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Waterfall Way Farmstay
Hotels - Wollomombi, NSW
Waterfall Way Farmstay offers a self-contained accommodation, perfect for a romantic getaway for two or a family escapes featuring delicious breakfast, great surroundings, views and so much more.
Waterfall Way Farmstay is the perfect place for family or romantic getaway, offering a four fully self-contained house with bedrooms that can accommodate up to 3 couples and 4 children.
We are located in the overlooking picturesque farmland 50 km east of Armidale, and only minutes from several World Heritage listed National Parks.
For bookings please call Waterfall Way Farmstay today!
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September 30, 2010 10:20:00 AM
We''ve seen interesting discussions on our website regarding the case of the Sulligent, Ala., football coach who is accused of child molestation charges, both in federal court and in courts in Monroe and Itawamba counties.
Dwight Bowling pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the federal charges in Oxford, and is awaiting court dates on the county charges. He allegedly molested male students under his charge, and then tried to convince them to lie about what had happened.
One story commenter online likened the Bowling case to the acceptance of gays and lesbians in society. The more the acceptance, the more cases like this will be seen, the commenter alleged.
We were glad to see other commenters point out the folly of this argument.
"The only thing unnatural about homosexuality is the misdirected hatred it inspires in a segment of our population," one story commenter said on our website.
There''s a difference between gays and pedophiles (That said, Bowling, in particular, is innocent until proven guilty of these charges).
Pedophiles come in both gay and straight varieties. Their actions are sick and beyond explanation. As the saying goes, they belong not in the jail, but under it.
Let''s be grown-ups, and draw a thick line between what allegedly happened in the Bowling case, and the sexual orientation of a large segment of society -- a segment that doesn''t deserve to be ostracized or discriminated against.
1. Our View: A call for help is not an admission of failure DISPATCH EDITORIALS
3. Marc Dion: Coat and tie required NATIONAL COLUMNS
4. Editorial cartoon for 3-24-17 NATIONAL COLUMNS
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San Francisco -- Builders, architects and their suppliers gathered here June 22 for the PCBC conference, a three-day event whose theme this year -- "Forget the Rear View Mirror" -- reflected the ongoing changes that continue to reshape the building industry. Green building, for example, has evolved into "sealing the building envelope," and many vendors showed products that promise to create airtight, energy-efficient building.
Hayward Lumber, a chain of lumberyards along the California coast, sponsored a booth this year where it offered three products to sustainable-minded builders. One was a flooring system built at its Santa Maria component plant; another was Zehnder Comfosystems, a state-of-the-art, Swiss-designed ventilation system; and lastly UniLux Windows, made in Germany and more energy efficient than anything manufacturered in in the United States, according to president and CEO Bill Hayward.
Jacob Atalla, director of sustainability initiatives at KB Home, was interviewed by Home Channel News in the Boral booth, where he spoke about the "smog-eating tile" his company has successfully tested on a model home in Lancaster, Calif. The surface of the roofing tile naturally reacts with nitrogen oxides (a component of smog) and converts them into a harmless substance. The smog tiles also act as solar reflectors.
KB Home has been installing the tiles in several projects, and is also working on rolling out a "net zero" energy home in several states, also based on a success test model, Atalla said.
The conference continues today with a keynote address by Gov. Edmund G. Brown.
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A Gift of Many Gifts
My sister Kathryn celebrated her birthday yesterday, and even though I couldn’t be there in person I did my best to make sure she had a special day. I know she really loves these cool coffee tables that are all over pinterest these days, she recently bought one, but tells me she was nothing to put on and into it… So, I put together a package of forty individually wrapped gifts meant to go on or stored into her new coffee table, one for each year. It was inspired by a present given to me by a friend on my thirtieth birthday and I’ve always wanted to do this for someone else.
IThere were two gifts she had to open before the rest and the very first one was filled with confetti. (I like to kick off present opening with a bang!) I’m really glad the package arrived right on time, and it was the perfect thing to make her day.
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For Men Finishave
Based on natural plant extracts, the For Men range is perfect for all skin types including the most sensitive skin.
For Men Finishave provides a 2 in 1 treatment: Soothing the skin helping to slow beard growth. Containing ‘Castanea Sativa Extract’, a natural exfoliation is carried out that activates cellular renewal and restores the balance of the skin barrier. Skin will feel supple, comfortable and protected.
Also contains ‘ Lauryl Isoquinolinium Bromide’ which slows down hair growth, weakening the hair and thus shaving is easier. Over time daily shaving is reduced – extending the time between shaving.
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Check Out Kristen Stewart, Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes and Other Celebrities Without Makeup
"W" magazine did a photo shoot with several actors and actresses wearing little or no makeup. And here's a SPOILER ALERT: They STILL look better than most of us.
The shoot includes Kristen Stewart, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Naomi Watts, Jessica Chastain, Keira Knightley,Matthew McConaughey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jack Black.
We also have some CANDID shots of KATIE HOLMES, spotted makeup-free on the streets of New York.
And finally, LISA RINNA was spotted bare-faced on her way to yoga.
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Stratum? What’s that? What does that mean?
For those completely unfamiliar with the world of geology, stratum is a layer of of sedimentary rock of near constant composition. Rock strata forms over many years due to a multitude of natural factors: erosion, mineral deposits, etc. And much like these layers of earth, Datica has braved the storms that have shaped us into what we are today. As external changes continue to form the world around us, a company must adapt with offerings that follow suit. Stratum is that natural evolution of our Platform as a Service offering that provides that rock-solid, compliant layer for healthcare infrastructure.
Why should companies be forced to rebuild a compliant foundation with every new, innovative idea? Why should engineers be expected to absorb new competencies unrelated to the job at hand? The simple answer: they shouldn’t.
Stratum is the procured set of tools that relieves the burden of compliance for technical teams. Datica customers use Stratum in the same way they rely on other industry technologies. Stratum becomes the base layer by which healthcare teams build their products. It eliminates the necessity to become an expert in the competencies required by compliance, and absorbs the risk that comes with self-administration.
Stratum’s Core Functionality
Stratum is publicly available as a mature Platform as a Service product. Being an agnostic hosting service, it sits on top of industry-leading Infrastructure as a Service vendors such as AWS, Azure and Rackspace. A single Business Associate Agreement with Datica addresses the entirety of compliance obligations at the infrastructure level. Stratum has the following core functionality available as services on the platform:
- Encryption of data in transit and at rest, including SSL
- Disaster recovery and data backup
- Dedicated logging
- Intrusion detection
- Vulnerability scanning and monitoring
- Agent-based deployment processes
- Data and file storage
Benefits of Stratum
Digital health companies and technical teams can achieve multiple outcomes by using Stratum:
- Reduction of risk associated to building and maintaining industry-standards in security and privacy.
- Overnight industry credibility with Datica’s HITRUST CSF Certification.
- Digital health vendors accelerate their sales process during the vetting process with health systems.
- Elimination of the requirement for technical teams to obtain new technical competencies, such as encryption or networking, which saves money and drives organizational focus.
- The outsourcing of DevOps duties which similarly reduces organizational costs and heightens focus on core competencies.
The future of healthcare will be driven by scalable, interoperable compliant infrastructure. Stratum is the compliance layer that creates the base foundation for all of healthcare’s technical projects. Stratum will continue to evolve to be THE solution for digital health infrastructure compliance.
Why now? Because there’s no better time than now.
Have questions? Tell us what you need to know and our team of experts will be your sherpa. We believe in an improved healthcare and will do whatever it takes to make that a reality. Reach out to us directly, [tweet us] or provide us your contact information to the right. We’ll solve your problem so you can focus on your solution.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Several weeks ago, Lincoln posted about bringing practice into the classroom. On that theme, I thought I’d say a few words about a teaching approach I’ve been using for several years. To preview the punchline, I think it works well; I’m happy to share resources with other interested professors; and if there’s interest from others, I think creating a website for sharing teaching materials would be worthwhile.
The basic approach involves using case studies. That’s nothing new—the Stanford Law School environmental case studies series (which I love) has a whole library—but the studies I’ve created are different in a few ways. Most importantly, I usually divide the students into teams, some of which have shared interests and some of which are in adversarial positions. I also usually create some sort of hearing or other proceeding at which the students will speak, and designate a few students to play the role of the decision-making body. Often the “hearing” is somewhat contrived, but it still gives students a chance to practice speaking before,and answering tough questions from, a panel of decision-makers. Usually at the end of the class the decision-makers explain their resolution, and then we discuss arguments, tactics, and the relevant substantive law.
I think this approach has several benefits.
- It’s fun for students. Sometimes by the second year of law school, and often by the third, students are burned out on traditional lecture-and-discussion classes. Case studies, my students have repeatedly told me, are a welcome break.
- Students get to practice speaking. In a normal quasi-Socratic class, students speak for only a few sentences at a time, and the dialogue format, while better than pure lecture, doesn’t resemble the ways lawyers communicate in actual practice. These exercises give a chance to practice oral advocacy.
- Students get to practice identifying parties' interests. Environmental and natural resource disputes are often complex and multilateral, and it isn’t always obvious what positions a client should take, what positions potential opponents or allies will assert, and where opportunities for collaboration or compromise will arise. Case studies provide a good opportunity for that sort of strategic thinking.
- Students challenge each other. Perhaps it's just the culture of my law school, but I wish students were a little more willing to disagree. A case study with an adversarial format quickly solves that problem.
- Students prepare better. A little bit of competition does wonders to motivate students to read more carefully and critically, particularly when the reading involves the sort of dense statutory or regulatory materials that practicing environmental lawyers often confront.
- Case studies provide a good foundation for writing assignments. In my seminars, I’ve started asking students to write bench memos, client memos, or advocacy letters based on case study fact patterns. Students have told me they like having their written work approximate real-world legal writing.
- I don’t know what’s going to happen. The best case studies are usually a little bit unpredictable. That keeps the experience fresh for me as a teacher, even if I cover the same studies year after year.
There’s a downside, however, and that leads to a pitch. Writing case studies is a lot of work. In my first two years of teaching, while I was possessed of pre-parenthood energy levels that now seem unfathomable, I wrote a whole bunch of studies, including a set of water resource management case studies that now take up half of a course. My pace has slowed considerably. But I’d like to use more in my classes (and would be happy to share,and get external feedback on, the ones I’ve already created), and I’m wondering if other professors are generating similar materials. If they are, I also wonder if other professors would be interested in setting up a website where case studies could be shared.
If you’re interested in seeing a sample of the kind of case study I’ve used, you can click on the links that follow. This study addresses NEPA compliance in an urban environment. This one addresses water marketing (along with the case study, I also ask students to read articles promoting and questioning water marketing). This one (which I just finished writing this morning and haven’t test driven yet) addresses offshore oil exploration.
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Having only discovered the awesome seeded Kaiser rolls from the National Bakery the night before when my friend Chris and I had been shopping at his local Weis supermarket, we decided that after our stop at the Glider Diner for lunch, we would drive to this local Scranton bakery. Although a large company with a fairly good distribution, for some reason they didn't have a website of their own. While a tour of the plant would've been really cool, I was happy with a visit to their retail outlet store, which happened to be attached to the actual bakery.
Located at 1100 Capouse Avenue, Scranton, PA 18509, they can be reached at 570-343-1609. There seems to also be another location in Scranton on North Main Avenue that based on some of the commentary I saw on my Google search leads me to believe that the other location could also be serving food, too. The one that Chris and I visited today was definitely just a retail outlet.
As we approached the corner of Capouse and Poplar, the sign out front advertised the location:
We pulled into the parking lot directly outside the building. Here was a shot of the retail outlet entrance:
Once inside, you could smell the heavenly aroma of freshly baked breads and in a lovely turn of events, freshly baked pastries, all certified parve. While you could simply walk around and pick up sacks of pre-bagged yeasty goodness, the retail outlet also had a wall menu of items and prices:
Chris opted for a bag of dinner rolls. I asked the young woman working behind the counter to walk me through the pastries available today. The list was quite extensive and varied from simple to complex. I decided that I would try an assortment of items today. I chose a cheese and cherry danish, a cinnamon roll, and two different kinds of bagels. After paying the almost criminally inexpensive $2.90 for my items, Chris and I hopped back in his car and did a few errands before returning to his house where I could take things to the next level ... tasting!
While I did eat and share the danish and cinnamon roll with Chris, it wasn't until later that night that I tried the dinner rolls that Chris had bought and not until the next morning that I tried my plain bagel. Amazingly, all of them were fresh, regardless of when I had them.
First up, a shot of the cherry and cheese danish:
While the cherry and cheese topping were indeed sweet, the dough helped to balance out that sweetness so that it wasn't too overpowering. What surprised both Chris and I was the tenderness and flakiness of the pastry crust. It seemed to almost have a pate feuilletee (aka puff pastry) texture to the dough, although it was much more subtle in this danish.
Next up, I decided to try the cinnamon roll:
And here was a side shot of the roll, showing all of the layers of dough and cinnamon:
This was also quite delicious and the sweetness was well controlled. The rich "eggy" dough was complimented by the assertive punch of the cinnamon spice layers so well throughout the pastry. This was also big enough that two people could easily share one. Of the two pastries, I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite since they were both so good. As you can see from the wall menu photos above, these were only two of the many pastries available. If they are all this good, you'd have a real hard time deciding what to buy. Perhaps one of everything?
When Chris and I first returned back to his home, I went ahead and took pictures of both the rolls and the bagels, both bagged for later consumption. Here was a shot of the dinner rolls:
If you look carefully at this picture, you can see the small amounts of condensation still on the inside of the bag. As breads cool, they continue to release water vapor for quite some time after they come out of the oven. The presence of this condensate only confirmed my suspicions of how fresh these rolls really were. When I finally had a chance to taste one later in the evening with a little Danish Lurpak unsalted butter, I was rewarded with a wonderfully chewy and tasty dinner roll. The outside had a nice texture to it and the inside was soft and had a wonderful yeasty aroma. Besides pairing with the butter, Chris has been making small sandwiches out of these rolls, too.
The following morning, I had the chance to try out the bagels:
While Chris had already eaten half of his whole grain bagel, I sliced my enormous plain bagel in half and shmeared a healthy dose of cream cheese on each half before sitting down to enjoy my breakfast. Even having sat for a day, the bagel was still very fresh. As a good bagel should, this one had a very similar texture to the dinner rolls from the previous night. The outside had a wonderful chew to them and the bread on the inside was soft and lovely. While some lovely smoked salmon and pickled shallots would've made nice additions, I was entirely happy with my simple combination.
Of the five National Bakery products I have tried over my visit to Scranton, I have been quite pleased with every single one. I'm disappointed that I won't be able to get this product once I return home to Akron. Ah well, I'll just have to make sure I put a visit to the retail outlet on Capouse a "must do" on subsequent return visits to Scranton. If you are lucky enough to live close to the bakery or their distribution radius, I encourage you to check out their baked goods. While being certified kosher is great for part of their customer base, the freshness and good taste are great for everyone.
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anadolu efes biracilik ve
Damian Paul Gammell
Chief Executive Officer, Director, Beverage Group President, Group President of Efes Soft Drink and Managing Director of Efes Soft Drink, Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii Anonim Sirketi
|Age||Total Calculated Compensation||This person is connected to 15 board members in 2 different organizations across 4 different industries.|
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Mr. Damian Paul Gammell has been the Chief Executive Officer of Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii Anonim Sirketi (alternate name: Anadolu Efes) at Anadolu Endüstri Holding A.S. since January 2014 and Beverage Group President of Anadolu Group since January 1, 2014. Mr. Gammell serves as Group President and Managing Director of Efes Soft Drink at Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii AS. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Coca-Cola Icecek ...
Bahçelievler Mahallesi Sehit Ibrahim KoparirPhone: --
Istanbul, -- --
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Director, Chief Executive Officer of Anadolu Efes and Begerage Group President of Anadolu Group
Chief Executive Officer, Director, Beverage Group President, Group President of Efes Soft Drink and Managing Director of Efes Soft Drink
University of Oxford
The College of Marketing at the Dublin Institute of Technology Dublin
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Tail Activewear - Sunrise, Florida 33323 - 4020 - Sawgrass Mills
Store location, hours, contacts
Tail Activewear store or outlet store located in Sunrise, Florida - Sawgrass Mills location, address: 12801 W Sunrise Blvd, Sunrise, Florida - FL 33323 - 4020. Find information about hours, locations, online information and users ratings and reviews. Save money on Tail Activewear and find store or outlet near me.
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Please see mall detail for more information.
|Mall/Shopping Center/Outlet:||Sawgrass Mills|
|Stores in mall:||All stores in Sawgrass Mills|
|Address:||12801 W Sunrise Blvd, Sunrise, Florida - FL 33323 - 4020|
|Phone number (mall):||(954) 846-2350|
Tail Activewear in Sunrise, Florida 33323 - 4020 - Sawgrass Mills - MAPGPS Coordinates: 26.150392, -80.323319 Get directions to Tail Activewear located in Sawgrass Mills
Driving directions and locations to store: Tail Activewear located in Sawgrass Mills: 12801 W Sunrise Blvd, Sunrise, Florida - FL 33323 - 4020.
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(St. Augustine Outlets)
Hours - Tail Activewear (Sawgrass Mills)
|Mall Black Friday & Holiday hours »|
|Monday:||10:00 AM - 9:30 PM|
|Tuesday:||10:00 AM - 9:30 PM|
|Wednesday:||10:00 AM - 9:30 PM|
|Thursday:||10:00 AM - 9:30 PM|
|Friday:||10:00 AM - 9:30 PM|
|Saturday:||10:00 AM - 9:30 PM|
|Sunday:||11:00 AM - 8:00 PM|
Store hours may vary.
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EIG EUMETNET runs seven Programmes related to meteorological observations. Using a variety of different meteorological instruments it is possible to get reliable information on the state of the atmosphere. The EIG EUMETNET Programmes, together with the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, provide the relevant observations from Europe which are indispensable for missions such as numerical weather prediction.
The Observations Programme offers a framework for EUMETNET activities in the field of Observing Systems. The main objective of this Programme is to coordinate the activities of the integrated Operational Services and Projects (E-AMDAR, E-ASAP, E-GVAP, E-PROFILE, E-SURFMAR and OPERA). These services and projects themselves have the primary task of delivering observations in the atmosphere and near the earth ‘s surface, particularly at sea. Furthermore, the Observations Programme has to design and coordinte the evolution of the ground-based EUMETNET composite observing system (EUCOS) to be optimized on a European scale with a view to improving general weather forecasting (e.g numerical weather prediction and nowcasting) and climate monitoring over Europe without increasing to overall cost, in line with the EUMETNET strategy defined by the Assembly. The Programme Manager is Stefan Klink from DWD.
OBSERVATIONS – SCOPE & PURPOSE
The two strategic goals for the EUMETNET Observations Programme are the following:
Goal 1 classifies the observational requirements at three different horizontal scales. Global and especially regional requirements have been studied and dealt with by EUMETNET since its establishment, but consideration of ’kilometric’ (1km horizontal scale) requirements has started only recently in relation with the development of operational convection-resolving models, mainly for operational NWP. In the past, several numerical studies have been carried out on observation requirements of global and regional NWP, leaving now similar studies to be carried out to define observation requirements of kilometre-scale NWP.
Goal 2 stresses the importance of quality, quality control and quality management for two important meteorological application areas: NWP and Climate monitoring. The current situation is highly variable across the different observing systems. Some of them require many more developments and progress to be made in the field of homogeneity and quality to achieve this goal. This is particularly the case with observing systems, such as Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) networks which have been developed by several public or private actors outside the meteorological community and present a huge potential for meteorological applications, but have only recently begun to be used in operational NWP.
Radar activities, standardization of surface weather stations and the improvement of vertical profile measurements of the atmosphere are of highest importance for Members. Especially the latter item has several aspects: improvement of vertical resolution, improvement of horizontal coverage and a general investigation of new upper air observing capabilities.
Hence, the key priorities for the Programme are:
– To foster the OPERA developments in order to be able to produce quantitatively usable 2D radar products and to exchange single site 3D volume data (reflectivity, Doppler winds) by the end of the programme phase;
– To further expand the E-AMDAR Operational Service by trying to extend the horizontal coverage over the EUCOS area and by considering a further roll-out of humidity sensors on board E-AMDAR aircraft;
– To improve the user consultation process with data users from the Climate and Forecasting Programmes and Members via the central Observation Programme and its Scientific Expert Team.
A few important milestones of the Observations Programme are:
– Finalization of a first set of data impact studies on all various ground-based observing systems.
– Full end-to-end provision of humidity observations from 9 aircraft for the humidity trial within the E-AMDAR Operational Service, to routinely monitor the new observing system from 2015 onwards, to consider a further roll-out of humidity sensors and eventually to re-design the entire EUCOS upper-air network.
– The finalisation of OPERA’s development of an operational data centre will play an important role for the entire Observations Programme, because the availability of quality improved 2D composites and single site 3D volume data will allow the Observations Programme Management to initiate new data impact studies with the aim to assess the importance and impact of radar data on NWP on all modelling scales. Members will be in a position to better exploit Europe-wide radar data for modelling, general forecasting and precipitation monitoring purposes.
The general objective for the Observations Programme is to provide EUMETNET Members with observations from the integrated operational services and projects:
– E-AMDAR (aircraft based observations),
– E-ASAP (radiosoundings from merchant ships and some research vessels),
– E-GVAP (deriving humidity related observations from Global Navigation Satellite System networks),
– E-PROFILE (wind observations from weather radars and dedicated wind profilers and Lidar/Ceilometer observations),
– E-SURFMAR (surface marine observations from ships and buoys),
– OPERA (collection and processing of data from national weather radar networks).
Further objectives are:
– To design and coordinate the evolution of the integrated ground-based EUMETNET Composite Observing System (EUCOS) and
– To monitor and control EUCOS performance.
The current phase of the Programme started in January 2013 and will last until the end of 2018.
The Coordinating Member is Deutscher Wetterdienst. Programme Manager is Stefan Klink.
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1-1/2 pounds cleaned jumbo shrimp (18 to 20 shrimp), headless, tail on
1-1/2 pound(s) cleaned jumbo shrimp (18 to 20 shrimp), headless, tail on
1/4 cup(s) olive oil or vegetable oil
2 tablespoon(s) freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon(s) lemon zest (the yellow outer rind)
1 clove garlic, finely minced
1 teaspoon(s) salt
1/2 teaspoon(s) pepper
1 tablespoon(s) chopped fresh rosemary or parsley
8 strips of bacon
1 Cheesy grits for serving
Rinse the shrimp under cold running water and dry thoroughly on paper towels. Transfer to a resealable plastic bag or a bowl.
Make the marinade: Combine the olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic, salt, pepper, and rosemary in a small jar with a tight-fitting lid and shake vigorously until combined. Pour over the shrimp and refrigerate for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
About 30 minutes before you are ready to cook the shrimp, start the Traeger grill on Smoke with the lid open until the fire is established (4 to 5 minutes). Set the temperature to 400 degrees F and preheat, lid closed, for 10 to 15 minutes.
Lay the bacon strips diagonally on the grill grate and grill for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the bacon is partially cooked but still very pliable. Cut each strip in half width-wise. Leave the grill on.
Drain the shrimp, discarding the marinade. Wrap a strip of bacon around the body of each shrimp, securing with a toothpick. Arrange the shrimp on the grill grate and grill for 4 minutes per side, turning once. Serve at once with cheesy grits, if desired. (Diners can remove their own toothpicks.)
© 2015 TRAEGER WOOD PELLET GRILLS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Farmingville, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/31/2014 -- The deadline for residents of Suffolk County, Long Island to lower their property taxes is fast approaching. The deadline falls on May 20th, 2014, so there is still time for residents to file a grievance if they feel that their home has been over-assessed.
The town assesses the value of all homes. Since it is impossible for the town to evaluate each home individually, it plugs in values for square footage, home style, and amenities and often, homes are assessed incorrectly. Property values change over time, and many homeowners are overpaying their property taxes. Some homeowners are shocked when they learn how much they have been overpaying.
TruTax Reduction Services, Inc., a company licensed by the Suffolk County Department of Consumer Affairs, represents homeowners throughout the property tax grievance process from application to the town through the Small Claims Assessment Review Petition, (SCARP), to correct the property assessment value. With a new value placed on their property, homeowners will owe less in property tax.
“At TruTax, we pride ourselves in taking care of the process from beginning to end,” said Anthony Izzo, the founder of TruTax. Users have the option to file an online application that is designed to take no more than 60 seconds. There is no upfront cost, risks, or even visitation associated with filing an application with TruTax, and the company will handle all subsequent paperwork, from initial filing to the appeals process.
According to Izzo, homeowners often believe that it is not worth the risk to file a grievance in fear that their taxes may increase as a result. However, by law, the assessor cannot raise an individual homeowner’s property tax as the result of filing a grievance. There are only two potential outcomes to filing a property tax grievance. Either the tax bill will be reduced or it will remain unchanged. TruTax deals with all the associated paperwork, appraisal, meetings, and hearings. Izzo states that at the very least, his clients will know if they are fairly, under or over assessed, which in itself is information worth knowing.
Even though the deadline is less than two months away, Izzo urges all property owners who feel they are overpaying their property tax or just want to verify that their property assessment is correct to file a grievance sooner rather than later. He said, “The risks are few to none, while the potential benefits could be enormous. By acting as early as possible, homeowners will find much greater peace of mind with an accurate valuation.”
About TruTax Reduction Services, Inc.
TruTax Reduction Services, Inc. (http://trutax.com) is a Suffolk County licensed company that deals with property tax grievances throughout Suffolk County, NY. TruTax has helped homeowners save up to several thousand dollars per year on property taxes by individually determining the value of a property and contesting the assessed market value.
TruTax does not impose any costs up front and is paid only after successful results.
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Miranda Lovelady, Dr. Bill Brockton's protÉgÉ, is spending the summer helping excavate a newly discovered chamber beneath the spectacular Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France. There she discovers a stone chest inscribed with a stunning claim: inside lie the bones of none other than Jesus of Nazareth. Faced with a case of unimaginable proportions, Miranda summons Brockton for help proving or refuting the claim. Both scientists are skeptical-after all, fake relics abounded during the Middle Ages-but evidence for authenticity looks strong initially, and soon grows stronger. Brockton and Miranda link the bones to the haunting image on the Shroud of Turin, revered by millions as the burial cloth of Christ, and then a laboratory test finds the bones to be two thousand years old. The finding triggers a deadly tug-of-war between the anthropologists, the Vatican, and a deadly zealot who hopes to use the bones to bring about the Second Coming-and trigger the end of time. Set against an international landscape, and weaving a rich tapestry of religion, history, art, and science, The Inquisitor's Keytakes Jefferson Bass to an exciting new level of suspense.
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A Dollar’s Worth
By Alisa Dollar
I never suspected I’d be a possessive pew-dweller hugger.
Yesterday I found I might be.
Bree, Speedy, husband and I generally sit on the 2nd row, right side of the pulpit. Yesterday, the pianist’s friend was in our seats!
I was in the nursery waiting for the nursery worker and Bree came to give me the news. We were going to be sitting on the front row.
“What?” I don’t think I’d ever sat on the front row.
“It’s either that or ask that man to move.” Bree sighed.
“You think he would?”
She refused to ask, so front row it would be.
I never dreamed so many things came into actuality on that row.
There was no place to hang my feet. There was no place to put my coffee to readily reach. There was just no place to hide writing notes.
Mind you, not notes back and forth (okay maybe one or two); but notes on future writing projects or grocery lists or even notes on the sermon.
I sincerely hope the preacher thought my note taking was on his well delivered discourse. I should’ve known better because of the twinkle in his eye as he walked my way was surely to alert he was on to me!
This does not by any means denote when on the second row I’m actually hiding anything. It’s just that on the front row, one feels so vulnerable and exposed. Open to finger pointing. Although my preacher doesn’t point fingers, I mentally felt them yesterday. It was though he automatically took this row as the accountability row.
The way I see it, I can get into enough trouble by myself without having any extra guilt, pressure, or wrongdoings thrown my way.
That front pew added pounds of responsibility. I even looked back once noticing a few empty seats available. However they were on the wrong side which is another malfunction in my pew selecting. I can’t hear as well on the other side. All in my head I know.
The front row pew blues is all in my head as well.
I fully intend to be there early and snag our seats next Sunday. Maybe even ask pianist boyfriend to move.
I already feel the nagging voice of God saying “Does it really matter what row?”
Have you ever won an argument with God?
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you are here: home > explore > the eye
Humans are very visual animals...we use our sense of sight to interpret much of the world around us. What we see is called "light." However, what we see is really only a small part of the entire "electromagnetic spectrum." Humans can see only the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation between about 380 and 760 nanometers...this is light.
Our eyes do not have detectors for wavelengths of energy less than 380 or greater than 760 nanometers, so we cannot "see" other types of energy such as gamma or radio waves. Rattlesnakes, however, can detect electromagnetic radiation in the infrared range and use this ability to find prey.
First, some specifics about the eye: the human eye is about 2.5 cm in length and weighs about 7 grams. Light passes through the cornea, pupil and lens before hitting the retina. The iris is a muscle that controls the size of the pupil and therefore, the amount of light that enters the eye. Also, the color of your eyes is determined by the iris.
The vitreous or vitreous humor is a clear gel that provides constant pressure to maintain the shape of the eye. The retina is the area of the eye that contains the receptors (rods and cones) that respond to light. The receptors respond to light by generating electrical impulses that travel out of the eye through the optic nerve to the brain.
Six bands of muscles attach to the eyeball to control the ability of the eye to look up and down and side to side. These muscles are controlled by three cranial nerves. Four of the muscles are controlled by the oculomotor nerve (cranial nerve III), one muscle is controlled by the trochlear nerve (cranial nerve IV) and one muscle is controlled by the abducens nerve (cranial nerve VI.)
|"Cornea" | "Iris" | "Retina"|
|Did you know?
||15 million people in the United States have serious vision problems;
over 500,000 people in the US are blind. Eye injuries account for 4% of
the cases of blindness. Read more about eye
The word "pupil" comes from the Latin word "pupa" that means "doll." The use of the word pupil for the center of the eye may have come from the observation that if you look into the eye of another person, a small version of yourself (a "doll") is reflected back.
What causes "red eye" when you take a flash photograph? The choroid is a layer of tissue at the back of the eye that contains a large number of blood vessels. "Red eye" usually happens when a flash photograph is taken in dim light. In dim light, the pupil is dilated and allows plenty of light to enter the eye. "Red eye" is caused when the choroid reflects the light of the flash. The pupil does not constrict fast enough to reduce the entering light and the flash light reflects back out of the eye and is recorded on film. Some cameras use red eye reduction methods: a short burst of light is emitted before the film is exposed. The brief burst of light allows the pupil to constrict and thus reduces "red eye.
Copyright © 1996-2010, Eric H. Chudler All Rights Reserved.
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fls14. Savimbi Go Home
Led by Jonas Savimbi, UNITA waged civil war in Angola from 1976 to 2002. With South African funding the organisation mounted a public relations operation in Britain and other Western countries. This leaflet accused Savimbi of being a South African surrogate and of helping the apartheid government block talks on Namibian independence.
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BlackBerry Workspaces™ makes enterprises more mobile and collaborative, while reducing the risk, complexity and cost of sharing information across and beyond your organization. Workspaces provides file-level encryption and user access controls, so your maintain control over your content even after it leaves your firewall. Workspaces also embeds digital rights management (DRM) protection in your files, so you can control what the recipient is able to do with the file once they gain access to it.
Workspaces provides file security while increasing the productivity of your organization. Users are able to view, edit, comment and collaborate on files on all major device platforms. Our deep integration with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Office 365 and OneDrive means that your employees can continue to use their existing apps and workflows while seamlessly integrating Workspaces file secure sharing.
Workspaces allows your employees to work more effectively and safely with outside contributors. This is critical in a world where core business operations are being outsourced and vendor, partner and customer ecosystems are growing rapidly. Workspaces flexible security policy model allows you to create secure collaborative workspaces, control access and assign file permissions at the user, group and domain level. You can extend your security perimeter outside your
firewall and collaborate with outside users without risk of losing control of core IP or exposing sensitive information such as personnel records or product designs. Only Workspaces delivers the features users want and the control that IT needs.
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Virtually every business has sensitive information and documents that need to be shared. Hundreds of global companies in nearly every industry have deployed Workspaces for a wide variety of use cases:
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BlackBerry Workspaces was built to secure information in the collaborative and mobile world of modern IT. It is designed to provide the granular, flexible and powerful security required by IT, while still delivering an elegant and intuitive user experience across web browsers, desktops, mobile devices and tablets.
Where endpoints, networks and technology infrastructure fall short in providing persistent protection, Workspaces uniquely controls and tracks all sensitive corporate assets wherever they go in the course of business
Our close and collaborative partnership is here to help you grow your business, offering a robust and in-depth mobile and cyber security solution stack to your customers, providing access to a suite of sales tools, marketing collateral, and a dedicated proactive support team.
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Fiona Barry is a Speech and Language Therapist working within the NHS and in independent practice. Alongside this work she created the TalkingTipsForKids app and website. She lives in Berkshire with her husband and two sons.
In my work as a speech and language therapist, I find parents can be very worried about their child having a lisp. In fact, lisps are very common in preschool children and are not a huge cause for concern until after the age of 4 ½ years.
What is a lisp?
A lisp is an articulation disorder where a child has difficulty accurately saying the ‘s’ and ‘z’ sound and can also affect the ‘sh’, ‘ch’ and ‘j’ sounds. There are four types of lisps, two of which are commonly seen in youngsters with typically developing speech and two which are more unusual.
Let’s think about the way we produce an accurate ‘s’ and ‘z’ sound first as this helps us understand what is going wrong when a child lisps. The tongue needs to be behind the teeth with the tip of the tongue behind the top teeth. The sides of the tongue are raised to touch the upper row of side teeth forming a groove along the middle of the tongue. Air flows along this groove and produces the sound. For a ‘s’ sound the there is no voice used and for a ‘z’ sound voice is used, both sounds are made in the same way apart from the absence or presence of voice. We will focus on the ‘s’ sound for now.
If a child has a lisp they are having trouble putting their tongue in the position to form an accurate ‘s’ sound. The following two types of lisps are often seen in typically developing speech:
1) Interdental lisp – this is where the child’s tongue tip sticks out between the teeth instead of staying tucked behind the top teeth. This produces a ‘th’ sound e.g. ‘thun’ instead of ‘sun’ or ‘thweet’ instead of ‘sweet’. We consider this as developmentally appropriate until about 4 ½ years of age. A child will tend to grow out of this after this age and often the growth of adult teeth will help push the tongue back behind the teeth where it should be for ‘s’ production.
2) Dentalised Lisp – this occurs when the tongue is actually pushing against the front teeth rather than fully poking out and again this is considered normal until about 4 ½ years of age.
The following two types of lisp are not part of typical speech development and are more likely to require work with a speech and language therapist:
1) Lateral lisp: This occurs when the tongue position is more like that required to produce a ‘l’ sound and instead of the air flowing down the groove in the middle of the tongue it escapes round the sides of the tongue. This produces something a little bit like the ‘ll’ sound used in the Welsh language and is often referred to as a ‘slushy s’. This is not considered as a normal part of typical speech development and a child would need to see a speech and language therapist to have this assessed and treated.
2) Palatal lisp: For this error the middle part of the tongue is in contact much further back in the mouth, roughly where the soft palate, is and can sound a bit like the child is producing a ‘h’ quickly followed by a ‘y’ sound. Again this is not a normal feature of speech development and would require assessment and possibly therapy.
I think my child has a lisp, what should I do?
As I’ve already mentioned we would consider an interdental or dentalised lisp as developmentally appropriate up until a certain age and we would not think about giving therapy for this before that age. In fact there is some debate in the field about what age a lisp should be considered as no longer age-appropriate. Some therapists say therapy should start soon after about 4 ½ years as long as the child is considered ready for therapy. Factors such as the child’s attention and listening skills, ability to understand and follow instructions and whether they can produce the sound on its own should all be taken into consideration.
Other therapists feel it’s best to wait until the age of about 7 or 8 as some research suggests that within the typical range of development the ‘s’ sound can take until that age to be fully mastered in some children. I personally feel it’s good to aim to seek help sooner rather than later, as the later you leave it the harder it is to change the engrained pattern of speech production.
Another really important factor to consider in when to give therapy is how much it is affecting the child’s self-esteem or ability to socialise with others. Some children are blissfully unaware of their lisp and have never had others make negative comments. Other children can be acutely aware and may have experienced some unintentionally hurtful comments from other children (and adults!). The emotional impact of having a lisp should always be put into the mix when making this decision.
Lastly a child’s motivation to work on their speech is also crucial. It would be up to you and the therapist to judge whether your child actually wants to change the way they say ‘s’ or not. Sometimes its best to wait until your child is fully motivated to do this rather than clashing in a battle of wills which risks completely switching them off from speech work forever!
With regard to the lateral and palatal lisps it’s wise to seek help as early as possible. A therapist would be able to assess your child’s speech sound system as a whole to see if there are any other causes for concern and would work on ways of getting your child to be able to produce the ‘s’ sound accurately on its on (before attempting it in words).
Can I do anything to help?
It’s best to seek help at any age if you suspect your child has a lateral or palatal lisp, or if you’re not sure it may be helpful to get this checked out. If your child has an interdental or dental lisp then there are some things you can try at home, bearing in mind that until the age of 4 ½ years we would consider this not to be a huge cause for concern. After this age, you could contact a therapist and this will help you work out whether it’s the right time to start therapy for your child.
- With children younger than 4 ½ try to avoid overtly correct their ‘s’ errors. Instead just model back the sound or word in the correct way so if they say ‘Look, my thock’ you say ‘Yes it’s your sssock’. Do not expect them to repeat back what you have said; it’s very helpful for them to just to hear the correct sound production modelled back for them (as it is with all speech sounds).
- If your child is about 4 ½ years old or more then have a think about whether it’s a good idea to talk to them about their speech. You are the expert in your child and so only you can make this decision initially. You could chat generally about how we use our mouths to make sounds and look in the mirror together to see how you both make all the different sounds.
- Talk about how you make the ‘s’ sound. You could say ‘put your tongue behind your teeth, close your teeth by biting down, then smile and blow out’. Sounds complicated but practice this on yourself in the mirror before trying it with your child!
- If you want to see if your child can make an accurate ‘s’ there is a trick that therapists will often use which is asking your child to say ‘t t t t t ‘ as fast as they can. If done fast enough this naturally turns into a ‘s’ sound. Starting with the ‘t’ production in this way gets the tongue tip behind the teeth where it should be. Practice this yourself before sharing it with your child.
- You could talk about the tongue as ‘Mr. Tongue’ and his house is the child’s mouth. Play games where you and your child poke your tongue in and out in front of the mirror and talk about whether Mr. Tongue is safely in his house or has escaped outside. Once this idea is established and your child has built up an awareness of their tongue being in or out, you can use this as a prompt to remind them to us their new ‘s’ sound e.g. ‘Well done you kept Mr. Tongue in his house!’ or ‘Let’s try that sound again with Mr. Tongue back in his house, he escaped that time!’.
- Try using a picture of a snake or a toy snake to represent the new ‘s’ sound. As speech sounds are quite an abstracts thing to think about children often need something visual to support their understanding of what they are working on.
A speech and language therapist will always work in clear and small steps with speech sound work, so that’s why it’s best to seek help. We will start with a child’s ability to say the sound on its own, then with a vowel in little nonsense words like ‘soo’, ‘see’, ‘sah’. Once a child can smoothly blend the ‘s’ followed by the vowel we move onto words beginning with ‘s’ followed by a vowel (sun, sea, soup, sit). Once these are accurate we move onto saying ‘s’ words in phrases, then sentences and eventually in connected, spontaneous speech. These steps would be repeated for ‘s’ in the middle and at the end of words. A child won’t be able to go from saying the sound in isolation to generalising it into everyday speech without the steps in between, so bear this in mind!
Some other issues to consider:
Understandably parents do get very concerned about lisps but it’s extremely important to realise that children must have age appropriate abilities in a while range of skills associated with speech, language and communication. These include:
- Attention and listening skills (the ability to listen and pay attention to spoken information)
- Play skills (whether a child is using pretend play actions like feeding teddy)
- Social skills (things like eye contact, ability to initiate communication with others, turn taking, ability to have successful conversations with others)
- Understanding of language (receptive language skills – what types of words or spoken instructions a child can understand and follow)
- Expressive Language (talking – the words and sentences a child can say)
- Speech (pronunciation – the sounds a child is using when they talk)
Often it’s the last two skills – expressive language and speech sounds – that parents will notice as we can actually hear if a child is not saying as much as they should do for their age or if their speech is difficult to understand. However, a speech and language therapist will want to check if all the other skills listed before these are also as they should be.
What is considered typical in speech and language development?
Like with most things there is a wide range of what is considered typical with speech and language development. It’s wise for parents to check out what is expected for a child’s particular age.
It’s essential that parents are aware that children who have a good foundation in talking and listening skills are more likely to grow up to make friends easily, do well at school, stay out of trouble with the law and thrive in the workplace. In fact, the amount of words a child can use and understand at the age of 5 is a very strong predictor of the qualifications that child will achieve at school leaving age and beyond.
The good news is that we now know that what parents do at home with their children is more important to later language skills than anything to do with their income, education, class or ethnic background. Parents are the key to unlocking their child’s talking talents and it’s never too early or late to start.
The way you play, talk and interact with your child has a real impact on how their speech and language develops. And it’s this idea that has led me to devising a range of videos to equip parents with the tools to help their child reach their full communication potential.
Small changes in how you communicate can make big changes in how your child communicates! Words are free – but they’re also priceless!
By Fiona Barry, Talking Tips For Kids
For more information on Fiona and her work visit www.TalkingTipsForKids.com or Twitter @TalkTipsForKids
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Study in Lithuania
STUDY IN LITHUANIA is a non-commercial national information and support centre for students who wish to study in Lithuania.
Our aim is to inform the future foreign students, their parents and others about Lithuanian Higher Education System, Lithuanian Higher Education Institutions, available study programmes, migration procedures and more.
Participating institutions of STUDY IN LITHUANIA delegation:
- Alytaus kolegija / University of Applied Sciences
- ISM University of Management and Economics
- Kaunas University of Applied Engineering Sciences
- Kaunas University of Technology
- Klaipėda University
- LCC International University
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Room 137, Bureau of Mines Building, Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2929
September 13, 2013 — A weekly look at Wyoming business questions from the Wyoming Small Business Development Center (WSBDC), part of WyomingEntrepreneur.Biz, a collection of business assistance programs at the University of Wyoming.
By Margie Rowell, WSBDC regional director
“Can you please share more QuickBooks tips to make me more efficient in my record keeping and save time?” Jason, Crowheart
This week’s blog post will share more QuickBooks tips to help manage your business records more efficiently. Please share your tips on our Wyoming Entrepreneur Facebook page.
-- Export QuickBooks reports to Excel spreadsheets in order to manipulate and format data in “what if” scenarios.
-- QuickBooks uses “right-click” menus in the program to save time. An example would be to highlight an entry in Chart of Accounts and right click to perform a multitude of tasks. You don’t need to always go to the toolbar menu.
-- Do you have a PayPal account? It should be set up like a bank account and reconciled each month. Money transfers from PayPal to your bank are just like any other bank transfer.
-- Use “Ask My Accountant” in QuickBooks. This is an excellent place to put transactions if you have questions or need to research.
-- Using QuickBooks memorized transactions will save you time. You can use memorize reoccurring transactions to automatically enter invoices, payables, deposits and checks which reoccur.
A blog version of this article and an opportunity to post comments is available at http://www.wyomingentrepreneur.typepad.com/blog/.
The WSBDC is a partnership of the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Wyoming Business Council and the University of Wyoming. To ask a question, call 1-800-348-5194, email firstname.lastname@example.org or write 1000 E. University Ave., Dept. 3922, Laramie, WY, 82071-3922.
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Reveal the Dock in fullscreen apps
To get to the Dock from a fullscreen app, just move the pointer all the way to the edge where the Dock is pinned, then swipe or move the mouse in the same direction again, as if you were trying to move beyond the edge. The Dock pops right up, with no keyboard commands needed.
I saw question about this directed at @macstoriesnet yesterday, although I didn't know the trick. This morning Macworld comes through with a simple solution, although their explanation is a little confusing. Here's the gist: if your dock is on the bottom of the screen, swipe your mouse cursor down twice at the bottom edge of the display. If your dock is at the right of the screen, swipe your mouse cursor right twice. This works even when you automatically hide and show the dock. If you have an app that's open in another desktop space, you can simply click on its application icon in the dock to jump to that space without initiating Mission Control or swiping between desktops.
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§ Mrs. Renée Short
asked the Secretary of State for Industry what progress there has been in consultations with Nissan about the manufacture of its cars in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Michael Marshall
I would refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Bromsgrove and Redditch (Mr. Miller).
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Size: 1 litre Servings 15-20 drinks
This pineapple ginger mixer is a favourite at parties. It has a perfect amount of sweetness and strength. Can be drunk on it's own or with brown and white rum.
Our delivery service is done by foot, bicycle or electric car. Orders must be made 24 hours in advance. Each delivery is $3.99 for orders under $75. Orders $75+ is FREE.
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Hackers need to find one weak point to steal valuable information, while you must account for every possible vulnerability across your entire infrastructure. We must band together, think like a bad guy and take action to protect what matters.
Recent high visibility hacks, such as those at Target and Neiman Marcus, are powerful reminders that we need to outpace our adversaries and prepare for what might come. However, fighting crime is a losing battle if the adversary is two steps ahead of the law. How can we protect ourselves against faceless criminals motivated by large financial rewards?
Enter the Security Operations Center (SOC), a central control room detecting and responding to security breaches around the clock. A critical component of any security strategy, it’s only as good as the people, processes, and technologies within it. This includes incorporating traditional IT operations, taking a converged approach to security that brings together existing IT monitoring practices with security operations, and providing a holistic view of risk across the enterprise.
A recent Ponemon Institute study revealed that companies investing in a comprehensive SOC achieved 20 percent better ROI on security spend and saved on average $4 million more than SOC-less peers.
Many organizations feel putting the basics in place is sufficient, but going through – or seeing peers go through – a high-profile, public breach involving negative publicity and lost revenue demonstrates the importance of a highly capable SOC. Industries with mature defense capabilities, such as large retailers and financial institutions, are not immune. They can be even bigger targets due to their volumes of valuable customer data.
In a recent five-year study on the state of nearly 70 global SOCs across private and public sector organizations, HP found 3 out of 4 organizations were unable to achieve basic consistency of operations, and only 30 percent of organizations that formally defined business goals and compliance requirements were able to meet them.
According to the study, having the right people in place can have the most profound impact on the overall capability of a SOC, but that’s often overshadowed by an over-reliance on technology. Organizations invest more money in technology rather than staffing trained analysts to run these centers. Systems cannot apply non-linear thinking to an incomplete picture to develop a reasonable hypothesis. Human analytical capacity is still the most effective weapon in a company’s security arsenal.
With a high demand for relevant security skills and a steady increase in compensation for experienced individuals, entities must invest in skills development and talent retention to sustain security operations. HP studied the effectiveness of a Fortune 100 company’s SOC, finding the company’s steady progression in the development of key SOC staff resulted in consistent processes and the right mix of expertise needed to operate effective security operations. Breaches and research continue to spotlight the lack of qualified security professionals in the information security industry.
Recent Ponemon Institute research highlighted that 40 percent of all security positions are unfulfilled today. Universities cannot rapidly produce graduates, and they struggle to provide sufficient real-world experience while security threats surge and organizations strive to strengthen their internal security defense teams. SOCs must prepare for this and develop hiring pipelines through relationships with local universities, ancillary teams across the company, and industry groups. Recognizing the market competitiveness of security skills and investing in talent will prevent attrition threatening security sustainability.
Cyber criminals will never stop learning and sharing information enabling them to attack high-profile targets and intellectual property. Hackers only have to get it right once. It’s time for organizations do the same, investing in comprehensive SOCs by converging technology, processes, and people to protect what matters.
Chris Triolo, vice president of Professional Services, Education and Support, HP Enterprise Security Products. HP recently published a report on capabilities and maturity of cyber defense organizations, available at www.hp.com/go/StateOfSecOps.
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The Cimbo Limbo posts continue with part deux of the grand review of 2009. Brace yourselves for the July to December extravaganza people!
♥ Jenny & Johnny were way to stylish and way to cool to exclude from this list. If I had a face like hers I’d certainly be rocking the girl-hawk hair do. A Ring bearing ninja, the motorbike portraits and the tattoo-inspired illustration guestbook all add to the mad style
♥ Teneisha & Chris’ crazy-gorgeous LasVegas wedding was nothing short of epic. That dress!
♥ Something a bit different for Rock n Roll Bride here, but how could I resist those faces?
♥ Mouse ears! You just can’t say no can you?!
♥ This skater couple rocked my world at the end of July. So much gorgeous goodness right here!
♥ Rockabilly boudoir smashed it’s way into my heart with this shoot (stand by for exciting news involving me + a corset very very soon – oh yes!)
♥ Christine & Dan, certainly a kick ass, tattooed couple really felt at home for the Chicago wedding. Again..the tattooed chick did it for me!
♥ Oh dear..I’m only just at the end of July’s posts! I couldn’t leave this White Orchid Bridal shoot out though. Too much awesome (and one of my husband’s favourites so he says)
♥ The story of the 75 cent dress. Every Rock n Roll Bride’s dream!
♥ Bess & Matt’s hippy, tattooed, eco chic love fest in the woods really made me smile with glee!
♥ I saw a sneak peak of Ali & Danny’s wedding by a reader early in the year but I had to wait for what felt like a lifetime to see the full set. It was worth the wait!
♥ More Betsey Johnson goodness winged it’s way into my heart with this wedding that is almost too awesome to be justified by my words. Custom knuckledusters as bridesmaids gifts, swordplay for portrait shoots, babies breath for bouquets and peacock feathers plenty rocked my socks.
♥ Standby for the wedding of the year..and it British one at that! Oh yes, Callum & Caroline rocked their creative socks off with their London wedding. You ‘ooohed’ you ‘aaahed’ you swooned…(go check out their engagement shoot too..yellow dress and a tin caravan!)
♥ It may have turned out to not be a real wedding, but this fashion shoot (featuring Mark Ronson) in a Woodstock wedding stylee for french magazine Jalouse sent as all c-c-c-razy for a little while
♥ Automne& Graham’s punk rock wedding was epic on gastronomic proportions! Her purple, handmade dress was the star of the show alongside their personalised vows, music and venue. Muchos coolness
♥ Childhood sweethearts. Diy details. Funky favours and custom cds…oh yes
♥ Meegan & Jean-Loius surprised all their friends and family by having a surprise wedding…at their engagement party! The ‘OMG you’re wearing a wedding dress’ moment must have been absolutely priceless
♥ Lizeth & Rafter’s engagements were so colourful and fun…and popular with you lot!
♥ I couldn’t leave out this Off the Hook Carnival Wedding could I? I fell in love with the colour, the tats, the dancing (check out their video – scroll down) and the general awesome atmosphere. I knew their wedding would rock some serious cool when I featured their engagements back in September and so was over the moon when photographer Marina sent me Amy & Jesse’s wedding to feature.
Jeez there are so many more that I wish I could have included. For more favourites, check out my top 40 countdown (part one and two) that I posted back in September…some are the same but many more amazing ones have happened this year alone! If you’re bored or so inclined then you really should browse the site archives for inspiration or just generally visual joy. I have to say, the last 6 months in particular has been nothing short of epic.
Thinking about it honestly, 2009 really was great. It’s difficult for me to focus on the positives sometimes but without this year I wouldn’t have even started taking Rock n Roll Bride seriously, wouldn’t have met so many amazing people, wouldn’t be writing for two magazines and wouldn’t have all the exciting possibilities laid ahead of me for 2010. Soppy and ‘un-Rock n Roll’ maybe, but sometimes you really do have to stop and think what a miracle life can sometimes be. So tell me, what was great for you in 2009?
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2015 Calendar and bank holidays!
You still have a few weeks left until the beginning of January, but if one of your New Year’s resolutions is to be well organised, you best start planning your year now! There are plenty of 2015 calendars available, all in different formats and even printable versions:
12 month wall calendar (2015)
Printable calendar 2015
Bank holidays 2015
Are here are the all-important bank holidays that you will need to add to your blank calendar for 2015!
1st January: New Year’s Day
3rd April: Good Friday
6th April: Easter Monday
4th May: Early May bank holiday
25th May: Spring bank holiday
31st August: Summer bank holiday
25th December: Christmas Day
28th December: Boxing Day (substitute day)
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When designing your firm’s website or marketing materials, it can be overwhelming to want to ‘get it right’.
Oftentimes, we forget that design has many iterations, and that the first draft of anything we create is rarely the final version.
So, when it comes to your service design, are you designing assets with your clients in mind? Are you studying and taking into account how your potential clients are searching for and finding you?
This week on the show, I spoke with Sérgio Taveres, who has a PhD in Culture and Technology, and works at the Helsinki studio of lead design agency Frog. He approaches strategy and foresight with design techniques.
We talk about:
- The difference between art and design
- How the design process works and why it’s meant to be ever-changing
- Why design should be about the potential client and not about you as the firm owner
- How to design your marketing around your client or potential client
- The key role that empathy plays in client relationships and marketing design
Mentioned in This Episode
Hi, I’m Sergio Tavarez. Um, I’m a lead designer from Helsinki, and I’m here to talk about service design and user centricity. Sergio, thank you for being here. This is going to be a great conversation. Endlessly loved talking about design in general. That’s the core of where I started my professional careers in design.
And then I kind of took off into marketing and things like that, but, uh, there’s nothing more enjoying enjoyable for me to talk about than design. And how is. Number one [00:01:00] how it’s different from art and then how it has its place in business. And just all of those great, uh, interesting things to talk about in terms of design.
And so I know you have a fantastic and really interesting background in design and user centric. Thinking. And so today our big question is how can lawyers be used use service designed to be client-centric. So let’s start today. Maybe you can explain a little bit about your background, but also what, first of all, what is service design?
Yes, that’s a great way to start. I think, um, even in our business, sometimes there is a little bit of confusion to which, what design. Um, there are some more expressive forms of design, for example, graphic design or editorial design, but design is also a way to, to get to a goal, an [00:02:00] end goal. Uh, and that is the principle that we use mostly to business, for example, service design or business design.
So you have a goal you want to. This goal is to supply or fulfill a certain need from your end customer and design is a process that will take you to. I love that definition because I’ve had a lot of clients and just in my career approach design as this art form. And then they feel like they’re dealing with artists and they don’t want to get into in the way of my creative process.
And so I usually take a step back and say, um, I do believe there are some designers who approach it that way and that’s. Correct to begin with. And that let’s start with the idea that design can fail and design can not achieve this goal. And art can not fail. You know, art is, is just a pure expression and there’s [00:03:00] this big difference between art and design.
And so I usually talk to my clients about that separation. Then all of a sudden I feel them relax a little bit and say, okay, I can understand that. So, so let’s talk about how, how you go about first of all, defining how, how you are going to achieve those goals through design. Yes, that is, that is like a frequent, uh, uh, question as well, because.
Designers sometimes are, uh, quite opinionated and, and they are also, um, the aesthetic sense is also part of our way of communicating. Even if we are, uh, own a more consultancy level or, uh, approach, let’s say, um, you have communications design and, and you have graphic design and you have, uh, the whole experience design.
Everything is merged together. And that’s often playing as a strip playing as a strength to, uh, design [00:04:00] activity. For example, if you take consultants like management consultants, the slides are crammed with information. They try to tell everything all at once, and that is kind of understood by their audience, but it’s not an easy sale, uh, in design tries to make this whole process easier, more simple, more understanding.
So as we have these goals, it’s actually often that we fail and we have them to try again. And it’s also the principle that our fail fast. It’s very embedded in design activity because it’s less costly. So you try something, you improve your test and you keep going. There is no ant product there’s just versions of, of, uh, your product or service.
Yeah. And I liked the idea of fail fast because it allows for failure as a part of the process, not the end, and that that’s like a [00:05:00] death of the project it’s that this is part of the process and we will fail at this point and then we will iterate again and we will have a new version and I find. Uh, with our, my clients.
A lot of times they get version one of a design, uh, or, you know, some part of the, the, the content and they are comparing version one to someone else’s final product. And they have this moment of concern and panic. That’s where they start to lose confidence in the project itself. That version one, we’re at our starting point and we recognize we on the agency side, recognize that version one is not a final product and here’s where we’re going to start.
And we are going to take variations and iterate from there. Um, but the client hasn’t necessarily been through that process before. And, uh, how do you address that with a client [00:06:00] who doesn’t necessarily understand that this is a process and failure is okay and it’s not even, maybe failure’s not even the right word, but this is version one.
And the things that aren’t working here are our Mo places to learn and make better. I mean, how do you typically address that? Yes, that is, um, I was seeing, um, uh, your, your work and I was fascinated by it because, um, my both parents were lawyers and yeah, and I think it resonates with your audience. And I figured that even from my own portfolio, even from the clients, I work with that, your communication presence online.
Is a lot about taking the time to find your own voice, your own style. Um, it doesn’t depend so much on you. That’s kind of the beat news for, for many people that are, purchasing, this kind of project, because yes, you [00:07:00] may have a dialogue with your designer to understand the phones, the type faces, the colors, the vibe, the whole mood of the project and the.
But easy only after you out there having the feedback from the users that you will understand, actually, people find this useful, and that is a process you simply cannot know from the. Right. And so, uh, how do you get through that idea that it is meant to be client-centric? I, I often will have clients that this is, that in itself is a novel idea.
The idea that they should be positioning their overall message and approach. In terms of their client, instead of talking directly about the business and the firm and themselves and where they went to law school and all of those, uh, more, you know, first person [00:08:00] kind of narratives. How do you get through to, and explain that to them?
Why, why, why should it be about the client? Yes. Well, that is super exciting because I can really envision the process that, uh, we all go through with clients with. They have this idea, they are passionate about it. They want to finally, it’s also part of like a Rite of passage that you finally have, you know, um, my godmother, which happens to be a lawyer, as well said when I have my website, I want to have the black and white picture and the pearls.
So it’s nothing, I couldn’t rush her to have her own. She needed to. Understand how she wanted to have, uh, herself portrayed. So that’s very personal, but what comes to play as well is that, um, in the current landscape for communication, you need to start understanding where you’re going to [00:09:00] incept your potential customer.
So what are they going to be doing online when they find your website? And how fast do you need to tell them your story before they go to the other Google result? So what we do, uh, is to have a very actually tactical process of understanding the needs of the person you’re designing to, for example, take some time to learn their content.
Not only what you’re offering, but how they are thinking about it. It’s much different. Uh, if you use legalese to create an article or, and then if you title it, um, what do I do when someone steals my documents or something like that? My identity or something like that? I think that’s important because, uh, even as consumers and, and [00:10:00] sometimes that’s the, the, the point where people can have an understanding is, you know, as a consumer, we are looking on websites for whatever, whatever service or product we’re looking for.
And we want it to speak to us. We don’t necessarily want to land on, you know, if we’re looking even for a pair of shoes, I don’t want to land on the shoes and necessarily think of. When the shoe company was founded and, you know, w what kind of, you know, I, I probably do want to know what kind of materials were made in that shoe, but probably not first, first, I want to know, does this shoe meet the need of, you know, whatever it is I’m looking for, if I’m looking for a running shoe or whatever, is this gonna work for my feet?
And then maybe, yeah. Tell me a little bit more about what it’s made out of and about the company, but not first. So. Uh, oftentimes I think we need to take a step back and think, okay, how do I go through my own experience as a consumer looking for things that I need, [00:11:00] and then we need to apply that. Um, for some reason, a lot of lawyers in the legal industry feel like.
That is a totally different kind of a world, but it’s still human beings. Like human beings still think and act the same way, even though the legal industry can be so different than, you know, a lot of other industries. So tell me, uh, I know that in your background, you’ve got, uh, you talk a lot about the balance between inspiration and productivity and then also being human.
So how do you balance those things out when you’re having these conversations? Yes, I think you phrased it really well. That you’re all,
the way that we are all consumers. Right? So, uh, I think we, we rarely pay attention to our purchase processes and our consumption processes because. [00:12:00] Sometimes if, uh, in, in some exercises we have asked clients to emulate how they are making a purchase and they create this very linear and perfect path to a, uh, a purchase.
And actually, no, you click a Google ad several times. You see the same ad several times in different social media. And that’s why it’s very difficult to establish the attribution of which was the point that you made your decision. Um, it’s of course, important to check a few boxes, like on the credibility, the kind of cases that, that you have handled before your expertise in all these things that, you know, I’m much better.
I don’t, I don’t know exactly how, how those go, but it’s very important that you are able to create the course, tailor the content to the moment and mindset that, that you are. Uh, when you arrive to the site, you will also create cold. Uh, and design content [00:13:00] for the person that is actually returning there for a second time, that they want to know maybe about the history of the company, like you said, in your example of the shoes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That they’re at these different, I think that’s another thing. People don’t consider that there are people and there’s different phases of that decision. And depending on your practice area, I work with some people who do like DUI law. And they are working with people who are, you know, getting out of jail and they’re urgently looking for a lawyer probably on their phone.
And that is a totally different kind of decision than someone who doesn’t have a super urgent need. And there may be thinking about putting together a will. And they’ve been thinking about it for maybe a couple years and they’ve been reading some articles and then they’ve maybe come to your website and then they kind of meander through that path of the decision and they come back and they’re continuing to [00:14:00] need those reminders.
And, uh, just that encouragement along the way of that decision. So it really does depend as much as we all love to say that in the world of marketing and design, like, it really depends on. Who those clients are and what your practice area is for how that decision path looks, you know, depending on what, what their experiences.
I feel like if you’re not considering your clients and where they’re at in that moment, uh, you’re, you’re missing out completely. You are going to end up with a website that looks or any kind of online presence. That’s that looks very generic and isn’t addressing the questions that people are asking, and it’s just, it’s not really going to.
At the end of the day, it’s, it’s going to be those websites that a lot of people come to me with and say, you know, I don’t know why I’ve had this website. It’s been up there for five or six years and it’s not doing anything. And they think that’s just normal. That, that it should be that way. [00:15:00] And that’s how other lawyers websites are.
Um, anyway, th th I usually start by saying that’s not normal. It should be doing something. It should be, it should be helping your business. So, um, awesome. Well, what else, what else can lawyers do in terms of service design? So, you know, I think a lot of times we think of, uh, when we talk about just the utility of, of apple products, everybody’s always thinking about apple and Steve jobs and how they’re designed.
Is done in a way that’s very handy, but service design is, is harder. I think for people to get in their heads about how they, um, design when their business is doesn’t have a product. So how, how can lawyers think of that in, in terms of their law firm? Um, you definitely don’t need a, uh, concrete product in order to be very user centered.
Because, uh, the tangible [00:16:00] assets are, are your communication assets. And I was think that I would think that the great advantage that a lawyer has, uh, over the type of businesses that, um, sometimes we we deal with is that they have direct content with their, uh, contact with their. Yeah. It’s so often that management, uh, gets away from their end clients.
They never see them if you’re working a B corporation or, or even like on a retail chain, uh, it’s easier to lose contact and, and lawyers can do, uh, something that it would sound. I think that’s a very practical, uh, advice. It would some that it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t make a difference, but if in every encounter, The lawyer starts to understand, the need, uh, that triggered, your, pursuit to what made you arrive here?
Because [00:17:00] then we start a process that we call empathizing, and that is. much of a part of a lawyers work, which is to empathize personally. So it’s another advantage that, that I think the profession will have, you empathize so that you understand the basis of those needs the terms of those needs, how people phrase it in their minds, and also things like how people feel about themselves in a certain moment.
So for example, even if a person. is facing, the possibility of going to jail, that is such a fragile moment for someone it’s not just the service of a lawyer. If you can make explicit that you were a person, they can trust, you’re a person that can take care of them and you can infuse your communication with that feeling.
And on top of that, you make it easy for the person that. Be retained with you. You, what is your email? What is your phone number? Let’s talk, let’s [00:18:00] connect on WhatsApp. All these kinds of things start to create a very powerful, um, uh, structure that starts working to fulfill the, the exact need that person has in that exact time.
I think that’s great. So. Reiterate that just because I feel like it’s really valuable in terms of what a service design, how it translates to a law firm. So you were saying to start out with empathy and understanding that problem, and then convert that into a way that shows that client, that you really understand, and you’re meeting them at that moment.
And then also bring that through your process so that you’re building ease into your system so that they. Meet, you can meet their need in a simple way. And that can also communicate that you really understand what they need at that moment. And that can be very different from one practice area to the next as [00:19:00] well.
If you are talking to someone who is coming out of jail and they’re on their mobile device, and you’re building that into your website. You’re starting with the mobile design and you are putting a very simple, quick and easy contact form there, uh, on a mobile device that speaking to that, but we often will work with estate planning attorneys who are working with elder clients that is not going to be where those elder clients are coming in.
They are more likely going to want. An in-person meeting. They are probably not going to be contacting them on their mobile device. It’s going to be something. If they look at their website is probably going to be on a desktop and they are going to be having a completely different kind of interaction with the firm.
So understanding where they’re at at that moment. Building that, that ease of the system into that, that communicates to them that you really understand it and you’ve been through it and you’re the right person for them to [00:20:00] work with. Um, I feel like that’s so valuable. Yes, absolutely. Um, one, one other process that we have, uh, in the design user centric design processes is to, I like to first look at the database of the customer to.
Who are your customers? What is their profile, let’s say on, on your terms, even, uh, the ones that, um, require more time from you are the ones who are any, any kind of pattern that we can see is helpful. And then we can show the personas that help us to establish how to design the, the, the website, for example.
So you said like, um, like an elderly person, um, you can have. A lot of things that we’ll be able to guide them through your service. And even, uh, before your journey in the web, on the website, you can have, um, other [00:21:00] communications that are targeting, for example, uh, people with elderly parents, so that you start to, and that’s understanding the client holistically because you have seen them, you know, They are always accompanied by someone for example, or that they go to you through a phone call and then you start facilitating.
That’s why maybe ties to the beginning of our conversation, that there is no way of knowing all these things from Virgin. Exactly exactly. And you need to go through those steps to make sure. Uh, and then oftentimes you go through the steps, you launch a design or a project, and then you continue to learn how it’s being used so that you can refine it and Polish it and make it better as it’s being used as well.
So, you know, even before you launch to think that you might know six months down the. It’s probably not very likely. So Sergio tell me what you’re reading and [00:22:00] what book you have to recommend. Yeah. Um, I, since my second kid was born, uh, they are, uh, six years old and two years old and they’re actually liking in top-notch behavior today, hovering in the background.
That’s amazing. Um, I have been listening to a lot of audio books. Um, yeah, it became kind of a habit for me. Um, I have read a couple of books lately that I would, I didn’t like them so much. Uh, so we’re not going to recommend, recommend those specifics, but, um, I would think that the latest, uh, Steven Pinker book was good, uh, rational.
I think it’s, yeah, it’s, it’s a little bit like the essentials. Uh, but I think it’s important because I believe the, the book was set out to, [00:23:00] um, help us all to, with this process where people are making decision and forming opinions without any basis on, on rationality. And this is something we kind of desperate.
You need to, uh, get back to the status quo. Yeah, definitely. That sounds fantastic. I love the, the process of how we make decisions and how we, we don’t even recognize how much of our own human, uh, you know, our, our human faults that we’re bringing in to that decision making process. And, and we are really impacted.
It’s not rational often. Oftentimes we’re kind of, you know, making very emotional decisions. well, Sergio to verus is the lead designer at frog Helsinki, by the way. Thank you so much for joining us from Helsinki. This has been a great, you know, span across time zones, uh, and frog Helsinki is a global consultancy design and tech group.
Thank you again so much for being here today. I really appreciate your time. [00:24:00] This was a fantastic conversation. I love talking about this stuff.
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The SPARCS conference was a unique opportunity for people to hear directly from researchers; not restrained by an interviewer, the PIs were able to present their research in whatever way they felt was important. Researchers don’t often get to talk directly to the public and I can’t think of a case where such a distinguished line-up has ever gotten to do so – and FREE!
I was glad the presenters spoke not just about their work but also about how science in general; how it is done and not done. Most people rarely get to peek behind the curtains, to witness the internal discussions, the disagreements, the problems that come up and the fights that take place.
So with the conference still fresh in mind, and before World Cup fever and Yellow Jersey fever combine to render me senseless and wipe everything from memory, I thought I’d re-iterate a few important points about science.
Hypothesis and Falsification
In 1861 Darwin wrote, “About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!”
The importance of a working hypothesis hasn’t gone away, without that guidance one might as well count pebbles, but that’s not always the case. Ethologists might record and codify behavior into ethograms and only make sense of it after the fact, automated data mining, heuristic knowledge discovery and similar research can also proceed without a hypothesis. However, for the topic of canine behavior, the traditional format still generally applies.
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”- With this simple statement Darwin put forth a way for anyone to falsify his theory of evolution.
This sentiment is mostly true; falsification is how we know it is time to dump an idea for something better. It is important not to confuse a theory’s inability to explain X as an indication the hypothesis/theory is false. Incompleteness isn’t falsification – all scientific ideas are incomplete and there really is no way of ever knowing if any idea is completely true.
Science requires a systematic approach to observation and the system used is described by the method. The methodology describes what we observe, how we observe and how we measure it. This is different from anecdotes, folklore or casual observations; that’s the realm of Yeti, Cesar Millan and guilty looks.
The issue came up a couple of times during the presentations; bad methods lead to unreliable results. Moreover, it’s not only ‘bad’ methods that can lead to problems; validation is also important.
Various presenters emphasized the importance of validation, something that is an ongoing concern in behavioral biology. It’s all well and good to say a dog attacked a rubber hand placed in its food bowl, it a whole other thing to claim this is a valid test for resource guarding. Conclusion based on non-validated assessments have life-and-death implications for shelter dogs who may be deemed unadoptable based on non-validated behavior tests.
Validation is how we know we are measuring what we think we are measuring.
RIKEN, a world-class research institute in Japan is currently in a deep crisis. Dr. Haruko Obokata, one of their researchers published an apparent breakthrough but there was a problem, no other lab could repeat her success. It led to an investigation, censure and finally her concession to retract the papers in question. [Personal note: I think Obokata was inexperienced and somewhat incompetent but her senior collaborators were also at fault yet they’ve been spared of any blame]
Dr. Gabois recounted the case with a “genius” dog whose performance dropped to chance after the departure of one of the students. The failure to replicate earlier results led them to take a closer look at the how they were conducting the experiment and they were able to find the source of the problem and tighten up their procedures.
If it only works once, it doesn’t work. And it’s not science.
The law of parsimony demands we adopt an explanation with the least assumptions over one with more assumptions. There is a mathematical justification for parsimony; every parameter introduced has a degree of uncertainty, which may be known, or unknown (the 9th circle of statistical hell is Bayesian) and the more complex the explanation the more uncertainty it carries. There is also a practical reason; simpler explanations are easier to test.
There no guarantee the simplest explanation is the correct explanation. Parsimony is the go-to method because the alternative results in an ever-expanding number of possibilities, the complexity of which is only limited by imagination.
The SPARCS2014 filler clip had Dr. Wynne making an obvious observation, scientists disagree. Unfortunately, the only time most people see it is under the contrived conditions fabricated by sensational media. It usually involves politicizing topics where they pit science against pretend science of climate deniers, anti-vaxxers, creationists, etc. Like Dr. Wynne, I am referring to scientific disagreements.
I often think that for scientists, the next best thing to coming up with a new discovery is demonstrating someone else is wrong. Criticism isn’t the product of pettiness or vindictiveness (mostly) but rather because when it comes to our own specialty, we are very fussy about details.
Cosmologists are currently battling the recent conclusions that came out of BICEP2 and whether the authors really found signals of cosmic inflation. Under peer-review and facing pressure from cosmologists, the authors changed their definitive statement to acknowledge the signal they detected may have been a background artefact. Other teams are working to resolve the problem.
Criticism –that means SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM, not sophistry, personal incredulity or ideological dogma – is vitally important to science and it cultivates the advancement of knowledge.
We Don’t Need “Ultimate” Answers
Mathematician Richard Courant wrote: “To renounce the goal of comprehending the “thing itself” of knowing the “ultimate truth,” of unraveling the innermost essence of the world, may be a psychological hardship for the naive enthusiasts, but in fact it was one of the most fruitful turns in modern thinking”
Naïve people often want/ expect science to provide ultimate (not Tinbergen’s ultimate) answers; science can’t do that. None of the presenters ever pretended they has solved or figured out the “essence” of dogs/behavior/emotion/whatever; that is because scientists are not essentialists. We don’t need to know the intrinsic, essential nature of a thing – gravity, behavior, genetics – to study it and understand some aspect of it. Science can only ask a specific question about a specific phenomenon which is why science don’t talk about ‘essence’ (how Aristotelian!) and focuses on specifics.
Share your Knowledge
Dr. Udell observed that science is a process; I would add that it is an open-ended and never-ending process. Science builds on previous knowledge, something long recognized by its practitioners; Newton made this clear over 300 years ago when he wrote, “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Science advances because we share what we learn. Sharing also extends to providing a platform and assistance to the next generation of researchers. Science is hard, research is even harder; it is a skill that requires time to develop and best learned under senior guidance. The importance and impact of mentor was evident in the high quality presentations by the crop of new researchers.
In my mind, sharing should also extend to the data; something behavioral researchers haven’t yet embraced. I hope canine researchers take a cue from researchers who make their datasets freely available and those who study animal behavior get on board with the movement to make raw data available with all papers, not only for transparency to keep the data from disappearing.
“Be Less Wrong”
Galileo was less wrong than Kepler. Newton was less wrong than Galileo. Einstein was less wrong than Newton but Einstein was still wrong and there remains a discrepancy between his calculations and reality.
One of my first tweets during the #SPARCS2014 was a quote paraphrased from Churchill; I tweeted:
“Science is the worst method to learn about the universe, except for all the others we’ve tried.”
Scientists cannot provide us with the truth with a capital T, that’s the realm of philosophy and religion. As a scientist I don’t have to be “right” to advance human knowledge, all I have to do is be less wrong than those who came before me.
Science is not a perfect method it’s just the best we have; it cannot provide perfect answers but we can still be less wrong if we stick to scientific principles.
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The IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran sailed by Francis Joyon, Bertrand Delesne, Christophe Houdet, Antoine Blouet and Corentin Joyon completed the Tea Route voyage between Hong Kong and London this morning (Wednesday 19th February).
The boat crossed the finish under the QE II Bridge which spans the Thames at 07:37:33 hrs UTC.
Their race time, which is the new record time over this distance is 31 days, 23 hours, 36 minutes and 46 seconds.
They have beaten the record previously held by the Italian skipper, Giovanni Soldini (Maserati) by 4 days, 3 hours, 0 minutes and 26 seconds. Between Hong Kong and London, IDEC SPORT covered 15873 miles averaging 20.7 knots.
More information later this morning…
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Société Anonyme – A secret Michelin-starred pop-up
Want access to Ibiza’s best-kept dining secret this September? Foodies and lovers of luxury, listen up. From September 8 to 27, 2015, Société Anonyme hosts a world first gastronomic event in Ibiza, with the hottest Michelin-starred chef line-up, performing back-to-back, at a secret island location…
Société Anonyme, or the Anonymous Society, is an exciting new Dutch concept, working with renowned Michelin star chefs to create intimate food fiestas, and one-of-a-kind dining experiences, in stunning locations, for a handful of guest who are in-the-know. A must for all gourmands, the private pop-up dining club combines ‘superior service, first class cuisine, and a speakeasy vibe for like-minded people’.
With the abundance of fine food lovers, plus the luxury lifestyle, cosmopolitan vibe, and the island’s legendary free spirit, Ibiza has all the ingredients to host the first ever Société Anonyme. In-keeping with the jet set lifestyle, five of the best Dutch Michelin star chefs will fly over, back to back, to create their own sublime signature tasting menu for the event. Using only a very simple kitchen and fresh local produce, each chef will get the chance to showcase their skills via the creation of a divine fine dining tasting menu from the heart of Ibiza; home grown and made with love.
Meet the Société Anonyme chefs
Ron Blaauw*: Makes the ordinary extraordinary. Tired of his lavish two Michelin star restaurant, Ron began working on a new concept two years ago – making simple, unpretentious food, a first class experience, with new ventures including Gastro Bar, Hot Dog and Oriental Gastro. Always looking for a new challenge, at Société Anonyme he’ll make the day-to-day divine.
Erik van Loo**: Eating is an emotional experience. With experience at a number of first class restaurants including Parkheuvel, Erik adheres to the three p’s – perfection, produce and people. Erik believes food is not the just the way to a man’s heart, but taste is one of human’s deepest emotions. Tasting Erik’s menu at Société Anonyme is sure to be an evocative and memorable experience.
Edwin Vinke**: The joys of eating. Edwin runs the successful two-star restaurant De Kromme Watergang in the province of Zeeland. Far from just being functional, Edwin believes it is the combination of food, friends and flavours coming together, which make eating a joyous experience. Join him at the pop-up for a unique adventure with food, friends and family.
Soenil Bahadoer**: French fusion. Experimental and exotic, the exuberant Surinam born Soenil from De Lindehof excels in fusing traditional French Cuisine with the flavours from his tropical roots. Enjoy an explosion of flavours in every mouthful with his international Ibiza-themed menu.
Fred Mustert**: No nonsense, just great food. Born in Gouda and with a namesake two Michelin star restaurant, Fred Mustert lets the food speak for itself, using quality products to create standout dishes. Famed for his expensive taste, expect haute cuisine with Ibiza’s finest ingredients at Société Anonyme.
A secret dining club for food enthusiasts, by food enthusiasts, join the anonymous society to be part of an unmissable culinary event. Guests can enjoy the ever evolving and exclusive tasting menu, including a drink pairing for 250€ per person. Places are limited, so be quick! Join now before Société Anonyme move their luxury headquarters.
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German, 1880 - 1955
Bauhaus, manufacturer (Weimar)
Chess set, 1923
Box: H. 5 1/8 x W. 5 1/8 x D. 2 1/4 in.
Designed by Josef Hartwig, this celebrated chess set sold very well when it was first introduced in the early 1920s. Although the sets were officially produced by the Bauhaus in Weimar, they were actually handmade by a carpenter who had lost his job in a piano factory. The chess set and other Bauhaus commissions enabled him to start his own firm.
The simple geometrical designs of the Hartwig pieces indicate how they can be moved. While initially well received, the sets were not made for long. Today, the official pieces sanctioned by the International Chess Federation are the more traditional Staunton figures.
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After seeing other artists display miniature versions of their artwork encased in resin, I really wanted to make my own. I did a bit of research, and made a lot of mistakes (my first batch went straight in the trash can...ouch), but learned and practiced enough that I actually make pretty decent key chains now. Here's my method, and I hope this helps you out if you're on the fence about making your own!
What You'll Need :
- metal bezels, or similar material to house the art (I got mine from Amazon.)
- clear epoxy resin (you can use something like Ice Resin that comes in a plunger, very easy to use but not the cheapest option, or Art Resin, or any similar two part mix. It just needs to be non-yellowing and hard when it cures.)
- your artwork (I printed mine on my home printer on card stock paper)
- Mod Podge (original matte is fine, but you probably want to avoid the "hard coat" version)
- scissors (for trimming your art down to size)
- paint brush
- mixing cups and craft sticks
Preparing Your Art
To start, print off several copies of your chosen artwork in the correct sizes. I used 1x1 and 2x1 bezels, so I cropped my artwork to fit that size. It's okay if it's not spot on, you'll be able to trim them down to fit in the bezels later.
Apply two coats of Mod Podge to the paper over the artwork and let it dry. Then flip it over and Mod Podge the back, as well. You want a good coating to protect the ink from the resin (trust me on this one).
After the Mod Podge has dried, cut out your art to size for the bezels. Trim excess as needed. I tried to make sure when I trimmed, my artwork was still centered within the frame. Avoid using art that looks smudged or has particles stuck to the Mod Podge. I had a thread sneak it's way in on one of my tiny prints, so that one got tossed!
In your bezel, apply a good coat of Mod Podge and press the artwork into the frame. Use the tip of your scissors or even your fingernail to press the paper into the corners and along the sides well. Apply three coats of Mod Podge along the edge of the bezel to seal the sides of the paper. This will help keep the resin from discoloring the paper.
Mixing The Resin
This is the hardest part, to me. If your mix is off at all, your resin won't cure properly (and never will). The best way I've found to make sure you're getting an even mixture is to mark your bottles. When you pour out the resin, take note of where your levels are at, and try to get the same level when you pour in the hardener. Using measured mixing cups also helps, but personally I prefer the bottle marking method.
Mix your resin according to package directions and pour it on your dried, thoroughly coated bezel frame. You'll see some bubbles but that's okay! Poke them out with a needle or use a lighter to pop them. Make sure your resin permits this, first! If it does, lightly pass the flame over the bezel until the bubbles are gone (thank you, Instagram user lady_beluga, for this tip!!).
Cover up your frames to keep dust and other particles from falling into your curing resin! Nothing worse than admiring your new key chain only to see an eyelash stuck in it or something.
Check your work often during the first 30-45 minutes. If your Mod Podging wasn't good enough, and you see some discoloration happening, quickly scrape the resin out into a disposable cup, remove the art and clean the bezel frame. Personally, I'd rather replace resin than replace resin AND a bezel. You can clean the bezel out with a paper towel, some baby oil, and plain soap and water.
Depending on the resin, you should have a full cure in 48 hours. Check your directions for details on that. If your resin is hard, congrats, you didn't screw it up! If it's soft, well... practice makes perfect, right? (Don't feel bad, I threw away 13 bezel frames on my first attempt. Can't get worse than that, right?)
So now that you know how to make durable resin key chains of your art, when are you going to start? Good luck to you! I'd love to see your finished product, so send me a link in the comments!
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Ernie Ball 7-String Regular Slinky .010-.056 2621 Nickel Wound Electric Strings
The list of musicians who use Ernie Ball strings to make music reads like the who's who in contemporary music history
The story of the Slinky itself deserves its own place in rock and roll history. In the early 60s rock and roll guitar was exploding. More and more people came in to buy a set of guitar strings from Ernie Ball's music store, throwing away the sixth string, and then buying a banjo first string. This caused every string in the set to be much thinner. Ernie thought there should be a rock & roll string set packaged with these lighter gauges. "... I called (Fender) to explain my idea; and again, he reported back that Leo Fender wouldn't discuss it. Then I contacted the people at the Gibson guitar company and tried to talk them into making Rock & Roll strings, but they thought it was a lousy idea. OK; if you guys won't do it, then I really will! And that's how I came up with the first set of Slinky strings."
All Ernie Ball strings share the classic simplicity, solid reliability, elegant function, and fair price that are synonymous with the name Ernie Ball. These are Ernie's "Regular Slinky" strings. Made from nickel plated steel wire wrapped around tin plated hex shaped steel core wire. By far the most popular, produces well balanced all around good sound.
- Type: Electric, 7-String
- Gauge: .010 .013 .017 .026 .036 .046 .056
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Western Sydney striker Brendon Santalab hailed his side's resilience after they strengthened their grip on a place in the Hyundai A-League Finals Series with a comprehensive win over Wellington Phoenix on Sunday.
The 3-1 victory at Spotless Stadium came just four days after a hard-fought 3-2 win away at FC Seoul in the Asian Champions League.
The side only arrived back in Sydney on Friday, but were by far the better team in a game billed as the quintessential six-pointer.
“It's been a wonderful week," Santalab told Fox Sports after his brace of goals sealed the points.
"We haven't won two games in a row for a long time. It's something that we've been building.
"It's never easy going overseas and coming back and backing up after a few days so the performance tonight was pleasing and a brave one from the boys."
The win saw the sixth-placed Wanderers open a five-point gap over their Phoenix with just four regular season rounds remaining.
"This win has come at a great time for us, in a time of desperation really to finally clinch that top six spot.
“We're not there yet, but close enough and it's great to back up after a great performance in Seoul.
"It just shows where we're at and we'll go into the finals full of confidence and whoever we play, we'll go into the game in top form.
"It's a nice feeling."
The Wanderers dominated the opening exchanges, peppering Glen Moss's goal before Argentinean striker Nico Martinez opened the scoring in the ninth minute.
"It was our intention to come out strong but I didn't think we'd have so many chances within the first 15 minutes. I was just waiting for one to hit the net so we could roll on with it," said Santalab.
"It was nice to get three but I thought we could have had five or six tonight quite easily."
Santalab's brace took him to 29 goals in the Hyundai A-League, one more than club legend Mark Bridge.
"I think I've overtaken Bridgey now so I'm delighted with that. He was an unbelievable servant for the club so it's a great honour for me to be the top goalscorer at this club.
"I'm very proud."
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They are those that provide invaluable lessons and insights to make you successful in business and help you grow as a person. Sometimes, those podcasts just simply encourage you to finally let go of fear and make your dreams into a reality. But the best of them all are the ones that tell you how to do it in a clear and concise manner.
Here are seven of the most notable and must-listen-to podcasts that talk about tech, finance, management, and everything in the business world.
1. Business Mistakes
Business Mistakes might be considered a newcomer among the more seasoned podcasts, but it has been making an impact and building a solid following base. In fact, it has become No. 1 within 48 hours after it was launched and continues to occupy the top spot of business podcasts on iTunes.
The show allows its guest to reveal their most vulnerable moments by admitting the mistake that has turned their lives around. However, the confession doesn't stop there but it delves further by letting the guests talk about the lessons they've learned from the experience as well as the steps they have taken to lift themselves up from that difficult situation. The podcast aims to show its audience that all mistakes have a second chance, and every problem has a solution.
2. Smart Passive Income
Smart Passive Income is an offshoot of Pat Flynn's blog with the same name. What makes the blog and the podcast phenomenal is that it has become Pat's source of income providing him with a six-figure salary every month.
Through the podcast and the blog, he shares his experience how he was able to do that giving his followers insights where to find passive generated income online. Aside from that, he also provides actionable marketing tips and blogging strategies to make the most out of your business.
3. The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss is considered as the top-performing show in the podcast world with Hollywood A-listers as guests including Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Favreau, Edward Norton, and Pixar president Ed Catmull. It is considered as the No. 1 show in iTunes and has been included in the Best of 2014 and Best of 2015 lists in iTunes.
What makes the show popular is the wide range of subject it tackles - from business to culture while providing unique insights to its audience to help them with their business and their lives.
How do you start a business when you have no money? This is the eye-catching sentence that begins the introduction of the Foundation podcast. The show does not fall short of its question because it indeed delivers the challenge it has posed. What makes the Foundation a valuable podcast is the Action Guide it provides after each show so that you will exactly copy the strategies and processes the guest entrepreneurs have used.
5. APM: Marketplace
The Marketplace is a show produced and distributed by the American Public Media. If you want to know the latest and daily happening in business and finance in the domestic and international scene, then the Marketplace is your go-to hub. The show is broadcast by nearly 800 radio stations across the United States and has 12 million followers.
Want to learn from the masters? Then EntreLeadership is a good place to start if you want to learn more valuable and actionable business insights. EntreLeadership believes that learning, especially if you are a leader, never stops.
Aside from training leaders, the podcast also encourages you to begin thinking as a leader. It has big names in business as their guests providing words of wisdom for seasoned or first-time business people. Some of their guests include Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, and Simon Sinek.
7. The Growth Show
The Growth Show is about, you guess, growth. Whether you want to grow your business, your team, or your idea, the Growth Show provides you with resources to make them flourish and productive. Brought to you by HubSpot, the podcast features a person who has been able to achieve remarkable growth in their chosen endeavor. But the best part of it is the guests providing you with clear steps how to achieve that growth.
8. $100 MBA
What the $100 MBA encourages its audience is to stop thinking and start making those ideas into reality. However, founder Omar Zehron understands how difficult it is to do that; thus he provides invaluable lessons and methods how to start your business easier.
Armed with 14 years of business experience and 13 years as an educator, Omar provides practical business lessons, such as managing risks in your business, creating a system in your business, time management, and many more. The podcasts are only 10 minutes long allowing even the busiest people to listen to golden nuggets of business and growth.
9. Manager Tools
Manager Tools is a multi-awarded podcast established by Michael Auzenne and Mark Horstman. It is an extension of their management consulting and training firm. The goal of the company is to make every 'manager effective and every professional productive.'
With an understanding that being a manager and building a career are two different things, it categorizes its podcasts into these two. Its Manager Tools podcast provide practical insights for managers that include the hiring process as well as managing the team. For its Career Tools podcast, it tells its audience how to get ahead of your career.
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Is the Sharing Economy dead? A recent Fast Company post said so – driving home the point with the tag “We Killed It.”
We’re not so sure. The sharing economy, based on transactions whose participants share access to services and products rather than owning them individually, may have its share of individual misses. But the ethos behind it – namely, that people want alternatives to the buy-it-all, seize-the-profit approach of decades past – still seems solid. Rachel Botsman, coauthor of The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, predicts the Sharing Economy will bring in $110 billion in revenues this year. A full 65 percent of consumers believe society would be better off if people owned less and shared more, according to Havas. And 78 percent of Millennials indicate they’d rather spend money on experiences than products.
So maybe sharing isn’t dead. What’s more likely is that the sharing economy is taking time to find its way. Is this really surprising? As any three-year-old will tell you, sharing is hard. And if that’s true in principle, then making a business out of sharing is surely harder – fraught with miscommunication; logistical and inventory problems; and the unavoidable potential for bad actors.
Thus, the social tool-sharing networks that first symbolized this movement have fallen on hard times. Fast Company reports that seven of eight early players in that space are now gone, including Ecomodo, Crowd Rent, Share Some Sugar, Thingloop, OhSoWe and SnapGoods. Gone too are a slew of other hotly-conceived sharing sites that pioneered the sharing economy. Meanwhile, even big names like Über and Airbnb must fight regulatory battles in order to continue operating.
What’s our takeaway? Sharing is still a winning idea, but it’s only as good as its bones. If your car-sharing concept can’t minimize the risk of someone driving off with your clients’ beloved vehicles, it’s not going to sustain critical mass. Are people eager to lend their hard-earned funds to neighbors in need of a little money? Perhaps. But in this context, wouldn’t infrastructure be reassuring? Wouldn’t one like to see, say, legal paperwork that spells out obligations and consequences?
Sharing economy champion Lisa Gansky – author of The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing and THINK 15 alum – observes that credit unions could be the ultimate hybrid of sharing and structure. While credit unions don’t require members to warm up to a new, touchy-feely brand of banking, they do offer a true alternative to profit-driven banks. That’s good, because if the sharing economy is going to survive, it’s going to have to meld with the old-school notion of feasibility. Sharing isn’t dead: It’s iterating.
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The flex-eboard with flexible deck and battery case, interchangeable 100mm rough stuff pu wheels and multiple deck choice. fancy a new deck shape or road wheels instead? just swap them out! launching on #kickstarter soon.
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Pyrogerg <gregory(dot)penn(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I did as you suggested and obtained the same results as before.
> gpennhost:bin postgres$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data -l /usr/local/pgsql/data/logfile start
> server starting
> gpennhost:bin postgres$ createdb test
> createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to
> server: No such file or directory
> Is the server running locally and accepting
> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
> gpennhost:bin postgres$
What appears in the logfile? Also, where are you seeing the message
quoted in your Subject?
regards, tom lane
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Shipping & Returns
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We will gladly accept returns for items purchased from sugarpill.com and issue a full refund (excluding shipping) on all unused, unopened merchandise in original packaging. Customers are responsible for the return shipping fee, which is non-refundable. Items must be postmarked within fourteen (14) days of receipt for a full refund. Items returned after 14 days or that appear to be used will be eligible for store credit. Items purchased using that store credit are final sale and may not be returned again.
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So that we can better assist you, please title the subject of your email "Order return" and include your order number when contacting us.
We do not offer exchanges at this time. However, you may return your order for a refund and place a new order at your convenience.
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LOST OR STOLEN PACKAGES:
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Aether Psychics, Book 4 (last in series but can be read as a stand-alone)
The only place to hide could be behind the truth.
No one can lie to Louisa Cobb. It’s her gift. Her curse. Magic her stepfather has no compunction about using to gain the upper hand in business. But when Parnaby Cobb presents her with her latest mark, she realizes he’s testing her loyalty.
Her target is Patrick O’Connell, an Irish tinkerer and scoundrel who stole a kiss—and her heart—years ago. Should she betray her stepfather to set Patrick free, she’ll be cut off without a penny to her name.
Patrick knows exactly he’s been captured, why he’s struggling to lie into Louisa’s sky-blue eyes. He’s invented a device to stabilize and direct the mysterious Eros Element. If he fails to recreate it for Cobb, his closest friends’ happiness will be at risk.
Back in Boston, as Patrick stalls for time and Louisa uncovers secrets of her tragic past, the two of them engage in a treacherous dance on the edge of love and danger. Where one wrong step could condemn them both to everlasting heartache—and unleash an unimaginably powerful force that could destroy their world.
Holly Fraser has known nothing but loss in her short life and now finds herself the lone carer of her younger brother. With financial difficulties piling high she accepts a job from the mysterious, yet devastatingly attractive, Sergei Petrov. Sergei is a born immortal vampire who is often misunderstood, mostly due to his happy-go-lucky nature and ability to create chaos from good intentions. Recent events have left him disheartened, yet a chance meeting at a funeral (of all places) fills Sergei with hope that a happy future may await him after all. But withholding the truth rarely ends well and a shock revelation could destroy everything. Does Holly have the resilience she needs to be Sergei’s Angel? Or are neither destined to find their Heaven?
Thief of Sanguardia
by Cherie Marks
His otherworldly charm isn’t an act.
Kaia Skipwith is having a very bad Monday. A reformed thief who has to pull one last job in New York City to save her sister, she must bring some barely-guarded, ancient artifact to the Seagate Building in Manhattan by midnight Saturday, she’ll never see her sister again. An in-the-bag finale for an experienced B&E expert such as herself. Yet, not more than five minutes into the job, alarms blare and police cars screech up. She grabs the creepy key with a skeleton emblem—a literal skeleton key—looks up at the doors in front of her, and gets the strangest feeling that she’ll be safe on the other side of that door.
Zegorie Fay of Clan Montgomerie has taken charge of the Vampire Army, and though he knows his duty, he no longer knows why he fights. War has been raging in Sanguardia for as long as he can remember. Battle-worn and searching for meaning in his existence, he gets distracted in a most unusual way. The minute he sees her, he knows she’s trouble. For one, she’s the most attractive female he’s ever seen. For another, she’s clearly human, enemy to the vampires and bringers of war. But, above all, he senses something special about her, something…otherworldly. He must possess her secrets.
Resist – A Vampire Blood Courtesans Romance
by Tami Lund
My sister has disappeared into the shadowy vampire world of Blood Courtesans, where blood and sex are money, and humans are sold to the highest bidder.
I’m Anya, and I hate vampires. They killed my aunt. And now they’ve stolen my sister. I can’t let her die, so I head to Chicago to track her down.
Before I can find her, I’m assaulted by two human thugs, and of all the luck, a vampire comes to my rescue. Cam is sexy as sin with an accent that melts panties, and he hasn’t eaten in far too long. And now he’s offering to help track down my sister… no strings attached.
The Blood Courtesans Series, where vampires are real, rich, powerful–and hungry. Blood is bought and sold like fine wine, and the best blood goes to the highest bidder.
It’s not supposed to be about love … until it is.
Emma is the author of The Sanguinary Series. She is owned by three small dogs. Loves reading (probably about Vampires) and gaming (sometimes involving vampires). Can often be found binging Netflix shows. Owns more than one 'Crazy Dog Lady' t-shirt. Probably because it's true, she most definitely is one.
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Rob Beschizza at 12:14 pm Thu, Jan 26, 2012
ADVERTISE AT BOING BOING!
This splendid work, by Aurich Lawson, is a perfect aperitif for Sean Gallagher's wonderful article about the ridiculous but astoundingly successful con artist, Quake cheat and entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.
Christ, what an asshole.
C’mon, the man’s like a black hat superhero. He could be “nerdzilla”
All the money in the world can’t buy class. In fact it may distract you from ever understanding what class is…
I’m sure Mitt Romney can afford class at an income of 50K/day.
This is what happenes when germans attempt to develope a sense of humor.
Boy what a likeable fellow
There’s a great history of the Pen & Pixel aesthetic this borrows from here:
To be clear the piece was utterly an homage to Pen & Pixel. There’s a great interview with the founder here if you haven’t seen it: http://www.abcdrduson.com/interviews/feature-vo.php?id=197&p=1
Glad you enjoyed Rob, thanks. It’s only a pity you linked to the Wired version, as they just reposted it from the original at Ars Technica. :)
Fixed! Sorry about that.
Yeah what an asshole! How dare he set up a website which millions of people used and enjoyed for free.
I totally hate this guy because that’s what the mainstream media wants me to think about him. Nice work on the sheeple act everyone.
methinks you may not be familiar with this character or his past adventures/escapades. This guy is fully deserving of mockery, completely independent of recent developments (in fact there is no mention of the website you refer to in this post).
He’s been getting a lot of media attention here in NZ – this was in this morning’s paper
straight kingpin son! I want to hate this guy but his smart ass face makes me lol.
I hope he goes to jail for a long, long time. Not for the whole megaupload fiasco but for his well-known and wide-spread douchebaggery in Quake 2, including massive aimbotting and DDOS’ing a server host because he got his ass beat by a little girl.
Hear Hear! straight-up aimbotting or wall-hacking is just way too obvious and is usually just a fu manoevure as far as QL goes, I missed the whole spectacle of online Q2, so can’t speak to that.
It’s the sneaky sob’s that throttle the hack to make it appear to be good aiming ‘just-at-the-last-moment’ or near prescient, prediction abilities that really manage to destroy the market, I mean game.
I always wondered what became of Augustus Gloop after the Wonka incident.
WOW, talk bout a blast from the past. Was a glorious time for on line gaming. The old Planetquake was a blast. Spent many a hour on Quake 2.
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Oh, this makes me so sad. Tony Alleyne, the trekkie, club DJ, and "house-modder" who redesigned his British flat to be a faithful replica of the Starship Enterprise?
It's not hard to see why Bloomberg Businessweek chose not to run with this remarkable illustration of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Marko Manev creates minimalist posters celebrating Marvel superheroes. "Minimal Marvel Posters by Marko Manev" (Juxtapoz)
Xeni Jardin at 12:01 pm Thu, Jan 26, 2012
Rob Beschizza at 11:39 am Thu, Jan 26, 2012
David Pescovitz at 11:24 am Thu, Jan 26, 2012
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Floridians and Hurricanes
By Kelly Dean
“Aren’t you worried about Hurricanes?”
I hear this a great deal, especially as rainy season approaches. In fact, it’s one of the top two questions I hear from folks up north when they visit here — in the dry season, of course.
Hurricanes are tough, no doubt about it, but Floridians view them quite differently. Weathercasters up north spend considerable airtime talking about them — but down here, they are tracking them every single day from the moment they are born, generally off the coast of western Africa. When they earn a “name” they are tracked by our weather folks daily on the local news.
This attention is both fortunate and often tedious, as it takes quite a while for a hurricane to reach North America from the mid Atlantic. The cliché that Floridians party when a hurricane approaches is hyperbole, of course. Even when a hurricane blows by at a distance, there’s still plenty of hard rain and wind, which is not exactly enjoyable. But Floridians don’t generally let storms disrupt their lives until they get close. Then, they begin keeping a sideways eye on the track. The daily reporting merely strengthens the resolve to not dwell on things one can’t control – until it’s needed. Folks often have most of their hurricane plans and kits already prepared from the previous year.
Although isolated tornadoes happen in Florida and often accompany hurricanes, they are not generally of the magnitude one sees in the Midwestern states. They don’t need to be; after all, we have hurricanes instead, right? The best way to think of a hurricane is like a strong tornado that goes on for hours rather than minutes. But unlike tornadoes, we get warnings well in advance.
So hurricanes are something we live with as a cost of living in “paradise,” as the tropics are often called. Paradise might also be a bit of hyperbole too at times. But storms aren’t something we think about all the time. Hurricane season is only six months long anyway, from June to November. I’m not making light of hurricanes, but they must be viewed in proper context, not as click-bait for fear mongers.
By the way, the second-most asked question: What are those round things floating in a row in the water? Answer: they’re crab trap floats.
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Application of Pinch Technology in Refinery Retrofits
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1987-09)
This paper reviews the application of pinch technology in the identification of the most attractive retrofit prospects in typical refineries. In the first part of the paper, methodology is described to identify ...
Alternatives to Industrial Cogeneration: A Pinch Technology Perspective
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1988-09)
Pinch Technology studies across a broad spectrum of processes confirm that existing plants typically consume 15-40% more thermal energy than they should. Consequently, many cogeneration schemes have been based on ...
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Sentence increased in fatal collision
CONCORD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire man who asked that his sentence for negligent homicide be reduced instead saw his sentence increase.
Jack Webb pleaded guilty in 2006 to negligent homicide in the death of 19-year-old Katelyn Contraros in a drunken-driving crash in Windham.
Webb asked last month for his sentence of seven years to be reduced, but the Sentence Review Board voted 2-1 to increase his sentence to 7 1/4 to 15 years, plus an indefinite loss of his license.
Webb's attorneys argued that the average sentence for similar crimes was four to eight years.
Contraros' relatives spoke out against him in court last month.
Prosecutors said that Webb's blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit at the time of the collision.
Information from: WMUR-TV, http://www.thewmurchannel.com/index.html
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Commitment beyond technology
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Phone: 847-270-9900 ext. 4440
Degrees and Certifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education & Psychology Master's Degree in Teaching & Leadership
Mrs. Tanya Kolb
My name is Tanya Kolb and I have been teaching at Ellis school for 19 years. My first two years at Ellis were spent teaching Title 1 reading and I have been teaching first grade for 17 years.
I am a lifelong Round Lake resident. I attended the Round Lake schools and graduated from Round Lake High School. My husband and I live in the Round Lake area and enjoy our community. My daughter recently graduated from Lake Forest College and will begin student teacher in August at the high school level.
I enjoy spending time with my family as well as watch movies, go for walks, and listen to music. I am a huge Wonder Woman fan--come check out my workspace:)
I went to college at Barat College in Lake Forest where I received my Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education & Psychology. I then went on to recieve my Master's Degree in Teaching & Leadership from Saint Xavier College.
I am excited to work with the students here at Ellis school! My students always hold a special place in my heart and I always refer to them as "my kids". My door is always open!
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
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Summary: Tattoos can seem like a great idea at the time. But as you grow older, they might devolve into something more like an eyesore. This happens for all kinds of reasons—maybe your tastes have changed, maybe the tattoo has faded, and so on. New technology has allowed plastic and cosmetic surgeons to remove unwanted tattoos much more successfully, with far fewer remnants left behind.
Ink and Regret
What were you thinking? If you ask yourself that question every day when you look down at the tattoos on your arms, it might be time for a laser tattoo removal procedure. Yes, tattoos are supposed to be permanent—and in many cases, they are. It’s also true that cultural attitudes towards tattoos are changing. But that doesn’t mean that tattoo of a dragon (or butterfly, or sun, or kanji) on your arm won’t keep you from getting the job you want.
It may be even more basic than that. Maybe you just don’t like looking at that tattoo anymore. Maybe it isn’t who you are after all these years. If you got a tattoo to make a statement, and that statement simply isn’t what you want to say anymore, it can be a pain to keep it covered all the time. The best solution for this problem is laser tattoo removal.
Laser Tattoo Removal
It’s not a perfect process. There are some patients that are left with a little pigmentation in the end, a little discoloration. But the success rate—and by success, we mean getting rid of the whole tattoo, with no pigmentation left—is now near 90%. That said, it could take multiple sessions to return your skin to as close to normal as possible.
The laser, essentially, burns off the very top layer of your skin. While it won’t leave scarring (as pre-laser tattoo removal procedures did), you will need to care for the wound to prevent infections. As your tattoo removal will take several sessions, it’s also important to note that you will need to wait between 4-5 weeks to ensure sufficient healing between sessions.
Tattoo Removal According to Twin Cities Plastic Surgeons
This is how the Twin Cities plastic surgeons at Minneapolis Plastic Surgery run their laser tattoo removal program. In fact, laser tattoo removal is inherently unpredictable, especially in terms of a timetable. The doctors at Minneapolis Plastic Surgery, for example, note that it’s difficult to judge precisely how long complex tattoos will take to remove, as everybody’s skin is different and the age of the tattoo makes a difference.
Just know that if you don’t like a tattoo, you don’t have to live with it. In fact, if you want to be free of your ink, contact your local cosmetic surgeon today.
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Catholic men’s movements are on the rise
March 08, 2018
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Salmon Teriyaki Miso Soup with Udon and Spinach
This is one of those stalker-like posts, but with a purely good reason. This month Tried and Tasted is scouring recipes at Closet Cooking! Before I started my own blog, I was a loyal follower of Closet Cooking. Kevin, who also hails from Toronto, cooks with very creative ingredients and always has tasty posts. I have always wanted to take a peak into his “closet kitchen” to see his cupboards, as he whips up such imaginative meals… and how does he manage to eat all this food (he has almost daily posts!)?? Furthermore, he shares a similar love of Japanese cuisine, so there is no shortage of inspirational recipes, including tons of fish recipes that look both tasty and easy, including Maple Salmon, Misoyaki Salmon, and Broiled Halibut with Orange and Miso Glaze. I love how Kevin includes alternative recipes when he is faced with left-overs, so with my leftover salmon teriyaki, I thought his Salmon Noodle Soup (which I rechristened Salmon Teriyaki Miso Soup with Udon and Spinach) would be perfect.
A few notes, first, about Japanese ingredients in Toronto. There are many Asian markets in Toronto, some larger than others. This is a continuation from my post about soy sauce, mirin, and sake. My favourite stores (for price, variety and high turnover) are T&T and BestWin, but J-Town is also worth a trek up north. It is worth looking into smaller stores, because some carry Japanese ingredients, including tiny mom-and-pop shops like D&Y Market. I have learned a few things about brands, so here are my recommendations:
Dashi – Dashi is the traditional soup stock of Japan, in both vegetarian and fish options. I have made it homemade, but sometimes I find it easier to use powder (Ajinomoto makes a good dashi). It is a fairly common brand and should be found at most Asian markets, including PAT and T&T.
Miso – Miso is a salty paste made from fermented soybeans (also rice or barley). Miso soups are fairly common and easy to make but miso can also be used for sauces, spreads, for meat, etc. There are many different kinds of miso, and not all are interchangeable, so it is worthwhile figuring things out as red misos are more salty, white misos less so. Maki at Just Hungry has a great primer on miso. I usually buy mine at T&T, but it is widely available and can be found in well-stocked grocery stores like Metro, Loblaws, etc. Basically, I look to see if it is white or red miso. I store it in the refrigerator.
Shiitake mushrooms – Shiitake are Japan’s most famous mushroom, but also hails from China. Known for its meaty, woody aroma, they are widely used in Japanese cuisine. They can be bought fresh or dried. Look for mushrooms that are whole. Dried mushrooms can be kept indefinitively if stored in a cool, dark place. They need to be rehydrated for 20-30 minutes with water, before use. When looking for Asian mushrooms, there is no contest, you have to go to an Asian market. You can find them in the typical Sobeys, Loblaws, etc, but they are incredibly expensive. At T&T, BestWin and in Chinatown they are much more reasonably priced. I think at T&T I have seen fresh shiitake mushrooms for $2-3/lb. When looking for dried, I have found them in the same stores. They can be called shiitake, or flower mushrooms and winter mushrooms (from there Chinese names).
Udon – Udon are the thick, chewy Japanese noodles made from wheat flour. When I returned from Japan, I almost thought I was deprived of great udon when I tried the fresh stuff. I learned, though, that frozen is the way to go. I have tried the black package of Sanuki udon from T&T and love it. I plan to make udon from scratch one day, but until then, this stuff is great. Sanuki udon means it comes from a specific prefecture in Japan (Kagawa) and are chewier, thicker noodles (my favourite!).
Now onto the soup: It was wonderful. Japanese cuisine is all about balancing salty, sweet, sour, bitter and spicy and the sweet teriyaki worked wonderfully with the salty miso, meaty mushrooms and bitter/spicy green onions. I will now plan to make excess salmon teriyaki just so I can make this soup!! Delicious! :D
Salmon Teriyaki Miso Soup with Udon and Spinach
2 clumps of udon noodles
4 cups of dashi
6 shiitake mushrooms (sliced, I used 2 dried soaked in water for 20 minutes)
2 tablespoons white miso
1 cup teriyaki salmon (cooked and flaked)
2 handfuls spinach
2 green onions (chopped)
1. Bring the dashi and mushrooms to a boil and simmer for a few minutes and turn off the heat. Add the udon noodles and cook as directed (frozen noodles only need ~7 minutes in boiling water)
2. Mix the miso into a ladle full of the dashi and then pour it back into the dashi.
3. Divide the salmon and spinach between 4 bowls and pour the noodles and broth in.
4. Garnish with the green onions.
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By Jim Steinberg and Michel Nolan
San Bernardino County Sun
RUNNING SPRINGS >> Morning sun glinted on the snowy ski runs as the thermometer flirted with the high 20s on opening day of Snow Valley’s winter season. And the newly covered slopes of local mountains translated to green – as in money – for those resorts.
Advanced skiers John Reilly and his fiancee, Lesandre Barley, both of Running Springs, celebrated their first day on the slopes Tuesday.
“They did get 6 inches of snow and groomed it, so it’s a superb day up here,” said Reilly, 45.
Barley, 31, reported that two runs were open, including The Edge, which is the terrain park.
Temperatures marked the coldest opening the resort had seen in a long time, said Nick Chatterton, 34, Snow Valley’s snow surfaces manager.
Chris Toth, marketing director, agreed.
“For early season conditions, it’s pretty cold. Nick and his snow surfaces crew have done a great job,” Toth said. “Two women are part of the crew, and that’s unique.”
A slightly cooler than normal December has propelled snowmaking ahead of last year, which was slightly warmer than normal for the 12th month of the year, said Steve Travis, a meteorologist for AccuWeather.
“It’s been a decent season so far,” said David Stone Junior, a San Bernardino Mountain entrepreneur, who owns Fireside Lodge and Bear Creek Resort, both in Big Bear Lake.
“The key to it is what nature is going to bring,” Stone said. “So we are all in a beautiful holding pattern to see what happens.”
Travis said that there will be a gradual warm-up at the end of the week and temperatures should rise to slightly above normal for Sunday and Monday.
During the peak of the warm-up, some of that man-made snow might be melting, he said.
The next chance for natural snowfall in the Southern California mountains will be at the end of next week – but it’s not a sure bet at this point.
“We have a rudimentary sense of what is happening,” and that it might bring cold Canadian air back into the Southland, he said.
Snow-making at Mountain High is going so well that night skiing is expected to begin Friday, the resort reported Tuesday on its website.
Robbie Ellingson, general manager of Mt. Baldy Ski Resort, said that he is hopeful that the beginners’ slope will open this weekend, although the resort has been open for “snow play” since Thanksgiving.
Like other ski slope operators, Ellingson said he is hoping for natural snow.
“Typically, when the mountains are white, we do better,” he said.
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Hello! my name is Oi Nurul Bagja, i'm 15 years old and this year my age will be 16, I live in Bandung, my birth date is 15 November 1999, I don't have any siblings in my family, it's just me, and my mom, my father was passed away when I was 1 years old I think, and I never look my father. Now i school at SMAN 3 Bandung. I give thanks to Allah because now I can school at SMAN 3 Bandung, it's a dream come true!!!
People says that i'm handsome,cool,tall,kind,friendly,easy going, that's how people describe my self:)), and i agree with that opinion hahaha
I have a lot of hobby in my life, i love to play basketball, gaming, traveling, hunting panorama picture, playing music, Modern or Traditional music?, i love both of them! Because traditional music, i can join to SMAN 3 Bandung
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I really enjoyed here, i love my school, i love all about SMAN 3 Bandung..
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"KNOWLEDGE IS POWER BUT CHARACTER IS MORE"
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Trenberth: The IPCC review and oversight process is very rigorous. Clearly there can be and have been some lapses, but they appear to be fairly few. I do not think the system is broken and needs further change; it simply needs more attention to adhering to the process already in place.
Christy: [IPCC] lead authors are given powerful control by being vested with final review authority and thus are able to fashion a report that supports their own opinions while marginalizing countervailing views. This is not how the real uncertainties and difficulties of climate science may be established and communicated to policymakers.
Pielke: Unless the IPCC brings its institutional policies and procedures into the twenty-first century through a wholesale institutional reform, it will continue to come out on the losing end of challenges to its legitimacy and credibility.
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RPG ‘Peachleaf Pirates’ is coming to Steam and Beta signups are open now
Indie publisher Digerati announces Peachleaf Pirates – The title is a story-driven Roleplaying game inspired by point and clicks and casual farm sims.
Peachleaf Pirates is an adventure about finding yourself washed up on shore on a strange island. You set out to uncover the secrets of Peachleaf.
The island includes monster filled jungle temple and tropical farming.
- Uncover the secrets of the island: Solve puzzles and parlez with the kooky cast of locals to help save the ancient Peachleaf tree from evil in a puntastic tale inspired by the classic point-and-click adventures of yore.
- Grow and harvest island crops: From Mango and Guava, to Chubaberry and Fairyplum. But be warned – goblins will happily steal any crops left unprotected, and the lush tropical climate can make your plants prone to disease.
- Battle through the Temple: Explore the many floors of a mysterious jungle temple to find riches and rewards, but be ready for a fight – the temple is home to a LOT of not-so-friendly creatures waiting to mob you from every direction!
- Raise bizarre animals: Bees make honey. Hens lay eggs. Dinoflies… erm, what do dinoflies do?
- Master unique skills: Navigate and progress through your skill-trees to become a formidable voodoo spellcaster, a skilled swordmaster or sharpshooter, or an expert homesteader.
- Research, crafting, and recipes: Unlock an ever more amazing array of useful items, tools, and foods as you progress.
Players are invited to sign-up for the beta now at the following link:
Wishlist on Steam:
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Subscribe To What Happened When Mark Ruffalo Livestreamed Thor: Ragnarok Updates
It was a little less than a month ago when actor/professional Hulk Mark Ruffalo accidentally streamed part of Thor: Ragnarok to the audience of his Instagram Live. Now, he's finally revealed how he actually made such an unexpected mistake. Ruffalo recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the new film, which releases in theaters November 3, and when asked about the incident admitted that his lack of Instagram savvy is what led to the now-infamous stream. Here's how he explained it:
Wow, I've never used Instagram Live but it does sound a lot like there might be a bit of a design flaw in this aspect of the app if you need to hit two buttons just to end a live broadcast. From looking up how to end a live feed, you do, in fact, need to tap "End" and then also "Confirm" that you really want to stop broadcasting. Even though Mark Ruffalo poked a bit of fun at himself by saying that his mistaken stream was "a grandpa move," I can see where someone who had never used it before (as Ruffalo explained was the case with him) would think that, well, "End" was the end of the Instagram Live line, and simply put their phone away.
Luckily for Ruffalo and every Marvel fan who's allergic to spoilers, he only streamed the first 10 minutes of the film. While that audio was likely ripped within seconds and is probably still floating around cyberspace for all who are interested, at least he was able to stop the stream before audio from the whole film (end credits scene included) was released. And, it turns out that Ruffalo has another movie-goer to thank for that. As he told Stephen Colbert:
Obviously, Mark Ruffalo was completely mortified by his mistake, but everything has, it would seem, turned out just fine. As he said on the show, Marvel isn't going to fire him while he's still filming an Avengers movie, and, we hope they never do. You can enjoy Thor: Ragnarok for yourself when it opens tomorrow.
RELATED: Why We Still Haven't Gotten An Avengers: Infinity War Trailer
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Extracts from our GUEST BOOK
Experience with my wife, facing me at about 5 meters : I started practicing the little side sway, my thought was to make her sway and that is exactly what happened to her ! Incredible, I am very satisfied with this training. Thank you for everything.
On one afternoon, as I was lying on my bed with my boyfriend who practices 3 hours of Gyrascope a day, we lived through a magical experience. My boyfriend started to describe his experience. He could see a stream of gold flowing down that covered him completely. At the beginning, I could not see anything, and then suddenly I was also able to see this magnificent warm light flowing down from my crown chakra. Then kundalini went through our chakras from top to bottom and we found ourselves in Egypt. In a room, we saw two gold sarcophagi with two figures, male and female, who symbolized perfectly the initiatory search in Ancient Egypt. The rest of the experience can only be described by the words: magical, unbelievable, one has to experience it to believe it… Thanks Daniel, for your advice on how to practice.
Anne & Michel D.
After practicing a session of Gyrascope with my partner: we were lying on the bed and we had one of the most beautiful experiences. At the beginning of the experience both we saw a column of golden light that entered us and descended from our crown chakras. It filled the inside of our heads, bathing them in a multitude of colors, each one more beautiful than the other. We watched this shining emerald green ‟river of gems”, feeling a deep calm. The morning after this experience, a feeling of extreme joy and a sensation of inner beauty remained. The experience we shared has brought us even closer together.
Laurence R. & Gilles P.
Three years ago we received an initiation from you through transmission. Three days after this initiation, we started to live a veritable surge of experiences, to such an extent that we had to reconsider our entire way of life. Describing our shared or personal experiences would be impossible without writing several books, but we have no interest in doing so.
I will simply limit myself to this observation: in the beginning, in addition to the rises of kundalini that we maintained by practicing with the Gyrascope and the perception of our chakras, we had very religious experiences with perceptions of the Virgin Mary and Christ, and also dialogues.
In fact, this was actually very unsettling or rather disturbing, so we recalled your precious advice that I would like to quote from memory: ‟when one is young, it is better to avoid certain types of experiences. The advantage of astronomical experiences is that they are neutral.”
We would like to tell you that you were completely right and that since we have been studying astronomy, we have experiences of an incredible diversity and quality. The sensation of one’s consciousness in fusion with an element of the cosmos, a star, a supernova or an atomic nucleus is beyond words. Maybe later, in twenty or thirty years, we might go back to our first experiences but, for the moment, the direction you gave is right for us. There are not enough words to describe what we experience or feel, just as there will never be enough words to express our gratitude for having made us discover something we couldn’t even imagine. Another reality within reality. PS: We can’t wait to try your cerebral synchro-cyclotron.
Pascal & Nathalie
I regularly practice exercises of rhythmic thinking. Throughout the day, when my job allows, I do as many phosphenes as possible with Dr Lefebure’s lamp. My dreams have become more and more structured and full of colors. When I wake up and I talk about the content of my dreams, I am surprised to notice that there is a great similarity with what my wife dreams about, though she does not practice Phosphenism. I have the impression that she receives my energy through the process of phosphenic telepathy. Sometimes, I start a dream and she finishes it. I am on a bridge (that I actually know and where I often go for a walk). Then, in my dream, I throw myself, from the top of the bridge with the idea that I want to fly. That is my technique to produce a dream of flying. I apply Dr Lefebure’s technique, which consists in concentrating on a detail of a sensation or of an image and, inevitably, that dream of flying turns into an “astral projection”. I try to move upwards, to rise, but the sensation is very strong and it often wakes me up. An instant later, my wife wakes up and says to me ‟I was dreaming that I was rising up at a great speed, it was very pleasant”.
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Actually, I didn't know that.
Originally Posted by dorispulaski
Thanks to the contributor above who filled in the blanks regarding seating capacity at the Olympic-sized ice.
I read that Yuna basically adjusted her training after Nats to ensure that she'd be comfortable in a smaller rink. But then the Nats venue (Mokdong) is also a fairly small rink.
Originally Posted by TontoK
First and foremost, Gracie needs better music selections and better choreography. Last season's and this season's SP and LP were nowhere near top-drawer vehicles. IMO she needs a fresh eye.
Originally Posted by Moment
So true. She needs music that varies the pacing and mood, more intense in some parts and more soft/gentle in other parts. Her LP his year just had one pace and it was too busy throughout. She needs intense moments and slower, softer moments.
Originally Posted by bigsisjiejie
did you not watch the ladies short at worlds this year???
Originally Posted by guanchi
Caro and Mao did bad short programs, Ashley skated clean and they were still ahead of her.
It is not going to happen at all for Ashley!
They should send an up and coming US Lady instead of her! Like Angela Wang or Hicks to get experience, a good way to start the next 4 year campaign for them!
Ashley was ahead of Mao after the short program. Carolina was ahead of them both.
Originally Posted by snsd
I have to say that even though I admire Ashley getting through the FS after that fall and helping secure three spots for the US, I think she was a bit generously marked in terms of PCS. The fall was not only a disruptive kind as it brought her footwork sequence to a complete halt, but she did not recover at all well, skated veryyyy slowly afterwards and and had another slight stumble. So it's exactly the kind of mistake that should be punished in PCS, particularly P/E. However, she got the same P/E mark as Kanako Murakami, who only had one visible mistake (popping the axel) which was very slight, and slight underrotation mistakes which were accounted for in TES. And Ashley beat Kanako in the FS. Totally disagree on that. I would take Ashley's Nationals or GPF performances over her Worlds FS.
Pray for a miracle But in all seriousness, as we've seen from this years men's competition anything can happen. The girls just need to bring it with winning programs that have both the technical content and artistry. After that they've got to sell it like nobody's business the way Ten did it this year
I think Gracie is more likely to win a medal than Ashley, but it will be difficult for either.
Caro, Yuna and/or Mao needs to have a serious meltdown and Gracie and/or Ashley a skate of their lives if they want to win a medal. I think one of them, either Ashley or Gracie, would be able to place over Russian skaters(whether it's Julia, Liza, or Adelina) and maybe even place fourth at Olympics. But to place over big 3(Caro, Yuna, Mao)-that's another story.
Gracie certainly can aim for 2018 Olympics, though-I can see her as an Olympic medalist there. What she needs is:
2).She needs to work on PCS-especially IN and PE. And she needs to be more graceful-she seems rather stiff at this point, but she's young, so she has potential to improve.
I'm not sure about Ashley-I doubt she'll be able to compete at 2018 Olympics.
Gracie needs all the PCS improvements already discussed. Better music and choreo is certainly achievable, but I don't know that anyone can be taught to be less stiff. Changing her basic carriage is a difficult thing to fix. Even if improvement can be made, tension and old habits will come back under the stress of competition.
Ashley needs a higher difficulty in combo jumps. I don't know that she needs more difficult spins as much as she needs to get the rotations/levels done in competition.
Both need consistent performances.
Beyond that, I think predicting results in Sochi now is a bit pointless. The first wild card for every skater is injury. Some of the current front runners are getting older (in skater years, not normal life!) and who knows who will last through the pounding of another whole season.
I thought Ashley's music selections hurt her this year. Last year she skated to a fast, peppy song I had never heard skated to before (from the movie "Pollock," I believe) and then did her classical but sort of quirky "Black Swan" piece. This year she did iirc two Michelle Kwan retreads. She is not a Michelle Kwan type of skater.
When more "athletic" type of skaters try to force themselves into a mold of "serious delicate skater" skating to heavy, serious music, I think it robs them of their mojo. True, she did well on the Grand Prix circuit, so it wasn't a total loss, but her skating seemed happier and more entertaining last year.
Both girls need to find music and choreography that plays to their strengths. Neither would be well served skating to the concerto for a single violin or the soft sounds of an elegant piano, but I bet that's exactly what we'll see for both of them next year.
Actually I liked Ashely's pieces this year. I don't really think her music selections hurt her as judges seems more than willing to give her decent PCS. I think what really hurt her the technical side, not the artistic side.
Both of them, especially Gracie, have the potential to convey some of the strength and upbeat personality of Irina Slutskaya. I always thought that she could skate some of the jollier classics, such as Die Fledermaus or the overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla, or the overture to The Bartered Bride. Actually, Gracie could make something wonderful of Jupiter, but a different portion of it and an entirely different arrangement from the dreamy, lyrical "I Vow to Thee My Country" section that Mao used a few years ago.
Originally Posted by Poodlepal
In other words, yes, I agree with you, Poodlepal, that a single soft piano or harp glissandos are not for these ladies.
Jupiter is over 7 minutes long but could be artfully cut to make one barnstormer of a routine for someone like Gracie who can fly.
she takes the audience on her journey of emotions
Me too! Especially her short. But then, clearly I am in the minority in that I did not love Ashley's swan piece from last year. I didn't see what was "quirky" about it. I thought it was rather literal myself. It wasn't awful but you could see her trying to appear balletic and swan like. She was sooooo working those swan arm movements. It was not a natural look for her and it looked overworked.
Originally Posted by Mrs. P
She's an attack-type of skater and she relies on making eye contact with the judges and, when she can, the audience. She's good at that. This year's pieces showed off her fire more. She needs pieces that show off her fire but that also mask that she's not the speediest or lightest skater out there.
This is exactly how I feel. As others have said, anything can happen because Mao and Carolina can really be hit or miss. However, Ashley doesn't have the technical content of the top tier skaters and, despite countless opportunities to go for it this year, she seems to have no intention of even trying a 3/3. I suspect that she was more interested in winning titles than attempting risky elements in her early season programs, but she isn't going to make the podium with her content as it is today.
Originally Posted by Icey
Gracie, on the other hand, has an outside shot of medaling. I keep thinking of Kwan's 1995 to 1996 transition and if Gold can pull that off she can do well in Sochi. She really needs to do nothing on the technical side; her jump difficulty and quality are among the very best. If she can skate clean and improve her artistry, there's no reason she can't beat a 4 triple LP by Carolina or Mao.
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For a down-on-his-luck leader such as François Hollande, this week's state visit to the US - the first by a French president since 1996 - is just what the spin doctor ordered at a time when Hollande's approval rating has sunk to a new historic low.
Foreign leaders have long been known to lobby hard for the honour of a US state visit and a chance for some of that Obama stardust to rub off.
But that was when Obama had stardust to spare.
The NSA scandal has done much to tarnish his reputation abroad – so much so that Brazil's spied-upon president, Dilma Roussef, cancelled her planned state visit in protest.
Back home, the US president's popularity has also plummeted after a gruelling year that has seen a hostile Congress stymie his agenda at every turn.
For many, and not just his detractors, the onetime harbinger of hope for millions of hard-pressed Americans has morphed into a hapless lame duck reduced to governing by executive order in the name of getting anything done.
'Can he fix France?'
But for all that, Obama on a bad day is still Obama: his worst speeches – the words, if not the deeds – can rouse and inspire in a way that Hollande's best orations never will. (CNN's political consultant, Alex Castellanos, opined after the US president's recent State of the Union address that "a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex, the worst there ever was is still excellent.")
On the eve of Hollande's departure for Washington, Time magazine ran a cover story featuring a grim-faced headshot of Hollande, alongside the question, "Can he fix France?"
Most French these days seem to have a ready answer: "No."
Hollande touches down on Monday at Andrews Air Force base for a three-day visit which, in addition to the Washington leg, will also take him on a cross-country scouting mission to the mecca of high-tech, Silicon Valley.
But the marquee event will be the official White House welcoming ceremony on Tuesday.
You can expect a trumpets-blaring bonanza, as called for by State Visit protocol, complete with a 21-cannon salute, a military troop review and a stopover at Arlington National Cemetery to pay respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. All of it culminating, later that evening, in a black-tie, porcelain-clinking state dinner hosted by Barack and Michelle.
(On Monday, Hollande will also get to fly shot-gun aboard Air Force One with Obama for the 200-kilometer trip from the US capital to Charlottesville, Virginia, to the Monticello home of Thomas Jefferson, an avid francophone and francophile who was one of the earliest American envoys to France before his election as third US president.)
Shared history, common values
Officially, the White House requested the State Visit. And of course, the French president more than gladly accepted, with both sides jumping at the – again, official – opportunity to stress their "shared history" and "common values" as the oldest of transatlantic allies.
The Franco-American relationship is one in which both sides are forever harking back to the war – the US Revolutionary War, that is – as a testament to the solidity of their friendship through thick and thin.
Which is not to say this visit will be a diplomatic cake walk. Behind closed doors, the two presidents are likely to politely spar over NSA snooping and data-protection issues. There has been no US ambassador to France since last summer – so this visit could provide an opening for an overdue announcement.
In San Francisco, meanwhile, Hollande will become the first French president to visit California since François Mitterrand's foray in 1984 – when he met a young computer entrepreneur named Steve Jobs. Hollande plans to visit a "US French Tech Hub" and meet with several US Internet titans. His aim: to promote France as a country open to innovation and new ideas.
That may prove a tall order at a time when Yahoo has just relocated its European base to Ireland from France, in search of a friendlier fiscal environment. Obama will likely be keen to hear what Hollande has to say to Google on tax issues as well.
For the White House, there is the added awkwardness of the French president's abrupt return to bachelorhood after his recent split with longtime partner Valerie Trierweiler. The New York Times reports it has sent State Dinner planners into a frenzy of protocol pirouettes, ripping up invitations initially addressed to the presidential couple and rethinking seating arrangements at Obama's table.
Every journalist in Washington is dying to ask Hollande the question that dare not speak its name – namely, about his alleged new fling.
Hollande the Socialist raises the hackles of many Americans. They regard him as a tax-raising, high-spending, rich-bashing, philandering, borderline Communist – never mind how far from the truth that may be, especially in light of Hollande's newfound embrace of economic and social policies more often associated with the political right.
Nor has Hollande been invited to deliver an address to the joint chambers of Congress – an honour that often goes hand-in-hand with State visits. It is easy to read too much into this, interpreting it as a deliberate snub – which it is not. Rather, the political vibes in the Republican-dominated House may have not been right at the present time.
Stepping up to the plate
It's also tempting to dismiss the visit as a diplomatic courtesy gesture. State visits are the stuff of dreams for foreign leaders – Obama last extended the privilege nearly two years ago, for the South Korean president.
But there may be more symbiosis than meets the eye. For all its vicissitudes, the Franco-American relationship has stood the test of time.
At a moment when the British are as war-weary as the Americans – Obama said he was elected to end wars, not start them – the French have done the yeoman's work in the counter-terrorism war in Africa. They intervened in Mali to end an occupation of that country's north by al Qaeda-linked jihadists and, more recently, stepping in to strike a pre-emptive blow against an incipient genocide threat in the Central African Republic.
While Germany has made noises that it seeks to play a more active role in global foreign policy after decades of post-war self-effacement, such a shift will take time and political maneuvering.
France has been willing to step up to the plate – to use an American baseball metaphor – in places where the Americans have lacked the will or the way. In the Middle East, Paris's tough line on Syria and Iran has demonstrated a sharp turn in foreign policy since the days when Americans castigated France for opposing the war in Iraq.
On the diplomatic front, France has become Obama's European partner of first resort when it comes to projecting military muscle in places the Americans have no intention of ever putting boots on the ground.
But it's a safe bet we won't be seeing too many gushing headlines about “Hollande the American” in the US media over the next few days, as was the case with his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Naming a band is an act of concentrated creative expression. Square Pig in a Round Hole exists to reward five favorite band names each week. Winners are (usually) listed alphabetically.
Selection is wholly unscientific and subject to whim, with a bias toward wordplay, humor, and local flavor. In most cases, I won’t know anything about the bands at the time of selection. Thanks to the Seattle Times and The Stranger nightlife listings for abundant source material!
It must be almost spring–birds are all atwitter and we have managed to squeeze in a little yardwork between rain showers. And bands names keep on popping up like the hyacinths in my yard, which have even appeared in the sidewalk cracks this year. I will take weediness as a sign of hope.
As ever, and especially if you’re going out to shows again, wash your hands, wear your mask awhile longer even if you don’t have to, get your vaccine and booster if you haven’t already, and if you are able, please buy these bands’ music and merch to encourage them as we look forward to less interesting times. And … hit the follow button at the lower right and never miss a post!
The Drive Through
Road trip from here to distant there, stopping only to grab coffee or fast food without leaving the car. Perfect for an Americana band!
Rule by those who don’t walk the talk, yet still manage to do no harm.
I really don’t. I’m ready for April.
Was that an earthquake or did a heckin’ chonker just jump off the bed?
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If all businesses are becoming publishers, then media companies should be ideally placed to lead the content marketing revolution, and judging by these Media and Entertainment entries from The Digitals, they aren’t going to disappoint.
Here’s five great examples from our shortlist to help fuel your multichannel imagination…
1. GoViral and AOL Networks combine ballet and trucks for Volvo
The Ballerina Stunt
How do you create a viral hit? Forbes recently calculated the chance of a video going viral to be around 0.0001%, so Volvo Trucks needed something a bit special for its first product launch in 15 years. So how do you up the chances of success?
Quality and planning.
GoViral wasted no time drafting in some top talent, including an Oscar nominated director (Henry Alex Rubin) to add some Hollywood shine to the nail-biting video, which featured slack liner world champion Faith Dikey walking a line between two fast moving Volvo FH trucks along a motorway before they entered a tunnel, in order to demonstrate the truck’s precision driving system.
In order to create traction for the video, it was made available on 60,000 sites globally, and pushed out to a variety of social influencers, driving 2.4 million YouTube views within 48 hours. As the campaign progressed it also racked up an impressive 53,000 Facebook shares, and saw Google searches explode – from 5,690 to 608,000 in one week.
2: Essence uses Google+ to bring families together at Christmas
We’re huge fans of Google Hangouts here at Econsultancy, but the format hasn’t quite made it into mainstream consciousness yet, which meant that Essence had quite a challenge on their hands as they tried to promote G+ video chat to the family market.
Luckily Christmas was on the way, meaning they had a great opportunity to show how G+ could connect families over the holidays (With a little help from Wallace, Gromit and other Aardman favorites).
In order to target the ad campaign effectively, Essence used IP-targeting to identify users who were visiting UK news sites and portals from overseas IP addresses in order to show the video to people who were spending time away from their home and families.
This was combined with a series of homepage takeovers (and of course, Google’s own display network) to generate over four million views of the Wallace & Gromit hangout on YouTube across 4 EMEA markets.
3: Havas Media and Penguin get Jamie Oliver to the top of the charts with Instagram
Jamie Oliver’s 15 Minute Meals – Cook it, Snap it, Share it
When Jamie Oliver released his book ‘30 Minute Meals’, the social media sphere resounded with the noise of disgruntled gourmands as they discovered that things took longer to prepare than the label promised.
This meant that Havas Media needed a quick way to prove that the even quicker 15 minute recipes fulfilled their promise, and where better to prove it than in the instant world of social media?
Havas had Oliver record a video version of two recipes, and challenged the cook’s Facebook followers to cook them in 15 minutes.
This was then shared across Twitter, asking people to ‘Cook it, Snap it and share it’ via Instagram with the hashtag #Jamies15MM, with the results shared back to Facebook via a dedicated app.
The best snaps were then featured in an Out-Of-Home campaign, with pictures appearing on posters at busy transport terminals and on the Tube, promoting the book to busy people during the evening commute (just when they were heading home and dreaming of that takeaway).
The campaign helped ensure that Oliver topped the Christmas bestseller charts for the fifth year in a row.
4: Immediate Media and BBC Worldwide launch Top Gear magazine interactive edition
Top Gear’s Interactive Edition launched in December, replacing a previous PDF version. Cars move and make a noise (as does Jeremy Clarkson) meaning Immediate Media had the perfect content for an interactive magazine.
Top Gear has a reputation for providing award winning content across multiple platforms, so the online magazine had to be good.
While not the first interactive magazine, Top Gear’s combined a range of interactive elements that have made full use of the technology; the interactive content wheel, full screen galleries, html overlays and rotating 3D cars are all bespoke content produced by Engine Creative, and this is teamed with HD video shot by the TV team, providing a great all-round experience for users.
Sales and revenue have grown by 61% since the interactive edition launched in December and almost 50% of sales coming from the US App store, a key market for the brand.
5: M2M for Momentum Pictures scare their audience for Sinister
In the recent past a range of horror films have taken a similar approach to their marketing – vox pops, night vision, people jumping out of seats… if you show people being scared the film must be scary, right?
For the release of Sinister, M2M took a different approach, rather than just showing people being scared, they created an experiment to measure audience fear levels during the film, and asking audiences: “Could you Survive Sinister?”
In a cinema of 400 Professor Brendan Walker of The Thrill Laboratory hooked 5 test subjects up to instruments measuring heart rate, skin temperature and perspiration. Then Sinister began to play… by the end one participant had broken their heart monitor!
The experiment proved how intense Sinister was, and it also highlighted content that could be used to create suspense and scares among the audience (and hopefully draw their attention away from competing high-profile horror release ‘Paranormal Activity 4’).
This is a great example of tailoring content in an agile manner, based on real-time social reactions from the target audience. The experiment was key to success and really captured users imagination captured the public’s imagination. While only 5 were tested 3,000 put themselves forward. Over 19 million people saw the experiment, and Sinister delivered £6.6m at the box office (230% above target).
Don’t miss The Digitals
These are just a few of the inspiring and innovative entries that have made The Digitals shortlist this year. Check out The Digitals Yearbook to see more innovative content, or head to TheDigitalsAwards.com to book a place at our awards ceremony later this week >>
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BRUSSELS—European Union leaders aim to meet in Italy in October and hold other discussions on the economy in the coming months amid concerns about the faltering recovery.
“In recent weeks, economic data have confirmed that the recovery, particularly in the euro area, is weak, inflation exceptionally low and unemployment unacceptably high,” leaders said in a statement after a Brussels summit meeting on Saturday.
Leaders welcomed the call by the Italian government for a heads of government meeting in Italy in October to focus on unemployment, especially among young people.
They said the heads of government would discuss the economic situation again at a separate summit in the autumn and that euro zone leaders would also hold a meeting dedicated to the economic outlook.
While certain economies, like Poland, Hungary and the United Kingdom have experienced robust growth rates recently, many European countries have seen an already weak recovery fade in recent months as inflation rates have fallen further.
That has renewed fears that with debt levels still high in many countries, the bloc could fall back into the financial and fiscal crisis that took the euro zone to the brink of breaking point in 2010-12.
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It seems that T-Mobile's UMA service was out for 4-5 hours this morning in Los Angeles. Or I'm having routing issues of my own.
It is now working again.
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2014-11-22T18:07:56Z
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(Music Sales America). Tired of having to play "back to front" from scale books? Here's the answer the left-handers' guitar case scale book. Each scale shape has been specially designed for left handers, using clear diagrams and helpful hints and tips. All the scales you use in a handy 'guitar case' size.
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Remember last year when Robert Griffin III got hot and carried the Washington Redskins to the playoffs and everyone wondered if he was the best young QB in the NFL? And remember in the offseason when ESPN’s Ron Jaworski said that San Francisco’s Colin Kaepernick could become one of the best QBs in the history of the NFL?
See, there’s this excruciatingly dull guy in Indianapolis, Andrew Luck, who was the No. 1 pick in the 2012 NFL draft. He carries a flip phone, rarely does commercials, occasionally rocks an unkempt neckbeard, and isn’t as flashy when he’s on the run as RG3 or Kaepernick.
What Andrew Luck is, according to Pro Football Focus, is the 3rd rated QB in the NFL so far this season, only behind Peyton Manning (duh) and Tony Romo. What else Andrew Luck is: The fastest No. 1 pick to reach 15 wins since the NFL merger in 1970 (15-6). All he’s done in his second year in the league is boost his completion percentage from 55 to 63, up his QB rating (if you’re into QB rating) from 79 to 91, and improve his QBR (if you’re into QBR rating) from 65 to 77.
The Colts are never out of a game because Luck is the master of the 4th quarter comeback.
There’s no sophomore slump for Andrew Luck and the Colts, who, despite preseason pleas from Las Vegas to tread carefully because a regression was likely, are 4-1 and legit Super Bowl contenders.
It would be remiss to not address the improved defense, which was one of the NFL’s worst last season, but has vaulted into the average category this season. The Colts gave up 6.1 yards per play last year – tied for second worst in the NFL. This year, they’ve lowered that number to 5.5, good for 17th. These numbers will surprise you: The Colts third-down defense held offensive juggernauts San Francisco and Seattle to just 3-for-12 and 2-for-12, respectively.
[I’d mention Trent Richardson as the ‘Wild Card’ to the team’s success, but everyone seems to think he’s terrible. I’ll just sit quietly over here in the Trent Richardson corner and then, when he busts out a 150-yard game in a playoff win against New England, we can talk.]
But back to Luck, who refuses to get rattled, a trait that may remind you of a certain Indianapolis signal caller who frequently led the Colts to greatness from 1998-2011. We’re entering probably the biggest-two week stretch of the season for Luck and the Colts: Back-to-back nationally-televised games, first in San Diego (ESPN), and then at home against Peyton Manning and the undefeated Broncos (NBC).
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2015-03-27T20:52:30Z
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Leslie Caron stars as an innocent young girl, a vulnerable orphan waif who finds a home with the puppet show in a traveling circus--and the love of a man who, at first, can only open his heart through the deeds and words of his marionettes--Lili. Set adrift in life at the age of 16, young Lili (Caron) finds a home and a job with the circus...and loses her heart to a dashing magician (Jean Pierre Aumont). But Lili is just another conquest for the magician, who returns to his wife (Zsa Zsa Gabor). The marionettes, however, console and care for Lili with a tenderness that slowly reawaken love within the young woman.
Rotten Tomatoes® Score
Fine score, Caron performance in MGM musical fantasy.
June 21, 2017
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Common Sense Media
Common Sense Says
Classic love story of an orphan and the carnival.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this classic drama is tame enough even for young grade-schoolers. There are some G-rated references to issues like infidelity and seduction, and one of the main characters slaps another and gets drunk, but overall this is age-appropriate for 6 and up.
A Lot or A Little?
The parents’ guide to what’s in this movie.
Violence & Scariness
Drinking, Drugs & Smoking
More on Common Sense Media
- Release Date:March 10, 1953
- Audio Format:Stereo
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2019-11-13T14:17:39Z
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Know anyone who might be interested in being a Services Specialist with The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services? Or is this a career that you perhaps have considered?
The Department is currently hiring statewide for Services Specialists, especially in the area of Child Protective Services. The position presents a unique opportunity to help those in need and make a positive impact on the lives of individuals and the communities in which they live.
The educational requirements for this position are a bachelor's or master’s degree with a major in one of the following human services areas: social work, sociology, psychology, family ecology, community services, family studies, family and/or child development, guidance/school counseling, counseling psychology, criminal justice, or human services.
If you are interested in Services Specialist position or perhaps know someone who might be interested please review the link below.
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2019-05-24T07:59:36Z
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The Tefal FZ2000 ActiFry Mini is a smaller version of the reduced oil cooker. By using a stirring paddle and circulating hot air to cook, the kitchen appliance requires very little oil.
The popular MMO has dropped 14 per cent of its subscribers in three months, but still boasts 8.3 million players.
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick says his company has witnessed "slower-than-expected adoption" of Nintendo's new game console.
The search giant announces that 200 million Android devices have now been activated around the world.
The Call of Duty franchise is to introduce a subscription service called Call of Duty Elite, which will offer map packs and extra online features for gamers willing to stump up a monthly fee.
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To tell the truth, there was a girl in his life. He called her his favourite angel. But he was concealing his feelings. He did not want to make once more a mistake and feel the old pain, moreover, his angel already had her wings and she was happy. With all his deeds he was showing her that he is not worth of her love.
The life dictates us the way to live and often selects our paths to follow for us. This is exactly why not all the things in life look the way we would like them to. The boy was taught by life since his childhood to love everybody without ever demanding anything in exchange. It was his principle. He risked his life for the sake of other people’s life and never ever was sorry for that at least for a second. With age he became somewhat cruel: the wound in his heart which was his lifelong companion had it impact. But the main thing is that his soul still remained tender as silk. His life was full of stories both happy and sad, but he has achieved his goal: he has proved to everybody and to himself that love is eternal, but we are, unfortunately, mortal!
And at one time he often observed a girl living in his neighbourhood. She was blind. He used to help her, if she needed help and bought her flowers. He felt pain that she could not look into his eyes and see him. She would always say: ‘Thank you! I am sorry I cannot see you, but I feel how kind your heart is, you are real!’ Some time passed and the boy understood he could no longer live without her. She had become part of him. And he made up his mind to give her the gift of his eyesight and become blind himself. He simply wanted to make happy someone, who will appreciate the act at its true worth. Because the eyesight had never brought about to him the happiness he sought so much. The destiny made them meet in the street. He was sitting on a bench where earlier he could always see her. But this time their roles were changed. She came up to him and said: ‘Earlier I used to be blind myself, but there was an angel to come into my life who gave me the gift of his eyesight. I wish and hope very much that such an angel is bound to appear in your life.’ The young man heard the voice and recognized it. It was she! He rose to his feet and said: ‘Thank you. I like you very much!’
‘But, unfortunately, there is nothing I can do to help you!’ she said.
He felt suddenly a great pain and said: ‘I have a request. I have at home a picture in a frame. It shows you and me. I often used to look at the two people in this picture and dream that you too once see it. Buy a frame and, please, put into it our picture. I shall be very pleased, because you see with my eyes. I wish you were happy!’
Our eyes see what our brain wants them to see. Our eyes cannot see, say, love, God, etc., but it can be seen with the heart and heart alone. The boy’s heart was the size of an ocean and, in spite everything, he kept on loving all: both his friends and enemies and those who just failed to understand him. Thus he deserved a divine gift: his heart became his eyes and now he could feel more than any sighted person.
Love each other and do good like the protagonist of this story, and then love will seize your heart and happiness knock up on your door!
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For the last few weeks I've been going back and forth playing Resistance 3 with the PS Sharpshooter (so much fun when you get past the learning curve) and Dungeon Siege III on PC.
Interestingly, Dungeon Siege III if run with V-Sync off would run all four of my GPU's to max and before long all the temps were climbing into the high 90's.
So it being a SP campaign, I put the Vsync back on and capped the game's FPS at 60fps, and played it off of my 60" Plasma on the couch with a XBox 360 pad for Windows on the couch. And noticing that all four GPU's were only being utilized at 20% vs. %98 with the V-Sync off, I pretty much just gamed and didn't pay much attention.
Then the other day after letting it run all night downloading BF3 pre-load and some other games, I noticed the temps on GPU 2 on the top card, the one with not very much air flow, (because the second card has to be slotted right below it for Quad GPU) were running 10c higher than the bottom card and 5c higher than GPU 1 -
When for the longest time both GPU 1 and 2 on the top card only ran about 5-8c above the bottom card with better airflow.
So last night after unlocking BF3, I opened up my rig and tried to move the 8pin PSU cable for the mobo that runs down over the cards before being looped out the back-side and then back in to the PSU. And I guess I knocked something the ever so slightest off, because then I started having jacked up graphical corruptions. Which I first thought might be due to splitting my top card's signal with one going to my 120hz monitor and the other going to my Asus soundcard for Blu-Ray HD sound/Home theatre via a DVI to HDMI cable, which then runs out via HDMI to my 7.1 Home Theater receiver.
After ruling this out, I went ahead and took the cards out and switched them around.
The new driver also kept crashing on me in game on BF3 and my monitor would flash "Device out of Range" before the driver would recover and BF3 would crash. But I'm assuming it's related to one of the cards not being secure and trust it's resolved.
Everything is working fine now, but my GPU 2 temp on the new switched out top card is now running idle at 60c with it's fan running at %70, while GPU 1 is at 41c and GPU 3 & 4 on the bottom card are running at 32c and 33c!
I'm not really tripping on the cards as I never overclock them and knew from EVGA tech support and boards, that like Masked said, you don't need to be tripping on your temps unless you hit 100c+. I might be tripping on them dying out sooner if I didn't have EVGA's life time warranty, but being that I do, I'm not.
Interestingly, in game, the temps stay the same they always have. Usually in the 70's to low 80's celcius. And that's still the case! Or to be more specific, GPU 2's temp are the same as the other GPU's during heavy usage.
What I'm wondering is, if it means that something might be going out on my Mobo? I already have one dead ram slot. But I haven't bothered RMA'ing it since I still have 8gb in the other two slots and don't do anything on this machine but game and write.
I was really impressed with the results I was getting on BF3 SP, Ultra settings, before I started having issues. The game was often running well over 120fps during the "prologue" board's firefights, and seemed to go back and forth between 90fps-140fps with the lowest fps I caught in the corner of my eye, being 58fps on the first big opening board after the prologue.
That should be more than enough to keep up with the hard core rigs and players in the game I'd like to think. But I was "noobishly" wondering, would a mobo and CPU upgrade get me to 120fps constant on Ultra during heavy action? Or is the current available hardware just not able to do it? I'm assuming no, and am fine with it.
Though I'm still trying to decide if I am going to get the same mobo and 2700K that Masked got, or if I'm going to wait for Ivy Bridge.
I'll have a better idea after some more play testing, I guess!
My other, slightly off topic, gaming dilemma that maybe those of you in the know, or beta, can help me decide:
After missing out on the KOTOR collector's edition pre-order, I bought the Digital Deluxe version. Really only wanting the collector's edition for the exclusive digital content rather than any physical goodies. And the only main difference between the two, seemed to be an exclusive store only available to those with the collectors edition.
So a kind soul on Kotaku let me know in a talkback thread, that here in the USA, Walmart.com still had the collector's edition available for retail price. So I snagged one up, before they were gone and it's arriving next week!
Now after seeing online vendors on Amazon.com selling them now for $300+, I'm starting to wonder if a mint, sealed in box collectors edition might turn into a truly valuable collector to SW or game collectors?
And if I should just shelve it with some of my other mint in box collectibles and see what happens and use my Digital Deluxe version rather than cancel it or gift it? Or open it and use the codes/account for the exclusive digital content and cancel or gift the Digital version?
General opinions or anyone in the beta that can answer without violating any NDA's would be huge!
Now, I'm going to go test BF3 and see if my issues are resolved. I'm trusting so.
Thanks to all that made it all the way through this novel of a post!
Cheers!Edited by Shinobi Jedi - 10/26/11 at 12:12am
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Similar to an air conditioner in your house, your radiator keeps your car engine cool. An overheated car due to a faulty radiator can damage the car in many ways possibly leaving your car unusable. Radiators can become clogged, or have corrosion, wear and tear or leaks. Our technicians at Miller Brothers in Knoxville, TN can diagnose the problems with your radiator to get you back on the road safely and as quickly as possible.
Call or visit us today and let us take care of your vehicle so that you will continue to have dependable transportation in the long run.
- Free inspections
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Miller Brothers is locally owned and operated and has proudly served the community for over 40 years. We would be proud to assist you with your auto repair needs. Here at Miller Brothers we recognize that unexpected events like a car repair can be difficult. We accept all major credit cards, debit cards and can offer several financing options.
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The Link Between Sexual Abuse and Sexual Offending
Sheryl Overby MS LIMHP
It’s really difficult to know if you should be worried about your child after they have been sexually abused in some way. It’s important not to over react, or under react. You should be prepared to have issues with sexuality in some fashion as the child grows into a teen, starts dating and eventually has their own children. But, THERE IS NO PROOF THAT BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED WILL LEAD TO THAT PERSON BEING A SEXUAL ABUSER either as child, teen or adult. Here are some statistics that might help.
- Some children do react to their sexual abuse by doing sexual things to other children. The legal term for this is child on child sexual assault. Therapists call this sexually reactive. These kids can be helped by counseling and have a reduced risk that they will sexually abuse again in the future.
- Physical abuse of the child or domestic violence in the home is just as traumatic for the child as a history of sexual abuse. All of these factors maybe related (not the only cause) to children who have problematic sexual behavior (PSB).
- Most kids who have been sexually abused have also had other types of abuse or difficult home life, so it is very difficult to find out exactly what is causing their problems.
- 13 different studies that involved 1353 children, who were sexually abused, 35% of preschool aged children had sexual behavior problems, and 11% of school age kids had sexual behavior problems.
- Some studies regarding adult sex offenders indicate that 60 to 70% of them were sexually abused as children. However, other studies which included polygraph testing of their sexual abuse history found that approximately 20 to 30 % of adult sex offenders were sexually abused as children.
- Most experts agree that adult sex offenders commonly have difficult childhoods, which included a combination of emotional, physical and sexual abuse.
- 5 to 10 % of adolescents with sexual behavior problems have true sexual deviancy, so they will have problems with these issues for a very long time.
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1 – EU should act on tar sands, say scientists
Over 50 European and US scientists have written to the president of the European Commission, urging him to press ahead with a plan to label tar sand more polluting than other forms of oil, defying intensive lobbying from Canada. Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, scientists said that plans for trade deals between the US and Europe risks permanently freezing the legislation for good.
2 – Funding to jumpstart NY Green Bank
Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced US$ 210 million in initial funding for the New York Green Bank, an initiative he proposed in his 2013 State of the State address as the “financial engine” that will mobilise private investment in clean energy projects. With this funding, the Green Bank is expected to open for business and offer its first financial products in early 2014, reports the Central New York Business Journal.
3 – Australian government threatens protected forest
The Australian government has decided to push ahead with a plan to remove Unesco World Heritage Status from a swath of Tasmanian forest, the Guardian reports, potentially reopening bitter divisions over the state’s timber industry. The Coalition has argued the listing threatens jobs and investment in a region that suffers from relatively high unemployment.
4 – Yeb Sano one of ’10 people who mattered most’
Filipino Climate Change Commissioner Yeb Saño has been cited by international weekly science journal Nature as one of 10 people who mattered this year for having “focused the world’s attention – briefly – on global warming” reports GMA News Online. Sano gave an emotional speech at the UN’s climate change conference in Warsaw this year, pledging to fast until meaningful action had been achieved.
5 – Some plants will struggle to adapt to climate change
Researchers have suggested that some plants may not have the traits needed to respond quickly enough to human-induced climate change, reports the Business Standard. Scientists at the University of Florida found that some plant lineages, including many crops, will not have the underlying genetic attributes that will allow for rapid responses to climate change.
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When: Fri., March 21 and Sat., March 22 2014
School House Rock celebrates the 60th birthday of St. Louis King of France School with food, music, family games, bounce houses, a rock-climbing wall and more. There's also an auction. Hours 6 p.m.-11 p.m. Fri., 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat. Admission free.
1600 Lake Ave. (Metairie)
Select a star to rate.
© 2018 Gambit
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This fund seeks to achieve long term capital appreciation through investing predominantly in European equity and European equity related securities.
It will at all times invest at least two-thirds of its net assets in issuers having their registered offices in Europe or carrying out the predominant part of their economic activities in Europe. The fund may also invest up to 35% of its Net Asset Value in fixed and/or floating rate bonds issued by governments with a rating at least A2\P2 from Standard & Poor’s/Moody's, respectively. It may invest up to 5%, in aggregate, of its Net Asset Value in UCITS and/or non-UCITS regulated collective investment schemes which may be domiciled in Europe, and which invest in the securities described above and which are listed or traded on one or more Recognised Exchanges in Europe.
Información sobre el fondo de inversión Odey Allegra European Fund
El fondo Odey Allegra European Fund, con ISIN, IE00B2R80S81 de la gestora Odey Asset Management LLP se sitúa en la posición entre los 192 fondos de la categoría RV Europa Cap. Grande Blend a 12 meses. Su rentabilidad a este plazo es del 0,00% con una volatilidad del 0,00%. Los gastos corrientes del fondo representan un 0,87% del patrimonio del fondo, que asciende a 3.394.928 GBP a fecha de 22 de March de 2018.
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Back when I was a little kid and I used to hear my brother talk about “Led Zeppelin” and “Def Leppard” and “Thin Lizzy”, I always thought those were names of people, not a band. They just seemed like actual human names to my 8-year old ears. I think that’s just the kind of stupid thing kids think. Well, me as a kid anyways. Me as an adult several years ago heard the name Carlton Melton and I regressed back to being that Midwestern tyke wearing Husky jeans and Batman t-shirts. I assumed that Carlton Melton was just one guy that played alt-country music somewhere in the Midwest -or maybe Idaho- and drove around the country in an old station wagon playing small bars and folk festivals.
Man, was I wrong.
Turns out Carlton Melton is a three-piece rock band from the wooded hills of Mendocino County in Northern California. And when I say rock, I’m really undermining what it is these guys really do. It’s a mix of psychedelia, space, and a good helping of classic rock. Their superpowers lie in creating these massive musical spaces. A place where melody, atmosphere, and that great empty void where all those forgotten dreams and discarded thoughts end up. It’s a magical place where you can get lost and immerse yourself in some real ancient and mystical pixie dust. Drones and vibes from outer space are Carlton Melton’s playground, man.
Once I realized that Carlton Melton weren’t some alt-country troubadour traveling the highways and bi-ways of this great land with nothing more than an old Gibson Hummingbird and a professionally-tailored Nudie suit, I delved into their albums and was floored. Andy Duvall(drums, guitar), Rich Millman(synths, guitar), and Clint Golden(bass guitar, drums) don’t necessarily wear their influences on their sleeves, but you can definitely get hints of where their hearts lie in the musical world. Influences ranging from Hendrix(Millman), to Nick Drake(Duvall), to Spaceman 3(Golden), they cover a lot of ground. And their space for creation is just as unique as their sound. Up till their newest record, the band would come together in a geodesic dome, otherwise known as “the dome”, and would improvise sounds, jams, atmospheres into mind-expanding long form songs. The results were stunning. But for their latest LP, the excellent Out To Sea, they stepped inside a professional studio with their friend Phil Manley. The results are a more clear-eyed sound, but still just as mind-expanding.
The guys in Carlton Melton have a lot of dates and festivals on the calendar, but Rich Millman took some time to answer a few questions.
J. Hubner: Let’s talk about the new album ‘Out To Sea’. Production-wise, it’s the cleanest and clearest album from Carlton Melton to date. Can you tell me a little bit about the making of this album? Did you want to do things differently this time around?
Rich Millman: CM played some shows with Phil Manley’s Life Coach. Phil simply asked us if we would like to come by and check out his studio. We did and then booked a weekend in July 2014. We approached everything the same as any other time going up to Brian’s to record in the Dome. No rehearsals or demos. Everything was recorded as improvised during the session.
J. Hubner: The band has always recorded in your own space prior to ‘Out To Sea’. What was it like recording in a different environment this time? Did you work with an outside producer as well?
Rich Millman: It was the first time for CM in a conventional studio. This enabled us to play through louder, bigger amps. In the Dome everything is recorded with room mics so you have to be careful about volume or you risk blowing out the recording. With Phil the guitar volumes were turned up like a live gig. Phil picked up all the nuances of our sound. It was recorded and mixed by Phil Manley. Produced by Phil and CM.
J. Hubner: The guitars are massive on this record. Were you guys going for more of a guitar-centric record this time around? While synths are still there they seem more subtle this time around. Was that something you guys had in mind going into this record?
Rich Millman: I don’t think we were going for any certain direction or changes in sound. It just turned out that way during the mixing process. The synths are there on all or most of the recordings I think. We just didn’t hear a need to turn them up on any particular parts. Everything sort of settled into how it sounded live.
J. Hubner: As always, Carlton Melton mixes the heavier aspects of psych and space rock with the more dreamy, atmospheric ones. You open the album with two huge songs, “Peaking Duck” and “Wheel and Deal”, which when it first starts out it reminds me a lot of Zeppelin’s “The Rover”(a very good thing), then fall into a very peaceful, transcendent “Diamond in the Rough”. Who or what influences the moods on this record? Is “out to sea” a theme that runs throughout?
Rich Millman: For me the mood is always feeling excited to have the opportunity to hang out and record with these guys ( and Phil Manley on this occasion ). We never know how it is going to turn out or what will happen long term but I think we have been having a lot of fun over the years and it carries over onto tape.
J. Hubner: Is Carlton Melton a diamond in the rough?
Rich Millman: To some people maybe. Being part of it makes it hard for me to describe it in any way. That particular song definitely is because we did not remember recording it until Phil played it back to us. Andy came up with the title for that song.
J. Hubner: Gear-wise, what does the band like to use? Are there any essential guitar pedals that you can’t leave home without?
Rich Millman: I always seem to have a digital-delay pedal and Rat distortion going.
J. Hubner: What shows does Carlton Melton have lined up? Will there be some smaller dates in the States?
Rich Millman: CM is playing an all day event Sept 13th in San Francisco put on by The San Francisco Great Society http://www.sfgreatsociety.org/ Tons of bands we have never seen or played with before so I’m excited about that. Then off to UK and Europe for 3 weeks.
J. Hubner: If you had to choose, top two favorite songs off of ‘Out To Sea’? And why those songs?
Rich Millman: I like them all but if I had to pick two it would be ‘peaking duck’ and ‘it’s been summer all winter’.
J. Hubner: If someone was just coming to Carlton Melton for the first time, what album would you recommend to them as a good gateway record?
Rich Millman: ‘out to sea’ … That’s the gateway because there is more a coming!!!
You heard him. If you haven’t yet, grab a copy of Out to Sea. I recommend listening to it on vinyl as it sounds absolutely stunning on vinyl, but get it in your ears anyway you can. If you’ll be in San Francisco on September 13 go check Carlton Melton out, courtesy of The San Francisco Great Society. All my UK and European friends, be on the look out for Carlton Melton. They’ll be blowing minds in your neck of the woods very soon.
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Elites vape carts are Made from our live resin . But all of the carts in the catalog are derived from fresh, AAAA+ quality cannabis. Grown directly in British Columbia. Elite Elevation Live Resin Carts are spread using 100% genuine live resin, not distillate. We ensure a full spectrum high that electrifies the effects.But the benefits are unique terpenes from each individual strain.
The cartridges are made to deliver a smooth, flavourful vapor with high potency.
They have NO added thinning agents such as (PG), MCT or (VG).
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I am running Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I keep getting this message:
Code 80080005 Windows Update encountered an unknown error."
I have been getting this for about 2 months and I have ignored it untill
now. I think it all started when I tried to update to SP2.
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Rules For Returning To The Office
This booklet brings together the health and organizational measures implemented in our office area for welcoming our employees and customers in due time.
All these recommendations are up to date as of May, 21 2020, and apply to all employees and visitors to our area. They are subject to change depending on the consequences on company activities and operations, and on any new measures taken by public authorities.
To protect yourself and others, you will be asked to adapt your behavior in the premises.
We have done our utmost to ensure your safety when returning to the office. However, for this to be effective, it is essential that everyone adopt good habits. I am counting on all of you to become familiar with and comply with the rules provided in this guide.
Note: This guide has no copyrights, feel free to use it if you need it.
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Stunning Three Bedroom Stone-front Ranch on large lot in Marple Summit! Inviting living room with attractive fireplace. Formal Dining Room with Chair-rail molding has a Large Built-In Corner Cabinet. Gleaming Hardwood Floors Throughout. The Bright Eat-in Kitchen even has room for a Laundry area. Off the kitchen is a Lovely Three Season Porch. The Porch features a ceramic tiled floor, ceiling fan and access to the attached 2 Car Garage with Workshop area. From the Porch you can also exit to a lovely Paved Patio, great for BBQ's. The Spacious Master Bedroom has a Full ceramic tiled bath and ample closet space. The other Two Good Sized Bedrooms are off the hall, as is the ceramic tiled full hall bath. Note, this home features a New Furnace in 8/2016, a New Oil Tank in 8/2016, Newer Windows throughout, and is Freshly Painted. This is a Well-cared for and Much Loved home. In the Award Winning Marple Newtown School District. A HSA One-Year Home Warranty is included with this home. This is the Perfect Home, Move Right in!! Low Taxes!
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Deluxe Build-A-Road with Elevator
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☆ Special Selection -- Creative Thinking & Imaginative Play Skill Builder!
Jam-packed with open-ended play possibilities! The 240-piece Kidoozie™ Deluxe Build-A-Road with Elevator from International Playthings has over 15-feet of bright, engaging, flexible track to be configured and reconfigured to one's heart's delight. Build thrilling roadways for the two included battery-operated cars to ride up and over bridges, circle roundabouts, take the elevator to another level of track, pass through multi-directional connectors, and even make death-defying jumps!
- Easy to build and requires no tools
- 240 piece set includes 2 cars, track, and bridge pieces
- Requires 2 AA batteries (not included)
- Ages 3 & up
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.
The Deluxe Build-A-Road with Elevator can give children an opportunity to learn new skills and engage their creative side as they manipulate the pieces to design and redesign colorful, connecting roads. Putting together parts of a whole can lead to a sense of achievement and boost self-confidence.
This product was assessed and assigned the skill areas listed below by St. David's Center for Child & Family Development.
- Creative Thinking and Imaginative Play
- Cognition and Problem Solving
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Bicarbonate of soda is a common household item that can be used for cleaning. It is inexpensive and effective at removing stains from carpets. To use, simply make a paste of bicarbonate of soda and water and apply to the stain. Let it sit for a few minutes before blotting with a clean cloth.
No, bicarbonate of soda does not remove carpet stains.
How does baking soda remove old carpet stains?
Baking soda and vinegar is a great combination for cleaning stains. The baking soda will help to lift the stain and the vinegar will help to break it down. Be sure to test this combination on a small area first to ensure that it will not damage your fabric.
Bicarbonate of soda is a great way to get rid of stains on your carpet. All you need to do is mix it with a bit of water to create a paste and apply it to the area. Then give the area a good scrub and let the paste soak in.
Does vinegar and baking soda remove old stains from carpet
One of the most effective methods you can use to remove old stains from carpet is a combination of baking soda and vinegar. The acidic nature of vinegar helps to break down the stain, while the baking soda provides a gentle abrasive action to lift it from the carpet fibers.
For those times when you need a little more stain fighting power, add baking soda to dish washing liquid, white vinegar, and warm water. Mix the ingredients in a spray bottle and you’re ready to go. Or, try this combination of white vinegar, salt, and lavender scented essential oil to clean stains and deodorize.
Can you leave baking soda on carpet too long?
Baking soda is a great way to clean your carpet and get rid of tough stains and odors. For best results, let the baking soda sit on the carpet for at least 15 minutes. The longer it stays on the carpet, the more dirt, oil, and odor it will absorb. For a really deep clean, try leaving the baking soda on the carpet overnight and vacuuming in the morning.
Baking soda is a great way to absorb moisture and odors from your carpet. Simply sprinkle a generous amount over your wet carpet and let it sit for a while. The baking soda will absorb the moisture and odors, leaving your carpet fresh and clean.
How do you get deep stains out of carpet?
If you have a stain on your carpet that you can’t seem to get out, you can try a mixture of white vinegar, Dawn dish soap, and water in a spray bottle. Use 1/4 cup of white vinegar, 1 tbsp of Dawn dish soap, and fill with water. Spray area liberally and let soak for 5-10 minutes and then proceed with blotting with a clean, dry towel until stain is removed.
Baking soda is a great option for removing stains from your carpet. It is generally safe to use and will not cause any damage to your carpet. You may want to test a small area first to ensure that it does not cause any problems.
How do you get old tough stains out of carpet
This is a great way to clean old stains on your carpet. The baking soda and vinegar will help to break down the stain and lift it out of the carpet. Be sure to mix the ingredients well before using and test on a small area first.
To disinfect your carpet, you can either scrub it or blot it with vinegar. If you have some really smelly areas of carpet, you can try sprinkling them with baking soda and letting it sit for about 20 minutes before vacuuming it up.
Can hydrogen peroxide remove carpet stains?
Hydrogen peroxide is a very effective disinfectant and bleaching agent. It can be used on carpets and rugs to remove stains and dirt. It is important to be very careful when using hydrogen peroxide on carpets and rugs, as it can damage the fibers if it is not used correctly.
The combination of acetic acid and baking soda is a great way to clean and disinfect surfaces. The acetic acid in vinegar acts as a disinfectant and reacts with the baking soda to lift stains. This combination is also great for brightening whites. With a little bit of scrubbing and leaving the paste to set for 30 minutes, I was able to almost remove the stains completely from my white jeans.
Can you mix baking soda and white vinegar together
There are many cleaning solutions that you can make at home using common household materials. Two of the most popular and effective natural cleaners are vinegar and baking soda. Because vinegar and baking soda are on opposite ends of the pH scale, they can be combined and used as effective cleaning solutions. Vinegar is a weak acid that can break down dirt, grime, and other build-up on surfaces. Baking soda is a strong alkaline that can scrub and polish surfaces. Together, they make a powerful cleaning duo that can remove even the toughest grime and leave your surfaces sparkling clean.
Baking soda is an excellent choice for removing odors from your carpet. It is a natural odor absorber and is very effective at neutralizing odors. Baking soda is also very inexpensive and is safe to use around children and pets.
What stains are permanent on carpet?
Coffee, tea, wine, and some nylons are susceptible to permanent staining. Be aware of hot liquids and of course, bleach and household chemicals.
Bicarb soda, also known as bicarbonate soda or baking soda, is a pure ingredient that is naturally gluten free. It requires an acidic ingredient in the recipe, such as lemon juice, buttermilk, chocolate or honey, to activate the rising quality.
Yes, bicarbonate of soda can be used to remove carpet stains.
Overall, bicarbonate of soda is an effective way to remove carpet stains. It is important to remember to vacuum the area thoroughly afterwards to remove any remaining powder.
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If you’ve never built a steel building before, there are two main things you should know: one, it is not nearly as difficult as you probably think it is, and two, you should probably still visit other steel or metal building projects near you just to get a good sense of how they work. Doing so will give you a better idea of ways you can save time and money once you begin your own prefab steel building project.
When you get the materials for your prefab steel building, they will be accompanied by some extremely detailed assembly instructions. These instructions are there for a reason; you should follow them to the letter, and read them thoroughly several times before you get started with your project.
Here are some tips for steel building construction in Arkansas using prefab materials:
- Work safe: Create a “work safe plan” before you even begin the project. Safe work sites not only protect everyone working on the project, but also help to keep costs low. Improper handling of building materials or equipment could lead to significant injury or death, whereas doing the project right will keep you safe and give you a better end result.
- Portion the project: Divide the job up into a variety of smaller individual jobs, and assign each of these tasks to small teams of workers. This will make the job go quicker while also ensuring each task has the appropriate amount of attention dedicated to it.
- Use experienced workers: People who have training and experience in assembling prefab steel buildings will work faster, will take their safety extremely seriously and will ultimately create a much better building. They will also require less instruction and supervision, saving you a great deal of time.
- Bolt pieces together before you raise them: Attach as many component pieces together as is possible and safe before raising them. This will save you a great deal of time, as it’s far easier to bolt these pieces while they are still on the ground.
- Have all needed tools and equipment on hand: Give your workers everything they need to get the job done safely and efficiently. This is certain to make the project go much more smoothly.
- Have a drainage plan: You never know when a big rainstorm is going to hit and potentially damage your construction site. Have proper drainage all over your work site to prevent water buildup during and after construction of your steel building.
- Build the project in sections: Similar to how you portion the project among different workers, you should also focus on specific sections of the project one at a time rather than trying to accomplish everything at once. Work from one end to the other.
Follow these tips for putting together prefab steel buildings, and you’ll find that you will drastically limit your construction costs and keep yourself and all of your workers safe throughout the project. For more information about obtaining prefab steel buildings and handling steel building construction in Arkansas, we encourage you to reach out to us today at Adams Truss, Inc.
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After powerful Songs released This year Geewin Ed returns with another Powerful hit which he Titled “Hustle pay” featuring GOCY ent. This Song is mainly for Hustlers and thinkational mind whom at some point in their Hustle begin to sense some distance delay due to a wrong believe or belittling their hustles.
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To get from Villanova a Floridia by train you can catch one of the 5 trains that everyday travel between Bagni di Tivoli and Targia, the closest station to the city. For your trip from Bagni di Tivoli to Targia by train you can choose to leave from one of Bagni di Tivoli main stations: Bagni di Tivoli If travelling with Trenitalia, you need to know the Bagni di Tivoli to Targia train schedule: the first train leaves at 08:41, while the last ride is at 20:41. A Bagni di Tivoli to Targia train cost about 78.1 €. But how long is the train ride from Bagni di Tivoli to Targia? Your journey takes about 20 hours on average.
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THE UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA, Lro. ESTABLISHED 1837. INCORPORATED 1880. PAID-UP CAPITAL .. £1,500.000 RESERVE FUNDS 1.000.000 RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPRIETORS •• 3,000,000 TOTAL CAPITAL AND RESERVE FUNDS .• £5,500,000 Head Ofl l cs-1, BANK BUILDINGS, LOTHBURY, LONDON, E.O, Directors. RICHARD JAS. ASHTON, ESQ. Sm R. G. W. HERBERT,. K.C.B. ARTHUR P. BLAKE, EsQ. WILLIAM 0. GILCHkiST, ESQ. CHAS. E. BRIGHT, EsQ., C.M.G. JuHN 8. HILL, EsQ. FREDERICK G. DALGETY, EsQ. 'fHB RT. HoN. Lono HILLINGDON. MA)oR FREDERICK FANNING. SIR CHARLES NICHt)LSON, BA.aT. ARTHUR FLOWER, E:;Q. · HENRY P. STURGIS, ESQ. �ru.cue�. THE RIGHT HON. LORD HILLINGDON. 'ffiE HON. PASCOE C. GLYN. ARTHUR FLO,VER, EHQ. . Jlanitr�. THE BANK. OF ENGLAND, and MEssas. GLYN, MILLS, OURRIE & 00.
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Take a break from traditional stuffing by forming it into balls. These portion-sized balls are great for entertaining at parties and quick serving at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
You will need:
1 loaf of bread
3-4 celery stalks, washed and diced
1/4 c. onion, finely diced
3/4 stick of butter
1/2 tsp. sage
1/2 tsp. rosemary
1/2 tsp. thyme
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
.1 egg, beaten
1/4 can of chicken broth
Tear all of the slice of bread into small pieces and dry in a 325 degree oven until the bread becomes crispy like a crouton.
Soften the butter and cut into cubes. Toss the butter, diced onion and celery with the dried bread. Sprinkle the sage, rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper over the bread and toss.
Drizzle half of the beaten egg over the bread. Toss the bread, the drizzle the other half of the egg over the bread. Drizzle the chicken broth over the stuffing.
Form the stuffing into balls and place on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Place in a crockpot on low for 6-8 hours. Serve each person their own ball of stuffing!
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“Tris di Fragole”- Strawberry Variations
In Italy, you can find the main dish “Tris di pasta“ quite often on restaurant menus. “Tris” means “a combination of three” and refers to a pasta dish with three different noodle variations.
But I am getting off track here… this post is all about strawberries. To be precise it is about three simple, fast and delicious strawberry recipes. After getting back from the supermarket the other day with a full bag of fresh and juicy strawberries I spontaneously decided to use them all right away.
First, I needed a refreshing after school snack for our kids. Given the fact that it is incredibly hot at the moment I decided to whip up some ice cream. I always have frozen chunks of banana in my freezer which makes a great base for ice cream. Add some lemon juice and honey to give it a little extra flavor, puree all ingredients in a high speed blender and voila, here is the most creamy and delicious
banana strawberry lemon honey ice cream
The kids decided to decorate it with some non dairy chocolate chips- “just for the picture”, as I was reassured… Yeah, right. By the time I took the picture outside the ice cream had melted significantly.
Next on my list was dinner. Because of the heat, none of us is very keen at the moment on eating a hot dish- and I am not keen on getting a heat stroke in my kitchen or paying an arm and a leg for the electricity bill for using the air condition ( very expensive in Australia!). So I came up with a cold and fruity salad- topped with a mineral rich strawberry poppy seed dressing. What a delight!
strawberry, spinach and almond salad with poppy seed dressing
Slightly toasted almond slices add a little crunch and a little more color to this fruity green and red bowl.
A fancy salad needs to be accompanied by a fancy drink- I chose to pair the strawberries with cold watermelon, give it a little extra kick with a bit of lemon juice and honey and some freshness with a handful of fresh mint leaves.
watermelon honey lemon mint strawberry juice
The juice tastes best when served “on the rocks”- poured over ice.
Mint leaves are probably best known for their refreshing flavor. But Mint is an ancient herb that has been used since antiquity because of its culinary, medicinal and aromatic properties. The origins of mint are honored in a Greek myth that tells the tale that the plant was originally a water nymph called Minthe, who was transformed into a plant.
According to the story, Minthe was a beautiful water nymph who attracted the attention of Hades. Hades was the stern ruler of the Greek Underworld and the husband of the goddess Persephone. It seems, however, that even Persephone’s obvious charms could not keep the attention of Hades at all times. The Underworld god therefore engaged in an illicit – but not terribly well hidden – affair with the Naiad Minthe.
Naturally, Persephone found out about the relationship between her husband and the water nymph. And in a scenario that is all too familiar in Greek myth, the spurned wife took revenge on her husband’s mistress. Minthe became the unfortunate object of Persephone’s wrath. The goddess of the Underworld began to step on Minthe, beating the poor nymph with furious kicks. Minthe however was transformed into the mint plant, and with each tread of Persephone’s foot, this plant released a delightful scent. This is the myth of how the aromatic mint plant received its name.
I hope you enjoyed this little excursion into the Greek mythology- it brings back memories from my high school years in Austria. We learned Latin for six years and were sweating over ancient Roman texts trying to figure out what the story was all about- they ranged from extremely smart to witty, funny and even absurd. Maybe its time I to get the dusty copy of “Metamorphoses” of OVID down from the bookshelf and read some of the poems to my kids (of course in the English translation…)
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Back on air again, Hi folks I know, I've missed you just as much....if you are looking for all the old posts then sorry, they've gone to digital heaven , bless em, most of it was a load of old guff anyway which is probably how this is going to turn out. Regular viewers will have noticed that the images have gone a bit mono on here, concious choice and all the genres of image making I do will now be mono on here and if you want a dose of full on colour then click this link
You can always click on the library link above. I've mainly been putting all my efforts into getting the Library side of things up and running and now I'm getting a 1,000 pages a day served up to search engines I think I can leave things be and get back to looking after this place, so all the new stuff will go up on the latest images part of the Library site , so bookmark it or jump across from here.
So news, big news is of course that I'm walk leader for one of Scott Kelbys Worldwide Photowalks on October the 13th in Manchester. Fully booked but there is a waiting list so get your name down as a just in case.
If you havn't had a look then I've been adding some new tutorials to my Youtube site and I'm quite pleased that I've now got over a 100 subscribers and rising, There will be more to come but once the 'Sunny' weather goes and we are left with short days and time allows me to sit down and witter on about retouching and primping. So what's on the horizon, well I really have never brought the ICM treatment to landscape and countryside, I've cracked the wide angle panoramics and have some things lined up for those and of course I'm almost there with the classroom based tutorial/training, just a few more venues to see and I'll be done and I can get the final dates out and the very affordable prices out there. Some places offer to teach you Photoshop in a day for £450...are they Total Recall?? more importantly...are they joking??
What's all this then????
An unyeilding torrent of Photo babbel full of unconfirmed facts and manufactured photo drivel.. take from it what you like, it won't change the world but may leave you feeling nauseous...
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Time to celebrate 🇵🇷!— WTA (@WTA) August 13, 2016
You have an #Olympics #Gold Medalist, @MonicaAce93!! #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/1vWpHxUklH
I remember, years ago, watching a very young Monica Puig swing a potent backhand on an outside court during Charleston qualifying. She played with a fiery attitude, and drew quite a few spectators.
Over the past few years, I wondered if and when Puig would make the sort of breakthrough that would cause the tennis world to take notice. It happened this year, when all the aspects of her game came together and she made a big climb up the rankings, all the way to number 34 in the world.
As of today, she's still number 34 in the world, but with an accessory rarely seen adorning a tennis kit: Monica Puig has an Olympic gold medal. And she earned it in dramatic fashion, slaying giants all the way on her journey to the Olympic podium.
The 22-year-old Puerto Rican with the very aggressive game ran over French Open champion Garbine Muguruza, and also took out two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova. For her final flourish, Puig defeated Australian Open champion and Wimbledon runner-up Angelique Kerber. It was a stunning match, with both women covering every inch of territory available on the court. "Epic" would actually be an appropriate adjective, in this case.
It was also a case of The Mighty Backhand battling against The Mighty Forehand, and The Mighty Backhand emerged the victor, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1. Prior to the gold medal match, neither player had dropped a set. Undoubtedly heartbreaking for Kerber fans, the occasion was nevertheless a high point in the 2016 season of both players. Kerber's movement appeared to be a bit hampered throughout the match, but she managed to stage a dramatic comeback of sorts from 0-5 down in the third set. At 5-1, it looked as though the German star might even be able to reverse her fortunes, but Puig would have none of it.
Puig even looked special, in her bold (and very becoming) red, white and blue kit. All the confidence she has displayed throughout the season just kept growing--right before our eyes--as she whacked down victim after victim in Rio. Prior to entering the Olympic stadium, the world number 34 had never faced off with a top 5 opponent, yet she managed to defeat two of them during the Games. And prior to Puig's Rio victory, no one from Puerto Rico had ever won an Olympic gold medal. In fact, no Puerto Rican woman had ever won an Olympic medal of any color.
#Rio2016 #Olympics Medal Winners#Gold— WTA (@WTA) August 13, 2016
🇨🇿 @Petra_Kvitova pic.twitter.com/DJMPZMedw2
Petra Kvitova, who looked especially fierce in Rio, despite losing her semifinal match to Puig, won the bronze medal when she defeated Madison Keys in the bronze medal match. Kvitova had that "gold medal/Fed Cup" look throughout the tournament, but it wasn't to be. Still, a bronze medal is a nice piece of hardware to get, especially for a very gifted player who badly needed a boost in her very strange career. (Fashion note: Kvitova's podium outfit was beautiful.) It was fitting that Puig stood on the medal podium between the two top 3 players (and gold medal favorites) she vanquished during the tournament.
Kerber will be playing in Cincinnati this week. Kvitova has withdrawn because of a right leg injury. (Note: I'm going to be in Cincinnati for the first time and consider Petra's withdrawal from the event to be a direct consequence of my recent run of bad luck.) Puig has also withdrawn, and has cited a lower back injury as the cause.
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WELCOME TO UTILITY WEEK LIVE ONLINE
The virtual doors remain open
At a time when face-to-face contact remains limited, Utility Week Live's new online event saw the UK’s energy, gas and water industries reunite in a new and immersive, digital exhibition and conference.
HELD ONLINE ACROSS 3 DAYS
Featuring training sessions, live product demos, interactive workshops and AI-based matchmaking.
2 SEMINAR PROGRAMMES
On Operational Excellence and Innovation, created by media brands Utility Week and WWT.
Showcasing the very latest in technology and innovation across assets, operations, engineering, innovation and technology.
AI-based matchmaking will connect you with the right contacts.
TWO PROGRAMMES ACROSS THREE DAYS OF ONLINE CONTENT
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and in the face of tough market conditions and regulatory settlements, utilities are under intense pressure to find new levels of efficiency while protecting resilience and maintaining safety. This challenge will demand a new focus on operational excellence in every business area. In this programme, we highlighted the measures companies are taking to grasp their operational excellence improvement and the technologies available to help them.
As Utility Week Live Online reunited the utilities industry in a virtual space, our pan-utility innovation programme looked in detail at innovating for net zero; innovating for vulnerable customers and innovating for whole systems change. With an opening plenary from Ofgem and Ofwat, the programme also explores the necessary business conditions to take innovation through to business as usual.
We are committed to the sustainability and performance of the businesses that we work with. We collect and validate supplier data and mitigate risks globally.
AST is a worldwide leader in satellite and radio communication technology, providing maritime and enterprise customers remote connectivity services. We understand your challenges, we’ll find the solut ...
BECG is the sector specialist communications consultancy for the built environment. Providing clients with expert counsel and award-winning communications services, we work across the utilities, energ ...
We are a consulting, digital services and software business, driven by our purpose of creating better outcomes for our clients and their customers. Every day we help millions of people around the worl ...
Who is Concrete Canvas Ltd? Based in South Wales, Concrete Canvas Ltd. is the manufacturer of three award-winning products, including Concrete Canvas® (CC). Concrete Canvas Ltd. products are a lower c ...
Energy Solutions/Services Sales Growth, Faster. Interested in creating NEW REVENUE FROM ENERGY SERVICES? Energy services including Solar PV, Storage, Lighting, EV Chargers, Air Con, among others. Our ...
Innovation drives the world we live in.
Evides Industriewater prides itself on providing an entire water cycle for its industrial clients that improves the efficiency of business processes, reduces environmental impact and significantly red ...
Evoqua Water Technologies has a more than 100-year heritage of transforming water and wastewater through innovation and industry firsts, market-leading expertise, and unmatched customer service. Our ...
For the UK to meet its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a more ‘radical’ proposition is required. The name of this proposition is Hydrogen. We have lead the charge by being awarded a ...
We supply steel water pipes, fittings and a choice of joint types, along with field joint protection sleeves, to the UK water industry.
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Experience to Date and Assessment
A key pillar of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture limits trade-distorting agricultural domestic support. Commitments for certain countries are tightened and extended under proposed rules in the stalled Doha Round negotiations. The Doha constraints are more stringent, but notified support of major economies such as the United States and the European Union is already within the final Doha limits. How has this happened and what value would a Doha agreement have?
To answer these questions, the evolution of farm policies in eight developed and developing countries (US, EU, Japan and Norway; Brazil, India, China and the Philippines) is examined. An assessment is made of how they have notified their support – or could notify where there are missing submissions. The assessment illuminates the complexity of WTO domestic support issues. The extent to which the WTO agreement has affected support levels and promoted policy reform is evaluated, and the proposed Doha rules and commitments are assessed. The seminar addresses what is needed beyond Doha to make further progress in tracking accurately and imposing meaningful constraints on policies that distort agricultural production and trade.
The seminar draws upon the newly published book WTO Disciplines on Agricultural Support: Seeking a Fair Basis for Trade edited by David Orden, David Blandford, and Tim Josling (Cambridge University Press, 2011). After an overview of the main findings by David Orden, Ambassador Clayton Yeutter will present his observations as one of the leaders of the negotiations that created the WTO. Comments by David Blandford and Tim Josling will lead into the general discussion.
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Saturdays with Scamp: Scamp goes Swimming!
Last weekend we took Scamp to a local state park that has a lake. Our mission was to find out if our puppy was going to be a fan of the water. Based on our tortorous bath experiences, I had a pretty good idea of what the answer would be, but I was hoping I was wrong and that Scamp would turn out to be an avid swimmer. I was not wrong, and Scamp is not a fan of the water. Of course that didn’t stop us from attempting to make him swim anyway. 🙂
Scamp’s swimming experience took him from the cute fluffy puppy you saw last week to the puppy who looks like the drowned rat you see below:
Let’s just say “wet” is not a good look for him. He actually got laughed at by some people sitting around the lake. Let’s take a closer look.
He makes me smile 🙂
And in case you’re interested, here is a little video of Scamp swimming for the first time. He looks a little frantic, doesn’t he?
In Nutro news, I’m pretty sure Scamp’s issue wasn’t the food switch after all. The trainers at Nutro have been great about trying to help me figure out the problem. Scamp tends to get very anxious when we leave him in his crate and I think it’s causing his bathroom issues while we’re gone. Also, thank you so much to those of you who commented or emailed trying to help me figure out what was going on – you guys are so helpful! 🙂
And just for fun, here is a picture of Scamp’s fluffy fur compared to his new haircut. To be honest, I kind of miss the fluffy puppy look, but this might be the first time I’ve actually been able to see his eyes 🙂 Plus it’s nice to know that my puppy’s ears are growing at 3 times the rate of his head.
This is a sponsored post. Nutro provided me with products and promotional items and is compensating me for my time. As always, all opinions are my own.
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This course is for any and everyone in their workplace but is compulsory for jobs such as medical professionals, carers, food handlers and cleaners.
You will learn the effects of poor or none handwashing to yourself and others around you.
You will learn the 9 steps to effective handwashing, applicable to all professionals from office workers to medical and care professionals.
You will learn the substitute for handwashing, in case water and soap are not available to you.
Hands are the most carrier of diseases, which is why with this course, you will learn the importance of regular hand washing.
Got more questions? No problem, reach out to us at email@example.com.
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It has been almost three months since my last post… It certainly doesn’t seem like the last three months could have possibly gone by so quickly!
As you may have noticed, Instagram has been my substitute blog in the meantime. Ya’ll Instagram is my spirit animal… Attractive images, quick posts… I may or may not have a slight IG addiction, but I’m back in the blogging saddle and ready to get moving on new content!
And now, I am excited to catch you up on what has been moving and shaking in my world!
We had a very busy Holiday season in both my work and personal life, so although it is almost half way through February, I feel like I am just now taking a breath. Thanksgiving was a laid back event with my family. My siblings are beginning to get to the age where they are stretching their wings and are rarely home. Although I am so happy that they are following their dreams, it was the first season/semester for us to see them so infrequently. On Thanksgiving Day, we had a small dinner with just our family. We talked, caught up, laughed and enjoyed being under the same roof for a change.
December was filled with Christmas tree cutting,
Polar Express driving,
Symphony Date Nights,
And lots, and lots, and lots of decorations!!!
Our Christmas was a similarly simple affair with Geoff’s family. In the past few years, we have gone to New Orleans to spend the yuletide holiday with my extended family. This year it was time to slow things down. With gifts around the tree and tummies full of good food, we took it easy.
How did you spend the Holiday season?
I’ll be back tomorrow to catch you up on all of our happenings in the New Year!
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Guess What I Will be Seeing Today!
Think I am a bit too excited?! YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!!
The Joke by The Joker:
"See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night... one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they’re going to escape! So like they get up on to the roof, and there, just across the narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in moon light... stretching away to freedom. Now the first guy he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daren't make the leap. Y'see he's afraid of falling... So then the first guy has an idea. He says "Hey! I have my flash light with me. I will shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk across the beam and join me." But the second guy just shakes his head. He says... he says "What do you think I am, crazy? You would turn it off when I was half way across."
...review to come...
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Made from finest quality paper, this gorgeous Scroll Wedding Card is definitely going to take your breaths away with its mesmerizing prints, colours and patterns. Make your wedding more elegant with this wedding card.
8.00 " X 11.00 "
Box. Size- 2.375 " X 13.75" X 2.50",
Env. Size- 2.50 " X 14.00 "
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|Folder||Navy Blue Color, Velvet Paper|
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- Previous 0/1630
Ding-type porcelain vase with rounded body and flaring mouth. There is a finely incised design of flower spray around the neck, a key fret panel at the shoulder, and a five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl round the body.
- Height: 135 millimetres
Room 95 label text:
Vase with incised dragons
This porcelain vase is incised with flowers around the neck, and a five-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl round the body. Potters in the late Ming and Qing dynasties made copies of Ding wares at Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, Zhangzhou in Fujian province and in other southern kilns. The vase is chalky white or ‘rice–coloured’ and potters covered it either with a white slip and a thin transparent glaze with a yellowish cast that crackled during the cooling process or with an opaque white glaze. Connoisseurs once called this type of ceramic 土定 (tu ding ‘earthen Ding ware’).
Underfired porcelain, incised and with transparent glaze
Zhangzhou ware 漳州窯
Zhangzhou, Fujian province 福建省, 漳州
Qing dynasty, about AD 1800–1900
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Object reference number: RRC38798
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2015-03-27T02:14:22Z
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Krishna Reddy - Being Picky
I noticed that there are a lot of unsolved problems out there as well as solved ones. A lot of problems can just be solved with better planning or better spending. Some problems are harder to solve requiring millions of dollars of research and development, which I don't have access to. There's a middle range where it's not way too easy and it's not too hard.
Narrowing my list to three problems was not very hard because I don't have a broad range of interest in terms of things I'm willing to do. So some problems to me just don't sound appealing to me because they might be too hard to solve, or too easy.
I think there are three things that motivate 3M scientists to solve problems. The first is that they get satisfaction knowing that they have made the lives of people easier or better. Another is that they will get recognition for inventing or discovering something. They will be known for having an impact. The final reason is that there is financial incentive. The system of capitalism is designed to reward people for bringing upon improvements in society, so they will be financially rewarded somehow.
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2018-08-21T05:48:45Z
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