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North VS South! Redneck Tough Truck Racing At Dennis Anderson Muddy Motorsports park!
There are few things more fun that loading up in your very own home-built offroad ...
There are few things more fun that loading up in your very own home-built offroad pickup or SUV and head out to do some Redneck Tough Truck racing. With a huge field of Jeeps and pickup trucks, all of which are reasonably low-budget builds that anybody can bring out to compete, the 2017 Dennis Anderson Muddy Motorsports Park’s North vs South Mud Bog event had a little something for everybody.
We don’t know all of the rules for what can and can’t be done to these rides, but it looks like they are all fairly close to stock ride height and none of them are running huge tires, so we’re going to assume the rules are fairly restrictive, but that doesn’t limit the fun. You can tell from the dirt slinging and the suspension bouncing that these guys are having a great time on the down-and-back course, especially when they catch a little air over the jumps and slam down on the other side.
Thanks to the guys at Busted Knuckle Films, we get to see the whole field compete and with their perspective from up in the stands, we get to hear a lot of the crowd’s reaction to the action. We love the variety of these rides and the drivers’ varied approaches to the course. Some of them take the balls-out approach, only to find themselves with broken parts before they’ve completed their runs while other driver take it easy and just flat get outran. Somewhere between all-out and super-cautious is a winning approach that will get you to the finish line fairly quickly with your ride all in one piece.
Of course, the crowd loves the guys who let it all hang out and catch massive air, a questionable decision in a basically stock ride as far as risking getting your bell rung upon landing, but these guys do it all for the glory and there are few things that pump up your ego like the crowd cheering you on!
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Track and Buy Products and Services
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Knowing what to buy and when to buy it is one of the most important features of a great product and inventory management solution. Making purchasing easy is the next most important thing. CloudLink can help you manage both of these facets. By providing an easy to use purchasing and purchase order system that will allow you to manually or automatically create purchase orders, we empower you to get control over your spending for product you sell and give you deeper insights into how you make money.
Our automatic purchase orders can be generated from a number of parts of our system including from jobs, from loads, and from sales orders or estimates. By integrating your purchasing process into the various parts of our system we streamline your capability to easily acquire, store, and then deliver products to your customers, with the aim of improving customer retention, communication, and overall satisfaction.
Our purchase order system allows controlled access so only the right people can do the ordering, and even lets you work with multiple vendors for the same product to establish rules for cost levels. You can create new prices on the fly as you buy something new. Purchase Orders feed into our inventory control system allowing you to manage what you've ordered just as well as what you have on hand.
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- Can be created automatically
- Notes and Attachment capable
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Want to see more? See a purchase order in action in our short screencast.
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Find Gate Valve , Globe Valve , Brass Fitting on Industry Directory, Reliable Manufacturer/Supplier/Factory from China.
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Store Managers will report to the Area Manager and will be accountable for all aspects in the store and ensure that the store is operating as per Domino’s world class standards by enforcing company regulations through continuous improvement of sales and profitability management,
They will be in charge of all aspects of the store operations and budgets including revenue, food cost, labor, inventories, quality assurance and excellent customer service. The role will also have a key focus on training and managing the store team and by supporting and providing the resources to meet the store’s KPIs.
- Age maximum 36 years old.
- Minimum graduated from Diploma or Bachelor Degree is a must.
- Min. 3 years of working experience as Store Manager/Asst. Store Manager specializing in F&B/Restaurant Service or equivalent.
- Good leadership abilities, people management skill, mentoring & coaching
- Excellent communication skill
- Proactive, self-motivated, and self-directed
- Committed to excellent customer service
- In depth understanding in store profit and loss (P&L) report, Food hygiene, Health & Safety
- Understand specific training modules (i.e. PULSE, SAP, Restaurant Operations)
- Have creative strategy on fulfilling the store's sales target
- Willing to work in the store with shifting schedule, including on weekends and public holidays
- Willing to be placed at any Domino’s Stores Nationally
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The GIGA is home to the largest non-university information centre for area studies and comparative area studies in Germany. The four regional libraries collect literature on economic, political, and social developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The collection comprises about 200,000 books and approximately 10,000 online journals – plus more than 100,000 online documents.
The Information Centre (IZ) is publicly accessible and operates as a reference library with the option of weekend lending. The publications are largely available for inter-library loan. Identified as an “outstanding research library,” the IZ was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Tuesday–Thursday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. The GIGA Information Centre is closed again at least until the end of January 2021. This also affects the limited operation (ordering by e-mail and lending).
A weekend loan service from Friday till Tuesday is available; however, an ID card or equivalent document must be presented to use this service.
A regular inter-library loan service
Books: Four-week loan period
Journal articles: Preparation of photocopies (up to 20 pages free of charge, larger quantities € 0.30 + 19 per cent VAT per page, payment in advance)
In each regional library there are:
computers with free Internet access
copier/scanner with USB port
free WiFi (Neuer Jungfernstieg only).
In our online public access catalogue (OPAC) you can find our:
in both printed and electronic form.
You can also search the World Affairs Online (WAO) database, which offers approximately 859,000 titles on international relations and area studies – of which 99,000 have links to online full texts. The WAO is one of the largest social science literature databases in Europe. The catalogue is available in German, English, and French.
German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) for printed journals
Database Information System (DBIS): Here you can find information on bibliographic databases, reference books and encyclopaedias that are managed at the IZ.
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- Size Guide
Articles & Tips
January 31, 2018|
Take an inventory of what you’ll need to pack room by room.
The first step is to get an idea of what you’ll need to pack. This will help you plan ahead for purchasing moving boxes and other moving supplies. As you take note of the items you’ll need to pack, think about what size boxes you’ll need and the appropriate packing materials for any fragile belongings. Group items together by similar size and weight.
Choosing your boxes and packing materials.
It’s important to use sturdy boxes. You don’t want the cardboard to buckle under the weight of your belongings. Keep most boxes filled with 30 pounds or less, with 50 pounds as the maximum. Each box should be sealed with packing tape. It’s a good idea to use two layers of tape to ensure your box is firmly closed at both the top and bottom. Besides boxes and tape, there are a variety of packing supplies out there and you’ll probably want to use a combination of several methods. Packing peanuts are great for filling in empty spaces, as is old newspaper. You can use linens, towels, paper towels, facial tissues and paper tissue for wrapping individual items. Bubble wrap is also effective for protecting delicate items.
Learn how to pack boxes in the most efficient order.
For most of your moving boxes, you’ll want to start with a layer of packing peanuts (or similar supply) on the bottom. Place the heaviest items in the bottom first, and be sure to use bubble wrap or newspaper as needed. You can use foam or other cushioning supplies to create a barrier between the next layer. Do not over fill the box, and make sure it isn’t packed with too many heavy items that the box cannot be lifted. You’ll also want to fill in excess space with packing supplies like peanuts or newspaper to prevent shifting. Your box should be able to close easily. Make sure to use tape to keep it firmly closed, and label it with its contents and room destination.
Pay careful attention on how to pack moving boxes with delicate items.
When packing dishes and glassware, be sure to individually wrap each item and place them carefully in the box. You’ll need to have a protective layer on the bottom as well as around the edges. Towels and other linens can make a great protective layer. Plates and bowls should all be individually wrapped and can be stacked on top of each other.
For glasses, vases, pitchers and stemware, place wrapping or packing paper inside and wrap a double layer around, paying special attention to handles. Cups can be packed upside down, but pitchers and sauce containers are best left upright.
For other fragile items, wrap these individually with bubble wrap, tissue paper or other packing materials. Make sure to cushion these items in the box with bath towels or other soft cloths. Figurines should be wrapped first in tissue paper, then protected with an additional layer of newspaper. Mirrors, pictures and plaques can all be wrapped in towels for extra padding. Be cautious not to set anything too heavy on top of delicate items.
Finally, be sure to label your delicate items with “fragile” so your movers will know to take extra precautions.
For additional information to help you transition into your new home as smooth as possible check out our tips for moving.
1 Bedroom Apartment
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Single Dorm Room
Half the height of our standard 5' x 5', our lockers will hold personal items, clothes boxes, business records and sale rep materials. This is our smallest storage unit. Available at most locations.
How big is a 5x5? A 5x5 will hold personal items, clothes, boxes, small furniture items, business records and sales rep materials.
Will hold small amounts of furniture, boxspring and mattress, business records and other small items.
Will hold a 1 bedroom apartment w/major appliances, other furniture and supplies.
What will fit in a 10x15? This size storage-unit will hold contents of a 2 bedroom apartment or house including appliances and boxes, or commercial storage inventory.
Will hold contents of a 3 bedroom apartment or house plus major appliances and lots of boxes. Business storage, ideal for storage racks.
Will hold contents of a 4 to 5 bedroom house with major appliances and room for boxes. Business storage for files, equipment and permanent records.
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School enrolment: Applications for schools closes at the end of the week
29 May 2011The deadline for the first round of applications to enrol children in school for 2012 is Friday, 3 June 2011.
Early enrolment of learners for the next school year is a priority for the Western Cape Education Department (WCED).
Every hour of every teaching day is important if we are to improve learner outcomes in this province. With the help of all concerned, we can ensure that we achieve a smooth start to 2012.
Enrolling learners as early as possible minimises the disruption at schools at the start of the school year and allows schools and the department to plan ahead for the year ahead. These plans depend on knowing how many learners will be in every school in 2012 well before the end of this year.
The Western Cape has two deadlines for enrolment this year. The first is 3 June and the second is 30 September.
The second deadline is for parents who are unable to find places for their children after the first round of applications.
We appeal to parents and guardians to exercise their rights and responsibilities by enrolling their children as soon as possible.
In terms of Section 3(1) of the South African Schools Act (Act 84 of 1994), school attendance is compulsory for all learners from the first school day of the year in which the learner reaches the age of seven years.
It is therefore the responsibility of parents and guardians to enrol children for the following school year if they are entering Grade 1, changing schools (such as entering Grade 8 or 9) or when they have moved to a new geographical area.
The WCED strongly recommends that parents apply to more than one school. Many of these schools already have waiting lists. A name on a waiting list does not necessarily mean a place in the school concerned.
Parents must also provide the following documents when submitting their applications:
- The child’s birth certificate (baptismal certificates are not regarded as proof of birth date).
- Immunisation card
- Transfer card or the last report card for learners who have already been to school.
Schools may enrol learners provisionally if these documents are not available. They will give parents and guardians reasonable time to submit them.
Parents must, in the first instance, deal directly with the school at which they wish to enrol their children. However, should they encounter difficulty in enrolling their children for 2012, they may approach their local education district office for assistance.
The WCED have informed schools that after the first round of applications have ended, they are required to inform parents if the child has not been accepted by 30 June 2011.
This allows parents sufficient time to look for alternative schools to enroll their children in the second round.
Cell: 072 7241 422
Tel: 021 467 2377
Issued by: Western Cape Education
29 May 2011
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It is a sad thing to see a man who has been frittered away piecemeal by petty distractions, and who has never done his best. But it is still sadder to see a man who has done his best, who has reached his utmost limits – and finds his work a failure, and himself far less than he had imagined himself.
~ Matthew Arnold (Courtesy of Mike Chisholm)
Yes, we might have entertained fantasies about alternative lives as writers or musicians or artists, but failure – an almost certain outcome, in retrospect – would have been catastrophic, and to have taken that risk would have been the sort of folly only the exceptionally brave (or irredeemably strange) can contemplate: working-class families have no safety nets to cushion the fall of their crash-and-burn casualties.
~ Mike Chisholm / Idiotic Hat
“…the patterns of struggle and failure in life tend to repeat themselves.”
~ Oliver Stone
Stone, Oliver. Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood – From the 1960s to Platoon (p. 73). Octopus. Kindle Edition.
“There’s something good about being a failure — it keeps you going.”
~ Robert Frank.
“Great photography is always on the edge of failure.”
~ Garry Winogrand
“For many people, failure will be just that, not a nourishing experience or a bridge to something else. It will be a lasting condition, and it will sting a fair bit.
Look again at that list of names who have minted smarmy epigrams about the utility of failure. It is, you realise, a kind of winner’s wisdom. Those who overcome setbacks to achieve epic feats tend to universalise their atypical experience. Amazingly bad givers of advice, they encourage people to proceed with ambitions that are best sat on, and despise “quitters” when quitting is often the purest common sense.”
~ Janan Ganesh / Financial Times, March 15th 2019
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try”
~ Hunter Thompson
“Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud.”
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The III-V-MOS project completed successfully on April 30th, 2017 but its activities will not stop here. Keep following us at major international conferences, via LinkedIn and via partner institution websites.
- III-V-MOS Project presentation and overview
- III-V-MOS Project Press Release
- Joint Open Access Presentation: “A comprehensive study of band structure calculation methods for bulk and ultra thin InxGa1-xAs films and comparison with experimental ellipsometry bandgap data has been recently published by the consortium partners on Solid State Electronics” DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2015.09.005
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The meaning of existence isn’t so palpable. Why are we here? –An all too common question. One that isn’t going to answer itself. But one could objurgate that the answer varies. But what is the main reason? If there’s any reason at all, that is.
Does it matter? Trying to figure it out isn’t going to do anything but make my brain hurt. All I do is curiously tilt my head in wonder and ponder about why I even try to figure it out. But asking these questions is fun, even without the answers. How am I to know that I even exist? How do I know that anything is real? But who cares? I chose to believe that I exist and so does everything else.
Life is simply inscrutable. Life is a video game leaving most people without cheats and everyone without start overs. There’s always challenges and battles with some goal at the end. Yet some people find glitches. Maybe they’re in a horrible accident leaving them paralyzed or they have a mental illness.
I’m not really going anywhere with this, just basically thinking out loud. But as I watch the world move around me, I find it harder and harder to imagine there is no meaning to life. Despite the lack of answers, there must be something going on we’re not all aware of.
At the moment, I’m taking time to just be grateful for everything I do and do not have. Something I probably don’t do often enough. Oh, how grateful I am to just be able to walk, see, speak and feel love from my family. My cousin I mentioned before with having cancer passed away last week and I’m taking extra time to be grateful for the lives that aren’t gone yet.
We all think we have all the time in the world, that we will live a long full life, fall in love and have children. But I could be killed tomorrow without ever having done anything in my life. There’s always that ominous voice in our heads telling us to do something with our lives.
What do I want? I want to hold a bird in my hand, I want to feed apples to a horse, I want to save the lives of animals and love them. Anyone who knows me, knows that animals are my everything. They know I have some sort of “gift” with animals.
That could be the meaning of my life, but not all of existence. I guess no one will really know, but perhaps that’s not such a bad thing.
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Remember when we talked about The State in our Hell Baby episode last week? Well, this film stars another alumni of The State, Ken Marino. Ken’s guts aren’t doing so good… Hey, we’ve all been there, right? The worst part of this film is the constant singing of the “Diahrrea” song. They make a point to sing it in every language! (Do they do that? Watch and see!!) Oh yeah, we’re trying out new equipment on this podcast so it’ll probably sound different, maybe better. I say maybe because it’s still the same dudes, we’re just creamier!!
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Not a subscriber?
December 06 - 09, 2015
Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin
Walt Disney World Resort, FL
Rates increase $400 after October 22, 2015.
You'll receive a hard copy, high-level synopsis to share with your colleagues back home summarizing this program's key takeaways and action items.
Walt Disney understood the power of a dream, and built his legacy by taking action. Follow his example by getting your directors out of the boardroom and into Directors Conference. The agenda is a “just right” blend of the practical and the inspirational, with both credit union-specific and cross-industry information. Board members will:
A promising future awaits credit unions that are willing to invest their time and effort into making it happen. Directors Conference allows your key volunteers the opportunity to recharge, reconnect and reimagine the possibilities. Start here.
Pre-Conference Director Excellence Training
Sunday, December 6, 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Are You Ready? Serving on the Credit Union Board of the Future
Michael G. Daigneault, CEO, Quantum Governance, L3C and & Steve Williams, principal, Cornerstone Advisors, Inc.
Both new and seasoned directors can find themselves facing overwhelming challenges. Through a set of engaging exercises and discussions, learn how to anticipate and overcome some of the unique situations that may arise.
Make plans to attend the pre-conference!
Increase the value of your attendance by adding the pre-conference session. The cost is $195 for CUES members or $390 for non-members. Register now!
Thanks to these sponsors
This event is ideal for:
Attendees can earn continuing professional education credits. This conference meets the following standards:
CUES is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN., 37219-2417, or by visiting the web site: www.learningmarket.org.
ALL CANCELLATIONS MUST BE IN WRITING. For cancellations received fewer than 45 days before the event, there will be an administration fee of 15% deducted from your refund. No refunds will be issued within seven days of the start of the event. Substitute attendees are welcome, subject to eligibility and an additional fee. CUES reserves the right to cancel or reschedule the event due to unforeseen circumstances, and will refund fees if the event is rescheduled or location is changed, and you must cancel your registration due to the change.
Total savings for purchasing as a bundle:
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Monday, December 19, 2005 :::
I went to the gym today. While changing into my work-out clothes in the locker room, a fellow exerciser initiated some random chit chat. He asked me how often I've been working out, whether or not I've had any muscle problems, and if I do a lot of cardio. Then he asked me how fast I run on the treadmill and for how long. The real answer is six miles per hour for 25 minutes. Five minutes of which is cool-down. But for some obviously shallow reason, I told him 6.5 miles per hour for 30 minutes. It was just a small fib, I thought. Then I left his company to go start my work-out.
Thirty seconds after I started my run, I looked in the mirror to see that my new locker room friend had taken position on the stair-stepper, right behind me and to the left. So there he was, literally towering just over my shoulder, with a perfectly clear view of my treadmill pedometer, which of course meant I actually had to run at a steady 6.5 miles per hour for the full 30 minutes. It almost killed me. My sweat-drenched shirt was clinging to my chest and stomach and my mouth was permanently agape as I fought for air. All the color drained from my face. My footfalls sounded like galloping clydedales. It was ugly.
It was kinda like he was Daryl Zero and I was Ryan O'Neal and he was just testing me as a way of judging my character. That's a really good movie, by the way. Anyway, lesson learned. Don't be shallow like dan.
Then to add insult to (literal) injury, I passed him while leaving the club and he held out his hand. In retrospect, I now recognize that it was just supposed to be a friendly wave, but I mistook it as an invitation for a high-five. Then midway through raising my hand to slap his, I realized my mistake, and that split-second of hesitation made me unsure of how to compensate, so I ended up doing a weird half-squeeze-handshake/half-high-five thing with this guy I barely know in the lobby of my health club.
I'm really not a high-five type of person anyway, so I should have resisted to begin with. Oh well. Lesson learned. Don't be socially retarded like dan.
::: posted by dan at 9:26 PM :: [ link ] :: (24) comments
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By sweets n scotch, at 11:11 PM
yipes, that hi-five part made me cringe into my chair. i've been there too many times in similar variations.
By alarcon, at 2:17 AM
That is such a great story Dan. I have never done that myself, but I do hate when someone in the locker room tries to talk to me when I'm changing clothes, very ackward.. But I'm also the type that does not like to use a urinal, just ackward..
By TracyD, at 7:46 AM
Yikes...the awkward "i thought a high five" situation. Second only in awkwardness to the "i thought you were waving at me" situation.
By Dave, at 7:54 AM
that's like the time i thought a semi-famous person was waving at me in New York . . . i was visiting the city and had met this person briefly, (along with the hundreds of other slobs who were there to meet him) at an event the previous evening. i thought I was particularly charming and insightful in my 12.3 second audience with him. this was confirmed by the fact that he actually remembered me, and was waving at me! ME! i started grinning like an idiot, and hurriedly started walking over, and that's when the cab pulled over to the curb and he got in, never having even noticed (i hope) me being a giant dork. thanks for helping me recall that humiliating moment.
By , at 8:07 AM
oh dan dan dan, I have been there! Why are people comfortable speaking to each other in locker rooms? There are women who sit around the locker rooms naked eating oatmeal and chatting it up every morning. Ack! On the bright side it sounds like you got a great workout!
By , at 10:11 AM
ahh i am so glad there are others like me in this world.
you are hilarious. thanks for sharing - takes a strong man to admit he bumbled into a handshake/high-five/slap with a near-stranger.
By , at 10:57 AM
any chance the guy was hitting on you?
By , at 11:06 AM
Hmm...the gym stalker. Nice.
By Elle Marie, at 11:32 AM
I can't believe you hi-fived that guy. Hilarious. That is the best story EVER.
By Biglug, at 11:49 AM
wasn't that an episode on Seinfeld?
By , at 12:32 PM
High fives are so 1980s.
By , at 3:08 PM
I seriously love EVERYTHING about this.
By duane, at 3:22 PM
Dan, you are going to have to work on your pick up lines if you ever want to attract cute guys. Maybe you just have to be drunk, which should not be a problem for you.
By , at 4:49 PM
Now, that comment about Dan needing to work on his pick-up lines and being drunk is just mean. You should be ashamed of yourself, whoever you are. Besides, I'm sure Dan doesn't need pick-up lines.
By , at 11:51 PM
Why does everyone seem to have a problem w/ high fives?? Shame on the gym guy for not intending for that to be a high five... they're the best!
By , at 2:15 AM
Okay, i'm a long time lurker and have never posted a comment before, however, this time I cannot resist. I was in a meeting when I read this entry and almost laughed out loud. People looked at me becasue my face turned a little red as I tried to hold it in. The part about you running on the treadmill reminded me a little of Gattaca where Ethan Hawke tried to pretend he was uber-fit.
Anyway, thanks for the laugh. I loved everything about this post. I know I'm not alone when I wave or acknowledge someone who is looking past me at someone else.
By , at 9:20 AM
You did the right thing by upping your workout... I was talking to a woman at the club who said she never ran,and then low and behold I caught her later running.. It baffled me the entire workout
why would she tell me she never ran and then go and run? I still she her around the club and every time I think she is not to be trusted...
I told the personal trainer I was 124 pounds when in reality I hover around 126,I am not sure why I said 124 and now I can never train with him for fear he will think either A-I am starting to gain
or B- I am a low down,fat.dorty liar...
also, Carl...the operation guy walked toward me like he was going to give me a hug the other day because he had just worked out and was all sweaty...I didin't piece it together that the hug was supposed to be a joke *even though I have never been hugged before by him*so I smiled and extended my arms... it was not until minutes later replaying the whole scene in my head that I realized what had just gone down and that I was *once again* a social bumbling idioy...
I mean what is wrong with me why would he hug me? I am still kicking myself...
I laughed for like 30 minutes because of this post by the way
By Stacy, at 9:59 AM
since I can't edit my comment,I will just mention,wow I was heavy on the typo's....
By Stacy, at 10:01 AM
I have to say it...the mean anonymous poster is ranking up there with the person who refers to uncle Ray each time they comment in terms of annoyance factor... I really hate you...not you uncle Ray commentor,your just mildly irrating,I hate the dumb mean person...do you think you are starting to beat a dead horse?
We get it you think Dan drinks alot and is gay...no one cares what you think...no one responds...so shut up.Plus your "jabs" are not even remotely clever or funny in addition to being mean.
By , at 10:08 AM
Yeah - I'm with them. But wouldn't it be weird if that 'nice' anonymous was really just the same person as the mean one?
By the way Dan - at least I know there is someone out there suffering from the same humiliation I go through day after day. It would be way worse if I were the only one ;-)
By elizabeth, at 2:05 PM
yeah, it sounds like the guy was hitting on you. i cant imagine a guy testing someone elses character at a gym... that's kinda ridiculous. i think he just wanted a nice view of your ass.
don't worry, the high-five awkward thing probably sent him the right message, haha.
By , at 11:07 PM
i can't stop laughing....
By , at 12:07 AM
I just found your site today and haven't stopped laughing. But this one is the bestest. The goofy handshake thing has flustered more men than you can know, myself included.
By , at 8:01 PM
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- Published: Friday, 12 May 2017 12:56
Content hosted for and provided by Tim Martin, Science Teacher, St. Vincent Pallotti High School
S-U-M-M-E-R S-C-H-O-O-L. Two words that no student wants to hear at the end of a long school year. The longing for a well-deserved break mixed with the negative stigma that these two words carry makes their feelings toward summer school understandable. This is especially true for students making the transition from middle school to high school. This transition marks a major step in social and academic development; so students may feel that they need to enjoy the time off to mentally prepare themselves for the change. On the other hand, there are many benefits of summer school that are not usually discussed. As a teacher, I would like to change the perception of summer school to one that is positive and beneficial by sharing my own experiences in teaching the Summer Enrichment Program at St. Vincent Pallotti High School in Laurel, MD.
The Summer Enrichment Program is designed to help potential incoming freshmen bridge the gap between middle school and high school, both socially and academically. It allows the students to get familiar with the high school experience and expectations at St. Vincent Pallotti, which includes the concept of the “Pallotti Family”. By becoming familiar with the “Pallotti Way” ahead of time, the students have an easier time transitioning to a new school instead of experiencing a “culture-shock”.
The Summer Enrichment Program consists of sessions in both Math and English. In the Math portion, the students are brought up to speed on the mathematical concepts necessary for high school. The incoming freshmen come from different schools, both public and private, that teach math in different ways. Most of the students in Summer Enrichment that struggle in math find that the three-week program is beneficial, both in the improvement of grades and confidence. In the three years that I have taught Summer Enrichment, the average grade improves by an average of 20-30% by the end of the program (based on an initial evaluation/exam compared to an evaluation/exam at the end of the program). Because I do not allow calculators during the program, students who have completely relied on calculators in the past were able to do math by hand with confidence.
In the English portion, the students are brought up to speed on sentence structure, critical thinking, and proper ways to answer questions and write essays. In many high school classes, these are skills that are necessary to succeed, but may be missing in some students. At Pallotti, all incoming freshmen are required to read two novels that are chosen by the English department. In the Summer Enrichment Program, we use one of these novels to practice the necessary skills mentioned above. Each day, the students are required to read a certain number of chapters and answer questions that force them to think and search for deeper meaning in the text. In the three-weeks, the students not only improve in their ability to write and think critically, but they also complete half of their required summer reading.
Instead of thinking of summer school as a punishment for students who struggle, I believe it should be seen as a benefit to better prepare students for the future. The four years of high school are some of the most important years for a student to develop socially and academically and help determine the path for their futures. Why not get a chance to catch up, or even a head start, in a Summer Enrichment Program?
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Behold the Earth as you have never seen it before. The Planetary Research Station features a suspended, animated globe that shows dynamic images of the atmosphere, oceans, and land from a completely unique vantage point.
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Robert Zimmerman asks for more time, funds in letter posted onlineThe father of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, posted a letter online, saying he's "disgusted with Florida's judicial system."
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Robert Zimmerman then appears to attack the state's audio experts, whose findings were released last week and differed on their voice analysis to whether screams for help captured on 911 calls were those of George Zimmerman or Martin.
"It now appears the state has somehow found an ‘expert’ that hears words and sentences that only he can," Robert Zimmerman writes. "The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and FBI experts, after exhaustive testing of the same recordings, were unable to hear any of these ‘mystery words.'" READ MORE
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Been a busy day, so I haven't had a chance to note that CBS canceled "The Ex-List" -- and the day after one of the Hollywood trades suggested that the bad economy was making the networks reluctant to cancel borderline series.
Despite the messy exit of showrunner Diane Ruggiero, I gave "The Ex-List" a positive initial review because I liked the Ruggiero-penned pilot, and I figured I'd stick around at least long enough to see what the post-Ruggiero episodes were like. Not gonna happen now, and I may as well delete the two episodes I still have eating up space on my DVR hard drive.
The writing aside, I thought Elizabeth Reaser was terrific in the lead, and hope to see more of her in the future. And in the meantime, are the "Moonlight" fans gloating yet?
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Employment Commissioner Laszlo Andor has revealed that around 74,000 jobs have been lost across the EU in the car industry since the onset of the economic crisis.
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Mr Andor said that although part of the problem was linked to the general European economic crisis, he added that the industry suffered from "long standing over-capacities".
Restructuring cases include the recent decision by Ford to move their production of the Transit van to Turkey from Southampton.
Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani recently published the Cars 2020 strategy, containing a series of policies to try and boost the industry.
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Mr Andor said he wanted to explore "all possibilities" to help workers affected by plant closures, and announced the creation of a "social dialogue committee" made up of employers and workers.
However Belgian MEP Ivo Belet said the crisis in the industry showed that the single market "is not working" if companies were able to relocate on the basis of national markets.
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The father of one of the men on board an overturned fishing boat says the coast guard should never have left the vessel before trying to stabilize it.
George Hopkins said Friday that official search crews may have needlessly lost track of the Miss Ally, which capsized sometime Sunday with five men on board.
Hopkins, whose 27-year-old son Joel is among the missing fishermen, conceded that the coast guard may not have been able to search the inside of the 13-metre fishing boat but it could have kept an eye on it.
"They should have stayed there," he said from his home in Woods Harbour, N.S. "That was a big mistake, right there. You don't leave it, you leave someone by it."
Maj. Martell Thompson, spokesman for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax, said once the search was called off Tuesday at 6 p.m., the navy and coast guard pulled away from the area.
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Posted in the North Syracuse Forum
#1 Mar 23, 2013
Mayor Atkinson this cop is out of control and rentless. We pay for protection and not to be abused by a smug ticket nut. Most of your cops are very good but this guy abuses his position.
#2 Mar 24, 2013
I understand the police have a job to to but that guy needs his badge taken away.
#3 Mar 24, 2013
Dont ride a motorcycle through the Village of North Syracuse when the nazi is working. He will climb right up your tail pipe until you cross the fog line and then you will get stopped and harassed. Dot stickers, unauthorized sun glasses, nothing is to shamefull for him. Officer JEFF.TRIPP IS ON THE CASE. its sad that the Village allows this guy to harass the public in this way. NOT GOOD !!
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A new social media website has been set up which wants to encourage us to follow the advice of our friends instead of complete strangers. But should we put our faith in the recommendations of those closest to us?
‘Is there something you would like to recommend?’
When was the last time you sat down in a restaurant, turned to a member of the waiting staff and asked this question?
If you’ve spent most of your life using the internet, chances are you have never asked it at all.
It is rare these days that even the least tech-savvy among us will go to an eatery without having dug up some info on it online. The same goes for bars, movies, hotels and gadgets. Buying something ‘blind’ is a thing of the past.
We don’t have to ask the waiter what he recommends any more – we already know what the best dish in the place is because we’ve swotted up on the web.
We do, however, have to ask ourselves another question: who do we turn to online for the best recommendations?
The internet is coming down with websites telling us what to do with our lives, but in most of them we trawl through advice from people we have never met.
A newly launched ‘social recommendation’ service aims to change that. Snoox was set up earlier this month and wants to combine the power of social media with the power of persuasion wielded over us by our friends.
Instead of following the recommendations of strangers, Snoox users will take the advice given of those closest to them.
Based in the US, Snoox is available online and as a Facebook app. A mobile phone app is coming soon.
Users make recommendations about their favourite things and write a description explaining why. So far, so Pinterest. But when they search the site for recommendations, they will only find results from people they know.
Members log in to Snoox using their Facebook accounts – the site uses past Facebook ‘likes’ to get a user started.
Significantly, the site already has something of a money-making strategy in place – members can click on certain items with a ‘$’ symbol which will take them through to online retailers.
Those behind Snoox believe that ultimately you should follow the advice of people you know.
Its founder, Guy Poreh, told Metro: ‘We all have our go-to friends who we ask for advice in real life, which was the inspiration behind Snoox.
‘Our friends are the ultimate decision making element in just about everything we buy. I don’t want to see a review of a restaurant written by a stranger, and neither do I want to see a recommendation from someone that I can’t trust.
‘A person isn’t going to trust a stranger, let alone a brand, giving them information. Real interactions are found through recommendations. It is the natural way. It is the relationship between people that creates the trust and makes it real.
‘It’s always better to follow and get recommendations from people we know. Our friends are the ones that we trust the most. It is just fact that people trust the taste of the people that they know over that of a stranger.
‘If you think about it in terms of online versus offline, people offline get their recommendations from friends. But online, we have to trust a stranger? That is just bizarre.’
After being live for five days, the site has about 10,000 users, he said. Paul Sawers, apps and media editor at technology site The Next Web , likes the idea behind Snoox but thinks its initial reliance on Facebook stops it from standing out.
‘There is huge potential for Snoox to make money, but it first needs people to use it,’ he said.
‘What Snoox does have is a direct revenue-generating feature in the form of click-to-buy. It’s not depending on subscriptions or advertising.
‘Affiliating itself with big-name retailers like this could be fruitful but only if it gets enough users.
‘All information on Snoox is gleaned only from people who have signed up to use it, so you’ll essentially have to convince all your friends to sign up to it.
‘If you don’t convince them, you’re in exactly the same position as you are with other similar online tools – complete strangers recommending things for you.’
But what is wrong with following the advice of a complete stranger? Surely they have no reason to lie to you like a friend might?
In many ways, the internet has turned us into drones. We follow people because we share the same interests and we try to match ourselves with potential partners who like the same music and movies. If we look at ourselves, deep down do we really want to hang around with someone like us?
‘There is this assumption that just because your friend likes something, you will too,’ said Mr Sawers.
‘The whole Facebook/social media business model is built on this premise and I think it’s wide of the mark.
‘While I do like to take on recommendations from friends, I think this core underlying assumption that you will like the things your friends like is flawed.
‘I wouldn’t say there’s no value in friends’ opinions, but I do think we tend to overstate its significance in terms of the online social graph.’
Our friends – like us – can be idiots sometimes, so perhaps we should listen to them less than we do.
However, Mr Sawers accepts that there are some traits we simply cannot ignore.
‘As humans, we’re naturally inclined towards people who are like ourselves – I don’t see why that would be different online,’ he said.
‘I do think Facebook and the “likes” is an extension of the real world in many ways – popularity is everything. People have always liked fitting in, whether that’s at school, in work or online.’EXPERT VIEWMetro Tech editor James Day( @James_Day_Metro ):‘Think of Snoox as your new best friend in the social network playground. Facebook is still the cool kid to be seen with, but does it really have your best interests at heart? While Facebook is busy telling you what to do and what to wear, Snoox has agreed to go shopping and offer some one-to-one advice. Snoox is hanging around in Facebook’s gang as an add-on app, but how long before things turn nasty behind the virtual bike shed and it’s kicked out? Snoox could become a loner and loyalties could be tested.’
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Reduce Time Spent On Customer Service With Facebook Messenger Chat Bots
Owning or running a digital business can be hugely rewarding by allowing businesses to scale far past their physical location and service customers all over the world. The internet has created so many new ways to reach customers, engage with them, and of course exchange goods and services with them over a digital connection.
One of the key factors in the growth of the internet as we see it and experience it today has been the birth of social media. These free to use platforms have given users access to a platform where they can reach businesses in an instant, and if you're not on these platforms, you're losing out on potential leads and promotional opportunities.
Social media customer service
Much is made of social media's targetted advertising and its ability to bring in customers, but the platform has also become a customer service tool. More customers are turning to social media to voice their concerns, follow up on queries or reach out to brands.
This behaviour has seen social media managers and contact centres having to split their time dealing with queries that can ammas volumes that often reduce their productivity and see other tasks being deprioritised since customer service is of the highest priority for any business looking to remain open and build a reliable and avid customer base.
The issue with this easy access to businesses is that consumers often abuse this low barrier to entry with many of the queries being answered by FAQ's on the site or the various terms and conditions already available to them. These consumers are either too lazy to do the research themselves or prefer to be told explicitly what the conditions are as it pertains to their specific situation.
These queries often lay an unnecessary burden on social media managers/community managers and customer service contact teams who could be focusing on high priority queries instead.
Which is why it is so important to be able to screen these queries and reduce the contact ratio with staff, but how is this possible? By using chatbots of course.
Facebook Messenger Chat Bots
Twitter DM's can be a source of customer queries for most businesses who have a strong social media presence Facebook's Messenger app is where the vast majority of online queries come funnelling through and inundating them with issues that can often weigh teams down and reduce response times or even discovering of critical queries.
While human interaction is always the preffered choice for any business to consumer relationship, chatbots can offer an effective screening process that can reduce contact ratios with humans and ensure your team focus only on the most critical of cases by optimising workflow.
So how to do you implement these helpful little chatbots? One option is to create one that suits your system and meets all Facebook's requirements while the other is to use one of these popular applications listed below.
MobileMonkey is primarily designed for non-technical users. That means no coding required. It also integrates with Hootsuite Inbox using the Facebook Messenger handover protocol. This free tool features a visual chatbot builder for Facebook Messenger with several bells and whistles, including:
- Q&A triggers
- Live Chat Takeover
- Chatbot Templates
- Custom Attributes
- and more.
There’s also a “Chat Blast” feature, similar to Chatfuel’s “broadcasting” feature, that allows you to send messages to multiple users at once. If you upgrade to a “Pro” plan, you’ll have access to some of the more valuable features, like scheduling, analytics, and drip campaign setup.
If you want to keep it simple and just dip your toes into the chatbot ecosystem then Streamchat is one of the most basic chatbot tools out there. It’s meant to be used for simple automation and autoresponders, like out-of-office replies or “We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!” messages, rather than for managing a broader workflow.
Streamchat integrates with Hootsuite Inbox using the Facebook Messenger handover protocol, so if you already have a Hootsuite account you may want to opt for this service.
As one of the largest self-serve platforms for building Facebook Messenger bots, Chatfuel has an impressive client list: everyone from TechCrunch to Netflix to the Cincinnati Bengals. They have an intuitive visual interface for those without a coding background, but developers will like the editable front-end and customization options.
While you can build a bot for free, a lot of the more complex (and interesting) tools are only available with Chatfuel Pro accounts. Either way, it might be helpful to know that Chatfuel integrates with Hootsuite Inbox using the Facebook Messenger handover protocol.
ManyChat’s interface is one of the least intimidating out there. However, it may be better suited to those making simpler bots—message management can get cumbersome as the conversation gets complex. ManyChat works on a freemium system to allow you access free at first, but after you hit a certain number of subscribers you’ll need to start paying for a Pro account.
ManyChat also has plenty of tools that will help you promote your bot and evaluate user analytics.
Keep the conversation going
Now that you have a screening process in place you can begin to tweak it as you uncover more data. You can create better Q&A's, FAQ's and other material that may answer questions you receive consistently and reduce the burden on your teams to answer every query. Once your chatbots service starts to improve, you can focus on key queries, irate clients and specialised queries that would require the human intervention of deliberation on your part.
Tell us your customer service story
Have you struggled to cope with the level of customer service queries you received lately? Are there any sites or services you feel should be added to the list?How have you been using them? Share your tips with us in the comments section below.
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If you require a more detailed guide on how to create your profile or your listing, then we highly recommend you check out the following articles.
If you enjoyed this post and have a little extra time to dive deeper down the rabbit hole, why not check out the following posts on chatbots.
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- Bing Introduces Chat Bot For Local Searches
- 10 Chatbot Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid
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Last night there was a spoken word event at the Tang; sadly, I couldn’t stay for the main event, but I caught the opening act: The Artifacts, one of Skidmore’s most talented student bands. The Artifacts are Jonathan Wan ’12, Zoë Brecher ’12 and Leo Cancelmo ’12, three seniors with mad skills on their respective instruments (Jon on keyboards and vocals, Zoë on drums and vocals, Leo on guitar) and a sharp ear for catchy power pop tunes. What a treat to hear their set! I decided to forego the Tang’s ground level and watch the show from the balcony.
Here’s their opening number:
And here are some pics! If you want more of the Artifacts, here’s their lovely new single, “Be Someone,” on Bandcamp!
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Rethink your spending habits. Crafting a new budget that keeps spending to a minimum and only buying what you need can keep you from spending too much at once. If you’re not sure where to cut costs, use our Spend Less Calculator to get a few ideas. Try to remember that being prudent now could save you from being strapped for cash or landing in a sticky situation down the line.
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If you have extra money right now—whether it’s from streamlining expenses or saving on the cost of gas and dining out—consider putting it in your emergency fund. We suggest putting three to six months of your expenses in a savings account, like an ACCESS Money Market. A money market account is a great place to keep emergency funds, as it typically earns more interest than your checking and is still easily accessible. At ACCESSbank, we have plenty of options to fit your needs.
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When we say we’re here for you, we mean it. Currently, our drive-thru locations are open normal hours to provide easy access for all of your banking needs. You can also schedule an appointment with your personal banker for individual support, or contact us with any additional questions. This is also an opportune time to make the most of mobile banking solutions that allow you to see your account details, deposit checks, transfer funds and make payments all from the comfort of your own home. If you’ve never used digital banking services before, our website has a step-by-step process to help you get started.
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Learn Organization From The Experts
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Purchase Price Refunded
This Tutorial teaches the strategies and techniques
that allow you to know exactly where & what your pictures are and
to find them with a few key strokes—whether you have 500 or 50,000+
The tutorial is hosted by Michael Reichmann & Seth Resnick. Seth is a highly successful professional stock & editorial photographer. He is also a principal ofD65which offers workshops & seminars in photography and digital workflow.
If as a photographer, looking for a particular file or image, you have ever asked the question“Where is …?”or“Don’t I have a shot of…?”, then this tutorial is for you.
Watch Michael & Seth go through the strategies & techniques of file organization following a typical shoot. They use Adobe Lightroom but the strategies are applicable to any Digital Asset Management program. As Michael says, “It’s the Concepts not the Keystrokes.”
The advent of digital photography has created a great need for the careful organization of files. To be effective, that organization must allow for the quick retrieval of any file that has been created; this must include originals, edited originals, layered working files, final output files and backups. The strategies must include those to select, name, choose media & media systems and to apply metadata easily and quickly.
Sounds complicated? Sounds time-consuming? It is not –ifeffectively organized and executed. This is what you will learn. More often than not it is a case ofdo once,use many times.
File backup and archiving is another part of organization. This Tutorial will teach the most effective strategy for true file backup.
About The Tutorial
The L-L Tutorial “Where the #%*! are my Pictures?” is comprehensive and in-depth. It consists of over 3 hours of live video training. The price is just US $30.
About This Video
The video was shot in March 2009 in Miami Beach using Lightroom 2. The video cameras used were Sony EX-1 & a Sony SR12.
– Mac Pro & 30″ Cinema Display
Many thanks are due to Jamie Spritzer & Luci Resnick for allowing us to interrupt their lives for three days! Oh yeah… and thanks to Leo too!
Shot and edited by Christopher Sanderson.
All video is ©2009 Terra Luma Inc. All Rights Reserved
Note that because this tutorial is a download
there are no shipping costs, import taxes, or duties.
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I was told there was another SAMC Medallion. Is this true? If so where would I find an illustration of it?
Don Moore, the designer of the crest and the medallion, is an acquaintance of mine. He is a illustrator in Killeen, Texas. He personally told me that the agreement he had with the Army when he designed the crest and the medallion was that it would not be altered in any way.
Some units now seem to be "personalizing" their medallion to reflect unit designation on the medallion face or rear. I don't know if Don has decided to allow this. It is more likely that he is unaware of it. In any case, all of the medallions I have ever seen are very faithful to the original design with possibly a unit name / nickname being added.
As far as a RESERVE Medallion (reference your subject line), it wouldn't surprise me that the medallion and the organization has spread to the reserves. I would have to dig into the regs governing the organization to see if there has been any changes. If there has, it would follow that a medallion for the reserves would be made available but I am not sure that it would have to be different than a medallion issued to an active duty soldier.
In my experience, the ONLY legitimate source for the medals are through the post command sergeant major's office... and normally, the medallions are maintained by the installation's Sergeant Audie Murphy Club president. For reserve components, I would check with your reserve component's Command Sergeant Major's office.
An illustration of the medallion and the crest is shown here (also found at is found at http://www.audiemurphy.com/samc.htm
). It is based on a photocopiy made by Don of the original black and white line-drawing which he gave to me. The colorization of the crest is my work based on Don's description and the official description of the crest. I make a much larger, very high quality version of this image available to any SAMC club that requests it so they can print it on their club memorabilia, etc.
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Surgical management of Peyronie's disease
- William O Brant, MD, FACS, FECSM
William O Brant, MD, FACS, FECSM
- Associate Professor of Surgery (Urology)
- Center for Reconstructive Urology and Men's Health
- Department of Surgery (Urology) University of Utah
- Anthony J Bella, MD, FRCSC
Anthony J Bella, MD, FRCSC
- Assistant Professor of Urology and Associate Scientist, Neuroscience
- Endowed Chair in Men's Health Research
- Greta and John Hansen Chair in Men's Health Research
- University of Ottawa
- Tom F Lue, MD, ScD (Hon), FACS
Tom F Lue, MD, ScD (Hon), FACS
- Professor and Vice Chair
- Emil Tanagho Endowed Chair in Clinical Urology
- Department of Urology
- University of California, San Francisco
Peyronie's disease, an acquired, localized fibrotic disorder of the tunica albuginea, can cause significant penile deformity and lead to sexual dysfunction and psychological trauma (figure 1). The nature and extent of Peyronie's plaque, and therefore severity or complexity of penile deformity, varies widely.
Early medical intervention is the first line of therapy and is likely to be more effective when the disease is evolving, although new medications such as collagenase may play an important role in even stable disease. Once Peyronie's disease has reached a stable phase, surgery may be offered, but only for penile deformity that compromises sexual function.
This topic will review the indications for surgery in Peyronie's disease, approaches to surgical correction, and the complications of surgical management.
The diagnosis and medical management of Peyronie's disease are discussed elsewhere. (See "Peyronie's disease: Diagnosis and medical management".)
Surgical management is indicated for patients whose Peyronie's disease has persisted for more than 12 months and is associated with a penile deformity compromising sexual function. It is important to delay surgery until Peyronie's disease has been stable for at least three months because surgical results can be compromised by active disease [1,2].
- Kadioglu A, Akman T, Sanli O, et al. Surgical treatment of Peyronie's disease: a critical analysis. Eur Urol 2006; 50:235.
- Dean RC, Lue TF. Peyronie's disease: advancements in recent surgical techniques. Curr Opin Urol 2004; 14:339.
- Ralph DJ, Garaffa G, García MA. Reconstructive surgery of the penis. Curr Opin Urol 2006; 16:396.
- Nehra A, Alterowitz R, Culkin DJ, et al. Peyronie's Disease: AUA Guideline. J Urol 2015; 194:745.
- Levine LA, Lenting EL. A surgical algorithm for the treatment of Peyronie's disease. J Urol 1997; 158:2149.
- Kadioglu A, Tefekli A, Erol B, et al. A retrospective review of 307 men with Peyronie's disease. J Urol 2002; 168:1075.
- Greenfield JM, Lucas S, Levine LA. Factors affecting the loss of length associated with tunica albuginea plication for correction of penile curvature. J Urol 2006; 175:238.
- Taylor FL, Levine LA. Surgical correction of Peyronie's disease via tunica albuginea plication or partial plaque excision with pericardial graft: long-term follow up. J Sex Med 2008; 5:2221.
- Brant WO, Bella AJ, Garcia MM, et al. Surgical Atlas. Correction of Peyronie's disease: plaque incision and grafting. BJU Int 2006; 97:1353.
- Dugi DD 3rd, Morey AF. Penoscrotal plication as a uniform approach to reconstruction of penile curvature. BJU Int 2010; 105:1440.
- Adibi M, Hudak SJ, Morey AF. Penile plication without degloving enables effective correction of complex Peyronie's deformities. Urology 2012; 79:831.
- Ralph DJ, al-Akraa M, Pryor JP. The Nesbit operation for Peyronie's disease: 16-year experience. J Urol 1995; 154:1362.
- Yachia D. Modified corporoplasty for the treatment of penile curvature. J Urol 1990; 143:80.
- Brant WO, Bella AJ, Lue TF. 16-Dot procedure for penile curvature. J Sex Med 2007; 4:277.
- Gholami SS, Lue TF. Correction of penile curvature using the 16-dot plication technique: a review of 132 patients. J Urol 2002; 167:2066.
- Ralph DJ. The surgical treatment of Peyronie's disease. Eur Urol 2006; 50:196.
- Kendirci M, Hellstrom WJ. Critical analysis of surgery for Peyronie's disease. Curr Opin Urol 2004; 14:381.
- Breyer BN, Brant WO, Garcia MM, et al. Complications of porcine small intestine submucosa graft for Peyronie's disease. J Urol 2007; 177:589.
- Knoll LD. Use of porcine small intestinal submucosal graft in the surgical management of Peyronie's disease. Urology 2001; 57:753.
- Kadioglu A, Sanli O, Akman T, et al. Graft materials in Peyronie's disease surgery: a comprehensive review. J Sex Med 2007; 4:581.
- Montorsi F, Guazzoni G, Bergamaschi F, Rigatti P. Patient-partner satisfaction with semirigid penile prostheses for Peyronie's disease: a 5-year followup study. J Urol 1993; 150:1819.
- Wilson SK, Delk JR 2nd. A new treatment for Peyronie's disease: modeling the penis over an inflatable penile prosthesis. J Urol 1994; 152:1121.
- Rahman NU, Carrion RE, Bochinski D, Lue TF. Combined penile plication surgery and insertion of penile prosthesis for severe penile curvature and erectile dysfunction. J Urol 2004; 171:2346.
- Montorsi, F, Salonia, S. Five year follow-up of plaque incision and vein grafting for Peyronie's disease. Eur Urol 2004; 3:33.
- Montorsi F, Salonia A, Maga T, et al. Evidence based assessment of long-term results of plaque incision and vein grafting for Peyronie's disease. J Urol 2000; 163:1704.
- El-Sakka AI, Rashwan HM, Lue TF. Venous patch graft for Peyronie's disease. Part II: outcome analysis. J Urol 1998; 160:2050.
- Usta MF, Bivalacqua TJ, Sanabria J, et al. Patient and partner satisfaction and long-term results after surgical treatment for Peyronie's disease. Urology 2003; 62:105.
- Gholami SS, Gonzalez-Cadavid NF, Lin CS, et al. Peyronie's disease: a review. J Urol 2003; 169:1234.
- Licht MR, Lewis RW. Modified Nesbit procedure for the treatment of Peyronie's disease: a comparative outcome analysis. J Urol 1997; 158:460.
- Levine LA, Estrada CR. Human cadaveric pericardial graft for the surgical correction of Peyronie's disease. J Urol 2003; 170:2359.
- Akkus E, Ozkara H, Alici B, et al. Incision and venous patch graft in the surgical treatment of penile curvature in Peyronie's disease. Eur Urol 2001; 40:531.
- Wilson SK, Cleves MA, Delk JR 2nd. Long-term followup of treatment for Peyronie's disease: modeling the penis over an inflatable penile prosthesis. J Urol 2001; 165:825.
- SURGICAL INDICATIONS
- PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION
- Duplex evaluation of erectile capacity
- Preoperative penile photographs/measurements
- Choice of surgical approach
- Patient counseling
- SURGICAL ANATOMY
- Tunica albuginea
- Neurovascular bundle
- GENERAL APPROACH
- - Graft materials
- Penile prosthesis
- POSTOPERATIVE CARE
- Pain management
- Patient instructions
- Sexual activity
- FOLLOW UP CARE
- Erectile dysfunction
- Graft complications
- Penile implant complications
- SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.”(John 5:39-40 ESV)
Jesus said this to Jewish religious leaders. As you read the Gospels, it seems that if Jesus had a bone to pick with anyone, it was the religious leaders.
Among the religious leaders in Jesus day, the Pharisees were the most faithful to the law, the most zealous, the most “righteous”, and also the most conservative. They had the entire Torah (Genesis to Deuteronomy) memorized and were extremely well versed and educated in every detail of the law, the histories, and the prophets. And yet, with all their zeal and Bible knowledge, they were missing the point. They had lost the plot.
If you ever have the chance to see the movie, Matthew – Visual Bible, you should! Bruce Marchianno was brilliant in the role of Jesus. I have read his biography, In the Footsteps of Jesus, in which he shares that his goal was to play every scene as a love scene. God is love, after all, and Jesus is God. The way he portrayed Matthew 23 was so powerful!
Matthew 23 is a rebuke to the Pharisees and teachers of the law. He starts out by saying that no one should be called “teacher” or “father”, and that we all are brothers. All are equals in the kingdom of God!
Start at 3:05:00
The “woe to you” portion of Matthew 23 starts out with Jesus saying, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.” (vs 13)
Watching him portray Jesus speech to the religious leaders made me both uncomfortable and inspired. What was it that made Jesus so upset and angry? What was at stake that caused this confrontation? What was the big deal?
Would you be angry and upset if someone was trying to seduce your spouse into leaving you? That’s sort of what was happening here, only far more serious. People for whom Christ came to rescue were at stake, including you and me. These religious leaders were misrepresenting God to the people. The fact that God wanted to love and be loved and have us live in love toward each other, was all but lost in all the hypocrisy and hoop jumping and demands made by the Pharisee’s religion.
Legalism says that obedience to the law, not faith in God’s grace, is the pre-eminent principle in redemption. That seems to be the problem here with the Pharisees. They were careful to dot every “i” and cross every “t” in their efforts to keep every detail of the law in order to win God’s approval, and so save themselves. Yet they neglected love and justice, mercy and faithfulness altogether.
Based on the amount of divine revelation they had thus far, would the Pharisees have come to any other conclusion? How would they have known that it was faith in God’s grace rather than strict adherence to every detail of the law that “saves” us? Here are three things they had:
- In Genesis it says that Abram “believed God and God credited to him as righteousness”. So they knew righteousness comes by faith in God.
- They had the commands of Moses to love God with their all, and to love their neighbor as themselves. They ought to have known that love was at the center of a life of faith.
- They had a conscience which convicted them of guilt. When Jesus said, let him without sin cast the first stone in the story in John 8, not a single one could say they were guiltless. Every last one of them dropped their stones and walked away. Would not guilt drive anyone to God to seek his forgiveness and grace?
The Pharisees practically had the Bible memorized and from sun up to sun down their lives were consumed at every moment with God and his word. They were experts in all-things-God! But apparently the point of a life of faith is not to become Bible experts. In fact Jesus said to these bible experts, “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?” (Matthew 23:33 NIV)
Did Jesus love the Pharisees? Of course he did! The apostle Paul was an especially devout Pharisee and it is likely that some of these same men who heard his “woe to you” speech were among those who eventually came to believe in him (Acts 6:7). Of course many (perhaps most) who heard his “woe to you” speech that day were the ones spitting on him, beating him, mocking him, and condemning him to a cruel death on a Roman cross just a short time later.
As I read through the Torah I wondered, “Would they get it? Would they get that this is all about love?” Cause I sure didn’t! Even though I went to Bible college and became a “Bible expert” myself, I struggled for years with a self-righteous judgmental religion and ended up loathing myself.
The Scripture that I started this post has echoed in my ears for years. I have spent most my life studying the Scriptures diligently, trying to formulate a philosophy (a world view) that would help me make sense of God and the world, and how I fit with either one. I was fairly content with all my philosophizing… and justifying myself… until I realized that my heart was empty when it came to grace. Empty when it came to love. Empty of life. Empty of Jesus. I was a proud “bible scholar” and the Lord needed to give me a much needed spanking! Thankfully, he did.
Eventually I came to realize I knew nothing at all if I didn’t love, and Jesus is the source of love. We must come to Jesus! The one to whom all of Scripture testifies about.
Jesus is the point! His love is the point! Without Jesus and his love we are nothing. Without Jesus and love we have lost the plot. Without Jesus and his love, our lives become meaningless and empty.
The following story is the Scripture that God put on my heart to share to end this post:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37 NIV)
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
- Legalism – Just another form of rejecting Christ? (daniellovett.wordpress.com)
- Fool’s Gold (daniellovett.wordpress.com)
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Baker's yeast is a natural ingredient that has been used in bread-making and other bakery products for thousands of years. It is made up of colonies of micro-organisms that rapidly reproduce and start the fermentation process that naturally raises dough.
Kinder selection and quality control
Only fresh and high quality baker's yeast, that has been carefully selected according to Kinder Quality standards to give the results that we demand, is chosen to make our products. Then we carry out our rigorous bread-making process where utmost care and attention is paid to every detail in the bread's raising. This is the secret of the soft texture and delicate aroma of our naturally raised sponge and the reason why Kinder Pinguì gives consistently excellent results time and time again.
Did you know?
Thanks to its many beneficial properties, a little dried baker's yeast added to yogurt makes a great natural hair and skin care mask!
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An important decision that federal employees have to make during the federal benefits open season is whether they want to enroll – or reenroll – in a health care flexible spending account (HCFSA) for the next plan year. This column discusses the HCFSA — and compares the HCFSA to the Health Savings Account (HSA) and the Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA). The HSA and HRA were discussed in a previous column.
What Is an HCFSA and Who Is Eligible to Have an HCFSA?
A health care flexible spending account (HCFSA) allows an employee to be reimbursed for out-of-pocket medical, dental or vision expenses. Employees who work for an Executive Branch agency or an agency that has adopted the Federal Flexible Benefits Plan (“FedFlex”) can elect to participate in the federal flexible spending account program, called “FSAFEDS”.
Employees who participate in the FSAFEDS program save money through the reduction of their gross salary to pay for their out of-pocket health care-related expenses. The HCFSA can be thought as a savings account that pays in a tax-beneficial way for health care-related expenses typically not paid for, or covered by a Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program health insurance plan, by a dental and/or vision insurance plan offered through the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP), or by other health, dental or vision insurance coverage that the employee may be enrolled in, either themselves or through another family member such as a spouse.
The money contributed to an employee’s HCFSA is set aside before federal and in most states, state and local income taxes, and Social Security (FICA) and Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) payroll taxes are deducted, resulting in overall tax savings ranging from 30 to 50 percent. The average tax savings for an employee earning $50,000 who contributes $2,000 to a HCFSA is approximately $600. That means the employee gets $2,000 worth of health care purchasing power plus saving about $600 in overall taxes.
An employee must be eligible to enroll in though not necessarily enrolled in the FEHB program in order to enroll in an HCFSA. The HCFSA reimburses qualified health care expenses not covered or reimbursed by a FEHB program plan, a FEDVIP plan, or any other insurance program that an employee may be enrolled in (including TriCare) or a spouse’s private company-sponsored health insurance plan. The eligible expenses of the employee, the employee’s spouse, and the eligible tax dependents (including children) may be reimbursed through the HCFSA. Employees can contribute to their HCFSA for the year 2019 from a minimum of a $100 to a maximum of $2,700 (increased from $2,650 during 2018). Spouses of employees who are also federal employees can also contribute a maximum of $2,750 to the HCFSA during 2019.
Qualified medical expenses are those specified in the plan that would generally qualify for the medical and dental expense deduction on an individual’s tax return. These expenses are explained and presented in IRS Publication 502 (Medical and Dental Expenses), which can be downloaded from www.irs.gov. Also, non-prescription medicines other than insulin are not considered qualified medical expenses for HCFSA reimbursement purposes.
A medicine or drug will be a qualified medical expense for HCFSA reimbursement purposes only if the medicine or drug:
- Requires a prescription;
- is available without a prescription (an over-the-counter medicine or drug) and the individual get a prescription for it; or
- is insulin. Any insurance premium (health, dental, vision or long-term care) may not be reimbursed from an HCFSA.
The FSAFEDS program on its Web site provides a list showing which medical, dental and vision expenses are eligible for reimbursement from a HCFSA. The list may be found at www.fsafeds.com/support/faq/hcfsa.
Eligible employees can enroll in FSAFEDS each year during the federal benefits open season. Enrollment is made on the FSAFEDS website at www.FSAFEDS.com. Elections made during this “open season” will be effective Jan. 1, 2019. Eligible expenses for reimbursement must be incurred between Jan. 1, 2019 and Dec. 31, 2019. Effective with the 2015 plan year, HCFSA owners are able to carry over up to $500 of unspent funds into the next plan year. Note that if an HCFSA owner wants to carryover up to $500 of unused HCFSA funds to 2019 but does not want any additional HCFSA funds to be withheld from his or her salary during 2019, he or she must still reenroll in FSAFEDS for 2019 during the 2018 HCFSA open season. Any unused HCFSA funds as of Dec. 31, 2018 exceeding $500 will be forfeited. When an employee leaves Federal service, he or she is no longer has access to his or her HCFSA, and unused HCFSA funds are forfeited.
Annuitants are not permitted to have an HCFSA. But employees who plan to retire during 2019 should still consider enrolling in the HCFSA in order to pay for any health care related expenses incurred up until the day they retire and not covered by their insurance plans. The retired employees can be reimbursed for these out-of-pocket expenses from their HCFSA after they retire.
Current enrollees in FSAFEDS are reminded to enroll each year to continue participation in FSAFEDS for the next plan year. Enrollment in the HCFSA does NOT carry forward from year to year.
Those employees who are enroll in a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) associated with an HSA are not eligible to enroll in an HCFSA. But these employees may instead enroll in a “limited expense” flexible spending account or a “LEX HCFSA”. A LEX HCFSA reimburses employees for eligible dental and vision expenses not covered or reimbursed by the FEHB and FEDVIP programs or other insurance programs. For 2019, the maximum contribution to a LEX HCFSA is $2,700 with a minimum contribution of $100. Similar to the HCFSA, for 2019 there is a spending deadline of Dec. 31, 2019 with a maximum $500 carryover permitted to the 2020 plan year, assuming the LEX HCFSA owner reenrolls during next year’s open season.
With a LEX HCFSA, an enrolled employee can request reimbursement from the LEX HCFA for qualifying dental and vision expenses incurred by the employee and by the employee’s spouse and tax dependents (including adult children through the end of the calendar year they become age 24). If the employee is enrolled in an HSA, then the employee can request reimbursement for medical expenses from his or her HSA.
For further information about the HCFSA, the LEXFSA and the DCFSA, employees should go to www.FSAFEDS.com or call 1-877-372-3337; TTY 1-800-952-0450.
Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)
The HSA and HRA were discussed in a previous MFR column. An HSA is a tax-advantaged medical savings account available to Federal employees and annuitants who are enrolled in a high deductible health plan (HDHP) offered through the FEHB program. The funds contributed to a HSA are not subject to Federal or state income tax at the time of deposit. Unlike an HCFSA: (1) HSA deposits earn interest or dividends; (2) Unused HSA funds rollover and accumulate year to year; (3) An HSA is owned by the individual and stays with the individual throughout his or her life; and (4) Tax-free HSA withdrawals can be made after the HSA owner retires from or leaves Federal service.
A HDHP features higher annual deductibles (for 2019, a minimum of $1,350 for self only and $2,700 for self plus one or self and family coverage) compared to other traditional health plans. The maximum annual out-of-pocket spending amounts (based on IRS rules) for HDHPs participating in the FEHB program in 2019 are $6,750 for self only enrollment and $13,750 for self and family enrollment. Depending on the HDHP an enrollee chooses, the enrollee may have the choice of using in-network and out-of-network providers. Using in-network providers will likely save money. With the exception of preventive care, an enrollee must meet the annual deductible before the plan pays benefits. Preventive care services are generally paid as “first dollar coverage”, or after a small deductible or copayment.
When an employee enrolls in a HDHP, the health plan determines if the enrollee is eligible for a HSA or for a HRA. Those employees who are enrolled in or are covered by a non-HDHP plan, or who are enrolled in Medicare, are not eligible to participate in a HSA.
Each month, the plan automatically credits a portion of the health plan premium into HDHP enrollee’s HSA or HRA, based on the enrollee’s eligibility as of the first day of the month. An enrollee can pay their deductible with funds from their HSA or HRA. If an employee has a HSA, the employee can also choose to pay their deductible amount out-of-pocket, thereby allowing their HSA to grow. A HSA owner can contribute additional amounts to their HSA up to the annual limit. For 2019, the annual HSA contribution amount (this includes the automatic FEHB HDHP “pass-through-contribution”) is $3,500 for self only coverage and $7,000 for self and family coverage. HSA owners age 55 and older during 2015 may contribute an additional $1,000 in “catch-up” contributions.
The following table summarizes HSA limits for 2019:
HSA participants do not have to obtain advance approval from their HSA custodian/trustee or their medical insurer to withdraw funds from their HSA, and the funds withdrawn from the HSA are not subject to income taxation if they are made to pay qualified medical expenses. These withdrawals include reimbursements for medical services and items covered by the health plan but subject to cost sharing such as a deductible and coinsurance or co-payments, as well as many other expenses not covered under medical plans, such as dental, vision and chiropractic care; durable medical equipment such as eyeglasses and hearing aids; and transportation expenses related to medical care. Through December 31, 2010, non-prescription over-the-counter medications were also eligible. Beginning January 1, 2011, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Health Care Reform, stipulates HSA funds can no longer be used to buy over-the-counter drugs without a doctor’s prescription. HSA withdrawals can be made to pay long term care insurance premiums.
There are several ways that funds in an HSA can be withdrawn. Some HSAs include a debit card, some supply checks for account owner use, and some allow for a reimbursement process similar to medical insurance. Most HSAs have more than one withdrawal options, and the options available vary from HSA to HSA. Checks and debits do not have to be made payable to the provider. Funds can be withdrawn for any reason, but withdrawals that are not for documented qualified medical expenses are subject to income taxes and a 20 percent penalty. The 20 percent tax penalty is waived for individuals who have reached the age of 65 or have become disabled at the time of the withdrawal. In that case, only income tax is paid on the withdrawal, and in effect the account has grown tax deferred (similar to an IRA). Prior to January 1, 2011, when new rules governing HSAs in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act went into effect, the penalty for non-qualified withdrawals was 10 percent.
Account holders are required to retain documentation of their reimbursed medical expenses. Failure to retain and provide documentation could cause the IRS in an audit to rule withdrawals were not made to pay for qualified medical expenses and subject the withdrawals to taxes and additional penalties.
There is no deadline for reimbursements of qualified medical expenses. High-income individuals can take advantage of this by paying for medical costs out of pocket, retaining receipts and allowing their accounts to grow tax-free. Withdrawals from the HSA for reimbursement can be made years later, up to the value of the receipts. This means that unlike a HCFSA, a HSA owner retains ownership of and can use their HSA if they were to leave federal service or after they retire from federal service. For example, a federal annuitant who has a HSA could make withdrawals to pay monthly Medicare Part B premiums or to pay long term care insurance premiums.
When a HSA account owner dies, the funds in their HSA are transferred to the beneficiary named for the account. If the beneficiary is a surviving spouse, the transfer is tax-free.
Health Reimbursement Account
If an employee enrolls in a HDHP and is not eligible for an HSA, the employee will be given a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA). The HDHP will credit a portion of the health plan premium to the employee’s HRA; these are called HRA “credits” The amount of HRA credits for either a self only enrollment or a self and family enrollment will be the same as the amounts that will be deposited in HSAs in the same plan. A HRA owner can use funds in their account, for example, to pay the HDHP deductible and other qualified medical expenses that do not count toward the deductible. Withdrawals from a HRA account can be used to pay Medicare Part B premiums.
Features of an HRA include:
- Tax-free withdrawals to pay or to reimburse for qualified medical, dental or vision expenses;
- carryover of unused credits without limit from year to year;
- credits in an HRA do not earn interest;
- credits in an HRA are forfeited if the HRA owner switches health plans, or if the HRA owner leaves federal employment other than to retire; and
- the HRA is administered by the health plan
Medical benefits paid by HRAs that meet certain requirements are not taxable to the employees. The basic requirement is that the account must be funded solely by the employer, and only substantiated medical expenses can be reimbursed.
Comparison Chart for HSA, HRA and HCFSA
A comparison chart for the HSA, HRA and HCFSA is presented below.
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Good luck #TeamOrange!
It’s almost time for our largest ever #TeamOrange to take on the world’s largest half-marathon, the Great North Run. All of the team here at Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK) would like to wish our runners the best of luck ahead of the iconic half-marathon.
There will be 175 members of #TeamOrange taking on the 13.1 mile route from Newcastle to South Shields this Sunday 8 September and they’ll be cheered on by the thousands of people who line the streets in support year after year.
Our incredible runners are on track to raise an enormous £90,000 for Muscular Dystrophy UK, all of which goes towards research and supporting the individuals and families who are living with muscle-wasting conditions. A huge THANK YOU for all the hard work and effort you’ve put in so far, and for making every step count in the race against muscular dystrophy. Now to get over the finish line!
Our MDUK cheer point will be located at Mile 12 of the route. Please do come along and join our #CheerSquad in supporting #TeamOrange on the last leg of their Great North Run Journey. You’ll be able to locate us by using the following postcode: NE34 7JY (Coast Road, South Shields).
Please bear in mind that we will be based on the right hand side of the road. The side that is to the right of the runners as they’re running and the side that is closest to the sea. Once the race starts, you’ll be unable to cross the road.
Post race reception
We’ll be holding a post-race reception in the charity village for our #TeamOrange runners to come along with their family and friends once they’ve crossed the finish line. Here, runners will be able to have some refreshments, meet other runners and their families and enjoy a much-needed massage! To locate the charity village, use the postcode: NE33 3NG
Where you’ll find us: Avenue C, Marquee number 37
Event day guides
More in depth information ahead of the event this weekend can be found in the event day guides below. There is one specifically for runners, and one for those coming along to support on the day. These should contain all the information you need.
Get in touch
For more information on the Great North Run this weekend, or if you would like to get on board for the Great North Run 2020, please do get in touch with Kiera Santry via email or over the phone at 0207 803 2877.
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In terms of adjustability, the ICON offers 135-degree recline and 4D armrests that can adjust to four different positions for optimal comfort. A hydraulic lift moves the seat from 18 to 22 inches so you can find the perfect position for gaming. With a maximum user weight of 330 pounds, the chair is built to fit people of a variety of shapes and sizes.
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Get a totally customizable memory foam gamer chair that is portable and comfortable, perfect for setting up in your living room and then putting away after the guests leave. It has ultra plush memory foam that is great to the touch and is also supportive. The chair can be adjusted to 14 positions, from 90 degrees to completely flat, with varying levels in between for you to find your perfect comfort. You can completely flatten the chair to store under your bed or in the closet if you are tight on space, making it an attractive option for apartments.
The ECR4Kids Soft Rocker Chair is the best gaming chair for kids due to its durable construction, ergonomic design, as well as soft and comfortable cushioning. You won’t take up too much space with it either, as its specifically intended for floor use and measures only 28.5 x 17 x 33 inches.
With colors coming in blue, black, red and green, the ECR4Kids Soft Rocker Chair offers a wide selection to suit your kids’ personal taste. Its design is made for low seating to watch movies or play games, so there’s no worry of devastating falls or uneasiness. The chair’s button-tufted upholstery is made of a soft and durable fiber that is easy to wipe up for any unexpected messes such as OJ or soda spills.
We bought three top-rated gaming chairs and our reviewers tested them for 36 hours. We asked our testers to consider the most important features when using these gaming chairs, from their ergonomics to their special attributes (like built-in speakers). We’ve outlined the key takeaways here so that you, too, know what to look for when shopping.
Ergonomics - When you play a lot of games, a comfortable gaming chair is essential. Unlike regular office chairs, most gaming chairs have a reclining function, and some are highly adjustable to provide the most ergonomic experience possible. If you mostly play games on a console in your living room, it’s also worth taking a look at rocker gaming chairs.
Built-in audio - Some chairs include built-in speakers, which is great if you’re gaming on a computer or television that doesn’t have the best audio quality. Usually, gaming chairs with built-in audio will also have a headphone jack so you don’t disturb anyone in your house during late night gaming sessions.
Immersion technology - Many video game controllers have built-in vibrating motors to help create a sense of immersion, and some video game chairs include a similar feature. This feature usually works based on bass tones in a game’s built-in audio (and is therefore compatible with all games).
Part of assembly was frustrating
Stiff when tilting back
“The Homall Executive Swivel Chair is a perfect entry point into the world of dedicated gaming desk chairs,” raved one of our testers. “It remained comfortable after extended gaming and writing sessions.” One reviewer also thought it “looked like seats that cost twice as much.” On the other hand, according to one tester, “attaching a few of the plastic, cosmetic pieces at the end of assembly was very frustrating.” Also, the chair's ability to tilt back was “stiff and limited,” one reviewer noted.
Comfortable massaging lumbar cushion
Cushions hold their shape
Relatively easy to assemble
Armrests not adjustable
Leaning back feels wobbly
Although one of our testers liked that this chair was “relatively easy” to assemble and that its cushions held their shape after weeks of use, his favorite part about it was its massaging lumbar cushion: “It’s very comfortable,” he observed, “and its gentle vibration feels quite nice and relaxing.” The downsides, according to one reviewer, were that its armrests weren’t adjustable and that, when leaning back, it feels slightly wobbly: “Though it hasn't tipped over, it doesn’t give me great confidence,” he said.
Quick to assemble
Great built-in speakers
No ergonomic adjustments
Doesn’t accommodate taller people
Must be plugged in to use speakers
Assembling this chair was quick, easy, and painless, according to our testers. One reviewer also thought that “the sound quality and dynamic range of the speakers were excellent, the construction was sturdy, and the padding was soft and inviting.” On the other hand, our testers wished that this chair allowed for ergonomic adjustments. One reviewer also didn’t like that it “doesn’t easily accommodate people who are taller than 6 feet” and that it “must be plugged in at all times to use the speakers.”
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There will be no school but daycare for grades K3 through 6th will be open from 6.30 am until 6 pm.
The middle school boys will play at 3.50 and 8.00 pm on Friday, December 4. The team will be dismissed from class at 2.15 and leave the campus at 2.30 […]
The teams will be dismissed from class at 1.30 and leave the campus at 1.45 pm. Game Times Are:Junior Varsity Girls – 4.00 pm Junior Varsity Boys – 5.00 pm […]
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Wednesday, November 25 - Tuesday, December 1
Our Elementary Christmas Program will be presented on Thursday,...
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Sunday, February 04, 2007
Sudan's government has been killing people in the Darfur region for years now, and up to 200,000 have been murdered. When George Bush went to the UN to do something, he was stymied by the entire world who react with one collective yawn.
The Europeans? What are they doing? Sitting on their asses, as usual.
They have decided not to impose sanctions, or to do something substantial, but they have threatened sanctions if something doesn't happen.
They may also get really mad.
EU threatens Sudan with sanctions over Darfur
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union threatened Sudan with sanctions on Monday if it refused to allow U.N. peacekeepers into war-torn Darfur, but rights groups and analysts said the warning was not enough to stop the killings.
Raising strong concerns about the "intolerable" situation in Sudan's remote west, EU foreign ministers urged other donors to provide funding for the struggling African Union mission there, while the EU executive said it had no more cash to support it.
Yep, the Euro-peons "raised strong concerns." They might do something. They might get concerned.
Hell, they might even get pissed off. Let's see what they do when the death toll hits half a million.
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Now that you have all had a chance to view the three minute clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, let me ruin it for you by explaining its deeper meaning [yes, Virginia, it has a deeper meaning. For serious Marxists, everything has a deeper meaning.] What makes the scene work, comedically, is the utter failure of the Anarcho-syndicalist cowflop collecting peasants to understand King Arthur, and his utter inability to understand them. The source of the missed communication is that they exist at different stages in the historical development of the social relations of production, and hence their understanding of social reality is encoded in different and incompatible ideological rationalisations of the ruling class. [of course, what also makes the scene work comedically is that the writers of the Monty Python sketches have pitch perfect senses of humor, but that goes without saying.]
The impossibility of someone living in Feudal England understanding the laws of motion of a capitalist economy also, by the way, demonstrates that the knowledge conditions posited by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice under what he calls the "veil of ignorance" are epistemologically incoherent, as I demonstrated in my book Understanding Rawls, But the Monty Python crew, being essentially overgrown Oxbridge undergraduates, probably did not realize that. [If they studied at Cambridge rather than Oxford, they might have taken their understanding of anarchism from my In Defense of Anarchism, because for some while it was required reading for the Moral Science Tripos.]
if you would like me to ruin one of your favorite Marx Brothers sketches, feel free to ask.
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Pattern Math Games
Pattern Math Games My figure is Courtney on behalf of homeschool pattern math games and in this clip I'm going to show you a fun route for your kids to practice structures. I'm going to use just some pom-poms we got at the aircraft store and the smallest sizing is better because you get more in a packet. What we're going to do is use a dice, five, the object is to make a pattern employing only five pom-poms, and recollect, a pitter-patter is something that it is important to reiterate. I'm going to take a brown, a dark-green, brown, dark green, violet, brown, dark green. So, here I have a pattern using only five pom-poms.
Then, they roll again, two, light-green, Violet. Roll again, four, do purple, blue, violet, and then blue-blooded and this just persists making as numerous patterns because they can think of ...
Patterning Math Games create and solve critical thinking problems, and model various math concepts. Patterning is fun for children to do. Whether you use store-bought or use objects to teach these math games your children will benefit from the play. Some homeschool parents have their children use an online website to play pattern math games. Either way, the children will develop the skills needed to do more complicated math concepts.
If you are feeling creative you can make your own pattern math games for the children. Check around your house for objects of various shapes or colors for the children to use for their pattern math games. You can make a set of card from heavy-duty paper. Just cut it into strips and mark out square to create your patterns. These will be used by the children to practice patterning on their own. Once you instruct them on the rules of the game you will be able to simply observe their play.
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Parts of a building can be divided into two general categories:-
Sub-structure:- The portion of a building situated underneath the surrounding ground is known as sub-structure. It includes foundation, footing, Base beam, soling, etc.
Super-structure:- The portion which is situated above the ground level is called super-structure. It includes a column, beam, wall, slab, roof, etc.
The parts of a building can be further classified as under
Foundation is the lowest part of a structure below the ground level which transfers all the loads (dead load, live load, etc) to the soil. It should be strong enough to carry all the load of the superstructure.
The portion of a building between the ground surrounding the building and the top floor just above the ground is called plinth. Plinth is provided to prevent the surface water from entering the building.
DPC (Damp Proof Course)
DPC stands for the damp proof course is a layer of water materails like asphalt, bitumen, waterproof cement etc on which the wall are constructed.
Walls are the vertical members on which the roof finally rests. Wall are provided to devide the floor space in the desired pattern. Wall provides privacy, security and protect from the sun, rain, wind, cold etc.
The column is the isolated load-bearing member which carries the axial compressive load of a structure. It transfers the load to the foundation and finally to the ground.
The beam is the horizontal load-bearing structure that transfers a load of the slab to the column. It connects all the columns and slab to make a frame structure that can bear a huge amount of load and withstand even an earthquake.
Floors can be defined as flat supporting elements dividing a building into different levels (i.e first floor, second floor, etc) to creat more accommodation on a given land. They provide a firm and dry platform for people and other items like furniture, equipment, stores etc.
Doors, Window and Ventilators
Doors are provided as a barrier secured in an opening left in a wall to access the building, room or passage.
Wndows are the opening of wall to enter light, fresh air etc.
Ventilater os the small opening of uppur portion of wall to circulate hot and cold air to keep room temperature cool.
The lintel is a cuboidal block of concrete or metal that is placed at the wall opening above the door and window. It supports the portion of the wall above the wall opening.
The structure comprising a number of steps arranged in a series connecting one floor to another is known as stairs. Stairs are used to access various floors of the building.
A roof is the topmost part of a building which covers the space below and protect from rain, snow, the wind, etc.
This is the final stage of building construction. Building finishes include items like plastering, pointing, washing, varnishing, painting, distempering etc.
It is generally done as covering of building structure to prevent from weather, temperature, as well as to give the aesthetic look of the buildings.
Building services include services like water supply, drainage, lighting, sanitation, electricity, acoustics, ventilation, heating, air conditioning, fire detection, and control, etc. These services create a comfortable and reliable working environment for the people living inside the building.
I hope this article on “Parts of Building” remains helpful for you.
Happy Learning – Civil Concept
Civil Engineer – Ranjeet Sahani
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Tom Hewitson and crew in Shaken not Stirred were overall winners in the RS Elite Southern Area Championship held at Hayling Island Sailing Club (HISC) over the weekend of 10/11 July in what was effectively a dress rehearsal for the National Championship also to be hosted by HISC later this month.
The weekend was characterised by light and shifty winds which proved tricky both for the competitors and for the race team, who did an exemplary job in providing competitive and enjoyable racing.
On Saturday morning Race Officer Mark Darling held the 17-strong fleet inside the Harbour while the drizzle cleared and a light breeze began to fill in on cue at lunchtime. After a couple of general recalls, Race 1 finally got under way under black flag in a shifty 5 to 10 knot south easterly and a significant east west tidal set across the course in Bracklesham Bay.
More T Vicar (67, Ossie Stewart, Alice Masterman, Tom Stewart) showed great boat speed to build a comfortable lead by the first windward mark. Whilst they came under pressure in the light runs downwind, they held on for the win with Riff Raff (20, Russell Peters, Greg Wells, Zeb Elliott) in second and Shaken Not Stirred (7, Tom Hewitson, Colin Smith, Jo Hewitson) in third. A change of tide direction led to a black flag start for Race 2 with the fleet being pushed perilously close to the line. Urafiki (92, James Yearsley, John Costard, Anna Wells) read the shifts well to establish a lead over More T Vicar who they held off for the remainder of the two lap course. Finishing fast were Riff Raff who battled through the fleet to record their second place of the day pushing More T Vicar into third.
Sunday got off to a drier start with a similarly light south easterly breeze. The day’s racing was to be dominated by Shaken Not Stirred working the shifts with boat and crew in the groove. They showed a clean pair of heels in Race 3 with Lazy Daisy (66, Andy Partington, Gareth Edwards, Karen Partington) reading the breeze well to finish second and Riff Raff chasing hard in third. Race 4 was once again led from start to finish by Shaken Not Stirred finishing first from Riff Raff in second and Vagrant (65, Toby Strauss, Rob Cruickshank, Aidan Mitchell) third. The final race was a much more shifty affair with Urafiki and Shaken Not Stirred battling all the way round for the lead. Urafiki read the final beat to perfection to take the lead when it mattered most and seal the race win from Shaken Not Stirred in second and Riff Raff third.
Shaken Not Stirred’s spectacular performance on day 2 was sufficient to fend off the strong challenge from reigning champions Riff Raff, who finished second with an impressively consistent set of results and Urafiki third.
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Today I will be attending the annual meetings of the Minnesota Pork Producers Association and the Minnesota Pork Board. Topics of discussion that I expect to hear in the hallways and even from delegates and presenters include the EPA decision on ethanol, the status of the Farm Bill, the latest on who has experienced a site breaking with PED virus, and profit opportunities for next year. At the same time, southern Minnesota is under a winter weather watch beginning this evening with 3-5 inches of snow possible. By Friday a major cold front will mean high temperatures in Mankato of only 5F (-15C).
The short list of concerns and opportunities I’ve just cited are why there are fewer people in the industry owning pigs, with more contract production by people who would traditionally have been corn and hog producers. A common thread among contract growers for production systems is – why would I want to own pigs? I get the manure and steady paycheck for my labor and investment. The risk belongs to someone else and I can concentrate on what I like to do best – grow corn and soybeans.
Much has been written about the decline in the number of farms where the production is owned by the person taking care of the pigs. Yet the reality is that whether you grow feed grains or are the consumers of the grains (poultry or pork), the complexities of the business often limit your ability to be an expert in all phases of both crop and livestock production. At times the margins are so slim that one wrong decision results in a financial loss.
On the other hand, producers who own both livestock and crop production enterprises generally are financially better able to withstand the dynamic shifts in prices and production for each individual enterprise. The biggest change – ownership and management of the sow herd. Today a large number of midsized grain and livestock producers have chosen to invest in some type of sow unit where a management firm specializes in overseeing both the labor and decision process for the production unit. In many cases the pigs that are sent to owners wean-finish sites or nursery and grow-fin sites are sold under a common market agreement. Inputs to the post-wean growth may be purchased by a buyers group to take advantage of volume discounts and/or management services.
Yes there are still pork producers who manage their own sow inventory and manage their cropping enterprises. For these producers ‘corn-picking’ and ‘corn-planting’ disease is always a risk. The very good producers are successful at managing this risk, but for a growing number of producers the risk has proven to be too much and other methods of participation in the swine industry have been chosen.
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Wich sim sofware are you using?
I am working on my first loudspeaker. A simple 2way design with a siver flute woofer and an illusion audio tweeter. I am trying to find a good simulation software to design the crossover network and the box.
I have already tried winISD, wich look good for box design but not for the crosover part, and it is impossoble the simulate the entire systeme (tweeter+woofer+box+crossover).
So, I just want to know wich software you prefer and why.
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for the box I use unibox. which is an excell spreadheet. see here http://home20.inet.tele.dk/kou/ubmodel.html
I havent started on the crossover yet but I saw the other day that one of our forum members (f4ier) has a nice looking one (haven't yet tried it).... http://www.geocities.com/f4ier/newxoversim.htm
Both of these can be found on the FRD consortium site, you may want to check it out.
To get the most out of either of these you should really measure the drivers, for which I would recommend speaker workshop....
http://www.speakerworkshop.com/ and also the speaker workshop manual!!! http://www.audiodiycentral.com/resou...nual%201.0.zip
even though the manual may seem long, make sure you follow the setup and callibration, if you don't you will likely have a bad experience, and get unpredictable results.
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- Title: Ready or Not
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By applying the same fast reload keybinding trick in Escape From Tarkov, you can reload a bit faster in Ready or Not.
A trick that some players employ in Escape From Tarkov is to change the keybinds of the default reload controls so that they can reload faster. This happens because the game isn’t checking to see if you’ll hold R to check your magazine’s remaining ammo or if you’ll double tap it to ditch the magazine onto the floor.
How do I reload faster?
Head to your game options. Under the Controls tab, select Interaction. Clear the bind for “Reload or Check Magazine”, that’s the megabind that handles 3 different actions. You’ll have to rebind each one of these yourself.
IMPORTANT: The game incorrectly labels the ‘Reload’ and ‘Fast Reload’ interactions. Fast Reload is actually the one that lets you keep the mag, where the one that is just called Reload will ditch the mag.
You may have to move your controls around to accommodate for the new keybinds. Here’s what I personally have mine set to.
I bound my standard reload to R, the emergency reload to LCTRL, and checking remaining ammo with X.
You should now be able to reload faster, it might take a while for you to get used to pressing different keys for what kind of reload you want. Personally I wanted to try this trick because I’m currently playing a lot of and getting to learn Escape From Tarkov, and it only felt natural to have a bunch of keybinds for different specific functions just like in the game. Out of curiosity I tried to see if this worked and it did.
Note that reload speeds are different based on whether you are in singleplayer/are hosting or are a client with a bad/good connection to the host. Enjoy your faster reloads.
That's everything we are sharing today for this Ready or Not guide. This guide was originally created and written by Hunger. In case we fail to update this guide, you can find the latest update by following this link.
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Miami startup INDIRA, a personalized fashion and décor brand for the discerning bride, launched Tuesday at www.indiracollection.com. Created by Ajay and Carrie Mantha, a husband and wife team pictured above, INDIRA said its interactive, step-by-step online atelier brings to life each bride’s vision of her wedding day by creating chic silk bridesmaid dresses with coordinating accessories, gemstone jewelry and wedding décor (No wedding day should ever involve polyester, Carrie Mantha says). INDIRA's designs are made in the USA -- in fact some production is done in its factory in Little Haiti. The Manthas moved their company from New York to Miami earlier this year.
The INDIRA team also won 3rd place in the NewME PopUp Accelerator's DemoDay and pitched at the Emerging Technology Business Showcase last month. It was accepted this week into Launch Pad Tech's Community Program. Carrie Mantha said INDIRA recently closed a funding round of $430,000 and has raised $1.2 million in total. The company may do another round in the first or second quarter of next year, she said.
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NIC Holdings Ltd
National Insurance Corporation (now NIC Holdings Limited) was established in 1964 as a wholly owned Government parastatal and the leading provider of insurance and financial services in Uganda.
In 2005, NIC was privatized with the continental insurance giant, Industrial and General Insurance Plc (IGI) acquiring majority (60%) stake through its special purpose vehicle, Corporate Holdings Limited.
On 25th March 2010, NIC was listed on the Uganda Securities Exchange becoming the first (and only) Uganda registered insurance company to be listed on the USE.
In 2014, pursuant to the Insurance (Amendment) Act, NIC was restructured and re-branded into and insurance group with a holding company and two virile wholly owned insurance subsidiaries, NIC General Insurance Company Limited and NIC Life Assurance Company Limited.
NIC General Insurance Company Ltd
NIC General is a wholly owned subsidiary of National Insurance Corporation Limited (NIC). NIC General was incorporated on 3rd March, 2014 and took over the general insurance businesses of NIC in compliance with the legal requirement for separation of insurance businesses under the Insurance (Amendment) Act.
NIC Life Assurance Company Ltd
Investing or saving money is key to achieving the goals you have set in life. NIC offers a number of investment and savings solutions.
Through gaining experience in various economic periods, our team are able to identify the best opportunities whether we are in good times or bad times. Good times provide growth in our portfolio and bad times, despite the potential negative effects, can provide opportunities.
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Our partners are experts in their field – just like our designers are experts in theirs! Today we’d like to “pull back the curtain” on two elements key to our professions – good design and organic portraiture with our friends at Virginia Schultz Photography!
What is good design? A look from Interiors Joan & Associates:
Good design feels right. There’s just something about it that causes your eye to move through the space and for your emotions to be either calmed by the respite of the surroundings or excited by the drama of the room. It’s the perfect balance of scale, color, texture, and function. It’s the appropriate placement of the correct materials and the right furnishings, and it just works. There exists an equilibrium of filled and empty space, and the result is a room that not only looks beautiful, but functions exquisitely for the people who use it. People’s individual tastes dictate a certain element of subjectivity when it comes to design, but there are universal qualities that all good projects possess. Interiors Joan and Associates specializes in creating a spectacular space that is not only universally appealing, but unequivocally yours.
What is organic portraiture? A look from Virginia Schultz Photography:
Virginia Schultz Photography is the only newborn, maternity and family photographer in Omaha that specializes in the organic brand. What is organic portraiture? The dictionary defines the word organic as “produced or involving production without the use of artificial agents.” This, of course, is referring to food growth and production but has a crucial role in defining my brand and style. My photographs are not filled with distracting props and loud, obnoxious colors. I’ve stripped down to the bare necessities of imagery to allow one thing to shine through: You. Your family. Your newborn. Your growing belly. All those other things? They just distract everyone from seeing what’s really going on in a photo. Love. Laughter. Emotion. It comes back to those connections. In 20 years or 100 years when you and your family are looking at your pictures, you should not be distracted by all the questionable style choices. I am so dedicated to this idea of keeping distractions at bay that I have a specially curated client wardrobe for mothers and children to use for sessions. Not only does this eliminate needing to purchase whole new outfits for everyone, but it also takes the guesswork out of a portrait session. With gorgeous selections from places like Anthropologie, BHLDN and Free People, your wardrobe literally cannot fail.
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Doc Brown heads out on The Weird Way Round tour
- Marissa Burgess
- 4 September 2015
Comedy rapper turned stand-up discusses a love of language and his one unrealised dream
When pressed to say what he would like to do if it were possible, Doc Brown muses, ‘Apart from play for Crystal Palace? That’s the only childhood dream that hasn’t yet come to fruition.’ Now in his 30s, he'd probably be looking at playing in goal, but given his versatility you'd be daft to put it beyond him. This rapper, stand-up and actor clearly has a love of language. It's possibly even in his genes given that his sister is the novelist Zadie Smith.
‘When I was six I was desperate to be in school plays, choirs, wherever I could use my voice. My dad was old-school working-class London, born in the 1920s, and my mum was first-generation Jamaican. So, I had two very distinctive and different voices around me as a child and I loved the nuances.’
He came onto the comedy scene via rap having been attracted to it by ‘rude words then humour. Then I saw actual rappers battling and it was the most awe-inspiring, intimidating thing. I realised these guys from the ghetto were unsung geniuses, hood Einsteins.’
His latest show, The Weird Way Round, has Brown moving away from rap, instead exploring straight stand-up. ‘I’m not a kid any more; I can’t keep rapping about dumb stuff. My kids are nearly rapping age, for christ’s sake! I think everyone just wants me to be “The Comedy Rapper” because that’s a category they can understand. When I start talking about insecurity, parenthood, depression, religion, race, class, philosophy, art and death, people are like, “No, that’s for grown-up white comedians: just do the tea rap”.’
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The Zion Regional Collaborative (ZRC) is a group of municipalities, public land management agencies, state agencies and other interested parties that provides regional planning and coordination in the Zion Canyon area.
The ZRC sponsors a number of studies, plans, projects and other strategies to improve the quality of life for residents of and visitors to Zion Canyon.
The ZRC currently has participation from the following agencies:
La Verkin City
Zion National Park
Bureau of Land Management - St. George Field Office
Utah Office of Tourism
Utah Department of Transportation
May 17, 2019
The ZRC is currently seeking proposals from qualified consulting firms to produce a feasibility study for a regional tail running from Zion National Park to the City of Hurricane. Please contact Tom Dansie at 435-772-3434 for more information about the regional trail project.
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Performance artists and scholars increasingly engage in interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration to explore how the brain and body experience and engage in performance. Cognitive perspectives have been used to theorise audience engagement and spectatorship, analysis of theatre texts and performance, approaches to actor training and discussion of applied theatre and performance. Concepts such as cognitive blending, embodiment, entrainment, theory of mind and kinesthetic empathy are changing our understanding of performance processes, practices and reception. This roundtable involves neuroscientists, performance scholars and practitioners engaging in dialogue about their experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange. The discussion will address a series of questions and debates within the field:
How can science benefit performance practice and scholarship?
What can theatre and performance offer to scientific research?
What methodologies are being used in interdisciplinary work and what new paradigms are being created from these interactions?
How do cognitive perspectives engage with traditional approaches to performance?
How do our bodies and brains engage with performance? What processes are involved in being in theatre?
Contributors include neuroscience professors Nicola Clayton (Cambridge), Francesca Happe (Kings) and Vincent Walsh (UCL), together with performance experts Rhonda Blair (USA/SMU), Anna Furse (Goldsmiths/Athletes of the Heart, UK) and Arti Prashar (Spare Tyre, UK) as well as representatives from two AHRC funded projects involving science/arts collaborations: Imagining Autism (University of Kent) and the Watching Dance Project (Universities of Manchester, Glasgow, Imperial College and York St John).
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by Patrick Ehlers
This article contains SPOILERS. If you haven’t read the issue yet, proceed at your own risk!
The concept of shared superhero universes may have dulled readers to the fact that religious parables and alien invasion stories and time travel puzzle boxes are wildly different kinds of narratives. What is an Avengers comic, but a hyper-active mash-up of as many different genres as there are heroes on the team? But you’ll notice that none of these stories really deal with the gravity that should come with these sky-high concepts crossing paths. Faith Dreamside 2 finds both Faith and Doctor Mirage struggling to reconcile their extremely worldly views of the universe with the new reality plaguing Animalia. Continue reading
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Out with the Krew many weekends, there is nothing like life on the ocean in Muscat. For three quarters of the year the temperatures in Muscat get to well into the 30’s, often the 40’s and for the summer time the only chance to get outside is to be on the ocean, everywhere else is just too hot.
Oman is a beautiful place and from the gulf of Oman you can see one of the most striking features – the mountains. We take the boat from the marina and travel for about 45 minutes down to Bandar Khayran. This is a series of coves inaccessible by foot or car.
Time to drop anchor, pull out the snorkeling gear, some drinks and settle down for the day.
And then there’s swimming with Turtles
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Named one of the “50 Best Master-Planned Communities in the U.S.” by Where to Retire magazine, Traditions of America at Silver Spring is a 55+ community in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Silver Spring’s clubhouse features a fitness center, aerobics studio, an indoor swimming pool, massage room, billiards, sports bar, and more. A full-time lifestyle director coordinates activities and events to keep residents active and entertained. Outside of the clubhouse there is a resort-style swimming pool, tennis and pickleball courts, a putting green, bocce, horseshoes, and a fire pit. Four miles of walking trails wind throughout the community.
Buyers have a choice of low-maintenance single-family and garden homes with options for customization. The community offers easy access to healthcare, shopping, recreation, and the historic sites of the Greater Harrisburg area. Nearby attractions include the Susquehanna River, Gettysburg National Park, and the National Civil War Museum.
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Golf Putting green on property; within a 10- to 20-minute drive of three public golf courses
Clubhouse Clubhouse with fitness center, massage room, media/craft room, sports bar and lounge, swimming pools, billiards, cards room, business center, gourmet kitchen, and a full-time lifestyle director
Fitness Fitness center with aerobics studio and strength training and cardio equipment
Recreation Four miles of walking trails, tennis, bocce, fire pit, horseshoes
Swimming Heated indoor and outdoor swimming pools with whirlpool spa
Healthcare 20 minutes from Holy Spirit Hospital, Pinnacle Health Harrisburg Hospital, and Carlisle Regional Medical Center
Shopping & Dining Less than 10 minutes from shops and restaurants at Silver Spring Commons; 15 minutes from Camp Hill Mall and Capital City Mall
Area Attractions Boating and fishing on the Susquehanna River; recreation at City Island; Gettysburg National Park; National Civil War Museum; fly fishing in the Yellow Breeches; 30 minutes from Hershey, PA
Homes For Sale Priced from the high $200,000s to the mid $300,000s
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The Art and Science of Saving Vegetable Seeds
||Seed saving is easy, fabulously interesting and rewarding if you know the processes and you follow the procedures steadfastly. If you are considering saving seeds this year from your favorite vegetables, you need to plan this in the spring and plant your garden according to a seed saving schedule.
||Saturday, April 5, 2014 10:00 AM
Saturday, April 5, 2014
||Hort Farm No. 1 - Holly House-Nj Garden Club Hdq
||130 Log Cabin Road
||George H. Cook
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||Talk, Lecture, Seminar
||Mary Ann Schrum
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Secretary Clough introduces the Smithsonian’s longstanding relationship with Hawaii in Part One of his most recent travel journal.
August 29 – September 2, 2012
Hawaii, our nation’s youngest state, can make a number of claims to uniqueness—it is the southernmost state, the only one surrounded by water, the most diverse state, and one of the four states that were republics before they joined the union. It is also true that Hawaii is one of the few states that has scientific ties to the Smithsonian that began before the Institution was founded. This early beginning has grown deep roots, and today, our work in Hawaii involves multiple units, including the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the National Zoo and its Conservation Biology Institute, the Natural History Museum, the American Indian Museum and the Asian Pacific American Program.
My recent visit over the Labor Day weekend allowed me to meet with our Smithsonian colleagues, tour our operations, and reach out to members of the Hawaii community who are friends and supporters of the Smithsonian.
Our relationship with Hawaii began with United States Exploring Expedition’s visit to the islands in 1840. The Expedition—now known as the Wilkes Expedition—was the first global circumnavigatory exploration made by the United States. Authorized during the presidency of John Quincy Adams and launched in 1838 under the command of Captain Charles Wilkes, the Expedition lasted four years. Wilkes and his ships landed in Hawaii six years before the Smithsonian was founded in 1846; the tie that links us comes from the collections accumulated during the voyage. The Expedition was designed not only to establish maritime navigation information, but also to document the people, places, flora and fauna encountered along the way. Among the crew were eight scientists who were charged collecting cultural artifacts and scientific specimens; the Expedition returned with ship holds full, including many objects from Hawaii. King Kamehameha III provided support for the Expedition to make a nine-day reconnaissance of the Big Island of Hawaii, including a trip up the slopes of Mauna Loa to see the Kilauea volcano. The team obtained scientific and ethnographic specimens and samples for the collections that were brought back to the mainland.
When the Wilkes Expedition returned to the United States in 1842, officials gradually realized that there was no agency willing to, or capable of, housing the artifacts and specimens that had been collected. When the Smithsonian was founded in 1846 all parties agreed this new institution was the right repository for the legacy of the Wilkes Expedition. Thus began the collections of the Smithsonian, which today number 137 million strong, and so began our connection to Hawaii.
For more than a hundred years scientists and scholars from the Smithsonian have studied the unique ecology of Hawaii—its birds, plants and animals, its mountains and oceans, and the culture of its people from native Hawaiians to recent immigrants.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) established its first presence on the islands in the 1950s with a satellite observatory station. The high mountains of Hawaii, its climate and a supportive university system made it the ideal location for astronomical observation. In 2003, SAO built the first submillimeter array in the world on the top of the highest mountain in Hawaii, Mauna Kea, to measure gas, dust and small particles from outer space that provide clues to the birth and death of stars and the origins of the universe.
Mary Hagedorn of the National Zoo’s Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) has established a marine laboratory in conjunction with the University of Hawaii to help study and save coral reefs. Only a few weeks before my visit, the New York Times’ Science section featured Mary’s work, focusing on her pioneering efforts to cryogenically store coral sperm so that living coral can be restored where environmental conditions allow.
Researchers Adrienne Kaeppler and Greta Hansen of the National Museum of Natural History have long studied the indigenous culture of Hawaii, most recently investigating the origins of traditional Hawaiian bark cloth and developing ways to preserve this material. Complementing this work, research by scholars at the National Museum of the American Indian and Konrad Ng, director of our Asian Pacific American Program, are examining the multicultural origins of Hawaiian identity and sharing their insights with the public through exhibitions and educational initiatives.
Our connections to Hawaii are further reinforced by many friends of the Smithsonian and through partner institutions who collaborate with us. Members of the Smithsonian family with strong ties to Hawaii include present and emeritus members of the Smithsonian National Board, Regent Steve Case (who was born there), and many donors. Three of our Smithsonian Affiliates are found in Hawaii—we will be visiting the most recent addition, the Pacific Aviation Museum. The Smithsonian also collaborates on research with the University of Hawaii and the Bishop Museum, which has an outstanding collection of native Hawaiian artifacts.
It is these multiple ties and research programs that bring me to Hawaii, to see for myself the work of so many that thus far I have only learned about from afar and third-hand. The timing for our trip is particularly fortuitous because our visit to Mary Hagedorn’s laboratories will correspond with a phenomenon of nature, a coral spawn. I look forward with great anticipation to the visit. My traveling companion is Johnny Gibbons, the Smithsonian’s press secretary for science.
Perhaps Hawaii is best understood when seen from the air. An archipelago (that also includes Midway, an unincorporated U.S. territory), Hawaii consists of eight major islands (Hawaii, or the Big Island, Maui, Oahu, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Kauai and Niihau), several atolls, numerous smaller islets and undersea seamounts stretching almost 1,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean. Its easternmost island, the Big Island of Hawaii, is located 2,000 miles southwest of the coast of North America. Hawaii is also our southernmost state, lying below the Tropic of Cancer well south of the Florida Keys.
The islands exist because of the earth’s fluid molten core, which reaches the earth’s surface through boundaries between massive crustal plates. Movement of the plate boundaries over what is known as a “hot spot” promoted volcanic activity and magma flow through the crust and up through the sea, creating the craggy islands that rise above the windswept ocean. Below the sea, Hawaii can also be found in the form of seamounts, volcanic islands that have not grown to reach sea level. Hawaii’s tallest peak is Mauna Kea, rising majestically almost 14,000 feet above sea level and more than 33,000 feet above the sea floor, surpassing the height of Mount Everest.
Hawaii is a land of great natural beauty and remarkably diverse ecological habitats. It is believed that Hawaii was first occupied by humans migrating from Polynesia sometime around 300 BCE. Although Spanish explorers may have landed in the 1500s, the first documented European contact was when Captain James Cook visited on his first expedition in 1778. Cook came to Hawaii again on a second voyage in 1779 and was killed by Hawaiians who attacked his forces after an argument broke out between his crew and a local chief. Despite the conflict, news spread about the remarkable islands and by the 1800s many missionaries and fortune seekers from Europe and the United States flocked to the kingdom of Hawaii, at that time ruled by the House of Kamehameha.
The new settlers created plantations to take advantage of the rich volcanic soil and abundant rainfall. These plantations required labor and soon workers were imported from China, Japan and other parts of the globe. The presence of powerful plantation owners and so many non-Hawaiians led to inevitable conflict with the native Hawaiians. This eventually led to the downfall of the House of Kamehameha in 1893, when the monarchy was overthrown.* Subsequent native Hawaiian leaders were weakened and Hawaii was seized as a territory of the United States in 1898. In 1959, Hawaii became the most recent member of the United States. In 1993, our government issued a formal apology for the 1898 takeover.
Today Hawaii has a diverse population of more than one million that reflects the waves of people of different ethnicities who populated the state: 55 percent are Asian American, 24 percent are Caucasian and other groups and only 21 percent are Native Hawaii and Pacific Islanders.
Thursday, August 30, 75 degrees, sunny, light clouds with cool breezes
Up early for a live interview with Howard Dicus on “Hawaii News Now: Sunrise,” the morning news program on the local CBS affiliate. Howard, a popular morning television personality, was born in Baltimore and tells me before the interview how he loved to come to the Smithsonian as a child.
Howard has done his homework and asks several questions about SAO’s facility on Mauna Kea and Mary Hagedorn’s marine lab. We have an easygoing discussion and I am happy to have the opportunity to share the Smithsonian’s resources with the show’s viewers. The rest of the day is spent meeting with Smithsonian friends and donors. At a luncheon hosted by Smithsonian National Board member Al Landon, former CEO of the Bank of Hawaii; his successor Peter Ho; and Jeff Watanabe, an emeritus member of the SNB; I am presented with two leis. One is formed from a long green garland and I am told it is reserved for leaders or chiefs; when I later see a picture of native son President Barack Obama wearing the same kind of lei, I feel the honor even more keenly.
We are joined at the lunch by a number of Smithsonian staff who oversee research and programs in Hawaii, including Adrienne Kaeppler of the Natural History Museum; Konrad Ng, director of the Asian Pacific American Program; Roger Brissenden, deputy director of SAO; and Mary Hagedorn of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. We are all assisted by Kirsten Peterson Johannson, one of our outstanding staff from the Office of Advancement who has worked with the Bank of Hawaii to create a delightful atmosphere for our guests.
Following lunch I give a talk about the Smithsonian in general and its specific roles in Hawaii. We are strong partners with many of Hawaii’s cultural and scientific institutions and this is an opportunity for us to reinforce those relationships. At a later event, we have the opportunity to raise consciousness about the Smithsonian and its activities with a new group of friends brought together by Konrad and Maya Ng. Konrad is a native of Hawaii and a former member of the faculty of the University of Hawaii. He and Maya bring a special knowledge of the island and its people.
Next, SAO’s Submillimeter Array.
*See SN’s comment below.
Posted: 14 September 2012
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The Batman movie casting: Robin, Nightwing and Batgirl links teased
Is the Boy Wonder heading back to the big screen?
Matt Reeves' Batman movie is shaping up to being a 'who's who'? of the Batman universe, with new casting news suggesting that we are set to get some more villains and maybe even the Boy Wonder himself, Robin.
Now, we currently already have a Robin on the small screen - Titans is a pretty decent stab at the character and is currently in its second season. But, that doesn't mean that we can't have Robin on the big screen, too - we've seen this with Superman recently, starring in both CW's Supergirl and The Justice League.
According to Forbes, we are going to get some new casting shouts soon with Dick Grayson making an appearance in the movie and it's mooted that Two-Face, Hugo Strange and, well, the Joker may well make an appearance.
If The Joker does indeed come on board, then it definitely won't be Joaquin Phoenix in the role, as his take was a one-off realisation of the origin story.
Recently it's been rumoured that both Jeffry Wright and Joanah Hill have been given roles - Wright as Commissioner Gordon (great choice, if true) and Hill as either The Penguin or The Riddler. Fans have wanted him as The Penguin for years, but it's looking more like he'll get The Riddler role.
If this sounds like a lot of characters - it is and it's because it's thought that this movie will kickstart a trilogy and other spin-offs could delve into the universe, including Nightwing and a Batgirl movie.
Given that DC's first stab at a shared universe was something of a disaster, though, they are certain to me more cautious this time around.
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Look Away Dixieland
A Carpetbagger's Great-Grandson Travels Highway 84 in Search of the Shack-up-on-Cinder-Blocks, Confederate-Flag-Waving, Squirrel-Hunting, Boiled-Peanuts, Deep-Drawl, Don't-Stop-the-Car-Here South
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: Louisiana State University Press
Title page, Copyright Page
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Introduction: Deep in the Heart of Dixie
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I have two stories to tell. One is about a trip I took across the Deep South, and the other is about my great-grandfather, who, for a while, lived there. I think of these stories as the vertical and horizontal axes of my sense of Dixieland. The vertical one is my family history going back to when “Dixie” really caught the American imagination, namely, after the Civil War. And...
1 My Great-Grandfather
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To understand the Deep South, you must first understand Reconstruction, and to understand Reconstruction, you need to understand the morality play that is late nineteenth-century American history, and to understand this morality play, you need to know the stock characters, the dramatis personae,...
2 March across Georgia
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On January 20, 2009, the day of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, we started our exploration of Dixieland by driving the View up into the Okefenokee Swamp. My wife and I were going to spend a few days getting acclimated to our land yacht at the Stephen C. Foster State Park. As we learned, that’s a few days more than Mr. Foster ever spent in the entire state...
3 Sweet (Almost) Home Alabama
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As we drove into Alabama I sensed something change. It looked as if we had dropped into a new chart with new coordinates. I felt dispirited. This place was rough. There was more trash on the highway, less pride of ownership in the places we saw along the road, more sense of a grind of unremitting poverty. Stars didn’t fall on Alabama, junk did. From Dothan to Enterprise...
4 Mississippi, the Most Southern Place on Earth
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Crossing over into Mississippi we noticed two things: first, this state is getting the jump on its neighbors by starting to build Interstate 14 along the side of U.S. 84. In places the large blue background exit signs announcing lodging, gas, and fast food are already up. Someone needs to tell them the other states are not cooperating. And, second, we noticed that the best-looking...
5 Louisiana Gumbo
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Truth be told, we didn’t even stay in Natchez. Ever the suckers for a good advertisement, we stayed across the river in Vidalia, Louisiana, and commuted. River View RV Park & Resort claims on the Web that it is “The Finest RV Park on the Mighty Mississippi” and the place to stay while visiting Natchez. I didn’t really calculate what “on the Mighty Mississippi” might mean....
6 The Red River Valley: What Really Happened
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We finally retraced our steps to U.S. 84, crossed through the forest like characters in a fairy tale, and made our way to the scene of the family slaughter. Well, not quite to the scene. We made our way to the Grand Bayou RV Park and Resort in Coushatta. The name is rather grand, yet deserved, as it is the nicest place to stay in this parish. Owned by the town...
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I loved this project. It came at a difficult time in my life, and it gave me something to concentrate on that was both introspective and out in the world. Plus, doing it moved me from the computer screen back to the yellow pads. To write it, I had to get off my butt and move around. Trying to understand my kinsman was inspiring. If ever there was someone who should have curled up and...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Date: February 15th
Title: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Director: Blake Edwards
Description: The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling smash-hit romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote’s best-selling novella. Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. George Peppard plays her next door neighbor, a writer who is “sponsored” by a wealthy Patricia Neal. Guessing who the right man for Holly is easy. Seeing just how that romance blossoms is one of the enduring highlights of this gem-like treat set to Henry Mancini’s Oscar-winning score and Oscar-winning Mancini-Johnny Mercer song “Moon River” With Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam & Mickey Rooney.
Running Time: 114 minutes, Rating: UNRATED
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Cir Le Gris
was born in the Northern suburbs of Paris. He first started by studying literature and languages before quickly realizing that his purpose was somewhere else. At 21, he decided to quit college and dedicate his life to a savoir-faire. He was paving the way for his true self to come out, constantly sharping the movements of his hands to create and express whatever lied beneath the surface. Tattooing and painting were the obvious tools that manifested to him, they appeared as the logical approach he would use to experience and express life.
Drawn to science, architecture, anatomy, rituals, the mind, the body and the deep relationship between the two, he relentlessly works at connecting all these interests to build his vision, in an authentic way, through every art form he chooses. Cir le Gris is passionate about the ever-changing nature of expression created through the art of tattooing, which leads him to research how to express it in new forms every day. This curiosity often leads him to other art forms and movements like Romanticism, clair-obscur, tenebrism, sculpture and painting to only mention a few. What he looks for in those art forms is the attention given to shapes, movements, lights and texture, his favorite tools in tattooing. Cir le Gris is a soul eager to learn and share, striving to put his sensitivity to good use.
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Four homing pigeons were trained to discriminate two figures simultaneously presented on an LCD screen. The figure was either a rectangle (A) or a square (B), and four combinations of the two figures, AA, AB, BA, BB, appeared in a pseudo-randomized order. The pigeons' task was to peck one of these figures based upon whether the two figures were identical or not. One pigeon successfully learned this discrimination, with proportions of correct responses above 90% in two consecutive sessions. Of the other birds, two performed above chance level but had difficulty meeting a learning criterion of above 80% in two consecutive sessions. All birds achieved this criterion when the combinations of figures presented were reduced to two. Results suggested that learning the present same-different discrimination is within the capacity of pigeons to a certain extent, although there exists considerable individual variation in the pigeons' skills to acquire complex discrimination.
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Infection and Inflammation in the Body Politic.
“Leave them to their sectarian religious wars. They’ve been killing each other for thousands of years, and it will continue unabated no matter what we enlightened, secular westerners do. Best not to get mixed up in it.”
This sentiment is prevalent within certain strands of anti-interventionist thought, and it betrays an incredible ignorance and arrogance. It neglects the central fact of Muslim civilization since World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and especially since World War II and the establishment of the state of Israel: the western imperial domination and exploitation of virtually all Muslim lands and people, whether through occupation, puppet dictators, civil war sponsorship, or chaos-inducing regime changes. Westerners sigh derisively at “backward” Muslim culture, yet it is western culture that, by sanctioning such a foreign policy, has proven to be far more barbaric.
A splendid 2011 Ron Paul presidential campaign ad invited viewers to imagine how Americans would respond if another country ever did to America what the U.S. government does to Muslim countries on a routine basis.
Of course, as the ad indicates, the response would be an armed insurgency. Think the “Wolverines” in the 1984 film Red Dawn.
From realizing that, it is only takes a little more reflection to realize that such an American insurgency would draw resolve and inspiration from its dominant religion, Christianity. Moreover, the vanguard of any “American intifada” would be deeply Christian in character, and the more desperate the struggle became, the more dominant would be its religious aspects, and especially its most radically religious aspects.
This is because the sacrifices that are necessary to successfully resist a mighty empire are so great that they often require the trans-mundane motivations and existential consolations that only religion can offer, and that religious zealotry offers in spades.
And, since innocent-slaughtering violence tends to beget like revenge, the religiously zealous resistance of a brutalized population will often go beyond justice (self-defense and proportional retaliation). Some may come to match and even surpass the evils of their dominators, as ISIS and Al Qaeda may be said to have done. (Although, I would argue that the U.S. empire is still more murderous and evil than even these Islamist butchers, who are simply more forthright and less hypocritical about their crimes.)
This phenomenon can be seen throughout history, and not solely with Islam.
The Jewish Intifada Against the Greeks
As Will Durant wrote in his magnificent 11-volume series, The Story of Civilization, it was the yoke of “advanced, secular, and enlightened” empires that drove the Jews of the Classical Era toward religious zealotry and cultural isolation/conservatism.
In volume 2, The Life of Greece, Durant tells of how the Chasidim, a puritanical Jewish sect, arose as a reaction to the rule over Judea of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which threatened to convert military domination into Hellenic (Greek) cultural domination.
Like antibodies gathering to attack an infection, the more religious among the Jews formed themselves into a sect called Chasidim — the Pious. They began (about 300 B.C.) with a simple pledge to avoid wine for a given period; later, by the inevitable psychology of war, they went to the extremes of Puritanism, and frowned upon all physical pleasure as a surrender to Satan and the Greeks. The Greeks marveled at them, and classified them with the strange “gymnosophists,” or nude ascetic philosophers, whom Alexander’s army had come upon in India. Even the common Jew deprecated the severe religiosity of the Chasidim, and sought for some middle way. Perhaps a compromise would have been reached had it not been for the attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to force Hellenism upon Judea by persuasion of the sword.
This Antiochus III was a Seleucid emperor whose predecessor snatched Judea from the Ptolemies (this in 198 B.C.). Although at first the Jews encouraged the change, the Near-East-based Seleucids proved to be far more grasping and oppressive than the Egypt-based dynasty they displaced. (Both empires were successors to the empire of Alexander the Great.) In order to support the ambitious military campaigns he was planning, Antiochus squeezed the people of Judea mercilessly, demanding a third of their grain crops and one half of their fruit yield. And in a bid to make his subjects more tractable, the emperor tried to gradually destroy the Jewish religion by forcibly supplanting it with Greek paganism. According to Durant, this only served to radicalize religion in Judea, driving most Jews to align with the sect whose “severe religiosity” they had formerly “deprecated.”
Shocked by these developments, and feeling their religion challenged in its very existence, the majority of the Jewish people went over to the side and view of the Chasidim.
As soon as an opportunity struck, the devout Jews tried to throw off the Seleucid yoke, and also demonstrated the ugly side of religiously motivated anti-imperial insurgencies by murdering Hellenized Jews in the process.
Stealing a march on Hitler by 2,000 years, Antiochus blamed this Jewish “stab in the back” for obstructing a campaign against the Ptolemies. His forces marched through Judea, “slaughtered Jews of either sex by the thousand,” and “desecrated and looted the Temple.” Antiochus then abandoned the gradual approach toward Hellenization, and offered the Jews an age-old choice: conversion or death. Then, as now, offering “westernization” at the point of a deadly weapon only provoked disgust for such a “gift.” Many chose martyrdom instead, while still more were inspired by the martyrs to choose cultural isolation.
Many Jews conformed to the demands, waiting for the storm to pass. Many others fled into caves or mountain retreats, lived on clandestine gleanings from the fields, and resolutely carried on the ordinances of Jewish life. The Chasidim circulated among them, preaching courage and resistance. A detachment of royal troops, coming upon some caves in which thousands of Jews-men, women, and children-were hiding, ordered them to come forth. The Jews refused; and because it was the Sabbath, they would not move the stones that might have blocked the entrance to the caves. The soldiers attacked with fire and sword, killing many of the refugees and asphyxiating the remainder with smoke.” Women who had circumcized their newborn sons were cast with their infants over the city walls to death.” The Greeks were surprised to find the strength of the old faith; not for centuries had they seen such loyalty to an idea. The stories of martyrdom went from mouth to mouth, filled books like the First and Second Maccabees, and gave to Christianity the prototypes of its martyrs and its martyrology. Judaism, which had been near assimilation, became intensified in religious and national consciousness, and withdrew into a protective isolation.
The devout and defiant spirit of the Chasidim would find a focal point and figurehead in Mattathias ben Johanan. When he was summoned by the state to sacrifice to Zeus, this patriarch launched a religiously-driven political uprising (perhaps the first "Intifada" in Palestine) with an act of violence that characteristically mixed resistance to tyranny with murder of the less-stalwart.
As one of the Jews approached the altar to make the required sacrifice Mattathias slew him, and slew also the King’s commissioner. Then he said to the people: “Whoever is zealous for the Law, and wishes to support the Covenant, let him follow me.” Many of the villagers retired with him and his sons to the mountains of Ephraim; and there they were joined by a small band of young rebels, and by such of the Chasidim as were still alive.
Mattathias’s son and successor proved just as piously zealous and just as unforgiving of “backsliders” as his father.
Soon afterward Mattathias died, having designated as captain of his band his son Judas, called Maccabee.” Judas was a warrior whose courage equaled his piety; before every battle he prayed like a saint, but in the hour of battle “he was like a lion in his rage.” The little army “lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts, feeding on herbs.” Every now and then it descended upon a neighboring village, killed backsliders, pulled down pagan altars, and “what children soever they found uncircumcized, those they circumcized valiantly.’’
Judas and his “Maccabeans” won their independence by trouncing Antiochus’s forces in battle, despite being heavily out-armed: such is the martial power of faith. To this day this victory is celebrated by Jews around the world during Hanukkah. However, as his forces marched toward the reestablishment of the Jewish state under his incipient “Hasmonean dynasty,” Judas paved the way for that march with a fateful alliance with the Romans against the Seleucids, a “deal with the imperial devil” that would prove even more costly than the earlier deal with the Seleucid devils against the Ptolemies.
Roman Empire and the Jewish Intifada Renewed
Rome later converted sponsorship to domination when it intervened in a civil war between two rival Hasmonean claimants to the Judean throne, and when the Roman general Pompey used that intervention as a pretext to conquer Jerusalem. From then on, the Judean kings of the Hasmoneon Dynasty, and of the subsequent Herodian Dynasty, were puppets of Rome.
The proud people bridled under this new yoke as well, in a rebellion that was crushed with great brutality. Will Durant picks up the saga again in Caesar and Christ, volume 3 of The Story of Civilization:
When Herod the Great died the nationalists, spurning the pacific counsels of Hillel, declared a revolt against Herod’s successor Archelaus, and encamped in tents about the Temple. Archelaus’ troops slew 3000 of them, many of whom had come to Jerusalem for the Passover festival (4 B.C.). At the following feast of Pentecost the rebels gathered again, and once more suffered great slaughter; the Temple cleisters were burned to the ground, the treasures of the sanctuary were plundered by the legions, and many Jews killed themselves in despair. Patriot bands took form in the countryside, and made life precarious for any supporter of Rome; one such band, under Judas the Gaulonite, captured Sepphoris, the capital of Galilee. Varus, governor of Syria, entered Palestine with 10,000 men, razed hundreds of towns, crucified 2000 rebels, and sold 30,000 Jews into slavery.
Preferring the plain subjugation of an imperial administrator to the phony “reign” of a client king, a delegation of leading Jews convinced the emperor Augustus to abolish the Judean kingship, which was replaced by a procuratorship.
But the corrupt Roman procurators proved as avaricious as Antiochus. The parasitic burden was so great that, according to the contemporary historian Josephus, a new tax census triggered an uprising and launched a new Jewish sect/movement that was even more radical than the Chasidim (so radical, in fact, that its name would enter the English language as a term for religious and political fanatics): the Zealots. According to Wikipedia:
The Zealots objected to Roman rule and violently sought to eradicate it by generally targeting Romans and Greeks. Another group, likely related, were the Sicarii, who raided Jewish habitations and killed Jews they considered apostate and collaborators, while also urging Jews to fight Romans and other Jews for the cause. Josephus paints a very bleak picture of their activities as they instituted what he characterized as a murderous “reign of terror”…
And Durant tells of how the Sicarii (“dagger-men”)…
…pledged to kill any disloyal Jew, mingled in street gatherings, stabbed their appointed victims from behind, and disappeared in the chaos of the crowd.
These radicals were opposed by Jewish “moderates.” But, in the struggle between the two factions, the circumstances of imperial oppression played to the advantage of the radicals, as they always do.
The old or well-to-do Hebrews counseled patience, arguing that revolt against so powerful an empire would be national suicide; the young or poor accused them of connivance and cowardice. The two factions divided the city and nearly every family; one seized the upper part of Jerusalem, the other the lower, and each attacked the other with every weapon at hand. In 68 a pitched battle was fought between the groups; the radicals won, and killed 12,000 Jews, including nearly all the rich; the revolt had become a revolution.
The Zealot-led rebels then massacred an entire Roman garrison. Gentiles launched revenge pogroms, slaughtering 20,000 Jews in Caesaria and 10,000 in Damascus. The enraged rebels in turn sacked, burned, and massacred several Greek cities. Atrocity answered atrocity, until the emperor Titus initiated his “final solution” when he laid siege to Jerusalem. After five months of starvation and death came the horrible denouement.
The flaming brands of the Romans set fire to the Temple, and the great edifice, much of it of wood, was rapidly consumed. The surviving defenders fought bravely, proud, says Dio, to die on Temple grounds. Some killed one another, some fell upon their own swords, some leaped into the flames. The victors gave no quarter, but slew all Jews upon whom they could lay their hands; 97,000 fugitives were caught and sold as slaves; many of them died as unwilling gladiators in the triumphal games that were celebrated at Berytus, Caesarea Philippi, and Rome. Josephus numbered at 1,197,000 the Jews killed in this siege and its aftermath; Tacitus calculated them at 600,000 (A.D.70).
Resistance continued here and there till 73, but essentially the destruction of the Temple marked the end of the rebellion and of the Jewish state. The property of those who had shared in the revolt was confiscated and sold. Judea was almost shorn of Jews, and those that remained lived on the edge of starvation.
It was apt for Durant to characterize the Chasidim as “antibodies.” Religio-political radicalism is often a reaction in the body politic to a foreign invasion (infection). Like the human body’s immune system, in addition to attacking the invading bodies, it can also destroy healthy tissue (kill innocents) by inducing inflammation that might even lead to “cancer”: a metastasization of violence that ultimately kills that which it sought to protect or avenge.
This is not to defend the murders of the Islamists in the Taliban, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, much less the atrocities of the monsters in ISIS and Al Qaeda, committed against both Muslim “backsliders” and non-Muslims. Neither is it to defend nor exaggerate the murders, and even atrocities, of ancient Jewish radicals, committed against both Jewish “backsliders” and gentiles. And it is not to say that the two sets of social phenomena are totally equivalent.
My point is that empire, through its brutality, makes people desperate and drives them toward puritanical religious fanaticism, and that this is true for peoples of all creeds. Furthermore, ramping up imperial brutality in response to anti-imperial, religiously-driven violence only religiously radicalizes subject populations even further, engendering a cycle of violence, the logic of which culminates either in the bankruptcy and collapse of the imperial civilization, or, as in the case of Imperial Rome and the ancient Jews, in outright genocide committed against the subjugated people. Yet, even when it comes to the latter, empire, through its over-extensions, always eventually kills the imperial civilization anyway, as it did with the Greco-Roman Classical civilization.
The only way to defuse militant religious fanaticism, and to avoid both collapse and genocide, is to stop the cycle of violence by abandoning empire.
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I stayed in Godalming in the late fifties with my aunty, her first name was Jennifer . I can't recall her last name, her mother was Eileen Phyllis. The home overlooked the church and I can still recall the fresh food. Coming over to the UK this year, would love to catch up with her family; I know she had a daughter. Anyone out there who knows such a person, please contact me.
I was born in Peperharrow Road in 1935 and still have two sisters living in the house where I was born. I went to Meadrow Central School. I swam in the Ginny, 'played' and grew up in the Charterhouse grounds and Milton's woods. I was a Junior member of Godalming Angling Society and spent many happy hours, fishing the Wey and ...Read full memory
I worked at Smiths Industries and when it was nice weather some of the other girls and I would take our lunch and sit in by the fish pond. I often wonder what happened to the others when Smiths moved. It was previously Waymouth Gauges near Godalming Station.
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The International Food Blogger Conference (IFBC) is returning for its second year in Sacramento from September 29-30. The IFBC was the first food blogging conference in the world, and today, nine years in the running, it remains the longest occurring event of its kind.
Geared towards bloggers, writers, publishers, social media gurus, brands and PR companies dedicated to all things food, the IFBC has something for everyone. Highlights of this year’s event include keynote speaker, Nick Papadopoulos of CropMobster; a session on How to Make Money Blogging featuring Sacramento-based food blogger Melissa Johnson and Chicago-based food blogger Abeer Rizvi, both of whom are making a full-time living from their blog revenue; a Hot Topics in Food Blogging Q&A panel; as well as sessions on Instagram growth, SEO for bloggers, Google analytics and how to create videos!
Join Eat F2F at the IFBC in Sacramento this month. You’re guaranteed:
- Excellent Contentincluding sessions on writing, social media, technology, career growth, and marketing – featuring how to make money blogging!
- Outstanding Foodfrom our sponsors and local restaurants – and a live blogging food tasting extravaganza!
- And Funwith your fellow foodies and media influencers.
You don’t want to miss this exciting event. Join us on September 29 & 30th right here in Sacramento. For more information or to register today, CLICK HERE
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Welcome to St. Gregory
St. Gregory Cathedral School is accredited by the Texas Catholic Accreditation Conference and recognized by the Texas Education Agency. It is the only three-time U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School in East Texas.
St. Gregory serves students in PK-3 through 5th grade. The school offers PreKindergarten programs for 3 and 4 years olds full time as well as M-W-F options.
For admissions information, please contact Jill Coan at 903.579.9404 or email@example.com.
Admissions at St. Gregory is rolling and proceeds according to the following sequence:
Step 1: Inquire
Fill out the Inquiry Form. At this time, you may schedule a tour and/or a day for your child to “shadow” a student in his/her current grade level if desired.
Step 2: Apply
Submit completed Application via hardcopy to St. Gregory office along with a non-refundable application fee of $75 and copies of birth certificate, immunization records, and sacramental records (for Catholic applicants).
Step 3: Release Records
For students in K - 5th grade, print the Records Release Form, complete it, and deliver it to your child’s current school.
Step 4: Interview
After St. Gregory receives your child’s records from his/her current school, a Family Interview will be scheduled with the principal or the assistant principal.
Step 5: Notification
Notification of Admissions decision mailed to the applicant.
Step 6: Register
Accepted applicant registers at St. Gregory and submits a non-refundable registration fee of $300.
Tuition assistance is available for families who demonstrate financial need by submitting an application to FACTS. The priority deadline to apply for financial aid is March 1st, 2019. Families must first submit the school application and application fee in order for their FACTS application to be considered.
St. Gregory admits students of all racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.
St. Gregory may use the following criteria in making admissions decisions, when applicable:
- Current school record
- Standardized testing
- Student's academic potential
- Student's discipline record
PK3: Child must be 3 years old on or before September 1st.
PK4: Child must be 4 years old on or before September 1st.
Kindergarten: Child must be 5 years old on or before September 1st.
First grade: Child must be 6 years old on or before September 1st.
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Sebastians on High Street in Boston's Financial District Has Closed
A small local group of cafes and caterers has just gotten a bit smaller, as it has closed one of its locations in the heart of downtown Boston.
According to a couple of sources (including Cappy in Boston), Sebastians on High Street in the city's Financial District is no longer in operation, with a note on the Sebastians' website confirming this--and referring customers to their Summer Street location. It is not known exactly when the shop shut down, though based on information from one source, it looks like it may have closed over the past weekend or late last week.
Sebastians, which first started out in 1993 as a catering operation, currently has three cafes in the Boston area, including the aforementioned shop on Summer Street and locations in Boston's Seaport District and Cambridge's Kendall Square.
The address for this now-closed cafe in the Financial District was: Sebastians, 126 High Street, Boston, MA, 02110. The website for Sebastians can be found at http://www.sebastians.com/
Follow us on Twitter at @hiddenboston
[A related post from our sister site (Boston's Hidden Restaurants): List of Restaurant Closings and Openings in the Boston Area]
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Contacta Overhead speakers
A pair of sealed loudspeakers are to be fitted above the staff and customer sides of the counter when used with a Contacta Overhead Speech Transfer System.
Free shipping on all orders £150 and over
The Contacta Overhead speakers are used in conjunction with Contacta Overhead Speech Transfer Systems. This pair of sealed loudspeakers are to be fitted above the staff and customer sides of the counter.
Robust and compact
Easy to install
1 Set of two overhead sealed speaker modules (STS-S22-G)
Impedance: 4 Ω
Output: SPL 1W @ 1m 85dB
Frequency Response: 150Hz-10300hz
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Lee Mannion | Tuesday 23rd November, 2021
So you’re thinking about changing workplace pension provider. Congratulations, you’re on your way to making your most expensive employee benefit actually feel like a benefit.
Your company’s pension scheme should be a reflection of your brand. It’s a great way to make your employees feel valued, and picking the right workplace scheme can go a long way towards boosting engagement and, ultimately, retention.
Many people stick with their existing employer pension for years, even though:
Of course, moving your entire team to a whole new pension scheme is daunting. Even if it's to one of the UK's best pension schemes. Despite the many benefits, it’s natural to wonder: is it worth it?
Here’s the good news. Switching your pension provider is nowhere near as much of a hassle as you might think. In fact, it’s a doddle.
In this article, we’ll walk you through how to change workplace pension provider, step by step.
The first question you’re probably asking is can you change workplace pension provider? You may have not even realised switching providers was possible. Are you locked into one provider for life?
Absolutely not. You’re free to move your team’s pension provider at any time. In fact, you could drastically improve engagement with your workplace pension scheme by doing so - all without spending a penny extra on employer contributions.
There are 3 main steps you need to take to switch over your workplace pension.
The first step is an obvious one. Find your new workplace pension provider.
There are a variety of options available in the UK - each with its own pros and cons. It’s important to take the time to work out which option is right for you.
For example, if you have a large team, you won’t want to spend your days answering all the questions your team has on accessing and managing their pension. You’ll want a provider that offers resources and support.
Looking for something for a start-up? You’ll want a pension that is flexible and modern- something that feels as cutting-edge as you are.
The next step is to inform your current provider that you’re switching and let them know which scheme you’re moving to.
An email or call with your account manager will do the trick. Then, the two pension providers will take care of the move itself, letting you know when everything is ready.
Then, you can get ready for the final step.
Finally, you’ll need to let your team know what’s happening.
It’s a good idea to quell any concerns about their money. You’re switching for a reason, so outlining any benefits to employees will help this. You'll also want to highlight if you're switching to a salary sacrifice pension.
It’s also normal to experience an uptick in pension questions during this team - many employees will use this as a reminder to look into their pension, their plan, contributions and more.
It can be a good idea to book a ‘welcome session’ with your new provider to help field these questions.
Penfold will give an overview of the platform, how it works and distribute a welcome pack to all new customers.
We’ll also assign you a dedicated pension manager - who you can direct any and all queries too (like how pensionable earnings work), leaving you free to focus on what matters.
We’ll even integrate into your work chat platform so we’re ready to take any and all questions.
Switching your team over to the Penfold pension scheme is easy. Just let us know where you’re switching from and we take care of everything.
Penfold is the cutting-edge, cost-effective workplace pension scheme that your team will love. We integrate with your payroll and manage all the admin for you. No more regulatory returns. 1-on-1 customer care.
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Creativity rules the business of modern world. Therefore, if your business is being channelized through an online platform, you need to take care of all the activities that can make your website better and eye attracting. In order to develop this strategy, your firm needs the support of a technical team that deals in web development services and manages all the complex issues that can control the visual appearance of your website.
A website is the lifeline of a business in this century. Web maintenance service have been a great support to the professional establishments that believes in driving customer interest with their attractive websites and pulling viewers with a strict attention. There are certain steps that can make your website better and attractive for the online competition.
As a new organization your primary duty is to make a planning about the business you are trying to define to the specific consumers. A planning is very important and it should describe all your business requirements and how it can help the overall development process. Think like a customer and make a structural layout that can guide the customers to the related searches. The role of the visual graphics equally plays a better role in molding public interest. Graphic designers should be well aware of the latest technologies and the formats that can result to better website performance.
Web development services also help a website to manage the intricate issues related to navigation. A customer tends to stay for long only when they find your website attractive and informative. Therefore you should make it sure that the web content is proportionate to the layout. The application development services mastered by the technicians also take care of the external and internal links that redirects to a special page. To make this better and easier, the use of the icons or headings are essential.
Coding is another important aspect of a website that can only be controlled by the specialists. For example the use of the images, letter fonts, graphics and animations are extremely essential to augment interest. With web development outsourcing companies a code is used to create page movement which is supported by the coding languages such as AJAX and Jquery. Outsource web development services and check how it can promote your corporate website to attain apposition that can easily attract the prospective customers with a good intensity of customer behavior. Web development services needs more importance with the fast moving Internet world and renovate the volatile market.
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Kodak Alaris has announced a “significant” price increase affecting all its film products in January 2022.
Kosmo Foto was shown examples of new pricing from one UK distributor on Thursday (28 October). The rises were confirmed by Kodak Alaris on Friday.
The price rises affect all consumer and professional Kodak films, as well as single-use cameras. Most films will see price rises of at least 20%, Kosmo Foto has been told.
The new price increases follow others at the beginning of this year and 2020.
Kosmo Foto understands the price rises are primarily due to increases in materials and manufacturing costs, logistics and the impact of inflation in various parts of the world following the Covid pandemic. Increases in shipping costs and limited availability of shipping containers has also affected the movement of components to make the film.
Eastman Kodak, the US company which produces all Kodak-branded film, has experienced exceptional supply issues in 2021 and struggled to keep up with market demand. This is partly due to a huge increase in interest in film and compounded by the effect of the Covid pandemic on supply chains. Eastman Kodak has found it difficult to have constant supplies of all chemicals and components to manufacture and package films. The pandemic has also made it more challenging to move finished film across the world.
Apart from Lomography and Russia’s Silberra, Kodak Alaris currently remains the only film producer introducing new colour film to the market. In 2017, it brought back Ektachrome E100 slide film. The last of Kodak’s slide films had previously been discontinued in 2012.
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I’ve grown increasingly disgruntled with my local Chinese establishment… not for the heaping helping of toothsome Chicken and Broccoli that I look forward to on a thrice/monthly basis, but for the fortune impostors they – or their vendors – have been sticking in my cookie.
For years, I’ve petitioned fortune cookie writers to take more chances, and to be more specific with their personalized predictions. I’ve implored them to select exact dates well into the future so as not to be confined by truth and fact – feeling it unfair to hold them to a higher standard than news media – when entertaining us at the end of a meal with fantastic feats yet accomplished. Instead of taking this advice, and filling my head with yarns predicting, “You will be debauched by a pair of non-blood related Estonian Victoria’s Secret model cousins in your crappy studio apartment on February 13, 2016,” I was recently left with, “Your mind is creative, original, and alert.”
Boring. Debatable. And most importantly… NOT a fortune. Mister Dictionary – not an overly excitable but very accommodating British bloke – states that to tell someone’s fortune is to, “inform someone of future events in his or her own life.” There is no future event or power referenced in the only surviving memento from last night’s dinner. There is no prognostication of Robin Hood-type pirating adventures in a corporate-run world government in 2023. And there is most definitely no mention of scantily clad quasi-kinfolk debauching me in my apartment in 2016 (that one would be laminated and tucked into my wallet).
Instead I was left with a statement… which is something stated… which could be a fortune… but might not be.
I don’t ask for much. But I demand a fortune in my fortune cookie… or call them what they’ve become… statement cookies.
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Here are news stories, press reports and events that may affect Poland's financial markets on Monday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland GMT + 2 hours):
There may be mergers on the pension fund market in Poland ahead, deputy head of pension fund PKO BP Bankowy was quoted as saying by daily Rzeczpospolita, adding smaller funds, such as Warta and Polsat, may be possible targets for PKO.
Poland's state-controlled top fertiliser producer Azoty Tarnow launched a takeover bid for its state-owned rival Pulawy on Friday, in a move aimed at fending off bids from private competitors and consolidating the sector.
On Saturday, shareholders at Azoty Tarnow approved a giant share issue to merge with state-owned rival Pulawy , setting up defences against takeover bids from private competitors.
Polish inflation picked up more than expected in June, lifted by a boost in consumer activity during the Euro 2012 soccer championships, data showed on Friday, boosting the case for unchanged rates in the coming months.
NOTE - For a diary of forthcoming events see and a calendar of east European economic indicators see .
For other related news, double click on: Polish equities E.Europe equities Polish money Polish debt Eastern Europe All emerging markets Hot stocks Stock markets Market debt news Forex news For real-time index quotes, double click on: Warsaw WIG20 Budapest BUX Prague PX
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Moammar Khadafy may be completely crazy. And he may be one of the world's worst dictators as far as Washington is concerned. But just because you're a vicious dictator and an international pariah doesn't mean you can't be stylish, too. (And, really: If everyone is going to despise you no matter what, you might as well feel good about yourself when you look in the mirror, right?) Fortunately, we're here to help. Since Khadafy is spending the week in New York—the fashion capital of the universe—it seemed like an opportune time to give the Libyan leader a few style pointers. At last night's reception to celebrate the opening of the Spider Silk exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, reporter Douglas Marshall took celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch aside to get a few tips on how Khadafy could reinvent himself. And because Moammar has always been known to love the ladies—he's protected at all times by a contingent of attractive, female bodyguards, for example—we asked one of the most beautiful women around, actress Heather Graham, to weigh in as well. Some honest advice to Moammar is below.
Phillip Bloch, Celebrity Stylist
Q: You've styled everyone. Can I get your opinion on one person you've never laid your hands on?
PB: Who's that?
Q: Moammar Khadafy!
PB: Oh, good Lord. He's a pig.
Q: And he's here in NYC right now.
PB: In a tent, no less.
Q: What's your very first reaction to these pictures?
PB: Hot mess.
Q: What style tips would you give him? Where does a guy like that even begin?
PB: First of all, he needs to go on a diet. And get a haircut. Well, actually, I kind of like the rocker haircut. He's a little Mickey Rourke-ish with those glasses and that hat.
Q: Maybe he could use something to loosen up his tight curls?
PB: Oh, yes. He needs some Bumble & Bumble Curl Diffuser. That's a good one. He's wearing color, so I give him credit for that. But do you have to put all that color together. It's a bit like bad Pucci prints mixed up there.
Q: Do you think any of these looks should be belted?
PB: Not with that waistline, dear. Unless he wants to emphasize his over-expanded waist to match his over-expanded ego. He looks like he's gained weight, actually. Or maybe he's bloated. He needs a good trainer.
Q: They could install an elliptical inside his tent, I guess.
PB: I would send some poisonous spiders into his tent, actually.
Q: That doesn't have anything to do with fashion!
PB: He's just uncivil. He's a pig, really.
Q: You're just not that into him.
PB: I'm not into him, no. But I've supported many Middle Eastern designers over the years, like Elie Saab and Georges Chakra. I'm big in Lebanon. I've used a lot of Lebanese designers. Libya? I don't know much about their designers, but clearly neither does Khadafy!
Q: Maybe we should get him to meet you.
PB: He could call me, sure. But I'd probably set him up for a fall.
Heather Graham with her boyfriend, director Yaniv Raz
Q: Have a look at some pictures of Moammar Khadafy! He's in town right now. You're ridiculously stylish and gorgeous. What advice would you give him?
HG: (to her boyfriend) Come here, baby. What do you think of Moammar Khadafy's style?
YR: Moammar Khadafy's style? Well, uh, it's definitely... It's progressive, that's for sure!
Q: Do you think he needs some help?
YR: He seems to have an African '80s sort of thing going on. But it doesn't seem to evolve very much, does it?
HG: That's very true.
YR: This one is sort of Michael Jackson-esque with the sleeve colored that way.
Q: Good point. It's got an Asian collar too.
YR: It's Asian fusion then? Or North African fusion?
Q: Heather, would you be photographed on the red carpet with Khadafy in any of these looks?
HG: Not if I had anything to do with it.
Q: Would you consider allowing Khadafy to pitch a tent on your property?
YR: With the property she has it would be very awkward.
YR: It's just hard to pitch a tent on a Manhattan rooftop.
Q: I don't doubt it!
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How Does Tehran Look Like During Nowruz?
Nowruz the Persian new year eve starts on the very first day of spring on march 21st.
You can see a rare scene in the Iranian capital city of Tehran during Nowruz. With most of Iranians engagement visiting other parts of country, Tehran becomes a great sightseeing attraction both for remain citizens and out-of-town visitors.
During ordinary days of the year you could hardly hear yourself talking as you walk along some of the busy streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran. But thanks to Nowruz! Tehran is all peaceful and quiet, as millions of people will be out of town to enjoy the holidays.
City officials make special arrangements before Nowruz to make city nicer and cleaner during the new holidays.
However this is a city that never sleeps even in Nowruz. One of the most attractive festivals is arranged by the municipality of Tehran around the famous Milad tower.
You can enjoy Iranian traditional folk and music for free or go to the tower restaurant and try Iranian local foods. The gardens, monuments and museums will remain open during Nowruz holiday, so you can visit from 9:00am to 7:00pm everyday.
Tehran In-city tours will be held by Tehran Municipality every year. If you are interested to visit Tehran with local visitors, we recommend you join the Municipality tours. To register simply call 137 in Iran or email to firstname.lastname@example.org
Also the Iran Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization has announced that a unique exhibition entitled ”Tehran, My Ancient City” will be held at the National Museum of Iran.
This exhibition explores the seven thousand years history of Tehran through the recent excavations in the National Museum of Iran.
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Speaking of things to look forward to, the market continues to be active however, it is shifting in interesting ways. Check out the numbers below and note that sales are a virtual dead heat from last year; prices are up, and days to sell are down. Also, for prices under $560,000 sales are down noticeably but sales over this $560,000 mark are up 43% and over the $1M price, up 22% from March of 2016 to make up for the drop elsewhere.
If you are presently selling or trying to buy, these numbers come as no surprise. This is a Seller’s market and has been for some time. The nice thing about this time of year is that more listings come onto the market every day.
Here are some numbers for March 2017:
March Solds 635 637
YTD Sold 1,317 1,313
Res. Prices-Mar. Avg $566,762 $640,513 Up 13%
Res. Prices-Mar. Median $518,000 $598,500 Up 15.5%
New Listings-Mar. 1,130 1,069
Days to Sell 57 45
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The upshot of this post at The Wall Street Journal is that the concept of allowing or even encouraging employees to bring their own mobile devices to work is winning.
Whether to limit workers to corporate-issued gadgets or to open the flood gates to everything they own is a tremendously important decision. It's a particularly vexing issue simply because there are important benefits and drawbacks on each side.
The WSJ post said that companies that attended a conference in Palm Desert-which isn't named, for some reason-are testing technology and policies referred to as "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) or "individual-liable." The big attraction is that BYOD avoids the capital expenditure burden of giving an iPhone, Android, iPad or other device to employees. Other benefits include the fact that folks using their own devices generally are more careful with them.
The tighter control facilitated by the corporate-liable approach also cuts costs through tie-ins to enhanced security and sophisticated operational support systems/business support systems (OSS/BSS). Organizations can more easily do things such as limit the types of downloads and apps that are used and remotely wipe devices that go missing.
It is likely that the BYOD approach will win out. According to Victoria Barret at Forbes, the times are upon us. She posts that Bob Tinker, president and CEO of mobile device management firm MobileIron, told her that 80 percent of his clients have started a BYOD program.
It remains a dicey topic. Computerworld discusses a program at Unisys that discusses security and potential involvement of the devices in legal matters. All in all, it doesn't sound very attractive for device owners:
Initially at least, personal mobile devices will be permitted access only to specific applications such as corporate e-mail and calendaring, though access could be broadened in future, Titus says. Access to more sensitive applications will require a higher, multi-factor level of authentication, which could even include biometrics, Titus said. And before a BYOD policy can be rolled out worldwide, tweaks will need to be made to the AUA to accommodate overseas security and privacy regulations regarding issues such as the remote wiping of data, she said. So far, the pilot has gone very well, according to her.
The BYOD's siren song of reducing capex is strong, however, especially among small- and medium-size companies (SMBs). And, since it is assumed that people will inevitably use their own devices for work, companies should consider that they simply are doing the prudent thing by allowing employees to do so under some level of supervision.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Mega-bestselling author David Baldacci speaks at 7 p.m. tonight, March 31, in a free lecture at Lenior-Rhyne University in Hickory.
The talk is in the P.E. Monroe Auditorium on campus. Baldacci will also sign books 5 -6 p.m. at Hickory's Patrick Beaver Memorial Library.
Baldacci's newest thriller, "The Sixth Man," is set to publish April 19. His first political thriller "Absolute Power," was made into a 1997 movie starring Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman. In June, he's departing from his thrillers to release a family drama. Called "One Summer," it's set in South Carolina.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
On Sunday, I wrote a piece about how some authors are finding success with self-publishing, thanks to technology that makes it easy, especially with e-books, to publish and distribute. This self-publishing revolution has some folks predicting the demise of traditional publishing.
But not so fast. The New York Times reports that self-publishing superstar Amanda Hocking has decided to give traditional publishing a spin. She has sold a four-book series to St. Martin's Press.
Hocking, a 26-year-old from Minnesota, has made about $2 million selling her young-adult novels as e-books. She told the Times she was tired of hearing from readers who couldn't find her books in stores and tired of spending time "formatting her books, designing covers and hiring freelance editors — all tasks that fall to the self-publishing author."
She explained her decision on her blog: “I want to be a writer,” she said. “I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Right now, being me is a full-time corporation.”
Monday, March 21, 2011
If you're ready to part with some of those books you've accumulated over the years, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Friends of the Library could use them.
The group is collecting books of all types for its Spring Benefit Book Sale, April 28-May 2. Donations are tax deductible. There are several places to give:
--9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 2, in the upper area of Park Road Shopping Center's parking lot. Look for the big trailer. For every 10 books you donate this day, you'll get $1 off any purchase at Park Road Books on this donation day or Sunday, April 3.
-- 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in the Mint Hill Library parking lot.
-- April 4-25 at a book drop box available at the entrance door of the sale
location at Quail Corners Shopping Center.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Three popular N.C. writers with recent novels will visit Queens University of Charlotte next week for the Friends of the Library's 40th annual Book and Author events:
- Asheville's Sarah Addison Allen. Her New York Times bestselling novels include "The Girl Who Chased the Moon" and "Garden Spells." She has new book, "The Peach Keepers."
- Raleigh's Angela Davis-Gardner, author of "Plum Wine." She also has a new novel, "Butterfly's Child." Davis-Gardner, who was born in Charlotte, is a professor emerita at N.C. State University.
- Chapel Hill's Minrose Gwin. Her 2010 debut novel, "The Queen of Palmyra," won strong reviews. A UNC Chapel Hill English professor, she also has a memoir, "Snow."
The three authors will speak at a dinner, 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, and at a luncheon on Wednesday, March 15. A luncheon reception begins at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $55 for the dinner , $40 for the luncheon.
For tickets: 704-688-2708 or email email@example.com.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Then, make sure to check back on Thursday, March 10, when I'll randomly select a winner.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
I don't know who declared Friday, March 4, National Grammar Day, but I kind of like it.
I'm one of those people who cringe at the misplaced apostrophe, the use of "affect" for "effect" and other grammatical malpractice.
In honor of the day, let's all check our spelling and hang our commas by clauses with care. Also, check out these 10 grammar myths.
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Andy Winings maintained a one-shot lead heading into the final round of the Indiana Open at Otter Creek Golf Club in Columbus.
Winings, Fishers, shot a 2-under-par 70 in Wednesday's third round, birdieing three of the first four holes and finishing with six birdies and four bogeys. He's at 15 under overall.
That's one shot ahead of Bloomington's Craig Bowden, who had a 4-under 68 Wednesday, including birdies on four of his last seven holes.
Tyler Duncan, playing his home course, had a 6-under 66 and moved into third place, one shot behind Bowden. Duncan birdied all four par-3 holes.
The final round is Thursday.
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3/30 Here is an occasionally snarky interview with the gutsy Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens and David Thompson enlist themselves as allies. Ali’s Infidel was published in February.
3/28 You must watch this 30-minute video of a debate at the University of Toronto:
Christopher Hitchens on free speech.3/27 Tom Kirkendall is right to be worried about the criminalization of business: cases that should be handled in civil suits are increasingly being taken to criminal courts. Kirkendall links to a webcast of a law conference at Georgetown University on the theme of Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications. The conference was organized by Professor John Hasnas, whose book, Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is Against the Law, documents the increasing frequency with which CEOs and other business professionals must choose between legal and ethical behavior.
3/26 I haven’t read Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism yet, but the discussion around it is very interesting. Here is the text of a Cato Unbound article by Doherty on his book, a response by Tyler Cowen urging that libertarianism evolve to adapt to the current state of the world, and a follow-up response by Bryan Caplan who takes Cowen to task for offering the worst advice ever to libertarians. Update: David Boaz takes The New York Times to task for publishing a clueless-on-libertarianism review of Doherty’s book.
3/24 File these items under “All cultures are equal and worthy of respect”: In Nigeria, a teacher beaten to death. In Indonesia, perpetrators jailed for beheading schoolgirls. And in Pakistan, lovers stoned to death.
3/21 First some good news: several striking photos of Africa from the air. Then the continuing bad news: Africa continues to stagnate while the rest of the world develops. For example, here’s an intriguing comment on colonialism’s legacy. But good ideas are available. Here, for example, is Enterprise Africa, a joint project of George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, The Free Market Foundation of South Africa, London’s Institute for Economic Affairs, and The Templeton Foundation.
3/20 Michael Newberry has three new tutorials posted this month—including a magnificent one on the making of Denouement.
3/19 Are cooler heads beginning to prevail? Not PC summarizes a Scientific American report on a formal scientific debate on global warming: alarmists routed. You can see some scientists’ commentary in this online documentary: “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” (Thanks to Robert for the link.) And scientist Hans von Storch raises some taboo questions about climate change
3/16 Big thinker round-up: Economist Brad Delong on how reading Foucault led him to appreciate Adam Smith’s genius. (Via Virginia Postrel.) Jason Pappas launches a good discussion of Cicero’s enduring importance and follows up with this post on Cicero on human nature and society. And here’s a The New Yorker piece on Alfred Russel Wallace.
3/15 A strong profile of Edward Harriman, the railroad magnate, by—of all people—John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. (Thanks to Joe for the link.)
3/13 Government medicine: Reason’s Ronald Bailey has it exactly right about the sorry case of Walter Reed Hospital.
And Cato has a scary story from Britain: government-paid witch doctors. By contrast, here’s a post with links to the competitive and successful world of open heart surgery.
3/12 Will we hear calls for progressive taxation on leisure too? Steven Landsburg notes that the poor have more leisure time than the rich and wonders why. Key quotation: “If you think it’s OK to redistribute income but repellent to redistribute leisure, you might want to ask yourself what—if anything—is the fundamental difference.”
3/8 I propose this definition of tetzel: the amount of money one must transfer to an authorized organization to ease one’s guilt over carbon emission by one standard emotional unit. For example, if you choose to breathe for one day, that would cost you one tetzel. If you drive an SUV, 10 tetzels. If you jet to an environmentalist conference, 100 tetzels (plus a $200 hypocrisy tax). Meanwhile a cardinal in the Catholic Church argues that comparing global warming hysteria to religious zealotry is unfair and that “The science is certainly more complicated than the propaganda.” (Thanks to Joe K. for the link.)
3/7 Just how “gay” is Oxford University? Apparently the sensitivity police are angry there. The University of Wisconsin’s Lester Hunt has an open letter and updates on the Leonard Kaplan case. And FIRE’s speech code of the month: against “sexism” at Western Michigan University’s. And via InstaPundit: The French authorities have “approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images.”
3/5 Keith Windschuttle calls it “the English-speaking Century.” The opening two paragraphs: “In the past one hundred years, four successive political movements—Prussian militarism, German Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and international Communism—mounted military campaigns to conquer Europe, Asia, and the world. Had any of them prevailed, it would have been a profound loss for civilization as we know it. Yet over the course of these bids for power, a coalition headed first by Britain and then by the United States emerged not just to oppose but to destroy them utterly. “From the long perspective of human affairs, these victories must stand as among the most remarkable of the past three millennia. They were as decisive for world history as the victories of the ancient Greeks over Persia, of Rome over Carthage, and of the Franks over the Umayyad Caliphate.”
3/2 Clive James on Moeller and Jünger, two of Hitler’s intellectual supporters.
3/1 Our extreme Earth: a Space.com collection of 101 facts about our planet. I did not know, for example that “70 percent of the Earth’s fresh-water supply is locked up in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland. The remaining fresh-water supply exists in the atmosphere, streams, lakes, or groundwater and accounts for a mere 1 percent of the Earth’s total.”
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Detailed engineering is the final stage to prepare for the construction of a new production or reconstruction.
At this stage, the solutions obtained at the previous stage are refined and developed. The design of the entire system as a whole and its individual components are developed in close cooperation with the customer. Such a customer-oriented design work ensures that all customer requirements are met in full. At the stage of detailed engineering all the documents necessary for the manufacture and installation of the system are compiled.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. intervention in Syria wont have the support of key ally Britain after a historic vote by Parliament on Thursday to reject any military action to deter the use of chemical weapons by President Bashar Assads regime.
The move seriously undermines President Barack Obamas ability to build an international coalition in support of missile strikes against Syria.
But the U.S. appeared undeterred and prepared to go it alone if need be. White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said that Obamas decision-making will be guided by what he deems to be in the countrys best interests.
He believes that there are core interests at stake for the United States and that countries who violate international norms regarding chemical weapons need to be held accountable, she said.
The British House of Commons voted in special session Thursday against participating in any attack on Syria, 285-272. Members of Parliament also voted down a motion to support military action even if United Nations inspectors confirm that Assads regime had used chemical weapons against civilians.
Prime Minister David Cameron said hed respect the decision.
It is clear to me that the British Parliament, reflecting the will of the British people, does not want military action, Cameron said.
Another European ally, France, also appeared to back off initial support for a speedy intervention, instead pushing for a delay on action pending the findings of the U.N. inspection team. The inspectors were expected to wrap up their work in Syria by Saturday and head back to New York to begin a reconstruction of the apparent poison gas attack on Aug. 21, which killed hundreds of civilians and injured thousands more in the suburbs of Damascus.
French President Francois Hollande had only days ago vowed to punish Assad for the use of chemical weapons. By Thursday, however, he had eased his stance. A French government spokeswoman was quoted as saying, Before acting, we need proof.
Obama called German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, continuing a series of calls to leaders around the globe about the situation in Syria.
As Washington appeared to move closer to a decision about military action, the memory of the fallout from the faulty intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq a decade ago hovered over the current debate.
With so many Americans skeptical about the wisdom of acting militarily, a close allys skepticism will embolden critics, said Jon Alterman, a former State Department senior official involved with Iraq war planning under President George W. Bush. For countries reluctant to back military action, this will strengthen their reluctance. For those who wish to isolate the United States, and there are several, this is a gift.
But White House spokesman Josh Earnest pushed back against any similarities between Syria and Iraq.
I think that there are some very important differences, he said. What we saw in that circumstance was an administration that was searching high and low to produce evidence to justify a military invasion, an open-ended military invasion of another country, with the final goal being regime change. . . . What we have seen here, tragically, is a preponderance of evidence available in the public domain that the Assad regime used chemical weapons against innocent civilians.
Earnest said Obama believes there is a compressed time frame in which a decision needed to be made about whether and when to attack.
The Obama administration remains adamant that the Syrian government is responsible for the apparent Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack. Officials briefed key lawmakers Thursday night on details of an intelligence report about the attack that is said to lay the blame on Syrian officials; the administration is developing an unclassified version for release to the public.
It will be released by the end of the week, but Earnest said that not all the details will be released because they are classified.
He disputed reports that showed the United States intelligence was far from certain about the Syrian governments involvement. He said the administration was relying on previous intelligence assessments and reporting from independent journalists and non-governmental organizations in Syria.
He also said the administration does not see the need to wait for the U.N. inspectors report.
Theres a lot of publicly available information that we already know that is very convincing, Earnest said
The White House on Thursday faced objections from politicians at home as well, where Congress appears to be divided over Syria. Some lawmakers want to reserve judgment; others want Congress to play a stronger role in decisions.
After a briefing Thursday night from the White House, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that Syrian regimes use of chemical weapons requires a decisive response. . . . Tonights briefing reaffirmed for me that a decisive and consequential U.S. response is justified and warranted to protect Syrians, as well as to send a global message that chemical weapons attacks in violation of international law will not stand.
But other lawmakers remained unconvinced. Obama called House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday to brief him on Syria. The Republican leader repeated a request he made in a letter to Obama on Wednesday for an explanation of the legal justification for a military strike, as well as the objectives and strategy for any potential action, said his spokesman, Brendan Buck.
Only the president can answer these questions, and it is clear that further dialogue and consultation with Congress, as well as communication with the American public, will be needed, Buck said.
Any action Obama takes against Syria is likely to be relatively modest, and he may not need much international support anyway, said Michael OHanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank that reflects both liberal and centrist policies.
I think it will be tailored to be very low risk, he said. I think it will be more about sending a message.
Matthew Schofield in Berlin and David Lightman, William Douglas and James Rosen in Washington contributed to this report.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.org; Twitter: @lindsaywise
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Privacy concerns over who’s listening, collating and collecting our phone calls, emails, and web history have reached levels that would make for a great Thomas Pynchon novel, if truth weren’t so much stranger than fiction.
Today’s paranoid novelists (and the web surfing public) have to keep up with real-life concerns over the National Security Agency, Google’s panopticon, Facebook’s social experimentation, and everything that every telecom provider knows and wants to know about you.
Enter anonymous messaging and social networks that don’t collect information about you, or even store any of the things you send through their services. Snapchat’s impermanent messages begat Confide‘s encryption and self-deleting messages, which have now begotten Wiper, a new service that’s raised $2.5 million to provide a self-deleting messaging service controlled by its senders.
Available now on iOS and Android, Wiper began out of the frustration felt by Manlio Carrelli, former chief marketing officer at Intermedia, and his co-founders Alex Hoffman, who heads engineering at the company, and Michael Choupak, the founder of the email cloud provider Intermedia, and sole backer in Wiper’s seed round.
“Everything that I’m putting in these places, it’s completely obscure and impenetrable to me how long these companies are keeping it for,” says Carrelli. “That’s why we made Wiper. You touch a button, and the information shared via Wiper is deleted from your phone, my phone, and our service.”
Carrelli and his team began working on Wiper’s New York-based technology in late February. The service combines features from confidential messaging services like Confide and popular public messengers like WhatsApp and Snapchat. Wiper users can make phone calls, send images, or texts and have complete control over when that information is deleted. The service also alerts users when the receiver of a message tries to copy, screengrab, or take a picture of the content on a device.
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So I know I have been MIA for a very long time and that's because final year at university is very demanding and I had lots of deadlines. There was no way I could juggle knitwear design and all the extras that come with it and blogging. I have missed Runway Ribbons SO much, but at the end of the day my degree comes first because anything worth doing, is worth doing well. (Plus a £3,000 a year fee is not to be wasted).
Yesterday marked the beginning of the rest of my life. I handed in all my coursework and I said goodbye to education. I had previously contemplated taking on a master's in Fashion at Central St. Martins, but then I realised that the idea of 'living a little' was a lot more appealing to me, than an MA at a prestigious art college. Nonetheless, I still thought about it long and hard. The recent loss of Prof. Louise Wilson (MA Course Leader at CSM) didnt help my decision either, as I had always said to myself that I would want to be taught by her, because I admired her 'tough love' approach towards her students. I'm lucky enough to have heard her speak at The Vogue Festival, and I recorded lot of her advice, so I'm thankful for that.
I have plans for the future, but they aren't set in stone because life ultimately does what life wants to do. I intend to stick to my plan, but still be open to new adventures and experiences and go wherever the wind takes me. (I'm currently listenign to Pocahontas' Colours of The Wind whilst typing this. Definitely influenced.) The image below was a message that my friend Husseina wrote to me on my birthday. The message holds so much meaning for me, because it reinforced the things I'm constantly thinking, wishing, praying and hoping for in my life. Husseina and I don't speak often either, so I was surprised to get such a heart felt message from her. As it stands, I have never read anything nicer and more apt in my life. Husseina if you're reading this, THANK YOU!!
Cheers to new beginnings!
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Provide chain administration is a difficult pursuit, even in the most effective of instances. This truth holds twice as true for shifting issues alongside the chilly provide chain, which is the model of the provision chain that offers in temperature-sensitive items. Ensuring that meals doesn’t arrive at its vacation spot spoiled, prescribed drugs aren’t compromised, and different essential supplies don’t get broken is hard.
Fortunately, there are a big selection of know-how instruments that may assist preserve cargo protected in transit alongside any chilly chain. With the proper temperature monitoring devices, you possibly can preserve observe of your merchandise’ temperature and keep away from costly bother alongside the way in which. Listed below are a number of concepts to accommodate any want and price range.
A wi-fi thermometer is a tool that can be utilized to watch the temperature of a room, meals product, or storage facility. You’ve undoubtedly seen them at your group, at eating places, and even used them at dwelling
One of the best ways to make use of a wi-fi thermometer is to put in it in strategic areas all through the power. Then you possibly can join it to a cellular gadget/app and browse the thermometers remotely. Common temperature checks are mandatory, so having the ability to do it wirelessly is fairly useful in the long run. Wi-fi thermometers present persistently correct, real-time information about temperatures in your warehouse that may aid you make essential choices once they’re wanted.
For monitoring cargo in transit, nothing beats the common-or-garden temperature sensor. The temperature sensor is a outstanding, small gadget that displays temperature over time. Accessible at completely different temperature ranges, these gadgets are perfect for monitoring the temperature of shipments, storage amenities, and transport automobiles. A wide range of sensors can be found, together with glass bead thermometers (utilized in freezers), infrared radiation sensors (utilized in fridges), and even wi-fi transmitters that talk information over Wi-Fi networks.
Some temperature sensors are a lot easier, utilizing a chemical dye to identify and log any temperature points rapidly and effectively. With regards to getting temperature monitoring proper, it’s good to make use of a posh gadget that may exactly measure temperatures and provide you with a transparent, exact indication of what’s taking place along with your cargo.
RFID tags are being more and more used to watch the temperature of chilly chain shipments. It is because RFID tags can present correct and real-time data on the temperature of a cargo. This data will help corporations be sure that their merchandise stay inside the desired temperature vary, and keep away from pricey product remembers. The very last thing anyone desires to do is have their meals fall into the temperature hazard zone and find yourself with a bunch of spoilage. That’s dangerous for each buyer relationships, your fame, and the patron.
It may additionally result in worth will increase or shortages down the road. RFID, radio frequency identification, is a superb strategy to monitor your temperature remotely. Normally used with asset tags which are both lively or passive, RFID is usually a tremendously helpful useful resource for any form of monitoring or stock monitoring. The truth that it may be used for temperature is a testomony to the flexibility of the know-how. Incorporating it along with your different tech instruments can result in a greater total monitoring chain for all your cargo.
Having a provide chain administration system that’s well-equipped with know-how will help your online business run extra easily and cost-effectively. Know-how may assist your organization’s provide chain be environmentally pleasant, safe, and environment friendly. That is very true on the subject of humidity. Each chilly provide chain truck wants a humidity sensor.
Humidity may cause vital points and injury alongside the provision chain. Condensation for damaged refrigeration gear, moisture buildup, and humidity can all be detrimental to your cargo. Utilizing a distant studying humidity sensor will help you retain tabs on how a lot humidity is in your truck, making it simpler to establish and get rid of points.
Whether or not it’s the transportation of meals or prescribed drugs, any setting the place humidity management is required would profit from such gadgets.
An information logger is a tool that data temperature for a given time period. The temperature is recorded in intervals, reminiscent of each half-hour or hour, relying in your wants/setup. Information loggers are extremely efficient for portray an correct image of the setting all through your provide chain. Need to log vibrations? Examine for shocks? Perceive how exterior components may influence your cargo?
An information logger can do all that and extra. It permits you to see when circumstances exceed acceptable ranges and make a plan for fixing the issue. Whether or not the knowledge you glean from an information logger results in putting in higher gear or coaching staff on time-temperature sensitivity, these gadgets are price implementing at any group. Information loggers have a great deal of options, like Wi-Fi, excessive storage capability, weatherproofing, and extra. Know-how like information loggers will help the provision chain run extra easily—particularly in temperature-sensitive environments
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I refuse to eat bruised peaches and I won’t apologise for it.
Hunger strikes are easy, peasy lemon squeezy. All you
have to do is piss me off; I will marinate in my fury
at the carelessness of your words. Haven’t you heard?
I like to tear out my pips and throw them at you,
just to hear the sound they make when they hit you
in ways my heart cannot. I am the worst at feeling;
it comes too easily to me. I am irreversibly readable,
vying to be the First Liar like so many of you.
You see, being a crossword puzzle comes naturally
to me and I love to give you clues one by one but this
is only because I can only think of one question
at a time. I don’t even have my own answers but
when I can read the cheat-sheet, that means
that you can too. Suddenly not so interesting, huh?
I bet you like me more when I didn’t make sense.
Elusive as lychee juice that you can taste
at the back of your throat. I suppose I am not
so easy to swallow when I am whole.
But I won’t apologise for it.
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I am in the process of writing for publication a Medal Roll for this award (also known - ambiguously- as 'The Black & Tan Medal' because of its relation to the fight against that force and also its Black and Tan coloured ribbon. It is intended that this work cover both classes of the medal, i.e., with and without the COMRAC (combat) bar and I hope to append a short bio to each recipient entry. My intention is also to include as much as possible a listing of the brigades, battallions and companys.Check out Denis Grant's web site www.rumorsofglory.com - which has a Military flavour, and the results of his Service Medal (1917-1921) researches.
This is a huge task given the paucity of information and I am appealling for any help I can get. This could come in the form of knowledge of existing medals and a note of their recipients, references to published works that contain details of the award and/or the brigades, newspaper cuttings, pictures of memorials etc. Please direct these to me at Denis Grant
I have chosen to write this work, not only because of my interest in this medal as a collector, but also because I believe it to be long overdue that this award be raised to its deserved stature. Such a work will also be of interest to Irish Genealogical circles.
Donncha De Grant
A rich source of information often unknown to even seasoned researchers is the military record. It is often forgotten that during the 19th Century as much as 40% of the British Army consisted of Irishmen. If you have an ancestor who was in the military there is a good chance you can learn much about him from the PRO at Kew near London. Unfortunately records are not online but researcher fees are extremely reasonable. There is a comprehensive series of guides online. A complete index to these can be found under B(ritish Army....) at http://www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/Riindex.asp'Military Barracks In Ireland' 'This table has been compiled taking the list from the index of 'The Forlorn Hope.' by Kitzmiller and supplementing the entries with other sources. These sources are noted at the end. Additionally, where supplementary material was located on the World Wide Web links have been added in the column labeled Location. These links in many cases show pictures of the barracks and supply useful historical background.' Denis Grant web site.
Last updated 4 Aug 2003
Links checked 23 Jun 2002
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My favourite British person from the past is David Livingstone. He was a missionary,a doctor, an explorer and a famous discoverer.
This is his life timeline:
-David Livingstone was born in 1813 in Scotland.
-When he was a child, he studied in a school after working in a cotton mill* during 14 hours.
-In the mid 1830s, he studied at the University of Glasgow because he wanted to be a missionary and after that, he studied medicine in London.
-In 1840, he travelled to Africa and he started to explore this continent.
-In 1855, David Livingstone was the first European to see the Mosi-oa-Tunya waterfalls, which he renamed Victoria Falls.
-In 1866, Livingstone discovered the source** of the Nile River.During this journey, he was very ill- suffering cholera and he disappeared. Three years later, Henry Stanley found*** him.
-He never returned to England. He died of malaria in 1873 in Africa.
mill*= molino source**=nacimiento found***= encontró
What’s your famous British People from the past? Take a look at these links and choose your famous British people from the past. Are you ready to write a questionnaire about him or her?
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SECURITY, CCTV, INTERCOM & COMMUNICATIONS
With an intelligent smart home system your families safety and security needs can be integrated to provide a simple and reliable way of ensuring the maximum safety for the ones you love.Do you need a CCTV system that tracks and monitors all comings and goings at your property? These systems can track number plates, have intelligence to gain facial recognition and also look at posture to decide if someone is hiding something.Access to and from your property needs to be reliable, you don’t want to end up stuck in your house when you have that big night planned! Intercom, smart electronic locks and other entry systems can again become part of an integrated approach. Intruder and Fire systems can be integrated to show zone faults and alert your security firm in the event of fault or trigger. Not to mention the fact that we can also integrate with lighting to illuminate exit routes or raise awareness to family members.
INTEGRATED CCTV SYSTEMS
A discreet CCTV installation can provide coverage of the exterior, and interior of your home.With the use of intelligent cameras features can be implemented where the camera understands it’s goal of capturing a face, so will track in the software to ensure the best method to identify the intruder.Tripwires and alerts can be set again to raise alarms and notifications to raise awareness.We even had one client that wanted the sound of a pack of dogs barking in the back garden to deter an intruder! Imagine climbing over the fence in that house, as you enter a floodlight blinks on from one of the hidden CCTV poles, the poles have been discreetly hidden to blend in with the landscape.Several rather large sounding dogs start to bark from the external speaker system.As you run across the garden the next camera picks you up and another floodlight comes on.There is NO ESCAPE!
FEATURES OF AN INTEGRATED SECURITY SYSTEM
Intelligent CCTV cameras built to identify threat and capture images.Illumination of safe exit routes in the event of Fire Alarm being raised.Monitor visitors to your property with facial and number plate recognition Easy access to your home without the need of hundred’s of separate keys and fobs Use security sensors for other purposes such as to trigger lights, setting audio playback, turning on the irrigation system and much more….
CONTROL4, CRESTRON, AND SAVANT HOME AUTOMATION
With a wealth of product on the market currently there are many ways to achieve the level of safety and security that fits with your families requirements.If you are investigating a home automation system and intelligent security systems are on your agenda then please do not hesitate to contact Adept.Relax of evening and rest assured that your home has you covered to the best of it’s ability.A well designed smart home system can integrate all levels and aspects of any security system.Why wouldn’t you want the safest home possible to take care of your family?
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Well I made it, and it wasn’t really as hard as you would think! I say that knowing full well that a couple of weeks is not a long time in the slightest!
I started off feeling a little bit lost, but the feeling only lasted a day at the very most, I quickly forgot about wanting to check things on Facebook and Instagram and started to concentrate on what was happening in real life. Quite refreshing actually.
I have to admit to still using my computer quite a bit for work things, so my first day was relatively normal apart from not checking social media sites, and I did stick to my rule of only checking my emails twice during the day, rather that always having a tab open with them pinging away.
My evenings certainly felt calmer without the constant interruptions of my tablet within reach allowing me to look up anything and everything that popped into my head as I would normally do. I have found that this habit is particularly bad for my concentration levels – my brain seems to be quite busy thinking of new things and if I pander to it by looking things up all the time I never concentrate on one thing for more than a couple of minutes.
I also started to unsubscribe to any emails that came through during my detox that really were not interesting or relevant to me anymore. I had got into the habit of just deleting any of these emails without reading them, but spending a couple of minutes unsubscribing has meant a much cleaner inbox which makes me a lot happier.
I did find that some social media type things on the internet are actually quite useful for business – obvious really I suppose – and even things like trying to describe to Brett what kind of central reservation I would like in the shop soon would have been so much easier if I had had access to the picture on Pinterest! Overall though, as Brett does the majority of the social media things for Saltmarsh and Samphire, I felt OK ignoring it for a couple of weeks!
My concentration levels didn’t miraculously increase – although they did slightly, and I was very pleased about that – and my creativity didn’t automatically go into overdrive, although I did do slightly more than I would have done had I been glued to my tablet! I wasn’t expecting miracles, so this was quite encouraging really.
I am going to try and use the internet in a more mindful way from now on – I hate just sitting there scrolling through pins or pictures on Instagram without really taking the content in. It seems a huge waste of time. So I am going to be more relaxed about how I use these platforms for myself (the business side of things will have to be slightly different) and only use them if I genuinely want to look at the content and not just as a reflex when I have more than 3 minutes to kill. I am also going to build internet free days into my week and longer detoxes more frequently – it was very soothing to switch off for a while from the constant clamour of everyday online life.
Sounds like a plan!
Have you been tempted to do a detox? What have you been getting up to while I was away?
I am in the mood to experiment! So I have decided to see what a media detox will do for my creativity, concentration and general well-being.
So for the next couple of weeks I am not going to use the internet – more specifically social media – this means
- No Instagram
- No Facebook
- No Pinterest
- No Youtube
- No mindless internet browsing
- No reading or writing blog posts
I am going to need to use the internet for all things Saltmarsh and Samphire related, so I will still be using our business page on Facebook for The Art of Everyday Photography group interactions, and I will still need to keep up to date with work emails. But I am going to be doing this in a much more structured way;
- I will only use the internet for business purposes on my laptop – my little tablet will be having a rest for 2 weeks (my phone is only a phone, so no internet there)
- I will be checking emails twice per day – once at 10am and once at 5pm (not having notification pings throughout the day seems wonderful to me)
- I will be using Facebook in a similar way and not mindlessly checking if I have a spare five minutes
- I am allowing myself to have access to my online banking if I need it too
Apart from that the internet is pretty much off limits.
I am really interested to see what this does do to my concentration levels – can I read again without the urge to reach for my tablet after 3 minutes?! Will my creativity increase without the pull of the internet – will I reach for my camera or felt tips, go out, move and create more without comparing myself to others?!
I have a feeling that my general levels of anxiety, frustration and self doubt might decrease – who knows? Constantly seeing other people’s “perfect internet styled” lives, what they have and what they do, can’t be great to compare your “normal” life to all the time.
I am going to keep some notes on my experiences, and I will aim to share them with you in a couple of weeks’ time (assuming I last that long!).
While I am away I am going to participate in Susannah Conway’s April Love project (although I won’t be sharing my photographs daily on the blog or Instagram as I had planned a couple of weeks ago) and I will show you some of the photos when I get back.
I am going to concentrate on Saltmarsh and Samphire, photography and dedicated me time (not time spend looking at other people’s lives and times).
I hope you all have a good couple of weeks while I’m away – see you on the 15th April!
It’s that time again! As part of Laura’s The Year in Books project over at Circle of Pine Trees I am going to share with you what I have been reading and what’s on my reading horizons for next month.
March seemed to be a slightly slower month – not just in terms of reading, but everything seems to have slowed down for me lately. (I am sure that mindless internet browsing is partly, if not solely, to blame – so I have a little experiment to share with you later this week.)
I managed to read one book in March;
I am afraid to say that I found it quite hard going, and I actually much preferred the musical (is that even allowed!? I am going with HELL YES!)
I found myself picking the book up, getting a page or two read and then feeling bored and distracted and putting it down again. Not great. But I am not going to beat myself up about it too much. Some books just don’t click do they? So let’s move on…
What does April have in store?
I’m not overly sure again to be honest – I seem to have gone back into a slight reading slump of sorts again – but that could be down to my magpie eyes and brain not letting me truly settle on any task at hand at the moment.
I am going to try and read The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield for Book Club this coming month;
I am trying to leave it as long as possible to read so I can at least try and retain some information about it for discussion on the night! And of course I am continuing on with my journey through Middle Earth and The Lord of the Rings too.
What are your reading plans for April – are you joining in with Laura’s Year in Books too?
I’m using my power.
Will you be joining in this evening? Let me know what you got up to!
We have our winners!
I will be in contact with you soon to sort out your places!
There is still time to register for The Art of Everyday Photography if you were not one of the winners this time.
We are starting on Monday (30th March 2015) and the course runs for 5 weeks – you will get emails Monday – Friday from me on different photographic topics, all for £40 (not too shabby even if I do say so myself!)
You can find more information and details of how to join me on this photographic adventure by visiting my online course page over at Saltmarsh and Samphire.
Hope to see some of you there!
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