Creating a major gift at a relatively low cost to the donor.
A tax receipt is issued for the premiums paid by the donor when Covenant Christian High School is named the owner and beneficiary of a new or existing policy.
Transfer an existing private foundation or charitable trust.
Administrators may find it practical and economical to transfer assets to a named fund within Covenant, assuring the intent of the fund in perpetuity.
Set up an annuity, charitable remainder trust or other planned giving instrument.
This can be structured to suit your financial needs and benefit Covenant Christian High School. Covenant Christian High School's staff or directors can discuss with you the most appropriate vehicle for your situation and interests.
We welcome the opportunity to answer your specific questions at any time, and are happy to work alongside your family's financial adviser.
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http://covenantarchive.org/giving/planned-giving
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There's trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian in this adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway classic.|
Based on Meredith Willson's six-time-Tony-Award-winning musical comedy, The Music Man features some of musical theatre's most iconic songs and a story filled with wit, warmth and good old-fashioned romance. The Music Man is family entertainment at its best - a bold, brassy show that will have the whole town atwitter!
Master showman Harold Hill is in town and he's got seventy-six trombones in tow. Can upright, uptight Marian, the town librarian, resist his powerful allure? The story follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize. The catch? He doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, whose belief in Harold's power just might help him succeed in the end - in spite of himself.
**NOTE** Tickets purchased online at Brown Paper Tickets are valid for any performance date, regardless of the date printed on the ticket. All tickets are General Admission (children ages 5 and under are free).
Performing Arts Center (Prescott High School)
1010 Dexter Street
Prescott, WI 54021
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https://grrt.brownpapertickets.com/
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"Their skills as songwriters are apparent, but it is their progressive soundscapes that are truly ear-catching...The instrumentation is subtle and uplifting, lending a sonic hand to Reed's voice with sumptuous guitar melodies, swaying bass-lines and swanky drum beats."
-Morena Duwe, Huffington Post
"Mleo is a group that will compel you to fall head over heels for their music and enjoy them for the burgeoning musical treasure they are."
"After memorable live sets opening for Plain White T's and Andy Grammer at Waves Weekend, playing at LA's feel good Eat See Hear fest, and smashing their live set at Hollywood's House of Blues, the team of class-conditioned musicians are well on their way to solidifying themselves in the oft-mentioned indie rocker set."
"This band is creating what modern rock will be defined by..."
"For such a young band, they flawlessly navigate through a timeless style with an ease and fluidity that's well beyond their years."
- Evan Morgan Jodloman, The News Hub
"Hot damn Victor San Pedro can play guitar. Hot damn Audrey Reed can float a melody. And hot damn, rhythm section members Nick De La O and Elias Vasquez hit all the right spaces"
-Connor Meinert, That's Why We Musyc
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http://www.mleoband.com/press.html
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LEGACY CONCERTINA E GUITARS
After much research into a smaller body guitar shape, the Legacy Concertina is our pride and joy. It sparkles with surprising sound. With 12-frets to the body, the action begs to be played with enthusiasm. Our Sound OptimizationTM process enables us to sand our densest hard wood, cocobolo, to a thinness that delivers amazing power and depth. The salvaged Sitka spruce top is fine tuned to give a deflection that brings this Concertina to life. Comfortable to play, a joy to hear, and beautiful to look at.
Legacy Concertina E SpecificationsBody TypeConcertinaNeck WoodHonduran mahoganySolid Wood TopSolid Sitka spruceSolid Wood Back & SidesCocoboloTop FinishNatural Shadow GlossBack & Side FinishGlossFretboardEbony# Frets18Nut Width1.75"Tuners HardwareGotoh 700, nickelLower Bout Width14.75"Waist Width8.64"Upper Bout Width10.828"Body Length19.08"Body Depth3.25" (neck), 4" (tail)String GaugeD'Addario EXP 16'sPickupLR Baggs Anthem TRU-MicBridgeDelta bridge, African ebonyBindingBlackInlayLegacy knotCaseDeluxe hardshellScale Length25"Sound Hole3.875"Crafted InBend, OR USA
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https://www.mormusic.com/breedlove-legacy-concertina-e-sitka-coco/
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The following comments were submitted by Richard Besser, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) President and CEO, in response to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) request for information on ideas for innovative programs and waiver concepts that states could consider relating to section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
RWJF is the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated to improving health and well-being in the United States. Since 1972, we have worked with public and private sector partners to advance the science of disease prevention and health promotion, train the next generation of health leaders, and support the development and implementation of programs and policies to foster better health across the country, including high-quality health care coverage for all. We are working alongside others to build a Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible.
RWJF has a longstanding commitment to coverage, which were established in the following principles in April, 2007:
- Good health is necessary for everyone in the United States to participate fully in society, and a healthy population is vital to the productivity and economic and social well-being of our nation.
- Health care is critical to good health and should be available to all regardless of race/ethnicity, age, gender, geography, or income.
- Health insurance coverage is essential for access to necessary and appropriate health care and should be available to everyone in America.
Therefore, we believe that:
- Health insurance coverage should be affordable. Individuals should contribute to the cost of their care, however, the cost of health insurance and the out-of-pocket costs incurred in accessing care should not force individuals to choose between health care and other basic necessities of life.
- Health insurance coverage should include necessary, appropriate, and effective health care services.
- Health insurance coverage should be continuous and portable, bridging life span, employment, and geographic relocation.
- Health insurance coverage should promote high-quality and cost-effective health care.
- Health insurance coverage should be based on shared responsibilities between the public and private sectors and individuals. These responsibilities include the oversight, management, and financing of the health care system.
We have a long-standing commitment to working with states to expand health care coverage in accordance with these principles. For instance, the State Health and Value Strategies (SHVS) program assists state agencies and officials in their efforts to transform health and health care systems to provide care that meets people’s goals and needs, including by providing technical assistance to states seeking to expand access to coverage. Part of this assistance involves working with states on 1332 applications (see the map of states pursuing 1332 waivers and tools for states here).
We also support a variety of other activities intended to increase transparency in insurance markets and consumer education, including providing technical assistance to navigators; supporting consumer representatives at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC); and sponsoring competitions for those creating consumer decision support tools.
As part of our work with states and helping states to leverage 1332 waivers to expand coverage and address affordability, we have learned that one urgent challenge is protecting the integrity of the insurance market for people with pre-existing conditions. Specifically, waiver ideas that include allowing lower-risk individuals to use federal tax credits to purchase coverage that removes them from the individual market risk pool would leave the traditional individual market with higher-risk, more expensive individuals. The practical effect of such a policy would be to significantly increase premiums for people buying coverage on the individual market. While state flexibility is an important goal, we do not believe it is as important as protecting and expanding access to high quality, affordable coverage for everyone.
Alternatively, we have focused on models that can encourage maintenance, or even growth, in consumer participation in the individual market that can encourage increased choice and lower premiums. For example, in early 2016, the SHVS program engaged with officials in Alaska to assist in the creation of the first reinsurance waiver and the program subsequently worked with five of the six states that followed Alaska’s model. The reinsurance waivers have been incredibly successful, resulting in significant savings for consumers and forming a model of federal-state cooperation to improve affordability and access, while protecting consumers. SHVS is eager to continue to help states in this way.
Another policy option that is gaining traction among many states is to leverage their purchasing power to create more affordable options that maintain protections for people with pre-existing conditions. These proposals have been called “public options” or “buy-in” programs and what they can mean is a state providing access to a plan that the state procures on the individual market or as part of a state’s Medicaid program. As states drive lower prices for care, premiums can be lowered for consumers while at the same time protecting consumer choice. Such a program could create savings captured through a 1332 waiver.
As RWJF continues to work with states to develop new waiver ideas, protecting affordable coverage of populations most at risk of inequities, including those at lower income levels and those with pre-existing conditions, is a core value. We want to take this opportunity to note that we have previously encouraged CMS to take a broad approach in its consideration of state innovation for the purpose of 1332 waiver applications. It is critically important that new models being developed by states and those approved by the Administration promote affordability for everyone; protect people with pre-existing conditions by assuring that they can retain coverage that is both affordable and comprehensive; and allow states to leverage their purchasing power to create models that meet the needs of the people in their states, especially those most at risk of inequities. We also strongly encourage state and federal officials to meaningfully engage the people most likely to be impacted by these waivers in their design.
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In the Salesforce community, we’re always looking to discover more about Salesforce the company and doing our jobs as Salesforce admins, developers and architects better.
Following Jenny Bamber’s post earlier week, 6 Ways to Get Support and Network Within Salesforce, I’d like to present another way to increase your Salesforce success: My friends over at Run Consultants, where I guest post sometimes, created a pretty helpful eBook on the Top 50 Salesforce Influencers on Twitter.
This list includes Salesforce admins, developers, architects, MVPs, industry experts, global influencers, bloggers, journalists and developer relations professionals whose mission is to teach others about Salesforce community outreach, thought leadership, developer tips and breaking news.
The eBook also features advice from some of the influencers, about how to be Salesforce-wise on Twitter and why they feel Salesforce is a company worth Tweeting about.
From the Salesforce influencers, here are seven tips for your own Salesforce success using Twitter:
- “If you need help, use hashtag #askforce; if you want to talk about the company or its products, use #salesforce.” – Cheryl Feldman, Salesforce Consultant and MVP, Influencer No. 49 (@CherFeldman)
“Even if you have a lot of followers, only a fraction of them see each of your posts. Don’t be afraid to share the same post a couple of times if it’s important.” – Rebecca Dente, Salesforce MVP and Blogger, Influencer No. 15 (@sfdc_nerd)
“Finding a key phrase inside a blog post, quoting it and then attributing it to the author with their Twitter handle goes a long way in adding value to community.” – Zachary Jeans, Principal at Tourizing, Founder at ImpactMatters, Influencer No. 1 (@ZacharyJeans)
“Curate the content. Don’t just post stories because they are about Salesforce; if you find them interesting, it’s likely your followers will, too.” – Keir Bowden, Chief Technical Officer at BrightGen, Force.com MVP, Influencer No. 10 (@bob_buzzard)
“Any Salesforce consultant or administrator has some secret sauce; they do something different that is worth talking about. Figure out what that is, and share, share, share.” – Garry Polmateer, Managing Partner at Red Argyle, Salesforce.com consulting and developer specialist, Influencer No. 44 (@DarthGarry)
“Give it context, make it visual. Add in a video or a screenshot.” – Matt Bertuzzi, Sales and Marketing Operations at The Bridge Group, Salesforce MVP, Influencer No. 22 (@mattbertuzzi)
“I use the Buffer app and cannot recommend this enough.” – Michael Gill, Salesforce MVP, Salesforce Certified Professional, Blogger at Salesforceweekly (@AgentGill)
For more Salesforce tips and tricks – including when I talk about Salesforce as a guest blogger, subscribe to the Run Consultants blog and consider following them on Twitter. Have any other advice for using Twitter to learn and share more about Salesforce? Let me know in the comments section!
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https://www.salesforceben.com/7-tips-from-salesforce-influencers/
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"Regrets... I've had a few... but then again... too few to mention..."
Fear not, I don't intend to burst into song on you. Even via a blog, that would be a cruel and unusual punishment, as I believe the saying goes.
Today I'm thinking of regrets about writing. Or, more accurately - regrets about not writing.
It's an issue which has come up several times in recent weeks in my chats with aspiring authors. They very much want to start writing a book they say, but they can't find the time.
I understand the problem. Who wouldn't? Life is busy. There are jobs, families, friends, a whole world to attend to.
But I still very much believe there's always time. It's just a question of finding it.
For those who work hard, but still yearn to write, I sometimes ask this question - do you wake up in the morning eagerly looking forward to going to work?
To which the answer is mostly no.
But if you ask - do you wish you had time today to do some writing?
That answer comes back very different.
Which tells you something...
Before I get accused of simplifying the problem, I'll let you in on what I did. Work was hectic and demanding, as it always was, but I was desperate to try writing. So I amended my life.
I started going to bed early and getting up before six in the morn, so I could do at least a couple of hours before I went about the day job.
I thought it would be difficult, a chore. But guess what I found? I loved it so much that it was a great pleasure, and I couldn't wait to wake up every day to start writing again.
I did it as an experiment, a challenge to myself. Just to give it a try, because I wanted to. I never expected to be published, let alone go on the wonderful journey which it's offered me.
And that was just over eight years ago.
So, looking back now, I wonder how much I'd regret it each passing year if I'd never started writing.
I think of it like this - if something is calling you so strongly, then there's surely a reason for it. So it would be a shame, to put it very mildly indeed, not to follow the call.
Because you never know where it might lead you. At the worst, the realisation of a passion and an ambition. And at best...
Well then, go find out - just like I did.
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https://www.thetvdetective.com/blog/regrets
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When teeth are crooked, crowded, overlapped or out of position one of the best ways to create a beautiful smile is with orthodontic braces. If you’ve always wanted straight, even teeth but have been hesitant to wear braces with metal brackets and wires over your teeth, Invisalign may be the perfect solution. Invisalign, often referred to as “clear braces”, are medical-grade plastic trays that you wear over your teeth to move the teeth into a better, more esthetic position.
What is Invisalign?
Invisalign is a new tooth straightening system that replaces the need for braces and retainers. Instead, you wear a series of clear plastic trays that are custom-made for your teeth. These invisible “aligners” slowly move teeth into position, creating a straight, flawless smile without pain or discomfort.
Unlike traditional metal braces, Invisalign is clear and convenient. You’ll wear each aligner for two weeks, gradually moving your teeth into place. You can remove the aligners to eat, brush your teeth or on special occasions. Best of all, with the virtually undetectable devices, no one needs to know that you’re straightening your teeth. Invisalign makes it easy to obtain the comfort and confidence that comes with an even, healthy smile.
Crooked teeth are just unattractive—they make it more difficult to maintain good oral hygiene, and can cause long-term problems with bite alignment that may lead to TMD (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder). In the long run, these problems can cost much more to repair than simply straightening your teeth with Invisalign today.
Will people know I’m having my teeth straightened?
One of the advantages of Invisalign over any other type of tooth alignment is that it is virtually invisible. There are no wires, no brackets, and no orthodontic retainers—just clear plastic aligners that fit like a thin shell over your teeth.
How long does Invisalign straightening take?
You’ll wear each aligner for two weeks, but the exact number of aligner sets depends on the condition of your teeth and the alignment of your bite. Invisalign straightening is often performed in under a year, but the length of time varies from person to person. It’s best to ask Dr, Brady at your initial consultation for an estimate of how long the procedure is likely to take.
Will Invisalign damage my teeth?
Unlike traditional braces, Invisalign can be removed at any time, so it’s easy to perform thorough routine cleanings. Nothing is ever cemented to your teeth, and there is no risk of damage.
I’ve had braces or other orthodontia before, and my teeth are crooked again. How do I know that Invisalign’s results will last?
In most cases, teeth revert to being crooked after braces because wisdom teeth come in and push your bite back out of alignment. As an adult, there’s no reason to worry about wisdom teeth. Any other concerns should be discussed with Dr. Brady at your first appointment.
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We had a late brunch yesterday (bacon and eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms on toast mmmmm) then went over to Monkey Mia to crab.
On the way across, I commented to Russ that if we happened to get any crabs, I’d make risotto for dinner Friday. We haven’t heard of anyone in the park crabbing, or getting crabs so I thought maybe they (the crabs) had moved on. How wrong was I. We’re only fishing on one licence now as the fishing is poor and 20 crabs is enough but they were there in huge numbers.
We had 8 nets out and every run (we did about 6) got us at least one, and often two, crabs in each net. We threw back lots of just size crabs to bring home 14 big beauties. I also pulled in a shovel nose shark/ray that was at least 1.2 metres long in one pot . Russ has only ever been nipped by a crabs a couple of times but one got him yesterday. It was undersized with one deformed claw. We threw it back, went back and picked that net up again 20 minutes later and there the nasty little bugger was again!
Last night we cooked the crabs and put them in the fridge-this morning we picked them. Out of interest, I weighed the meat. We got 1.2 kg! Then out of interest I priced blue swimmer crab meat-about $60 a kg so quite a nice little feed! We froze three packs of around 300g each, and kept back about 300g for risotto tonight.
After lunch we went for a drive to Dubaut Inlet-a lovely little creek Beaty and Charlie have often spoken of but we’ve never seen. We probably did 10 ks of 4WDing through biridas, up and down red sand hills, to a little inlet surrounded by mangroves. It was one of those flat, still days when it becomes hard to tell the sky from the sea-very beautiful. It was a great few hours.
At home, I made crab risotto for dinner and we sat, as usual, telling each other how lucky we are!
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 leek, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed, divided
- 1 cup aborio rice
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 3 cups chicken stock (approximately), kept simmering on another burner
- zest of a lemon, divided
- 2 tablespoon shredded basil, divided
- 30 g grated parmesan cheese
- 60g butter
- cracked black pepper (much as you like)
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Cooked crab meat (as much as you have, or want for two people)
- Heat the oil and cook the leek until it’s well softened. Add half the garlic and cook a minute or so more.
- Add the rice and cook until it’s coated with the oil. Tip in the wine and cook, stirring, until it’s evaporated. Now start and add the stock a ladleful at a time, stirring until it’s completely evaporated, before adding the next.
- This might take about 25 minutes in total but keep stirring and when you get near the end of the stock, start tasting a grain of rice-it needs a bit of bite in the centre but to be 9/10ths cooked. When you reckon it’s almost done, add in half the lemon zest and shredded basil.
- When you are sure it’s done, turn the heat off and stir through the butter and parmesan, the lemon juice and black pepper. Allow to sit for a couple of minutes.
- Mix together the remaining garlic, basil and zest to make a gremolata
- Serve the risotto in a flat disc, sprinkle over the gremolata, top with the crab. Eat!
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Relying heavily on confidential industry research, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to re-approve glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup. EPA’s conclusion that glyphosate poses no risks to humans contradicts a 2015 World Health Organization analysis of the leading independent research that determined glyphosate is a probable carcinogen. “American consumers have no reason to trust the EPA’s deeply flawed assessment of glyphosate’s safety,” said Nathan Donley, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “As with past EPA studies, the agency has relied heavily on confidential industry research that can’t be reviewed by independent scientists. This is an industry-friendly conclusion that’s simply not based on the best available science.” In addition to the WHO’s conclusion, other U.S. federal agencies have acknowledged evidence of glyphosate’s link to cancer. This includes the EPA’s Office of Research and Development and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Within the past nine months, two juries have ordered Monsanto/Bayer to pay multimillion-dollar awards to glyphosate users suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which independent research has linked to glyphosate. A third trial is currently underway, and lawsuits involving roughly 13,000 people have been filed against the company for failing to warn consumers of the pesticide’s cancer risks.
As Federal Government Refuses to Ban Glyphosate Local Municipalities are Taking Action to Protect Citizens
Our federal health and environmental agencies, like the EPA, have failed to protect the environment from glyphosate pollution. The result is many humans are contaminated with glyphosate. Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup's active ingredient is glyphosate with added chemicals to enhance its ability to penetrate plant tissue. These added chemicals are also toxic, creating a synergistic load beyond glyphosate’s toxicity. Despite Monsanto’s assertions the Roundup is bound by topsoil and does not threaten groundwater, independent scientific research has discovered it seeps into groundwater and nearby waterways. Its penetrating capacity has also been discovered to penetrate animal and human cells. Some municipalities have recently responded to glyphosate’s water pollution by banning the use of herbicides containing glyphosate.
Researchers who recently examined studies sponsored by Dow Chemical and used by the EPA to approve chlorpyrifos, a type of insecticide, found inaccuracies in what the company reported to the agency. A memo sent to EPA management said that “The study was graded unacceptable due to an inadequate presentation of the statistical data analysis.” Some research has linked the pesticides to autism and other brain disorders. There’s also evidence to suggest that some children are more vulnerable to the chemicals than others due to their genetic makeup. These health effects should come as no surprise when we consider that chlorpyrifos were developed as a nerve gas during World War II by the Nazis, though they weren’t used in battle. Chemical weapons were prohibited by the Geneva Convention after WWI—so the chemical is too inhumane to use in war, but A-OK for our food, according to the government’s thinking.
A California jury recently found Monsanto liable for a groundskeeper’s cancer, ordering the company to pay out $289 million. It was the first lawsuit that went to trial alleging that Roundup and other glyphosate-based weed-killers cause cancer. Other research shows that cancer may only be the tip of the iceberg in describing the toll this chemical is taking on our health. There have been hundreds of lawsuits filed against Monsanto alleging that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Roundup herbicide, causes cancer, and now finally the courts are taking the claims seriously as a federal judge recently ruled that these cases can proceed to trial. The World Health Organization has labeled glyphosate a “probable carcinogen” and yet the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says it isn’t—although we shouldn’t be surprised, given the crony ties that have been exposed between top EPA officials and the biotech industry. The EPA can’t be counted on to protect our health. How is this chemical possibly in the market? Tell the EPA to ban glyphosate!
The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public input on the health impacts of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. But despite mounting evidence, the EPA continues to ignore glyphosate’s hazards, and it looks like Monsanto’s under-the-table influence may be a reason why. Monsanto has launched a campaign to pressure the EPA into declaring glyphosate safe. It is terrified of losing the profits from selling this ubiquitous herbicide. The use of glyphosate on U.S. farmland has exploded in recent years. A recent study found that Americans’ exposure to the pesticide has increased fivefold since it was first introduced more than 20 years ago.
Recently we reported that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft report on the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. This was in advance of a meeting in which a panel of scientists would discuss the available data on glyphosate and its potential to cause cancer—but that meeting never happened. It was postponed, ostensibly because the agency was seeking additional experts so there could be a more “robust review of the data.” The biotech industry is going all out to stop this review. CropLife America, the trade group for the nation’s largest biotech and pesticide manufacturers, strenuously objected to the government reviewing the cancer data, telling the EPA that there is no need to discuss the issue at all! Outrageously, CropLife also called for the removal of any scientist from the panel who has “publicly expressed an opinion regarding the carcinogenicity of glyphosate.” The trade group kindly offered the names of scientists who should be removed from the reviewing panel to restore “impartiality.”
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released a draft report finding that glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s popular Roundup weed killer—is not likely to cause cancer in humans. This finding is preliminary, to be followed by the agency’s final review of glyphosate, which has been delayed until spring of 2017. The EPA decided to address the potential cancer-causing effects of glyphosate after the United Nations’ International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced last year that the chemical was a “probable carcinogen.” An “independent” panel of scientists will review the EPA’s report this month. But as our readers know, Monsanto and other biotech giants have so deeply corrupted the science of this issue that finding independent scientists would be a very tough challenge.
Most people think that manufacturers must prove chemicals safe before they put them on the market. They’re wrong. Instead, federal law presumes that most chemicals are safe until proven toxic.
The results of government testing of our foods for pesticide residues may not be quite what we expected. Every year the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) targets certain food materials which they consider high risks, collects samples from warehouses and storage facilities, and tests them for a wide array of pesticides they deem likely to be present. These Pesticide Data Program (PDP) reports are one of many taxpayer funded activities designed to fulfill the agency's congressional goals and mandates. The latest published report from December 2014 reveals that the world's most widely-used herbicide, glyphosate, was not even tested. Neither were wheat products grown in the U.S. With all the glyphosate studies showing microbiome impacts and chelation of toxic minerals (aluminum), why no sampling of glyphosate? Is cost really so prohibitive with our federal budget, while we see escalating chronic health problems? Or, are the chemical companies behind the most popular herbicide in the world putting pressure on the federal government not to do anything that would put a dent in the sale of their products?
Dr. Oz caused a lot of controversy last week when he aired a show titled: New GMO Pesticide Doctors Are Warning Against. The show was highlighting the recent USDA approval of Dow Chemical's herbicide "Enlist," which is expected to gain the approval of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This EPA approval would clear the path for the herbicide to begin being used on America's farmlands and crops. Dr. Oz apparently feels so strongly about this topic, and how toxic and dangerous this new herbicide is, that he reportedly did something he has never done before on his show: he encouraged his viewers and followers to take political action to try to stop the approval of this product from being used on food. He started a petition to President Obama on Whitehouse.gov, and by the end of the week it was well on its way to the required 100,000 signatures. The controversial herbicide by Dow contains 2,4-D, a highly powerful and toxic component that supporters of GMO crops now say is necessary due to the fact that super weeds have become resistant to Monsanto's Roundup containing glyphosate. If approved, it will enter the food supply and bring in potentially billions of dollars to Dow Chemical. So I asked Health Impact News investigative reporter John P. Thomas to research 2,4-D and write a report, as well as to educate us a bit about the approval process with the EPA to get new chemicals approved for use in the marketplace. What you will learn about 2,4-D, which is about to be approved to be sprayed on crops all throughout the U.S., will indeed shock you.
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Hi I’m Tait. Formerly of Ginger Beard Handy Services. As of July 2018, we have changed our focus to provide Appliance Repair to Canberra and the Surrounding Suburbs.
I’m a licenced and experienced electrical repairer and I am able to repair just about any appliance that I can get the parts for so that you don’t have to throw out your faulty washing machine, refrigerator, stove, oven or dishwasher.
I have changed the name of the business to The Ginger Beard Repair Service because repair is my passion and it better describes who I am and what we do: We repair appliances (and there’s also the beard).
We also now offer a time slot each day for urgent repairs. This is usually at the end of our day, once we have completed our previously booked repairs.
The Ginger Beard Repair Service uses an online booking system so that you are able to choose an appointment that works best for you, rather than the limited options you might get by booking over the phone.
One of the most important questions we get asked is “How much is my appliance repair going to cost?” So that you can make an informed decision, we have included our repair rates here. These rates apply to jobs created on/after 01 July 2019.
It is understandable the frustration in not knowing what something will cost. We aim to complete most of our jobs within 2 hours of labour. This includes diagnostic, sourcing and collection of parts, repair and a testing cycle, if required. If you have extra appliances or things for us to do, things may take longer. You can find other information in our FAQ.
You want to know how much a repair on your appliance is going to cost. While each repair is different, I want to give you certainty in labour pricing. With this in mind, if I am able to complete an appliance repair in your home, then I will cap the labour on that repair to the call out + 2 hours labour. This does not apply to commercial appliances or installations. Terms and Conditions apply so be sure to check those out.
We charge the retail cost of parts as advised to us by our suppliers. Where a part is not supplied by retail (ie by trade supply only) we charge ~20% mark up (ie 10% + GST). Of course you can supply the part yourself but don’t forget about warranty (again check our T&C). A ballpark figure for most parts is between $30 to $150 but we can confirm that with you once we have diagnosed the issue.
These are just some of the major brands found around Canberra that we can repair. If your appliance has parts available, we can repair it.
Our specialty is appliance repair, whether that be in the home or the commercial premise for example restaurant. We are equipped to be able to perform any kind of appliance repair that does not require a workshop (which covers almost everyting that is repairable). We even regularly travel outside Canberra to complete appliance repairs.
If you rely on your appliances in your business, then it is imperative that they keep going.
We offer a booking within 1 business day to get your appliance running.
If parts are available locally, we collect them directly to get your appliance repaired. If we have to order them outside of Canberra, we rebook within 1 business day of their delivery.
This insures your appliances are up and running as soon as we are able. Be sure to check our Terms and Conditions, and our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
If you require your commercial appliance repaired in the quickest possible timeframe - Get in Contact!Top
Your washing machine not filling with water or dispensing detergent properly
Your washing machine not draining or spinning
Washing machine leaks
Washing machine isn’t agitating
Washing machine out of balance or noisy
Your washing machine isn’t completing its cycle
We also have experience with some not-so common problems
Freezer ice cold but fridge is warm
Ice building up or not defrosting
Fridge alarms not stopping
Refrigerator tripping your power circuit
Fridge making strange sounds
Your fridge is leaking water
We can also help with some unusual fridge problems
Dishwasher not draining properly
Problems with dishwasher racks and rollers
Your dishwasher leaking around the door
Dishwasher not filling with water
Replacing dishwasher inlet and outlet hoses
Dishwasher not completing cycle or washing properly
We are also experienced in some of the rarer dishwasher problems
Replacing elements in your stove
Repairing fan forced ovens
Dryers not heating or spinning
Other appliances in the home
We get it. Sometimes an appliance has a number of problems that make it uneconomical to repair. Parts may no longer be in stock or their price is prohibitive to repair.
We are able to help you with sourcing, and replacing your appliance from local suppliers and can help dispose of your old appliance.
We are also able to help you with things like clothes dryer mounting.
We make fortnightly trips to repair appliances outside Canberra. Be sure to check our terms and conditions. Locations we travel to include:
Contact us to see if or when we next service your area
Sometimes, your appliance gets damaged in transit. Or perhaps a weather event has caused damage to your appliance. If you require an honest and unbiased report on the condition of your appliance, we are able to assist you. Be sure to check our Terms and Conditions.Top
The Ginger Beard Repair Service Team has the problem solving skills and experience to be able to repair your appliances.
The “Ginger Beard” behind the name
(He is a little shy at the moment)
The Ginger Beard Repair Service
8am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday
ABN: 37 810 846 317
Duffy ACT 2611
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This is a new parking brake lead of the Microcar MC1 to the year 2006. Use this cable as the last six digits of the chassis number is smaller than or equal to: 111557 Length outer cable: 990 mmLength inner cable: 1270 mm
This is a new shift cable from the Microcar MC1 & MC2. NOTE: this is a modified cable. If you have the old cable, replacing it may be that you have a different schakelhevel need. (see photo) Item number hevel: 1004380€ 10,37 ex vat.
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The Valentine’s season is the best time for the lovers as the ‘love in the air’ can be felt all over during this time. Though the feeling of love is eternal, it is required to express it creatively to begin, retain and enhance the relationship with the most gorgeous girl or lady in the life.
Eventually, the valentine’s Week and the Valentine’s Day on 14th of February can be the most relevant opportunity.
To enable the esteemed customers, to express themselves beautifully, the online gifts shopping portals bring a fabulous range of romantic gifts to choose from. The gifts would be the small yet meaningful modes to convey the inner desires to the beloved girlfriend.
Let us go through some glorious Valentine’s Day gift ideas offered online:
Personalised Our Hearts Photo Cushion:
The beautiful, fluffy, square cushion is printed with the photograph featuring the real life couple along with the text message:‘IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER’. The personalized love message from the boyfriend can also be added to the cushion. This can be one of the most impressive valentine’s day gifts that the girlfriends would love to be gifted with.
3D Crystal Heart Shape With Led Light Base:
This heart shaped 3D crystal would be beautifully engraved with the image of the couple. Additionally, the LED light base on which this crystal is placed, would enhance the appearance of this keepsake. As the light is switched on through the electric connection, the image of the couple and the love message glows fabulously.
Mera Pyar Personalised Song – Male Version:
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Valentine’s Wish Mug:
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An art gallery that has enjoyed five "happy years" is leaving its base in Bath at the end of this month.
Artist Emma Rose has run the 78 Walcot Street Gallery for the last five years in the city centre.
The work on show there includes her own paintings, cards, photographs and giclee prints - a fine art digital printing process combining pigment based inks with high-quality archival quality paper.
However, Emma announced that the business' last day of trading at the Bath gallery will be Saturday, July 27.
A notice on the shop window reads: "Artist Emma Rose is sadly leaving Walcot Street so thought she might have a sale.
"(The ) Last day of trading (is) Saturday 27th July.
"Thank you everyone, you've been fantastic.
"You will then find her at The Art Studio, Knight's Barn, Wellow."
About the artist:
According to her website, Emma regularly exhibits in Bath, the West Country and London.
Emma won the best artist award at the Independent Awards Bath (2016) and 'Wild card' in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year (2017).
She was a finalist at the 2018 and 2017 Creative Bath Awards and a multi-time finalist at the Bath Life Awards in art categories.
Emma has donated her artwork to the Royal United Hospital, Save the Children, The Princes Trust and much more.
Details on the closure:
There is a closing down sale with discounted prices until it shuts later this month.
The gallery will be open from 10am-5pm from Monday-Saturday until July 27.
For more information about the discounted artwork, visit her website on https://www.emmaroseartworks.com
The shop sits next to Enlighten of Bath, which is not closing.
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'The man I married was taken away from me': Woman opens up on the moment her husband was left disabled after being given a whooping cough injection
- A man is suing the WA government after he was permanently disabled
- He says he was paralysed after suffering rare bad reaction to vaccination
- The man says he was made to have vaccination before visiting newborn son
A Western Australia man is suing the state government after being administered a whooping cough vaccination that he says left him permanently disabled.
Ben Hammond's life was turned upside-down in 2012 after he was administered the vaccination shot, his family said.
'The man I married was taken away from me,' his wife Tanya Hammond told Daily Mail Australia.
'I don't know how you mourn somebody when you wake up to their face every morning,' she said of her husband, who is paralysed from the waist down.
Ben Hammond is pictured with his wife Tanya and newborn son James, shortly after he contracted an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of the brain and spinal cord
Mr Hammond says he contracted the disease after experiencing an extremely rare bad reaction to whooping cough vaccine. He is suing the WA government
The family said staff at a WA hospital insisted Mr Hammond, 38, get vaccinated as a precaution before visiting his newborn son.
'Unfortunately, it was this shot which landed Ben in the same hospital as his son, fighting for his life as a wave of paralysis crept up his spine, stopping his heart two separate times,' the family wrote on an online fundraising page.
'What was supposed to protect his son almost separated son and father forever.'
Experts told the West Australian newspaper that Mr Hammond contracted acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, after experiencing a 'one-in-a-million' bad reaction to the vaccine.
On its website, the Western Australia Health Department writes: 'Side effects after vaccination are usually mild and short-lasting and do not need special treatment... The risk of developing severe reactions after receiving a vaccine is extremely rare.'
Medical experts at the Australian National University did not respond to a request for comment by Daily Mail Australia.
Mr and Mrs Hammond are pictured before Mr Hammond fell ill. 'Every element of my life now is a fight,' his wife said on Tuesday
'I don't want to fight anymore. Ben didn't do this to himself,' said Tanya Hammond, right
After years of recovery Mr Hammond, a father of five and a former drill rig supervisor, has learned to walk again, albeit 'very rigidly,' his wife said.
'From his chest down, nothing works, there is no sensation,' Mrs Hammond, 34, said.
'He can't feel anything from his chest down - he doesn't know when he's full, or hurting,' she said.
Mr Hammond, who worked in the mining industry for 15 years, has been unable to work for four years. His wife, who used to manage a bar before giving birth to the couple's youngest son, had to quit her job to take care of her husband.
'I'm tired. Every element of my life now is a fight. And I don't want to fight anymore. Ben didn't do this to himself,' she said.
The family is in litigation against the WA government, and is hoping a successful suit will be 'a watershed for vaccine injury law in Australia.'
A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for 24 July 2017, according to the Hammond family.
Mr Hammond is pictured with his four-year-old son James in a recent photograph. He is suing the WA government for damages after he suffered an autoimmune disease
The Hammond family, pictured in a recent photograph, are alleging that Mr Hammond's disease was caused by an adverse reaction to whooping cough vaccine
'If the State is liable for Mr Hammond's injury, he will be awarded appropriate damages,' a spokesperson for Western Australia Attorney General Michael Mischin wrote in a statement to Daily Mail Australia.
'While the issue of liability and appropriate damages is yet to be determined in the usual course of litigation, it is not appropriate to make an ex gratia payment,' the spokesperson added.
The Hammond family is currently raising money through GoFundMe to pay for expert reports to be used in court.
The family has collected over $10,000 in less than a month.
In January, the Hammond family home in Kalgoorlie was raided by police after suspicions were raised that the property was being used to manufacture methamphetamine, the West Australian reported.
Police allege cannabis material and a smoking implement were found. The family says it was being used by Mr Hammond for self-treatment, the West Australian reported.
Mr Hammond has pleaded not guilty to the cannabis charges.
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Fed Needs to Rethink How to Tighten Monetary Policy
The Federal Reserve going about the process of tightening in the wrong way could have severe global repercussions.
- The problem is that the Fed wants to restart normalization process by raising its policy interest rate.
- The Fed must calculate carefully given that other economies (UK, Japan and the EU) are on the ropes.
- Raising interest rates could cause an inflow of hot money into the US that will appreciate dollar’s exchange rate.
- If the Fed is concerned about a stock market bubble, it should raise margin requirements.
- The Fed has should have prepared the U.S. market for less broad and more targeted measures.
After more than 7 years of economic recovery, the Federal Reserve is positioning itself to tighten monetary policy by raising interest rates.
In light of the wobbly reaction in financial markets, an important question that must be asked is whether raising interest rates is the right tool.
It could well be argued that the world’s leading central bank is going about the process of tightening in the wrong way. Owing to the dollar’s preeminent standing, that could have severe global repercussions.
Just as the Fed has had to rethink how it combats recessions, so too it must rethink how it transitions from an easy monetary policy stance to a tighter stance.
A quick review
In December 2015, the U.S. Federal Reserve increased interest rates for the first time in almost a decade. This move came with the expectation of gradually raising its interest rate to a new normal of 3%.
Initially, normalization aimed to lighten pressure on the monetary policy pedal, and only later would it turn to hitting the monetary policy brake.
The normalization process was contingent on the data showing continued improvement, but the U.S. economy slowed in the first half of 2016, putting it on hold.
However, since May, the data have again been robust regarding job creation and wage growth. Furthermore, there are signs of asset and house price exuberance in the U.S. economy that can be destabilizing and also inflict large future losses on working families.
These recent developments have prompted the Federal Reserve to consider restarting the process.
Raising interest rates is the wrong way
The problem is not that the Federal Reserve wants to restart the normalization process, but rather that it wants to do so by raising its policy interest rate. That risks spilling the infamous monetary policy “punch bowl.”
Raising interest rates is a dangerous step in today’s integrated global economy. The Fed must calculate especially carefully given that other economies (the UK, Japan and the EU) are on the ropes and lowering rates.
Raising U.S. rates in such an environment threatens to cause an inflow of hot money into the United States that will appreciate the dollar’s exchange rate and further fuel US financial markets.
That, in turn, will negatively impact manufacturing via lower exports and increased imports. It will also lower investment spending by injuring manufacturing. And it would further distort financial asset prices, setting them up for a possible disorderly correction.
Alternative normalization path
There is an alternative normalization policy path that avoids these problems.
1. The Federal Reserve should shelve plans to raise its policy interest rate. Later, if the normalization process goes well, it can put rate hikes back on the policy table.
2. The Federal Reserve should immediately stop reinvesting the income from its private sector bond holdings and should start running-off those holdings.
Having the private sector repay debt held by the Federal Reserve would drain liquidity from financial markets, thereby tamping down financial speculation and also putting incipient upward pressure on long-term interest rates, which is what policymakers desire.
3. If the Federal Reserve is concerned about house price inflation, it should impose a temporary reserve requirement on new mortgages.
That would make new mortgages more expensive, given that banks would pass on the cost of the reserve requirement to borrowers, thereby cooling house price inflation.
Most importantly, this well-targeted measure would not affect interest rates in the rest of the U.S. economy, thereby avoiding causing hot money inflows and collateral damage on manufacturing and investment.
4. If the Federal Reserve is concerned about a stock market bubble and related impacts on consumption spending, it should raise margin requirements.
Margin borrowing for stock purchases is at near-record levels. Even a symbolic increase would put speculators on notice and discourage borrowing.
Such a move would also rehabilitate an important anti-speculation policy tool that has been allowed to fall into disuse.
Rethinking monetary policy in normal times
Chairwoman Yellen’s recent Jackson Hole conference speech was titled “The Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy Toolkit: Past, Present, and Future.” She argued that the policy tools developed in the economic crisis to promote recovery need to be retained for possible future deployment.
Those tools include interest on excess reserves (IOER), large scale asset purchases, and explicit forward guidance.
Whereas the Federal Reserve has radically rethought how to combat recessions, its policy framework for normal times is less changed and remains focused on interest rates. For instance, both IOER and forward guidance concern interest rate policy.
This lack of change means the Federal Reserve risks spilling the punch bowl. The above alternative program shows how that can be avoided.
Instead of immediately raising interest rates, the Federal Reserve should use the current transition as an opportunity to introduce quantitative policy tools such as margin requirements and adjustable discretionary reserve requirements on problematic asset classes.
Doing so can allow it to drain the punch bowl without spilling the punch.
Unfortunately, the Fed is far behind the curve. It has directed all of its efforts to preparing the market for higher interest rates, when it should have first been preparing the market for these type of targeted measures. However, better late than never.
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Kofi Annan once told Alexander Payne that “Election” was the most purely political film he’d ever seen, which makes one wonder where the former U.N. Secretary-General would place the nonfiction “Frontrunners,” Caroline Suh’s study about the real life political process at New York City’s Stuyvesant High School. As the film immediately lets the audience know, Stuyvesant is one of the most prestigious schools in the country and a proving ground for some of the best and brightest where a term as student union president could equal a ticket to Harvard or Yale. With so much at stake, the race for student government involves primaries, televised debates, newspaper endorsements and, yes, the usual schmoozing with constituents (which in one candidate’s case involves serving glasses of Pellegrino in the middle of a hallway “lounge”).
For most, this isn’t the typical high school experience, but then again, what is? Although the four candidates at the center of “Frontrunners” represent the familiar cliques of high school life Hannah, the drama queen whose extracurriculars included a role in Todd Solondz’s “Palindromes”; George, the Max Fischer-esque go-getter; Mike, a seemingly withdrawn type who cruises by on his looks and charm; and Alex, the ill-prepared basketball player the resulting election reveals a generation of teens that is at once diverse, but also media savvy and unafraid of resorting to old fashioned stumping for votes. The documentary is the first to be directed by Suh, who had previously been a producer on various PBS documentaries with Erika Frankel. Suh discussed the highs and lows of the campaign trail following “Frontrunners'”s world premiere at SXSW.
Coming from a producing background, did your heart sink when you found out that one of the candidate’s strategies involved blasting “Born to Be Wild” and “Teenage Wasteland” (songs with expensive licensing fees) to grab the attention of students walking to class?
Both Erica and I begged George, when we found out that this was part of his campaign strategy, to not play The Beatles or things that we knew we couldn’t license and of course, he kind of ignored us and played very expensive music. [laughs] We have a lawyer who’s very aggressive in terms of fair use issues and she’s been guiding us through the process. But as two people who are used to producing, it was very disturbing, but we had to go with it because it was the story and we couldn’t control what was happening.
Had you been wanting to direct for a long time?
I started doing this because I wanted to make films and needed to learn the craft and also, we need to support ourselves, but this was a great opportunity to not produce and do something that was my own, to not have boundaries and not have to make a program to time and not have to take notes that we didn’t agree with. It really was a great experience in that way.
A high school election also seems like a nice subject to ease into as a first project since it’s self-contained. Was that a consideration?
That was definitely a consideration. We wanted to tell a campaign story and we don’t really look at the film as a competition film, but more as a campaign film. We knew that there was an arc to the story, so that definitely made it more manageable, and we knew we’d be shooting for a limited amount of time, which actually enabled us to make the film because we could afford to. It wasn’t a situation where it would stretch on for months and months and we couldn’t afford to have a [D.P.].
Last night in the Q & A, you said you didn’t want to work with adults, but usually the maxim is “no kids, no animals” how did high school politics come up?
CS: [laughs] Well, to be honest, we’ve worked on a lot of a serious subject matter docs and I wanted to do something where I didn’t have to be professional. As a producer, it’s also different you do have to present yourself professionally, and I wanted to do something that was more relaxed, more one-on-one. I also look young and I’m a woman and when you’re dealing with “adults,” it’s a different kind of interaction. So it’s nice to work with teenagers where some of that outer stuff falls away.
Because of the Stuyvesant setting, you probably knew the election would be interesting, but in most high schools, elections seem to boil down to pithy popularity contests. Was that a concern of yours going in?
When we started filming, that was definitely a fear that oh, what if there’s no story? We didn’t have any control over it or the characters luckily, they ended up being great and all very different from each other. But it was a huge fear. There could’ve easily been no story. We know there were going to be debates, and that’s great and fun, but we started to relax when we met the Spectator people [the Stuyvesant school newspaper, which must endorse a candidate] because they provided a context for the election that gave it some gravity.
Were you surprised by how civil the election was?
I don’t know if we had any expectations going in as to what it would be like. We were concerned that bad things would happen, because they’re only 16 and 17, and we didn’t want this to be something that ruined someone’s whole life, so we really were hoping that there wouldn’t be real world ugliness. We were lucky that didn’t happen.
You also kept the focus on the election, although there seemed like there could’ve been a natural inclination to learn a bit more about the adults.
That’s what we wanted to do. We felt strongly that the film is really about the election and how the kids have decided to be at school. It’s really their story, their public persona, and their private persona too, but it really is all about who they are at school. It was important to us that we keep it that way.
[Photos: “Frontrunners,” Suh Films, 2008]
For more on “Frontrunners,” check out the official site here.
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This April, American University’s Office of Campus Life selected both of its awardees for the 2015 Outstanding Service Award as well as its awardees for the 10 Student Achievement Awards it gives out each year. Of these recipients, 4 students from the School of Public Affairs were selected to receive this honor. Patrick Kelly (Outstanding Service to the University Community), Chandler Thornton (Catheryn Seckler-Hudson Student Achievement Award), Chante Harris (Harold Johnson Student Achievement Award), and Cj Murphy (Stafford H. Cassell Student Achievement Award) were recognized for their service.
Each year, students, at the graduate or undergraduate level, are selected to receive the Outstanding Service Award or Student Achievements awards. Recipients are those individuals who provide unique contributions and strong dedicated service to the American University community through student government, public service, organizational leadership, or service through a combination of these categories.
These awards will be presented to the recipients during Commencement week in May.
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For those seeking something completely different, there is a new buzz word amongst holiday makers: ‘Glamping’ – or glamorous camping!
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I am so fortunate to serve in many different roles - mother, social worker, yoga teacher - and the common thread that flows through them all is my desire to provide support by meeting people where they are at, recognizing each individual's or family's strengths, and holding space in the midst of often transformative experiences.
My approach is to first listen and observe and then guide people to follow their own path, while acknowledging the real impacts of challenges that may be present. Being pregnant, parenting, making it through a yoga class - can all be both wonderful and challenging! I hope to provide support in a way that builds confidence and promotes overall well-being. My goal is to help people achieve a balance between self-care and caring for others.
I enjoy serving people of all diverse backgrounds, with a particular interest and expertise in working with people with disabilities or other special health care needs.
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An Oklahoma woman pleaded guilty Monday to attempted copper theft at a Westar substation near Wichita more than a year ago.
Kristie Parsons, 24, of Moore, Okla., was one of three Oklahoma residents stopped by a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy in northeast Sedgwick County on Dec. 3, 2013. The trio used Google Earth to find where large quantities of copper were being stored, sheriff’s Capt. David Mattingly said in a statement released by the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office.
Parsons is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 19 by Sedgwick County District Judge Bruce Brown. Timothy Weaver, 32, of Del City was sentenced to one year of probation, with a nine-month jail sentence if he violates that probation. Dusty Drake, 33, of Oklahoma City was sentenced to one year of probation, with 11 months in jail if he violates that probation.
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Between 1904 and 1906, the Edison Manufacturing Company continued to produce both actualities and staged/fiction subjects. Even though there often were many more nonfiction titles in release than fiction‹for example, during the February 1906-February 1907 business year, Edison offered 49 original nonfiction versus 12 fiction films‹when these subjects are analyzed in terms of length, the actual amount of footage in each category is almost identical. Even more importantly, when it comes to sales figures, 85% of the prints made from original Edison negatives were acted films. And this ratio (15% nonfiction, 85% staged/fiction) was remarkably stable throughout the period 1904-06. Many of the actualities sold poorly, if at all, news films of the San Francisco Earthquake being among the few exceptions.
Edwin S. Porter, in his role as studio head and production chief, worked with a number of different collaborators in 1904, including G. M. Anderson and Will S. Rising. In May 1905, Edison hired Wallace McCutcheon away from the Biograph Company. McCutcheon had been a key figure in that's studio's successful output of ribald comedies and engaging melodramas. Undoubtedly, such headhunting was designed not only to strengthen Edison's production capabilities, but to hurt its chief domestic rival, as well.
Porter and McCutcheon worked together for the next two years, but indications are that it may not have been an entirely happy collaboration. In fact, compared to 1905, the pace of filmmaking slackened at Edison in 1906, despite the tremendous demand for new films that resulted from the nickelodeon boom (the proliferation of generally small, specialized motion picture theaters) beginning in late 1905-early 1906. The number of Edison fiction films declined by almost 50% (from 22 to 12) and the amount of negative footage by almost one-third. Even so, print sales, which increased 25% from 1904 to 1905, doubled from 1905 to 1906.
The fiction films made by Edison between 1904 and 1906 offered a complex view of American life. They often criticized the social consequences of the emerging large-scale industrial economy, with its huge gaps between rich and poor. Films such as The Ex-Convict (1904), The Kleptomaniac (1905) and The Miller's Daughter (1905) thus articulated a Progressive view of the American condition. Others offered a certain nostalgia or romanticizing of small town communities. At the same time, many of these films participated exuberantly in the nation's urban commercial popular culture (The Strenuous Life of 1904, or Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog of 1905). Many revealed the racial and ethnic stereotypes that pervaded most aspects of cultural activity. Rather than give a sanitized version of Edison's output, our selections offer the full range and complexity of these representations.
European Rest Cure
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot: July-August 1904; © 1 September 1904. Print: MoMA.
This spoof on the popular travelogue genre follows an American tourist across Europe and the Middle East on a "rest cure," in which one physically or emotionally wrenching disaster follows another. Foreign locales were actually pasteboard sets of pyramids, Roman ruins, and a French cafe, while additional scenes were shot on location at Hudson River docks as the tourist leaves and returns. Porter combined this original material with footage of S.S. Coptic Running Against the Storm, taken by James White on his Pacific voyage in 1898, and Pilot Leaving Prinzessen Victoria Luise at Sandy Hook, taken by White in late 1902. Another shot was excerpted from Sky Scrapers of New York from the North River, which James Smith had filmed in May 1903.
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the New York Herald Personal Columns
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot August 1904; © 26 August 1904. Print: MoMA.
Edison's principle domestic rival in 1904 was once again the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Biograph was then producing a series of popular story films, which it used as exclusives for its exhibition circuits. Edison affiliated renters and exhibitors were deeply frustrated that they could not acquire these films. Taking advantage of this demand and eager to harm its competitor, the Edison Company had Edwin S. Porter remake several of Biograph's hits. This one was a remake of Personal. Ultimately, Biograph had to sell its story films as soon as they were shown in theaters, undermining its exhibition service. Biograph sued Edison for copyright infringement on this film, but lost.
Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot: 17-21 September 1904; © 30 September 1904. Print: MoMA.
Sold as "Weary Willie" Kisses the Bride, this three-shot comedy is built around the popular stereotype of the tramp, a character that exists outside of proper society and is comically under socialized. Here, he takes advantage of a spat between a bride and groom to sneak a kiss, only to be thrown off the train for his efforts. This film is set in a train station, inside the train itself, and on the tracks. As in the case of What Happened in the Tunnel, it could either be integrated by the exhibitor into a program of railway scenes or used to fill out a reel of miscellaneous motion pictures for a variety bill. As was often the case, Porter created a film by combining elements from two popular motion picture genres.
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot: 22 November 1904; © 9 December 1904. Print: MoMA.
A single-shot comedy staged against a painted backdrop, in which a boy plans to play a trick on a drunken rube, only to be outwitted by his intended victim.
The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot December 1904; © 19 December 1904. Print: MoMA.
A lighthearted spoof of family life and fatherhood. President Roosevelt, who had just won reelection, believed Americans had to lead "the strenuous life" (it was the title of one of his books) if the United States was to retain its position of world leadership. He also declared that married women of northern European stock had a responsibility to produce at least four children to prevent "race suicide." Porter combined these two elements into a burlesque: the father returns home as his wife gives birth and soon finds himself caring for quadruplets. Using a close up, Porter shows the father's initial expression of pride as he weighs the first baby, but this expression quickly changes to distress as the nurse brings in one infant after another.
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot: November 1904; © 19 November 1904. Print: MoMA.
An uncredited but quite obvious adaptation of a well-known vaudeville piece, Number 973, by Robert Hilliard and Edwin Holland. Starting from the Hilliard-Holland one-act playlet, Porter visualized the storyline into a total of eight scenes. Unlike Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Ex-Convict was not filmed theater but an adaptation that took advantage of the filmmaker's ability to place a scene in an appropriate location (outside a store, home, or factory, and on the street) and to move quickly from one setting to the next. The naturalistic locales and the accelerated pace heightened the emotional intensity of the viewer's reaction to the pathetic story, achieving a level of realism impossible on the stage. In the process of adaptation, Porter also added important new elements, notably the ex-convict's family.
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Cast: Aline Boyd (The Kleptomaniac, Mrs. Banker), Phineas Nairs (Store Detective), Jane Stewart (Female Detective), George Voijere (Superintendent, Department Store), Ann Egleston (The Thief), Will S. Rising (Police Court Judge), Helen Courtney (Justice). Shot late January 1905; © 4 February 1905. Print: MoMA.
This condemnation of the class bias found in the American justice system works within a Progressive political framework. Porter juxtaposes the situations of two women. The impoverished woman is shown at home, in the context of her family. The barren room, the absence of a husband/provider, and the weighty responsibility of children who need care and are still too young to work elicit the viewer's understanding and sympathy. Mrs. Banker is denied the sympathetic context of family life, although the brownstone from which she emerges clearly indicates her social status. She, as the title indicates, has no motivation for shoplifting other than the thrill. Mrs. Banker goes inside a high-class emporium (Macy's) and steals some nonessential baubles under the noses of sales personnel. Her actions are clearly premeditated. In contrast, the poor woman, overwhelmed by temptation, steals food left outside and unattended. Her actions are spontaneous. Once arrested, the wealthy kleptomaniac is treated with a courtesy and leniency denied the more deserving mother. The details given in the Edison catalog are not always evident on screen; for instance, there is no reason to suppose the kleptomaniac is a banker's wife.
The Seven Ages
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot February 1905; © 4 February 1905. Print: LoC.
Here, Porter photographed a series of short vignettes reminiscent of kiss films such as The John C. Rice-May Irwin Kiss (1896), structuring them around a premise provided by Shakespeare's "seven ages of man"--a theme often illustrated in nineteenth-century lantern shows. Beginning with toddlers and concluding with old people, the film shows couples kissing. Each of the first seven scenes contains two shots, the first an establishing shot and the second a medium close-up that gives a better view of each kissing couple. The eighth and final scene is a tableau that shows an old maid alone, introduced with the title "What Age?" To emphasize her solitude, Porter broke with the structure of earlier scenes and refrained from cutting in. The repetition and diversity of age groups undermines the kiss's exclusively sexual dimension. Sexuality is expressed within the context of the recurring life cycle made possible by the family.
The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter, possibly with Wallace McCutcheon. Shot: May 1905; © 31 May 1905. Print: LoC.
One of several Edison films from this period that used animated intertitles. It continued "a popular fad which has been widely advertised by lithographs and souvenir mailing cards." These postcards showed portraits of various members of the Dam family, with their names‹I. B. Dam, U. B. Dam--and so forth. This comedy plays with cinematic form, offering numerous introductory portraits followed by only a short vignette of action.
Coney Island at Night
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot: June 1905; © 29 June 1905. Print: LoC.
The camera caresses the lit-up amusement center with long sweeping movements, producing an eerie beauty. The smooth pans and tilts are a remarkable technical accomplishment, given the fact that night scenes required longer exposures.
The Little Train Robbery
Filmmaker: Edwin S. Porter. Shot: August 1905; © 1 September 1905. Print: MoMA.
In this parody of The Great Train Robbery, Edwin S. Porter burlesqued his own landmark film by substituting children for adults and using a miniature railroad and playhouse as sets. The young robbers don't take money but candy and dolls. Perhaps unintentionally, this film supported the argument made by many reformers, who worried that children had become juvenile delinquents by modeling themselves on the bandits in a film "universally admitted to be the greatest production in MOTION PICTURES." Filmed at Olympia Park while Porter was visiting his hometown of Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
The White Caps
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Shot: August 1905; © 14 September 1905. Print: MoMA.
In 1905 White Cap vigilante groups were particularly active in rural areas of the Border States and the Midwest. Members, generally faced with declining income and political power, acted as agents of social control, punishing offenses that the state and local governments failed to address adequately. The film offers a view of small-town America in which a wayward member is taught a lesson without the formalities of the legal system, the rural community acting as an extension of the family. Owen Davis's play The White Caps appeared in various cities a few months before the Porter film was made, whileThomas Dixon's The Clansman was in much publicized rehearsals.
The Watermelon Patch
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Shot: October 1905; © 20 October 1905. Print: MoMA.
This picture integrates elements found in earlier Edison films depicting blacks, such as The Chicken Thieves (1896), in which "darkies" raid a chicken coop; Watermelon Eating Contest (1896), a one-shot facial expression film of happy blacks eating watermelon; and The Pickaninnies (1894), showing three Negro youths doing a jig and breakdown. The isolated images of blacks presented in these earlier films are here unified and elaborated upon, using a wide range of editorial techniques. Blacks are shown to be superstitious, petty thieves, good dancers, and watermelon lovers. They like to have a good time, but their inherent laziness must be subsidized by pilfering. Watermelon Patch also owes much to Biograph's The Chicken Thief (1904), in which darkies steal chickens and bring them home for a party of eating and dancing. On their next outing, the two thieves are chased and caught by angry rednecks. The many parallels between the two films are partially explained by McCutcheon's involvement in both projects. This Edison film reveals an absurdist playfulness that is lacking in its more vicious and cruder Biograph predecessor.
The Miller's Daughter
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Shot: September-October 1905; © 25 October 1905. MoMA
The sinful, decadent city is contrasted to the simple, honest countryside in this fascinating reworking of Steele MacKaye's ever-popular melodrama Hazel Kirke (1880). Events occurring off-stage are shown in the Porter film, including Hazel's suicidal jump and her rescue. And yet, while Porter and McCutcheon retained the character's names, they reworked crucial narrative elements. Class differences are banished from rural life (Rodney is just an average farmer) and re-located to the city. It is Carringford, the debonair artist from the city, who acts duplicitously and seduces the miller's daughter, Hazel.
The Train Wreckers
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace C. McCutcheon. Shot: October-November 1905; © 25 November 1905. Print: MoMA.
Porter's most violent expression of the conflict between constituted society and its outsiders. The outlaw band, with its apparently irrational desire to destroy all social order, is finally eliminated by a combined force of railroad personnel and select passengers. With order finally restored, a romance between the engineer and the switchman's daughter, introduced at the beginning of the film, resumes. Society is able to return to its proper preoccupations. The Train Wreckers effectively demonstrates the need for social cohesion in a way that could serve as a prototype for future good-guy-versus-bad-guy conflicts. The film was extremely successful, selling 157 prints during 1905-6, and its narrative would be reworked six years later in one of D. W. Griffith's most successful Biograph films, The Girl and Her Trust (released March 28, 1912).
Life of an American Policeman
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace C. McCutcheon. Shot: November 1905; © 6 December 1905. Print: MoMA.
Photographed with the cooperation of the New York City Police Department, this film was first shown at two vaudeville benefits for the Police Relief Fund in early December 1905. The opening scene, which presents a officer at home with his wife and child, identifies the police with the institution of the family. The policeman's role in maintaining community values in the impersonal city is shown when patrolmen help a lost child and rescue a would-be suicide from the river. Their courage is demonstrated as one policeman controls a runaway horse and others risk their lives capturing a desperate burglar. The latter scene reenacts a robbery and the killing of a policeman that took place on Manhattan's Upper East Side on the morning of March 20, 1904.
Police Chasing Scorching Auto
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace C. McCutcheon. Shot: November 1905; © no reg. Print: MoMA.
Because the incidents included in Life of an American Policeman filled a 1,000-foot. reel, there was no room for this scene and so it was sold separately.
The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Cast: John P. Brown. Shot: late December to mid-February 1906; © 24 February 1906. Print: MoMA.
This film was primarily inspired by Winsor McCay's identically titled comic strip, which had appeared in the New York Telegram since 1904. Porter not only borrowed McCay's title, but his dream-based narrative structure. Likewise, McCay's surreal imagery is convincingly realized on the screen using a variety of photographic tricks. Although such visuals had many antecedents, McCay's strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland" may have provided another useful point of departure. The basic story line and some of the film's visuals, however, can also be found in an earlier Pathé film made by Gaston Velle, Rëve à la lune (1905). It took Porter eight weeks to execute the array of special effects in this 470-foot, eight-minute film.
Three American Beauties
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Shot: April 1906; © 1 May 1906. Print: MoMA.
Often hand-tinted, this short film was typically used by exhibitors to conclude their programs. It elaborated on a popular practice among exhibitors of the 1890s. They ended their programs with a film of the American flag waving in the breeze. The flag is the last of the "American Beauties" to appear; the first is the picture of a popular rose named "American Beauty."
Films of The San Francisco Earthquake
Camera: Robert K. Bonine. Shot: April-May 1906; Print: MoMA.
Edison cameraman Bonine traveled to San Francisco to take more than thirteen short films of San Francisco in the aftermath of its devastating earthquake on 18 April 1906, among them Dynamiting Ruins and Rescuing Soldiers Caught in the Fallen Walls and Panorama Russian and Nob Hill from an Automobile. These films were widely seen and often used to raise money for charitable purposes to help those affected. Surviving prints of this material were subsequently recycled, compromising their integrity. This is a selection of highlights.
The Terrible Kids
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Shot: May 1906; © 1 May 1906. Print: MoMA.
Part of the popular bad boy genre that would soon come under heavy criticism for providing young viewers with undesirable role models. Porter's comedy shows two boys disrupting a neighborhood's routine with the help of their dog, played by Mannie. Every scene is a variation on a mischievous prank, as they upset the daily lives of adults. Eventually their victims pursue the two pranksters, capture them and place them in police custody. But with Mannie's help, the kids escape as the film ends. According to an Edison catalog description, their antics "are sure to arouse a strong sympathy for the kids and their dog."
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Cast: Kitty
O'Neal (Kathleen), Walter Griswold (Terence O'More, Kathleen's lover),
H. L. Bascom (Captain Clearfield, an Irish Landlord), W. R. Floyd
(Dugan, Clearfield's willing tool), E. M. Leslie (David O'Connor, Kathleen's father),
N. B. Clarke (Father O'Cassidy, the parish priest), J. McDovall (Danny O'Lavey,
friend of Terence), Jeannie Clifford (Kitty O'Lavey, an odd Irish character), C.
F. Seabert (Black Rody, The Robber Chief), D. R. Allen (Red Barney), D. J.
McGinnis (Darby Doyle), W. F. Borroughs (Dennis O'Gaff). Shot: May and June 1906;
© 2 August 1906. Print: MoMA.
An adaptation of Dion Boucicault's popular stage play Kathleen Mavourneen; or St. Patrick's Eve, though with significant modifications. Much of Porter and McCutcheon's Irish melodrama was shot as if the audience could understand the absent dialogue. Likewise the collaborators used conventional theatrical blocking in most of their scenes, notably in the opening, for which the expansive landscape was treated as a stage. With nine major characters in the film, audiences would have had difficulty sorting out the narrative unless they already knew the play and/or received assistance from missing intertitles, or a lecture. The Edison Company nonetheless sold more than 70 copies of this film during the first year of release. (The status of the cast list, published in an advertisement in the New York Clipper, is uncertain.)
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Cast: Paul Panzer (Detective). Shot: September 1906; © 8 October 1906. Print: MoMA.
A jealous husband visits the Hawkshaw Detective Agency (a redundant naming device in its own right) and asks the detective to obtain evidence of his wife's supposed infidelities. Only a photograph is deemed acceptable evidence and the private eye's attempts to secure it provide a series of comic incidents, in which he is beaten and his cameras destroyed. When the black-eyed, limping detective finally presents his evidence to the husband, his photograph is of the daughter rather than the wife. Rather than providing evidence against the wife, the photograph exposes the detective's incompetence and the husband's unfounded suspicions.
Edwin S. Porter typically worked with a filmmaking partner. Wallace McCutcheon was his collaborator until May 1907, when he was replaced by stage manager and playwright J. Searle Dawley. Dawley and Porter continued to work together until June 1908 when the Edison Manufacturing Company, in an effort to increase its output of film subjects, created two different production units, with Porter heading one and Dawley heading the other. Porter also continued to act as studio manager.
The rapidly increasing number of specialized motion picture theaters, commonly known as nickelodeons for their 5¢ admission policy, meant that the motion picture industry had become immensely profitable by 1907. Demand for new films was such that a successful picture could easily sell more than 100 copies. The biggest problem from 1906 into early 1908 was simply that there were not enough films to fill demand. Almost anything that was made could sell and make a good profit. Although films such as The "Teddy" Bears (1907), College Chums (1907) and Cupid's Pranks (1908) were generally popular and sold well, their elaborate production values with their special effects were ill-suited for rapid film production. Meanwhile, other film companies were not only increasing their output, they were introducing important changes in their methods of storytelling. Most studios were telling stories in a much more linear fashion; not so at Edison. The system of representation and methods of editing that Porter had employed since Life of an American Fireman (1902-03) continued. This is evidenced by Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908), wherein actions are still shown twice across the cut, a practice that was being eliminated elsewhere and becoming old-fashioned. By spring 1908, the trade press was severely criticizing Edison films as unclear and poorly executed. It is at this very moment that a huge hole in surviving Edison film productions appears. Practically no films from the spring of 1908 through the fall of 1909 survive. Perhaps they were not considered worth keeping.
The "Teddy" Bears
Filmmakers: Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon. Shot: February 1907; © 23 February 1907; released 2 March 1907. Print: MoMA.
Starting out as an adaptation of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," the picture moves outside
the confines of the studio, suddenly changing moods and referents. The bears
chase Goldilocks across a snowy landscape until "Teddy" Roosevelt intervenes,
kills the two full-grown pursuers, and captures the baby bear. The sudden appearance
of T. R. was based on a well-known incident when President Roosevelt was on a hunting
expedition in November 1902 and refused to shoot a bear cub. Shortly thereafter a New York
toy store owner began to make and sell "Teddy's bear"--a stuffed version of the spared cub. The novelty had become a craze by 1906-7, when thousands of toy bears were being sold each week. The combining of these two referents was key to the film's humor.
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Clova Court, 64A-C & 66A-C Clova Road, Forest Gate, E7 9AF
Result: Sold for £86,000 Guide price: £80,000 plus*
Wednesday, 6th February 2019 11:00am
Location & Description
A large detached block comprising 6 self-contained flats (some with own street door) on the south side of Clova Road just north of Romford Road.
Central Stratford with its numerous transport links and Westfield shopping centre is just to the west.
64a: 99 years from 29.09.2006 at £350 p.a. (doubling every 33 years). Approximately 86 years unexpired.
64b: 99 years from 04.01.1980 at £25 p.a. Approx. 60 years unexpired.
64c: 99 years from 21.01.2003 at £100 p.a. Approx. 83 years unexpired.
66a: 99 years from 19.12.1979 at £25 p.a. Approx. 60 years unexpired.
66b: 125 years from 25.03.2004 at £200 p.a.
66c: 99 years from 29.09.1979 at £25 p.a. Approx. 59½ years unexpired.
Rear garden, side access.
EQUIVALENT TO £725 p.a. WITH 3 LEASES HAVING ABOUT 60 YEARS UNEXPIRED, ONE WITH 83 YEARS AND ONE WITH 86 YEARS UNEXPIRED.
LARGE UNDEMISED ROOF SPACE WITH DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL (SUBJECT TO CONSENTS).
B Bailey & Co 020 8532 4150 Ref: Peter Gunby
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Britain’s small high street businesses will see revenues and footfall hit from a fresh wave of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) branch closures, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
This week, RBS added an extra 162 in-store branches across England and Wales to its planned closure list. The bank said 792 jobs would be lost, with staff offered voluntary redundancy.
The latest RBS closures follow a steady loss of in-store bank branches across UK high streets.
In March 2017, RBS announced plans to shut the doors of 158 bank branches throughout the UK, citing the closures as a response to shifts in the way people wanted to interact with their bank.
The following December, the part-taxpayer owned bank confirmed it would axe 62 RBS and 197 NatWest branches – a quarter of its entire network. Again, the bank’s chief executive, Ross McEwan pointed to the rise of mobile banking in pushing RBS to an online-first strategy.
The latest announcement arrived shortly after RBS’ plans for a new challenger bank, under the Williams & Glyn name, were shelved.
Commenting on the closures, FSB chairman, Mike Cherry, said the failed sale of Williams & Glynn was being used “as an excuse to further decimate the UK’s bank branch network”.
“This fresh round of closures will hurt high streets all over the country at a time when thousands of small firms are already struggling,” Cherry added.
“When a bank branch goes it means less footfall, less cash in the local economy and less revenue for local small firms as a result.”
The creation of a state-run “Post Bank” would improve access to financial services for small UK business owners as high street lenders step away from traditional in-store banking, according to a new report.
With small business owners potentially losing access to banks for cash deposits, Cherry explained that holding excessive amounts at one time could put them at risk.
“If small firms can’t easily deposit takings it makes them targets for theft,” he said.
“Many small business owners have built up relationships with branch personnel that go back years – that’s not something that can be replaced by an app.
“The £800m that RBS has put up to avoid the sale of Williams & Glyn needs to be placed in the hands of those that will really make a difference. It was frustrating to see the £45m of dedicated funding for free branch access removed from the revised RBS package.”
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Permax and other Pergolide products have been recalled due to serious cardiovascular risks.
On March 29, 2007, the makers of Permax (pergolide) in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the withdrawal of all pergolide products from the market. The Permax / pergolide recall was ordered due to serious Permax side effect risks, including heart valve damage. The risk of Permax heart valve damage has been known since 2002.
If you or a loved one is taking Permax or other pergolide products, it is important to speak with your health care professional before making any changes to your treatment regiment. Stopping Permax suddenly can also lead to serious adverse effects.
If you or a loved one has been harmed by Permax or other pergolide products, you may be entitled to compensation for your losses. To learn more about your legal rights, please contact a qualified Permax lawyer or Permax attorney at The Oshman Firm today for a free confidential consultation.
The FDA has ordered the recall of pergolide products currently produced by Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Par, and Teva.
Permax is an oral prescription medication originally manufactured by Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals. Permax / pergolide is an ergot alkaloid drug belonging to a class of drugs called dopamine agonists. This drug is used to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease affecting movement, such as tremors and slow movement.
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disease affecting the central nervous system, which causes tremor, rigidity, slow movements, and postural instability (i.e. impaired balance and coordination). Secondary symptoms of Parkinsons disease can include speech problems, loss of facial muscle control, trouble swallowing, confusion, skin problems, constipation, memory problems, loss of energy, and more.
Permax and related pergolide products were originally approved in 1989 as an adjunct therapy to be used concurrently with levodopa and carbidopa treatments. In 2006, approximately 12,000 Americans were taking Permax or pergolide products.
Permax and pergolide have been pulled from the market due to the risk of heart valve damage caused by Permax side effects. The medical name for this condition is cardiac valvulopathy, which means abnormality of the cardiac / heart valves. This condition can effect any of the heart valves including the aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valves.
Two recent studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, have confirmed that Permax can increase the risk of heart valve regurgitation. Valve regurgitation causes the blood in valves to leak backwards into the valve instead of flowing normally. Symptoms of this serious Permax side effect include heart palpitations (awareness of more forceful or irregular heartbeat), breathing troubles, leg swelling, and fatigue.
Valve regurgitation is a potentially life threatening condition that can lead to myriad health problems such as stroke, heart failure, inflammation, and fibrosis.
Research has shown that stopping the use of Permax and pergolide can improve the symptoms or other manifestations of heart valve damage.
Permax warnings state that use of pergolide products have been known to cause the following conditions:
- Pleuritis, which is inflammation of the lining of the lungs
- Pleural effusion, which is the accumulation of fluid between the layers of membranous tissue in the lungs and chest cavity.
- Pleural fibrosis, which is characterized by a thickening of the lung’s lining
- Pericarditis, or inflammation of the pericardium, which is the membrane surrounding the heart
- Pericardial effusion, which is accumulation of fluid in the pericardium
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis, is a disorder in which the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder are blocked.
The recent Permax recall is the not the first instance where Permax side effect risks have prompted action.
In 2002, the makers of pergolide products first became aware of the serious risks of Permax side effects, such as heart valve damage.
In 2003, Eli Lilly sent a “Dear Healthcare Practitioner” letter to doctors across the nation warning them about the rare but serious risk of Permax side effects, described above. In light of this evidence about pergolide side effects, a stronger warning was added to all Permax labeling.
In 2006, the FDA further strengthened the Permax warning to a “black box warning,” the strongest warning label the FDA can require short of a drug recall. This action was a response to additional information about heart valve damage risks.
Certain patients are at a greater risk of serious Permax side effects. Patients with a history of cardiac valve, pleural, or pericardial disorders may be at an increased risk of pergolide side effects. People who have had an adverse reaction to other ergot alkaline drugs—such as bromocriptine (Parlodel), cabergoline (Dostinex), dihydroergotamine (D.H.E., Migranal), ergonovine (Ergotrate), and ergotamine (e.g. Cafergot, Ercaf)—also appear to be at a greater risk.
The risks of adverse Permax events can also increase with concurrent use of other medications. Permax drug interactions may be a greater risk if patients are taking any of the following drugs while using permax or pergolide drugs:
- Anti-anxiety medications
- Drugs for mental illness
- Anti-nausea medicines
- Seizure medications
- Salicylate Pain Relievers
- Sleeping pills
In addition to serious cardiovascular risks, symptoms of Permax side effects also include:
- Trouble moving
- Shortness of breath
- Large unexplained weight gain within a short period of time
- Swelling of the face, ankles, legs, hands, feet, lips, eyes, etc
- Chest pain
- Hallucinations and/or delusions
- Unexplained death
Do not stop or change your medication without first speaking with your doctor. Stopping Permax or pergolide products abruptly can cause serious complications. If you suddenly stop taking Permax, you may experience, muscle stiffness, excessive sweating, increased heart rate, incontinence, fever, confusion, loss of consciousness, and/or hallucinations.
In most cases, you doctor will want to slowly decrease your dose of Permax. Luckily, there are alternative treatments to Permax that are effective for treating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. You should speak with your doctor about what medication is best for you.
If you or a loved one has suffered serious harm caused by Permax or pergolide products, you may be entitled to compensation of your medical expenses and more. Please contact our qualified and experienced Permax attorneys and Permax lawyers today to learn more about your rights and options to file a Permax lawsuit.
The Oshman Firm can help you make informed decisions about your legal rights, so please call the Permax attorneys at The Oshman Firm at Toll Free: 1(800)-400-8182 for your free legal consultation.
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The Islamic Museum of Australia in partnership with ISRA launched the “Mecca to Marree, A Journey in Virtual Reality Experience” on Wednesday 5 December in Melbourne.
The VR experience took the audience through a historical journey from the Mecca of 650 CE to Australia in the year 1885, following the development and spread of Islam through its humble beginnings to the ages of the Caliphs and to its arrival on the shores of Australia in Maree.
A number of Islamic school principals, community leaders and volunteers attended and played with the new VR equipment. The Virtual Reality Experience goggles gave individuals a guided tour and historical narrative while giving them a depiction on what these sites would have looked like.
The most common comment made by those who took the tour was “it feels so real.”
The VR tour begins in Mecca and concludes in Maree, one of Australia’s very first mosques. It gives the audience a better sense of connection from where it all started to its first presence in Australian society.
The VR Launch is currently available at the Islamic Museum of Australia in Melbourne There are plans to take the ‘tour’ to other states of Australia, including rural areas, as well as overseas.
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Use our printable template to make the perfect sized house for your little ones to decorate.
Molasses is a key ingredient when making Gingerbread Cookies. But with several different types available, how do you know which one to use?
The 4 main types of molasses are that are produced during the boiling/refining process; fancy, cooking, blackstrap, and light. Each with their own slightly different taste:
This is the highest grade of molasses and is the pure juice of the sugar cane, which has been condensed, inverted and purified (and is also the sweetest). This molasses can be used ‘raw’ on poured on pancakes or spread on toast, to all your baked goods recipes.
This is the final by-product of refining molasses. It has been highly-concentrated into a thick, dark mass with a slightly bitter taste, due to the majority of the sugar crystals being removed. Its bold flavor are great in recipes liked baked beans, or even gingerbread if you want a less sweet product.
A blend of fancy molasses and blackstrap . It has the best of both worlds, with a thick, dark consistency, but less sweet straight fancy molasses. The addition of the blackstrap gives it a fuller-flavored taste. Use cooking molasses in all your cooking or baking needs.
This a product made from fancy molasses with the addition of glucose-fructose and other ingredients. It is specially-formulated to be a calorie-reduced option.
Just like building a real house, here is everything you need to get you started!
Download our free Mini Gingerbread House Template:
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Prepare the Gingerbread Cookie recipe, and roll out to 1/4″ thick on a lightly piece of floured parchment paper. Cut out the template pieces then lay them onto the dough. Carefully cut around the template with a sharp knife, and place on a prepared baking sheet.
Bake as directed, allowing to cool completely before assembling.
How to Assemble
You can ‘glue’ house together using Royal Icing, however I found the best – and quickest setting and hardest ‘glue’ is candy syrup.
Have all your gingerbread pieces cut out and cooked, while you prepare a candy syrup.
Follow the instructions in this Almond Brittle recipe to make the candy syrup, and once the boiling sugar syrup reaches 275°F, CAREFULLY dip the edge of one side of the house into the boiling syrup (use tongs to be extra safe to avoid burning yourself).
Working on a silicon or parchment lined baking sheet, quickly press it together with its matching side, holding them together until set – a few seconds. Repeat until all pieces are ‘glued’ together.
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The North American marine equipment market has another importation and distribution option with an agreement between Norwegian control equipment specialist Lilaas AS and marine and offshore sales and support company Imtra Corp. of New Bedford, Mass.
The deal, initially for three years, will see Imtra’s 52-person organization offering product and after-sales technical support for Lilaas control levers, joysticks and rudder controls in the United States and Canada.
“We selected Imtra based on the strong positive feedback we received from a number of suppliers already benefiting from their support,” Lilaas managing director Øyvind Lilaas said in a statement. “This is more or less a new market for Lilaas and it was very important for us to work through a sales and technical staff familiar with our way of doing things. We believe there is great potential for uptake of Lilaas controls in the offshore and fishing sectors, in particular, while the wider retrofit market looks especially promising.”
Lilaas AS was established as Lilaas Finnekaniske AS in 1961 by Jan Lilaas. The company has more than 50 years of experience in the manufacture of precision mechanics for shipbuilding and offshore customers.
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I recognise there have been a lot of replies already. Reading through them, I think there are a couple of things missing. I've been using various forms of RPG Maker since a disc with RPG Maker 2003 made its way around my high school when I was about 13 (16 years ago?! Can that be right? I feel super old now!). This was when it was an illegal fan translation or nothing at all (I purchased the legal options on Steam the moment they became available). I spent three years at art school obtaining a BA (Hons) Games Art & Design degree. This covered actual art, sure, but also project management, collaborating with programmers and leads, as well as contextual and business studies. My day job now is as an Instructional Designer. Essentially, I make short training games on topics like GDPR for bankers. Lots of short six to twelve week projects in a development tool that's startlingly similar to RPG Maker. I've been doing that for around 4 or 5 years now. Here's what I've learned: - have a mission statement / problem statement. It provides a clear objective, it also means you can be strict in saying "Does this achieve our goal?" If the answer's no, it should probably be cut. - do your research. What's your demographic? Define your audience. Talk to them, find out what their wants and needs are. Ask them about previous experiences, good and bad. Talk to the unconverted, find out what puts them off. Look at existing materials with a critical eye, try to deconstruct them, figure out why they made the creative decisions they did and whether you think they made the right calls. - declare what a minimum viable product is. The classic comparison is to say we commonly build a car by making the wheels, then the chassis, then the doors. It's a waterfall approach. What it doesn't do is highlight potential issues or give you something you can actually use while development is on-going. Instead, try a sprint approach where the aim is make a mode of transportation, start with a skateboard, that becomes a kick along scooter, that becomes a motorcycle, that then becomes a car. It's about iterating in shorter cycles to learn and make changes as you go. - prototype and fail faster. We start with a grey box solution. It's grey boxes galore, we just want something running as quickly as possible. Is it fun? Is it intuitive? Does it meet the mission statement? No? Well, at least you didn't waste ages on custom graphics and that for something that's not workable. - scope your project. What's required and when? How long do you have? What's achievable in that time? What are the key deliverables and when are they due? Timetable it, schedule it, stick to it. - testing and review. So there's a difference between user testing and usability testing. User testing is "What do you think?" You're engaging with the tester. Usability testing, you're looking at whether the thing works and whether it's intuitive by sitting back, not engaging, and simply observing the user. Did they find that button? Did they figure out that weakness? Are they using optimal strategies? Watch a Twitch streamer or YouTube let's player run the current build of your game, you'll learn so much! It can be excruciating because you'll think "It's right there! Isn't it obvious?" No. It's obvious to you, you made it. In terms of RPG Maker MV specifically, I make a few choices that are a little more personal: - use 16x16 or 24x24 sprites that are 3x or 2x Nearest Neighbour scaled to MV's 48x48 tile grid. If the game does well enough, I can always get extra hands on deck to redraw in lovely HD later but going for 48x48 out of the gate means I'll never get anything done. - Yanfly's plug ins are my favourite thing ever but I have to be very selective. I know what my game aims to do and I pick and choose only the things that will help achieve that goal. (Galv's got some awesome stuff too!) Put it this way, if you grab one of everything at an all you can eat buffet, you'll just confuse your taste buds and make yourself hurl. - be ready to ask for help. There's an awesome community of people here that are more than happy to help each other. Use it! - accept you're not a Jack of All Trades. Chances are, you're going to need to buy that music pack, or commission that plug in, or hire a mapper. One person doing everything ends up okay at best. Three experts focusing on the element they're good at gives a much stronger whole. I guess I'm saying a game's only as good as its weakest element. I hope that's somewhat helpful. If you've got any questions, feel free to ask. I do this kind of work for a living and I could talk to you for days about the process, theory, and application and still barely scratch the surface.
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The gorgeous Shruti Haasan is dating a London-based theatre artist Michael Corsale since a very long time. The couple has never officially spoken up about their relationship, but their social media posts are a proof that the couple is going strong with each passing day. Shruti has been flying from India to London back and forth to meet her boyfriend Michael and is also busy with her music career. Shruti Haasan, who is the daughter of Kamal Haasan, recently shared a romantic picture of her with Michael and it only makes us wonder if marriage is on cards for the couple.
The news about Shruti Haasan’s marriage has been doing the rounds since a very long time, but the actress has always denied, and now, we can’t wait to see her getting married. Shruti shared this romantic picture and captioned, “You make me laugh, and that is the most important thing in this world @themichaelcorsale #reunited #la #drivingaround #mylovelyman.” Isn’t the couple setting major relationship goals? Check out the picture below.
Shruti had also shared a stunning selfie of her as soon as she reached London to meet her partner and captioned it, “Happy heart ❣ #la #travel #withmyboy.”
On the work front, Shruti is all set to make her small screen debut with host show called Hello Sago. On the other hand, the actress is shooting for her film Sabash Naidu, which is being directed by her father Kamal Haasan. The film is an Indian spy comedy-adventure which also stars Kamal Haasan.
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Investment: Classic Cars
Are you interested in a good classic car investment?
Feel free to contact us.
The price of classic cars have performed very well in the shorter past.
Especially in this period of low interest rates you can use the classic cars as a sustainable investment with good growth rates.
Images shows Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este-Event in Cernobbio - Lago di Como - Italy
The Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index (FKLII)
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We're delighted to be partnering with Hancocks Wine Beer and Spirit Merchants for distribution of our wines in New Zealand, as of 1 February 2014.
Hancocks is an established family business with a set of outstanding brands in its portfolio and a national reach. Coopers Creek will soon be available in far more outlets around New Zealand, in addition to the strong existing distribution in Auckland and the upper North Island. We're especially excited that with Hancocks' great relationships in the on-premise sector there'll soon be many more restaurants, hotels and bars around the country offering our wonderful wines with their superb cuisine!
If you're a member of the liquor trade and wish to stock Coopers Creek via Hancocks, you can contact them on 0800 699 463. See www.hancocks.co.nz
for further information.
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Can I just say wow? Playstation® is really bringing back some memories as they launch the latest in the DJMAX series – DJMAX RESPECT – this July 28, 2017. Read on to find out more about the upcoming game!
My gosh, who doesn’t know about DJMAX? I think everyone who has ever played on a Playstation® Portable would’ve come across the series, haha! I think I actually still have it on my PSP, LOLOLOL!
I wasn’t any good at it but there were a lot of memorable songs that I played to pass the time when I was bored at home or commuting. (Hey! It was safer back then, LOL!)
DJMAX RESPECT is a title that connects the long history and future of the DJMAX franchise, which was first introduced on console platforms in 2006. Boasting a massive volume at a total of 140 songs, it contains all tracks from DJMAX Portable 1 and DJMAX Portable 2, along with exclusive new sounds from legendary composers.
This latest title features an ONLINE mode that allows gamers to play with DJMAX players around the world around via a network connection, and players can enjoy the game in many ways by choosing from a variety of modes, including ARCADE, FREE STYLE, and MISSION. In addition, players can easily compare their own performance with a detailed ranking system that offers three individual categories such as Master Ranking, Music Ranking, and Arcade Ranking.
I don’t know about y’all but it seems like an interesting thing to get back into! I might just get a copy for myself, for those times I don’t feel like playing hardcore games, haha! What do you guys think? 🙂
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Summer of Events Continues at Thirlestane
With summer now in full swing, we are looking forward to some more special events at Thirlestane Castle.
The first is a welcome return from Chapterhouse Theatre Company who are back at the castle for another year with one of their superb open-air performances. This time the cast will be sharing their production of A Midsummer Night's Dream on Sunday 1st July. The Shakespeare classic will be performed on the castle's front lawn with the beautiful castle facade as a fitting backdrop.
Let yourself be whisked away on a thrilling journey to the most magical of forests and meet star-crossed lovers, playful fairies and hilarious travelling players. Beautifully designed Elizabethan costumes, a wonderful musical score and enchanting woodland creatures come together to make this an evening of unmissable summer garden theatre.
Picnic with family and friends in the picturesque surroundings of Thirlestane Castle for the perfect evening of magical theatre in magical surroundings. More details can be found on our events pages.
If a more dramatic event is more to your liking then come to Thirlestane on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th July when we will be turning back time with a Civil War Re-Enactment Weekend. The UK's oldest re-enactment group, The Sealed Knot, will be setting up camp in the castle grounds and recreating what life was like for soldiers and their families during the 1600s.
You will have the opportunity to walk around an authentic army camp watching meals cooked over open fires and even trying on some of the soldier's armour. Throughout both days musket drills and canon firing will create some noisy entertainment for all ages. More details of this event can also be found on our events pages.
Advance tickets for both events can be purchased from www.borderevents.com.
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every time I have been to Ireland it felt like going home… even the shite bits… Happy St. Patricks Day wherever, whoever you’se are #sláinte
First time I went there was August 1993. It took part of my heart. Takes a little more every time I go back. Dreadfully missing it right now.
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Just as the weather in the fall turns cool and crisp, so do the ingredients we use everyday in our kitchens. And when it comes to desserts, apples are the perfect mix of cool and crisp while still satisfying that sweet tooth. Whether you're looking for an apple tart recipe, or how to make a baked apple dessert, look no further; you've come to the right place. We have collected 8 apple dessert recipes for you to try with this star ingredient. The best part? These desserts can be made with fresh apples from September through May when apples are in season. Yup, apples are in season 9 marvelous months of the year, which means you can try one of these apple dessert recipes every month and just repeat your favorite. These are so delicious, we have a feeling you'll be making them more often than that!
No need to check this annual autumn favorite off your treat list! Our diabetes-friendly recipe with sugar-free caramel topping is yours to enjoy. So dig into these Caramel Drizzled Baked Apples as soon as you can!
Our Nutty Apple Bars are a healthy take on all your favorite all-American apple classics. Pecans and vanilla extract add all the flavors you've come to know and love, with crispy apples surrounded by fluffy, cakey batter. Yum!
The tasty autumn flavor combo of crisp apples and warm cinnamon is always a welcome one. That's why the Mr. Food Test Kitchen wanted to come up with a diabetes-friendly recipe for that irresistible duo. And boy, are these Apple Cinnamon Crunch Cups perfect!
Miss America 1999, Nicole Johnson, joined Mr. Food on his show to share one of her favorite apple dessert recipes that everybody will love, including those on diabetes diets. As someone with diabetes herself, she knows that eating healthy doesn't mean sacrificing flavor.
Apple pie is a classic dessert, but not always the best choice for someone with diabetes. Our Mini Apple Pie Tarts put a unique spin on a dish that is always counted among the most traditional apple dessert recipes, so you can you enjoy this favorite treat, too!
Did you know that the Granny Smith could be called the perfect all-purpose apple? It's available year 'round, and stands up well to long cooking. You're going to wonder if our Cinnamon-Sugar Apple Rings are really a side dish, a dessert … or both!
Autumn is the perfect time to celebrate apple season and the taste of sweet maple syrup. Our lighter Skillet Apples and Warm Maple Drizzle do just that, and make an equally perfect breakfast or dessert!
Imagine taking your taste buds to a tropical island vacation without leaving home! And better yet, know that this is one of our healthiest apple dessert recipes. Our Fruity Island Fantasy can be reality every time you throw it together!
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I sat in a train and watched the views changing and the small German villages passing by; I’ve always seen the tight-built villages as the main characteristics of a german landscape, whereas in Finland, my home country, you barely see a house every two kilometers, when driving through the countryside. I was listening to the announcements, which were in German and then repeated in French. I was on my way from my hometown Stuttgart to Paris.
Last autumn was tough, so a little romantic getaway was needed. Exactly one year ago I was still studying in Copenhagen and at the same time slowly settling in in my new life in Stuttgart, which I already had begun a few months earlier by doing my internship here. I also had a severe case of homesickness and was still struggling with the language. The stress from all the changes was turning into some sort of hatred against Stuttgart: howcome Stuttgart doesn’t have any cool cafes like Copenhagen did? Howcome there are no lakes here, like in Finland? Why is there so much traffic? Now I felt for the first time priviledged being a ‘stuttgarter’, having the possibility of travelling from my hometown directly with the train to Paris within a few hours! In Finland this would never be possible, since you always have to take the plane to reach other countries.
Already few years now I’ve been getting an urge to visit Paris in the fall. Regardless of the rain and the chilly weather, I find it magical there. There were very few tourists, because the summer season was long gone, which meant all the little wineries and even the museums were mostly filled with local people. Of course you can’t expect at any point to go to Paris and visit Eiffel Tower without queuing, but everywhere else I found it very easy to travel. The colors of the autumn were everywhere on the streets and in the parks making the city even more magnificent.
The good ol’ classics
The trend of today’s travel highlights more and more the uniqueness of the travel experience: it is no longer the main goal of the travel to see the main attractions but to experience the destination with the eyes of a local. This is also shown as an increased interest to interact with the locals through Airbnb or coach surfing. I’m fully agreeing with this trend, but in a city like Paris I felt, that it was almost necessary to visit all the hot spots. Things such as Moulin Rouge we skipped, but the Louvre Pyramid and the Eiffel Tower were definitely on my to-do list. Besides those, we mostly just walked around without plans, which, in my opinion, adds an interesting twist to the experience. When you don’t plan everything, there’s a bigger chance to see something unexpected.
One evening we decided to have a little evening stroll around Louvre, and for our surprise, there were no people! I’m not excaggarating, when I say: we were the only people there. You could still hear the sound of the traffic, cars slowly passing by, but you couldn’t see anyone there. The athmosphere was amazing, and I really do think it would have been completely different with a crowd of tourists. The building was lit in an amazing way, reflecting from the fountains and the glass pyramid.
Regardless of the fact, that monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame and Sacré-Coeur tend to always impress, somehow the most memorable experiences come from the normal, unplanned visits. I have such warm memories of our walk around Palais du Luxembourg and eating a warm crêpe there in the crispy autumn air. As well our visit to Shakespere and Co. bookshop to browse through old books. I guess it is as well about the expectations you set for the visits: if you don’t set expectations to everything, you just might find yourself all of a sudden experiencing something, which you will never forget – no matter if it’s something you see, taste, or feel.
When in Rome
I have personally never been much of a museum visitor. I have a very weak knowledge of art, and for me for example modern art exhibitions do not offer much of an entertainment. I guess I can say the same about my travel companion; for him art is even less familiar topic, and the last place to find him, would be in an art gallery. Though, as we both concider ourselves as curious and open-minded people, we did not want to completely miss out on the museum scene in Paris, as it is known to be one of the best in the world. We looked through the selection of all the museums and exhibitions in Paris and picked out two of them: Le musée Rodin and Centre Pompidou.
The museum presenting the artwork of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin was a very positive experience for rookie-museum visitors like us. You can also visit only the outside sculpture park for a lower fee of four euros, but I recommend to buy the ticket to visit the mansion as well costing a total of ten euros. The mansion “Hôtel Biron” was the artist’s home, and besides the artwork, you can also admire the beautiful details of this building from the 18th century. Before Rodin, the mansion was occupied also by the writer Jean Cocteau and the painter Henri Matisse, among other interesting characters. I can say here you could as well see the lack of tourists, which made the visit even more special. We were able to walk around sculpture park almost alone, and also inside the mansion we managed to avoid the crowds. The visit to this museum was definitely worth the money, and perhaps we also learnt a bit more about art.
If you are interested in architecture, I definitely recommend to visit the futuristic Centre Pompidou. The building from inside and from outside is something you have never seen before. The main focus in this building is the technical characteristics of it: the technical elements are not there just for the functionality of the building, but as well the main visual attraction point of it. For example all the technical functions of the building are color-coded: blue for circulating air, yellow for circulating electricity, green for circulating water and red for circulating people. We did not visit any of the exhibitions, but were regardless able to visit the premises without extra fees.
Notes for the next visit
For the next time I would probably search more information about the restaurant scene in Paris. We did not plan the eating at all before hand, and it turned out a bit tricky, when you can’t always tell the difference between the touristic restaurants, where the prices do not always meet the quality and the good local ones. All in all, we found some good places and ate our share of the snail pans, but I bet there would have been plenty of amazing restaurants, that we didn’t know existed.
Perhaps another thing about the food there is, that a hotel breakfast in Paris is maybe not the worst idea. In general I have kept away from hotel breakfasts when travelling, because I want to try out different things and visit interesting cafés. I also am not very hungry in the mornings and therefore paying for a whole buffet seems like a bit of a waste. During this trip we visited some cafés and had coffee and croissant, or pan au chocolat basically every morning and it costed for two people a whopping 10-12€. Hotel breakfasts usually cost around 10€, and if they’re good, it’s worth the money. Unfortunately most often the hotel buffets turn out to be dissapointing, but perhaps concidering the price range of Parisian cafes, it could have been a good idea.
Another thing, that I want to keep in mind for the next visit in Paris, is to take the time to visit the museums. I may not be the most cultural person, but I think the museums in Paris are definitely worth devoting time for. We were both so happy we visited even these two museums, that the next time we’ll gather some courage and might even go to Louvre! There should definitely be a lot of fellow tourists packed around Mona Lisa, in case we manage again to avoid the crowds in other places. I also want to discover more about the shopping in Paris. I tried to find information about shopping in Paris, but all the recommendations were about shopping malls and luxury brands. The only good place I have found so far, is the outlet store of the French brand Maje (address: 92 Rue des Martyrs, 75018 Paris), and other shops located around that area. Other than that, would be great to find for example some Parisian vintage stores.
I think I have only seen a small part of Paris with my two visits, so I definitely go there again next year. I do have to say, how lucky I feel to have such a quick access there from Stuttgart, which gives me even better excuse to visit there more often!
P.S. if someone has some good tips to share about visiting Paris, please write them in the comment box below 😉
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This report draws on a series of five roundtable events that brought together leading thinkers and decision-makers to debate the challenges and opportunities facing cities, transport and infrastructure, today and tomorrow. The report sets out a vision for smart cities, defining the attributes that will characterise the successful ‘places’ of the future. It examines the challenges to progress towards this agenda – the obstacles to overcome. Finally, it proposes an agenda for action – setting out how different participants can work together, and galvanise themselves and others to seize the opportunities on offer.
CARTO, a platform to build powerful Location Intelligence apps, published a post summarising the opportunities that the Location Intelligence technologies and solutions offer to Smart Cities. From disaster relief and health services to traffic optimisation and more, Location Intelligence is making cities not just smarter, but stronger and faster. As distinctly spatial entities, cities uniquely benefit from a deeper understanding of ‘where’.
Blockchain, quantum computing, augmented analytics and artificial intelligence will drive disruption and new business models, according to Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019.
Τhis report provides an overview of the state of open data policies across OECD member and partner countries, based on data collected through the OECD Open Government Data survey (2013, 2014, 2016/17), country reviews and comparative analysis. The report analyses open data policies using an analytical framework that is in line with the OECD OUR data Index and the International Open Data Charter. It assesses governments’ efforts to enhance the availability, accessibility and re-use of open government data.
Microsoft released a new book, The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society, which provides company’s perspective on where AI technology is going and the new societal issues it has raised. The book tries to answer tough questions such as: How do we ensure that AI is designed and used responsibly? How do we establish ethical principles to protect people? How should we govern its use? And how will AI impact employment and jobs?
Shared research infrastructures are playing an increasingly important role in most scientific fields and represent a significant proportion of the total public investment in science. This report, published by OECD, includes an analysis of eight case studies of digital platforms that collate information and provide services to promote broader access to, and more effective use of, research infrastructures. Although there is considerable variety amongst the cases, a number of key issues are identified that can help guide policy-makers, funders, institutions and managers, who are interested in developing or contributing to such platforms.
In this guide, published by GovLoop, you’ll find examples across six areas – cloud computing, cybersecurity, digital customer service, IT modernization, procurement and workforce – of programs, leaders, technologies and more that are truly changing the face of government in the US. In an era of increasing cyber-threats, workforce changes and uncertainty, these innovations are better serving citizens, creating efficiencies, doing more with less and helping communities.
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It's fun to learn with LEGO Education WeDoTM Activity Pack and Robokids. Students get an exciting opportunity to play and learn at the same time, working as young scientists, engineers, mathematicians and creative writers to construct LEGO models, modifying them and redesigning them through their own ingenuity.
Kids work as tiny tot engineers to learn, design and build The LEGO Playround (programmable swing, seesaw, merry-go-round, ferris wheel etc).
A few of the Learning Goals addressed:
- Make a working model using creativity
- Link cause and effect
- Think about how to find answers, use imagination to find new solutions
- Brainstorm ideas and attempt to implement them
- Test by changing one factor and measuring the effect
- Make systematic measurements
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A four-minute education in Reality Marketing from BestBuy CMO Barry Judge.
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The Ocmulgee Brewpub set to open downtown
November 15, 2016
If you’re tired of the same old eateries in Macon, you’re in luck. Ocmulgee Brewpub will be opening up in downtown Macon. From the Macon-based family that brought you Just Tap’d, the Ocmulgee Brewpub will be the first on-site brewery in town.
“What will make Ocmulgee Brewpub different from any other restaurant in town is that they will make their own beer on site. On Friday and Saturday nights, customers will have the opportunity to stop in for dinner and a beer while watching their beer be made right in front of them,” said Kaitlynn Jones, the director of marketing for the Ocmulgee Brewpub.
After doing research on breweries and brewpubs that spanned across the country, the owners of the pub, the Kressins, decided to open one of their own, right here in Middle Georgia.
“The Kressins are craft beer lovers who have done extensive research across the nation,” Jones said.
They named their new establishment after the river that brought Macon to life, the Ocmulgee. Citing that Ocmulgee
means “where the water boils up,” the Kressins were excited to establish a connection between the river and the process of brewing beer; where starch is steeped in boiling water to make a fermented beverage.
“We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect name!” Jones said.
But if beer isn’t your thing or, like many Mercer students, you aren’t of legal age to enjoy one, the Ocmulgee Brewpub offers so much more.
“Ocmulgee Brewpub will be a fast, casual atmosphere with great food perfect for students looking to hang out with friends or grab a quick bite to eat before heading to class,” Jones said.
Located on 2nd street, the pub will serve gourmet burgers, hand-cut fries and superfood salads. They will also offer a unique array of naturally sweetened Main Root soda products in lieu of Coke products.
The Ocmulgee Brewpub is also looking to hire students to work as bar tenders, cashiers, food-runners, cooks and hostesses. For more information, students can email the business directly at firstname.lastname@example.org.
“We hope to become a regular gathering spot for all students in Middle Georgia,” Jones said.
Correction: An incorrect headline appeared on a previous version of this story online.
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Recently, there has been this incredibly amazing discovery in the science field. One will indeed witness that this bizarre concrete of cement is able to absorb up to 4000 liters of water within a span of 60 seconds (that translates to almost 880 gallons).
Apparently, there has been a video which has been circulating on the internet showing a truck which is incessantly pouring water on a parking lot made of that cement. One will be surprised on how the water vanishes as soon as it hits the ground without a trace being left behind.
What is the idea behind this amazing Top mix permeable cement? In an effort to ensure that the effects of the floods are minimized, this concrete was designed. Actually, it works perfectly well as it has the capability of allowing the water to permeate or infiltrate through its surface rather than flowing on the top.
Another interesting thing that comes out is that the cement is meant to forestall paddles on the roads and different paths used in cycling thus ensuring that the safety of people is taken into account during the rainy seasons.
This amazing concrete has come out to be exceptional due to its heavy weight in relative to other concretes. it can be comfortably applied in areas where pedestrians generally impose low weight on the surface. Thus it has been adopted in the cities globally in creating pavements that can help eradicate the risk emanating from stormy water.
The designers of this cement states that they wanted to concentrate more in ensuring that the drainage systems (especially in the urban area) are contained and maintained well. Due to establishment of permeable surfaces this has really helped to even control the drainage systems where most of the waters could have been clogged within them.
Interestingly, as the water flows down the pebbles of the permeable surface, it can infiltrate underground and form a reservoir than can help to generate rain when such water evaporates during the high temperature periods.
Actually this is one of the modern discoveries that can really shape the way floods can be contained especially in tarmacs on flood-prone areas and pathways.
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I wish you a happy ♥ day! sandie
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Friendship is wonderful whether set to cookies or music. :o)Hope you've had a wonderful Valentine's Day, Brenda!
Dear Brenda - those cookies look delicious and how right you are about friendships. Hope you have a lovely day dear friend.
Those cookies look sooooo yummy. Great for heart day sharing!
To My Beautiful Readers,Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. ~ Franz Peter SchubertThank you so much for leaving your 'footprint' here in my comment box. I do appreciate you taking a moment to share your thoughts today.Brenda xoxPS. I do not always comment here, but I do look forward to coming and visiting you....
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Parties, exhibitions, concerts and much more with the Easter 2019 events in Naples!
The period of Easter in Naples it is one of the most anticipated ones not only for the tasty lunches to do with family or friends, but also for the events that take place in the city.
The festivity falls Sunday April 21 2019, but the various events you can participate in also take place on the days immediately before and after, so you can have a wide choice of events to live.
First of all, you can have fun with the world Easter celebration at Edenland or immerse yourself in the world of Science with the Festival that will be organized at City of Science.
There will be one in Piazza Dante street food festival very tasty and there will also be festivity concerts.
Among the cultural events, the beautiful cannot be missing show on Canova.
To find out, however, all the events, read all the details in our article.
Article in update.
Easter 2019 at the Edenlandia in Naples with a program full of surprises and shows
At Edenlandia in Naples, Easter 2019 is celebrated with a program of shows, egg hunts and lots of fun for everyoneThe 21, the 22 and the 25 April 2019 many special events will be held on the occasion of Easter 2019 in Edenland of Naples between shows, a fun egg hunt a dj set with a surprise guest. Furthermore, for the Easter period, extra hours to enjoy the holidays longer.
2019 Easter Festival in Città della Scienza in Naples free for children
At Città della Scienza in Naples, a fantastic event to celebrate Easter 2019 with lots of fun. Free for children!Sunday April 14 2019 City of Science in Naples opens its doors to welcome the celebrations of Easter with the organization of a big party.
Street food festival in Piazza Dante in Naples at Easter 2019
Street food festival in Piazza Dante in Naples for an unforgettable Easter 2019, dedicated to Neapolitan musical and culinary traditionsIf you want to celebrate the Easter 2019 in a truly unique and original way, then you can't miss it Street Food Festival in Piazza Dante, scheduled from 15 to 22 April 2019.
Easter Fair at the 2019 Decumani in Naples with artisan and gastronomic itineraries
Do not miss the 2019 Easter Fair at the Decumani in Naples with routes through the crib shops and gastronomic itineraries.Also this year the traditional takes place Easter Fair at the Decumani, starting from the 16 March until April 22 2019. Proposed byBody Association of Naples, the intent is to continue the journey started with the Christmas Fair and the Easter Fair now at its seventh edition.
Chagall on show in Naples at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore at Pietrasanta with over 150 exhibited works
An exhibition on the famous Russian painter Marc Chagall arrives in Naples with over 150 works to admire his dreamlike and fairytale world.The extraordinary and colorful dream world of Marc Chagall arrives in the heart of the historic center of Naples, in an unmissable exhibition with over 150 works that will immerse visitors on a journey to discover the artistic dimension of this incredible Russian painter.
Information on Chagall on show in Naples at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore at Pietrasanta with over 150 exhibited works:Where: Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore at Pietrasanta
Give her: 10:00 20:00
Openings during the weekend:
- full: 14€
- Reduced: 12€
Escher on show at the Naples PAN: the works of a visionary genius and his artistic heirs
The PAN - Palazzo delle Arti in Naples is ready to host the exhibition on Escher, with works by the Dutch artistic genius and its natural successors.Update: the exhibition has been extended until the 5 May.
Canova at the Archaeological Museum of Naples: an exhibition with 110 works at Mann
An unmissable exhibition on Antonio Canova at the Archaeological Museum of Naples: among the 110 works, 12 sculptures on loan from the Hermitage, such as Le Tre Grazie and Amore e Psiche Stanti.From the 28 March
Information on Canova at the Archaeological Museum of Naples:Where: National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Give her: 09:00 19:30
Openings during the weekend:
- interoceptive: 15€
- reduced: 7.5€
- citizens of the European community aged between the 18 and the 25 years: 2€
- Citizens under the 18 years of the European Community and non-EU citizens: FREE
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Nancy Pelosi was asked in what the Democrats believe.
“There are a lot of people out there, particularly Democrats, who are saying the Democrats have no message, the Democrats they don’t know what they’re for, they know they’re against President Trump, but they don’t know what they’re for,” said the interviewer
Harsh, but ultimately true. Aside from the overarching disdain for Trump, there seems to be little else keeping a fractured Democratic leadership together.
“Democrats are for the people. Democrats are for the people,” Pelosi responded, as if saying it twice makes it more true.
Of course, that’s a response that a well-trained parrot could give. Pelosi stumbled and struggled over her next few words.
“It means we are for the people having lower health care costs, reducing the costs of prescription drugs. Democrats are for bigger paychecks by building the infrastructure of America, creating good paying jobs.”
This is from the Constitution of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA):
We are socialists because we reject an economic order based on private profit, alienated labor, gross inequalities of wealth and power, discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, disability status, age, religion, and national origin, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo. We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships. We are socialists because we are developing a concrete strategy for achieving that vision, for building a majority movement that will make democratic socialism a reality in America. We believe that such a strategy must acknowledge the class structure of American society and that this class structure means that there is a basic conflict of interest between those sectors with enormous economic power and the vast majority of the population.
The purpose of the Democrats is stated more eloquently in the Constitution of the DSA than how Pelosi stated it, but then that is not surprising, and perhaps the interview with Pelosi was done after the lunch hour.
Gallup reported that “Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism” for the first time since Gallup began polling that question over the past decade. This is supported by the call for socialist programs of all elements of the party.
Open borders protesters and members of the Democrat Party and George Soros supported group Antifa chanted death to America during a counter-protest in Washington, DC, on Sunday.
In a video these members of the Democrat Party who also support open borders, can be heard and seen marching down streets throughout Washington, DC, demanding an end to the United States.
“No border, no wall, no USA at all!” Antifa and fellow Democrat activists chanted.
Not one member of the Marxist/Progressive (Democrat) Party has denounced BLM, or Antifa for their statements of hatred towards the United States nor their violence and attacks against the American people, the police, and the press.
What has been suspected from as early as the days of Woodrow Wilson, enhanced by the regime of Franklin Roosevelt, and solidified by the regime of Obama, is now officially known for all: The party once called the Democrats is now officially the Marxist/Progressive Party embracing all that Marx said was necessary, including violence, suppression of speech, and censorship, to bring about his classless society where all conform to communist ideals or suffer the consequences. Remember, in their world, “The ends justify the means.”
Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.
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Mortgage rates were driven down this week by weak economic data and concerns about global growth. According to the latest data released Thursday by Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate average tumbled.
Heloc Down Payment Second Home Second home down payment requirement. You can buy a primary residence with just three percent down in many cases, but it takes at least ten percent down to buy a vacation home, and that’s if.
Many people who want to buy a home are held up by having to put down a big chunk of money at the closing table. Some conventional loans require buyers to put down as much as 20% down to buy a home. Twenty percent of a house that may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars is a huge amount of many to many people.
Financing is challenging for any homeowner, and that’s especially true when it comes to mobile homes and some manufactured homes. These loans aren’t as plentiful as standard home loans, but they are available from several sources and government-backed loan programs can make it easier to qualify and keep costs low.
Low down payment and zero down payment mortgage loans from banks and credit unions. typically, loans that allow you to buy a home with no money down are only available to borrowers who meet limited income requirements, such as a maximum of 80 percent of the median area income. You’ll also need good credit and to be able to demonstrate your ability to repay the loan.
But more and more loans, including government-backed loans and even some. a percentage of the home's price in the form of a down payment.. little to zero down payment – unless the price of the home you're buying.
Zero down and low down payment home loan programs. To find zero down payment home loans, you have to look in places that you normally wouldn’t think offer loans with no money down. For example, when most Americans think of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), they think of farming.
Single Purpose Reverse Mortgage In general, single-purpose reverse mortgages are made available to moderate-to-low-income homeowners who need help paying for smaller, but crucial expenses such as property taxes and home repairs.
We analyzed hundreds of new car offers to find the best 0% financing deals in July. The best deals involve zero interest plus up to $5,250 in cash incentives. However, promos like these have become increasingly hard to find over the past year or so in most parts of the country. Interest-free loans.
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I came upon this site this evening. It is an excellent idea, and a great way to engage Pope-Emeritus Benedict’s call for the New Evangelization. The conversion of the world to Christ can happen within our generation, we just need more great young men and women to stand up, and share their faith. We need more youth to be who God created them to be. World Youth Day is an excellent example of what the young can do and so is this great site! The group over at New Catholic Generation vlog (video blog) about their Catholic faith, explaining things, sharing what they love, and tracking their spiritual growth through life. May God continue to bless their works! Go ahead and check them out, you’ll like what you see! Kudos to all of the Catholic Vloggers on the New Catholic Generation and keep up the great work!
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In order to help protect the health of trainees and staff alike, we have taken the difficult decision to suspend Rope Access training for the coming month of April.
As you will appreciate; due to the uncertainty of how best to protect ourselves and reduce the spread of the virus, we will be assessing the risk to health in line with government recommendations prior to any training recommencing. Therefore, we cannot confirm training will definitely restart in May.
We will be unable to take bookings but if you wish to contact us, we will be happy to take details and contact you directly once we have a viable strategy to continue.
Updates will also be posted on our website and social media pages.
IRATA have NOT sanctioned extensions to certificate expiry, therefore re-validation of your certification is still required (when working for an IRATA registered company). With this in mind, we will endeavour to return to normal as early as possible.
Once again, we apologise for the inconvenience of this decision, but we hope you will agree it is the most responsible action to take at the present time.
Take care of yourself and be excellent to each other.
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In early June of 2020, Community Foundation of Greater Flint approved funding for a Grassroots Public Health Navigator program through the Urgent Relief Fund. Michigan United was granted the funding to run the program and by the end of July, the navigators were up and running. The navigators are grassroots individuals involved and trusted in their communities. The task of the navigators is to provide the best and most updated information on COVID-19. And, with all the confusion out there, it is of the utmost importance that the community be informed with facts.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the northside of Flint and Detroit particularly hard. According to Suzanne Cupal, Public Health Division Director at the Genesee County Health Department, Black/African Americans and Latino/Hispanics are roughly 25% of the population but makeup 46% of COVID-19 related deaths. In Detroit, the state of Michigan, as of August 24th, reports that they have 13,417 reported cases with 1,503 deaths. In Genesee County, the average age of confirmed cases is 54, while the average age of those who have passed due to the virus is 74.
Aurora Sauceda, coordinator for the group is proud to report that the navigators have talked to more than 400 community members and have attended over 10 events. On July 25th, Hasselbring Senior Center in Flint, hosted a drive-through food give-away where people received information on voter registration, census awareness and COVID-19 information which was disseminated by Holly Wilson and Dr. Latressa Gordon. Hasselbring is located on the north end of Flint where many African-American families live.
Holly Wilson is a neighborhood liaison for the Neighborhood Engagement Hub and a public health navigator for Michigan United. In an interview with Flintside, a local newspaper, she said that many small circumstances based around long-held stigmas and lack of access to information have played a big role in the proliferation of COVID-19 in this area.
“A lot of people don’t have health insurance, right? If they do have health insurance, they have this mentality of 'Oh, this is not covered’ or they come from families who never went to the doctor," Wilson said. "They stay at home and they stay really ill and before they get some help, they may perish.”
Sauceda agreed with Wilson that a lack of access to proper information regarding job protection, financial assistance, and eviction protection is leading many to ignore possible symptoms.
“They don’t want to find out if they’re positive, especially if they have a job. That’s another barrier we’re seeing and that’s another factor that’s leading to numbers rising in our Black/Brown communities,” said Sauceda.
Sauceda says many workers and their families are not aware of the protections set in place by legislation like the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Even in cases when individuals are aware, Wilson said that it may still be difficult for them to make the decision to get tested and stop working. For many in the area who live below the poverty line, the risk of losing their job outweighs that of infecting others.
“Sometimes you can read the words, but don't understand what the words are,” Wilson said. “It’s important that we reach those people because they’re going and they’re putting their families at risk because they’re thinking, ‘I need this McDonald’s job.’ The reality is, there are safeguards put in place.”
For Brownell-Holmes’ older residents, many of whom are retired, the COVID-19 pandemic has been just as difficult to navigate. Hasselbring Senior Center’s location within Brownell-Holmes’ largest park, along with its outdoor pavilion and large indoor common area, has made it a hub for community activities like the food distribution. Fear of contracting COVID-19 paired with the heightened risk of severe health issues in seniors has meant many of Hasselbring’s regulars have been staying home.
According to Beverly Lewis, the senior center’s executive director, even these precautions have proven futile for some.
“We have lost some of our seniors that are members here to the disease,” Lewis said. “We have several who have lost family members. Some are afraid to come out even with all the precautions we’re taking and that’s understandable because ... they know it's people of color, people of age, people with preexisting conditions that are at most risk and they know they fit into those three categories.”
“The fear is there,” Lewis said.
Despite the fear of the virus, Brownell-Holmes has been able to do what many communities have not: stay together. While many have taken to hiding away in their homes, losing virtually all contact with the members of their communities, neighborhood residents have worked to stay safe and make sure others do the same.
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What's the best strategy against the so-called Hippopotamus opening or defense, in which White or Black pushes almost all of her pawns on the 3rd or 6th rank, except perhaps the a and h pawns, and then possibly moves her Knights and Bishops on the 2nd or 7th rank? Would you try a breakthrough with the d or the e Pawns, or something else?
In my opinion, against these openings, the best strategy is to maintain the tension. Move around your pieces building up threats, and prevent the opponent's pawn breaks. Against these positions usually there is no forced win, but it is very hard to play them because of the cramped position, so your opponent will sooner or later make some mistake, and then his/her position will collapse.
Check out this extremely useful video: How to Fight the Hippopotamus Defense
The Hippo does not do well against a 3 pawn center. For example, d4, e4, f4. Then with Nf3, Bd3 and 0-0 White can play f5 breaking the position. Tiger Hillarp Persson wrote a couple books on the Modern defense, where has a chapter on the Hippo. In the book he warns against using it when White can get 3 pawns in the center and has great explanations.
The Hippo does not do well against a large pawn center, since White can rip up the position before Black castles. Also, White can trade off the g7-bishop and take advantage of the weaknesses caused on the f6-square for occupation with a piece.
If you look at the engine evaluation of Black's position, then you can see that White has a large advantage.
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California couple, including teen mom, charged with torture, killing one-year-old child at Motel 6
On Tuesday, investigators discovered the one-year-old child unresponsive in a Motel 6 in Visalia, California, beset with a severe head injury and multiple broken bones — grave injuries apparently inflicted by the couple.
The toddler died not long after being rushed to the hospital.
The Sun provided details on the California couple’s arrest.
The child’s mother, Jasmine Blase, 18, was arrested and initially booked on charges of “child abuse and great bodily harm”.‘BATTERED TO DEATHL:’ Parents charged with torturing baby to death after ‘child found with severe head injury and broken bones at motel’
Jasmine’s boyfriend, Ezequiel Ramirez, 23, believed to be the child’s father, was arrested in Fresno on the same day.
He was nabbed by a fugitive apprehension team.
An investigation would lead California authorities to conclude that the couple tortured their child and caused bodily harm.
California’s Bakersfield Now reports on the futile attempts to provide medical care for the couple’s tortured child.
The child was taken to Valley Children’s Hospital where medical staff determined there were no brain functions and declared the child to be clinically deceased.Visalia parents charged with torture and murder of 1-year-old
With the child officially declared dead following shocking alleged acts of torture, the couple was subjected to an amended criminal complaint from California authorities.
Both members of the couple were charged with murder and assault on a child causing death, as well as torture, under California law.
This isn’t Ramirez’s first brush with serious legal trouble by any means. He faces the special circumstance of murder with torture and special allegations of possessing a prior strike and prior felonies.
If convicted, Ramirez could end up on California’s death row. Or he could receive life in prison without parole, according to Crime Online.
According to ABC 13, Ramirez is the child’s father.Baby declared brain dead at just a year old. Police say his parents beat him in a motel: Reports
Currently, Ramirez is locked up in Tulare County Jail.
Blase faces life in a California penitentiary for her role in the couple’s alleged torture and murder of their innocent child.
As the couple sits behind bars, California’s Violent Crimes Unit is still pursuing the investigation into the child torture and murder case.
The Fresno Bee reported that authorities are asking the public for help with the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Visalia police Detective Mike Morgantini at 559-713-4104 or the department’s Anonymous Tip Line at 559-713-4738.Man arrested in Fresno in connection with alleged Visalia child abuse
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The Museum of the Future is a unique incubator for futuristic innovation and design. It will be located in the Emirates Towers area near Sheikh Zayed road. The Structure is currently under construction and is set to open in 2019. Heres what we know so far.
What is the museum?
Visitors to the museum will experience the future through cutting-edge simulations and interactive demonstrations. The Museum will also host a group of innovation labs focusing on health, education, smart cities, energy and transport in addition to a permanent section on future innovations in all fields. It will provide a platform to demonstrate and test the latest inventions from world-leading tech giants and up-and-coming start-ups. Collaborations with research institutes and universities are also on its agenda.
Design team and Inspiration
Architect Shaun Killa is the designer of a museum. You may remember his Dubai based firm 'Killa Design' from the recently completed construction of the Office of the Future, the world’s first fully functional and permanently occupied ‘3D printed’ building.
Inspiration for the torus shape of the museum comes from Fen Shui. The round shape represents the earth and the sky and the empty space in between represents the unknown.
The structure will incorporate major sections built using 3D printing construction techniques. The Arabic calligraphy on the building is more than just meaningful design because the text will also serve as windows. Overall, an estimated 890 stainless steel and fiberglass panels will make up the exterior structure of the museum.
For more info visit www.museumofthefuture.ae
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I know. I know. Every single woman is entitled to her own feelings, but I’m flabbergasted when a woman doesn’t want to share something lovely that’s happened in her life and that can inspire other women.
First, meet the woman in question. I’ll call her Sharon. She’s in her late 70s, well educated, retired, and a grandmother. Her husband, who had been sick for years, died a number of years ago. She’s lived alone since then and is close to her grown children and grandchildren. She cares deeply about social issues. Enjoys theatre, classical music, ballet. Not terribly interested in fashion or beauty.
Sharon and I have known each other for decades, but have never been close. We hadn’t communicated in about five years, but I got a message from her recently which included the news that she was “seeing a wonderful man.” She told me where he worked and said he was soon retiring. Her Facebook page showed photos from a number of trips she’s taken with him during the last few months. She’s not an especially joyous or expressive woman, but she looked happy in the photos.
I texted Sharon about three weeks ago and asked how she was doing. “Fine. Traveling in Asia with Ron (not his real name either). Life is good. You?” she responded.
I was thinking earlier this week that other older, widowed or divorced women would love to learn how Sharon met Ron and how they’ve established a successful relationship. Although many older women are happy as larks living alone, many want the companionship of a man, but have a hard time meeting one.
So, I texted this to Sharon: “Hi Sharon, I’d love to interview you for an article on my website about establishing a new relationship in your 70s. I’d show you the article before I published it to make sure you were happy with it. I think it would be inspirational to divorced and widowed women who would like to meet someone. LMK if you’d be up for it.”
I forgot I had emailed Sharon until I saw this message from her yesterday: “Hi. I’m sorry but I have to say ‘no’ to this. I consider these things personal and private. And, I don’t think there’s much to be learned. What has happened for me is very unusual, and unlikely, at my age. Most of the women I know, widowed or divorced, would confirm that. I feel incredibly lucky. But he and I agree, it’s remarkable but it’s a fluke.”
HUH, I thought. Exactly what does Sharon consider “personal and private?” How she met this man? What they have in common? What drew them to one another in their 70s? And yes, it may be “unusual” and “unlikely” to develop a meaningful relationship in your 70s, but that’s precisely why I wanted to write an article about a couple that has. I didn’t even have to use their names. Who cares what their names are anyway? And even if Sharon and Ron’s partners had cheated on them, and they now found comfort in one another, why not share that fact? Or maybe they hadn’t had sex for years and they’ve reawakened each other’s sexuality. Wow. How great is that! Why not shout it from the rooftops. You don’t have to reveal what position you use. You don’t even have to say anything more than “we were instantly attracted to each other, a feeling neither of us thought we’d ever have again.” Or maybe they share a deep, dark secret about their lives that brought them together. They don’t have to divulge it. Sharon could simply say “we had common ground on some important issues.” For goodness sakes, you’re close to 80, not 18!
I found Sharon’s response obnoxious and off-putting, if not a tad affected and foolish. I’ve interviewed a woman whose husband lived a double life, a woman whose daughter died from an opioid overdose, and a woman whose husband hid that he lost all their money, until he picked up and left her and their daughter, on Christmas Eve no less. Now, those things are “personal” and “private,” yet the women were anxious to share their experiences so they could help even one other woman to see the light.
I wish Sharon and Ron years of health and happiness together, in their “remarkable but flukey” relationship. Flukes happen.
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Last Sunday we launched on our first “Taste of the Bay” local seafood sail on the San Francisco Bay. It was collaboration with the beautiful 80 ft. schooner, the Freda B and David Johnson, of Davey Jones Deli in Sausalito and Real Good Fish. The plan was to serve local seafood & wine pairings while under sail around the SF Bay, enjoying the beauty of shifting light and connecting people, literally to the currents and wave chop, the smell and feel of the sea while eating the creatures that come from it. We planned our menu with the goal of creating the most visceral way to experience our local bay and nearby ocean.
The day was blustery, with winds blowing about 25 knots, and a wave chop textured rippled the bay. Guests were greeted with raw Marin Miyagi oysters served with a mignonette sauce flecked with preserved cherry blossoms. Next, crudité platters served alongside olive oil infused with anchovies caught under the Golden Gate Bridge as well as preserved lemons and garlic. These were paired with Sauvignon Blanc from Sonoma, which everyone held steady as we headed out.
The sails were reefed and we charged straight into the weather. The winds picked up. Our Captain, Adrian McCullough warned Davey. “It’s going to rough for a stretch. Wait until we hit the other side of Angel Island before you serve the ceviche.”
And so this how a ten course sampling menu gets served on a sailboat in 25 knot winds. The ceviche came out; Ridgeback prawns that had been marinated in lime juice and served with pickled apricot and onions on a fried wonton. The platters were passed and the crew refilled glasses with Chardonnay and we sailed by Alcatraz, with San Francisco, the shining Oz in the distance. There was jibing, tacking, and searching for a quiet spot on the lee side of Angel Island. Rosé came with the next course, and Davey passed up salads tossed with a green goddess style dressing with SF Bay herring bottarga that he calls “Aphrodite.” When it became as quiet as it would probably be that day, bowls of chowder made with Carmel Canyon Smoked Black Cod got passed along with seaweed bread spread with uni butter, the wine pairing a Pinot Noir, and I gave a quick talk on the seafood and why it was special.
Oysters are great for the way they filter water of algae, letting sunlight through, as well as contour ocean bottoms, anchovies-eat the little fish, down the food chain so they are valued more and not turned into just bait and industrial farmed fish food, why black cod is abundant and uni a great choice, especially with the kelp forests decline. Just when I was getting to how magical wild salmon are, a dolphin arrived and totally upstaged me. When the excitement died down, I talked more about salmon, and learned from our captain that not only are they great for rivers, oceans, and land where bears and eagles scatter the nutrients they bring from the ocean, but he had worked in the rain forests up in British Columbia, and they found nitrogen from the wild salmon actually fertilized the canopy tops.
On the way home through Raccoon Straits, California King salmon sliders with wasabi aioli were passed around, followed by brown butter cardamom cookies and tea and coffee. We wove between sailboats, the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance, and fog had started slipping over the Sausalito hills, filling in the gullies and laying a soft blanket over the town. Guests departed, and we hope, a little more in love with the bay and knowledgeable about ways we can eat locally to support its well being.
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I find it interesting that in the month dedicated to writing, I am struggling to get the words down. A combination of extra shifts at work, interesting work hours and an extra person around the house has meant that my writing time is sporadic at best. This inconsistency means I am constantly trying to remind myself of where I left my characters.
So while the rest of the writing community gets whipped up into a word count frenzy in NaNoWriMo (http://nanowrimo.org/) I have decided to stop. I don’t feel I am letting the team down; the words are still being written, just not by me.
So what do writers do when they are not writing? They read. Here’s what I’ve read recently/ just started reading.
1) John Green’s Paper Towns. I was reading this to understand more about the young male mind. I have to say that even though I was using this book as a bit of study, I really enjoyed it. I was drawn in right from the start and was constantly amazed by what Green could get away with. For instance, there are two and a half pages dedicated to a discussion about pee and how much one character needed to go. This may not sound like much, but it was well constructed. I was however, disappointed with how the main female ended up. I just didn’t feel it fit her character or made sense. But I’ll let you decide.
2) Virginia Hausseger’s Wonder Woman. A little different, but I’m a complicated person. Wonder Woman is an exploration of the ‘fall-out’ from the second and third waves of feminism. In particular, the book focuses on whether women can ‘have it all’; career and children. I found Virginia’s accounts in this book to contain a magnificent balance of discussions with other people, discussions on societal expectations and just enough of her own experience to make it relevant.
3) J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. I only started reading this last night, so can’t say much. However, I was immediately pulled into the writing. Such beautiful words. The descriptions and backstories reveal more about the characters from the way they are told than from the descriptions themselves. It is clear to me why The Hobbit is a classic. It is one that has been sitting on my shelf for far too long but one that will be enjoyed none-the-less.
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During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on antitrust laws, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wants 99% of the content that’s flagged for “hate speech” on his platform to be taken down before anyone sees it.
Zuckerberg made the comments when he was asked about Stop Hate For Profit – an ad boycott campaign that’s pressuring Facebook to censor more hate speech and “misinformation” on its platform.
Congressman Jamie Raskin remarked that Zuckerberg didn’t seem “that moved by their campaign” and asked for his thoughts on Stop Hate For Profit’s demands.
“We’re very focused on fighting against election interference and we’re also very focused on fighting against hate speech,” Zuckerberg said in response.
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“In terms of fighting hate, we’ve built really sophisticated systems. Our goal is to identify it before anyone even sees it on the platform,” Zuckerberg said. “And we’ve built AI [artificial intelligence] systems and as I’ve mentioned have tens of thousands of people working on safety and security with the goal of getting this stuff down, so that way, before people even see it. And right now, we’re able to proactively identify 89% of the hate speech that we take down before I think it’s even, even seen by other people. So, you know, I want to do better than 89%, I’d like to get that to, to 99% but we have a massive investment here.”
Facebook has faced mounting pressure from activists, the mainstream media, and politicians to regulate content based on the vague and subjective term hate speech.
In response to this pressure, Facebook has increased its reliance on the AI systems that Zuckerberg described and these systems, which are prone to algorithmic errors, are now responsible for removing most of the content that’s flagged as hate speech on Facebook’s platforms.
In the first quarter of 2020, Facebook took down 9.6 million pieces of content for hate speech and as Zuckerberg noted in his testimony, 89% of this content is already removed proactively by Facebook’s AI.
When Facebook released these figures in May, the company also announced that it was training its AI to censor “hateful memes” and launched a “Hateful Memes Challenge” where participants were challenged to develop an algorithm that identified “multimodal hate speech in internet memes.”
The hate speech and “harassment” policies deployed by Facebook and other Big Tech companies have been criticized for the way they’re often used as a vehicle to censor jokes, criticism, and other types of innocuous content.
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Artificial intelligence is starting to master what it means to be creative. “This is both exciting and slightly terrifying,” says Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University.
A broadcaster and author of the best-selling popular mathematics book The Music of the Primes, and the recently published The Creativity Code, du Sautoy often explores the borderlands of art and science, once even appearing in his own play at the Science Museum.
As part of our Scientists Meets the Media series, du Sautory spoke to WIRED about the importance of storytelling in science, mathematics’ problem with gender diversity and the need for scientists to take ethical responsibility for their work.
Marcus du Sautoy on climate change
We have the data. We understand the science. So, it still amazes me that there are people who are not convinced that we are facing a climate crisis. Research published in Nature has revealed that the power of storytelling is as key to scientific communication as much as presenting the numbers. It is important therefore for scientists to tap into these skills if we want to engage everyone in the debate.
On the rise of antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health that can affect anyone in any country. It is striking that the subject is now being discussed in drama series like the BBC’s Years and Years. There is an important role for the media to play in highlighting the threat. It is misuse of antibiotics rather than an inevitable consequence of their success that is causing this crisis.
On ethics in science
Any important scientific breakthrough that impacts on society will inevitably raise ethical issues. What is encouraging is how many in the scientific community are taking a lead on engaging with these issues. For example, Deepmind’s research unit on ethics and society recognises that AI is not value free and those in the field need to take responsibility for the ethical and social impact of their work.
On the need for more diversity in science
My own subject of mathematics really needs to address the issue of diversity, especially when it comes to the number of women mathematicians at the higher levels of research. The London Mathematical Society is making great strides to tackle the issue and in 2016 was awarded the Royal Society’s inaugural Athena Prize created to reward the advancement of diversity in STEM.
On the future of healthcare
I was a member of the recent committee at the Royal Society looking at the impact of machine learning and AI on society in the next ten years. After having applied machine learning to playing games like Go and Jeopardy it’s striking that the main players in the field have turned to health as their next target.
I was struck that although machine learning can produce an algorithm that can beat a radiologist at spotting cancers in an image, it was the combination of machine and human that outperforms each one on its own. The future is about collaboration between AI and humanity.
On the best and worst of today’s science
Writing my book, The Creativity Code has revealed to me what a phase change we are going through in AI where code is starting to be genuinely creative. This is both exciting and slightly terrifying. Given that there have been so many dystopian stories told of our future with AI I tried to bring out the more positive benefits. But it illustrates that all progress in science can have both good and bad sides. It is our role as scientists to help aid an informed debate in society about the impact of these new discoveries.
Du Sautoy was one of the invited guests at Scientists Meet the Media at the Science Museum in London, organised with the Royal Society, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Innovation and supported by the Association of British Science Writers and WIRED.
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How do you improve on perfection? This question has been asked time and time again regarding the new Nissan GT-R. AMS found a way! One of our many offerings for the new Nissan GT-R is our complete exhaust system incorporating these casted 90mm downpipes!! The first 90mm offerings on the market these downpipes saw over 100 horsepower gains as well as 100+ ft lbs of torque in the mid range. Couple that with lightning quick spool, OEM like fitment and cat sections designed to last the life of the car and you have the ultimate downpipe offering for the Nissan GT-R!
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Flexor pulley splints
A new treatment for an old problem
A thermoplastic pulley splint
After a day on surprisingly sharp holds at overhanging buttress Moughton Nab
Climbing subjects the fingers to extreme loads and it is no surprise that in a survey of 284 climbers over 2 years, Volker Schöffl (German othopaedic surgeon specialising in hand related climbing injuries) found that 37 (13%) of those climbers experienced pulley injuries in that time.
Most climbers know someone who has injured a finger flexor pulley or have done it themselves. Partial tears are debilitating. Full ruptures are devastating, often requiring surgery if more than one is ruptured. The good news is that the recovery is normally a full one. The downside is that it is a very slow recovery due to poor blood flow to the tissues and often takes months.
Taping is often used to support or assist the pulley during climbing, the theory being to minimise the loads the pulley has to manage. Sadly this is not very effective and can lead to false confidence. The stress reduction is statistically significant, but small and the tape needs frequent re-application.
The theory is a sound and logical one, but to get the tape tight enough to be truly effective the circulation to the finger is cut off. Not ideal for a tissue we want to heal.
Micha Schneeberger B.S. and Dr. Andreas Schweizer M.D. recently published “Pulley Ruptures in Rock Climbers: Outcome of Conservative Treatment With the Pulley-Protection Splint-A Series of 47 Cases.” This showed the efficacy of using thermoplastic rings. They follow the same principles of taping, but provide much more support. It is possible to wear them for hours at a time, even when climbing. They allow for adequate blood flow to the finger whilst providing effective support.
They can be used to support full ruptures as well as partial tears. One splint will last you the entire rehab time. The study showed they significantly improved recovery time and the success of the rupture repair. This is due to the splint holding the tendon close to the bone for extended periods, allowing the pulley to heal around it.
I've used lockdown to obtain the equipment, relevant training and practice time to make these and am now pleased to offer the service.
They are custom made to your finger and take about an hour for an assessment of the finger and to fashion the splint and test it out.
They can be worn 23 hours a day, during work, climbing and other activities. Certain restrictions obviously apply and will be discussed on enquiry to ascertain that they are suitable for your situation.
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Police have a 65-year-old Puna man in custody in connection with what authorities say was a homicide that took place Thursday evening in the driveway of the man’s home.
Isauro Garcia Madrigal has been booked on suspicion of second-degree murder, but hasn’t been charged pending further investigation by detectives.
Shortly before 8:30 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to a home on 37th Avenue in Orchidland Estates subdivision on a report of a verbal argument.
Madrigal, who was sitting outside the gate of his property when police arrived, told officers two men had entered his property and attacked him with a knife.
Officers found the deceased man’s body on Madrigal’s driveway, just inside the fence. According to police, the victim had what appeared to be blunt-force trauma injuries to his head and had been stabbed.
The victim was later transported to the Hilo Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. According to Lt. Rio Amon-Wilkins, an autopsy has been performed and death was ruled a homicide.
Amon-Wilkins said police have tentatively identified the victim, but are not releasing his name until positive identification and notification of next of kin.
Police say the other alleged intruder left before officers arrived.
Madrigal was arrested at 8:55 p.m. He was booked at Pahoa police station and then taken to Hilo Medical Center for treatment of injuries received during the altercation, police said.
Just prior to this incident being reported to police, a neighbor reported hearing yelling coming from the area and saw two cars possibly leaving the area. Anyone who may have information about this case is asked to call the police non-emergency line at 935-3311 or Crime Stoppers at 961-8300.
See Saturday’s Tribune-Herald for a more detailed version of this story.
Email John Burnett at email@example.com.
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Alexis earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. After working as a transportation engineer for one year, Alexis returned to NC State and earned a Master of Science in Biological & Agricultural Engineering. She then proceeded to work in Alaska for almost two years in both water resources and roadway engineering until she returned to North Carolina. After returning to her home state, she earned her Professional Engineering license and continued to work as a water resources and roadway engineer for seven more years. She recently enrolled in Oregon State University and is currently earning her Master of Public Policy degree, concentrating in environmental and energy policy. Her essay looks at the relation between religious beliefs and perceptions of climate change in the Pacific Northwest.
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Here’s the list of organizations we support. You can click on the organization name to get more info or on the website address to go straight to their website.
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OGDEN, Utah — Hill Air Force Base and Weber State University brought nearly 300 fifth-grade students from local elementary schools to the WSU campus to participate in the annual Mission to Mars link-up day May 2.
Mission to Mars is sponsored by the Hill AFB STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Outreach Program and WSU’s College of Engineering, Applied Science and Technology.
The event is designed to be a fun and hands-on way to encourage kids to explore STEM fields.
“Mission to Mars is the premier event of the Hill STEM Outreach Program,” said Alison Sturgeon, Hill STEM Program manager. “We love this event for many reasons. Not only is link-up day fun, but students spend time studying Mars in their classrooms and they experience how math, science, writing, creativity and imagination work together to make what seems impossible, possible.”
In the months prior to the event, students studied how to sustain life on Mars, and discussed solutions to the many challenges humans would encounter on the planet.
On link-up day, the students built habitats and presented their life-support system models, team mission patch and uniform, and a creative story or play about their journey to judges.
The habitats were linked to one another via a series of tunnels, hence the “link-up” name.
“It is a pleasure to work with the Hill Air Force Base team and local schools on Mission to Mars,” said Dana Dellinger, Center for Technology Outreach director. “We share the goal of helping kids maximize their STEM education now and go on to pursue degrees and careers in STEM fields.”
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https://hilltoptimes.com/2019/05/16/elementary-students-experience-successful-mission-to-mars/
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Staff member Robin, who serves in Israel, and some of the other Israel staff took twenty-five Holocaust survivors to Scandinavia during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
There is something so special about having time together away from home, sharing life and laughter, that allows for going deeper. Together they did some touring, lots of singing and games, and our staff shared the gospel. Robin has known most of these Holocaust survivors for many years.
They have heard about Jesus and they participate in banquets and other events in Israel. Some of the people on the trip used to roll their eyes when anyone spoke of Jesus, but at this Rosh Hashanah service, they hung on every word that was shared. Robin had tears in her eyes as another staff member shared a compelling message of Jesus’ love for them. It was clear many were moved. Robin also had the opportunity to share her testimony with the group, as did a Holocaust survivor who came to believe in Jesus. Robin says, “Thank you for your prayers that make it possible to be part of sharing the Messiah with these dear people. Please pray they come to know Jesus in a personal way.”
She continues, “There are three people in the group here who have come to faith in the last few years, and they can’t stop sharing the joy God has brought into their lives.”
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There is little else more exciting than embarking on a first-ever trip to Israel aboard a flight full of Jews making Aliyah to Israel. The inability to keep exhilarated grins off of faces, the nervous energy of young children itching to taste the sweet Israeli air, and the atmosphere of deep and almost intoxicated anticipation is infectious. Excitement wafts throughout the airplane like the aroma of freshly-baked pastries, and no one aboard is immune to it.
Pastor Becky Keenan was no exception.
As a guest of Nefesh B’Nefesh on one of their charter flights for new immigrants to Israel, Becky Keenan and her husband Joe made the most of their first plane ride from New York to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport in 2010. Becky moved about the cabin and spoke with almost every passenger, asking them why they were making Aliyah, and engaging them in conversation about their decision to fly halfway across the world to live in a tiny slip of a country in the Middle East.
“Every single passenger,” says Becky, “said the same thing: ‘We belong there. It’s our home.’ It didn’t matter where the passengers came from, they were all united by their belief that they were returning, at long last, to their Homeland. They believed they belonged,” Becky tells me. “And they did.”
Two things stand out to Becky when she remembers that fateful plane ride. The first was the prevalent sense of community aboard the airplane; it was full of people who had never met one another, and yet no one was a stranger. The unity of their purpose – to return to and live in Israel – made them into a family.
The second thing was the individual responsibility that each Jewish immigrant seemed to carry on their shoulders. Every Jewish passenger on that flight had taken it personally upon themselves to see God’s centuries-old prophecy to Abraham come to fruition – “All the land that you see, I will give to you and your children until eternity.” Retirees, parents and young children, and college graduates preparing to enlist into the Israeli Defense Forces – personal responsibility had brought all of those passengers to Israel. And personal responsibility is what makes Becky Keenan keep coming back to Israel again, and again, and again.
Love of Israel was something that Becky acquired early on in her life. She was born in Germany and lived in Puerto Rico from ages 5 to 18. As a child, Becky’s father, a US Army veteran who served in World War II, took pains to ensure that Becky understood the deep significance of the Land of Israel, both to Jews and Christians. In the War, Becky’s father had fought for the values of freedom, liberty, and justice, and Becky knew that those were the selfsame values that the State of Israel had been founded on. “We are natural allies,” she says.
On her first trip to Israel, Becky connected deeply with the land and the people of Israel. Right from the outset, the spiritual weight of the Biblical Homeland was apparent to her, and she immediately understood the depth of the relationship between Israel and the Jews. She saw firsthand how the return of the Jewish People had made the stony hilltops and desert areas flower. To Becky, it was clear that Israel had been waiting centuries for her people to return to her as God had promised. “The State of Israel was not a gift from the UN,” says Becky. “It was a gift from God, and it belonged to the Nation of Israel for a long, long time.”
On that same trip to Israel, Becky met Sondra Oster Baras, CFOIC Heartland’s Israel Office Director. A quick but emotionally-loaded meeting in a hotel lobby grew into an amazing relationship ever since. Upon her return to Texas, bursting with the beauty of the land and excitement and revelation of her trip, Becky became determined to help Israel. She understood for the first time just how skewed the world’s perception of Israel really is. This disturbed Becky greatly, because she believes that those misguided opinions affect the younger generations and sour the relationships between Israel and its allies.
Joe and Becky Keenan pastor the Gulf Meadows church in Houston, Texas, a bilingual congregation. After that first trip to Israel, Pastor Becky began to initiate serious education in the church for Israel. She hosted the first Night to Honor Israel in Houston and invited Israeli speakers to the church. A favorite visitor and speaker for several years now has been CFOIC’s Sondra Baras. In addition, Becky decided to start bringing her own groups to learn about Israel, to expose them to the real facts on the ground, and to combat misinformation.
On her Educational Journeys through Israel, Becky encourages participants to think independently. “I don’t insert my opinion,” she says, “I allow the facts to speak for themselves.” In tandem with CFOIC Heartland, Becky brings her groups to meet locals in communities throughout Judea and Samaria, where she believes the most important lessons can be learned. “I want [my participants] to meet Jewish families, to see their appreciation for family, freedom, and education. In the Jews, with their survival and accomplishments, you can see the hand of God. We can all learn from that.” And there is always more to learn; Becky says that she is still learning about the situation in Judea and Samaria.
When asked if she has a favorite Israeli community, Becky laughs and says, “That’s not a fair question! I love them all. Each community is so different, so individual. They’re full of hope.” Despite their differences, Becky says every resident she meets expresses that same unity of purpose that she witnessed on her first trip to Israel: that they belong here, as Jews, in their Biblical Homeland.
“The Bible is alive,” continues Becky, “because God is alive. He’s alive in Judea and Samaria, and CFOIC Heartland can show you. The land of Israel responds to and protects the Jews living in it, and that is a true miracle.”
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Merrick Power Bites are soft and chewy all-natural treats, with big taste and industry-leading levels of powerful protein packed into every bite. These treats are perfect for training and rewarding dogs. Power Bites start with real deboned meat as the #1 ingredient, with added nutrition from fresh fruits and vegetables. Power Bites are grain-free and gluten-free, without sorbic acid. Safely cooked in the USA with the world’s best ingredients!
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Tuesday 22 December 2015
Road trip – yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A friend recently bought a new car and was keen to do a wee road trip somewhere and I was very keen to go to New Plymouth to see Mt Taranaki, the Pukekura Gardens lit up for Xmas and the brand new Len Lye Gallery, both of which I read about in the Air New Zealand magazine a couple of months ago – so it seemed like the perfect place for a road trip.
Our first stop for coffee was in the Clock World & Longitude Cafe in Ohaupo, which is somewhere just south of Hamilton. The Clock World shop was awesome with many fabulous clocks but the cafe left a lot to be desired. The service was incredibly slow, the person behind the counter was kinda rude and prefered to organise her cakes into some sort of order rather than serving us and the coffee wasn’t all that great.
That was our one and only stop on the way to New Plymouth, just as well I’d packed a gift box of Kahlua Chocolates or I may have starved to death. It was a lovely easy drive with lots of great scenery, but the weather wasn’t great and I was a tad disappointed that I couldn’t see THE mountain at all. I was hoping for better weather the next day so I could see it.
Second dinner was in the hotel restaurant which was a glorious buffet and it felt like half of the the town also went there for dinner – children and all for a Xmas dinner treat I guess, coz it was packed and people I spoke to all lived in New Plymouth. Anyway the food was great!
After that we set off for Pukekura Park which the TSB Bank turns into a “Festival of Lights” from the 13th of December to the end of January. It was truly spectacular and well worth the drive from Auckland.
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https://beejayge.com/2015/12/30/xmas-holidays-2015-day-four/
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The GSD8 Digital Potentiometer allows you to control an analog dc drive with the accuracy and precision of a digital dc drive. It both replaces the analog potentiometer and provides a feedback path so the DC Motor speed can be monitored. And it's super easy to use! Join us in this video where we walk you step by step through setting up and using this IRNHORSE GSD8 digital potentiometer from AutomationDirect.com.
You can view all the videos in this playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPdypWXY_ROrE_TbblIMcvcOQKb3WaQ-N
The GSD8 digital potentiometer turns your existing loosely controlled analog system into a precisely controlled digital system because it replaces the analog pot with a digital display that can show engineering units, and it provides a feedback path that it can use to tightly control your motor’s speed. And you can use it with any controller that uses a voltage reference – it doesn’t have to be a DC motor controller. Let’s do an example. I have a GSD4A analog drive that normally takes a potentiometer input. I replaced that analog pot with the GSD8 digital pot. I have the drive connected to a three-quarter horsepower DC motor, attached a GSD8 20 PPR encoder to the back of the motor and wired that back to the GSD8 digital pot. I also wired a switch to the S2 terminal which I can use for inhibit, jog or estop. We’ll use it for inhibit. This should look REAL familiar if you watched any of the previous videos. It’s almost exactly the same as wiring one of the GSD8 Digital DC Drives. The only difference is we are using the analog drive as the high current output stage of what is now our Digital DC Drive system. Everything else is identical to the previous videos … with one exception. While the GSD8 Drives are all closed-loop operation only, this digital potentiometer builds us a DC drive that can be run closed loop OR open loop! Let’s do a factory reset to get the drive to a known state. Parameter 95, enter a 5, up arrow to confirm. We wired the inhibit switch to S2, so let’s go to Parameter 35 and change S2 from a Jog function to an inhibit function. We need to make sure this digital potentiometer is running in closed-loop mode. That’s Parameter 22 and we just need to make sure it is a NOT a 32 which is the open-loop operation. It isn’t, so we are good to go. Let’s double-check that the pulse rate the drive is expecting is 20 because I’m using a 20 PPR encoder. It is. And let’s go to Parameter 12 and change the display from target speed to actual speed. That’s just because I prefer to see the actual speed. And let’s scroll to Parameter zero and press enter to exit the parameter mode. The display says we are inhibited, so I’ll release that and we see we are currently at 0 RPM and the motor is not turning. Before we ramp this up to some speed, we need to set up these configuration potentiometers on the analog drive to be compatible with the new digital potentiometer. First, we need to make sure we lower the max speed setting to roughly 2/3 of full sale. If it is set too high the digital potentiometer may not be able to get a stable result. If it is set too low, then it may never get the motor up to speed. Two thirds is a good starting point. I’ll also turn the min speed all the way down, so it doesn’t limit us on the low end. The digital potentiometer can do that for us. Next, if the drive has current limiting – which this one does - make sure it Is set high enough that it doesn’t prevent or limit the digital potentiometer from doing it’s PID tuning. My motor isn’t connected to anything so it’s not a concern here, so I’ll raise the current limiting all the way up to get it out of the way. IR Comp handles speed regulation on the analog drive. It basically increases the motor armature voltage to compensate for heavy loads, but since our closed-loop process will automatically compensate for load variations, we want to turn that all the way down to get it out of the way. The digital potentiometer will also be controlling acceleration and deceleration very accurately so we’ll get these guys out of the way too. Of course, don’t forget to set the power jumper on the analog drive to match your power input and the motor voltage jumper to match your motor's voltage. Great. We set up the digital potentiometer and the analog drive, let’s try it! I’ll crank up the speed and sure enough the motor starts spinning. I’ll use my hand-held tachometer to verify the speed and yep, it’s exactly what it should be. My motor is free spinning with no load so the default PID parameters work just fine. But, if you need to tweak the PID tuning the manual walks you through how to do that in just a few sentences. Just remember to re-adjust the current limiting potentiometer once you get PID working the way you want. Your analog drive manual will tell you how to do that. If you just want to use the digital potentiometer as a simple replacement for the analog potentiometer and run the drive as an open-loop controller with no feedback, just go back to Parameter 22 and set it to a 32 for open-loop operation and of course, change all of these back to whatever you would normally set them to. Keep in mind, since we are no longer using the feedback, you need to make sure the digital potentiometer is setup for Rate mode only – it won’t know what to do with the other modes because there is no feedback signal for it to use – right? By the way, even though the drive isn’t using the feedback to control the motor in open-loop mode, you can still connect it to a sensor and display the results to monitor anything you want! It won’t have any impact on the drive because it’s in open-loop mode. One side note: If you know you will never use the feedback and you only want to use this as a simple replacement for the analog potentiometer … then take a look at this guy’s cousin. It doesn’t have the closed-loop option so it will save you some money. This digital potentiometer has one more really great features – you can add option modules to communicate with it and to give it analog input, analog output and a digital input – just like the regular GSD8 Digital Drives. I’m planning to do some videos on those option cards, so be sure to click here to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you will be notified when we create new automation videos. Click here to see the rest of the videos in this series and click here to learn about AutomationDirect's free technical support options!
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Dear Colleagues and Patients,
It is with the deepest sorrow that we share with you the news that our colleague Dr. Dean Lorich has passed away. Dr. Lorich was a respected surgeon, teacher and friend to many at HSS, NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine. He helped thousands of patients throughout his career, including many who were impacted by crises abroad.
We extend our deepest sympathies to Dr. Lorich's family, friends and patients.
Lou Shapiro, CEO and President
Todd Albert, Surgeon-in-Chief
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Minden Pilot Dies in Plane Crash
Written by Daniel Davidson on February 7, 2020
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be on the scene of a plane crash just outside of Chatham, Louisiana this morning to investigate a plane crash that killed three men, including a resident of Minden.
The News Star in Monroe reports the three victims as Chris Mudd and Wade Williams, both of the Shreveport-Bossier area, and Robert Gilliam of Minden. The plane left Jackson, Mississippi on Thursday, February 6, bound for Shreveport, but did not make it. The plane lost contact with Monroe Regional Airport around 2:11 p.m. The first call received by emergency services of the crash was at 2:20 p.m. The plane crashed near Louisiana Highway 34 on the property of a logging company and according to reports caught a building on fire. No injuries on the ground were reported.
Jackson Parish Sheriff Andy Brown said this is the first time he has been involved in a plane crash in Jackson Parish. “I have been sheriff for 16 years and I have never investigated or been involved in an airplane crash in Jackson Parish,” said Brown.
The Eros and Chatham Fire Departments, Chatham Police Department, Jackson Parish Sheriff’s Office, and the Louisiana State Police were all on scene Thursday afternoon. The FAA is expected to be on scene this morning to begin their investigation.
KBEF will follow up this article as more information is made available.
Banner photo courtesy of www.myarklamiss.com, used with permission.
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From MCBDDS: Phone service to many MCBDDS numbers is non-functional. To report a Major Unusual Incident (MUI) or after-hours emergency, call 937-910-6041 or email MUI@mcbdds.org.
Please check www.mcbdds.org for future updates.
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