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Condom is the most popular remedycontraception and protection against STDs. It is a kind of cover, made mainly of latex (less often - of polyurethane), which is worn on the penis, which is in the erect state. The first condom was made in 1640 by Dr. Condom, but there is evidence that in Ancient Greece they were quite up and running. But while historians are arguing about this, contemporaries use this unique means of protection in relations of ardent and delicate.
By the way, in the XVIII century condoms from which onlynot made - in the course of the skin, flax. These materials were treated with caustic soda. However, only the middle class or the upper class could use them - their cost was so high. It is said that a woman of easy conduct of those times needed to work more than one month to acquire a single condom. Undoubtedly, the earnings went to other needs. And the venereal diseases blossomed in a lush color. The condoms entered the working masses at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and even then in America. But the second half of this century was devoted to combating them. In some states, there were even legislative documents that categorically forbid the sale and use of condoms. The same opinion was shared by feminists, who believed that control over childbearing was exclusively a female privilege.
With an increase in the growth of STDs, the need forcondoms became an urgent necessity. XX century inexorably stated - sexual emancipation must be protected. With the invention of latex in 1920, condoms could become thinner and stronger, their shelf life increased. In 1981, AIDS became the scourge of mankind, and as a result a large-scale advertising campaign was launched to combat this disease. Today, a condom is a testimony not of sexual promiscuity, but of competence and a sober view of life. The manufacturer tries to make the most thin, durable latex "cases", which can be supplemented with special functions.
Contex Long Love Condoms
Lovers always want to have momentssensual pleasure lasted forever or at least as long as possible. Contex Long Love condoms are designed specifically for the fact that the enjoyment was not interrupted too soon. They are treated with a special anesthetic benzocaine, which reduces the sensitivity of the receptors of the penis. Sexual intercourse lasts longer, and ejaculation occurs later. Contex Long Love condoms are made of high-quality latex, which is processed silicone-free from the outside. The most progressive technological equipment is used for their production, all stages of manufacturing are carefully controlled, and the quality is checked by electronics. About condoms Contex reviews are always good - they are democratic in price, presented in the widest range in almost any outlet.
Anesthetic benzocaine in rare cases canthere is an allergy. In this situation, its use should be discarded. Otherwise Contex Long Love condoms are an ideal choice for people who do not hurry to love and are given this feeling in full. Communication with the beloved becomes an eternity, in which there is no place for regret about the transience of being.
Condoms "Contex Long Love" are available inpackages of 3 or 12 pieces. The length of each, according to the characteristics, is 180 mm, width - 52 mm, latex has a thickness of 0.06 mm. It should be remembered that a condom is a disposable. Only then can he effectively protect against STDs and prevent unwanted pregnancies.
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At DD Fire Alarms Ltd we mainly distribute for Fike Safety Technology and JTI Aerosol Suppression System.
- We can offer full technical support for all products with an experienced engineer at the end of the phone 24/7.
- We can provide a design service for our products free of charge to account holders and suppression distributors.
- We can provide a commissioning service throughout the UK
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The electric BMW i3 is now becoming available across the U.S., offering EV enthusiasts a mid-range alternative to both the more expensive Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Model S and lower-range, less expensive models.
Make no mistake: The hatchback i3 is not in the same class as the Tesla Model S sedan. The Tesla is a larger, more luxurious, higher-performance vehicle with a better ride. But the BMW does offer an intriguing compromise. What's more, i3 presales are off to a better than expected start, and the company has added production capacity in an effort to lessen wait times for the vehicle.
For price comparison purposes, the Tesla Model S ranges from around $69,900 on the low end, to over $100,000, depending on battery capacity and other options. The i3, on the other hand, has an MSRP of $41,350, and goes for $45,200 with the optional gasoline-powered range extender. (All prices exclude the $7,500 federal tax credit.)
The Tesla Model S EPA-tested driving range varies from 208 miles for the 60-kWh battery model to 265 miles for the 85-kWh equipped one. The i3's range is a bit more of a mystery: Some reports mention 80-100 miles for the 22-kWh battery. BMW's website lists 118 miles, and a "mean customer value" of 99 miles. Range is a squishy number, in any case, and largely dependent on driving conditions and driver style.
Motley Fool analyst Rex Moore raved about the Tesla Model S in his test drive and review several months ago. At this year's big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, he and analyst Lyons George were able to take the i3 out for an extensive test drive. How did it do? Click the video below to go along for the ride!
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The Jaguar XE small sedan was spotted in winter testing on an ice rink on Tuesday (11). The model will be direct opponent of the Audi A4, the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and should reach the market in 2015 with a four-door version.
China broke the overall record of number of vehicles sold in a single year in 2013. According to data from the China Association of Automotive Automakers (CAAM), 21,984,100 units were sold during the 12 months of last year.
The Bugatti will show for the first time since 1999 the Veyron concept, a model that gave rise to the production version of one of the most popular super sports of all time. The concept will be displayed at R?tromobile, old event which will take place in Paris.
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Full course description
Digital Brand Strategies is an overview of digital communication and interactive experiences for brands. You’ll learn how to gather existing information and perceptions about a brand and explore what opportunities exist for telling a brand's story in technology-rich environments through websites, social media, email, internet searches and mobile devices.
Consequently, content in the course relies on real-world case study assignments that involve creative thinking, problem solving and interaction with your fellow students and instructors. In the spirit of 21st-century business practice, we're offering each course online and drawing on webinars, Google Hangouts and our media-rich e-learning platform to keep you engaged and allow flexible scheduling options for working professionals. Large or small, a brand should connect to consumers in a way that is relevant and engages the target audience. Use this information to hone your brand management skills and develop a digital marketing strategy that will set your company or organization apart from the competition.
- Analyze current strategies used by brands to drive customer demand, awareness, and engagement
- Trends in consumer behavior.
- Common steps and processes related to planning, executing, and reporting on digital marketing strategies.
- Classify and evaluate components to digital marketing objectives including: techniques, platforms, metrics, and analytics.
Business Development Director at ApiaryLynn Makela connects marketing, leadership, and brand strategy. With over 12 years of digital advertising experience and a diverse background in search, analytics, optimization, design, and social media strategies, she is an accomplished business strategist and entrepreneur. As director of business development for Apiary Digital, she curates teams of digital marketing professionals to achieve business objectives. Her client list includes Microsoft, Tableau, Invisalign, Pella Windows and Doors, and many others. When she isn’t helping clients, she’s playing with her three K9 fur kids and working on a remodel project.
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Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Douglas Gray, left, demonstrates the handle of a Browning M2 .50 caliber to mayors earlier this year. Next week, U.S. military personnel and Japanese personnel will be on island for an exercise.
The same Marine unit that is expected to come to Guam in the military buildup will visit the island for training next week. The training also will include the Japan Ground Self Defense Force.
Approximately 2,200 Marines and sailors from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit -- plus approximately a platoon of Japanese soldiers -- will conduct "readiness training" on Guam from Sept. 18 to 25, according to a military press release.
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Uncompromising luxury on Plum Island!! Pre-construction price! Fabulous open floor plan with built-ins at gas fireplace and crown molding in living room, 4 decks with incredible views off the living room, dining room, den and all 3 large bedrooms. House to be Energy Star efficient, certified Home Energy Rated (HERS). Master bedroom with full bath, walk-in closet and double vanity/sink. Kitchen with granite counters and stainless steel appliances, separate laundry room, 2 carports under and fully enclosed, unfinished area, under the home. Foundation is steel pilings, steel frame and bracing. Hardwood on main level, central air conditioning, within walking distance to the beach. See attached Site Plans, and Building Specifications.
Listed by Gary J. Litchfield of Mass. Real Estate Solutions, LLC
Custom designed Nantucket style beach house with spectacular views from every window. Quality throughout with ash floors and ash kitchen cabinets with granite countertops, this home offers a casual open floor plan with the added ambiance of a see-through gas fireplace. Perfect for entertaining, walk out to a covered deck and enjoy a cocktail while watching the amazing sunsets. This unique Plum Island home sits on a 3/4 acre oversize lot complete with a two car heated garage surrounded by mahogany decks and boardwalks. Within walking distance, to the beaches, and kayaking yet not located in a flood zone.
Listed by Louise Murphy of RE/MAX On The River, Inc.
Own a rare spectacular 2 Family on Plum Island! Located on dead end st w/ deeded beach access! Open custom designed main house 2216 sq. ft. living space w/ 3 generous beds 2 w/ marble fireplaces, walk in closets, 4 full baths. Amazing Island views from spacious family room with Bordeaux marble fireplace which is open to the Kitchen and Dining. Living space is connected out to a deck great for entertaining. Kitchen w/ Granite counters, Italian Porcelain Tile and Stainless. Enjoy amazing sunset and sunrise views from the many Decks & Balconies. Bonus, 2 car heated garage w/ 455 sq. ft. studio apartment perfect for INCOME, in-law or au pair. Large lot ½ acre keeping the property very private. Walking distance to 3 restaurants 2 convenience stores & National Wildlife Refuge. Heated 11` x 11` room for storage or workshop. 18' heated above ground pool! This home is only 350' from beach with deeded private access to beach, makes this a home to see today!
Listed by Bentley's and Robert Bentley of Bentley's
Just in time for Summer! Wonderful 3 bedroom/2 bath Contemporary just steps to the best beach on Plum Island. Open floor plan. Light, and airy. Bright kitchen/dining room with lots of cabinets and access to large deck for dining out. Interior balcony overlooks living room with cathedral ceilings/ceiling fans, gas stove, double closets and oak floors. Second level has (2) generous size bedrooms with double closets; one of the bedrooms has French doors to private balcony. Third bedroom is on main level. Central Vac. Exterior is vinyl siding with new interlocking metal roof. Heated full basement with plenty of storage and additional storage for beach chairs, garden equipment, etc. Off street parking for 5+ cars. Fenced landscaped rear patio for outside entertaining. Outside enclosed heated shower.
Listed by Carol A. Dempsey of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Lynnfield
Recently renovated two bedroom house on Plum Island, short walk to either ocean beach or basin beach, water views of basin, modern appliances with granite counter tops, 2 new heat pumps, flat screen tv. One bedroom features queen size bed and second bedroom has a twin over full bunk bed. Home is currently leased through May 15, 2018. Home is being sold as fully furnished. Newburyport water and sewer betterment is paid in full. Significant energy savings under Mass save energy efficiency program.
Listed by Paul Novak of Gold Star Development Inc.
This is by far the biggest house listed for less than $700K on Plum Island, in fact the only one larger than 1,000sf. Great 1,200 square foot 3-Bedroom Ranch in a perfect ocean-side Plum Island spot. The beach & ocean are just 4 houses away! Relax on the deck out back and enjoy the large open living room-kitchen-dining area. Hardwood and tile floors, nice size bedrooms and large bathroom. This beach house has central air. Additional parking in yard when needed. Don't buy a tiny shack and regret it, grab this now, enjoy the summer and update to your tastes over time. With one-level living and the beach down the block, just bring your TLC and the search for your next home is over.
Listed by Thomas Maloney of Keller Williams Realty
It's time to fulfill that island getaway you've been dreaming of! You can renovate the existing cottage or rebuild. This 6,186 sq.. lot offers a great opportunity to build in a prime Plum Island location. The estimated allowed lot coverage of 20% equals a footprint of 1237 square feet, with a home of 1546 square feet maximum. Only 1/10th of a mile to the beach. Buyer to assume water and sewer betterment fee and for any and all permits necessary to build. A truly beautiful property to renovate/build on now for you to enjoy the island lifestyle for years to come!
Listed by Louise Brochu of Keller Williams Realty Metropolitan
Follow the lighthouse to this classic Plum Island cottage with beach access right at the end of the street. Well cared for and maintained, there's nothing to do but move in just in time for the summer months. Enjoy the enclosed, wood paneled front porch, fenced yard, and tasteful landscaping with enough parking for 4+ vehicles. The perfect summer retreat or cozy year round beach home.
Listed by Nicholas Piraino of RE/MAX On The River, Inc.
RARE opportunity to own a a beautiful island getaway at an affordable price. This well updated condominium feels like a single family home, complete with its own full basement, tons of up or down expansion potential! Not a typical island cottage, many recent updates include: large kitchen with gas stove and recessed lights, bath, hardwood floors, heating system with central air, oil tank. Great back deck off the kitchen for al fresco dining. Lots of off street parking for the friends and family and an additional storage unit below. Bask in all the beauty that Plum Island has to offer, Short distance to beaches, down town Newburyport. This unit would function well as a year round or seasonal residence, or investment alike. Condo documents, elevation certificate and floor plans available upon request. Open Houses 4/14 from 12-2PM and 4/15 11-12:30PM. Offers will be reviewed Tuesday 4/17 at 5PM.
Listed by Alex Genovese and Team Richard and Arlene of Flow Realty, Inc.
Come enjoy all that Plum Island has to offer. This property has a DOUBLE LOT!!! Adorable cottage with two bedrooms recently renovated. Renovations include roof, siding, insulation, windows, and kitchen. Interior recently freshly painted. Come enjoy the summer! Leave the extra lot as is and let all your family and friends use it for parking or put up a volleyball court and have some fun in the sun! You can also tear down existing house and build your dream home. You would have amazing panoramic view of all the island has to offer. Tenants currently occupy property.
Listed by Melinda Fields and Valerie Pantelis of William Raveis the Dolores Person
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Today is Tuesday, July 13, the 194th day of 2021. There are 171 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 13, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to be U.S. Solicitor General; Marshall became the first Black jurist appointed to the post. (Two years later, Johnson nominated Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court.)
On this date:
In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation adopted the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory, an area corresponding to the present-day Midwest and Upper Midwest.
In 1886, Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, was born in County Roscommon, Ireland.
In 1939, Frank Sinatra made his first commercial recording, “From the Bottom of My Heart” and “Melancholy Mood,” with Harry James and his Orchestra for the Brunswick label.
In 1972, George McGovern received the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Miami Beach.
In 1974, the Senate Watergate Committee proposed sweeping reforms in an effort to prevent another Watergate scandal.
In 1985, “Live Aid,” an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa’s starving people.
In 2006, Israel imposed a naval blockade against Lebanon and blasted the Beirut airport and army air bases; Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel.
In 2010, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died in Tampa, Florida, nine days after turning 80.
In 2013, a jury in Sanford, Florida, cleared neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman of all charges in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate over racial profiling, self-defense and equal justice.
Today’s Birthdays: Game show announcer Johnny Gilbert (TV: “Jeopardy!”) is 93. Actor Patrick Stewart is 81. Actor Harrison Ford is 79. Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is 79. Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 75. Actor Didi Conn is 70. Actor Gil Birmingham is 68. Singer Louise Mandrell is 67. Actor-director Cameron Crowe is 64. Former tennis player Anders Jarryd is 60. Bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent is 59. Actor Ken Jeong is 52.
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“We’re stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we’re more alike or not. We have to want the same thing. I’ve got to want the same thing for your son or daughter I would want for mine. I’ve got to make sure that your son is as educated as mine, or vice versa. We’ve got to make sure we all live in communities that are safe. We’ve all got to feel there’s a non-existence of ‘driving while black,’ ‘driving while brown,’ ‘walking while black.’ We want to see equality.”
Stevie Wonder on an interview to Rolling Stone Magazine, Feb 15th, 2015
The United Nations has declared today, February 20th, World Day of Social Justice.
For me, Every time I think about “social justice”, I tend to conjure ideas of something big; large humanitarian projects in African countries; multinational initiatives aiming to eradicate the world of the great injustices people face. Thank God these social justice projects exist – I shudder to think what our world would look like without them.
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon was quoted saying that “the World Day of Social Justice is observed to highlight the power of global solidarity to advance opportunity for all.” He went on to say that as inequalities widen, the social fabric of societies is both stretched and strained, which often leads to a downward spiral of economic and social uncertainty and even unrest. He also reminded us that the violent conflict present in many parts of the world is often rooted in deep inequality, discrimination, and widespread poverty.
After reading his message I began thinking about his words, especially his mention of discrimination as one of the root causes of inequality and social injustice. Interestingly, the secretary General’s message came at the same time I started participating a program called Faculty Institute For Inclusive Excellence at Colorado State University, where I am an employee. The program’s aim is to empower us as college professors with tools and resources to improve it in our day-to-day activities in a way that creates an inclusive classroom setting. The program kicked off with a conversation about prejudice and discrimination about various topics. We then moved onto a topic called “implicit bias”.
The idea of implicit bias was a project developed by three scientists – Tony Greenwald (University of Washington), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Brian Nosek University of Virginia) They ended up founding a non-profit organization called Project Implicit and international collaboration between researchers who were interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control.
Project Implicit’s goal was and is to educate the public about implicit social cognition and provide a “virtual laboratory” – a novel way for researchers to collect data on the Internet.
The results of the virtual laboratory have shown a variety of implicit bias examples in America. For example, data suggests that minorities are not sought-after and not being hired in the proportionate to their white counterparts. Studies also show that gender biases were found in the evaluation of identical resumes. Similarly, biases in promotion to tenure favor men. A research observing two professors with same level of education and teaching style showed the straight professor had 22% of negative comments compared to 81% of negative comments from the gay professor. The list goes on and on.
This project allows participants to actually take a test online to determine your own implicit biases. I went online and took the test myself and was not very happy with my results for certain categories. To be honest, it was very disappointing.
I realized that I also have implicit biases towards certain social groups in society. The truth is, we all do, but we don’t pay enough attention to those cultural mind-sets that cause them.
So as I thought back to Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks on social justice and the disappointing results of my implicit bias test, my view of social justice completely changed. I realized that in order for social injustices in our society to change, I need to change myself first. It’s good to talk about social justice at a large scale, but the truth is, if we don’t change the way we see and think of people, social justice will take much longer to occur and social patters will continue to persist.
Hidden prejudices fleet across our minds much more often than we would like: seeing immigrants from X country simply as “people who steal our local jobs”, crossing the street when we see a homeless because we are fearful, not favoring certain policies even if they’re good just because we are a liberal/conservative. It’s so easy for us to take people loved by God and make them into “those people” in our minds.
I came to the conclusion that we can only practice real social justice looking at what Jesus said in John 8:31-32:
“to the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “ if you hold to my teaching, you’re really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”.
I believe that the only way to set me free from all my implicit biases (hidden prejudice) is to know and meditate in the Word of God. When you become a disciple and allow the Holy Spirit to guide you and transform you by the renewing of your mind, you also become a leader and a leader of change around you. A leader that changes the status quo as Jesus did in His time. A leader that can actually be socially just free from all the prejudices and implicit biases embedded in our culture and mindset.
Let’s examine ourselves and see what we should change to stop social injustice.
Are you ready to change your mind in order to change the world?
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Not since Chinese Democracy have metal fans been so eagerly anticipating a release! And while it may or may not be as disappointing, by gum, Swarm of Eyes’ second album is coming soon! The band’s sophomore effort, We Go to War with the Weapons We Have, is scheduled for a January 6th, 2017 release date with cover art and visuals designed by the one and only Mike D’Antonio of Killswitch Engage, via his art production house DarkicoN Design.
Fans will hear an evolution of the band’s sound that retain elements from their 2012 debut, Designing the Dystopia, and combines Big 4-style riffs with modern metal production. The end result is an addictive strain of thrash-y doom metal that leaves a distinctive imprint of destruction in its wake.
Produced by Dave “Weirdbeard” McCafferty and Swarm of Eyes guitarist George O’Connor, the album features four brand new tracks, two cover songs, and a re-recorded “Humanemic” from the band’s debut disc. Whereas the original “Humanemic” was recorded before bassist Jeff Grossman and drummer Tommy Burke joined the band, this new version features all five members of Swarm of Eyes bringing their talents to the track.
our shameless shill at the end of this news bulletin the track listing and pre-order your copy today. (Shipping 01/06/2017).
“Santa Claus is Coming,” so you better beware. Don’t put out the cheap cookies and hang your stockings with care.
In what’s becoming a holiday tradition, Swarm of Eyes has released a dark, minor chord-laden cover of the classic Christmas carol, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” — the perfect, ominous accompaniment to power-elbowing your way through crowds this Black Friday. (Go ahead. You deserve that $20 toaster oven!)
The song, available on Bandcamp is a taste of things to come on the band’s upcoming EP, We Go to War with the Weapons We Have, which is scheduled for an early 2017 release. The band also put together a video for the single, featuring the work of 18 different artists — spanning the gamut from seasoned veterans to up-and-comers, each serving up a creepy Kris Kringle of their own demented imaginings.
Recording the song came together quickly. “A massive amount of credit goes to Derrik [Albertelli] for making a one-off comment I said into a reality,” said George O’Connor of his fellow Swarm of Eyes guitarist. “I floated the idea of doing a dark, minor-key version of ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ to him. He took the idea and came back with the chord structures and progressions. We got together and started messing around with the parts and arranging them together.”
The musical arrangement took the duo roughly a week to complete an record before Randy came in to record vocals. “I think Randy’s vocal attack, along with Derrik’s arrangement, highlight the darker aspects of the song. It’s actually pretty foreboding when you slow it down and really listen to the lyrics,” explained George.
The concept for the video matches the ominous tone of Swarm of Eyes’ rendition of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Strapped for time and rather than throwing together a humdrum “video” with just the band’s logo and lyrics, the band enlisted the aid of 18 talented artists to offer their own renderings of sinister Santas. A mix of working professional comic and industrial artists alongside talented up-and-comers, the diverse range of contributors complement Swarm of Eyes’ creepy Christmas card to the metal world.
“After years of creating comics and going to conventions, I now know several talented artists. So, I threw it out to them and my other friends to draw their version of what a creepy Santa would look like,” said O’Connor, the author of several indie comic titles himself. “There were no rules, so they were all free to put their spin on the idea. What we got back was incredible. When someone watches the video, they’ll be able to see some fantastic art that fits the vibe of the song. And I’m thrilled to introduce these artists to everyone.”
Watch the video for yourself on YouTube
Happy Festivus! In case you’re burned out on Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, and are ready to go postal at the mere mention of “Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime,” the jolly (not that) old elves in Swarm of Eyes have slapped together a holiday track, covering “Nuttin For Christmas” – featuring guest vocals on the intro by The O.G. L.O.G.A.N., a young metal lad. Consider this our gift to you… and the world! You’re welcome.
You can check out “Nuttin’ For Christmas” on Bandcamp, if you’d like a little something stronger with your eggnog (or soy nog, if eggs and dairy ain’t your thing). The guitars crunch. The vocals growl. And they even manage to sneak in a covert F-bomb or two. #SoMetal
And if you’re so inclined to give the gift of music to someone on your list or just kick over some coin to us because your heart grew three sizes today, please feel free to name your price. Or just listen to it for free. That’s okay. Really. It’s okay.
The song is just a taste of (non-holiday themed) things to come from Swarm of Eyes. They’re currently recording their second album, an EP, for release in 2016.
Thanks again and from the Swarm of Eyes family to yours, here’s hoping you all have a Happy Holiday and a great 2016!
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Qualtrics is sophisticated and user-friendly survey software. It consists of comprehensive survey resources, including:
- Survey design;
- Survey distribution;
- Survey analysis and reporting;
- Custom reports; and
- Conjoint analysis
Qualtrics is available for enrolled students and current staff members.
Setting up your account
To set up your Qualtrics account:
- go to ECU’s Qualtrics portal;
- log in using your ECU username and password;
- check that the Digital ID Card displays your details and select ‘Confirm’;
- if this is the first time you’ve attempted to set up a Qualtrics account select ‘I don't have a Qualtrics account’;
- a window with your details will appear. By default, Qualtrics ticks the ‘I am a student’ box. Untick this box if you’ve logged in as a staff member and select ‘Update’;
- your Qualtrics homepage will open and you’re ready to start creating your surveys.
If you already have a Qualtrics account, go to the Qualtrics portal and, when prompted, type your ECU username and password to gain access.
The Qualtrics Team provides a range of online training and support including:
- step-by-step guides to creating surveys, including advanced techniques;
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- individual assistance via email.
You can also get help using Qualtrics from the SOAR Centre, and Graduate Research School’s research training workshops on survey design.
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RYE/PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Here is a list of some Rye and Port Chester employers who are hiring:
- An assisted living home is looking for a resident services supervisor.
- A restaurant seeks an experienced bartender and server.
- Avon needs a contracted IT enterprise architect, and a lead network engineer.
- Merchant Lynx Services seeks a telemarketing person, and someone to set up appointments.
- McArdle's Florist and Garden Center is hiring a driver for Valentines Day.
- A beginner lacrosse program seeks a lacrosse coach.
- European Wax Center needs a guest service associate.
- A deli has an opening for a worker.
- A salon is looking for a hair stylist, and aestheticians for its spa front desk.
- Buffalo Wild Wings is now hiring hosts and cashiers.
- An eyewear company seeks an a dministrative assistant.
- Costco needs sales professionals for product demonstration.
- Interactions seeks an energy drink brand ambassador.
- Mr. Bokay Flowers needs someone to deliver flowers on valentines day.
- A building seeks a facility maintenance person.
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Jaguar in recent decades have been looked at as the cars for “old people”. But in the last 10 or so years, they’ve tried hard to change that image and the XF was one of the first models to do so. It was the first model on a new platform and was designed with computers not chizels. Now in its second generation, the 2019 Jaguar XF continues its sights on attracting younger buyers.
Engine – There are 3 engines available with the Jaguar XF. A 2.0L Turbo Diesel (yes, a diesel), two variations of a 2.0L turbo gas, and a 3.0L supercharged V6 as equipped in this demo vehicle. The latter produces 380 hp and 332 lb-ft of torque going to all four wheels. It’s not the fastest cat in this particular type of luxury sedan market but it feels pretty brisk from behind the steering wheel. Because there is no lag with superchargers, throttle response is very quick. The engine’s power is linear so it pulls at the same constant speed whether it’s at low rpms or higher rpms.
Jaguar claims a combined fuel economy rating of 10.4 L/100km (22.6 mpg) however during my time with the XF, I managed an average of 13.0 L/100km (18.1 mpg). Not terrible for a sedan that weighs in at 1,760 kg (3,880 lbs) but it is hard to reach the claimed combined fuel economy figure.
Transmission – The ZF 8-speed automatic transmission performs well in the 2019 Jaguar XF. It is similar to the one found in the F-Type P300 and F-Pace SUV. In the normal Comfort mode, shifts are almost not noticeable and the transmission reacts quickly enough to a stab of the throttle when wanting to overtake. In Sport mode and using the paddles, the 8-speed automatic is quick to respond to driver input but the shifts between gears are slightly rougher.
Braking – This Type-S Jaguar XF has sensitive brakes. No, not emotionally sensitive. Sensitive in the sense that they provide a lot of braking force with very minimal pedal pressure. It takes a few minutes to get use to how quickly they can bring the car to a stop without making the vehicle behind you hit your back bumper.
Handling – Being first and foremost a luxury sedan, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Jaguar XF drives like a boat. But it doesn’t. While it is still a heavy sedan, it feels agile behind the steering wheel. It is direct and planted around corners. The all-wheel-drive system is rearward biased but can send up to 90% of the power to the front wheels if required in slippery conditions.
Ride Comfort – The 2019 Jaguar XF Type-S straddles the line between being a sports sedan and a comfortable luxury sedan. The ride is firmer than a luxury sedan like the Lincoln MKZ but it’s not as stiff as the Honda Civic Type-R for example. You can feel small potholes and cracks in the road through the seat but it’s not uncomfortable.
Interior Space – The XF has an abundance of space for the front occupants. The front seats can go high or low enough to accommodate any size person. The rear seats however are tight for legroom which was a bit of a surprise for a car this size. Trunk space though is generous with a deep trunk but the width between the wheel arches is a tad on the narrow side.
Noise, Vibration, & Harshness – When you want the Jag to be quiet, it stays quiet. When you want it to be loud… it tries to be loud. Fortunately it doesn’t have the exhaust sound playing through the speakers like the Ford Edge ST but you do get a hint of supercharger whine from the front. For the most part though it is a quiet sedan.
Interior Design – The design of the XF interior is reminiscent of other Jaguar vehicles. More so the F-Pace SUV. This 2019 model has the larger 10” infotainment screen and is not flanked by buttons on either side like the older 2018 F-Type SVR. The interior design has a modern look and feel but without making it too futuristic.
Odds and Ends
Gadgets – As mentioned earlier, the new 10” infotainment screen is the predominant feature of the dashboard. Navigating through the Jaguar infotainment system though does take some getting use to for those that are not familiar with it but after a few minutes of playing with it, you’ll get there. Majority of the vehicle’s setting have to be adjusted through the driver display and controlled via the steering wheel mounted buttons which is distracting when driving. So it’s best to pull over and make the changes.
This Type-S trim starts at just over $75,000 CAD but with the extra options on it, the price is closer to $92,000 CAD before taxes and additional fees come in. It has everything you would need and more such as soft door close and a heated windshield. However one thing that could use a major update is the heads-up display. It feels like it’s from a GM vehicle from the early 1990’s. Mazda’s HUD system in the CX-9 is far superior and that’s considered a mainstream vehicle not a luxury vehicle.
Exterior Design – In 2015 the Jaguar XF went through a generation change which not only included new aluminum body pieces, but also a freshening up of the styling. This 2019 model looks slightly more aggressive with the “cat-like” headlights and cut off rear circular tail lamps. This particular demo also has the Black package which adds black side vents and black grille to match the black wheels. Overall the exterior styling is bold but without being too extravagant and over the top.
So has Jaguar succeeded in making the XF more appealing to younger buyers? Well younger than 80 years old? Sure. But not those in their 30s or 40s. The XF is more for a businessman or woman but it’s competing a class where traditionally the Germans dominate. The Mercedes E-class and BMW 5-series are still kings and though the Jaguar XF is a good car, it has stiff competition. At the price point that this particular demo is at, the Mercedes-Benz E53 AMG would be the better bet. However if a Jag still tickles your fancy, then the 2.0L Ingenium XF with 296hp at $67,000 CAD is the better bet.
Thank you to Jaguar Canada for providing the vehicle. www.Jaguar.ca
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- Human Performance – How To Achieve The Highest Performance?
- Wake Up 1 Hour Earlier Every Single Day – Morning Routine – Human Performance
- Don’t Check Your Phone! – Morning Routine – Human Performance
I have published first blog post related to human performance awhile ago. Today I have decided to come back to my favourite topic – how to improve human performance? I was thinking for awhile where to start, there are so many things which had amazing positive impact on my daily life. After making a list of the items which I would like to talk about, I decided I will start with first thing which I do in the morning. Let me tell you why I wake up 1 hours earlier as part of my healthy morning routine.
Wake up 1 hour earlier every single day for healthy morning routine!
Yes, you read correctly, I am telling you to wake up even earlier than usual. My alarm is set up for 5:45 am every single day, yes, weekends as well. It wasn’t easy. I used to be night owl, I could work till 2 am, 3am, sometimes even 4 am. I definitely loved it. I used to hate waking up at 7am and I would never image that I can wake up earlier. Since last year I decided to try something new. One of my favourite books said it, wake up 1 hour earlier, so I tried. It wasn’t successful try at the beginning but I found my method, however about this a little bit later. Before I will go deeper into this topic, I would like to share with you a little bit information about Polish blogger who created #poranekuwaznosci or #cautionmorning in English. @mamagerka is amazing person who share many useful tips. She also convinces polish women to wake up 1 hour earlier and utilise this time for themselves. If you are Polish, feel free to check her IG profile or visit her blog post about mornings of caution.
Why to wake up earlier as part of our healthy morning routine?
First of all let’s answer the question why we actually should wake up 1 hour earlier and why every single day? The reasons are really simple:
- 1 hour is enough time to give ourselves slow enter into the day
- it reduces stress level
- you don’t need to rush
- it improves quality of your sleep
- because you do it every day your body clocks works without any disturbances and you will start waking up without the alarm after awhile
It happens really often, at least to me, that I wake up being already anxious. I used to wake up, get ready in 15 min and leave the house. Now, I wake up and I have time for myself. I even make sure that my boyfriend is not going to be awake, so I can still have a full hour just for my own morning activities. This time makes me calm, gives me time box for things which I don’t have time for during the day. It is time for me and me. It is quite time, it is still dark outside, nobody is walking, nobody is talking, no phone calls, no TV, there are no problems, there are not other’s emotions. It is just me and time to listen to myself and learn about myself. Remember, it is time for your MIND, HEART and SPRIT.
- it is one step to HAPPINESS in life
- it is one step to taking care of your MIND, HEART AND SPRIT
- it is one step to increasing your HUMAN PERFORMANCE
What to do during 1 hour after waking up earlier as part of your healthy morning routine?
Am I going to surprise you if I will tell you that I don’t work that time? No, no, no. It is not time for work. It is time for your SILENCE and QUITE activities. You don’t need to do the same but let me give you a few suggestions how you can utilise this time.
- READ THE BOOK
- EXERCISE BEING IN THE PRESENT
- LISTEN TO MUSIC
- LISTEN TO PODCAST
- FIND THE TOPIC TO THINK ABOUT, LIKE HONESTY, PARENTING, LOVE
I will talk more about some of these points in the following posts. As I mentioned earlier, it is time for your mind, heart and spirit. Choose activities which help you relax, listen to yourself and your emotions, educate you.
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Saturday, one of my favourite days. ▪️woke up at 6am ▪️started day with glass of water with lemon juice and Himalayan pink salt ▪️meditated ▪️read a few pages of my book ▪️had a cup of black coffee ▪️had a long conversation with my boyfriend about types of personalities and analysed personalities of my colleagues ▪️went to the gym ▪️worked a bit on my website And you? How do you balance your life? How do you keep mental and physical health? P.S. I love these sunset from my window. Every day different colours, different magic. — — — #zanetabarancom #followze #workingoutside #womwnintechnology #womanintech #monday #nomand #nomandlife #remotejobs #travel #hostelworld #travelblogger #womenintech #nomadhotel #womenwhohustle #techbloggerlife #backpacker #travelphotography #remotework #hostellife #techblog #girlwhocodes #techblogger #developer #traveling #womenwhocode #remoteworking #guesthouse #softwareengineer #womenempoweringwomen
What do I do during 1 hour when I wake up earlier as part of healthy morning routine?
I do two things. I do meditate 15 minutes and then read my Kindle for another 30-45 min. That’s pretty much it. But let me tell you something more important…
What to NOT DO during 1 hour when you wake up as part of your healthy morning routine?
Please, DO NOT OPEN YOUR PHONE OR LAPTOP. Please, don’t start your day by looking at the screen. Again, I will talk about it in one of the following posts but for now I want to tell you, before and during this 1 hour – DO NOT check your phone, leave it for later. In the moment when you open your phone, all your hard work with waking up earlier is lost.
How to wake up earlier? Simple method
Ok, everything is perfect but HOW THE HECK I CAN DO IT?! I managed to achieve it by really simple method. I started to set up alarm just 15 min earlier, then in a few days another 15 min earlier and so on, till I reached 1 hour. Done. Of course, you can find your own method, if you find it, share it in the comments, I want to learn from you.
Give yourself a chance
Now it is your turn. Give yourself a chance and try it. I promise you, you will see changes in your life and during your day. This 1 hour in the morning can have incredible impact on your productivity, effectiveness, calmness, happiness. Just try. If you would like to join me during my morning routine, follow me on IG @zanetabarancom where every morning I share picture of the view through my window as a sign that I woke up and finished my 1 hour. Add hashtag #1HourAmEarlier to your stories or post so I can find you and we can try together.
This part is introduction to my morning routine. If you liked this post, please, share with friends and family.
Zaneta loves challenges so deciding about career path she has chosen typical male industry. Woman who codes. Every 1-2 years she lives in different part of the world. Gym dates is something what she specialised in. Healthy lifestyle, extreme sports and motorbikes have stolen her hear years ago.
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Job Title: Quality Assurance Officer
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
- A Degree in Engineering or Science course.
- 2 – 3 years of experience.
- Able to understand and analyze BRDs.
- Able to create a Test Plan
- Able to develop Test cases for all scenarios in the scope
- Able to provide test results after a test cycle
- Able to generate a test report
- Able to develop a traceability matrix
- Able to perform APItesting
- Able to perform performance tests
- Able to automate application frontends using katalon or selenium(any other tool can be considered)
- Able to generate a Bugs List and follow up with team members responsible for closing bugs
- Able to relate well with team members
- Able to create UAT test scripts and conduct UAT with clients.
Application Closing Date
31st August, 2021.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Need more jobs like this?
Get access to High-paying jobs near you. Remember information is power!
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Q: Hi I am 58 years old. Apparently you can get a lump sum of super before 60 if you have permanently retired. Can you still later look for work again? How do you prove you have permanently retired?
A: The question that you ask is in the top 10 questions that we receive at SuperGuide. The term ‘retirement’ and what that means for accessing super can mean many different things.
The short answer to your question is: generally yes, you can return to work after retiring, but at the time of retiring, the intention to retire must have been genuine. I explain this in more detail later in the response.
In the olden days, most women ‘retired’ when they married and men retired only when they turned 65. Indeed, until the 1980s, women could access their super benefits when they left work to have children because the presumption was that these women would never return to the workforce.
The world had changed a lot since then, and the concept of ‘retirement’ is now more fluid. Confusion over when someone is considered ‘retired’ has prompted dozens of questions from readers about retirement age, super access and returning to work after retiring. In this article, I answer the following three questions:
- Can I retire at any age?
- Can I return to work after retiring?
- Can I access my preserved benefits if I’m still working?
Can I retire at any age?
An individual can retire at any age if they so wish, but for the purposes of accessing super benefits, you must have reached your preservation age and retired. For anyone born before 1 July 1960, preservation age is 55. What this means is that a person who has retired and who is aged 55 or over, can access super benefits.
‘Retired’ for the purposes of accessing super benefits means the trustees of the individual’s super fund are reasonably satisfied that the person intends never to again become gainfully employed, either on a full-time or a part-time basis. Note that ‘part-time’ is defined as working up to 30 hours a week and a minimum of 10 hours a week.
In other words, if a person’s intention is to work fewer than 10 hours a week, then that person can be considered to be retired. In nearly all cases, the super fund will request that the retiring individual sign a declaration stating that he or she never intends to be gainfully employed for more than 10 hours per week.
Note: Reducing your hours with the same employer, rather than ceasing employment, is not considered retiring. I explain this scenario in the article Does changing to part-time at 60 count as retiring?
Can I return to work after retiring?
Signing a retirement declaration doesn’t preclude returning to full-time work, or deciding to work part-time, if a person’s circumstances change. The declaration relates to the person’s current intention at the time of retiring. Personal or financial circumstances can change requiring individuals to return to the workforce. For example, the devastating effect of the GFC (global financial crisis) on pension investments in Australia and worldwide has forced many retirees to return to work.
Some public sector funds have special rules relating to ‘retiring’ from the public service. If you belong to one of the older public sector funds, then you need to check with your super fund about your retirement options.
Can I access my preserved super benefits if I’m still working?
Generally no, but like all rules there are some exceptions:
- Reach the age of 65. If an individual has turned 65, he or she can access super benefits without retiring from the workforce. An individual can continue working full-time or part-time and start drawing down on super benefits.
- Take a TRIP. If you have reached your preservation age (currently 55), then you can start a transition-to-retirement pension – what I call a TRIP. You can withdraw a maximum of 10% of your account balance each year, and you’re not permitted to withdraw additional lump sums. When you retire, or turn 65 (whichever comes first) however, you can have more flexibility when accessing your super benefits.
- If you’re aged 60 or over, and cease an employment arrangement. If an individual resigns or otherwise ceases an employment arrangement after they have turned 60, then the rules permit the individual to access preserved super benefits. The rationale behind this exception is that most individuals ceasing employment at this age are more likely to be retiring than returning to the workforce.
Note one: Merely turning 60 doesn’t give you automatic access to your preserved super benefits. You must satisfy a condition of release, as discussed above and in the article Accessing super early: 12 legal reasons to cash your super.
Note two: If any of your super benefits are ‘unrestricted non-preserved’ benefits, then you can access these benefits at any time. I explain non-preserved benefits in the article Unrestricted access to super, sometimes.
Copyright for this article belongs to Trish Power, and cannot be reproduced without express and specific consent.
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And Joseph fell upon his father's face
Laid his own face to the cold face and pale cheeks of his dead father, out of his tender affection for him, and grief at parting with him; this shows that Joseph had been present from the time his father sent for him, and all the while he had been blessing the tribes, and giving orders about his funeral:
and wept upon him;
which to do for and over the dead is neither unlawful nor unbecoming, provided it is not carried to excess, as the instances of David, Christ, and others show:
and kissed him;
taking his farewell of him, as friends used to do, when parting and going a long journey, as death is. This was practised by Heathens, who had a notion that the soul went out of the body by the mouth, and they in this way received it into themselves: so Augustus Caesar died in the kisses of Livia, and Drusius in the embraces and kisses of Caesar F23. Joseph no doubt at this time closed the eyes of his father also, as it is said he should, and as was usual; see ( Genesis 46:4 ) .
F23 Vid. Kirchman. de Funer. Rom. l. 1. c. 5.
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Hey, thanks for inviting me to your wedding that’s taking place on the other side of the country. I was just looking at this pile of money here and wondering what the hell I was going to do with it. But now I guess I’ll spend it on your wedding because that’s what’s important to me, not paying my bills.
You rule Expedia.com! Only $750 for a plane ticket? If websites were people you’d be my best friend because you never try to take advantage of me. And hotel.com, you’re my other pal because you’re only charging me $500 to stay at the Embassy Suites for three days where I’ll sleep under covers that are infested with some derelict’s sperm and his girlfriend’s vagina bugs. Two hundred more of my dollars to Mr. Tux so I can look like a complete asshole on a team of assholes and I’m on my way. Oh wait, I almost forgot the gift! What am I some kind of cheap-o?
Weddings are fun.
You HAVE to get married in life, I mean, otherwise, what the hell’s the point, right? I don’t want to be alone at the end of the day without someone giving me instructions on what I should do next. Who will remind me to take the garbage out or that I’m not a good person? Also, spending TWICE the money as a single person and buying two of everything just feels right. I need 2 cars, 2 cell phone bills and 2 different kinds of shampoo because evidently “you can’t use Pert Plus on a woman’s hair.” If I wasn’t spending I’d be saving, and what good would my money be doing if it were sitting in a bank somewhere providing me with financial security? Gotta put my cash to work.
After I arrive in town for the wedding, I enjoy a complimentary car service from the Groom’s awkward cousin who won’t stop talking to me about how much he loves weed. He’s thirty-seven.
Hotel check-in time. As I approach the counter, I think about my odds as to whether or not the hotel has fucked up my room. If I had to bet, I’d say there’s a 90% chance they’ll be sticking me in a smoking room with two double beds. Okay, more like 100%. While I’m at the counter, one of my friends thinks it would be a great idea if we shared a room, considering we’re thirty and he’s the cheapest motherfucker ever. I pretend I have a cold and threaten to get him sick if we go splitsies. But he insists and it looks like we’re gonna be the two weirdos at the wedding who are “sleeping” in the same room.
Before I know it, we’re off to the wedding rehearsal. What wedding would be a success without a successful Wedding Rehearsal? This is where you practice how you’re going to walk in a straight line for twenty-five yards, stand in place for the duration of the ceremony and then walk back. Certainly nothing you could figure out on the eve of the wedding. We do it six times.
This is followed by the Rehearsal Dinner which I’m not so sure is necessary. I’ve been eating dinner since 1980 and I’ve gotten pretty good at it. You could say I’m a natural. But the best part of this event is talking to the bride and groom’s relatives for hours on end about absolutely nothing. The key to a successful conversation here is to keep bringing up how you “can’t believe they’re actually getting married.” Whenever there is a lull in the conversation, just come right back to that thesis. Neither of you will really mean it, but it will fill the void of having to awkwardly stare at each other with nothing to say.
Also, if you stumble upon a funny joke that works like “I can’t believe he’s getting married either, I thought he was gay!”, just keep using it with everyone you talk to. Most people are so clueless they’ll think it’s the first time you said it. And if not, who cares? They’re probably just happy someone’s talking to them in the first place.
Speeches are a great way to share the inner-most personal feelings you’ve had bottled up inside you for years but were previously too sober to express. It’s also an opportunity to embarrass the shit out of yourself. If you’re the best man, don’t write a speech. In fact, don’t do any preparation whatsoever. Just get wasted and wing it. Studies show that people actually prefer to hear speeches that are essentially one long run-on sentence and make absolutely no sense at all:
…Well…we are all here for this…blessed union…of holy matrimony…joining two people together…intertwined with one and other, living their lives together in love, both each other headed…for wedded…bliss….(burp)….
Way to come prepared, buddy.
The only thing better than a live band at a reception is a Wedding DJ. Wedding DJ’s are people who own iPods. They make sure your wedding is a hit, by standing around the iPod and preventing it from getting unplugged during the celebration. Not everybody knows how to plug those things back in. They’re confusing! USB, MP3, GGG, I’m old, I don’t get it!
When I was a kid, I was always told I should wait an hour after eating before going swimming. Well, this is definitely NOT the case when there’s a dance floor involved and you just finished eating a three-course meal at a wedding. After you suck down your meal and you’ve fill your stomach to the brim with rolls, cake and alcohol, get your bloated ass on the dance floor for the Electric Slide and start working off those calories. If this causes you to briefly vomit in your own mouth you’re doing it right.
People never know how much to give for a wedding gift and my opinion on this is you should give people zero. What I like to do is send them a card with a photocopy of all my expenses for the week and a pink Post-it note on top that reads, “You’re Welcome, Assholes.”
It really doesn’t matter what you give people for a gift because whatever you give them, they give you right back. It’s the Golden Rule of Weddings: “Give people the exact amount of money they gave you, not a penny more, or a penny less and please don’t ask questions about why that makes no sense.”
The other option is to “forget the gift” on the day of the actual wedding. People say you have a year to give one, but you know what else takes a year? Forgetting who gave you gifts in the first place.
I guess that means I have 359 days to go…. I hope no one brings it up….
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The Importance of Renter’s Insurance: Making the Most of Your Investment
Why Renters Insurance?
Imagine this. Your beloved cat demolishes your window screens. Your best friend visits your apartment, and as you two collide, you break her favorite necklace, vase and computer all at once. Anything can happen on rented property. What is one to do in these situations? The answer is to receive a renter’s insurance quote.
Renters insurance is both a sensible and economical investment. While owning a home is the pinnacle of success for most families, renters need security too. Renting, of course, has its share of upsides and benefits. For example, renters are not responsible for property taxes, upkeep or maintenance either.
So, what is the point of receiving a renter’s insurance quote? If a disaster occurs, and your belongings perish, renter’s insurance will cover your losses. As you may know, the homeowner’s insurance will not cover your property damage if disaster strikes. However, a renter’s policy will cover losses incurred by smoke, natural disasters, theft, and more. Renters policy quotes can help you assess the type and amount of coverage you need.
Below, you will find a detailed list of renter’s insurance benefits. As you will note, this covers many risks, including vandalism and theft.
What are the Benefits of a Renter’s Insurance Quote?
#1 Medical Costs
Your renter’s policy may cover injuries incurred by home guests. Suppose a visitor breaks a limb and requires immediate medical attention. With renter’s insurance, you may cover their medical bills, within reason. Generally speaking, policies can cover between $1000 and $5000 in medical costs.
#2 Legal Expenses
Let’s suppose a guest is injured in your rented home or apartment. Without renter’s coverage, you will be subject to serious legal fees down the line. Particularly if you are sued in court. However, with renter’s insurance, you may cover legal costs and liability as well. So, choose your liability coverage accordingly.
#3 Dog Bites
Even the sweetest canine can be unpredictable. When dogs inflict injuries on humans, they do so either deliberately, playfully or accidentally. In either case, you bear full responsibility for your dog’s behavior. If your dog injures a guest you will be liable for all injury related costs. So, inquire about renters insurance quotes to learn more about this.
#4 Kid-related Troubles
If your child inflicts property damage on a neighbor’s belongings, vehicle or furniture, you may be covered under your renter’s policy. Renter’s insurance prepares you for even the most unlikely situations in the future. Both children and adults cause purposeful and unintentional damage on property all the time. It is best to plan in advance for these disasters.
#5 Rented Items
If you destroy any rented property, renter’s insurance will fund repairs or replacements. Inquire about renters insurance quotes to assess how this factors into your policy.
#6 Hotel Accommodations
Sometimes, hotel accommodations are needed after a major disaster. If your rented home or apartment is destroyed or uninhabitable after a disaster, then renter’s insurance may cover your hotel stay.
What to Consider
When choosing a policy, you should consider the following tips. Every policy holder has unique coverage needs. For this reason, you should establish limits that are consistent with your needs as a property dweller. Another recommendation is to specify the coverage you need. While some policies cover the initial retail value of damaged or destroyed items, other plans cover the current retail value.
How to Choose Quality Renter’s Insurance
The renter’s coverage you choose will depend on your individual circumstances. Suppose you and your roommate have agreed to partake in the same policy. If you agree to share a policy with your roommate, you must first set parameters. It is important that you and your roommate discuss how to allocate payments and premiums first. Discussing these issues in advance will prevent conflict down the line.
Suppose you are an individual renter who lives on a fixed budget. This is when its crucial to receive a renter’s insurance quote. There are many routes you can take to reduce your policy premiums. It is important to remain both frugal and sensible as well. For example, an affordable insurance plan that denies valuable coverage in certain areas (e.g. no disaster coverage in a state vulnerable to hurricanes) would not be sufficient. With this in mind, you can still reduce your premiums by increasing your deductible. When raising your deductible, consider how much money you are willing to shell out individually.
If your items or belongings were destroyed, would you prefer brand new, modern replacements? Of course, you would. Make sure your policy offers replacement cost coverage to ensure your replacements are equal in value to your damaged possessions.
Many renters own expensive, valuable items, including jewels and diamonds. Always consider your valuables when personalizing your coverage plan.
If you like to play it safe, then consider investing in supplemental liability insurance. If you are unsatisfied with the bare minimum, then raise your liability coverage to suit your needs. Ultimately, this will protect you from lawsuits, bodily damage costs, and property damage costs as well.
As you can see, no policy is identical. The plan you choose should suit your budget, lifestyle, possessions and living situation.
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The purpose of this course is to train divers with the necessary procedures, knowledge and skills to safely scuba dive with a full-face mask. A full-face mask provides the opportunity for effective underwater communication with other full-face mask divers. Alternatively, it can be a great way to insulate your face during a cold-water dive, such as ice diving.
Who this course is for?
The certified diver looking for more information about the different full-face masks available and how to determine the correct one to meet their needs
PADI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent minimum age 18
What you can expect to learn
- Advantages and disadvantages of diving with a full-face mask
- Types of full-face masks
- Maintenance, servicing, and care for the mask
- Switching between the full-face mask and alternate air source with regular dive mask
- Equalizing techniques
- Clearing the mask from full and partial floods
Pool Training: With a qualified instructor, students will complete one pool training session and try both the Interspiro Aga Divator and Kirby Morgan Exo 26 full face masks
Course fee $250
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Bastard gumwood (Commidendrum rotundifolium)
Classified as Extinct in the Wild (EW) on the IUCN Red List (1).
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IUCN Red List (April, 2009)
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Tyrant, a show set in the Middle East, revolves around a political family filled with power, conflict and destruction. While focusing on the three main characters, FX wanted to portray those themes through architecture, art and cultural motifs found in this region.
We researched different architecture, statues and art and found that a graffiti street art approach was the best solve. It resulted in three different pieces that focused on the main characters while also hinting at season 3’s plot through the ruggedness of the architecture and graffiti style.
The pieces were used as wild posting tactics, which capitalized on the graffiti style of the art.
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Nick Lamb has been inducted into the De Smet Jesuit High School’s Hall of Fame. A 1976 graduate of the St. Louis County boys school, Nick and three other business and community leaders were inducted during ceremonies Thursday night.
Nick was introduced by his former teacher, Rev. Michael Garanzini, S.J., former president of Loyola University of Chicago.
For Nick, it was a special moment.
“I am honored and humbled by this recognition. I was particularly pleased that my old friend, Father Garanzini, could make time for my introduction and my 90-year-old mother was able to attend as well,” he said.
All four inductees were presented with portraits that will be displayed permanently in the Hall of Fame.
The new inductees join just 22 other graduates in the school’s Hall of Fame, including U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey, veteran sports reporter Frank Cusumano, and Mizzou and Indiana Pacers standout Steve Stipanovich.
The Hall of Fame recognizes individuals for personal achievements and contributions, including “bringing recognition and prominence to De Smet Jesuit and themselves through their professions, through academic or athletic accomplishments, community service or achievements in the arts and sciences.”
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Karl has 40 years as a machinist, 25 years as a gunsmith and 15 years experience working on competition shotguns. He has been factory trained at Blaser, Kreighoff, Kolar, Guerini, Zoli, and Ljutic. Karl is also proficient with Browning, Beretta, Perazzi, Remington, Winchester and most other brands of guns. Let us put our experience to work for you. Our employees are friendly and will be there to help you every step of the way.
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Filling out the reams of paperwork that is normally required for a chapter 7 or 13 bankruptcy filing can mean hours and hours of time. Commonly you must include information that gives the bankruptcy court a complete picture of your financial picture, including debts owed, property owned, and income. There is a provision for those that need to act in a hurry, however. Read on to learn more about emergency bankruptcy filing.
Do You Need an Emergency Filing?
Many people filing bankruptcy are seeking an immediate legal avenue of relief from debt collections, foreclosures, evictions and repossession. The automatic stay provides this relief. Once filed in court, all debt collection must cease and certain other forms of relief is granted for those in danger of losing property.
An Emergency Bankruptcy Package
A portion of the usual full bankruptcy package is completed and filed, normally requiring much less time. Required forms include:
*Creditor's Matrix: a complete listing of all debt owed (banks, credit cards, people, etc).
*Form B-1: Just the first three pages of the petition.
*Form B-21: Social Security number statement.
*Exhibit D: Education statement. Although credit counseling and budget education is required, you may leave it out if you can how good cause to do so. The reason you are filing for an emergency bankruptcy, such as being deprived of a vehicle or place to live, would be considered a good cause. If the bankruptcy accepts your emergency filing without Exhibit D, you must still get the required educational courses before the bankruptcy can become final.
Pay the Filing Fee
For those in dire financial straights, coming up with the $335.00 for a chapter 7 or the $310.00 for chapter 13 filing is likely to be a challenge. Form 3-A should be filed to request that the filing fees be paid using an installment plan, or Form 3B to request that the fees be waived entirely.
The Next Steps
1. Normally, your creditors will be notified by mail of your filing, which puts them on notice to stop all collection actions. You may not have several days to spare, however, if you are in immediate danger of losing property. Contact each creditor by phone and provide them with the bankruptcy case number (and your bankruptcy attorney's phone number, if pertinent).
2. You must complete the remainder of your bankruptcy filing requirements within 14 days of your emergency filing.
3. Ensure that you complete the required educational classes.
For those who desperately need it, an emergency bankruptcy filing could help preserve your property and give you more time to make arrangements. For more assistance, contact a bankruptcy attorney like Flippin Thomas C as soon as possible.
Thank you for visiting my website. My name is Melanie. I am a 31-year-old woman who recently found myself unable to pay my bills following a devastating divorce. I created this website because I know there are a lot of misconceptions out there about filing for bankruptcy when you have student loans. I read about many of these misconceptions when doing my own research. Ultimately, I hired an attorney who helped me learn the truth. If you have loans, you may be able to get them discharged, though it is challenging and rare. If you are drowning in debt and have student loans as well, I hope my website helps you learn about bankruptcy and how student loans may affect it.
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PDF + Graphs = MOBI + No Graphs + No Formatting?!
It seems that I cannot create an accurate MOBI from my PDF files because many of my ebooks have graphs in them and instead of taking the graph as an image, it takes the digits within the graph as text,
is there anyway of converting said graph automatically into an image so that the outputted MOBI file will correctly portray graphs?
When I download a sample of the same book from Amazon, the graphs are perfect and the formatting is elegant. It seems that the PDF converter just strips it of all its nice formatting into plain text and then if attaches any images it finds in their respective places.
Would a different file format be a wiser choice - DOC, HTML?
Note: I have been converting to MOBI from PDF with MobiPocket Creator, can someone suggest an alternative even shareware software that more accurate PDF files?
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Hey friends! I’m popping in to let you know about THE sale happening right now! The Shopbop sale is officially in progress and (1) it’s too good not to share and (2) it only happens once(maybe twice) each year! If you’re looking to invest in some staple pieces for spring, this sale is your best bet!
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Listen to a panel of experts and interact in breakout rooms to further engage with technology as well as i.c.stars’ community of program interns and alumni. You’ll also get a chance to see a presentation from i.c.stars alumni.
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Myths About Workplace Violence
There are several commonly held beliefs about workplace violence and many factors that may contribute to a violent act in the workplace.
Myth 1: Events happen out of the blue
Not true. As attention to workplace violence has grown over the last two decades, experts have largely agreed that responding to the problem requires more than attention to just a physical attack. Homicide and physical violence are on a continuum that also includes domestic/intimate partner violence, stalking, stated threats, bullying, and disrespectful and inappropriate behaviors. When a violent act is displayed by an employee or someone close to an employee, it is likely that a warning sign reached the workplace beforehand in the form of observable behavior.
Myth 2: Workplace violence always involves weapons and is graphic in nature
Not true. Because of the extensive media attention on violence in the workplace and mass shootings, many people mistakenly believe that these sensational events are the only ones that occur. Quite the opposite is true. The majority of incidents that employees and managers must deal with on a daily basis are lesser cases of assaults, domestic/intimate partner violence, stalking, stated threats, harassment, and physical and emotional abuse.
Myth 3: Workplace violence is rare and wouldn’t happen here
Not true. At Johns Hopkins, there have been situations of disruptive and potentially threatening behavior reported and assessed as part of our commitment to making the Johns Hopkins community safer. As part of this ongoing effort, we are increasing our education and outreach efforts with the goal of identifying and preventing these behaviors earlier.
Myth 4: Someone else is already taking care of the situation; the situation will resolve itself
Not true. Johns Hopkins is committed to providing a safe, healthy, and secure workplace and an environment free from physical violence, threats, bullying, and intimidation. Because of this, and as part of the response to the concerns surrounding workplace violence, policies, and response processes have been established to prevent and intervene in situations that pose the potential for violence. However, a critical component of the success of these policies and procedures is awareness. Awareness + Action = Prevention. A guiding principle of awareness is “if you see something, say something." If you don’t, maybe no one else will.
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Subject: Re: nfs is hell
To: None <email@example.com>
From: David Mazieres <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 11/01/1995 18:23:41
> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 02:45:29 -0800
> From: Robert Dobbs <email@example.com>
> Sender: firstname.lastname@example.org
> Precedence: list
> X-Loop: current-users@NetBSD.ORG
> Are there any suggestions for 'nice' nfs settings that don't lock up
> the machine when a server crashes? Even nqnfs locks solid on the attempt
> to kill the process. Where to start to fix the code to not be so evil?
Have you tried mounting with the intr or soft options (e.g. mount -t
nfs -o -i,-s)? Check out "man mount_nfs" for more details.
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where to put a sidewinder pickup?
So i have a new bass project. Maple Precision bass body and maple neck. That's about all precision bass on that bass. I'm putting a graphtech piezo bridge to it.
The pickups i'm using are two
sidewinder pickups which are "basic" soapbar size. I'm putting one into the precision pickup position, cause there is a routed hole already. But where to but the other one? I thought about putting them right next to each other on the precision pickup position for the reason there is a hole already. But how would that sound? I guess not that good.
The pickups are going to be passive. And no onboard eq or nothing for the magnetic pickups.
Since you already know where you want one pickup, maybe it'd be a good idea to make a mounting rig for the "non-precision position" pickup and slide it up and down the body to see where it'd sound good for you.
Found this on The Gear Page:
Basically, suspend the pickups over the strings and move them around to see how they work best. Since you're sure you want one pickup in the P position, mount that to the body and float the other one around on the rig. Feel free to set up the wiring for it so you can test how the V/V/T-V/B/T-3/V/T or whatever control set you work.
There is one small problem with your plan about no onboard EQ. In order to make the pickups blend as well as possible (without one pickup sucking the tone out of the other), pickups have to be matched by impedance (within the order of magnitude).
Piezo pickups have an impedance an order of magnitude above magnetics, and magnetics have an impedance an order of magnitude above any buffered pickup. (If you don't already know, a buffer is transparent, EQ-less preamp that lowers the impedance of anything fed to it).
To avoid tone suck, you have a few options:
I forgot to mention that i have a buffer for the piezo pickup.
That idea about the mounting rig is awesome. Thank you very much.
Since you have the piezo bridge I would go up near the neck (kinda like an Allen Woody with middle and far neck).
I struggled with mods on my Spectorcore, which is a mag/piezo mix, for quite awhile. Eventually I put in a Bartolini pre with the matching Bart buffer. Now the mag and piezo blend perfectly.
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No: 84, 1 April 2019, Press Release Regarding The Visit Of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu To The United States On The Occasion Of The Nato Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
H.E. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey will visit the United States to participate in the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Washington D.C. on 3-4 April 2019, to be held on the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the Alliance.
At the meeting, Allied Ministers of Foreign Affairs will discuss the importance of the Transatlantic bond as well as of allied solidarity and coherence. They are also expected to underline the significance of preserving NATO’s ability to respond to contemporary security challenges, building on past experiences.
During his visit to the United States, Minister Çavuşoğlu will hold bilateral meetings in Washington, D.C. and gather with Turkish-American community, business circles, local authorities as well as representatives of the Muslim community in New York, Miami and North Carolina.
Minister Çavuşoğlu will also participate in the UN General Assembly meeting and adress the Assembly on the occasion of the presentation of a resolution upon the initiative of a group of countries led by Turkey to condemn the recent terrorist attacks in New Zealand against Muslims and to take necessary measures against such acts.
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Charles Ray “Charlie” Vash, 79, Bicknell, passed away Monday, September 24, 2018 at his residence. Charlie was born April 28, 1939, in Bicknell, the son of George and Alena (George) Vash. A 1957 Bruceville High School graduate, he owned and operated Vash Electronics, then was a self-employed computer repairman. He was known for his exceptional musical talent as a saxophone player and played in many bands locally. The latest being Shawn and Charlie that played in nursing homes in the surrounding areas. Charlie was a lifetime member of the Bicknell Elks, the French Club, and Vincennes VFW Post 1157. He served in the United States Air Force as a radar technician, having attained the rank of Airman First Class.
Charlie is survived by his children, Andrea (Steve) Hart of Bicknell, George (DeAnna) Vash of Bicknell, Monica (Billy) Smith of Bruceville, C.J. Vash of Burbank, CA and Michael (Ann) Vash of Vincennes; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; brother, George Vash of Bicknell; as well as several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
At Charlie’s request, he will be cremated and a Celebration of Life service will be held at a later date. Fredrick and Son McClure-Utt Funeral Home Bicknell Chapel assisted the family with arrangements. The family is establishing a musical scholarship in Charlie’s name, further information will be announced at a later time. Online condolences may be made at www.fredrickandson.com.
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Leadership is always the catalyst of great success.
Over the past fifteen years Ardagh, the Irish glass bottle maker, has gone from relative obscurity, with operations in just Ireland and the UK, to being on the verge of becoming the second largest glass bottle maker in the world and the largest in the US. That will happen if its latest deal, to acquire Verallia North American for $1.7bn from Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, clears regulatory approval. Ardagh had annualised sales of €4.1bn to the end of September 2012 and that will grow to €5.3bn if this deal goes ahead. Ardagh’s annualised earnings, to September 2012, were €682m.
Not only has Ardagh “rolled-up” a number of glass bottle manufacturing businesses in recent years, but it has diversified into metal packaging too, with the acquisition of Impress Group in 2011, so that sales are now evenly split between its glass and metal divisions. Under the leadership of Paul “The Cooler” Coulson, it has grown steadily by acquisition on the back of his ability to raise something like $5bn in debt during these tough times. Ardagh has made 11 acquisitions over the past four years, with three “biggies”, if you include this one, which have transformed the business. It is also now talking of a US IPO in 2013.
So, how did this happen?
- Leadership: Paul Coulson is clearly a pretty impressive businessman and leader. He has been described as “hugely tenacious with great foresight”. He not only raised the debt, but he delivered each time, so that he has been able to repeat the trick.
- Deal Competence: Either Mr Coulson, or his advisors, appear to have real expertise and competence in acquisitions, although on the basis of others’ recent experience (Rio Tinto, Caterpillar, and even expert-acquirer Pearson, being chastening examples of where acquisitions can so easily go wrong, particularly for those in a hurry to diversify) we may need to wait a few years before that is really confirmed.
- Demand: The demand for glass bottles and tin cans, for the food and drink sectors, is pretty steady and predictable, so overall sector demand risk is low.
- Scale & Scope: The biggest demand comes from suppliers who operate internationally, so there is likely to be scope benefits in developing a matching supplier “footprint”. Because of the geographical distribution of key accounts there are probably scale benefits of being biggest too. Many of the key clients use both glass and metal packaging and there are probably scale and scope benefits of providing both.
- Timing: Life has not been great for the glass sector in this period so there was a window of opportunity to acquire unwanted assets and to consolidate subscale businesses. It applied financial leverage at the right time.
Here we had: a sector ripe for consolidation; where demand was stable; and there were underexploited benefits of both scale and scope. Fifteen years ago along comes a man with the vision and the skill, to not only get people to follow him, but also to lend him the money to do something about it. Not many people can do that. Leadership is always the catalyst for such impressive undertakings.
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Let Libya fight its own battles
Apparently Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Ambassador Susan Rice and Samantha Powers, a national security advisor who made the case to the president for this attack on Libya, hold all the testosterone in the Obama Administration.
Their recommendation and his decision flew in the face of his best military advisors. When we commit U.S. forces we need to do it with a clear objective that has our national security interests in mind. We do not get oil from Libya, we do not trade with them and they have nothing we want.
It looks like we are throwing the prestige and power of America into this because we can, and that makes us look like a world power bully. People only respect what they fought hard for. This war is in Europe’s best interest — let them fight for it.
The protection of the citizens of Libya is up to the Libyans; it will be a costly and hard fought freedom, but they will better appreciate the outcome. If we hand it to them they will come to resent us.
The Arab League will not stand behind us for very long as Gadhafi is an Arab and a Muslim and that trumps backing the U.S. When we are ready to hand this fight over, our friends will be headed for the exit.
My biggest fear would be that we start this war and walk away from the people of Libya. I do not agree with this attack, but I do want us to win it now that we are in it.
I imagine the president is hoping it will be over soon, but I don’t think so. He has mishandled Afghanistan, he may yet mess up in Iraq, and he is struggling with how to do this.
JEAN LOUIS SOUCY
Technology use contributes to traffic woes
Today there is a conflict with our transportation traditions and the high-tech devices we have on us and use at all times.
I have yet to drive through Savannah without passing a multitude of people using a phone, music device, or even TVs with little regard to the road in front of them.
Why do people use such potentially fatal devices? I believe it is for the convenience.
Instead of having to tote a mess of CDs around, a person can have access to thousands of songs in their musical library on a single tiny mp3 player.
Rather than call a friend to inform them of something trivial, a simple text sent while driving suffices for many people.
It may seem cool to have a TV on your dashboard but how cool will it really be when you wreck and threaten to or take another person’s life because you were watching the football game and not the road?
How convenient will it be when you are left carless because you decided that choosing a good song was vastly more important than paying attention to the road? I believe this is one of the largest problems in Savannah.
Nuclear power not dangerous enough to halt development
After the earthquake and resulting tsunami, nuclear fears are high in Japan. Nuclear power plants that were damaged in the earthquake have been close to melting down, but they have not. The disaster that could be has not been so far.
The tragedy that occurred in Japan is horrible, but I don’t think that it should frighten us away from the possibility of nuclear power. I believe nuclear power is a lot safer than it was when it was in the beginning and is safer than many people think.
I hope the scare in Japan won’t deter us from the nuclear power alternative. I just think “look what happened to Japan” is not a valid argument.
Gas price hike requires government action
This letter is written in response to the March 8 article “Gas prices more than just oil.” With gas prices going up, I think the government should set a limit to how much one should pay for gas prices.
It is ridiculous to have to pay this much for gas and to watch it climb up 10 to 20 cents in a week. We have enough oil stored away in our own country and we should start tapping into it until we can start buying cheaper oil from somewhere else.
JAMES LAWTON HUMPHRIES
Other phyicians do sinus surgery
I was writing in regards to your article “New surgery allows sinusitis sufferers to breathe easier” (March 15).
In the future, I would hope you would investigate this topic further before writing an article on it. Savannah has national leaders in nasal and sinus surgery.
I am in a practice with Dr. Frederick Kuhn called Georgia Nasal and Sinus Institute. We are the only fellowship-trained rhinologists between Jacksonville and Augusta, and this was arguably the first private practice dedicated to nasal and sinus disease in the country.
When the concept of the balloon dilating catheter for sinus surgery was considered by Acclarent in 2005, our physicians were integral in the design, development and application of this technology.
We have used this technology on hundreds of patients, unlike the “dozens” referenced in your article. This technology is applicable in many patients, but is not necessarily a new procedure in and of itself.
It is a minimally invasive way to do what we have been doing for years — that is, to enlarge sinus openings and allow them to function better. Even standard sinus surgery these days does not involve “painful scraping and nose packing,” as referenced in the subhead of the article.
Overall, as a native Savannahian, I believe in our medical community.
The Georgia Nasal and Sinus Institute takes care of patients from across the country. Our physicians have dedicated their careers to nasal and sinus disease.
CHRISTOPHER T. MELROY, M.D.
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Check-in time is 14:00 and check-out time is 12:00 at Smart Suites.
Yes, Smart Suites offers free Wi-Fi.
Smart Suites is 19.1 km from Bangkok Don Mueang Intl. Smart Suites is 22.2 km from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi.
KAYAK scours the web for all room deals available at Smart Suites in Bangkok and lets you compare them to find the best rate for your stay. Many different travel sites will offer discounts or deals at different times for rooms at Smart Suites and KAYAK will provide you with prices from a huge range of travel sites. That means that you can always find a great deal for Smart Suites.
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A new pathway to permanent residence for in-home caregivers just opened in Canada. The Government of Canada recently announced the Interim Pathway for Caregivers initiative. From March 4, 2019, to June 4, 2019, the government will accept applications from caregivers who have work experience in Canada as a home child care provider or home support worker.
Requirements to participate in the Interim Pathway for Caregivers
To be eligible to apply, the caregiver must meet certain requirements on status in Canada, work experience, language levels, and education. Also, the candidates must declare that they have the intention to reside outside the province of Quebec.
Status in Canada
Regarding the status in Canada, the applicant must have a valid work permit at the time of the application. It’s also possible to apply while waiting on a decision for a work permit extension or if the candidate has applied to restore your status as a worker.
Candidates who currently work under the Live-in Caregiver Program aren’t eligible for the Interim Pathway for Caregivers. The candidate is also not eligible if the application to extend the work permit or to restore the status as a worker was refused.
Caregivers who wish to apply for the Interim Pathway for Caregivers must have had experience as a home childcare provider or a home support worker or a combination of the two. They must have gained this experience while working on a full-time basis in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program for at least 12 months.
The job description for home child care providers must meet the description of the National Occupational Classification (NOC) Group 4411. They must have cared for children under the age of 18, in their own home or in their employer’s home. While the job description for home support workers must meet the description of NOC Group 4412.
No work experience before November 30, 2014 will count for the Interim Pathway for Caregivers. Neither will count work experiences acquired while the caregiver was a full-time student. The application dossier must contain proof of valid work experience for this program.
Language levels and education
Candidates must prove to have at least Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) 5 for all 4 language skills: writing, reading, listening and speaking. For the English language, the Government of Canada accepts CELPIP-G or IELTS General Training. While for the French language, only TEF is recognized by the government.
Also, the applicant must hold a Canadian high school diploma or a non-Canadian educational diploma, certificate or credential that’s equal to a Canadian secondary school (high school) diploma. If the candidate doesn’t have a Canadian high school diploma or higher, he or she must get an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) from an approved organization.
How to apply for Interim Pathway for Caregivers?
If you meet the requirements and wish to apply for Permanent Residence under the Interim Pathway for Caregivers, Mercan Group will be pleased to help. Mercan has decades of experience in caregiver recruitment and has successfully processed thousands of Permanent Residence applications.
The Interim Pathway for Caregivers is a temporary opportunity. Canada will only accept applications from March to June 2019. Don’t wait until it is too late to inquire. Contact Mercan today! Send your CV to email@example.com or call +1 780 638 1510 to get more information.
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The Best Selection of Delta Faucets in New Jersey
America’s Faucet Innovation Leader
When it comes to your home or office, the need for accessing water is vital. Delta Faucet Company has made a point over the last 50 years to provide the utmost strength and durability in this important area. Their philosophy centers on the idea that there is a better way to experience water.
All models are manufactured to meet federal, regional and local specifications, undergoing over 100 hand inspections before leaving the factory.
At General Plumbing Supply, we are proud to offer up one of the best selections of Delta faucets in New Jersey.
A Brand That Pushes the Limits
Delta Faucets sponsors exceptional events within the media and their industry, such as the HGTV Dream Home 2015. Additionally, Delta faucets are the chose product of the Southern Living Test Kitchen. The brand remains committed to pushing the boundaries of what to expect from your kitchen, bathroom, and utilities design and value deliverance.
Such work doesn’t go unrecognized, as Delta Faucet Company was named a 2013 WaterSense® Manufacturer Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Types of Delta Kitchen Faucets
Whether your focus is on entertaining, keeping things accessible, or saving space, there’s a Delta faucet that’s right for your setup. Faucet types include:
Your Guide to Smart Features for Delta Kitchen Faucets
Leading the way in excellence and engineering, Delta faucets come equipped with a number of different powerful features. Certain models come equipped with features like:
Apart from these great features, a wealth of additional features exist for the over 30 different Delta faucet collections that you can choose from.
Types of Delta Bathroom Faucets
Innovative thinking doesn’t have to end at the bathroom. Delta offers up a full line of bathroom sink faucets, showerheads, bathtub faucets and other bathroom products to help make your experience more enjoyable.
- Shower Heads – a variety of styles in single–setting or three-setting.
- Hand Showers – with soft drench, massaging, and full body settings.
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- Delta’s Jetted Shower™ – the only semi-custom shower in the industry.
Additional products include mouthing accessories, hoses, tub spouts, adapters, and more.
Your Guide to Smart Features for Delta Bathroom Faucets
The full water experience starts with aesthetics, but it truly comes to life when in use.
- H20kinetic® Technology
- Delta’s proprietary technology creates an unparalleled showering experience. An internal system within the shower head adjusts water speed and droplet size to create the feeling of more water while still utilizing the same rate.
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- An intuitive system that starts the water flow once your hand moves within 4’’ of the faucet.
Where to Buy Delta Faucets in New Jersey
If your planning a major kitchen or bathroom redesign, you want to choose a faucet that can stand the test of type; both in terms of style and in terms of usage. A Delta faucet is sure to be a great value, but selecting the correct model for your home or office matters just as much. So where in New Jersey can you hope to get both a great selection and great service to go along with it?
Our experienced showroom team at General Plumbing Supply can assist you in making the very best choice for your specific situation. With locations throughout the New Jersey and metropolitan area, our expertise is never out of reach. And thanks to modern advancement, we can assist you in your purchase no matter where you are located. Give us a call to learn how you can save on utilities, get the most from your investment, and make the best possible selection for your next big project.
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Research carried out by Dataloft shows, there are a handful of main reasons homeowners decide to move to a new house.
37% of responders just wanted somewhere more prominent, and this turned out to be the main reason. Looking back, this makes sense. Generally, only retirees or separating couples wish to Thank you somewhere smaller. Most families accumulate belongings that fill their homes. Their children get bigger and need more space.
An alternative to Moving Home in Doncaster to create space would be to raise capital via a remortgage to build an extension. Other options would be to turn a garage into a home office or gym or convert the loft. This type of improvements can sometimes add much value to your home when you come to sell it in the forthcoming.
24% of respondents were looking for a better area. It could be that when they were First Time Buyers options in Doncaster were limited due to budget. Chances are they are now earning more money and would prefer to live in a more affluent neighbourhood. Another primary reason for the moving area is the choice of schools available to their children. People get particularly choosy about the schools on offer when their eldest child is due to move up to secondary school.
Finally, 17% of home movers are looking to move closer to friends or family. We see this often occurs when couples are looking to start a family, which isn’t always a case. If both applicants work, then the chances are they would look to lean on their parents for help with childcare. Private nurseries are getting expensive, and in the early years, no free hours are available.
Buying for the very first time is a no-brainer for many people. Most would instead buy than rent, especially when the monthly cost of doing so is roughly the same (or sometimes less). Moving tends to be a trickier decision, in any case. There is the emotional element of leaving behind your first home and the pros and cons of moving versus extending your current property.
If this sounds like you then you might benefit from a Free Consultation with one of our Mortgage Advisors. We can help you compare the costs of raising money for home improvements versus the costs of moving. We will calculate your maximum borrowing capacity and give you a quote on monthly payments so you can think about your next step.
Talking to a local Mortgage Advisor is a popular option contract us because our Mortgage Advisors in Doncaster have good knowledge of the local area and share with you what options other clients have been taking recently.
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Issue Position: Interpret the Constitution in its Original Intent
In the last fifty years the Supreme Court and the lower courts have ignored precedents established by the courts in the previous one hundred and fifty years. It should not be the purpose of the Supreme Court to make law but to determine if the laws made are Constitutional. However, courts now are ignoring the decisions made by the men who knew the original intent of the Constitution in favor of social engineering and political correctness, which is clearly not the prerogative of the courts. Congress has the authority to prohibit the courts from hearing certain cases and should do so immediately.
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|Publication number||US7637897 B2|
|Application number||US 10/972,980|
|Publication date||Dec 29, 2009|
|Filing date||Oct 25, 2004|
|Priority date||Oct 25, 2004|
|Also published as||CA2523817A1, CA2523817C, EP1649884A1, EP1649884B1, US20060089619, US20100069891|
|Publication number||10972980, 972980, US 7637897 B2, US 7637897B2, US-B2-7637897, US7637897 B2, US7637897B2|
|Original Assignee||Codman Neuro Sciences Sarl|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (24), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (7), Classifications (8), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention relates generally to needle placement detecting devices, and in particular to needle placement detecting devices used in conjunction with a refillable medication dispensing apparatus.
Various types of implantable medical devices, often referred to as implantable infusion pumps, are used for dispensing controlled volumes of a drug within a patient's body. These devices generally have reservoirs which are filled with a drug for dispensation at a dosage over time that is pre-programmed or programmable. Over time, as the drug is dispensed, the reservoir volume becomes depleted and needs to be refilled. Very often, the reservoir for receiving the drug has a refill port that is sealed with a self-sealing septum. To refill the reservoir, a doctor determines the location of the refill port by palpation of the patient's skin as the refill port typically protrudes from the infusion pump. The doctor the inserts a hypodermic needle through the skin and through the septum into the refill port. Once the needle is within the refill port, the medication is dispensed from a syringe into the refill port where it can refill the reservoir.
It is important to the performance of this process that the needle tip be properly positioned at the desired dispensing location. If the needle is not properly positioned within the refill port, medication can be improperly dispensed into the patient's body. The syringe can include, for example, a full month's worth of medication. It should be self evident that releasing such an amount of medication into the patient is likely to be detrimental.
It is also important to the performance of the refill process that pressures generated as a result of the refill not exceed the capability of the implantable infusion pump to contain the drug. For example, pressure generated in the delivery syringe, and thus at the end of the needle, can easily reach 5 to 10 bars. Such a high pressure level can potentially damage the delivery mechanism of the drug delivery device, often constituting a miniature valve, leading to a release of drug into the patient during the high-pressure episode.
One example of a prior art approach to determining whether a refill needle is properly placed is U.S. Pat. No. 5,171,288 to MacDonald. This patent describes a mechanism that detects the position of a needle based on a resonant circuit that is in an open-circuit state when the needle is not inserted into the refill port. The resonant circuit is closed when the needle is inserted into the port by a flow of electrical charge through the needle, the contact between the needle and the medical device, and body tissues that close the loop from the medical device back to the needle. Problems with this approach include the necessity of transmitting energy even when the needle is not in the port, the need to position an external unit on top of the medical device during refill (perhaps in sterile conditions), and uncertain electrical connections through the patient's tissue.
The present invention provides a detector integrated within an implantable port, such as the refill port of an implantable drug delivery device, for detecting the proper placement of a needle in the port. The detector can activate a predefined function of the implantable drug delivery device such as an alarm and/or a predefined diagnostic function.
In a first aspect, the invention provides a refill port for an implantable device with integral refill instrument placement detection. The refill port includes a pierceable septum and a detector. The pierceable septum is disposed on the refill port for admitting a refill instrument has a first outer surface at least a portion of which is exposed outside the refill port and a second inner surface at least a portion of which is exposed inside the refill port. The detector is disposed inside the refill port with respect to the second inner surface of the pierceable septum for determining the placement of a refill instrument within the refill port.
In another aspect, the invention provides, in a refillable, implantable, drug delivery pump having a drug chamber and control electronics, a refill port having a pierceable septum and a detector. The pierceable septum is disposed on the refill port for admitting a refill instrument has a first outer surface at least a portion of which is exposed outside the refill port and a second inner surface at least a portion of which is exposed inside the refill port. The detector is disposed inside the refill port with respect to the second inner surface of the pierceable septum for determining the placement of a refill instrument within the refill port and generating an electronic communication in response to the placement. The detector is electrically connected to the control electronics to trigger a refill diagnostic procedure based upon a refill instrument placement communication from the detector to the control electronics.
In a further aspect, the invention provides a refillable, implantable, drug delivery pump having a drug chamber, control electronics, and a refill port. The refill port includes a refill port base, a pierceable septum, and a detector. The refill port base defines a refill port chamber and a fluidic channel between the refill port chamber and the drug chamber. The pierceable septum is disposed proximate a first end of the refill port chamber for admitting a refill needle. The pierceable septum also has a first outer surface at least a portion of which is exposed outside the refill port chamber and a second inner surface at least a portion of which is exposed inside the refill port chamber. The detector is disposed within the refill port for determining the placement of a refill needle within the refill port chamber and generating an electronic communication in response to the placement. The detector includes a first movable detector element disposed within the refill port chamber for moving in response to contact from a refill needle and a second detector element fluidically separated from the refill port chamber and configured to detect movement by the first movable detector element indicating contact from a refill needle. The detector is further electrically connected to the control electronics to trigger a refill diagnostic procedure based upon a refill needle placement communication from the detector to the control electronics.
In a further aspect, the invention includes a method for detecting the placement of a refill instrument within a refill port in an implantable drug delivery pump having a drug chamber and control electronics. The method includes providing a refill port having a detector for determining the placement of a refill instrument within the refill port. The detector communicates to the control electronics based upon the placement of a refill instrument within the refill port and the control electronics signals an alarm to indicate the the placement of a refill instrument within the refill port.
The invention will be more fully understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
The present invention provides a detector integrated within an implantable port, such as the refill port of an implantable drug delivery pump. The detector can detect the proper placement of a refill instrument, such as a needle and syringe, within the port for refilling the pump. The detector can be connected to control electronics within the pump and can activate a predefined function of the implantable drug delivery pump, such as an alarm and/or a predefined diagnostic function, upon either placement of the refill instrument within the port or removal of the refill instrument from the port.
Implantable drug delivery pumps are typically implanted one inch beneath the patient's skin in the lower abdomen or upper chest. Suture loops on the outer casing of the pump attach the pump in place. Pump implantation is done in the operating room with the patient under local or general anesthesia. The surgery is typically completed within one to three hours, and patients usually have a 24 hour or less hospital stay. For patients who are treated with implantable drug delivery pumps for intractable chronic pain, the pumps may remain in place for many years.
Implantable drug delivery pumps are typically made of a biocompatible metal (e.g., titanium) and are approximately two to three inches wide, three quarters to one inch deep and weigh up to six ounces. The pump can be constant flow or programmable, with either having a reservoir to store the drug to be delivered. Reservoir volume typically varies between 18 to 60 ml. Depending upon the volume of the reservoir and the flow rate, chronic pain patients may need a refill of morphine every one to two months. Thus, many pumps include a small raised port having a rubber septum that is periodically accessed with a special needle through the skin to refill the pump's drug storage reservoir.
One embodiment of a refill port 12 of the invention provided on an implantable drug delivery pump 10 is illustrated in
Electronics chamber 18 houses a battery 26 and control electronics 28. As will be further explained below, control electronics 28 can control the flow of drug from fluidic connection channel 22 to pump outlet 24, communicate with an external controller or programmer, and perform a number of self-test diagnostics on pump 10.
Refill port 12 includes a refill septum 30 for admitting a drug refill instrument such as needle 32 connected to syringe 34 which will contain a refill amount of drug to be provided to drug chamber 14 through fluidic connection channel 36. Inside refill port 12, a detector such as detection switch 38 is provided to generate an electronic communication on connections wires 40 to control electronics 28 upon detection of the placement of needle 32 within the refill port. Based on this communication, control electronics 28 can generate an alarm to indicate to the person placing the needle that it has been appropriately placed and/or run diagnostic tests.
Further details of refill port 12 are illustrated in
In the illustrated embodiment, detector 38 includes switch 50, membrane 52, and needle plate 54. Membrane 52 is resilient so that it can move in response to placement of needle 32 so as to activate switch 50. In one embodiment, refill port base 42 can be made of titanium or a titanium alloy and membrane 52, which can be made of the same material, is thin enough to allow it to flex and can be laser welded to the refill port base to create a fluid tight seal. Switch 30, which is on the opposite side of membrane 52 from refill port chamber 44, can thus be separated from the drug. Needle plate 54 can also be provided to contact needle 32 upon its entry and advance to the plate and translate that contact into movement of membrane 52 to activate switch 50. Needle plate 54 can be made of a tough plastic material so that it can withstand multiple needle contacts. While not strictly necessary to translate the motion of needle 32 to switch 50, where, as in this embodiment, membrane 52 is made thin (on the order of 100 microns for titanium) so as to be movable, needle plate 54 provides protection for membrane 52 against damage from contacting the needle and can thereby increase the reliability of the system.
A centering ring 56 can also be disposed inside refill port base 42 to help center needle plate 54 within the refill port and also to guide needle 32 to the needle plate. This configuration places needle plate 54 at a second end of refill port chamber 44 with respect to refill septum 30. Accordingly, needle 32 must be fully advanced into the refill port in order to trigger switch 50. While this degree of advancement is not necessary to the invention, it provides an extra measure of safety by ensuring that the needle is fully and deeply placed within the refill port. Further, centering ring 56 is configured to allow fluid to flow past needle plate 54 to fluidic connection channel 36 so as to maintain a fluidic connection between refill port chamber 44 and drug chamber 14 for this configuration.
Refill septum 30 can be forced within refill port base 42 on top of centering ring 56 and locked into place by closing ring 58. Refill septum 30 can be a self sealing septum as is known in the art and can, for example, be made of a silicone material. Refill port base 42 can be attached to baseplate 60, which can be a border between electronics chamber 18 and drug chamber 14, and the base and baseplate together can define fluidic connection channel 36 between refill port chamber 44 and drug chamber 14.
In addition, the electronic communication communicated by the detector to the control electronics can be as simple as an open or closed indication. For example, a voltage can be applied to switch 50 on one connection wire 40 with the switch being in an open condition. Needle 32 can then trigger switch 50 to a closed position so that the voltage appears on a second connection wire 50 to signal to control electronics 28 that the needle has been properly placed. In this manner, the detector is a passive element and only draws current (based on a typically small resistance through the switch circuit) when the needle triggers switch 50, advantageously resulting in low power consumption by the detector as compared to other approaches.
As noted above, the drug to be delivered is pressurized by pressurized gas chamber 16 and flows into the patient through capillary chip and filter 20, fluidic connection channel 22, and pump outlet 24, which is typically connected to a delivery catheter. Pressurized gas chamber 16 can contain a chemically inert liquid gas mixture which acts as a propellant. Drug chamber 14 can be configured as a titanium bellow upon which the gas propellant exerts a constant pressure to press the drug through a filter and throttle passage (capillary chip and filter 20) to pump outlet 24.
As further illustrated in
The further operation of control electronics 28 can be explained by reference to the functional block diagram of
Control electronics 28 also includes a self-test or diagnostic capability. In particular, control electronics 28 includes a drug level sensor 70 capable of determining the amount of medication remaining in drug chamber 14. As part of a regularly scheduled self-test routine, every 24 hours for example, the drug level can be measured and compared to a previously stored drug level value to check whether the flow rate of drug from the pump matches the desired profile. In addition, when the drug level reaches a low level amount, control electronics can set an alarm, such as buzzer 74, so that the patient and/or doctor is aware of the need to refill the drug reservoir. In addition, control electronics 28 can include a diagnostic test of drug level sensor's integrity to indicate whether the sensor is functioning properly.
Control electronics 28 can also include a number of self-test routines such as microvalve 62 operational checks, memory checks, temperature checks, battery checks, crystal frequency checks, and other self-test features as are known in the art. Control electronics 28 can also include a pressure sensor for sensing the pressure of the drug in drug chamber 14 and/or refill port chamber 44.
Having such features, when control electronics 28 receives a signal from detector 38 that a needle has been placed in the refill port, it can trigger a number of diagnostic features. One such feature would be to begin continuous or short interval sensing of the drug pressure. In this way, if pressures during refill should exceed some threshold level, an alarm could alert the user to reduce pressure on the syringe before a high pressure condition damages drug chamber 14 or other parts of the pump. As pump 10 of
Another such feature would be to test the integrity of drug level sensor 70 and test the drug level upon placement of needle 32 within refill port chamber 44 and test the drug level again upon removal of the needle from the refill port chamber. In this way, control electronics 28 could track the amount of drug added during the refill. Having monitored the amount of drug added during the refill in this manner, control electronics 28 could either not perform a drug flow test (as described above) at the next scheduled interval, or it could take the amount of the refill into account when comparing the tested drug level to the previous test level. In exemplary pump 10, this testing would rely upon the doctor to maintain some pressure on needle 32 while it is in refill port chamber 44 in order to maintain switch 50 in a depressed state until removal of the needle. In general, it is expected that a doctor would maintain such pressure on needle 32 in order to insure that the needle does not unintentionally leave refill port chamber 44. However, the diagnostic program could be configured to account even for intermittent switch contact during a refill procedure.
An alternative method for performing this testing would be to test the integrity of drug level sensor 70 and begin continuous or short interval drug level tests upon placement of needle 32 within refill port chamber 44. Control electronics 28 could then track the amount added until it reaches a high drug level amount, and issue another alarm to alert the user that the pump has been filled to a certain level. Alternatively, control electronics 28 could measure the drug level until the drug level stopped rising over a given period of time. Again, based on this data, control electronics 28 could either not perform a drug flow test (as described above) at the next scheduled interval, or it could take the amount of the refill into account when comparing the tested drug level to the previous test level.
Alternatively or in addition to tracking the refilling of the pump, control electronics 28 can run any other self test function or can run a complete self test, either upon placement of the needle in the refill port or upon completion of the refill as indicated either by the drug level sensor testing or by an indication from detector 38 that the needle has been removed from its position. In particular, upon completion of the refill, control electronics 28 could perform a valve operation test to insure that microvalve 62 was operating properly following the refill.
The invention, including both systems and methods, has been described with respect to the refillable, implantable infusion pump illustrated in
Accordingly, the embodiments of the present invention are not limited by what has been particularly shown and described, except as indicated by the appended claims. All publications and references cited herein are expressly incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
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Study Busts Liver Disease Myth
If you had the idea that alcohol and obesity were primarily responsible for fatty liver and other liver diseases, here is a report that turns this theory on its head. Non-obese and non alcoholic people also fall prey to liver diseases, including the cirrhosis of the liver.
A study by a team of Kolkata doctors has revealed a high prevalence rate of non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) and other liver diseases among the non-obese, non-alcoholic people from poor families. The remarkable findings by the team of doctors from SSKM’s School of Digestive & Liver Diseases (SDLD) breaks the myth that NAFL is particular to developed countries that are associated with industrialisation, sedentary lifestyle and obesity.
A sample size of 1,911 adults from Nagari panchayat in Birbhum district were chosen for the study. A majority of them belonged to the below poverty line category and are either agricultural workers or labourers. People from this region and economic background were chosen so that they can be taken as representatives of those living in less developed regions across the country.
None had either hepatitis B or C that can trigger liver ailment. And despite the fact that about 47% of them were malnourished, the most remarkable finding of the study is that about 9% of this sample — who did not consume alcohol and were not obese — had fatty liver.
“Confirmation for NAFL was done by dual radiological screening consisting of ultra sonography and CT scan in order to double check for an absolutely error free result. The study was conducted over a period of two years,” said gasteroenterologist Dr Khaunish Das, who was a part of the team.
Because of the significant prevalence of NAFL and higher risks of liver diseases — including cryptogenic cirrhosis — in this non-obese, non-alcoholic, non-affluent population, the researchers believe NAFL will be a major determinant for future liver disease burden in developing economies.
Cirrhosis of the liver is considered the thirteenth most common cause for mortality. So far, chronic viral hepatitis due to hepatitis B and C was known as the most common cause for cirrhosis of the liver.
The study highlights two issues. First, NAFL is prevalent among individuals in developing countries who many not have the typical metabolic risk factors for NAFL and therefore, perceived to be not in the risk category for the condition. Secondly, NAFL in this Birbhum population could be similar to NAFL in other population from similar backgrounds.
“The study has shown that non-obese people who are physically active and without a bulging waistline can also have fatty liver. In fact, this study provides evidence for the first time that NAFL will be an important determinant of liver disease burden even in poor and emerging economies,” said Dr Abhijit Chowdhury who heads SDLD.
The findings of the study have been published recently in two reputable journals — ‘Hepatology, the journal of American Association for the study of liver’ and ‘Nature Reviews’.
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Posted on January 22, 2019
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❉ A journey through the shadowy underside of the UK’s post-punk alternative culture…
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In addition to his garden-variety bullshit, like his claim that Freddie Mac paid him $300K (actually $1.6 million) for historical consulting, Newt has another trick that Kevin Drum nails:
Gingrich’s favorite debate ploy is to avoid answering tough questions by immediately zooming out to a million-foot level and explaining imperiously how enormously complex everything is. It’s all so impressive sounding that he seldom has to bother telling us just what he’d do about any of this enormously complex stuff.
Drum has a few good examples from last weekend’s debate, and they’re worth a look.
Here’s what I don’t get. Herman Cain became the frontrunner in part because he wrote books like this one (foreword by Zell Miller), that capitalizes on Tea Party resentment of politicians who talk down to the good people of America. Sarah Palin built a whole celebrity empire on the same kind of resentment. Yet here’s Newt Gingrich, a guy who’s out to prove that he’s smarter than everyone, who makes a habit of being patronizing and condescending, and he’s the new Tea Party darling? Is this an instance of “he might be a smart guy, but he’s our smart guy”, just as Herman Cain was “our black guy”? Or is there something else going on?
The tea party doesn’t really like Newt. But at this point he’s a more reliable asshole than Mitt. Tea partiers still suspect that deep down beneath that plastic exterior Mitt has a heart and will go soft when it’s time to brutalize the poor.
lol, that is standard libertarian boilerplate. i’ve heard Jim Manzi declaim it a thousand times at least.
And both de Bore and Kain did it here and you juicers lapped it up.
That principle is how America got turned into a skinner maze for experimenting with localized mob-rule and “freed” market economics.
And dont pretend you didnt buy the farm, mixie. you are no better than the teatards you sneer at. Its only a matter of degree.
And when i call y’all cudlips for lapping up the drench, you resent me.
I’m your Cassandra.
ressentiment…..its wats for dinner.
Nah, nothing new going on. Newt’s name just happened to be next in the Not-Romney rolodex. Next up: He Who Cannot Be Googled
c u n d gulag
They’re moving towards Newt because Newt was the real Godfather of the Teabagger movement.
When they look really hard, he’s everything they love.
It’s like R&R.
No matter what band you like, you look back to find its roots.
And in this case, it’s really fat Elvis.
And soon, they’ll move on to someone else.
If only Santorum wasn’t so creepy that he creeped-out the creeps.
The Republican electorate seems willing to overlook virtually any. constellation of character flaws for about six weeks as long as someone isn’t Mitt Romney and proves it by eagerly embracing the doctrinal insanity of today’s Republican Party. I bet Newt will Be out by Christmas because he’s an unbearable asshole. Santorum may just pull an upset in Iowa because he’s next in the rotation.
Huntsman is trying to distinguish himself by being more consistent than Romney and only embracing craziness (like Paul Ryan’s fiscal policies) that doesn’t blatantly contradict his earlier positions, so to the GOP he’s just another lousy left deviationist. Ron Paul is far too wrapped up in his own delusions to have any time to bother with those of his party.
@Samara Morgan: you are off the rails
@xian: Yeah, I don’t think this is going to be one of her “good” days.
@Omnes Omnibus: yeah, that was zero to crazy in one comment
You’re over thinking how these people operate. It isn’t about ideology or litmus tests or anything that resembles logic. It’s 100% about pissing off (and on) the “enemy”, aka the liberal.
Tea Partiers (and Republicans at large) aren’t really FOR anything these days – they define themselves in terms of what they are AGAINST. That tends to make one’s convictions rather malleable.
@Samara Morgan: Jesus Christ. I haven’t had my coffee yet and I had to meet up with your word salad. I keep thinking there’s something there but I can’t find it.
I think a good part of the anti Romney stuff is because he’s a Mormon and people generally don’t talk about that particular elephant in the room. For evangelicals, being Mormon is pretty much the same as being a Muslim.
Also too, I was on another site and saw a clip of Elizabeth Hassellhoof(or whatever her name is) being quite immature with Bill Maher their special guest yesterday. Elizabeth should really get married to Bill Oreilly.
Michael Brenner has an interesting take on the teaparty here.
@Emma: for cripes sake its not that hard.
Jim Manzi has been saying this for years, since 2009 at least.
that is libertarian boilerplate.
You are no different than the teatards. You cant bear to admit you got fooled either.
And you resent me because I think you’re stupid.
Newt is an unserious candidate. from Hotair.
Wait until the Southern Baptists realize that Gingrich has converted to Catholicism and they now have the choice between a Mormon and a Catholic… We’ll see how long it takes for one of the pastors associated with Perry or Bachmann to bring up that little fact.
I think Matoko-Chan/Samara Morgan has finally jumped into the shark pool. Almost the only thing that makes sense is her direct quote from a libertarian lunatic that aims, like Newt, at explaining everything and nothing. Matoko’s own prose is starting to sound like the Buffy Bot from BTVS when she gets her wires crossed and attacks the vampires with “That will put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!”
But about Newt. His shtick plays well with the rubes because it sounds so gosh darned wisdomified and proffessoried but with added finger wagging and fuckoffery to the imaginary “MSM” and “liberals” and “politicians.” I dont think it will wear well for long but to the extent they like him its because they also were trained to like the faux professorial shtick of a million pastors who lecture them every week and on TV and leave them with that relaxed, cleansed, rolfed feeling like they’ve done a good thing when they’ve just sat back and listened for an hour.
@mai naem: Agreed.
and consider this. KSA has a no admitt policy on missionaries.
Mitt was a mormon missionary in france while his peer group was gettin’ shot up in Nam.
How embarrassing would that be if the new Republican President couldn’t go to KSA and hold hands with Prince Bandar like Bush did?
@aimai: how about you just admit you were WRONG?
you nasty little moral scold.
and yes, i do think you are stupid.
@Samara Morgan: Motherfucker ain’t no peer of mine.
@Samara Morgan: I’m confused. If it is a matter of degrees, and his degree isn’t as bad as their degree, doesn’t that by definition make him better than them?
Tsk, tsk. Especially since the strap at the top of the book cover clearly reads “Foreword by Zell Miller”.
@Shalimar: YOU’RE confused?
@Samara Morgan: Two things. First, no one here resents you. People laugh at you, are frustrated by you because a glimmer of insight occasionally surfaces above the assholish persona you display, pie you, and play with you when they are bored. Second, telling us that Newt is an unserious candidate is not informative. Everyone knows here already knows it. When people comment on the fact that he is rising in the GOP polls, it is generally done with the same mixture of amusement, disbelief, and horror that, I presume, fans of reality TV get from watching a “Real Housewives of …” or “Jersey Shore” episode.
in principle, but not in practice.
This may have been before my time here, but was m_c ever on the rails?
@Omnes Omnibus: lawl
a lot of people hate my guts.
just ax chopper.
@Amir Khalid: i’ve always been able to read, mufassir maftoon.
not to my knowledge, but my history here doesn’t go back before here Makato Chan days, I believe.
No, Herman, you think they’re stupid.
You can read, yes, but how well do you comprehend? As is frequently pointed out here, you seem to have some difficulty with the latter.
@Samara Morgan: No, he’s right. Nobody hates you. Some think you are silly, some feel sorry for you, most ignore you most of the time unless, as was stated, they are bored. We all need to get a life on one level, if we are spending any time at all here. But you really, really need some more positive things to do with your time. Seriously, get outside, see the sunshine, smell the air, embrace something bright and positive in life.
@Samara Morgan: I don’t resent your calling me a libertarian because I’m not one. A shot that wide of the target doesn’t hurt. I don’t resent your calling me a teatard for the same reason. I don’t even resent your trying to pass yourself off as some sort of Muslim liberal; there are such beings and you could be one for all I know.
I wonder, though, what pleasure it gives you to hang around a place for the sole purpose of pissing people off. It’s a kind of psychopathy, this trying to make yourself relevant to the discussion.
makes about as much sense as anything else they have come up with, but yes, something else is afoot we’re not supposed to know about, i’m just sorry it has come to Newt-fluffing
@Amir Khalid: i can read the Quran, maftoon.
Back to the point of the original post, it doesn’t matter what the substance of the candidate is to the GOP primary voters. The only important thing is the attitude. They could support communist reeducation camps and as long as they did it while insulting the media and liberals, the GOP base would eat it up. And Mitt, for his many flaws, just can’t pull off a condescending sneer.
tell that to chopper and Hall Monitor Allan among a host of others.
three years ago i fled the GOP because of Palin.
i thought this was a liberal blog.
But im a troll now. i learned from DougJ the Mastertroll.
I live to prick your smug moral certitude bubbles.
Like i just did to aimai.
@Emma: i didnt call you a libertarian. i implied that you are stupid. i actually said you were the same as the teatards, because they resent people pointing out that they are stupid.
@Samara Morgan: Tell us again how commenters here thought we won in Vietnam?
@Samara Morgan: This is a liberal blog. You just don’t understand that liberal encompasses many diverse points of view.
tell that to the pie filter.
Oh, Zell. As a Georgian, I thank you for starting the lottery and the HOPE Scholarship for which I got a full ride at UGA. The scholarship is now like you in my eyes — degraded, old, crabby and bordering on useless.
Oh, poor, poor Matoko Chan. If you prick us, do we not bleed? I didn’t click on the link. Sad face.
Then in his next breath, Newt will tell you that there is no need for the government to address the complexities since “common sense” solutions exist to solve any and all problems.
Funny how that works.
The Ancient Randonneur
Makes sense to me that a guy who looks like Gomer Pyle’s twelve sandwich eating, chiclet-toothed uncle would now be the Tea Party darling.
There is nothing to understand here. The Republican base does not find Mitt Romney acceptable and they are still flailing around looking for an alternative to the inevitable. This does not mean they like Newt Gingrich, only that they dislike Newt Gingrich somewhat less than they dislike Mitt Romney. It’s not rocket science.
If President Romney (God forbid) were to visit Saudi Arabia as head of state, they would definitely not turn him away as a missionary. Because — this is a very subtle point, so you need to pay close attention — he wouldn’t be coming to proselytize. He’d be there on important business for both countries that required face time with the King. And because the Saudis have better manners than to invite a foreign head of state for a visit, only to spurn him when he shows up.
To me, the fact that Newt is even being considered a serious candidate is the GOP’s tacit admission that what they really want is for Obama to be reelected so they can have four more years of resentmentgasms while the grownups clean up the mess they’ve left…
It’s related. Here’s what I think it is. It’s something like, “You Democrats are scared to death of Candidate X because they exhibit Characteristic Y.”
Huntsman and Ron Paul are both out, permanently. If Newt collapses the way you’re predicting, the only one they’ll have left is Santorum.
This. There is no real reason why it’s Newt Grinch this time, any more than there was a real reason why it was Perry before, or Cain, or Bachmann, or (snigger) Trump. Any person not Mitt will do. It’s all random. But like everyone else, I do wonder: who among the not-Mitts will catch the bouquet when the primary voting begins after Christmas?
@Samara Morgan: Well, that bothers me even less. Thanks for the clarification, because I can now classify you. Genus: Deluded. Species: argumentative. Cultivar: bore.
From Richard Hofstader: “The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship, even of pedantry.”
They may hate scholars and intellectuals, but they also feel compelled to produce people who’re even more scholarly and intellectual than them if only to stick out their tongues at us and go “HAH! See, WE have/are smart people TOO!!!” Just in your personal life, you must’ve met some of those uber-pedantic scholar-wannabe wingnuts, who think that because they can keep talking, they must be saying something important.
And besides, as with everything else, they only resent people “talking down” when it’s directed at them. They love it when it’s done to someone else.
Our idiot savant sometimes offers a clue. Assholism is the numero uno interest of the Tea Party. They have a psychological fixation that the reason America has problems is because there aren’t enough assholes who will make the “hard choices”, which, of course, inevitably entails screwing someone who isn’t in their tribe.
Newt’s rise is probably attributable to his status as the biggest asshole who hasn’t been recently discredited. First it was Perry, with the 235 executions, but he was discredited for giving a shit about immigrants and, later, for having a series of public brain farts. Then it was Cain,with his calling the non-rich a bunch of losers. He was discredited by a flurry of sexual harassment charges and, now, by brain lock on foreign policy. Soon, the sordid details of Newt’s life will come out, probably accompanied by some fit of narcissistic pique. Then he’ll drop like a rock. Santorum may be next up or, perhaps, a rerun of Perry.
Huh. This too.
Newt Gingrich is the GOPs way of saying “Nyah, nyah, we’re smarter than you,” and the lefties’ way of saying, “Look, they’re so dumb they think Newt Gingrich is smart.”
In other words, Gingrich would probably make a useful political Rorschach test. Ask any self-described “independent” what they think of Gingrich, and you’ll find out which way they’re really going to vote.
Not to let MC hijack the thread but the original argument was whether a normal, moral, person would have stopped the rape, reported it directly to the police, and waited while the child’s mother or parent was found. As a mother, I asserted that yes, that is what I would have done and if McQueary didn’t do those things I thought it was a moral abomination. A very large number of people on the thread insisted that this was simply not the case–that a normal person would have run off and asked his father what to do first. That McQueary couldn’t be blamed. That most child rapes are “never reported” and so no one ever does report what they’ve seen. This position is also held, by the way, by that noted libertarian free thinker Megan McCArdle in a recent post explaining in loving detail while anyone who reports a rape, or stops it, is the true “sociopath” (her words) while people who think they would stop the rape of a child are simply delusional.
If MC wants to point to new information showing that McQueary actually did intervene in the rape and report it directly to the police it rather goes to prove my point than to disprove it. Apparently, according to all the people who so carefully explained to me that no one would ever intervene in a rape being committed by someone who stood in a familial/fatherly relationship to the, McQueary did intervene. So McQueary’s position in re the rape was identical to mine. Not identical to the balance of the commenters who spent hours excusing him as suffering from some kind of football induced stockholm syndrome.
Did I miss that part of his grand jury testimony? I’m pretty sure he did not testify to these new “facts”.
@Amir Khalid: not entirely, but I think when she takes deep breaths (or her meds, as the case may be) and resists the urge to encode everything in sci-fi leet-speak, and avoids elliding the middle part of her chain of thought (probably hard to do if you’re ADHD and on the asperger’s spectrum and huffing glue), she has occasionally engaged in coherent dialogue with the more sedate, coherent participants here.
In this case, a single (extremely flimsy) trigger flew her to glibertarians and then a whole “balloon-juice greenwashes libertarians” sidetrack and then, inevitably, to the whole you don’t get it I’m smarter than you the problem isn’t that my prose is impenetrable to anyone except someone both capable and willing to decode it it’s that i think you are disagreeing with me and you’re wrong wrong wrong nanny nanny boo boo daisy daisy give me your answer do.
Yeah. I get that. That’s my point. You need to find something else to live for.
Newt is just the latest manifestation of a disturbing trend for the GOP power brokers…
No matter what he says or does, 70-75% of Republican voters just don’t like Willard M. Romney.
@Face: I am eager to hear his explanation as to why this was not included in his testimony.
@nevsky42: ok… but, like, every time we clean up a republican shitpile we’re going to add a new entitlement!
If there are contradictions between this email McQueary sent his friends and his grand jury testimony, does he need to explain them, lest he himself get hauled up for perjury like Penn State’s senior VP and athletics director?
@Emma: you win the Internet today
Particularly if they can get the a-holes on the Super Copout to give away the store in exchange for some trinket-level revenues.
Why govern when you can move the Overton window so far right that your opponent does what you actually want, and you get to send 4,392 fundraising letters decrying the soshulim.
I’ve seen folks like M_C before, and they are not your typical trolls. She’s clearly got real issues. I suspect this is not the only site she manically posts on, looking for any kind of human interaction. She’s become a creature of the internet, woe be unto her.
My only profile question is, and it’s entirely superficial: Is she over 250 pounds, or under 100? It’s one or the other I suspect.
The mental image of a little astronaut inside m_c’s head pulling out circuit boards is rather disturbing, but somehow apt.
I have had interesting exchanges with m_c in her more lucid moments, but that was way back when she still liked me. She used to think my Arabic name was cool. Sigh. Where did it all go wrong?
@c u n d gulag: THIS!
Newt basically invented the modern GOP, but never gets any credit for it.
@Amir Khalid: I believe that this is simply a way of spinning what has already happened. McQueary spoke to the university official who was in charge of the campus police, days or weeks after the rape he observed. Now he is labeling that discussion “going to the police”, even though most people, virtually everyone, would not think of that as the same thing.
In all likelihood, PSU has started to acquire some crisis management folks, and they’re getting people to parrot phrases that will play well. Obviously McQueary is looking at losing his job, not to mention civil liability for him and PSU generally.
This has started me wondering yet again what happened to Zell Miller. He was a moderate Democratic governor; I voted for him twice. Then all of a sudden, he was a full fledged teabagger when the whole concept was just a gleam in the Koch brothers’ eyes.
Interesting factoid: Georgia is the only state that did not elect a Republican governor in the 20th century.
@aimai: I think the majority of people in those threads, not necessarily you personally, were debating the morality of what they assumed McQueary had done, not just debating an abstract hypothetical. We don’t know yet which version of the story is true, but I still think the problematic people in this discussion are the ones who assumed they knew all the facts based upon a grand jury report that didn’t purport to set forth a complete accounting of McQueary’s testimony or his actions.
As for our resident troll, isn’t it kind of funny how a person can condemn libertarian psychobabble with one breath and then lecture us on the awesomeness of Assangean Information Theory with the next? In Soviet Russia, Internet troll you!
You know what other group has this set of personality traits, from incredible self-absorption, to incredible belligerence on the internet, to incredible condescension, to incredibly high assessment of their own intelligence?
Villago Delenda Est
He doesn’t think they’re stupid, he KNOWS they’re stupid, because they bought his very stupid book.
@Rathskeller: I live in the academic bubble and I can assure you that “talking to the police” usually means “campus police.” Like those at PSU, mine also have real police powers within the campus, so one would go through them. It’s the one thing about McQueary that makes sense to me.
@AliceBlue: Miller was also a segregationist when he ran for Congress in the 60s, so maybe he’s just a regular politician with a Mitt Romney degree of flexibility. I recall a black lawyer who said that he appeared before George Wallace back when he was a local judge, and that he was a liberal guy who was much more respectful towards black people than other judges were. He may have wound up wondering “what happened to George Wallace?” but that’s how politics goes.
@Villago Delenda Est:
When it comes to Sarah Palin and Herman Cain, the contempt for their own audience’s intelligence is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I wonder if that was a factor in their unpopularity. Sure, the 27%ers eat it up, but those who haven’t totally drunk the kool aid might not appreciate politicians who completely take them for fools.
@AliceBlue: I voted for him twice too. Hell, I remember his keynote address at the ’92 democratic national convention. maybe it was 911 that turned him, or just going to Washington did it, I don’t know. Have no use for him now, sad really. He was a pretty good governor.
Villago Delenda Est
George Wallace once told his campaign manager, after a loss, that the defeat was because he was “out niggered” by his opponent. He had ran on New Deal themes, but race got in the way, and race took the day. Wallace vowed never to be “out niggered” again.
The rest is history.
George Wallace ran for governor with the endorsement of the NAACP, while his opponent ran with the endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan. Naturally, Wallace lost. After that, he swore by all that was holy that he’d “never be outniggered again.”
Also explains his re-conversion in the 1970s, when he became “born again” and said he was sorry for segregationism. In his own words, “You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor.”
Politicians are whoever they have to be to get our votes.
Or what VDE said.
@Emma: Interesting. I worked at my (large, urban) university for several years after graduating and I didn’t think of them as having that function. If someone broke into an office or was prank-calling the dorms, then you’d call the campus police. If someone was raped, then you called the real cops, the ones with guns and helicopters. Perhaps just my own blinders were in place.
That’s true. Miller was referred to in certain circles as “Zig Zag Zell.”
Have you considered the fact they they are that stupid? Occam’s razor and all that.
@Steve: didn’t Wallace lose an election and vow to never be “outniggered” again?
google says yes
@Villago Delenda Est: sorry for not reading the thread before posting! (ditto to Chris)
Villago Delenda Est
Not a problem! It means I share the hallucination with at least two other people!
What’s going on is ABO. Anyone But Obama. When they embraced Cain, they wanted their own Obama….as simple as saying, “you have your black guy, we have ours, so suck it.” They tried with Michael Steele, but that didn’t work out so well, and Cain is not working out so well either, so on to the next ABO. Being intelligent, being an outsider, being black, being a governor, being a businessman, being a Nazi, being a wife-cheater, being a woman,”…NOTHING matters except electing any person who can beat Obama. Their hate for Obama rules all. Obama is THE person who represents all they hate…liberalism, intelligence, compassion. He is the SYMBOL for all the hate they’ve stored up for many years, and the characteristics of their candidate mean nothing to them.
I wasn’t actually asking for someone to explain that George Wallace switched positions out of political expedience, since that was already the point of my comment. But it’s nice to know that everyone else knows that story too!
Which is why Newt hasn’t a chance in the primaries. Nor does Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Paul, Huntsman, or Santorum.
So, despite all his obvious negatives (for the rightwingers, let alone anyone else), his phoniness, his flip-flops, his overall “weirdness”, “Romneycare”, and even his Mormonism, Willard will most likely be the fascist nominee.
Because of all the Republican candidates, he is by far the most likely to beat Obama in the general, and everyone knows it.
God doesn’t love us enough to give us any of the others as the opponent (Obama stomps any of the others — with this economy, Romney can very well beat him).
I have always been able to read.
@DFH no.6: bulshytt.
If blacks and browns vote in 2008 percentages Romney needs an unimaginable 65% of the white vote to beat Obama.
Anti-mormon sentiment in white voters will deny him the presidency.
The GOP base is nearly entirely white voters at this point.
Besides which, Romney is a mormon missionary. KSA will turn him back at the border. He will never get to hold hands with Prince Bandar like Bush did.
@El Cid: you read in the womb, im sure.
And what would you have done, o righteous Muslimah?
@Samara Morgan: Reading in the womb wasn’t the hard part; it was the writing.
@Amir Khalid: made sure it stopped, (and i doubt very much that sandusky kept up his anal rape after mcqueary walked in on him), and contacted the local authority.
i bet sandusky scuttled away at speed and bribed/threatened the kid to stay shut up.
The duty of a shaheed is to witness, and to create justice through that witness.
Hopefully my adab would have carried the moment.
But i cannot say for sure, because i was not there.
aimai is sure….
therefore she is a moral scold that is judging Mcqueary without knowing all the facts.
@Samara Morgan: Yet you judge everyone on this site. You boldly imagine things that individuals here know and believe based on a few words on a page, but you choose not to judge when the stated facts are that someone watched a rape of a young child in progress. You choose to withhold judgment for some reason that is probably very important but you somehow forgot to mention. Whatever.
You’re a meaningless contrarian, seeking to make people angry by endlessly posting contradictions. It’s just not interesting. It’s sad, especially since you’re educated enough to use words like ressentiment, and you could actually contribute to the discussion if you wanted to.
At that rate, they’re gonna run out of peeps PDQ.
Since at this point in their devolution they wouldn’t be down with Sir Ronnie of Raygun, you have to wonder who’d they actually reanimate.
Or maybe not.
Many (most?) here would consider me crazy/foolish to engage with you, but I’ll bite anyway.
If Romney isn’t the most electable (in the general) of the 8 actual Republican candidates, which of them is?
Because that’s who the Republicans will eventually put forth as their nominee – someone who seems the best and most electable opponent to Obama (even if that person is thought to be half a RINO, like McCain was).
I say every one of them other than Romney who has even a prayer of a chance of winning the nomination would get stomped in the general because they are just too scary/awful/crazy for the swing voters who will decide the election.
And I think the Republican power brokers (including all the money guys) and even a majority (slight as it may be) of the fascist base know that.
You may be right about Willard’s Mormonism being a deal-breaker for a not-insignificant portion of the electorate, but I don’t believe it will be.
We’ll find out soon enough with the Republican primaries.
If Romney wins enough of those to get the nomination, his Mormonism will be a non-factor in the general (since it’s the rabid right fundagelicals who care the most about that).
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Samara Morgan: Wow you lying asshole, you’re still trying to pretend I was being literal? Even though I obviously wasn’t, and have clarified this multiple times?
I realize it was foolish to try to make you feel empathy for a man who was about to be murdered by his own government for religious reasons by demonstrating how you, or anyone for that matter, could also be the victim of such an injustice, when I should have known you’re not in any way capable of that emotion.
Just understand that nobody else here is as stupid as you’re pretending to be when you say I actually want you executed. Absolutely nobody else is dense enough to miss it when the quote you use has the very words “would be justified” right in it, despite your efforts to remove that context.
Are Sufis really supposed to lie to themselves and others in order to make asinine points backed up by bullshit?
You don’t know all the facts, either. As it is, what you say you would have done if you were in Mike McQueary’s shoes is not substantially different from what aimai says she would have done. So you’re calling aimai a moral scold only because she criticizes McQueary for what he did, which even you agree was inadequate: he told his boss Paterno, Paterno told his bosses, and when the higher-ups at Penn State took no action, the two of them just kept quiet for over a decade while who knows how many more children were raped.
Now that the allegations against Sandusky have come to light, the university is in disgrace. Paterno has been sacked for his inaction, along with the university’s president. Two senior officials face prosecution. McQueary himself is on administrative leave, and the university might decide to sack him too. I’d say aimai’s criticism of McQueary is spot on. Some moral courage on his part would have avoided these terrible consequences.
reading fail, brother.
she said she would have got physical.
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire:
let me make this perfectly clear. i believe missionaries and proselytizers get exactly what they ask for. no i do not have empathy for Nadaukhari.
You see, religion is not evil. Religion is good for homo sapiens sapiens.
But pushing ones religion on others is evil.
i view proselytizing ones religion as a great evil, and the major cause of wars.
trying to tell other humans what to do is rude and ignorant.
the first time i got banned here was on the Evil Poor Black Muslim Somali Pirates kill Noble Rich White Christian American Missionaries thread.
And i’ll say the same thing again.
Missionariism is evil and stupid, and missionaries deserve what happens to them.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Samara Morgan: I’m glad that you can finally admit that you are an inhuman, bloody-minded monster.
Can you also admit that I’m not calling for your execution? Or do you intend to keep whipping out that quote every time you want to hold a pity party?
P.S. Saying that religion is a good thing, but that trying to get people to join a religion is a bad thing, is contradictory.
@Amir Khalid: do you know what is the greatest evil? that chosen people bulshytt.
the idea that your way is the only way.
Jews to Christians to Americans.
That is where American exceptionalism came from.
But all paths are the One path.
I like Samara Morgan. He/She/It shines a bright light on the insecurity, the vanity, and the nastiness of this place.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
I’m trying to think of a better example of insecure vanity than pretending that someone is calling for your execution when that’s obviously not the case. I’m also trying to think of anything said at BJ in recent memory that’s nastier than cheering on the actual execution of a man for running a church. In both cases I’m failing, but perhaps a longtime lurker like yourself can point me to some examples. I don’t read every comment, after all.
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: okfine.
i’ll be superclear on this.
Nadaukhari deserves to die (imho) because he is a proselytizer.
Because he is a missionary.
Its that fucking “chosen people” bulshytt that has caused most of the worlds ills, including the twin horrorshows of Iraq and A-stan.
heres some dirty sufi poetry for Peter.
yes you dumb-ass cudlips (ahm lookin’ at you, Anne Laurie the JAFI).
your way is no better and no worse than any of the Paths.
so stop trying to cram it down the throat of every human you run across.
@Samara Morgan: Darlin’, I would suggest that greed and lust for power have caused far more of the world’s ills than religion. I would also posit that many of the wars and other atrocities that are ostensibly religious in nature have, at their root, greed or power lust. Then again, I have read history and don’t just spout off random crap that I think is fashionably rebellious.
I think SM isn’t saying religion is the problem. I think SM is saying that proselytizing is the problem.
Which makes sense, as Muslims have a strong rule against that specific religious activity.
That false equivalence is simply not true.
There is much difference in what the different religious and philosophical traditions can accomplish. How they can influence the development of a society. In some cases so severe as to render progress impossible unless people radically change their beliefs.
Also proselytizing is not a problem except to authoritarian theocrats like you.
In ancient Rome thousands of religions and cults coexisted peacefully, before the Abrahamic religions established their stranglehold and started murdering all heretics and apostates.
Well then what the fuck were you before?
Seriously though, whatever medication you’re supposed to be taking, you should probably get back on it. Or double up.
a hereditary republican. guns, dogs and Pony Club.
i thot this was a liberal blog.
@Samara Morgan: You keep saying that you thought this was a liberal blog. What does “liberal blog” mean in your head? If it isn’t living up to the expectations you originally had of it, you could always look for a blog that does.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
If Balloon Juice were really liberal, the commenters would be calling for the deaths of proselytizers.
But seriously, matoko, I’m actually glad you’ve finally admitted to yourself that you favor the murder of people for engaging in proscribed speech and assembly. This is a good step for you. Of course, it’s not so good that you’ve decided that this is the moral position, but that’s how it is, I suppose. Two steps forward and one step back.
Now, at risk of being accused of WANTING U DEAD OMG how about you deal with the other side of that coin? Let’s say that the USA passes a Constitutional amendment stating that being a member of a non-Christian religion is a capital crime. Also, speaking about religions other than Christianity is defined as unlawful proselytization, which is also a capital offense. When the American Gestapo comes to take you to the death camps, will you resist? Or will you use the same logic you use for Nadaukhari and decide that you have it coming?
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, after all.
Or, will you deliberately misunderstand the question for another month? Will you evade the question by talking about Iraq or the Shah? Will you quote Voltaire like you have a fucking clue what point he was making? Probably.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
Also too, Christians have a strong rule against eating shellfish. I have a similar amount of respect for both of these rules.
Go to Hell!
You’re no Democrat,
We can tell!
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: You are persisting in misunderstanding the rule of law of sovereign nations.
The rule of law in Iran is shariah.
There is no freedom of speech, there is no freedom of assembly, there is no separation of church and state…the church is the state, the clergy are the lawyers.
It is not a MORAL position, it is a LEGAL position.
you can condemn it all you want, but you are powerless to change islamic culture and islamic jurisprudence.
America tried for 10 years, trillions of dollars, thousands of dead american soljahs and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and dead Afghanis.
The empirical data is that nothing changed. America is getting kicked out of Iraq next month, and soon to be kicked out of A-stan. The lions are getting restless.
your American strawman is simply not possible because the rule of law in America is secular. For example 70% of americans polled against the construction of the “terror” mosque. That is a clear majority. Yet they could not prevent the construction. Because secular law is embedded in the constitution.
American missionariism (aka “democracy promotion”) is simply evil. It is trying to tell other cultures what to think, what to believe. Besides which, it DOESNT WORK.
There is NO secular substrate to support a secular society in 97% muslm Iraq and 99% muslim Afghanistan. KSA is 100% muslim. Iran is 99.5% muslim.
I personally feel this chosen people bulshytt is what has destroyed our economy and our foreign policy in America. The Jews believe they are chosen– but jews dont proselytize….they believe they are chosen to be left alone.
The American Horror Story is that Americans believe they are the new chosen people, and they proselytize. The Bush Doctrine, Peaceful Democracy Theory, and COIN are all attempts to impose our culture and our mores on islamic cultures.
Well, it just cant be done.
Islam is immunized to proselytizers.
I believe proselytizing is immoral.
Especially proselytizing with force of arms.
This is what bankrupted America.
I have tried many times to explain to you my own analysis of the US involvement in Iraq.
I think things are going quite well now:
No one apart from you thinks we went in there to create a secular society (more’s the pity). Or even a democracy really, except for the fact that we had to replace Saddam with something — once we had decided that he had to go. And democracy at least gives us some kind of start for a post-US order.
I don’t think anyone really cares if Iraq is still democratic in ten years. As long as we are not responsible for it. I don’t think anyone would be surprised if it’s not democratic any more in even 5 years — and there’s another Sunni tribal dictator in control. But at least he will know not to go invading his neighbors, if he doesn’t want the great powers of his day sniffing around and meddling.
100% of your rants are just your own nutcase imaginings.
You are too young to remember the decolonization movement of the 1960s,
but it has a lot of lessons for what happened in Iraq.
One thing you don’t seem to understand is that each time the West abandoned one of it’s colonies,
they always set up a democracy. It was de riguer.
The rule, the joke really, was that they had one democratic election once.
And after that some General or other took over, and that was that.
But at least the Colonial Powers were far away by then, and it wasn’t on our conscience.
we spent trillions. we built the three largest airbases ever built on foreign soil and we have to turn them over to the Iraqis. We built a billion dollar embassy the size of the Vatican and we cant leave enough troops there to protect it.
2.5 MILLION Iraqis signed a peition telling the US to GTFO.
Our allies KSA still refuse to recognize Malikis government.
RIGHT now there is shariah in the Iraqi constitution.
yeah, we meant to do that.
And we are going to see a replay in A-stan.
Karzai is trying to negotiate a long term alliance with the US while the talibs are bombing Kabul. we still have 90k troops there and we couldnt keep Karzais brother from gettin whacked in his own home.
its over Spock. You should read some Galtung, since you are so interested in history. Cheap oil fueled the myth of American exceptionalism. You are the one that educated me on Peak Oil, membah? back when no would talk about it?
After the Arab Spring…the American Fall.
and …winter is coming.
The way the US abandoned Iraq, is absolutely identical to how the French or the Dutch or the British abandoned their colonies.
They set up a nominal democracy and then they GTF out of Dodge.
Of course they offer to stay and help ;)
But somehow the ungrateful natives always say no. (sigh)
After that no-one ever gives a stuff again.
EDIT: I have literally seen this scenario play out 50 times already in the 1950’s and 1960’s
we didnt GO THERE to proselytize missionary democracy…..that is why we STAYED THERE…for 10 years, thousands of dead american soljahs, and trillions of dollars we didnt have.
Offered? Panetta begged pleaded and threatened.
The Iraqi people voted us out. Keeping on the hated invader/occupiers became politically toxic for Maliki and Alawi. Im sure they would have loved to keep sukking the anti-terrorism tit but the citizens wouldn’t allow it.
Democracy is a fickle bitch, aint she?
especially islamic democracy.
OMG Samara. I haven’t seen a thing yet which isn’t straight out of
Decolonization for Dummies 1964 edition.
I swear Samara that is because Iraq is really a special case on account of THE OIL.
They really would like to have things stable so that the oil gets out.
Did you click on my link above?
what do you think all the sabre-rattling in Irans general direction means then?
you think America is happy that Iran and Iraq are forming the new Shi’ia Crescent? hahahahaha
American FP in MENA was the benevolent strongman model for years.
Searching for another Ataturk.
Alas, there was only one Ataturk.
Samara. When Syria gets taken over by the Sunni and the Alawites get kicked out.
Iraq’s days as a Shiite-ruled nation are probably numbered.
I give it five years and Saddam II will be in power.
@THE: nope…..Muqtada al-Sadr will be in power.
He is in training to be the next Maliki AND the next Sayeed Ali al Sistani.
That will be a New Paradigm for MENA– the SELECTED head of all the Shi’ia and the ELECTED leader of the Iraqi nation.
The Defender of the Faithful– legitimized by both god and man.
Samara there is only one uncertainty in my mind.
It is conceivable to me that China will back Iran to hold onto and extend its influence into Iraq.
But Turkey is 100% with Saudi and Egypt now, in supporting the Sunni in Syria against Assad.
And the position of Iraq if they are surrounded on three sides by Sunni states is very difficult.
@THE: and yet they have a border with Iran.
soon to be a nuclear power.
those fab airbases built with american taxpayer dollahs may eventually be used to launch a nuke…..going……to Tel-Aviv?
you know who has a border with Israel?
I promise you Samara.
A few days after Iran explodes its first test nuke.
Israel will test a 1 megaton hydrogen bomb in the Negev.
@THE: so what?
everyone knows Israel has nukes.
what is that supposed to demonstrate?
theres only approx 13.2 million jews in the world…. and 5.7 million live in Israel.
There are approx 1.7 BILLION muslims……and most of them live in Israels neighborhood.
You are insane Samara.
Israel will take her neighbors with her if she dies. This is the Sampson option.
And I don’t just mean the Arabs Samara.
@THE: lol. Not just the neighbors.
Israel will take the US with her.
That is what crazy ex-girlfriends do.
Why do you think O is tiptoeing areond the Pali statehood issue?
If Israel starts thinkin’ we are just not that into her anymore, sheez gunna launch on Iran and try to drag the US into WWIII.
While she still can.
The demographic timer will kill Israeli influence in the US too.
Blacks, browns and youth dont give a shit about Israel.
We are gunna cut up their expired holocaust guilt mastercard in their faces.
I watch that situation, but right now I am very unsure what Israel’s real intent is wrt Iran.
I fear they will preempt.
I think the decision, whatever it is, is already made.
in a sense…..the Israelis are trying to figure out if O will actually allow America to be drawn in.
Last spring the republicans tried to pass a bill saying if Israel is attacked the US is mandated to jump in on their side….a mutual defense treaty. It failed.
O is deploying a lot of pro-Israel kabuki until he is relected.
The repubs also tried to pass a bill saying we wouldn’t leave Iraq this year.
we have nothing to say about that.
I don’t believe Israel expects US to support her forever. I read Israeli press sometimes. My sense is that Israelis know their situation. The government knows US will not be a force in MENA much longer.
Also it’s not just holocaust guilt. It’s 2000 years of persecution, exclusion and hatred. The Nazis were just the final obscenity.
lol! that is exactly why Israel will launch on Iran if she believes she can draw us in.
its her last chance.
its not just that Americas regional influence is waning– its that older white christians (ie republicans) are losing control of the electorate. And like i said, blacks, browns and youth dont give a shit about Israel.
heres a good Bacevich aticle explaining the collapse of Bush’s Freedom Agenda.
My point is that al-Islam and its immunity to proselytization is part of the reason the Freedom Agenda failed so spectacularily.
you can read about the other three vectors here.
the end of western imperialism.
In the end it’s not USA that is the first concern of Israel.
It’s whether they believe a nuclear Iran can be deterred.
If yes then both sides will out themselves as nuclear powers and there will be a balance of terror. MAD.
If no, then Israel will preempt, I suspect.
I already read that article. I wasn’t very impressed by it.
@THE: It’s whether they believe a nuclear Iran can be deterred.
a nuclear Iran cannot be deferred indefinitely.
and the Israelis know that.
the whole world knows that.
except perhaps Mitt Romney and John McCain.
@THE: and the Israelis already have a plan spock.
They plan to ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Samara Morgan: you can condemn it all you want, but you are powerless to change islamic culture and islamic jurisprudence.
Bullshit, matoko. Read this carefully: I NEVER WANTED TO DO ANYTHING MORE THAN CONDEMN IT!!! I NEVER WANTED TO INVADE OR WHATEVER STUPID SHIT YOU THINK I WANT!!! I OPPOSED THE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WARS FROM THE VERY FUCKING BEGINNING!!!
You’re the one who’s been blowing a gasket because I condemned Iran’s actions for a month now, so don’t turn around now and claim that it’s suddenly ok!
Also, we didn’t invade Iraq and Afghanistan to “spread democracy.” That was propaganda to be fed to stupid Americans like yourself. We started those wars because war is a great way to funnel taxpayer money to the well connected. That’s it. Every other reason given was just window dressing. Or did you miss the part where our official reasoning for invading Iraq changed about a dozen times? That’s because they were all bullshit.
Read your Smedley Butler. War Is a Racket.
And try to get it through your thick goddam skull: just because I condemn the actions of another government, it doesn’t follow that I’m calling for a fucking invasion. Capisce?
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire:
of course not. that is why we stayed for 10 years and bankrupted ourselves.
of course not. we already invaded.
you have no standing to condemn the actions of another government…. your government has caused the deaths of millions.
Again. proselytization is a great evil.
sic semper all missionaries.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
No moron, our government bankrupted itself. GE, Blackwater, and other military contractors are sitting pretty. So is everyone who arranged for their largesse. The rest of us schmucks were never part of the equation, other than coming up with the right propaganda to get us to go along with it.
Sheesh, it’s like you think the Bush government wasn’t 100% corrupt, and that they were actually acting in the interest of the American people. They weren’t, and I’d have thought everyone outside of the 27% figured that out by now. I guess you somehow missed it.
Oh, and we invaded Iran? Golly, I guess I missed the news that day.
And I have plenty of standing to criticize and condemn anyone or anything I damn well please. In fact, you saying I shouldn’t do exactly what the First Amendment of the US Constitution tells me I can do kinda smacks of… anti-free speech proselytization. Not that anyone should be surprised by your hypocrisy at this point.
Only if it’s coercive. It is completely harmless if it is just a dialogue between people with different ideas.
You can always elect not to listen if you are not interested.
Of course authoritarian theocrats like you want to restrict freedom of discussion of religion, but sadly information just wants to be free.
But tell me Samara. How can you restrict proselytizing in this day of the Internet? Even if you have the death penalty in your country, some foreigner with a iPad can decide to spread the “good news”. LOL.
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: Bush and Cheney paved the road to hell with your good intentions and your fear.
WTF was the mission once there werent any WMDs?
The Freedom Agenda.
Ever hear of Operation Ajax? Ever hear of the reinstatement of the American Puppet Tyrant Shah Reza Palavi?
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire:
of course you have free speech here. Just like Terry Jones the Quran burning pastor.
im trying to explain profound, insurmountable socio-religious differences.
that explain why America spent 14.3 trillion taxpayer dollars on COIN, the Bush Doctrine, the “Freedom” Agenda, and Peaceful Democracy Theory. Because it was what Americans desperately wanted to believe.
the poor and the ignorant dont have IPads.
you continue to miss my point Spock. Muslims like Islam. When DEMOCRATICALLY empowered to vote, they choose Islam over missionary democracy.
You need to understand the appeal of Islam for me, personally and individually….for me al-Islam is both revelation and reason.
In the revelatory sense it works for my skull furniture, fills in my personal phenomic god-shaped hole.
But in the scientific sense al-Islam is an elegant and powerful uninvadable CSS.
Christianitys only defense against Islam is scaremongering and disinformation. Because the killer app of christinity doesnt work– Islam is immunized against outgroup proselytizing.
The Noble Quran forbids proselytizing the poor and ignorant. Discussion between intellectual and socio-economic peers is fine.
wallah Spock……are you a bio-luddite as well as a free marketeer?
Neither IQ or SES is infinitely plastic.
Samara. The Quran is not binding on me. I am an atheist.
The only country I feel has the right restriction, where religion is concerned, is PR China. It is illegal to teach religion to minors under 18 there. I think that is an extremely enlightened policy. Brainwashing minors is far more objectionable to me than discussing religion freely with adults.
@THE: that is fine. you dont have a god-shaped hole. neither does razib.
atheists should be atheists, christians should be christians, muslims should be muslims.
That is the Way of the Seeker.
There is no single version, no One True Path.
All paths are the One Path.
that is islamic. all chidren should be raised in their parents faith until they are old enough to choose for themselves.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Samara Morgan: As you like to say, LOL.
Mine? I opposed all of it. The wars were a stupid and evil thing for America to do, and I’ve always said so. You seem to have real trouble differentiating between individuals and the larger groups they belong to. This is a common trait amongst nationalists, racists, fascists, and other such scumbags.
You can’t honestly be this naive. The Freedom Agenda was bullshit! A just-so story! Not fucking real! It was just the excuse the Bush administration fed to the saps in the media who then unquestioningly spread the word. It wasn’t limited to freedom and democracy either. They used every buzzword and phrase they could: freedom, democracy, there instead of here, honor, victory, the surge, hearts and minds, painting schools, support the troops, etc. ad nauseum.
Sure, freedom, democracy, and ooga-booga were the most effective bit of propaganda, but they were never the real reason for the wars.
Another thing, why can’t you understand that I don’t identify with America the way you do to the Islamic world? I don’t have to contort my opinions so that I believe everything America does is right and good. When America does something stupid and evil, I’m glad to say so. For example, overthrowing Mosaddegh is possibly the stupidest thing America ever did, though pretty far from the most evil sadly. And guess what, we didn’t do that for ideological reasons either, we wanted our corporations to have access to the oil!
And I have no trouble saying these things while also being American. I’m not proud to be an American, though. As Bill Hicks said, my parents just fucked here is all.
As an American yourself, these shouldn’t be difficult concepts to grasp. Don’t you ever get the feeling that you’re not nearly as smart as you think you are? Ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
I categorically disagree with that. All religious beliefs are false except atheism.
is atheism a religious belief?
It’s a religious belief but it’s not a religion.
For the same reason that not-collecting-stamps is not a hobby.
I was brought up to believe I had one.
I know better now.
Or perhaps it’s truer to say that I found better things to fill that hole than God.
Love of Man.
Love of Nature.
So perhaps you could say my religion is Humanism.
My highest truth is Nature; and my path to discover it is science.
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire:
amg try not to be so thick.
they were the reason we STAYED for 10 years.
but you defend christian proselytizing.
@THE: and i approve of that.
your humanism, Dr. Hamerhoff’s platonic substrate, my Real …all aspects of ..….an alignment.…of a signal.
that is the best way i can describe it.
you are hung up on the idea of the Supernatural.
The Real is natural.
No I don’t believe it was the reason the US stayed 10 years. The reason for the ten years was that was the time it took to stabilize Iraq to the point that there was a reasonable chance of a military-political environment conducive to allowing the critical oil-exports to resume.
It’s not an accident that America leaves just as the oil exports are getting back to prewar levels. I believe that was always the internal criterion of “success” for the USA.
You are saying that.. but inside, you are hedging.
The Real is nothing but natural.
There is nothing that is outside Nature, because Nature doesn’t have, “an outside”.
Your problem is that you haven’t really grasped monism.
I think you really need a genuinely Eastern tradition not a Western Abrahamic religion to sort that out.
Abrahamics always flinch at true, thoroughgoing Monism. They always draw back from it.
Buddhists, Taoists, Vedantists they go up to the edge and jump off.
That is the only way I can describe it.
Eastern religion is unfazed by true Monism.
It is a useful lesson for the transition to pure rationalism.
I would have advised you not to waste your time on any Abrahamic tradition, if you had asked.
@THE: LOL we are leaving because WE ARE GETTING KICKED OUT.
The insurgency peaked in mid-2007. The withdrawal date was agreed already in the SOF agreement the Bush administration negotiated in late 2008 as soon as it became clear that order was returning.
@THE: This is why I think the passing of Greek science to the East is so critical a development for Man.
The pagan Greeks discovered the essence of the scientific method, but classical civilization fell. It was overwhelmed by the superior viral character and tyrannical ruthlessness of the Abrahamic religions.
So for two thousand years, the Abrahamics held Greek science hostage. And they profited mightily from their monopoly of it.
It is the reason Islam and Christianity were both able to spread imperialistically in their respective “golden ages’.”
But there was a flaw. To conquer the world as imperialists, they allowed others to see the power of rationality.
Now the East knows the secret too. And for the first time in 2000 years, Greek science has made contact with powerful non-Abrahamic cultures, and the circuit has closed.
That is why the scientific revolution in China and India is so important. I hope — I believe these two civilizations will save both Man and Science from their Abrahamic cult-slavery.
China and India are the best hope of Mankind to overcome the imperialistic Abrahamic cults.
@THE: and we begged and pleaded and cried to get a rewrite.
and the republicans are still crying.
there is a profound difference between judeo-xianity and al-Islam.
al-Islam is universalist. All are welcome.
ANGLOSAXON judeo-xianity is exclusivist. and so its dying.
christianity may go on…..it just wont be white christianity.
You are confusing Science and Technology.
social brain hypothesis, evolutionary theory of games, evo theory of culture and neuropolitics are all part of al-Islam.
Ibn Arabi and Imam Ghazali postulated Many Worlds Theory as a response to Aristotle 400 years before the Catholics tried to burn Galileo.
It can’t be our Many Worlds Theory.
Our MWT is just a version of Quantum Mechanics.
I don’t believe QM existed in the Middle Ages.
Christianity is also Universalist. It seeks to convert the entire world. Islam was imperialistic for centuries before Christianity was. I have made this point to you before.
Anglo Saxon Christianity is somewhat exclusive, but even there it is spreading into Latin America.
When I talk about Christianity in relation to the Middle Ages I am of course talking about Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
The word “Catholic” means “Universal”. because it believes itself to be.
Not really. Other civilizations were masters at technology. Say China, invented paper, gunpowder, compasses, cast iron, printing, etc, etc. But even so, they never created an engine of invention and innovation like science. They were quickly overwhelmed by Western science-based technology.
No they are not. You are reading these later theories back into Islamic doctrines ex-post. It is like if I claimed modern oxidation theory was part of the stone age because they invented/discovered fire. LOL. The discovery of fire was trial and error not driven by modern chemical theory.
Where there is some genuine science, like the invention of astrolabes, etc, you are seeing the influences of Greek especially Aristotelian thought on Islam.
In other words you are a propagandist twisting history for your imperialistic cult.
And I believe China and India are going to end your dominance.
This map needs to be seriously rolled back:
If Mankind is ever to rediscover our intellectual freedom that we lost in the fall of the Classical world.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
No. Wrong. Stop being so gullible.
To the extent that I don’t think missionaries should be murdered, sure. I “defend” them. By that standard I also “defend” Republican congressmen. I also “defend” you, despite you being the biggest asshole of all.
@Baron Jrod of Keeblershire: but it is the RULE OF LAW.
Its just not your rule of law.
do you think suicide bombers get what they ask for? so do missionaries in islamic countries.
sic semper missionaries.
@THE: bi la kayfah
Man cannot use what is useless.
That’s the trouble when you create repressive systems.
In today’s high tech-world people find ways to rebel.
Baron Jrod of Keeblershire
@Samara Morgan: The law, like every other entity, must earn its respect from me. You beloved sharia law has not. Neither has American law, for that matter.
You say RULE OF LAW like I should give a fuck. I don’t.
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First Commonwealth Banking is headquartered in Pittsburgh and is one of the largest banks in the city. Following the issues which were out there after the Financial Crisis there were many banks which had a terrible time with the financial issues and then after this FC was one of the banks that did not require any kind of bailout following the crisis. This has led to more options as well as increased options for consumers who have the ability to use the bank for checking, savings, credit cards, money market, as well as mutual funds. For this reason there are many different options which have made things much easier for consumers and which have also created an excellent advantage as well for others who have moved forward with high interest rates as well as many other options which are in the favor of the account holders. These days as well there are excellent rates which are in the benefit of the account holders.
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10325 Nu-Wav Kaiv Blvd
Las Vegas, NV
Show Dates: November 2, 2014 - November 4, 2014
Show Times: Sun 6pm; Mon & Tue 10:45am
Please call venue for prices.
You've jumped for joy when you hit a 250-yard drive with your friends while playing your local course -- but now, witness the best in the world at the Long Drive Division Finals! There's no better place to challenge these long-drive champions than at theLas Vegas Paiute Golf Resort!
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Kopytek offers a complete line of graphic design services with eye catching designs that will get your business noticed. From logo design, brochure design to print design we do it all. Read our digital color printing solutions to learn more.
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The prestigious awards, held on 24 January 2020, at the London Marriott Hotel are a celebration of the rail industry, recognising individual and team performances. They recognise those who have gone above and beyond expectations in order to deliver outstanding operational performance.
Chris, whose railway career spans over 38 years, was Managing Director at Wales and West Trains and Managing Director at Wales & Borders Trains up until 2003, when he then joined Virgin Trains and remained for over ten years, ending as Chief Operating Officer.
Since then, he has held Board level appointments including Chair of Southern Rail Network Performance Improvement Board and a Non-Executive Director role with Network Rail.
The presentation of the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ recognises his lifelong dedication to the industry and acknowledges his wealth of knowledge and experience.
Scott Waddington, Chair of Transport for Wales said:
“I’d like to congratulate Chris on winning the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the Golden Whistle Awards 2020. It’s a very prestigious award and demonstrates his commitment and dedication to the rail industry in a career of nearly forty years.
“At Transport for Wales we are on a journey to transform transport and the fact that we have Chris as a Strategic Advisor provides us with a great depth of industry knowledge and ensures that we are strategically aligned with the industry.”
Chris Gibb, Strategic Advisor for Transport for Wales added:
“It was an honour to receive this award and I’m extremely grateful for such recognition. The rail industry has provided me with a diverse and exciting career since joining BR as a junior clerk at the age of 17 and one in which I’ve had the opportunity to work in all parts of the U.K.
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Game: F-1 Spirit is a blast from the past. Based on a Lucas Arts game from 1987, F-1 Spirit is a Micro Machines-style top down style racing game. It's free and it is a lot of fun.
F-1 Spirit might not be big on graphics but it has six engaging game modes such as Stock, Rally, F3, F3000, Endurance and of course, F1 for which there are 16 courses. The first three modes are available from the start and then the latter are opened up to you as you acquire more points by racing.
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F-1 Spirit is a strangely addictive game and with all the levels and modes available, you're guaranteed to find one that suits you.
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These lan tournaments might be in some ways unfair to players who are not able to attend and won't always be able to attend in the future like Vinch and some of the other players. Vinch through no fault of his own cannot attend and can't particpate even though he worked hard and beat some very good players to get through. It also won't look like he will be able to attend other lan events soon, Also the aoe community is intentionally choosing these lan events knowing some players such as Vinch can't attend. Why can't they let him play from home? and other qualified players who cannot attend. The order of sheep will be second tournament that was huge recently Vinch unable to attend. Just like rbw. For a top player that is sad, and potentially alot of money.
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Sarah Jessica Parker: New York Pops Party Pretty
All dressed up for a night on the town, Sarah Jessica Parker was in attendance at the New York Pops 31st Birthday Gala Dinner on Monday (April 28).
The "Sex in the City" star looked gorgeous in a black ensemble with silver embellishments as she made her way down the arrivals carpet.
After a concert at Carnegie Hall, guests moved to the Mandarin Oriental New York for a dinner dance.
Sarah and her husband Matthew Broderick were honorary co-chairs of the event, along with Debra Messing.
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» Ante Glibota Croatian historian of art wrote a monograph about young Chinese artist Shi Liru
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» Ante Glibota Croatian historian of art wrote a monograph about young Chinese artist Shi Liru
|Ante Glibota Croatian historian of art wrote a monograph about young Chinese artist Shi Liru
|By Darko Žubrinić |
Education , Culture And Arts
Ante Glibota is a French art and architecture historian of international renown, having Croatian origin
Congratulations to Mr. Ante Glibota for his newest monograph published in China.
SOLO EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATION OF THE MONOGRAPH SHI LIRU
AT THE MUSEUM FOR ART AND URBANITY SHANGHAI (MAUS)
The Museum of Art and Urbanity of Shanghai (MAUS) announces the presentation of a comprehensive exhibition of works by the Chinese painter, photographer and sculptor Shi Liru and of a monograph dedicated to the artist published jointly by MAUS and Delight Edition. Curator of the exhibition as well as author of the monograph is the art historian Ante Glibota, a titular member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters.
The exhibition and monograph will be presented at the exhibition opening on September 1st, 2012 at 14:00 hrs. at the Museum of Art and Urbanity, 120 Maolian Road (Jiuyi Road), Songjiang District, Shanghai, in the presence of the artist and of the author of the monograph and curator of the retrospective exhibition, Mr. Ante Glibota.
SHI LIRU: HIS LIFE
Liru Shi was born in 1981 in the borough Haibown of Wuhai City in Inner Mongolia. He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown. Thereafter he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin, where he graduated in 2005. After graduation he taught in the secondary school attached to the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin. Since he was more interested in being an independent artist than in teaching he established himself in Beijing in the art district of Songzhuang where he has lived and worked since 2006. The young artist has developed his own way in a relatively short period of time, dealing with various temptations and all the while achieving a rich and diverse pictorial palette. This balanced personal fugue has taken into account public sentiments as well as artistic critiques. His great curiosity and his refusal of linearity have led him to a concurrency of expression in multiple artistic media: sculpture, photography and painting, without losing his personal touch and independence. Since 2005, when he presented his first solo exhibition at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, his work has been shown at the Opera Gallery in Paris, followed by exhibitions in London, New York, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai. His works are present in some of the most important private and public collections around the world.
SHI LIRU: HIS WORK
A mere ten years on the path of art and thirty years into his life, the exhibition offers a first glimpse of the absolute determination and superhuman effort with which this young artist has devoted himself to his chosen profession: art and artistic research. He has pursued his own path from his early youth, shielded by a fierce determination to defend his scope of interest and his own orientation, bringing to life concepts bearing an internal truth, while his family tried to steer him towards a „stable and secure“ profession. It is precisely this element of truth that Shi Liru has inscribed into his path, drawing rarity from profusion or better, charting his own way in his paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs in a fascinating and coherent work full of promise.
Although his early works are mostly figurative, drawing on well- known references, they already show evidence of an expressive formal concept and of a great sensitivity in the treatment of the subject. For a short period of time he also tried his hand at a sort of lyrical abstraction, an abstraction that showed some promise (the series “Boil“, 2005); but the young artist quickly abandoned that pursuit.
He appropriates the medium of painting for easily legible visual themes in garish and flashy colors, hovering between figurative representations and delicate atmospheres that the artist puts forth with comprehendible subtlety on the surface of the paintings. His figures, in most cases female faces, are painted in bright pink, orange, faded blue, apple green, and sun yellow, showing their bright and flashy eyes as well as their soft skin, indicating the artist’s intent to insert them into some kind of narrative framework. These elements are all the more interesting to note as they are often the physical and psychological result of illusions brought on by the accumulation of objects and details surfacing on the canvases depicting urban themes. In parallel with this series of portraits, the figures painted in fluorescent colors show an appropriate sensitivity that may sooth us. But together and simultaneously these works are subtle analyses, observations and critiques of the human environment, that in their entirety leave a marked impact on the viewer.
Strongly attached to Pop Art culture, Shi Liru also has explored the Chinese revolutionary imagery through historical Chinese figures and urban themes, and more recently, in the same spirit, he has produced a powerful series of pictures inspired by sports. Images ranging from polo to golf testify to his great creative talent with a pictorial inventiveness that offers an authentic experience clearly evident in life’s creative flow.
The artist works without refrain. He explores a theme or series of images, sometimes combining painting with photography and even sculpture, always in pursuit of solutions that balance internal energies, then turning to new ways of exploration in an attempt to put forth another coherent, innovative proposal in inner balance with his soul.
The exhibition covers the past ten years of Shi Liru’s creative output through 135 paintings, photographs and sculptures, among them the most significant works from his beginnings to the present. One can discover his series "Peach Blossom" of 2006-2007, "Temptation" of 2007, "Chinese Smiling" of 2008; also the series "Let us celebrate our Heroes" devoted to polo and golf players from between 2008 and 2010, "Moment of Passion" of 2009 and 2010 as well as the series "Girls" and "Shadow" of 2011.
The bilingual Chinese-English volume in a large format (31 x 24.5 cm) with a hard cover and dust jacket, containing 320 pages, is devoted to the work of Liru Shi and has been published jointly by the Museum of Art and Urbanity Shanghai (MAUS) Delight Edition. It is the result of the work of art historian Ante Glibota who devoted many years of research to the work of this young Chinese artist. Ante Glibota has wanted to present a promising artist, who is both, a sensitive human being and possessed of an acute, overboarding creativity. The different periods of work follow each other in chronological order from the earliest works that the artist has kept to the most recent, reflecting the variety of research and the intensity of the artist’s key concerns and creative processes. The work is tied together in series and in creative periods and represented in generous illustrations, offering coherence and showing the most substantive works, so as to enable the public to fully appreciate the creative wealth and promise of this young artist.
AUTHOR & CURATOR
Ante Glibota is a French art and architecture historian of international renown. In 1979 he was appointed artistic director of the Paris Art Center and became its Director General in 1981, a position he held until 1994. Since then he has intensified his many travels around the world: in China, Japan and Korea, in various countries of Europe and America, visiting artists' studios, museums, galleries, universities and academies, focusing on direct contact with architects, designers and artists, and giving lectures at prestigious universities and national academies of arts and sciences. In his professional work he has emphasized the importance of the urban space and of the environment and has devoted special attention to architects and architecture by organizing large exhibitions as well as specific thematic presentations devoted to major representatives of contemporary architectural design. He focuses on the relationship between art and science and their interconnections, organizing numerous conferences, exhibitions and international meetings. He is founder and organizer of an artistic community, that engages an overall sensitivity and total experience, and brings together the creativity of painters and sculptors, poets, writers and playwrights, architects and musicians, scientists and philosophers. Ante Glibota has conceived and organized over 400 exhibitions dedicated to painting, sculpture, architecture and literature in museums and galleries across all continents, including many retrospectives of major contemporary artists and architects, as well as literary events, music and dance performances, seminars and artistic and scientific conferences. He has been the Commissioner and publisher of the event "Arts Olympiad" held in Seoul (South Korea) during the 1988 Olympics where he created one of the largest outdoor sculpture parks in the world. More recently, he was appointed Commissioner and editor of "Art and Sport" organized by the IOC and Adidas for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, with the participation of major international artists in a touring exhibition shown in seven major museums in China and presented at the Today Art Museum in Beijing during the Olympic Games in Beijing. One of his exhibitions "150 Years of Architecture in Chicago" was identified as the most important exhibition of the 20th Century by the French newspaper Le Monde in its supplement “The World - The Century 1900-1999”, published at the occasion of the New Millennium.
Author and editor of over 200 books and catalogues devoted to architecture, contemporary art and literature, he also published many rare books in limited editions in collaboration with leading contemporary artists and poets wrote volumes of poetry illustrated by artists. Ante Glibota has collaborated also with various international art magazines, among them Cimaise, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, Prometheus, Rome, Spirale, Milano, New York Art Magazine, New York City. Since 2010, he has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Science and Society. Ante Glibota is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters and an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In 2004, the China International Culture Exchange Center (CICEC) Beijing appointed him as one of five foreign advisors for international cultural exchanges. Since 2010, he has served as Vice President and Chief Curator of the Museum of Art and Urbanity in Shanghai, China. Ante Glibota lives in Paris, France and Shanghai, China.
TIME OF THE EXHIBITION: September 1st, 2012 to October 31st, 2012.
OPENING HOURS OF THE MUSEUM:
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MUSEUM ADDRESS: 120 Maolian Road (Jiuyi Road), Songjiang District, Shanghai, PR China.
作品集为汉英双语，共320页，开本31 x 24.5厘米，硬面精装，外加书套，收录史力如作品，由MAUS荟珍屋艺术中心和Delight Edition合作出版。它是艺术史学家安特•格利博达花费多年心血、潜心研究这位年轻的中国艺术家的成果。通过该作品集，安特•格利博希望展示一位前途无量的艺术家，他细腻敏感，同时又以其敏锐的创造力而光彩四射。作品集按照年代顺序，将艺术家在不同时期的作品——从他保存至今的早期作品直到最新创作的作品——一一收入其中。这些作品体现出艺术家广泛的涉猎领域、精深的专业造诣、以及独特的创作手法。作品集以创作系列和时间系列为主轴，配以精美的作品图片，充分反映了艺术家和谐而广泛的创作活动。读者也可以通过该作品集，逐渐发现这位拥有美好前程的艺术家。
安特•格利博达总共撰写和出版了200多部有关建筑、当代艺术和文学方面的著作和画册，并和当代艺术大师及诗人合作，出版了许多发行量很少的珍藏版图书。此外，他还出版过由画家插图的诗集。他的许多出版物作品曾在国际顶级艺术杂志上亮相，包括巴黎的《展墙》（Cimaise）、《艺术杂志》（Cahier d’ art），罗马的《普罗米修斯》（Promethus），米兰的《螺旋》（Spirale），纽约的《纽约艺术杂志》（New York Art Magazine）等等。从2010年起，他成为《科学与社会》（Science and Society）的编委。他还是欧洲科学艺术和人文学院的终身院士，美国建筑学院荣誉院士，等等。2004年，中国国际文化交流中心任命他为国际文化交流外籍顾问，任期五年。
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by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 16, 1998
Seven years ago, the romance of the age was between America and a Russia newly liberated from Leninism. Ronald Reagan was being toasted even in Moscow as having been right all along about the “evil empire.” Brave Boris Yeltsin stood atop a Russian tank to defy unreconstructed Communists seeking to re-establish the old regime.
How far away that all seems.
Today, Yeltsin blusters that U.S. strikes on Iraq could ignite a “world war,” as Moscow’s defense minister berates William Cohen. Russia ships missile technology to Tehran, sides with Saddam in the Persian Gulf, and establishes a “strategic partnership” with China.
The rise of anti-Americanism in Russia is a strategic disaster that may yet lead to an open breach, financial collapse and Yeltsin’s replacement by an anti-Western nationalist. For this state of affairs, however, Russians alone are not culpable. Much of the blame rests with a haughty U.S. foreign-policy elite that has done its level best to rub Russia’s nose in its Cold War defeat — as it thumped its chest and trumpeted America’s claim to be the “world’s only superpower.”
Consider the unprecedented opportunity America had in 1991.
Moscow had allowed its European empire to collapse, it had withdrawn the Red Army and let Germany be reunited, it had freed the Baltic republics and Ukraine, and it had allowed the U.S.S.R. to dissolve into a dozen nations. Having overthrown communism, it held out a hand to America. Every goal of U.S. policy had been attained.
At that point in history, Russia and America were no longer enemies but natural allies. Nowhere did the vital interests of one impinge on the vital interests of the other.
Yet, instead of behaving toward a defeated Russia as we did toward Germany and Japan after World War II, bringing them into the Western camp, some Americans began to treat Russia as a dangerous delinquent and probable recidivist to be corralled and contained in the tight little box in which history had placed her.
In the last year, U.S. Marines have conducted exercises in the Crimea, U.S. paratroops have practiced jumping in Kazakhstan, and the United States has begun pushing NATO up to the borders of Russia, while American strategists sought to cut Russia out of the oil and gas trade of the Caspian. The attitude seemed to be: If the Russians don’t like it, tough — what can they do about it?
Russians have reacted as Americans would have reacted, had the Confederacy won its independence and British warships arrived in Charleston and Redcoats in Virginia. And they have responded to our assurances that NATO’s expansion is not directed against them as we would have to assurances that a London-Richmond alliance was not a British plot to contain a divided, diminished United States.
NATO’s expansion to Warsaw, Prague and Budapest may be a fait accompli, and future expansion to Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia and Macedonia inevitable, given our present hubris. But, as George Kennan writes, history may call this the greatest blunder of the post-Cold War era.
Americans had best wake up and look at Europe — as Kaiser Wilhelm’s minister reported back on the eve of World War I, after a visit to their Vienna partner, “Sire, we are allied to a corpse.” Our NATO allies have all slashed their force levels, and their populations are dwindling. They are more dependencies than allies and are so behaving, choosing when, whether and where to support the imperial protectress. Can anyone believe that France and Italy, neither of which supports us in the Gulf, would declare war on a nuclear-armed Russia to defend Estonia?
Given the present balance of power, Russia can only seethe and plot with our enemies behind our back, as we hand out NATO membership cards to nations lately in her sphere of influence or even part of her empire. But the present balance will not forever endure.
One day, America’s hegemony in the Baltic or the Balkans will be challenged. On that day, when our new NATO allies invoke our guarantees, we will find that a new generation of Americans will not send its sons to fight, simply because this one promised it would.
The NATO expansionists have won the day on Capitol Hill, but they have guaranteed a series of crises in the new century that will mean either war or humiliation for the United States.
Americans might ask themselves: Why at the peak of our global pre-eminence do we seem so universally resented? Is it perhaps because the Old Republic is behaving like an arrogant empire?
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Put you socks on…embrace the schoolgirl style
Just take a look at The Row, Yohji Yamamoto, John Rocha, Stella McCartney, Band of Outsiders, Timo Weiland and Emporio Armani – they were all putting their best foot forward in tomboy flats.You can’t go wrong with plain black when it comes to the socks themselves. And this should be your go-to. But try out sheer black variations too, or those with a little (emphasis on little) or considered detail. Remember, the rule is to maintain a sense of sophistication.
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Site Templates can be administered from the Control Panel. They allow portal administrators to create multiple sites with the same default set of pages and content. Site templates can contain multiple pages, each with its own theme, layout template, portlets, and portlet configurations. Site templates can also contain content just like actual sites. This allows administrators to use site templates to create new sites that are each created with the same default pages, portlets, and content. After they’ve been created, these sites and their pages can be modified by site administrators. Using site templates can save site administrators a lot of work even if each site that was created from a given site template ends up being very different.
To get started, click on Site Templates in the Portal section of the Control Panel. Here, you can add, manage, or delete site templates. You can also configure the permissions of site templates. As long as a site is linked to the site template it was created from, changes to the site template’s pages, portlets, and portlet configurations are propagated to the site. Changes to a site template’s content, however, are not propagated to existing sites that are linked to the site template. We discuss the propagation of changes between site templates and sites in more detail in the section on site templates use cases below.
To manage the pages of a site template, click on Site Templates in the Control Panel and then click Actions → Manage Pages. From here, you can add or remove pages from a site template or select themes and layout templates to apply to the site template. Click on a specific page if you’d like to select a different theme or layout template for that page. To edit the pages themselves, click Actions → View Pages. You can add specific portlets to each page of a site template and configure the preferences of each portlet. Each page can have any theme, any layout template, and any number of portlet applications, just like a page of a regular site. As with site pages, you can organize the pages of a site template into hierarchies. When you create a site using a site template, the configuration of pages and portlets is copied from the template to the site. By default, all changes made to the site template are automatically copied to sites based on that template.
By default, the following site templates are provided:
Community Site: Provides a preconfigured site for building online communities. The home of a community site provides message boards, search, a display of a poll and statistics of the activity of community members. The site will also be created with a page for a community calendar and a page for a wiki.
Intranet Site: Provides a preconfigured site for an intranet. The Home page displays the activities of the members of the site, search, a language chooser and a list of the recent content created in the intranet. It also provides 3 additional pages for Documents and Media, Calendar and external News obtained through public feeds.
The following figure displays the form shown when editing the Community Site template:
To view and manage the pages of a site template, click the Open site template link. This opens the template in a new browser window (or tab) and it can be navigated or managed like a regular site.
Site Templates Example
Suppose we need to create the following three sites for Nose-ster’s internal use: Engineering, Marketing, and Legal. These should be private sites that are only accessible to members of these respective departments. We could design each site separately but can save ourselves some work if we create a site template to use instead.
To create a site template, navigate to the Control Panel and click Site Templates. Then click Add and enter a name for your template: we’ll use Department for our example. Leave the Active and Allow Site Administrators to Modify the Pages Associated with This Site Template boxes checked. The Active box must be checked for your template to be usable. If your template is still a work in progress, you can uncheck it to ensure that no one uses it until it’s ready. Checking Allow Site Administrators to Modify the Pages Associated with This Site Template allows site administrators to modify or remove the pages and portlets that the template introduces to their sites–if you want the templates to be completely static, you should uncheck this.
From the list of site templates, click on the Department site template that you created. Then click on the Open site template link to begin adding pages and portlets and configuring the layouts. When you click this link, the site template opens in a new browser tab or window. For our example, we would like our site template to include four pages. First, we’d like a Home page with the Activities, Announcements, and Calendar portlets. Next, we’d like a Documents and Media page with the Documents and Media portlet. Finally, we should create a Wiki page with the Wiki and Tag Cloud portlets and a Message Boards page with the Message Boards and Tag Cloud portlets. When you’re done creating and configuring the pages of your site template, just close the browser tab or window that opened when you clicked Open site template. Changes to site templates are automatically saved as you make them, so you don’t need to return to the Site Templates page of the Control Panel and select Save.
Next, let’s use our site template to create our Engineering, Marketing and Legal sites. Go to the Control Panel and click on Sites. Then click Add → Department. Enter Engineering for the site name and set the Membership Type to Private. Recall that private sites don’t appear in the My Sites portlet so that regular portal users won’t even know that the Engineering site exists. Also, the only way users can be added to a private site is via an invitation from a site administrator. Leave the Active box checked so that your site can be used immediately. Select the Copy as Private Pages option since our Engineering site is intended for internal use only. Leave the Enable propagation of changes from the site template box checked so that the Engineering site receives updates if the Department site template is modified. Finally, click Save to create your the Engineering site.
Repeat these steps to create the Marketing and Legal sites. The new sites have all the pages and portlets you created in the site template. To view the pages of the new sites, click on Sites in the Control Panel and then click on Actions → Go to Private Pages next to one of your new sites. Using site templates streamlines the site creation process for administrators, making it easy to create sites quickly. Now each Nose-ster department has its own calendar, documents and media library, wiki, and message boards application. Although the pages and portlets of each department’s site are the same, each site will quickly be filled with department-specific information as users add and share content within the sites. Also, site administrators can add new pages, portlets, and content to their sites, further differentiating each department’s site from the others.
Propagating Changes From Site Templates to Sites
It’s possible for site template administrators to add, update, or delete site template pages. Changes made to a site template can be propagated to sites whose pages sets are linked to the site template. Such a link is created when you create a site based on a site template and leave the Enable propagation of changes from the site template box checked. To disable or re-enable this link for a site, select the site in the Control Panel’s context menu selector. Then click on Site Settings and uncheck or recheck the Enable propagation of changes from the site template checkbox. You can can also access the Site Settings interface via the Dockbar by clicking Manage → Site Settings. In this section, we explain the propagation of changes from site templates to sites and discuss the options available to site administrators and site template administrators.
If a site’s page set has been created from a site template and the propagation of changes from the site template is enabled, site administrators can add new pages but cannot remove or reorder the pages imported from the site template. If a site has both pages imported from a site template and custom site pages, the site template pages always appear first; custom pages added by site administrators appear after the site template pages. Only site template administrators can remove, reorder, or add site template pages. Site administrators can add or remove custom site pages. They can also reorder custom site pages as long as they’re all positioned after the site template pages. Site template administrators cannot add, remove, or reorder custom site pages.
If a site administrator changes a page that was imported from a site template and refreshes the page, the following message appears:
This page has been changed since the last update from the site template. No further updates from the site template will be applied. Click *Reset* to overwrite the changes and receive updates from the site template.
If the site administrator clicks the Reset button, changes are propagated from the site template page to the corresponding site page that was imported from the site template. Clicking the Reset button makes two kinds of updates to a page. First, changes made by site administrators to the site page are undone. Second, changes made by site template administrators to the site template page are applied to the site page. Note: clicking the Reset button only resets one page. If multiple site pages have been modified and you’d like to re-apply the site template pages to them, you’ll need to click the Reset button for each page.
Site template administrators can set preferences for portlets on site template pages. When a portal administrator creates a site from a site template, the portlet preferences are copied from the site template’s portlets, overriding any default portlet preferences. When merging site template and site changes, e.g., when resetting, portlet preferences are copied from site template portlets to site portlets. Only global portlet preferences or local portlet preferences which don’t refer to IDs are overwritten.
Site administrators can also add data to site template portlets. For example, site template administrators can add the Wiki portlet to a site template page and use the Wiki to create lots of articles. When a portal administrator creates a site from a site template, data is copied from the site template’s portlets to the site’s portlets. The preferences of the site’s portlets are updated with the IDs of the copied data. For example, if a site is created from a site template that has a Wiki portlet with lots of wiki articles, the wiki articles are copied from the site template’s scope to the site’s scope and site’s Wiki portlet is updated with the IDs of the copied wiki articles. Portlet data is only copied from a site template to a site when the site is first created; data is not copied copied during a site reset.
Now that we’ve learned how site templates work, let’s discuss how to use page templates.
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The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess the extent of occurrence and impact of risk factors responsible for the variation between the forecast and actual construction cash flow. The study was conducted through a structured questionnaire administered to UK contracting organizations. Adopting a project-by-project approach, respondents were asked to provide opinions on the extent of occurrence of some identified risk factors and their impacts on cash flow forecast. Respondents were split into three groups of small, medium and large contracting firms based on their annual turnover so as to be able to investigate statistical differences of opinions between the groups. Statistical analyses were carried out using mean response analysis and univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) in order to determine significant risk factors and also to investigate differences of opinions between respondents' groupings.
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In the original 1978–91 series of Dallas, J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and his brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) fought each other over the future of the family oil business. In TNT’s remake, they’re back, but now J.R.’s son John Ross (Josh Henderson) and Bobby’s adopted son Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) are fighting each other over the future of the energy industry—John Ross a dedicated, hungry oil driller, Christopher an evangelist for alternative fuel sources. But it still all comes down to scheming, shooting and sex.
Fossil fuels may not last forever. But family feuds, TNT’s instantly familiar if unspectacular revival of Dallas tells us, are an endlessly renewable resource.
Dallas (two-hour debut tonight) is not a thematically changed, more ambitious “reimagining” of an old show, like Battlestar Galactica. It’s not a “reboot” that borrows the title and premise for a new generation of characters, like Charlie’s Angels or 90210. It’s a rarer thing, a continuation, that picks up with the same story, the same bloodlines and many of the same characters, some 20 years later, adding a younger cohort of sexy young scions to sweeten the demographics.
Stripped of Original Formula Dallas’ context, novelty and Who-Shot-J.R. watercooler heat, the new Dallas can’t compete with the iconic original. It’s one more cable drama, which means it has to stand on its performances (bland to hammy) and its dialogue (overheated). But what’s impressive about it in its own small way is how ordinary it seems: take away the appearance of Hagman and Duffy (and Linda Gray as Sue Ellen, now a top Texas politician) and it’s a perfectly credible nighttime summer soap.
The relaunch doesn’t take away Hagman and Duffy, though, and that’s one of its better moves. Rather than treat the older-generation characters as special guests or decorations, it enmeshes them directly in the new plot. It starts with oil: John Ross, cocky and hungry, has been secretly wildcat-drilling on Southfork, where he hits a massive gusher. There’s only one problem—Southfork is now in the hands of Bobby, who is determined to hold to his mother Miss Ellie’s wishes that there be no drilling on the family ranch. To protect it, Bobby plans to sell Southfork to a conservancy.
This being Dallas, good intentions are tied up with self-interest; Bobby wants to use the proceeds to protect Christopher’s business plan to become a tycoon in methane hydrates, frozen methane trapped on the ocean floor. The methane could arguably replace oil, and theoretically make Christopher very, very rich.
In case you didn’t get that this is J.R. and Bobby redux, Dallas lays it out pretty plain for you. “You and I, we’ve been on opposite tracks since we were born,” Christopher tells John Ross in the second hour. But they’ve also got plenty of connections, including romantic ones: John Ross is now in love (or is he!) with Elena (Jordana Brewster), the working-class girl once engaged to Christopher until he spurned her (or did he!) for Rebecca (Julie Gonzalo), the woman Christopher is about to marry (or will he!, &c.).
Christopher, an earnest square more comfortable with spreadsheets than drill bits, goes to Bobby, who’s weary, harboring a secret illness and worried about ugly family history repeating. The elder Ewing goes to visit J.R., who–unsettlingly for anyone who remembers him swaggering in a cowboy hat–is in a convalescent home, mute and suffering from clinical depression. “All the bitterness and bad blood you and I had,” Bobby says to his silent, weakened brother. “I don’t want them to be like us.” (Bit of a spoiler coming up, though not much of one if you’ve at all followed the promotions for the new show.) John Ross follows soon behind, complaining to his estranged dad that Bobby wants to screw him out of a fortune, and—as if the whiff of oil money is like smelling salts to him—J.R. wakens back to his old, wicked self.
J.R. wasn’t meant to be the star of the original Dallas, until his conniving and Hagman’s charming swagger forced him into the role. And seeing him reinflate into his calculating, venomous role is a treat, like watching Darth Vader rise again in his helmet. Lots of actors can play evil; few can communicate such enjoyment of it as Hagman, whose J.R. still prepares for a scheme like he’s about to cut into a juicy steak. “It’s nice to be in the company of a legend,” Bobby’s new wife Ann (Brenda Strong) tells him. (Duffy, now as then, cannot quite keep up in the conflicted nice-guy role.)
As for the younger generation, John Ross and Christopher work—in theory. There’s clearly an attempt to parallel them with their daddies’ conflict, but the producers have added some interesting complications. John Ross is savvy but not book-smart, motivated not just by greed but by a need to prove himself and spite the people who have told him he’s no good like his father. Christopher wants to prove he’s a true Ewing, by money if not blood, and when his alternative-energy plans run into trouble, it sets up some interesting questions about the limits of idealism. But in practice, Henderson lacks Hagman’s finesse and Metcalfe is as handsome and dynamic as a catalog still photo. The conflict, though, at least has potential.
Not too much potential, which sounds like an insult but I mean at least as a kind of compliment. The new Dallas isn’t aiming for creative reinvention or epic sweep; instead it seems to want to be a competent 2012 soap. It’s not something I’m personally likely to keep up with, but on the terms of its own modest aims, it could work. Caveat: For triage reasons, I’m basing this review on four episodes of seven TNT sent out, and already at that point it has sprung some reveals and triple-twists that are outlandish even by primetime-soap standards. I understand the show wanting to hook viewers, but at this pace it risks plot whiplash.
Still, despite some flat performances, the show does a better job than I might have expected bringing a 20th-century broadcast-TV icon down to 21st-century cable size. As the revived J.R. crows in the new show’s first hour, “Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is a hell of a lot thicker than both.” And there’s no reason they each can’t keep gushing forth.
MORE: TV’s Dallas: Whodunit?
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Geschichte einer Flucht mit den PH-Playmates
nach dem Buch von Ann Jaramillo
Regie: Susanne Franz
29.11. - 02.12.2011
Aula Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
Theater Freiburg, Kleines Haus
24.8. - 27.8.2012
"We can make it - together!"
The play La Lìnea, based on the correspondent novel of Ann Jaramillo, is about 15-year-old Miguel's dangerous journey from Mexico to California, where he hopes to be reunited with his parents.
On his fifteenth birthday, Miguel does not get any present; instead he gets a hand-written note from his father saying: "It's been six years, eleven months and twelve days since I left to
go north across la linea. It's time for you to come. Go see Don Clemente. He'll help you."
Don Clemente, rich landowner in Miguel's Mexican village, helps him by providing him with money, advice and above all, the name of a coyote (a guide) leading him through the dangerous terrain. However, on his flight he is secretly followed by his sister Elena, who destroys the well-laid-out plans for the border crossing.
Although he tries to send her back, he cannot get rid of his resolute 13-year-old sister and together with Javier they walk through the desert, suffering from lack of water, food, shelter. But there is not only "La Migra", the official American border patrol trying to arrest and send back illegal immigrants, but also the private militia, whose main aim it is to catch migrants who want to cross illegally the Mexican-American border in the southwest of the US.
Director: Susanne Franz
Producer: Prof. Dr. Mechthild Hesse
All actors and musicians are students of the University of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule) Freiburg
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How can we use food as medicine?
Are you interested in learning how food can be used as medicine? If you want to understand the power of nutrition, this 3-week course will teach you about the role of food in improving health.
You will explore how food can be important both in preventative health and as an aid in the management of certain chronic diseases today, in the past and in the future.
Why macronutrients and antioxidants are special
To begin, you’ll learn about what food contains and what makes it special. From macronutrients and micronutrients to antioxidants, you’ll discover how each element contributes to your overall health and wellbeing.
We’ll explore how food was used as medicine in the past and the role food plays in disease prevention and treatment. You’ll also learn how we can make food a part of medicine in the future.
The importance of nutrition for your brain and gut
In your second week, you’ll investigate the different relationships between food and the gut, brain, appetite and genes. You’ll also gain an understanding of how food affects fertility and pregnancy.
You’ll study examples of food as medicine, including the FODMAP diet for IBS and probiotics for gut health. Find out how your body controls your appetite and learn more about the eating pattern known as ‘food addiction’.
Mindful eating and the future of food
Finally, we’ll discuss the complexities of nutrition science, how it’s evolving, and how nutrition misinformation may end up as fact. Then you’ll learn to apply mindfulness to the way you engage with your food.
The future of food is exciting, so we’ll explore how food may be used as medicine in the future, and the potential role food will play in your health and wellbeing.
Completion of this course enables doctors and healthcare professionals to apply for membership of the International Academy of Nutrition Educators (IANE) - a membership only open to qualified health professionals.
IANE membership enables access to a global network of medical nutrition experts and knowledge symposia, bespoke support and mentorship to implement nutrition into practice, and opportunities to participate in public health nutrition advocacy initiatives through NNEdPro’s partnership with governmental and non-governmental organisations.
Check out IANE pathway requirements: Find out more about Food as Medicine Final Assessment Course (NNedPro)
This course will have broad general interest appeal to everyone interested in food, nutrition and health. But it will be of particular interest to healthcare professionals who are looking to have more evidenced-based information, to assist them in providing food-based recommendations to their patients.
AfN Certified Course
This course has been certified by the Association for Nutrition. It meets AfN standards for nutrition training of individuals working at Level 1 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).
What does AfN Certification say about this course - please visit the Association for Nutrition website.
Please note completion of this course does not lead to registration on the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists nor does it equip any individual to practice ethically as a nutritionist.
BDA Endorsed Course
BDA endorsement applies only to the educational content of the learning activity. Completion of this course does not provide you with qualifications to practice as a nutritionist or dietitian.
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We stayed in the School House. Fabulously decorated and super comfortable-much like a high-end hotel! Sorry we only stayed there one night. Next time, we will check in as soon as we can and check out as late as we can.There is a full kitchen with all the supplies you need to make your own meals. Breakfast Table, sitting area, and comfortable bed. Beautiful grounds and swimming pool.
We had a wonderful weekend. The place was quiet and clean and had all the amenities we had wanted. We grilled out for most of our meals and the dogs got to run in the open spaces away from the city. We would stay here again!
The house was immaculate and the area so peaceful and relaxing it was very hard leaving. As in the description it is not a typical bed and breakfast in that we brought and cooked our our food, which was better for us and our stay. It was everything we had hoped for secluded, clean and a home away from home. The best part for us was being able to take our two dogs! We will hope to be able to stay there again when we need to get away and recharge our batteries.
Lovely farm with beautiful, historic, renovated structures, such as a schoolhouse. We were welcomed by the many farm pets, such as the Pyrenees and cats. We also found fresh picked farm eggs and had biscuits and orange juice in the fridge when we arrived. The schoolhouse is stocked with very nice appliances, washer and dryer, all kitchen ware, and very relaxing lavender bath soaps and lotions. We had a very relaxing stay. The property is also very nice to take strolls with star gazing and natural wildlife, such as a family of deer. There is also a very well kept pool to cool off and relax in. We very much enjoyed our stay and highly recommend it to others.
This is the ultimate getaway. Quaint country setting provides peace and quite. Rustic buildings outfitted with luxurious bedding and bath essentials. This is our second stay and it was perfect. Treat yourself. All of this and only a stones throw from Houston.
The owners are very friendly and helpful. The property is beautiful and very well kept. The house itself is very clean and outstanding. Its like having a home away from home. As a bonus, Chappell Hill is a neat town. I highly recommend this as a place to stay!!
The stay here at Wakefield Farms was nothing less than fantastic! Susan was awesome and was available by phone or text responding immediately. The cottage was spotless and beautiful with fantastic personal touches like chocolate and lavender on your bed as well as sparkling water at the bedside. Three stars for onsite dining only because there wasn't any. However, breakfast was included at a local diner about five minutes down the road. Susan also gave some great recommendations for dining. If ever in the area, this would be my choice of accommodations.
This is an absolutely lovely bed-and-breakfast. It appears to be "shabby chic" professionally decorated! Everything was in order when we got there. Lots of breakfast items to choose from. The surroundings are just spectacular. A pond is just outside the door with Longhorns and peacocks strolling right around the cottage. So central to all the action in Chapel Hill with Brenham and other small hill country towns very close. A weekend will feel like days!
I have just had the most wonderful, relaxing, rejuvenating two day vacation in a long time. The cottage at Wakefield Farms was cozy, comfortable, clean, decorated adorably with many extra touches with guest comfort in mind. The housekeeper, Caroline, showed me the accommodations to allow me to choose my preference (I stayed mid-week so had the luxury of options). She was pleasant, knowledgeable about the area and really just a joy! The on-site massage provided by Christine was among the best I've ever had and talk about convenient! She even took time after the massage to show me some stretches to help. The Innkeeper, Susan, was so accommodating, helpful and went out of her way to make sure I was comfortable and happy. Did I mention yet about the breakfast fixin's provided? Farm fresh eggs (trust me on the “fresh”, I met the "parents"), biscuits, OJ. I will most definitely be returning and HIGHLY recommend Wakefield Farms for a wonderful, quiet, comfortable getaway!
We absolutely loved our stay in the private farmhouse for 2. The innkeepers have thought of so many little details to provide a cozy, relaxing place to stay. Can't wait to go back! Breakfast is provided at a cafe in town and it was wonderful! It is not on site but that wasn't an issue for us.
Adorable location, Far exceeded my expectations, well appointed & well maintained. I will definitely return. The innkeeper was so helpful - made changes to my reservation & scheduled my massage. I couldn't be happier with this stay!
This house has been updated with new features and have all of the creature comforts you could expect from a modern hotel, yet it has the authenticity of an early home from generations ago. It was very clean and well decorated giving then entire house a welcoming and calming environment. It was the perfect place for our romantic getaway and a great place for us to relax. We had wine on the huge front porch and enjoyed the evening. I would highly recommend this place.
I have stayed in many VRBO, Home Aways, B&B's, etc. around the USA, but this one was the best ever! This was a special Valentines weekend getaway. I could not have been more pleased. Privacy, peaceful, relaxing and luxury all come to mind. Three separate accommodations surround a pool, with plenty of space between. Each is unique and beautifully decorated with every detail attended to. High-end soaps, lotion, and first-class accommodations are what you will find. Luxurious and comfortable linens and bedding were like sleeping in a cloud. It was so quiet and dark at night that only the chickens clucking in the morning would wake you. The pastures were full of animals. It was an oasis and a wonderful retreat. We stayed in the Schoolhouse. It was more amazing than the photos. We brought food to cook our dinners and everything we needed was there. We never saw the innkeeper, but she encouraged us to call or text with any issues or questions. When checking in, we pulled up to the gate, got the code and we were all on our own, which we loved. The property was full that weekend, but we never saw any of the other guests. I assume during the summer that would be different with the pool use, but if you want a private retreat this will certainly accommodate. If you want to spoil yourself, or someone special, look no further and book this place immediately. During the day you can eat ice cream at the Blue Bell Factory, go on a wine tour, see some great Texas History in Independence and Washington on the Brazos, eat at some great restaurants in both Chappell Hill and Brenham, and do some antique shopping. This place receives Five-Stars and is certainly Outstanding!
Perfect Anniversary getaway! We have stayed at many B&B's but never have we received such hospitality. The massages were amazing and I get them on a regular basis, so I am kind of picky. But these ladies were excellent. The food was very delicious and beautifully prepared and the suite we were in was so homey and comfortable, we didn't want to leave! Donna, you are an amazing hostess.
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If you follow us on Facebook and Twitter this week, you will have seen several tweets showcasing myths about black hat SEO. (If you don’t follow us yet, you can click here to see some of what I am talking about.) Specifically, we posted 5 myths of black hat SEO, in order to showcase some of the worst practices on the net.
Funny thing is, some businesses do things on this list, not because they are evil, but because they confuse it with the white hat method. Not to mention these methods can get your site banned from Google!!
The following list doesn’t even scratch the surface of things black hats will do to raise their rank, but we are just going to focus on the heavy hitters… and maybe get to some of those others down the road.
5: Hidden content is the best way to use keywords
For a while, this was unfortunately true. Site developers would type hundreds of keywords into the background color of their site, disguising it from the viewer, but still very visible to Google’s algorithm. For example, use your cursor to highlight the white area below.
These words are hidden from you but still exist on this page! Mind blown right!
Pretty cleaver huh? Well Google thought so too. To fix this, the Panda 4.0 algorithm update (May 2014) allowed keywords to build ranks only if it made up less than approximately five percent of the page dialogue.
4: Copying Content
There are a few ways to mess up your Google rank with copying content. One of the easiest is having a “sign in” or “welcome page,” and forgetting to use a 301 redirect. If you don’t know what a 301 redirect is, or you need to know how to use it, check out this post from HubSpot on the topic.
The problem with duplicated pages are the same problem parents have with identical twins… they can’t tell them apart. For content to register correctly, Google needs to verify which page was intended to be indexed, where to direct metrics, and which site was intended for ranking.
Ex: Many URLs
Long story short, if you duplicate content, you can lower the ranks of both sites.
3: Comment Spamming
We have discussed how linking to other sites is helpful to a site’s Google rank, but simply leaving comments on websites and blogs can help as well. When commenting and interacting with other websites and blogs is done correctly, Google ranks can soar! However, when this rank builder is half-assed, and spammed at several websites, Google ranks can fall.
Next time you are reading a comment section, take notice of the comments with the lowest rating. Many of them have little or nothing to do with the subject.
Sites like WordPress and Blogger, have already taken steps to keep comment spamming from helping Google ranks; but honestly… do these guys really think this will make people use their product? DON’T BE THOSE GUYS, FOLKS!!
2: Keyword Stuffing
This is one… that I just don’t see the logic. Here is an example from Google:
It will be found. It will lower the site rank. It will cause potential clients to dismiss your site as garbage. This needs little to no explanation!
Also, I pulled an image of this, for no other reason than to avoid Google mistaking this post as a keyword stuffed site… it’s that bad!
Have you ever searched for something, clicked the link… ended up at some type of….. <Clears throat> mature content? That is cloaking in the simplest form.
Another term for this is “Bait and Switch,” and it might be the bane of the white hat’s existence. This method is used to drive traffic to a site, but the traffic often leaves immediately after reaching the home page. I mean, if you’re gonna buy a hammer, don’t go to the book store!
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Car insurance is a necessary expense for anyone who owns a car in the United States, but it doesn’t have to be expensive. Cheap full coverage car insurance is a great way to protect yourself, your vehicle, and your finances without breaking the bank. In this blog post, we’ll discuss five key reasons why you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US
From financial protection to peace of mind, cheap full coverage car insurance can provide many benefits for a fraction of the cost of traditional insurance policies. Read on to learn more about why cheap full-coverage car insurance is a great choice for American drivers. Having car insurance is essential if you want to legally drive a car in the United States.
Not only does it provide financial protection for you and others if you are involved in an accident, but it can also give you peace of mind knowing that you are covered. But why should you go for cheap full coverage car insurance? In this blog post, we’ll provide 5 reasons why you need to have cheap full coverage car insurance in the US.
1) To protect your car
When it comes to why you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US, protecting your car is at the top of the list. Accidents can happen, and when they do, you want to make sure that your car is protected from any financial damage or liability. In the event of an accident, comprehensive coverage can cover any damage to your car, regardless of who is at fault.
It can also provide additional coverage for items such as emergency roadside assistance, rental cars, and uninsured motorist coverage. Having comprehensive coverage is essential for protecting your car, so make sure you have it! Another reason why you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US is for the peace of mind it provides.
Even if you’re a great driver with a perfect driving record, having comprehensive coverage gives you peace of mind knowing that your vehicle will be taken care of if something unexpected happens.
Additionally, most states require a minimum level of liability insurance coverage, so having comprehensive coverage helps ensure that you meet those requirements if anything ever happens. Furthermore, if your car needs repairs after an accident, comprehensive coverage can help pay for them as well.
Finally, having comprehensive coverage can often save you money in the long run by helping prevent more expensive repairs and medical bills in case of an accident. By having comprehensive coverage, you’ll know that whatever happens on the road, you’re covered financially.
2) To protect your finances
Having the right type of car insurance is essential to protect your finances from unexpected events. The cost of repairs or medical bills can add up quickly, and you don’t want to be stuck footing the bill if you are involved in an accident. That’s why you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US – it provides you with financial protection should you be involved in a collision or suffer some other form of car-related damage.
Full coverage car insurance typically includes liability insurance, which pays for any property damage or bodily injury that you may cause, as well as comprehensive and collision coverage, which covers repair costs associated with a crash or vandalism.
Comprehensive coverage also includes events like flooding or theft. Having this type of insurance ensures that you won’t be left with an expensive repair bill should something happen to your vehicle.
Furthermore, some states require drivers to have certain types of car insurance to be able to legally drive, so having the right level of coverage is critical to staff you are found to be driving without adequate coverage, you could face hefty fines or even have your license suspended. Cheap full coverage car insurance in the US helps ensure you don’t find yourself in this situation.
For all of these reasons, having the right level of cheap full coverage car insurance in the US is important for protecting your finances in the event of an accident or other unexpected event.
3) To protect your family
Why you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US is that it protects your loved ones in the event of an accident. In the unfortunate event of a collision, medical expenses can quickly add up, especially if more than one person is injured. Additionally, if someone else is at fault in the accident, their insurance may not cover all of the costs associated with the crash.
With full coverage car insurance, you can be sure that you and your family are covered, no matter who is responsible. Full coverage car insurance also protects your family from being sued if the other driver decides to take legal action.
Even if the other party isn’t injured or their property isn’t damaged, they could still sue you in court. This type of insurance provides peace of mind knowing that you have a financial cushion should something like this occur.
4) To be prepared for the unexpected
Why you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US because you never know when a serious accident or natural disaster might occur. In the event of such an unforeseen event, having cheap full coverage car insurance can help you pay for any repairs or replacements that may be necessary.
It can also help to provide you with peace of mind that, if something does happen, you’ll be covered and have the financial protection you need. Even though the cost of full coverage car insurance can seem like an added expense, it is well worth it if it prevents you from facing major losses due to an unexpected incident.
Furthermore, if you are found at fault in an accident, your liability coverage will cover any third-party damages incurred as well as related medical costs.
Additionally, many states require drivers to carry minimum amounts of liability insurance so failing to obtain adequate coverage could leave you vulnerable to legal ramifications. Lastly, some insurers offer additional benefits such as roadside assistance or rental car reimbursement should your vehicle become disabled while traveling. When considering all of these factors, it’s clear why you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US.
5) To save money
Why do you need cheap full coverage car insurance in the US? It can be difficult to keep up with rising car insurance rates, but shopping around for the best rates can make a difference. Not only does having full coverage car insurance provide peace of mind, but it can also save you money in the long run. If you are looking to save some money on your car insurance premiums, then opting for a cheaper policy that offers full coverage is a great option.
With full coverage car insurance, you will be covered for any repairs or medical bills that come from an accident, and you won’t have to worry about unexpected costs. Not only will this save you money in the short term, but it could also save you money in the long term if you have to make a claim. Another benefit of having cheap full coverage car insurance is that it can give you protection against theft and vandalism, which means that your car is covered even if something happens to it when you’re not driving it.
In addition, if you have to take legal action after an accident, you’ll be able to get financial help through your policy. Finally, most insurance providers offer discounts for those who opt for full coverage policies, so this could be another way to reduce the cost of your car insurance.
All these factors show why it’s important to invest in cheap full coverage car insurance; it provides excellent value for money and helps protect you from financial losses in the event of an accident.
Several factors can influence the cost of car insurance in the United States, including your age, gender, location, driving history, the type of vehicle you drive, and your insurance coverage needs. Here are some ways you may be able to get a cheaper car insurance rate:
Don’t just go with the first car insurance quote you receive. Get quotes from multiple insurance companies to compare prices.
Consider raising your deductible:
A higher deductible means you’ll pay more out of pocket if you have a claim, but it can also lower your insurance premium.
Take advantage of discounts:
Many insurance companies offer discounts for things like a good driving record, multiple policies, safety features on your car, and more. Ask your insurance company about available discounts.
A clean driving record can help lower your car insurance rates. Avoid getting tickets or getting into accidents, and consider taking a defensive driving course to demonstrate your safe driving skills.
Choose the right car:
The make and model of your car can affect your insurance rates. Generally, sports cars and luxury vehicles tend to have higher insurance premiums, while sedans and smaller cars tend to be cheaper to insure.
Only buy the coverage you need:
Don’t overpay for coverage you don’t need. Be sure to understand your insurance needs and only purchase the coverage that makes sense for you.
Consider alternative coverage options:
There are a variety of car insurance options available, including traditional insurance, pay-per-mile insurance, and usage-based insurance. Explore your options to see if one of these alternative coverage options might be a good fit for you.
Who Else Wants Save On Your Car Insurance?
Everyone wants to save money on car insurance. It is a major expense for many people, and finding ways to reduce the cost can be very helpful for those who are trying to manage their budget.
There are several ways to save on car insurance, as mentioned in my previous response. Some of the key strategies include shopping around for quotes, raising your deductible, taking advantage of discounts, driving safely, choosing the right car, and only buying the coverage you need.
Additionally, you may be able to save money by bundling your car insurance with other types of insurance, such as home or renters insurance, or by selecting a policy with a higher deductible. It can also be helpful to review your insurance coverage regularly to make sure you are not paying for unnecessary coverage or overinsuring your vehicle.
Auto insurance quote
Auto insurance quote estimates the cost of car insurance coverage for a specific vehicle and driver. To get an auto insurance quote, you’ll need to provide some information about yourself and your vehicle, including your name, address, and driver’s license number, as well as the make, model, and year of your car. You’ll also need to specify the type of coverage you want, such as liability coverage, collision coverage, and comprehensive coverage.
Some insurance companies may also ask about your driving history and the purpose of the vehicle (e.g., personal use or business use). Based on this information, the insurance company will provide you with an estimate of the cost of coverage. It’s important to keep in mind that an auto insurance quote is just an estimate, and the actual cost of coverage may be different when you purchase a policy.
Here are some common questions and answers about car insurance:
What is car insurance?
Car insurance is a contract between you and an insurance company that protects you against financial loss if you have an accident or your car is stolen.
Why do I need car insurance?
Car insurance is required by law in most states. It also provides financial protection in case you are involved in an accident or your car is damaged or stolen.
What types of car insurance are available?
There are several types of car insurance available, including liability coverage, collision coverage, and comprehensive coverage. Liability coverage protects you against financial loss if you are at fault in an accident and cause injury or damage to another person or their property.
Collision coverage protects you if you are involved in an accident and your car is damaged. Comprehensive coverage protects you against damage or loss to your car from non-collision events, such as theft, fire, or natural disasters.
How much does car insurance cost?
The cost of car insurance varies based on several factors, including your age, location, driving history, and the type of vehicle you drive. On average, Americans pay about $1,500 per year for car insurance.
How do I choose the right car insurance company?
When choosing a car insurance company, it’s important to consider factors such as the company’s financial stability, customer service record, and the types of coverage they offer. It’s also a good idea to get quotes from multiple insurance companies and compare the prices and coverage options.
What if I can’t afford car insurance?
If you can’t afford car insurance, there are a few options you can consider. You may be able to find a more affordable policy by shopping around and comparing quotes from multiple insurance companies.
You can also consider alternative coverage options, such as pay-per-mile insurance or usage-based insurance. Additionally, some states have programs that provide low-cost car insurance for low-income drivers.
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Following my earlier post, Rheumatoid Arthritis – The Making of Candida?, now, here is the attack plan, to get back at these Candida.
Under normal circumstance, our bodies are able to resist invasion (as it does with other germs), but when our immunological comes under varied prolonged stressors, the yeast/fungal invasion can extend its reach to cripple our whole immune system so that it can no longer repel these invaders. As I explained on how Candida leads to leaky gut syndrome earlier, the proteins that are derived from the common DA structure, each time a new protein enters directly into the blood stream, it get recognized as an invader. This is how ‘cross-reactivity‘ occurs and increasing food allergies develops.
So, you see, Candida can be stubborn and has strong survival will, and if we want to successfully treat it, the following 4 modalities MUST be strictly adhered to, for it to be effectiveness. I cannot emphasize enough that, it needs an absolute 100% strict conformance to the treatment plan. If any one of these steps are neglected or inadequately followed through, the process will be delayed, prolonged, or ineffective.
The 4-Steps Candida Treatment Plan
These are the 4 crucial steps that must be followed through:
- Killing the fungus overgrowth with proper diet (by starving out the fungus) and medication (killing off the fungus), as well as management of the healing crisis.
- Nutritional supplementation and correction of vital nutrients to support the immune system.
- Planting good bacteria back into the gut and re-establish a normal good bacterial flora.
- Avoidance of antibiotics, hormones, steroids and allergic foods.
There are a number of conventional medications that are used to eradicate the fungus. Many physicians have used anti-fungal agents such a Clotrimazole, administered for thrush, Nystation for bowel therapy and Itraconazole and Fluconazole for systematic infections.
A. Caprylic Acid – It is fungicidal for Candida albicans, yet harmless to friendly intestinal flora. It is also invasive against the mycelial form as well as yeast form. Caprylic acid is metabolized by liver and does not get into general circulation, as such, it must exert its fungicidal effect in the intestinal tract. You can take up to 5 tablespoons per day, but start on a lower does just in case you experience a die-off reaction.
B. Olive Leaf Extract – The oleuropein in olive leaf extract can obliterate Candida quite effectively. It can kill rather than just inhibiting its growth. If you are taking a 500mg capsule, you can take up to 2 capsules 3 times daily with meals and as maintenance, 1 to 3 cups of olive leaf extract tea per day.
C. Oregano Oil – the phenols in oregano oil are highly concentrated and its antifungal properties are demonstrated in a 2001 study showing its effectiveness against fungal infections such as Candida. It can be taken orally in capsule or liquid form. In liquid form, you may take 1-3 drops per day, under the tongue.
D. Garlic – Garlic is a very potent antibacterial and anti-fungal agent. It contains a chemical compound named Ajoene which has shown an effectiveness against 98.2% of yeasts, including Candida according to a 2009 study. It can be added to many different foods. Alternatively, you can also take standardized garlic capsules 3 times a day.
E. Grapefruit Seed Extract – The extract comes from the pulp and seeds of grapefruit. Also a highly powerful anti-fungal, you have to build up the dosage. If taking the liquid concentrate, 10 drops in a cup of water is a typical dose, to be taken 3 times a day. In tablet form, 100-200mg three times a day should be sufficient.
F. Raw Apple Cider Vinegar – Raw apple cider vinegar is an enemy to the Candida. It balances the pH level of the body and prevent Candida overgrowth. Take a tablespoon and mix it with a glass of water and drink before each meal. It can aid digestion and prevent undigested food particles from feeding Candida in the gut, while creating an unfriendly environment for the yeast, and help rebuild a good environment for friendly gut flora.
G. Pau D’Arco – This is the bark of a rainforest tree which is inherently anti-fungal. It’s often brewed into tea. Drinking up to 3 cups of tea per day is an easy way to harness its anti-fungal properties.
On additional note, without any drugs or medications, it must be emphasized that the last thing that you want to do is to stop the treatment before the course is completed. It usually takes minimal of 3 to 4 months to get the overgrowth under control, and it is very tempting to stop the course as you feel much better. The danger of stopping halfway before any remnants of the fungus are cleared off your system is the fact that they can grow back quickly and build resistance to the anti-fungal agents you had used earlier to kill off those fungal overgrowth.
You shall also begin to commence the anti-fungals soon after you began the highly restrictive anti-Candida diet. Start with slow doses to prevent severe die-off (healing crisis) reaction. A large dose taken too quickly can kill off too much Candida and make you quite sick. For the same reason, it is also a good idea to try to leave a few days between starting the anti-fungals and your probiotics intake.
Another good tip is to rotate the use of the above anti-fungals from time to time, for instance, month to month. Candida is believed to be quick to adapt to a single anti-fungal over time, so by doing this, we can be ensured that these and other anti-fungals will not lose any of their effectiveness.
Remember, Candida feeds on sugar and all forms of it, such as lactose contained in dairy products, honey, glucose, fructose and sugar substitutes. It also feeds on high carbohydrate foods and gluten containing grains such as wheat, rye, and barley; as well as other yeast molds and yeasty foods. Sugar can also be found in most processed foods such as canned meats, ketchup, cereal and artificial sweeteners.Therefore, a strict total and absolute avoidance of the following must be followed:
- All sweets and sugary foods in any shape, form and fashion, e.g. desserts, honey, molasses and any products that end in “ose” such as fructose, glucose, maltose, lactose, etc.
- All breads and flour products of any kinds.
- All kind of alcohol beverages since they contain yeast and sugar.
- All gluten-containing grains e.g. wheat, oats, rye, barley; and starchy foods e.g. rice, potatoes, etc.
- Yeast in food production and flavouring of commercial breads, rolls, cakes, pastries, cookies, hotdogs, crackers, biscuits, soy sauce, mayonnaise, condiments, salads dressings, mushroom, etc.
- All milk and milk products e.g. butter, yogurt, etc.
- All forms of processed or refined foods.
Below are extracts from the Whole Approach® Candida Diet protocol (www.WholeApproach.com), which details very comprehensive 3-stages dietary protocol that begins with three full months on Stage One (regardless of your beginning score). Then, as healing progresses, you may move through Stage Two and Stage Three diet recommendations, followed by a maintenance (stabilization) diet.
Do not forget that anti-Candida diet is absolutely vital and crucial in the treatment, and failure to comply with the diet will likely result in failure of fungal overgrowth.
Management of Healing Crisis
On top of that, I’d suggest supplementing the anti-fungals with Psyllium and Bentonite, while taking the anti-fungals.
Psyllium gradually scrapes away Candida breeding ground from the colon wall, absorbs toxins within the colon and carries them out to reduce the die-off reaction from the dying Candida. It gives slippery adhesive bulk to loosen and pass out old, congested and solidified fecal matters that coat the wall of the colon.
Bentonite, on the other hand, directly absorbs Candida albicans and flushes them out. Basically, it therapeutic usefulness lies with its absorbent capability in detoxification of the intestinal canal. Since bentonite is not itself absorbedm whatever it absorbs will be removed in the feces.
Another novel way to deal with the damaging by-product of Candida albicans, mainly ethanol, and its descendant, aldehyde, is the study which shows that by taking 100mcg of molybdenum three times a day, together with adequate glutamine, selenium, niacin, folic acid, pyridoxine, cobalamin and iron, aldehydes continue to be metabolized into acetic acid, which can be excreted, or converted into acetyl coenzyme.
Die-off symptoms can also be alleviated by consuming 1g of Vitamin C several times daily or as needed, and taking an Epsom salt baths also help to draw toxins out through the skin.
Nutritional Supplementations – Vitamins, Minerals and Fatty Acids
In order to build immune system, it is necessary to correct any vitamins, minerals and fatty acids deficiency.
Good fatty acids (such as Omega-3 fatty acids) and oils (such as coconut oils) are essential to get Candida under control. It assists the body to absorb nutrients while providing an efficient source of energy. It is useful to also supplement with certain essential vitamins and minerals that are yeast free and sugar free, including but not limited to chlorella, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium and so forth. For more on the proper nourishment that fits Candida as well as RA treatment, you may explore here.
Re-establishment of Normal Gut Flora
As the yeast overgrowth is killed off by anti-fungal agents, it is crucial to consume a constant supply of probiotics or the ‘friendly’ or ‘beneficial’ bacteria or microorganisms. The most numerous bacteria found in small intestines are species of Lactobacilli and those in the colon are the species of Bifidobacteria.
The best probiotics supplement shall be one that contains specific strain of bacteria that have been studied and verified as effective. Two of the many studied strains are Lactobacillus GG and Lactobacillus acidophilus DDS-1. In addition, we need to pay attention to its potency (the higher the better) and quality (stored in dark bottle to prevent lowered bacteriologic count caused by heat and light, and kept refrigerated).
Finally, it is best to avoid antibiotics in any form as well as hormones, steroids and foods that we are now allergic/intolerant to.
I cannot recommend enough reading up more on Candida-related information and find that Linda Allen’s Yeast Infection No More (TM) system and Dr Cook’s The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health particularly authoritative and useful. With the highly restrictive nature of anti-Candida diet, I have issues with diversifying my diet and what I can prepare for my meals. This book, The Yeast Connection Cookbook will be ideal for individuals, especially those of us on RA who are avoiding and rotating food due to food allergies and intolerance; but as you may imagine, you may find some of these recipes rather tasteless or unappetizing particularly if your taste buds are attuned to heavy tastes of the modern Western diet. But, do remember that, yeast only feeds on sugar. Just tough it out.
My final remark being that the treatment protocol that is listed here is generally safe; and if you feel that you fit the profile for Candida, I do not foresee any harms giving this protocol a try. You see, the anti-Candida diet is one of the most restrictive diets around and I reckon that it may, in fact, be a good idea for anyone with RA who begins exploring into diet to start off with this more restrictive anti-Candida diet.
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Adobe and Yahoo! are testing a new program that lets publishers place advertisements in PDF documents, reports Reuters. “The Adobe service allows publishers to generate revenue by including text-based ads linked to the content of an Adobe PDF (portable document format) page in a separate side panel.”
We’re curious how this actually works, since Adobe and Yahoo! say that no special software is needed.
The text-based ads are displayed in a panel adjacent to the content with no moving or flashing elements. Each time the PDF is viewed, ads are matched by Yahoo to the content.
It sounds like the ads are dynamic, not static, so we suspect they won’t show up in third-party PDF viewers such OS X’s built-in Preview app.
“Adobe and Yahoo test running ads inside PDF documents” [Reuters]
(Image: Gutenberg Project)
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Senior Executive Chef Mike Clyne oversees retail operations for Michigan State University (MSU), including Kellogg Center operations, Sparty's mini-markets, Sparty's Market 1855 Place, MSU Concessions and The Workshop at the STEM Teaching and Learning Facility. As a graduate of Carlett Park College in England, Mike received his culinary training in Europe and earned city and guild certifications in culinary arts. Before joining MSU, he worked as a chef in Bermuda, Jamaica, England, Saudi Arabia and Wales. He also worked for Westin and Hyatt Hotels across the U.S. Mike's favorite foods are steak and chocolate, and his specialty areas are desserts and sauces.
Executive Chef Rob Trufant fell in love with cuisine at a berry farm and orchard in northeastern Michigan. Throughout the years, his passion has grown deeper. As a graduate of The School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University (MSU), the Michigan native found his calling as a caterer while traveling the states. Rob joined the MSU Athletic Catering and Event Services team in 2006 and he was promoted to the role of Sous Chef for Kellogg Catering in 2010. Today, Rob is proud to serve as Executive Chef for Kellogg Catering and call the banks of the Red Cedar his home.
Sous Chef Scott Danci is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan. While growing up, he developed a passion for cuisine and the culinary arts. Scott's family owned and operated a restaurant on the west side of Ann Arbor, so he was consistently around food and learned a wealth of information about the industry. He came to Michigan State University to pursue a degree from The School of Hospitality Business and began working with us as a student in the catering department. Scott continued his culinary development after graduation and has been a member of the Kellogg Catering team since 2011, where he currently serves as a sous chef.
Sous Chef Kaline Jennings joined the Michigan State University (MSU) team in November 2019, working with MSU Culinary Services as the Retail Branded Concepts Sous Chef. He has a passion for working with food, which began with his first job in a fast-food establishment and continued to grow throughout his career. Kaline has experience in a variety of culinary realms, including an Italian restaurant, a brewing company, and Creative Dining Services, where he worked with Auto-Owners. In January 2022, he began a new position with Kellogg Catering as the Breslin Center Recruitment Lounge Chef, where he is proud to support the MSU men's and women's basketball teams and coaching staff.
Zeinab has been with the MSU catering team since 2017, serving in a Catering Event Manager role for two years before transitioning to her current role as Catering Operations Manager. She directs and oversees front-of-the-house operations for Kellogg Catering. In her role, she collaborates closely with sales managers, chefs and other team members on event preparation, setup and execution to ensure guests are provided with a quality experience. Zeinab graduated from MSU in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Global and International Studies.
Mallory is a Lansing area native and a recent graduate of Central Michigan University where she received a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Recreation and Event Management. She has served many different roles in the recreation/event management industry before joining Kellogg Catering, including internships and employment with Gus Macker Basketball, Lansing Lugnuts and YMCA Storer Camps.
Amy is a native of Swartz Creek, MI. She has been with Michigan State University for the past 10 years. Amy began her career at MSU as the catering coordinator for the MSU Union Building and the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. In July of 2014, she become the Sales and Event Manager for the MSU Union Building.
Amy contracts and details all non-wedding events at the MSU Union Building. She also contracts all the Registered Student Organizations for the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center.
Liska joined Kellogg Catering in summer 2016 as a catering and banquet manager. He spent the first 15 years of his career at Boyne Highlands Golf and Ski Resort in Harbor Springs, Michigan, where he worked as the front of the house food services manager. After moving to Lansing in 2001, Jeff worked as a banquet manager at the University Club of MSU. Liska's 20-plus years of experience will make every Kellogg Catering event a successful and enjoyable occasion. He is a native of the Petoskey-Harbor Springs, Michigan area.
A graduate of Central Michigan University, Patrick Riley joined MSU as a banquet manager for Kellogg Center and quickly became general manager in the State Room Restaurant at Kellogg Hotel. He has worked at several hotel and restaurant operations across Michigan, Texas, Minnesota and California. Prior to joining MSU, Riley directed food and beverage operations for the Ypsilanti Marriott in Ypsilanti, Michigan. and the Chelsea Comfort Inn and Conference Center in Chelsea, Michigan. and served as general manager for the Ground Round Restaurant in Jackson, Michigan.
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Oversees the proper execution of catered events on and off MSU's campus. Prior to joining Kellogg Catering David attended Western Michigan University and has over ten years of experience in hospitality, in various positions, including management of two bar/restaurants and an events transportation company. David is a trusted leader and his main focus is to set his team up for success, before, during and after events to ensure future successes of the RHS catering department. David joined Kellogg Catering in April 2018. He is also a graduate of the Culver Military Academy summer leadership program.
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Hello my Sassy Friends,
Okay, I know I promised to provide you more information on bible journaling. So, I want to share with you the bible I am using for bible journaling, and tell you a little about my journaling process. I am using the NIV Holy Bible Journal Edition, single column. Please reference the included picture. I didn’t have to buy many supplies because I am a planner addict. There is washi tape galore in my crafts bin. However, I did invest in acrylic paint, colored pencils, and stickers. Also, I purchased Gelly Roll Pens, which I love.
Now my process is unique to me. First, I study my older NIV bible. I underline and write within the pages. After I spend time studying and worshiping, I began to creatively magnify the scriptures that pulled on my heart the most. My most recent study began in Isaiah the 25th and 26th chapters. I have attached pictures for you to see the result of my study time with God. Ultimately, I will be in perfect peace if I keep my mind on God.
I love you,
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Gmail by Google is the frequently used web mail over web. It has a very simple user interface and it is absolutely free But carry the large number of features so with the registration of Gmail account, user can take the benefits of email facility, chat facility, data storage facility, Gmail offline features, etc. easily and best utilize Gmail in their almost all work.
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This faceted claw set black tourmaline in quartz has a sterling silver split shanks. The stone is beautiful and has a pair of rainbows twinkling out of it!.
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We had a great training session with Katherine and Graham this morning. We ran our Beside the Seaside 10k route along quiet country lanes and stunning coastline. With not a cloud in sight, it was the perfect way to start this sunny day. Katherine is flying back to Glasgow today. We will miss her and wish both her and Donald the best of luck in their forthcoming marathons. Go for it!
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This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
For the administration of the MySQL database you can use web based tools like phpMyAdmin which will also be installed in this howto. phpMyAdmin is a comfortable graphical interface which means you do not have to mess around with the command line.
This tutorial is based on Mandriva 2009.1. You should already have set up a basic Mandriva 2009.1 system, for example as described in the first six chapters of this tutorial: http://www.Kreationnext.com/perfect-server-mandriva-2009.1-free-x86_64-ispconfig-2-p4
This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other documents in the web.
This document comes without warranty of any kind! I want to say that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
2 Install MySQL And phpMyAdmin
First we update our package database:
MySQL and phpMyAdmin can be installed with one single command:
urpmi MySQL MySQL-client phpmyadmin
By default, networking is not enabled in Mandriva 2009.1’s MySQL package. We can change this by commenting out the line skip-networking in /etc/my.cnf:
[...] # Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement, # if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host. # All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes. # Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows # (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless! # #skip-networking [...]
Afterwards, we create the system startup links for MySQL and Apache…
chkconfig mysqld on
chkconfig httpd on
… and start both services:
Create a password for the MySQL user root (replace yourrootsqlpassword with the password you want to use):
mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
3 Install PureFTPd With MySQL Support
Mandriva’s PureFTPd package supports various backends, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, LDAP, etc. We install it like this:
urpmi pure-ftpd pure-ftpd-anon-upload pure-ftpd-anonymous
Then we create an ftp group (ftpgroup) and user (ftpuser) that all our virtual users will be mapped to. Replace the group- and userid 2001 with a number that is free on your system:
groupadd -g 2001 ftpgroup
useradd -u 2001 -s /bin/false -d /bin/null -c “pureftpd user” -g ftpgroup ftpuser
4 Create The MySQL Database For PureFTPd
Now we create a database called pureftpd and a MySQL user named pureftpd which the PureFTPd daemon will use later on to connect to the pureftpd database:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE pureftpd;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP ON pureftpd.* TO ‘pureftpd’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘ftpdpass’;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP ON pureftpd.* TO ‘pureftpd’@’localhost.localdomain’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘ftpdpass’;
Replace the string ftpdpass with whatever password you want to use for the MySQL user pureftpd. Still on the MySQL shell, we create the database table we need (yes, there is only one table!):
CREATE TABLE ftpd (
User varchar(16) NOT NULL default ”,
status enum(‘0′,’1’) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
Password varchar(64) NOT NULL default ”,
Uid varchar(11) NOT NULL default ‘-1’,
Gid varchar(11) NOT NULL default ‘-1’,
Dir varchar(128) NOT NULL default ”,
ULBandwidth smallint(5) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
DLBandwidth smallint(5) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
comment tinytext NOT NULL,
ipaccess varchar(15) NOT NULL default ‘*’,
QuotaSize smallint(5) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
QuotaFiles int(11) NOT NULL default 0,
PRIMARY KEY (User),
UNIQUE KEY User (User)
As you may have noticed, with the quit; command we have left the MySQL shell and are back on the Linux shell.
BTW, (I’m assuming that the hostname of your ftp server system is server1.example.com) you can access phpMyAdmin under http://server1.example.com/phpmyadmin/ (you can also use the IP address instead of server1.example.com) in a browser and log in as the user pureftpd. Then you can have a look at the database. Later on you can use phpMyAdmin to administrate your PureFTPd server.
5 Configure PureFTPd
Edit /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf and make sure that the ChrootEveryone, MySQLConfigFile, and CreateHomeDir lines are enabled and look like this:
[...] ChrootEveryone yes [...] MySQLConfigFile /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf [...] CreateHomeDir yes [...]
The ChrootEveryone setting will make PureFTPd chroot every virtual user in his home directory so he will not be able to browse directories and files outside his home directory. The CreateHomeDir line will make PureFTPd create a user’s home directory when the user logs in and the home directory does not exist yet.
Then we edit /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf. It should look like this:
cp /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf_orig
cat /dev/null > /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd-mysql.conf
MYSQLSocket /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock #MYSQLServer localhost #MYSQLPort 3306 MYSQLUser pureftpd MYSQLPassword ftpdpass MYSQLDatabase pureftpd #MYSQLCrypt md5, cleartext, crypt() or password() - md5 is VERY RECOMMENDABLE uppon cleartext MYSQLCrypt md5 MYSQLGetPW SELECT Password FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L" AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MYSQLGetUID SELECT Uid FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L" AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MYSQLGetGID SELECT Gid FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MYSQLGetDir SELECT Dir FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetBandwidthUL SELECT ULBandwidth FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetBandwidthDL SELECT DLBandwidth FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetQTASZ SELECT QuotaSize FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R") MySQLGetQTAFS SELECT QuotaFiles FROM ftpd WHERE User="\L"AND status="1" AND (ipaccess = "*" OR ipaccess LIKE "\R")
Make sure that you replace the string ftpdpass with the real password for the MySQL user pureftpd in the line MYSQLPassword! Please note that we use md5 as MYSQLCrypt method, which means we will store the users’ passwords as an MD5 string in the database which is far more secure than using plain text passwords!
Now we start PureFTPd:
6 Populate The Database And Test
To populate the database you can use the MySQL shell:
mysql -u root -p
Now we create the user exampleuser with the status 1 (which means his ftp account is active), the password secret (which will be stored encrypted using MySQL’s MD5 function), the UID and GID 2001 (use the userid and groupid of the user/group you created at the end of step two!), the home directory /home/www.example.com, an upload and download bandwidth of 100 KB/sec. (kilobytes per second), and a quota of 50 MB:
INSERT INTO `ftpd` (`User`, `status`, `Password`, `Uid`, `Gid`, `Dir`, `ULBandwidth`, `DLBandwidth`, `comment`, `ipaccess`, `QuotaSize`, `QuotaFiles`) VALUES (‘exampleuser’, ‘1’, MD5(‘secret’), ‘2001’, ‘2001’, ‘/home/www.example.com’, ‘100’, ‘100’, ”, ‘*’, ’50’, ‘0’);
Now open your FTP client program on your work station (something like WS_FTP, SmartFTP or FileZilla if you are on a Windows system or gFTP or FileZilla on a Linux desktop) and try to connect. As hostname you use server1.example.com (or the IP address of the system), the username is exampleuser, and the password is secret.
If you are able to connect – congratulations! If not, something went wrong.
Now, if you run
ls -l /home
you should see that the directory /home/www.example.com (exampleuser‘s home directory) has been created automatically, and it is owned by ftpuser and ftpgroup (the user/group we created at the end of step two):
[root@server1 ~]# ls -l /home
drwxr-xr-x 3 administrator administrator 4096 2009-05-04 14:03 administrator/
drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpgroup 4096 2009-10-14 17:07 www.example.com/
7 Database Administration
For most people it is easier if they have a graphical front-end to MySQL; therefore you can also use phpMyAdmin (in this example under http://server1.example.com/phpmyadmin/) to administrate the pureftpd database.
Whenever you want to create a new user, you have to create an entry in the table ftpd so I will explain the columns of this table here:
- User: The name of the virtual PureFTPd user (e.g. exampleuser).
- status: 0 or 1. 0 means the account is disabled, the user cannot login.
- Password: The password of the virtual user. Make sure you use MySQL’s MD5 function to save the password encrypted as an MD5 string:
UID: The userid of the ftp user you created at the end of step two (e.g. 2001).
GID: The groupid of the ftp group you created at the end of step two (e.g. 2001).
Dir: The home directory of the virtual PureFTPd user (e.g. /home/www.example.com). If it does not exist, it will be created when the new user logs in the first time via FTP. The virtual user will be jailed into this home directory, i.e., he cannot access other directories outside his home directory.
ULBandwidth: Upload bandwidth of the virtual user in KB/sec. (kilobytes per second). 0 means unlimited.
DLBandwidth: Download bandwidth of the virtual user in KB/sec. (kilobytes per second). 0 means unlimited.
comment: You can enter any comment here (e.g. for your internal administration) here. Normally you leave this field empty.
ipaccess: Enter IP addresses here that are allowed to connect to this FTP account. * means any IP address is allowed to connect.
QuotaSize: Storage space in MB (not KB, as in ULBandwidth and DLBandwidth!) the virtual user is allowed to use on the FTP server. 0 means unlimited.
QuotaFiles: amount of files the virtual user is allowed to save on the FTP server. 0 means unlimited.
8 Anonymous FTP
If you want to create an anonymous ftp account (an ftp account that everybody can login to without a password), you need a user and a group called ftp. Both have been created automatically when you installed the pure-ftpd package, so you don’t need to create them manually. However, ftp’s homedir is /var/ftp by default, but I’d like to create the anonymous ftp directory in /home/ftp (the normal users’ ftp directories are in /home as well, e.g. /home/www.example.com). But of course, you can use the /var/ftp directory for anonymous ftp, if you prefer it.
If you want to use /home/ftp, open /etc/passwd and change the ftp user’s homedir from /var/ftp to /home/ftp (don’t do this if you want to use /var/ftp):
[...] #ftp:x:74:74:system user for proftpd:/var/ftp:/bin/false ftp:x:74:74:system user for proftpd:/home/ftp:/bin/false [...]
Then move /var/ftp to /home (don’t do this if you want to use /var/ftp):
mv /var/ftp /home
We use the directories /home/ftp/incoming (which will allow anonymous users to upload files) and /home/ftp/pub (from where anonymous users can download). Both directories exist already. We will give the /home/ftp/incoming directory permissions of 311 so that users can upload, but not see or download any files in that directory. The /home/ftp/pub directory will have permissions of 555 which allows seeing and downloading of files:
chown -R ftp:nogroup /home/ftp
chmod 311 incoming/
chmod 555 pub/
chmod 555 ftp/
(If you want to use /var/ftp instead, replace /home/ftp with /var/ftp in the above commands.)
Anonymous users will be able to log in, and they will be allowed to download files from /home/ftp/pub, but uploads will be limited to /home/ftp/incoming (and once a file is uploaded into /home/ftp/incoming, it cannot be read nor downloaded from there; the server admin has to move it into /home/ftp/pub first to make it available to others).
Now we have to configure PureFTPd for anonymous ftp. Open /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf and make sure that you have the following settings in it:
[...] NoAnonymous no [...] AntiWarez no [...] AnonymousBandwidth 8 [...] AnonymousCantUpload no [...]
(The AnonymousBandwidth setting is optional – it allows you to limit upload and download bandwidths for anonymous users. 8 means 8 KB/sec. Use any value you like, or comment out the line if you don’t want to limit bandwidths.)
Finally, we restart PureFTPd:
- PureFTPd: http://www.pureftpd.org/
- MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/
- phpMyAdmin: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
- Mandriva: http://www.mandriva.com/
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It is important for academic staff to understand how copyright material can be used for teaching at Charles Sturt University. Online copyright training has been developed to provide basic information about copying, communicating and linking to non-CSU resources for academic staff. While all CSU staff have access to the site, new academic staff are required to read through the online training and complete the Copyright Compliance Assessment in Interact2 as part of their staff induction.
Step 2. When you have read through the content log into Interact2, join the Copyright Compliance Assessment Organisation site and complete the Final Copyright Assessment or contact the Copyright Coordinator, Kerry Vaughan, email email@example.com, or phone (02) 6933 4272.
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2018-05-28T07:54:04Z
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Running back Darren McFadden is the Raiders' most fantasy-friendly player and, outside of perhaps Carson Palmer, the team's most important asset. He is a game-breaking player who can carry the team on his back for long stretches and allows the Raiders to effectively execute a ground-and-pound clock-sapping attack. He has a combination of size, speed and power rivaled only by Minnesota's Adrian Peterson and is an excellent receiver out of the backfield. What can the Raiders expect from him this year?
Last Season: McFadden had an excellent start to the 2011 campaign, gaining 614 rushing yards in only six full games and scoring four touchdowns. He also added 154 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown. In the first half of the Week 7 game against the Chiefs, McFadden suffered a Lisfranc foot fracture and would miss the rest of the season. Reports were that had the Raiders made the playoffs, McFadden may have been able to play, but that did not occur. McFadden's loss was a huge blow to the team, and they went 4-5 without him, while losing some winnable games to the Dolphins, Lions and Chargers. A win in any one of those games would have given the Raiders the division crown.
Big Question: Can McFadden stay healthy? In his finest season, 2010, McFadden still missed two games with a hamstring injury. He has never stayed on the field for an entire 16-game season. That being said, a Lisfranc fracture is more or less a freak accident and is in no way an indication of McFadden being injury prone. It would be an indication that he is unlucky, if one were inclined to believe in that sort of thing. By all accounts, McFadden is currently healthy and in good shape for the start of training camp. His health or lack thereof will be one of the major factors that determine Oakland's season. With him they are a top team that can handle their schedule; without him they are a middling team with an air-it-out mentality,forced into a risky strategy that will force the issue and make mistakes, putting pressure on a defense that is learning a new system.
Projection: There is no logical reason to project that McFadden will get hurt this year, but conversely there is no logical reason to suppose that he will remain healthy the entire year. McFadden is and always has been a crapshoot. In previous seasons the Raiders have been fortunate enough to employ Michael Bush as the primary backup, meaning when McFadden went down they still had a starting-caliber RB to plug into the lineup. This year, the backups are currently Mike Goodson and Taiwan Jones. Neither are bad players, but neither have shown the ability to dictate the pace of a game like Bush could.
Should McFadden remain healthy, he will likely gain close to 1,400 yards from scrimmage and score 10 touchdowns. Should he not remain healthy, the Raiders will scuffle to a poor record in a tough division and may look to draft McFadden's replacement in the upcoming draft. I hear that Marcus Lattimore kid is pretty good.
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2023-11-28T23:19:08Z
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Background and Purpose: Postoperative hyperperfusion-related transient neurological deficits (TNDs) are frequently observed in adult patients with moyamoya disease (MMD) who undergo direct bypass procedures. The present study evaluated the effect of the free radical scavenger edaravone on postoperative hyperperfusion in adult MMD.
Methods: This study included 92 hemispheres in 72 adult patients who underwent direct bypass for MMD. Serial measurements of cerebral blood flow were conducted immediately after surgery and on postoperative days 2 and 7. In 40 hemispheres in 36 patients, edaravone (60 mg/day) was administered from the day of surgery until postsurgical day 7. The incidence of postoperative hyperperfusion and associated TNDs were compared with a control group that included 52 hemispheres in 36 patients.
Results: Radiological hyperperfusion was observed in 28/40 (70.0%) and 39/52 (75.0%) hemispheres in the edaravone and control groups, respectively (P = 0.30). Hyperperfusion-related TNDs incidences were significantly lower in the edaravone group compared with the control group (12.5% vs. 32.7%, P = 0.024). Multivariate analysis demonstrated that edaravone administration (P = 0.009) and left-sided surgery (P = 0.037) were significantly correlated with hyperperfusion-related TNDs (odds ratios, 0.3 and 4.2, respectively).
Conclusions: Perioperative administration of edaravone reduced the incidence of hyperperfusion-related TNDs after direct bypass procedures in adult patients with MMD.
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2019-01-21T18:32:18Z
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Love in the Future is the fourth studio album by American R&B and soul singer-songwriter John Legend. The album was released in the United States on September 3, 2013. The album, executive produced by Legend, Kanye West and Dave Tozer, features guest appearances from Rick Ross, Stacy Barthe and Seal.
In August 2013, during an interview with XXL John Legend spoke about how long it took him to finish the album, saying: "Well I did the Wake Up! album with The Roots in 2010, so it’s really only been three years in my mind, because I put as much energy and time into that as I would my own album. Then I did some shows with them and I toured with Sade, so I spent a decent amount of time on the road, and then I spent the past couple of years on the album. It took a little longer on this album than on previous albums, but I’m really just a year off my pace." He also spoke about working with Kanye West on the album, saying: "I worked with Kanye more on this album than I had before, and I think part of it is just us connecting and getting together to create, given how busy he is and how busy I am. Just finding time for us to work together kind of added a little bit of extra time to the process. But I think it was worth it." He also spoke about how he feels this is his best album yet, saying: "I feel like it’s my best album yet, and I think creatively, we did some great things. The collaboration and the talent that we have on the album is better than we’ve ever had. As far as producers, co-writers and people just helping shape the sound. I feel like Kanye’s leadership was great in helping to do that. I really feel good about it."
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2019-11-21T05:52:39Z
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Cameron said in London, "When (Coulson) was editor of the News of the World, bad things happened at that newspaper. I gave him a second chance."
The BBC and the British Guardian reported Coulson said the allegations regarding the bugging of celebrities' phones during his tenure as editor of the News of the World are making it more difficult for him to perform his work as press secretary.
Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne, however, refused Coulson's resignation offer, instead offering their complete support as Coulson tries to clear his name, The Guardian reported.
In 2007, Coulson resigned as editor of the News of the World over the bugging incident, but has always said he was unaware of it at the time, the Guardian reported.
"I judge his work by what he has done for us. ... He resigned for what went wrong at News of the World," Cameron said.
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On 8 March – International Women’s Day – I attended a concert for a major charity.
There were over a thousand people in the venue, fans reaching up to touch their favourite pop star’s hand as they performed on stage. Coronavirus still felt very remote.
Self-isolation and social distancing is now the norm. Most of us have, quite rightly, accepted these unprecedented restrictions on our movement. Many of us listen anxiously to the news each day, as coronavirus deaths in the UK and globally continue to increase.
But what impact are these measures having on the LGBTQ community in the UK? One charity which was particularly quick to respond to the crisis was LGBT Foundation. They have seen calls to their helpline more than double since mid-March.
Many of these calls centre around familiar themes: mental health; sexual health; coming out; asylum; trans rights; and hate crime.
One caller with severe mental health issues is now unable to meet with their support worker – for them crucial contact. Multiple people have called about the cancellation of sexual health appointments and the inability to access HIV self-testing kits. Another individual, not out to their family, finds the closure of LGBTQ spaces suffocating.
I was horrified to hear that an LGBTQ asylum claimant was unable to access their financial support. A trans caller had their Gender Identity Clinic appointments postponed – there was already a huge waiting list for services before coronavirus, so this must be incredibly frustrating. An LGBTQ person who has been subjected to hate crimes by their neighbour in the past, is now worried to leave their home as they know their neighbours will be home more often.
Paul Martin OBE, the Chief Executive of LGBT Foundation, breaks down some of the issues:
“It’s essential to start having conversations about some of the hidden communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and this includes LGBT communities. We know that because of historic discrimination and marginalisation, LGBT people are less likely to access healthcare when they need it, more likely to smoke and to live in insecure housing or be homeless. All of these put LGBT people at risk of experiencing more severe symptoms of the virus.
“The story is similar when looking at current social distancing measures. These measures are necessary, but may have unintended negative repercussions. LGBT people, particularly older LGBT people, are more likely to be isolated and without a support network. LGBT people are more likely to have mental health or substance dependency issues, which may worsen due to the requirements to stay indoors. We also know that domestic abuse has risen as the “lockdown” measures were introduced, which LGBT people experience at a higher rate.
“It’s vital that the Government and health and care system recognises these issues and that support is available for those who need it. At this time we need to continue to support each other, care for each other, and start to have those conversations about the needs of our communities and our rights to proper healthcare and services.”
LGBT Foundation is working around the clock to ensure that as many services as possible are maintained and that capacity on the helpline is rapidly increased. LGBT Foundation website is updated daily, reflecting new and changing services.
However, donating patterns for charitable organisations may change and most events and fundraisers have been cancelled for 2020. It could be the case that smaller charities fold, leaving a larger burden on other organisations. LGBT Foundation is also seeing new demand, which means incurring new costs.
The Women and Equalities Committee has just launched an inquiry to hear about the different and disproportionate impact coronavirus is having on people with protected characteristics under the Equalities Act. You can submit evidence until Thursday 30 April and I encourage LGBTQ people to participate.
LGBT Foundation have published a summary report on the impact of coronavirus on LGBTQ people. They have also launched a survey to gain even further insights on how LGBTQ people are affected – to look at what kind of support they would like to receive and to provide up-to-date information to funders, commissioners, and in consultations.
I encourage you to donate to charities and, in particular, LGBT Foundation. Click here to donate to LGBT Foundation. It is unclear what the long term impact of coronavirus will be on the LGBTQ community, but it is certain that we will need charities like LGBT Foundation to get us through it.
You can also contact the LGBT Foundation helpline on 03453303030.
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2021-10-17T03:07:49Z
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Home Landscaping Tips: Simple Home Improvements That Add Value
If you want to add value to your home, skip the family room addition or the vinyl siding. Try some simple home landscaping instead.
Some people want a perfect lawn. Our lawn is green all summer and requires no care other than mowing when needed. That's good enough for us. The tree in the foreground is the poplar, which in this late August shot is shading the house from the afternoon sun. The garden is on the left in this picture; its windbreak can be seen to the right of the chairs.
Basic home landscaping additions, such as a large shade tree and natural ground cover, can go a long way toward improving your property.
The Path we walk daily to and from our vehicles and the mailbox.
The poplar towers over the house. You can see the maples on the food, which is being "pruned" around the utility wires.
A walk around the house: This is the back of the house where the the lawn is only four feet wide. The branches framing the top of the picture are from a tree we planted almost 30 years ago. It is shading the south and west facing windows and the skylight.
The house we bought in 1969 with three dead elms in front and one in back.
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2016-10-25T08:33:28Z
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Before you hire a Charlotte, NC contractor, you need to know your price range. How to calculate the cost of a new roof can feel challenging. While it can be tricky, it doesn’t need to feel impossible to estimate your construction price. Learn how to estimate like a pro with Southern Star Roofing and our tips below.
Is the Roof New?
Is this a brand-new roof, a reroof, or a tear-down and rebuild project? Every type of job has its considerations and will be priced accordingly. One of the highest costs for your project is the materials needed. Some roofs will be cheaper than others, while some last lifetimes.
Obviously, larger roofs will require more time, labor, and materials. Its slope and number of layers also play a role. Simple roofs made of asphalt will cost less than other types. How they are built matters also.
What is My Ballpark Cost?
A typical one-story asphalt roof costs around $5,000, with premium materials you could be doubling that. However, cheaper pricing doesn’t always mean a bargain.
Choose the best roofers around Charlotte with Southern Star Roofing today.
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2022-05-28T11:37:42Z
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New Need for Speed Rivals Video Shows off Racer Personalization
New video shows off car customization features.
Need for Speed: Rivals, the newest entry in the venerable, 100 million+ selling racing franchise being helmed by Swedish outfit Ghost Games, looks like a pretty solid game from all that we have seen, and a continuation of the excellent form the series has started to exhibit of late under Criterion’s Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted games. Now, this newest video shows off one of the mainstays of the Need for Speed franchise since the Underground days- customizing your ride. The features seem to be full featured, from what we have seen, and anyone who spent hours upgrading their Dodge Neon into a sweet tarmac monster back in Need for Speed: Undrground will be pleased with what this game has to offer.
More importantly, the video also shows off more gameplay footage for the title, and it looks great.
Need for Speed: Rivals will be releasing on PCs running Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 in November. No release date has been announced for the PlayStation Vita or Wii U, in spite of the previous game’s success on both those systems, because lolVita and lolWiiU.
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2017-08-18T18:07:21Z
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Tom was commissioned to write the music for Carolina Herrera's February 2013 runway show for New York Fashion Week. Working with her long-time music director, Javier Peral, he created a rework of Beethoven's Kreuzer Sonata for piano, strings and tuned percussion, which they recorded with the London Contemporary Orchestra in Abbey Road Studio 2.
Carolina herself was present at the recording session, and after hearing the music for the first time said “the moment I first heard the music I saw the whole thing in my head...It’s perfect because it starts soft, and then it goes in crescendo. Just like I’m trying to do with the show. Soft looks at the beginning and then crescendo! All the drama. Then there’s romance. Then there is melancholia.”
Tom wrote a blog post about the experience, which you can read on the Huffington Post here.
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2019-09-20T02:21:08Z
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March 14th – Happy Steak and BJ Day! [VIDEO]
It's true!!! Guys, it's our holiday. It's the man's answer to Valentine's Day.
It's exactly one month after V-Day. Women get their flowers, chocolate, jewelery, dinner at Red Lobster, etc on their day. Guys, we don't need all that right? We're simple.
A Steak and BJ will do just fine!!!
So enjoy this special day/night, and if she cares, she'll recognize just how important this day is for us.
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2018-06-18T09:56:25Z
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by Sabrina Williams
Facebook has recently opened up an exciting new feature to facilitate crossposting Facebook video seamlessly across different Pages. This feature allows multiple Pages to efficiently publish videos as if they all manually uploaded the video file -- but with the metrics all recorded in one place, and without having to give access to Pages to outside administrators.
Facebook crossposting gives Pages that act as a network the ability to quickly and easily collaborate to increase the overall reach of Facebook videos. The participating Pages also reap the algorithmic benefits from the extra native Facebook videos as well!
At a glance
Until Facebook released this crossposting feature, Pages that agreed to distribute content had to either (a) share the original video from the publisher Page, or (b) be granted access to the original video file and then upload the video to their Page. The crossposting function allows a network of Pages to easily publish and measure the performance of these videos. With just a few clicks multiple Pages can receive access to a video which they can tailor for their audience with unique post copy. This looks and performs differently than sharing a video, where the original copy and the profile image of the page it was shared from remain.
Benefits of Crossposting Videos
Crossposting increases the chances that native Facebook videos are seen by the most relevant audiences across different Pages. A publisher may decide that working with a network of other Pages to distribute a video achieves a far greater reach for the video.
One of the best benefits of crossposting is that video metrics are aggregated together across all Pages that post the video. This consolidated counter allows publishers to see how well the video is performing across all Pages as well as how it is performing on specific Pages.
Publishers may find that the value of their content now goes twice as far….or more. Pages that might not have shared a video could be willing to crosspost given how Facebook incentivizes native video. For another example, an older video that may have reached peak viewership on one Page several months ago could be resurrected after being crossposted, generating a new round of metrics which adds to the total reach of that content.
Before agreeing to a crossposting relationship, Pages should always come to agreement on the crossposting attribution requirements. This is particularly important since the referneces to the original Page that published the video disappear. We've found the best form of attribution is a tag specifying the video is (via @originalpublisher’s page) written manually in the post.
How It Works
Facebook makes it incredibly easy to crosspost videos on a per-video basis where the publisher chooses specific videos for specific pages. Below are the steps needed to start crossposting.
First, establish the crossposting relationship:
-Go into your page settings at the top of your Page.
-Click the crossposting tab in the left column
-Add your crossposting partner’s Page
Next, decide which videos the Pages can crosspost:
-At the top of your Page, click Publishing Tools and then click Video Library
-Hover over specific videos you want to make available for crossposting and click crossposting
-Click the Page(s) you want to allow to crosspost the video and then click save
-Pages can find available videos in their Video Library under "Videos You Can Crosspost"
The Publisher maintains complete control of their video and decides which Pages can have access to crosspost it. The Page looking to crosspost can then see videos available to post in the “Videos You Can Crosspost” tab in Publishing Tools.
Don't get spooked if you have an ad running on a video you would like to make available to crosspost and Facebook won't let you edit to grant a new Page access. It seems like the prohibition on editing a post with an ad running is only tied to the period it's under review. After this period ends, you should be able to grant access.
It appears that “older” videos (In our experience, those published prior to February 2016) can’t be crossposted using this new Facebook feature. Instead of crossposting these, publishers may want to provide partner Pages with links to the videos, for instance, in Dropbox or on YouTube
act.tv’s video archive
act.tv will consider partnering with specific Pages to make some of it’s archived content available to be re-purposed for specific campaigns. Please contact act.tv to discuss a crossposting partnership.
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2017-10-23T06:13:48Z
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Spooky Pumkin Ghost AnimatronicItem #: 15208
Spooky Pumkin Ghost Animatronic
The spooky pumkin is sleeping quietly on the floor, his hands spread. When he's woken up by sound or motion he'll rise to full height, light up his eyes and shake his shoulders while producing creepy sounds. Super spooky effect that won't miss the mark! The spooky pumkin ghost animatronic looks super gory when put between , Artificial cobwebs 60gr. and other Artificial cobwebs 60gr. .
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2017-06-29T07:32:59Z
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They needed help. They got it on Sunday.
They also needed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to lose as well, and lose they did. The San Diego Chargers marched into town and dominated an already trampled defense. They left Florida with a 41-24 win which put it over the top for Atlanta.
To add to an already jumbled playoff picture, the Dallas Cowboys also managed to lose to the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night. All of these outcomes helped contribute to the "perfect storm" for the Falcons, as they now look towards winning a championship.
Looking back at the preview I posted of this game several days ago, not many people voted for the Falcons to win this game. In fact, out of the 43 votes casted, nearly 75% thought that Minnesota would be victorious.
As the entire league continues to overlook and underestimate Atlanta, I will be looking forward to the Falcons making a run into the playoffs.
Matt Ryan continues to prove that he can defeat opponents with his arm. However, he has one of the best running backs in the league waiting in the backfield, Michael Turner.
I predicted Turner would have a productive day against Minnesota, and I think he produced enough to push past the top ranked rush defense. 70 yards with a touchdown isn't anything to brag about, but when it helps a team get into the playoffs, every yard counts.
I shouldn't have to tell you how much of a beast he has been this season, but I'll remind you of his numbers: 1,491 rushing yards on 351 carries with 16 touchdowns. The numbers also include seven 100-yard rushing games and his now infamous 220-yard domination over the Detroit Lions in the season opener.
Everyone knows how horrendous last year was for Atlanta, but what a difference a year can make.
Especially with a leading Rookie of the Year candidate at quarterback in Matt Ryan and a potential Coach of the Year in Mike Smith at the helm of it all.
Atlanta is now 10-5 in 2008. Not bad for a team that had preseason rankings of nearly dead last in the NFL in every statistical category.
Go Falcons, go.
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