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What do Katy Perry and the Mayor of London have in common? Both, apparently, have been known to rely on a cherry picker to help them through their working day. While specific training is a must, cherry pickers are versatile machines that can be used for a wide variety of tasks, from a wow-factor entertainment appearance, to inspiring a crowd, to accessing a power line.
If you have employees who use cherry pickers at work, no matter the purpose, you need to look into getting proper cherry picker training to boost productivity and keep your workplace safe. In addition to the cherry picker forklift training is also essential if you use forklifts in your business for construction or maintenance work.
CMO is a great training tool for employers who need to get their employees OSHA certified. Whether you have one scissor lift operator or an entire fleet of aerial lift workers who need trained, our cherry picker forklift certification is ideal. Cherry picker certification is only one part of our entire selection of aerial lift training courses.
What is a Cherry Picker?
A cherry picker, also known as a boom lift, man lift, hydraladder, or basket crane, is a type of elevated, hydraulic crane platform that is used to raise and lower personnel to and from elevated working surfaces. Cherry pickers are often used to give workers access to overhead cables, but they get their name from their history of picking high up fruit in orchards, like cherries.
Cherry pickers are not to be confused with order pickers, which are actually forklifts and designed for selecting items from heights inside a warehouse. Cherry pickers, classified as aerial lifts under the OSHA standard 1910.67 and cherry picker regulations, come in several different types, including truck-boom mounted picker, telescopic boom, articulated boom, and trailer mounted lift.
- – Truck mounted boom picker. Truck-mounted boom lifts are exactly as they sound. The body sits on a 4-wheel chassis of a truck that’s fitted with a boom arm on the back. This type of cherry picker lift is one of the most transportable and makes it easy to access a variety of work locations. Forklifts are similar to the truck-mounted boom picker, since they also rest on a 4-wheel chassis and use forks to lift and lower loads and access high up materials. Cherry picker forklift training teaches how to use both boom pickers and forklifts. Employers are required to ensure their workers have cherry picker and truck mounted boom picker training. CMO has everything you need – get started today!
- – Telescopic boom. Telescopic boom lifts are known for their great reach power. They are used on a variety of situations for accessing items at incredible heights that other machines can’t, like tall trees, power lines, and even stalled roller coasters. Telescopic booms extend farther than just about every other equipment. If your workers use telescopic booms, sign up for our cherry picker forklift certification.
- – Articulated boom. Articulated booms are made with a jointed “arm” which means that they can reach up and over structures to access hard-to-reach areas. They are one of the most flexible and versatile types of cherry pickers. These machines are commonly used on construction sites and are also good for surveillance activities. Regardless, your employees need trained on this equipment.
- – Trailer-mounted lift. The trailer-mounted cherry picker is made up of a boom arm that rests on top of wheels for moving and small arms for balance. It is very portable and can be brought in to work areas where typical machines can’t.
Where Are Cherry Pickers Used?
Now that you know exactly what is a cherry picker, it’s important to know what kinds of job they are used for. Cherry pickers are used on a variety of worksites, but for the primary purpose of reaching otherwise inaccessible areas. Construction workers use cherry pickers to access buildings to paint, install or maintain windows, work on electrical systems, install signage, install and maintain lighting, work on trees, and much more. They have made many types of projects possible and are incredibly useful machines. However, if you don’t know how to use a cherry picker properly, there are some serious risk involved. Injuries and fatalities caused by cherry picker lift accidents are not uncommon on worksites across the country, and it is essential for workers to receive adequate cherry picker certification training and to follow all cherry picker regulations to protect their life.
Additionally, you may want to know where forklifts are used. Forklifts are used on many construction sites, and in warehouses. They are used to lift, raise, stack, and lower loads onto shelving racks, as well as access materials high up in a warehouse. Cherry picker forklift training teaches operators how to operate cherry pickers outdoors on construction sites and forklifts indoors and out.
Why is Cherry Picker Training Important?
In 2011 alone, cherry pickers were responsible for the deaths of 39 workers. 66 more fatalities were caused by truck-mounted lifts, and cherry pickers were listed as the secondary cause of 34 other deaths.
Other types of boom lifts can additional deaths. Boom lifts are responsible for seven out of ten deaths, while scissor lifts account for more than 25 percent of aerial lift fatalities. These figures do not include fatalities from electrocution while using a lift vehicle.
The most common causes of cherry picker deaths and injuries include:
- – Falling from lift
- – Electrocution
- – Lift tips over
These unfortunate accidents start with operators not being aware of what is a cherry picker and how to use a cherry picker properly. Have you guessed what is the key to preventing these accidents? Yep, it’s cherry picker training.
Cherry picker training teaches workers everything they need to know to operate all types of cherry pickers, how to recognize and avoid hazards, and how to be compliant with all cherry picker regulations. It prevents injuries and fatalities, and it keeps fines and legalities out of the workplace.
Forklifts also cause deaths and injuries every year on worksites. They cause about 85 fatalities every year, most of which can be boiled down to operator error. Cherry picker forklift training teaches workers how to operate not only cherry pickers, but also forklifts in warehouses and outside to be as safe as possible on all types of equipment.
Cherry Picker Regulations to Prevent Accidents
Ensure all workers receive proper cherry picker training to prevent accidents and avoid costly fines. For operators, the first step is knowing what a cherry picker is, its unique characteristics, and how to operate a cherry picker lift properly. It’s also essential to make sure training is compliant with OSHA requirements for using an aerial lift safely, which include:
- – Do not exceed load or weight limits. You’ll learn all about this in our cherry picker forklift certification class.
- – Do not sit or climb on guardrails. Common sense safety practices are part of CMO’s cherry picker certification.
- – Don’t modify an aerial lift, without consulting the manufacturer in writing. Make sure your employees know about this – even small “tweaks” can compromise the safety of cherry pickers!
- – Maintain aerial lifts properly (this applies to rented lifts in particular)
- – Perform daily inspections of safety devices and lift controls
- – Always wear a seat belt and fall protection equipment, including a full body harness and lanyard, if working on an elevated platform
- – Do not drive an aerial lift with the lift extended
- – Set the brakes and outriggers
- – Use wheel chocks on sloped ground
To learn more about forklift training, visit our forklift training page.
How to Use a Cherry Picker Safely
In a document published on the Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health (ELCOSH), the Center for Construction Research and Training made the following recommendations for how to use a cherry picker safely:
- – Avoid power lines. Keep non-electrical workers at least 10 feet away from live overhead power lines. This video shows what can happen when a crane is not even touching a power line.
- – Rotate and move slowly. Sudden jerks of the bucket can cause direct contact with power lines and should be avoided. In fact, sudden jerks of the bucket or platform are not recommended under any circumstances, as this video shows.
- – Wear protective clothing. Electrical workers who are working on or near live power lines should use insulated tools and wear rubber gloves, rubber sleeves, voltage-rated shoes, Class E (formerly Class B) insulated hard hats, and whatever other personal safety equipment is needed. If boom buckets cannot be insulated, then the aerial lift should be grounded.
- – Safely remove electrocution hazards. Effort should be made to either insulate or de-energize live power lines.
- – Remain compliant with safety protocols. Boom buckets should be regularly tested to ensure the insulation is up to regulation specifications.
- – Make sure you are on stable ground. All cherry pickers must be placed on even, stable terrain to prevent tip-overs. Use outriggers when needed, and use brakes and wheel chocks when the lift is on an incline.
- – Use fall protection. When operators are working on cherry pickers, they must use full body harnesses and lanyards to prevent them from falling and being injured or killed.
- – Understand what is a cherry picker and receive specialty cherry picker training.
The most important part of using a cherry picker safely, is to complete cherry picker training. With CertifyMeOnline.net, it’s as easy as these simple steps:
1. Create an account on our website
2. Log into your account and choose your program
3. Work through the online modules
4. Pass all quizzes and tests
5. Pass the in-person evaluation at your work
6. Print your operator certification!
These easy steps can be completed online, apart from the in-person evaluation, and from any device with an internet connection. We help you save tons of time and money, all from your own home or workplace. Our cherry picker forklift training programs help you get your operator certification in as little as one day.
The Benefits of CertifyMeOnline.net Cherry Picker Training
As you already know, the majority of accidents involving cherry pickers occur due to operators not knowing how to use them properly. It’s crucial that you look into a high quality, comprehensive cherry picker certification for all of your employees who work on or near cherry pickers. Cherry picker training isn’t merely a formality to make OSHA and other administrations happy; it has a direct impact on your business as well.
Here are the combined benefits of our cherry picker forklift training programs:
- – Prevent accidents. Reduce the number of accidents that lead to injuries, fatalities, and equipment damage. CMO’s cherry picker forklift certification classes help avoid accidents and injuries.
- – Improve the productivity on your worksite. Increase the knowledge of your staff and feel confident giving them more responsibilities. A safe workplace is simply a more productive workplace. With our cherry picker certification, you’ll have everything your company needs for increased safety and a more engaged, active workforce!
- – Save money and time from affordable online training and a boost in revenue due to improved working processes
- – Pay for less equipment repairs and replacements with workers who know how to use a cherry picker properly and perform maintenance
- – Save money with in-house trainers. Train your own experienced operators to train others in-house
- – Remain 100% OSHA-compliant with all cherry picker regulations. Plus, our cherry picker training certification is printable right away! No waiting for the official papers to arrive in the mail! Once your employees have completed their training and passed their cherry picker certification, simply print and file the document in their HR file!
- – Create a safe workplace. Prepare your workers to handle cherry pickers properly and safely to avoid hazards
There are really no reasons why you shouldn’t use CertifyMeOnline.net in your business to train your employees. Not only will workers learn what a cherry picker is, but they’ll also receive in-depth information on a cherry picker’s mechanics, hazards involved, and how to prevent accidents. Cherry picker lift certification has so many benefits when compared to other programs, that it won’t be hard to convince your cherry picker operators as well.
Learn How to Use a Cherry Picker with CertifyMeOnline.net – High Quality Training That’s Fast, Easy and Affordable
At CertifyMeOnline.net, we can provide 100% OSHA-compliant online cherry picker training to your employees. We will teach them what is a cherry picker, how to use a cherry picker, and how to have their certificates ready to print in about an hour. Register now and have your workplace trained and certified in one afternoon, all from a device with an internet connection. For only $75 for aerial lift and scissor lift training, you can have a certified and safe workplace that will boost your bottom line.
Our sister site CertifyMe.net teaches workers how to use forklifts properly and safely, how to avoid accidents and protect workers’ lives. Check out cherry picker forklift training to receive all of the equipment trainings you need for both your employees and your business.
If you need three-year renewal training in addition to initial cherry picker training, we offer all customers free renewals for life!
Still unsure about signing up? Read this great blog on the Top 5 Reasons to Get Your Cherry Picker Certification.
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The Frangipani Hotel (Kobo eBook)
An extraordinarily compelling debut—ghost stories that grapple with the legacy of the Vietnam War
A beautiful young woman appears fully dressed in an overflowing bathtub at the Frangipani Hotel in Hanoi. A jaded teenage girl in Houston befriends an older Vietnamese gentleman she discovers naked behind a dumpster. A trucker in Saigon is asked to drive a dying young man home to his village. A plump Vietnamese-American teenager is sent to her elderly grandmother in Ho Chi Minh City to lose weight, only to be lured out of the house by the wafting aroma of freshly baked bread. In these evocative and always surprising stories, the supernatural coexists with the mundane lives of characters who struggle against the burdens of the past.
Based on traditional Vietnamese folk tales told to Kupersmith by her grandmother, these fantastical, chilling, and thoroughly contemporary stories are a boldly original exploration of Vietnamese culture, addressing both the immigrant experience and the lives of those who remained behind. Lurking in the background of them all is a larger ghost—that of the Vietnam War, whose legacy continues to haunt us.
Violet Kupersmith’s voice is an exciting addition to the landscape of American fiction. With tremendous depth and range, her stories transcend their genre to make a wholly original statement about the postwar experience.
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“[A] subversively clever debut collection . . . These stories—playful, angry, at times legitimately scary—demonstrate a subtlety of purpose that belies [Kupersmith’s] youth.”—The New York Times Book Review**
“Magical, beautiful, modern stories, all based on traditional Vietnamese folktales, [The Frangipani Hotel] invokes the ghosts of the land that was left behind.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“[A] sparkling debut . . . playful and wise, an astonishing feat for a young writer.”—Chicago Tribune
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The board of directors of pipeline operator
Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.
) has given nod for the two-for-one split of the partnership's
limited partner units.
MAGELLAN MDSTRM (MMP): Free Stock Analysis
OCCIDENTAL PET (OXY): Free Stock Analysis
To read this article on Zacks.com click here.
In accordance with the split announcement, Magellan Midstream will
distribute one additional limited partner share to stockholders for
every single unit held as of the close of business on September 28,
2012. The distribution of units will likely take place on October
12, 2012. This is Magellan Midstream's second stock split, with the
first happening in 2005.
Following the split, Magellan Midstream's annual cash distribution
will become $1.885 per unit or 47.125 cents per unit on a quarterly
basis from the current level of $3.77 per unit or 94.25 cents per
unit quarterly. Outstanding limited partner units will double up to
226.4 million from the pre-split level of 113.2 million.
This stock split announcement highlights Magellan Midstream's
efforts to see better liquidity, while raising the demand for the
shares and making it accessible to a larger shareholder base.
Magellan Midstream, which recently announced plans to set up a
400-mile long oil transport pipeline joint venture with Los
Angeles, California-based energy firm
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
) - currently retain a Zacks #1 Rank, which translates into a
short-term Strong Buy rating. We also maintain our long-term
Outperform recommendation on the stock.
In early August, Magellan Midstream announced strong second-quarter
2012 earnings, aided by higher demand and rates for its services.
Quarterly earnings per unit came in at $1.01 (excluding
mark-to-market commodity-related pricing adjustments), surpassing
the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 87 cents and the year-ago adjusted
profit of 91 cents.
We also appreciate Magellan's highly stable/recurring cash flows,
as well as its low cost of capital and strong distribution
coverage. Additionally, the partnership - with more than $500
million of potential projects under development - has attractive
growth potential, and maintains a sound liquidity position.
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All items are shipped FREE, Australia Wide.
* Some very remote areas may require a surcharge (we have to do this, due to high cost in getting heavy goods to some customers)
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Shipping times may vary from 1 to 10 days. Most metro deliveries will occur in a few business days.
All orders are sent with tracking, and are only sent to verified addresses
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- Housing Period
- Room Charges
- Occupancy and Use
- Assignments & Room Changes
- Meal Plans
- Access to Student Room and Suite Spaces
- Condition of Premises
- Damages and Expenses
- Housing Cancellation & Related Fees
- Responsibility of the Staff; Reserved Rights of the College
Eligibility for residence is limited to Barnard students and approved visiting students who have both completed the registration and program filing processes and have made all required payments by the payment deadlines. Some Columbia students may also be eligible, providing they meet the requirements for the Barnard/Columbia Housing Exchange as defined by both Barnard RL&H and Columbia University Undergraduate Housing Services. Students must be enrolled at Barnard on a full-time basis. Eligibility for residence on campus does not equal a guarantee. If for any reason a student ceases to be eligible for residence, they must vacate their room within 48 hours. If a student fails to register with the College or fails to check in to the residence hall assignment by 5pm on the first day of classes each semester, they forfeit their assigned space (and are liable for cancellation charges as outlined). This Housing Contract must be signed by the student by the first day of classes; otherwise, a student forfeits their assigned space.
Students will be permitted to check in to their room on the following dates, and students must check-in during published hours:
- Sunday, August 28, 2016 - check-in for new first-year students
- Monday, August 29, 2016 - check-in for new Fall transfer students
- Saturday, September 3, 2016 - check-in for continuing & readmitted students
- Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - check-in for new Spring transfer students only
- Saturday, January 14, 2017 - check-in for continuing & readmitted students
The housing period begins at the time the student takes occupancy of the assigned space, which must be no later than 5pm on the first day of classes for each semester. The housing period ends 24 hours after the time a student ceases to be eligible for residence or within 24 hours after the student’s last scheduled final examination. This will be no later than 9am on Friday, December 23, 2016 for the Fall semester and 5pm on Friday, May 12, 2017 for the Spring semester, regardless of the date/time of the resident’s last exam. Any residential student who cancels their housing for the Spring semester must vacate their assigned space no later than 9am on Friday, December 23, 2016.
The residence halls remain open during Fall, Thanksgiving, and Spring Breaks, but are officially closed for Winter Break (9am on Friday, December 23, 2016, through 9am on Saturday, January 14, 2017). To be permitted to leave belongings in their room over the Winter Break, students must be in residence for both the Fall & Spring semesters and must be in good standing with the College (including the payment of Spring charges by the December 1 payment deadline). Housing during the Winter Break period is limited to a small number of approved students and may carry an additional fee.
See https://barnard.edu/reslife/policies/housing/room-rates for this academic year's room rates.
At all times, only the student shall occupy the assigned space. Under no circumstances may a student swap assignments without prior approval; nor may students exchange keys with another student, sublet their room, or provide regular housing to any other person(s).
The College reserves the right to assign any vacant space at any time, and is not obligated to inform roommates or suitemates of changes. Any student with a vacancy in their room must keep the space open and ready for assignment at any point. The College has the right to move any such possessions that may be blocking a new student’s assigned space. Residents who fail to keep a vacant space free of their possessions will be subject to conduct action and will be charged for any costs involved in having these items moved. If the roommates/suitemates discourage or fail to accept the occupancy by an assigned student, they will be subject to conduct action that may include relocation, fines, additional rent, and/or termination of their assignment.
For information about meal plan requirements, please visit http://barnard.edu/reslife/policies/meal-plans.
Any of the occupants, furnishings, features, and configuration of the room/suite and/or a student’s room assignment shall be made and may be changed by the College at any time, at its sole discretion. Requests specifying only one particular residence or type of housing cannot be accommodated, nor can roommate/suitemate preferences based upon race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, religious practices, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, dietary preferences, physical abilities, and/or age. Any occurrences of verbal or physical intimidation or creating an atmosphere of discomfort for a new resident will not be tolerated and may lead to conduct action.
Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors may request a room change in the Fall (mid-September), for the Spring semester (early December), or in the Spring (late January). Room changes at any other point in the academic year are infrequently granted and require that a student has demonstrated an attempt to mediate any roommate/suitemate conflicts. Any room changes that are not approved by Residential Life & Housing are a violation of policy and the responsible student(s) will be required to return to their previous room and will be subject to conduct action. Students vacating the residence halls at the end of the Fall semester are expected to accommodate any student who may be moving into their space for the Spring semester as part of the December Room Change process (students making a December room change are required to vacate their Fall room prior to the start of the Winter Break). Columbia students in residence at Barnard are guided by the room change policies and procedures of Columbia University. Barnard students in residence at Columbia are guided by the policies and procedures of Barnard College.
The Associate Director for the First Year Focus program makes room changes for first-year students on a case-by-case basis. Any student with roommate concerns will first participate in a roommate discussion / negotiation during which time the roommate contract will be evaluated and adjusted as needed. Vacant spaces within rooms will be assigned, at the discretion of RL&H staff, to students needing room changes, with effort to use a student’s Housing Application to help match new roommates.
Disability Housing Requests
Students with diagnosed disabilities who may need some form of disability-related housing consideration (e.g. accessible housing, access to a private bath or kitchen, strobe alarm) must be registered with the Office of Disability Services (ODS). In addition, a Disability Housing Request form must be completed and submitted adhering to RL&H deadlines. Students should consult with ODS staff if needs arise beyond the published deadline or to review their needs and the accommodation request process. It is the student's responsibility to submit the necessary paperwork for each Housing request period. Previous accommodations are not automatically extended without submitting an updated request form and relevant ODS follow up for the upcoming academic year, summer, and/or interim housing period.
The College reserves the right to enter, repair, inventory, inspect, or search (without prior consent and in appropriate situations) any student space at any time. This includes RL&H staff, Public Safety, Facilities, and any other College employee or contractor who has a legitimate need to enter the space. Students cannot refuse access to a College employee or contractor who is in the process of performing the responsibilities of their position, such refusal may lead to conduct action.
By taking occupancy of the space, the student accepts its condition “as is” at such time and assumes responsibility to maintain the space (and any common areas in which the assigned space is located) in a clean, safe, and undamaged condition at all times. Students are expected to review & sign the Room Condition Report Form (RCR) to confirm the condition of their room upon arrival.
Common areas (e.g. suite or floor kitchens, bathrooms, lounges) are the responsibility of all members in that area, and all residents assigned to that area are jointly responsible for cleaning and maintaining them. When vacating the assigned space, all residents must remove all personal property and leave the room, any common areas, and any furnishings clean and in the same condition they were in when occupancy commenced. Any personal property left in the room or the common areas will be promptly removed and discarded at the expense of the resident(s).
All students are expected to follow established procedures for check-in and check-out of their room assignment. Failure to properly check-in in a timely fashion will result in loss of the room assignment, and failure to vacate by the day/ time published will minimally result in a fine for improper check-out and/or removal of personal belongings. In addition, the student shall reimburse the College upon request for all damages or expenses which the College may suffer or incur for repair or excessive cleaning of any residence hall, or for repair or replacement of College provided furniture and/or equipment (including smoke detectors), caused by the misconduct or neglect of the student or of their guests. Residents are required to report any room concerns to Facilities for immediate repair. Failure to do so leaves the resident responsible for the repair and/or replacement cost. Any damages or expenses incurred in a room or facility within the residence halls will be charged equally to all residents of that room/suite or users of that facility unless the responsible person or persons assume specific liability. Charges are assessed by RL&H staff and will be billed to the student’s Bursar account. Failure to pay such charges may be cause for refusal to permit registration or for such other action as may be determined appropriate by the College until sums owed are paid in full. The policy regarding the referral of delinquent accounts for collection also applies to damages and expenses. Any appeal of said charges must be submitted in writing by the student within 30 days of the charge being posted to the student’s account. A more detailed list of damage charges is available at barnard.edu/reslife/policies/damage-charges.
Housing Cancellations & Related Fees
Please see http://barnard.edu/reslife/cancellations for the cancellation policies & fee schedule.
The College has delegated to RL&H the responsibility for establishing and enforcing regulations governing conduct of students within the residence halls. RL&H staff may consult with other College administrators in carrying out this responsibility. At the discretion of and in consultation with the RL&H staff, Executive Director, and/or the designate, a student may be subject to certain conditions for continuing residence, including (but not limited to) a change in room assignments or dismissal from College housing for disruptive behavior including (but not limited to) behavior such that a student cannot adequately take care of their own health and safety in the context of College housing or is a danger to the health and safety of others and/or the community. The College reserves the right to enter and inspect any room when, at the discretion of staff members, it is deemed necessary for the security and/or maintenance of the residence or for the safety and/or discipline of the residents, including specifically (but not limited to) the right to inspect/enter rooms to ensure compliance with rules concerning use of rooms, preservation of clean and sanitary conditions, fire prevention, compliance with local, state/federal laws, in preparation for upcoming renovation work, or health and safety reasons. The College reserves the right at any time to terminate, establish, or amend any terms, conditions, policies, and procedures concerning the matters covered herein without prior notice.
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Genre: Drama, Romance. rated R, very strong R
Characters, pairings: Dan/Laurie/Walter
Universe and time period: Comic-verse, Clockwork Eden AU: part 5
Word count: 3800ish
Author's notes: This chapter is some of the darkest stuff I've written, so extra warning to the squeamish. Contains sex and some disturbing imagery.
She sits on the back porch and tries to explain to Dan what she found in the basement while he readies the charcoal grill for dinner and Walter showers. She tells him about in detail about the medical books, the unzipped jeans and dried semen, the open journal, the centipedes, and the emptiness in Walter’s eyes. When she finishes Dan is quiet for a long time. She lights up a cigarette, her first in weeks, while her husband carefully considers his response.
He stuffs a few wadded up balls of newspaper amongst the charcoal and lights it with a long matchstick before walking over to sit beside her on the stoop. She fans away the smoke from her cigarette.
“Sorry,…” she murmurs.
“It’s alright,” he replies gently and reaches around to pull her closer, squeezing her shoulder. “Just don’t go falling off the wagon over this, okay? I worry about you too.”
“Hey,” He lifts her chin with his thumb and forefinger. “I’m listening to you, and you’re right to be concerned, what you saw isn’t normal or healthy, not by any stretch, but there are some things you need to understand. I’ve known this man a long time, and sometimes he goes to very dark places. It won’t do any good to pester him about it. He’ll just start avoiding you, and that’s even worse.”
She knows there's logic in what her husband is saying, and she has already witnessed the way Walter pulls away whenever she presses him, but she cannot shake the tightness in her throat or the sinking feeling in her gut.
Dan rubs his hand up and down her back, sensing that she is still unconvinced. “If I told you some of the horror stories I have from dealing with him over the years, you’d understand what I am saying, but I think it’s best I spare you the gory details. Be patient and let him work through this in his own way. As long as he knows we love him things will be alright.”
His right front tooth is chipped and his nails need cut. Laurie is painfully aware of these little details as he clings on to her, biting down on her shoulder and digging his finger tips into her naked back.
“Nngh…harder, Daniel,” he begs out of the corner of his mouth, voice muffled into her skin, saliva slicked lips parting only enough to choke out the words.
“God,…Walter,” Dan pants.
The slim body in Laurie’s arms slams against her with brutal force, prominent collar bones banging into her chest. His muscles tense up in what has to be pain and he bites down, uneven teeth nearly breaking the skin.
“Fuck, Walter…” Dan moans.
Another unforgiving thrust and Laurie can hear every frantic breath sucked in and expelled in hot puffs against her neck. He’s strung so tight he’s shaking, and his speckled skin shines slick in the low light.
“Harder!” Walter cries out.
She squints her eyes shut tight and feels the full weight of Dan transferred through Walter’s smaller frame. The nails cut her deeper, and he's making some kind of high sound in her ear each time he is thrust against her, like he's biting back a scream. Her eyes tear; surroundings blur and run together like watercolor.
“Harder, go…harder…” He begs one last time, and his voice is reedy, quivering, and failing.
Laurie presses her eyes into the space where Walter’s neck meets his shoulder and holds his constricted body as close as she can while Dan finishes violently, pounding them both against the headboard.
Walter is gasping in the aftermath, shaking and still clinging to her as Dan slides off, and even with their bodies flush against each other she cannot seem to hold him tight enough as they sink down into the pillows together.
“God damn,” Dan whispers breathlessly from where he his sprawled out on his back beside them. “God damn…”
Laurie’s head clears as she eases down off the adrenaline, and she feels weak, limbs shaky. Walter remains latched on to her, his face pressed into her throat and she reaches up and strokes ruddy sweat-soaked curls, cradling him gently in her arms.
Dan turns over onto his side, sucking in long uneven breaths, still dizzy and reeling. He reaches for them both in that desperate needy way a man reaches out when he has pushed himself to the cusp of his sanity.
“Both of you,” he puffs hoarsely. “Let me hold you.”
He cups Laurie’s shoulder and pulls her down to lay beside him, wedging Walter’s small frame between their bodies. They don’t talk, instead lay wrapped up in one another, a mass of scarred twisted limbs and raw naked flesh, silent.
Laurie rolls over groggily and squints in the sunlight that cuts through the open curtains, white and blinding. She can tell by the brightness that it’s already nearly ten and her men are most certainly well into breakfast or even finished by now. She sits up and scratches her matted hair, taking note of how badly flattened and tangled it is in the back. Her memory of everything that happened the night before is cloudy, but there is a lingering sense of wrongness that her sleepy brain refuses to bring into focus.
A warm breeze is coming in through the window, carrying with it fragrance of new leaves, fresh grass and spring flowers. Slowly the feeling of dread disperses and she decides it’s a perfect day to drive over to the lake, an idea to which she is sure Dan will agree. Walter might grumble, bit he’ll come along and enjoy himself, even if he’ll insist on acting like he doesn’t.
Feeling slightly energized, she tosses aside the covers and moves to get herself up and out of bed, only something snags her attention, and she stops just as she is about to step onto the floor. She reaches down timidly and moves aside the pale gray sheets, revealing scattered dark red spots across the fabric.
It's not hers. She is like clockwork.
She swallows hard, and the night crystallizes in her now fully awake brain. She is suddenly aware of the stinging cuts on her back where his nails dug in, and the sore welt on her shoulder where his teeth pressed down. Sickness washes over her and she tears the sheets up off the bed, twisting them into a ball and throwing them in the laundry basket followed by the rest of the bedding. She then hauls the basket into her arms and heads straight for the laundry room, all her delusions of a carefree spring day evaporating with out a trace.
‘It was hardly anything. Nothing serious, these things happen. Calm the fuck down Laurel Jane.’
Laurie tries to force herself to eat the breakfast that Dan set aside for her, but the food tastes like ash and her stomach twists restlessly. If she isolates the incident it means little; just a rough night, they got carried away, but it instead clicks into place like a corner piece in the macabre puzzle unfurling around them. She pushes the plate aside.
‘He wanted to be hurt,’
She grabs her Zippo and heads out onto the front porch. As she lights up she can hear Dan around the corner of the house giving Walter a proud tour of his new vegetable garden. She rolls her eyes and inhales.
She’s on her second when they come around the corner, and Dan gives her a little smirk of disapproval to which she sticks her tongue out in her very best attempt to appear playful. Dan shakes his head, and she doesn’t miss the legitimate look of disappointment on his features. “Last one,” She grumbles as they pass her to go inside, but just before Walter lets the screen door swing shut behind him, her hand flashes out to catch his wrist.
“Are you,…” Words fail her. There is no right way to ask him the questions she wants to. No words she can conjure that won’t have him pulling away from her. “Are you,…feeling alright today?” she manages clumsily.
“Fine, Laurel. Not sure what you mean.”
She sighs and lets him go. “Just checking, things got a little rough last night, I wanted to make sure you are okay.”
He blushes deep pink, an uncontrollable trait of his, one of the many things about him that is so outwardly unattractive but for some reason she has come to find endearing.
“mm-fine.” He nods stiffly and shuffles away, the screen door tapping shut behind him.
She sucks down the last of her cigarette and sinks onto the crooked wooden porch steps.
‘He wanted to be hurt, just like he wanted imprison himself alone in the basement covered in dirt and centipedes,…’
She draws her knees up to her chest and folds her arms across them, resting her chin on her forearms.
‘Leave him be, give him his space. Dan knows him best, he will work through this and everything will be alright,’
She can hear Dan inside telling Walter about his plans for a new workshop. He’s talking cheerfully about building the hover scooters again.
‘Leave him be…let him work it out on his own,…’
She lifts her head slowly as Dan continues to chatter on with innocent enthusiasm, and a memory creeps up out of the black forbidden spaces of her mind. It is of the last time she saw Dan’s hover scooters, the night they trudged wearily out of Karnak, and how it took every last scrap of fortitude they had to haul the contraptions out of the red snow.
Laurie's lips move soundlessly: “We let him walk out there alone,…we let him…"
She holds Walter's journal in her hands, closed. It was setting on his desk by the window, on top his stack of library books. It was not hidden, and it sickens her to think that it is because of trust that he leaves it in the open. She remembers how he sprung to life when she laid one hand on it in the basement.
She had slithered out bed as quietly as she could manage and hung outside their bedroom door for many long minutes, making absolutely certain she could hear Walter’s quiet steady snoring before she padded silently down the hall into his room, but she still fears he could come in at any moment.
She knows what she is about to do is a thing of pure treason.
‘With understanding comes solutions.' She remembers Dan telling her once.
She parts the pages with her thumbs, and opens to an early entry.
Nov. 15th, 1986
Sick today. Worse than yesterday. Cannot eat, consequentially am becoming very thin. Weak. Shameful. Wondering if my decision to return was a mistake. Daniel is very nervous, borders on paranoid. Laurel continues to be patient with me. I expect her to hate me, tolerate me at best, but her behavior is baffling. This morning she purchased grape juice for me out of a vending machine while Daniel put gasoline in the vehicle and I laid in the backseat; too sick to get up. Nobody instructed her to do this. Am finding myself growing vaguely fond of her. She continues to press Daniel to stop this running, is a less compromising person than I once believed her to be. Admirable.
“Grape juice, I remember that…,” she whispers, her eyes growing warm. She brushes the page with her finger tips and chews her lower lip.
She sniffles and skips ahead to more recent entries, hands shaking. When she opens to the entries dated May, 1987, the pages begin to become warped and are no longer scrawled with text alone. There are also drawings.
Quivering line work forms spidery images of a gaunt, hollow eyed male, always drawn sinewy and decaying, the mouth agape and full of rotting teeth and sometimes insects, or just scribbled over as if to be silenced. On some pages he is missing parts of his anatomy; eyes, hands, a tongue. In one image his entire left arm is gone, only to be drawn attached to the hip of another figure a few entries later. He is naked in every sketch, his genitals rendered grotesquely with hard angry lines that cut deep into the paper. His body is almost always opened up in the middle, cut from chest to groin, sometimes his skull is split as well, and in one image his forearm is slit and his veins are pulled out, illustrated in red ballpoint like little worms. The drawing skill is shaky and childish, but there is an eerie attention to anatomical accuracy, or the purposeful lack of it, for in some of the drawings the man is opened up but the cavity of his abdomen or skull is empty. Nearly illegible text is scrawled right over many of the illustrations, as if they are simply a backdrop for the entries.
It is like some nightmare version of a De Vinci sketchbook, and as she turns the pages the drawings get darker and more chaotic, the abuse to the poor recurring figure compounding with every entry. By the most recent page he is gazing up desperately from a water-warped page with huge black eye sockets that bleed ink, lips peeled away from a skeletal jaw, his rotten and distorted body pulled open, disemboweled, and riddled with flesh eating insects. There is only one sentence, written along the bottom edge of the page in black ink, and it takes her a moment to decipher the scrawl.
‘He is dead, and I am nothing.’
Laurie holds the book open for a long time, her unblinking eyes fixed on the six terrible words, so blunt in their meaning, until finally she sets it down, sinks slowly onto the bed, and weeps helplessly into her hands.
Dan stirs uneasily, waking with vague awareness that the warm weight against his left side is gone, and the sheets are cool. He sits up slow, careful not to disturb Walter who is curled up like a cat beside him. He’ll never understand how a grown man can sleep in a fetal position like that.
The floor boards creak under his weight and he glances back to see if he's woke his sleeping partner. Walter shifts slightly, but remains curled under the blankets, the curve of his body rising and falling gently. Relieved, Dan toes into his slippers and shuffles into the hallway. Warm yellow light is peaking out from under the door to Walter’s room, and he moves quietly towards it, head tilted curiously.
“Laurie? What are you doing in here?” He says in a slow careful voice as he presses the door and steps into the room, half expecting to discover her guiltily devouring another cigarette in secrecy.
She looks up from her cupped hands with the sudden movement of a person who has been caught doing something very wrong.
“Dan,” she starts, her voice hoarse and cracking. She crosses the room to where her husband is standing in the doorway and wraps her arms tight around his soft waist.
“He’s in trouble. Going to do something horrible to himself,… he’s going to cut himself up, pull out his organs, and..” She sobs quiet bitter tears against Dan’s broad chest, her voice rambling and only partially coherent.
“Shhh,” Dan strokes her dark hair, uncharacteristically tangled and matted. He hugs her tight. “What are you talking about? He’s going to cut himself up and pull out his organs? Laurie, where--”
“I looked in his journal, Dan. I didn’t know what else to do. You wouldn’t do anything, and he wouldn’t talk to me, and I needed to find answers somewhere. I-I know I shouldn’t have, but…Dan, there are drawings in there, horrible drawings of himself all chopped up and coming apart.” She crumbles like a guilty seven year old girl, confessing an innocent minded crime to her parent. Dan holds her quaking shoulders and steadies her.
“You shouldn’t have done that Laurie,” He shakes his head disapprovingly, but his expression softens when he sees a second wave of tears rising up in her eyes. “But I know why you did. It’s going to be alright, we’ll take care of him. Don’t worry. Did you put it back where you found it?” He asks her gently, wiping a stray tear away from her cheek with his thumb.
“No…not yet, it’s over on the bed,” She sniffles, regaining her composure.
“Put it back and come to bed, We’ll all talk in the morning, but be very careful not to mention what you saw, okay?”
She nods shakily and goes to retrieve the journal from the mattress. Dan watches her, his expression taut and nervous. As she picks up the book and turns to take it back over to the desk where she found it, she stops short, eyes fixed on the doorway, wide and terrified. Dan knows without looking, and he winces, sucking in a long breath through clenched teeth; this is bad.
“hngh,….Laurel,” Walter utters her name in voice that short and clipped, the syllables catching in his dry throat.
They stare at each other, and she knows he must have been listening for a while, for his eyes are only on her; he knows Dan had no part in this.
“Walter, please. I was trying to help you,” Laurie starts and takes a slow step towards him, her heart twisting at the look of pure hurt painted across his hollow features. “I’m worried about you.” The journal drops from her slack right hand and lands noisily on the hardwood floor, pages open.
“Had no right.”
“I know, honey.” She is only a yard or so away from him now, and her eyes dart warily between strained bloodshot eyes and his bony hands which clench and unclench nervously at his sides.
“No right at all. Trespasser,…filthy trespasser,” he spits through dry quivering lips.
Laurie bites back the sting of his words and very cautiously lifts a hand to touch his shoulder. “I’m sorry Walter. I am,”
“No…not you. Not sorry. Not at all. No respect for anyone,” Walter growls and steps back out of her reach, shaking his head in sickened disbelief before turning swiftly to disappear down the hall.
Laurie stands in the doorway for a few seconds, silenced and bewildered, mind blank.
“Laurie. Come here,” Dan says sternly from where he still stands in the middle of the small room.
She cannot bring herself to turn and look at him.
“Come here, Laurie. Don’t you--”
She bites down hard on her lip and shakes her head before taking off down the hall after Walter.
“Laurie!! You get back here now! You’re only going to make things worse!!” Dan yells after her.
“God fucking damn it,” Dan curses bitterly under his breath and moves to chase after her, but stops, suddenly distracted by an object at his feet.
He leans over slowly, eyes narrowing as he takes in the gruesome ballpoint pen rendering of an emaciated red haired man, blood and entrails pooling around his disproportionately large feet, digging his own heart out of his open chest cavity. The drawing, dated only three days prior, is scrawled feverishly across the pages of Walter’s journal, laying spread like a dead moth on the floor.
Laurie can see him at the edge of the field near the big maple, and she breaks into a run, oblivious to the small stones, thorns, and twigs that snag through her socks and cut her feet. The moon is high and nearly full in the clear sky, bathing the land in its blue otherworldly light.
He has stopped at the edge of the woods and stands with his narrow back to her.
“Leave me, Laurel.”
“Where are you going?!” she pants raggedly.
“Walter, Please…we’re going to have to get past this, you and I. If we're going to live together--”
“I can’t…I can’t see you now.”
She pauses, fearful to consider the meaning behind those words.
“I’m sorry. You have to believe me,” she pleads, ignoring her better judgment and approaching him again. “I wanted to help you. That’s all,” She reaches out to him.
A line is crossed and he lashes out in a blur of motion, the back of his hand connecting sharply with her wrist as he swats her away.
“Do not touch me, Laurel!” He snarls, whirling around to face her. “Have gone too far this time!”
“I fucking did it you! For you!” She replies fiercely, spurred on by the stinging pain wrist. “You should be glad someone cares that much about you!”
“Self-righteous excuses. Thought better of you. Convinced myself of your integrity. Wrong. Disgraceful spoiled woman.” Walter mutters under his breath, every word trembling and laced with venom.
“I was afraid you were going to kill yourself!” She cries, frustrated tears streaking her cheeks.
He is quiet for a few seconds, standing silent as the breeze whispers through the wide maple leaves, and for one desperate moment she thinks she might have broken through to him.
“Doesn't matter. Let you trick me, same way you tricked Manhattan, same way you tricked Daniel. Tricked me into thinking better of you, thinking you are more than the filth and rottenness that bred you. Was wrong. Despicable. No better….no better than a whore.”
His words cut with all the certainty of a surgeon’s scalpel, the blow delivered with such cruel precision that only the most primal and desperate reply finds its way to the surface as she draws her arms up around herself.
“But I love you.”
Walter says nothing, and refuses to give her even the slightest glance as he stalks away, disappearing into the inky depths of the forest.
She shivers, her head bent, as the breeze stirs her hair around her face making it stick to her wet cheeks. Her admission of love hangs on her lips, and she feels foolish, vulnerable, and alone. Across the field she can hear Dan’s voice and heavy angry footfalls approaching.
“You just don’t know when to stop, Laurie!” He shouts, full of exasperated frustration. “I told you to leave him alone! Why couldn’t you just listen to me for once?!”
She can’t find anything to say and instead squeezes her upper arms tight to her chest and clenches her teeth, unable to face him.
“Damn it, Laurie. You are so fucking stubborn! You never listen!” He paces around her furiously. “Now what?! It’s the middle of the night and he’s run off into the woods, and we’ll be lucky if he’s back by morning, Hell, if he comes back at all!”
Every wound she ever willfully sealed feels like it is fresh and bleeding all over again, and she wishes desperately she possessed the strength to yell back, but her spirit is drained away and all she can do is stand and shiver, bitter cold in the warm spring night.
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FACTSHEET: Ronald Bailey
Adjunct Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute. Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine. Science and Technology reporter for Forbes 1987-1990. Competitive Enterprise Institute's Warren T. Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism in 1993.
Bailey has written widely in criticism of climate change science and is a producer for television shows "Think Tank" and "Technopolitics."
Bailey was editor of "Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death," "The True State of the Planet" and "Earth Report 2000: Revisiting The True State of The Planet," all of which were published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He authored "Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse" and "The Law of Increasing Returns." Bailey received funding for Eco-Scam from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Bailey has long-standing connections to the Wise Use movement and was a speaker at the 1997 Fly In for Freedom, the annual gathering of "wise use" activists sponsored by the Alliance for America.
BA in economics and philosophy at University of Virginia.
4 February, 2004
On February 4th, 2004, CEI Adjunct Fellow Ron Bailey testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on "The Impact of Science on Public Policy," on how and why environmental predictions have gone wrong.
Source: CEI Website -Bailey testimony
Costs of Kyoto
The relationship of Ronald Bailey to the event: Speaker
Competitive Enterprise Institute
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Source: Cato Institute website 4/04
Source: Reason website 4/04
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Bailey
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website for the Reason Foundation (as well as Reason Magazine and Reason Public Policy Institute).
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Send your admissions questions to firstname.lastname@example.org!
My job requires me to work 80 hours a week so I have no time for extracurricular activities. How will that affect my candidacy?
With so many candidates coming from Investment Banking and other industries that are notorious for long working hours, you’re certainly not alone. It’s important to understand why top-tier MBA admissions committees (Adcoms) look for extracurricular activities to know how to address a lack of them in your application.
Get Past “Checking the Box”
Many MBA candidates approach their applications as a series of check-boxes that must be filled in to secure a spot in a top-tier program. However, Adcoms are not ruled by robotic algorithms with weights given to certain criteria such as GMAT score, undergraduate performance, years of work experience and extracurricular activities. The process is much more holistic than that! Beyond looking for strong statistics, they’re looking for strong character traits.
Why Do They Care About Extracurriculars At All?
Extracurricular activities can show the Adcom a number of things about you:
- It shows that you care about something beyond yourself or getting ahead at any cost—you care about a community around you, whether that’s through mentoring inner city kids, building homes for the underprivileged, raising money for cancer, volunteering for your local church group, or what have you.
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Poway Unified School District trustees gave the go-ahead Monday
for the district to borrow up to $34 million to cover the
district's operating costs while it waits for state payments that
the governor wants to defer for months.
The unanimous vote cleared the way for the district to issue
tax-exempt tax and revenue anticipation notes that will be sold to
Poway Unified will pay off the notes with tax money and other
revenue that the district expects to receive in the future.
California law allows the state's public school districts to use
the notes as a temporary funding mechanism to maintain steady cash
flows in between state payments that usually come in every month
and tax deposits that the districts predominantly receive in
December and April.
Talking about the borrowing plan during a meeting at Poway
Unified's headquarters, Malliga Tholandi, associate superintendent
of business support services for Poway Unified, told the board that
the district has borrowed money the same way annually for the last
The amount involved this time is the largest in Poway Unified's
history, though, she said.
Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to defer state Department of Education's
payments to the school districts by several months are the biggest
reason Poway Unified needs to borrow so much, Tholandi said.
Information in a PowerPoint presentation by Tholandi revealed
that nearly $17.7 million worth of payments that the district
expected to receive before the current school year ends June 30
have been deferred until July or August.
A new round of deferrals that the governor is proposing would
see the state holding off on making nearly $19.9 million worth of
payments that had been scheduled to be made between July of this
year and April 2012, until September of this year through August
2012, according to Tholandi's presentation.
That schedule means the district would be two months into its
2012-13 school year when it receives the last 2011-12 payment Poway
Unified is supposed to get from the state, Tholandi said.
Poway schools Superintendent John Collins said the deferred
payments are on top of several years' worth of cuts in the overall
amount of money the state has been providing for education.
He also said the governor's plan does not call for the state to
pay any interest on its late payments. The school district,
however, will have to do so on the money it borrows, the
Describing the situation as unacceptable, Collins said he
recently sent parents within the district a letter that is
basically a "plea to the community."
"We can't do this anymore. We can't continue to take more cuts
and continue to do what we need to do to keep educating our
children," he said. "This has reached the critical point."
Earlier in the same meeting, the superintendent and some of the
board members said a coalition of educators, parents, students and
others concerned about the cuts in state funding for education is
planning a rally to be held next month in San Diego.
The goal is to raise public awareness of the cutbacks' effects
on schools, said Collins, adding that details about the event will
be publicized as they are firmed up.
Chuck Lord, president of Service Employees International Union,
which represents about 400 custodians, bus drivers, groundskeepers
and food service employees at Poway Unified, told the board his
organization fully supports the coalition and its goal of bringing
education and government in general "back to the people."
Call staff writer Andrea Moss at 760-739-6654.
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Nevada Day Powwow, set for Oct. 26-28, celebrates state’s cultures
Special to First Nation's Focus
CARSON CITY, Nev. — As Nevada plans to celebrate its birthday this weekend, the Nevada Day Powwow aims to highlight the heritage that helped shape the state. While it will feature American Indian dancers from across the country and Canada, it will encompass more than native traditions.
“Our powwow has become a lot more multicultural,” said organizer Martin Montgomery of the Red Hoop Singers. “Because it’s over the Nevada Day weekend, we want to highlight a lot of the different cultures that make up Nevada and make it a great place to live.”
Formerly known as the La Ka Lel Be Powwow, it has been held over the Nevada Day weekend for the past 37 years.
For the second year in a row, it will be at the MAC, next to the Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada, on Friday through Sunday, Oct. 26-28. A traditional La Ka Lel Be Powwow also will take place in the Carson Colony Gym.
“We want it to be the biggest powwow in Nevada and one of the biggest events on Nevada Day,” Montgomery said. “Our main goal is to be the event to come see.”
The powwow will be a celebration of song and dance, as well as the traditional gambling hand game and a horseshoe tournament. A bowling tournament will also take place at the nearby Gold Dust West Bowling Center.
Songs are performed in English and well as native languages, and guests can dance Native American style during intertribal songs.
“There’s a lot of customs we can share and learn from each other,” Montgomery said. “By being respectful of one another, we can learn other people’s beliefs and bridge misunderstandings.”
Vendors will be selling arts and crafts as well as a variety of food, including the traditional Indian tacos, barbecue and even poutine from a Canadian booth.
The horseshoe tournament is open to all; entry is $10 a person. Teams of two may register together, or a pair will be found for single participants.
Montgomery said people are welcome to participate as much or as little as they’d like.
“It’s always good to learn something about each other, our neighbors,” he said.
For more information, follow the Nevada Day Powwow Facebook page.
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In the GapWhat has God equipped you with to intercede for others?
Top Christian Music Videos
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I love God! I love music. I play piano, drums, bass guitar, bongos, and I sing, write, and compose music. I lead my church's choir and praise and worship. My dad is a full time Pastor. My heart's desire is to marry a preacher and become full time missionaries to China.
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About this course:
Learn contractor marketing: whether you're a marketing manager at a contracting company, or the company owner looking to update your website, increase leads through online marketing, or just get education on marketing strategies for contractors, this course is for you. Software and technology are all the buzz but is your company or are you ready for web-based software? This course taught by Heidi J. Ellsworth, delivers information about how new or updated software needs to match with your culture, processes and company goals. Throughout the span of four separate live courses (recorded and published in this course) Heidi will cover software for contractors, website considerations, mail marketing, social media, and CRM / sales and leads tracking software.
You'll learn about websites and how to approach either getting a new website or updating your current site. The course will also review current web-based software and the importance of forms, blogs and marketing automation. Ellsworth will also review the complimentary services including directories and SEO that are critical to website marketing success. With 24 years of roofing sales, marketing and technology experience, she will review industry resources and overall strategy for obtaining and then implementing a strong website that enhances roofing or contracting sales and marketing. Then, in the field of email marketing, Heidi will discuss the laws, myths and realities of email marketing will be reviewed. Spam laws and email marketing companies are both important topics of discussion when deciding whether to start an email marketing campaign. Ellsworth will review picking a service and whether the function should remain in-house or be moved out-of-house. The issues of design, tracking and lead capture will be discussed along with the overall strategy of marketing automation.
Finally, when it comes to social media, should you tweet or post on instagram? Is LinkedIn worth using, or should you just stick with Facebook? Navigating the world of social media and how to best utilize it in a contracting business is the last of this four-part course. Designing, implementing and monitoring a successful and active social media program will be discussed along with the merits of each social media platform that is currently being used in business marketing.
Heidi J. Ellsworth, a graduate of University of Portland, has been working in the roofing industry since 1993. Having held positions with EagleView Technology Corp, Carlisle Construction Materials, EcoStar and Malarkey Roofing, Heidi is best known as the founder of the roofing-focused marketing firm, HJE Marketing. After leading marketing initiatives for EagleView Technologies and Pictometry along with overseeing the EagleView construction sales division, she has started HJE Consulting Group.
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I’m delightfully neutral today, which is very good in my book. I’m mulling very slightly on my lack of response to big things, but I think that’s just a long-developed coping mechanism to a life of frequently unsettled life. It’s just kind of weird put against the oversensitivity to -everything- that bipolar brings, but then? Life is paradox… and so forth.
Anyways, maybe something’ll come to mind tomorrow. For now, I hope everyone is having a good day.
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Mobile Site You Are Here > PFR Home > Players > G > Paul Gray
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Paul David Gray
Height: 6-2 Weight: 231 lbs.
Born: June 20, 1962 in Tulsa, OK
High School: Daviess Co.College: West. Kentucky
Drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the 10th round (264th overall) of the 1984 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (14760th overall since 1950)
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Anjunadeep 05 (Mixed by James Grant & Jody Wisternoff)
Various Artists (Mixed by James Grant & Jody Wisternoff)
The masterful deep house and progressive house label Anjunadeep wades into deeper waters this time around for their newest compilation, ‘Anjunadeep 05.’ Mixed by label head James Grant and the legendary Jody Wisternoff of Way Out West, the highly anticipated Anjunadeep 05 showcases captivating sounds across two discs of ambient electronica, deep house, modern garage, and techno. With tracks from Matt Lange, Andrew Bayer, Universal Solution, and more, the mixes brim with emotional and melodic resonances.
James Grant’s mix on disc one opens with chilled electronica, Croquet Club’s “Cardigan,” which is supported on BBC Radio 1 by Zane Lowe. From that point on, disc one is packed with exclusive original tracks from Dusky, Vincenzo, Tom Middleton, Beckwith, and DAVI. Grant devises a theme of modern melodic deepness that follows through until the end. Andrew Bayer teams up with James Grant in “Living,” a soaked-in groove with percussive fills and a melancholic breakdown. The two also join forces to remix “It’s Cool” by Australian group The Presets, reconstructing the synth-pop original into a stripped-down hypnotic vocal piece, complemented with pianos. Rising talent Universal Solution, aka Gavin Holland, contributes with the dark and spacey “Osheen.” The deep bassline really drives the track throughout this slow-building progressive journey. His other track “Yukon” builds beautifully with ambience and a tough 909 percussion.
Responsible for some of the best deep house tracks of the past year, London duo Dusky make an appearance on the label that released their debut album with tracks “Nobody Else” and “Mr. Man,” supported by Sasha, among other artists. It is a downbeat, atmospheric track with heavy bass grooves and a piano refrain. Concluding the first disc is Solarity’s “Symbols,” summarizing the ambience of the entire mix.
Jody Wisternoff takes up mixing duties for disc two. With over 20 years of experience behind the decks, one cannot simply ignore his flexibility and skill as a producer. He is a musician with an appreciation as well as an ear for quality music. One of the hottest tracks on the list is Lane 8’s “Be Mine,” a sun-kissed, sensual vibe with ambient vocals and lush synth pads. Delving into mid 90s jungle, Jody reworks classic “This Way” by Skanna, keeping the haunting vibes and sophisticated melodies of the original.
Jody’s reconstruction of Above & Beyond’s “Alchemy” might be one of the best on the whole compilation. He adds a deep bass groove around the vocals to create a musically enhanced deep house anthem. Another favorite is Jody’s reshape of Kahwe’s “Driving Me Wild.” He adds layers of melodic feel to create another dimension within the track. Jody’s musical talent throughout his mixing will have you fully submerged into disc two from start to finish.
James Grant and Jody Wisternoff were fine choices to craft the fifth installment of the Anjunadeep story. They understood that Anjunadeep 05 represents the diversity of the label, offering an exploration of the deeper waters of house music.
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Two lucky grand prize winners, Eric Chin and Ak Muhammad Hazim Pg Mahari walked away with $10,000 from Insurans Islam TAIB Holdings (IITH)’s “Hadiah Wang Tunai sehingga B$250,000” promotional campaign that was held recently at the OneCity Shopping Mall.
Eric Chin was all smiles and had the surprise of his life when he won the grand prize.
The 39-year-old stood in line with five other participants each hoping that they picked the winning envelope.
“I’m excited and happy and lucky enough to be one of the finalists,” he shared.
In an interview with The Bruneian, Eric shared that he previously bought the Comprehensive Motor Takaful coverage for his car which made him eligible for the campaign.
The police officer shared his appreciation to Insurans Islam TAIB, noting that he has always been a loyal customer of the company for 10 years starting with his first car.
He also added that the products and services have been convenient and comprehensive for him.
The 39-year-old further expressed his gratitude for having taken part in the campaign and is looking forward to saving his winnings and also purchasing more coverage from Insurans Islam TAIB.
On his part, Ak Muhammad Hazim Pg Mahari was overcome with joy after discovering that he also won the grand prize of $10,000 in the campaign.
With the help of his wife, the lucky winner said that he could not believe that he picked the grand prize envelope.
“It was really unexpected. I bought insurance for my car and never thought I would be winning this campaign. I am quite fortunate to be a part of it,” he said.
The 33-year-old also highlighted the importance of insurance coverage, adding that Insurans Islam TAIB has provided him with convenient and comprehensive services and products.
The civil servant added he is grateful for having been able to take part in the campaign and is looking forward to investing more with Insurans Islam TAIB
Furthermore, the event also saw Muhammad Wann Azizzat Abdullah Ranggau walking away with $2,500 and three other winners taking home $1,000 each.
The ‘“Hadiah Wang Tunai sehingga B$250,000″ campaign, which ran from 1 April 2022 March to 31 January 2023 was intended to reward and show appreciation to its customers, as well as to promote awareness of their products and services.
At the same event, to celebrate their 30th anniversary, IITH also launched its new 2023 campaign promotion dubbed “Alhamdulillah 30”, offering even more prizes and winners as part of their monthly and grand prize draws
Through the campaign, customers who participate in any of Insurans Islam TAIB’s Takaful schemes or plans from either Insurans Islam TAIB General Takaful or Insurans Islam TAIB Family Takaful will stand a chance to win various prizes every month from March until December 2023.
Following the prize presentation and the new campaign, IITH also unveiled its revamped website www.insuranstaib.com.bn with an improved online experience and initiatives to expand its reach and better serve its customers.
The updated website offers a more modern and user-friendly experience, providing customers with easy access to their Takaful products.
Present as the guest of honour was Chairman Board of Director of Insurans Islam TAIB Holdings Sdn Bhd and its subsidiaries, Hajah Norliah Haji Kula.
Also present were Managing Director of Perbadanan TAIB Datin Hjh Hasnah Hj Ibrahim, a member of the Board of Directors of IITH Sdn Bhd and subsidiaries, Dr Norfarizal Othman, and Acting Managing Director of IITH and subsidiaries Pg Hjh Noraini Pg Hj Sablon.
For more information, customers can visit IITH’s counters or contact them at 222-3004 (General Takaful) and 222-3006 (Family Takaful)
THE BRUNEIAN | BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
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SO WHAT ABOUT JOEFRIDAY?
We have been operating since 2007. Our clients vary from small to Medium enterprises. We also undertake a lot of consulting work for various IT and Marketing Companies.
Our sites vary from E-Commerce solutions, Standard information websites to sites who run Multi websites which share information between sites. We pride ourselves on quality work, excellent client service, from training you to manage your own website to handling small and bigger questions. Joe friday is about building and maintaining good customer relations. I you are happy with our work and are happy with our service, it means we are doing our jobs.
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Various packages available to suit your company needs.
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Allow us to deal with your clients on your behalf. We provide consulting services for various marketing and IT companies.
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All other areas of remote desktop support
Social Media Marketing
Get your company and product out there with a customized social media marketing strategy.
Reach more prospective clients and buyers through social media.
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What we provide:
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Virtual and hybrid events are set to be the next big thing. Ponder this – in a world where technology develops and improves at an impressive speed, it’s our job as events profs to keep up with the motions. So why not be the one who takes the first step into more sustainable, engaging events that can connect thousands of people from around the world at lower costs and increased flexibility? The tools we have readily available right now represent an ocean of untapped opportunities. From being able to reduce our carbon footprint to making education and networking available to more people, virtual events are full of potential.
Making the jump from in-person events to virtual might seem like more than you can chew. But just like in any other thing in life, it’s about the allies you choose to have on your side. And as a highly experienced and tech-savvy company, Endless can help you make this transition in a seamless way.
Every day we witness change happening right before our eyes. And we believe that being at the forefront of change and positioning ourselves as game-changers, we can contribute to making not only the events industry, but also the world, a better, and more connected place. Events are all about bringing people together. But who’s to say that you can’t have the same results, or better, by adopting the technology that is shaping our every day lives? Join us in this quest and book your first consultation with us – a world-class virtual event production company that wants to take the way you see events to a whole new level!
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Who is Endless Events?
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Our clients are conventions, festivals, and marketing activations that are pushing the limits, doing what hasn’t been done before, and taking risks in the spirit of progress and positive change.
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I Knew That Day, I Would Never Forget That Lady………
By, Shreya S. – Age 13
It was snowing heavily on the cold winter night. The wind brought coolness everywhere. And there I stood, a helpless puppy struggling to survive in the cold. I was unable to find shelter that would save me from the cold. The shops were closed, and no trace of anyone anywhere. ‘How unfortunate was my fate to be alone on this dreadful night!’
I had been out all night battling the gusts of winds. There was no hope of facing it now. My fur froze, my paws got caught in the ever-falling snow, and my eyes turned red in the wind. Soon I began to lose hope and lay down helplessly. My heartbeat was getting heavy. It seemed that I would die in this harsh winter. I remembered all experiences of my life; I spent as a cute puppy. Tears rolled down my eyes. I missed my mother a lot. It was she who loved me more than anyone in this world. She taught me the life of a good puppy. But before I could start the life about which my mother told, it was already over.
Before my eyes closed, I saw a young lady running towards me. I still shivered in the snow. She picked me up and covered me in her warm, soft wool coat. She took me inside a warm shelter. I think it was her house. She covered me with more blankets and gave me a hot broth. It felt as if my soul had returned to me again. She was very caring and loving. She was with me for the whole night.
I could not believe my eyes that I was alive.
The next day my fever was down though I was still sneezing. I was feeling better than before but still clueless about that. Lady put a dog collar around my neck and took me to a big park. In the park, were many puppies like me. They all soon became my friends. I was so happy!
I knew that day, I would never forget that lady in my entire life.
What a great way to end, Be Kind to Animals Week! Thank you, Shreya, for this sweet stoey. Keep up the GREAT work!
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What a lovely story. You have a ‘way with words’ that pulls at the heart-strings. You really brought the reader into that little puppy’s world. Thank you for saving him at the end of your story and leaving us with a happy feeling! Keep writing. J. Hebert
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5 Key Reasons Why Websites Fail
In our last blog, we discussed how hiring a reputed web development service can help you get a website with a high conversion rate and ROI. We also discussed how some websites do not accrue the growth and traffic generation that is expected from it.
In continuation of our last blog, today I’ll be discussing why certain websites fail to get the targeted traffic and the right leads. Alongside this, I’ll also provide solutions that a web development company could offer to lessen problems that make the website redundant. If you have a website that is not bringing in business as you expected, I’ll suggest you read the blog till the end and find a solution for it.
Reasons : Why Websites Fail
If the Website is not SEO friendly
Search engine optimization is not just a technical word but a technique that every digital marketer needs to master. Google is the first place where your product or service gets enlisted. The search engine marketing statistics of 2020 released by Smart insights reflect that 80% of people search for goods and services online.
Unfortunately, when people think to boost SEO for websites all they do is insert relevant keywords periodically in the content. But, with the growing competition in the market, you must have a concrete SEO, SEM, and SMO plan ready.
SEO strategists can work on the Meta text and website URL to incorporate keywords either the short tail or long tail, as per the strategy to increase the website’s ranking in Google. A well-known web development agency that can offer you content management service can also offer you services of SEO strategy.
Not Accessible through all Devices
More and more people now a days connect the internet on their mobile. In 2016 the number of internet users over mobile surpassed the group who still connect through desktop. With the growing demand for apps and easy connectivity that the mobile provides, most businesses have been making themselves available on different devices.
Even if you do not wish to provide the product and services through a mobile app, yet websites must be optimized for different devices to offer a better resolution and dimension when browsed via laptop, tab, or mobile.
Hiring a web development company which offers full-stack developers and has experience of working with different framework and languages can easily solve this issue. You can also remodel your old website and optimize it for different devices, or you can offer mobile apps as a substitute for a website. It will allow customers to access your business on the go.
Did not integrate Social Media
If you are serious about your digital presence than social media is one place that you cannot ignore. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or Instagram social networking sites can bring you traffic that is filtered and highly targeted. Blogs can help you generate awareness and these days people are using platforms like Quora, Medium, and Reddit to share their content and pull traffic to their website.
Social media is also a great place to pull organic traffic other than paid traffic on Facebook, Youtube, or other platforms. They allow you to influence your audience with value-based information dispersal and engage customers to form a loyal bond with them.
A web developing agency having experience in e-commerce solutions and digital marketing can easily help you mitigate this problem. The social media icons can be integrated into all the digital communication that takes place with the client. Similarly, Email campaigns can carry blog links. These are a few simple tricks, but your digital marketing expert can carry out a well-researched digital marketing strategy which includes email campaigns, social media content calendar, event plan, ad strategies, and much more!
It is no more a secret that aesthetically appealing website can bring more traffic than those sites which lack structure. The website may look unstructured due to a lot of reasons. The use of inconsistent color and font scheme, broken links or pages, difficult navigation, absence of clear call to action and cluttered structure of data can be a few of the reasons.
These problems are also part and parcel of the web designing segment. The web designers who have enough experience of working with different themes, who have designed attractive websites in the past that portrays the goal of the business with extreme clarity should be hired for rectifying the errors that may be present in the website.
It is always suggested that while hiring an IT service or web design service, their customer review and past project samples are thoroughly checked. Also, an agency having experienced web designers and graphic designers who have a good grasp of photo editing tools along with different frameworks and languages are highly recommended for getting the best web designing services.
The Loading Time of the Website
An ideal website loading time ranges from 2 seconds to 5 seconds. As per the Dotcom-Monitor, a cloud-based internet monitoring platform, 45% of people expect the desktop sites to load within 2 seconds. Anything longer than this may take the visitors away from your page. The long loading duration of the websites is seen as one of the major causes of their failure. Websites face this issue when they either carry non-compressed files, or they are hosted on a slow server or are not optimized for different devices. Videos and Images should also be optimized for the website before being updated on the site.
There are numerous online platforms where you can run a web speed test. However, most web development companies wrap up the project only after performing the speed test of the website. Website developing agencies host it on a server that can load a website with lightning speed.
While onboarding the owner of the website it is the responsibility of the agency to offer enough guidelines to the user regarding the admin panel and how the data needs to be compressed before uploading it in the database. An experienced web development agency will consider issues such as browser cache configuration and others, before handing over the site to the owner.
If you think your website is experiencing any of the above-given issues, you can log into www.cyfordtechnologies.com and get a quick fix to your problems from our experienced team of web developers and web designers at a very affordable rate.
I hope this article was useful. If you wish to read more on how to make your website engaging, web development, or how you can get a website with a high conversion rate keep following our blog!
Published on: May 03, 2021
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Industry body Homes for Scotland has questioned the focus of official planning performance statistics, the latest of which report an average of 37 weeks being taken to decide major housing applications in the first half of 2018/19.
Issuing a plea for a more meaningful and inclusive approach to measuring the effectiveness of the country’s planning system, Homes for Scotland Director of Planning Tammy Swift-Adams said:
“Legislation sets a target of 16 weeks for decisions to be made on planning applications for major housing developments - proposals which have the potential to ease the housing crisis. These statistics show, but the publication doesn’t openly acknowledge, that the average time taken to make those decisions is more than double what it should be.
“Taking 37 weeks rather than 40.3 weeks to make a decision that should take 16 weeks is not a meaningful improvement in, or measure of, planning performance.
“The Planning Bill was an opportunity to establish a more enlightened way of looking at performance. However, the existing ‘penalty clause’, which Scottish Ministers could use (but as yet have not) to encourage better performance, has been removed from legislation at the request of authority representatives. It hasn’t been replaced with anything new.
“The softer alternative set out in the first version of the Planning Bill, a government-appointed planning co-ordinator, could have provided a more useful and more collaborative way of working with planning authorities and their customers (both paying applicants and constituent communities). That has been removed from the Bill too, also at the request of authority representatives.
“It is no wonder, then, that Scottish home builders feel there is little prospect – with or without the Planning Bill – of achieving more support for home building from across Scotland’s planning authorities.
“We need to develop a system of measurement that encourages the delivery of new housing sites on the ground, not just on paper. Planning authorities hold the key to whether the opportunities offered by Homes for Scotland members can get out of the starting blocks.”
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Cavalry Court Hotel
2023 Heart of Texas Rally
Latest edition of the Heart of Texas Rally saga which continues to enthrall long-distance motorcycle enthusiasts throughout the world. Well, at least the English speaking version of the world. The winner of the 4-day version will receive a no-draw entry into the 2023 Iron Butt Rally.
Registration is closedSee other events
Time & Location
Apr 24, 12:00 PM CDT – Apr 29, 10:00 PM CDT
Cavalry Court Hotel, 200 Century Ct, College Station, TX 77840, USA
About the Event
Registration will be on Ridemaster sometime in September 2022.
Please note that although the rally starts on April 25, April 24th will be the odometer check and registration completion.
There will also be a shorter version, April 27 - 29.
Winner of the 4-day version will receive a no-draw entry into the 2023 Iron Butt Rally.
Registration / Odometer CheckCavalry Court Hotel
Rally Scoring App TutorialCavalry Court, banquet room
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is interested to explore the opportunities for rice fortification in Cambodia. WFP aims to build on successful use of imported fortified rice in the school meals programme implemented with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and on various research studies undertaken in recent years. To inform future opportunities for rice fortification and engagement with the rice sector more broadly, WFP wants to engage with stakeholders to:
1. Take stock of current national micronutrient challenges and solutions;
2. Undertake a landscape analysis of the Cambodian rice sector covering all relevant aspects from production to consumption.
In support of this exercise, WFP is seeking the services of technical consultants in these fields.
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|2||64761||Consultant (Rice Landscape Analysis)||October to December 2017, approx. 30 working days|
Terms and Conditions:
Type of Contract: WFP Special Service Contract
Duty Station: WFP Country Office, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Interested National and International experts are invited to create an account in WFP Career Website https://goo.gl/f2L37Q before submitting the application.
Please visit http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings by filtering “Cambodia” for detailed outlines of the respective Scopes of Work/Terms of Reference and for online application.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Women are encouraged to apply.
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Got ink and looking to bulk up? Drastically changing your weight could potentially have an impact on the look of your tattoos. Will they stretch? Will they look distorted and unrecognizable? We wanted to look into it to find out for sure whether or not adding muscle and getting bigger can change your ink.
The short answer is that it definitely could, but there’s more to it than a simple yes or no answer can provide. There’s a lot conflicting info out there about this subject, so we went straight to the source and asked some tattoo artists.
Generally, gaining smaller amounts of muscle or weight won’t change your tattoos at all. Anywhere under 20lbs of muscle change shouldn’t show a difference, because your skin will adjust with the muscle gain. This is especially true if you put the weight or muscle on slowly, and not all at once.
Fast, substantial muscle gain, on the other hand, will likely cause visual changes in your body art. You could get stretch marks that go through your tattoos, stretch our your tattoos and distort the image. Jordan, 28, a fitness enthusiast from St. Catherines, ON, says, “unless someone jacks up a ton all at once, there’s no way any tattoo would stretch and get distorted….and that would be the least of their problems at that point”.
The best way to bulk up and guarantee that you won’t see changes in your ink is to do it slowly. Give your skin time to change its elasticity and grow with your muscles if you want to guarantee your tattoo won’t stretch or change at all.
Bulking Up Your Arms
Your arms are the most susceptible to muscle change, and they’re one of the main parts of your body that you’re likely going to focus on building up. If you have ink on your arms, here’s the low-down on how adding muscle could change those tattoos.
Whether or not a tattoo is going to be affected on a sleeve fully depends on what part of your arm that sleeve is on. Your upper and forearms are built differently, and they show muscle definition differently as well. But does that change how your tattoo looks? Let’s break it down.
This is one area where you might see some change to your tattoo, and that would be in the form of stretch marks. When skin expands quicker than it can grow, you get stretch marks. That’s not a risk for all parts of your body, and it’s not a risk for everyone; some people are more susceptible to them than others.
In your arms, stretch marks tend to radiate out from the armpit, so the closer your upper arm sleeve is the your underarms, the more susceptible it will be these marks. However, your tattoo could end up hiding those marks, which would be a win.
If you’re worried about your arms changing because you are planning on adding a significant increase in the circumference of your biceps, then the forearms are the way to go. There’s less muscle, and it’s a smaller area, so the odds of your tattoo getting stretched or changed are slim to none.
Bulking Up Your Legs
Legs are another spot where you might encounter minimal changes to the appearance of your ink, and again, that would more than likely be from stretch marks. Jordan explains that when you’re bulking up in the lower body area “you get stretch marks on your upper legs more than anywhere else”.
It’s tough for most guys to gain a lot of muscle on their legs to begin with, so adding enough muscle to stretch your skin fast enough that it can’t keep up isn’t likely to happen.
Bulking Up Your Back
Your back is practically all muscle, so you would think that there would be big changes to ink work that’s back there, but you’d be wrong! The back doesn’t tend to get a bulky as other parts of your body (like the arms), and you can’t really add too much girth to it. You’ll add some muscle, but mostly you’ll be toning the area, so your muscle gain will have zero effect on your back ink.
Bulking Up Your Chest
You aren’t likely to see any changes at all if you get a chest tattoo while you’re gaining muscle. Canadian tattoo artist Dylan Duke says that he “wouldn’t worry about it unless you plan on packing on over 20lbs of muscle”. If you aren’t entering into any bodybuilding competitions in the future, this probably isn’t your end goal anyway.
Remember, your skin changes over time regardless of whether or not you have any tattoos, and it’s equipped to handle muscle growth naturally. At the end of the day, unless you’re packing on a significant amounts of muscle in a not-so-healthy way very rapidly, your tattoos shouldn’t see any change whatsoever.
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Hello all, I bought an TV yesterday and brought it home. Created a network with my iMac by going to sharing in system prefs and starting internet sharing. Everything synced to the TV just fine. I go to watch a movie I've purchased on the iTunes store, and the "Authorizing" screen shows itself. Uh oh, I think cause I've never been able to share an internet connection from my iMac to any other computer. I'm using Verizon's usb internet connector. And sure enough, no go for watching the movie since it can't authorize. Is it possible to "Authorize" any of my iTunes Store content if the TV doesn't have an internet connection? Thanks in advance!
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I am so, so sorry for your losses. There are no words really.
I hope the people responsible for these disgusting crimes ultimately fail in their attempts to hurt and weaken you. Even in the face of such terror, I wish you the strength to refuse to be terrorized and to refuse to let them win.
But mostly just I hope all those who have lost loved ones can find peace and comfort, somehow.
My thoughts are with you.
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Michy Batshuayi has already proven his credentials as a top-level striker, earning a move to Chelsea, so now he has tried his hand at another sport: surfing.
There’s just one problem, he’s not very good!
The Belgium international is currently enjoying some down time after his exertions at Euro 2016, where Belgium were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Wales.
He still has a few days left of holiday and spent it trying to learn how to surf, though he did not enjoy much success. Not sooner had he stepped on the board before he was rolling around in the water.
Chelsea fans will be hoping he takes to life in the Premier League a little more naturally!
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Calling all open government, journalism and data geeks. Please join Sunlight and friends in a bicoastal hackathon on the campuses of Stanford University and Columbia University on Feb 2-3, 2013. Registration is now open.
Together, we will tackle how to create apps and sites that show what 2012’s political spending spree will mean for policy in 2013 and beyond.
Do you write code or work with data? Do you want to learn how or enhance your skills? Join us to mine data for stories and visualizations that will help understand how money affects the issues that Congress and state legislatures will be taking up this year. Showcase your skills and knowledge and compete to win prizes.
When you register, be sure to start brainstorming ideas you'd like to cover and vote up your favorite suggestions. We’ve suggested some potential hot topics for project ideas and collaboration to get you started, but encourage you to add your ideas. At the Datafest, we'll provide data, APIs, resources and expert help. You don't need to be a coder to join in the fun - I can personally attest that it's just as helpful to have people who can research, write, design and help make apps user-friendly.
This event is sponsored by the bicoastal Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and by the Columbia Journalism School and the Stanford University Graduate Program in Journalism in partnership with the Sunlight Foundation and Teresa Bouza, deputy Washington bureau chief of the global news agency EFE. Google, along with MapLight, the Center for Investigative Reporting and Code the Change are also supporting the event.
Don't worry if you c an’t get to New York City or Palo Alto. We'll use Sunlight Live to create a video bridge that will allow anyone to join virtually from a computer screen anywhere. You can interact with participants in both sites via live chat while watching a stream of the event. Hope to see you there!
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Skip to comments."Bear Fruits in Keeping with Repentance" (Sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent, on Luke 3:1-20)
Posted on 12/08/2012 5:29:35 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
Bear Fruits in Keeping with Repentance (Luke 3:1-20)
Advent is a penitential season, and every year on this Second Sunday in Advent, John the Baptist shows up, leading the call to repentance. John came to prepare the way of the Lord, and he did so by calling the people to repent, that that is fitting as they get ready to welcome the coming King. And that is precisely what we are doing now during this time of preparation, the penitential season of Advent. As we anticipate the arrival of the Christ, John would have us Bear Fruits in Keeping with Repentance.
So the word of God came to John, much like the word of the Lord came to the prophets of old. And therefore John came, as it says, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Note both parts of that proclamation, both the repentance and the forgiveness of sins. They are two sides of the same coin, really. Repentance means a recognition of, and a sorrow over, your sinfulness and your sins. But God would not have you be stuck there, dead and dismal and despairing. The other side of the coin is that then, realizing your lack and your lostness before God--that then you would eagerly desire and receive the free forgiveness God so graciously offers you.
You see, repentance is really a gift from God. Without repentance, you would feel no need for Gods forgiveness in Christ. If you dont think you are a sinner, then why would you need a Savior? And so you would be lost forever, and not even know it. That is the case with so many in our society today. Thats why theyre not in church. They dont think they need a Savior from sin. But you do, dont you? You know you would be lost without Christ. You know your constant need for his forgiveness. And so God is always calling you to repentance, so that you would always be running to Christ your Savior as your refuge. Thus John the Baptist comes, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for, or into or unto, the forgiveness of sins.
Now you, dear Christian, you have been baptized into a life of both repentance and the forgiveness of sins. Your baptism into Christ is a dying and rising with him. You were buried with Christ by baptism into death and raised with him into newness of life. Every day the old Adam in us is to be put back under the water and drown and die. Every day, through our baptism into Christ, the new man arises and we live in Gods forgiveness and walk in the new life of righteousness. So the life of a Christian is one of continual, ongoing repentance and forgiveness, a daily dying and rising with Christ. This is how we live as we await the coming again of our King. In that respect, it is like what John was calling the people to, in the baptism that he was doing back then.
Repentance and forgiveness are two sides of the same coin. Well come back to the forgiveness side in a little bit, but first lets spend a few minutes on this matter of repentance. Thats what John does. Repentance: What is it? What does it look like? What will repentance do and look like in my life?
To begin with, we can speak of repentance in the general. By that I mean the general awareness of our sinful condition. The Holy Spirit works in our conscience to lead us to realize that something is not right between us and God. We know something is not right. We have this sense of guilt before God, our conscience accusing us, telling us that we have not lived as God would have us live. We see the whole wrongness in how people all around us have lived, and we know we are a part of it. Oh, we may do better than the really bad people in this or that, but we know, deep down, that while we can put a mask on our sinful heart, we cannot escape it. And we see people dying, and we know that we will die, too. After that, then what? We fear the judgment to come. How will we possibly be able to stand before God and pass his scrutiny? So this is the general aspect of repentance. We mourn our sinful condition. We admit that we are sinners, lost apart from Gods mercy. We confess that we are indeed poor, miserable sinners.
But poor miserable sinners do poor miserable sins. Sin doesnt stay in the general. It takes shape in the specific, in actual, real sins against God and against people. Sin takes shape in the specific, in the thoughts, words, and deeds that we do wrong. And in all the times that we fail to do the right. Whenever we fall short of loving God with all our being. Whenever we fail to love our neighbor as much as we love ourselves. These are the poor, miserable sins that we poor, miserable sinners do, and we need to come to grips with them and confess them, and turn to God for his forgiveness in Christ and for the help we need to do better as Gods children. Repentance moves from the general to the specific, or it can move from the specific to the general, but it always includes both. Real sinners do real sins, and we need real forgiveness and real help to make real changes in our life.
This is what John preaches, a repentance that does not stay in the abstract, but moves us to make actual changes in how we live. He says to those coming to be baptized: You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. In other words, if you think that just belonging to the church, without true repentance and faith--if you think that will fool God on the day of judgment, you are sadly mistaken. A phony repentance, a mere lip-service repentance--that wont cut it, and you will be cut down. Instead, John says, bear fruits in keeping with repentance.
But that raises the question: Tell us, John, what are those fruits that are in keeping with repentance? And the crowds asked him, What then shall we do? And he answered them, Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise. Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, Teacher, what shall we do? And he said to them, Collect no more than you are authorized to do. Soldiers also asked him, And we, what shall we do? And he said to them, Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.
As we said earlier, repentance takes shape in the specific. John gives specific answers to their question, What shall we do? And his answers involve both what we should not do, as well as what we should do.
The answers will also be tailored to our specific vocation in life. Take the example of the tax collectors and the soldiers. Both of those are positions with some power. And John basically tells them: Do not use your position, do not abuse your power, in order to serve your own selfish interest. Tax collectors, dont line your pockets by charging too much. Soldiers, dont use your power to get things for yourselves.
So what does this mean for you? Well, what is your vocation or your vocations in life? In your work? In your role in the home, or the community? Whatever it is, do your work honestly, and dont take advantage of your position to serve yourself. The specifics of that will vary from person to person. So ask yourself: How will this take shape in my life?
But repentance is not just avoiding the negative. It is also doing the positive, acting in love toward the neighbor. Thats what John is saying with his Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise. How can you share with those in need? What are the needs that your neighbor has? It may not be a tunic. But it could be a visit, if the person is homebound. It could be a meal, if the person has been sick or is swamped all kinds of burdens. What you share could be friendship, if the person is lonely. What can you share with others? How can we, as Gods children, share the love and the mercy, the kindness and the compassion, that our heavenly Father has shown to us?
Repentance is not just general; it takes shape in the specific. Repentance is not just sadness over our sin; it is making changes in how we live, seeking to do better, to better reflect our character and our standing as Gods beloved children. Repentance is not doing these things on our own, though. We always need Gods help and Gods Spirit to do real repentance. Pray for this gift and this help. God will give you what you need.
And finally, and most importantly, along with repentance, remember that other side of the coin, the for the forgiveness of sins part. Your repentance will always be partial and imperfect. But Gods forgiveness is always whole and complete. It is forgiveness that comes in the Advent King, Jesus Christ. He is the one mightier than John, who does the job neither you nor I nor John could ever do. Christ wins our forgiveness for us. That is why he came. He came in the flesh at Christmas so that he could die on the cross for us on Good Friday. There is where you will find your forgiveness, in the crucified Christ. He puts the forgiveness into your baptism. He preaches forgiveness into your ears. He puts forgiveness in your mouth, in his blessed Supper.
For the forgiveness of sins. That is why Christ came. And that is why he will come again. To bring us the result, the outcome, of the forgiveness he won for us. For where there is forgiveness of sins, there is also life and salvation. Eternal life, eternal salvation. Christ is coming again, and he will deliver us from the judgment and bring us into the everlasting life he has for us.
Its Advent, and once again John the Baptist is calling us to repentance. Lets take that call seriously and specifically. And at the same time, let us also hear John preaching the good news, proclaiming the forgiveness of sins that comes in the person of the Christ.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,
The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.
Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall become straight,
and the rough places shall become level ways,
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
And the crowds asked him, What then shall we do? And he answered them, Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise. Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, Teacher, what shall we do? And he said to them, Collect no more than you are authorized to do. Soldiers also asked him, And we, what shall we do? And he said to them, Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.
As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ, John answered them all, saying, I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people. But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brothers wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, added this to them all, that he locked up John in prison.
Thats what John is saying with his Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.
Another Bible passage liberals like to misinterpret. Their idea is to take something from us and give it to someone else, but never give their money, time and talents.
We were studying “repentance” in Bible class a while ago when it occurred to me that repentance is Law and Gospel in action. That is, Shows Our Sin and Shows Our Savior all in one concept.
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Work Shown Here and Abroad
the Sand Springs Leader, April 14, 1985
BEVERLY MOORE, LEADER staff writer
F. Miller of Sand Springs is realizing an artist’s dream this week
because five of his works are featured in an exhibition of contemporary
American and French artists in Paris.
local residents won't have to go to Paris to see one of Miller's
paintings. All they will
have to do soon is pick up their phone books.
Directory Co. will distribute about 17,000 telephone books to Sand
Springs, Mannford, Prue and Keystone in the last week of April with a
Cover that features Miller’s painting of a North American bald eagle
flying over the Lake Keystone shoreline.
46,000 phone books have been distributed this month with Miller's eagle
on the cover. The first
book released with the cover was in Garvin County which includes Paul's
Valley. The second was
delivered last week in the "Mustang-Yukon areas near Oklahoma City.
The bald-eagle painting was commissioned by the National Audubon
Society’s Tulsa Chapter, and the sale of prints from the original
helped raise more than $100,000 for the purchase of nesting land for
eagles on Lake Keystone.
man I worked with at Public Service Co. of Oklahoma had seen the
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers that I had done and mentioned the Audubon
Society was trying to purchase the eagle roost.
The roost was on a piece of land that was going to be developed. So, I went up there with members of the Audubon Society and
came up with the idea."
of Miller's eagle prints ended up in a St. Louis art gallery and caught
the attention of Anheuser-Busch Inc,
The firm subsequently bought 100 prints and included one of them
in its prestigious Clydesdale Collection.
people think of Clydesdales when they think of Anheuser Busch, but they
also use the eagle and had been looking for a particular type of eagle
for some time," Miller said. "I
was honored when they chose mine."
eagle was displayed at the Main Frame Shoppe of Sand Springs when it
caught the attention of Charles Dickerson, Southwestern Directory Co.
said frame shop owner Pat LeMaster suggested using the eagle print for a
phone book cover.
eagle, which has brought attention to Miller's works, is not included in
the Paris exhibition, which will last through April 25 and include two
other paintings and three portraits by Miller.
portraits are three different views of one person in a western hat.
Cindy Grinder of Sand Springs was the model.
I enjoy doing portraits because I like working with people,"
Miller said. "Pencil
portraits of people are my favorite.
I've probably done 200 portraits or more."
of the paintings exhibited in Paris is of the sunrise coming through
trees with an eagle in the foreground which has just swept across a pond
to pick up a fish. The
other is of two Indian women, one with a baby, sitting and talking.
have priced all of them so it, is possible they will be sold in the
show," Miller said. "I
would love to do prints of the two paintings because I believe they are
October 1983, Miller's oil painting "God Shed His Grace on
Thee" was featured in "South western Art" magazine's
annual collectors edition. He
has marketed prints of that painting as well as the eagle, he said.
Tulsa native, Miller said he has been an artist most of his life, and
began working as a professional artist in 1950 when he entered the U.S.
Air Force. During his 2 1/2
years of active duty and five years in the reserves, Miller worked as an
illustrator. Many of his
artworks were included in "Air Force Times” and one of his
etchings of a Model-T Ford is displayed in the Library of Congress in
began his art studies at Oklahoma State University after graduating from
Webster High School in Tulsa. He
left school to enter the service and then returned to complete his
bachelor's degree in art with a minor in advertising in 1953.
worked as a television artist and in advertising before joining Public
Service Co. of Oklahoma where he was employed for 25 years. He retired from PSO in August.
PSO, Miller did architectural drawings of power plants, substations and
office interiors as well as worked in the company's publications and
is now devoting full-time to his art and is presently working on a
series of three western paintings, he said.
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Segal McCambridge Attorneys, John Kohnke and Chad Layton, Have Been Invited to Become Featured Speakers at the Golden Rule Risk Control Workshop
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On Nov. 11, Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS ) issued a press released stating that it would be "making a major announcement at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 12." So what was the major announcement, and should investors take note?
Digging into the details
Well, the announcement concerned MakerBot's goal to get a 3-D printer in every school in America. There were just under 99,000 public schools in America in 2010, so this goal is quite ambitious indeed. To put it in perspective, Stratasys and MakerBot combined have cumulatively shipped 64,855 printers as of the last quarter. The company has partnered with Donors Choose, America Makes, and AutoDesk to tackle this ambitious project.
To get a printer into a school, the school would go to the Donors Choose website and create a project for the MakerBot Academy package, which includes a Replicator 2 printer, three spools of PLA filament, and the MakeCare service plan. This retails for $2,702 if you were to purchase it online, and Academy Bundles on Donors Choose are currently priced between $2,874 and $3,127. It appears the company is selling these kits at full price initially and offering continuing-education courses for free. As of this writing, there are seven Academy packages on Donors Choose with zero bids, but the program has only just begun.
Does it have a chance?
While the program appears to be a valiant effort to help better educate America's children, the full retail price could be cause for concern. This is my personal opinion, but it seems odd the company isn't applying a discount to help get these printers in schools. True, the school does get free education services for teaching students how to use the printer and software, so there is a bonus normal buyers wouldn't get. Time will tell, but I think the program would be much more effective if MakerBot sold these at an education discount.
How you can keep tabs on the program
In the meantime, investors can go to the Donors Choose website to see how the packages are selling. If the company can pull off the goal in even a small portion of public schools, it would certainly bolster growth tremendously for the MakerBot brand. In the following video, Motley Fool analyst Blake Bos discusses the new program and another news event Stratasys shareholders may want to pay even more attention to.
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
LESSON OF THE DAY 764
Had We wished We would have sent a warner to every community. So don't follow the disbelievers, but wage a mighty struggle against them. [25: 51,52]
Hadith of the Day:
There is no doubt that the wise holders of knowledge are the inheritors of the prophets, for the prophets did not leave gold and silver as their legacy, but left knowledge. Whoever received from this inheritance is certainly the richest. [Tirmidhi]
Wise Quote of the Day:
Whoever honors you honors only the beauty of His veil in you. Therefore, praise is to Him Who veiled you, not the one who honored and thanked you. [Ibn Ataillah]
Guidance of the Day:
We can learn to retrain our minds to count our blessings rather than our misfortunes. By surrendering to love, by surrender to God, we can go through each day acknowledging one another with love and gratitude. How quickly our world changes as we learn to return all the love that is continuously given to us by our Source. What greater gratitude can we give to our Creator than choosing to love one another unconditionally by seeing the face of God in everyone.
Everything we do in life can be a gift to God. With every "hello," with every touch, with everything we do, it can be done with all of our love as a gift to God. It is not what we do but how we do it that matters. As more and more of us begin to experience love and forgiveness as our only functions, we will begin to see that unconditional love is the answer to all our problems and all our questions. [Out of Darkness into the Light]
Food for Thought:
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Modesty is the conscience of the body. It may make a fool seem a man of sense. It is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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I cannot believe that I started to witter online a year ago but boy have I enjoyed it!
So, as it stands at the moment, I have had 20,603 hits, for 83 posts and just over 600 comments. I have had visitors from all over the world, including a group of ladies in Brazil, some cross stitchers in Israel and looking at today's stats, Brits, Irish, Aussies, Kiwis, Serbs, Canadians, Americans, Indonesians and Greeks. It just amazes me how people find the blog.
During this time I have learnt to write regularly, post up pictures and to improve my tutorial writing... well, I should have got better as we have 18 tutorials on line and counting. I have even set myself a challenge of writing a tutorial every week until Christmas and I promised to do this stone cold sober!
And what will Year 2 bring? Well, I am going to begin regular book reviews, more tutorials - let me know if there is something you would like me to tackle - and better pictures *note to self, practice more and find a use for the jar of marbles*
Finally thank you to all of you who take the time to read the blog and leave comments. I still get such a frisson of excitement when I look at the daily stats and see how many have looked, where they have come from and what they think of the blog - thank you all very much and don't be a stranger xxx
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I am an admirer of Thomas Sowell, but here, I think he just doesn’t get it. Read it all and then return here for the criticisms.
Sowell begins his piece by, essentially, arguing that Ted Cruz sure does talk purdy, but so did Barack Obama, and where did that get us? Sowell then quickly arrives at the crux of his argument:
Senator Ted Cruz has not yet reached the point where he can make policy, rather than just make political trouble. But there are already disquieting signs that he is looking out for Ted Cruz — even if that sets back the causes he claims to be serving.
Those causes are not being served when Senator Cruz undermines the election chances of the only political party that has any chance of undoing the disasters that Barack Obama has already inflicted on the nation — and forestalling new disasters that are visible on the horizon.
Sowell goes on to emphasize the stakes. ObamaCare has fundamentally restructured the relationship of the government and the individual. Hear, hear. I have said that in this space often. The new FCC plan to monitor how media makes news is another federal intrusion on freedom. Hear, hear. I noted this here days ago.
The basic, brutal reality is that the federal government can do whatever it wants to do, if nobody stops them. The Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision shows that we cannot depend on them to protect our freedom. Nor will Congress, as long as the Democrats control the Senate.
Until recently, I might have agreed. After all, who is going to stop Obama, if not Republicans? But here is the problem, Mr. Sowell: Republicans have not done a damned thing to stop this. None of them voted for it, true. But that was not good enough. It was still passed. And now, what are we doing to stop it? Are we dreaming that we will retake the Senate and the Presidency and keep the House — and then, if we do, that it will mean something?
Tell me, Mr. Sowell: when Republicans last controlled Congress and the Presidency, precisely what did they accomplish to rein in the size and oppressive ubiquitous power of the federal government? During those golden years from 2003 to 2006, what government excesses were ended? Did we reform Social Security or Medicare? I don’t seem to recall that we did.
Here’s what I do remember: we passed a new prescription drug benefit. We passed some tax cuts but did not rein in spending; instead, we ran deficits of half a trillion dollars per year or more.
So yes, Mr. Sowell: the Republican Party is the only party that could put a stop to what Obama is doing — but the fact that they could does not mean that they will.
It does not matter too much who gets elected if they’re not going to do anything when they get there.
So what is Cruz doing to hurt Republicans’ prospects? Remarkably enough, Sowell doesn’t tell us. But you don’t have to guess, because (if you didn’t already know) I will tell you. For one thing, he is holding Republicans accountable for their decision to continue the temporary abolishment of the debt ceiling:
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz sat with eyes glued to his mobile device as the chaos he provoked ensnared his Republican leaders on the Senate floor.
Legislation to raise the nation’s borrowing authority with no strings attached was short of the 60 votes it needed to advance — a threshold Cruz demanded — and without a few conversions, Republicans would be blamed for its failure. The stock market was watching. [Actually, borrowing authority was unlimited before the vote and is still unlimited; the real issue was whether to re-impose the debt ceiling, which was suspended last year and was re-suspended earlier this month. I got this wrong several days ago and had to correct my post; this is probably worth a post of its own. There is no debt ceiling in effect right now; it is suspended and the country can spend anything it wants. — P]
After what seemed like an eternity, a grim-faced Sen. Mitch McConnell, the party leader who faces a tea party challenge back home, finally voted yes. An equally grim-faced Sen. John Cornyn, the party’s No. 2 leader and Cruz’s Texas colleague, changed his vote from no to yes.
Cruz showed no mercy in exposing Republican leaders to widespread criticism from their primary challengers over a procedural vote on the debt limit after their pronouncements about the imperative of spending cuts. It could have been a simple 50-vote requirement, with Democrats delivering the votes to lift the debt limit, but Cruz insisted.
Pressed after the vote about what he made his leaders do, Cruz was unapologetic.
“It should have been a very easy vote,” he told reporters. “In my view, every Senate Republican should have stood together.” He added that the verdict on McConnell “is ultimately a decision … for the voters in Kentucky.”
That is called holding Republicans accountable. You want to give Barack Obama free rein to spend anything he likes? Put your name down on that blank check so we can all see it.
The rest of Sowell’s piece goes from unconvincing to just plain bizarre:
The most charitable interpretation of Ted Cruz and his supporters is that they are willing to see the Republican Party weakened in the short run, in hopes that they will be able to take it over in the long run, and set it on a different path as a more purified conservative party.
Like many political ideas, this one is not new. It represents a political strategy that was tried long ago — and failed long ago.
In the German elections of 1932, the Nazi party received 37 percent of the vote. They became part of a democratically elected coalition government, in which Hitler became chancellor. Only step by step did the Nazis dismantle democratic freedoms and turn the country into a complete dictatorship.
The political majority could have united to stop Hitler from becoming a dictator. But they did not unite. They fought each other over their differences. Some figured that they would take over after the Nazis were discredited and defeated.
Many who plotted this clever strategy died in Nazi concentration camps. Unfortunately, so did millions of others.
What such clever strategies overlook is that there can be a point of no return. We may be close to that point of no return, not only with Obamacare, but also with the larger erosion of personal freedom, of which Obamacare is just the most visible part.
Yes, we are at that point. We are at a desperate point. And the silly Nazi analogy only serves to reinforce that Cruz is doing the right thing. Sowell portrays Cruz as the one who wants to wait, but Sowell is the one who wants to wait: he wants to wait until we “control” the Senate with 50+ Republicans, plenty Republicans in name only, who won’t dare pass anything that means a damn.
Cruz says, by contrast, we have power NOW. We have the House NOW. Let’s use that power. If Sowell wants to go full Godwin on us, then Sowell waiting for the Senate to go GOP is Stauffenberg waiting to assassinate Hitler until he gets Himmler in the room too. Cruz says: we have the bomb NOW, and if we’re not going to set it off when we have it, then we may end up having to wait until we’re in a room with some damned fool who kicks it with his leg. Why wait? If the situation is desperate then we fight NOW, and those who refuse to fight must be named and shamed.
I’m sorry, Mr. Sowell, but as much as I like you, this piece is rambling, odd, and totally unconvincing.
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Aloha and welcome to Saturday!
It’s pretty magnificent really… the changes that occur when you are well and truly happy. I have recently started to work in a land of awesomeness and LOVE my job, I love the people I work with, the building is beautiful (Hello PALM TREES and Tim Hortons!!!!), I love what I do, and I actually look forward to going to work. I know have a long weekend EVERY WEEK, which has given me some much needed alone time to recoup and regroup. Every week I feel myself getting stronger and happier. I hadn’t even realized the truth depth of how crappy I’d been feeling the last few years, until life changed.
I willingly work 6:30 – 4:30… and wish I could work longer some days…. I speak french… FRENCH… almost constantly at work (and I do believe I am getting better and better each day), the people who surround me are like minded and friendly (Geeky shout out to A and L who are Girly Geeks of Wonder! (I do believe more geeky than me *Especially because my horrible memory makes it near impossible to remember names and plot points * LOL which is AWESOME because I’m learning so much!).. I do love the random geek outs when breaks are needed.
To make a good situation even better, I have to walk 10 mins from where I get out of my car, to the front door… that doesn’t even include the foot ball field lengths I walk back and forth all day. I’ve walked more in the passed 3 weeks since I started, then in the last 3 years combined (hmmm maybe not.. but CLOSE), and I’m happy to announce I’ve already lost 4 lbs!
Now I know the title states I have 161 to go.. but really I only put that as it made the title catchier. Ideally I want to lose 165 lbs… Yes it’s a huge number, and no I’m not focusing on that number… but it is my ultimate goal. Right now my goal is to lose 5…. and I’m mother bleeping almost there!
The more I walk, the easier it’s getting… right now my walking goal is to be able to walk from my car, to the front door without feeling like I’m about to die. So far so good.. my first week was hell, the second week was torture.. the third week I could almost keep up with people… can’t wait to see how I fare next Tuesday!
I even purposely force myself to be social on lunches, rather than stay cooped up as was my old habit. I eat lunches under the palm trees, or go outside to the pic-nick tables, which is a nice walk in and of itself.
Yes I’m a hot mess most of the day…. but I swear to you one day I’ll stop being a sweaty mass of yuck and be one of those rockin girls who has curves in all the right places and a cute little sway to her hips… rather than the cute little waddle I’ve currently got going on LOL.
Anyway… life is good, I’ll be sad when this contract is over.. but my eyes are peeled and always looking for the next great thing. With any luck I’ll be able make my home here, somehow, someway… and if not, the credentials I’ll make while working here will help me in the future.
Thank you to all who pushed me to take this step. It was scary as hell… but I did it, and I’m so happy I did.
Love and chicken butts
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Keep Making KAL
Hello Everyone, Happy Friday! Today we announce the beginning of another J&S KAL – the Keep Making KAL! we thought since it will be a while before life is back to normal we would host another Knit-A-Long. Rather than a themed KAL as we have done before this time we would focus on using this time to make something you’ve always wanted to make or trying a new-to-you skill in your making. We want to encourage discussion and sharing progress – mainly on our ravelry group but also through any social media using the #keepmakingkal
We are all going through different experiences at the moment and we hope the project you choose to work on during the KAL will give you comfort, whether that is as a distraction at the end of the day or something you can focus on while you are home.
so the rules are as follows:
- All projects must use only Jamieson & Smith yarns/fibres.
- You can use any wool/fibre based skill – knitting, crochet, spinning, embroidery etc as long as the wool used is from J&S
- KAL will run from now (22nd May 2020 to 22nd September 2020)
- Focus on improving your skills, making something you’ve always wanted to make, using a yarn you’ve never used, designing something thats just been an idea or finishing a project that’s been waiting to be finished!
- Share progress on our Ravelry group and post your finished object in a designated finished object thread.
- A winner will be chosen at random by a random number generator, everyone who posts a finished object will receive a free J&S pattern of their choice from our Ravelry store.
- By taking part you are allowing us to share your images on our social media.
So have a think and head over to our Ravelry Group and get chatting about what you’d like to make, we are always amazed at the items made during our KAL’s and we cant wait to see what you come up with!
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Starting his own company at the age of 17, Scheppmann’s ingenuity and attention to detail has wielded a trustworthy industry leading company, combining the operational capability and strength of a large corporation with a small company’s commitment to quality service. APS treats all clients with the same level of professionalism and dedication no matter how large or small the request.
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Alexandra Devine1, Aleisha Carrol2, Sainimili Naivalu3, Senmilia Seru3, Sally Baker1, Belinda Bayak-Bush2, Kathryn James2, Lousie Larcombe1, Tarryn Brown2, Manjula Marella1
1 Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
2 CBM Australia, Australia
3 Fiji Disabled People’s Association, Fiji
In many settings, people with disabilities are marginalised from the socio-economic activities of their communities and are often excluded from development activities, including sport for development programmes. Sport is recognised as having unique attributes, which can contribute to the development process and play a role in promoting the health of individuals and populations. Yet there is little evidence, which demonstrates whether and how sport for development can be disability-inclusive. The aim of this qualitative research was to address this knowledge gap by documenting the enablers and barriers to disability inclusion within sport for development programmes in the Pacific, and to determine the perceived impact of these programmes on the lives of people with disability. Qualitative interviews and one FGD were conducted with implementers, participants with and without disability, and families that have a child with disability participating in sport. Participation in sport was reported to improve self-worth, health and well-being and social inclusion. Key barriers to inclusion included prejudice and discrimination, lack of accessible transport and sports infrastructure, and disability-specific needs such as lack of assistive devices. Inclusion of people with disabilities within sport for development was enabled by peer-to-peer encouragement, leadership of and meaningful engagement with people with disabilities in all aspects of sports programming.
An estimated 15 per cent of the world’s population have a disability. In many settings, people with disabilities are marginalised from the socio-economic activities of their communities. Many do not have equal access to health, education, employment or development processes when compared to people without disability, and are subsequently more likely to experience poverty. People with disabilities are also thought to be less likely to participate in sport, recreation and leisure activities than people without disability.1,2,3
Sport has been recognised by the United Nations as having unique attributes that can contribute to the community development process.4 Sport is universally popular, can play a role in healthy childhood development and contribute to reducing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which in turn can reduce the likelihood of preventable longer-term impairment and mortality.1,5 Whilst having numerous benefits for the physical and mental health of individuals, it can also be an effective platform for communication of health and human rights messaging as recognised by its inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals.4,6,7
Participation in sport is recognised as a fundamental right, but its impact on the lives of people with disabilities may be particularly relevant.6 People with disabilities taking part in sport report a sense of achievement, improved self-concept and self-esteem, better social skills, as well as increased mobility and independence.8 Whilst these benefits are similar to people without disabilities, the positive outcomes are thought to be more significant for people with disabilities given their experience of exclusion from other community activities, especially in resource-poor settings.6 Given people with disabilities are known to have an increased risk of developing NCDs,1 -in part due to a lack of access to physical activity – sport for development should be seen as an important opportunity to reduce this risk and promote optimum health.
The benefits of sport for development aim to go beyond individual level physical and mental health with programmes seeking to develop people and communities through sport.9 Promoting inclusive communities should be a part of this. Sport for development programmes which enable people with and without disability to come together in a positive social environment is thought to promote inclusion and empowerment by challenging negative beliefs about the capabilities of people with disabilities.10
NCDs are the leading cause of death and disability in the Pacific Region.11,12 In response, Pacific Island governments with the support of international cooperation have implemented a number of initiatives including sport for development programmes. The few studies examining the effectiveness of sport for development in the Pacific highlight the importance of locally driven programmes that address locally identified development challenges, culturally appropriate and gender sensitive activities,9,13,14 the use of high profile role models and champions,15 and collaboration between development partners, sports implementers and local communities.9
The sustainability and effectiveness of sport for development programmes in benefiting individuals and supporting community development processes was reported to be challenged when these factors were not appropriately considered, as well as insufficient financial and technical capacity to sustain programmes.9 Further, to be effective in the Pacific, sport for development programmes need to address context and cultural specific barriers to participation in sport such as gendered family and work responsibilities, environmental barriers, and lack of motivation and support.13,14 There was, however, limited analysis in these studies about the process and benefits of inclusion for people with disability.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) describes disability as an evolving concept, whereby disability results from the interaction between persons with long-term impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.
Barriers can be attitudinal, related to the built environment; or information, communication and technology; or institutional, such as policies that do not promote equal participation.16 Article 30 of the CRPD requires States Parties to take all feasible steps to ensure participation and equal access of people with disability to recreation, leisure and sport. Article 32 requires all international development programmes to be inclusive of and accessible to people with disability. Greater evidence of how sport for development can contribute to the attainment of the rights of people with disabilities to promote their inclusion within communities and development programmes is needed.3,16,17
In 2013, in recognition of the potential attributes of sport for development and in-line with the CRPD, the Australian Government’s Aid programme and the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) developed a joint ‘Development-through-sport’ Strategy to guide the implementation on the Australian Sports Outreach Programme (ASOP).18 The aim was to utilise sport to contribute to social and development outcomes, and was divided into two main programme components: 1) Country Programmes, and 2) Pacific Sports Partnerships (PSP). The Country Programmes worked with partner governments and/or Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) to deliver inclusive sports-based activities with the aim of contributing to locally identified development priorities. These development priorities included improved leadership; health-related behaviours; social cohesion; and inclusion and promotion of the rights of people with disability.
The PSP was a sport for development programme conducted through a partnership between the ASC, Australian Government, Australian National Sporting Organisations, and their Pacific counterparts. The aim was to deliver sport-based programmes that provided a platform to contribute to development outcomes. The objectives were to a) increase levels of regular participation of Pacific Islanders, including people with disability, in quality sport activities; b) improve health-related behaviours of Pacific Islanders which impact on non-communicable disease risk factors; and c) improve attitudes towards and increased inclusion of people with disabilities.
The ‘Development-through-sport’ Strategy included two strategic outcomes or goals. The first was ‘Improved health-related behaviours to reduce the risk of non-coumminicable disease.’ The second was ‘Improved quality of life for people with disabilities.’ A ‘theory-of-change’ framework was developed for each outcome, the second of which is most relevant to this paper. The ‘theory-of change’ framework for the second outcome includes two intermediate outcomes: 1) improving the way people with disabilities think and feel about themselves, and 2) reducing barriers to inclusion. These intermediate outcomes are then supported by a number of pathways to guide implementation, such as involving people with disabilities in the planning, design and implementation of sport activities (see Fig 1).18
Whilst all the sport for development activities conducted through ASOP were implemented with a core objective of creating opportunities for all people, there was a lack of evidence as to whether and how these programmes supported disability inclusion and contributed to improving the quality of life of people with disabilities. This research aimed to address this knowledge gap by documenting the enablers and barriers to implementing sport for development programmes, which are inclusive of people with disabilities, and to explore the perceived impact of these programmes on the lives of people with disabilities in the Pacific.
The approach of the research was participatory and inclusive with two local Disabled People’s Organisation (DPO)* members trained and supported to be Research Assistants (RAs). The research was implemented in Australia, Suva and surrounding communities in Fiji, Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea (PNG)), and Apia (Samoa). Fieldwork conducted in Australia included interviews with ASOP stakeholders living in and outside of Australia, including one interview with a key informant living in New Zealand who managed ASOP activities across the Pacific. All other fieldwork sites were selected purposively based on consideration of where ASOP activities were implemented, its geographical accessibility, and any available resources. Data collection took place between March and May in 2015. Qualitative data was collected via key informant interviews, in-depth interviews and one focus group discussion (FGD). Wherever possible, the research team aimed to include a representative sample across gender, location, types of impairment and people representing or engaged in a range of sport for development activities.
A total of 60 participants were interviewed from the five countries (Table 1). Key informants were identified and purposively sampled in consultation with the ASC and partner DPOs. Subsequent snowballing whereby participants informed researchers of other potential participants also helped to identify additional participants. Key informants included current and former ASC staff and stakeholders (e.g. coaches and sport for development staff, as opposed to participants in sport for development activities) knowledgeable on the development and implementation of programmes that received funding through ASOP. Purposive sampling was used to recruit participants for the in-depth interviews (participants of sport for development activities), identified through the networks of partner DPOs and implementers of the sports programmes. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with current participants of sport for development programmes (both male and female, with and without disabilities); four people with disabilities who had dropped out of sport; and three with parents of children with disabilities currently participating in sport. The age range of the adult participants was 24-56 years. The age range of the children with disabilities whose parents were interviewed as proxies was 9-12 years.
All participants were asked to participate in either a key informant interview (KII), in-depth interview (IDI) or a FGD. The content of the interview guides was developed based on sport for development and disability inclusion literature alongside available ASOP documentation. The focus of the KII’s included understanding of disability inclusion, experience in implementing sport for development programmes; perceived enablers of and barriers to inclusion; and perceived impact of sport on the lives of people with disabilities. The focus of the IDI and FGD included experiences of participation; motivation for participation; experience of enablers and barriers; and the perceived impact of sport for development programmes on their lives and the lives of other people with disabilities, such as access to education, employment, and community participation. Where required, interview guides were translated into the local language and back translated into English. All guides were piloted locally before being administered to participants.
Most interviews were conducted face-to-face, via telephone or skype and were digitally recorded, transcribed, and translated into English (where required) for qualitative data analysis. One key informant was not available for interview and therefore responded via email. Except in PNG, all interviews with key informants were conducted in English. In PNG, the interviews and FGD were conducted in Pidgin. As mentioned above, key informants were stakeholders considered to have knowledge on the development and implementation of ASOP activities, whereas in-depth interview participants were current or previous participants of sport for development activities. Due to limited time for fieldwork in PNG however, the FGD included both key informants and participants of sport for development activities because this was the most feasible option to collect data from these participants who had travelled to Port Moresby for a related meeting.
Data were manually coded inductively and deductively to generate themes using thematic content analysis approach. The ‘Development-through-Sport’ Strategy’s ‘theory of change framework’ for outcome two was used as the theoretical framework for the analysis (see Fig 1). The two lead members of the research team independently read all transcripts, familiarised and coded the findings while other team members reviewed a representative sample of the transcripts and coded analysis. Findings were initially coded under the relevant intermediate outcomes and pathways outlined in the ‘theory of change’ framework, including examples of enablers and barriers relevant to each pathway. Findings under each pathway were further categorised into relevant subthemes. An analysis workshop was conducted by the Australian-based research team.
Initial findings were then shared with the local RAs and other DPO and ASC staff involved in the research to ensure the analysis gave an accurate reflection of the context, and then the analysis was finalised. For the purpose of this paper, the findings have been presented under three main sections 1) Improvements in the quality of life of people with disability; 2) Barriers to inclusion in sport for development activities; and 3) Enablers of inclusion in sport for development activities.
The Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) at the University of Melbourne in Australia approved the research. In addition, the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Fiji approved the research. The interviewers informed potential participants of the research and invited them to participate. All participants were 18 years or older and provided written or verbal consent. In cases where parents of children with disabilities were interviewed as proxies, consent was obtained from the parents only.
Improvements in the quality of life of people with disabilities
Improved Self-worth and Empowerment
All except one participant with a disability interviewed and clearly indicated that participation in sport led to a greater sense of self-worth and empowerment to create change in their lives, as highlighted by a male sport-for-development participant with physical disability in Fiji – ”[Sport] expose[s] that disabled people have talent. We can compete … I’ve noticed it gives you more confidence to expose yourself. No longer staying at home and being quiet.” Sport was also reported to contribute to social inclusion, improved access to employment and better attitudes towards people with disabilities. Participants reflected on these inherent qualities of sport, particularly highlighting that sport enabled them to challenge negative beliefs about their capabilities by providing opportunities to demonstrate their skills and talents to the broader community.
It changed my mindset. It changed how I look at myself, because I was achieving a lot. Participating in the Games … and also overseas. Being involved in the community, being on TV. It’s normal hey, because then they don’t see my disability anymore. Those are the changes that it has brought into my life. (Male sport participant with physical disability, Fiji)
The sense of empowerment and inclusion gained through participation in sport was reported to prompt participants to encourage others with disabilities to access sport. Being included alongside people with and without disabilities, and pushing each other to improve also promoted empowerment and inclusion. A male participant from Fiji who is Deaf said, “because I realised that your life could change when you started to interact more with hearing people.” This was triangulated in the findings by other participants who specifically reported feeling encouraged to participate in sport by their peers with disabilities.
The empowerment gained through sport was reported to be a driver for people with disabilities to address barriers to inclusion in other aspects of their lives, and the lives of other people with disabilities. For example, one former athlete who attributed his opportunity to participate in sport as leading to other opportunities in life such as employment, reported a sense of responsibility to address barriers to employment for other people with disabilities.
I think that for some of us who are former athletes … they tend to be engaged in other activities in the community such as becoming a businessman and sometimes have jobs such as being a cook or working in an office. As [former athletes] are aware of the problems we tend to face, and through sports, are empowered to work through these problems. It then becomes important for them to drive changes in the community, due to individual experiences of overcoming challenges. (DPO representative, PNG)
Improved health and well-being
Similarly, the majority of participants with disabilities who interviewed about their experience in sport reported that sport contributed to improved health outcomes and better self-management of health. “The Zumba programme – it actually reduces my level of stress,” commented a female participant with psychosocial disability in Fiji. It also helped people make healthier lifestyle choices.
Before I did sports, I used to smoke and drink … go clubbing. When I joined the sports, the para sports, it changed me. Right now I don’t drink grog (kava) and I don’t smoke, I do full-time training … Some of us with disability they can’t exercise themselves … they don’t reach the age they want to reach – they die early – because they don’t do exercise … I think sports is good for us … (Male sport participant with physical disability, Fiji)
Sport provided the prospect of enhanced enjoyment of life. A small number of respondents described the enjoyment of winning as greater for people with disabilities because they have had less opportunity to experience such emotions in their day-to-day life. This was also reflected in the observations of sports organisation staff.
… I can see that they’ve built up a lot of self-esteem, a lot more confidence. This is all the mental part of the person. I could see changes in themselves – being able to interact more with people and not be too concerned about what people think about their disabilities. I think they are more focused on what their abilities are rather than what their disabilities are. (National sports organisation representative, Fiji)
The social aspects of sport were ranked as more important than the competitive aspects by more than seventy percent of interviewees with disabilities. For those who participated in sport before acquiring impairment, the reason for participation often changed from the desire for personal achievement to sport’s social aspects after the impairment had occurred. People without disabilities also valued the opportunity to spend time with people with disabilities.
It was the first time for me to participate in sports with persons with disabilities and I really like it, it was a totally new experience for me. (Male sports participant without disability, Fiji)
There were also examples where organisations included social aspects for people with and without disability into their programmes, adapting activities to include an element of fun and time for socializing.
… technique disguised as a fun exercise, and they need time to socialise so with a one hour training session there should be at least five minutes or ten minutes for people just to talk to each other’ (International sports organisation representative, Australia).
Where participants had experience of representing their country in national or international events and received media attention, they described the experience of becoming ‘famous’ in their community and associated positive interaction with others. Travelling for sport within their country and internationally supported further social opportunities.
It’s fun, you meet new people and travel around … you are being exposed to other customs and traditions – you’re not closed up, you can open up … you are more confident with speaking to other people … apart from your own race and apart from Fijian people. (Male sport participant with physical disability, Fiji)
Sports programmes in schools were identified by nearly half of the DPO representatives as particularly important for children with disabilities to socialise and develop skills. A DPO representative from Samoa stated, ”What we are seeing in those kind of games we play locally … most of the kids they don’t know each other – when they come and play games they finally make friends with other kids.”This sentiment was echoed by all parents interviewed.
It has especially [impacted] social inclusiveness and access to education. Without sports sometimes, she is always idle, but with sport she is learning process, because more children they tend to learn through sports, and some of them they don’t adapt in the classroom. When you get them to play sports that’s when they learn to get engaged. (Parent of child with disability participating in sport, Fiji)
Nearly half of the interviewees with disabilities in Fiji and PNG reported opportunities for employment gained through sport. These roles included sports advocates within DPOs, sport development officers in sports organisations, and as coaches. This not only promoted economic empowerment of people with disabilities but was reported to help demonstrate their capacity to be gainfully employed, again raising their status in society.
I have even been told myself ‘’if you can do that [participate in sport] you can work in an office or go back to your normal job” or something … anything can happen. (Female sports participant, Fiji)
Opportunities to facilitate workshops and learn coaching skills through ASOP enabled some participants to build their skills in communication, which opened up doors to the workforce. Mainstream programmes that were inclusive were seen as particularly beneficial because they allowed for interaction between people with and without disabilities. A male sport participant with a physical disability in Fiji reported that “… it is an eye-opener to me because I meet plenty and more friends, especially people with disability and also people, able person, we make friends a lot and we socialise a lot.”
Community Attitudes Towards Disability
The vast majority of all research participants highlighted the ability of sport to improve social inclusion of people with disabilities, especially when implementers and DPOs were able to go into communities and raise awareness of the rights of people with disabilities. Raising awareness and understanding among the community enabled, often for the first time, people with disabilities to participate in sport activities conducted as part of these outreach visits. DPOs involved in outreach activities reported using this role to better advocate for inclusion in the broader community. One interviewee highlighted the DPO role in broader advocacy, but also how much more needs to be done.
There was one guy, who was in a wheelchair, but his home was inaccessible, it had steps and everything, so someone had to carry him down and put him in a wheelchair and then he could go out. On Sundays, he would get up, dress up, and listen to a church service from his window. We told his parents and the church about accessibility, but it costs money. Often issues with accessibility need money to fix, and the family might not be willing to spend money on that, or just can’t afford it. (DPO representative, Fiji)
Another positive example of the ASOP highlighted were activities where families are actively encouraged to allow children with disabilities to play sports, which then led to improved parental expectations of their child’s capabilities. Families reported being more hopeful about what their children can achieve, which may then encourage families to support their children to participate in other areas of the community such as cultural events, education and employment.
We [have] seen some of the parents like to play with the kids during the sports. So from there we know that parents not only to be there to look after the kids but you know that they have their heart to encourage their kids to play and have time with other kids. (DPO representative, Samoa)
Barriers to Inclusion in Sport for Development
Participants with disabilities reflected on a number of personal and external factors that impact their participation in sports. People with disabilities highlighted they often lack confidence in their own abilities, particularly when their families lack confidence in them and actively discourage their participation. Many of the interviewees with disabilities cited their families’ lack of support as a major barrier to participation. Two-thirds of these participants also identified environmental barriers to participation such as the lack of accessible information on available programmes; inaccessible facilities and equipment; and difficulty accessing transport to get to training and events.
Prejudice and Discrimination
Three-quarters of key informants identified prejudice and discrimination as a significant barrier to the inclusion of people with disability in sports programmes. In communities where there were perceived negative attitudes toward disabilities, programme implementers reported difficulty while including people with disabilities in community-level activities, as people with disabilities were hidden within the home or families would not allow them to participate. The vital broader role of DPOs in addressing prejudice and discrimination and raising awareness of rights was again highlighted, particularly during community outreach programmes.
The longer-term impact of community outreach programmes on participation is more difficult to determine. A small number of key informants felt that as community programmes are often one-off visits, they don’t allow for enough community engagement to contribute to sustained attitudinal changes, or to develop sustainable inclusive sport programmes.
A small number of research participants with and without disabilities noted that opportunities to participate in sports are not the same for all people with disabilities. One key informant reported staff often don’t have appropriate understanding of how to interact with people who have certain disabilities, stating “If they have a physical disability they are more likely to be included, whereas people with a mental disability, there is often that fear of well ‘I don’t know how to talk to you, because you have a mental disability.” (International sports organisation representative, Australia). This perception was echoed by a small number of participants.
For my brothers and sisters who are not confident to come out in public, one of the barriers would be attitudes of people, probably the stigma. Because people … when someone has been admitted to St Giles [psychiatric hospital in Fiji] they tend to act differently to that person … (Female sport participant with psychosocial disability, Fiji)
Those with intellectual disabilities …. Because they are seen by the public differently rather than … because it’s not your physical body that’s affected. … you know you are intellectual… and immediately when people see them they will say ok we cannot play with them because you know whatever we plan, it will turn up differently because of them … (DPO representative, Samoa)
For women with disabilities, there was a sense of disparity expressed when describing efforts to participate in sport, with one saying that “when I trained I am the only girl for, I think, four months, and for me there is gender imbalance there.” (Female sport participant with vision impairment, Fiji). Some participants with and without disabilities also identified that females with disabilities may face additional discrimination.
… sometimes it’s the women who are being laughed at mostly I’ve heard of that … I’m thinking why do they do that to that particular person – why is it a woman who has to be the one who go through a lot of things that make her feel she is not wanted? (Female sport participant with physical disability, Fiji)
Lack of Family Support
An absence of family support or active discouragement was identified as a common barrier by nearly half of the participants with disabilities who interviewed. Many reported strong cultural and traditional beliefs, particularly in the rural areas, whereby families believe people with disabilities should stay at home. A small number of key informants emphasised the importance of addressing these barriers and encouraging families to enable family members with disability to participate in sport.
… [they say] ‘no my child did not play that game because you know he has a disability, he can’t play.’ So they come and just say that, you know, take away kids from the event … we have to provide some awareness programme … to encourage the parents to bring in their kids … because most of the parents here in Samoa believe that people with disability [should] just stay home. (DPO representative, Samoa)
Limited Accessibility of Sport-for-Development Programmes
Inaccessible sporting facilities and lack of knowledge on how to make reasonable accommodations* to support inclusion were seen as an ongoing barrier to participation by more than half of all research participants. People with disabilities highlighted that they wanted access to more choices in programmes and that programmes should sustain interest by allowing for increased challenges. This is particularly important when considering the involvement of people with more complex participation requirements. It was expressed that some sports currently only cater to people who are more mobile and use common communications methods with people who have more complex physical or cognitive needs missing out. A few key informants reported that genuine commitment, time and resources are required from organisations to analyse and solve problems surrounding how their sport can be modified to enable people with different abilities and impairments to participate.
For some participants with disabilities who live relatively close to urban areas, significant motivation and financial resources were still required to commit to training. Even where physically accessible buildings do exist, access was reported to be constrained by short opening hours of venues; difficulty getting to the venue; and difficulty mobilising within the venue around equipment.
We have a gymnasium whereas in the day but it’s always full. It’s a small gym and a lot of corporate bodies training … [it’s] hard for me. And they only open at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. So in my case if someone is to open a gym close to where I am they should open in the morning so when abled people go to work. (Male sport participant with vision impairment, Fiji)
Access to sport was reported to be better in urban cities compared to rural areas. A small number of interview participants from Fiji reported that sporting venues in the country’s capital had improved in terms of accessibility, but in communities outside the city, accessibility was an ongoing issue. In PNG, half of the participants with disabilities described travelling from rural areas to attend a sport event only to find a lack of modified equipment had been provided by the programme, thereby not allowing everyone to participate. Similarly, limited access to coaches in rural areas was reported to prevent participation.
Lack of Information About Sport
Two-thirds of participants with disabilities in Fiji cited limited access to information about sport-for-development activities as a reason people with disabilities are not participating. Factors impacting access included a lack of information in accessible formats. One participant suggested that the events “should have more advertising in the media through TV or print … so people with disabilities can read and know that this is happening … because [people with disabilities] isolate themselves and don’t know what’s happening.” (Female sport participant with psychosocial disability, Fiji). Conversely, effective collaboration between sports organisations and DPOs was said to support better access to information on upcoming events. This was reported as essential for people with disability so they have time to prepare and organise assistance to participate if required.
At the moment this coordination and consultation is lacking … us DPOs we do not have [opportunity to be consulted during planning]…. (DPO representative, PNG)
Lack of Accessible Public Transport
All participants with disabilities cited transport as one of the most significant barriers to participation and for some, it was the primary reason for dropping out of sport. Constraints to accessing transport were described in three ways: limited finances to support transport needs; real and perceived discrimination experienced by people with disability attempting to use public transport; and lack of physically accessible transport. Some organisations recognised this barrier and provided transport for ‘come and try’ sport days. Others are starting to make adjustments to the way they deliver sport, stating, “We are trying to alleviate that problem by taking the sport to them rather than asking them to come to us by using outreach programmes.” (Sport organisation representative, Fiji). However, neither of these approaches solves the ongoing issue of inaccessible transport, highlighting the need to support governments to address systemic barriers to inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
Many people with disabilities in Fiji have access to free public transportation, yet this doesn’t address all the barriers they face to accessing transportation. Three participants with disability reported that despite having a free bus pass, some bus drivers would prevent them from getting on the bus during peak periods, reporting that they had time restrictions and couldn’t provide extra time for a person with a disability to climb into the bus. The latter issue arose because buses are not wheelchair accessible and so in some cases people would crawl onto the bus and ask a bystander to fold and lift their chair onto the bus for them. One of these participants went onto discuss that prejudice and discrimination, both real and perceived, prevented people from accessing public transportation even when their impairment physically did not.
Lack of Options and Competitive Pathways
Moving beyond engagement in social sport activities to more competitive activities can be very challenging for athletes. Whilst many people with disabilities interviewed were motivated to play sports for health and social benefits, there were others who were frustrated by the barriers to more competitive pathways. In PNG, for example, a lack of options was attributed to a lack of people with disabilities holding leadership positions in sports organisations; inadequate engagement of people with disabilities in the design and implementation of sports programmes; and a lack of collaboration between service providers and DPOs, particularly when service providers have ‘control’ over the implementation of sport for development activities. Also highlighted was the need for more recognition of the achievements of athletes with disabilities and better support for these athletes to achieve at a higher level. One DPO representative in PNG reported, “I won three gold medals in the PNG Games, the javelin, shot-put and discus … I also participated in the Arafura Games … however from then on I was not supported to progress on to the next level.” (DPO representative, PNG)
Disability-specific Barriers Which Impact on Participation
People with disabilities often experience disability-specific barriers that impact their participation in sport. Approximately half of the interview participants with disabilities in Fiji reported experiencing disability-specific barriers during their engagement in sport for development programmes. These include communication barriers for people who are deaf or hard of hearing in accessing a programme delivered by people who do not communicate using sign language and without an interpreter. Or lack of assistive devices, such a prosthetic limbs or appropriate wheelchairs that would support people with mobility impairments to engage in sport. There were examples of organisations trying to overcome this, such as in Suva, whereby some sports officers were learning sign language to enable them to engage with people who are deaf. Yet this hasn’t happened in most areas in Fiji or other Pacific countries, highlighting how opportunities can differ for people with the same impairment, depending on the resources available in their environment and the efforts that have been made to include them.
For years there has been a Deaf Table Tennis club [in Fiji] and this has been integrated completely. There are deaf coaches who coach able-bodied players and yet they don’t see the disability at all. But in Vanuatu being deaf is very much more difficult because not many people speak sign language. (International sports organisation representative, Australia)
In most Pacific countries, access to assistive devices and alternative communication modes is an area that tends to lie outside of the domain of sport, yet it directly influences how and how well people with disabilities are able to participate in sport. A lack of access to quality and fit for purpose assistive devices was another issue raised by a small number of participants with disabilities, particularly those wanting to compete at an international level. Even at the community level, access to affordable replacements for damaged walking aids was identified as placing further burden on the limited finances of people with disabilities that impacted their participation. Similarly, people with disability reported a lack of assistance at training such as ‘guide runners’ and support getting in and out of the pool. These issues were all described as reasons for dropping out of sport.
Need for Greater Monitoring and Evaluation
Implementers discussed the requirements of the PSP programme to include reporting on numbers of people with disability who are accessing programmes. ASC were encouraging implementers to use the Washington Group Short Set* of questions to support this and fill a current gap in the programmes to identify people with disability. Better identification of people with disabilities to support inclusion was also highlighted by DPO representatives.
There were also some good examples of sport organisations seeking to measure attitudinal change toward disability within their monitoring and evaluation systems and collecting stories of change from participants about the impact of the programmes. Overall however, this research identified a tension between a growing need for better data collection on inclusion and the capacity of local sports implementers to collect and report this data.
Many of the international sport organisation representatives interviewed reported finding it challenging to build the capacity of local implementers to collect basic data on the numbers of people with disabilities participating in programmes, let alone trying to document changes at the community level.
Enablers of Inclusion in Sport for Development Activities
A number of factors that facilitate inclusion in sport emerged, including peer-to-peer encouragement, support from DPOs and sports organisations, and meaningful participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of sports programmes.
Peer-to-peer Encouragement and Role Modelling
Encouragement from peers with disabilities also engaged in sport was described as a major facilitator of participation and initial entry point into sport by many of the participants with disabilities interviewed. Such examples serve as evidence of this peer-to-peer pathway being built into some programmes more formally. In Fiji, for example, DPOs helped identify ‘Sports Champs’ to be role models and help identify and encourage other people with disabilities to participate in sport.
This concept of role models promoting participation in sport was a strong theme emerging throughout the research. Most respondents in Fiji, for example, reported the achievements of the Honourable Assistant Minister Iliesa Delana (a Fijian athlete with disability) at the London Paralympics, who went on to be elected to the Fijian parliament as a turning-point in changing the perceptions people with disabilities had of themselves, as well as challenging how the community perceived people with disabilities.
People with Disability in Leadership
Beyond participating in sport itself, a number of participants described pathways that enabled them to engage in sport in positions of leadership. Having more people with disabilities in positions of leadership was described as a way to make people with disabilities feel more comfortable about joining programmes. One female sport participant with a vision impairment in Fiji said, “While I was training for my athletics we used to have a coach who was also disabled so he used to understand us.” Some respondents also identified that involvement of DPO representatives in programmes had led to people with disabilities taking on leadership roles within their community in Fiji, such as the Toragi ni koro. (Chief Liaison at the village level)
Inclusion of People with Disability in All Aspects of Programmes
Meaningful participation in sport for people with disabilities goes beyond being a beneficiary of sport activities. It also encompasses inclusion in sport processes, including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes. The inclusion of people with disabilities in the planning of programmes was recognised by many key informants as contributing to better understanding about the capacity of people with disabilities to participate in sports programmes, and the development of more accessible and inclusive programmes.
So that’s what I call inclusive sport … you design something that includes everyone’s idea and make sure that everyone is involved from the beginning, the implementation and monitoring and evaluation as well as reporting … you don’t just ask [people with disability] to join when the programme is half way through. (DPO representative, Samoa)
A key enabler to supporting inclusion in all aspects of programmes highlighted was providing more opportunities for networks to share good practice and facilitate cross-organisational learning. Sports organisations vary greatly in how they implement disability inclusion. By showcasing examples of good practice, it is hoped all organisations would be encouraged to improve inclusion within their programmes and promote more opportunities for people with disability to engage in all aspects of sports programming.
Encouragement and Support through DPOs, Sport Organisations and Family
DPOs and sports organisations were highlighted as playing an important role in encouraging participation in sport. Individuals within these organisations were reported as being instrumental in identifying people with disabilities in communities and nurturing their skills and talents. People with disabilities were reported to sometimes be “locked at home.” Participants acknowledged that because of this and the long history of exclusion of many people with disabilities, significant time and effort is often required to encourage individuals with disabilities to participate.
Like, they still feel shy. There is still that stigma, that barrier that they have. So we sports people, sometimes we have to go that extra mile, we have to break the ice with them in order to get them to open up and be comfortable. (National sport organisation representative, Fiji)
Individuals with an understanding of and interest in inclusion were recognised for their role in championing inclusion while also encouraging and linking in a number of individuals with disabilities into sport networks. These individuals included coaches, mentors and other sports leaders who identified participants and supported their inclusion through encouraging family support, securing funding, training people with disabilities to be coaches, and encouraging networking between DPOs and mainstream sports organisations.
I think what has worked well in some countries such as Fiji and Vanuatu is that there has been a champion who has actively sought out how to include people with disability … in Australia when we talk about those champions it’s often people who have had a family member with a disability. That doesn’t seem to be the common denominator in Vanuatu and Fiji. It’s just that these people have got a really good awareness about disability and an attitude towards inclusion … (ASC representative, Australia)
Social marketing campaigns were seen as an important tool for inclusion through their use in highlighting the success of athletes with disabilities and motivating people with disabilities to participate in sport. Organisations are also starting to explore ways they can engage with social marketing to support participation, both in terms of promoting media coverage of people with disability in sport, and utilising technology to promote participation. A representative from an organisation noted, “I think mainly we use media and word-of-mouth. Right now, we’re hoping to use text messages on phones and various other marketing mechanisms we have, such as TV.” (National sports organisation representative, Fiji).
Many participants with disability reported that when family support was available, it was integral to their ongoing participation. Different kinds of family support were described, such as practical support like helping people get to training or helping finance the cost of participation. Families were also central to enhancing the self-belief of their family members with a disability which in turn enabled participation.
My family embraced it – even when they saw [disability] happening to me they still kept encouraging me … I didn’t want to listen – I was too ashamed to go around. (Male sport participant with physical disability, Fiji)
Opportunities to Participate in Mainstream Sport Programmes
Providing opportunities for people with and without disabilities to play sport alongside each other is an important approach to inclusion, which was highlighted by nearly half of all research participants. Some organisations implemented this approach, but not all. The findings also suggest that people with disabilities often participate in mainstream sport due to self-motivation, rather than an as a result of opportunities provided by sports organisations.
Schools, particularly schools for children with disability and colloquially referred to as special schools were regularly cited by participants with disabilities and key informants as a common entry point for children with disabilities into sport. Sport for development activities implemented in special schools allowed for development of skills in a safe and supported environment, which for some children with disabilities can support transition into mainstream sport activities.
Yet programmes implemented in special schools were also mentioned as actually creating barriers as they keep children with disabilities segregated from playing sport with children without disabilities. The need to develop the capacity of sports organisations to design and implement more programmes outside of disability-specific settings was highlighted by some implementers. There is evidence this is starting to occur, with some sports organisations implementing programmes outside of school hours which are inclusive of children with and without disabilities.
… what we are seeing in those kind of games we play locally … most of the kids they don’t know each other when they come and play games they finally make friends with other kids. (DPO representative, Samoa)
Findings from this research support evidence in the literature that sport can be a powerful transformative tool, improving the overall status of people with disabilities within society.6,19Promoting access to sport for people with disabilities has the capacity to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, and improving physical and mental health particularly in the context of increased incidence of NCDs.11,13,14 More importantly, in line with previous research, to enable people with disabilities to reduce the emotional effects of disabilities by offering a way to accept their disability (“come out”) and to manage the discriminatory effects of disabilities.20
By providing a platform for people with and without disabilities to come together, there is an opportunity to challenge commonly held misconceptions about disabilities and for people with disabilities to demonstrate their capacities. It also provides an opportunity for people without disabilities to interact and socialise with people with disabilities. This may help to address negative attitudes towards disabilities, a major barrier to the inclusion in other activities such as education, employment and community participation more broadly.1,2
Realising the rights of people with disabilities to participate in sport requires governments and sport for development programmes to clearly articulate disability inclusion in their strategies, contractual agreements, implementation plans, and as part of their monitoring and evaluation. A strong policy environment for health and physical activity is vital,14 making sure relevant policies are disability-inclusive would strengthen subsequent inclusion within implementation. Increasing participation of people with disabilities in sport will also require collaboration with stakeholders outside the sport sector, for example the corporate sector, transport authorities, health and rehabilitation, and urban planning. Sustainability and effectiveness of sport for development programmes relies on appropriate human, technical and financial resources.9 Dedication of resources to embed disability inclusion in sport-for-development activities and these related sectors over time will require ongoing commitment from donors and implementing partners.
Effective and sustainable sport for development programmes require leadership and collaboration.9 The same is required of disability-inclusive sport for development programmes. The research highlighted a number of important networks and partnerships that support inclusion of people with disability in sport. Central to these are the partnerships between DPOs, national sports organisations, and their international or regional counterparts. People with disabilities are the key stakeholders in sport for inclusive development networks. In recognition of this, programmes should determine appropriate mechanisms and adequate resources to ensure people with disabilities can provide leadership and coordination of these networks, support organisational commitment and capacity for disability inclusion, and meaningfully engage in all aspects of programming.
Strong leadership is required from all stakeholders to provide more opportunities for people with disabilities who are currently less likely to have access to programmes such as women,13,14 people with psychosocial disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and those with more complex participation requirements. This could be achieved by building on international examples of modified sports, and collaboratively problem-solving with DPOs to enable people with more complex impairments to participate.
Inclusion of people with disabilities in programmes not only benefits individuals, but their families and the broader community.10 Implementers of programmes and DPOs need to continue to work with families and communities to raise awareness of disabilities, and promote an understanding of the benefits of sport including the potential to promote access to other life domains such as social inclusion, education and employment. Similar to other findings in the literature, this study found that drawing on high profile role models and ‘champions’ is key to promoting awareness and encouraging participation in sport of individuals who are more likely to have experienced exclusion and marginalisation.15
People with disabilities want more choice and options as to how they participate in sport – from intermittent social participation, to participating at an elite level, and engaging in sport beyond playing, in roles such as coaching. Similarly, as many people with disabilities living in the Pacific do not live in urban areas where many sports programmes are implemented, organisations need to continue to build their capacity to provide more opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in sport in rural and remote areas. Building on community outreach programmes and collaborations between DPOs, sports organisations and rural communities is one way this could be achieved.
With the growing recognition and utilisation of sport as a tool for development, continual sharing of experiences of how sport for development can be inclusive of people with disabilities could encourage development actors using sport to better include people with disabilities.7 It is also positive to see a move towards collecting data, for example, through the use of the Washington Group questions, to better understand the rate of participation of people with disabilities in programmes. Yet, to evaluate the longer-term impact of inclusive sports programmes on reducing negative attitudes and promoting inclusion in the broader community, and to address the need to build the evidence base on the effectiveness of sport for development to promote the rights of population groups more likely to be excluded from development, counting the numbers of people with disability participating in programmes is insufficient.17,21,22
The need for improved quality of research on the impacts of sport-for-development is gaining recognition.9,21,23 Attributing the specific impact of inclusive sport-for-development programmes and the sustainability of this impact, requires a deeper understanding of the contextual factors which influence inclusion within sport and broader community domains including development programming. There would be great benefit in conducting baseline studies in communities before implementing programmes and disaggregating data by disability in order to really understand the current experience of people with disabilities as compared to people without disabilities; how this impacts on their access and participation in sport and other areas of community life; and what barriers need to be addressed to improve inclusion, including attitudinal barriers.24
This could then be followed up with an evaluation of the programme using the same survey to allow for an analysis of the longer-term impact of the programme for people with disabilities in their communities. Combined with other monitoring and evaluation techniques such as collection of qualitative data through stories of change, this would also enhance global understanding about how sport can be used more broadly as a tool in development.17 Guaranteeing these processes are embedded in programmes requires funders to ensure that the terms of references for implementers include appropriate resourcing for disability inclusion and its monitoring, evaluation and learning through research.
LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH
The research was conducted in a tight timeframe with limited resources. As such, despite efforts made to ensure people with different types of impairments were included in the sample, it was difficult to ensure adequate representation of all groups. In particular, we were unable to directly interview people with intellectual disabilities. Given more time and resources, it would also have been beneficial to directly interview children with disabilities about their experiences in sport. The decision to use proxies for children with disabilities was made with the knowledge that limited time in-country would make it difficult to develop and use appropriate participatory methods, which would have allowed for children to directly participate in the research. More time in the country would also have allowed us to collect more information from people with disabilities living in rural and remote areas.
Because a purposeful sampling method was used, there may have been a selection bias towards people known to have positively participated in sport. Interviews were conducted with people who have dropped out of sport to try and counteract this effect. Whilst this research collected in-depth qualitative data from a range of participants, both with and without disabilities, collecting data at one point in time doesn’t necessarily provide data about changes in participation in the community over time. Nor does it allow an accurate measure of change of attitudes and barriers to participation in the community. The use of baseline surveys and ongoing monitoring and evaluation would help researchers overcome this issue.
Disability inclusion is reaching a critical point whereby organisations are becoming more aware of the importance of inclusion. There have been significant positive changes since the introduction of the CRPD, which are reflected in this research. It is hoped that this trend will continue the explicit inclusion of disability within five of the SDGs. The growing recognition of the effectiveness of sport as a tool for development, including in the SDGs, and the importance of disability-inclusive development provides an excellent opportunity to advocate for the implementation of sport-for-development programmes which are inclusive of people with disability.6 Ensuring people with disability are included within sport-for-development programmes will contribute to the improved quality of life of people with disabilities, and help fulfil the development community’s responsibility to ensure people with disabilities are no longer marginalised from the processes and benefits of broader development goals.
CBM-Nossal Partnership for Disability Inclusive Development led the research, supported by two DPO members from the Fiji Disabled Peoples Federation who were trained and supported to be Research Assistants.
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South Orange is located in New Jersey. South Orange, New Jersey has a population of 17,701. South Orange is less family-centric than the surrounding county with 31% households with children. The county percentage for households with children is 32%.
The median household income in South Orange, New Jersey is $144,649. The median household income for the surrounding county is $67,300 compared to the national median of $66,222. The median age of people living in South Orange is 37.5 years.
The average high temperature in July is 85.32 degrees, with an average low temperature in January of 18.42 degrees. The annual precipitation is 51.7.
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Cookie Clickers! Be prepared for endless hours of fun and entertainment!
The game is very simple: - Bake as many cookies as you can by clicking or tapping on a giant cookie as fast as you can. - As soon as you have enough cookies take a trip to the shop and use your cookies to buy upgrades to make cookies even quicker!
Cookie Clickers seemingly endless gameplay will allow you to play for an indefinite amount of time, or at least until you bake such as an extraordinary amount of cookies, your device will not be able to count them anymore.
Pay attention to the golden cookie rain, don't waste it!
Become the Cookie Clickers hero... be the fastest Tapper... be the first to bake 1 BILLION cookies!
Don't waste time... start now, your Cookie Clicker heroes friends have already started and you need to catch up…. Quick!
Cookie Clickers is also on iPhone, iPad, iPod (iOS) and Facebook App Center.
*** Challenge other heroes in the Cookie Leaderboard! ***
Coming soon: New power-ups, Cookie Jam, Facebook rankings
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The Baltimore Sun had an interesting nugget in its postgame notes from Friday.
According to the Sun, the bat boy in the Orioles’ dugout Friday night stood too close to the heater — was it really that cold? — and his pants caught fire.
Once the Orioles realized the lad was not hurt, they started cracking up.
They laughed so hard that manager Buck Showalter said he wasn’t sure everyone would be able to go out in the field in the ninth inning, the Sun reported.
A’s manager Bob Melvin said Saturday that he isn’t sure Yoenis Céspedes, rehabbing at Triple-A Sacramento, would play the entire game Saturday night because he is due to return to Oakland for Sunday afternoon’s series finale agaist Baltimore.
The A’s clearly miss their big hitter, given that they have lost seven of their past eight games after a sizzling start.
Melvin noted that it’s pretty well-documented how well the A’s play with Céspedes in the lineup.
“He takes pressure off everybody,” Melvin said. “That’s what premier players do.”
The A’s are honoring their 1973 World Series championship team in a pregame ceremony. Fans who arrived early were treated to video highlughts from the series narrated by the great former NBC announcer Curt Gowdy.
“This will be a special day, to have a world championship team here,” Melvin said. “I grew up here. Still have great feelings about those teams. It should be an exciting day.”
Melvin added that former A’s are always welcome.
“Ever since I’ve been here, I like to include these guys — whenever they’re at spring training, whenever they’re here,” the manager said. “You can’t help but feel good being around world champions. Whenever you’re around winners, sometimes it rubs off.”
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Juan Daniel Treminio Rayo
City of origin: Sébaco, Matagalpa (Nicaragua)
Ciutat of refuge: Barcelona
Duration of period in refuge: 2021-2023
Juan Daniel Treminio is a Nicaraguan journalist. Born in Sébaco, Matagalpa, he studied social communication in the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA). He is passionate about journalism, radio, and digital communication. Since he was very young, he has been involved in political activism to defend human rights and civil liberties.
Since the age of nineteen, he has exercised his profession directing several analysis programs in conjunction with the national radio station Radio Corporación, such as El Estallido (2014-2015), Unidad con Dignidad (2015-2017) and Buenas Tardes Nicaragua (2017-2018.) He was a founder and is co-director of the digital platform Coyuntura and has collaborated with several other platforms such as Managuafuriosa and Revista Cultura Libre. He has participated in several trainings focused on politics and social change.
His direct involvement in reporting corruption cases and documenting human rights violations have made him a target for threats from supporters of the current government. For this reason, in 2018, he was forced into exile with his family. However, this gave him the opportunity to widen his work on issues of migration and vulnerable communities. He has taken on the commitment to continue monitoring and developing investigative journalism that can contribute to the development of his country.
He currently lives in Barcelona and is an ICORN writer in residence being hosted by PEN Català’s Writers in Refuge programme. To learn more about his work, you can follow him on Twitter under @danitreminio.
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Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own sovereign state on some part of their historic homeland. Zionism comprises a belief that Jews are a nation, and as such are entitled to the same self-determination that all other nations are. To oppose Zionism is to refuse to accept its political manifestation, Israel, as a legitimate entity. Anti-Zionism denies the Jewish people what it readily bestows other nations (most emphatically to the Palestinians) - the right to nationhood, self-determination and legitimate coexistence with other members of the family of nations. This is inherently anti-Semitic.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Andrea Levin of Camera responds to Jimmy Carter's attempt to apologise "for any words or deeds that may have upset the Jewish community". Carter said he was offering an Al Het, a prayer said on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement which signifies a plea for forgiveness. This is a response from Andrea Levin Executive Director of CAMERA
Dear President Carter:
We at CAMERA have been outspoken in our criticism of the many factual errors and distortions about Israel in your book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, as well as in various Op-Eds and media appearances. We've been greatly concerned that false allegations you've made damage Israel, promoting misunderstanding, enmity and prejudice against that nation and its people.
It is against this backdrop that we sincerely welcome your recent letter to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in which you ask forgiveness from the Jewish community for statements that may have stigmatized Israel. As you may know, in Judaism the process of repentance also entails action to reverse any harm caused.
In this spirit, we urge you to join your promising words with concrete actions to redress troubling false statements you have made only recently about the Jewish state. In a Nov. 6, 2009 Op-Ed in the International Herald Tribune entitled "Goldstone and Gaza" you made false and exaggerated charges concerning the UN's Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict. You referred erroneously to the "destruction" of 40,000 homes in Gaza and claimed "several hundred thousand homeless people suffered through last winter." You refer to the "destruction of hospitals" and claim the Gaza Strip is "surrounded by an impenetrable wall." You claim "the Goldstone committee examined closely the cause of deaths of 1,387 Palestinians who perished. . . "
All these statements are factually false and contribute to inflaming negative perceptions of Israel. Efforts to redress the errors via communication with IHT editors failed with their saying you have refused to correct the false statements. We do hope you'll set the record straight and affirm your commitment to undo any wrongful stigmatizing of Israel. Below is the factual detail corroborating our concerns
about the errors made:
• Israel did not destroy 40,000 Palestinian homes.
Al Mazen Center for Human Rights, a pro-Palestinian NGO, recently issued a report called "Cast Lead Offensive in Numbers" in which it found that 2,632 houses were destroyed beyond repair and 8,522 were assessed as repairable. The latest UN figures are 3,600 homes beyond repair and 2,700 homes that sustained major damages. The Goldstone Report provides additional sources including the Palestinian NGO, Al-Dameer-Gaza, that cites 2,011 civilian and cultural premises as destroyed, of which 1,404 were houses that were completely demolished and 453 partially destroyed or damaged. Even the Arab League's report on Cast Lead states: "Over 3,000 homes were destroyed and over 11,000 damaged." There is no credible report that comes near your charges.
•There was no "destruction of hospitals."
Along with the World Health Organization and the Arab League, other international and Palestinian sources confirm that while there were hospitals damaged in the Gaza Strip, none were destroyed. The January 22-23 report by the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that four days after the cease-fire, hospitals were running at full capacity to treat the wounded. The report states:
Hospitals continue to function at full capacity as many injured patients remain hospitalized, with the result that hospitals have been unable to resume regular services such as elective surgery. Post-surgical physiotherapy is provided in Shifa hospital. Most repair work to the Al Quds Hospital in Gaza City, which was shelled on 15 January, has been completed and the facility is now functioning again.
• "Several hundred thousand" people were not made homeless, spending the winter in tents and caves and under plastic sheets.
A January 21-27, 2009 report by the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs, issued just days after the end of the Gaza fighting found that
"Tens of thousands of Gazans remain homeless, with most staying with relatives or other host families." A Jan. 16-20, 2009 report, also by OCHA, stated: "As of late 20 January, 18,035 people remained in 30 shelters, down from 29,421 people on 19 January." Thus, the U.N.'s figure for those displaced last winter is one-tenth or less of the number you posit. Of those displaced, most stayed with relatives and not in tents, caves or plastic sheets.
• Gaza is not "surrounded by an impenetrable wall."
While a concrete and steel wall does separate Gaza from Egypt, a fence made of metal wire, posts and sensors separates Israel from the Gaza Strip. The fence has been penetrated many times, including when Palestinian gunmen crossed into Israel and kidnapped Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit and killed two of his comrades.
• The Goldstone Report did not examine "closely the cause of deaths of 1,387 Palestinians."
The report identified by name only a small fraction of the 1,387 reported fatalities, and certainly did not "closely" examine the "cause of deaths" of that total. Again, we hope your conciliatory words are indicative of a true change of heart in which Israel is no longer subjected to unwarranted and false criticism. We urge you to take the concrete step of correcting the wrong and distorted statements about Israel in your recent column in the IHT.
Thank you for considering this request and, perhaps, setting the stage for a new beginning.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
This fascinating Jerusalem Post article "Hubs of deligitimization" by Amir Mizroch sums up the "new battlefield" into which Israel has been thown by malevolent groups bent on attacking Israel's very legitimacy. The groups include Muslim and anti-Zionist Jewish organisations and their message is not unlike the classic anti-Semitic mantras starting with accusations of poisoning the wells. This time however, the target is the Jewish State rather than individual Jews but the rest has a familiar tone.
Which strip of Palestine is under Israeli rule?
My son who is a genius at crosswords figured out that the the answer was "G _ Z _" but had trouble beyond that because, since 2005, when they moved out lock, stock and barrel, the Israelis haven't ruled in Gaza. For the most part, the place is ruled by a bunch of thugs from Hamas but don't tell the boffins at the Age.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Don't tell anyone but I believe it was swine flu (which will probably limit my chances of visiting Saudi Arabia any time soon).
Anyhow, will be back from time to time till after New Year and then I'm back with a vengance.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The Islamic University of Gaza’s Rector of Advanced Studies has said:
"The Jews are the Jews…. They do not have any moderates or any advocates of peace. They are all liars. They must be butchered and must be killed…. It is forbidden to have mercy in your hearts for the Jews in any place and in any land, make war on them anywhere that you find yourself. Any place that you meet them, kill themThe Jews are the Jews…. They do not have any moderates or any advocates of peace. They are all liars. They must be butchered and must be killed…"
Imagine if an LSE professor had said that of Palestinians or Muslims.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Not built by Jews so it doesn't qualify as an apartheid wall.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
This attitude is of course, light years away from the thugs who tried to bash their way into the Australia Israel Leadership Forum dinner on Sunday night chanting "Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea" (but which Age journalist Andra Jackson, not for the first time conveniently shortened to "Free Palestine" in her piece on the rioting in yesterday's Age or perhaps she's just partly deaf in the ear that was closest to the chanting). Miles away also from the Loewenstein crowd and Australians for Palestine whose is existence is based entirely on honing its Israel bashing skills and doing nothing to help the Palestinians or bring about peace with their Jewish neighbours.
Monday, December 07, 2009
Nor do we see images such as the one above which is one of many from Gaza depicted on the PalToday website that carry captions reading "Despite the blockade, Gazans go shopping for clothes for their children" and "Making cakes and buying sweets in preparation for the feast".
The Age and many others are either happy for their readers to believe that the Gazans are living in poverty and deprivation as a result of the "evil" Israeli blockade or totally ignorant of the true facts on the ground. Makes you wonder whether it's worth paying good money to have journalists swanning around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and where they get their ideas from.
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Lerner, who has been critical of Israeli policies in the past, has been used by this crowd to push their cause of dehumanising and deligitimising the Jewish State at every opportunity.
Of course, the Loewenstein camp and the oddly named Australians for Palestine (oddly named because they exist only to denigrate the Jewish State and are, in fact, more dangerous to the Palestinians than the Israelis) have actually been exposed by Rabbi Lerner who preached a different message to theirs during his visit.
You see, Lerner says:
'The first step towards peace is for both sides to stop saying 'We're the innocent victims and the other guys are evil' - which is the discourse which predominates both in the Arab world and the Jewish world. We have to transcend the blame game and move to a discourse of mutual compassion'."
This was like waving a red rag to bulls like the blogger who runs Middle East Reality Check (MERC).
Middle East Reality Check is a misnomer if there ever was one because a cursory examination of the blog only demonstrates that its author is far removed from reality.
Of Lerner, MERC goes straight into attack mode and questions his consistency (Lerner was at the forefront of the anti Vietnam movement in the 60s.
One should ask how on earth MERC thinks peace can be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians? By the annihilation of the entire Israeli population as advocated by MERC's mates in Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups?
If not, why not? Because the NLF never had a written down aim to destroy the United States or to exterminated its entire population. That's why not.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Some people truly suck and Barghouti and his followers are among them.
Friday, December 04, 2009
BEFORE Steve Brook and Tom Walkenberg get on their high horse over the Swiss referendum banning minarets (Letters, 2/12), they might like to consider trying to erect the cross of Jesus or the Star of David in Saudi Arabia.
David Rosner, South Yarra
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Past Clinic: Explosive Performance: Starts and Turns
Sat, Dec, 15 2018 - Sun, Dec, 16 2018
Pine-Richland High School
700 Warrendale Road, Gibsonia, PA 15044
A description of what was covered at this past clinic is below the upcoming clinics.
Upcoming Swim Clinics and Camps
Within 250 miles of Gibsonia, PA.
Rose Tree Woods Swim ClubInfo
Warrenton Aquatic and Recreation FacilityInfo
Two-Day Swim Camp – Sign up for one or BOTH days!
Did you know the fastest parts of every race are the start and turns? At this high performance swim camp, participants will work on starts on Saturday and turns on Sunday. A special emphasis will be put on underwater dolphin kicking in both sessions.
Your clinician for this camp with be Olympic gold medalist Nick Thoman. Nick is known for his precision of technique and clear teaching style. He is one of the most experienced and requested clinicians with Fitter and Faster.
Each day there are sessions for swimmers ages 11 & under and another for those ages 12 and up. Scroll down to sign up and for more details on the curriculum.
SAVE: Sign up early – before prices increase or sessions fill up. These sessions are for competitive swimmers only. Swimmers younger than 9 years old are not encouraged to sign up for sessions 1 & 3 without a recommendation by their swim coach.
SESSION 1 & 2: DIVES AND UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING
The start is your opportunity to cover as much ground as possible in a very short period of time, with great efficiency and momentum heading into your underwater kicking and breakout. There are countless intricacies to performing a start and you only get better with practice. Olympic gold medalist Nick Thoman will share his experience on how he found time to practice and improve his start both in and out of the water and teach your swimmer some of his most effective strategies to execute this explosive and athletic movement.
- DIVES: How you set up on the block including proper hand and foot placement can allow your swimmer to explode forward with a lot of explosive power. Nick will work with each swimmer to find their best position on the block as well as how to launch their body forward explosively into a tight streamline and enter through a small hole.
- UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING: The not-so-secret weapon of elite level swimmers is their underwater dolphin kick. Nick Thoman is known as one of the best underwater dolphin kickers in the world and he specializes in teaching swimmers how to unlock their potential in this important skill.
- BREAKOUTS: Learn how to carry momentum from the underwater dolphin kicks into the breakout by timing the first stroke and staying streamlined. Your swimmer will practice keeping their head down and it'll make a big difference in their breakout!
SESSIONS 3 & 4: FLIP TURNS, OPEN TURNS, AND UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING
Races are often won and lost because of the quality of turns and underwater dolphin kicking of the competitors. Many people don't realize this, but the push-off and streamline from the wall after a turn SHOULD BE the fastest a swimmer will go while in the water other than the streamline after a dive. Even elite level, swimmers often add in extra movements on their turns that slow them down and even cause them to lose races that they could have won. At these sessions, gold medalist Nick Thoman will work with each participant to maintain their momentum at these key points in a race.
- FLIP TURNS: Your swimmer will learn how to carry their momentum through the turn to get in and out of every wall faster. Swimmers will practice accelerating into the wall with long strokes and then using their core and arms to get through the turn. They'll practice planting their feet on the wall for a powerful pushoff in the perfect streamline. Nick will give the swimmers drills and exercises to help them master this athletic skill now as well as in the future!
- OPEN TURNS: Think about the open turn differently! You should not be making an open to turn around and swim the next lap. If you're doing this - you're actually stopping and then trying to regain speed again. An expertly executed open turn involves spinning backwards. This enables you to carry momentum into the pushoff. We're going to teach you how to cut a lot of time on this turn... helping you in all of your breaststroke and butterfly races!
- UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICKING: Many swimmer's don't know this, but you shouldn't begin dolphin kicking as soon as possible after the start or turn. Swimmers should push off in a tight streamline, then begin dolphin kicking after maximizing the speed of the pushoff. As a swimmer begins to kick, they should start bigger and slower, then become smaller and faster as they go. Nick will work with the participants at this session to not only have the proper technique, but also the proper strategy to get the most out of their underwater dolphin kicking!
Swimmers and parents are invited to ask Nick questions during a Q&A session. Gain insight into his training regimen, diet and nutrition, and recovery tactics.
WATCH THE CLINICIAN
Observe Nick swim at full speed and demonstrate a progression of perfectly executed drills to achieve powerful, efficient and fast swimming.
PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST
Swimmers will get to practice what they've learned by taking their stroke to top speed with one of the best swimmers in the world! They'll work on holding onto their form while challenging themselves.
Take a photo while wearing Nick's medals, get autographs, and a gift from TYR Sport!
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CALGARY, Alta. – Hockey Canada announced Wednesday the 17 players who will be a part of Canada’s National Sledge Team at the 2015 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship, taking place April 26-May 3 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Canada’s roster includes two goaltenders, five defencemen and 10 forwards. Twelve of the 17 players (Arsenault, Bowden, Bridges, Dixon, Dorion, Gemmell, Larocque, McGregor, Rempel, Watson, Westlake and Whitson) helped Canada win a gold medal at the 2013 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship in Goyang, South Korea.
CLICK HERE FOR CANADA’S NATIONAL SLEDGE TEAM ROSTER FOR THE 2015 IPC SLEDGE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Head coach Ken Babey also announced that Greg Westlake (Oakville, Ont.) will serve as captain of Canada’s National Sledge Team at the world championship, joined by alternate captains Brad Bowden (Orton, Ont.) and Tyler McGregor (Forest, Ont.).
Westlake has worn the ‘C’ for Team Canada at the last two IPC Sledge Hockey World Championships, in addition to the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
“This is a team with a tremendous amount of experience in big-game situations, and one that is excited to defend its world title,” said Babey. “Sledge hockey just keeps getting bigger in Canada, and having this year’s world championship so close to the Canadian border should be another tremendous showcase for the sport in our country.”
Canada’s roster also includes:
· 13 players who helped Canada’s National Sledge Team win a bronze medal at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games (Arsenault, Bowden, Bridges, Delaney, Dixon, Dorion, Gemmell, Larocque, McGregor, Rempel, Watson, Westlake and Whitson)
· four players who will make their debuts at the IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship (Cederstrand, Delaney, Sholomicki and Sorley)
Canada opens the world championship on Sunday against Japan, and will also face Norway on April 27 and the Czech Republic on April 29 in preliminary round play. The semifinals are set for May 1, and the bronze medal game and gold medal game will be played May 3.
CLICK HERE FOR THE SCHEDULE FOR THE 2015 IPC SLEDGE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
In seven appearances at the IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship, Canada has won three gold medals (2000, 2008, 2013) and three bronze medals (1996, 2009, 2012), finishing fourth in 2004.
NOTE TO MEDIA: Esther Madziya, Hockey Canada’s coordinator of media relations, will be on site at the 2015 IPC Sledge Hockey World Championship with Canada’s National Sledge Team. She can be reached for interview requests at email@example.com or 403-519-5754.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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You gotta feel good for Jimmy Conrad. It is amazing that a world renown media icon can step onto a soccer pitch and have a man of the match performance! Conrad’s header and tremendous defense helped ensure the latest American triumph over our amigos. The first ten minutes of the match were terrible, with the balls spending more time out of bounds than in play. After settling down, the Mexicans set out to test Johnathan Boronstein who had trouble with the pressure early on, but gained his feet enough to discourage this tactic in the second half. A cause for concern is that BB the King, like his predecessor il Bruce, feels that Landon Donovan is a forward, but played him in Rolfe in what seemed to be a revolving 1-1, with both of them switching sides and patrolling the attacking mid space. After the initial 15 minutes, the Americans seemed to calm down and the teams went into the half level. However, the Americans got on the board with the aforementioned header in the 57th minute. The celebration was short lived as the Americans weathered attack after attack from El Tri. The Mexicans continued to be frustrated Tim Howard and the all for one American defense, which was shaky but resilient. Fruitless in their attempts against Boronstein, the Mexicans set out to exploit, a step slow Chris Albright leading to him giving way to Josh Gros. Just into extra time, the Red, White and Blue sealed the deal after an Mexican pass bounced off referee Mauricio into the path of Ricardo Clark who one touched a pass to Donovan in the center circle. Juking two Mexican defenders, My Captain was past the defense and one-on-one with the keeper Oswaldo Sanchez. Donovan calmly pushed the ball past Sanchez and then buried it in the back of the net. Overall, a tremendous result for a team badly in need of such a win. BB the King took another step toward the full time throne. It didn’t hurt that the game was a ratings smash that send Univision into the top five networks for the evening in certain demographics. Over 8 million Americans watched this so called friendly. My only contention with Bradley’s decisions is that I would have liked to seen Justin Mapp get some time in for a struggling Bobby Convey. That being said it is difficult to argue with the results.
REal Salt Lake - There to Stay!Great news for all of us fans of REal Salt Lake! The Utah Governor steps in and rams a bill through the house a week after Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon seemingly deep sixed the stadium and the team. Very similar circumstances to the saga of the Chicago White Sox in the late 80's. One thing that is ALWAYS overlooked throughout this saga is that while the taxpayers are chipping in $50 all told, the team is making a private investment upwards of $70 million. Great vision by Utah lawmakers to guarantee that some of the tourist dollars I have at my disposal will be spent in Utah in the next few years. And WOW, what a stadium design!
Rapids still Rapids
Despite much speculation, the owners of the Colorado Rapids, Kronke Sports Entertainment, retain the clubs name and introduce some spiffy new uniforms. While forging a formal relationship with Arsenal, the club does not take their new partners names. While I am an outspoken proponent of the name Real Salt Lake, renaming a franchise and adopting a foreign team name is just sad and an attempted short cut to creating passion (NY Franchise I’m looking your way.) FC Dallas, was just a move to a more traditional soccer name. Not a problem, however Arsenal Colorado would have been a seven syllable embarrassment.
Rayna vs. Beckham – American Soccer
Add Ray Hudson to the list of those in the US Soccer establishment that are enamored with Captain Boredom. Ray was flailing around the American Soccer desk like John Belushi supporting Beckham over Reyna as “style over substance”. Hudson went on and on, claiming that Reyna will have a much larger impact on the RedBulls than Becks will have on the Gals. I almost fell over laughing. I’m not sure how great of a cheerleader Claudio is, but it will be difficult to have a great season from the IR. Between the artificial surfaces at Giants Stadium, Toronto and Gillette, I give Claudio four games. Further, I can recall exactly one game where Reyna had a significant positive impact on a match, USA v. Germany 2002. Beckham won the Ecuador game for England this summer, while Claudio ensured that Ghana got off to a 1-0 lead. Style and substance, that is Beckham. Another failed “soccer savior”, that is Reyna. What has benefited Reyna is that he hasn’t been the target of political power plays by his club and national team coaches. As I type, Becks fed Hudson and his coach Fabio Capello crow, tying the Real Sociadad match at one with a tremendous free kick.
Redemption of the Week:
Landon Donovan – Despite a poor first half that involved him chasing air balls sent into him and Chris Rolfe while being marked by much taller defenders, my Captain came charging back to have a hand in both goal to again topple Mexico 2-0. Often Donovan could be seen defending his own endline and was involved in every part of the match during the second frame.
Idiots of the Week:
The Mexican National Team – After a classless display during the game with GK Oswaldo Sanchez taking a swipe at Eddie Johnson after Donovans goal the Mexicans topped that by AGAIN refusing to shake hands and sulking off the field with their jerseys intact. The post game interviews with the team were no different. Almost to a man, the Tri felt they were the better team and deserved to win the match, yielding no respect to an American side that has held them scoreless for a decade on US soil.
The Soccer Hour with Glenn Davis
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Let’s begin with our F2Q performance. The top line trends we saw in F1Q continued in F2Q with sales rising 13% to $101.7 million from the record $90.3 million in the prior year period. Revenue growth was driven by strength in the Engineered Films and Applied Technology Divisions, along with the addition of Vista Research revenues in Aerostar.
We continue to benefit from favorable market dynamics in agriculture and energy and we’re leveraging these trends to drive revenue gains in Engineered Films and Applied Technology. Sales in these divisions continued at a record pace in F2Q. Even though a difficult federal spending environment existed and negatively impacted Aerostar’s performance we delivered a strong first half. The ability to do so once again highlights Raven’s diversified model.
We remain steadfast in our commitments, helping customers solve great challenges in the areas of hunger, safety, environmental protection, and energy independence. As customer needs evolve and market dynamics vary, we embrace change and have the flexibility to shift our operational focus and innovative drive to succeed as a business.
Our ability to meet these challenges and aggressively expand and pursue new opportunities requires important capital investments. During F2Q we spent $15.5 million to support our ambitious F2013 product and growth strategy. Despite these investments we were still able to deliver a solid performance and Thom will talk more about our research & development and SG&A later.To fund future growth, increase our dividend each year and maintain a low debt balance sheet we rely on our strong cash flows, a trademark of the Raven model. I’m pleased to report that our cash balance at the end of F2Q stood at $44.1 million. This was up slightly from the end of F1Q and includes capital spending that was up 53% from the prior year.I’d now like to talk about each of our three divisions, starting with Engineered Films. As you saw in the release, this division’s sales were up 13% and accounted for 36% of total F2Q sales. Net income rose 29%. Both sales and operating income came in at record levels. We continue to see solid, sustainable growth in the energy and ag markets. Energy currently comprises about 40% of our EFD revenues and that’s lower than our recent historical levels which had approached 50%, and we see this as a positive trend.
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Taxpayers shouldn’t absorb cost of spill
Poisoning our precious water, and all subsequent costs, is the coal industry’s responsibility. The entire cost of environmental damage, the cost of studying over the long term and treating the consequential health damages, even the added repairs, overtime and filter replacement costs, the cost to the taxpayers directly or indirectly associated for all DEP and other city, county, state and federal agencies should be assessed and collected from the coal industry, its owners and shareholders. We citizens and taxpayers should not be picking up the tab. And none of these costs should be allowed in any ratepayer PSC petition.
While poor regulatory watchdogging at DEP and inept management at Freedom Industries played a factor in the spill, the existence of MCHM in local storage tanks, and the risks involved, would not be there if the coal industry did not require their existence to function. It’s a hidden cost of coal that is now in the open.
We taxpayers did not request that drink. It’s their tab. Make them pay.
Thoughts about New Yorker Piece
With regard to Evan Osnos’ New Yorker piece, “Chemical Valley,” I have two perhaps contradictory thoughts:
1) I wish A. James Manchin were here to defend the state’s honor, and
2) Mother Jones — A staunch atheist — is somewhere saying, “This is exactly what I meant when I said ‘When I pass over I am going to tell God about West Virginia.’”
H. John Rogers
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A woman whose harassment by Jarrod W. Ramos led to his vendetta against the Capital Gazette says she immediately panicked when she learned of the attack on the paper that killed five people.
Speaking with NBC’s Today show in an interview aired Monday, she said his relentless abuse forced her to move out of Maryland, where Ramos is now charged with murder in Thursday’s shootings.
“I would be afraid that he could show up anywhere at any time and kill me,” she said. “I have been tormented and traumatized and terrorized for so long, that it has I think changed the fibre of my being.”
NBC agreed to obscure her features and use only her first name, Lori.
She described their first contact, years ago: “He reached out to me via e-mail, to ask if I remembered him from high school; I replied to him, nicely, that I did not,” she said.
Several more exchanges followed, until, months later, she said she didn’t write back quickly enough for him. His response: “He said f you, go kill yourself. You’re going to need a protective order,” she recalled.
Ramos eventually pleaded guilty to harassing the woman, which the newspaper reported, and from that point on Ramos launched a vendetta against the Gazette, threatening its staff online and in the courts.
“He is very cold, he is very calculated, he is very intelligent,” Lori said. But “one thing that I do feel now is that he can no longer silence me.”
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If you?re looking to add a touch of class, Snow Glaze Lamp will do the job. Crafted from porcelain with hand applied snow white glaze finish and a raw silk cream shade. Lamp body sits atop a gold base with matching gold elements, has one light and a three-way switch.
Snow Glaze Lamp33.5"H x 8"W x 8"D
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I remember at some point in 1983 or early 1984 (really, who’s gonna believe I can remember that far back?) looking at the back of the Thriller album and counting how many songs had been released as singles in the U.K. Twenty-five years later, with Photoshop and Wikipedia at my disposal, I got around to doing a chart. I’ve only looked at U.K. and U.S. singles cos one is my home country, and one was Michael’s and it’d probably get very messy if I added Namibia and Paraguay-only singles. The opening song on all but Invicible were singles. I wonder what was wrong with the first track off that album..? Can’t honestly say I’ve heard any songs off of that one. Note: the second bit of HIStory is represented here cos, of course, the first bit was a greatest hits.
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Loved ones’ ashes are being kept in a lot more than urns these days
Beer steins. Cookie jars. Model train cars. Funeral professionals says there are a lot of creative ways people are storing cremated remains.
It’s that time of year when people are thinking of pretty packages all tied up with a bow. But what about some of the most precious packages of all?
Funeral professionals say people are coming up with a lot of creative ways to store cremated remains these days. In beer steins, for instance. And cookie jars. Model train cars, too.
Even in a Chanel shoebox. That’s what fashion designer Sharon Harris Hart picked as her final resting place.
Brooke Benjamin, a funeral director in Chicago with the Cremation Society of Illinois, was discussing arrangements with Hart when the subject of storage came up. Benjamin told her she could use something of her own choosing and not just the traditional urn.
“It can be anything,” she told Hart. “It can be a shoebox.”
Hart “got this funny smile, like a Cheshire cat,” Hart’s assistant Terese Walton says.
The couturier went to her closet. She came back with a Chanel shoebox.
It was perfect for Hart, who created classic clothes for Chicago society figures. She adored Chanel and kept important papers in the Chanel shoebox.
“She loved Chanel,’’ says Walton, founder of the personal concierge company Living Made Easier. “Her Chanel flats were her favorite shoes.”
When Hart died in September at 85, that’s where her ashes were placed — inside a sealed, heavy plastic liner.
“That is where they are at this moment,” Walton says.
Hart isn’t the only person Walton knew who made a nontraditional choice.
“We had a lady who used to like [Chinese] takeout food,” she says. “So her kids put [her sealed-up ashes] in a take-out container and put it in her favorite chair — the chair she used to sit in that overlooked Lake Michigan.”
Mike Shea, office manager at The Oaks Funeral Home in Itasca, says, “I know a family that used a tackle box because he was such a fisherman.”
“I had a woman whose husband collected beer steins,” says Stephen Dawson, owner of Sax-Tiedemann Funeral Home & Crematorium in Franklin Park. “She didn’t like traditional urns. She brought in this great big beer stein and placed the ashes in there instead.”
For a train collector, “We were able to put cremated remains in each of the freight cars for his model train,” Dawson says. “The family took them home.”
Tim Harrington of Barr Funeral Home in Edgewater had a tall client nicknamed “Big Bird.” When he died, “His cremated remains were put into a Big Bird cookie jar,” Harrington says.
Benjamin says she helped clients whose mother told them to make sure they got a good price for her collectible Red Riding Hood cookie jar after her death. Instead of cookies, they used it for her ashes.
“They didn’t have to spend money on an urn,” Benjamin says. “They didn’t have to worry about selling the cookie jar. It was delightful.”
In accordance with his wishes, the ashes of Stephen Mullins, founder of the American Toby Jug Museum, were stored in a mug with his likeness after his death in June.
At the service, “The mug was carried out by his family to the tune of ‘I Did It My Way,’ ” says Kevin Pearson, curator of the Evanston museum.
At Graceland Cemetery on Chicago’s North Side, “There was a family who decided to use an ice bucket,” according to a staffer. “They had it engraved with their wedding day. They mixed the ashes together.’’
Some people have incorporated ashes into jewelry or concrete formations used to create artificial ocean reefs.
After suffering a heartbreaking loss, Roberta Scott found comfort in a unique container for her baby, who was named Arrow. Moments after he was born last year, his heart stopped, and he died.
“He was alive and looking at us,” she says. “He closed his eyes, and he was gone. He never did make that first big cry.”
Scott, who studied art at Michigan State University with Jeff Blandford, asked him to create meaningful keepsakes. After Arrow was cremated, Blandford “blew the ashes into a glow glass,” she says.
Blandford, who operates the Jeff Blandford Gallery in Saugatuck, Michigan, says the phosphorescent paperweights glow because he used a form of the element strontium in the glassblowing process. Fellow artist Todd Knight made pendants.
For Scott and her husband Sean, the luminescent objects are lights in the darkness.
“It’s the baby never being in the dark,” she says. “He sits on my nightstand, and he glows all night long. I often think of him and hold the glow glass. That’s where we keep him.”
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Welcome to the Resource Economics and Policy Lab
My lab applies empirical and theoretical quantitative methods to study the design and evaluation of policy instruments for the conservation of natural resources.
CV Short bio Lab Members Graduate School
|James N. Sanchirico
Environmental Science and Policy
University of California, Davis
UC Davis Coastal and Marine Science Institute
Resources for the Future
UC Davis Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior
UC Davis John Muir Institute for the Environment
Jean Sanchirico (sister)
Law and Economic
Research by Chris Sanchirico (brother)
Sample of current lab projects:
Sample of recent publications: (Here is a link for reprints):
A density projection approach for non-trivial information dynamics: Adaptive management of stochastic natural resources. J. of Environmental Economics and Management. 2013. 66(3): p. 609-624.
Updated Nov. 2016.
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Re: Soc Gdt
We have crappy internet service here. Our 2 options are Century Link and Cox. Cox is cable, and while they can be fast sometimes, they aren't most of the time, according to friends. Century Link is what we have 7 megs, I think you have an option to go faster, up to 20 megs but I'm not positive.
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The MOOER RADAR is a full-featured professional speaker simulator which can be a permanent resident at the end of your pedalboard. Not only does it carry 30 cab models but it also has optional microphone and power amp simulation. Ideal for recording or hooked up to your favourite headphones for practice. The RADAR will transform your pedalboard into a complete guitar rig.
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Convergence #1. Jeff King & Scott Lobdell- Writers, Carlos Pagulayan- Pencils, Jason Paz- Inks, Aspen MLT’s John Starr with Peter Steigerwald- Colors.
Heroes lost in time and space- that’s where we begin in Convergence #1, and it is the commonality of all the characters who’ve been “collected” on Telos by the master- Brainiac. As we learned in last week’s Convergence #0, the master is a sort of Brainiac Prime with different iterations that have done his bidding throughout the timelines and alternate Earths of the DC Universe. With this issue, the Brainiac that has been formed out of this planet, Telos, sets in motion the classic comic book shop argument- “If the Superman from Earth-Two fought the Captain Marvel from Kingdom Come, who would win?” While we may not see that exact match-up, Telos, both planet and sentient being, is giving us the opportunity to experience such bouts while taking us on a nostalgic trip through DC history, and the prize? Re-admittance to the Multiverse, or so he would have us believe.
The issue opens with the Injustice- Gods Among Us timeline. Superman amok continues as the theme as Batman, Flash, Cyborg and Harley Quinn are unable to convince him that he’s destroying everything to the point he has no one over which to rule. He is then apparently snuffed out by the master. The scene switches to a barren dessert landscape much like the one Earth-0 Superman encountered in the previous issue. Arriving here though are the characters from Earth 2– Alan Scott (Green Lantern), Jay Garrick (The Flash), Val-Zod (Superman), Thomas Wayne (The Batman) and Dick Grayson (Journalist), all recently escaping doom in the final pages of New 52 Earth 2 World’s End. There are a few heated words between Grayson and Wayne as they try to figure out what’s happened. They are interrupted by the appearance of the Earth 2 Avatar of the Red- Yolanda Montez, who unapologetically plants a massive kiss on Grayson, much to his protestations. This incites another argument, but it doesn’t last for long as Telos makes his appearance and he is nearly as surprised as they are.
Apparently, all the cities that have been collected by the Brainiacs and stored on the planet Telos were “saved” at the moment of finality- just as their timelines were ending. However, due to the nature of the events with Earth 2, the people survived while the world did not, and this has created a problem- they are people without a city. It is at this point we learn that the city from Earth 2 was the last that would ever be collected and thus the Convergence begins. It’s a tournament that will result in the winner returning to the DC Universe or I would gather- DC Multiverse.
For a reader like me, the nostalgia factor is off the charts. For a modern reader, I would imagine the event nature of the book makes it a must read. However, within the nostalgia and the spectacle of the event there will be character moments touch us. In this issue, one can’t help but feel for Dick Grayson- the ultimate in relatable characters going back to the impetus for his introduction to the Batman mythos way back in Detective Comics (Vol. 1) #38. In this way, the Earth 2 Dick Grayson functions as the everyman for us despite his rather limited role in the issue. He’s just as out of place as we are as readers in this barren wasteland of an Earth. While this issue is not nearly as meta-textual as the average Grant Morrison book, it flirts with the notion. It is clearly informed by previous Crisis events and quite honest about it. Yolanda Montez had a memorable energy and attitude. The interaction between her and Grayson were simple, but seemed to imply something more that I would enjoy watching develop. This event was promoted as a love letter to the fans and it clearly is that, and in an honest way, that begs us to like it simply for what it is. Lastly, it was enjoyable to see the weekly series that ended feed directly into the continuity of this book.
The in-fighting of the Earth 2 characters feels a bit contrived as does the set up of the concept of Convergence. It runs slightly longer than it should and this issue feels like another set up issue for the concept as did the zero issue. There’s a bit more to the hype than the execution so far.
I think the real sell for this series is directly proportional to how invested one is in the DC Universe in total. It finally feels like DC is making something directed at readers like me. With that said it feels like “Two Thumbs Up!” This could preclude newer DC readers who have only come aboard in the past few years. However, I would remind readers of The Flash (Vol.1) #123 and Justice League of America (Vol. 1) # 21 that looked back at DC’s past and engaged new readers with older characters. With the re-introduction of so many iterations of DC characters, this could happen again with Convergence.
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A good question to ask is why The Inner Party went to all the trouble to torture those they considered thought criminals. There was only one reason, to maintain power over people. This included all citizens, to destroy individuals and independent thinkers. Both were considered guilty of being thought criminals, no more than a ‘flaw in the pattern, a stain to be laundered out of the cloth, a cancer cell to be cauterized.
Towards the end of the interrogation O’Brie told Winston that essentially the individual was just a cell in the body of Big Brother, the body was not affected at all when the cell died. Winston asked about the stars being light years away from Earth. O’Brien retorted that stars were no more than small clumps of fire a few kilometers away from the Earth’s surface. It would be interesting to find out how many people would believe either of the above two claims became ‘official policy’.
At the very end of the interrogation the straps that bound Winston were finally loosened and he was able to get off the gurney. Then Winston saw himself in a mirror. What he saw was a ‘bowed, grey coloured skeleton thing’ that Winston had become. Winston had slowly been starved to death. His body was completely grey with ‘ancient ingrained dirt’. His legs had shrunk to the point that his knees were thicker than his thighs.He had stunk like a goat.
Room 101 was not a place to find yourself. Winston had asked O’Brien what was in Room 101, O’Brien answered that the worst thing in the world was there. It varied from person to person, it could be snakes, heights, being burnt alive among other things. For Winston it was rats. Strapped so tight in a chair to the point Winston couldn’t make the slightest movement. A cage with two starving wharf rats was placed even with Winston’s face. Once the cage door was unlocked the rats would fly out to burrow into Winston’s face.
Cowardice or courage aren’t a factor here, self preservation is. With no way of escaping Winston placed Julia in his place wanting to transfer his punishment to her. Screaming several times ‘Do it to Julia, not me’, it was the ultimate betrayal to someone he loved.
Sometime after his release from the Ministry of Love, Winston and Julia met up by accident. Conversation between them was stiff. Julia had a surgical scar from her forehead to temple.The thought of having sex was repulsive to both of them. Julia had also denied Winston under torture, probably in Room 101.
At the end of 1984 the final ‘healing’ had happened. Winston had seen though his ‘folly’ and loved Big Brother. Not a happy ending.
Ron Murdock has lived and worked in Western Canada all his life, and will continue to do so until his last day on Planet Earth. He has a good number of interests and hobbies which include dogs, freight trains, baseball and astronomy. Ron wants to know what the truth is, and nothing but the truth, and will do what research it takes to find it. The best compliment he can get is when a person says his writing, or what he says, gets them seeking.
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“The Ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening…” (1 Kings 17:6)
This testimony recorded in scriptures didn’t end with Elijah. The raven is still in operation today in the lives of those who believe! In the maiden edition of this publication was an awesome testimony of the raven supply (You can read online at www.revivalpost.) Yet, the raven didn’t stop then. It has continued to serve as an herald of supernatural and mind-blowing provision to God’s People as prophesied by God’s prophet, Dr. Isaiah Wealth after he had seen a Raven in a vision from God.
Here is the encounter as rendered by the man of God.
“I was in a vision, and I saw a black bird come and land in the mountain where I had been in separation with the LORD. It was a black bird with a rainbow colour all around its chest. I began to search my spirit what this could mean when suddenly, the voice of the LORD came to me saying “this is the Raven that fed Elijah, and has come to feed the tithers”. The LORD continued that “the world spoke against tithers on the internet over the past two years, but now, the Raven has come to feed the tithers. Those who believed God’s Word and were tithing, believing God’s Word and supporting the Kingdom, the Raven has come for them.”
Since the last edition of this publication, the coronavirus pandemic and its adverse effects have hit harder than before. Many more have lost their jobs, poverty rate increased and many nations are in economic recession. But in confirmation to the words of God’s servant, God’s people were neither helpless nor forsaken as they began testifying of the raven’s supernatural supply just like Elijah did.
Let us take a look at one of the testimonies that have come in so far.
The Raven Has Indeed Landed in South Africa!
My contract at my place of work was meant to end on the last day of October. Before this time, I had been extended before but by only two months which is now coming to an end. I had begun to think of what the next phase of my life will be and how I would survive especially in the face of the pandemic. However, just on the final day of my contract, my colleague who works with the Accounts unit began to call me repeatedly, but I was reluctant to answer. To my surprise she then asked me for my bank account details. Then she also asked me for my contract form which I had initially signed when I started working there.Surprisingly, as the day went on. I saw a notification that money was paid into my bank account. I noticed that this amount that was paid in from my employer was double my salary. I began to wonder what could be going on. But I suspected that the raven that our man of God prophesied about was at work. To my amazement, my employer had prepared my permanent employment papers and presented it to me for signing. A new project has been assigned to me where I will serve in the role of a supervisor. When unemployment was looming in my face, the Raven made provision for me not to lack any good thing. Glory be to God! God is Awesome!
Sis Nilza (Pretoria, South Africa)
Just as you have heard and read this testimony of Raven supply, you can connect to the Word of the LORD by faith and more will be given to you. Lack and penury is not God’s will for you and your household this season. It is your season to partake of supernatural supply!
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Wake of Death (January 8/05)
As hard as it may be to believe, Wake of Death is Jean-Claude Van Damme's most enjoyable movie in almost ten years. Van Damme's last halfway decent film remains 1995's Sudden Death, and there's no denying that his output as of late has been seriously lacking (ie Derailed, The Order, In Hell, etc, etc). The biggest problem with those movies has been an emphasis on convoluted storylines, when all one really wants to see is Van Damme kick some butt. Wake of Death finally gives the Muscles from Brussels a fairly straight-forward plot that wastes little time in getting to the action (the film even opens with a car chase!), something that sounds simple but has been oddly absent from some of his more recent flicks.
Van Damme stars as Ben Archer, an ex-grunt for the mob whose wife brings home a young Chinese refugee one night (she's a social worker, you see). As it turns out, said Chinese refugee is the daughter of a ruthless warlord named Sun Quan (Simon Yam). Not surprisingly, it's not long before Sun Quan goes after his daughter - killing Ben's wife and in-laws in the process. Now Ben must embark on a mission of revenge, employing the services of some of his brutal mob buddies in the process.
It's virtually impossible to screw up a film based in revenge - particularly one in which the hero is forced to seek retaliation for the murder of a loved one - so it's not terribly shocking that Wake of Death works as well as it does. Van Damme is at his best here, though it is a little disappointing that he spends most of his time dispatching goons using a wide range of guns - rather than his well-known chop-socky skills. Still, it's hard to deny the pleasure of watching Van Damme eliminate a particularly smug baddie by shooting him point-blank in the face - with a shotgun.
But what prevents Wake of Death from joining the ranks of Van Damme's stellar mid-'90s output (Timecop, anyone?) is director Philippe Martinez annoyingly over-the-top sense of style. This guy makes Michael Bay look subtle; Martinez peppers virtually every single scene in the film with fast cuts, slow-motion photography, and an all-around feeling of slickness that's more distracting than anything else. Fortunately, it's easy enough to ignore Martinez's questionable directorial choices - particularly given the effectiveness of the actors, including Van Damme himself and Yam (who turns Sun Quan into an incredibly menacing figure, spouting sinister lines like, "the only thing you postpone in life is death.")
If you're not a Van Damme fan, it seems highly unlikely that Wake of Death will change your opinion. However, if you've been patiently waiting for a return to form. . .well, this isn't quite it, but it's about as close as we're going to get.
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Anime girls and nazis DON’T mix! Facebook and Oculus Rift SHOULDN’T mix! Screwattack and Fullscreen DO mix! All that and more on this week’s caiminds podcast.
This week’s hosts; Jamiethecomic, Omni, Fishdragon, Copper
E-mail us at: firstname.lastname@example.org
0:00 – Intros
1:52 – Omni gives his thoughts on his recently completed game; Thomas was Alone
4:23 – Jamie was spoke in the past of his love for Bioshock infinite, what about Burial at Sea Episode 2?
7:53 – Copper shares his opinions on the latest Spiderman comic story line and the next installment
13:30 – Like card games? What about Card games with hot anime Nazi girls? Fish doesn’t approve
17:14 – Omni shares his disgust for a politician’s solution to stop bullying
23:01 – Jamie remains optimistic for the new TMNT movie
31:13 – The gang share why they are not enthusiastic for Facebook buying the oculus rift
34:16 – Screwattack sells out… and its a good thing!
36:40 – Signing out
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Our Bespoke Security Team know that no two assignments are ever the same and each has its own unique challenges. We take the time to understand your problems and requirements, before offering a solution that will meet your specific needs.
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US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo predicted state, local and private investors could swell the sum allocated to a programme to boost domestic chip production by around $100 billion, Reuters reported.
The government is mulling the CHIPS for America Act, which would provide a $52 billion pot to encourage chip manufacture in the US. Raimondo expects individual states to complement federal funding with their own monies, which, along with municipal and private investment, could take the total outlay to $150 billion.
Raimondo forecast up to ten new fabrication facilities could be built if the bill is passed. The money would be used to fund tax subsidies for R&D and chip production, along with a national semiconductor technology centre.
The bill was proposed by now US President Joe Biden in mid-2020, with the original sum of $50 billion increased by $2 billion earlier this month.
Operators including AT&T and Verizon, along with some of the biggest US chipmakers, are positive about the plan.
In March, Intel announced plans to invest $20 billion to build two new factories in the US.Subscribe to our daily newsletter Back
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The third pair of last-16 World Cup matches will be played on Monday when Brazil tackle Mexico and Belgium face Japan.
Here, FP flags up what to look out for.
Will Neymar follow Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to the airport?
Two of the world’s three most celebrated footballers – Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo – made their World Cup exits on Saturday just hours apart, as Argentina suffered a 4-3 defeat against France and European champions Portugal lost 2-1 to Uruguay. The third member of football’s most acclaimed triumvirate – Brazil striker Neymar – will hope to avoid the same fate when his team tackle Mexico. Neymar and Brazil should march on, but Russia 2018 has been crammed with tales of the unexpected.
Brazil thrive at the World Cup business end
The group stage is done and dusted for another World Cup, and Brazil’s record in the high-octane knockout phase shows how consistently well they cope with the pressure and expectation that surrounds them. Since bowing out at the last-16 stage during Italia 90, their record in the next six World Cup tournaments shows two titles, one runners-up spot, one fourth place and two quarter-final exits. If they trip up on Monday, it will be a huge upset.
Mexico have shown they are not daunted by Brazil’s brilliance
Of all the many statistics that accompany Monday’s encounter, two stand out. Brazil have never lost to Mexico in a World Cup tournament, scoring 11 goals during that run of victories, but when it comes to recent head-to-heads in all competitions, Mexico have proved largely unfazed. Although Mexico have not reached the World Cup quarter-finals since 1986, their last 15 games against Brazil have produced seven victories, two draws and just five defeats.
Belgium unlikely to see goals dry up
Roberto Martinez’s team have been in free-scoring form in the tournament so far, hitting nine goals during the pool phase. They are set to welcome back Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku after injury against Japan, and with Eden Hazard pulling the strings it would be a surprise if their three goals a game average is not maintained at Japan’s expense.
Japan will be history-makers if they win
Japan head coach Akira Nashino has taken his team to the verge of a best World Cup showing in their history. The last time Japan reached a World Cup last 16, they lost to Paraguay in South Africa eight years ago, with a quarter-final place having never previously been accomplished. They have their work cut out, but the possibility of a quarter-final against Brazil should inspire them.
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NANCY O’LEARY: ...And, and then they drove us a little closer to the house. And then, um, and then we had to get out, and we saw the barricades, and we saw police, and at this point, it was like, ‘Oh, my gosh! This is real--there’s police.’ And, um, John stopped to talk to some of the, the people that were standing there, and I started walking, and as I went to the police barricade, the woman went to stop me, and I just stood there. And I think--in the condition that I probably was, I think, I was in shock at that point--you know, they, they said I was just trembling the whole time, and I was having difficulty walking. Um, but as I approached the barricade, she went to stop me, and I just stood there and looked at her, and I said, ‘it’s my house,’ and she just waved her arm, like, “Come on through.” And, um, and then I could see all the fire trucks, and then I could see the firemen, but I couldn’t see our house, and I waited for John to catch up, so we could walk to view it together. And as we were walking past the firemen, it was like, it was almost like they were kind of in a line, like watching us as we were--whether they were watching our reactions or what, I don’t know--but we were, I don’t know, it was just a surreal thing to be walking past them and knowing that we were the only ones allowed down there. And then, uh, we got to the end of the fire trucks, and there was another fireman standing there, and I said, ‘We’re looking for a fire marshal named Andy King.’ And, um, he said, “He’s right over here.” And he pointed us to him, and at that point, we knew that, as we kind of rounded this one large tree, we would see the house. And, when we did, I don’t, I kind of, sort of, remember what happened; he does--he said I collapsed in his arms--
JOHN O’LEARY: Mhm.
NANCY: --when I saw it. And, uh, ‘cause it was just a shell. There was--
JOHN: Just a brick facade in front--that was it.
NANCY: Yeah, there was-
NANCY: --there was one, and maybe a quarter of a wall remaining, of the, you know, two-story, four bedroom, you know, large home. And, um, it just looked like a bombed out World War II shelter-type thing. And we just, we just stood there, and I, I don’t remember the collapsing part. However, he told me I did collapse, and I cried at that moment. And then, um, and then the fire marshal approached us, and once he did, he started interviewing us right on the spot, asking us questions. But he was so--gentle, and, and, um, just compassionate, obviously, and, he told me later that, um, from, my physical stature and how I was reacting, he said he knew that I was in complete shock, and had no idea this fire was taking place, and, um, anyway-- So, apparently, from his records, he told us that, um, they received over 90-something 9-1-1 calls, and he said, so, but, from the, from putting all that together, they figured the fire started around 1:30 in the morning, and, uh, but they did not know that we were in in it, um, that were not--they weren’t no-, our mailbox wasn’t tagged as “having been evacuated.” Um, he found out who the owners were of the house by going to the mailbox, and, um, I had left some mail in there, so he found that.
JOHN: A Ford recall notice! (laughs)
NANCY: Yeah (amusement in voice)-- And, um, and so, anyway, so he, um, he said, from that, they went to try and search how to find us, and how to, and he said, “Of course...we were trying neighbor after neighbor, trying to locate everyone,” and he goes, “And nobody knew where you had gone.” And he goes, “Until we got to the one neighbor,” who is like a medical surgeon person, medical doctor, and so he, um, he was tracked down, I guess through the hospital or something, and that’s how, um, they got a hold of him, and then he actually said, you know, when they told him, “We’re looking for the O’Leary family,” he said, “They’re here with us.” And you can actually hear on the transcripts, the fire marshal’s sigh of relief, when, he heard those words. And, uh, but, he told me, that’s how they located us. Um, he was sorry they didn’t locate us till five o’clock in the morning, but as I told him, and we still believe to this day, it was a blessing for us not to have known, not to have seen it, in flames, not to have been there. And it actually hasn’t been until this day, that we finally looked at the pictures of the actual fire.
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Vanity Ideas, Craftsman Vanity Mission Style Bathroom Vanity Plans Lipstic Lotion House Comb Powder Man Wine Apple: amusing craftsman vanity
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Dating engagement crystal castles hershey dating policy
The vast majority of commenters said they would be sympathetic if she didn't like the style, but concluded that she only cared about the cost and wanted something bigger.More sympathetic sorts advised her to pretend the ring doesn't suit her of doesn't fit and ask if they can pick out something different together.
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One man shared a snap of his fiance proudly donning a £12.99 ring he snapped up a budget retailer, Argos.
This bride posted a delighted photo of her new ring, explaining: 'I'm guilty I wanted my engagement ring to be a ct of diamonds but now that I have one that I know my partner put a lot of thought into ....
He had been doing these god-awful King Kong impressions a little too loudly for his buddies in the back of the room and got himself moved to the front, beside me, because I apparently was quiet and responsible. We spent hours on the phone with one another every night and into the early morning.
My mother placed strict "D hours" on the phone..talking after 10pm. Neither of us can remember what we talked about or how we even had that much to talk about, but it didn't matter.
And it seems that the internet agrees - with ladies from around the world taking to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to display their cut-price sparklers, with some costing as little as £12.99 from Argos.
Women from around the world have flaunted their budget rings online in revolt to a comment from woman who said her man didn't spend enough. It's about the fact I get to spend the rest of my life calling the man I'm completely and irrevocably in love with' I thought it was about time that I stopped living in sin!
However, a handful backed her up with one saying that £1,300 isn't a lot to spend for a high earner with one saying she'd been 'short changed' by any ring costing less than a month's salary.
The beauty was seen flashing her diamond engagement ring from fiance Taylor Goldsmith when hitting the Entertainment Weekly’s Pre-Emmy Party on Friday night at the Sunset Tower in West Hollywood.
On April 15th, 2006, the day before Easter, D sent me on an elaborate Easter Egg Hunt with twist.
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Italy has been exposed at the heart of an ongoing trade in illicit timber from Myanmar, in defiance of both EU trade regulations and sanctions imposed in response to the violent military coup earlier this year. In this report, EIA identifies a total of 27 Italian timber traders importing teak timber products.
Nigeria has emerged as the main transit and export hub for trafficking in elephant ivory, pangolin scales and other wildlife, but this in-depth analysis of the country’s relevant laws aims to help turn the tide
On the eve of a meeting of the World Heritage Committee, EIA urges it to strip the world-famous Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania of its status as a World Heritage Site due to the irreversible damage done by construction of a controversial dam.
Recent years have witnessed an alarming increase in the illegal trade of plastic waste, with high-income countries consuming plastic products and packaging at unsustainable rates, exporting their plastic waste to developing countries with little capacity and infrastructure to manage it.
After viewing documents for 10 shipments of teak imported into Croatia and analysing trade data of reported timber exports from Myanmar to a range of countries, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has identified a pattern of apparent tax evasion by companies exporting timber products from Myanmar.
For the third year, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Greenpeace UK have surveyed the major supermarkets and grocery retailers in the UK on their efforts to reduce plastic pollution.
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Green Bulkheads for Cuyahoga River Navigation Channel
Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River Navigation Channel is an important and thriving passageway for maritime commerce, but it is a daunting corridor for “transient” fish. For these fish, the ability to migrate upriver to spawn as adults and downriver to return to Lake Erie as juveniles is critical to their survival. Bustling with barge traffic, subject to frequent ice and storm flows, and lined by bulkheads for five miles, the Cuyahoga River Navigation Channel offers little to no habitat. Since 2006, the Buffalo District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been developing, testing and implementing innovative bulkheads and technologies to create habitat for larval fish while maintaining the channel for navigation. Building on the lessons learned through that process, the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission (CCPC) initiated an effort to explore options for retrofitting bulkheads so they provide both navigational and ecological function.
Working with the CCPC, Biohabitats is leading a design team to develop a retrofit solution guided primarily by models found in nature. This approach involves the use of “Biomimicry Thinking,” a design process that begins with scoping: identifying the desired function, defining the context within which the design must fit, and integrating “Life’s Principles,” deep patterns found among thriving species. A discovery phase follows, in which biological models for achieving the desired function are identified. This leads to creative concept and design development, and, ultimately, evaluation.
Biohabitats began by conducting a workshop to introduce the biomimetic design process to all team members and to an advisory panel made up of local experts in shipping, biology, and the Cuyahoga River itself. Following the workshop, the team began the scoping phase by identifying species of transient fish at risk and studying their migration needs and challenges in the channel. Simultaneously, analyses of shipping traffic (including temporal distribution) and river conditions were performed.
The design team, which included biomimicry experts Karen Allen and Barry Patterson, Ocean & Coastal Consultants, Ecocean, and fisheries biologist Dr. Jeffrey Miner, began the creative phase with a concept design charrette with the advisory panel. Biohabitats led the design, permitting, fabrication, and in-situ testing of the prototype.
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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the
National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. external link Learn more
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Newspaper Page Text
JUDGE NOT, LEST YE BE JUDGED
What would you say, if you were Woodrow Wilson, and were visited
by a Belgian commission complaining about German atrocities and had re
ceived a cablegram from Kaiser Wilhelm complaining about Belgian at
rocities? Well, you would entertain your visitors nicely, give everybody a re
spectful hearing, and then say:
"It is too bad. But it is none of my business." You might use more
language than this but you'd likely say just this, in effect.
Mediator in the European matter the president of the United States
can volunteer to be, with propriety, but how can he accept position as judge
of war crimes, no matter who nominates him? What could he do, were
either side plainly convicted of the other's charges?
If the plea of the Belgian commission and the cablegram of the Ger
man emperor are for the purpose of arousing American sympathy they are
mere superfluous efforts. America already fully and sincerely sympathizes
with devastated Belgium and with that splendid Germany whose best citi
zens are dying and whose wives and orphans must mourn.
Now, as not before in decades, are America's great heart and wel
coming arms open to the sufferers of all nations. But it is not her function
to sit in judgment upon the politics, the morals or the naval proceedings
of the foreign world. If all the military and naval strength of England,
Germany, France, Austria, Russia and other nations involved were wiped
out, still America would be the peacemaker and not the judge and execu
tioner. America is the natural birthplace of universal brotherhood, and, in
spite of her failures, injustices and follies, she's moving toward this. Neither
Belgian king nor German emperor can understand this.
Maybe Belgian women and children were butchered by mad German
troops. Maybe good Germans are being torn by dum-dum bullets. Amer
ica shudders at the horrors and has full sympathy for all the afflicted, but
the horrors of this war are matters for the judgment of that God on whom
the originators of the slaughter called at the start. America is not judge.
She's part of humanity that weeps with the new millions of widows and or
phans, that mourns over the foolish destruction of human happiness and
that would go to the utmost limit in securing peace under her rights and
duties as a civilized nation.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
THE RECALL OF JUDGES
Editor Day Book: It is high time
that the people turned their atten
tion toward the judiciary. That the
legal machinery of today is the great
est obstacle in road of' progress is
evidenced by the actions of such
men as Judge Killits of Toledo.
Judges, like other human beings,
are products of their environment.
The corrupt and tainted politics of
the old parties have produced cor
rupt and tainted judges.
The Supreme Court of the United
men which has ever sat in judgment
upon the will of the majority. More
power is wielded by the Supreme
Court than by the president and con
gress. From the decision of the Su
preme Court there is no appeal. Good
or bad, it stands, and the history of
the Supreme Court will be a per
petual disgrace to the judicial insti
tutions of the United States.
There is but one Temedy, to bring
judges of the Killits type to their
senses the recall.
The recall is the greatest weapon
democracy has ever wielded. Where
States is the most arbitrary body of I the recall is in effect the judge? hav
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Before you can start sending abandoned cart reminders to the owners of abandoned carts, you need to configure the reminders' content. It is possible to set up multiple reminders and specify a sending method (automatic or manual) for each of them. If the Coupons add-on is installed in your store, you can also specify whether sending a reminder should create a discount coupon for a customer or not.
To create an abandoned cart reminder:
1. In your store’s Admin area, go to the Email Notifications page (Store Setup -> Email Notifications) and click the Cart Reminders tab.
2. On the Cart Reminders panel, click New reminder:
This opens the New Cart Reminder form, which you can use to add a new reminder.
3. Complete the form fields to provide the details of the new reminder:
Name: Enter a name by which you will identify the reminder in the store’s Admin area (This name will not be visible to customers).
Send automatically: Select this check box if you want the reminder to be sent automatically. Leave unselected if you are going to send the reminder manually.
- For reminders configured to be sent automatically, the sending of reminder emails will be handled using X-Cart’s script for scheduled tasks, console.php (Your server needs to be configured to run this script periodically. See Scheduled X-Cart Tasks).
- For reminders configured to be sent manually, the sending of reminder emails will need to be handled by you or another admin user with permission to execute the task. For instructions on how to send reminders manually, see Sending Reminders.
The choice of automatic vs. manual sending method for any individual reminder should be made based on the intended audience of the message: for messages intended for all the customers who happened to abandon their shopping cart, choose the automatic sending method; for messages that you wish to be sent only to some of the customers, choose the manual sending method.
Send automatically in (hours): Specify the minimum number of hours that X-Cart should wait before sending this reminder to the owner of an abandoned cart. (This setting will apply only if the automatic sending method is used). Once a reminder is configured to be sent automatically, you can expect it to be sent after the script console.php is run. At each run, the script will conduct a check to determine whether the time has come to send the reminder for any X-abandoned carts present in the system. Then, the system will send reminders for all the carts that have been in the abandoned state for a period of time equal to or longer than the period specified by the “Send automatically in (hours)” setting.
New coupon amount: If you want a discount coupon to be automatically created for each of the abandoned cart owners to whom this reminder will be sent, specify the coupon discount amount. This can be set to a fixed amount (example: “5”) or a percentage off (example: “5%”). If you do not want the reminder to create coupons, leave this field empty, or set this value to “0”.
Coupon expires in (days): Specify the number of days in which coupons created by the reminder will expire. (This setting becomes available if the New coupon amount option is enabled)
Coupon cannot be combined with other coupons: Use this option to limit the reminder coupon application. (This setting becomes available if the New coupon amount option is enabled).
Configure the template used for the reminder email messages: enter the subject line and the message body.
The fields E-mail subject (no coupon) and E-mail body (no coupon) are intended for reminder emails that will not create coupons.
The fields E-mail subject (with coupon) and E-mail body (with coupon) are intended for reminder emails sent with a coupon.
The fields E-mail subject (no coupon) and E-mail body (no coupon) are required and need to be completed anyway - even if you are setting up a reminder that will create coupons. So complete them with the same values as the E-mail subject (with coupon) and E-mail body (with coupon) fields.
When editing the subject and the body of the template, you can use the following tokens:
[COMPANY_NAME] - Name of your company from the store’s settings;
[NAME] - Full name of the customer (This will be empty for customers who have not specified their names);
[CART_ITEMS] - Information on the items in the customer’s cart;[RECOVERY_LINK] - URL to recover the cart;
[COUPON_CODE] - Code of the coupon created by the reminder;[COUPON_AMOUNT] - Coupon discount;
[COUPON_EXPIRES] - Coupon expiration date.
A sample reminder template that uses some of the above tokens can be found in the Default e-mail reminder in your store’s reminders list. If you want to send coupons in reminder emails, make sure you included the coupon-related tokens in the template's body.
4. Click Create to save the changes. The new reminder will be created and added to the abandoned cart reminders list.
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Well, nothing about any vegetable, but we have gotten some tweets from Clay! On Monday, Clay tweeted:
Dumb question: If the Treasury can mint $1 trillion coin to spend on debt, why cant it mint a $16 trillion coin & pay off the debt entirely?
(Hmmm…A little sarcasm do you think?)
Then on Tuesday, Clay sent a few more tweets:
Clay Aiken @clayaiken
Worth a read! Lazy Corporate Monopolies Are Why America Can’t Have Nice Things http://huff.to/WIAcDC
8:57 AM – 8 Jan 13
Never too early to think about the one you love. Send an “Inclusion-gram” to your special someone for Valentine’s Day –http://www.inclusionproject.org/news.php?id=179
AND…Clay re-tweeted this:
Clay Aiken @clayaiken
YES! How’s right after MLK Day?! RT @Tiffanylovesc: @clayaiken Can you please do
a video chat soon? Missing you
Did you read this? A new video chat after MLK Day! When Clay posts the details, I will make sure they are posted here too.
Thank you, Clay!! It is always great to read your tweets and they certainly are not boring. You introduce us to so many different ideas.
Clay has over 50,000 followers on twitter…that means that 50,000 people can see what Clay tweets. If this is so, why did only 79 people re-tweet Clay? That’s less than 1% that responded to him. Since fans always talk about the tweets, I am assuming that most people don’t understand the importance of the re-tweets.
Retweeting is central to Twitter. In fact, it’s one of Twitters most useful tools. There are many reasons to retweet:
- Getting Clay’s content retweeted is a powerful way to drive traffic to his site. This usually translates to an increase in followers.
- Retweets increase a persons visibility and the reach in the online community…including a persons ranking in search engines.
- It enables Clay to connect and build relationships with new people, including potential fans and people of influence.
- The more retweets, the more people give credit to your content and credibility.
According to Kelly Kautz, a successful marketing consultant:
The most obvious and important benefit to being retweeted is the promotion of your Twitter account (and by default your website). If your content is deemed interesting or important enough to be retweeted then you will be seen to be influential and knowledgeable. Your content will also be seen by a much wider audience of potential customers.
Your followers are not only giving you promotion but they are in effect endorsing your company to their followers and associating themselves with you. Personal recommendations are extremely powerful social proof when deciding on products or services and a retweet can be a wide-reaching and important recommendation.
Read more from Kelly Kautz
So…since it takes only a minute to push the re-tweet button, we need to step up and help. I do realize that some of you may not agree with “political Clay” and so, easy…skip those, but why only 28 re-tweets about the Valentine’s from The National Inclusion Project? When you finish reading here, why not re-tweet that Clay tweet. We can still get the word out.
So…what do you think? Can we see how many re-tweets we can get on the Valentine tweet? With over 50,000 followers, can we get 100, 500, re-tweets? You can do it right from this site. What an easy way to support Clay.
If you need help, please ask. There are many here who can help you with twitter.
Please let me know what you think. Your opinion is very important!
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This is a terrific opportunity to educate up and coming physicians about Usher 1F and to interest more researchers in helping us find a cure. If you have Usher 1F, please consider signing up for this program by February 15, 2018.
“With 1 out of 10 people affected by rare disease, still, medical professionals often do not recognize or encounter one of the 7,000 that exist today.
“In an effort to build the bridge of understanding and compassion among medical professionals, Global Genes presents the third year of the David R. Cox Scholarship for Rare Compassion. This scholarship program is an opportunity for emerging medical students to connect to the rare disease community with the goal of developing and understanding compassion for the challenges and lifestyles that patients diagnosed with a rare disease are faced with everyday.
“All medical students are eligible to be matched with a rare disease patient and/or family, and those who meet the requirements may have the opportunity to submit an essay or audio submission about their experience for consideration to receive a scholarship.”
Click here for the Patient Match Request form.
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Cyril Jackson Senior Campus offers a wide range of Year 11 and 12 courses and our students have a wide age range – from 16 year olds working towards school graduation to older adults who are here following their interests. We pride ourselves on our mature learning environment, our ability to accommodate difference, our commitment to innovation and our flexibility which we can maximise because we are an Independent Public School.
Our staff are continually matching the pastoral needs of students to their educational needs so as to reach a balanced program. We also have the only north of the river, Department of Education endorsed, Intensive English Centre for senior school students. The Intensive English Centre students are mainly migrants and refugees who add a strongly multicultural feel to the campus.
We have a flexible timetable structure that permits students to work part-time as well as study. We have a variety of courses offered in iLearn Flexible Learning mode and more people are opting for this as it permits full-time work as well as study towards Training or University entrance. We have a uniquely innovative approach to education and offer a range of courses for students of all ages. Our focus is on our students’ academic success through our flexible approach and our emphasis on a mature learning environment.
View the Cyril Jackson Annual Report 2017
View the Cyril Jackson Business Plan 2018-2021
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Seeking an Orgasmic Life
Smack! A brown envelope lands on my doormat.
I ignore it.
I return to ‘decluttering’ my bedroom. I have found certain things that don’t belong to me: a single brown brogue, a leather suit carrier and a silver drop earring with a turquoise stone. I pick it up and my hand hovers over the cardboard box where I have put the other items, then I drop it in. Ha, you take it, I think. I wonder if it will mean anything to him: probably not.
I can hear the cat wrestling with the brown envelope downstairs. The envelope flaps about as it’s thrown against the door. Rex, my cat, is a fearless fighter and a ratter; anything that enters the house needs to beware! Even envelopes. ‘Sssshhht’, I call down the narrow stairs. Silence.
I found the other one last year, caught on a tuft of carpet in my bedroom. Not my style. Too hippy for me. I never mentioned it to my husband. It would only have meant more arguments. We weren’t sleeping together anyway. Not a couple. Not a couple since that, particular, argument…
Then, with a meow, Rex resumes her attack. I sigh, head downstairs and carefully remove the envelope from her grip. The envelope is torn, little holes pattern the paper where her claws have been. I put it on the kitchen worktop and leave it there.
I don’t need to open it; I know what’s in it.
‘So, I think it’s pretty likely sex has happened in my bed over the past few years, but just not with me. ‘
I can’t actually remember the last time I had sex.
Maybe three years ago. Even then it wasn’t that often. I guess that’s what happens when a marriage falls apart.
The arguments seep into all areas of intimacy. Sex becomes part of your arguments. I like it like this, but you like it like that…you never listen to me…you’re not interested in what I like… And so it went on until the best I could hope for was that everyone just quietly got into bed at different times and rolled over and went to sleep. I even stopped masturbating. I worked, I cleaned, I put the kids to bed, but I was not a sexual being. My vagina became a dark and cold place, where cobwebs had been woven and no one had noticed.
That reminds me of the envelope.
For the past year I have imagined the arrival of this letter, how I would cry when it came; dramatic sobs would overcome me.
Instead, when I pull out my Degree Nisi and read that I am now legally divorced all I feel is relief.
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One of the most common obstacles sellers face when they are entering the Amazon marketplace is to get their product to rank and sell. If you’re new to Amazon advertising, this article will help you understand better how amazon ppc works and what ad type serves your goal best.
Before we dive into the specific ad types that are available on the Amazon advertising platform, we’ll answer some basic questions that are common among sellers that want to start with PPC.
What is Amazon PPC?
Amazon PPC is an advertising model where advertisers only pay for clicks from prospective buyers. To put this in simple words, you only pay for a click you get, you don’t pay for the amount of times your ad is shown in the search results page or on product detail page on Amazon. You need to have a seller’s account setup with Amazon in order to be eligible for amazon PPC advertising.
How does Amazon PPC work?
Every time a customer makes a search on Amazon, algorithm estimates what results will it show to them, based on relevancy of the product relative to their search. There is a difference between organic and paid results – paid results are the ones with the sign “sponsored” next to them, like in the below example:
In order to show your product in the sponsored section which usually gets all the premium placements, you need to enter the ad auction. Ad auction on Amazon means that every time when customers are searching on Amazon, a number of sellers are all bidding to show up high in the search results page. The one who bids a highest bid, usually wins the first place in the search results page. Also, they usually pay less than what was his maximum CPC (cost per click) bid. Maximum CPC bid is the maximum amount of money that you are willing to pay for a click on your ad. Your max. CPC should be as close as possible to the suggested bid, because then your chances to win the ad auction are the highest.
The reason why Amazon is giving everyone a suggested bid recommendation is because average CPCs vary from one category to another.
One thing that can really help you win the ad auction aside from high bids is a high-quality listing. Learn how to optimize a product listing on this link. Having an optimized listing will send Amazon a signal that you are a serious seller and they will take that into consideration amongst other ranking factors.
How to setup Amazon PPC?
In order to begin, you will need a seller’s account on Amazon. Once you have that done and approved, you can go to campaign manager to setup your first campaign. Amazon has three main campaign types available: sponsored products, sponsored brands and sponsored display.
Aside from different campaign types, Amazon also has different targeting options: keyword targeting, product targeting and audience targeting. Product targeting option is one of the most unique targeting options that you can’t find on any other platform. We will dive deep into each campaign type as well as targeting types to provide you in-depth understanding of the whole platform.
All campaigns have an option to choose the end date or choose to run it indefinitely. Choosing no end date means your campaign will run longer, and a longer timeframe can give you better insights on search terms and keyword performance to further optimize your campaign.
You can also assign a daily budget to your campaigns. Daily budget is calculated as an average daily spend of 30.4 days in a month. This means that – if you want to spend $1,000/month on Amazon ads, you should split that monthly budget by 30.4 and that way you will know how much to assign as a daily budget. Amazon uses average daily budgeting in order to prevent situations when advertisers run out of traffic just because they already spent their daily budget. Every day, the traffic varies, so some days you will spend even double than your average daily budget, and some days you will not even spend 10% of it.
Each campaign has an option to use different bidding strategies. There are three campaign bidding strategies: “Dynamic bids – down only”, “Dynamic bids – up and down”, and “Fixed bids”. You can learn more when to use each bidding strategy in this article here.
Sponsored Products campaign type
This campaign type was the first one to appear in Amazon PPC platform, in form of automated campaigns. You can choose to run your sponsored products campaign automatically or manually. Manual campaigns are good because you have maximum control over your placements, ad spend distribution and targeting. Auto campaigns are good because they contain maximum ad inventory (they consume as much ad space as possible), and also give you great insights into how Amazon is seeing your product. Once you collect some data in your search terms report from the automated campaign, you will much better understand how Amazon is positioning your product in the marketplace.
Ad placements that are offered through Sponsored products campaign types are in the search results, and in product pages. Some of the examples are here:
Manual sponsored product campaigns are the types that offer the same placements as automated campaigns, with the difference of being able to design your own targeting.
The power of manual targeting is in having complete control over where your ads will show up and who you will be competing against.
Keyword targeting through sponsored products ads allows you to rank higher in the search results page. On the other hand, manual product targeting allows you to choose which competitor you want to compete against. That way you get to choose your own placements, by either using category targeting, ASIN level targeting or refined category targeting. Learn more about product targeting options in this article here.
Sponsored Brands campaign type
This campaign type is very convenient for your own brand representation. Sponsored brands ads offer you a premium first place placement in the search results page, as well as some additional placements at the bottom of the page. Have a look at some examples:
Sponsored brands campaign are a combination of a visual aspect and precise targeting. You can also use keyword targeting as well as product targeting to build a sponsored brand ad. The beauty of Sponsored brands ads is that it offers a variety of ad formats and landing pages as well.
There are various combinations you can use: to promote your products from a landing page of your choice, or to feature a single product with an auto playing video. Your ads can lead to a product detail page or to the whole storefront, or to only a part of a storefront that represents a product line. Sponsored brands ads are the first ad type that allows custom images and videos in their creatives so they represent a very powerful tool for raising brand awareness for your brand and driving new customers. Sponsored brands campaigns are the only campaign types that allow you to measure the number of new-to-brand purchases. This is the number of first-time buyers for your brand, so you can easily understand the contribution of Amazon’s advertising platform to your brand’s expansion. New-to-brand purchases are one of the most commonly overlooked metrics in Amazon advertising, and they are one of the most important metrics for growing brands.
Just like in Sponsored products, Sponsored brands ads campaign type allows you to use negative targeting to prevent bad traffic from coming to your website. Negative keywords prevent your ads from displaying when a shopper’s search term matches your negative keyword. You can exclude irrelevant searches, reducing your advertising cost and making your campaigns more profitable.
Sponsored Display campaign type
This campaign type is one of the newest campaign types in amazon PPC. Sponsored Display ads are still being under-utilized because they are relatively new, but you can use them to drive sales growth for your account and take over more market share from competitors. Some of the most common placements of display ads right now are the product detail pages on Amazon. One thing that is also interesting about display ads is that they can also show up on Amazon’s partner websites. This is practically the only ad type that can show ads off-Amazon. Targeting types for sponsored display ads can be either Audience-based or product targeting (this is new). With audience targeting, the ads will show to shoppers who viewed the detail pages of your advertised products or similar products.
With product targeting on display ads, you have an opportunity to win more market share by appearing on your competitor’s product detail pages.
Amazon ACoS is one of the most essential metrics that measures your Sponsored Ad campaigns’ performance. Advertising Cost of Sales is the ratio between ad spend and ad sales expressed in percentage.
Looking to grow your online business sustainably? Check out our Amazon sponsored products guide below to learn how to use this tool to your advantage.
As an Amazon seller, you probably are already not only harvesting the traffic that Amazon is offering you, but also sending external traffic to your Amazon listings, coming from social media influencers, and authority websites.
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Jangl, a Silicon Valley Internet phone company that also offers VoIP services via widgets on the web, is looking to be sold, and it will announce more news “this week.”
VentureBeat first learned something was up last week, when we heard reports about employees from Jangl applying for other jobs. One includes the VP of marketing.
When we contacted the company again today, spokesman Tim Johnson confirmed that the company is looking to be sold, and that the company has received a number of offers. “We’ll have more news later this week,” he said.
He said Jangl executives last fall directed by the company’s board “to pursue acquisition opportunities in lieu of venture funding.”
This suggests the Jangl’s backers, which have pumped $9 million into the company beginning three years ago, saw the VoIP field as too competitive and too risky to make further investments. On the other hand, the company had enough money to honor its commitments to partners for quite some time. It will continue to do that, Johnson said.
The company has tried all kinds of tactics to find traction in the cut-throat world of free calls. It started by issuing you a disposable number, so that you could give out numbers to dates, for example, and avoid giving them your real number. It then moved to more fully embrace placing widgets on web sites, making it easy for you to make free calls over the Web. The company has continued to work on new initiatives, including a pre-roll ad platform for VoIP calls most recently.
Johnson did say he’s not aware that any final acquisition terms have been agreed upon.
As of right now, two engineering staff members have been let go, he said.
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Ashley Ann Vickers is a communications graduate from the University of Central Florida
Ashley Ann Vickers is originally from South Florida and was once a contestant in the Miss Florida pageant..
Ashley Ann Vickers represented Nashville (Tennessee) in the semi-finals of Maxim’s Hometown Hottie contest..
Ashley Ann Vickers is an emcee for National Basketball Association team the Memphis Grizzlies at the FedExForum..
June 22, 2010–NXT: Ashley Valance debuted as the moderator for WWE NXT (sharing the duties with Matt Striker)..
Ashley Ann Vickers made the finals of the Maxim hometown hotties contest representing Nashville, Tennessee..
December 2010: Ashley Valance’s contract expired and she quietly left World Wrestling Entertainment..
~~~Mike Aldren wrote: Ashley Vickers left the company. Ashley, who was brought in last summer as Ashley Valance, had only signed a short term deal which expired in December. She had worked briefly on NXT Season 2 and most recently was ring announcing on Superstars. She wrote on her website that she enjoyed her experience with WWE but has decided to move in a new direction. “I can’t express enough how appreciative I am of the experience and friendships I’ve made during my stay with WWE,” she wrote. “Life is about chasing your dreams. So I’m thrilled to share with everyone I’m moving to LA at the end of the month. I have now signed with manager Sharon Lane. She is the founder of Lane Management Group and has developed many A-list film and TV talent including movie superstar Megan Fox.”
Formerly known as "Obsessed with Wrestling", OWW is the number one destination for wrestling fans to find detailed wrestler profiles, show results, wrestling photographs and more. Created in 2001 and going strong 13 years later, we welcome your feedback and ideas as we grow. If it's wrestling, we have it covered!
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FORM US WITH LOVE — Interview
Form Us With Love, Stockholm-based design studio.
Hello Form Us With Love, how are you?
We are very well! However the winter just came back to Stockholm, which is not very appreciated. But we are preparing ourselves for some warmer weather and some exhibition of our product BAUX Acoustical Panels at this year Milan Fair that is soon coming up!
Can you introduce yourselves?
Form Us With Love is a Stockholm based design studio. For almost ten years, the internationally acclaimed studio has put dialogue and relevance at its core, using strategic design to position, build and sustain brands of tomorrow. The studio works closely integrated with the industry, on site, through audits, workshops and quality control – always striving to balance opposing values to challenge the conventional. Collaborations include: Ikea, Muuto, Absolut, La Cividina, Menu, Cappellini, DePadova, FontanaArte, Bolon, Ateljé Lyktan, Design House Stockholm and Hem. Awards include: iF Awards, Good Design award, Wallpaper Magazine Award, Stora Design Priset, Fast Co ‘50 most influential designers shaping the future’, Elle Decoration’s annual award ‘Designers of the year’.
How did the studio start up?
Jonas Pettersson, John Löfgren and Petrus Paler started the studio in 2005. They had the same view on design when they started collaborating in college, then they just continued after, in a professional package.
What are the key features of your design?
Its idea based, rational and holistic.
Can you tell us more about the Janinge chairs that you designed for IKEA?
Using neat yet durable frames, a new collection of chairs and stools are presented with a remarkable price. The great idea behind the JANINGE collection is the democratization of design, to create a durable construction based on the needs of both domestic and public environments.
The theoretical challenge behind the project was the desire to balance the idea of individual aesthetics with public quality. The design needs to be individual enough to fit in someone’s home, yet suitable for multiplication in corporate and institutional settings. IKEA asked us to design something specific enough for a home that could withstand the international tests for public seating. To pass, we had to design for strength, durability, impact, drops, tilts and unit stability. Despite the above challenges, JANINGE chairs and stools had to be the most affordable objects we had ever made.
In working with IKEA, the most interesting challenge is meeting personal style in a world where the boarders between public and private markets are gone. Our collaborative objective was to find the perfect multi-purpose chair, easy to fall in love with and quick to maintain. Whether our designs are placed in domestic or commercial settings, the aim is always to create bonds, where our designs contribute to human values of comfort and generosity.
Do you have a favourite material to work with?
It is often more the match that is intriguing. For example when the combination of material goes well with a certain shape or a specific function.
What would you recommend to a young designer?
To gain work experience is crucial. Take all chances you can get to learn from people in the business. Through internships, workshops or seminars.
A designer that you admire?
The Nendo design team is doing a great job. They manage to keep the same intuitive and poetic vibe in every project. They do projects that are very easy to grasp but always with some unique and intriguing twist.
Any books right now at the studio?
The hottest book at the studio right now is one not yet existing. We are shaping an idea of making one ourselves.
The last word…
See you in Milan!
Interview : Tiffany Bähler and Dennis Moya — 04.15
Images ©Form Us With Love
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As the nights slowly draw in and we snuggle further down into our scarves and blankets, our bodies become increasingly vulnerable to winter nasties.
Yet, if you don’t want to spend the next few months sneezing into endless tissues, or burrowed beneath a duvet, then there’s plenty you can do to protect your body from bugs and viruses.
If you want to super-charge your immune system this winter, then there are lots of nutrients and foods that you can add to your diet to keep your immune system on red-alert. Here are some of my favourite winter warriors to give you a helping hand. Now, eat up!
We’ve all heard the age-old phrase that we have to finish our greens to stay healthy. Yet, far from being something simply thrown at kids to make them eat their veggies, there’s more than a little truth in this. You see, leafy greens (particularly broccoli, which is one food which truly deserves the mantle of “superfood”) contain sulforaphane, which activates special genes to create anti-oxidant enzymes. These enzymes then work to flush out free radicals from the body, and can also reduce inflammation.
For fellow chocoholics, there couldn’t be better news: chocolate (at least, the dark, rich kind) is good for our bodies. Hurrah! You see, chocolate rich in the anti-oxidant cacao (think bars of 85% cacao solids or above) can supercharge the immune system, and even help to increase the good cholesterol found within the body.
Pretty much everyone who knows me knows that I swear by my Lucy Bee Coconut Oil. I LOVE it, and add it to pretty much everything under the sun. One of the reasons for this is that it’s a healthy source of all kinds of fatty acids, particularly lauric acid, which is a fantastic immune booster. Once inside our body, lauric acid is converted to monolaurin, which an anti-viral agent that can fight off bugs and nasties. Try making a bulletproof coffee for an early morning boost.
Not only do they taste delicious, but sweet potatoes are wonderful at giving our bodies a much-needed kickstart when it comes to the cold and flu season. This is all down to their content of beta carotene (also found in carrots and other orange veggies), which experts believe can trigger our body’s infection-fighting army of soldiers, known as T-Cells.
We all know that we should switch our (thrice) daily coffee habit in favour of healthier, anti-oxidant rich green tea – especially during the colder months. This deliciously refreshing drink contains Polyphenols, which are plant-based antioxidants, to give it powerful immune-boosting effects. In fact, studies have shown that certain polyphenols can destroy flu viruses.
As a fan of all things vibrant and beautiful, turmeric is one of my favourite spices. However, it’s not just fantastic at colouring and flavouring food – it’s also an immune-boosting, wellness warrior, and one of the few foods I try to include in my diet every single day.
You see, this ancient, healing wonder has been used medicinally for centuries – and for good reason. Turmeric contains plenty of a special compound known as curcumin (the same compound which lends it that gorgeous colour), which has lots of anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effects, which are ideal for fighting off colds and nasties, and for preventing and relieving joint pain.
Want to give this healing, wonder spice a go? Invest in the best quality turmeric powder you can find (I love Lucy Bee turmeric, which is higher in curcumin than many other powders), or use it straight from the turmeric root. Try using it in curries, such as my Chickpea and Sweet Potato curry. Oh, and as a top tip: black pepper helps you to absorb turmeric more readily into the bloodstream, so always add lashings of pepper when you’re using this spice!
Although this one may sound a little odd, consider this: mushrooms have been used as ancient medicinal wonders for centuries, particularly in far-flung corners of the world. In particular, delicious Shiitake mushrooms have anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal effects, and can even help to balance out blood sugar levels.
Another ancient wonder is bee propolis, a sort of sticky glue made by our furry flying friends. The great thing about propolis is that it contains around 300 active compounds and also a lot of anti-microbial properties (these protect bee hives from viruses and bacteria) which are thought to speed up the body’s healing process. You can find all these amazing benefits in one of the only supplements I swear by – Unbeelievable Bee Prepared Daily Defence, which supports the immune system and keeps our bodies in tip-tip condition.
Not just designed to ward off vampires, garlic has been used to endless studies which all suggest it can ward off those pesky, rotten colds. This is because it contains allicin, immune-stimulating goodness which is released when you chop or crush the cloves, ready for cooking.
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Yanni Tickets Las Vegas
Few entertainers can boast of the longevity and success of Yanni. Little did he dream of this stardom as a young boy growing up on the coast in Greece. He grew up in a musical family and was constantly surrounded by the love and music of his family.
The early 70's found him far from home, at the University of Minnesota pursuing a degree in Psychology. But music was still a part of his life as he performed in local bands. He also began developing his signature sound as he experimented with the piano and electric keyboard.
The music bug was hard to shake, and graduation from UM did not see him head into a profession, but dedicating himself fully to a music career. He played keyboard as part of the band Chameleon which gained fame regionally. But his solo career continued to beckon, and in 1980 he released a solo album, Optimystique.
The late 1980's found Yanni in Hollywood, where he applied his musical talents to scoring four films. He complemented this work with three other solo album releases and a re-release of his first album. 1990 was a breakthrough year with regard to his sound, as he played a concert accompanied by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. This experience would provide the musical inspiration for his signature sound.
Three album releases heralded the beginning of the 90's. Both commercial and critically acclaimed, the albums Dare to Dream and In My Time received Grammy nominations. This success found him on the road more and more, ever expanding the scope and size of the venue. It was at this time that he found the concert formula - a full symphony orchestra - that would make him an international superstar.
He continued to parlay his unique symphonic sounds into further global success. After 15 album releases, he is a true international superstar, playing the most exciting venues around the globe. From concerts at the majestic Acropolis in his home country of Greece, to historic sites like the Taj Mahal, India, The Forbidden City, China, and the Toji Temple in Kyoto Japan, Yanni continues to dazzle audiences around the world.
At Vegas Tickets you can count on finding Yanni Tickets and tickets to all the Best Vegas Shows and Las Vegas Concerts. We are a local Las Vegas ticket broker with a local office located just minutes from the world famous strip. Vegas Tickets is a long-standing member of the NATB (National Association of Ticket Brokers), ASTA (American Society of Travel Agents), and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. We have NFR Tickets and all the Cirque du Soleil Vegas tickets. If you can’t find what you’re looking for on our website, please call one of our professional sales reps at 877-467-4697 and we will do our best to help you.
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Ho Chi Minh City, previously known and still referred to as Saigon, is the largest city in Vietnam. Located on the southern portion of the country, the city stands proud as proof of Vietnam’s courage and determination to rise above their turbulent past. With French colonial buildings standing side by side with modern skyscrapers, Ho Chi Minh City is a mix of the old and new. But the one thing about the city that will always stand out though — the crazy and chaotic motorcycle-filled streets.
My 3 days and 2 nights visit to the city was made possible with Actxplorer, an online travel platform that arranged all my wonderfully planned tours during my visit. However, I did have my own free time to explore and walk about the city as well. I had most fun being a part of the crazy traffic, whizzing around on the UberMOTO/GrabBikes. I have to say the bike taxi (or Xe Om) is a great way to get around Saigon — they can be found everywhere, and only cost about VND10-12K (US$0.5) per way around the city.
I had a great time in Ho Chi Minh City, and despite the fact that I wish I had more time to experience more things the city has to offer; these are my top 10 things you must do when you visit, even if you have limited time or just a couple of days!
1. Crawl through the Cu Chi Tunnels
You can’t visit Ho Chi Minh and not visit the very village that played an integral part in Vietnam’s fight for freedom during the Vietnam/American War. Cu Chi is the location of the famed Cu Chi Tunnels, a honeycomb-like network that runs deep into the depths of the underground. It served as the operations base of the Viet Cong, who used the narrow tunnels to move supplies and house troops, hide during combats, and ambush unsuspecting soldiers.
At the tourist site, visitors are allowed to crawl through the tunnels — but enter with caution, as the tunnels (though widened) are still very tight and claustrophobic. Read about my experience here:- The Village of Cu Chi and its Tunnels.
2. Float along the Mekong Delta
There really is nothing like spending a day floating along the Mekong and immersing yourself in the Vietnamese life. I had a great time during my visit to one of the country’s most important source of livelihood, and learning about the local industries that keep their people alive. I visited the brick factory and the coconut procession plant, learned a local craft, enjoyed folk music while munching on tropical fruits, had an amazing lunch of local Mekong delicacies, and sipped on a coconut as I glided down the river on a traditional boat. What an experience!
Do take a local tour on your trip to the Mekong, it makes the experience much more enjoyable and hassle-free. I followed Actxplorer, and you can read about my adventures here:- Mynn’s Top 10 Reasons to Visit Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
3. Shop at the Ben Tanh Market & Night Market
With a history dating back more than 100 years, the Ben Thanh Market is the largest market in Ho Chi Minh City, and an important symbol of the city. The market is so huge that it sells almost everything; from local handicrafts, art and souvenirs to snacks, sweets and local Vietnamese coffee. We dropped by the market food section in the morning for a local breakfast — and had the most amazing Mi Quang (turmeric noodle dish from Central Vietnam) and Mien Xao Cua (fried glass noodles with crab meat) ever.
Come night, after the market closes, the streets beside Ben Thanh Market take over. Stalls selling almost the same kind of souvenirs and food stuff as the market open up along the streets (that are closed off to traffic), and stalls serving seafood and local dishes fill the air with their delicious aroma. The Night Market is a great place to experience the bustling night scene in Saigon.
4. Visit the War Remnants Museum
Enter the War Remnants Museum with discretion — it is not for the faint hearted. One of the most popular museums in Ho Chi Minh City, the museum opened in 1975 and displays graphic photographs of the Vietnam/American War that lasted from 1945 to 1975. It holds a collection of works by photographers and journalists from all over the world who covered the war, and though the exhibitions can be one sided, it shows the atrocities, pain and after-effects of the war on the people of Vietnam.
The museum also displays American war equipment like helicopters, army tanks and fighter planes in its outdoor compound. There’s also a re-created jail that shows the conditions and equipment used in a Vietnamese detention cell during the war. Entrance cost VND15K (US$0.7).
5. Stroll along Walking Street to the City Hall
In 2015, Saigon’s Nguyen Hue Street was changed to a pedestrian-only walking street. The strip runs 900 metres from the People’s Committee Building to the Saigon River. I visited the street in the day and it was empty (daytime heat); and then again at night, when it came to live with locals and tourists walking around and enjoying the night views. The street is lined by significant landmark buildings like the Rex Hotel and the Municipal Theatre; as well as the Apartment Cafe, an entire apartment filled with instagram-worthy cafes.
I also spent some time photographing the gorgeous People’s Committee Building (City Hall) at the start of the walking street. Completed in 1908 by the French, its cream and white colonial architecture looks stunning both day and night. There’s also a statue of Ho Chi Minh (1st President of North Vietnam) in front of the building, whom the city of Saigon changed its name to honor.
6. Admire the City from Up High
While strolling along Saigon’s walking street, I dropped by the Apartment Cafe’s Buihaus Cafe on the 7th floor for a cuppa Vietnamese coffee and lovely views of the street. For night views, I headed up to the 23rd floor of the Sheraton Saigon Hotel. The rooftop lounge here offers a great place to chill with a glass of wine, beer or cocktails; and the panoramic view of the city’s bright lights are pretty stunning from up high.
Another option for a bird’s eye view of the city is at the observation deck of the Bitexco Financial Tower. Standing at 262 meters, the building has 68 floors and is the tallest building in Ho Chi Minh City, and the 3rd tallest in Vietnam. Entrance to the Skydeck on the 49th floor costs VND200K (US$9).
7. Drop by the Central Post Office and Notre Dame Cathedral
The Central Post Office and the Notre Dame Cathedral are significant and historical landmarks in the city — and it’s free! Saigon’s Central Post Office is one of the city’s oldest building and was built at the end of the 19th century in a distinctively French colonial architecture. Stepping inside, I felt like I was transported back in time — wall arches, marble flooring, patterned windows, and antique telephone booths make up the interior design of the building. There’s also a huge portrait of Ho Chi Minh hanging in the center of the hall. This is Vietnam’s busiest post office, and has been running for more than 100 years!
The Notre Dame Cathedral stands next to the Post Office, and was constructed in the 1880’s. The all-red brick Cathedral got its official name and status as a basilica in 1962. There is a statue of the Virgin Mary in the park in front of the cathedral — and come night, the park becomes a popular chill-out spot.
8. Visit the Reunification Palace
It is hard not to notice the Reunification Palace (Independence Palace) and its massive grounds in the center of Ho Chi Minh City when you’re exploring the city. The initial building was built in the late 19th century, and was used as the residence and office of the French Governor of Cochinchina. After France withdrew from Vietnam, the palace was later used as the base of the leaders of the anti-communist South Vietnam. The building was destroyed and rebuilt in the midst of the Vietnam/American War, which ended when a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed into its gates in 1975.
The Reunification Palace now seems frozen in time with its 1960’s old-modern architecture and its vast lush grounds with tropical plants and palm trees. Entrance to the palace grounds and building (which is now a museum) is VND20K (US$1). I only admired the palace from afar through its ‘iconic’ gates.
9. Savour the Local Street Food
Vietnamese Food is one of my favorite cuisines — I just cannot get enough of their noodle dishes! For a selection of local fares, head over to the food section at the Ben Thanh Market. It is the best place to sample a typical Vietnamese meal together with the locals. And if you’re looking for the best Banh Mi (French baguette sandwich) in town, head over to Banh Mi Huynh Hoa. This small hole-in-the-wall eatery packs up a complete sandwich with all kinds of meat, pate and sauces that just one bite into their crispy bread will make you feel like your mouth just had an explosion of flavors!
During my visit to Ho Chi Minh City, I managed to slot in a street food tour, and was brought to try all kinds of unique and ‘seldom heard of’ Vietnamese dishes. I had Banh Trang Tron, Pha Lau Bo and Bun Beo Hue, just to name a few; and you can read all about my foodie journey here:- A Street Food Tour on Wheels.
10. Enjoy the City’s Nightlife
After all whole day exploring the sights and sounds of Ho Chi Minh City — what better way to end it than by being a part of the vibrant city nightlife? Some of the fun and relaxing things to do in the city at night are (like mentioned above) taking a night stroll along walking street, admiring the bright lights from above, shopping at the night markets, or even taking a food tour.
However, if you’re up for partying the entire night away, head over to Bui Vien Street, also known as the Backpacker’s Street in District 1 for a wide selection of inexpensive bars, pubs and restaurants. Lots of locals and visitors sit by the side of the street as they watch people walk by, in the midst of all the bright lights, loud music and noisy party people. It’s also a way to soak up the city’s lifestyle and culture of its younger generation.
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*She Walks the World visited Ho Chi Minh City with Actxplorer. As always, all opinions and suggestions stated here are my own.
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Combioxin Highlights Results from Successful CAL02-001 First-in-Human Trial Evaluating CAL02 in Severe Pneumonia at ESICM 2018
Geneva, Switzerland, 24 October 2018 – Combioxin SA, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative treatments for severe and resistant infections, announced an Oral Presentation highlighting successful first-in-human clinical results with CAL02 in severe pneumonia patients in ICU, at the ESICM’s annual congress, LIVES 2018, in Paris today.
CAL02 is an investigational broad-spectrum agent administered QD on 2 consecutive days, which neutralizes bacterial toxins that cause widespread damages leading long-term and fatal complications.
The randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled CAL02-001 trial was carried out in France and Belgium and led by Dr. Bruno François, University Hospital of Limoges, France, and Prof. Laterre, Saint Luc University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. Adult patients admitted to the ICU due to severe community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia were treated with CAL02 Low Dose (4 mg/kg), CAL02 High Dose (16 mg/kg), or Placebo, in addition to standard-of-care therapy. At baseline, 56% of patients were in septic shock and 42% under invasive mechanical ventilation.
The primary objectives of the CAL02-001 trial were successfully achieved: CAL02 was shown to be safe and well tolerated, and, despite the small study population (nineteen patients randomized), consistent numerical superiority was observed in favor of the CAL02 High dose arm as compared to Placebo:
- After one week, more than 50% of patients achieved clinical cure in the CAL02 High dose arm as compared to 20% in the placebo arm
- CAL02-treated patients presented a faster clinical improvement, including faster resolution of organ dysfunctions
- ICU’s length of stay was reduced by one week, from 12 days in the Placebo arm to 5 days in CAL02 High dose arm
- Other parameters directly impacting health economics such as durations of invasive mechanical ventilation were also shorter in the CAL02 High dose arm
“Efficacy results from the CAL02-001 trial are in line with the mechanism of action of CAL02 which aims at protecting from toxin-mediated organ damages and inflammatory burst, and underscore the need for novel approaches acting in addition to antibiotics to improve treatment of severe infections” said Dr. Toni Perez, Combioxin’s Chief Medical Officer. “This trial showcases the broad utility of CAL02 as a first-line treatment for severe infection and we look forward to confirming these trends in a larger Phase 2 trial next year.”
“The results of the first-in-human CAL02-001 clinical trial provide evidence of the safe profile of CAL02 and its potential to dramatically improve the management of patients in critical situations caused by severe infections” said Prof. Laterre, Head of the medical-surgical intensive care unit at Saint Luc University Hospital at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Brussels, Belgium).
Pneumonia is still the fourth most common cause of death globally and is associated with a high economic burden mainly due to long hospital stay and the fact that more than one fifth of hospitalized patients will require intensive care unit management. Despite adequate antibiotic therapy and best available care, the length of stay in the ICU averages 13 days and mortality rates can reach up to 40%.
The CAL02-001 data will be presented by Professor Pierre-François Laterre, Principal Investigator for the trial, during the oral presentation session Management of Patients with Sepsis on Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 10:10 a.m. EST.
CAL02 is a novel liposomal agent that acts as a toxin-trap by mimicking microdomains used as cellular docking stations by various bacterial toxins which prompt inflammatory bursts, cause organ damages, favor invasiveness, impede immune defenses, and are also involved in mechanisms of resistance. CAL02 is designed to protect against these deleterious reactions, allowing a faster resolution of organ dysfunction and protecting immune responses. CAL02 is active against toxins produced by major pathogens responsible for common and severe infections including those caused by drug-resistant pathogens.
Combioxin SA is a Swiss-based clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2015. The company is committed to the development of disruptive treatments for severe infections.
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Teaching our Children to Read is our most important responsibility. Dr Swaby's
program "Let's Teach our Children to Read" is designed to:
Bridge the gap between Administrators, Teachers, and Parents with Dr. Barbara Swaby's clear path to literacy instruction.
For First Time Users:
If you have received login information, your school has subscribed to www.drswaby.com , the online teacher training series entitled "Let's Teach Our Children to Read," which was created by literacy guru Dr. Barbara Swaby. Dr. Swaby created this series is because there is frequently a mismatch between the skills the curriculum designers expect your students to already have and the skills your students actually have. This training series gives many ideas on how teachers can to adjust for that mismatch. Dr. Swaby's explanation of that concept is at http://www.drswaby.com/new/lettersFromDrSwaby/letterToEducators.asp.
The school's subscription provides all staff and parents with access to Dr. Swaby's 10 classes for educators and 1 class for parents. You can view the classes at your leisure because they're here on streaming video. Once you are done with a class, you can take a short multiple-choice test for that class. These tests are how the administration knows which classes you have completed.
The classes focus on literacy, so some teachers think that the instruction does not apply to their subject. There are many universal teaching gems that can be applied to a variety of teaching situations and that have long term benefits for students.
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Six new accelerated pathways to permanent residency will be launching on May 6, 2021 targeting healthcare workers and international students.
2021 has been a year full of surprises when it comes to immigration.
On April 14, 2021 Marco Mendicino, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced six new immigration pathways, which will enable over 90,000 essential workers and international graduates to become permanent residents of Canada.
These temporary programs have been designed for those individuals who are already living in Canada and who are actively contributing to the Canadian economy. Their skills and experience will play a significant role in Canada’s post-pandemic economic recovery.
IRCC will begin accepting applications as of May 6, 2021 under these three streams:
- Temporary workers in health care: 20,000
- Temporary workers in other selected essential occupations: 30,000
- International students who graduated from Canada: 40,000
The streams will be open until November 5, 2021 or until they reach their cap, whichever comes first.
in an effort to increase the number of French-speaking immigrants across Canada, three additional streams with no intake caps have also been launched.
The six programs are open to all the provinces in Canada, with the exception of Quebec, since Quebec makes its own immigration policies.
Eligible family members may be included in the application even if they are not currently living in Canada. However, all applicants must meet the basic admission requirements to enter Canada.
Breakdown of the six programs:
International student graduates
A total of 40,000 recent international graduates will be accepted under this program as permanent residents. Students are required to have graduated from a Designated Learning Institution (DLI) at the post-secondary level, before the application has been submitting but after January 2017. The program of study has to be at least eight months or longer.
Applicants will need to demonstrate they are currently working for a Canadian employer. Unfortunately, self-employed applicants are not eligible for the program.
If the education was completed in Quebec, candidates are still eligible, however, they will need to apply to live in a different province.
The Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 5 must also be met, in either English or French.
Essential workers in healthcare
Through this program, IRCC is planning on issuing permanent residencies to 20,000 healthcare workers.
The requirement for this program is very simple, applicants only need to demonstrate they have one year of full-time work experience in an eligible occupation in Canada. The list of eligible occupations include pharmacists, nurses, physicians and 37 other occupations.
In order to be valid, the work experience must have been met within a three-year time period leading up to the date the application is submitted.
A CLB 4 is the minimum language score required in either official language.
Essential workers in other occupations
Candidates who have experience in essential occupations across all National Occupational Classification (NOC) skill levels, are eligible under this program. A total of 95 occupations are listed as being eligible and include a diverse range of occupations such as construction laborer, farm worker and sales people.
30,000 newcomers will be welcomed under this program. Eligible candidates will need to have one year or more of full-time work experience within the last three years and they must be employed at the time of application. Self-employment will not be accepted.
The minimum language proficiency required in French or English is a CLB 4.
French-speaking international student graduates
French-speaking students who recently graduated from Canada and are currently living in Canada are eligible for this program.
Students need to have graduated from a Canadian post-secondary Designated Learning Institution (DLI) after January 2017. Any date before that will not be accepted.
In order to be recognized as an eligible program of study, the program has to be longer than eight months and for a Diploma of Vocational Studies or Attestation of Vocational Specialization, there has to be at least 1,800 hours of study combined.
Applicants need to be working in Canada at the time of submission and meet a minimum Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadien (NCLC) of 5 in French.
French-speaking essential workers in healthcare
This program has no cap! Under this pathway, the federal government is accepting an unlimited number of candidates, as long as they are French-speaking and are healthcare workers. Candidates must be looking to settle in another province, outside of Quebec.
Anyone who wants to settle in Quebec will not qualify.
The candidate’s work experience must be in one of the 40 eligible healthcare and social work occupations. They must also have worked one full year as a full-time employee within the last three years and must be employed at the time of application.
A minimum level of 4, is required in the Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadien for all areas of French.
French-speaking essential workers in other occupations
Canada will also be accepting who speak French and who have work experience in one of the 95 eligible occupations. There is no cap for this stream either! However, candidates must be willing to settle anywhere in Canada, except Quebec.
Like the other programs, one year of full-time work experience is a requirement for this program as well. The one year of experience must be completed within the past three years candidates must be employed when submitting the application.
Self-employed candidates will not be considered eligible.
A minimum Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadien of 4 is required in French.
List of eligible essential occupations
IRCC sorted these other essential occupations into units and sub-units. They are listed by National Occupational Classification (NOC) code.
Major unit groups
Sales and support occupations
- 6611 Cashiers
- 6621 Service station attendants
- 6622 Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers
- 6623 Other sales related occupations
Industrial, electrical and construction trades
- 7201 Contractors and supervisor, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations
- 7202 Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations
- 7203 Contractors and supervisors, pipefitting trades
- 7204 Contractors and supervisors, carpentry trades
- 7205 Contractors and supervisors, other construction trades, installers, repairers and servicers
- 7231 Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors
- 7232 Tool and die makers
- 7233 Sheet metal workers
- 7234 Boilermakers
- 7235 Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters
- 7236 Ironworkers
- 7237 Welders and related machine operators
- 7241 Electricians (except industrial and power system)
- 7242 Industrial electricians
- 7243 Power system electricians
- 7244 Electrical power line and cable workers
- 7245 Telecommunications line and cable workers
- 7246 Telecommunications installation and repair workers
- 7247 Cable television service and maintenance technicians
- 7251 Plumbers
- 7252 Steamfitters, pipefitters and sprinkler system installers
- 7253 Gas fitters
- 7271 Carpenters
- 7272 Cabinetmakers
- 7281 Bricklayers
- 7282 Concrete finishers
- 7283 Tilesetters
- 7284 Plasterers, drywall installers and finishers and lathers
- 7291 Roofers and shinglers
- 7292 Glaziers
- 7293 Insulators
- 7294 Painters and decorators (except interior decorators)
- 7295 Floor covering installers
Other installers, repairers and servicers and material handlers
- 7441 Residential and commercial installers and servicers
- 7442 Waterworks and gas maintenance workers
- 7444 Pest controllers and fumigators
- 7445 Other repairers and servicers
- 7451 Longshore workers
- 7452 Material handlers
Transport and heavy equipment operation and related maintenance occupations
- 7511 Transport truck drivers
- 7512 Bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators
- 7513 Taxi and limousine drivers and chauffeurs
- 7514 Delivery and courier service drivers
- 7521 Heavy equipment operators (except crane)
- 7522 Public works maintenance equipment operators and related workers
- 7531 Railway yard and truck maintenance workers
- 7532 Water transport deck and engine room crew
- 7533 Boat and cable ferry operators and related occupations
- 7534 Air transport ramp attendants
- 7535 Other automotive mechanical installers and servicers
Trades helpers, construction labourers and related occupations
- 7611 Construction trades helpers and labourers
- 7612 Other trades helpers and labourers
- 7621 Public works and maintenance labourers
- 7622 Railway and motor transport labourers
Harvesting, landscaping and natural resources labourers
- 8611 Harvesting labourers
- 8612 Landscaping and grounds maintenance labourers
- 8613 Aquaculture and marine harvest labourers
- 8614 Mine labourers
- 8615 Oil and gas drilling, servicing and related labourers
- 8616 Logging and forestry labourers
Minor unit groups
Mail and message distribution occupations
- 1511 Mail, postal and related workers
- 1512 Letter carriers
- 1513 Couriers, messengers and door-to-door distributors
- 6421 Retail salespersons
- 6731 Light duty cleaners
- 6732 Specialized cleaners
- 6733 Janitors, caretakers and building superintendents
Agriculture and horticulture workers
- 8431 General farm workers
- 8432 Nursery and greenhouse workers
Other workers in fishing and trapping and hunting occupations
- 8441 Fishing vessel deckhands
- 8442 Trappers and hunters
Machine operators and related workers in food, beverage and associated products processing
- 9461 Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
- 9462 Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
- 9463 Fish and seafood plant workers
- 9465 Testers and graders, food and beverage processing
Specific 4-digit unit groups
- 0821 Managers in agriculture
- 0822 Managers in horticulture
- 4031 French and French immersion secondary school teachers (language of instruction must be French)
- 4032 French and French immersion elementary school and kindergarten teachers (language of instruction must be French)
- 4411 Home child care providers
- 4413 Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants
- 6331 Retail butchers
- 6523 Airline ticket and service agents
- 6524 Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives and related clerks
- 6541 Security guards and related security service occupations
- 6551 Customer services representatives – financial institutions
- 6552 Other customer and information services representatives
- 8252 Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers
- 8255 Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance and horticulture services
- 9617 Labourers in food and beverage processing
- 9618 Labourers in fish and seafood processing
The launch of these programs is a win-win situation for everyone involved. Essential workers feel appreciated and are encouraged to settle their roots in Canada permanently. This will help the country retain valuable talent and skills and help drive long-term economic growth.
These programs will also help Canada achieve its 2021 Immigration Levels Plan and goal of welcoming 401,000 newcomers into the country by the end of the year.
If you fall within any of the above eligibility criteria, don’t delay with your application. The programs are a sure fire fast-track way of becoming a permanent resident in Canada.
It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, one not to be missed!
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CALGARY, July 26, 2013 /CNW/ - PanTerra Resource Corp. ("PanTerra" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, at its recently held Annual General
Meeting, the following individuals have been elected to the Company's
Board of Directors; Messer's Gordon F. Dixon QC (Chairman), Jake Pronk
P. Geol., David Thompson CA, Geoffrey Baker and Mr. Fred P. Rumak P.
Geol. Mr. J. Glenn Robinson P. Eng. did not stand for re-election due
to health issues. PanTerra would like to thank Mr. Robinson for his
past service and wishes him well in his retirement and future
Further, the Company wishes to announce that final closing of the
previously announced Carrot Creek deal has been moved forward, and
instead of two more closing that were scheduled for July 22 and
September 1st, the final closing for the outstanding balance of $1,399,800 will occur
on or before July 31st, 2013. The Company will use the proceeds to completely eliminate all
current payables and further reduce its credit facility.
PanTerra is a diversified junior public oil and gas company listed on
the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") under the symbol "PRC", with holdings in both conventional and
unconventional projects in Western Canada that have excellent
optimization and exploitation potential. Company information can be
found at: www.panterraresource.com.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider
(as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
SOURCE: PanTerra Resource Corp.
For further information:
Fred P. Rumak P.Geol.
President and C.E.O. at 403-261-5900
Jake Pronk P. Geol
V.P. Exploration at 403-261-5900
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Your Resource for the Tate-LaBianca (TLB) MurdersYesterday :: Today :: Tomorrow :: Where No Sense Makes Sense
Is that a bruise on her thigh?
Patty is wondering the same thing, whut.
Patty,Maybe she was bruised up for a movie. I'm thinking Valley of the Dolls???
The weird horse pic was what stuck out to me. Huh?She was soooo pretty.
Last month, cielodrive pointed out that Sharon would have been turning 70. Sad.
And Paul Polanski would have been 44 this year.
She is so pretty, but looked older than she was to me.
Somehow, the Manson girls usually fascinate me more than the Tates.
Well, the Tates didn't get naked, take acid and ride stolen dune buggies across the Death Valley desert while wielding knives & guns. That we know of, anyway.
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The Harlem Shake0:30
Five bored teenagers from the Sunshine Coast have sparked a viral dance craze that has collectively generated about 20million YouTube hits worldwide. YouTube/TheSunnyCoastSkate
FIVE bored teenagers from the Sunshine Coast have sparked a viral dance craze that has collectively generated about 20 million hits on YouTube worldwide.
It's called the Harlem Shake and everyone from the US and Norwegian armies to Lego toys and the Jimmy Fallon Show are doing it.
Teenagers Corey Walsh, Jimmy Dale, Matt Stanyon, George Warrener and Oscar Mitchell - aka SunnyCoastSkate - created the 31 second music clip when they were cooped up indoors during the recent stormy weather.
By Tuesday, their "The Harlem Shake v1 (TSCS original)'' meme had received more than 2.3 million hits.
But scores of individual copycat versions crediting theirs as the original had received as many as 5 million hits each on Tuesday.
Caloundra State High School year 11 student Corey Walsh said the popularity was unexpected and he hoped it could be the next Gangnam Style.
"I think it's pretty crazy, I didn't think anyone would care at all,'' said the 15-year-old.
"Some of the groups like the US army doing it, it's pretty crazy the way it's taken off.
"I reckon it could be (copied like Gangnam style) if it kept going how it is. I don't know if the song would be as big but maybe the dancing might.''
The skater mates usually spend their weekends knocking around together on their wheels.
But when wet weather hit, they had to find another way to amuse themselves.
Their video features the boys lounging around Matt's bedroom in suburban Bellvista, with only Matt - wearing a helmet - shake-dancing for 15 seconds to Baauer's Harlem Shake. Others in the room continue their usual activity, not noticing the lone dancer.
In the next 15 seconds, everyone abruptly springs to action and dances or performs whacky moves.
Viral Viral Videos website, which monitors the internet for emerging video trends, says the Harlem Shake meme has "exploded'' online and is already featuring on TV shows in the USA.
It actually started with a group called Filthy Frank who posted their Harlem Shake on February 2. SunnyCoastSkate was inspired to modify and create their own different version which subsequently took off in recent days.
Corey's proud dad Steve Walsh said the boys were stunned at its rapid popularity, exploding from a handful of hits, to 1000, to more than 20,000 and then more than 2 million.
"They didn't realise what they had created,'' said Mr Walsh.
"They got bored, and the rest is history.''
Originally published as Harlem Shake teens a worldwide hit
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