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Two suspected PDP moles have been caught at the Presidential Campaign Office Central Area, Abuja.
The suspects were apprehended on the 20th February, 2019 and interrogations identified them as Victor Omieza and Dosunmu Oluwatosin David.
It was discovered that they were from the People’s Democratic Party and investigation revealed that these men came into the campaign premises to spy and get as much information as they could on the activities of the All progressives Congress under the disguise of being journalists by attending press briefings at the conference hall of the campaign office with some of the party’s directors.
Further investigations revealed that Mr Victor had called Rt Hon Yakubu while Mr Dosunmu also called Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to feed them about the activities at the campaign council.
As at the time of this report, the situation is under investigation and the suspects will be prosecuted if found guilty.
The suspects later signed an undertaking that any time their attention is needed for further investigations, they will be readily available to comply with any invitation received.
“This situation shows the desperation of the opposition party and their strange appetite for all election wrongdoings.” A staff at the APC Presidential Campaign Council said.
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I can think of no place more fun than a movie set, particularly for a young actor. There’s just something amazing about going from what we know of everyday life and into a completely different universe. What helps guide the experience is a talented director, and on the set of The Hunger Games Amandla Stenberg, Alexander Ludwig and Isabelle Fuhrman were happy to have Gary Ross.
A few weeks ago I was given the chance to sit down with the three actors, who play the tributes known as Rue, Clove and Cato, with a few other journalists to talk about their time making the film. Check out the interview below in which they talk about on-set pranks, fooling around with Jennifer Lawrence, and the rigorous training process.
Had all of you read the book before the film?
Alexander Ludwig: There's a book?! [laughs] Definitely. Absolutely. We were all huge, huge fans of the book.
Did you have favorite characters?
Isabelle Fuhrman: Yes, definitely. My favorites were Katniss and Rue. They're just so relatable and lovable.
How then, was it, wanting to kill them?
Fuhrman: [laughs] Well, I always say that you have to love your characters. That meant re-reading the book and learning to love a character that's really a bad character. From there, it was discovering who she was and what made her so terrible and so mentally disturbed. From there, it was just doing a lot of character work.
Alexander, this is a very different role for you compared to Race to Witch Mountain. You're the bad guy instead of the good guy. What kind of training did you have to go through for the action side of things?
Ludwig: You're right, absolutely. When I got offered the role of Cato, I jumped on the opportunity. I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy and that's always been something that I've really, really wanted to do. It's about experiencing that dark side of a person. Cato is a really, really twisted individual. We worked really hard, just physically. I wanted Cato to have as big a presence physically as a mental one in the movie. There was a lot of fight training that I had to go through. I worked with a Navy SEAL to bulk up. Tons of hand-to-hand combat.
Fuhrmann: We worked a lot together as far as training goes. He was sword and I was knife, so when we were doing knife training and sword training, it was kind of the same except for the different sizes.
Ludwig: Then we'd practice on Amandla. [laughs]
How good did you get at knife-throwing?
Fuhrmann: I'm actually really, really good at it.
Ludwig: Wow! Don't be modest or anything. [laughs]
Fuhrmann: No, it was interesting because there were a lot more physics involved than I expected originally and I don't have a good arm. It was kind of throwing a tennis ball and gradually moving up to throwing an actual weighted knife at a target board. I felt I did good. I know how to still do it.
Ludwig: She really did do an exceptional job. She worked very, very hard.
Fuhrmann: And he did an amazing job with those swords. It was just crazy.
Amandla, you have some of the most beautiful and poignant emotional scenes in the movie.
Amandla Stenberg: Yeah, and it was kind of a solemn day on set that particular day. Jennifer [Lawrence] is extremely funny. Every time we'd finish a take she'd go, "That was cheery! I loved that!" Then everyone would start laughing. She kind of kept it light.
Were there pranks on set?
Stenberg: There were indeed pranks.
Ludwig: You have no idea.
Fuhrmann: [motions to Stenberg] This one? Watch out.
Ludwig: She is a prankster. I remember one day I was doing a fight scene on-set and was practicing with some of the guys. In North Carolina, during the time we were filming it was just so, so hot. It was disgusting. It was like you just walked out of a shower of sweat. It was gross. I had my shirt off when we were doing the fight training and had no clothes. I had to run back to my trailer to go get my clothes and, as I did, all my clothes were gone. I couldn't find them anywhere, but I do find this little note with a gang symbol for Amandla and Jacqy [Emerson], who plays Foxface. I was just like, "Oh my god!" I have no clothes and I'm in my boxers now just trying to find all my clothes. I find some of them in the fridge and some of them in the microwave. It's one of the many, many things that Amandla did to ruin my life on-set.
Fuhrmann: He had me text him directions. He wasn't working for a three-day weekend when they were just doing scenes with Jenn and Josh. He called me and said, "My phone's about to die! I need directions to get from Nashville to Scottsdale, Arizona. I'm like, "Okay," and I type them out. My thumbs are killing me and then he goes, "Alright, but I still need directions from Scottsdale, Arizona to Little Rock, Arkansas and then to Boulder, Colorado." I go, "You're not going to make it back in time!" and he's like, "We're gonna fly back." I think, alright, seems implausible, but whatever, I'll just send it to him.
Ludwig: [laughs] She just kept typing out the directions! It was really sick and funny.
Fuhrmann: It was not funny for me!
Ludwig: I got this huge essay of directions.
Fuhrmann: You and Mark were probably like, [mimicking his voice] "She seriously did it, dude! She seriously did! So sick!"
Amandla, you spend some time up in trees. Did you climb them yourself or did they put you up there or was it all fake ones down on the ground?
Stenberg: I spent some time in both real trees and in the trees in the soundstage. I had a custom-made harness so that I wouldn't fall over. It was really, really fun, actually. There was this one time that Jenn and I were in the tree doing a scene and it was kind of difficult to stay up because you kind of slide down gradually. I found a little space in the tree where I could sit and wouldn't slide down. It was just a little hole in the tree. I was sitting and then they're about to call action and I start sliding down. I yell out, really loudly so that everyone can hear, "Wait, I can't find my butthole!" [laughs] Then Jenn proceeded to make fun of me for the rest of the shoot.
It sounds like it's kind of amazing that any work got done with the three of you together on set.
Ludwig: We were very professional when it came down to shooting and doing the work. Off-set, though, when we had time off, we were just having the best time. It was probably the best summer I ever had.
Have you had much interaction with fans yet?
Fuhrmann: Mostly through Twitter and, of course, my friends. All my friends read the book and they're trying to get information out of me. I'm like, "I can't tell you!"
Ludwig: We had this one fan -- or a few of them -- that, for some reason, knew exactly where all of us were going to be at every single time of the day. I'd be going to the airport and he'd be there. It got to the point that we'd know each other on a first-name basis, "Oh hey! What's up man? You found me again! What's up? Should I call the police?" [laughs] Other than that, all the fans have just been so supportive. I remember when we were shooting a Vanity Fair photo spread and I look and see a little head pop up by a tree. There's three teenage girls who have snuck past security and made it into the forest. There's little things like that, but mostly it's just flattering to have so much support.
Fuhrmann: My mom's more scared about it than I am, probably. She's always very nervous about me going to walk with my friends by myself now. She's like, "Be careful! You never know!" and I'm like, "I'm fine. I'm fine." I can throw knives now.
A number of reporter this morning started the day by joking about how we would all fare in the Hunger Games. Did you ever do that with one another on-set?
Fuhrmann: We did! We all agreed that one of the stunt people, who played one of the stunt tributes from District 10 and who trained all of us, Jeremy [Marinas], would be the winner.
What's the biggest thing that each of you learned about yourselves doing a movie like this?
Ludwig: Speaking for myself here, it take a lot of effort to find that playing a villain note. That's a mindset that you really have to work on. It's not something that just comes easy. Playing good guys is something that just feels much more natural to me. I guess I'd like to think of myself as a bit of a good person.
Fuhrmann: You don't have a mean bone in your body.
Ludwig: It definitely takes a lot of work. Lots of research and really creating a backstory, especially if you're playing a villain, is very, very important so that you have something to go off of.
Fuhrmann: Going off that, I learned a lot about my craft. A lot of the psychology aspect of it, being a bad character, but one with completely different motivation than anyone that I'd ever played before. Just trying to figure out who she was and where she came from. What kind of circumstances that she overcame that caused her to be so disturbed.
Stenberg: I think I would say the same thing, just learning about acting. Also, Jenn became a really great mentor to me and was someone that I could lean on. If I had a different idea of the scene from Gary [Ross] or anyone else, she would kind of explain it to me until it was crystal clear. I also really learned about Rue and how, in her big scene, even though she's extremely scared, she's also trying to be brave for Katniss because she wants Katniss to go on and win the games. That became something that I really understood and I really got into the scene after that.
So you played the character assuming from the beginning that there was no way she would survive the game?
Stenberg: No, I'm saying that when she does expire and as she is expiring, she realizes that she has to be brave for Katniss because, otherwise, Katniss is going to lose hope.
It sounds like there was a lot of fun to be had on-set but, at the same time, a lot was accomplished. What did Gary Ross to do help out that atmosphere?
Fuhrmann: He made us all very comfortable on-set. He talked to us a lot about our characters. He had a really great discussion with me before we started rehearsing. He was always there whenever we had questions or had anything we wanted to add or ask. One of the things that was really interesting is that, when we were filming the cornucopia, he would talk to us as if he was our character to get facial expressions out of us. It was so interesting what expressions we came up with when he was like, "That's your knife. You want the knives. Go for the knives! Go for the knives!" He had a megaphone and there was a giant speaker in the middle of the cornucopia. He would just be projecting outward so that everyone could hear him.
Ludwig: At the end of the day, I think everyone was just so passionate about their craft that, when Gary says, "Action!", everyone is just in that mode. All that laughter and friendliness that we have off-set blends into our passion and we go all-out. I think that everyone knew, going in, that there's a reason that we all got chosen for this. We have to do the fans justice and this amazing book justice.
You mentioned building your own backstories. Is that something that they suggest you do?
Fuhrmann: I think that was something that I just did for the audition. When you read the book, it's written through Katniss' eyes and you really get to know Katniss. You understand certain other characters and parts of them. I was developing and figuring out Clove's psyche and where she game from. I wrote a one and a half page backstory. Then I talked to Gary and kind of revised it to make her a little more interesting. At the same time, I had to realize that the fans are going to be watching this and they have to be happy with it and with what I do and what everyone else does on-set. I'm really anxious to see how it's received.
Did you have a favorite detail from your created backstory?
Fuhrmann: I think I made it that Clove had a really terrible relationship with her parents that pressured her into being in these games. She wants to show them up and get home and say, "I did it and I didn't need any of your help." That was my main point for her wanting to win so badly.
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Tempeh tacos are a great meal idea for Meatless Monday. Use tempeh in place of chicken or beef for a plant-based protein in your favorite burrito recipe. Top it with raw veggies, cilantro, salsa, beans, and avocado— and even give our creamy, dairy-free Nacho Cheeze Sauce a try!
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2 bell peppers
1 package organic tempeh
1 ½ teaspoons chili powder
½ teaspoon cumin powder
½ teaspoon garlic powder
1 ½ teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon parsley
¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper (optional)
Black pepper (to taste)
1 large tomato
1- 15 oz can of black beans
4 whole wheat tortillas or 8 small corn tortillas
Nacho Cheeze Sauce (optional)
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- Wash all the veggies.
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different nicks were represented on #yogscast.
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||yogssolomon||193||yesterday||"there was only one stream today Indelacio_co_uk"
||retsonine||136||yesterday||"@liqoue_hard They did in karaoke 1, didn't they?"
||punkmunkee||130||yesterday||"XD listening to them freaking out is priceless"
||liquor_hard||119||yesterday||"the pointing :D so fucking cute"
||justine6982||115||yesterday||"@lordsheika Oh damn. Me too. Fuck the snow"
||thedarkness999||114||yesterday||"i know its fiona i just dont know why its in """
||odiahn||102||yesterday||"Hannah has such a beautiful voice <3"
||ractalefluffy||98||yesterday||"No more fighting fantasy for the next year ;-;"
||theplague34||95||yesterday||"are you going to die again twitch"
||xiphongames||89||yesterday||"last year donations got to like 920k"
||sipscoemployee||84||yesterday||"Plus the best dad and son ever"
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|The loudest one was jackrabbtit, who yelled 95.3% of the time!
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|It seems that the_mysterious_fox3's shift-key is hanging: 41.5% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.|
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|mighty_claw spoke a total of 1689 words!
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It was a red letter day as Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s Board of Trustees heard loud and clear from Portland-based transit expert Jarrett Walker — and from the collective voice of rider advocates, Clevelanders for Public Transit (CPT) — that Cleveland’s bus system needs a redesign. “Without delay” in the words of CPT volunteer Chris Stocking who belted out a rousing rendition of Jingle Bells with the lyrics “Frequent bus, frequent bus, frequent bus all day!” to a packed Board room.
RTA Board and staff, including new General Manager India Birdsong, listened as the public urged them to act quickly on Walker’s study which is navigating a tricky route to increase transit access to jobs on the current budget.
Complicating matters, the region’s jobs have been sprawling for decades, said outgoing Board member, South Euclid Mayor Georgine Welo. How can transit keep jobs that continue to move further away from population centers within reach, especially for residents of Cleveland?
“There’s nothing transit can do about that,” Walker said. “Employers have saved money by moving out where it’s cheaper to develop. But, they can’t just dump that cost on RTA. They have to share the cost.”
After months of studying how to accommodate jobs sprawl — including a survey that split rider opinion on their preference evenly to shift the bus system toward higher frequency buses or wider coverage, Walker presented a redrawn bus map that would increase access to jobs by 11% mainly for Cleveland residents who have long (over 90 minute) commutes by bus to suburban jobs in Solon, Orange, Westlake, and Strongsville.
“The first question I have is, why only 11% and not an increase of access to 25%,” Welo asked.
Walker had an answer, called the High Frequency Alternative, that would increase access to jobs, but it would reduce service to outlying areas.
Birdsong promised to put a “Rush stamp” on evaluating the Coverage versus Frequency alternatives, and come forward with a plan that would require a full set of public hearings.
The earliest public hearings could happen is the spring, with service changes in the summer of 2020, said RTA’s acting deputy general manager for operations Joel Freilich.
“We plan to come to the Board and the public with a cost neutral package of adjustments in the next year,” Freilich said.
He added that the Walker proposal for current funding supports the direction that RTA has in “meeting the needs of the those who need us most.”
The Walker proposal has increases in east-to-west side connections, opportunities to cross the river other than going through downtown, but largely has an emphasis on making more connections for transit-starved areas of Cleveland to jobs in edge city locations.
“Instead of forcing Clevelanders to get on the rail and (transfer) on a bus (the Walker redesign) extends some of these lines a bit,” Stocking of CPT observes. “On the west side, the Detroit Road bus extends to job centers like Crocker Park, or the #55 (on W. 25th/Pearl) would extend to Great Northern Mall. It makes a lot of sense instead of ending at Rapid stations. The #22 would extend to Westgate Mall, connecting people on Lorain Avenue. Its better to get to jobs. There are trade offs — bus service at E 55th is cut and E 79th is cut. But walking up 55th, there’s not a lot there, unfortunately. With lack of planning, a lot of jobs moved out.”
“When funds are short, the services we took (away) most were a route that runs only during rush hour,” Freilich explains, indicating the express busses and service from the suburbs, “or a route that’s in a neighborhood which doesn’t allow jobs because zoning doesn’t support it, and comes back uptown empty. We had a lot of routes like that.”
Walker said that increasing frequency of buses to every 15 minutes in a smaller geographic footprint would have multiple benefits like increasing ridership and encouraging transit-oriented development. He suggested that the large gaps — the giant donut hole in Cleveland left by Northeast Ohio’s sprawl — is worse than Houston’s where the donut hole was filled in by development.
“Not to pick on Solon, but so much of that employment is hard to walk to from the bus stop,” Walker said. “The transit agency can’t do anything about that last 1/4 mile of a trip that discourages people to ride transit.”
Like the consensus of the RTA Board, member Valerie McCall said she wants to pump the brakes and take the time to evaluate. The public wasn’t so sure it shared that sentiment, with the cycle of declining ridership, another fare hike looming and only 15% of riders, in Walker’s survey, saying they are satisfied with the current system.
“Implement the redesign right away,” a Strongsville woman urged the Board. “It will help those in the medical field get to jobs.”
Or, as Stocking, a medical practitioner and daily bus rider, put it: “What are you waiting for? You can take the best of the network, in a holistic way, and reverse this decline. If your ridership is in decline, and you ask for more money, why would you put more money into something that is going to bleed out and go through this cycle again.”
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It has been a fair few months since I last read a book in a day….time has been against me of late I fear, and the motivation to turn off the TV and step away from the fridge is so much easier when it’s lovely and sunny outside…. so, it was great to finally get my Summer Reading campaign off to a start last Saturday with Pillow Talk by the ever satisfying Freya North. As anyone who knows me knows, Love Rules goes down as one of my favourite ever Chick Lit titles, and yet Home Truths, Freya’s last novel didn’t quite rock my world to the same extent, so I was both excited and nervous as I opened up the first pages of Pillow Talk; a tale about teenage sweethearts Petra Flint and Arlo Savidge (where do these authors find such names?!) who meet at school, don’t so much as snog, grow up, loose contact, and meet again, many years later shopping for Easter eggs in an ice cream parlour in North Yorkshire. Petra (now a jewellery designer) sleepwalks and Arlo (now a music teacher) never sleeps – and as we find out why, we learn about the lives and loves of these two troubled souls.
I love how beautifully Freya draws characters for us, and I love the non threatening romances she develops for her leading men and women, and Pillow Talk is no exception. Very gentle and quiet, there’s no massive weepy moments, no massive belly chuckles either – but it kept me hooked and engaged from start to finish. A classic chick lit tale of love and life, it’s a cracker for the beach, the bed or on your way to the boardroom.
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Ottawa Construction News staff writer
Ottawa renovator Mike Martin has died from brain cancer, at age 55.
Martin built a contracting business over three decades, and took leadership roles in the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association’s (GOHBA) renovation council – advocating for the industry and for ethical business practices and recognition. He also represented the industry at the provincial and national levels.
Among other initiatives, Martin encouraged the launch of Ottawa Renovates magazine, which continues publishing twice a year after more than 12 years. He also was actively involved in minor hockey as a coach.
Martin was diagnosed with CNS Brain Lymphoma about four years ago, and fought the cancer until his death on April 26.
Martin is survived by his wife Suzanne, a residential designer, as well as his parents, Michael S. Martin and Patricia Martin, his son Jamie, and sister Karen (Lloyd).
Contributions in place of flowers are invited to the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, Legacy Living, at https://www.braintumour.ca/michael-martin.
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Andreea Bordei was born and raised in Transylvania, Romania and holds a MA in Advanced Studies in Social Communication from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. Andreea has been volunteering in socio-cultural integration projects, environmental issues and education before moving her focus on youth. Under this new context, working for UNFPA, NY, she was part of the team who delivered the Global Youth Forum in Bali 2012. Andreea continued her work on youth under various projects around the world, being a firm believer in the power youth has to bring positive social change. Having extended her communication practice to the private sector, Andreea recently came back to the non-for profit sector as Communications and Events Officer at the European Volunteering Centre (CEV), Brussels and a Partnership and Communication Consultant for the Summer Youth Assembly at the UN.
I can't remember the exact moment when I became a youth activist. Maybe it was in high school, when my History teacher allegedly called me Ana Ipatescu, a Romanian revolutionary, which at the time I thought is must have been some sort of a confusion my teacher made. Or maybe she sensed something.
It could be the moment was when I actually started working on youth projects. Or maybe it was sometime in between. I really can't tell, since it feels life forever since I have the belief youth have the power to change the world for the better.
Along the way, I have encountered so many amazing, inspirational young people and heard such successful stories that I can rightfully state youth hold the strength to build the future. Nearly a half of the world population is under 25 years old. There is a global consensus that youth must be empowered to act for a sustainable future.
Truth be told, we are living in a challenging era for youth: limitations or even lack of access to education, failure to recognize different forms of education, unemployment or low employment rates, poor quality or inexistence of health services, uneven perceptions of sexual and reproductive rights, restrictions in civic participation -- all these are areas, that although may present variations at a local or community level, they must be dealt with globally.
In the past few years, I have participated in various youth related actions around the world with representatives from all sectors (the UN, Government officials, civil society and private sector) who came together to find ways to overcome these challenges youth are facing today. Now you may wonder how these challenges were formulated. The easiest thing to believe is that the information has been gathered from facts at local level, facts that can speak louder than any words ever could. But please allow me to reveal something to you:
For many of us, liberty of speech is a given. But please stop and think about all those whose voices cannot be heard, those whose voices are not accepted/ acceptable for various implied reasons, in their national/local/community context.
If it had not been for these global reunions, we would not have known about the existence or the extent of all these issues youth are facing. It is because every time more of the world's minorities are being represented in these global meetings that one can be sure the challenges for youth today have been coherently identified. And so have been the solutions.
Youth now have the opportunity to speak up and express their biggest concerns and problems, in a global context.
This is where I have experienced a change of perspective, looking from challenges to opportunities. Yes, challenges do exist. But I choose to look at the great opportunity youth today have in coming together and really speak up.
In the recently ended AIDS 2014 conference, the youth representative from Côte D'Ivoire talks about sexual education for youth and says: "In my country, when adolescents ask questions about sex, they say 'Don't you know, curiosity killed the cat?' Actually, it's not curiosity, but it's ignorance that kills." And it is not a single person's voice; this is the voice of an entire community.
It would be a paradox to believe we could in other way find out about the problems these young people are facing rather than from their own mouths, considering that in their community expressing these problems seems to be impossible.
Having formulated all these challenges and having found the solution for so many of them, there are now a multitude of programs being implemented around the world, as well as fierce advocacy and policy change efforts, aiming to end the limitations youth have and trying to solve their problems in view of a more viable future for all. These programs are being implemented either by organizations, youth themselves or through partnerships.
Talking about opportunity -- here it is again. Youth are now able to partner with different organizations into achieving their goals for social change. This is the kind of opportunity youth ought to be taking everywhere in the world.
Youth already took the matter in their own hands and it is inspiring to see how many initiatives are being led by youth today. At a UN open meeting past year, I remember having heard a truly inspirational story of a young man from Nepal, who spoke about his "inspiring, empowering and engaging" campaign run in the organization he himself founded "Team for Nature and Wildlife." His organization aims to support and train young people to become agro-entrepreneurs, thus using precisely the resources they have in their community. On long term, his target is to train 100,000 young farmers. Judging by the amount of people who approached him after his speech, I dare to believe he is much closer to achieving his goal.
This is where I see another opportunity we have today. We are given the opportunity to share our experiences and stories that will inspire and help other young people to take a proactive approach in building their future.
Many may think these resources are difficult to obtain and I would mostly agree. Not all people have the same resources and this can make it difficult to achieve real change. There are however resources that are available to all of us -- take sports, art and cultural expressions. Even with limitations, one way or another we do have access to these, since they surround us and moreover, given that they unite us, they make it so much more possible to achieve change if properly used. In this sense, I am looking forward to seeing youth engage in YouthChangers, a platform that Friendship Ambassadors Foundation and SPORTS195 have developed for this year's edition of the Youth Assembly at the UN. Yet another opportunity for youth.
I chose to focus on opportunities, but I am not ignoring the challenges. I am choosing to look further than that. And I do believe we have taken a step forward -- we are not coming together to discuss challenges, but to create opportunities. This is where I choose to use my resources on and I would strongly advise youth around the world to do the same.
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|03-23-2011 09:16 AM|
I totally agree. The worst part is they estimated the job at 4 to 6 hours, which I thought was on the high side, but didn't want to nit pick. Unlike most bearings, where the hold down screws just press against the bearing, these tap into it. Drilling and tapping should be pretty darn easy. Removing, cleaning the grease out of the max-prop and reinstalling should be about 90 mins. Just to clarify, the boat was already on the hard for all of this.
It was a complete rip-off and I was held hostage to pay it so I could get launched and move the boat to it's summer marina. I won't publish the name of the marina in the Bay (although I'm tempted), but will respond to anyone local that sends me a PM and wants to avoid it. They have a clear reputation for over billing hours, which is why I asked for the estimate. Obviously, I have no intention to winter there next year and am glad to spread the warning.
|03-23-2011 08:51 AM|
Originally Posted by Minnewaska View Post
As far as tapping holes for hold down screws I can't see why they'd be needed if the manufacturer designed the strut/bearing for a press in fit. My boat didn't have set screws though some boats apparently do. At any rate, it should only take a few minutes to drill and tap 2 holes.
|03-23-2011 08:11 AM|
|Minnewaska||I can't help myself. Can anyone tell me if 12 hours of labor sounds right to remove and replace a cutlass bearing with a hydraulic press (ie shaft did not have to be removed) and remove, clean and replace the max-prop? I was told that the cutlass bearing needed two holes tapped in it for the hold down screws.|
|03-23-2011 04:44 AM|
Cutlass bearings are best checked when in water or immediately after haul-out.
The should have no 'play'.
After storage one may experience a play as the bearing 'dries out'.
If possible post a pic and let us have a look.
|03-23-2011 04:16 AM|
Thanks for the replies so far. No vibration noted and only slight movement. I wasn't sure how much movement was normal due to the rubber. Mine is mounted in a stern tube and not a strut so I was a little worried about getting it out without doing any damage to the rest of the assembly. Should I take a better safe than sorry approach and just change it? I know it has not been changed in at least 10 years.
|03-23-2011 03:20 AM|
|CaptainForce||I've also found it easier to press in a new cutlass bearing that has been left in a freezer or on ice for a time before the task. A little contraction does wonders. Take care and joy, Aythya crew|
|03-23-2011 12:31 AM|
Lack of movement as posted. The shaft shoulf fit snugly in the cutlass. If it can be moved side to side it needs replacing. Easy to do usually.
Here's a link that might help.
Replacing A Cutlass Bearing Photo Gallery by Compass Marine at pbase.com
|03-22-2011 11:45 PM|
|jbrockpiano||Can you wiggle your prop shaft ? Is there vibration when the engine is running ?|
|03-22-2011 11:15 PM|
Cutlass bearing replacment
After searching until my eyes have crossed can anyone tell me a simple way to tell if a cutlass bearing needs to be replaced. The boat is pulled and now would be the prefect time. I just don't want to do any unneeded work. Heaven knows I have enough to do anyway.
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LaserForm Maraging Steel (A)
Genuine tool steel (1.2709) for direct production of tools and molds as well as high-performance parts that require high strength and hardness. Shows good weldability and machinability.
Innovative tool and mold designs including conformal cooling channels for injecting molding, die casting and extrusion
High-performance industrial parts, e.g. tire manufacturing and automotive
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Re: 1930 Census look-up please: Oakland, California
May 03, 2014 at 10:12:18
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1930 Census look-up please: Oakland, California
I do have Nicolaos' family info (parents etc.) and know his great grandparents etc.Will share.
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4.0 based on 7 reviewsView this provider's reviews
Patient satisfaction ratings and reviews are based on personal opinions. Before you choose any doctor you should take into account their background, training, specialized experience AND their patient satisfaction to ensure they are the right fit for you.
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Dr. Gregory Mielke, MD is an obstetrics & gynecology doctor who practices in Lagrange, IN. He is 60 years old and has been practicing for 34 years. Dr. Mielke is affiliated with Goshen Hospital.
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As previously reported, Michael Feinstein has penned this year's opening number, which is titled “Give Me a Drum” and which features lyrics by Bill Schermerhorn, Macy's creative director. Tony Parise will choreograph the opening, which will include hundreds of children. Camp Broadway, the award-winning theatre arts education company, will hold the auditions at 10 AM on July 22 and Aug. 12. Those auditioning should bring a completed application, be prepared to sing 16 bars of a song (an accompanist will be provided) and be ready to dance a combination that will be taught by a Broadway choreographer. One-hundred experienced tap dancing kids are also being sought.
Theatreworks/Chelsea Studios is located in Manhattan at 151 West 26th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues. For more audition guidelines or to download an application, visit www.campbroadway.com.
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Freight shipping from West Virginia to Missouri is easier than ever with FreightCenter. Our simple quoting and booking process will enable you to get instant freight rates from all the top shipping companies and start booking your freight shipments in a few short minutes. FreightCenter makes it affordable to ship freight from West Virginia to Missouri by LTL, Truckload, Rail, or Intermodal with our guaranteed competitive freight rates.
West Virginia is a state located primarily in the Appalachian Mountains. The lowlands see mild winters and hot summers, while the higher elevations are prone to large amounts of snow. The cornerstone of the economy is the coal mining industry. The extensive railroad system formed as a result of the coal industry, and most West Virginia freight moves by rail. Trucking can be difficult in the extremely mountainous areas, and West Virginia freight shipping prices reflect this difficulty. However, there is an extensive highway system in the state. LTL freight shipping can be difficult to find for an affordable price due to the low volume of goods moving through the state.
Missouri is a centrally-located Midwestern state. Missouri is bordered by the Mississippi River and the Missouri River also flows through the state. Missouri shipping can be quite inexpensive for a number of reasons, including the flat plains and rolling hills that make up most of the state. A thriving agricultural and mining industry guarantee plenty of Missouri freight traffic. The state also contains two major railroad hubs, making rail shipping an inexpensive option. Both major rivers can be navigated by commercial vessels, and a well-maintained network of roadways make trucking and efficient shipping option. Most freight, including LTL shipping, is inexpensive in Missouri due to the high volume of goods moving through the state.
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Soon to be reported in the "American Journal of Preventive Medicine," the research found that students in seven schools that implemented the program were less likely than a control group in seven matched schools to report they supported aggressive behaviors and engaging in violence-related behavior and bullying, as well as other disruptive behaviors. This evidence was largely corroborated by ratings from parents and reduced numbers of disciplinary referrals and suspensions school-wide. It was also consistent with findings of prior evaluations of the program with other populations and age groups.
The present findings suggested program effects on student-reported bullying behavior only for girls, and on parent-reported bullying behavior only for boys. Researchers postulated that may be because parents are more likely to be aware of and thus able to report accurately on the relatively more overt (rather than relational) forms of bullying behaviors in which boys engage, due to the greater likelihood of such behaviors resulting in disciplinary and other consequences.
Likewise, other findings from the trial suggest that girls have higher levels of self-honesty compared to boys, which could serve to increase the sensitivity of student self-report data to the program's effects on bullying behavior.
This six-year trial (2004-2010) built on previous research by further examining Positive Action’s effectiveness in disadvantaged, inner-city schools, and by extending follow-up to the middle school grades—the peak period of onset for many problem behaviors. Researchers hypothesized that Positive Action would favorably affect:
Data on Grades 3-8 were gathered from 2003-2010 and analyzed in spring 2012. Data on violence were collected starting at Grade 5.
Multilevel growth-curve modeling analyses indicated that Positive Action mitigated increases over time in youth reports of normative beliefs supporting aggressive behaviors and of engaging in disruptive behavior and bullying (girls only) and parent reports of youth bullying behaviors (boys only). School-wide records showed that the program reduced both disciplinary referrals and suspensions.
These results have been included in the outcomes matrix.
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“Room for all the Family”
“We stayed at Pandanus for 12 nights over Christmas and New Year. What a great central spot for the family to get together. Plenty of space in the unit, and great layout for everyone.
The kitchen was fantastic for preparing Christmas lunch and tables and chairs for all. Large rubbish and recycling bins made keeping everything clean and tidy very easy.
The handrail into the pool was fabulous for Gran to get in and out of the pool with some assistance so swimming was on the agenda every day.
An easy walk to the beach, shops, supermarket and anywhere else, and a quick drive to get wonderful seafood for Christmas and New Year. This is a great location.”
“The Best Spot in Mooloolaba for a Family or Group”
“The Pandanus is a real gem. Possibly the largest apartments I have seen on the coast.
They have large living area and large bedrooms, so it’s perfect for Families or Groups of Friends.
Two Massive Balconies is a bonus too. Being only a short walk from the Esplanade is a great benefit as you are close to everything but away from the noise of the bars,
We will be back many times to come I can assure you, and as a professional travel agent I will be recommending to clients for sure!”
“Cleanest apartment we have ever stayed in”
“My expectations are rarely exceeded when it comes to cleanliness but our apartment at Pandanus couldn’t have been better.
The layout was perfect for our young family our 19 month old was in her own room at one end of the apartment away from the main bedroom and the lounge room.
Coles was a walk away along with many restaurants, McDonald’s, the beach isn’t far. We only drove the car once to drive to sunshine plaza which was 10 minutes.
It was also a great surprise to have parking included free and we had two car spaces.
We will definitely be back in the future.”
“I would recommend this as a good place to stay. The apartments are big and well appointed. We stayed in apartment 3 which is on the same level as the poor and had direct access via a gate off the verandah. The pool is a lap pool and there is a spa as well.
It is not on the esplanade but it is not far and is close to a lot of restaurants. This apartment had no ocean views but it is a small price to pay for having such nice accommodation. WiFi is good speed but limited to 500M a day. It also was quiet and there was no street noise. I would stay here again.”
“I was pleasantly surprised when entering room! Apartments are huge and so tastefully decorated and light and airy. Very clean and had everything we needed , balcony was huge and location was excellent. Not beachfront but only a block from the Esplanade.
Staff were excellent and had a terrific knowledge of where to dine, some excellent restaurants were visited thanks to them. Very accommodating with any special requests. Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this one and will be back for sure!”
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Diabetes is one of the most misunderstood diseases around, and if we hope to fight it, we have to find a way to start dispelling many of the common myths out there, especially about the “diabetes diet”. Please take a minute to read through these top 10 Diabetes Diet Myths. Have you heard or been mislead by any of these?
“Diabetes diet.” Simply hearing these words may be enough to make you feel overwhelmed or frustrated.
Perhaps you have said, or heard someone else express, one of these thoughts:
- Eating too much sugar causes diabetes.
- There are too many rules about choosing foods that are OK in a diabetes diet.
- You have to give up all your favorite foods when you’re on a diabetes diet.
These three statements are all myths about diabetes diets. Take a closer look at these and other myths to find out the facts about diabetes and diet.
Myth 1: Eating Too Much Sugar Causes Diabetes.
How does diabetes happen? The causes are not totally understood. What is known is that simply eating too much sugar is unlikely to cause diabetes. Instead, diabetes begins when something disrupts your body’s ability to turn the food you eat into energy.
To understand what happens when you have diabetes, keep these things in mind: Your body breaks down much of the food you eat into glucose, a type of sugar needed to power your cells. A hormone called insulin is made in the pancreas. Insulin helps the cells in the body use glucose for fuel.
Here are the most common types of diabetes and what researchers know about their causes:
- Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas cannot make insulin. Without insulin, sugar piles up in your blood vessels. People with type 1 diabetes must take insulin to help get the sugar into the cells. Type 1 diabetes often starts in younger people or in children. Researchers say that it may occur when something goes wrong with the immune system.
- Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not make enough insulin, the insulin does not work properly, or both. Being overweight makes type 2 diabetes more likely to occur. It can happen in a person of any age.
- Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy in some women. Hormone changes during pregnancy prevent insulin from working properly. Women with gestational diabetes usually need to take insulin. The condition may resolve after birth of the child.
Myth 2: There Are Too Many Rules in a Diabetes Diet.
If you have diabetes, you will need to plan your meals. But the general principle is simple: Following a “diabetes diet” means choosing food that will work along with your activities and any medications to keep your blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible.
Will you need to make changes to what you now eat? Probably. But perhaps the changed you need to make will not be as many as you anticipate.
Myth 3: Carbohydrates Are Bad for Diabetes
In fact, carbohydrates — or “carbs” as most of us refer to them — are good for diabetes. They form the foundation of a healthy diabetes diet — or of any healthy diet.
Carbohydrates have the greatest effect on blood sugar levels, which is why you are asked to monitor how many carbohydrates you eat when following a diabetes diet.
However, carbohydrate foods contain many essential nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, and fiber. So one diabetes diet tip is to choose those with the most nutrients, such as whole-grain breads and baked goods, and high-fiber fruits and vegetables. You may find it easier to select the best carbs if you meet with a dietitian.
Myth 4: Protein is Better than Carbohydrates for Diabetes.
Because carbs affect blood sugar levels so quickly, if you have diabetes, you may be tempted to eat less of them and substitute more protein. But too much protein may lead to problems for people with diabetes.
The main problem is that many foods rich in protein, such as meat, may also be filled with saturated fat. Eating too much of these fats increases your risk of heart disease. In a diabetes diet, protein should account for about 15% to 20% of the total calories you eat each day.
Myth 5: You Can Adjust Your Diabetes Drugs to “Cover” Whatever You Eat.
If you use insulin for your diabetes, you may learn how to adjust the amount and type you take to match the amount of food you eat. But this doesn’t mean you can eat as much as you want, then just use more drugs to stabilize your blood sugar level.
If you use other types of diabetes drugs, don’t try to adjust your dose to match varying levels of carbohydrates in your meals unless instructed by your doctor. Most diabetes medications work best when they are taken consistently as directed by your doctor.
Myth 6: You’ll Need to Give Up Your Favorite Foods.
There is no reason to give up your favorite foods on a diabetes diet. Instead, try:
- Changing the way your favorite foods are prepared
- Changing the other foods you usually eat along with your favorite foods
- Reducing the serving sizes of your favorite foods
- Using your favorite foods as a reward for following your meal plans
A dietitian can help you find ways to include your favorites in your diabetes meal plans.
Myth 7: You Have to Give Up Desserts if You Have Diabetes.
Not true! You can develop many strategies for including desserts in a diabetes diet. Here are some examples:
- Use artificial sweeteners in desserts.
- Cut back on the amount of dessert. For example, instead of two scoops of ice cream, have one. Or share a dessert with a friend.
- Use desserts as an occasional reward for following your diabetes diet plan.
- Make desserts more nutritious. For example, use whole grains, fresh fruit, and vegetable oil when preparing desserts. Many times, you can use less sugar than a recipe calls for without sacrificing taste or consistency.
- Expand your dessert horizons. Instead of ice cream, pie, or cake, try fruit, a whole-wheat oatmeal-raisin cookie, or yogurt.
Myth 8: Artificial Sweeteners Are Dangerous for People with Diabetes.
Artificial sweeteners are much sweeter than the equivalent amount of sugar, so it takes less of them to get the same sweetness found in sugar. This can result in eating fewer calories than when you do use sugar.
The American Diabetes Association approves the use of several artificial sweeteners in diabetes diets, including:
- Saccharin (Sweet’N Low)
- Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal)
- Acesulfame potassium (Sunett)
- Sucralose (Splenda)
A dietitian can help you determine, which sweeteners are best for which uses, whether in coffee, baking, cooking, or other uses.
Artificial sweeteners have recently received much attention in both the media and research with conflicting data. Educate yourself and determine, which, if any, sweeteners are best for you. There are more ‘natural’ sweeteners coming on the market that may give better options.
Myth 9: You Need to Eat Special Diabetic Meals.
The truth is that there really is no such as thing as a “diabetic diet.” The foods that are healthy for people with diabetes are also good choices for the rest of your family. Usually, there is no need to prepare special diabetic meals.
The difference between a diabetes diet and your family’s “normal” diet is this: If you have diabetes, you need to monitor what you eat a little more closely. This includes the total amount of calories you consume and the amounts and types of carbohydrates, fats, and protein you eat. A diabetes educator or dietitian can help you learn how to do this.
Myth 10: Diet Foods Are the Best Choices for Diabetes.
Just because a food is labeled as a “diet” food does not mean it is a better choice for people with diabetes. In fact, “diet” foods can be expensive and be as healthy as foods found in the “regular” sections of the grocery store, or foods you prepare yourself.
As with any food you choose, read the labels carefully to find out if the ingredients and amount of calories are good choices for you. If you have doubts, ask your diabetes educator or a dietitian for advice.
Moving Beyond Diabetes Diet Myths
Now that you know the facts about diabetes diets, you can take steps to learn even more about making wise food choices. Together with exercise and medication, you can use what you eat as an effective tool for keeping your blood sugar levels within normal ranges. That is the best diabetes diet of all.
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Black hair is sometimes said to be boring, and it’s absolutely wrong. There is a lot of black hairstyles that make your hair become more attractive, and we are going to find out what they are today.
Ponytail black hairstyles
This is a traditional and simple hairstyle for any woman to make, and you can go to any places from a party, offices to prom or special events with this simple but gorgeous hair. There is a lot of ponytail hair versions for you to be creative. It will be good regardless of the high or low ponytail you have. Or if you want something special and want people to see your ponytail hair, you can have a side ponytail, and mix with silk headbands.
Braid black hairstyles
When it comes to braid hairstyles, there is a variety of options for you to choose from. If you want to have a mischievous and chic look, why don’t you try to have cornrow braid hairstyles? Or if you want to have a cute and soft appearance, let’s try to wear a chunky fishtail braid style, and then you will not have to regret your choice.
Platinum highlighted black hairstyles
Let’s rock this hairstyle if you want to be outstanding. Let’s change for a whole different look after a long time maintaining your natural hair. This highlighted with a two-contrast tone style will make other people feel amazing and surprised by your stylish and trendy hair.
Half-up top knot
For this style, it is extremely easy to make to have a great look. Even if your hair is a little bit messy after getting up early in the morning, it will make you super cute. To have better hair, you can curl to create some weaves for the rest of your hair. You have to be fall in love with your reflection when looking into the mirror.
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Porthmadog known locally as "Port" and since 1974, rendered into Welsh from its former Anglicised form, Portmadoc, is a small coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, in Wales. Prior to the Local Government Act 1972 it was in the administrative county of Caernarfonshire. The town lies 5 miles (8 km) east of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 km) south west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles north of Dolgellau and 20 miles (32 km) south of Caernarfon. The community had a population of 4,185
The town developed in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England and around the world. Since the decline of the slate industry it has become an important shopping centre for the surrounding area and a popular tourist destination. It has easy access to the Snowdonia National Park and is the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway. In 1987 the National Eisteddfod was held in Porthmadog.
The community includes the nearby villages of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and Tremadog.
HistoryPorthmadog came into existence after William Madocks, in 1810, built a sea wall, the Cob, to reclaim a large proportion of Traeth Mawr from the sea for agricultural use. The diversion of the Afon Glaslyn caused it to scour out a new natural harbour which had a deep enough draught for small ocean-going sailing ships, and the first public wharves were built in 1825. Individual quarry companies followed, building a series of wharves along the shore almost as far as Borth-y-Gest, and slate was carted from Ffestiniog down to the quays along the Afon Dwyryd, then boated to Porthmadog for transfer to seagoing vessels.
slate, which was transported to the new port by tramway from the quarries in Ffestiniog and Llanfrothen. The Ffestiniog Railway opened in 1836, followed by the Croesor Tramway in 1864 and the Gorseddau Tramway in 1856, and by 1873 over 116,000 tons (117,800 t) were exported through Porthmadog in more than a thousand ships.
A number of shipbuilders were active at this time, and were particularly well known for the three-masted schooners known as Western Ocean Yachts, the last of which was built in 1913
By 1841 the trackway across the reclaimed land had been straightened out and was to be developed as Stryd Fawr, the main commercial street of the town. Along this street were a range of shops and public houses and a post office, with the open green retained. A mineral railway to Tremadog ran along what was to become Heol Madog. To the north was an industrial area where foundries, timber saw mills, slate works, a flour mill, soda-pop plant and gasworks were constructed.
Porthmadog's role as a commercial port, already reduced by the opening of the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway in 1867, was effectively ended by the First World War, when the lucrative German market for slate disappeared. The 19th century wharves still survive, but the slate warehouses have been replaced by holiday apartments, and the harbour is used by leisure yachts.
Main article: TremadogTremadog, an exceptional example of a planned settlement, is 0.9 miles (1.4 km) north of Porthmadog. The village was built on land reclaimed from Traeth Mawr by William Madocks. In 1805 the first cottages were built in what Madocks called Pentre Gwaelod (English: Bottom village), which was designed to create the impression of a borough, with the Town Hall and Dancing Room at its centre. Industry was also included in the plan, with the Manufactory, the Loomery, a fulling mill and a corn mill, all worked by water power.
To the north of the village is Tan-yr-Allt, the property bought by Madocks in 1798 and transformed by him into the first Regency house in Gwynedd. The garden, on a steeply sloping site, consists mainly of lawns planted with trees and shrubs and contains a memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The War Memorial stands on top of Ynys Galch, one of the former islands reclaimed from Traeth Mawr. In the form of a Celtic cross and standing 16 feet (4.9 m) high, it was fashioned from Trefor granite and unveiled "in memory of ninety-seven fallen war heroes of Madoc Vale" in 1922.
On Moel-y-Gest (cy) is an iron age stone walled hillfort.
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Indy Tools and Mods
There are a number of community made applications and spread sheets available to try and help players with some of the more complex mechanics or maths of the game.
Most can be found on the Indy Tools and Mods forum section.
- 1 WARNING
- 2 Third-party Tools
- 2.1 Colonization
- 2.2 System Survey
- 2.3 Designing
- 2.4 Travel
- 2.5 Misc
- 3 Mods
Use these tools at your own risk!
These tools and mods are in no way supported or related to Software Engineering, Inc. and they are therefore not responsible for any problems or issues associated with their use.
|Colony Calculator||Unknown||Yes||Open-source||Raumkraut, IceDown||2014-02-11||Calculating materials needed for colonization and city planning.|
|City Planner Spreadsheet||Unknown||Yes||Open-source||Seathre, ddDeath||v1.2||2015-04-02||City planning help, calculating needed morale buildings.|
|Galactic Dossier||Unknown||Yes||Closed-source||Rayhawk||3.0||2014-03-05||Sort and search system survey report.|
|Galactiscan||Unknown||Yes||Open-source||pizzasgood||v1.2.1||2015-09-07||Sort and search system survey report.|
|Hazeron Celestial Mapper||Inactive||No||Closed-source||Idranel||1.3.1||2012-09-07||Mapping space and managing system surveys.|
|Hazeron Course Plotter||Inactive||Yes||Closed-source||RockinSince87||1.7||2015-10-14||Used to calculate the travel time when deadheading or warping.|
|Hazeron Scouter||Inactive||Yes||Closed-source||OhiraKyou||0.3.5.0||2015-03-06||Sort and search system survey report.|
|HazeronAdviser||Active||Yes||Open-source||Deantwo||v0.37.0.1||2016-08-17||City status and ship log viewer.|
|HazeronMapper||Inactive||No||Open-source||se5a||9ed9da||2014-0519||Mapping wormhole networks.|
|HazeronProspector||Active||Yes||Open-source||Deantwo||v184.108.40.206||2015-08-03||Sort and search system survey report.|
|HazeronWatcher||Active||Yes||Open-source||Deantwo||v1.4.2||2015-10-06||Monitors which avatars are online and able to give notifications. Sort and keep notes on avatars.|
|HMail to EMail Conversion Script||Active||Yes||Open-source||AnrDaemon||2015-11-23||Simple script that converts Hazeron mail files into emails.|
|Shores Offline Design Studio (SODS)||Inactive||Yes||Closed-source||Ikkir Isth||v0.36||2013-06-15||CAD spacecraft designer.|
|Sector Deadhead Calculator||Inactive||Unknown||Closed-source||Manulan||2011-08-24||Used to calculate the travel time when deadheading to distant sectors.|
City Planner Spreadsheet
Spread sheet to help calculate population and morale buildings needed for a nice city.
The Colony Calculator is a useful tool to calculate the needed materials to bring when building a new colony. It can also help with figuring out the needed morale buildings needed by a city's population in order to keep it happy.
Original design and code by Raumkraut. Current maintainer IceDown.
HazeronAdviser is a simple little program written in C# that scans through all your HMails that are locally saved on your computer.
Once loaded it is able to nicely list all your cities and ships, and then point you to the ones that require your attention.
Galactic Dossier is a Java based starmap parsing program. It allows you to filter through all of Hazeron's resources to find what you need. It uses exported starmap data.
This is an open source Python utility for parsing survey reports out of the game's starmap, storing them in a database, and querying that database.
Hazeron Celestial Mapper
Mapping space and managing system surveys.
Hazeron Scouter is a planet and system scan viewer and the spiritual successor to Hazeron Survey Handler, now with one less acronym letter! What does the scouter say about your tech level?
HazeronProspector is a system survey reader, it can show all the resources in a system.
Still a lot of polish needed, so the to-do list is a little long. But it works!
Shores Offline Design Studio
Shores (of Hazeron) Offline Design Studio, Commonly referred to as SODS, is a CAD spacecraft designer.
Hazeron Course Plotter
Used to calculate the travel time when deadheading or warping.
Sector Deadhead Calculator
Used to calculate the travel time when deadheading to distant sectors.
Allows displaying wormhole networks in a 2D map.
HazeronWatcher is a simple little program written in C# that monitors the Players Online page.
It shows all players in a list and then allows you to set colors for each of them according to diplomatic relationship.
You can also set a player to "Watch", which will make the program notify you when he/she comes online.
HMail to EMail Conversion Script
This is a set of scripts to convert Hazeron mail cache into regular emails you can load in your mail program, or process with tools like procmail.
|Star Trek TNG Texture Set||Active||Yes||Unknown||Leadphalanx||2016-07-11||Change the textures of spacecraft to look like Star Trek TNG.|
Star Trek TNG Texture Set
Change the textures of spacecraft to look like Star Trek TNG.
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“The holiday is over, brother dear. Back to Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes.” These words thrilled thousands if not millions of fans on Sunday night, when season 3 of Sherlock, the BBC’s popular adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective stories, started airing on PBS.
Sherlock is remarkable in how effortless it feels. The writers took a story first published in 1887 and set it in the present day. It didn’t just work. It worked very well. Much of the credit is due to Benedict Cumberbatch’s success in the lead role. Over the years, Sherlock Holmes has been played by dozens of actors, including Christopher Lee, Charlton Heston, Rupert Everett, and Robert Downey Jr. Despite this backdrop, Cumberbatch’s Sherlock is not only uncontroversial but even beloved.
To say the new season is “hotly anticipated” would be an understatement. It’s been two years since the season 2 finale when Sherlock Holmes jumped to his “death” off a hospital roof. Fans have spent the intervening period endlessly debating how he pulled off the deception. The first episode of the new season, entitled “The Empty Hearse,” is also set two years later. Sherlock has allowed the outside world to believe he is dead so that he can roll up the criminal network of villain James Moriarty, who did actually die in the season 2 finale. Sherlock is summoned back to London by his smarmy older brother Mycroft, who asks him to help thwart a terrorist attack on London.
Without giving too much away, the new season has few clear cut answers about how Sherlock faked his death. In interviews, Cumberbatch himself has confessed that he doesn’t understand what happened.
Sherlock’s first order of business is to reenlist his old partner, Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman). As a high-functioning sociopath, he fails to realize Watson will be upset with him over the fake death. Sherlock is more concerned about Watson’s new mustache. “He looks ancient,” Sherlock sighs to Mycroft. “I can’t be seen to be wandering around with an old man.”
In “The Adventure of the Empty House,” one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories on which this episode is partly based, Watson faints when he sees Holmes return from the dead. Then, he quickly forgives him. The modern iteration of Watson has a more human, less angelic response and punches Holmes in the face.
From there, the plot gets muddled. There are more emotional reunions, a bomb attack has to be thwarted, and a new supervillain replaces Moriarty. It’s a lot to be shoehorned into a single episode—even a 90-minute one. The writers might have done better to narrow their focus a bit. Though, they haven’t lost any of the show’s signature elements: witty dialogue, a fast pace, and inventive visuals. The gorgeous, lingering shots of the London skyline will doubtless cause many Americans to go online to check airfares.
A special treat is the extended scenes between brothers Mycroft and Sherlock. The two are completely believable as brothers and their interaction lights up the screen. Mycroft gets some of the best lines (“If you seem slow to me, Sherlock, can you imagine what real people are like?”). This may be due to the fact that he’s played by Mark Gatiss, the show’s co-creator, who wrote this episode.
In general, “The Empty Hearse” feels like a family reunion. Watson has a new love interest, Mary Morstan, who is played by Amanda Abbington, Freeman’s long-time girlfriend in real life. When her casting was announced, she received death threats from fans who called it nepotism. Their fears will be assuaged when they see her in the role. She brings a warm, down-to-earth presence and fits in well with the rest of the cast. Though, Sherlock’s deduction that she’s a “liar” suggests there may be some plot twists ahead.
We also get our first ever glimpse of Sherlock’s parents, played by Cumberbatch’s actual mother and father. Sherlock calls them “my cross to bear.”
There are many in-jokes for the fans. These quickly begin to weigh down the plot. Perhaps Sherlock is getting a bit complacent with its own popularity. Many viewers watched the season 2 finale when it actually aired – two years ago. It’s a bit much to expect them to remember every detail and to pick up on complicated jokes about it. Also, significant screen time is given to an annoying fan club that debates ways Sherlock could have faked his death. This is obviously a tribute by the writers to all the real-life fanboys and fangirls, but it’s tangential at best. Any show with a cult following has the challenge of meeting the needs of both its casual viewers and its diehards. Right now, Sherlock seems to be tipping too far in favor of the latter group.
While Sherlock was off the air for two years, its stars seem to be everywhere at once. Freeman is currently starring as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit trilogy. Cumberbatch has also been very busy, starring in films including Star Trek: Into Darkness, 12 Years a Slave, and The Fifth Estate. Their heavy work schedules contributed to the two-year gap between the seasons. The BBC hopes season 4 won’t take quite so long. If the writers need two more years to iron out some kinks and get this truly great show back on track, though, it will be well worth the wait.
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SATURDAY, Dec. 19, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The immune therapy drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab) may extend the lives of people with advanced lung cancer, a new study finds.
Keytruda is commonly used to treat other tumor types, and made headlines recently after it helped former President Jimmy Carter fight off brain cancer.
In this study, researchers compared Keytruda to the chemotherapy drug docetaxel in more than 1,000 patients with non-small cell lung cancer. All of the patients were battling tumors that had progressed even after chemotherapy.
Non-small cell lung cancer is the leading form of the disease.
All of the patients' tumors produced a protein called PD-L1, which can shield the tumor from immune system attack, according to a team led by Dr. Roy Herbst, professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.
Among patients with the highest amounts of PD-L1, those who received Keytruda lived twice as long as those who received docetaxel alone -- 14.9 months vs. 8.2 months, Herbst's team found. Patients with low levels of PD-L1 also benefited from Keytruda.
Treatment-linked side effects were less in patients given Keytruda versus those who took docetaxel, the study found.
There might be one drawback to Keytruda, however: cost. A year's supply of the drug carries a price tag of about $150,000.
The new study was published Dec. 19 in The Lancet and also presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for Medical Oncology on Saturday. The research was funded by Keytruda's maker, Merck & Co.
The findings suggest that the drug might be offered earlier to patients with a particular lung tumor profile, said Herbst, who is also chief of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, Conn.
"I believe we should treat patients with the best available drugs as soon as possible. Now that we have learned which patients are most likely to benefit from the anti-PD-L1 strategy, we could begin moving this drug to the earlier setting stages," he said in a Yale news release.
"In this direction, I am eager to see the results of ongoing studies testing [Keytruda] in the first-line setting and as an adjuvant after surgery to hopefully reduce high rates of lung cancer recurrence," he added.
One expert agreed that the findings may mark an advance against lung cancer.
"This is a fascinating development in cancer treatment that uses targeted immunotherapy instead of standard chemotherapy," noted Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
"This is being examined in other cancers as well," he added, "and may represent the dawn of new immune-based approaches to cancer."
In October, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Keytruda for the treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors express PD-L1 and whose cancer progressed while or after receiving platinum-containing chemotherapy.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about non-small cell lung cancer.
SOURCES: Len Horovitz, M.D., pulmonary specialist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Yale University, news release, Dec. 19, 2015
Copyright © 2015 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
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Earlier this month, HTC’s Butterfly S became available in India and now we are hearing about a potential successor. Chinese Tech blog Weiphone has posted a set of photos of what it claims is the front panel of the said successor, which will be called the Butterfly 2.
Looking at the leaked photos, the Butterfly 2 seems to be taken some styling cues from the company’s Windows Phone-powered 8XT, with its dual-tone front panel and a button/speaker on the front. According to the report, the Butterfly 2 is expected to flaunt a bigger 5.2-inch 1080p display and a Snapdragon 800 processor at its heart. Other features expected on this flagship are an Ultrapixel rear camera, BoomSound stereo speakers and the device is also said to be waterproof.
It’s difficult to comment on the authenticity of the images and leaked information. But if the report is to be believed, we will know more when the device is launched in January 2014.
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sensory room toys
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Trying to type is painful. My hands don’t want to be this close together. It makes the muscles in my shoulders hurt.
Let me back up and explain what brought this about- this torture in which I am a willing participant. But it can’t be too long- I keep having to take a break and stretch.
We have this secretary at school and she is buff. I mean, she’s about knee high to a grasshopper, can’t be more than 125 soaking wet, but she could put a hurtin’ on me. And I’m a tough girl.
And she decided that our school needed to get fit … namely our teachers … actually our grade level … okay probably just me. Anyways, she stands up at a staff meeting in December and announces that personal trainers will start coming to our gym 2 afternoons a week and for a price, we can join them. As she’s talking, my silent mantra is “please Tuesday Thursday please Tuesday Thursday” [because, see, I went to grad school at the time, you guessed it, on Tuesdays and Thursdays]. Sadly, she said “And we’ll meet every Monday and Wednesday.”
So there was no getting out of it. I mean, there WAS, officially, but the peer pressure and the sideways glances made it clear that sister here needed some gym time. [Back off, folks, I have a great personality.]
Fast forward to 3 weeks ago when the trainers arrived. First of all, they leveled us. As we are doing jumping jacks [I want to punch the man who created THIS exercise], they are moving us from row to row. “Come up one row”, “Go back 2 rows”, etc. Then, in our rows that are now our groups, we move from station to station, doing exercises that focus on different body parts. Bizarrely enough, none of the stations involve napping, which is how I prefer to spend my 3-4pm hour.
There were about 18 of us that first day. Everyone in pretty good spirits. “Gonna look great in 08” and all that jazz. Our smiles quickly turned to grimaces as we realized that we had inadvertently signed up to be punished. And this is not the humorous part of the blog post.
You may be thinking this whole idea of almost twenty elementary school teachers doing high knee runs down the gym is pretty funny, and to be honest- it probably is. But let me assure you that “funny” is the farthest word from my mind from 3-4pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. There are some other words, but I’ve made a promise to myself….
Each training day, as I see another victim [okay, “workout partner”] in the hallway, she’ll say (with a look of strong distaste), “You know what today is, right?” and my answer is “I really want to skip.”
But I don’t skip [even though I can almost hear my car starting like Kit in Knight Rider, begging me to bolt]. Because stupidly enough I PAID MY HARD EARNED MONEY TO ATTEND. Seriously? I have got to get my brain checked.
Now in all fairness, the trainers couldn’t be nicer. But the things they ask me to do, always in sets of 10, make it easy to forget that they are good people. I have to let you see them; you need a visual – so here is the link to their page. Yep. Those are 2 of the 3 trainers. They are all very knowledgeable but GOOD GRAVY they have no compassion for my whining.
We have 7 more weeks to go, I think. That makes me cringe just thinking about it. I’ll keep you updated. If I ever quit blogging, it might mean my arms finally gave up and just fell off. Impossible, you say? Come next Monday and you’ll agree that losing a limb or two after one of Rik’s workouts might actually feel really good.
Oww. Seriously. Can someone bring me some Icy Hot? My left tricep is cramping.
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I came to my office one morning and saw a stranger sitting on the desk next to mine. She didn’t look like someone waiting to meet someone. She was comfortably seated in the chair and typing something on the computer stationed on the desk. I greeted, “Good morning and who are you?” She looked at me and smirked. “My name is Sandra,” she said, “But you can call me Sandy. You might be Francis?”
“Yeah, I’m Francis. How did you know about me?”
“I started working in this office a week ago. They told me you were on leave.”
That was the beginning of the friendship between me and Sandy. She was in her fifth year in marriage when we met. I was in my third. It was a very small office secluded from the main compound of the company. Nobody came around except the cleaners. We were in the world of our own.
Five months after Sandra’s arrival, we had a new colleague, Evans. He was assigned to our office. He too was married. Three married people trapped in a cubicle. All our conversations centered around our jobs and our married life. We discussed issues with a free mind and listened to each other with an open heart.
If last night’s sex with her husband didn’t go well, Sandy will come and discuss with us, “Can you imagine what your brother did last night? I was so tired and wanted to sleep but your brother wouldn’t let me so I opened up for him. Could you believe he lasted for only two minutes?” Sometimes we would laugh at her awful lot and tease her for a while. Evans would talk about an instance where he had the same issue with his wife and how he made amends.
It was like a support system for each of us. When the home gets tough and you couldn’t wrap your head around the happenings in the home, there was this small cubicle you could come in the morning and free your mind. I woke up every morning and couldn’t wait to get to the office because of these two friends of mine. “What are they bringing to the board this morning?” I would ask.
At some point, I realized the changing aura in the room. Evans and Sandy were getting more closer and leaving me behind. They could go for lunch together and leave me behind. The places the three of us used to go, now they go without me. They spoke in whispers more and they threw blank glances at each other. We were not fighting so that didn’t bother me. I still took part in marital discussions and had fun doing it.
It was lunchtime. I asked them if they were ready. Sandy said, “I’m not going today. I ate not too long ago.” Evans said, “I have to finish these entries and send them to the top before the next hour.” I had to go alone. I picked my wallet and cutlery and left the office.
Midway through to the canteen, I decided to go back and pick my phone. I turned the knob and the door was locked. I shook the knob several times before Evans spoke. “Who’s that?” I didn’t talk back. I kept shaking the doorknob until the door got opened. I looked at their faces. You could see a mixture of guilt and shame on their faces. They both couldn’t look at me in the face. I watched Sandy carefully, there was something wrong about her appearance.
I asked, “Since when did we start closing this door?” Nobody spoke. They were just seated with eyes fixed on their computers as if the world was crashing down on their computers. I picked my phone and left.
I started piecing the recent happenings together to form an opinion. “These two are clearly having an affair. Closed door? Speaking in whispers? Going to places without me? This is clearly an affair.”
According to the Bro Code, men don’t lie to men in such situations so I cornered Evans and asked him about it. He said, “Yeah, it started not too long ago. We realized we had a thing for each other so we decided to give it a shot.”
“You decided to give what a shot? Are you both not happily married? Did you lie when you said so in our conversations?” I asked him. He said, “It’s not as if we are both leaving our spouses to get married. It’s just a fire we are both trying to quench.” He called what they were doing “Fire” and I was glad to hear that. Fire cooks your food but when you least expect it, it burns down your house. I told him, “You too are not kids and I’m not going to pretend I’m the saint among you but remember fire burns.”
Things changed a little bit around when I came to know the truth. Sandy got to know that I was aware of what was going on between them. She also told me her version; “This is not anything serious. Evans understands and we know our limits and boundaries.” One calls it “Fire” the other calls it “Not anything serious.” I could only sit and enjoy the charade.
Some days they acted lovey-dovey around me. My presence meant nothing to them and when the flames got high, I left the cubicle for them to burn it down. I’ll return back to the cubicle and all I could smell was sex. Maybe it was my mind playing tricks on me but I can swear what I smelled on my return felt like a mixture of sweat and sex. Some days I envy them. They were happy and really having the time of their lives. Talk about work and happiness.
We started as three couples who shared stories of their journeys in marriage with each other. All we had left was a couple who enjoyed making love when their friend was gone. There were advantages and disadvantages. When they had a fight, it affected me and my work. I couldn’t get any of them to do a simple job right. But when they were happy, they brought some kind of riddance to the little cubicle.
I didn’t judge them. I was only hoping the end wouldn’t be disastrous. That was two years ago and as I write this, the two are still together getting stronger each day. During our end of year party last December, the two of them came with their spouses. I stayed back and watched them. I couldn’t help it but be amazed by the way these two seemed so in love with their spouses. They avoided each other all night and stuck with their spouses. They smiled. They danced. They were happy.
READ ALSO: A Letter To My Boyfriend’s Wife
I asked myself, “What kind of devil is making this possible? That two individuals would love their spouses so much and still cheat with each other?
But love is a strange thing. It happens differently to different people. Some people will cheat when they don’t feel the love in their marriage but here are two idiots who have it all in their marriage and still seek more outside of it. What’s their excuse and what’s their motivation?
It’s been two years already and these two look like masters of their game. So far at work, there hasn’t been any suspicion of them so they carry on. I only pray that when their end comes, it wouldn’t also end their marriages.
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South Jersey Sports Report: Mainland Girls Swim Team Remains Unbeaten
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — It may seem as though the Mainland Regional girls swimming team is the Katie McClintock show, as she has made a habit of smashing school records throughout her high school career — which is only a little more than halfway over. But the Mustangs have plenty of other talent, as they’ve been displaying this season at pools throughout the Cape-Atlantic League.
The latest stop was at Egg Harbor Township on Tuesday afternoon, and while McClintock was outstanding — again — she got plenty of help from her teammates as the Mustangs topped EHT, 97-73, to remain undefeated.
McClintock was a part of setting five school meters records, as she won the 200 IM and 100 breaststroke, and was a part of two winning relays, the 200 medley and 200 freestyle. Also, her 50-free split time as the lead leg of the 200 free relay was a school record, and her time of 2:15.21 in the 200 IM was a national meters record, head coach Michael Schiavo said.
“We have a lot of new girls this and there’s a really good dynamic between everyone,” said Grace Gallagher, a senior captain. “We work really well together. We’re doing well and motivating each other, and that’s really what’s been driving us. Our hard work is paying off.”
“We expected it to be close. We kind of went into this as a team thing and swimming for each other. We weren’t worried so much about our times or the score, we just wanted to swim as fast as we can and as hard as we can,” said Julia Goodman, who was part of the winning 400-meter freestyle relay team and finished third in the 50 free. “We’re trying to make it all the way, that’s the goal, and we’re doing everything we can.”
Aside from McClintock’s wins, Mainland (9-0, 6-0 CAL American) got a win from Monica Iordanov in the 100 free and some key second-place finishes, such as Gallagher in the 50 free, Summer Cassidy in the 100 back and Maddie Falk in the 100 butterfly. Egg Harbor Township (3-2-1, 3-1-1) picked up a win from Caitlin Moore in the 200 and 500 free, Olivia Evans in the 50 free, and Alexandria Cotter in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke.
“I think we’re definitely exceeding our own expectations,” Falk said. “We’re all putting in a lot of work and a lot of effort, and we’re surprising ourselves every meet. As the season progresses teams change, but we’re just working hard and training to maintain our progress.”
EHT is one of just two teams (with Millville, which has few lanes at its pool, being the other) that has held Mainland to less than 100 points, as the Mustangs are averaging 115 points per meet and have scored more than 120 points five times already.
“It’s our teammates and our goals that we set that motivate us,” Goodman said. “We all have individual goals, and we work to help our teammates accomplish theirs.”
Gallagher said the challenge now for Mainland is to continue pushing through the midseason lull, as the Stangs prepare for the league championships and state playoffs in February.
“We have to put in the work at practice, for sure, just going at it every day and lifting each other up. It comes in stages and waves, and every person goes through a lull, so we have to motivate each other,” she said. “For every tough meet we have, we just tell each other to do what has to be done. Just get it done, work for the team and we’ll be fine.”
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We aren't talking about recounts of Iowa caucuses making Rick Santorum the winner or the Phoenix-like resurrection of Newt Gingrich in South Carolina. In this case, catalytic surprises that could change the course of history (and keep some of us awake at night) are deserving of even passing discussion.
The collapse of the euro and possibly the European Union will surprise no one. By itself, military action in the Persian Gulf either by or against Iran is similarly not a real surprise scenario. But taken in conjunction with a potential Syrian civil war in which the West faced a Libyan-like humanitarian disaster with thousands of lives at stake -- and military intervention would be considered on those grounds alone -- recollections of July 1914 aren't a stretch.
For the moment, the likelihood of military conflict in the Persian Gulf is receding. Iran has lowered the temperature of its rhetoric. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack has publicly stated that Israel has no plans to strike Iran's nuclear facilities for the short and possibly very long term. The European Union's decision to expanding stiffer economic embargoes against Iran oil exports proposed by the United States could force Iranian counter actions.
That said, and despite rumors that the Arab League might convince Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down voluntarily to be replaced by his vice president a la the Yemeni and Egyptian precedents, Syria isn't far removed from civil war.
If conditions worsen and civil war erupts in which hundreds of thousands of Syrians are put in grave danger, what might happen next? Herein rests the makings of a nightmarish scenario that will provoke not cure insomnia.
In such a scenario, Syria is disintegrating. With growing violence against civilians, several army divisions defect to the rebels igniting civil war. Damascus becomes a battle ground. Like his father before him, Assad ruthlessly and indiscriminately attacks and destroys a small city killing thousands in a gesture of rage and defiance aimed at ending all resistance to his rule.
The international community predictably responds with verbal outrage and threatens even tougher embargoes and air and sea blockades. But the Arab League and U.N. Security Council are deadlocked over taking stronger action. Unlike the Libyan episode, Russia and China exercise vetoes rather than abstaining.
Refugees flee to Syria's borders with Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq where many of the crossings have been blocked creating further humanitarian crises in dealing with what is estimated as upward of 1 million displaced people.
NATO begins intense discussions over options, deferring the subject of direct military intervention as being in the "too hard" category with its publics irretrievably divided over whether to use force to prevent further bloodshed.
Iran, fearing outside military intervention will produce a regime change and a subsequent government not disposed to Tehran, calls for "volunteers" to fight in Syria with the Baathists. Media reports that hundreds of thousands of Iranians are enlisting in this cause.
Israel reinforces the Golan Heights and its small border with Syria and refuses passage for escaping refugees. Turkey does likewise. Only Jordan accepts a small number of refugees and reportedly larger numbers flee into Iraq and Lebanon.
What to do? Western intervention will be seen by many Syrians as an invasion and violation of national sovereignty. Almost certainly, any intervention will be resisted by a significant number of Syrians and the nearly 400,000-person strong Syrian army.
To counter this strategic threat, Iran marshals its forces to aid Assad. Iran also contemplates shutting the Strait of Hormuz, threatening the West with the prospect of a two front war precipitated by a Syrian intervention and, of course, a huge spike in oil prices. Meanwhile, video from Syria depicts the killing of civilians intensifying pleas for action.
Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip elect to use the crisis to paralyze Israel through massive terror and rocket attacks. Israel mobilizes its army in response to those attacks and deteriorating conditions in Syria. And its government begins debate on whether to hit Iran's nuclear facilities in part to precipitate military action by the West and NATO that will result in a new and friendlier government in Tehran.
With November elections in the United States closing in, the administration would be politically damned no matter what it path it takes. Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taken their toll and war in Syria could easily escalate to include Iran. Yet, the deaths of many thousands of Syrians broadcast nightly are seemingly unacceptable.
What to do? This is a nightmarish question that hopefully will never arise. But if it does …
(Harlan Ullman is chairman of the Killowen Group, which advises leaders of government and business, and senior adviser at Washington's Atlantic Council.)
(United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original submissions are invited.)
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The 1852-D is one of the more available dates in the Dahlonega half eagle series. It is not as available, though, as it once was and it is always in demand as a popular type coin.
This pleasing example has natural green-gold color with choice, non-abraded surfaces. It is somewhat weakly struck, even by the standards of the date, with weakness seen at the borders; especially on the obverse.
Surprisingly, no NGC EF40 example of this date has sold at auction since Heritage 2/11: 4461 which brought $1,898.
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Omelettes Made in a Ziploc Bag
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Recipe of the day
When hosting a brunch party, the last thing a host or hostess wants to do is slave over the stove preparing customized omelettes for the guests. Just the thought of the constant demand of perfecting the egg-flip and making sure the preparation is both seamless and timely makes us quiver with anxiety. Well, open your eyes to omelettes in a bag, and never stress about a brunch party menu again.
This revolutionary idea consists of passing out large Ziploc bags to your guests with two to three eggs in each, and allowing them to fill them with add-ins of their choice, from meats to cheeses to herbs. Instruct them to shake and mix their personalized baggies until all the ingredients are incorporated, and then all there is left to do is dip the baggies in a pot of boiling water for one to two minutes, and their perfect omelette is formed!
There is no risk of egg-breakage, no messy pans to clean — just satisfied guests who are able to customize their perfect egg dish and a proud host who has just prepared a perfect brunch with ease. So the next time you’re planning a fancy brunch for friends or family, try bagging it, and see the potential.
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Mantis Shrimp Physical Model Cavitation
A physical model was built to study the properties of the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp that are responsible for drag reduction and cavitation control. The model had three goals: 1) The model was to be outfitted with a method to collect kinematic, force and cavitation data. 2) The velocity and acceleration profile of the model were to be predicted with a mathematical model of the mechanism. 3) The model was to match as many drag and cavitation sensitive properties of the mantis shrimp strike as feasible and have a means to control the rest. The first iteration of the model met the first goal but not the second or third. It matched the strike in maximum velocity, appendage size and shape and environmental temperature and salinity but did not control acceleration profile, water quality or pressure. Data collected with high-speed video of strikes of the model and Gonodactylus smithii showed the model to cavitate at speeds at which no cavitation was seen in animal strikes. The model was redesigned to be driven by the stored elastic energy in the deflection of a beam spring. The redesigned model reached the animals maximum accelerations but not velocities. Environmental variation was found to not substantially contribute to the variation in cavitation onset velocity between the model and animal experiments.
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Rhonda Powell on News vs. Entertainment
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I’m a coach-style general counsel, here for direction and support, and ready to congratulate you when you hit your home run.
When you combine [entertainment, news, and opinion] together, it is important for the audience to be able to discern what they’re experiencing.
I try to be fully present at work [to] give myself the opportunity to be fully present at home.
It’s incredibly encouraging [to see the] increased willingness and ability of women and men to speak out on issues of sexual harassment in the workplace.
The hyper-sexualization of black women in American history is a big issue that leads to the feeling that an allegation of sexual harassment will not be believed.
I want young lawyers to understand that they are so important to our desired outcomes in this country and in the world.
I would encourage [new lawyers] to be forthright and steadfast in those things that they desire to achieve, to set about doing that and not to be afraid to ask for help.
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Hi listeners, this is Chris Batz, your host of the Law Firm Leadership podcast. Season one is about to wrap up. Thank you to everyone who has made this season so fun and informative. Thank you, legal executives. Thank you, listeners. Speaking of legal executives, today I have the pleasure of speaking with the general counsel of BuzzFeed. She is no stranger to the media industry and sensitive subjects. We discussed her new role, the Me Too Movement, the notion of fake news, and mentoring young people. Lots of takeaways for everyone in this episode.
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As many of you know, we interview corporate defense, law firm leaders, partners, general counsel, and legal consultants. You’re listening to episode twenty-nine of the Law Firm Leadership podcast.
Chris: Welcome to the Law Firm Leadership podcast. I’m your host, Chris Batz, with the Lion Group. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Rhonda Powell, general counsel of BuzzFeed. Rhonda is no stranger to media and entertainment law. Prior to BuzzFeed, she was the chief legal officer of Complex Media. She also worked in several roles for 12 years at Scripps Networks Interactive, which included leading of support team for Food Network and Cooking Channel. She started her career in corporate transactions at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, and Proskauer Rose and received her JD from Michigan Law School. Welcome, Rhonda to the Law Firm Leadership podcast. It’s great to have you on the show.
Rhonda: Thank you so much, Chris. It’s really, really exciting to be here, looking forward to speaking with you.
Chris: Rhonda, you just made a recent move from Complex to BuzzFeed. What led you to that transition?
Rhonda: It was the opportunity to be at a company that really epitomizes what should and could happen on the digital platform. BuzzFeed’s reach and connection, particularly with a younger generation of news consumers and content consumers was very intriguing.
Chris: Can you share your role as general counsel and your management style as you lead a legal team?
Rhonda: My management style is fairly hands-off. I’m very interested in not just getting the work done, but in how the work gets done and how I can enable my team to get their work done and also to follow up and follow through on any personal and developmental goals they have while they do it. I’m more of a coach-style general counsel, where I’m there if needed to provide direction and support, but I’m not going to be the person who’s with you while you’re at the plate trying to hit your home run. You can go and hit your home run and I’ll congratulate you when you’re done.
News vs. Entertainment
Chris: Earlier, we talked about the notion of news versus entertainment when it comes to the issue of fake news. Can you elaborate for us?
Rhonda: The conflation of news and entertainment is, in some ways, a byproduct of things that have happened across media generally, not necessarily involving news per se. If you look at reality television, the use of something that purports to be someone’s real life experience, when we know that it has been curated for television, has created some confusion in the marketplace about what’s real and what’s not.
The same sort of thing applies when you’re looking at it from a news angle. You have pure, factual reporting, but then you have this mix of reporting and opinion and sometimes entertainment as well. You’re getting some very directed opinion, especially if you watch the Sunday morning talking head shows. Then, you have some that are sort of like puff pieces or they’re straight-out entertainment.
When you combine those things together, it is important for the audience to be able to discern what they’re experiencing and when they’re experiencing it. When that becomes unclear, you leave yourself susceptible to some fake news allegations. But it’s really not fake news. It may be opinion. As long as it’s opinion in opinion’s clothing, there’s nothing fake about it. There may be entertainment, but as long as it’s entertainment in entertainment’s clothing, there’s nothing fake about it.
It has given an opportunity for those who want to go after news organizations or individual people, to make allegations about fake news, but I think at the root of it all, it’s not fake news but a labeling issue. Most news organizations get it right.
Being Fully Present in Life
Chris: You mentioned, “work/life balance” are words you don’t care for. Can you share your perspective?
Rhonda: The words work/life balance create pressure and a standard that’s impossible to live up to. As a salaried professional, you cannot view your life effectively, in terms of work/life balance, if you mean that you’re devoting a certain number of hours per day or per week to your work and the rest to your life or vice versa. It’s not realistic and can cause anxiety.
I look at things from the perspective of being fully present with what I’m doing. I try to be fully present at work and give myself the opportunity to be fully present at home. The reason that’s so important to me is, in most cases, when folks are discussing work/life balance, they begin with things like working from home, alternative arrangements and what not. That can create more anxiety than it solves if the thing that you think will help you achieve work/life balance is taking work home with you.
I look to balance myself is through this concept of being fully present. I take vacations very seriously. If I or someone on my team is on vacation, we make it a point to not contact that person with business matters unless it is absolutely positively necessary.
For myself, I have a ranking hierarchy on communications. If I’m on vacation and someone has an emergency, then they know to call me because I will always answer my cellphone, even on vacation. If it’s something that’s particularly important, but they want me to know, they email me because I will check emails generally, but I don’t necessarily respond. I’m really only going to respond and take my attention to urgent things.
I model that for my team, both here at Buzzfeed and in previous roles I’ve had. I hope that my team feels capable to do that under my leadership. It’s a reason I feel very strongly about having interoperable teams so people can cover for one another, so when someone takes a vacation, it truly is a vacation.
Me Too Movement & Open Communication in the Work Place
Chris: With some major trends that have been happening because of incidents occurring with Harvey Weinstein and then many of the movements that have followed him, would you share the reality of you being a woman of color in a professional environment that’s mostly white males?
Rhonda: I am incredibly encouraged by the increased willingness and ability of women to speak out on issues of sexual harassment in the workplace and men, quite frankly. This is not something completely confined to women and we’ve learned about men who have experienced issues of sexual harassment in the workplace, but I will say that it is an area in which women dominate in terms of the number of victims. I’m very encouraged by that.
I do very firmly believe that women of color under report this type of behavior. I think that is because many of the women who step forward, number one, are fairly powerful women in their own right. The second, I don’t think women of color feel there’s a safe space. There are assumptions made about women of color, black women in particular, that operate and militate against coming forward and making this type of allegation.
One is very historical. The hyper-sexualization of black women in American history is a big issue. Right or wrong, coming forward with an allegation of sexual harassment sparks in a lot of black women the feeling that they will not be believed. Another piece of it is that in corporate America, even though you do see much greater success in terms of women moving into executive level positions, when you look at black women, the same level of success has not been had. There are fewer people to step forward and provide that visual for other women of color to support them and hold their hand through this process.
It’s not to say that white women who have stepped forward are completely irrelevant, but we all know the influence and power of having someone who looks like you do or say something. Until that happens with greater frequency, we will have underreporting amongst women of color.
Chris: Do you think what happened with the Kavanaugh hearings should have happened the way it did?
Rhonda: I was aghast at the Kavanaugh hearings but not surprised because we have the Anita Hill model for what happened there. Though I would say the outward behavior might have been modestly improved, the outcome and the inferences were the same.
If the victim, in that case, had behaved in the same way as Judge Kavanaugh behaved, she would have been run out of the hearing room. She would have been portrayed as a hysterical type of person who could not be relied upon for any sort of factual information, that maybe she was hallucinating, this was all in her head. Instead, you had this very composed, though clearly shaken, doctor sharing her story with an incredible level of detail and presenting that to a group of – I believe with the exception of maybe one – entirely white men and still being treated with such disregard. It was very, very, very disturbing to me.
Chris: Rhonda, what advice would you give to create a culture that allows people to talk about these things?
Rhonda: Communication and the ability to have open communication is key. That’s true from a preventative standpoint and from an addressing matters that come up standpoint. It’s all about your communication with men and women.
One of the things I am very concerned about is this feeling of backlash that men are encountering that’s causing them to withdraw from full participation in organizations. They do not want to put themselves in situations with peers, subordinates or even their bosses for fear that something they say or do will be misconstrued. There has been some conflation of a remark that was mislaid, misinterpreted or even inappropriate in the context being aligned with the behavior of Harvey Weinstein. Clearly, these are not the same thing. When we engage in that conflation, we start to get into dangerous territory and undermine the cohesiveness and community that we’re trying to create.
It’s so much about talking. At BuzzFeed, our HR department does an excellent job of making conversations happen. I hope that in my group I’m doing a good job of making conversations happen and not only conversations about what constitutes and doesn’t constitute sexual harassment. I mean just conversation, getting to know and understand your peers, your direct reports and your bosses.
That is what really lays the groundwork for eliminating some of what has happened in the past because when you actually know someone and feel you can have a genuine conversation with them, you’re less likely to either misinterpret something that they say that might be errant or you’re more likely to call them on something that they say or do that might be misinterpreted or errant and feel comfortable doing it.
I’m very encouraged by the generation behind us because they are comfortable saying more, sharing more and being assertive. It’s interesting because we’ve studied so much about how social media and technology can be detrimental to building a social contract, but in some ways, it has helped because folks now communicate to one another immediately. You get immediate feedback, for better or for worse, on whatever it is you’ve said or done, which helps you understand where you can or cannot go. If they’re bringing that immediate feedback into the work world, it may stave off the more egregious abuses that have happened in the past.
The Positive Side of Social Media & Paying it Forward
Chris: Rhonda, let’s talk about the trends that you’re seeing for children or kids and them stepping into their authentic selves.
Rhonda: Absolutely. I do think there is much greater empathy and sympathy for those who were formally thought of as being on the outside looking in and marginalized. I think that’s because social media creates a larger universe and allows you to find like-minded folks who are not in your high school, living next door to you, etc. While there is a clear downside to technology and social media and a lot of time has been spent talking about bullying, which does happen with disastrous effect on social media, the opposite is also true. Social media has enabled folks who were otherwise felt to be sort of left out the social contract to be brought in.
The evolution of United States society continues to be one that goes towards inclusion, one that respects and welcomes diversity. I don’t think we’ve lost that. I think if you look at younger generations in the country you’ll see that we demonstrably have not lost that.
My daughter goes to a school where there are not very many African American children. There are not many Latino children either. However, I would say that her experience has been one of building bridges, developing understanding. It is really encouraging to see her flourish there and be able to be a participant in her life and watch her success. My boys both go to the local public high school, which is much more diverse than my daughter’s school, but, again, their friendship groups are very diverse. There’s no isolation of any kind. I’m looking forward to this being the model with which we see our world.
Chris: Rhonda, let’s talk a little bit about your love to mentor.
Rhonda: Absolutely. I love mentoring, period. I’ve mentored high school student, college students, law students, and lawyers. I think it’s important for those of us in the legal profession to reach out, particularly to people of color, who are interested in the legal profession but not exclusively so, and help our new lawyers or soon to be lawyers to understand the power of the undertaking in which they’re engaged.
I say the power because of understanding, not just laws themselves, but the process of legal evaluation. Learning the law and learning about how the law is applied and how to effectuate change of whatever type through the use and observation of law is like learning another language. You develop a much different and much deeper understanding when you study the laws of this country and what undergirds this society.
The review of the law helps you understand how your society operates and why it operates in that certain way, what it prioritizes and what it does not. It also helps you understand how groups of people are differentiated amongst and why certain situations may be perpetuated throughout history. Your laws set in place a system that militates in favor of whatever that legal status quo is. If you want to change that legal status quo, it is a tremendous and almost endless undertaking to do so.
We’ve observed some really amazing efforts that have resulted in a very, very deep change in the way that this country does things, but it’s not easy. I want young lawyers to understand that they are so important to our desired outcomes in this country and in the world, quite frankly.
Confidence at a Young Age
Chris: Rhonda, can I ask you what formable experiences you took to where you are now?
Rhonda: My sixth-grade teacher told me at the beginning of the year that she felt that I should be valedictorian of the class. At that time, I was a very good student, but not the top student in the class. There was something about what she saw in me that made her make this statement.
I took that up as a challenge. I worked really hard and at the end of the year, I was valedictorian of my sixth-grade class. That was an incredible experience for me. It enabled me to have confidence and security in the fact that the things I set my mind to; I could do. It was at the heart of why I chose a lot on my path, why I went to Harvard and felt comfortable that I was going to succeed there even coming out of a public school that was described in many areas as an inner city school in Mount Vernon, New York, but, nonetheless, a school that routinely sent kids to Harvard.
I also attribute a lot to my father, who had a limitless amount of support for me in everything that I tried to do, whether it was trying out for the football team and he said, “Go for it, kid,” although that did not end well. There was no limit. I don’t have a recollection of ever being told, “No, you can’t.” That’s unique. I was so fortunate. I don’t take it for granted. I make sure that my kids understand there is nothing that you can’t do. There are only things that you don’t know how to do and things you don’t want to do. It’s not you can’t do.
Family Life & Reading Recommendations
Chris: Rhonda, share about your family life?
Rhonda: I enjoy just hanging out with my kids and husband. We are a fun family, although, I would say that my husband is sort of the comedian and I’m still more of the coach.
My kids are very warm and very caring. If there is one thing that I have striven for that has manifested itself in spades, I have children who care about the world around them and the people within it uniformly. I attribute their easy-going nature to their dad, but I say the hard-driving piece about fairness and justice for all comes from mom, even though my husband works for the National Labor Relations Board and advocates on behalf of individuals on a daily basis and has achieved some amazing impact in his career as well.
Chris: What sources of reading would you recommend for my readers to follow up on?
Rhonda: Definitely read BuzzFeed news articles. I also recommend balance. I like light-hearted things as well, so I will read everything from Metropolitan Diary and The New York Times. I read some of our fun listicle and quiz content on BuzzFeed. I do New York Times crossword puzzles compulsively. I absolutely love them. It allows me to get out of my own head and just do something for fun. I like to read about real estate. Then I love to read what I call beach novels too, things like The Shopaholic series or all of the Bridget Jones books.
I also read books my kids are reading while they’re reading them because they are often books that I read before, but haven’t read in 20 – 35 years. It’s amazing what you bring when you’ve had life experience behind reading them. Some of the books that they’re reading are serious, like The Plague, The Bluest Eye, but I really enjoy reading with them and understanding how they’re experiencing that book as a young person and then reflecting my experience the first time I read it versus my experience now. I spent some time reading my daughter’s American history book a couple of years ago and was amazed how I still connected with the book and the conversations my daughter and I had around it.
Chris: Rhonda, I know you have some history in nonprofit leadership. What are you involved in right now and why?
Rhonda: Sure. I’m on two nonprofit boards. I’m on the board of Power My Learning, which is an organization that has developed a proprietary technology that allows for communication through a website and application for parents, teachers and students to work together on academic issues and to improve overall student performance at school so that is an amazing organization, just a very, very forward-looking organization that has its program in several schools in the New York area and around the country.
The other is Food and Finance High School, which is a public high school here in New York City that has a full culinary program in addition to its academic program. It prepares students for culinary or culinary adjacent careers while also preparing them for a standard college experience as well. These students emerge from the school able to really take their own direction, whether it’s a four-year college, two-year college, culinary school, or straight to the world of work with their Food Handler, ServSafe, and other relevant licenses.
It sets them up well and it couples with instruction on finance, particularly for those who are interested in culinary careers that may involve either restaurant management or opening their own culinary related business. It’s a tremendous high school, where the graduation rate is well above the New York City average with students who have won awards in culinary competitions that have enabled them to go to quite elite schools, including The Culinary Institute of America.
Advice for Minority Attorneys
Chris: Last question, what advice would you give minority attorneys entering the workforce?
Rhonda: I would advise them to reach out to seasoned attorneys, both within your chosen area of development and in other areas. I would encourage them to be forthright and steadfast in those things that they desire to achieve and to set about doing that and not to be afraid to ask for help. All of us who have succeeded have succeeded because we’ve had mentors and supporters and advocates and no one does it alone. I certainly didn’t do it alone. I could run with the people both of color and not, who have supported me at every single step along the way of my career. I am eternally grateful to each and every one of them. In return for that, I try to do the same for others.
Chris: Rhonda, it’s been an honor and a pleasure. Thank you for your time today.
Rhonda: Thank you so much, Chris. It’s been wonderful.
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Peter Marino didn't become Peter Marino by shying away from bold gestures. In countless homes and retail stores for some of the world’s most discerning clients, the habitually provocative Manhattan architect has demonstrated a genius for conjuring grand coups de théâtre that resonate with eloquence and clarity. The sensational Rocky Mountain retreat he designed for himself and his wife, Jane Trapnell Marino, is no exception—it’s a knockout.
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As our time in Fontainebleau draws to a close, Gahl decided to take the (French) law into his own hands. It happened at the train station parking garage, where we often leave our car if we go to Paris for a day or two. One day recently, the barrier was missing at the entrance, so we drove through without taking a ticket. "Never mind," I said, "We'll just get a ticket when we leave." (I had just discovered the technique of taking a new ticket before leaving, and so paying only the minimum fee of 1.50 euros.) However, we arrived back in Fontainebleau after the ticket station had closed, and our attempts to get a new ticket at the entrance failed. (Maybe the new-ticket-before-leaving technique only worked the one time.) The emergency number for the main parking office just rang and rang. We were stuck. "I'm going to break the barrier," Gahl said. Face set in determination, he got out of the car, walked over to the barrier, examined it, then yanked it off and laid it by the side of the road. He came back to the car. "It's only held on with plastic bolts. It looks like they expect people to break it a lot." And we drove away.
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Roy Kinnear was an already famous character actor who mainly appeared in comedy roles. He dressed as a Roman centurion to emphasise Peterborough’s long history and this character was used in many television and radio adverts.Source Bank 1
Many of the radio adverts promoting The Peterborough Effect were broadcast on LBC Radio. In the 1970s LBC stood for London Broadcasting Company. What does LBC stand for now?Answer
The Development Corporation used ‘The Peterborough Effect’ as a slogan to promote the city. This poster shows a variety of objects and dates relating to Peterborough’s varied past. How many do you recognise or can identify?Source Bank 2
If you were trying to advertise your school or some other organisation, which famous person would you try to use to persuade and influence people?
Can you find out as much as you can about Roy Kinnear’s life? In what year did he die?Answer
London’s Biggest Conversation
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You will have your entire life to date many people or find your soulmate, but freshman year, you should focus on yourself.
August 19, 2019
Volume 116, Issue 4
Volume 116 Issue No. 4 of The GW Hatchet View a PDF version of this issue.
Read The Hatchet’s orientation guide for a glimpse into campus life for first-year students.
Finding community as a queer person is emotionally and mentally taxing. Even in an inclusive city, the perfect community does not just come together.
The Colonials will take on four teams coming off postseason appearances and hold the historical edge in half of its nonconference matchups.
Take this quiz to ascertain what kind of student organization you might enjoy and what your choices are here at GW.
Before your freshman year ends, take advantage of events and programs designed to help you explore D.C. and grow academically in your first year on campus.
You shouldn’t rely on Uber or Lyft to get around the city. Here are some of the most efficient transportation options to get around D.C.
To avoid the communal kitchen while sticking to a budget, here are some tried-and-true tips for cooking in the comfort of your own residence hall room.
Here’s how to navigate a few hotspots where you will probably be spending the bulk of your freshman year.
Here is what student leaders have been advocating for before you arrived on campus and where the efforts stand now.
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Exclusively for Texas Sports Nation subscribers! Texans-49ers rewind: Five up, five down https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Skeeters-lose-on-homer-in-10th-3816903.php Skeeters lose on homer in 10th From Web reports Updated 11:51 pm CDT, Sunday, August 26, 2012 SUGAR LAND - Willis Otanez homered in the 10th inning, and the Bluefish held on Sunday to defeat the Skeeters 2-1. Starter Kelvin Villa allowed only one unearned run, but the Skeeters' cause wasn't helped by three errors in the field. More Astros News A's notch 8 doubles to top Astros, pull into tie for AL West lead Red Sox ace Chris Sale headed back to disabled list Astros' A.J. Hinch on overturned call vs. A's: 'We'll move on' Astros' Jose Altuve to begin rehab assignment with Triple-A... Walk-off homer in 10th lifts A's over Astros Astros manager A.J. Hinch: Jose Altuve could be sent for short... Astros activate George Springer from the disabled list Scoreboard Schedule Team Leaders Tweets from https://twitter.com/GregRajan/lists/tweeting-the-astros View Comments © 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc.
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Power Rangers Super Megaforce Is Morphin' Its Way To 3DS This Fall
Posted by Damien McFerran
After the last game, the only way is up
If you can't get enough of the Power Rangers then you'll be pleased to hear that Bandai Namco is producing another Mighty Morphin' adventure for the Nintendo 3DS, due for release later this year.
Following on from Powers Rangers Megaforce, the imaginatively-titled Power Rangers Super Megaforce will see players facing off against a massive alien armada intent on crushing the earth. This time around, the team of heroes will be able to transform into Super Megaforce Rangers — but the usual assortment of Zords and Megazords will once again make an appearance.
Here's what Herve Hoerdt, Vice President of IP Strategy at Bandai Namco Games Europe, had to say:
Our collaboration with Saban to entertain kids has always been fruitful, proof with the last Power Rangers Megaforce which encountered a huge success! This time, the game will offer to kids several amazing features such as controlling various Legendary red Rangers, using incredible powers, Zords and much more! Once again, our kids will be the hero in this stirring battle against the evilest foes they will ever encounter!
We didn't think much to the previous Power Rangers game on 3DS, giving it solitary one star out of ten. "If you happen to see Power Rangers Megaforce on the shelves, don't make eye contact — you'll only get its hopes up," is what we said in our review. Will this sequel be any better? Time will tell.
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The following criteria must be met for a family to be eligible to stay at Ronald McDonald House:
- The child or young adult must be 21 or under and must be receiving medical care at a Tucson hospital, clinic or outpatient facility.
- Families must live 30 or more miles from our location.
- All children under the age of 18 must be with their legal guardian while on the House property at all times.
- There is no charge for families to stay. Donations are accepted.
- In order to ensure the safety of all of our guests, we conduct criminal background checks for all prospective guests age 18 and older. By filling out the form below, you agree to the conditions of our Background Check Policy. If you have questions or concerns, we invite you to call us at 520-326-0060 and ask for the House Manager on duty. These checks are not meant to discourage anyone from applying to stay at the Ronald McDonald House, but rather to ensure that your stay is safe and comfortable.
- For the health and safety of all of our guests, additional criteria may apply.
- For questions or more information call 520-326-0060 or email our Director of House Operations
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The College of Science and Ecampus present the second speaker, biogeochemist and educator Ariel Anbar, as part of the series, “Innovating Science Online.” Through this partnership, faculty learn from educational leaders and innovators around the country who highlight best practices in developing and teaching science courses online.
Ariel Anbar is a President’s Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU). He will discuss his large-enrollment online courses “Habitable Worlds” and “Biology Beyond” in a series of workshops and meetings on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.
Anbar will share his expertise and research on using emerging technologies such as interactive, adaptive inquiry-driven tutorials, gamification, and Virtual Field Trips (VFT) to build innovative and engaging online science courses. He also will share his vision of how these new technologies provide opportunities to radically shift the traditional paradigm of teaching from instilling “mastery” to giving students instead a flexible set of skills and experiences that enable them to successfully—and independently— navigate the always evolving “unknowns” in any field of knowledge or practice. This approach is centered on questions rather than disciplines.
Anbar and his colleagues develop teaching network platforms through which experiences can be created, deployed, adopted, analyzed, and adapted by far-flung communities of instructors at internet scale.
He will present a free public lecture, “Education Through eXploration: Reimagining Learning in a Digital Age,” from 4-5 p.m. in the Learning Innovation Center (LInC) room 200.
He will also present two special workshops for science faculty that dive deeper into specifics:
- A discussion on using third-party providers and developing an online platform from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Kidder 128.
- A discussion about the effects of online education on student interaction, teaching assistants, and graduate school from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in LInC 268.
Dr. Anbar’s visit to OSU will give science, other STEM faculty, campus leaders and the public the opportunity to learn about:
- Nurturing students who are problem solvers rather than “fact-regurgitators” and “algorithm-appliers”
- Designing network platforms that allow for large-enrollment, internet scaling and far-flung communities of instructors and students
- Engaging students with active learning online
- Making the most of gamification
- Deploying Virtual Field Trip technology to get your remote students engaged in “hands-on” experiences by means of robotic Gigapan systems, remotely-manipulable cameras, aerial vehicles, and more
- Building confidence and fluency in cross-disciplinary work
- Using new online learning platforms such as Smart Sparrow LLC.
Ariel Anbar is a biogeochemist and educator interested in Earth’s past and future as an inhabited world, and the prospects for life beyond. He directed ASU’s NASA-funded Astrobiology Program from 2009-15, and oversees the new Center for Education Through eXploration.
Anbar works to develop and apply new analytical methods in elemental and isotope geochemistry to tease information about ancient environments from the geologic record. His research involves chemical and biochemical experiments, quantum chemical modeling, and geological field work. Anbar has also studied the atmospheric chemistry of present-day Earth and Mars, the bombardment history of the early Earth, and the use of metal stable isotopes in biomedicine. He teaches courses in environmental chemistry and isotope biogeochemistry.
Anbar is a graduate of Harvard and Caltech, and was on the faculty of the University of Rochester before moving to ASU in 2004. The author or co-author of more than 100 refereed papers, Anbar is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, which awarded him the Donath Medal, and a Fellow of both the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.
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Vodafone licks lips over Nectar deal
Vodafone customers will soon be able to earn Nectar loyalty points following the mobile phone company's decision to sign up to the reward scheme.
From late spring, Vodafone punters in the UK will earn two Nectar points for every £1 they spend on using their phone.
What an incentive! Just think, spend £250 on texting and chatting and you to could get - wait for it - a Medium Extra Value Meal at McDonald's. Or a purse-jangling £2.50 off your shopping bill at Sainsbury's or Argos. Isn't that just terrific?
The scheme is open to those who pay-as-they-go and monthly subscribers.
In a statement Lance Batchelor, marketing director of Vodafone UK, said: "What we've done today is take Britain's best mobile network and pair it with the UK's most popular rewards programme. That's an unbeatable offer for our customers. Why would anyone choose to use a lesser network which can't offer Nectar points?"
The Nectar loyalty scheme was launched last September backed by Sainsbury's, Barclaycard, Debenhams and BP.
Within hours of the scheme going live those behind Nectar had to suspend Web-based signups because the site simply couldn't cope with demand. ®
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Makes Cathy C. Hall a dull girl. And a dull writer, too. But maybe I should explain that part.
Remember the last time when you were typity, typity, typing away and then suddenly wham! You hit the brick wall. Or technically, the block. As in a writer's block. Maybe it was a phrase that you fiddled with, tweaked, or picked at but try as you might it just wouldn't come out right. (Ooh! I made a little rhyme!) Maybe it was a whole section of your stunning short story that you suddenly realized stunk. So you moved this, scratched this out, added a little here, took away a little there, and before you knew it, you had the same old stink.
Instead of fixing the problem, you sat there, agonizing over the stinkiness, and sabotaging any future Fortune. What you could have done instead is take a little break. Given your mind a rest so you could come back, intellectually renewed with vim and vigor! Pumped a little fresh air into the old grey cells. But what to do? How do you take a break when you're stuck?
Maybe you'd like to listen to my old buddy, Bill, and his daily podcast here. He's funny and free. You can't beat that. Or maybe try a game here. I LOVE those tiny little Nitrome freakazoids. Or take a shower. (Don't ask me why this works. All I know is that whenever I'm stuck, I take a little dip and voila! Not only do I have a great idea but as a bonus, I also smell nice and clean!). Maybe you have your own ideas about the perfect break. I'm all ears, if you want to pass it on.
Whatever you do, little grasshopper, don't sit there banging your head against the keyboard. Talk about your breaks---
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We serve traditional favourites, fresh salads, sandwiches, cakes and pastries, all made on the premises from scratch each morning.
Enjoy breakfast, roast of the day or a piping hot panini. All the tea and coffee we sell is Fairtrade.
All our cafés are child friendly with comfy sofas, plenty of buggy space and special children’s menus.
All of our cafes are available for conferences, functions and events. For further information about hire costs and details, call in at the centre.
Get 15% off
Members of our gyms also get 15% off in the cafes and restaurants when presenting their membership card (excludes special promotions and seasonal offers like the Christmas lunch).
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Please join us or set your DVR for Sunday morning at 5:30a on KPRC TV for our next episode of Goodtaste with Tanji. Bring an appetite! We’re serving up some of Houston’s BEST sushi and some incredible New Orleans favorites, not to mention some belt-bustin’ burgers from the Hill Country.
Everyone knows that Cajun food rocks in the Bayou City, but we discovered a quaint spot in the Alamo City that turns out a spicy, sensational BBQ Shrimp–and that’s just for starters.
Bourbon Street flavor is bubbling up big time inside Cookhouse in San Antonio. Owners Pieter and Susan Sypesteyn have ties to the Crescent City and serve up sizzling plates of what they know best…authentic Cajun and Creole with soul! We’re talking butter-drenched, Charbroiled Oysters, fresh catch Redfish on the Half Shell and, of course, their famous New Orleans BBQ Shrimp featuring Chef Pieter’s secret BBQ butter sauce.
Stick around for the recipe to the shrimp, including that sensational sauce, this weekend!
Also on tap, an insider’s look at one of my favorite sushi spots in Houston, Sage 400 near the Galleria. Sushi, sashimi and so much more from one of the top Japanese chefs in the city! Sage 400 is celebrating 11 years at the top of its game; an Asian bistro run with heart by a brother and sister whose passion it is to bring customers a true Japanese dining experience.
The food is fantastic and features unique rolls you won’t find anywhere else. Sushi not your thing? Don’t pass on the Steamed Sea Bass – probably the best I’ve had in the city! Silky, melt-in-your-mouth perfection. Then, there’s creative concoctions like this sake sea urchin martini – the Uni Shooter – reserved for the most adventurous of palates. Taste with us this weekend!
More incredible Pinot Noir finds at bargain prices. My Wines of the Week from H-E-B! Set those DVR’s for Sunday morning, bright and early at 5:30a, on KPRC TV.
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One Pack. No Turning Back.
Carlton Fisk signing my '86 Topps card for $69. I gave him my autograph for free.
Day 39: Cooperstown, NY to Cleveland, OH, 7.27.15
Number of miles driven today: 402
Total miles driven on road trip: 8,078
Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts? Dunkin's run continues.
Starbucks' record (# of days Starbucks was more common): 20-16-2, after starting 18-1-1
Dunkin' Donuts' record: 16-20-2
Cheapest gas I saw today: $2.49
Number of states visited overall: 23
Number of red states visited overall (as of 2012 presidential election): 10 (Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina)
Number of blue states visited overall: 13 (California, New Mexico, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio)
Best tourist attraction I never knew existed: The Christmas Story House and Museum in Cleveland, based on the movie.
Weirdest highway sign: Car phones. It can wait. Text stop 5 Mi.
After several days poking around the northeast, it was time to start the move west for the home stretch of the trip. The drive to Ohio provided lots of tolls and few highlights, save for a sign for the James A. Garfield National Historic Site. (Someone remind me to plan my next book road trip around visiting the historic sites associated with mediocre 19th century presidents. Plenty to choose from.) So rather than bore you with details of the Hotel Indigo's room decor (where I stayed and caught up on some much needed sleep), I will recount another fun story from Cooperstown.
Saturday afternoon, post-Fiskapade (see Day 37) and pre-parade, a table of small, yellowed paperback books diverted my attention for a couple of hours. Out on the sidewalk I found row upon row of those old annual guides to baseball from the 1980s, complete with team outlooks and blurbs on each player. They were selling for $1 apiece. Sensing a fun tax deduction, I swooped several of the mid-'80s editions, and then realized that this was just a teaser--an entire used book store, specializing in baseball, was right in front of me.
Walking into Willis Monie Books, my nostrils flared approvingly at the familiar scent of musty paper, bringing back memories of unwrapping the wax pack that inspired this trip. I spotted a tower full of baseball cards and an entire wall filled with media guides, books crammed with enough stats and miscellany to cross the eyes of even the nerdiest baseball fans.
A rabbit-eared, phlegmatic man in his fifties stood behind the counter, already eyeing me and my backpack with disapproval. Bibliopoles, along with stamp collectors and art gallery attendants, are the most humorless, suspicious people on Earth. They seem borderline offended for even walking into their stores, making you temporarily forget that--oh yeah--you are the customer and they are the ones serving you. (I learned the word bibliopole, meaning rare book dealer, in seventh grade as part of Mr. Westcott's draconian etmology homework assignments and have never forgotten it.)
I averted the gaze of the bibliopole and settled in front of the baseball section, quickly finding multiple out-of-print treasures missing from my personal collection. I also found a few books that will be helpful for my research, such as one detailing the rise and fall of Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry and an original copy of Boys of Summer, a key model for this project.
Once I explained my own book's premise, the bibliopole softened, realizing that my backpack was simply a vessel of convenience and not one for crime. My purchases stack rose 10 books high before he mentioned that they had even more media guides from the 1970s and '80s upstairs. A negotiation with another employee ensued about whether I could browse this secret room before he finally agreed, keeping me under watchful supervision the entire time.
The storage area made the downstairs look spartan. The stacks of collapsed shipping boxes alone could provide Topps with all the cardboard they'd need for the next millennium. Box after box sat overflowing with old baseball magazines, yearbooks, and newspapers, while the media guides were neatly arranged by team and then chronologically within each team. As I found the 1986 edition for several of my players' teams, my escort reminded me to check if there was another copy left behind so he could adjust the inventory.
Seeing all of that nostalgia packed into such a small place made me feel safe and comfortable, reassured that there are other people who care as deeply about baseball's past as I do. It borders on a sickness, this compulsive collecting of expired headlines, but it makes me feel good to know that this material is here, even if un-curated.
I walked back downstairs with my loot, waited several minutes to be rung up (since they had to write out the titles of each individual book for their meticulous records), and then returned to the streets of Cooperstown with that same feeling I used to get walking out of a baseball card shop.
The next day, while the entire town watched Pedro dance and John Smoltz warn parents about Tommy John surgery, I had the actual Hall of Fame all to myself, a gallery of sculpted faces of baseball's all-time best.
For older blog entries, click here.
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Q: I took my car in for a routine maintenance service and was told that my transmission and brake fluids need to be changed. This is the first time I have been told this, so I am just curious if it is really necessary.
A: Yes. Be happy that you have found a shop that checks those fluids for you. In fact, the fluids in your cooling system, power-steering system, automatic transmission and brake system are all products that go through temperature changes, have additive packages in them and are petroleum-based, just like your engine oil. Each fluid requires attention at regular intervals.
Your engine coolant turns acidic as it ages. When this happens, it damages the engine and cooling-system components. Coolant in good condition will be within the neutral range of the pH scale. A thorough service center will check coolant pH and recommend changes when needed before damage occurs.
Brake-system fluid collects moisture from the environment, along with worn metal from the brake system. These contaminants cause damage and premature wear to brake-system components, so the fluid-contaminate level should be checked at service intervals and changed as needed. Modern vehicles can boast brake-system components costing as much as $3,000 to replace, so changing the fluid when indicated can save a lot of money.
Power-steering-system fluid breaks down over a period of time and picks up wear particles from the system hoses. Worn-out fluid causes premature wear in the system’s pump and steering rack. Hose debris can block the system’s small passageways. Changing this fluid when needed can also save thousands of dollars in repair costs.
Automatic-transmission fluid works especially hard in doing its job of connecting the engine to the drivetrain. It both lubricates and serves as a coupling agent in the transmission. It goes through a wide range of temperature changes every time the vehicle is driven. When this fluid breaks down, the result is premature wear of components inside the transmission. Transmission replacement or rebuilding can cost $3,000 or more.
These fluids require monitoring and changing, and fluid replacement must be done in its entirety. What is known as a “drain and refill” only replaces, on average, approximately 20 percent of the old fluid, as the fluid is present throughout the vehicle systems, not just in the fluid receptacle. Special equipment is needed to ensure a 100 percent fluid change, so don’t hesitate to ask if your service center has invested in such equipment and can perform the service correctly.
Your vehicle’s fluids are its lifeblood. If you can’t remember the last time you had them checked, it is definitely time – especially as winter approaches.
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►HD◄ Alize Cornet vs. Serena Williams (Wimbledon 2014 HIGHLIGHTS)
London, England - Women's singles third round match between Alize Cornet and Serena Williams at The Championships, Wimbledon 2014 (Highlights). Please watch ......
As Serena Williams began to fall behind in what would become her earliest Wimbledon exit in nearly a decade, her coach could tell something was awry. Not the so-so serving....Denver Post 2014-06-28
Alize Cornet stunned the world number one Serena Williams to scupper tentative thoughts of an all Williams sister final in the second semi-final of the Dubai Duty Free...Khaleej Times 2014-02-21
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The hope of an all-Williams final at the Dubai Championships ended on the racket of Frenchwoman Alize Cornet on Friday. The 26th-ranked Cornet scored her first career victory over a No. 1 player when she upset Serena Williams 6-4, 6-4. "I'm so excited," Cornet said, smiling broadly. "I didn't expect that definitely, and I'm really, really happy and proud of myself. "She's one —...Yahoo Daily News 2014-02-21
Victoria Azarenka struggled but advanced, defeating Alize Cornet 4-6, 6-3, 6-1The USA's Sloane Stephens is into the fourth round for the second timeRafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic also were on the schedule Sloane Stephens of the USA reached the French Open's fourth round for the second consecutive year with a 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 victory Saturday over 92nd-ranked Marina...USA Today 2013-06-01
Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 Photo: Steve Bardens/Getty Images Serena Williams has lost before the quarterfinals in every Grand Slam this season. Posted: Sat Jun. 28, 2014 Another Grand Slam, another disappointing exit for No. 1 Serena Williams. No. 25 Alize Cornet of France pulled off the upset of the tournament, beating the five-time Wimbledon...CNN 2014-06-28
Williams crashed to her earliest exit at Wimbledon for nine years as she suffered a shock loss against Alize Cornet in the third round. Serena Williams of the US reacts during her women's singles tennis match against Alize Cornet of France at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships on June 28, 2014. - Reuters Defiant Serena Williams insists her shock Wimbledon exit won’t herald the...Khaleej Times 2014-06-29
Shock win: Alize Cornet of France. Photo: Reuters Alize Cornet, recovering brilliantly from a mighty collapse in career fortunes, scored her best-ever win by beating world number one Serena Williams 6-4 6-4 to prevent an all-Williams sisters final at the Dubai Open. The 24-year-old Frenchwoman, who is about to return to the WTA’s top 20 after a dismal five-year interval in...Canberra Times 2014-02-22
Serena Williams of the U.S. reacts during her women's singles tennis match against Alize Cornet of France at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London. Photo by Reuters Top seed Serena Williams' challenge for a sixth Wimbledon singles title fizzled out with a shock 1-6 6-3 6-4 defeat by France's Alize Cornet. The 32-year-old American was untroubled...Otago Daily Times 2014-06-28
Serena Williams breezed past Alize Cornet of France on day three of the Brisbane International. Photo: Chris Hyde/Getty Images In a tournament where the women's draw is providing some early upsets, Serena Williams countered with the thoroughly predictable, demolishing Frenchwoman Alize Cornet to canter into the quarterfinals of the Brisbane International. The tournament...Canberra Times 2013-01-01
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Selecting the perfect car service can be a daunting task given the array of options available. Each option presents its own set of advantages depending on your needs and circumstances. Read on to explore the best car service options for you.
When considering a car service, two popular options are ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft or local chauffeur companies. Both offer convenient transportation but have key differences to weigh based on your priorities.
Ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft have become ubiquitous in recent years. Their model relies on non-professional drivers using their own vehicles to provide rides via a mobile app.
Benefits include ease of use, reasonable rates, and usually shorter wait times for pickup. However, there are downsides like inconsistent vehicle quality, lack of professionalism, and reports of safety issues in some cases.
Overall, rideshares offer a more casual and affordable experience compared to other options, but the tradeoffs in reliability and oversight are factors to consider.
For a higher-end service, professional driving companies and chauffeur services are available in most areas. These businesses specialize in providing luxury vehicle transportation with an emphasis on client satisfaction and safety. Benefits include experienced drivers, top-tier vehicles, consistency, accountability, and guest amenities.
This option is well-suited for business travelers, special events, and those who prioritize the best car services available. Professional chauffeur services provide specialized experience and care for discerning clients.
These considerations are especially important if you have a budget, unique circumstances, or you’re simply looking to compare options.
To get the best car service, knowing other customers’ experiences is invaluable for determining quality and reliability. Online reviews on sites like Yelp and Google provide transparency into factors like:
- Driver professionalism and expertise
- Vehicle condition and comfort
- Safety records and precautions
- Responsiveness to issues
- Overall satisfaction
Checking independent sites for reviews rather than relying solely on a company’s curated testimonials allows you to make the most informed decision. This is essential to avoid unpleasant surprises down the road.
Cost understandably plays a major role in choosing transportation. Rideshare companies advertise cheap fares compared to taxis or car services. However, focusing purely on the initial price can overlook some drawbacks:
- Dynamic pricing results in unreliable and fluctuating fares.
- Lower overhead translates to reduced service quality, professionalism, accountability, and safety investments.
- Indirect fees often appear for wait time, high-traffic routes, etc.
Professional driving services charge more but invest heavily in premium vehicles, extensive driver vetting/training, personalized service, and strict insurance coverage. This higher-touch experience justifies the rates for many clients depending on preferences and trips.
Finding the optimal balance between budget and service levels given your situation leads to the best transportation choice.
Ready to make the most of your next car service experience? Victory Ground offers luxurious chauffeured services so you can ride in style.
Knowing which car to reserve can make or break your next riding experience. Too small and your party is cramped for the drive. Too big and you may be overspending on your services. Partnering with a company that knows how to accommodate you is the key to getting the best car service.
Buses are a popular and affordable group transportation option. Charter bus services provide transportation for large groups of 20 or more people. These buses come in a variety of sizes, from minibusses to full-sized motorcoaches. Some key benefits include:
- Cost savings from transporting larger groups together versus individual transportation
- Comfortable seating and amenities like Wi-Fi, power outlets, and entertainment systems
- Door-to-door scheduled service
- Professional drivers familiar with routes and group transportation
Charter bus services require advance reservations and work well for trips like airport transfers, tours, corporate events, weddings, and nights out. When considering a charter bus, look at company reviews, safety records, vehicle sizes, and routes covered.
Sprinter vans provide a middle ground between traditional cars and full-size buses. The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is a popular large van choice. These vans are available for 10–20 passengers. Benefits include:
- More room for luggage versus a sedan
- Fewer seats than a full-size bus
- Sleek black vehicles project a modern, upscale image
- Standing room inside for guests to mingle
Sprinter vans work for smaller groups needing room for luggage like airport transfers or nights out. Consider luggage needs, group size, and desired image.
For individual or small group rides, car services provide private transportation in late-model luxury vehicles with professional drivers. Sedans and SUVs typically seat 3–6 passengers comfortably. Key benefits include:
- Traveling with only your party for privacy
- Luxury vehicles like Mercedes, BMWs, or Cadillacs
- Knowledgeable drivers with safety training
- Personalized assistance with luggage and door-to-door service
Individual travelers often choose professional car services over alternatives like taxis or rideshares. Airport pickups, corporate travel, and special events are common use cases. Prioritize safety and professionalism when selecting a car service.
Motorcoaches are an efficient transportation solution for moving very large groups. From 50-passenger buses to double-decker buses holding over 80 people, these full-sized motorcoaches excel at transporting many passengers together safely and comfortably. Benefits include:
- Accommodating large tour groups, school trips, or corporate groups
- Optimized layouts with wide aisles, overhead storage, and undercarriage bags
- Bathrooms, entertainment systems, and power outlets onboard
- Experienced drivers trained to handle oversized vehicles
When coordinating transportation for very large parties, convention shuttles, or multi-day tours, charter buses provide capabilities that traditional cars cannot. Be sure to vet carrier safety records and driver backgrounds when selecting companies.
For personalized transportation with exotic vehicles, luxury car rental and concierge services elevate the experience. These providers offer premium rental cars and private drivers for occasions like:
- Weddings – License plate customization and red carpet treatment
- Proms – Coordinated limo trips perfect for photography
- City tours – Knowledgeable guides and exclusive opportunities
- Corporate travel – High-end cars and time optimization
With luxury rentals, the vehicle helps make a statement and create an unforgettable experience. Carefully check insurance protections, driver backgrounds, and specific models when using specialty providers.
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Senior's Essay, Runner-Up in Contest, Published in Glimpse Magazine
January 25, 2005
January 25, 2005, Greencastle, Ind. - An essay by DePauw University senior Anna Vander Broek, about her semester abroad in Wales, is published in the Winter 2005 issue of Glimpse magazine. The article, titled "Welsh Secrets: Understanding the 'True' Wales," was a runner-up in Glimpse's Fall 2004 writing contest, "Foregone Conclusions."
"'Wales is a backward country.' I am sitting on the train from London, heading toward Carmarthen, Wales, where I am going to spend the upcoming semester," Vander Broek, a senior English (writing) major, begins. "A young Englishman, after learning of my destination, is half talking to me, half to himself. I have already heard what he is telling me -- that Welsh culture is a bit 'behind' its progressive neighbors, the British. 'Backward? How so?' I ask him. He gives me a funny look and raises his eyebrows. 'Have you heard the accent?' I shake my head and look out the window, watching the landscape slowly change as we head west. Sitting here in the train I see sheep running everywhere, in front of cars and around the streets of the villages. Drivers seem to ignore the sheep the way we ignore squirrels, letting them go about their business, patiently waiting as they cross the street. I become aware that the grass is a color green I have never seen before -- a brighter, fresher green than the grass back in my home state of Michigan. The Welsh hills roll together, creating a depth that makes me wish I could paint."
Read the complete essay at the magazine's Web site by clicking here.Back
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How to Control Alzheimer's Wandering
Alzheimer's disease causes sufferers to become disoriented, confused and afraid. The disease can erase memories of once-familiar surroundings, and as a result, Alzheimer's patients often wander away from home. In fact, the Alzheimer's Association estimates that 60% of Alzheimer's patients wander away from home. The stress can weigh heavily on caregivers and family.
It is not possible to completely prevent wandering in people with Alzheimer's and dementia, but caregivers can minimize the risk. Here are some techniques to try:
Find an Alzheimer's Care Community »
Install wandering-prevention locks. Install locks and escape prevention devices on doors, windows and gate. These products require complex maneuvers to open doors, thus making it difficult for Alzheimer's and dementia patients to leave. For example, if your loved one tends to unlock doors, install sliding bolt locks out of your loved one's line of sight.
Install alarms. There are many wandering prevention alarms on the market that can alert you that your loved one is trying to get out. These devices include motion detectors, pressure-sensitive alarm mats at the door, and warning bells on doors.
Disguise escape routes. Camouflaging doors and windows inhibits the Alzheimer patient's ability to find a way out. Paint doors the same color as walls, or hang curtains on windows that match the color of walls, so they blend in with surroundings, and make them less visible.
Provide a safe place to wander. Provide a safe place in your home or yard for walking or exploration — such as a path through the rooms of your house or a circular trail through a fenced backyard.
Use visual cues. People who have Alzheimer's often forget where they are, even inside their own homes. Visual reminders provide clues and trigger memories. For example, post descriptive photos on the doors to various rooms, such as the bathroom, and kitchen. Even Stop signs at doors have been reported to help.
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CPR for Health Care Provider
The purpose of this course is to instruct participants in emergency measures which may save the life of a person who has suffered a cardiac arrest or obstructed airway. Course follows the American Heart Association Guidelines.
Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
- Identify the normal heart and lung anatomy and function
- Identify causes, prevention and recognition of sudden death
- Perform basic one-person, two-person, infant and child CPR
- Manage an obstructed airway in an adult, child and infant
- Know principles of defibrillation using an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
- Perform CPR using mask and bag valve mask
Students who successfully complete the course will be certified in Healthcare CPR by the American Heart Association.
This course is now offered in a convenient online format as an alternative method of certification. Online courses are perfect for those providers seeking re-certification or those students who find scheduling classes difficult. Complete the video and examination online then simply print off your certificate of completion and bring it in when you meet with an American heart instructor to demonstrate your skills. Scheduled the 1st Monday and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Fee $65.00
Submit registration form to email@example.com or fax to 712.325.3729.
Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider Certification
CPR Certification for the Healthcare Professional. Fee $60
For face-to-face classes you must come to Looft Hall, room 110, to register, pay, and pick up your book for the class
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smblist at rednsx.org
Fri Aug 12 18:18:25 UTC 2016
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, James B. Byrne via samba wrote:
> Has anyone encountered numlock issues stemming from Samba or Win2008r?
> I do not know how else to phrase the question. The exact same program
> used on the exact same workstation does not exhibit this issue when
> the station belongs to and is logged on to the old domain.
Does the new domain have any GPOs or log-on scripts which could be
More information about the samba
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A. To ensure that prizes awarded in the Nebraska Lottery’s Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway Drawing are determined impartially and randomly.
B. To ensure that the integrity of the Nebraska Lottery is maintained at all times.
II. Promotion Overview
A. The Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway Drawing is a promotion in which a player sends in ten (10) dollars worth of eligible, non-winning $2 Scratch tickets, along with at least one completed ticket back (or enters ten dollars worth of eligible, non-winning $2 Scratch ticket numbers and contact information by web entry) to be eligible for the chance to be selected as one of ten (10) semifinalists in the final Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway Grand Prize contest to be held on Sunday, June 8, 2014.
Players may enter any of the two (2) preliminary drawings by placing ten (10) dollars worth of eligible, non-winning $2 Scratch tickets with at least one completed ticket back into an envelope and mailing it to Truck$ & Buck$ Second-Chance Giveaway, Nebraska Lottery, P.O. Box 98909, Lincoln, Nebraska 68509.
MVP Club members may enter any of the two (2) preliminary drawings by entering the serial numbers from $10 worth of eligible, non-winning $2 Nebraska Lottery scratch tickets online at www.nelottery.com.
Entries are eligible for one drawing only, but players may send separate entries to as many drawings as they choose. Hand-delivered entries will not be accepted for this promotion. The Nebraska Lottery will not accept entries at any of their claim centers.
All entries for the second and final drawing must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. (CST), on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Entries received after this date and time are ineligible for any drawing and will be destroyed.
B. Eligible tickets will be all $2 Scratch games on sale from Monday, February 3,2014 through Tuesday, May 13, 2014, and may include, but are not limited to: Truck$ & Buck$ (#785) and all other $2 games on sale at that time. For mail-in entries, each entry of $10 worth of non-winning $2 Scratch tickets must be in a separate sealed envelope. All entries with more than $10 worth of non-winning $2 Scratch tickets will be considered as one entry; however, multiple entries may be submitted together as provided in Section V(E) below. Eligible mail-in entries must have at least one ticket back completed with the player’s name, mailing address, city, state, zip code, and a daytime telephone number.
C. All participants and winners must be eligible to play the Nebraska Lottery and must otherwise comply with the State Lottery Act and the rules, regulations, policies and procedures of the Nebraska Lottery. By participating in this second-chance drawing, participants agree to be photographed and videotaped by the Nebraska Lottery and to have their images and non-confidential information about them used in any advertising, publicity, educational and promotional activities of the Nebraska Lottery. The Nebraska Lottery is not required to provide any additional consideration or remuneration for these activities. Semifinalists will receive information about attending the Grand Prize Drawing. Semifinalists need not be present to win, but if a semifinalist cannot be present, either the semifinalist or the Nebraska Lottery may appoint a proxy to participate in the Grand Prize Drawing activities.
D. The Nebraska Lottery will hold two (2) preliminary drawings to select a total of ten (10) different semifinalists. Five (5) semifinalists will be chosen from each preliminary drawing. Drawing dates are March 19, and May 15, 2014. Entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. (C.T.) in the Nebraska Lottery office the day prior to the drawing for the March 19th drawing and by 5:00p.m.(C.T.) May 13th for the May 15th drawing to be eligible for entry in that drawing. Entries not drawn will be destroyed. The odds of an entry being drawn are dependent on the number of eligible entries received. The Nebraska Lottery reserves the right to open the entries following the drawing date to obtain player information for statistical and other purposes. Although entries selected in the drawing will be reviewed to determine their compliance with the rules, other entries not drawn will not be examined to determine whether they contain winning tickets. Drawing dates are subject to change without prior notice as may be deemed necessary or appropriate by the Nebraska Lottery.
E. The Nebraska Lottery is not responsible for any delays due to the mail, or for any winning ticket claims, or any mail or correspondence other than valid entries sent to the second-chance drawing address. Entries that are lost, late, illegible, incomplete, misdirected or incompletely received (including by reason of technical malfunction, network congestion or system incompatibility) are not eligible. An individual entrant may only be selected once to be a Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway Semifinalist.
Promotion rules and procedures are subject to change as deemed necessary or appropriate by the Lottery Director without additional or prior public notice.
Void where prohibited.
A. The ten (10) semifinalists for the Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway will be entered into a Grand Prize drawing to be held Sunday, June 8, 2014. At this drawing, the Nebraska Lottery will select one (1) grand prize winner, who will win a 2014 Chevy Silverado truck ,including withholding of federal and state taxes, plus a $100 gift card for ethanol-enriched fuel. In addition, all ten (10) semifinalists will each receive a $100 gift card for ethanol-enriched fuel and a cash prize.
B. All prizes must be confirmed by the drawing winners to the Nebraska Lottery after the drawings or they will be forfeited and become unclaimed prizes.
C. Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-810(5), prior to the payment of any lottery prize in excess of five hundred dollars for a winning lottery ticket presented for redemption to the Nebraska Lottery, including the applicable prizes provided in this promotion, the Nebraska Lottery shall check the name and social security number of the winner with a list provided by the Department of Revenue of people identified as having an outstanding state tax liability and a list of people certified by the Department of Health and Human Services as owing a debt as defined in section 77-27,161. The Nebraska Lottery shall credit any such lottery prize against any outstanding state tax liability or certified debt owed by such winner and the balance of such prize amount, if any, shall be paid to the winner by the Nebraska Lottery. Any such credit of a lottery prize against a state tax liability or certified debt is collectively referred to as an “offset.”
In regards to the Grand Prize winner, if the state tax liability or certified debt is greater than the cash prize amount, the Nebraska Lottery will provide a substitute prize for the merchandise prize. The substitute prize will be a cash amount determined by the Nebraska Lottery in its sole discretion, which amount will not be subject to appeal by the prizewinner and will not include the value of any state or federal tax (collectively referred to as the “cash equivalent”). The cash prize amount and the cash equivalent will be credited against the state tax liability or certified debt and if applicable, the remaining amount paid to the winner. As an alternative, the prizewinner may elect to pay the full amount of the state tax liability or certified debt in the amount and in the manner as determined by the Nebraska Lottery in its sole discretion. If the Nebraska Lottery determines the full amount of the state tax liability or certified debt has been paid in the manner as prescribed by the Nebraska Lottery, the prizewinner will receive the Grand Prize as detailed in the promotion.
Players must keep these tickets for verification. See nelottery.com for more details.
D. Neither the Nebraska Lottery nor its vendors or suppliers are liable for any delays which result from acts of God, earthquake, fire, flood, other natural disaster, public enemy, explosion, epidemic, quarantine, strikes, freight embargoes, closure of all major access roads to a geographic region, weather or other causes beyond the control of the Nebraska Lottery or its agents.
IV. Drawing Dates, Times and Locations
The preliminary drawings will take place on the dates indicated in Section II (D) above at the Nebraska Lottery headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska, with the exception of the Grand Prize Giveaway Event, which will be conducted on Sunday, June 8, 2014, unless rescheduled to a later date or a different place by decision of the Nebraska Lottery. If all entries do not fit within the drawings container, the Lottery Drawing Manager will divide the entries received evenly by weight into bags. Immediately prior to the draw, an equal number, by weight, of entries will be withdrawn from each bag until the drawings container has approximately 125 pounds of entries; however, the drawings container shall not be filled more than half full. A drawing for the five (5) semifinalists of each preliminary drawing will take place immediately after the drawings container is filled and locked. The drawn semifinalists will be contacted by the Drawing Manager and will be announced through the Nebraska Lottery's public relations office.
A. Ten (10) dollars worth of eligible, non-winning $2 Scratch tickets which have been duly issued are delivered by mail in a single envelope with at least one completed ticket back to the Nebraska Lottery, and received prior to 5:00 p.m. (C.T.) the day before a drawing are eligible for that next day’s drawing. Hand-delivered entries will not be accepted. The Nebraska Lottery will not accept entries at any of their claim centers.
B. Ten (10) dollars worth of eligible, non-winning $2 Scratch tickets which have been duly issued, the serial numbers of which are entered by an MVP Club member on www.nelottery.com, and received prior to 5:00 p.m. (C.T.) the day before a drawing are eligible for that next day’s drawing. MVP Club entries for the final draw must be entered by 5:00 p.m. on May 13, 2014. Players submitting entries through the www.nelottery.com website must keep their tickets, since they will be required to deliver the physical tickets to the Nebraska Lottery after the drawing in order to prove eligibility and to claim any prize won. Players may not enter other Nebraska Lottery promotions with the same tickets submitted in this promotion either through the mail or through the website. Players in this promotion may not simultaneously enter the same ticket(s) more than once through both the mail and also through the website.
C. To be eligible for the Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway Drawings, entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. (C.T.) on the day before the drawing March 19th (i) at Nebraska Lottery Headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska, by mail to the indicated Post Office box, or (ii) online at www.nelottery.com. Entries not drawn will be destroyed. Any and all entries received prior to a 5:00 p.m. drawing deadline will be entered in the current drawing and will be eligible for the current drawing only. Any entries received after a 5:00 p.m. drawing deadline will be entered in the next successive drawing; however, all entries received after 5:00 p.m. (C.T.) on May 13, 2014, will be destroyed. Although entries selected in the drawings will be reviewed to determine their compliance with the rules, other entries not drawn will not be examined to determine whether they are winning tickets.
D. An individual entrant may only be selected once to be a Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway semifinalist. Ten (10) different semifinalists will be chosen.
E. Entries are eligible for one drawing only, but players may submit multiple entries. Multiple entries may be mailed together in a larger envelope, provided that each individual entry envelope includes $10 worth of eligible, non-winning $2 Scratch tickets. In such case, individual entries must be placed in a single, sealed envelope with the back of at least one included ticket completely filled out, and the larger envelope must be clearly marked “Multiple Entries Enclosed.” Envelopes containing multiple entries but not marked “Multiple Entries Enclosed” will be treated as a single entry.
F. Promotion participants must be 19 years of age or older to play and to be eligible for a prize. Employees of the Nebraska Lottery, its contractors, subcontractors, and members of their immediate families residing in the same household are ineligible.
G. Attempts will be made by the Drawing Manager or his or her designee for one week to contact each of the semifinalists by telephone and/or email. The Drawing Manager may utilize alternative methods to contact the semifinalists at the Drawing Manager’s discretion. If a semifinalist fails to respond to contact attempts made by the Drawing manager or his or her designee during the one week timeframe, the semifinalist forfeits their position and the Nebraska Lottery reserves the right to draw a new semifinalist.
H. Only one entry is allowed for each envelope received. If more than one (1) entry is contained in an envelope, it will be counted as a single entry except as provided in Section E above.
I. All entries must otherwise comply with the State Lottery Act and Lottery rules, regulations, policies, procedures and all applicable forms and publications.
J. The actual tickets from which numbers are submitted through the web must be retained for prize verification and received by the Lottery, along with a valid claim form. The Lottery is not responsible for lost, stolen, misdelivered, damaged, illegible, or incompletely received tickets or claim forms
VI. Handling and Storage of Entries
A. Entries will be collected by a member of the Marketing Staff of the Nebraska Lottery and secured by the Drawing Manager.
B. Entries will be processed and stored in a secured area at the Nebraska Lottery or at a designated area for Nebraska Lottery use at the GTECH warehouse at 4700 Bair Avenue in Lincoln. To the extent possible, processing will include eliminating trash and other items that may have been deposited in the Nebraska Lottery drawings container and Post Office box, and checking to make sure that Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway entries have not been accidentally mixed with other second-chance drawing envelopes or with prize claim envelopes.
C. The Drawing Manager will supervise transport of the entries to the drawing site.
D. Web-based entries will be tracked by a computer program. Each entry will be stored in a database which will record the exact time and date of each entry. This information will be automatically saved and have nightly back-up files created. A drawing definition will define the beginning date and time and end date and time of the entry period. The web entry software will prevent duplicate serial numbers and serial numbers from non-eligible games from being entered. For each preliminary drawing, all web entries received through www.nelottery.com for the designated entry period will be included with mail-in entries. A report will list all the submitted web entries. Each eligible entry will be assigned a label with the player’s name, address and phone number to be affixed to a voided ticket and then commingled with mail-in entries for the next successive drawing.
E. Entries not drawn and which are received after the final draw date will be destroyed.
VII. Drawing Preparations
1. Drawings container.
2. Camcorder with an audio track to record drawing.
3. Appropriate form(s).
4. Drawing Manager Program.
5. Finalist envelope.
6. All eligible entries.
7. Voided tickets for use with web-entry labels.
8. Plastic bags.
9. Calibrated scale.
10. Static Guard spray.
The drawing team will consist minimally of a Drawing Manager, an Entry Drawer and the Systems Auditor or a member of the Lottery Security Section. The Entry Drawer can be any person, including a Nebraska Lottery employee. The Entry Drawer must be someone who has not entered an entry in their name into the drawing and may not claim winnings should an entry bearing their name be drawn. No one person may participate in more than one role during a drawing, although each member of the drawing team may assist other members in their functions. Additional Lottery-approved staff may be included to assist the drawing team.
1. Drawing Manager will be responsible for the following duties:
a. Process mail, including picking up mail at the Post Office box and securing entries in plastic bags.
b. Secure the list of web entries and corresponding labels, affix to void tickets and commingle in bags with mail entries.
c. Ensure all necessary equipment and supplies are available and in good working order.
d. Ensure all required personnel are present, briefed and prepared to conduct the drawing.
e. Ensure all required documents and forms are completed in a timely manner.
f. Supervise all aspects of the drawing process, including set-up and take-down of equipment and all drawing(s) (as appropriate).
g. Supervise staff in drawing assignments.
h. If initial draws are necessary, separate the entries into plastic bags evenly by weight.
i. Ensure initial and final drawings are videotaped with an audio track for Lottery security purposes.
j. Halt the drawing if anything improper is observed.
k. Approve continuation of the drawing once the observed problem is corrected.
l. Examine each drawn entry, in cooperation with other members of the drawing team, to ensure it is valid and eligible.
m. Secure each drawn entry.
n. Notify winners and certify their identity and eligibility.
o. Prepare and certify a list of all winners.
p. Designate these duties or obtain the services of additional Nebraska Lottery personnel as needed or desired.
2. Entry Drawer will have the following responsibilities:
a. Inspect equipment to satisfaction that the drawing is random.
b. Participate in all drawings.
c. Draw the designated number of entries from the drawing drum, handing each to the Drawing Manager.
d. Observe the Drawing Manager record the name, address, phone number, and number of the ticket for a drawn entry in the appropriate place on the Drawing Winners Form for every entry drawn.
e. Sign a form certifying the above steps have been followed for the drawing(s) in which he or she participated.
3. The Systems Auditor or a Member of the Security Section will have the following responsibilities:
a. Witness the drawing.
b. Sign a form certifying that to the best of their knowledge all steps have been followed for the drawing(s) which he or she witnessed.
VIII. Drawing Procedures
A. The Drawing Manager will ensure that all entries that have been properly submitted by the deadline are available for the drawing.
B. The Drawing Manager will notify drawing team members and other participating persons of the time designated to assemble at the drawing site.
C. The Drawing Manager will arrange for transportation of entries and drawing equipment to the drawing site.
D. At the time designated, the drawing team will assemble to set up and inspect equipment. The Drawing Manager will ensure that all equipment is available and in good working condition.
E. Prior to any drawing, the Drawing Manager will brief and prepare the drawing team, explaining the drawing procedures. Labels for web entries will have been placed on voided scratch tickets or blank envelopes for inclusion with mail-in. After the drawings container drum has been filled with up to 125 pounds of entries (except that the drawings container shall not be filled more than half full), the Drawings Container will be rotated ten (10) times, and the Drawing Manager will instruct the Entry Drawer to reach into the drum and select one of the entries.
F. Depending on the number of entries submitted, the drawing may be held in multiple steps. If the number of entries is less than 125 pounds, the preliminary drawing for the winning entries will be held following procedures outlined below, skipping paragraphs I, J and K.
G. If the number of entries exceeds 125 pounds, initial drawings will be held to draw the entries that will be included in the preliminary prize drawings.
H. Prior to beginning the drawing process, the Drawing Manager will ensure that a video camera is positioned to tape all drawing activities. At the beginning of the videotaping, the date and time of the drawing should be indicated. Each initial and preliminary drawing will be taped from just prior to the mixing of the entries in the plastic bags or rotation of the drum until after all entries have been drawn. Recording may be paused between drawings.
I. For each preliminary drawing, if initial drawings are necessary, the entries will be thoroughly mixed within equally weighted plastic bags. The Drawing Manager will request that the Entry Drawer draw an equal number of entries, determined by weight, from each bag until the drawings container holds 125 pounds of entries; however, the drawings container shall not be filled more than half full. The Entry Drawer will hand the drawn entries to the Drawing Manager, who will weigh them and then place them in the drawings container for the preliminary drawing. The number of entries to be drawn from each bag will depend on the total number of entries received and number of entries required to fill the drawings container to 125 pounds to a maximum of one-half full.
J. All entries not chosen in the initial drawing will be placed and sealed in plastic bags immediately after the preliminary drawing is completed to ensure that they are not intermixed with those either selected for the preliminary drawing, or those entries for previous or subsequent drawings. The Drawing Manager will ensure the placement of the entries in the plastic bags and sealing of the plastic bags.
K. After all initial drawings have been completed and all non-selected entries are securely sealed in plastic bags, the preliminary drawing may commence.
L. At the designated time of the preliminary drawing, the drawings container will be rotated ten (10) times.
M. A single entry will be withdrawn from the container by the Entry Drawer. The entry drawn will be examined by the drawing team to ensure it qualifies according to these guidelines and that it is properly filled out. If the drawing team determines the entry valid at this point, the Drawing Manager will secure the entry, date and mark it as a Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway semifinalist.
N. Steps L and M will be repeated until five (5) eligible entries per drawing are chosen as Truck$ & Buck$ 2014 Second-Chance Giveaway contestants.
O. In each preliminary drawing, after five (5) eligible entries are drawn, the Entry Drawer shall select
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US Meddling Blamed for Gaza Crisis
CAIRO — The US intervention in the Palestinian affairs and categorization of Palestinian factions into moderates and extremists are partly to blame for the Gaza chaos, the intensifying power struggle between Fatah and Hamas and left plans for a unified Palestinian state up in the air, American analysts said Friday, June 15.
"The less we try to intervene and shape Palestinian politics, the better off we will be," Robert Malley, an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the International Crisis Group, told The Washington Post.
"Almost every decision the United States has made to interfere with Palestinian politics has boomeranged."
Almost three years ago following the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, US President George W. Bush stood in the White House's Rose Garden and laid out his vision for the Palestinians and called for democratic elections for future leadership.
But democracy brought Hamas to power in a shock win to the US administration, Israel and the West, which all tried their best to marginalize Hamas and slapped a crippling economic boycott of its government.
Washington organized a financial boycott of the government, in an effort to showcase Abbas as a moderate alternative in his role as president.
Well-placed sources had further told Reuters that the US and EU backed the training of Fatah's troops in Jordan to reinforce Abbas in any showdown with Hamas.
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Those who enjoy cut-scene-driven games are a dying breed. Back in “the day” we enjoyed that part of a game’s story telling. Remember watching as Cloud raced his bike through the streets of Midgar or the opera scene in Final Fantasy VI? Those were some truly defining moments in the history of, not just the Final Fantasy franchise, but video games in general. These days, though, a new generation of gamers is rather spoiled by all the “must have action now” attitudes that prevail throughout their peers. First person shooters with pitiful excuses for stories, RPGs that try to cater to this “I want it now” generation, but fall flat because the story isn’t expounded upon as much as it should be and games that attempt to cover over the fact that their story sucks with massive amounts of customization and personalization of the characters and everything else are all commonplace.
Now, I’m not saying these games are bad – they most certainly are not in some instances (and, frankly, in some they are, but let’s say the cup is half full, shall we?). What I am saying is I think that in many cases the art of storytelling is falling by the wayside because of the attitude of gamers in general these days. Why not look to one video game genre that takes storytelling to the extreme? These games are visual novels. If you live in Western nations, that term probably immediately threw up a red flag in your mind, didn’t it? Don’t lie, I know it did. Why? Do you have a pre-conceived notion of what these games are? Why they are “bad”?
Visual novels are fairly popular in Japan and other Asian countries. Admittedly, they often contain little gameplay, but tend to offer decent story and characterization throughout. I’m not trying to rain on the parade of gamers who just are not interested in something like this – so to each their own. What I am trying to say, is there is something of value in this type of game which, many times, I think gets glossed over or ignored completely by Western gamers.
I also have to touch on the stigma that all visual novels include ecchi or hentai [Wikipedia links, but are NSFW], which they most certainly do not. While it is true that this seems to be the genre in which those forms of storytelling and visual appeal are prevalent, to say that they are synonymous with visual novels is an ignorant statement. However, because many times the genre does contain more adult material, here’s your warning before testing the waters and trying out some of the rarely-localized but often imported titles in the genre.
So, what kinds of stories are we looking at here? Many times the focus of visual novels is on dramatic situations in day-to-day life, although including high-fantasy, sci-fi or darker elements is definitely not unheard of. Instead of “chapters” or “parts”, generally speaking visual novels are broken down into days – with very distinct “waking up” and “going to bed” scenes, although not always. The story is also typically told from one person’s point of view, thus is often in the 1st person instead of 3rd, like many other story-heavy games. Note that most of these scenarios are just generalizations. Not all visual novels must have all of these, or, really, any of them, to fit the genre.
If you wanted to compare Japanese visual novels to possibly more familiar Western titles, you could probably point your finger at games like Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain, although those stray greatly off the path and are, for lack of a better term, very “Westernized”.
What was kind of the trigger that got me thinking about this article is an upcoming visual novel game called Second Novel: Summer Girlfriend – 15 Minutes of Memory. It is quite a hard-to-understand title that we often get when translating from Japanese to English, but check this out. First off, the game is being published by Nippon Ichi Software, a familiar name to most niche Japanese video game fans. Secondly, it has a great premise. It may sound cliché at first, but it gets better.
The story focuses on a boy and a girl with amnesia. Pretty standard, right? The girl, Ayano, suffers amnesia because she jumped off the roof of her school…and survived the fall. She can only remember events in the 15 minutes leading up to her tumble off the roof. Another protagonist in the game, the male character, Naoya, also attempted suicide by jumping off the roof of the school, except he doesn’t remember a thing. The entire game takes place five years after those traumatizing events, when the two finally meet and attempt to uncover more about what exactly happened to them. The PSP title has gamers switching between the past and present to recover both characters’ memories, so as to try to piece together this mystery.
How does that sound? Intriguing, no? To me, it sounds better than 90% of the stories in today’s mainstream games. I know there are a lot of gamers out there pining for a great story, and yet it seems the stories that are so great many times are in visual novels – which, might I remind you, are indeed games – that don’t get localized because there is apparently only a minuscule percentage of people who would actually buy them. I’ve included a video trailer below for the game. Sure, it is presently only in Japanese, but you get the general idea, right?
There are, however, some RPG/visual novel mash-ups that have been localized, a couple of which have come out recently. If you’re the type of person who are intrigued by these games, but aren’t sure if you can go all out and give up a good chunk of gameplay just to have a more dramatic, character-driven story filled with dialog, you might try giving something like Record of Agarest War or Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love a try. They combine elements of strategy RPGs with those of relationship sims, which are often times based on the visual novel concept. For more turn-based RPG fare, Persona 3 and 4 provide more untraditional visual novel style gameplay in about half of the game, with the other half being a turn-based RPG dungeon crawler.
Note that there is quite a sizable community out there of gamers who enjoy this genre and creating fan translations of many popular visual novels into English, as well as other languages. So this is perhaps a start for many localization companies to look at when deciding to bring a title over to North America or Europe.
Perhaps I’m using this space to promote a genre that I think could benefit Western gamers if more titles from it were localized or perhaps I’m using this as motivation to get more involved in visual novels myself. Regardless, I do feel it is a genre that is often overlooked for the depth of story and character development that goes way beyond most games we see today that sell millions of copies. When was that last time a Halo, Call of Duty or Fallout reached the levels of storytelling and complexity of characterization that are found in many visual novels? Try never. Of course, I don’t expect the “must shoot someone right now” generation to latch on to these more delicate concepts, but perhaps to some small degree I may have ignited someone’s curiosity in this niche genre. Here’s hoping in the future there will be more call for Japanese visual novels to be localized to Western regions.
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‘Were going its Sunday’ Harry called’. I don’t like looking at art when I could be doing it myself. Mum always takes me and my brother harry to the gallery on a Sunday .When we arrived a lady at the counter looked down at me as if I was a tiny thing. ‘You don’t like art?’ she asked disapprovingly. How did she know it was all running through my mind is she an arty witch? . She showed me a room with hundreds of paints all the colours you could imagine the room was amazing! ‘ Paint your future’ she smiled.
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In the days before her June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. and other top Trump campaign aides, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was granted a visa by the US State Department to enter the country.
"In Sept. 2015, DHS paroled Natalia Veselnitskaya into the U.S. in concurrence with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, allowing her to participate in a client’s legal proceedings," the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to BuzzFeed News Thursday night.
"Ms. Veselnitskaya was subsequently paroled into the U.S. several times between 2015 and 2016, ending in February 2016. In June 2016, she was issued a B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa by the U.S. Department of State," it said.
The statement contradicts remarks made by President Donald Trump earlier Thursday, suggesting that the Russian lawyer had somehow been allowed into the US by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
“Somebody said that her visa or her passport to come into the country was approved by Attorney General Lynch,” Trump said at a press conference in Paris. “Now, maybe that's wrong. I just heard that a little while ago, but a little surprised to hear that. So, she was here because of Lynch."
Almost immediately, a spokesperson for Lynch put out a statement insisting that she had no authority over whether or not the Russian lawyer was allowed to enter the country.
"Lynch, as the former head of the Justice Department, does not have any personal knowledge of Ms. Veselnitskaya's travel,” the statement said.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it granted Veselnitskaya special permission to enter the US in 2015, so that she could participate in a civil court case involving her client, the Russian-owned investment company Prevezon Holdings. The parole status was granted at the behest of the Department of Justice, specifically the Manhattan US Attorney's office, which had accused Prevezon of a massive money laundering scheme.
The timeline of Veselnitskaya's parole status appears to line up with statements she made in court during that case, in which she claimed that she had been denied a visa but granted parole so she could represent Prevezon. But in January 2016, after Veselnitskaya filed an affidavit saying that her parole status would soon expire, Justice Department lawyers told the court that her presence in the US, was no longer necessary.
Veselnitskaya's parole subsequently expired in February 2016, according to DHS. When she returned to the US in June, it was under a standard visitor's visa, newly issued by the State Department. It is not clear what prompted the State Department to change course on its decision to grant Veselnitskaya a visa.
But it was on that trip that Veselnitskaya met with key aides for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, on the premise that she would provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton. She remained in the US until at least the following week, when she traveled to Washington, DC, to push members of Congress into repealing the Magnitsky Act.
The State Department did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment.
Grace Wyler is a news editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles.
Contact Grace Wyler at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Myself and a couple of my friends took a last minute break to get away from it all & thats exactly what we got. A lovely quirky house in a unique & very private seting. It has everything you need with amazing features, one being an outdoor bath which was very serene and relaxing especially after a long walk, you can take a late night bath in complete privacy under moonlight which is a compleatly unique experience. The outdoor space was fantastic as you felt you were in your own little haven. Also an added bonus is that you get all the use of the facilities of the fabulous Monart Spa Hotel. We will definitely be returning and coming back to this establishment.
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Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez will be undergoing surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb, an injury that is expected to sideline the three-time All-Star around eight weeks.
Ramirez sustained the injury while diving for a ground ball as the third baseman in the Dominican Republic's 3-0 victory over Puerto Rico in Tuesday's World Baseball Classic championship game. An MRI taken the following day revealed the tear, with Ramirez slated for a procedure performed by orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Steven Shin Friday in Los Angeles.
The absence of Ramirez, a .298 career hitter who had 24 home runs, 92 RBI and 21 stolen bases between the Dodgers and Miami Marlins last year, until likely mid-May could leave a large void at the shortstop position during the early portion of the upcoming season. General manager Ned Colletti told reporters on Thursday that he is not presently planning on obtaining a replacement through a trade, however.
Dee Gordon, who began last season as the team's primary shortstop, is one of the possible candidates to take over in the interim. The Dodgers also have the option of moving third baseman Luis Cruz over to Ramirez's post and have a combination of Juan Uribe, Nick Punto and Jerry Hairston to handle third.
Ramirez was acquired by the Dodgers from the Marlins in a blockbuster trade last year on July 25 and batted .271 with 10 homers and 44 RBI in 64 games following the swap.
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Born in Capua, Italy, he became a monk in Monte Cassino and was called to the attention of a Princess Aloara of the region. When she built a new convent in Capua, Alder became the director of the religious in the established house. He performed many miracles in this capacity. Aldemar was reassigned by his abbot to Monte Cassino, a move that angered the princess. As a result, Aldemar went to Boiana, Italy, where a companion involved in the dispute tried to kill him. Aldemar fled into the region of Bocchignano, Abruzzi, where he founded several more religious houses.
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I realized a problem with my writing: I’ve reached a soft limit of how I can communicate. There’s a lot to unpack, so let’s analogize with my cheap “pawn shop special” bass: it fulfills all my limited needs when it comes to learning the basics. I can pluck strings and learn chord progression. I don’t mind tuning it whenever I’m serious about playing it. Now if I wanted to play with others or even professionally…
“Thanks for the lesson yesterday afternoon, Hank! I, uhh… have a question for you, if you don’t mind, about…” The recently-hired computer helpdesk technician paused after self-doubt made her realize she’d been rambling. “No worries. Please, feel free to sit down. I’ve got a minute. What’s up?” She looked around, found the guest chair in Hank’s cube, politely sat down, and flipped open her large notepad to a section that had a circle around it.
A new ticket appeared at the top of the ticket system’s list. High priority! “obscura4 down!” The second-level computer repair technician tasked with managing the queue, Sammohini, read through the ticket details. In the private notes, the first-level technician noted “customer says venkat always fixes this. hes out sick. does we need 2 call him?” She assigned the ticket to herself. ‘No one’s here,’ she thought, ‘and Venkat’s out sick, poor guy… let’s find his notes!’
Next stop on a troubleshooting tour: an occasional printer issue with the Oncology backup printer. Even after one of the nurses replaced the toner cartridges, it still would not print. “Hi, I’m Sammohini from IT, here to look at the printer!” She flashed her employee badge and smiled. “Sure… it’s back over here. Follow me.” Sammohini tried to make polite small-talk with the nurse, but it looked like she was too tired to really care.
I realized a problem with myself: I wasn’t writing daily. Even though I was publishing essays daily, there were days I’d only write a few hundred words, so I agreed to dedicate myself to writing at least 500 words daily. If you want to be something, do it daily. This dedication has taken discipline, sacrifice, and stress. There are still days where I don’t write 500 words. Through all that, here are 425 words on what I learned:
Let’s say you’ve got ten minutes to catch the bus, you’re nine minutes away, and the only thing preventing you from achieving that goal is fighting through your self-doubt. Megalobox embodies that spirit! We follow the efforts of underground boxer “Joe” as he becomes inspired to attain his goal of freedom through fighting in premiere boxing tournament Megalonia. Joe’s efforts mirror our own. We also fight self-doubt in attempting the impossible to attain our goals!
Rating: ★★★★★ [5/5]
Spoilers?: Nothing significant (structural commentary)
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Perfection is the enemy of self-confidence. There is no more prominent a killer of people than their sense of having made an irreversible mistake. Businesses that fail to adapt, because they had once perfected a technique, will surely fail in the future. How do we prevent this? Part of it might be remembering that there is no perfect stick of gum, or perfect angle with which to affix that gum to a charming gum wall!
Growing up, I was most interested in observing the peripheries of things. I explored through the lens of an outsider many fictional videogame worlds to see their hidden nuances. I explored my own imagination to figure out myself and explored reality with equal lenses. I wonder, now that our innocent childhoods are replaced with real life, do we want to explore our realities fully? Do we want to see unedited monuments? What is objective truth?
I’ve been procrastinating on writing “The Story” because I can’t write concisely nuanced enough yet to do it all justice. There’s an early scene codenamed “The Scene” that drives Trishna (right) and family three hours away to collect John (left). “The Scene,” and therefore “The Story,” would fall flat if I wrote it today. I don’t know when, or if, I’ll develop that skill. Loving the time until then is the only way to succeed.
“Is that… vodka?” Why is it weird going to a bar or being in any social gathering and drinking water or any flavored drink that won’t influence your thoughts? Are we so damaged as a society, or insecure as individuals, that we can’t just hang out with new people without getting wasted? We don’t even ask to receive our equivalent ‘drinking age verified’ bracelets. They’re just given to us on presumption. Why oblige alcohol norms?
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Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx drew attention to drug addiction with the photo of a homeless guy in France.
He has shared a heartbreaking photo with this caption:
“Took this in a small town in France.Broad daylight in a public square. Addiction is a global issue and comes in many forms.
It breaks my heart every time I push the shutter.#nikkisixxphotography @nikkisixxpixx @nikkisixxphotography #DontLookAway #MaybeIysTime”
You can see the photo below.
A fan responded:
“Norway is the same. I’m doing a photography project called “The Street” to be displayed later this year, portraying the person and not the persons problem.
You inspire me with these heartbreaking images, as twisted as that sounds… we have a lot to learn by listening and “seeing” the people who’s addiction have branded them in the society… much respect for pushing the shutter”
Another fan wrote:
“That is heartbreaking…but glad you captured to make us aware.”
Back in November 2017, he has shared his advices for people struggling with addiction. Here’s the video of his speech:
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2021-04-14T10:45:08Z
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Model Number: mbf2254hew
Age: 1-5 years
Hi and thanks for having this great forum.
My Maytag refrigerator (mbf2254hew) is the bottom freezer type, not double door.
When we open the door, the top control board starts buzzing fairly loudly, and the freezer and temperature LED displays are out.
If we close the door, or just push on the door switch, the control board stops buzzing, and the refrigerator seems to keep working fine.
Another symptom, I can unplug the refrigerator, and then plug it back in, and the control board (usually) acts like it is perfectly okay. But after opening and closing the door a few times, it starts buzzing and the LED displays go out again. A couple times, just by wiggling and pushing on the door switch, the control board will "recover" and the LED displays come back. I can still adjust the temperatures, when the LEDs are working, but after they go out, they reset to "4".
The control boards are available (but a little pricey). Does this sound like a control board gone/going bad? I should mention there was a power outage the night before this started happening.
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Jack Novack, a professor in the local government program at Dalhousie University, is questioning Parrsboro Town Council’s decision to vote almost immediately on whether to seek approval to join Cumberland County.
Town Councillors decided yesterday to hold the vote next Wednesday after being told by the province that it must be done by August 30 if Parrsboro wants to avoid holding a municipal election in October 2016.
It takes a full year to conduct studies required by the province’s Utility and Review Board (UARB), the body that would ultimately decide whether amalgamation between town and county could go ahead.
“It would be neat if this were all said and done in time for the next municipal election, but you know what, that’s not the end-all, be-all,” Novack said in a telephone interview today. “The most important thing is that the community of Parrsboro be a willing and informed participant and be co-architects of their future.”
He suggested there’s no reason to rush into an application now because nothing has changed in the last six months or even six years.
“The tendency to create the crises under which you can justify quick and sometimes hasty action is really not warranted,” he added.
Citizens need more time and more say
Under the Municipal Government Act, it would be possible to allow citizens to vote on amalgamation in a non-binding plebiscite, but Novack suggested that voting would not be as desirable as giving people more time to consider their choices while engaging them in the process.
“The crucial thing is a willing and informed population who have gone through it, who have thought about it, have reflected upon it, have heard from people, have talked to each other, ” Novack said.
“You have a real opportunity for people to become familiar with what is this local government all about, what’s important about it, what’s worth preserving, what’s non-negotiable, what is negotiable, what would we be prepared to give up, could we possibly be even stronger with the county?”
Novack said it would take time to answer these questions and to consider how all of the communities in Cumberland County might come up with a municipal structure that fits with local histories and traditions.
“There’s great opportunity to take a look at Cumberland and say, maybe Cumberland can be the leading edge of municipal reform in this province and demonstrate that rather than a town losing, that the town actually gains. Maybe Parrsboro becomes the seat of something important on behalf of the county,” he said.
“I don’t know what these answers are, but I do think that the UARB is probably not the place for these kinds of conversations to take place,” Novack added. “The UARB’s a quasi-judicial body which is quite an intimidating process for anybody to come and make their case known.”
After a group of residents filed an application with the UARB in 2010 seeking to dissolve the Village of Pugwash, the village hired Novack to write a report and appear as an expert witness. In 2012, the Board decided that Pugwash could keep its village status within Cumberland County.
Novack is also co-author of the book, Grassroots Democracy: Local Government in the Maritimes.
To read excerpts from my 2013 radio interview with Professor Novack click here.
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(YELLOWKNIFE) February 10, 2017 – The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Honourable Jackson Lafferty, is pleased to announce that the Daughters of the Vote NWT workshop will commence on Sunday, February 12, 2017. Daughters of the Vote is an initiative of Equal Voice; a national, multi-partisan organization dedicated to electing more women to all levels of government.
Julie Green, MLA for Yellowknife Centre, attended a Daughters of the Vote event in Saskatchewan in October 2016. Ms. Green will chair the event and the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, Honourable Caroline Cochrane, has been invited as a keynote speaker. Two senior representatives from Equal Voice’s national office will also be in attendance. This event coincides with the 100 year anniversary of the beginning of women’s federal suffrage in Canada.
“Increasing the number of women who run for elected office is a priority of the 18th Legislative Assembly and it is events like these that will promote involvement of young women in Territorial politics. I am honoured to host this event and I look forward to meeting these promising young women; leaders of our future generations,” said Speaker Lafferty.
“Young women are eager to make a difference in their communities. Through this initiative, they will grow their leadership skills and gain valuable insights from women and men currently serving in office. Equal Voice is thrilled to have the engagement of the NWT Legislative Assembly to deliver this dynamic program to diverse young women in the territory,” said Nancy Peckford, Executive Director of Equal Voice.
During the workshop, participants will take part in two panel discussions: one will focus on ‘What Works: Getting Elected in the NWT’; the focus of the second panel is on the realities of becoming an elected official; both discussions will include current and former female Members of the Legislative Assembly. The participants will also receive presentations from the Chief Electoral Officer and the Status of Women Council.
The participants are:
Laney Beaulieu - Fort Resolution Nha Ly - Yellowknife
Kiera Boulanger-Rowe - Hay River Janelle Nitsiza - Whatì
Jacq Brasseur - Yellowknife Caona Paulette - Yellowknife
Reannda Cli - Fort Simpson Alyssa Ross - Inuvik
Jaylene Delorme-Buggins - Hay River Emily Smith - Yellowknife
Chukita Elias-Gruben - Tuktoykatuk Brianna Taniton - Délînê
Raven Firth - Inuvik Olivia Villebrun - Fort Smith
Alexandra James - Fort Smith
Olivia Villebrun, along with 337 delegates from across the country, has been selected by Equal Voice to represent the Northwest Territories in Ottawa the week of March 6thth. During the three day summit, delegates will ‘take their seats’ in the House of Commons on International Women’s Day on March 8th.
Media are encouraged to request interviews with the participants. Interviews will take place on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 10:00 am.
For more information, please contact:
Manager, Public Affairs and Communications
Legislative Assembly of the NWT
Phone: 867-767-9130 ext. 12018 or toll-free 1-800-661-0784
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This week’s Liberal Media Scream features biographer and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham urging MSNBC viewers to get out and vote in November to “end this reign of terror” of President Trump.
Comparing the president to former President Richard Nixon and former Alabama Democratic Gov. George Wallace, he said, “If you want to end this reign of terror … you’ve got to vote. And the idea that somehow or another because you think — one thinks that Trump is an idiot or he’s, you know, he’s a racist, whatever you might think … it’s not going to matter if what happened in 2016 happens again.”
He is concerned that the 2020 election is similar to 1968 when Nixon and Wallace won 55% of the vote. “If you go back and look at what Wallace and Nixon were saying, it’s what Trump is saying,” he claimed.
Democrats should forget President Trump for a second. The current round of violence isn’t being undertaken by civil-justice or other reformers but by radicals using Jacobin street-violence tactics. The idea is to provoke confrontation and violence with constituted authority so as to discredit it, counting on a few gullible local residents to see police as oppressors. The pretense of peaceful protest is rapidly disappearing. Deaths, serious injuries, arson, public and private property damage, and economic dislocation have resulted.
The longer this continues, the greater demand to see it stopped will grow among wage-earning families, small-business people, homeowners, taxpayers and voters. Families of public safety and emergency personnel already have been alienated.
Any president dating back to Franklin D. Roosevelt would have taken action under these circumstances. First, there would be denunciation of the violence. Then the president would ask local officials if they needed federal help. If the answer was yes, it would be sent immediately. If the answer was no but disorder continued, the president would no doubt dispatch officers to protect federal buildings and otherwise restore order as authorized by the Constitution. He would know that the country at large looked to the president as the ultimate guarantor of public safety.
I can’t imagine Joe Biden, as vice president or a senator, hesitating to denounce lawlessness. Nor can I imagine past congressional, state and local leaders condoning such destruction. Democrats have always supported dissent, not disorder.
Many of Mr. Trump’s policies deserve criticism, but this isn’t one of them. Democrats are presenting a pro-chaos caricature of themselves, which will discredit them with the public if they maintain it. Especially at the local level, elected officials must recognize that a majority of Americans want to live normal lives without threat of violence or harm.
I think of BLM and Antifa as the most valuable get-out-the-vote troops for Trump2020. Post-election, Democrats will be claiming that the protests they’re supporting now were actually manipulated by Russia to get Trump re-elected.
Can someone please explain to me how this works? We are willing to spend all credibility to defend what can be INSTANTLY invalidated. Who came up with this policy, why does it exist, and how is anyone able to maintain it without deviating from the script?pic.twitter.com/K4RFozkQde
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) July 27, 2020
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Our team is keeping an eye on news regarding the Farm Bill. Here’s what we’re watching for:
Reports regarding the Farm Bill and the second half of grain payments suggest we will have more information by the end of the week. Will we have a new Farm Bill, or will the current one be extended one more year?
Get our daily in-depth analysis delivered directly to your inbox by 5:30 AM CST each morning, along with other services created specifically for farmers, when you become a Kluis client. Try our 30-day free trial to test it out.
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2019-05-19T21:19:54Z
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Angel Mojica, a Lehigh Valley teenager profiled on 69 News lost his battle with Leukemia on Saturday.
The 16-year-old had been battling the disease since he was 10 years old.
In February 2012, Angel received a much needed bone marrow transplant and was well for a while, according to his mother.
"As any parent, we hoped and we were waiting for the best to be cured" said mother," Brenda Sanchez.
However, nine months later Angel relapsed and was battling the cancer once again.
When doctors realized the severity of his condition, it was up to his mother to share the news that there was nothing more they could do.
“I told him, I'm sorry I'm so sorry. I had so much faith in that bone marrow transplant,” she told him. “You might not live for a long time but we're going to try to make the best out of it and he looked at me and he said 'mommy, I know you tried, I'm ok...I'm ok'.”
Angel spent the last months of his life at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, returned home on July 21st per his request and passed away early Saturday morning.
Despite six long years of fighting, Brenda says Angel never lost his positivity nor his faith, now all Brenda says she can do is remind everyone especially other Hispanics the importance of becoming a bone marrow donor.
"We need to be more active, in bone marrow registry. Get registered, it doesn't hurt. and if you have questions ask someone," said Brenda.
Brenda also plans to create a foundation in Angel's name with the aims of offering support to other parents going through similar trials.
A celebration of life will be held in Angel's honor Friday from 6 to 9 pm at Connel Funeral Home in Bethlehem.
A mass will follow on Saturday morning at Holy Infancy Church.
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About FCS Distributors
The Company was formerly known as Zonart Kaggel / fireplaces and Braais run by Bev Swart and formally changed its name to FCS Distributors (Pty) Ltd. in April 2017. The Company was founded in 2002 and is based in Gansbaai, Western Cape, South Africa. The owners are hands on and supervise each project themselves, we are reliable and have been in the industry for 15 years.
FCS Distributors covers the whole of Overberg district, we supply and install Kaggels / fireplaces and Braais, also the reparation and servicing of Kaggels and Braais.
The company also does transport which consists of a Crane Truck with a Flat Deck trailer – we do local and long distance haulage (For more information please visit the transport page).
FCS Distributors supplies High Voltage Line Hardware, Light Fittings and Lamps. (Click here for more information)
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Move Aligns Industry Leaders in Public-Private Partnerships and Public Facilities Services
El PASO, Texas — Hunt Companies Inc. (“Hunt”) and Carter Goble Lee announced that Hunt has acquired the Carter Goble Lee companies including their planning, design, program management, facility management, and capital solutions divisions. The newly formed company will re-organize and consolidate ownership to form CGL Management Group LLC (“CGL”).
Hunt’s investment in CGL will add additional social infrastructure and public facilities development and management expertise to its extensive real estate development, investment, and management portfolio while adding financial capacity, managerial depth, and professional resources to the CGL Brand.
“CGL’s core business of justice facility planning, design, program management, and maintenance along with their other social infrastructure projects and capabilities provides good synergies with Hunt’s expertise in development, investment, and management of public-private partnership projects,” said Chris Hunt, Chief Investment Officer for Hunt.
Buddy Johns will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer reporting to the CGL Board of Directors while the founding principals — Steve Carter, Bob Goble, and Joe Lee — will continue their active involvement in their respective operating divisions.
“This reorganization and affiliation with Hunt enables CGL to continue to expand our national and international presence while giving us the stability and strength to bolster our global brand,” said Johns.
CGL will maintain its primary offices in Atlanta, Ga., and Columbia, S.C., with satellite offices in Mexico City, Mexico, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
CGL was founded in 2002, combining 35 years of experience in planning, design, and management through the merger of Carter Goble Associates Inc.; CGA Facilities Inc.; Lee Design and Management Group Inc.; and Lee Engineering and Management Group Inc. CGL services include planning, project management expertise, facility maintenance, facility design, and robust facilities management services for social infrastructure. CGL has provided its broad range of services in 17 countries, 49 states, and more than 500 counties, delivering more than $7 billion in public facility construction.
Hunt Companies Inc. and its affiliates have more than $13 billion in assets under management, including 115,302 multifamily housing units and 7.7 million square feet of office, retail and industrial properties. Hunt has also developed 89,000 housing units, more than 1 million square feet of commercial space, and thousands of acres of land.
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Simpson Departs Greenwich High, Takes Over Brunswick Soccer
By Paul Silverfarb
His time with the Greenwich High School girls’ soccer team has been nothing short of memorable. The FCIAC titles, the numerous state tournament appearances and the countless friends he’s met along the way are priceless.
However, it’s time for the head coach to step away from being comfortable to accept a new adventure. Although he’s stay in Greenwich, Simpson is going to be patrolling the sidelines across town, as he’s been named the new head coach of the Brunswick School soccer program.
Because of his tenure in Greenwich, he has a deep-rooted knowledge of the town and has said how much he cares for the community here.
“It wasn’t something that I wanted to leave,” Simpson said. “There are only three or four high school jobs in Greenwich. The Brunswick job only recently came up. When I heard it was available in February, it got me thinking. I am intrigued by the school and obviously I love the town. I also felt that my body of work at the Greenwich High School girls program was pretty strong and I think I left it in a better place than I found it. After 12 years I thought it would be a challenge for me to join a different league, a different gender and a private school this time. A lot of the challenges excited me.”
Simpson will be joining a Brunswick program that is hungry to get back to the top of the New England Prep School League. Last year, under head coach Christian Gonzalez, the Bruins took home a record of 8-8-1. A year prior, Brunswick had the breakout season they were hoping for, finishing 11-5-2 and qualifying for the NEPSAC tournament for the first time since 2010.
“Danny has a wealth of soccer knowledge and coaching experience,” said Brunswick School athletic director Ron VanBelle. “He came highly recommended by people in the soccer community and I am excited to see what he brings to Brunswick School.”
When he started at Greenwich High School, Simpson’s goal was to build a program that’s a perennial power and that’s something that the head coach couldn’t be prouder of during his time with the Lady Cardinals. Coming into the school nearly a decade ago, Simpson was determined to get GHS on the map when it came to girls’ soccer.
In 2007, Greenwich captured Simpson’s first FCIAC championship, a victory over Darien High School. A few years later, the Cardinals pulled off quite the impressive title run.
In 2010, Greenwich took home Simpson’s second FCIAC championship, a 1-0 double-overtime victory over Westhill High School. A year later, Big Red stayed on top of the conference, winning the title 1-0 over Fairfield Warde High School.
In 2012, Greenwich kept the good times rolling, beating Trumbull High School 1-0 the FCIAC semis. Due to Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 FCIAC championships were cut short, as the two semifinal winners, Greenwich and St. Joseph, shared the FCIAC title.
Two years ago, Big Red advanced to the FCIAC semis and the Cardinals have fared well at the state tournament level.
“Hanging a banner in the Greenwich gymnasium meant a lot to me,” Simpson said. “I would like to see what I could do at Brunswick because they have a fantastic tradition. They have a wonderful baseball, hockey and lacrosse program and I would love to see if we could put the boys’ soccer up there with the rest of them.”
Simpson strongly believes that if people want to progress in life, they can’t be in a comfort zone and have to keep on challenging themselves. Simpson was coaching the girls’ team at Greenwich High for a decade. But once he started getting too comfy as the position, he was starting to think that maybe he would be up for a new adventure. The coach said that he has put himself in front of many challenges, and the Brunswick job is certainly no exception.
“This is going to be a challenge,” Simpson said. “It’s a different type of player that I am going to be working with. That challenge of getting out of my comfort zone is what is really going to excite me. I never sit in something where you can just go through the motions. You always want to keep challenging yourself, so when the Bruins’ opportunity came up, I saw it as a huge challenge. They are looking for a program to be built there and are looking for stability. They are looking for a coach to come in that will be there for the long haul and really build a program.”
Simpson has a plethora of experience coaching both girls’ and boys’ squads. In addition to coaching at GHS, Simpson has been the head coach of Shoreline Football Club’s Liverpool squad, a boys’ team that has won the U-16 Super Y National Championships, the Eastern Developmental Program’s D-II and D-I League titles and a state championship at the U-17 division.
Although he’s going to a boys’ high school team for the first time, Simpson said that there aren’t that many differences.
“At Brunswick I see some very eager kids and some very excited faces that want to learn,” said Simpson. “They want to get better, want to be pushed, want to advance and want to excel. Over my years at Greenwich High School, I have had many students that have played for me that have the same confidence and desire. In a way, I feel like it reflects the institution. Not only do they want to learn in the classroom, but they want to learn on the athletic fields. That’s a credit to Greenwich as a town.”
It’s easy to see that Simpson is excited for the new challenge ahead of him. However, the former GHS coach already misses his girls’ soccer team on Hillside Road.
“The hardest thing for me was leaving the program,” said Simpson. “There have been some great players that I have coached and some great players that I’ve watched in all sports for this school. I loved my time at Greenwich High School and I hope I’m always looked as a Cardinal.”
One of the people that Simpson credits for the program at the high school being so competitive year after year is athletic director Gus Lindine.
“Having worked with Gus my whole 12 years, he has been a fantastic mentor for me,” the head coach said. “Not only is he an athletic director, but I think of him as a friend. He has been a rock, and as many high school coaches will tell you, the rock of the athletic director’s support of you is the foundation to build a program.
“There has been many a time where he’s been questioned about me as a coach and he’s always stood firm,” added Simpson. “I’ll always thank him for that and for his support and for him letting me run the program the way I wanted.”
While Lindline has stood by Simpson throughout his tenure as head coach of the Lady Cardinals, he’s not the only administrator that’s been cheering the team on, as GHS Headmaster Chris Winters has been a vocal supporter.
“Dr. Winters has been a very loyal supporter of the program,” Simpson said. “He’s attended many games and even away games. He came to Cheshire once for a tournament game, which is something I never forgot. The support at Greenwich High School, and being a Cardinal, meant the world to me.”
Leaving Greenwich High School wasn’t an easy decision and surely wasn’t something that Simpson took lightly. There were plenty of restless nights of sleep. While the head coach will miss his time as a Cardinal, he’s more than excited to get his next chapter going as a Bruin.
“The Brunswick position is a big change for me and it’s something I look forward to,” Simpson said. “It’s an honor to have worked for Greenwich High School. I wanted the Headmaster and athletic director at Brunswick to understand that I was looking for the long term. They put their trust in me, so it’s up to me to deliver.”
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HIGH SCHOOL REPORT
DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COM
Aleia Monden of St. Andrew's Priory wants to break her own 1-meter diving record at the state meet later this month.
Aleia Monden didn't excel until she began to believe
IT TOOK ONE moment of something unfamiliar for it all to come together for senior Aleia Monden of St. Andrew's Priory.
This past summer at a junior national qualifying meet, Monden stumbled through the 1-meter diving portion of the event, the event she has won for three straight years on the local prep scene.
But on the 10-meter platform, an event that isn't held in Hawaii and one for which she doesn't often train, Monden recovered her composure and discovered all that she needed to continue her success. She placed 11th at the zone meet in Maryland and qualified for junior nationals for the first time.
In 2003, she was one place away from qualifying for nationals on the platform and three points away from making it in the 1-meter.
"I totally flipped out," Monden said of her 1-meter dive routine at zones. "I was just really scared and the competition was really high. When I made it to nationals on the platform, I listened to music and tried something different. I tried to take myself out of the competition and not so much concentrate on it.
"I now know what I need to do to do well."
Monden finds success frequently at the small, all-girls school in downtown Honolulu. Diving was never unfamiliar to her, doing it since she was a four-year-old watching the Mililani High School team practice at the local YMCA.
Her mother, Nancy, later enrolled her in gymnastics to help with diving and sent her to diving camps on the mainland where Nancy Monden was told her daughter had a lot of potential.
All Aleia Monden needed to jump-start her prep success was a shot of confidence and, ironically, another so-so day on the diving board.
At the state championships her freshman year, Monden figured Kamehameha's Ronnie Oda would run away with the title. Monden had finished a distant second to Oda at the Interscholastic League of Honolulu Championships.
"On the first day, I didn't have a great meet so I said, 'OK, we have another day,' " recalled Monden, who was in third place and almost 22 points behind Oda after the competition's first day. "So I worked it out and I had my harder dives the next day and I pushed through."
Monden more than closed the gap to win the event, finishing 379.80 points to Oda's 377.35.
"We worked really, really hard between ILH and states," Monden said. "We were focusing a lot on repetition and meet situation and that helped a lot."
"That freshman year was proving to herself that she actually is that good," coach Jeff Stabile said. "Since then, she has more confidence, ability and been training more regularly, more seriously and more focused."
MONDEN BROKE the 21-year-old state record her sophomore year and broke her own record last year with a score of 475.20. With virtually no competition, Monden could win states later this month with a set of easy dives. But Monden, a two time high school All-American, and her coach are working on harder dives for the state meet and national competitions later this year.
She hopes to do a reverse one-and-a-half somersault with a one-and-a-half twist and a front two-and-a-half pike while breaking 500 at states scheduled for Feb. 24-25 at Kamehameha-Hawaii.
"We've been working on new dives and I actually failed a dive one time this year," Monden said. "It's really about the experience. It's not about competing with the people more, but competing against myself. Just clean up everything, get a better sense of where I am and improve my dives."
Last summer, Monden took the ultimate road trip, testing her ability and confidence in three major meets within a three-week span along the East Coast. Competing against divers who were college bound and had national diving experience, Monden's nerves and inexperience showed early.
"She was a little bit tense and she felt she didn't belong at that level even though she had the skills," Stabile said. "All the coaches and competitors were asking her, 'How many nationals have you been to?' And she said she never made it to one yet. In the meet, she was flopping all over the place and showing why she never made one yet."
After her shaky start on the 1-meter at the zone qualifying meet for junior nationals in Maryland, Monden turned it around on the 10-meter platform. She qualified for junior nationals on the platform, a feat her coach calls a turning point in Monden's diving career.
"She finally put it together on the platform and dived consistently and made it," Stabile said. "That's when it started to unleash the confidence."
THAT CONFIDENCE CARRIED over to the AAU Diving National Championships in Florida. Monden led after the first day of the meet and won with 349.75 points, 21 points ahead of the next competitor. Not only did she win it on her coach's birthday, she beat out divers who qualified for the 1-meter at junior nationals.
"I was very surprised that she took it," added Nancy, who accompanied her on the trip. "I was taping it and thought she's going to place wherever. There were some girls who were national quality."
Her performances on the mainland opened the eyes of many collegiate coaches. She already has Division I scholarship offers, been accepted to one of the schools she wants to dive for, and makes her first recruiting trip this spring.
All it took to get this far was to believe in herself.
"Jeff tells me to take my brain out of it," Monden said. "If you think about a dive too much, you can't go and do it. I just look at a spot on the board and when I'm in the middle of the dive, I just do what I need to do.
"In the beginning, she could not stand up on a dive," Stabile said. "She was out in the middle of the pool and was very low. She had some form, had the flexibility to be really good and was strong. But she didn't have a lot of solid mechanics."
"She's really coming into her own as a competitor. Now we're looking on to college and getting national-level experience."
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Human In Vivo Clinical Trials
Products that are accepted for Human In Vivo Clinical Trials are limited to orally ingested foods, beverages, Nutraceutical, and Pharmaceuticals.
Products that are accepted into the Clinical Testing Program will undergo Board Approved Human In Vivo Clinical Trials.
Test Foods (products submitted) that pass the clinical protocols qualify to display the Glycemic Research Institute® Government Certification Marks on products labels and brochures, and to make specific claims. All Clinical Trials are based on FDA CFR21 Guidelines.
Companies may submit products that are in development, in the R & D stage, and/or products that are already on the market.
A Clinical Studies Coordinator will be assigned to work one-on-one with the client.
Products-in-development can be analyzed for their glycemic, diabetic, fat-storing, and/or Kid-Friendly properties, depending on the client needs. These trials are “Investigational” and help assist companies develop Low Glycemic products that address specific health issues, such as obesity, diabetes, and the current childhood obesity epidemic.
Following the Investigational Trials, the client will receive a full report on the results of the trial, and may request a phone conference with the Medical Advisory Board to discuss results of the trials and directional advice on options for reformulating the Test Food.
PROGRAMS, SERVICES & CLIENT OPTIONS
The Glycemic Research Institute®
offers the following Programs:
BOARD CERTIFIFED HUMAN IN VIVO CLINICAL TRIAL
GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS:
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
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CLINICAL STUDIES: INVESTIGATIONAL TRIALS
FDA & FTC CLAIM SUBSTANTIATION
FOR INFORMATION ON CLINICAL TRIALS PLEASE CONTACT US AT email@example.com.
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The Growing Importance of Mobile Optimization and How It Affects Your Website
When it comes to websites, mobile optimization has not always been a top priority for every webmaster. In fact, it was estimated that only 22% of the Alexa Top 500 Global Sites were optimized for mobile in 2010. In recent years, however, the unprecedented growth in mobile Internet browsing and the ever-expanding community of mobile web users has prompted major changes in the world of SEO.
The Arrival of Mobilegeddon
Earlier this year, Google released an algorithmic update that affected mobile search results worldwide – or what some have termed “Mobilegeddon.” This major update expanded the use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal, with a significant impact in Google Search results for all mobile users. The ultimate goal? To help users find relevant and high quality search results optimized for their devices with greater ease.
Ahead of the algorithm change, Google provided suggestions about configuring websites for various mobile devices and making sure that your site shows up in search results. Google had already been penalizing sites for providing bad mobile search experience; now, mobile-friendly sites would be given priority over non-mobile-friendly sites with regards to mobile search page rankings. A report from Adobe Systems found that Google mobile search traffic to non-mobile-friendly websites fell 12% in the two months after the changes took effect April 21, relative to mobile-friendly sites. Many more major updates are expected to come, especially with regards to optimizing online experience for mobile users.
How Important is Mobile Optimization?
Google’s Mobile Update was incredibly significant and the truth is, the importance of mobile optimization is only going to increase from here. Currently, there are over 1.2 billion mobile web users worldwide and more mobile devices are being sold every day. With the rise of mobile device sales comes a corresponding growth in mobile Internet browsing – in 2009, mobile browsing represented a mere 0.7% of worldwide browsing activity. Two years later, in 2011, mobile browsing represented 7.1% of all worldwide activity. Another two years later in 2013, mobile devices generated at least 20% of the world’s browsing activity!
This year, it has been confirmed that more Google searches have taken place on smartphones than on computers in ten countries. In the United States, 94% of people with smartphones search for local information on their phones. Now more than ever, it’s crucial that websites be optimized for mobile devices.
Impact of Mobile Optimization on Spending
Shoppers are more likely to revisit and purchase from a website that has been optimized for mobile. Conversely, a bad mobile experience can damage a company’s brand, or at the very least, induce shoppers to go elsewhere. The fact is, the majority of shoppers will sooner seek out another (read: competitor’s) mobile-friendly site for the information they need, rather than switching to a desktop to revisit a non-mobile-friendly site.
Online and traditional retailers also benefit from having a mobile-friendly website. According to KISSmetrics, mobile users are 30-80% more likely to to do business with a retailer if their website is optimized for mobile, depending on industry.
Optimizing Your Website
Optimizing your site for mobile devices boosts engagement, sales, and traffic. Is your website already mobile-friendly? Google recommends double-checking your site’s pages using their Mobile-Friendly Test tool to see how Google Search really sees your pages.
You can also read through the numerous guides provided by Google to help your site show up in search results. Or you can leave the lengthy optimization process to the experts – with WSI Philadelphia, you can start the process of improving your mobile site’s user experience today by contacting an Internet Marketing Consultant at (610) 650-0227. We can help you to provide your visitors with a great user experience and make the most of your mobile traffic.
If you’re still hesitant about going mobile, just think about the overwhelming majority of people who have their mobile device at their side, day and night – who wouldn’t want to take advantage of technology that keeps your company accessible 24/7 and only a click away? The mobile revolution is underway. Don’t be left behind with a non-mobile-friendly website.
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Macadamia Cookie Dough Cheesecake
Why I Love This Recipe
Ingredients You'll Need
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2/3 cup macadamia nuts
6 tablespoons butter, cubed
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 pkgs. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sour cream
1 pound refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
2 ounces chocolate chips
1 pint heavy whipping cream, whipped
Macadamia Nut Crust: Process flour and next four ingredients in a food processor until finely ground. Press into well greased pan.
Preheat oven to 325ºF.
Filling: Using an electric mixer on high speed, combine cream cheese, sugar, eggs and flour and mix until smooth. Add vanilla and sour cream and mix just until blended. Pour 1/2 of the batter into prepared crust.
Cut cookie dough into golf ball sized chunks and drop into batter. Sprinkle in chocolate chips. Pour over remaining batter.
Bake for 60 minutes. Turn off the oven and open the door slightly. Allow cake to remain in the oven 30 more minutes.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.
To serve, remove the sides of the pan and top with fresh whipped cream. Sprinkle with additional chocolate chips and chopped walnuts.
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- 2021/05/13, 3 晚
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WAS $599 SAVE $500 WHILE STOCKS LAST!
• Double sided mobile fabric boards. The surface accepts push pin for easy display.
• They are constructed of a soft board core with aluminium frame.
• The optional interlocking bracket makes these panels modular. Join several together to create a larger wall display. Lockable castors for easy moving into location.
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Repost: NICUs: If We Build It, They Will Come?
A doula friend of mine was telling me recently about the seemingly arbitrary variation she sees across the different hospitals where she attends births. “In one hospital they always turn the epidural off when the woman is ready to push, and in another hospital just a few miles away we had to fight to get a client’s epidural turned off while she pushed.” In both cases, the woman was given only one choice, and that choice was dictated by whatever the standard practice was, regardless of the evidence, her particular circumstances, or her preferences. “Women assume that things are the same no matter where they give birth,” the doula told me. “They can’t make informed choices if they don’t know this stuff.” (This is why this doula and are I are working together to promote The Birth Survey in our state.)
In research and policy-making, these differences are called “practice variation,” and in obstetrics there is plenty of it. Some variation in practice across settings or providers makes sense – women or their babies may have different needs depending on their health status, risk factors, or preferences. But what’s troubling is that a lot of practice variation arises from factors that have nothing to do with women or their babies, and everything to do with the approach to care. Do women know that their risk of episiotomy may be as much as 7 times higher if they go to a private OB practice rather than a public clinic? Do low-risk first-time mothers know that the hospitals where women are most likely to be induced or admitted early in labor have c-section rates 3 times higher than other hospitals that restrict those practices? (And how do they know which hospitals those are, anyway?) Do women who have had a cesarean know which hospitals restrict or deny access to VBAC?
A new study published in the current issue of The European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology illuminates another troubling consequence of practice variation. Researchers studied the outcomes of over 3500 full-term babies born to low-risk, first-time mothers in 138 French maternity units. Thirty-four were “level 1” units, where there are no special facilities for caring for sick neonates, and babies needing such care are transferred to other facilities. Sixty-six were “level 2” units, where special care nurseries are available to care for some sick newborns as well as preterm babies born at or beyond 32 weeks. The remaining 38 units had intensive care units capable of caring for very sick and preterm babies, and had 24/7 availability of neonatologists. The researchers were careful to compare apples with apples. In addition to restricting their analysis to healthy mothers with full-term babies, they used statistical adjustments to control for other factors that could affect outcomes like the mother’s age, the mode of birth, and the baby’s gestational age and birthweight.
The results they reported show that the level of hospital is itself a risk factor for a baby being admitted for special or intensive care.
Read the full post and leave comments at The Giving Birth with Confidence Blog.
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4July 26th, 2010technology
WattOS is the new OS based on Ubuntu 10.04. It is a lightweight and low power using OS. It is said to work well with the less powerful hardware.
A low power using OS with Linux in its background, makes you think that it will come with some poor interface and softwares which might not work in the way they are meant too. However, WattOS runs some of the most popular softwares such as Firefox 3.6 which we already know that some of the older machines struggle to run. Empathy is another software which is for Messaging. Some of the applications available on WattOS are:
1. Abiword for Word Processing
2. GNumeric for Spreadsheets
4. Totem Player
5. Gwibber for micro-blogging
WattOS has an interface which is good from the usability point of view. WattOS uses Openbox and LXDE for desktop environment. The combination works well both in speed of applications and keeping it lightweight.
In terms of performance, you can check how fast it is from the live CD. It works well with low hardware configurations desktops. As for the Power saving features, it comes with its own power management application which needs little tweaks to configure. You need to configure it manually.
The best thing about WattOS is that it combines best of both the worlds, it is both speedy and supports older machines. Which makes it an excellent choice of OS.Tags: Linux OS, WattOS
July 21st, 2010Internet
The Tag line “We are colorful and curious…Just like you” portrays what Bing is meant to be. The truth is that I have not used much of Bing – the Search Engine. The day when I first saw bing, I thought this is just a old search engine with a jazzy background. Well to most extent it might be true also. Bing has focused on creating a visually good search engine and organizing the results in the categories which are most popular such as images, videos etc.
And then I came across Discover Bing. Bing has improved a lot capabilities. You can see a marked difference in its image search, travel, entertainment and maps. If you are searching for “football” on bing images, you can see a lot of related searches such as “football field”, “football”, “football player”. You can narrow down your results for size, layout and even color of the image, which is pretty cool.
Shopping section allows to search for gift ideas or a gift category. If you are searching for health related queries, bing gives you full fledged articles on your query.
Overall, I must say Bing has improved a lot. Even though it may be due to addition of capabilities of Google or Yahoo.Tags: bing, Internet, websites
June 17th, 2010technology
Youtube has introduced a cloud based video editor. However this is a basic editing system, it is a great new addition to youtube.
It allows you to trim videos, combine multiple videos which makes it very useful to the users.
The great things is its easy interface. You can drag your videos to the strip at the bottom. As soon as you drop the video on the strip, you get a scissors icon. This allows you to trim your video. The videos you can edit are ofcourse yours only to avoid any copyright issues. You can then click save. Saving is pretty fast as the videos are already uploaded in the server. Results however do take some to get processed.
This may be helpful for people like me who do not want to take the pain of editing videos and then upload.
Other features like tagging, labeling and sharing are still there.Tags: youtube, youtube editor
June 17th, 2010gadgets
Android team from Google has been working a great deal since it released its platform in 2008. The gingerbread release promises to focus on much needed user interface. We all might have seen or experienced the great look and feel of iPhone and must be wondering when others will catch up. Since the time of it’s release user experience has not changed much however a lot of features were added.
This is going to change with the new release. A lot of mobile manufacturers wanted to add their own UI layer but failed most of the times.
Google is focusing most of its efforts on the UI in this release. However you would wonder that since the Android is a flexible platform and is designed to handle multiple hardware, will it make it possible to create a perfect UI as iPhone? With google, you can certainly expect this. And hopefully they wont lock down the hardware as iPhone did.Tags: Android, Gingerbread
Apple’s iPad is believed to be revolutionary product, set to raise the bars for all other rivals. Consumer also has responded to it very well. Just 3 weeks after its launch on 3rd April, Apple confirmed that it has sold its 1 millionth iPad. The tablet was distributed in United Kingdom, Switzerland, Japan, China, France, Germany, Italy and Canada.
iPad has been selling at the rate of 34,700 per day. Apple has also announced that it is going to distribute the tablet in 9 more countries by July this year.
iPad comes with pretty strong features. Technical specifications:
- 9.56 inches (242.8 mm)
- 7.47 inches (189.7 mm)
- 0.5 inch (13.4 mm)
- 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) Wi-Fi model;
- 1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model
16GB, 32GB, or 64GB flash drive
Battery and Power:
- Built-in 25-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery
- Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music
- Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using 3G data network
- Charging via power adapter or USB to computer system
iPad also supports running all the apps which are already available in market for appstore.Tags: apple, ipad
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"section": "fineweb",
"url": "http://www.internet-space.in/"
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Get IFSC and MICR code of Indian Overseas Bank Sabitham branch in Karimnagar city or district, Andhra Pradesh state along with address and contact phone numbers.
(used for RTGS and NEFT transactions)
|MICR Code||MICR not provided.|
|Bank||INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK|
|Address||3 2 By 4 Main Road, Sabitham Post, Perapally, Peddapally Mandal, Karimnagar Dist 505188|
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Everyone remembers their first.
Pride and Prejudice was mine. I devoured it in big chunks on the floor of my student bedroom when I should have been studying. Jane was my first real introduction to classic literature, and Pride and Prejudice was my introduction to all things Austen. I loved Pride and Prejudice from the first time I read it — and I’ve loved it (and Mr Darcy) ever since.
Jane Austen died at the young age of 41 about 200 years ago in July. She has influenced writers down the ages and given untold pleasure to readers such as me. In honor of her short — but creative and influential — life, this Weekend Wander is dedicated to all things Austen.
Shiny New Books have been celebrating Jane’s bicentenary by posting Jane related material every day this week. There are some great posts to read. I particularly liked A Reading List of Austen inspired fiction.
I have never been to the Jane Austen’s House Museum (Why have I never been here? — I need to). It’s in Hampshire and it’s the only house where Jane lived and wrote that is open to the public as a museum.
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler is such a great book. Set in California’s Central Valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. This is described as the book Jane may have written had she lived in twenty-first-century California.
The Jane Austen Centre in Bath is where all true Austenites go for all things Jane. The centre houses a permanent exhibition that explores Jane’s time in Bath as well as the influence this city had on her books, characters, and personal life. Here, I have visited (although some years ago now). I feel it may be time for a return trip. Or if not able to, why not spend some time with your own favorite Jane and indulge your inner Austen this weekend.
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Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court Ikoyi at the weekend sentenced a deaf and dumb and a security guard to five years imprisonment each for dealing in cannabis and cocaine.
The deaf and dumb, Abbas Ahmed, 23, was arrested by police officers on February 5, 2014 along Agege Motor Road, Lagos while dealing in a kilogramme of cannabis, a narcotic drug similar to cocaine contrary to and punishable under Section 11 (c) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2001.
Adebowale Michael, 22, security guard was arrested with four pinches of cocaine weighing 0.7 grammes at Oniru Estate, Lekki Ajah Lagos by patriotic youths in February 2017 who handed him over to the police.
He was later transferred to the NDLEA where he was charged for unlawful dealing in cocaine contrary to and punishable under the NDLEA Act.
After a protracted trial of Abbas in which the court engaged the services of an interpreter to communicate with him, he recently pleaded guilty as charged.
The prosecuting counsel, Jeremiah Aernan asked the court to apply the punishment prescribed by the law strictly so as to deter others from getting involved in drug trafficking.
The convicts also pleaded for mercy urging the court to consider their young age and the fact that they are first offenders.
Justice Aikawa in his ruling noted that drug trafficking particularly cocaine trafficking is an international crime that has smeared the reputation of the country and must be seriously dealt with. He therefore sentenced both convicts to five years imprisonment each.
NDLEA Chairman and Chief Executive, Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (rtd.), commended the youths that arrested Adebowale urging that we must not sit and fold our hands while drug traffickers are making our society unsafe and insecure.
He called on members of the public to report suspected drug cases to law enforcement agents for prompt action.
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Anonymous posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 12:39 pm
Hello. I am attempting to run a path analysis will all variables in my model treated as directly observed. Since I am not including a measurement model, I would like to correct for measurement error. I am aware that this can be achieved by multiplying the variance of an observed variable by 1 - relability.
My first question is that I only want to employ this correction with exogenous variables in the model, not endogenous variables - correct?
My second question is how do I fix the variances in MPlus? I have tried using the @ function (e.g., x@.09) following the model command but this drastically worsens rather than improves model fit. Do I need to create single indicator latent variables to employ this correction? For example:
This seems to help model fit, but I am not sure it is proper procedure.
Finally, I am using the define command to examine interaction terms in my model. Does it matter if I fix the variance of a variable that represents one of interaction terms?
Any help you can provide will be very much appreciated. Thank you.
bmuthen posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 6:30 pm
As for your first question, the correction is most important for exogenous variables given that parameter estimate biases will occur otherwise. But you may want to do it also for dependents, to separate measurement error and other residual sources.
You answered your second question yourself. I think this is posted somewhere on Mplus Discussion. Note that you are fixing the residual variance and that you should fix it to
(1 - reliability)*sample variance.
For you final question, I don't know why you would want to fix the variance - unless you are referring to the second question above in which case you want to do the interaction using the factor you define.
Anonymous posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 6:56 pm
Thank you for your help. Your answers to my first two questions I followed, and I also found the other posting and it was very helpful.
I would like to follow-up/clarify your response to my third question. Assume I create a latent variable for an observed variable (x) in order to fix the residual variance of that variable. Also assume I want to create a third variable that represents the interaction (xz) of this variable with another observed variable (z). Do I create the interaction term using the original observed variable (x) or the latent variable I created for x? If I have to now use the latent variable, do I need to change from using the define command to create the interaction to using the XWITH command?
Thanks again for your help.
bmuthen posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 8:00 pm
You would use XWITH, not Define.
Timothy posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 - 7:16 pm
Hi Prof. Muthen
I am using the same approach stated in the above to run a path analysis. Even thought I used the two commands, the model fit is still drastically worsens, rather than improved. I then used LISREL to run the path analysis with the same approach and had good fit of the data. I am wondering if I have done something wrong in the Mplus command. Can I send you the outputs to you and see if I have any problems with the commands?
I am trying to run a path analysis with all variables in my model treated as directly observed. Since I am not including a measurement model, I would like to correct for measurement error. I am aware that this can be achieved by multiplying the variance of an observed variable by 1 - relability. Could you pl. tell me where the sample variance is in the output?
If you ask for SAMPSTAT or use TYPE=BASIC, the variances are on the diagonal of the variance/covariance matrix.
Bee Jay posted on Monday, March 26, 2012 - 4:09 pm
I am using this equation as well, to fix residual variance for single indicators - as discussed in another thread. So the sample variance is in the SAMPSTAT output. Is the "reliability" you're talking about the variance explained for the indicator? R^2?
And when I have completed the equation, will I just enter it into my model, e.g. F1@__;
I'm also trying to run a single indicator path model and correct for measurement error. I'm using the standard approach:
F1 by Y1 @ 1.0; F1 @ (1-reliability)*sample variance
I want to use Bayes estimation. I have four exogenous variables and ten endogenous in four 'levels' (i.e., 4 exog -> 3 endog -> 5 endog -> 1 endog -> 1 endog). The most downstream variable is actually derived from a single observed score so I have no reliability estimate for it and so can't fix its error variance.
I get the following fatal error:
THE VARIANCE COVARIANCE MATRIX IS NOT SUPPORTED. A VARIANCE PARAMETER IS FIXED TO A VALUE DIFFERENT FROM 1. USE ALGORITHM=GIBBS(RW) TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM.
Trying the Gibbs algorithm (which I seem to recall is not appropriate for this sort of model anyway), the model fails to converge. I get the following message:
THE CONVERGENCE CRITERION IS NOT SATISFIED. INCREASE THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ITERATIONS OR INCREASE THE CONVERGENCE CRITERION.
Increasing the iterations does not help and I don't think I should be relaxing the convergence criterion just to get it to run. If I run it using ML I get a non-pos-def psi matrix.
Sorry for the long post. Any ideas gratefully received.
The non-pos-def problem in ML and non-convergence in Bayes seems to be a function of fixing errors because if I don't fix them the model runs fine using either estimator. Also, if I collapse the four exogenous variables into one, it runs if I fix the error for just the exogenous variable and for the last but one endogenous variable in the 'causal' chain. But if I then fix any other endogenous variable's error it produces a correlation between it and one other variable > 1.0 (not the same other variable each time, but always at the same 'level' in the model), hence the non-pos-def psi matrix. Not allowing the disturbances to correlate solves this, of course, but then the model fit is poor (it fits very well with no errors fixed or with only the first and last but one fixed). Finally, I can see from TECH1 that the variances of the endogenous variables with errors fixed are not being estimated, but the variance for the exogenous variable with errors fixed is estimated. Is this correct? Hope all this makes sense.
OK thanks, I get that. I still haven't managed to solve the main problem - psi non-pos-def when I fix any endogenous variable's error variance for those variables in the middle of the model - i.e., the 3 vars or 5 vars in the following sequence:
Ah - the light's come on! Sorry for being so dumb.
milan lee posted on Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 6:13 am
Hi Linda and Bengt, Previously I ran a mediation model with an observed mediator, a1. Now, I'm trying to re-analyze the model yet define a1 to be a single-indicator latent mediator (M1). I know it is needed to correct for M1's measurement error using the following approach:
M1 by a1 @ 1.0; M1 @ (1-reliability)*sample variance. But I don't get it why I need to calculate the residual variance for M1, since in the original output when a1 was just an observed mediator, its residual variance was already shown. Can I just use it directly? Thank you!
Why do you think you need to calculate its residual variance?
milan lee posted on Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 8:51 am
Hi Bengt, I think I need to calculate it because of Linda's previous post on March 27, 2012, "A residual variance can be used as an estimate of reliability." Otherwise, how I can estimate the reliability for the formula, (1-reliability)*sample variance? Thank you very much!
I am trying to test a path model with scale scores as indicators. When I try to correct for measurement in both exogenous and endogenous variables, I get an error message suggesting that my model is not identified, and I have negative degrees of freedom. However, when I correct for measurement error in just the exogenous variables, I get fit indices. Is there a way to have an identified (or just identified) model while correcting for both endogenous and exogenous variables? Below is the syntax I am using:
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Category: Misc./General Career News Posted by: DaisyMay
Gerard Butler's Romantic Frustration (Blog)
Article Date: September 14, 2008 | Publication: Monsters and Critics | Author: Staff
Source: Monsters and Critics
Gerard Butler hates being single.
The 'RocknRolla' actor - who has been romantically linked to a string of beautiful actresses including Cameron Diaz and Rosario Dawson - is growing tired of his bachelor lifestyle and yearns to find the right girl to set up home with.
He said: "I enjoy being single less and less, but I'm not going to settle down just because of that. I'm in a bit of an in-between stage. I find playing the field less and less exciting, but I'm still not 100 per cent sure if I want to settle down."
Gerard, 38, finds it amusing that he is reported to be dating any female star who he is seen with.
Speaking about he alleged romance with Cameron, he said: "She's a friend of mine and she is a really special girl. She's amazing. But there's nothing going on. We just happened to be out with a group of people having dinner. Then another night we ran into each other completely by accident.
"Suddenly, people are saying we are together. I'm amazed at how these things spread."
Cameron is currently dating British model Paul Sculfor, whose ex-girlfriend is former 'Friends' actress Jennifer Aniston.
Category: Misc./General Career News
Posted by: DaisyMay
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There is also a whole industry based around maximizing customer experience at “all points of contact” with a company, making this a very important topic for companies that want to succeed and have a competitive advantage. In this post I will talk about the three main characteristics that make a great customer experience and give some examples of companies that are doing a good job.
Rule number 1: Build strong relationships
A company that knows what its customers want can build a strong relationship with them. By not only giving customers what they are looking for, but also exceeding their expectations, companies can differentiate themselves. When that happens the satisfied customers return and use more of the companies’ services instead of its competitors. It is important to always stay in touch with customers, not only at the purchase time, but also on other special dates, like sending them an e-mail on their birthday to maintain a good relationship.
Rule number 2: Start at the top
The customer experience has to start with the CEO. The CEO and the board of directors need to keep customer experience as one of the companies priorities so that the other employees will think the same way and follow the example.
A good way of doing that is to have specific goals related to customer experience and also a team focused on listening to customers complaints/feedback and acting quickly to answer them. Another effective idea is to ask the team focused on customer experience to make regular presentations to the other teams, so that all employees can know what the customers are saying and suggesting.
Rule number 3: Use metrics
You need a way to measure whether your customers are happy or not. This way it is possible to see if recent changes in the company or in its products are aligned with customers needs. Surveys are a great way to do that, always combining closed-ended (to have more quantifiable metrics) and open-ended (to allow customers to freely express their opinions) questions.
Some companies are constantly trying to improve their customers experience, like Google, that used an approach of answering customer questions one on one, at the time they were being asked and also included a video calling support option to them. This helped the company to improve its customer satisfaction scores from 44% to 90%.
Zappos aims to deliver to its customers a wow experience by allowing them to easily customize Zappos seemingly unlimited options into exactly what each of them needs and wants.
Apple is very famous for its customer service and, according to Carmine Gallo, author ofThe Apple Experience, there are 5 Steps of Service that every Apple Store staff member need to follow:
A = Approach Customers with a personalized, warm welcome
P = Probe politely to understand the customer’s needs
P = Present a solution for the customer to take home today
L = Listen for and resolve any issues or concerns
E = End with a fond farewell and an invitation to return
Also, remember rule #2 above? This video is a great example of it:
Another company with a great customer experience is Amazon. Always trying to quickly answer its customers, Amazon also innovates on the customer interaction, like this recent case in which an Amazon employee role played as superhero Thor while dealing with a customer.
Companies that are not currently focusing on their customers experience should begin to do it as soon as possible in order to get more loyal customers while also improving their products and services.
The highlights in mobile news this week:
Breaking news: Android 5.0, Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 were announced today in Android Official Blog
Boston startup scene is growing stronger
Facebook stickers are now available in comments on timelines, groups and events
AICEX Customer Experience Italian Association
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Miriam the prophetess, the Torah says, took her timbrel in her hand and led the women in song after the Israelites crossed through the waters of the Red Sea to freedom. This golden headdress, replete with musical symbols and bells, honors this brave woman who was so sure there would be a miraculous redemption that she took the time to pack her tambourine! The blue stones represent the Israelites and the waters which surrounded them. Please note; I have run out of these exact blue stones but I will come as close as possible to the original.
Wear this kippah to your Passover Seder and feel bold, brave and visionary, like Miriam!
(This kippah will stay on your head without comb or clips, but if you are dancing, you'll want to add bobbypins, OR wear your hair woven in and through the open part of the design!)
Special requests? Let me know in the shopping cart before checkout or contact me directly at email@example.com.
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Crooked Run Valley
partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata)
prairie partridge pea
partridge pea senna
Cassia chamaecrista L.
Cassia fasiculata Michx.
CONFIRMATION STATUS: Pending confirmation.
TAXONOMY: The currently accepted scientific name for partridge pea is Chamaecrista fasciculata (Michx.) Greene.
NATIVE STATUS: Native, United States.
GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Habit: This occasionally branching annual legume is ½-2' (sometimes up to 3 ') tall. Shorter plants are erect, while taller plants are inclined to sprawl. The slender hairless stems are initially light green, but become reddish brown.
Leaves: Partridge pea has alternate compound leaves that are medium to dark green. They have petioles with nectaries that attract insects. Each compound leaf usually consist of 10 to 16, up to 20 leaflets. The leaflets are sensitive to touch. A hairless and oblong leaflet is about 2/3" long and 1/3" across. It is
Flowers: Partridge pea has yellow flowers that appear along the major stems near the axils of the leaves. They are about 1" across, and have an open, irregular shape. Each flower has 5 rounded petals that vary in relative size, and there are about 10 reddish stamens. There is no floral scent.
Fruits/Seeds: During the fall, pods develop that are initially hairy green, but later become hairless and dark brown. The straight, narrow pods are about 1½ to 2½" long, ¾" across, and rather flat. The pods split along 2 sutures as it dries; the pod sides spiral to expel the seeds some distance from the parent plant. The seeds are dark brown, rather flat, and slightly pitted.
Roots: The root system consists of a central taproot and smaller auxillary roots.
REGENERATION PROCESS: Partridge pea propogates itself by reseeding.
HABITAT TYPES: Habitats include mesic to dry black soil prairies, sand prairies, savannas, limestone glades, abandoned fields, open areas along railroads and roadsides, and in most disturbed areas. Sometimes partridge pea is deliberately planted to stabilize banks around ditches and other areas. Often it will "escape" into surrounding areas, particularly disturbed areas.
SITE CHARACTERISTICS: Partridge pea prefers full sun and average to dry conditions and, in dry, open landscapes, can grow into entensive colonies. The soil can contain sand, loam, gravel, or clay, to which this plant will add nitrogen. This plant grows on a wide range of soils that are slightly acid to moderately alkaline. However, it grows best on moderately lime, well drained soils. It favors poor soil because of reduced competition from other plants.
SEASONAL DEVELOPMENT: The blooming period is quite long, from mid-summer to fall.
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION: Partridge pea is naturally found from Florida to the New England states (where it does not naturally occur), and extends west through the Ohio Valley, upper Mid-West and Plains states, the all of the Gulf Coast states as far west as Texas (and states north) and New Mexico.
SKY MEADOWS DISTRIBUTION: To be determined.
IMPORTANCE AND USES: Long-tongued bees are responsible for pollination of the flowers, which includes such visitors as honeybees, bumblebees, long-horned bees (Melissodes spp.), and leaf-cutting bees (Megachile spp.). They are attracted to the food pollen of the purple anthers, and are then dusted by the reproductive pollen of the yellow anthers. Two species of bees, Anthophora walshii and Svastra atripes atripes, are oligoleges of partridge pea. Sometimes leaf-cutting bees cut off portions of the petals for their brood chambers. The flowers are usually cross-pollinated by insects, but sometimes they are self-pollinating. The petiolar nectaries attract a completely different assortment of insects, which includes such visitors as Halictid bees, wasps, flies, and ants. Unusual visitors to the nectaries are velvet ants (Mutillidae), which are hairy wingless wasps (in the case of the females). The caterpillars of several sulfur butterflies feed on the foliage of this plant, including Eurema lisa (little sulfur), Eurema nicippe (sleepy orange), and Phoebis sennae cubule. Other insects that feed on partridge pea include Cerotoma trifurcata (bean leaf beetle) and Sennius cruentatus (partridge pea seed beetle). The seeds are an important food source for the bobwhite quail and greater prairie chicken. Because the foliage is strongly cathartic, it is usually avoided by grazing animals. However, white-tailed deer occasionally browse on the foliage in limited amounts.
Although partridge pea foliage is nutritious, it can be poisonous and should be considered potentially dangerous to cattle. Partridge pea leaves and seeds contain a cathartic substance. This substance is effective either in fresh plant material or in dry hay. Domestic livestock will eat partridge pea leaves. However, if large quantities are consumed, the animal may be stressed and die.
Partridge pea often grows in dense stands, producing litter and plant stalks that furnish cover for upland game birds, small mammals, small non-game birds, and waterfowl.
Partridge pea is considered an important honey plant, often occurring where few other honey plants are found. Nectar is not available in the flowers of showy partridge pea but is produced by small orange glands at the base of each leaf. Ants often seek the nectar and are frequent visitors. The common sulfur butterfly lays its eggs on the leaves, and the larvae use the leaves as a food source.
The flowers of this plant can be used to beautify areas where wildflowers are planted. Partridge pea is commonly grown as an ornamental; its bright yellow flowers make it a popular choice for use in native gardens.
Cherokee people used partridge pea as a root medicine to keep ball players from tiring. They also used it as a stimulant compound infusion for fainting spells. The Seminole people used partridge pea as an antiemetic used for nausea. The Seminoles also used partridge pea as a bed for ripening persimmons.
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123 West 44th Street, between 6th Avenue and Broadway, application to replace storefront
WHEREAS, 123 West 44 Street, formerly the Hotel Girard, (now owned by Korman Hotels and operated as AKA United Nations Hotel, a long stay residential hotel) was built in 1894, designed by the architect, George Keister, in German Renaissance style , is an individually landmarked building; and
WHEREAS, The current owner is reconstructing the entire sidewalk in front of the hotel above an underground building vault at a reported cost of $1 million; and
WHEREAS, The owner has applied to reconstruct the storefronts and entry to the building, none of which are original to the building, probably 1960's renovations; and
WHEREAS, Community Board Five has reviewed the proposed designs, materials (limestone, blackened stainless steel and glass), signage and lighting for the storefronts for the two restaurants, Cafe Un Deux Trois and Trattoria Dopo Teatro, which have been located there for many years, and the entrance (including a canopy with small LED lights) to the hotel; and
WHEREAS, Community Board Five has determined that the replaced facade elements are appropriate to the landmarked building; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That Community Board Five recommends approval of the application to replace the storefronts and building entrance as presented by the applicant at 123 West 44th Street.
The above resolution passed by a vote of 39 in favor; 0 opposed; 1 abstaining.
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In this present day, eCommerce business is booming, as many businesses are moving into the online retail space in order to reach a good number of their audience and unlock their potential in maximizing their profits. Due to this, the required tools used in setting up and running an online store are in great demand, and website and online store owners are often confused when they want to make choice.
If you’re truly serious in desiring to unlock the potential of your website or online store and, you also want to have full control over its functionality and appearance, then you have to look for a self-hosted option. Two options that are highly recommended are; Magento and WooCommerce. In this post, we’re going to compare these two powerful self-hosted solutions (Magento vs WooCommerce) to help you make the right choice you’re your business.
Magento vs Woocommerce: Basics Comparison
Magento is similar to WordPress. It is an open source project. It has a full content management system (CMS) meant specifically for eCommerce business. It is not just a framework of eCommerce that fits into a WordPress website. Magento has two versions; Enterprise, which is a premium version and Community, which you can download free of charge. Magento is acquired by eBay, that’s the reason why its community of users is increasing rapidly.
WooCommerce came newly in the business of eCommerce, it started in 2011. It has a plugin, made by WooThemes, which transforms your WordPress website into a complete functioning online store. WooCommerce is one of the best and most popular plugins in WordPress. It is well known for its customization options, flexibility, bespoke features, virtually non-existent transaction fees and intuitive interface. It is well appreciated by the users of WordPress and well supported by the community of WordPress.
Magento vs WooCommerce: Design and Feature Comparison
Magento is a complete solution for online shopping. It’s targeted at huge eCommerce retailers that need lots of functionality and customization. It is simply the most in-depth solution of the recent available eCommerce options. It has the capacity of handling unlimited products and can work with various payment options, currencies, and multiple languages. In Magento, you have the access to run multiple storefronts through a single dashboard, which is amazing if you’re managing a good number of sites or you’re having variations in your online stores.
One of the challenges with Magento is that customizing your online store and adding their extensions is very hard, and it’s difficult to learn for the newbies in eCommerce or those with no experience in coding. If you’re not too familiar with Magento, then you will need to hire a Magento developer and expert to help you in setting things up.
WooCommerce is a famous plugin that is well-developed. It is an excellent option for medium and small-sized enterprises. It’s very easy to set up and intuitive. If you’re not new to WordPress, adding the functionality of eCommerce to your website is as easy as launching the plugin. The framework creates the vital pages you need. Even if you’re not a regular user of WooCommerce, learning its usage is very simple. (Click here to learn about WooCommerce)
Magento vs Woocommerce: Cost Comparison
The Magento Community version is free and has many features that are included as standard. However, you have to add some plugins and extensions to customize and run your online store as your business expands. This is where their costs begin to mount up. Some of the extensions in Magento’s cost as much as $1,000 for its purchase. And, as we mentioned previously, you will certainly need a professional Magento developer to help you in adding and customizing them.
For huge eCommerce enterprises, there is an option for Enterprise offering a superb content management, improved search functionality and a higher level of support. This cost $14,000 annually.
WooCommerce is a plugin that is free of charge, even though its vital options are fairly limited so you will have to make use of their available extensions and plugins to take reap its full benefit. While numerous options are free of charge, you will just spend between $5 and $500 on annual basis.
If you wonder about the cost of building an online store. This article will make you know clearly about that.
Magento vs Woocommerce: Hosting Comparison
Magento is a more complex and complicated platform. Its complexity means that even small-sized online stores consume several GigaBytes of disk space, whereas the operations that are more complicated strains your server loads. So you will certainly need dedicated servers of your own, otherwise, your site will be very slow and this can result in you losing some of your customers.
WooCommerce is a little but efficient plugin that uses small disk space that is light on your server space. It runs smoothly and quickly on any server.
Magento vs Woocommerce: Blogging Capacity Comparison
Magento has a great eCommerce capacities but its Content Management System is a lot more tasking and challenging to set up. You even need an extension for you to be able to publish your blog.
For your eCommerce online store to be truly successful, you really need to have a blog to help in selling your products and keeping your rankings in search engine high. WooCommerce is the winner when it comes to integration. This platform integrates seamlessly with WordPress. This helps you to set up and run your blog. It also helps you to manage your other pages and taking advantage of its many plugins to get your site to your desired position.
Online retailing business is a lucrative one in our world of today. Magento and WooCommerce users run big successful online stores. The two platforms have both their advantages and disadvantages, so your choice depends greatly on your business needs. These comparisons discussed above will help you to make the right choice.
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Some time ago Ellie stopped even wanting to be at the table with us at mealtime. If she couldn't sit on my lap and feed me, she wasn't interested and it became a battle. Earlier this week during dinnertime frustration, I shouted at Daddy to go get the wooden highchair from the garage - the unused wooden highchair that I spent HOURS shopping for before we knew we had a kid who would never use it.
At one point I purchased a Stokke chair off of craigslist in order to get her at the table with the rest of us. This worked. For awhile. She uses it to color and participate...unless it involves food.
In came the wooden highchair, and she was more than obliged to take a seat. In fact, she has started wanting to sit there for breakfast as well. She has yet to actually eat anything, but spends the entire time chatting and playing with whatever is on her tray (usually stabbing it with a fork and moving it into the cupholder), but it is progress.
I'm very grateful I had never gotten around to listing the highchair on craigslist. NOW it might get some use!
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