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Many who received vitamin D supplementation showed decrease in tumor growth
MONDAY, March 23, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Vitamin D supplements may slow or prevent low-grade prostate cancer from progressing, a small new study suggests. The findings were scheduled for presentation Monday at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, held from March 22 to 26 in Denver.
“Vitamin D decreases inflammation in tissues, and inflammation is a driver of cancer,” lead researcher Bruce Hollis, Ph.D., of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, told HealthDay.
For the study, researchers randomly assigned 37 men who elected to have their prostate removed to receive either 4,000 international units of vitamin D or an inactive placebo daily for 60 days before their operation. When the prostate gland was examined after their surgery, researchers found that many who received vitamin D had improvements in their prostate tumors, while the tumors in the placebo group remained the same or got worse.
“In greater than 60 percent of those taking it, vitamin D actually made the cancer better,” Hollis said. Hollis reported that in some cases the tumor shrank and in others the cancer went away. However, the study was small, and results from a larger trial aren’t expected for several years, he added.
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Steve Plunkett - vocals, guitar; Steve Lynch - guitar; Randy Rand - bass; Steve Isham - keyboards; Keni Richards - drums
In a spandex-tinged trip back in the rock 'n' roll time machine, this 1985 show from rockers Autograph was originally recorded as one of two shows captured for a single appearance on the King Biscuit Flower Hour in the spring of 1985. Opening with the obligatory war cry, "Are you ready to rock?????" singer /guitarist Steve Plunkett and Autograph were in their hair metal prime when they recorded this show in San Antonio; and rock they do, despite the fact the band was relatively one-dimensional back in the day.
Autograph was big briefly on the pop metal scene at a time when bands like Bon Jovi, LA Guns, Skid Row, Poison, and Motley Crue were all fighting for domination of the scene. Unfortunately, bands like Autograph had enough momentum, MTV-friendly looks, and a couple of decent songs, all of which could get them a major label deal, but was not enough to sustain them past the popularity of that musical genre.
This show was recorded when the band was still an opening act (oftentimes for the Scorpions) and most of the material here is from their early LPs, including "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend," "Take No Prisoners," "Send Her To Me" and the band's only real hit: "Turn Up The Radio." The show was recorded on a Friday night, so the band's ode to the joys of weekend partying, "Friday," obviously goes down well with the beer soaked San Antonio crowd. Plunkett, along with second guitarist Steve Lynch, bassist Randy Rand, keyboard player Steve Isham and drummer Keni Richards stayed together for a couple more years after recording this show, but disbanded when their music went out of fashion on radio and MTV.
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Hey we can educate you about wood floors. Our website shares our membership brochures of what to expect before sanding or installing wood flooring. Contact Erlin for an on-site eight page estimate checklist. Yeah, talk to our little brother about your checklist. Or call Luis, for a short, on-site walk-through prior to service. If you cannot wait for us, Click on our What to Expect/Blog page.
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A simple and unique logo design showing a chess horse/knight with a hammer, sickle and star in the negative space. Unused proposal. For sale.
CONCEPT: Bishop (Chess) + Crane Hook. First class brand (name+logo+slogan) perfect for construction or building or lifting business. Bishop piece is symbol for strategy, planning and intelligence. For sale. *** additional versions you can see here: http://stronglogos.com/product/white-bishop#.V3rHkBIYGp0
CST is a training company. Symbolism of a chess knight is central to CSTs strategy. It exemplifies dynamism and initiative. Basing on these qualities and the target group in part the automotive branch I have referred in the lettering and composition to the aesthetics of sport cars emblems. Over the course of many sketches, I have created a convincing, minimalistic silhouette. Rendered as negative space against a chess square, it creates a bold, cohesive and legible mark.
Custom letters created for marketing company. "K" letter has incorporated a rook/tower shape which refers to "protect the King" idea. • • • Follow us on www.instagram.com/triptic.pl
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Pear is a cloud-based application that integrates entertainment, fashion, travel and sport. Allowing users to have a customised interface to the web that streamlines and aggregates only what interests them. The logo encompasses representative icons from various genres and sectors and combines them under one pear-shaped roof, just like the app itself.
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Liberalism and Marxism in Regard to Freedom and Equality Name Institution Date Liberalism is a term used to refer to the political and economical doctrine that gives emphases on freedoms and rights of individuals and the need to limit the powers of the state…
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That means that, the liberals advocated for limited state intervention on matters regarding the economic system of a country. Marxism is an ideology developed by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. In this ideology, the two historians claim that every person is entitled to enjoy the fruits of his or her labor, but this does not happen especially in capitalist economic systems thus leading to the formation of classes in the society. With this, the essay gives a comparison and contrast on liberalism and Marxism in regard to the theme of freedom and equality. As stated above, liberalism is a political and economic doctrine, which gives emphases on the freedom of individuals and the need to limit the powers of the state. Liberals in the late 19th and 20th century advocated for limited state intervention on matters regarding the economic system of the state. They also emphasized on creation of free health care and free public education. After World War II, a classical liberal position came in resulting in the creation of free markets especially among conservatives in the United States of America and Britain. The liberalism social reforms focused on expanding individual rights and reducing inequality (Tucker, 2008). Liberalism is founded on ideas of equality and liberty. Liberalism supports different ideas and views such as freedom of trade, freedom of religion, civil rights, ownership of private property and freedom of the press. Liberalism rejected aspects of divine rights of the Kings and absolute monarchy. That means that they rejected the aspect of the state enforcing absolute power to the citizens. A great philosopher John Locke founded the liberalism as a distinct philosophical ideology. According to his ideology John said that, each citizen has a right to life, to own property and to liberty. He further said that, the government should not violate such rights for their citizens, which is according to the social contract. Liberalism advocated for democracy and the rule of the law. Democracy regarding the matters such as freedom of expression that is why they advocated for the freedom of the press. Liberalism aimed at overthrowing the tyrannical rule of the government thus making sure that, democracy is practiced in all the respective states (Sayer, 2009). Although classical conservative ideology opposed liberalism, liberalism found themselves on the winning side most of the time in most of the states. This shows that most people advocated for democracy and disregarded the tyrannical rule. Most of the states adopted John’s ideology. For instance in the United States of America, their declaration of independence stated that, all men were created equally and endowed by their creator with different rights which are pursuit of happiness, life and liberty thus echoing John’s ideology of liberty, life and individual ownership of property. In addition, history records that, with John’s ideology on liberty, the French revolution overthrew the hereditary form of governance and advocated for fraternity, equality and liberty (Friedman, 2008). By doing so and adopting John’s slogan of equality and liberty, they were granted universal male suffrage whereby any man could stand as an election candidate during the elections and the hereditary form of governance was done away with which resulted to dictatorship. In the 19th century, liberalism focused on a world free from government intervention especially in the economic sector. Liberals
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It shall also discuss the extent to which this ideology has transformed itself. In other words, it shall seek to answer whether or not it can still call itself liberalism. In answering these issues, this paper seeks to conclude whether there is a core or essence of liberalism which has survived and which gives it lasting meaning.
The study throws light on two of the most recognized ideologies in the recent world are modern conservatism and modern liberalism. One of the striking similarities between modern conservatism and modern liberalism is that both of them have changed considerably from their original ideologies, traditional conservatism and social liberalism.
Socialism is more related to social relations and equal power for all, for example, equal relations in the management of political and economic situations (World Socialist party). The word “socialism” mainly describes an economic system; the system which favors rules within which wealth is equally distributed among the appropriate people who claim to have a share on the wealth or on the resources they consume.
This report has been written in an attempt to critically evaluate realism, liberalism and Marxism in relation to global politics. The theory of realism traces its history back to ancient Chinese literature and hence it has influenced the global political scenario from the very beginning of human civilization.
The contemporary world is characterized by unequal distribution of wealth, resources, and power. With regard to the American society today, it is clear that there are capitalistic elements present in the society. Karl Marx in the nineteenth century addressed the theme of capitalism, which results in denial of justice to some class of people in the society.
In other words, liberalism is the belief that the will of a man is not subject to the will of someone else. The Fundamental Liberal Principle is defined as the belief that political authority must be justified in order to assert authority over people.
pag). Marxism is the philosophy and social theory based on Karl Marxs work. In other words Marxism is the political, economic, and social principles and policies promoted by Karl Marx and Frederik Engels (www.marxismfaq.co.uk, n.
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The Steve Harvey Morning Show
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“Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today.” – Anon Newsreader, ‘Groundhog Day’, 1991
This famous quote from the cult classic Groundhog Day couldn’t be a more inaccurate report for the Groundhog Day in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica I’m currently experiencing, as it’s 31 degrees every day, the waves are a cool 30. Oh and the surf’s pumping. Like perfect. Every day.
If you haven’t seen this Bill Murray classic, the film is about a weatherman who gets caught in a blizzard and then finds himself trapped in a weird time warp for no apparent reason. He relives the same day (Groundhog Day) over and over again for the forseable future.
It’s a living hell, but imagine if your Groundhog Day consisted of waking up before sunrise, practising yoga, surfing in perfect conditions, refuelling with a healthy wholesome breakfast washed down with countless cups of best coffee in the World, more surf, more food, more yoga, beers, dinner, bed, repeat. This would be a dream; heaven if you like and pretty much sums up the current vibes on the trip I’m running for Ticket to Ride.
Our only real worry is whether to wear factor 15 or 5 as we head to the beach for the afternoon and if we’ll need flip flops or not as the sand could be too hot to walk across…
Pictures speak louder than words so I’ll let the following shots tell the rest of the story.
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Europe’s divisions have driven our success
Competition between states produces innovation, while empires stifle flair and lead to explosions of nationalism
The Italian referendum and close-shave Austrian election are symptoms of a continent that may be teetering on the brink of political disintegration. It’s just possible that an empire may be collapsing before our eyes, as the Habsburg and Ottoman empires did before it, in or around the same neighbourhood.
With the rise of nationalist parties in Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Britain, the possibility that the Brussels union has fomented, rather than suppressed, nationalism can no longer be dismissed. The Habsburg empire, which also tried to make a whole out of linguistically and culturally diverse parts, and ended in a war sparked by Serbian nationalism, is an unhappy precedent. The European Union may be encouraging precisely what it was founded to
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While Jill Zarin and Alex McCord are officially out of the Real Housewives of New York City, they won’t go quietly into that famewhore night and continue to draw attention to themselves, no matter what. We’ll start with the grossest news. Somehow, Alex was able to get press for a very odd passage in her “urban parenting” book, which was released two years ago, Little Kids Big City. They weren’t getting enough hate messages on Twitter, so they decided to promote the passage below, describing husband Simon VanKempen‘s reaction to the au naturale birth of son, François. Alex describes her natural birth as:
“Once he was finally out of my body, I experienced a tsunami of endorphins that was almost orgasmic and I understand completely the stories other women have written about ecstastic birth. Simon was sitting behind me at the point of birth, and later when we untangled ourselves he discovered he’d actually ejaculated though hadn’t felt any of the normal lead-up to that.”
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Yes! United now gives 500 mile minimum on US Airways flights
I have to fly US Airways every once in a while. Going in and out of Charlotte (CLT), which I do every so often, forces one to do so. One of my peeves with US Airways (amongst several others), is that when earning miles on United, I would not earn a 500 minimum miles. Dulles (IAD) to Charlotte is 321 miles. United stopped giving the 500 minimum to even it’s Elites a few years ago and only awards the actual miles earned. Continental, on the other hand always gave the 500 mile minimum. So, ever since the United-Continental merger was announced, I started taking my US Airways miles on Continental. Once they allowed it, I started transferring miles to United. As a side note, before the merger, I would earn my US Airways miles on BMI. They award 600 minimum miles!
I took my first US Airways flight since the United-Continental merger finished last week. To my pleasant surprise, I got awarded 500 miles! Thankfully, the new merged United is following Continental’s minimum mile policy. Another point that proves that the new United is Continental under the covers – not that anyone is complaining about that.
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. How many towns have three Willys Station Wagons parked on the street?
We've seen this '51 and this '56, and now we've got today's proto-SUV. I'm saying it's a 1952 model, but it could be a 1950, 1951, or 1953 as well; in fact, it could be years older or younger if it's had a junkyard grille swap. Anyway, it's a beautiful old survivor, at least a half-century in age, and that's what's important!
I've been admiring this truck for many years now, but prior to last week it had always lived in a driveway and was thus unqualified for Down On The Street honors. Now it appears that the owner has revived his or her classic Willys and is putting some street miles on it.
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The PD-FD580 is easy to use and attaches to your flash in seconds with a snug, custom fit, and not a single piece of velcro or other adhesive. Designed for years of service with out the bulk of some other diffusers, it is small enough to fit easily into your gadget bag or pocket, yet it makes a huge difference in all your photos.
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@mtb002 He is responsible for his own safety (besides the fact, that he is, you know, a puppet) Don’t confuse that with him claiming that his own safety is entirely in his hands. Being responsible means that he is the one that has the obligation to keep himself out of harm’s way, not that he alone controls what happens. The most likely reason someone else affects Irk’s safety is because they are irresponsible.
Decision tree: 1. Is the Pedestrian holding up a white cane? Y: Yield. N: 2. Is the pedestrian in the street? Y: Yield. N: 3. Is the pedestrian standing at a crosswalk that is not part of a lighting controlled intersection? Y: Yield if they look like they intend to cross (I usually don’t wave though.) N: 4. Is there a red light? Y: Stop. N: Just keep driving.
As a pedestrian, I tend to try and look like I’m not intending on crossing the street until a broad gap appears, then I go for it.
Someone standing stationary on the side of the road: Drive as normal. As i understand the sign “Yield to Pedestrians in Walkway” to mean that they are in the actual road or their momentum will carry them into the road and not standing waiting to cross
Well around here a pedestrian trying to cross the street is just one that’s looking down at their phone and may step into traffic at any moment without looking. It’s makes for some very nervous driving. They don’t even look, they just step out defiantly.
I’ve been told that since the law would fault the driver of the car in a pedestrian-vehicle collision that people don’t mind stepping out in front of cars at speed because it’ll be the drivers fault not theirs.
Agreed. Sometimes I am not even trying to cross and people stop for me. I am like a meter from the edge of the road, just standing there doing my thing and people get pissed because I don’t cross. Idiots.
There’s a popular intersection on the Burke Gilman trail in the university district in Seattle. Has a flashing stop sign. I watched a pedestrian get hit by a car because even though the pedestrian had right of way, the car was paying more attention to the cyclists who were stopped for the flashing stop sign and blew through the crosswalk.
That stop sign definitely bothers me. Quite a lot. Maybe, just maybe, it bothers me more than it should.
I’m an aggressive pedestrian. I have to be, 'cause I live in New York. If I have the light, I cross. If you’re turning, you better let me go, unless you’ve got someone having a baby in the back seat or something.
Remember: you drivers are protected by 1000+ pounds of metal. I’m a walking mass of soft flesh, and the most protection I might have is a leather jacket. You’ll win.
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Ventana XXL Cold Water Surf Wax
We're not into those little slivers that are left after waxing a board or two, so we set out to fix the problem. We believe these bars of cold water wax (50-69 F / 10-20 C) are the largest on the market. They fit well in your hand, and they were specially blended for Ventana to have just the right amount of stickiness. To further solve the problem of those little bits of wax, we've added an Orange Peel package with Peel Surf Co. Read more below.
We wanted something unique, so we worked with Jimbo's Surf Wax in New Hampshire to develop a new formula. You can use the pine scented wax to make any surfboard smell like one of our premium, hollow wooden boards. We also have maple, coffee, chocolate, and cherry scents in the same, sticky formula!
Now with fortunes! Rather than waste the offcuts from the label, we print fortunes on them. Each bar of wax comes with a unique, surf-related fortune, like: "You will have an important encounter with a goofy foot." and "Be open to wisdom from an old soul surfer." Of course, if you'd rather receive your wax with no wrapper at all, just let us know.
Our wax is biodegradable, and Jimbo cooks up our batches over a woodstove using sustainably harvested timber. The wax is non-toxic and biodegradable, but hey, don't eat it.
There's not much that concerns us about this wax from an environmental perspective. We don’t love that our special blend is shipped to us from across the country, but there's so much good here that we're feeling okay about that. And, Ventana's donations to ocean conservation make us feel even better.
We've also added a new package with Peel Surf Co.! The Orange Peel fits perfectly in your car's cupholder. It let's you store those extra bits of wax left over from each surf session. As your car heats up in the sun, the wax also melts into the Orange Peel mold and can be peeled out and re-used as a new bar! Sand and debris sink to the bottom and are easily scraped off. It's oven and microwave safe. And, it's 100% made and manufactured in the US!
Longboard or short, you'll love the way this wax keeps you where you need to be on your board to rip, cruise, cross-step or hang ten. Buy a baker's dozen. This wax is terrific!
- 150 grams (industry waxes range from 70-85 grams)
- Unique surf-related fortune with each bar
- Some of the ingredients are secret, but this blend includes:
- organic beeswax
- coconut oil
- tree resin
- essential oil
Orange Peel + Surf Wax Package
- Orange Peel silicon wax mold
- Ventana leash cord key chain
- Two Ventana stickers
- Bar of Ventana XXL Pine Scented surf wax
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Winchester Repeating Arms will now offer its SXP pump shotgun in 20 gauge models for 2015.
The new SXP Black Shadow 20 gauge will feature a synthetic stock and forearm with textured gripping surfaces in black matte finish in 26-inch and 28-inch barrel lengths.
- RELATED STORY: Top Tactical Shotguns, Accessories For 2015
The SXP Black Shadow is part of Winchester Repeating Arms’ 20 gauge Super X Pump shotgun series, which are built on a smaller and lighter 20 gauge-specific receiver.
Four oversize rotary bolt lugs provide support, strength and solid lock-up to the barrel. A hard chrome chamber and bore make surfaces highly resistant to wear and corrosion.
An Inflex Technology recoil pad reduces felt recoil on the SXP Black Shadow. The proven Invector-Plus Choke Tube System provides consistent shot patterns in the constriction hunter’s situation demands.
- RELATED STORY: Shotgun Guide: 10 Ultra Fast Smoothbores
The SXP Black Shadow has an MSRP of $399.99 and is available now.
For more information on the SXP Black Shadow and other products from Winchester Repeating Arms, please visit WinchesterGuns.com.
The Rochester Police Department in New York will purchase approximately 480 body camera units with...
by Tactical-Life / Jun 18, 2015
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The teacher prep landscape has been shifting recently. Jonathan Schorr views the changes as part of a revolution in teacher prep.
The question is an interesting one: are we experiencing a revolution? In Schorr’s view, the answer is yes. He points out the many alternative teacher prep programs that now exist. While each may have its own unique take on teacher prep, they all, according to Schorr, seem to share some common characteristics:
- an emphasis on practice
- expert teachers as models/mentors
- a classroom performance orientation
These programs seem to contrast, in large part, with what one typically imagines of a “traditional” teacher prep program–a theory-heavy and practice-light experience.
Schorr’s piece is a good summary of the present landscape. But I don’t see the revolution happening just yet. To use a metaphor, teacher prep has plenty of people and organizations creating sparks out there, but the fire hasn’t yet ignited because there is no consistent source of fuel. That is, there are plenty of pioneers (many of which are mentioned in Schorr’s piece, including Relay) that are pushing boundaries and proving the impossible. But the present dynamic doesn’t yet seem like one that is sustainable for the long haul because the alternative prep model hasn’t really been “objectively verified”–it hasn’t been “proven to work” for a longer period of time. So, to me, the quest for the fuel to the teacher prep fire is the most important element of actually launching the revolution.
Naturally, then, the most interesting development that Schorr points out is that some states have begun to collect data linking ed school graduates’ performance to their respective teacher prep programs. Once these pioneer states have spent a few years collecting this data, we’ll be able to compare, a little more objectively, the outcomes of traditional v. alternative teacher prep programs. I greatly look forward to seeing what patterns emerge from the data. And, depending on what that data looks like, the revolution can truly begin in teacher prep.
But even if the teacher prep revolution begins, we shouldn’t ignore the possibility of revolutions in other areas. Training effective teachers is an essential piece to the education puzzle; it is a task towards which we, as a nation, should devote much effort. But we also can’t forget about principals and other school-based leaders and the role they play in shaping student outcomes. So I look forward to seeing more on the medium-term results of programs, like New Leaders for New Schools, that aim to develop school-based leaders using the same principles that Schorr mentions in his piece.
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“I have made the decision that we will proceed with the Rent Guidelines Board process,” De Blasio said. “...but I am calling upon the Rent Guidelines Board to issue a rent freeze.”
A freeze means tenants would still have to pay rent, but would not see an increase. The Guidelines Board is a group of people appointed by the Mayor but who make their own independent decisions about increases for rent-stabilized units.
But while tenant advocates say that the move is a good start and will help New Yorkers put food on the table, landlords say that a freeze would not be fair.
“Property owners are in the same boat as the tenants,” said Christopher Athineos, whose family has owned properties in Brooklyn since the 1960s. “We’re all suffering, our expenses continue to go up, there’s no talk about freezing or rolling back our property taxes.”
A spokesperson for the Mayor says that the Rent Guidelines Board will have its first meeting on the matter within the next two weeks.
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Hello all!!! This was the first time I have been able to get to email people. Being at the MTC is a lot different than anything that I have ever done. It’s a lot harder than you would think… Plus there are stairs everywhere!!! And anyone that knows me knows that I hate entirely stairs. But things here are really good. I have been learning a lot. My companion is from Trinidad and so she speaks with an accent. Sometimes she speaks really fast and most of what she says in those moments go right over my head. But it is a good companionship. She went through the temple today for the first time and I was able to be her escort. It was a really neat experience.
We’ve been learning a lot about the gospel and we even have had to teach some of the lessons in 1 min or less. Yeah that was really interesting. It forces us to really focus on what is important. I really have enjoyed all of it…. Well mostly. I feel exhausted all the time trying to be so close to the Spirit all the time. Plus we get up at like 6 so that we can get all that we need to done.
I’m the oldest in my class and it’s really hard sometimes to be around 18-19 year olds. I have a hard time connecting to them, and yet I have found that they are some really great people. I’m not sure what else to say. I’ll have to write my thoughts and ideas down this week for next week so that once I’m in front of a computer I don’t blank on it.
Any way I love you all and appreciate your support. If you have questions or what ever and want to know more about what’s going on here just send a personal email to me and I’d love to answer!
Sister Kaitlin Veylupek
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|PDGA #: 47516||Home Course: Kaatis, Vihti, Finland||Home Town: Vihti, Finland|
|Bag: Dynamic Discs Ranger||Favorite Course: Järva, Stockholm, Sweden||Favorite Disc: Dynamic Discs Defender|
Never give up to your emotions during a tournament. Remember the reason you are training for.
First PDGA win during an Am-Tour in Tammisaari, Finland in 2011.
Friendly people, honestly caring for their team. I love the 'go and get things done' attitude of our team.
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by Frank Wedekind
EXT: EVENING IN MELCHIOR'S STUDY. THE WINDOW IS OPEN, A LAMP BURNS ON THE TABLE.
Melchior and Moritz, teenage classmates, are talking on the divan.
The leaves whisper so busily.--It's just as if I heard my dead grandmother telling me the story of the "Queen Without a Head." There was once a wonderfully beautiful Queen, beautiful as the sun, more beautiful than all the maidens in the country. Only, unfortunately, she came into the world without a head. She could not eat, not drink, not kiss. She could only communicate with her courtiers by using her soft little hand. With her dainty feet she stamped declarations of war and orders for executions. Then, one day, she was besieged by a King, who, by chance, had two heads, which, year in and year out, disputed with one another so violently that neither could get a word in edgewise. The Court Conjurer-in-chief took off the smallest of these heads and set it upon the Queen's body. And, behold, it became her extraordinarily well! Therefore, the King and the Queen were married, and the two heads disputed no longer, but kissed each other upon the brow, the cheeks and the mouth, and lived thereafter through long, long years of joy and peace.--Delectable nonsense! Since vacation I can't get the headless Queen out of my mind. When I see a pretty girl, I see her without a head--and then presently, I, myself appear to be the headless Queen.--It is possible that someone may be set over me yet.
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Family Activity Day
I am writing this on behalf of the St Mary’s Parents Association. The next event is Family Activity Day and the date will be Saturday 25th April, please see details on attached flyer, Charlton children are also very welcome to come along with their parents.
This day is free of charge and hot food will be available to purchase – jacket potatoes, burgers etc. The Family Quiz night in the evening will be hosted by Dr. Kowalewski and Mr Rolph is a night not to be missed. Ticket prices are only £1 per person and again, there will be a break for hot food when you can purchase: chicken curry, potato wedges, burgers and hot dogs. Pancakes and other desserts will be available throughout both events. Please see the attached flyer to purchase tickets for Quiz night.
As always the Parents Association need volunteers to help throughout the day for various duties please see below and if you can give any amount of time please reply to me (Lisa) with the hours you can be available?
Kitchen help Some of us old ‘ex’ parents have realised that there has been a bit of a hole in handing over Kitchen duties to other parents still with children at School. Our children left to go to college last year but we are coming back for the Activity day to show others how the equipment works and the food cooked which have worked for us over the years, this will hopefully instill confidence in new parents being able to help with food at further events. If you would like to help in the kitchen please reply, as we will set a schedule, realising that some may not be able to do all day and evening.
Bar help Day and Evening please. Everything will be explained and there will be experienced people on hand to help? ( To refresh parents!)
Kids Bar Day and Evening please. Again everything will be explained and there will be experienced people on hand to help?
Cake Stall To supply cakes or desserts or would be able to help on this stall?
Plant Stall To supply plants or would be able to help on this stall?
Activities The SMCPA are fortunate to have teaching staff who give their time outside of School hours to help with events. Mr Rolph, Dr. Kowalewski amongst others are arranging outdoor team matches such as cricket, 5 a- side football, volleyball and netball shoot outs, (will be changed to indoors if bad weather). Parents may also participate but if you are unable to do this, then perhaps you could be a referee or Marshall? (This would help out greatly.)
Giant connect four, Giant Jenga, Twister A couple of parents who are happy to rotate throughout the day please?
Just one other request, we will be holding a raffle if you are able to donate any prizes please either bring them with you on the day or take into School for attention of SMCPA.
If you are able to help please reply to email@example.com
Thank you for taking the time to read this information and we look forward to seeing you on the day
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Washington State will observe Disaster Preparedness Month in April. In promoting the value of preparedness, Bonneville Seattle (97.3 KIRO FM, 710 ESPN Seattle, 770 The Truth, and MyNorthwest.com) in partnership with the King County and the Seattle Offices of Emergency Management and Snohomish County will execute a public awareness campaign “3 to Get Ready” starting 4/4/11 through 5/8/11.
On-air promotion of the preparedness challenge including tips will be provided and voiced by Bonneville’s local radio hosts. MyNorthwest.com will execute and create a customized web page(s) for the “3 to Get Ready” preparedness challenge campaign and incentivize the first 200 participants to win a crank radio or an emergency kit. All participants including the first 200 will be eligible to have their names drawn for the grand prize trip – a round trip car/driver ferry ride for two adults (up to two children) with two nights stay at Queen Victoria Hotel and Suites plus tickets to visit the The Butchart Gardens, the Butterfly Gardens, and Adrenaline Zip Line Tour. Travel arrangements will be provided by the Black Ball Ferry Line operating between Port Angeles and Victoria. The grand prize winner will also win a 4-person emergency kit.
Campaign participants should go to www.mynorthwest.com/getready/. This website lists neighborhoods within King County, City of Seattle, and Snohomish County. They can enter their zip code and be directed to a specific neighborhood page listing non-emergency numbers and any other pertinent emergency information relevant for that particular neighborhood area. Also on this page will be actions listed in three boxes for the participants to perform. They are:
- Take Action (Do the “3 to Get Ready Challenge” – practice Drop, Cover and Hold, create an out of area contact, and store emergency drinking water.)
- Tell A Friend (You did the challenge. Share a tip on how you have prepared yourself or your family for a disaster.)
- Send a Photo (Get creative and submit a photo that illustrates your disaster preparedness.)
After participants complete their task(s) and submission, the first 200 participants will win a prize (crank radio or emergency kit), and all participants’ names will be entered for the grand prize drawing. The grand prize winner’s name will be announced in the Ron & Don Show (3p-7p) on 97.3 KIRO FM, Wednesday, 5/11/11.
The “3 to Get Ready” campaign will also be advertised in local blogs and newspaper publications. Advertising has been purchased at: West Seattle Blog, My Ballard Blog, Capital Hill Blog, Rainier Valley Post, Phinneywood/Queen Anne Blog, My Greenlake, B-town blog, Seattle PI Web Newspaper, Issaquah Press, Sammamish Review, Kirkland Web Blog, IloveKent.net, and Sound Publishing (Bellevue, Renton, Kent, and Federal Way).
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If you know women at all, you should know that they love being beautiful. They spend a lot of time, money and to look the most amazing not only on their own but also for their men. They really make sure the player look beautiful all of the eyes of which one they love. For single women, they are sure that they appear really beautiful to attract men. If men will pay more attention to buy the right clothes for them, it will greatly affect the way women look their way. Here are some tips for males who want to update their looks to attract young ladies.
If you tired and hungry while you’re on your Phuket shopping adventure, there are a number of food hangouts at the malls to sit, relax and refill your energy before returning to your store shopping. A wide variety of restaurants with diverse cuisines are easily available. The food joints include big brands like KFC, Pizza Hut, Oishi, and Fuji. Even Sizzler is offered in Phuket.
When you search during an online Shopping mall for clothes spree, for all our purposes a shopping search, it is not uncommon to get back thousands of websites. As a way to truly shop you must go through one website at a time until you can find that you just are desiring. This gives rise to the word surfing.
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What can I say in three minutes that will make a difference? I can say the censorship bullies are intentionally misleading and prove it, I can give out copies of the linked attachments for further consideration, and I can urge people to discuss book challenges in a civil fashion instead of "weird arguments," as popular young adult fiction writer Lauren Myracle puts it after graciously apologizing for maligning Wall Street Journal book reviewer Meghan Cox Gurdon.
Who Am I?
Why Am I Here?
In this community many people are afraid to speak up for common sense precisely because of the censorship bullies. What is really needed is reasoned discussion, free from the shouting voices trying to bully people into being afraid to stand up for what we all know is right. I am going to illustrate that to you today, as best as I can in the three minutes I'm allowed to speak. To help make my points, I have handouts here with the reliable references supporting what I am saying. You will not see these sources from anything ALA or its local acolytes sends you so please read them.
My hope is you'll listen to what I have to say and decide to consider the matter seriously instead of unwittingly kowtowing to the voices shouting "censorship" and "book banning." Indeed, the reason they shout "censorship" is to intimidate people into never challenging a book in the first place, but people have every right and duty to challenge their government, including public schools. Your children should take precedence over your fear of being falsely labelled a censor.
The Declining Values in Young Adult Fiction Is Not a Left or Right Issue
- "Young Adult Fiction: Wild Things," by Naomi Wolf, New York Times, 12 March 2006.
New York City Removes Inappropriate Books From Hundreds of Schools
- "City's Ed. Boobs," by Carl Campanile, New York Post, 13 October 2003.
Even the American Library Association Says "Get It Out of There"
- "Marking 25 Years of Banned Books Week: An Interview with Judith Krug," by Judith Krug, 46 Curriculum Review 1, September 2006, p.12.
Despite the Shouting Voices, Most People Oppose Sexually Explicit Material in Schools
- "Most Americans Opposed to Banning Any Books," by Harris Interactive, The Harris Poll, 12 April 2011.
It's Parenting, Not Censorship
- "It's Not Censorship, It's Parenting! Removing Books That Are Inappropriate For Our Kids Is Not the Same as Banning Books," by Erin Manning, MercatorNet, 18 November 2009.
School Superintendents Oppose Sexually Inappropriate Material in Schools, Even If ALA Recommends It
- "Book Ruckus Divides Montgomery County Residents," by Jim Warren, Lexington Herald-Leader, 29 November 2009 (the link appears to be dead so I'm linking where I quoted the matter, and notice the many comments, including by young adult book authors like Ellen Hopkins and Chris Crutcher).
Schools Oppose Book Review Sites Like Scholastic for Hiding Information About the Potential for Sexually Inappropriate Material for Children
- "'Lush' Causes Uproar by Parents," by Cortney Mumaugh, Putnam County Sentinel, 15 December 2010.
ALA Censors and Blacklists Common Sense Media for Providing Book Ratings About the Potential for Sexually Inappropriate Material for Children
This is the ALA that is saying parents need to be informed while it shapes the messages so parents miss out on exactly what concerns them. This is one of the smoking guns of why the American Library Association is not to be trusted; it actively works to mislead you, parents and schools, while acting as some kind of authority.
- "Intellectual Freedom Committee Report," by Michael Giller, American Library Association, 29 August 2013.
Author Supports Wall Street Journal Book Reviewer Who Dared to Suggest Young Adult Books Might Be Inappropriate For Children
The backlash can be so bad that few brave authors are willing to speak out in defense of those simply speaking the truth about books for children, as Meghan Cox Gurdon did in the Wall Street Journal where she suggested, as I pointed out above, book reviews are incomplete and uninformative.
- "In Defense of Meghan Cox Gurdon, Children's Book Reviewer; Does a Reviewer Have a Right to Say that Books for Adolescents are 'Ever-More-Appalling'?," by Janice Harayda, One-Minute Book Reviews, 6 June 2011.
Reasoned Discussion, Free From the Shouting, Bullying Voices Crying Censorship, Is What Is Needed to Address School Book Challenges; A Great Example is Author Lauren Myracle Apologizing to Wall Street Journal Book Reviewer Meghan Cox Gurdon
As an example of the kind of positive atmosphere in which book challenges should be discussed, I urge you to read the transcript of the National Public Radio discussion of Meghan Cox Gurdon and her Judy Bloom-like critic and author Lauren Myracle. Lauren apologized to Meghan for jumping on the censorship bandwagon. I urge you to read this. Then I urge you to set aside the shouting and the bullying and the false arguments about how well rated the materials are and how some parents are censors and instead focus on amicably resolving the issue in a manner that best suits the community and its children, not the bullies.
"I lashed out at you," Myracle said. "When people get outraged they get angry, and then it becomes this weird argument instead of a discussion. ... I should welcome people who aren't on the same page with love and generosity. ... And I didn't with you. And I'm sorry."
- "YA Author Apologizes To 'Wall Street Journal' Critic," by Neal Conan, NPR, 6 July 2011.
I could say so much more, but that concludes my three minutes of fame. Thank you for this opportunity to speak and provide handouts. I welcome any questions now or in the future and will be happy to appear at local PTO meetings or the like.
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STATEMENT FROM SCHOOL PARENT DALE LAZAROVITCH REGARDING THE BULLYING SHE AND HER CHILD/STUDENT IS EXPERIENCING FROM THE SCHOOL ITSELF FOR MERELY ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT SCHOOL BOOKS–SHE IS TOLD SHE IS SQUASHING HER SON'S "SEXUAL BEING" AND THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT HEAD ROLLS HER EYES DURING THE STUDENT'S BOE SPEECH:
I attended my local BOE meeting to voice my concerns regarding a book that my 10th grade son was reading. My son came to me with an excerpt of the book and said to me that the language was disgusting and the topic was inappropriate for 10th graders. My son made a copy of a chapter of the book and highlighted what he thought was inappropriate and I brought it to the attention of the board and administration.
I was also told that I was "hovering and overprotecting my son," as well as "squashing his sexual being."
I didn't respond in public to the head of English, because I didn't want to stoop to her level. I questioned why the kids are not reading books to enhance their vocabulary to better prepare for the SAT/ACT tests. I was told that it was more important to expose our kids to other cultures (implied that we live in a very wealthy community) and that vocabulary building was as important.
What I really don't understand is that the school has such a tough non bullying policy for the students, yet when a parent has a question or a challenge such as this, I feel like I am being bullied.
I don't understand why the BOE and the administration will not respond to my requests. I understand that there are policies in place, but a simple email with an update from the meeting would be the least they can do.
I also found out that we as parents can opt out of books (a little too late for most), but my son turned in his book and was given a replacement. I was also told that next year that because my son will be in AP english we will not be able to challenge a book. I responded, that was not a concern because the AP curriculum is not picked by the head of the English department, but by the AP board.
My son did speak at the BOE meeting regarding the book choice, and the head of the English Dept was rolling her eyes at him and implied that I wrote his speech. By all means at 16 years old I do not have to put words in his mouth. He is the one that brought this to my attention, and as his mother I am his best advocate.
I never asked the school to ban or censor the book, I asked them to make the best choices for our kids.
NOTE ADDED 29 APRIL 2014:
I attended the above meeting. I really messed up my speech, or rather the three minutes I was allotted was not a lot and I rushed. What a mess.
Someone filmed me (via iPhone) and I am certain ALA is reviewing that now as I see my email, never sent by me to ALA, is being read by Chicago, IL, ALA employees using ALA email servers. So the school has definitely contacted ALA, an organization that, among other things, is the nation's leading facilitator of porn: http://tinyurl.com/DirtyDozenALA.
That said, the bullying of students and parents by the school itself is FAR, FAR WORSE than what I have reported above. If I get a chance I will be reporting more on this soon, perhaps publishing several people directly describing their ordeal.
If I recall correctly, a girl was, did I get this right, ordered to read some sexually inappropriate part of a book in front of the class? She opted out of reading it so she was placed in the back of the room, facing away from the class, told to wear head phones and to occupy herself on the computer while the class discussed the racy book? It was something like that. That's bullying. It is also a failure to comply with the law to provide an adequate education.
But oh, it gets even worse. One of her friends was acting on behalf of her coach, engaged her in text messaging, then her text messages, her private text messages, where emailed to many teachers? Did I get that right? And her father is being investigated by the school?
Oh, it was EXPLOSIVE!
Someone in the audience hinted I should be sued for supposedly making defamatory statements about the bullying the school is doing, then it turns out the bullying is WAY WORSE than what I reported. And there were anti bullying signs right in the next room! If you don't read that racy book, you AND your family will be bullied to teach others NEVER to dare challenge the government!
Oh I hope I get the time to do a full report on this. Just wait. This kind of bullying I see in school after school, setting aside the privacy invasion and the parental investigation, each one following ALA advice to keep the kids reading the inappropriate material by giving "alternate" material to the complainers and by bullying them.
Oh I can't wait to write about this.
URL of this page: safelibraries.blogspot.com/2014/04/SchoolBookChallenges.html
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Thanks to some merciful lawmakers, California homeowners are provided with legal protections when their lender begins the foreclosure process. These laws came into effect as the California courts’ response to the housing crisis, where many lenders were found at fault for forming unsuitable deals with home buyers. California doesn’t want a repeat performance of this fiasco, and the One-Action Rule and the Bill of Rights are working on your side during this difficult time.
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Understanding The One-Action Rule
Lenders want their money, and they’ll stop at nothing to recover their investment. This sometimes leads to lenders attacking homeowners with defaulted mortgages in several ways at once. The One-Action Rule forces lenders to pick one of three actions, rather than allowing them to throw the book at you.
This means you can’t be hit with a foreclosure in conjunction with a personal lawsuit.
This is only used in rare cases, if at all. It’s an unusual situation that hardly comes up, but it’s possible that it will under California’s Security First Rule. Lawsuits are an alternative traditional foreclosure. Your lender is highly unlikely to do this, but they actually have the ability to sue you over your promissory note. After they’ve pursued your real estate, they’ll file a personal lawsuit for the balance of the debt.
What About Second and Third Mortgages?
If you have multiple mortgages or a HELOC, these are affected by your foreclosure. During your foreclosure, your additional mortgages and HELOCs (called junior lien-holders) also become foreclosed. These lenders are now at a loss due to your foreclosure, and they have the right to pursue you as well.
These lenders can personally sue you on your promissory note. They get an action, too. If your home’s equity isn’t larger than your debt, your junior lien-holders will have to come after you directly.
If your other mortgages were backed by the same company as your first mortgage, action can’t be taken against second and third mortgages. Purchase-money loans and seller-financed loans are invalid during foreclosure. You cannot be personally sued for these debts.
The California Homeowner Bill of Rights
These rights were written to provide homeowners with transparency as it pertains to lending, borrowing, and foreclosure. This list of laws makes the playing field fair for homeowners by eliminating a lender’s options to bully them during foreclosure.
Lenders Cannot Dual Track
When you receive your foreclosure notice, the first thing you should try is a loan modification. You may be able to keep your home if you can meet the terms. In the past, lenders were allowed to continue the foreclosure process up until a loan modification request was decided. Now, under California law, a lender has to stop the process to answer loan modification requests. This eliminates what was called “dual tracking.”
The elimination of dual tracking can help you postpone foreclosure. Even if your lender denies your first request for a loan modification, you can submit an appeal when you receive the notice.
You Are Guaranteed a Single Point of Contact
Lawmakers wrote these laws to prevent you from getting the runaround. When you’re frantically making phone calls attempting to save your home, you cannot be passed from representative to representative. You won’t have to explain your situation repeatedly, and you won’t receive different answers.
You will be assigned a contact through the lender who is responsible for all of the details of your case. This person will provide you with necessary information regarding prevention plans and modification programs the lender offers. Her or she will be able to connect you with the people responsible for making the foreclosure decision.
Stricter Regulations Against Robo-Signing
Robo-signing is exactly what it sounds like. It’s when member of your lender’s organization signs foreclosure documents before reading them. All documents need to be verified, and the signer needs to be personally aware of your situation. If a lender is caught robo-signing, they’re liable for a penalty of up to $7,500 for mishandling your foreclosure documents.
How California Foreclosure Law Protects You
If your lender breaks the law when handling your foreclosure, you can to sue them for damages. In some cases, the foreclosure can be stopped due to misconduct. If the foreclosed home has already been sold, you may be awarded cash. If the lender is found to have broken the law on purpose, or there is proof that the lender was sloppy, you may also be awarded statutory damages of up to $50,000.
Make sure you’re familiar with the foreclosure process. You should be carefully monitoring your lender’s conduct. You may have defaulted on your mortgage, but you still deserve fair protection under the law. In many cases, selling your home to avoid foreclosure is often the best course of action for many home owners.
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It’s safe to say that a passion for wood and art runs in my family. My grandfather, ‘grandpa Jef’, had an impressive joinery where I spent a lot of time as a child. I grew up smelling wood chips, hearing the buzz of the woodcarver and seeing creations come to life in front of my little eyes. It’s in my grandfather’s workshop where my love for working with wood grew. A lot of my inspiration flows from the nostalgia for grandpa Jef’s old atelier.
Next to the designs in my collections, I also (hand) make other unique creations. I love helping you bring to life the designs that you dream of. I create custom made and made to measure objects, fit entirely to meet what you envision and desire.
“I combine simplicity and functionality with timeless, minimalist and to the point design.”
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In 2005, comic-book writer Ed Brubaker’s "Winter Soldier" story arc revived a Greatest Generation icon for a post-9/11 world—and in the process re-imagined Captain America as equal parts superhero and spy.
This new Steve Rogers was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, foiling not against costumed supervillains’ world-domination schemes but rather assassination attempts and ruthless corporate intrigue. Brubaker’s grittier, stealthier vision of Captain America, created with artists Steve Epting and Michael Lark, provided the source material for this weekend’s No. 1 box-office hit, Captain America: The Winter Solider. Last week, Brubaker talked with me about his inspirations for his Captain America run, the political atmosphere that influenced his story, his fascination with spy fiction, and his big-screen cameo as a scientist tending to the Soldier himself.
Spoilers for both the The Winter Soldier comic and film to follow.
It's been almost a decade since you launched your run on Captain America with “The Winter Soldier.” What were your ideas for pursuing that story? What did you want to do with Steve Rogers?
My whole approach to the book centered around exploring Steve as a tragic character, carrying the weight of being Captain America, which I think would feel like a burden sometimes, but that's who he is. So as part of that tragedy, I wanted to bring back Bucky as a villain that would link Steve to his own past, give him a new tragedy to struggle with, and out of that, explore a different man out of time, Bucky Barnes, who had become something he would have hated.
You tweeted that when the film was announced, you had no idea they were adapting “The Winter Soldier.” Since then, what was your involvement in the film?
Not a lot, but the Russo Brothers had me in to read the script and give feedback early on. I had very little in the way of feedback, because Markus and McFeely had taken the bones of stuff I did and [Brian Michael] Bendis did, and made something big and exciting, and I thought, pretty amazing. And then I got to be in the movie, so I was on set a few days. And I got to see an early cut. They've been very cool to keep me in the loop, and Kevin [Feige] wrote to tell me I was gonna be in the Super Bowl trailer, which was so bizarre, but really, I've just been a happy observer more than anything.
Part of what made your Captain America run great, and the Winter Soldier reveal itself so great, was the focus on secrets. It wasn't just a secret of who the Winter Soldier was; the more important mysteries were how the Winter Soldier came to be. And with film, it's easy to look at the cast list and find reveals of who is who. Do you think the suspense and backstory have more weight than simple reveals?
I think so, if they're good, yeah. The thing about the movie is, it works because it's not about keeping Winter Soldier's secret from the audience, it's about keeping it secret from Steve Rogers. So they get to have it both ways. And it's also not the most important thing in the movie, so there's lots of other misdirections and shocks around it. It's just the thing that gets to the heart of Cap.
You wrote the superhero stories as spy fiction. Cap was a spy who happened to wear a costume. And now you're doing more spy stuff in Velvet. What drew you into that genre? Is there something that you try to bring out with it in your writing?
I think I've just always been fascinated at the idea of spies. It's the world's second-oldest profession, and it's about pretending and lying, and finding out secrets. That's the stuff that so much good fiction is made of. On my personal side, though, I think I'm drawn to it partly because my dad and my uncle were both in the business, in Naval Intel and the CIA. So I grew up with my dad pointing out the incorrect parts of spy movies to me, before I even knew what he did for a living.
To get a bit more political, you wrote the original Winter Soldier story in a very different time. The US had recently invaded Iraq, the War on Terror was only a few years old. Now it's 2014 and there's renewed Russian aggression and spy intrigue with the Snowden leaks. Do you think that recent events change the impact of “The Winter Soldier?” Is it more relevant now?
I don't know, I think it's a crazy time, for sure. In 2004 I couldn't imagine the world getting any worse, but it just keeps doing it. Interestingly, when they started working on the script, I think it was much more referencing Wikileaks than Snowden, and now it suddenly seems even more topical.
You mention that the story is all about getting to the heart of Cap. For you, what is that heart? It's not solely a man out of time, especially in the comics when you took over.
I'm not sure I describe it exactly. It's more like just an emotional connection to him that I had when I was writing him. Getting to the places where he had to deal with hard things instead of just stand around and give speeches. I was always more interested in the emotional core of the story and the character, and how hard it might be to have to also be that symbol, while also being a person.
How much of a deep dive did you do in researching for your initial Captain America story? There were some crazy Cold War era spy and science programs.
Yeah, the CIA and KGB both did a lot of crazy shit. I love reading about Cold War spy stuff, honestly, and when I found out the KGB had a science division called Dept. X, I just knew I had to use it, and that it had to be important to the Red Room program and the Winter Soldier.
The world, like you said, is totally crazy. Do you think heroes like Cap matter more now, or is idealism old-fashioned?
I don't know if it's old-fashioned. It seems somewhat naive, especially on a day when the US Supreme Court yet again rolled back campaign finance laws. I often feel like what we talk about as important is so far from what actually happens in the real world, that there's almost a disconnect. We all know what's wrong and needs to be fixed, but we just watch it getting worse and worse instead of better. I wish in real life there was someone as powerful and respected as Captain America, who could be a voice both sides would listen to, though. So I guess I'm not a total pessimist yet.
Right now you're working on your spy story Velvet and your crime series Fatale. What else is in the works for you? Any other genres or stories you're interested in exploring?
Yeah, I've started noodling on a western idea, and have a few TV and film projects in the works. If things go as planned, a few that should film this year. And Sean Phillips and I are a few months away from starting The Fade Out, our new noir project. And after that we're going to probably do a sci-fi we've been talking about for a few years. And more Criminal, in a new form, is coming soon-ish.
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Many patients visit Bathurst Chiropractor Ben Purcell with shoulder pain. For some people, the pain comes on gradually, beginning as a general ache in the shoulder.
For others there may be damage to the structures of the shoulder – the tendons, ligaments or bone – caused by an injury or accident. There is commonly restriction of joint mobility, tightness in the muscles, and numbness or tingling in the neck and/or shoulder as well.
Chiropractic neurorehabilitation is invaluable in treating many of the common causes of shoulder pain, as it combines Chiropractic with Neurology and physical rehabilitation.
Problems with the shoulder can make daily life extremely difficult, restricting movement, making even simple tasks impossible without pain. You may feel exhausted due to your shoulder pain disrupting sleep.
It is important that you seek care promptly if you have shoulder pain. Because the shoulder is supposed to be mobile and in motion, the sooner your rehabilitation begins, the sooner you can get back to normal activities. Call the practice today on (02) 6331 1004 to arrange your initial appointment.
Why is the Shoulder so Susceptible to Injury?
The shoulder is the joint in the body with the greatest range of movement. Because the shoulder complex involves the cervical spine, scapula, clavicle and the glenohumeral joint there are many things that can go wrong.
All these are important structures for shoulder movement. A problem in any of these areas can result in impingement of the joints and muscles, inflammation and pain. Due to the large range of motion, your shoulder relies heavily on the surrounding muscles to give it the support and function it needs.
Why is the Chiropractic Care at Bathurst Different?
Doctor of Chiropractic, Ben Purcell’s ethos is that physical problems are often secondary to dysfunction within the nervous system. One of the diagnostic tools he uses is a technology known as the Neuroinfiniti assessment. This analyses a number of parameters within the central nervous system, in particular those related to autonomic function.
Autonomic function refers to the unconscious control of systems within the body. When something goes wrong, (in the case of the shoulder joint, for example), spinal stability and muscle tone can be affected, and can cause the shoulder to rotate forward and certain flexor muscles to tighten up.
Chiropractic adjustments can loosen the shoulder up, but by addressing the underlying cause and using neurological therapies, we can help the movement of the shoulder to be better controlled and stabilised.
A detailed initial assessment appointment will help Ben to determine which of the three main areas of concern is causing your shoulder pain symptoms.
- Biomechanical, caused by postural strain or problems with muscle and joint mechanics
- Neurological, caused by inappropriate or ineffective neurological control of the structures (joints and muscles) in the shoulder region
- Pathological, a labral or muscle tear – or even a fractured bone. If a pathological problem is the cause of your shoulder pain, you will receive a referral to the appropriate health care specialist for treatment if Chiropractic treatment is not indicated.
The focus of this holistic approach to your problem from your Bathurst Chiropractor is to help your body to heal naturally using safe, gentle adjustments. Taking prompt action and getting treatment as soon as possible after the onset of shoulder pain will speed your recovery so, call us on (02) 6331 1004 to make an appointment today!
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One who purchases, installs, sells and even produces flooring materials would and should expect them to remain stable and flat on the floor. This isn’t always the case and the causes for that are often found in the material itself or in the way the product was installed. Unstable can mean; uneven, unsound, insecure and changeable. In fact this condition is becoming more prevalent and an issue with hard surface flooring materials in particular. Let’s take a look at some hard surface flooring materials to reveal the problems that can occur and the causes and cures.
Vinyl flooring, whether in sheet, plank or tile form can exhibit unsuspected characteristics that when manifested make one think that the installation or process of installation caused the reaction of the material. Shrinking vinyl can appear as gaps around the entire perimeter of the material, ends or edges shrinking or lifting or the material pulling in and curling up at the edges. Sheet vinyl material can also exhibit bubbles in the field areas of the material. All of these conditions when first seen are met with the same conclusion; that the installation is faulty and therefore the material is not being held securely to the substrate.
Let’s digress for a moment and clear up a very important point; adhesive is used to adhere flooring material to the substrate, regardless of the flooring material, substrate type or adhesive type. Adhesive is not meant to hold the flooring material dimensionally stable. The purpose of flooring adhesive is to adhere the flooring material in place on the substrate – to hold it there. It does not have the magical properties of keeping unstable flooring material stable regardless of how aggressive the adhesive is. If the flooring material is unstable when installed nothing anyone can do it is going to change that. The stress forces in unstable flooring material are generally lateral which means the inherent stress in the material is across the product plane which means it will shrink or grow and in that process it can lift on the edges or form bubbles. The material will literally slide across the adhesive when this happens. We’ll show you a photo of a shrunken vinyl tile that shrunk on all fours sides yet was stuck tightly to the substrate. So anyone who thinks or tries to explain that adhesive is supposed to hold the flooring material stable does not understand the laws of physics or simple science. Even if you bolted the material to the floor where the bolts weren’t the inherently unstable flooring material will react. The exception would be a pre-applied adhesive that contacts every square inch of the flooring material and in doing so can prevent dimensional changes.
Vinyl floor tiles are manufactured from a number of layers. To create each layer, plasticizers and stabilizers are blended together. This molten material is exposed to heat and pressure and passed through a series of rollers to produce flat sheets of material, a process known as calendaring. The sheets are laminated together to produce one sheet. During this process, the surface texture is applied to the top layer, using metal plates to emboss the pattern on to the sheet.
A process called annealing removes internal stresses in the sheet goods by controlled heating and cooling, to ensure the product is dimensionally stable. Also, if components of the vinyl, particularly plasticizers, are not properly compounded or if the recycled content in the vinyl causes an imbalance, the vinyl flooring can be unstable. Vinyl flooring can also be unstable if it is not annealed properly or at all. Reactions of instability can occur shortly after installation or take months to show up. Most of the instability problems being seen are with imported vinyl flooring materials which often aren’t manufactured to the standards domestically produced vinyl flooring products are.
Linoleum, in the simplest terms for association, is essentially a wood component tile. The most common cause of instability in this product is caused by swings in humidity and from over wetting it when cleaning. Over wetting in particularly, for example using a slop mop will cause the material to curl up like a potato chip on the floor. It can also react to moisture vapor emission in a concrete substrate.
Rubber flooring can be an inherently unstable material as it can react to warm and cold temperature. As it is a compounded material, either in natural or SBR makeup, reactions can occur to cause it to be unstable. It is important that one know how to install this material and do so strictly according to the manufacturers guidelines to prevent it from changing dimensionally or lifting. A recent case of rubber tile being installed without using the manufacturer’s specific adhesive resulted in the tiles lifting and shifting on the floor.
Cork flooring has a natural propensity to curl. It is important to follow exact installation guidelines. Cork should be installed using contact type adhesive and methods on the substrate and the back of the cork tiles and rolled down. If proper installation procedures are not followed the material will lift at the edges.
I’ve made this next statement so many times but it’s so true; wood flooring is still a tree in a different form. Wood may be one of the most potentially unstable flooring materials used. It will react to moisture, heat, dry air and despite how stable it may be it can still be affected by many influences. The key with wood is to make sure what you’re going to install is of high quality. The better the product the more stable it will be. Wood can be misshapen out of the box so it must be examined to insure there aren’t any compromises in how flat, square and stable it is. Common problems with wood flooring are cupping, crowning and buckling caused by a combination of natural characteristics of the material, environmental influences and installation.
Wood flooring expands when its moisture content increases and contracts when its moisture content decreases. Wood also expands and contracts when its temperature increases and decreases. The amount of moisture-related expansion and contraction is always larger across the width of the floorboard (across the grain) than along the length. So environmental conditions can and do affect the stability of wood. The installation of wood must include proper acclimation of the material and the space in which it is installed and then proper layout and spacing to allow for natural movement without reaction. The substrate must also be dry to prevent the gain of moisture by the wood which can cause cupping. It is important to select the appropriate wood flooring material for the application and insure that the environment is controlled and acclimated and that the substrate, especially concrete, does not and is not emitting moisture. More than any other flooring material woods reactions to influences that create instability in the product are more extensive and readily evident. Remember, it’s still a tree in another form, a natural product and just because it’s a board on the floor doesn’t mean it has relinquished its inherent characteristics.
Carpet in broadloom (wider than 6 feet) and in carpet tiles or modular is a textile product and unlike all other flooring materials. Tufted broadloom carpet is inherently “stretchy” as are all textiles. However by adding dimensional stability to the product by using a more stable primary backing and a tighter pic (weave) secondary backing or an attached cushion, tufted broadloom carpet becomes more stable. Woven carpet is inherently more stable in the width and allows more stretch in the length. Laying the product out on the floor without any form of anchoring, that is, not being stretched in or glued down, carpet will react to heat, cold and the gain or loss of moisture. Different fibers in the carpet will absorb varying amounts of moisture from wool, which will absorb about 27% of its weight in moisture to polypropylene which will absorb virtually no moisture. So broadloom carpet, being the least dimensionally stable form of flooring material requires a stable installation. If after installation broadloom carpet should loosen up it will exhibit wrinkles or buckles. Carpet tiles or modular carpet (up to 6 feet wide) on the other hand are the most stable type of textile floor covering material that should not exhibit any type of dimensional changes in size (growing or shrinking) or upward movement (curling or lifting). Out of the box they should lay flat, square and stable. If carpet tile does change dimensionally or lift the reaction is due to instabilities in the backing and when recycled content is added it becomes difficult to produce a carpet tile product that may not, at some point, develop instability. It’s very delicate balance to insure the uniformity of the recycled content feed stock for a carpet tile backing and as a result changes can occur from time to time. This issue is being addressed by using backings that have proven to be stable in the past and looking at materials that are far less sensitive to stressful reactions.
Stone flooring can also be unstable. Now, you might say come on Lew, really!? Stone, how can that be? Unstable for stone or tile does not mean the product will expand, contract, lift or curl. It means that the instability will be related to the substrate or the installation. If the substrate is not level or properly prepared or the mortar for installing stone or tile is not level or even and allows voids beneath the tile then it can heave, crack, drop down or lift. If the slab on which tile or stone is installed should move, which it can, the tile or stone can heave, crack or lift. Environmental influences have very little effect on stone that can be seen but physical changes or compromises in the substrate or installation components can cause stone or tile to be unstable.
Given this information you should be more aware of how a flooring material can be unstable and be able to prevent most of the problems caused. Most often it’s simply choosing the right material, controlling the installation space and installing the flooring correctly so you can prevent the problems.
If you have questions, need help in any way, before an installation or after a failure, contact us; we have the answers. Lew Migliore, President LGM and Associates
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May 5, 2012
Elite 11 Columbus: Top performers
QB Shane Morris of Warren (Mich.) De La Salle won MVP honors at the Columbus Elite 11 event Friday night. Rivals.com's Josh Helmholdt has a full breakdown of the top performers.
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Chinese Program Director: Fang Liu
Fang grew up in a village in Sichuan province in China. She graduated from Sichuan University with a degree in database management. Fang moved to US with her husband in 2005. Fang has been busy raising two children and pursuing early childhood education since 2007. Fang loves nature, science, philosophy and socializing with friends. Fang’s goal in life is to understand the laws of nature. She founded Worldplus Education and Cultural Exchange in 2015. Its is to inspire each one to discover their potential and pursue their dreams. Fang has taught Chinese at Hope Chinese School and NW Chinese Academy. She is a devoted Chinese teacher who believes in bringing more understanding across culture, and ultimately, more peace and harmony to our world.
English Program Director: John Sheehan
Bachelor of Arts in English, UCLA. Experienced in English-language education for over twenty years. Authored two books designed for ESL learners in Japan, lectured at three private universities in Tokyo and worked with the Ministry of Education to enhance English language learning in the public school system there. Worked as a voice and TV actor for NHK Educational radio and television from 1990 to 1996. Founded International Tour Programs in 2000 in Orange County, California. Enjoys racquetball, house remodeling and spending time with his wife and two children.
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Milk Delivery in London, including the City and West End
Hello and welcome to CWE Dairies. We are a company delivering fresh dairy produce six days a week to the centre of London.
We deliver to a wide variety of customers with varying requirements and quantities. These may be just a pint a week to hundreds of pints per day, so whatever you require we are sure we will be able to supply you.
We have over fifteen years experience in the dairy industry dealing with all kinds of customers ranging from a family's daily pint on the doorstep to some of the busiest chefs in some of the largest kitchens in London!
We also specialise in deliveries to large and small offices and also to companies that operate serviced office facilities. Regular deliveries can be arranged to multiple sites.
We pride ourselves on reliability, service and freshness to ensure that your business gets the service it deserves from a dairy company at a competitive price.
As you will see when you click onto our products page, we sell a wide variety of products that you may require for your office, kitchen or restaurant. We also sell a range of alternative milk: Goats, lactose free, soya and almond milk are all regularly available in stock. If the product you are looking for is not listed, get in touch and we'll see if we can source it for you.
There isn't a minimum order stipulation on these products and prices are agreed with the inclusion of delivery charges so there are no hidden costs. We can also deliver bulkier and heavier items to your desired delivery point (e.g. office floor, delivery entrances) at a time that suits you.
Whatever your requirements we shall do our utmost to accommodate you. Please click on the 'contact' link for further information.
We look forward to hearing from you.
From all the team at CWE Dairies
Reliable milk and dairy delivery, all over London!
We deliver to all EC, WC, W1, W2, W8, W10, W11, W12, SW1, SW3, SW5, SW7, SW8, SE1, SE10, SE16, SE17, SE18, E1, E2, E3, E6, E8, E14, E15, E16, NW1, NW8 and N1 postcodes, as well as selected areas of IG, KT,& RM. For more information see our delivery area map.
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Bits Of Wisdom
Deep Fried Bits
Do It Daily
Do It And How
Thanks Mike (From Spain)
I would love to see a dog smart enough to use a toilet or bury their turds.
Donation Amount: (Currency: USD)
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Bond issues worth Rs 1.31 lakh rated in February
Apr 21 2014 , Mumbai
Credit rating agencies assessed 182 long-term corporate debt securities amounting to Rs 1.31 lakh crore in February, latest data with market regulator Sebi showed.
This is the highest figure after Rs 2.09 lakh crore of bonds rated in April 2013 and Rs 1.47 lakh crore in May.
Of the issues rated in February, 106 debt securities (58.2 per cent) amounting to Rs 3,696 crore were categorised as non-investment grade.
The remaining 76 were given investment-grade ratings with highest-to-moderate safety profiles. These cumulatively amounted to Rs 1.27 lakh crore.
Non-investment grade is given to low-quality bonds that face the highest risk of default. Debt securities are issued by companies to raise funds for purposes such as expansion.
The top investment grade of highest safety (AAA) was assigned to 19 issues worth Rs 1.17 lakh crore, while 17 securities valued at Rs 4,003 crore got a high-safety (AA) rating.
Besides, the agencies gave 15 issues an adequate safety (A) grade
and 25 were given moderate safety (BBB) ratings.
During the April-February period of the previous financial year, a total of 2,097 issues worth about Rs 10.98 lakh crore were graded, of which 1,174 issues valued at Rs 29,320 crore were categorised as non-investment grade.
Sebi data was only available till February this year.
As per the process followed by credit rating agencies, the assigned rating is communicated to the issuer for acceptance. If the rating is not acceptable, a review appeal can be filed.
In February, 25 rating downgrades of corporate debt securities worth Rs 8,742 crore were accepted by issuers, as against 23 upgrades amounting to Rs 290 crore.
The rating agencies registered with market regulator Sebi are Crisil, India Ratings and Research (formerly Fitch Ratings India), ICRA, Credit Analysis & Research (CARE), Brickwork Ratings India and SME Rating Agency of India.
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We found that the organization hosting www.Tsakhim.com is OVH SAS in France.
A more detailed IP address report for www.Tsakhim.com is below. At the time you pulled this report, the IP of www.Tsakhim.com is 220.127.116.11 and is located in the time zone of Europe/Paris. The context of www.Tsakhim.com is "Tsakhim" and could reflect the theme of the content available on the resource. More IP details of www.Tsakhim.com are shown below along with a map location.
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Respironics EverGo External Battery Charger
Enjoy the freedom to recharge a depleted EverGo battery without the need to plug in the AC or DC power supplies.
Instead, the one bay Respironics EverGo external battery charger offers its own 110v AC supply so you can externally charge a battery wherever you are.
Instead of having to wait for individual batteries to charge in the EverGo with the AC power supply, externally charging a battery will allow you to accomplish necessary tasks and when you return there will be a fresh fully charged battery waiting to be used.
As an added feature, the Respironics EverGo external battery charger will not only charge your EverGo batteries but it will also recalibrate them.
You can get instant charging stats or discover when the recalibration is completed by looking at the on-board LED indication gauge.
The small and compact design of the external battery charger will allow you to store it in the front pocket of the EverGo carrying case, so you can use it whenever need be
Advantages of the Respironics EverGo External Battery Charger:
- Allows for Another Battery to Charge and Operate the EverGo
- Take it Where You Go in the Accessory Bag
- Internal Cooling Fan to Keep Components from Over Heating
Charging depleted batteries can really hamper your ability to make and follow through with plans when using the AC or DC power supplies.
Requiring you to plug the unit into a wall outlet and standby until the battery is fully charged. With the addition of the external charger, you can now power the EverGo with one battery and run some errands then once you return you will have a fully charged battery in 2 – 3 hours.
Over time with extensive use you may begin to notice you batteries are not producing the same amount of battery life as it did brand new.
Regularly charging and depleting batteries causes’ progressive wear and tear over time, which is why you are not receiving the batteries full charge potential.
In other concentrators this would require you to purchase new batteries, but with the recalibration feature of the external charger you can extend the use of your batteries.
Recalibrating your batteries simply means that the lithium ion cells will be reset so they effectively hold as much of a charge as possible.
However if your battery is extremely outdated, then calibrating your battery may not do much.
The calibration process takes approximately 8 hours per battery, if it requires longer than 8 hours then you should replace that battery.
The LED indicator will notify you the instant the calibration process is completed.
LED Indicator Charging Lights
- Flashing Green Light – The Battery is Charging
- Solid Green Light – Charging is Complete
- Solid Red Light – The Battery is not Charging and Needs to Be Replaced
LED Indicator Calibration Lights
- Flashing Blue Light – Your Battery is Perfectly Functional and Recalibrating
- Solid Blue Light – Recalibration is Complete
- Solid Red Light – There is an Error Recalibrating your Battery and Should be Replaced
- Weight: 2 Pounds
- Docking Station Dimensions: 3.5″ W x 7″ L x 2″ H
- DC Power Cord Length: 6 Feet
- AC Adapter Dimensions: 4.5″ W x 2″ L x 1.5″ H
- Manufacturer: Respironics
- Product SKU Number: 900-103
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Write a little about yourself. Just a paragraph will do.
I am full of good positive
energy. I know myself
reasonably well, practice good self-care. I'm looking to surround
myself with similar people.
I place a high premium on happiness
. I like to think of the good
in people, I want everyone around me to be happpy
I am driven
seek out growth experiences, and stay close with people who I
admire and who inspire
my life and I like to have things planned out in advance.
I don't have a particular expectation for online dating but I
believe a great relationship should built on an intimate friendship
. I'm not into
games and drama at all, with me you don't have to be a mind reader!
What I’m doing with my life
Don’t overthink this one; tell us what you’re doing day-to-day.
Trying to make this world a better place in some way.
I’m really good at
Go on, brag a little (or a lot). We won’t judge.
Encouragement and being encouraged.
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
Help your potential matches find common interests.
I enjoy a wide variety of interests and tastes. Let’s discover them
Books: The Bible
like to learn new things. Normally non-fiction.
Movies: I love watching a good moive but I rarely watch TV.
Music: I am partial to classic, soft, and some of the new.
Food: I love eating! I eat clean and healthy - fruit and anything
The six things I could never do without
Think outside the box. Sometimes the little things can say a lot.
- I am a
Christian. I love Jesus
Love - the greatest motivation in life.
- I'm very
. I workout
diligently. I run, do yoga and weight to develop my stamina,
suppleness and strength equally. I love all outdoor
Family and Friends - essential for mankind.
Health - foundation for everything. I'm very health-conscious
is also a
to the ones who
love and care about me.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Global warming, lunch, or your next vacation… it’s all fair game.
How to live a happy and balanced
life, how to be a better
person, and how to best share
that life with those closest to me.
On a typical Friday night I am
Netflix and takeout, or getting your party on — how do you let loose?
My working time is flexible so I don't have a typical Friday night.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit
I’m an empty essay… fill me out!
Just ask me, I can tell anything with the right people.
You should message me if
Offer a few tips to help matches win you over.
You are honest
happy. You have faith
and a high level of integrity
. You are
You have a six-pack. Or you are good at either swimming or skiing
or tennis. Or you can join a 7 miles jogging
with me at 6:30am. Oder Sie
Hey, some guys blamed that I'm picky for request a 6pack. Let me
explain: even a girl has a well-defined abs
now, wouldn't guys have 6 packs? I would
never ask others for things myself couldn't achieve. Also a 6 pack
isn't for me and not only for look, you can enjoy a fit
body yourself so much!
Who are you looking for?
This helps us know who to show you on OkCupid.
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Facial Cosmetic Surgery
Facial cosmetic surgery has come a long way since its humble beginnings. The advancement in technology alone has provided the industry with a much broader range of facial surgical options. We offer a variety of facial surgery and rejuvenation procedures that will enhance the natural beauty of your face. These procedures include facelift, eyelid surgery, brow lift, neck liposuction, nose surgery, chin implants, cheek implants, ear surgery, laser skin resurfacing, botox, and juvederm.
Talk to the doctor during your initial consultation about your goals for facial rejuvenation.
We work with clients from all over the Milwaukee metro area including Waukesha, Brookfield, New Berlin, Elm Grove, Pewaukee, Hartland, Delafield, Oconomowoc, Lisbon, Wauwatosa, Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, Mequon, Fox Point, Menomonee Falls, and everywhere in between.
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Me with Briar and Drift at Thornby Shoot season 2012/13
photo credit Steve Magennis - Working Dogs In Action
We have a small kennel of mainly Golden Retrievers and have always aimed to breed dogs capable of working in all spheres. We have both show bred and working bred Goldens which both work and show. Dawn is a Championship Show Judge in the UK and has judged in Europe, competes regularly at conformation shows, Rally Obedience, Field Trials and Working Tests and has competed at obedience.
We believe in the Kennel Club 'fit for function' and all our dogs are tested for hereditary Hip, Elbows and Eye conditions through the BVA/KC/AHT schemes. We were KC Assured Breeders but we left the scheme on 16/03/12 because of the discriminatory way the Kennel Club managed the 'vet checking' at Crufts this year but we will still fulfil all aspects of the scheme and offer the same support to puppy owners as we used to. We are members of the Canine Alliance, the organisation that supports those who are committed to breeding healthy dogs. See the logo below and click to visit the website for more information.
We sometimes have puppies available to suitable homes and we have dogs available at stud to bitches who have been tested for hereditary problems. From time to time we also have trained dogs available,
Dawn is also a trained Microchip Implanter and member of the KC Accredited Instructor Scheme and runs training classes for groups and individuals - see our Training page for more details.
Anyone who has a Gaytonwood dog may want to post news or photo's of their dogs on our Facebook page. We love to hear of your progress. We also have started to produce a newsletter and if you would like to subscribe then click here.
Many of our photos are taken by Steve Magennis of Working Dogs In Action - more of his work can be seen on our website. Click Here
We are also suppliers of carefully selected, quality dog food and dog related equipment. We are authorised stockists for the CSJ Range of foods and supplements and the HOTTERdog range of fleece coats and jumpers. See the Products page
Dawn and Andy Rose
Mobile: 07773 947471
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So I played through Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I had previously played the original Deus Ex (one of the most memorable games I’ve ever played), Deus Ex: Invisible War (which I know people didn’t like as much but I played it through twice), and the cheap, Central America-made ripoff, Deus Mex.
Anyway, Human Revolution was good. Not great. Good.
Here’s what’s wrong with it:
* The graphics! Particularly the character models. Usually I don’t care much about graphics other than being impressed by really good graphics, but this was a dialogue heavy game and the character models all made it seems like this game was from a decade ago. I know 3D graphics isn’t easy (I tried fiddling around with it once — lots of complicated matrix math), but this was just distractingly bad to me. Most of the people were all just weird (like some small heads and big shoulders) or just clunky looking and there was lots of clipping with their limb movements. And the facial animations were just passable for the main characters they actually put work into and bad for everyone else. If you want me to sit through lots of dialogue, the people can’t all be just a slightly more flexible C3PO.
* In the future, people apparently just leave guns and ammo lying around everywhere. Desk drawers. Bathrooms. Janitor supply closets. I’m not usually for gun control, but the future could really use some regulations on proper storage of weaponry.
* Also, apparently there are no legitimate stores in the future, only shady black market dealers with cheesy dialogue.
* The whole battery system for your enhanced human special powers was done really stupidly. You start out with two battery spaces, and a partially drained one will automatically recharge (but the most common power, the takedown, drains one whole bar), but only the last battery bar will always automatically recharge. And what recharges the rest? Common candy bars. So of course you can you go to the store and buy candy bars whenever you need a recharge, right? No, they’re this limited resource you only get so many of and never know when you’ll find more. So I spent most of the game with just one battery bar since I felt I needed to save eating my candybars for some future event where I maybe I would need to turn invisible for a long time. And adding extra batteries was one of the last things I upgraded since it seemed like I’d only ever use another battery bar than the first one rarely.
* On the upgrades you can choose, there are a lot of completely useless ones. There are a few that are very game changing (move heavy objects, punch through walls, better hacking abilities), and then just a bunch that you wondered why they would ever think was useful to anyone, like extra radar and tagging abilities when your default radar already shows enemy position and the direction he’s facing.
* The story was really forgettable. Thinking back on the previous Deus Ex games, they also had forgettable stories; they were just tons of conspiracies and twists and turns. It’s just that each of the previous ones had some twist that really struck out to me. **SPOILERS** In the first Deus Ex, you find out the terrorists you were fighting against for the first part of the game are actually the good guys and your brother has joined them, making me feel bad I was so kill happy with them. In the 2nd Deus Ex game, there are two main factions opposing each other, but then you find out the Illuminati controls both sides and were manipulating everyone including me, which made me kill happy in that I killed an important character out of anger. This Deus Ex had nothing that jumped out like that. The only memorable part was a sub quest where you meet a senile woman who had been your guardian angel your whole life you never knew about. That was actually pretty touching.
* Like the previous Deus Ex games, there are multiple endings, and you get each of the different ending by choices made on the very last level. But all the endings are just a voice over on top of random stock footage. Being a prequel, I guess they were kinda locked from doing too much with the endings since no matter what, you end up with the scenario of the first Deus Ex game. Still, it seemed really cheap. Unlike the previous Deus Ex games, how you played through the game overall does have some affect on the ending, but it just changes the voice over slightly. I’m guessing it’s based on how many people you killed and subquests you completed (and how you completed them). I got the “good” ending, though I did kill a lot of people. I really tried to role play and only kill the people that seemed really evil to me, though, and just stunned the rest (I ended up lugging an assault rifle around for the whole game which I barely ever used).
So, I enjoyed the game — at least after I convinced myself to not be a 100% completionist and not try tediously hacking absolutely every door and computer I saw. But the game was leagues away from great.
Oh yeah, forgot one thing I meant to make fun of in this game — Apparently the rules for the police force are as follows:
You can use lethal force when:
1. When your life is in danger.
2. When someone else’s life is in danger.
3. When you see someone hacking something.
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Written by BBird0701
A few years ago, my husband got into woodworking.
I blame myself. I had hobbies, he didn’t, and he wanted one. He took something he knew a lot about, canoe paddles, and decided he wanted to learn how to make them.
After buying a few tools for his new hobby, and only checking off a few things on a long list of things to get, he turned to me and said “Hey, can you teach me your mystery shopping thing? I need something to pay for all this stuff.” He already knew quite a bit, having accompanied me on many lunch, dinner, and hotel shops, but now he wanted to strike out on his own.
I started him with Marketforce and GfK. After his first fast food shops with each, one of which was nicely bonused, he said “This is easy! Tell me some more companies who have shops like this. I’ll do this all the time!” I tried to counsel him against that, telling him that there just wouldn’t be enough shops like that to do with bonuses, so he’d be doing quite a few at base pay and making barely anything. He was adamant. “Quick, easy shops only, please!”
So I made a spreadsheet for him. I checked the boards for these companies, made a mock list of shops for the week ahead, using real fees, real locations, real distances, real available dates, and approximate time to complete the shop, report time. Some even had bonuses. Then I went back through my email and made a list of past shops for the beginning of that month. I had to keep branching further and further out, distance-wise, to find enough of these shops for him. By the time I’d finished, I’d compiled a list of 30 shops for him.
I sat him down and had him write down numbers as I went down the list. Shop fee, distance, approximate time to complete the shop, report time. Then we went over my list for the month, as I had about 30 non-video shops done that month. He wrote down those numbers as well. Shop fee, distance, approximate time to complete the shop, report time.
What he discovered was that, for an additional seven hours of report time, my 30 shops made 2 1/2 times what his 30 shops did. I explained that it was because I took a varied amount of shops, and mostly only took them when they were greatly bonused. I asked him, realistically, if he could stomach eating fast food 30 times a month, if he could eat it for lunch every single day, and travel up to 50 miles there and back to get it? I showed him one of his shops, 28 miles away, where he was making base fee of $7.50 for the shop, plus reimbursement for two fast food purchases. I then showed him one of my shops I’d done in that same town earlier that month, where I’d made $70 to shop a dealership. I asked him which he’d rather do, travel 56 miles roundtrip for a 20 minute shop and make $7.50, or travel 56 miles roundtrip for a 45 minute shop?
He got quiet, looking at my numbers, then his numbers, then back to mine again. Finally, he said “Show me those shops again? Can you make me a list of companies?” He now does shops my way, a good mix of everything, mostly only taking them when they’re bonused, and by the looks of our garage, he’s doing pretty well. Last week he scored a $125 non-video apartment shop. Sure, he had to travel an hour to get there, but it’s paying for a new set of chisels. He’s adding wood carving to his list of hobbies.
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One day a young wanderer got lost in a wood. Suddenly he was a light from an old hut. He knocked on the door, and old woman opened it. She was crying. She said that the devil had stolen her magic candle. The candle could grant anything she asked. The wanderer asked where the devil lived. “In a castle not far from here,” said the old woman.
The wanderer went to the castle. There she found the devil, but he was old and weak. Therefore when the wanderer grabbed the magic candle from the devil’s table and ran away, he couldn’t chase him.
But the wanderer was not a kind man. He didn’t return the candle to the old woman, but kept it for himself. He lit the candle and made a wish, “I want to go far away from here.” Suddenly the genies appeared and took him to a beautiful palace. There was a party in the palace. The wanderer wanted to make some money. So he lit the candle again and wished for some jewellery. He sold them to the guests and was soon making a lot of money. Then the Princess came to buy the jewellery, but there was nothing left.
The wanderer fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. The kind Princess said yes, and they got married the next day. In this happiness, the wanderer told the Princess about his adventure and the magic candle. Hearing that, the Princess got very angry. At night she lit the candle and wished that the wanderer disappeared.
In the morning, the wanderer awoke and found himself back in his ugly house in a village.
(Adapted from Fun Plus 05)
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Clochard is a band from Leuven (Belgium), that plays songs in the Dutch language, with moving lyrics, close harmony singing and catchy tunes.
Clochard consists of the Dessers brothers, David and Ezra, Frans van Hamersveld, Mark van Dal, Katrien Bos and Jo Zanders. David sings, plays whistle and banjo, and has written the original Clochard songs. Ezra plays the diatonic accordion and sings the lower voices. Frans plays the fiddle, sings the upper voices and provides arrangements for songs and tunes. Mark shapes the Clochard sound with his original open tunings on guitar. Katrien accompanies the band on double bass, and Jo devotes himself to percussion.
Clochard released its third album ‘Salto Mortale’ in 2014. This CD was very well received, not only in Belgium, but also in the Netherlands. The CD release was the start of a series of interesting concerts in Belgian and Dutch folkclubs and festivals.
The composition of original Dutch folky songs is Clochard’s true love, in which all the qualities of their music meet: nice melodies, poetic lyrics, close harmony singing and exciting tunes. Clochard likes to combine this with a keen selection of European folktunes.
When playing live, Clochard likes to present an interesting mix of instrumental and vocal music, of fast dances and slow ballads, of ambiance and quiet enjoyment. With this repertoire full of surprises you can find Clochard playing in folk clubs, and on the stages of folk festivals and city happenings.
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Holden History and how it all started, up to 1948
The Holden tradition was started by an English immigrant James Alexander Holden, who started a leather goods business in Australia, 1857. Later the business expanded into the production of coaches and then truck bodies, by Henry James Holden the son of James Holden, after his death in 1887. The join with Frederick Hack in 1918 formed what was known as Holden Motor Body Builders. The company was building bodies for Chevrolet, Ford, Buick, Essex and Hupmobile by 1920 and was building more than 500 bodies a month by 1922.
In 1924, when production was over 20,000 units a year, Henry Holden made the biggest deal yet. The Holden Motor Body Builders would be contracted to build entire car bodies for all General Motors chassis imported into the country. The deal was ensuring at least 10,000 units per year. Two years on and Henry Holden passed away, leaving the company in the hands of his son Edward Holden. The company was producing 36,000 units per year.
General Motors set up headquarters in Melbourne, Victoria and installed assembly plants in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. By 1927 over 100,000 units per year were being sold.
But the future of the company wasn’t looking too good when the depression hit Australia in the early 1930s. With the company having to deal with huge losses every day, and the future of General Motors looking bleaker, a deal had to be made. In 1932 the GM director, Graeme Howard visited to see stockpiles of unsold cars, which would probably never be sold. GM had no other assets to keep itself afloat, whereas the Holden assets included buildings, land and production equipment.
Graeme. Howard and the now Sir Edward Holden agreed that the merge of both companies would enable them to pool resources and survive the low car sales. Vehicle prices dropped and by 1934 sales slowly but steadily increased and when the second World War came about, the economic recovery was complete. The new company, GMH, concentrated on building armaments engines and ships at Fishermen’s Bend, Melbourne. When the end of the war came about General Motors Holden had already been considering plans for the first all Australian car. The car would go under the name of it’s founder, Holden.
Designers had to design a car which could be used in Australian environments. It had to have enough power and be able to handle the harsh road and bush conditions. “Project 320” was underway, with some assistance of United States engineers and BHP steel.
Production was complete. Australia’s first locally produced car was known as the 48-215, but we all know it as the FX Holden. Prototypes were released in 1946, but there were still problems with it. The car went under the biggest stress test to help further develop the design, which was almost going to be thrown out. Finally testing finished and the prototype became a production car. The first 48-215 rolled off the line on the 29th of November 1948. The release of Australia’s first car was made by the then Prime Minister JB Chifley. The car was a perfect success and the production created many jobs for Australian people.
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So I pretty much think these boots are pretty killer... They're Dolce & Gabbana. I don't think I could ever wear them though. Even though I am shortish, I can't imagine myself wearing a pair of boots like these. The top is Moschino, and skinny jeans are Topshop.
Or these ones. They're pretty dang cool looking I do have to say. The Tank is D&G, blazer is Topshop, watch is Betsey Johnson, and I forgot who made the leggings. I love creating these looks on Polyvore because I know I could never afford the clothes. It's good to know you still have a good sense of style even though you can't actually go out and buy the clothes.
Sigh, if I actually dressed like this. IT WOULD BE AMAZING!
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The UK's Best Quooker Prices
What Tank Do You Need?
A Quooker system consists of a tap on the worktop and a tank in the cupboard underneath.
There are three different tanks. The choice of tank depends on the situation in your kitchen. View the collection here.
Provides three litres of instant boiling water.
Provides seven litres of instant boiling water.
Provides seven litres of instant boiling water or 15 litres of hot water (60°C) all from a cold feed.
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There is growing optimism in the development community that the dawn of the “African Century” may be upon us. The reasons for this optimism are real. Over the last decade, six of the world's 10 fastest-growing economies were in Africa, and substantial political and social progress has been achieved.
But I would say that the potential for this development may be undermined if the everyday tragedy of preventable maternal deaths continues unabated across the continent.
The recently-released report “Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2010. WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank estimates” paints a dramatic picture. Overall, close to 60% of global maternal deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and at 500 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, the region has the highest maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in the world, well above Southern Asia (220), Oceania (200), South-eastern Asia (150), and Latin America and the Caribbean (80).
While Sierra Leone (890), the Central African Republic (890), Burundi (800), Guinea-Bissau (790), Liberia (770), the Sudan (730), Cameroon (690), and Nigeria (630) had very high MMRs, Chad and Somalia had extremely high MMRs at 1100 and 1000, respectively.
The data also show that for many sub-Saharan African countries it will be difficult and in some cases impossible to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 target of reducing maternal mortality by 75% between 1990 and 2015. That is the case of countries such as Zambia (440) and Kenya (360) that show insufficient progress, or Zimbabwe (570) and South Africa (300), with no measurable progress over the last 20 years.
Although the MMR has started to decline in some countries, such as Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, due to the increased availability of antiretroviral drug therapy for HIV infected people, they are not expected to meet the MDG5 target. Equatorial Guinea, with an 81% reduction achieved by 2010, is the only African country that has already met the MDG 5 target.
The situation in the sub-Saharan countries was common in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and continental Europe up to the late 1930s, when dramatic declines began to occur. This was due in large measure, according to a historical account by Irvine Loudon, to successive improvements in the quality of maternal care services, including the adoption of simple hygienic measures such as mandatory hand washing by doctors before patient examination and the use of antibiotics to prevent and control bacterial infections contracted by women during childbirth that were often fatal.
While vaccination, distribution of insecticide-treated bednets, vitamin A supplementation, and deworming, that help reduce child mortality, can be delivered according to a “predeterminate” schedule or “outside” health facilities, acute or emergency care services for dealing with pregnancy complications that in most cases cannot be predicted and prevented require a well organized and run health system.
So, if we heed the lessons from history, a renewed push needs to be placed on expanding the referral and emergency obstetric care capacity in the African health systems, including well trained, incentivized, and supervised teams of community health workers, midwives, nurses and doctors, to provide quality services to deal with direct obstetric complications, which occur around the time of childbirth and cause more than 60% of maternal deaths: hemorrhage, hypertensive disease, sepsis/infection, obstructed labor and other direct causes. Well funded and accessible voluntary family planning services would also contribute by reducing unwanted pregnancies and thus the risk of maternal death. And the development of accurate data systems is vital not only for keeping track of the number and causes of maternal deaths, but also for evidence-based policy-making and performance management and evaluation.
There are “demand” factors as well. Since care at the time of birth is crucial for saving mothers and newborns, reducing barriers that prevent pregnant women from going to health facilities, particularly in regions with poor road infrastructure, challenging terrain and limited transport options, cannot be ignored. Addressing these factors will require new approaches, such as innovative community transport schemes when ambulances are not available, alongside efforts at the community level to raise knowledge of maternal and newborn danger signs that often go ignored.
As the “African Century” evolves, sustained reductions in maternal deaths should be seen as a “critical marker” to gauge its progress and impact on improving the lot of society as a whole.
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Biopharmaceutical company Agalimmune has secured funding from an investment group comprising Loxbridge Research and Animatrix Capital. Agalimmune is based both in London and California.
Agalimmune Ltd, a biopharmaceutical company, has been created to develop innovative immunotherapeutics for the treatment of cancer, with a focus on solid tumours. The new company has been founded by an investment group comprising Loxbridge Research LLP and Animatrix Capital LLP. Agalimmune is based both in London (Agalimmune Ltd) and California (Agalimmune Inc.). The funding will be used to continue the translation of Agalimmune’s leading immunotherapeutic technology, AlphajectTM, licensed from the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), to the clinic.
Alphaject is based on over 20 years of biomedical research carried out by UMMS Professor of Surgery and Medicine Uri Galili, PhD, who discovered the anti-gal immune response and its role in ‘hyper-acute’ organ rejection. The Alphaject technology includes methods for treating solid tumours in such a way that the immune system actively rejects them, akin to a non-matched graft or transplant. Tumours are directly injected with the Alphaject compound, to which humans naturally have a high antibody titre. Alphaject coats the tumour cells in alphagal, thereby presenting a foreign antigen to the immune system. This is thought to bring about a ‘hyper-acute rejection’ of the tumour, and breaks the immune tolerance shielding the tumour from attack, allowing the immune system to both begin to destroy the tumour immediately and also to confer a long-lasting protection over time in the form of enhanced immune surveillance. The effect is analogous to a personalised cancer vaccine, acting continuously to prevent both metastasis and recurrence.
Mike Westby, CEO of Agalimmune, commented: “The development of immunomodulatory therapies is an exciting and rapidly emerging field, which hopefully will lead to improved anti-cancer treatments for patients. We welcome Loxbridge Research and Animatrix Capital as investors.”
Dr Charles Roberts, MD, CEO of Loxbridge Research, said: “Agalimmune is the first therapeutic investment we have made at a stage when the technology has already been in patients, and we are honoured to be working with proven innovators UMass Medical School and Dr Galili, in furthering this promising treatment toward the eventual benefit of people battling cancer. The investment we are making in the technology represents an upper mid-size in our portfolio, and whilst it will follow our investment model in general we are delighted to welcome in a dedicated and industry-experienced team from the outset, given the relatively late stage of the technology.”
“Immunotherapy holds great promise as a potential cancer treatment because it allows the body’s own immune system to identify and eradicate cancer cells,” said Giles Whalen, MD, professor of surgical oncology at UMass Medical School and principal investigator on early clinical trials to develop the Alphaject technology. “One of the great benefits of this approach is that the immune system can seek out and attack even the smallest traces of tumour anywhere in the body. What makes Alphaject so remarkable is that it’s designed to alert the immune system and respond to a specific type of cancer cell. Unlike other immunomodulatory therapies, which may stimulate the immune system to attack cells indiscriminately, this helps ensure healthy cells don’t get mistakenly targeted and destroyed.”
Notes to Editors.
For more information please contact:
Lorna Cuddon, Zyme Communications
+44 (0)7811 996 942
Jim Fessenden, University of Massachusetts Medical School
About Agalimmune www.agalimmune.com
Agalimmune is a biopharmaceutical company with an innovative anti-cancer technology for the treatment of patients with solid tumors. The Company’s vision is to harness the power of the cancer patient’s own immune system to specifically target the tumor; not only to kill the tumor cells but also to bring about a long-lasting protective anti-tumor immune response. In addition to its ongoing efforts to develop cancer treatments, Agalimmune also establishes partnerships and collaborations with leading institutions and companies to research and develop pioneering targeted cancer vaccines and cell-based immunotherapeutic products. These internal and external efforts will continue to position Agalimmune at the cutting edge of innovative anti-cancer technologies.
About Loxbridge www.loxbridgeresearch.com
Loxbridge Research LLP is a UK-based investment and project-management company founded in 2008 to create innovative life sciences technologies companies addressing massive global unmet needs. It sources innovation from academic institutions, existing companies and independent scientists – as well as a significant element of internal invention via its own team and extensive network of innovation-partners / key opinion leaders. The company is headquartered in the Royal Institution of Great Britain in Mayfair, London with activities (portfolio investments, labs, and academic partnerships) elsewhere in the UK and US.
About the University of Massachusetts Medical School
The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), one of five campuses of the University system, is comprised of the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the Graduate School of Nursing, a thriving research enterprise and an innovative public service initiative, Commonwealth Medicine. Its mission is to advance the health of the people of the Commonwealth through pioneering education, research, public service and health care delivery with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health Care. In doing so, it has built a reputation as a world-class research institution and as a leader in primary care education. The Medical School attracts more than $240 million annually in research funding, placing it among the top 50 medical schools in the nation. In 2006, UMMS’s Craig C. Mello, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with colleague Andrew Z. Fire, PhD, of Stanford University, for their discoveries related to RNA interference (RNAi). The 2013 opening of the Albert Sherman Center ushered in a new era of biomedical research and education on campus. Designed to maximize collaboration across fields, the Sherman Center is home to scientists pursuing novel research in emerging scientific fields with the goal of translating new discoveries into innovative therapies for human diseases.
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Greenwich Audubon NATIVE PLANT SALE 2014.
The order timeline has been extended to May 1st for the first Native Plant Sale offered by the Greenwich Audubon in Connecticut.
Native plants gardens are an attractive, sustainable food supply for birds, native pollinators and other wildlife throughout the year.
Using Native plants in your garden is a win-win for the homeowner, wildlife and local environment because:-
- They use less water than most non-native plants once established.
- Are better adapted to local climates.
- Often require less fertilizer, thus helping protect water quality.
- Need fewer pesticides since they resist native pests and diseases better.
- Are hosts for native insects which are the main food for baby birds.
- Provide food and shelter for local birds & wildlife.
To view a list of Native Plants for sale, learn more about specific native plants, foliage and planting conditions they like go to the Greenwich Audubon website or just click this link.
David Popoff is a license Connecticut Real Estate Broker specializing in Sustainability in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut at DMK REAL ESTATE, Darien, Ct.
DMK Property Management llc a locally owned company serving lower Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Specializing in Residential Property Management that can custom tailor a program to fit the homeowners needs be it short term or long term from rental management to full estate management.
Connecticut Licensed Real Estate Broker
Seller Representative Specialist
Accredited Buyer Representative candidate
LEED AP Homes
DMK Real Estate, Darien, CT.
Cell (203) 228-0646
click on logo to go to website
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Former magic size who played Chloe Carter within the TeenNick series Hollywood Levels. She also performed roles within the films WITH TIME, The Last Music, Ted and 17 Once again. She started her entertainment profession on the truth series The Associate. In 2007, she made an appearance in an bout of the HBO series Entourage entitled “The Adolescent and the Stoned.” She wedded Justin Gaston in 2012 and collectively they welcomed a girl. She acted alongside Justin Timberlake within the 2011 thriller WITH TIME.
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The past few months have been stressful times for everyone with the storms and elections doing a number on each of us. Now we all need to take a trip down comfort food lane.
Comfort food is more than just good nutrition. Comfort food is nurturing, wholesome and soul-satisfying. It connects us with thoughts and memories of special times and special people. Foods we associate with positive memories in our lives. Food that is simply prepared giving a sense of home and contentment. The food is different for each of us. It can be a cup of hot soup, biscuits and gravy with eggs and grits, a big juicy steak with mashed potatoes, fried chicken and corn bread, and if you are from Costa Rica it might be gallo pinto made of rice, onions and red beans fried together and served with sour cream on top. All in all, the most comforting food is food shared with those you care about.
One of my most cherished memories of comfort food is coming home from school and, before I walked into my house, being greeted by the aroma of baked bread. There was my mother -- crisp apron, hair neatly combed -- standing in the doorway with slices of fresh bread dripping with homemade butter. That to me was truly comfort food.
Of course, today we must think of what the cardiologist says. These comfort foods are good for the soul but bad for the arteries. So, let good sense prevail.
I don't ever remember my mother reading a recipe while baking bread, but the following recipe will help as a guide in homemade breadmaking. I know you can buy a loaf of bread of various selections or even buy a bread-making machine, and making bread in your kitchen is a fair amount of work, but done properly can reward the baker in treasures far surpassing the time, effort and materials expended.
Thanksgiving will soon be here. Enjoy your family, friends and the food, whatever is your pleasure. Let it be your comfort food to be recalled as a memory that makes you feel safe, warm and protected.
Delighted that you decided to make bread, your kitchen awaits you. In making bread, as in any other culinary endeavor, it is good to be certain the proper ingredients are on hand. There are several basic ingredients to bread, but one is common to all. Yeast is required. It is a living organism that is added to the dough to raise the bread. There are many types of yeast available but the recommended is the packaged yeast that can be bought in any grocery store.
In making bread by hand there is a definite technique which must be followed to ensure a good product. After the ingredients are brought together at an appropriate temperature the resulting dough must be kneaded. Kneading is a technique of folding over the dough and pushing it down over and over on a floured surface.
1 small can evaporated milk
1 cup water
1/3 stick butter
5 large tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. salt
1/2 cup warm water
2 packages of yeast
7 cups flour
Scald milk and water together, add butter, sugar, and salt. Let the milk mixture become lukewarm. Dissolve yeast in the lukewarm milk mixture, stirring until smooth.
Sift approximately 6 cups of flour into mixture. Use the seventh cup of flour on board in which to knead dough. Knead until smooth.
Grease large crock or bowl, butter dough and place in crock. Let rise for 11/2 hours to 2 hours until double in size. Knead for a second time about 15 minutes, then divide into flour parts and place in baling pans (greased) Let rise again for 11/2 hours. Bake in preheated 350-degree oven for 45 minutes. Makes 4 small loaves.
Voila to comfort foods!
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By guest blogger Jaclyn Zubrzycki
Advocates for after-school, summer learning, and expanded school day programs are breathing a sigh of relief: The Every Student Succeeds Act, which would be the first reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 14 years, maintains funding for such programs, despite several early drafts that would have cut support.
The ESSA passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 2 and was approved by the Senate on Wednesday.
The bill includes an official definition of expanded learning time, which wasn’t present in the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act. Here’s the definition:
EXPANDED LEARNING TIME. The term 'expanded learning time' means using a longer school day, week, or year schedule to significantly increase the total number of school hours, in order to include additional time for (A) activities and instruction for enrichment as part of a well-rounded education; and (B) instructional and support staff to collaborate, plan, and engage in professional development (including professional development on family and community engagement) within and across grades and subjects.
Jennifer Davis, the founder of the National Center for Time and Learning, said the inclusion of a clear definition will help ensure that money allocated for expanded learning time is well-spent. “We’re extremely excited about the fact that the federal government has now embraced in policy the necessity for more learning time, especially for our highest-needs children.”
Expanded learning time shows up in a few parts of the bill. The ESSA includes the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, a program that supports after-school and summer programs. The program had been cut from earlier drafts of the bill altogether, which prompted advocacy organizations to call on Congress to preserve it.
Despite the threats of cuts, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program has actually expanded its eligibility: Schools that expanded their schedules by 300 hours per year or more are now eligible for the grants, which had previously been reserved for nonschool after-school and summer programs. David Goldberg, NCTL’s vice president of national policy and partnerships, said that approximately $1 billion is being devoted to that program. (The relevant section of the ESSA starts on page 489.)
The Afterschool Alliance celebrated in a statement from executive director Jodi Grant:
Preserving this dedicated funding stream means millions of students and families will benefit from the quality after-school and summer-learning programs that keep kids safe, inspire them to learn, and help working families. This is a huge and much-needed win for America's children and families.
Several House representatives, including Dan Kildee, a Democrat from Michigan, highlighted their support for after-school programs in press releases after the House passage.
Expanded learning time also shows up in the ESSA’s school improvement fund for states, which replaces the federal School Improvement Grant program and increases the number of schools eligible for federal support. Extended learning time is named as one of the approaches states can take to help their lowest-performing schools improve.
The number of schools using extended learning time has doubled in the past two years.
Check out Politics K-12 for more on the implications of the ESSA and for the most up-to-date information about its progress.
For more news and information on curriculum and instruction:
A version of this news article first appeared in the Time and Learning blog.
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About Time 34148 Pacific Coast Hwy, Dana Point, CA92629 About Time is a small watch and jewelry store located on the main business strip of the Pacific Coast Highway. It…More is a certified dealer for Rolex and offers a nice selection of time pieces that are plain or decorated with diamond crusted accents. The professionals here are also certified to repair several brands of watches that are or are not under warranty. This establishment also has a gemologist and silver/gold master and presents its own handmade designs of precious gem jewelry and necklaces.
Bear Brand Park 32385 Bear Brand Park Road, Laguna Niguel, CA92677 Bear Brand Park is a huge recreational location that offers a variety of amenities including baseball fields, soccer…More fields, a playground and picnic tables with grills. This park is used year-round to host many local team sports around the city. There is plenty of parking around the park and enough benches to sit down, relax and watch a game.
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I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Left for Dead by Joy Kluver
Also by this author: Last Seen, Broken Girls
Series: Detective Bernadette Noel #3
Also in this series: Last Seen, Broken Girls
Published by Bookouture on 10th January 2022
Genres: Crime, Suspense, Thriller
Source: from Netgalley
The detective stared at the young woman lying on the bed. She almost looked peaceful, her face like porcelain. Despite everything she had been through, she was still beautiful.
When DI Bernie Noel hurries to Keira Howard’s hospital bedside, she knows that Keira has been lucky. Barely conscious and badly injured, at least she is alive. Convinced that Keira’s attack is the latest in a string of increasingly violent assaults on young women in the area, the next victim might not be so fortunate. So she vows to find the man who did this, and to stop him before anyone else gets hurt.
Spurring her team into action, she quickly hones in on a prime suspect. But then he suddenly dies while on police watch, and Bernie’s investigation goes into freefall. When Bernie’s superiors won’t let her take the case any further, her gut instinct tells her there’s much more to his death than meets the eye. If it was murder, who would want him dead, and why? So she determines to set out on her own to find out what happened.
But the closer Bernie comes to discovering the truth, the more she is putting her own life in danger. And with Keira finally strong enough to talk her about her attack, Bernie worries she may be at risk yet again. There’s someone out there who has killed to stay safe in the shadows; can Bernie stop another senseless death, and save Keira, before it’s too late?
An utterly compelling crime thriller full of twists and suspense, perfect for fans of Val McDermid, Angela Marsons and Cara Hunter.
Thank you to Bookouture for letting me take part in this tour and for my copy of this book via Netgalley. I really enjoyed the first two books in this series so I was very excited to see what Bernie got up to next. This is the third book in the series but all can be read as standalones.
Bernie may be pregnant but that’s not going to stop her from finding out what happened to Keira and unravelling this mystery. Bernie needs to learn to slow down and take care of herself. I really like Bernie. I think she does an excellent job of running the team and is slowly learning to delegate. She has a good relationship with those in her team. I liked seeing how she worked with Leigh too.
The case was very complex but very intriguing. I had an inkling at the start that this was going to get complicated and very messy. There were a lot of secrets being kept and as they started to unravel things got very interesting.
This case will have you hooked very early on. I raced through this book, I just couldn’t put it down. I was so eager for Bernie and the team to get to the bottom of this case. It was just so gripping! I can’t wait for more!
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LorAnn Super Strength Flavours and Pure Essential Oils are 3 to 4 times stronger than grocery store extracts - a little goes a long way!
When substituting LorAnn flavors for extracts, use 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon for 1 teaspoon of extract.
For chocolates, use approximately 1 to 2 ounces to 25 lbs of chocolate (or 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon per pound). Note that the following flavours are NOT recommended for use in chocolate: Black Walnut, Blackberry, Brandy, Bubble Gum, Butterscotch, Butter Rum, Caramel, Cola, Cotton Candy, Cranberry, Eggnog, English Toffee, Guava, Horchata, Keoke Coffee, Mango, Maple, Marshmallow, Melon, Peanut Butter, Pear (Natural), Pecan, Plum, Praline, Root Beer, Tutti Fruity and Vanilla Butternut. Due to the long list of new flavours added constantly, please call us for a complete list of flavours safe for chocolates.
All LorAnn flavours are:
- Gluten Free
- Most are Sugar Free and Sweetener Free
- Contain no Vegetable Oils
- Most are Certified Kosher
Use These Concentrated Flavourings for a wide variety of applications including Hard Candy, Chocolate, Candy Centres, Fondants, Frosting, Fudge, Cake & Cupcakes, Cookies, Brownies, Sweet Breads and more.
1 oz approximately equal to 30 mL
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Right now, you’ve probably found out about cannabidiol, more commonly called CBD, one of many active compounds within the cannabis plant. In the last several years, CBD has changed into an international health phenomenon, and you’re likely to locate a large number of different CBD products lining the shelves of your local CVS.
Despite all of the publicity, however, there is confusion over what CBD oil is, where it comes from, how it works, and whether it is legal or not.
Sweeping claims have already been made about CBD oil as a miracle remedy for anything from cancer to insomnia. Yet it’s still considered a Schedule I drug, meaning it officially has no medical use (and is addictive). So what are the facts about CBD? Much like most things, the facts lie somewhere in the middle. As we will see, cannabis has been useful for medicinal purposes for a large number of decades, and there’s no doubt that the plant supplies an extended set of wellness benefits. Modern medical research is scant, but as CBD’s acceptance explodes, fascination is increasing, and more and more funding is certainly going toward research to help us know the way CBD affects our anatomical bodies and our minds.
The Long History Of Cannabis
Although CBD appears to have turned into a craze only within the last few years, using cannabis medicinally features a lengthy history. The first reported situation dates back once again to 2737 BC when Emperor of China Sheng Nung used pot tea to greatly help him increase his memory and attenuate the outward indications of rheumatism and malaria.
The cannabis plant also features a long history in India, where it’s central to traditional medicine and is looked at as a sacred plant. The hemp selection of the cannabis plant was widely used in Egypt to produce rope and other things, but an old manuscript proves, so it was already called a medicinal plant. The Ebers Papyrus, written around 1550 BC, is one of the oldest medical textbooks in existence and mentions hemp in many of its formulations to ease suffering and inflammation.
The Romans, too, applied marijuana for healing. Around A.D. 77, a scholar called Pliny the Folk wrote that marijuana might be correctly applied to ease different kinds of discomfort.
By the 16th century, hemp was generally developed in Europe, and it soon turned into an essential crop in the Americas. The seed wasn’t respected as medication but was primarily applied in a string, fabric, and ship sails.
The medical houses of pot were almost buried till, in 1839, Irish physicians and medical researcher Bill B. O’Shaughnessy investigated its beneficial houses and medical applications. His findings proved to be quite controversial, but he opened the door to further research and changed how we use cannabis to the day.
Cannabis became a standard element in medications to help with sleep, coughs, menstrual problems, and more, but by the 20th century, opioids started using their place. Quickly enough, the conflict on marijuana began, and both growing and utilizing the plant turned extremely illegal. The Controlled Ingredients Act of 1970 considered marijuana a Schedule I substance, indicating it didn’t it doesn’t have any recognized medical use and is extremely addictive. This name includes the hemp and marijuana kinds of the plant.
Though marijuana remains illegal, points are slowly changing. CBD’s enormous rise in reputation has observed development in a study into their myriad uses as well as a force to improve its legal status.
But with so much information available, it’s hard to learn what you can trust. Not to speak about the seemingly infinite listing of products that appear to find their way onto more and more shelves every day. So just what is CBD? How can it work, and how could it help us? What types of products should we try, and what should we be aware of? Keep reading to find out.
What Is CBD Oil?
CBD is just a naturally occurring element of the Cannabis sativa hemp plant and was just discovered by Dr. Roger Adams and his team at the University of Illinois in 1940. It’s one of several different parts of the plant and makes about 40% of it. The others are composed of phytocannabinoid compounds and terpenoids, flavonoids, vitamins, enzymes, and more. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), another compound present in the Cannabis sativa plant, is better known and more controversial because users feel high. It’s present in higher concentrations in marijuana and not as in hemp. CBD won’t allow you to get high, and it includes a full selection of benefits.
But if CBD originates from the cannabis plant, the reason it doesn’t allow you to get high? This can be a really common question and a supply of confusion, so it’s worth spending time examining the differences between CBD, THC, and the plants they originate from hemp and marijuana.
Hemp Versus Marijuana
Many CBD products originate from hemp, lots of which contains little to no THC and has been used throughout history to produce fabric, rope, paper, and food. Since hemp contains so small THC, you may well be certain that your CBD products will not allow you to get high. In reality, by law, they must contain less than 0.3% THC.
Marijuana is much different from Cannabis sativa, which contains significantly more than 0.3% of THC (typically between 2% and 30% by dry weight). It has very small amounts of CBD, so isn’t usually used to produce CBD products but is grown (legally and illegally) for weed and its derived products, which definitely will get you high.
Types Of CBD OIL
If you’ve spent any time browsing CBD websites or the CBD shelves at the local health shop, you could have realized that there are certainly a lot of several types of CBD available, and sometimes it’s challenging to know what is what.
Full spectrum CBD isn’t “pure” CBD: It has all of those other chemical compounds within the cannabis plant, such as terpenes, flavonoids, other phytocannabinoids, alongside small records of THC. The whole range is a preferred selection by several due to the health advantages that these other compounds have, especially when taken altogether. A 2015 studydiscovered that different compounds interact with each other and boost each other in a process named “the entourage effect.”
Broad-spectrum CBD also offers the advantages of the entourage effect, as it has many of the same compounds that the full spectrum does. However, in this sort of solution, all THC traces have already been removed, and this is a good choice if you should be afraid of traces of THC turning up in blood and urine tests.
CBD Isolate is a pure type of CBD, containing about 99.9% CBD and no other compounds. People choose to isolate because it provides the absolute most CBD and is simpler to dose because it will often come in crystal or powder form and put into other products. You won’t be reaping the advantages of the entourage effect, but when it’s strictly CBD you’re enthusiastic about, this might be the type for you.
As we’ve seen, CBD is naturally within the cannabis plant, but how does it get from existing in the flower and buds of a hemp plant to becoming an oil, a crystal, or even a gummy bear? You can find three other ways of getting CBD:
CO2 Extraction is one of the very most natural and sophisticated means of getting CBD from the plant. This method uses supercritical co2 (a fluid state of co2 where it’s held at or above its critical temperature and critical pressure) to separate your lives the CBD gas from the hemp plant. Number heat or drying is applied to the place substance through the CO2 removal functions, so the resulting CBD is that which you call “Raw CBD,” and all its chemical compounds, vitamins, and minerals are left intact and not modified by the heating process. And no chemicals are utilized, and therefore the ensuing CBD is clear and pure.
Lipid Removal uses fats to get the plant’s compounds. The method starts with the raw materials being decarboxylated (which means heated) until they reach a certain temperature. Coconut oil is then added, everything is heated again, and then your CBD is extracted. Even though the resulting CBD product isn’t very concentrated (so you’ll need to take this under consideration when dosing) it’s a natural and cheap option. Remember that olive oil (or other types of oil, such as organic coconut) is quite perishable, so you have to be careful and store this in a cool and dark place.
Solvent Extraction is a cheap means of extracting CBD that uses ethanol, isopropanol, or alkanes. The method starts by running solvents through cannabis flowers and buds and then making them evaporate to ensure that only the concentrated cannabinoids are put aside in oil form. Though it is cost-efficient, solvent extraction isn’t the absolute most loved by CBD users since there are many chemicals involved, and or even done properly, the method can leave behind harmful traces in the product.
Safety And Side Effects Of CBD
The National Institute on Medicine Abuse states that “CBD appears becoming a secure medicine without addictive effects,” and scientists agree. A 2017 study on the security and side aftereffects of CBD discovered that CBD is safe for humans, even yet in high doses and for prolonged periods (in very rare cases, CBD could trigger tiredness, diarrhea, changes in appetite, weight changes).
Even though CBD itself is safe, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t focus on buying products. Because this is such a new market, it happens to be suffering from deficiencies in regulation, so might there be products out there that will not be quite what they seem. In the very best cases, products are mislabeled and might contain different amounts than what it says on the label (we have a section farther down in this information specialized in learning how to learn product labels), so, like, they could do have more compared to the 0.3% of THC permitted by law. In other rarer cases, services and products might contain harmful substances, possibly remnants of insecticides from the farm or records of solvents leftover from the removal process.
This is often why it is critical to understand what you are buying. Do your research beforehand, get to learn the brands and the terminology, and know very well what questions to ask. Until the marketplace develops further, it’s for you to ensure you’re buying high-quality stuff.
Though CBD is regarded as secure, The U.S. Food and Medicine Administration (FDA) has not even approved CBD wellness products, as research on people remains scant. As a result of the increasing public interest, the FDA is increasingly enthusiastic about CBD and recently put out a bulletin titled “The thing you need to learn (and what we work to find out) about products containing cannabis or cannabis-derived products including CBD,” in which it states that “It happens to be illegal to advertise CBD by adding it to a food or labeling it as a dietary supplement.”
On an alternative note, you should truly avoid taking CBD if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Although there is limited research about this, it’s more straightforward to err on the side of caution. Firstly, you can find studies showing that THC can reach the fetus through your bloodstream so that any THC traces could be harmful. Secondly, some limited studies demonstrate that high doses of CBD in animals can cause problems in the fetus’s development.
If you’re taking various kinds of treatment, you should talk to your physician about probable negative interactions. Though sometimes CBD can boost some drugs’ affectation, it can also change how your body interacts using them: CBD inhibits cytochrome P450, a form of liver molecule that stops working toxic substances, so some drugs are then consumed differently, with potentially bad effects.
Because CBD products have only recently become so popular, other drugs do not explicitly bring CBD alerts on the labels. Luckily for all of us, however, it is famous that CBD interacts with your body just like grapefruit and grapefruit juice, which also inhibits cytochrome P450. So if the drugs you are taking have a grapefruit warning, you realize you shouldn’t take CBD together either.
The Bottom Line
CBD oil is quickly becoming extremely popular, and it’s not rare for individuals to puff on a vape or chomp down on some gummies. A growing body of research shows that CBD may have a position in improving the symptoms of many common health concerns, from nausea to depression, anxiety, various types of pain, inflammatory skin issues, epilepsy, and even cancer. Though it holds that CBD boasts this long list of health benefits, as the industry grows and our knowledge struggles to keep up, it’s important to be skeptical of sweeping claims about CBD and its capability to cure cancer and other serious diseases.
Although there’s still a lot for all of us to discover about CBD’s different “powers” and applications, for the time being, it is reasonable to express that CBD provides safe and natural help for many health concerns, and there’s no harm in trying it as an alternative, or in conjunction with, other medication.
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CD3 T Cell Test
Nov 10, 2013
Hello. I missed my CD4 test date.. so I had to go to a private lab and ask for one. The result they gave me is confusing, because they dont show me the CD4 count. They show me this:
LINFOCITOS T CD3 (CD4+/ CD8+). Method: Citometría flux (EPI CS)
CD3+/CD4+: 604 (490 - 1,200) /L or 22% CD3+/CD8+: 1,661 (180 - 785) /L or 67% CD4/CD8 : 0.36 (1.50 - 2.50)
Could you help me understand this? I want to know my CD4..
PD: My last CD4 was 460 4 months ago. I still dont have treatment. I am one year infected.
Thanks for the answer
Response from Dr. Holodniy
Your CD4 count is 604 and 22%. The CD8 count is 1,661. The CD3 test measures how many t cell lymphocytes there are in your blood. Both CD4 and CD8 cells are t cells. So when something is labeled CD3+/CD4+ that is still only referring to CD4 cells.
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Are you thinking about getting a tattoo removal creme and wondering if it will work? You’re not alone.
Because tattoo removal with a laser is expensive and painful, you can see why just applying a topical ointment has its appeal. Plus tattoo removal cremes are popping up everywhere. It has to work, right?
Not necessarily. According to the mayo clinic, a reputed medical hospital, there is no evidence that they work. Dr. Lawrence E. Gibson, M.D., writes
“At best, tattoo removal cream might fade or lighten a tattoo. The tattoo will remain visible, however, and skin irritation and other reactions are possible. Remember, tattoos are meant to be permanent. Because the ink is placed beneath the top layer of skin, complete removal of a tattoo is difficult.”
Dr. Gibson advises that people should consult a qualified dermatologist for safe and effective ways to remove tattoos.
So, here are some things to do before plunking your money down on expensive tattoo removal cremes:
- Do your research. Check to make sure the information you are reading is on a reputable sites. This is important. Make sure the site is not just a site that’s trying to make money by selling the cream.
- Check the evidence. Are the clains supported by evidence-based science? Who conducted the studies? Have they been published?
- Don’t be fooled by photos. The before and after pictures you see can be faked with Photoshop.
- Talk to a reputable dermatologist about what works and what doesn’t, and see if the ingredients are harmful.
- Get real testimonials from real clients. Ask to speak to them personally.
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These questions are all designed to assist students in getting the most out of a single reading Joseph Heller’s satirical masterpiece, Catch-22. All questions place a special emphasis on higher order thinking, as well as College Board’s AP literature expectations in regards to making inferences, understanding irony, and in general a rather rigorous, college-level approach to literature. These materials can be used for Honors classes as well, for any teacher looking to give their students the kind of push that the new Common Core standards are aiming for.
I have been teaching for 16 years, including several years teaching English Honors IV, as well as creating my own very successful Advanced Placement Literature program from scratch nine years ago. I have a Masters in Creative Writing, and thought I would make some of my materials available for purchase.
If you end up using the materials, let me know how things go for you. My name is Adam Horowitz, and I'm a sixteen year educator. You can e-mail me at email@example.com.
All questions were written using the Simon and Schuster paperback copy of Catch-22. They could easily be adapted to other versions, however, the accompanying page numbers would need some altering.
These questions are also designed to be used in conjunction with a Catch-22 test. This test includes 48 multiple choice questions based on these analysis questions, as well as an essay question designed to assess students’ overall understanding of Heller’s satire.
Finally, consider looking into the complete novel package. It includes all background materials, nearly two dozen quizzes, these questions and the test. Check out the description for more info.
If you’re tired of students simply SparkNoting through literature, consider giving my materials a try.
Catch-22 Analysis Questions, p. 187-266
by Adam Horowitz
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
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PRODUCT DATA SHEET
Temacoat GPL - Epoxy finish
|DESCRIPTION||A two-component, amine-adduct cured epoxy finish.|
Used especially as a finishing coat in epoxy systems exposed to heavy abrasion and/or chemical stress. Due to CE marking also suitable for concrete surfaces.
|Recommended uses||Recommended for bridges, tanks and different types of steelwork and equipment in the wood processing and chemical industries, such as tubular bridges, conveyors, paper machines etc.|
|Features||Withstands +150 ºC dry heat and +60 ºC in immersion. Withstands immersion in dilute solutions of non-oxidizing acids, alkalis and salts. Resists only temporary splashes of oxidizing acids and bleaching solutions. Withstands chemically active gases and dust. Withstands immersion in mineral/vegetable/animal fats and oils.|
|Colour Cards||RAL, NCS, SSG, BS, MONICOLOR NOVA and SYMPHONY colour cards. TEMASPEED tinting.|
Practical coverage depends on the application method, painting conditions and the shape and roughness of the surface to be coated.
|Mixing ratio||Base 3 parts by volume 170-series.
Hardener 1 part by volume 008 7580
|Application method||By airless spray or brush.|
|Pot-life (+23°C)||5 hours|
Drying and recoating times are related to the film thickness, temperature, the relative humidity of the air and ventilation.
|Solids volume||55 ± 2 volume % (ISO 3233)
68 ± 2 weight %
|Density||1.3 - 1.4 kg / l (mixed) depending on color.|
|Application conditions||All surfaces must be clean, dry and free from contamination. The temperature of the ambient air, surface and paint should not fall below +10ºC during application and drying. Relative humidity of the air should not exceed 80% during application and drying. The surface temperature of steel should remain at least 3°C above the dew point.
Good ventilation and sufficient air movement is required in confined areas during application and drying.
Note! There is a natural tendency of this coating to chalk, discolor or yellow unevenly. It is recommended to use polyurethane topcoat when there are high aesthetical requirements on color appearance.
|Preparation||Primed surfaces: Oil, grease, salt and dirt are removed from the surface by appropriate means. Repair any damage to the primer coat. Note the overcoating time of primer. (ISO 12944-4)
Concrete surfaces: The surface must be dry and at least 4 weeks old. The relative humidity of the concrete should not exceed 97%. Remove any splashes and unevennesses by grinding. Remove laitance and form oil from concrete castings by sanding or blast cleaning. Any cracks, crevices and voids must be repaired with a mixture of Temafloor 200 and fine dry quartz sand.
|Priming||Temacoat GPL-S Primer, Temacoat GPL-S MIO, Temacoat SPA and Temabond.|
|Painting||For airless spraying, the product is thinned approximately 0–10%. Recommended nozzle tip is 0.011"–0.017" and pressure 120–160 bar. Spray angle shall be chosen according to the shape of the object.
For brush application the product should be thinned according to the circumstancies.
|Mixing of components||First stir base and hardener separately. The correct proportions of base and hardener must be mixed thoroughly before use. Use mechanical mixer for mixing.|
|Cleaning of tools||Thinner 006 1031.|
|EU VOC 2004/42/EC-limit value||The Volatile Organic Compounds amount is 455 g/litre of paint mixture.
VOC content of the paint mixture (thinned 10 % by volume) is 495 g/l.
|HEALTH AND SAFETY LABELLING|
according to Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008
|Containers are provided with safety labels, which should be observed. Further information about hazardous influences and protection are detailed in individual health and safety data sheets. A health and safety data sheet is available on request from Tikkurila Oyj.|
|Safety data sheet||Temacoat GPL|
|Thinner safety data sheet||Temacoat GPL|
|Hardener safety data sheet||Temacoat GPL|
|The European harmonized productstandard EN 1504-2:2004 defines the requirements for surface protection systems for concrete.
This product is tested and CE-labelled in accordance with the tables 1d, 1f and 1g in the
|Declaration of performance: TIK-0170-5001|
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I think knowledge about the Occult, Freemasonry and Satanism is essential for the understanding of the NWO, since they base their control of humans on such things. I agree that it's not the ideal place to start if you want to make people start waking up.
Maybe the Protocols are similarly counter-productive but what's in it - the developments and scenarios it describes - are permeating our world as we speak. So to call it a fraud would be a little hasty, in my opinion.
I agree Draken which is why "religion" has to be
discussed in trying to understand and defeat the NWO.
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Although I collected dozens of books from the 1st WOD, among all the game lines, and I loved the setting - the 'Real World,' but through a glass darkly, populated with all sorts of monsters - I much prefer the new WOD. I really like how there's 1 main rule book (this one), which all the other game lines start from. And especially how - using the main rule book - there's no duplication of rules in each core book, and the rules are all the same, making crossovers or mixed-race stories so much more possible (you don't have to mess with trying to make the rules from the various game lines mesh with each other). Also, the fact that you can start with mortal characters, whose eyes have been opened - at least somewhat - to the nWOD, to play games featuring ghosts or other 'lesser' monsters, especially with a new troupe of players, is a perfect way to introduce them to this type of role playing (Storytelling).
The other thing I've always been so impressed with White Wolf and it's Storytelling games is the obvious amount of research and detail they bring to their games, especially given the setting is in an altered version of our world. So, much of what is brought up in their game books are things we (may) already be familiar with.
Congratulations to White Wolf for reimagining what was already a great gaming system and set of game lines, and I look forward to what more they'll come up with!
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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NRS Tuff Sacks feature the innovative StormStrip system. This .35-mm vinyl closure ensures you're getting the most waterproof bag of its kind. A heavy 1000-denier 18-oz. body and 34-oz. PVC/polyester bottom combine to create a bag that will last you for years to come.
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We are Teaching entrepreneur course but let me say something about Entrepreneur Journey
Being a small business owner require lot of courage and when you start your business every one do not know what will happen in future.
Business have lots of up and downs and being balance business person require management of various financial and product or service function .
We design this course to motivate you to start a new business .
This course empower you to price your product to build better business brands
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Mark Yates is likely to tinker with his Cheltenham side for the visit of Barnet although wholesale changes are unlikely.
Town failed to show up as they were brushed aside 3-0 by Hereford last weekend and Yates is predicting a positive reply from his charges as the struggling Bees come to town.
But, speaking on Thursday, he said: "I`ve had a good reaction from everybody and I`ll pick a team I think can handle a little bit of pressure and the circumstances we find ourselves in. Just because nobody came out of the game with any credit last weekend doesn`t mean I`ll be making 11 changes."
Wide man Brian Smikle came off at half-time against the Bulls complaining of dizziness and headaches but is expected to be okay.
Winger Josh Low (hamstring) was poised to return to the fold last weekend but is still not 100%, while a late decision will be made on defender Andy Gallinagh, who has trained all week following his double hernia operation.
Barnet will be without midfielder Anthony Pulis for the encounter.
The loan signing from Southampton was sent off on his Bees debut against Torquay last week and begins a three-match ban so Glen Southam is in line for a recall.
Teenage defender John Dunleavy has extended his loan deal from Wolves but is likely to have to make do with a place on the bench again.
Boss Paul Fairclough will keep faith with strikers Steve Kabba and Izale McLeod even though the Bees have not found the net in their last four matches.
Defensive duo Daniel Leach and Darren Dennehy are still missing with foot injuries and forward Ricky Holmes is out for the season with a broken metatarsal.
Copyright (c) PA Sport 2009, All Rights Reserved.
Do YOU want to write for GiveMeSport? Get started today by signing-up and submitting an article HERE: http://gms.to/writeforgms
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there is no need to leave the house these days for entertainment, teddy has us bent over in fits of laughter all the time lately! here is a peek at daily life with a curious, adventurous, happy nine-month old!
he can't walk yet, but he can certainly scale the fridge!
poor omar tries to hide from teddy behind the curtains, but teddy crawls like a cat back there after him...
...and sometimes when we aren't laughing at him, he's laughing at us ; )
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Anna Buskila joined Minsky, McCormick, & Hallagan, P.C. in 2018 as an associate attorney. Anna’s practice currently focuses on the employment-based immigration matters, particularly the PERM labor certification process. She also has experience handling H-1B and L-1 visas, as well as family-based immigration law, including waivers, visa processing and adjustment of status applications. Prior to joining our firm, Anna practiced employment-based immigration law at another local Chicago firm.
During law school, Anna was an extern with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and clerked for various immigration firms. Anna was also the recipient of the CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Evidence, Family and Employment Immigration Practice, and Legal Writing 4. Anna also volunteered her time interpreting for Russian-speaking clients of the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC).
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1 THESE TERMS
Dogtastic is provided and operated by Pet Acumen Ltd (we, us). We are a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 12889779 and have our registered office at OFFICE 7, 35-37 Ludgate Hill, London, England, EC4M 7JN. You can contact us by writing to us at email@example.com.
These terms are important and legally binding. These terms tell you important information including how we will provide services to you, your payment obligations, and the rules for using Dogtastic. Please read these terms carefully before subscribing. By ticking “I have read and agree to the Dogtastic Terms of Service”, you confirm that you accept these terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not tick “I have read and agree to the Dogtastic Terms of Service” and must not use Dogtastic. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
You must be 18 or over to accept these terms and use Dogtastic. Dogtastic is not intended for users under the age of 18.
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Notice. Under applicable data protection legislation, we are required to provide you with certain information relating to your personal data. This includes how we process your personal data, the purposes for doing so, and your rights in relation to your personal data and how to exercise them. This information is provided in our Privacy Notice, and it is important that you read the information and terms contained in the Privacy Notice. Please note that information about pets and domestic animals does not fall within the scope of personal information, as covered in our Privacy Notice. Additionally, your personal information can be shared with state-authorities when legally required and in case there is reasonable cause to believe any animal(s) under your care are being abused.
How we may contact you. If we have to contact you, we will do so by writing to you at the email address you provided to us in your order. Please refer to our Privacy Notice for further information about marketing communications.
We may make changes to these terms. We may need to make changes to these terms to reflect changes in law, best practice, or for the implementation of additional features which we introduce. We will give you at least 30 days’ notice of any change by writing to you at the email address associated with your account. If you do not accept to be notified in this manner, you will not be permitted to continue to use Dogtastic. Should this occur, you may contact us to end your subscription and receive a pro-rata refund equal to the amount reflecting the period that Dogtastic has been available to you prior to cancellation. Please see section 5 Ending Your Subscription for further information.
2 THE DOGTASTIC SERVICE
Dogtastic is a subscription service for receiving advice from professional veterinarians by way of video and text communication, provided via our website www.dogtastic.co (the Website).
Dogtastic is not intended to replace your local veterinary practice. Our vets can provide 24/7 advice on ad hoc queries, without the need to book an appointment with your local veterinary practice or pay an individual consultation fee. However, our vets can only advise based on what you tell them or show them using the text or video chat options using our Website. They cannot conduct an in-person examination of your dog or prescribe medicines or administer treatment.
We only provide our services to subscribers in the United Kingdom (UK). Our website is solely for the provision of our services to individuals (and their dogs) in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not provide services outside the UK.
Your subscription includes access to advice for up to three dogs in the same household. You can register a maximum of three dogs to your account. All the dogs registered to your account must reside within your household at the same address. Our vets will only provide advice relating to dogs which you have registered using your account.
We do not provide advice on certain dog breeds. We do not provide services to owners of Pit Bull Terriers, Japanese Tosas, Fila Brasileiros or Dogo Argentinos. We will not accept the registration of any of these breeds of dog, and our vets will not provide advice on any of these breeds of dog.
You must provide us with complete and accurate information. We need certain information from you so that we can supply our services to you, for example, information about your dog’s age, breed, and weight. If you do not provide us with this information, or if you give us incomplete or incorrect information, we reserve the right to suspend or withdraw your access to Dogtastic until we have complete and accurate information. Should we determine that additional information is necessary, we will request the same. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate access to Dogtastic in case information is not provided within a reasonable time after clarification is requested by us.
You must keep your account details safe. You will choose or receive a password for you to use to access Dogtastic. You must treat your password as confidential, and you must not disclose this information to any third party. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your password, you must promptly change your password or notify us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content and data. We recommend that you back up any of your own content and data used in connection with Dogtastic, to protect yourself in case of problems with the Website.
We may update or change Dogtastic. From time to time, we may change the Website or how we provided the Dogtastic service to improve performance, enhance functionality, remove unused features, reflect changes to our business priorities or relevant laws and regulatory requirements, or address security issues.
We may suspend Dogtastic. We may have to suspend the supply of the Dogtastic service in order to make updates and changes as described above. We will contact you in advance to tell you we will be suspending supply of the product unless the problem is urgent or an emergency. If the service has been or will be suspended for 14 days or more then you may contact us to end your subscription and receive a pro-rata refund, which will reflect the period that Dogtastic has been available to you prior to cancellation. Please see section 5 Ending Your Subscription for additional details.
We may withdraw Dogtastic. We may write to you to let you know that we are going to stop providing the product. We will let you know at least 30 days in advance of our shutting down the service and will provide you with a pro-rata refund, which will reflect the period that Dogtastic has been available to you prior to withdrawal of the service.
Support. If you want to learn more about Dogtastic or have any problems using Dogtastic please consult our support resources at https://faq.dogtastic.co or email us at email@example.com.
3 RULES FOR USING DOGTASTIC
You must not use Dogtastic for commercial or business purposes. Dogtastic is made available to you for your domestic and private use only.
You must treat our veterinarians with respect. You must not bully, insult, intimidate, harass humiliate, or otherwise verbally abuse our vets.
You must not abuse our service. Dogtastic provides unlimited access to our vets, within reason. You must not abuse (or accidentally use) substantially more than a reasonable amount of our vets’ time. We reserve the right to limit or remove your access to Dogtastic, with no liability to you, where your level of usage or projected usage is considered by us, at our absolute discretion, to be unreasonable or significantly in excess of what we would expect from a typical subscription.
You may use Dogtastic only for lawful purposes. You must not use Dogtastic:
You must not hack Dogtastic. You must not:
By breaching these provisions, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use Dogtastic will cease immediately.
Failure to comply with these rules constitutes a material breach of these terms upon which you are permitted to use Dogtastic. In such a case, we may take any action deemed reasonably appropriate, which may include immediate temporary or permanent withdrawal of your access to Dogtastic or legal action against you. We may bring legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from your breach.
4 SUBSCRIPTION AND PAYMENT
Your subscription and access to Dogtastic will begin, and these terms will come into effect, when we send you an email confirmation after you have registered an account with Dogtastic, provided payment details, and indicated your agreement to these terms. The subscription term is 1 year from the date of this email confirmation plus any 7-day free trial period.
The cost of one year’s access to Dogtastic is £96. We may agree to a discounted price of £24 for your first year’s subscription.
Your subscription may start with a 7-day free trial which is intended to allow new subscribers to try Dogtastic without incurring any upfront costs. Free trial eligibility is determined by us at our sole discretion, and we may limit eligibility, including to prevent free trial abuse. We reserve the right to revoke the free trial and put your account on hold if we determine that you may not be eligible or may be abusing the free trial in any way. If you have already registered an account with us, you may not be eligible for a free trial. We may use information such as device ID, method of payment, or an account email address to determine eligibility.
Your subscription will automatically renew each year for £96. If you do not cancel your subscription in accordance with section 5 below, your subscription will auto renew at the full price one year after your first payment. The payment of £96 will be taken automatically by direct debit on or shortly after this date.
Payment will be taken by our payment processor Stripe using the payment details that you submit to us when you register an account with Dogtastic. We accept payment with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover. Please note that Stripe’s Terms and Conditions may also apply and we recommend that you familiarise yourself with the same. Payment will be taken by way of direct debit at the end of any free trial period and when your subscription automatically renews each year unless you cancel your subscription.
We may increase subscription payments. From time to time, we may increase the price of Dogtastic and thereby increase your subscription payments. We will always notify you in writing to the email address registered to your account at least 2 months in advance before any such increase takes place to provide you the opportunity to cancel.
5 ENDING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
How to cancel your subscription. To cancel your subscription and end your contract with us, please let us know by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.org or by following the links to cancel your subscription in your account page.
14-day cooling-off period. For most services bought online you have a legal right under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 to change your mind within 14 days from the day after the contract becomes legally binding and receive a refund.
Cancelling your subscription during the cooling-off period. The contract between us becomes legally binding as soon as payment is taken, and we email you our confirmation of your subscription. You have 14 days from this date to cancel and you do not have to give us a reason for cancelling. If you cancel during this time, we will end your subscription and your access to the services and provide you with a full refund of any amounts paid.
Cancelling your subscription and obtaining a partial refund. If you cancel your subscription after the 14-day cooling-off period and request a refund for any of the reasons set out below, then we will refund part or all of your most recent subscription payment. The amount that we refund you will depend on the proportion of the year for which you had access to Dogtastic. The reasons are:
Cancelling your subscription for any other reason. Any cancellation other than as described above will be effective at the end of the current subscription term. Once we receive your cancellation, we will stop taking annul payments. You will continue to have access to Dogtastic until the end of the subscription year when your next payment would have been due.
How and when any refund will be made. We will make any refunds due to you by the method that you used for payment and as soon as possible.
6 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
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These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes brought following or in relation to this agreement. If you are a resident or consumer in Northern Ireland or Scotland then you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland or Scotland, as applicable.
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PEEP SHOW VIDEO: Queen Elizabeth through the keyhole - what the butler saw!
It's a sight that only the closest ladies-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I would have enjoyed – the infamous monarch stripped of her finery to just a simple petticoat.
Rachel Duffield, who works for Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service as a live interpretation officer, became fascinated by Good Queen Bess after working as a guide at Norwich Castle Museum.
Now, she showcases an entirely different side to the formal monarch we see in portraits - a glimpse of the Queen's underwear during a presentation she gives to both museum visitors and local groups.
'I used to give a talk about the Queen's visit to Norwich in 1578, but it soon became clear that the thing people were most interested in was what Elizabeth's underwear was like!' laughed Rachel, who lives in Mulbarton.
'Now I get dressed as Elizabeth as they watch and I talk about the clothes she would have worn, the times she lived in, the problems she faced, her visit to Norwich and the fact she didn't wear any knickers!'
You may also want to watch:
In our video, Rachel peels back the layers of the imposing Queen, from regal finery to underwear.
* Look out for a special feature about Rachel appearing in-paper tomorrow (Tuesday February 7).
- 1 Police and SOS Bus see busy night as clubbing returns to city
- 2 Risk of flooding in parts of region as storms slowly move in
- 3 Bars and clubs see busy night as police up patrols
- 4 Neighbours celebrate Norfolk Day bar win with street party
- 5 'Too close to home': Neighbours' shock as body found at Mousehold Heath
- 6 Where are the best rooftop bars in Norwich?
- 7 Queues in Norwich as hundreds flock to cider and sausage festival
- 8 Trains cancelled due to flooding - and more heavy rain expected
- 9 City ready for Cantwell and Aarons end game
- 10 Norwich Bus Station building closed due to Covid ping
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Microsoft Virtual Earth just got some new bird’s eye imagery, including of Stockholm. It’s lovely, but it also serves as a good example of where the limits of a country’s sovereignty lie, and the implications for censorship.
A cold-war era law still on the books in Sweden allows Lantmäteriverket — the state GIS agency — to censor maps and imagery of “sensitive” sites in Sweden. One example of such censorship came to light when satellite imagery in Google Earth showed the signals intelligence HQ on the outskirts of Stockholm, whereas local Swedish mapping sites showed… woods.
Why was the satellite imagery in Google Earth not censored? Because Sweden’s sovereignty does not extend into space. Countries do control their air space, so they can legally censor the collection of imagery using airplanes.
I wondered if Microsoft’s recently commissioned bird’s eye view imagery is still subject to censorship, so I went looking for the same spot. Sure enough, it is pixellated:
Ironically, if you switch back from bird’s eye view to the overhead view, taken by satellite, you get better resolution again:
On a positive note, Lantmäteriverket is no longer trying to camouflage its censorship, for example by painting fake trees over the buildings; this made their imagery and maps untrustworthy. The Dutch use a similar pixelation technique when they censor their aerial imagery — at least this way you know that you don’t know what’s going on there, and that’s better than not knowing that you don’t know.
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A new supercar: the Aspid Invictus GT-21
Slightly terrifying new offering from Spanish firm gets to 60mph in under three seconds…
Posted: 17 Jul 2012
Meanwhile, in Gotham, Aspid has released this - the GT-21 Invictus. It sounds like a hedge fund, but it's actually a 450bhp rear-wheel-drive GT that'll get from 0-60mph in under three seconds, top out at 189mph and pull 1.6g on the skidpad.
Despite the hoofing great BMW-sourced 4.4-litre V8, Aspid's kept weight to a piffling 989.7kg by using a composite panels and a spaceframe chassis. And they claim that, despite the diminutive mass, there's accommodation for four actual humans as well as room for modest luggage.
Underneath, there's a set of clever pushrod dampers, all-aluminium double wishbones, adaptive airbags, stability control and anti-lock brakes.
And that readers, is all the info we have so far. The company hopes to have the Invictus ready for 2014, but there's no word on pricing either.
Still, sounds promising. Should the Spanish firm drop one on your doormat, where would you drive it?
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To provide a more integrated development environment for your projects and applications, Visual FoxPro contains the following improved functionality for the IDE.
Additional Project Manager Shortcut Menu Commands
When docked, the Project Manager window contains the following additional shortcut menu commands that are available on the Project menu:
Closes the Project Manager.
Add Project to Source Control
Creates a new source control project based on the current project. Available only when a source code control provider is installed and specified on the Projects tab in the Options dialog box.
Displays the error (.err) file after running a build.
Refreshes the contents of the Project Manager.
Clean Up Project
Removes deleted records from the Project Manager (.PJX) file.
Modifying a Class Library from the Project Manager
When you select a class library (.vcx) file in the Project Manager, you can now open and browse class libraries by clicking the Modify button. The class library opens in the Class Browser. For more information, see How to: Open Class Libraries.
Set Font of Project Manager
You can change the text font settings for the Project Manager window. Right-click the Project Manager window (outside of the tree hierarchy window) and choose Font.
Generating Message Logs During Project Build and Compile
When you build a project, application, or dynamic-link library, Visual FoxPro automatically generates an error (.err) file that includes any error messages, if they exist, when the build process completes. When you select the Display Errors check box in the Build Options dialog box, Visual FoxPro displays the .err file when the build completes. Selecting the Recompile All Files check box includes compile errors in the .err file. Build status messages usually appear in the status bar. However, in previous versions, if the build process is interrupted, Visual FoxPro did not write the .err file to disk.
In the current release, Visual FoxPro writes build status and error messages to the .err file as they occur during the build process. If the build process is interrupted, you can open the .err file opens to review the errors.
|If no errors occur during the build, the .err file is deleted.|
If the Debug Output window is open, build status and error messages appear in the window. You can save messages from the Debug Output window to a file.
For more information, see How to: View and Save Build Messages.
Properties Window Enhancements
Design time support for entering property values greater than 255 characters and extended characters, such as CHR(13) (carriage return) and CHR(10) (linefeed), has been added to visual class library (.vcx) and form (.scx) files. You can now enter up to 8k characters in length.
The Zoom dialog box and Expression Builder dialog box have been updated to support this. The Properties window includes a Zoom (Z) button that appears next to the property settings box for appropriate properties.
Note: Extended property value support is only available through the Properties Window (Zoom dialog box) for custom user-specified properties as well as certain native ones such as CursorSchema and Value. For properties not supported, you can still specify values which are longer than 255 characters, or contain carriage returns and linefeeds by assigning them in code such as during the object's Init Event.
This feature is particularly useful for setting the CursorAdapterВ CursorSchema property to any schema expression when schemas might exceed 255 characters.
Caution: Property values that exceed 255 characters or include carriage return and/or linefeed characters are stored in a new format inside the .vcx or .scx file. If you attempt to modify these classes in a prior version, an error occurs.
The Properties window font can now be specified by the new Font shortcut menu option. This new menu replaces the Small, Medium and Large font menu items used in prior versions. This font is also used in the description pane, and object and property value dropdowns.
Note: Bold and italic font styles are reserved for non-default property values and read-only properties, respectively. If a bold or italic font style is chosen, then the Properties window inverts the displayed behavior. For example, if one chooses an italic font style, read-only properties appear in normal font style and all others in italic.
Colors can be specified for certain types of properties by right clicking on the Properties Window and selecting following menu items:
Non-Default Properties Color
Sets color for properties whose values have changed from default setting (same properties that are displayed when the Non-Default Properties Only menu item is selected).
Custom Properties Color
Sets color for custom properties.
Instance Properties Color
Sets color for custom properties that have been added to the current class instance (same properties that appear in bold in the Edit Property/Method Dialog Box).
Note: If a conflict exists between color settings, the Instance setting takes priority followed by the Non-Default one.
- Non-Default Properties Color
The MemberData extensibility architecture lets you provide metadata for class members (properties, methods and events). With MemberData, you can specify a custom property editor, display a property on the Favorites tab, or change the capitalization in the Properties Window (Visual FoxPro).
For more information, see MemberData Extensibility.
Setting Default Values for New Properties
When adding a new property to a class, you can specify an initial value other than the default in the New Property dialog box. Subclasses inherit these default values unless you reset the default values to the parent class. In previous versions, you had to set the default value for the new property by selecting the property in the Properties window and setting the default value.
For more information, see How to: Add Properties to Classes.
Document View Sort Options
You can now sort items in the Document View window by name for forms and visual class libraries.
See Document View Window for more information on sorting items in the Document View Window.
Compiling Code in the Background
Visual FoxPro performs background compilation when syntax coloring is turned on in the Command window and Visual FoxPro editors for program (.prg) files, methods, stored procedures, and memos. The Expression box in the Expression Builder dialog box also includes support for background compilation and syntax coloring when turned on.
When the single and current line of code that you are typing contains invalid syntax, Visual FoxPro displays the line of code with the formatting style selected in the Editor tab of the Options dialog box.
|Syntax coloring must be turned on for background compilation to function. Background compilation does not detect invalid syntax in multiple lines of code, including those containing continuation characters.|
For more information, see How to: Display and Print Source Code in Color.
Rich Text Format (RTF) Clipboard Support
Visual FoxPro now supports copying in RTF (Rich Text Format) to the clipboard. Visual FoxPro preserves the style (bold, italic, and underline) and color attributes.
RTF is supported only in the FoxPro editors that allow for syntax coloring, such as the Command window and editing windows opened with MODIFY COMMAND Command. The RTF clipboard format is only supported when syntax coloring is enabled such as from Edit Properties Dialog Box. You can disable RTF clipboard format with the _VFP EditorOptions Property.
The _CLIPTEXT System Variable does not support RTF.
Find Dialog Box Improvements
The following improvements were made to Find support:
If a word is selected in a Visual FoxPro editor, the Find Dialog Box (Visual FoxPro) when opened now displays the word in the Look For drop-down box. If Find has not yet been used for a running instance of Visual FoxPro, a word positioned under the insertion pointer will appear in the Look For drop-down. If multiple words are selected, only the first word appears in the drop-down (use copy and paste to enter multiple words).
When a Browse window is open and you search for a word with the Find dialog box, you can search for the word again (Find Again) after the Find dialog box is closed by pressing the F3 key.
You can now use Find to search for content in Name column of the Watch and Locals debug windows (see Debugger Window). When searching object members, Find searches in these debug windows are limited to nodes that have been expanded and one level below.
View Constants in Trace Window
Constants (#DEFINE values) can be viewed in the Trace Window when you hover over it with the mouse.
|Visual FoxPro evaluates constants as expressions in the Trace Window and may have difficulty interpreting a specific #DEFINE when you hover over it with the mouse. Consequently, if there are multiple expressions on a line, they are all displayed in the value tip.|
Printing Selected Text in Editor Windows
You can print selected text from Visual FoxPro editor windows. When you have text selected in the editor window, the Selection option in the Print dialog box is available and selected.
|If a partial line is selected, the entire line is printed.|
For more information, see Print Dialog Box (Visual FoxPro).
System Font Improvements
To improve legibility on high-resolution monitors, Error dialog boxes and the Zoom <property> Dialog Box in the Properties window now use the Windows Message Box text font.
In WindowsВ XP, the Windows Message Box text font is set by opening Display in the Control Panel, and then clicking Advanced on the Appearance tab.
IntelliSense Saves Settings Between User Sessions
Visual FoxPro now saves IntelliSense settings, such as turning IntelliSense on, between user sessions. These settings are controlled by the _VFPВ EditorOptions property. In addition, the settings in the _VFPВ EditorOptions property are saved in the FoxUser.dbf resource file. For more information, see EditorOptions Property.
IntelliSense in Memo Field Editor Window
Visual FoxPro includes IntelliSense support in Memo field editor windows when syntax coloring is turned on.
IntelliSense Available for Runtime Applications
Selected IntelliSense features are available at run time in distributed Visual FoxPro 9.0 applications. In order to use IntelliSense at run time, you need to set the _FOXCODE and _CODESENSE variables, and EditorOptions Property.
|With runtime applications, syntax coloring does not need to be turned on for an editor to support IntelliSense.|
IntelliSense Support in WITH ... ENDWITH and FOR EACH ... ENDFOR Commands
WITH ObjectName [AS Type [OF ClassLibrary]]
В В Commands
FOR EACH ObjectName [AS Type [OF ClassLibrary]] IN Group
В В Commands
В В [EXIT]
В В [LOOP]
The Type parameter can be any valid type, including data types, class types, or ProgID. If the class name cannot be found, Visual FoxPro disregards Type and does not display IntelliSense for it.
|The type reference does not affect the functionality of the application at run time. The type reference is only used for IntelliSense.|
The ObjectName expression can refer to a memory variable or an array.
The ClassLibrary parameter must be in a path list that is visible to Visual FoxPro. You must specify a valid class library; references to existing objects are not valid. If Visual FoxPro cannot find the specified class library, IntelliSense does not display.
Types expressed as ProgIDs and class libraries do not require quotation marks ("") to enclose them unless their names contain spaces.
When a user types the AS keyword, IntelliSense displays a list of types registered in the FoxCode.dbf table with Type "T". If you have specified a valid type, typing a period within a WITH ... ENDWITH or a FOR EACH ... ENDFOR command displays IntelliSense for that object reference.
Visual FoxPro supports IntelliSense for nested WITH ... ENDWITH and FOR EACH ... ENDFOR commands. The following is an example of nested WITH ... ENDWITH commands in a class defined in a program (.prg) file named Program1.prg. To use, paste this code into a new program named Program1.prg, save it and then type a period (.) inside the WITH ... ENDWITH block.
DEFINE CLASS f1 AS form MyVar1 = 123 ADD OBJECT t1 AS mytext PROCEDURE Init В В WITH THIS AS f1 OF program1.prg В В В В WITH .t1 AS mytext OF program1.prg В В В В ENDWITH В В ENDWITH ENDPROC ENDDEFINE DEFINE CLASS mytext as textbox MyVar2 = 123 ENDDEFINE
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Sight and Sound
Music in Aristocratic Treasuries
The "chamber of arts and curiosities" at Schloss Ambras contains a collection of musical instruments wich Archduke Ferdinand II. had obtained because of his interest in the history of art. Besides this collection he possessed valuable musical manuscripts in his library as well as numerous musical instruments, wich were kept in his "music chamber" and wich were used by musicians of his court.
The present special exhibition distinguishes between two types of musical instruments, too: There were the ones that were collected to be exhibits and the others that were used for playing music. So, wonderful instruments like sordunes, curtals, trumpets and trombones, different violins, lutes and harpischords can be looked at as well as listened to with an audio guide.
The exhibition also illustrates how music was performed in the 15th and 16th century, even during the reign of Emperor Maximilian I. Instruments like the "dragon shawm" were used for the theater and masquerades of the time created acoustic as well as optic effects.
How festivals were celebrated in the 17th century is shown by some high-quality paintings by for example Johan Baeck and Hieronymus Janssens. Musik as medium for stocktaking is to be seen in the pose of the lute player in a painting by Bernardo Strozzi.
The exhibition was arranged by Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments and Collections Schloss Ambras). Besides its own exhibits it presents numerous objects of private exhibitions which have not been shown in public before.As a delightful completment of the exhibition, baroque and renaissance music will be performed at the "Ambraser Schloßkonzerte" at the Spanish Hall of Schloß Ambras every Tuesday, starting on July 5th.
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Understanding Customs Bonds in Connection with Imports and Importers of Record (IOR) Services
If you are importing anything into the US, then you eventually have to deal with customs bonds. They are actually the guarantees and securities that an importer or an Importer of Record (IOR) / Importers of Record (IOR) service will comply with the rules that govern the shipping of any given commodity. Moreover, they are also the security bond for the payments of all duties and taxes.
Different Types of Customs Bonds used by Importers of Record (IOR)
If you are new to the import/export world on the seaports of the US, then you must have the knowledge regarding different customs bonds used by private shippers and professional Importers of Record (IOR) services.
Single Transaction Bond: For Individual Importers
If you want to import any commodity into the US for just one time, then you have to present the security of your legitimacy to the Customs and Border Protection through a Single Transaction Bond. It is also known as Single Entry Bond. This type of bond remains valid for a single customs entry on every US port. IOR services usually don’t work with single transaction bonds.
Continuous Bond: For Regular Importers and IOR Services
As the name suggests, this bond covers all the shipments undertaken by an importer or IOR service at every port of entry in the US. The most used continuous Import Bond is called ‘Activity Code 1’. It provides the coverage of $50,000 and remains valid for 12 months after its issuance.
Instances When Additional Information Is Required with Customs Bonds
There are some cases where importers and Importer of Record (IOR) services might need to tag some information to regular bonds to keep their validity. Following are those instances where bond providers ask IOR services for that additional information.
- When IOR services are handling something that is subjected to antidumping or countervailing taxes
- When the shipping goods are required to meet FDA compliances
- There exists a past claim related to the commodity in question
- An importer also needs to work to present modified bonds if is working as a foreign Importer of Record (IOR).
- The underwriting requirements also change when the amount of bond exceeds $50,000 mark.
If you are not able to comprehend customs bond requirements needed for importing goods into the US, then get the services of a seasoned IOR service. They will ship every sort of your consignment while taking care of the customs requirement pertaining to that shipment.
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2005 Discover Biscayne Bay Film Competition
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In an effort to instill environmental awareness within South Florida's diverse multi-lingual communities, Citizens for a Better South Florida invites local high school and college students to enter their Discover Biscayne Bay Film Competition where they will award first, second and third place prizes to the films that best fits the criteria and the mission of the Discover Biscayne Bay Campaign.
The Discover Biscayne Bay Mission
Discover Biscayne Bay is a campaign to increase public understanding of the Bay's importance to our community and encourage public involvement in issues affecting the Bay.
The deadline for entering your 5-10 minute in length films is May 16, 2005.
For more info, rules, and submission forms go to http://www.abettersouthflorida.org/biscaynebayfilm.html
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As Toyota Australia well knows, competition in the Outback is fierce. To boost sales Toyota has taken an innovative approach to customer prospecting that is showing impressive results.
Using a range of applications from location-based solutions and services provider MapInfo, Toyota Australia has created an online mapping system that offers dealers a graphical depiction of motor vehicle sales within their individual sales territories or prime market areas (PMA). The system also enables Toyota Australia to analyze sales performance on an overall, regional and dealer-specific level.
"The result is an accessible and easy-to-use prospecting and business intelligence tool," says Garry Hora, Toyota Australia's national sales operations manager. "We had our strongest second half on record, which was at least partly attributable to our deployment of the mapping system in July. Second half sales put us over the top to beat out GM and win the number one market position for the year."
Too Much Paper, Too Little Time
Australia is Toyota's second largest market, after the United states. An estimated 787,100 motor vehicles were sold there in 2000. Toyota accounted for 158,908 or 20 percent of the sales.
Toyota Australia, a subsidiary of the Japanese auto manufacturer, sells commercial and passenger vehicles for export and import sale via 250 franchised dealers overseen by Toyota's Sydney-based sales and marketing headquarters. The company's administrative and manufacturing facilities are located in Melbourne.
Motor vehicle dealers in Australia historically have had a single, unwieldy source of market information: the industry's monthly report, V-Facts, a thick paper stack of motor vehicle sales data. Owing to its density and delivery format, the document is not for the faint-hearted or time-pressed. "Dealers are entrepreneurial. They are generally not inclined to go through reams of paper," says Hora, who ran a dealership earlier in his career. "So prospecting has often been untargeted or based on assumptions about market and buyer characteristics, rather than actual knowledge."
Hora became convinced that a simple, visual presentation of sales data and customer demographics would enhance prospecting. He keyed in on mapping technology as a way to liven static information. Hora immediately noticed a few vital design points: the technology needed to be Web-enabled, easy to operate with minimal training requirements and highly adaptable to meet the evolving needs of dealers and the organization.
A New Unit of Analysis: Location
With this vision in mind, Hora approached Cameron Townshend, of Cameron Townshend Consulting, to architect and implement an online mapping system. Hora was familiar with Townshend's work from a previous consulting engagement. Townshend in turn chose MapInfo as a software partner based on recommendations from existing users.
MapInfo, headquartered in Troy, N.Y., offers location-based applications such as mapping, spatial analysis and geocoding (matching addresses with geographic coordinates) that can enrich an organization's front- and back-end CRM analytics.
The aim of location-based applications is to furnish companies with another set of data points descriptive--and predictive--of customer and prospect behavior. In this respect, the software is "different from and incremental to more traditional geographic information systems (GIS) that typically do not attempt to use spatial information to address non-spatial issues," explains Henry Morris, vice president for IDC's data warehousing and information access program.
"If you think about it, location is a fundamental organizing principle of the real world, so it makes sense that it should be a key way to organize information systems," Morris says. "Moreover, spatial information used in conjunction with other types of customer data can help organizations find and develop customers, assess the profitability of transactions and analyze trade areas."
Building a Better Set of Requirements
Toyota's online mapping system took nine months to build, and cost a total of $192,763. Townshend worked with another full-time systems integrator and utilized contractors, as well as MapInfo consultants and partners. He designed the system around five MapInfo products. MapInfo Professional enabled Townshend to create maps and color code areas of the solution. MapBasic offered a tool for capturing postal code areas and creating each dealer's PMA. MapXtreme for NT allowed him to construct Web pages and jpeg images of the maps. MapInfo Australia streetWorks helped Townshend populate his maps with business and residential data, and MapInfo's geocoding software delivered the capability to flag individual buildings and residences.
Early on, Toyota faced the task of gathering specific requirements to guide system design. "Because there were no existing paper processes--the V-Facts was a document, not a process--we had to develop a whole new methodology. For the beta version, this entailed a great deal of whiteboarding time." Townshend says.
Enabling dealers to see the performance of their own PMA was a key requirement that emerged from the whiteboard discussions. "Dealers have exclusive rights to their PMA--it's part of the franchise agreement. So it's critical that dealers can access an array of sales information at that level of specificity," Townshend says. "It's also important that individual dealers are confident their PMA is not available for viewing by other dealers. Each dealer logs on using his or her own user name and password."
Another security-driven requirement was the decision to deliver the mapping system via the Toyota intranet, Townshend says. Other requirements spelled out what types of data dealers would be able to access, such as vehicle characteristics and competitor sales, and how to maximize user-friendliness and minimize keystrokes.
Since Toyota's system was deployed last July, dealer reaction has been positive. "We demonstrated the solution to dealer sales managers and got good feedback from them," Townshend says.
Early Results and Further Challenges
Toyota's mapping system has already significantly improved the prospecting capabilities of dealers, Hora asserts. "Dealers can see numbers of vehicles sold by their franchise and by the dealerships of competitors within their PMA. They can drill down to view types of cars, price points, market shares, buyer profiles and competitor analysis information," he explains. "It's a great step forward from a ream of paper used mainly to keep the door open against the wind."
Hora admits that it's difficult to gauge ROI on something like this. He points out, however, the company's sales performance offers a reasonable indicator of dealers' prospecting success. He gives at least partial credit to the mapping system for generating a record-breaking sales volume during the second half of 2000--93,894 vehicles sold between June and December.
still, Hora and Townsend emphasize that it's incumbent upon Toyota to find ways to further the benefits of the new system. To this end, version two is in the works. "Version one focused on pricing and market information," Townshend says. "Version two allows us to work even more on building out sales force automation and prospecting tools."
One key objective is to link the mapping system to customer databases within the larger organization. For example, Toyota's fleet department maintains a database of customers that buy two or more vehicles per year.
"If dealers were able to access information about these fleet buyers, they could approach the customer early in the sales cycle, before the fleet was ready to roll over," Townshend explains. He acknowledges that there are customer ownership issues on both sides. "Dealerships are reluctant to release their customer information to headquarters, just as the fleet department is hesitant to make its data available to the dealers."
Another important feature of version two will be enhanced drill-down. "One of the innovative aspects of the solution is its layering of information," Townshend says. "Dealers will see their individual PMA, district sales managers see the half dozen or so dealerships within their district, and headquarters can telescope between the macro-picture and the nitty-gritty."
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All female cats will naturally go through a heat cycle if they have not been spayed. This heat cycle is referred to as estrous and it means a cat is ready to breed. There are a few key indications that a cat may be in heat and it is useful for cat owners who may be otherwise wondering why their cat's behavior has changed to recognize these things.
What is a Heat Cycle for a Cat?
An unspayed, female cat is called a queen and has reproductive organs that include a uterus and ovaries. These reproductive organs go through a normal cycle, called estrous or more commonly a heat cycle, that allows reproduction to occur. During a heat cycle in most mammals, an egg is released from the ovaries in order to produce offspring and this is called ovulation. But since cats are induced ovulators, they don't release eggs during estrous until they breed. They do, however, still have hormonal fluctuations, along with some blood vessel engorgement, during a heat cycle that means their body is telling them it's time to breed.
When Do Cats Go Into Heat?
Female cats naturally go into their first heat cycle at about 6 months of age but it may occur anywhere between 4 and 12 months of age. This first heat cycle is called puberty and a cat can get pregnant during any of its heat cycles, including the first one. Cats are seasonally polyestrus which means they go into heat on a seasonal schedule, specifically in the Spring and Fall.
How Long Does a Cat Stay In Heat?
A cat is usually in heat for less than a week and if it doesn't mate it will go out of heat and then back into heat again. This can occur multiple times in a season.
5 Key Signs Your Cat Is in Heat
Cat Heat Cycle Symptoms
Unlike a dog, cats do not show very obvious physical signs when they are in heat. Dogs develop a swollen vulva and bleed from their vaginal opening but since cats don't slough the uterine lining like a dog does in heat, usually no bleeding is present. Behavioral signs are more the norm for a cat.
Signs a Cat Is In Heat
- Urine spraying
- Attention-seeking behavior
- Demanding or pushy behavior
- Rolling on the floor
- Raising hind end into the air
- Wiggling hind end when the back spine is stroked
- Begging to go outside
- Rubbing its face on things
The first thing most people notice about a cat in heat is how much it vocalizes. Crying, meowing, and yowling are all often loudly heard from a cat in heat. These vocalizations are to get attention and let other cats know that they are in heat.
In addition to the noises, a cat in heat will also seek out attention and affection from its owner and other people. They love to be pet and stroked, especially down their backs and hind quarters. When pet, a cat in heat will often wiggle its hind end, its legs may tap dance, and its tail will be held high into the air. It may also rub its face on its owner and furniture excessively to spread its scent.
Other signs that a cat is in heat include it rolling on the floor, begging to go outside (even if it is an indoor-only cat) by scratching at the door, and even spraying urine. A cat will back up to a wall, wiggle its hind end, and spray urine to let other cats know it is in heat. A rush in hormones during the heat cycle cause a cat to have all these abnormal or exaggerated behaviors and they stop once a cat is no longer in heat.
What To Do When a Cat is In Heat
If you have a cat that is in heat, the attention-seeking behavior can be annoying and persistent. Breeding a cat in heat will of course stop the cycle but then a pregnancy is likely to result which will potentially leave you with even more cats that will come into heat. Getting a cat that is in heat spayed is the best way to manage the unwanted behavior. This will of course also ensure the cat never goes into heat again and avoid the unwanted behaviors that go along with it. Some veterinarians will want to wait until the current heat cycle has finished due to the increased risk of surgical bleeding while others will spay a cat while actively in heat.
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2 beds | 1 baths | 725 sqft | 0.1 acres | MLS# 216033064
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Download UberGrid v2.8.7 | Codecanyon Premium Responsive Grid Builder Plugin for WordPress
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UNIVERSITY Hospital Limerick has been experiencing high rates of overcrowding at its emergency department this week.
For the second day in a row, UHL has the busiest A&E in the country – 41 patients were treated on trolleys on Monday, and 40 patients were treated on trolleys on Tuesday morning.
A new, state-of-the-art emergency department is "on target" to open at the Dooradoyle campus in March 2017. As part of the hospital expansion, it is expected that 100 new nurses, junior doctors and consultants will be taken on.
Overcrowding figures for June are due to be published by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation later this week.
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My name is Dr. Shalena Orchard-Havens LAc, and I am a National & State Licensed Acupuncturist in Historic-Downtown Milwaukie OR.
I was introduced to Acupuncture in 1994 and started working in a clinic as an “apprentice” in 1995. I have a Bachelors of Arts in Biological Sciences from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a Masters of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Portland Oregon. I have been practicing in the Milwaukie/SE Portland community since 2005. In 2019 I completed my Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Pacific Col of Oriental Medicine, San Diego CA.
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Cape is world's extinction capitalComment on this story
Cape Town - The Western Cape and Cape Town in particular is the plant extinction capital of the world, according to a local biodiversity and conservation expert.
“We are losing (plant) species at a rate several hundred times faster than the natural rate of extinction,” says Professor Gavin Maneveldt of the University of the Western Cape's biodiversity and conservation biology department.
The main culprits are habitat loss, land degradation, and invasive alien plants, with climate change and new diseases set to exacerbate the situation further.
His warning comes in the preface to the official publication of the second International Cape Floral Kingdom Expo (CFKE), which will open at Mega Park in the Overberg town of Bredasdorp on August 28.
The expo will showcase more than 1000 different fynbos species and an array of other wildflowers from the region, in what the organisers say is the biggest indoor fynbos expo in the world.
Maneveldt says more than 1700 plants in the Western Cape are currently threatened with extinction Ä more than two-thirds of the country's total threatened plants.
Of the plants known to have gone extinct in South Africa, well over half (21 species) have been from the province.
“The Western Cape and Cape Town in particular, is regarded as the extinction capital of the world,” said Maneveldt.
The Cape Floristic Region, or Cape Floral Kingdom (CFK), the smallest of the world's six recognised floral kingdoms, is an area of extraordinarily high diversity and endemism (roughly 70 percent of its plants are endemic).
“The CFK falls almost entirely (79 percent) within the Western Cape, and it is this floral kingdom that makes the region so special.
“Unfortunately, this very remarkable place is also the country’s most threatened reservoir of plant and animal life.”
Maneveldt says the three most important historical threats include permanent habitat loss (including urban expansion, infrastructure development and agricultural expansion); invasive alien plant species (that displace indigenous species); and, habitat degradation (through overgrazing and inappropriate fire frequencies and intensities).
The two most important emerging threats are climate change and new diseases.
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Have you ever *ahem* not-so-legally downloaded music? Or perhaps the better question is, have you ever actually paid for music?
Either way, you might want to tune into the SF MusicTech Summit. Going strong off their inaugural event in February, the good folks at San Fran MusicTech Summit are not waiting around a whole year to come back bigger and better. Try Thursday, May 8, 9:00 am Pacific. And wouldn’t you know, Ustream is broadcasting it LIVE, in tune and on time, from the Kabuki Hotel in Japantown San Francisco.
Guests represent digital music purveyors from imeem, Pandora, RockYou!, SomaFM, Rhapsody, Warner Records, CD baby, TAG Strategic, and a lot more. Also, Tim Ferriss of Four Hour Work Week fame will be making a keynote.
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The SanFran MusicTech Summit will bring together the best and brightest developers in the Music/Technology Space, along with the musicians, entrepreneurial business people, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We will meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment.
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If there’s one thing Donald Trump likes, it’s pretty women. No doubt about it, he likes to surround himself with some good looking dames. He’s been married thrice and thrice to hot broads (it’s just locker room talk, people – don’t get offended, duh).
Well, it looks like one of Trump’s most prize businesses, the business of pretty ladies, is about to close up shop — his modeling agency, which opened it’s doors in 1999.
According to Mother Jones:
“One of President Donald Trump’s favorite businesses will go the way of Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Airlines, and Trump Magazine: his embattled New York modeling firm, Trump Model Management, has officially told its business associates around the world to prepare for its closure, according to an email obtained by Mother Jones.”
“Over the weekend, Corinne Nicolas, president of Trump Models, informed industry colleagues of the pending closure of the 18-year-old agency, in which Trump owns an 85 percent stake (according to his most recent financial disclosure). “The Trump Organization is choosing to exit the modeling industry,” Nicolas wrote in the email. “On the heels of the recent sale of the Miss Universe Organization, the company is choosing to focus on their core businesses in the real estate, golf and hospitality space.””
It’s a damn shame. Now Trump won’t profit off women he shoved all together in tiny spaces anymore. Mother Jones notes:
“Trump’s modeling agency had a history of employing foreign models who said they violated immigration rules by working in the United States without work visas. That investigation also detailed how Trump Models forced its recruits to pay sky-high rent to live in crammed living quarters, while levying a dizzying number of fees and expenses on its talent that left some models in deep debt to the agency.”
Apparently, Trump’s divisive politics became the ultimate demise of the Trump Model Management brand. Several people were seen making a quick getaway from the agency since Trump’s horrific campaign and subsequent *victory.
As far as the joke in the title, “How will he find his next wife now?” — take it for what it is, a joke, and a pretty accurate one at that. He’s been married several times, and Melania was a model. If it offends you, you probably don’t find Trump offensive, and that, in and of itself, is offensive.
Hasta la vista, Trump Model Management!
(*pending an investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election)
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Everyone knows Bach's "Sleepers Awake" - even if you didn't know that's what you were hearing. You can go here and click on the little button and have it play in the background while you consider the following.
The was a bit of a buzz on Wednesday, September 13, due to this item in the Washington Post, on the fifth page of the "A" section, because it wasn't that important - Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening'.
Whatever is he talking about? He's talking about how it seems to him that America, the most openly and fervently religious nation on earth, is primed to get really into it now -
The Post reminds us that the First Great Awakening refers to a wave of "Christian fervor" in the American colonies from about 1730 to 1760 - the Second Great Awakening is generally believed to have occurred from 1800 to 1830. And there was a third already. The president's math is a bit fuzzy. He's not one for detail. We're also told that Bush aides, including Karl Rove, have read Robert William Fogel's "The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism" (on sale at Amazon here if you're into such things). Note, Rove denies he enlisted three clergymen to exorcise Hillary Rodham Clinton's left-wing spirit when he moved into her West Wing office in 2001, no matter what that new book says.
President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil."
Bush told a group of conservative journalists that he notices more open expressions of faith among people he meets during his travels, and he suggested that might signal a broader revival similar to other religious movements in history. Bush noted that some of Abraham Lincoln's strongest supporters were religious people "who saw life in terms of good and evil" and who believed that slavery was evil. Many of his own supporters, he said, see the current conflict in similar terms.
"A lot of people in America see this as a confrontation between good and evil, including me," Bush said during a 1 1/2 -hour Oval Office conversation on cultural changes and a battle with terrorists that he sees lasting decades. "There was a stark change between the culture of the '50s and the '60s - boom - and I think there's change happening here," he added. "It seems to me that there's a Third Awakening."
Should we be troubled by such religious fervor in the White House?
The Post says no -
Bush has been careful discussing the battle with terrorists in religious terms since he had to apologize for using the word "crusade" in 2001. He often stresses that the war is not against Islam but against those who corrupt it. In his comments yesterday, aides said Bush was not casting the war as a religious struggle but was describing American cultural changes in a time of war.
"He's drawing a parallel in terms of a resurgence, in dangerous times, of people going back to their religion," said one aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the session was not open to other journalists. "This is not 'God is on our side' or anything like that."
That's good to know, even if you don't really believe it.
And anyway, there's no official transcript of any of this. The Post is reporting on highlights of the private meeting reported in the National Review by Rich Lowry here.
Lowry swoons -
No one much knows what that really is any longer, but the president does. He doesn't waver, from whatever.
He exudes an easy self-confidence. When he mispronounces a word or comes out with some malapropism, he asks what the correct expression is or makes fun of himself. He often slips self-deprecating lines or amusing comments into his answers. A woman whose job it is to sit off to the side unobtrusively and record the session for posterity with a large mike - and who must be very accustomed to listening to him talk - can't help breaking into a smile at regular intervals.
Bush's confidence goes well beyond comfort in his own skin. He exhibits a sincere, passionate, and uncompromising conviction in his principles. He is arguably losing a war in Iraq that could destroy his hopes for the Middle East and sink his party's hope in the midterm elections. But there's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite.
... Where critics see the radical attacks on the forces of moderation and liberty - in Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere - as evidence of the looming failure of Bush's long-term strategy, the president sees them as confirmation of the essential rightness of his vision: "The ideological struggle is being manifested as radicals attack young democracies. The attack of Hezbollah is destabilizing for Lebanon. That's where much of the focus has been. But it also destabilized the emergence of a Palestinian democracy. And it should be - it's noteworthy that extremists and radicals flocked to Iraq to stop the emergence of a democracy. And it's just - people say, well, all these problems are overwhelming. No, all these problems help remind us what the task is."
For a typical leftie reaction, the opposite of Lowry, but from a self-described Christian, see this -
That may be an overreaction. He just said people seem to be getting a lot more religious, that they see things now in terms of unambiguous black and white - pure good and pure evil - and that how he sees the world and the wars we're in, so he's glad everyone is getting fundamentalist religion and coming around to his view. He finds it interesting. Okay, maybe it's not an overreaction.
First off, I don't need to get my Christianity lessons from my president.
Second, he sure as hell isn't the messiah, predicting the future of Christianity and implying he's one of its leaders, and for him to speak that way is downright scary. It's scary from a foreign policy perspective, from my perspective as a Christian, and my perspective as an American.
Third, it is completely inappropriate to talk about the war on terror being linked to some alleged Christian revival in America. I thought the war was on terror, not on other religions. Not to mention, is Bush somehow implying that we will win the war on terror by spreading Christianity? Is this a crusade now? It's one thing to talk about the origins (at least part of the origins) of the current terror battle being in radical Islam, it's quite another to say that somehow Christianity is also involved in this battle. We are not fighting the war on terror on behalf of Christianity.
… It's really time for more Republicans and/or conservatives to start speaking up. This man is your president. He's quickly moving from incompetent to delusional, all the while endangering our entire nation.
And former Clinton aide, Bruce Reed, here is amused by the numbering problem - "As if stagnant incomes and a sputtering foreign policy weren't giving Republicans enough troubles this fall, President Bush revealed yesterday that under his watch, one of America's great awakenings has gone missing. First the Bush White House lost track of Osama bin Laden. Now they've lost count of America's religious revivals."
Here's the Reed count -
And the Robert Fogel book mentioned above covers the forth - the rise of evangelical Christianity since the 1960s and the emergence of the Christian right. And Fogel has a handy chart, if you're keeping count.
The First Great Awakening took place in the mid-1700s, during the heyday of Jonathan Edwards, of fire-and-brimstone (not Two Americas) fame.
The Second Great Awakening, led by New Englanders like Harriet Beecher Stowe's father Lyman Beecher, helped fuel the abolition movement. Bush alluded to that awakening yesterday, suggesting that his base was a lot like Lincoln's - Abraham, not Chafee. Just as many of Lincoln's strongest supporters were deeply religious people "who saw life in terms of good and evil" and slavery as evil, Bush said his strongest supporters feel the same way toward terrorism. The Mormon Church also emerged during this period, but went on to become part of Bush's base, not Lincoln's.
The Third Great Awakening, in the late 19th Century, helped fuel the social reforms of the Progressive Era, and emboldened reformers of all stripes, such as William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Nation, and Mary Baker Eddy. Bush did not claim any of them as his base.
Reed's assessment -
Bush is like an evangelical Dr. Evil, the villain in the "Austin Powers" movies who was cryogenically frozen in the 1960s, thaws out three decades later, and tries to shock the world by demanding "one million dollars!"
Which Great Awakening is the president rubbing out? Does he discount the First, which helped put "endowed by their Creator" in our Declaration of Independence and "In God We Trust" on our coins? Does he refuse to recognize the Third, which led to Prohibition as well as William Jennings's Bryan's last stand for creationism?
Or course it doesn't matter. The president is just pleased that the nation is turning away from complexity and more and more folks are with him, thinking in terms of absolutes, and resisting anyone who says things are more complex than simple good and evil. He's a happy camper. It's a winner in the November elections.
The question is, of course, is he reading the nation right?
USA Today reported on a new study, written and analyzed by sociologists from Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, in Waco and conducted by the Gallup folks.
Baylor's Christopher Bader, "you learn more about people's moral and political behavior if you know their image of God than almost any other measure. It turns out to be more powerful a predictor of social and political views than the usual markers of church attendance or belief in the Bible."
So forget who's an evangelical, who's a tweedy New England Episcopalian, and who's New Age. It's the image of God you buy into - and there are four available -
Some of us prefer the Randy Newman version -
1.) The Authoritarian God (31.4% of Americans overall, 43.3% in the South) is angry at humanity's sins and engaged in every creature's life and world affairs. He is ready to throw the thunderbolt of judgment down on "the unfaithful or ungodly," Bader says. Those who envision God this way "are religiously and politically conservative people, more often black Protestants and white evangelicals," Bader says. "(They) want an active, Christian-values-based government with federal funding for faith-based social services and prayer in the schools." They're also the most inclined to say God favors the USA in world affairs (32.1% vs. 18.6% overall).
2.) The Benevolent God (23% overall, 28.7% in the Midwest) still sets absolute standards for mankind in the Bible. More than half (54.8%) want the government to advocate Christian values. But this group, which draws more from mainline Protestants, Catholics and Jews, sees primarily a forgiving God, more like the father who embraces his repentant prodigal son in the Bible, Froese says. They're inclined (68.1%) to say caring for the sick and needy ranks highest on the list of what it means to be a good person. This is the group in which the Rev. Jeremy Johnston, executive pastor and communications director for his father's 5,000-member Southern Baptist congregation in Overland Park, Kan., places himself. "God is in control of everything. He's grieved by the sin of the world, by any created person who doesn't follow him. But I see (a) God ... who loves us, who sees us for who we really are. We serve a God of the second, third, fourth and fifth chance," Johnston says.
3.) The Critical God (16% overall, 21.3% in the East) has his judgmental eye on the world, but he's not going to intervene, either to punish or to comfort. "This group is more paradoxical," Bader says. "They have very traditional beliefs, picturing God as the classic bearded old man on high. Yet they're less inclined to go to church or affiliate seriously with religious groups. They are less inclined to see God as active in the world. Their politics are definitely not liberal, but they're not quite conservative, either." Those who picture a critical God are significantly less likely to draw absolute moral lines on hot-button issues such as abortion, gay marriage or embryonic stem cell research. For example, 57% overall say gay marriage is always wrong compared with 80.6% for those who see an authoritarian God, and 65.8% for those who see God as benevolent. For those who believe in a critical God, it was 54.7%.
4.) The Distant God (24.4% overall, 30.3% in the West) is "no bearded old man in the sky raining down his opinions on us," Bader says. Followers of this God see a cosmic force that launched the world, then left it spinning on its own. This has strongest appeal for Catholics, mainline Protestants and Jews. It's also strong among "moral relativists," those least likely to say any moral choice is always wrong, and among those who don't attend church, Bader says. Only 3.8% of this group say embryonic stem cell research is always wrong, compared with 38.5% of those who see an authoritarian God, 22.7% for those who see God as benevolent and 13.2% who see God as critical but disengaged.
That must be option five.
Man means nothing, he means less to me
Than the lowliest cactus flower
Or the humblest Yucca tree
He chases round this desert
'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be
That's why I love mankind
I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
From the squalor and the filth and the misery
How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me
That's why I love mankind
I burn down your cities - how blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
You all must be crazy to put your faith in me
That's why I love mankind
You really need me
That's why I love mankind
And for some immediately applicable cynicism see this on the Baylor survey -
But what if they're right? What if God chose George Bush as his agent in earth? That would argue for the Randy Newman view.
All fascinating stuff - but what has me really interested is the studies findings that four in ten say there were once "ancient advanced civilizations" such as Atlantis and about one in three Americans say they belong to denominations that theologians consider evangelical. Those two groups must be about equivalent in numbers, right?
What an untapped constituency! Atlanteans! Just as dumb as uber-rightwing Evangelists. (In some weird cases the two are even the same thing.) You could tell them anything and they would believe it.
Given that I now expect Karl Rove and George Bush to claim that the "Third Awakening" will be that of believers in Atlantis and that al Qaeda and the Islamofascists in our midst were collectively responsible for the fabled continent's destruction, I'm here to pre-emptively put the record straight.
Dick Cheney and his Illuminati friends sank Atlantis. They did it to stop the Atlantean's Tesla-style technology supplanting their eventual plans for an oil hegemony.
Ok, sorry - I can't keep a straight face anymore. The trouble is, there are people out there who actually believe something like that… The difference is, accusations of moonbattery from the uber-right aside, the left doesn't give its wacked-out extremists as much of a voice as the Right does. The Right's equivalent of the Atlanteans (you know, people who believe the Earth is only 4,000 years old and Darwin was a Satanist plant) are people with direct access to the White House and somehow I just don't see a Dem presidential candidate inviting the Atlanteans, Illuminati-nuts and Draconian-theorists to run a campaign contribution drive.
Of course, what's happening may be only incidentally related to religion, as Christopher Hayes argues here -
Then see Digby at Hullabaloo with Pimping the Greatest Generation -
On September 11, 2001, George W. Bush wrote the following impression in his diary: "The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today." He wasn't alone in this assessment. In the days after the attacks, editorialists, pundits and citizens reached with impressive unanimity for this single historical precedent. The Sept. 12 New York Times alone contained 13 articles mentioning Pearl Harbor.
Five years after 9/11 we are still living with the legacy of this hastily drawn analogy. Whatever the natural similarities between December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001, the association of the two has led us to convert - first in rhetoric, later in fact - a battle against a small band of clever, murderous fundamentalists into a worldwide war of epic scale.
… How did we get here?
The best place to look for the answer is not in the days after the attacks, but in the years before. Examining the cultural mood of the late '90s allows us to separate the natural reaction to a national trauma from any underlying predispositions. During that period, the country was in the grip of a strange, prolonged obsession with World War II and the generation that had fought it.
The pining for the glory days of the Good War has now been largely forgotten, but to sift through the cultural detritus of that era is to discover a deep longing for the kind of epic struggle the War on Terror would later provide. The standard view of 9/11 is that it "changed everything." But in its rhetoric and symbolism, the WWII nostalgia laid the conceptual groundwork for what was to come - the strange brew of nationalism, militarism and maudlin sentimentality that constitutes post-9/11 culture.
I don't think younger people can understand the depth of the generation gap between the baby boomers and their parents, the Greatest Generation. It was a chasm and it turned families inside out for many years. But by the 90's our parents were starting to get very old and for many of us, the fetishizing of the Greatest Generation was a form of generational rapprochement.
For conservative baby boomers, however, it had much more resonance. Vietnam was their war, of course, the most lethal, meaningful hot war of the Cold War, but they had largely avoided it like most of their age group, even as they extolled the warrior virtues and supported the policy. (This led to cognitive dissonance that never left them.) They also sat out or opposed the successful, defining social movements of their generation - civil rights and women's rights - and were looking back at a life made up of nothing more than petty culture war resentment. By the time they came into power even the Cold War was over - resolved by the last presidents of the Greatest Generation. It looked as if the conservative baby boomers were going to be left without any meaningful legacy at all. You could feel their emptiness.
Karl Rove and other rightwing operatives saw a way to feed that gaping void with WWII kitch while furthering their long standing narrative. As Hayes also makes clear in his article, the entire Greatest Generation campaign was partially designed to further the conservative culture war by evoking that epic generation gap and portraying the WWII parents as the proper role models.
Even before 9/11, Karl Rove understood this all too well. In his essay "Operation Enduring Analogy: World War II, the War on Terror and the Uses of Historical Memory," David Hoogland Noon, a history professor at the University of Alaska, Southeast, writes that even in his first campaign George W. Bush "consistently referenced World War II not simply to justify his own policy aims, but more importantly as a cultural project as well as an ongoing gesture of self-making," positioning himself as "an heir to the reputed greatest generation of American leaders."
"In the world of our fathers, we have seen how America should conduct itself," Bush said in a 1999 speech at the Citadel. Now, the moment had come "to show that a new generation can renew America's purpose." Throughout both his campaigns, Bush would go out of his way to criticize the dominant ethos of "If it feels good, do it," instead calling for a "culture in which each of us understands we're responsible for the decisions we make."
Bush's allusions to the Greatest Generation were so persistent that the press came to see him - a Boomer child of privilege known for his youthful carousing - as a kind of throwback. Reporting on Bush's first inaugural address, Newsweek's Evan Thomas wrote that "Bush wants the White House to recover some of its dignity, to rise above baby-boomer self-indulgence and aspire to the order and self-discipline prized by the Greatest Generation."
So maybe the moral absolutism here has less to do with religion than with this Not the Greatest Generation feeling of inadequacy and meaninglessness and all that. Or maybe it's both. Either way it's is deeply, deeply unserious.
Yes, the press veritably quivered with excitement that the "grown-ups" were back in charge. The absurdity of it all was staggering, of course - the boomer man-child who never had a real job and drank himself into oblivion until he was 40 representing the Greatest Generation - but there it was. When 9/11 hit shortly after he took office it was a seamless transition. (They even put him in a flight suit and tried to pass him off as a heroic WWII pilot.) This yearning for "grown-ups" to take charge is a conservative boomer psychological condition. They and the political class are the only ones who are still fixated on the 1960's; the rest of us moved on sometime back.
One big problem for the Republicans is that a majority in this country now are too young to give a damn about any of this. Rove might be able to tap in to the yearning of middle aged right-wingers to be involved in an epic struggle that competes with their parents' greater accomplishments, but the young conservatives who are required to sustain this endless war don't have the same psychic needs. They didn't grow up in the shadow of a generation who fought and won two existential battles; their boomer parents either failed to rise to the occasion (in opposition or battle) when they had the chance or rejected the whole war fetish all together. These young conservatives' idea of glory is winning a fast paced video game. If 9/11 had even had a modicum of the same sense of threat as Pearl Harbor, we would have seen a similar rush on the recruiting centers and we didn't. In fact, the strongest youthful supporters of the war, the College Republicans, commonly say things like this: "The people opposed to the war aren't putting their asses on the line," Bray boomed from beside the bar. Then why isn't he putting his ass on the line? "I'm not putting my ass on the line because I had the opportunity to go to the number-one business school in the country," he declared, his voice rising in defensive anger, "and I wasn't going to pass that up."
That's quite a stirring call to arms isn't it?
This rhetoric of epic struggle that rivals WWII and The Cold War serves the simple political purpose of rallying the conservative base so that the Republicans can maintain power. It is guided by the deep psychological need for conservative baby boomers to find some meaning in their pathetic lives and a cynical attempt to co-opt some sunny, simple vision of the Greatest Generation - who would be the last people to claim the depression and the wars of their lifetimes were either sunny or simple. The younger conservative generation sees it as a cynical political game, which it is.
The entire campaign is built on a Disneyfied version of WWII and boomer childhood nightmare cartoons of The Cold War. They are trying to squeeze all the bogeymen of the 20th century into Osama bin Laden's turban in the hope that they can cop a little bit of that Hollywood heroism themselves. (After all, their hero Ronald Reagan didn't actually fight in any real war either - he just remembered the movies he was in and thought he had.) It is deeply, deeply unserious.
For a hint of where that can lead see Dahlia Lithwick here on the current dispute with the White House insisting congress authorize the CIA be allowed to us "enhanced interrogation" techniques - waterboarding and freezing and that sort of thing - saying the Geneva Conventions' Common Article Three about ''outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment" must be rewritten, for us, to forbid treatment that "shocks the conscience." The White House says that wording is more precise and useful, legally. It's a game - and also deeply, deeply unserious. You want to codify torture? Just do it. Don't dick around with this moralistic crap. Just say God wants you to do it, or that it worked just fine in World War II.
And call it the Fifth Awakening if you'd like.
So just why do humans have religion? For a discussion of that see Kim Sterelny in The American Scientist here, where he reviews Daniel C. Dennett's book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.
As noted in the magazine, Kim Sterelny divides his time between Victoria University in Wellington, where he holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy, and the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University in Canberra, where he is a professor of philosophy. He is the author of Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition (Blackwell, 2003), The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The Representational Theory of Mind (Blackwell, 1991) - so this is heavy going, but it is interesting.
Try these nuggets -
But there is that bit about religious belief simplifying choice-making in an informationally complex world. It just doesn't make the choices any better.
… secular theories of religion are corrosive. Religious commitment cannot both be the result of natural selection for (for example) enhanced social cohesion and be a response to something that is actually divine. A cohesion-and-cooperation model of religion just says that believers would believe, whether or not there was a divine world to which to respond. If a secular theory of the origin of religious belief is true, such belief is not contingent on the existence of traces of the divine in our world. So although a secular and evolutionary model of religion might be (in a strict sense) neutral on the existence of divine agency, it cannot be neutral on the rationality of religious conviction.
I think this is true of all secular models of religious conviction, even the "economic model," the one that most aspires to neutrality. According to this model, which Dennett discusses in a chapter titled "The Invention of Team Spirit," religious belief is an instance of ordinary economic behavior. People join religious communities and sacrifice time, money and freedom to secure concrete rewards: immortality-despite-death, guaranteed bliss, supernatural intervention on their behalf and the like. These things are not available elsewhere; you can't just purchase them online. No wonder that the suppliers of such services stay in business. The trouble, of course, is ensuring delivery.
… Dennett has based his case in part on work of cognitive anthropologists Atran and Boyer, who in effect have argued that religion is a spandrel - a side effect of certain other cognitive adaptations. The simplest hypothesis is Atran's idea that religion is a consequence of our tendency to anthropomorphize, to project intentionality onto the world. We treat people as intentional agents - creatures that act as they do because of their thoughts and preferences. That regarding people this way is an adaptation is almost uncontroversial. As Dennett himself has persuasively argued in many of his works, it is often adaptive to treat other systems as intentional agents, especially when they are well-designed, well-functioning systems. But we habitually overuse this productive heuristic. It is harmless to talk to your cat, and it may well be productive for a hunter to conceive of his prey as actively planning to avoid or escape his attentions. But it is not adaptive to shout at and kick the step for being in the way after you have stubbed your toe on it. Likewise, we get no capacity to intervene in or predict the weather by thinking of storms as produced by divine agents. To the contrary, we get a false sense of control, which imposes a double tax: the price of the sacrifices we make, and the risks we expose ourselves to by embracing the illusion.
… The best-known adaptationist ideas about religion link it to the striking fact that people must cooperate to survive. Generating resources jointly is an ancient feature of human lifeways, and we are adapted to and for cooperative social worlds. Wilson, Joseph Bulbulia and others have argued that religious belief is one of those adaptations. A community that believes in an immensely powerful and knowledgeable enforcer gets the benefits of its norms being followed without paying the costs of policing them. Dennett does not discount this hypothesis completely, but he is more inclined to endorse less obvious proposals that link religious belief to psychic benefits.
One such argument is that religion facilitates placebo effects: Perhaps the belief that you are the object of divine concern has real and crucial health benefits, particularly in a premodern world. Another is Boyer's hypothesis that religious belief simplifies choice-making in an informationally complex world.
… Dennett has long been involved in synergistic interaction with Richard Dawkins, so it is no surprise that Dawkins's memetic view of religion plays a role in Dennett's theory. Religion thrives, according to Dawkins, because its tenets and customs - its "memes" - like so many DNA or RNA-based genes, are structured to ensure that they are passed from one generation to the next (the Shaker practice of celibacy not withstanding).
Here Dennett's theory is nuanced. He points out that today's organized religions are reflective, self-conscious systems, which include not just beliefs about the supernatural but also rather strict ideas about how these beliefs are to be interpreted, warranted and fit together. Early religions may have a more or less direct biological explanation of the kind we have been discussing. But modern religions depend on massive investment in the mechanisms of cultural transmission. They cannot exist without the apparatus of holy books, seminaries, catechisms, theologians. So here a theory of cultural inheritance and cultural evolution comes into its own. Biases in preservation and transmission will be central to the explanation of the success and failure of modern religions. In contrast to Dawkins, though, Dennett does not assume that the dynamics of religious memes are virulently pathological. For him, this is an open empirical question.
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Lake Champlain is a beautiful lake extending from Whitehall, New York at its southern end, to Montreal, Canada at its northern most point. The shores of Champlain grace the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Champlain was significant in Revolutionary War history and continues to be an integral gateway for commerce.
Plattsburgh, Keeseville, Crown Point, and Ticonderoga provide amazing opportunities for camping in this beautiful area. Arrive by RV or with tents packed, and find yourself in the perfect setting to create your next favorite memory. Lake Champlain has three scenic crossings, allowing for fun day trips.
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If you are unsatisfied with the space in your kitchen, but need lots of room in the fridge, you should consider counter depth refrigerators. This kind of appliance does not stick out any farther than your kitchen cabinets, which means that it takes up less room than a traditional fridge. However, it is often a bit taller than most refrigerators so that you do not lose much space when it comes to storing your food. Think about the details to consider before you start browsing counter depth refrigerators.
This kind of fridge usually has different measurements than most types, as it usually sticks out into the walkway a few inches less than most, but is a few inches taller. This means that you need an appropriately high ceiling in order to fit this fridge into your home, so be sure that you measure the height as well as the depth. Of course, you should also consider the width like you would before buying any fridge, but the width of most counter depth refrigerators is typically the same as other types.
If you want to add style to your kitchen while adding space, you should consider counter depth refrigerators that blend into the cabinetry. If you go this route, you will need a custom fridge company, but the results are often worth it since having matching cabinets and appliances is certainly unique. Keep in mind that many of the popular counter depth refrigerators on the market come in the French door style, adding to the classy appearance that most homeowners crave.
Of course, you can expect to pay a little more for this kind of fridge than most others, as the style is unique and up-to-date. Consider how important your kitchen's image is to you. If you rarely use it or show it off and want to save money, you might be better off sticking to traditional top freezer or side-by-side styles. However, homeowners who spend a lot of time in their kitchen and enjoy showing it off to guests will likely find this a worthy investment in their home.
Counter depth refrigerators are not for everyone, and if this style does not appeal to you, remember that there are several other types of fridges on the market. Before you browse counter depth refrigerators, you should first decide if this is the style you really want and can afford. The next step is to measure your kitchen and make sure that it will fit, and then determine whether you want a counter depth fridge from the store or from a custom refrigerator builder. Thinking about these details first can ensure that you are satisfied with this major purchase.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Sawyer Price on Tzav
My portion of Tzav describes the sacrifices that took place in the temple back in ancient times. One of them was called Todah – the sacrifice of thankfulness. They were brought to express gratitude after surviving dangerous situations or unusual circumstances or coming home from a journey.
A couple of months ago, my family went on a journey – we took a cruise to central America. It doesn’t exactly qualify as a dangerous journey, to be on the deck of a Royal Caribbean ship. One of the excursions from the boat touched me deeply.
We were in Honduras, riding on a rickety old bus on bumpy roads and suddenly, 4 or 5 little kids were standing on the side of the road. They were no older than 2 or 3. The bus stopped, and the kids started dancing to the sounds of drums that some older kids were playing. Then, to no one’s surprise, they held out their hands for money and we decided to give them some.
It made me feel sad, to see their ragged clothes and realize how they were so poor that they needed to ask for handouts. At the same time, it made me appreciate all that I have.
When I got home, I decided that for my mitzvah project, I would help kids in our own community who are less fortunate. And that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m volunteering at the Ferguson Library and collecting books and other supplies which I will donate to Reading Partners, a program of the United Jewish Federation.
That mitzvah project has become, in a way, my Todah, my thanksgiving offering.
Today’s service is too, because sacrifice was replaced by prayer after the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. Counting blessings has become a big part of my life, bigger than I even knew.
You see, my greatest passion is swimming – I’ve been swimming competitively for the past three years - and I’ve discovered that swimming and counting blessings have a lot in common.
In Hebrew, a swimming pool is called a “Braycha.” That word is spelled exactly the same as the word “Bracha,” which means blessing.
So the question is, how is a braycha like a bracha – how is a pool like a blessing.
When you jump into a pool you bend your knee, which is exactly what we do when we say a prayer like the Amida or the Barchu. You bend your knee – ready to spring into action, and as a reminder always to express gratitude, to always count your blessings, like I did when I was in Honduras.
There are other ways that swimming is a lot like praying. For one thing, it’s something that, while I’m doing it, it gives me a chance to focus my thoughts. Both activities require concentration. Also, when you are swimming, and praying too you are by yourself, but at the same time you are alongside other people. It’s a team sport that you do alone. When you daven in a minyan, you are going at your own pace but you hear everyone around you and you are somehow connected to them. When you are swimming, you are keenly aware of who is next to you, even though you are by yourself.
With swimming, just as with prayer it’s less important to rush through and do things quickly than to do them well – and to always strive to improve.
It’s important not just to improve my own life, but the lives of others as well. That’s a lesson taught to me by the little dancing children on Honduras.
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Party Kit Network
Fun eco-friendly alternatives to balloons
A party isn’t a party without decorations - well... and cake!
Top of the decoration list is usually balloons. These have become synonymous with parties and many of us will have happy childhood memories of chasing a balloon. However, balloons are generally single-use and, should they become litter, balloons are a danger to wildlife.
Many of the party kits in our network offer reusable eco-friendly decorations making it easier to avoid balloons. Read on for our suggestions for making parties a little more sustainable without spoiling the fun!
Paper Honeycomb & Pom-Poms Balls
Bunting is by far the most popular reusable eco-friendly decoration to be found in a party kit. There are many different types of bunting and can even be themed. Bunting is a pretty durable decoration and can be used year after year making it really sustainable.
You can make your own bunting from scrap fabric. Or for themed bunting use an old printed duvet cover. These can be found in charity shops and on Facebook Marketplace and eBay.
Bunting made from old plastic stationary wallets makes for fun upcycled decorations. Cut the wallets into triangles. Then either sew together with bias binding or punch holes and thread together with ribbon or string.
But if sewing isn’t your thing, there are loads of no-sew options. Bunting can be made from old t-shirts, felt (pictured), ribbons, rag-tie or even old birthday cards.
In the UK, buy or hire bunting from:
Indie Kate, run by a party kit owner
Similar to bunting, there are lots of other things which can be used to make garlands.
A simple garland can be made from a string of pom-poms or paper tassels. These are really fun, fairly easy to make and can be coordinated with a theme’s colours. Ask friends and family for donations, perhaps left over from knitting projects or even unravel an old jumper.
Felt shapes or felt bobbles are also a great way to make a garland which can be used again and again. In the UK, buy felt garlands from The Felt Studio, run by party kit owner Emma.
Or for a bit more glamour try tassels! The ones pictured above are made from preloved wool with the ribbon loops from clothing to fasten the tassel in the middle.
Paper Honeycomb & Pom-Poms Balls
Paper decorations are not as sturdy as bunting and garlands but if you’re careful these decorations can be reused for many parties.
Paper honeycomb balls and pom-poms are the most delicate of the paper decorations but do look amazing. These work well with bunting and are the most balloon-like decorations.
It is possible to make your own honeycomb balls from tissue paper and glue, but be warned it is pretty labour intensive! Making your own tissue paper pom-poms is much quicker and they look really effective; you will need 10-20 sheets of tissue paper or magazine, scissors and some string or ribbon. (Note: tissue paper can't be easily recycled so its best to reuse tissue paper for these rather than buying new).
Make your own honeycomb ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWsEVvSCCU0
Make your own paper pom poms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7hPbdCYEYM
Aren’t these colours amazing?! Paper fans come in all sizes and colours and it’s fairly easy to make your own from coloured paper, tissue paper or even newspaper dyed with a bit of food colouring.
Paper fans fold away for easy storage making them much easier to keep for a future party than a tissue paper pom-pom. When opening, secure with a paper clip, rather than sticky tape, so it's easy to remove and foldaway again.
You do have to be careful not to tear the fans along the folds and, in our experience, they don’t hold up well on windy days or in little hands, but they are our most favourite of all the paper decorations.
Netted Pom-Pom Balls
Reusable pom-pom balls made from netting are a great reusable alternative to balloons. These can be made in any colour to match any theme. As they are made from netting, they are much more durable than paper pom-poms making them reusable for a long time.
Paper chains may seem a bit retro but they are easy to make. They are a great way to reuse what you already have (so very low cost!) and look great. Make your own from newspaper, magazines or even the kid’s drawings.
Cut the paper into strips, fold into a ring and glue or tape. Then loop the next strip through the previous chain and secure, repeating until the chain is long enough.
3D Paper Stars
Similar to paper fans, these 3-D paper stars fold down making them easy to store for the next party, and made from card, they are a bit more durable. They are available in a variety of colours and patterns, and have the advantage of adding a bit more depth to your party decorations than paper fans.
The above paper star is from Plastic Free Party Bags (UK). Save 10% using the code ‘partykitnetwork’.
Or make a star decorations from loo roll inner tubes!
Cut a loo roll into six rings and then stick together with tape or glue. These can then be painted to fit your theme. The above star was made using 5 loo roll tubes. Hang with a bit of string or ribbon.
More design ideas for making decorations from loo roll inner tubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-OaZf4uuo
Crepe paper streamers are also possibly a bit retro, but fully biodegradable. Like honeycomb balls, they are quite delicate but if you spend a bit of time carefully rolling up after the party they can be used again.
They could also be reused to wrap presents or even as a padding inside a box, if they are beyond a reuse state as decorations.
Streamers are usually made from paper, but how about making some from ribbon? These can easily be reused year after year; or even repurposed for wrapping gifts when you are done with them.
As you can see (pictured above), UK network member Do Loop has created a stunning party theme incorporating ribbon streamers to create a colourful backdrop.
Paper lanterns are made from a bamboo or metal frame with a paper share. Like paper pom-poms, the ball shape offers a decoration close to balloons. They also fold down so are fairly easy to store and reuse.
Paper pinwheel spinners are a great make-you-own party decoration. You just need some paper, some glue, scissors, drawing pin and a wooden batten or stick.
How to make your own pinwheels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Rugzrpgv8
Or for pinwheels which are safer for younger children, there’s a guide for making pinwheels without sharp pins here: https://rufflesandrainboots.com/toddler-safe-pinwheel-tutorial/
Japanese Paper Balloons
For eco-friendly balloons which you still inflate, traditional Japanese paper balloons can be reused and are both colourful and fun.
You can get them in a variety of shapes and colours, including lots of different animal shapes.
In the UK they are available from Petra Boase.
Feeling creative? Origami is a great way to add to the theme of your party. Origami shapes can be used as table decorations or made into garlands. Use scrap paper or the kids drawings for an even more sustainable decoration.
Have a look on YouTube - there are loads of origami how-to videos for all sorts of animals and shapes.
This is another one for the more crafty, shapes from painted papier-mâché can really bring a theme alive.
You just need strips of old newspaper which you stick together with a solution made from equal parts water and flour. Create your masterpiece and allow it to fully dry before painting or covering in décopatch.
Fairy lights aren’t just for Christmas! Adding a string of fairy lights is a quick way to bring some sparkle to your party.
For more sustainable fairy lights use LED lights or solar powered, but the best option is to use what you already have in your Christmas decorations box or to borrow from a friend.
Alternatives to Balloon Arches
It seems like balloon arches have never been more popular, but look at what can be achieved with a bit of creativity.
Everything in these set ups from Many Happy Returns Jersey and Holmes Chapel Waste-Free Party Hire is REUSABLE: the ribbons, pom-poms and cubes can all be used again and again.... no waste here!
Party hats have received a reusable make-over. Check out these reusable reversible celebration crown from PuchiTreasures
Are we spoiling all the fun?
There are lots of ways to decorate a party without balloons; it really is possible to protect wildlife and still have a colourful fun-filled party. But are we spoiling the fun?
To recreate the fun of bouncing a balloon or classic party games which require a balloon, why not use an inflatable beach ball instead? These can be used again and again, and at end-of-life can by reused in the UK by Wyatt & Jack who upcycle inflatables into fab bags.
Contact your local party kit to find out which reusable decorations they can offer. Find your local party kit
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Here is what this freebie includes:
Posters, Pocket Chart Cards and Editable T-Charts in:
*2 Spanish translations
*Bilingual Spanish and English
I added the editable T-Charts because my classroom has an incredible small amount of wall space. So, as my students become more familiar with the routines and expectations I plan on replacing the huge original chart paper anchors, with these T-Charts. You can add your own text to them and make them fit your classrooms language needs.
Take a look:
I really appreciate that I was contacted by people with requests. It feels good to know that people are using this resource. I want everything I create to work for your classroom - so I appreciate it that they took the time to make a request instead of resigning themselves that wasn't quite right! I'm sure most bloggers feel the same.
Click here to get the freebie on TpT.
Enjoy the long weekend!
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