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According to the National Research Council & Institute of Medicine; Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral (MEB) health is the overall psychological well-being of individuals and includes the presence of positive characteristics, such as the abilities to deal with stress, demonstrate flexibility under changing environments, and recover from adverse situations.
This is the basis of recovery; recognizing that our overall well-being is compromised due to the use of alcohol or other substances. However, simply alleviating these substances are not enough for the alcoholic or addict. Focussing on the challenges, trauma, or other aspects of dysfunction is not enough. In order to fully recover we must recognize that our MEB Health is paramount to long term joy and fulfillment.
This is the “Wow Factor” that many people miss. They often focus solely on fixing what is broken and fail to enjoy the moment let alone design a future for a successful productive life. This is the basis of what I believe has kept me focussed through ups and downs. Through failure, homelessness, divorce as well as all of the successes I have been blessed with, all I might add while I was/am in recovery.
1) They have a wide variety of sources of gratification.
2) They are flexible under stress.
3) They recognize and accept their limitations as well as their assets.
4) They understand the importance of treating people as individuals.
5) They stay active and productive.
6) They Love, are Loving and Live by a loving example.
Next post: Congrats, Kristin Joy… And Joe!
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With its lush greenery and miles of hiking trails, Northern Virginia is truly a nature lover’s paradise. Whether you want to go for a swim in the summer, gaze at the foliage in the fall, have a snowball fight in the winter, or smell the roses in spring, there’s a park for you in Northern Virginia. Get out of the house this weekend and check out some of our favorite parks in the area before coming in for your next Escape Room adventure here at Room Escape Fairfax!
If you want to learn about the history of the Civil War in Northern Virginia, head to Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Park. This park houses the site of one of the biggest Civil War battles in Loudon County. From April through November, the park has group tours on Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM and 1 PM. These tours are conducted by volunteer interpreters who can answer any questions that you have about the battlefield. You can also tour the battlefield on your own and spend time looking at the park’s monuments. After touring the battlefield, end your day with a hike on one of the park’s beautiful forest trails.
Prince William Forest Park is a natural refuge that’s owned and operated by the National Park Service. The park is full of hiking trails, camping grounds, and places to picnic. It’s also a great place to see wildlife—the park is home to about 180 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. The park has an extensive trail system, with over thirty-seven miles of hiking trails available. This includes easy flat trails that are great for young kids and more rugged trails that are perfect for seasoned hikers. Whether you’re looking for a quiet day out with your family or a strenuous hike through the woods, Prince William Forest Park is perfect for you.
Claude Moore Park is a wonderful place to spend a day immersed in the outdoors, with eleven miles of hiking trails that take you through forests, meadows, and young woodlands. The park is also home to a wide variety of animals, including deer, box turtles, and wild turkeys. In addition, the park houses the Lanesville Historic District, which is a national historic district. Here, you can see buildings and houses that date back hundreds of years, including the 1779 Lanesville Ordinary and Post Office. This park is perfect for both history buffs and nature lovers.
Potomac Overlook Regional Park is a wonderful place to escape the busyness of Washington DC for a few hours. This park is located right across the river from DC in Arlington, and it has two miles of hiking trails that go through beautiful wooded areas. The park also has an interpretive garden that features organic vegetables and native plants. You can also learn about the connection between humans and nature at the James I. Mayer Center for Environmental Education. This lovely park offers plenty for the whole family.
If your kids are looking for somewhere to splash around in the summer, Algonkian Regional Park is just what you need. The park is home to the Volcano Island Waterpark, which has tons of waterslides, shallow splash pools, and play structures. Your kids will have fun all day long going down waterslides and swimming in the cool pools.
Algonkian Regional Park also has plenty of fun things to do on dry land. Tee up at the 18-hole championship Algonkian Golf Course that’s located right on the Potomac River. Or, go for a casual game of mini-golf at the Polynesian-themed Algonkian Mini Golf course. You can also bring your fishing pole and try your luck catching fish in the Potomac River. If you’re in the mood for a hike, Algonkian Park has plenty of trails to explore. And if just one day in this park isn’t enough, you can rent a lovely riverfront cottage for the night.
Located in Alexandria, this peaceful 50-acre park houses a wildlife sanctuary and a mile-long trail that goes along a stream, through marshland, and up wooded hills. You can take a self-guided tour of the trail, or you can go with a naturalist who will be able to tell you all about the flora and fauna in the park. The park is adjacent to the Jerome Buddie Ford Nature Center, where you can learn more about the culture and natural history of Dora Kelley Park.
Huntley Meadows Park is a gorgeous 1,500-acre park that features pristine wetlands. The park is known for its amazing birdwatching opportunities—there have been over 200 species of birds spotted in the park. You can explore the wetlands on a half-mile boardwalk trail. If you’re looking for a longer hike, Huntley Meadows has hiking trails that will take you through a forest and along a meadow. The park also has an observation tower that gives you a bird’s eye view of the wetlands. Before heading into the park, stop by the visitor’s center to learn about Huntley Meadow’s unique history and to find out more about the natural features in the area.
Leesylvania State Park is located right on the Potomac River in Prince William County. The park has a pier that’s a popular local fishing spot. You can also rent kayaks and go on an adventure on the Potomac River, or you can take a stroll on the park’s two-mile hiking trail. If you have a boat, the park has a boat launch that’s available for anyone to use. There’s also a great playground available for the little ones. Whether you’re looking for water or land activities, Leesylvania State Park is a great place to go.
Northern Virginia is full of amazing parks that are perfect for everyone from avid hikers to families with young kids. When the sun is shining, head outside to one of these beautiful parks. You’ll always have a great time when you spend the day in a lovely Northern Virginia park.
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Senator MULCAHY (Tasmania) - This is an exceedingly important measure which of all others, I think ought to have been submitted in some way for the advice of experts in the various branches of industry which it is likely to affect. It affects the importers, and on that point I do not propose to say very much. Imports affect consumers, and I know that if anything is clone by the Bill which affects the whole com- . munity, it will very soon be altered. I am very much more concerned with the effect which the Bill may have on our exports. I do not believe in the cry of "Who is askingforthislegislation ?" which is heard so often when a new measure is introduced. If we were to wait for any section of the public to ask for special legislation, we should probably have very few Bills to consider. When special legislation is asked for it is often enough desired for a selfish and not altogether good purpose. At the same time, when we are dealing with a section of the community which is numerically smallI refer to the producers, manufacturers, and* exporters - we might very reasonably try to ascertain whether it desires such protection, as, apparently, we wish to force upon them by this Bill. In Tasmania we have had some experience of this legislation in a modified form. The principle underlying our Exported Products Act is the same as the principle which underlies this Bill. We must admit that it is a proper thing for the State to interfere for the protection of thehonest exporter against the dishonest exporter, and to see that the imports are what they profess to be - sound and wholesome, whether in the nature of food or medicine.
Senator Millen - I do not think that any one objects to that portion of this Bill.
Senator MULCAHY - No. The only question is. how far is it desirable and practicableto interfere? It is not a question of what we may desire to do, but a question of what we can accomplish, and very often in attempting to do a right and most desirable thing we run the risk of doing the very opposite. It seems to methat by passing a measure contain- ing extreme provisions such as have been advocated here we may run the risk of doing very serious mischief. It may be interesting to honorable senators to learn why the apple producers of Tasmania approached the Government of the day about four years ago. A dishonest practice had grown up with some shippers of exporting inferior fruit and placing the best apples on the top of the case, and sending to England the shipment each year under a different name. On one or two occasions the Agent-General reported that whole shipments of fruit had been more or less depreciated in value by the dishonest actions of some persons, who took care in the following season to conceal their identity by assuming another name or brand. The position became sp serious that the fruit-growers asked the Government to devise legislation for the purpose of putting down this dishonest practice, and, naturally, their first suggestion was an inspection of the fruit prior to shipment. We wisely discussed the matter with those who knew what they were talking about, and what was practicable. But every time we attempted to provide for compulsory inspection, we found ourselves confronted with insuperable difficulties. The persons who approached us in the first instance had in the end to admit the impracticability of so legislating as to prevent the mischief in the way which they had suggested. What followed? The Exported Products Act, which was passed in 1901, was largely of a permissive character, but it did one good thing. It provided a means of identifying every case of fruit which left the State. It required persons who shipped under any brand or mark, or under any assumed name, to register that brand, or mark, or name. Persons who shipped under their own name were easily identifiable each year. Consequently, if there was a bad parcel of fruit in a shipment, the shipper could always be easily traced. But as regards inspection, we found that all we could do was to provide means for the inspection of fruit by those persons who not only desired it, but were able to avail themselves of it. That fact is not quite fully appreciated, at any rate, in connexion with the export of apples. In trying to bring about uniformity of legislation, we have to remember that sometimes the conditions are not uniform. With regard to fruit-growing Tasmania is behind the other States a week or a fortnight, or three weeks, as the case may be. Under these circumstances, economy of time from the picking of the fruit until it is placed in the hands of the purchaser in England is of the greatest moment. The growers naturally desire to get their fruit sent away as early as possible, so that they may secure the good prices which prevail at the opening of the season. What happens? The fruit is not picked promiscuously or at random, as some honorable senators seem to think. It is carefully picked, and graded by the growers, who understand the necessity and the value of grading. In most cases, however, there is no time for making a proper inspection. The fruit is picked, sent to the river-side, and taken away by barges or steamers to be carried to the port, and placed in the ship's hold. Sometimes not more than twenty-four or thirty hours elapse from the time the fruit is picked until it is placed in the ship's hold.
Senator Keating - The Tasmanian Act provides for. local inspectors.
Senator MULCAHY - Yes, if the growers wish to put the Government brand of superiority on their fruit, but not otherwise. If they wish their fruit to be inspected, and to have it declared that at that time it was of first-class quality and well graded, they can obtain inspection. It is voluntary, not compulsory.
Senator Keating - The Act absolutely prohibits the exportation unless the fruit is marked.
Senator MULCAHY - The Minister is. I think, speaking from' memory. The Act compels the exporter to so mark his fruit that it may be identified, and it also provides that if a man marks his fruit as first-class, it shall be first-class fruit, and provides penalties if it is not of that quality.
No product shall be shipped or placed on board any vessel for exportation from Tasmania unless the package containing such product is clearly branded in the prescribed manner with a registered brand of the consignor, and withthe registered brand or the initials and surname of the producer.
Senator MULCAHY - That provision is for the purpose of identification, and has nothing to d'o with the grading or classification of the fruit.
Senator Dobson - No regulations have been issued under the section.
Senator Keating - There are subsequent provisions for dealing with the grading and other matters.
Senator Macfarlane - The section was never carried out.
Senator Keating - From want of funds, according to the Government.
Any consignor may brand any package containing any product with the words " First Grade " or " No. 1," or any other prescribed word or mark signifying "First Grade" or "No. 1," if the contents of such package comply in all respects with such conditions as may be prescribed by Regulations to be made hereunder for such purpose.
The inspector shall have full power and Authority to open any package branded with the words " First Grade" or " No. i," or any other prescribed word or mark, indicating " First Grade " or " No. 1 " and to inspect and examine its contents, and' to prevent any package marked as aforesaid from being shipped or placed on board any vessel, if the contents of such package sire not in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of any Regulations made hereunder.
Senator Keating - Then the inspector had a general power to forbid the exportation of fruit under certain conditions.
Senator MULCAHY - That was only when the shipper took the responsibility of declaring that it was first-grade or firstclass fruit.
Senator Keating - Oh, no.
Senator Best - He has to mark his fruit.
Senator MULCAHY - For the purpose of identification, not classification.
The 'inspector mav forbid the export of any product other than ' fruit intended for human consumption which he may consider unfit for such purpose.
Senator MULCAHY - Surely the Minister can see that that section deals with quite a different phase from that .which I am discussing. I am confining my remarks principally to our experience in the exportation! of apples, and pointing out the possi-- bility of very serious trouble arising if a Minister, no doubt with the best intentions in the world, desires to interfere, and tell the people of Tasmania or any other State how they should deal with a trade about which they know a great deal more than hu does. To my mind, one very serious feature of this Bill is that it is 'really an addendum to the Customs Act. I belie\,e that we cannot rightly estimate the complications which it may bring about. For that reason I should have been pleased if any supporter of the Government had proposed that the measure be referred to a Select Committee. I know that in the other Chamber a similar proposition - a most common-sense one, T think - was rejected, and that the Government are anxious to bring the session to a close. Therefore I do not wish to be the cause of any delay. But the effects of the Bill will be so serious that I think it would be almost better if its consideration were postponed until next session, so that in the meantime necessary information might be obtained for our guidance, especially in regard to an industry .like our apple industry, which is assuming national proportions. However," if the Bill is to go into Committee, ,as I have no doubt it will, I think we 'might make an effort to improve its provisions', arid take away a little of the power which it gives to the Minister to prescribe regulations.
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A true innovation in wrap design, this beauty includes several unique, patent pending features. Pockets at each end of the fabric store extra length to prevent contact with the ground and make the wrap easier to tie on, while an integrated neck support pocket increases comfort and support to baby's neck.
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PRICE REDUCTION JULY 4, 2018MOTIVATED SELLER!SWEET JANINE is beautifully maintained bya knowledgeableowner and hiscrew whohave extensive Horizon Yacht experience (this owner'ssecond 76'). Inspection is encouraged, we are confident you will grade the condition as superior. In particular we call your attention to the machinery spaces that reflect the outstanding care and overallmaintenance of this yacht. Low original hours on the equipment and remarkably light usagemake thisa rare find on the brokerage market.Recent designerinteriordécor, electronics and A/V system update, recently added2nd washer/dryer,plus a heavy dose of systemupdates & maintenance= SWEET JANINE.
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In order to maintain a clean audit trail, an account that has activity posted to it or a budget defined for it may not be deleted.
Note: During the summarizing process, the program removes all transaction detail, including associated distributions. The program does, however, save the beginning and ending balances as well as the total net change for the project, class, and transaction code distribution for each fiscal period.
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Bob Woolsey is an independent writer, director, and producer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Born and raised in the countryside of Northern Canada, Bob moved to Vancouver in order to make films and has been doing so ever since. The semi-autobiographical web series Bob & Andrew that he wrote, produced and starred in was nominated for Best Web Series at the 2011 Leo Awards in addition to winning numerous LA Webfest awards. The independent feature comedy Do Something with Your Life he produced in 2012 opened to glowing reviews as part of the Olio variety festival in Vancouver. The short film Shame Bob directed in 2013 was screened worldwide, including a tour of India as part of the KASHISH Forward screening series. Most recently, Bob wrote and produced the dark fantasy feature film, Charlotte’s Song, starring Iwan Rheon of Game of Thrones fame. It will be released in 2017. In addition to his own work, hundreds of short films have been completed under Bob’s mentorship as an instructor at the Vancouver Film School and gone on to screen at film festivals around the world.
Michael Baser, Head of Department, Writing for Film and Television. Michael Baser is a screen writer/producer/show runner of primetime television. In a career that has spanned over 38 years, Mr. Baser has written for and produced a wide array of popular and critically acclaimed shows such as Good Times, Maude, The Jeffersons, Three’s Company, 9 to 5, and Full House, to name a few. In addition, Mr. Baser has been placed in development deals with all the major studios including, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Columbia TriStar, Disney and Warner Brothers. Subsequently he has sold, written and produced over 15 pilots for CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and various cable outlets. Currently, Mr. Baser is a resident of Vancouver, BC where he is the Head of Writing for Film and Television at Vancouver Film School, a position he has held for the past eight years. Mr. Baser is partners with renown actress Jamie Lee Curtis in Redfish Films and is currently developing several projects.
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Joanne was inducted into the SHSAA Hall of Fame in 2002.
Dr. Carlson recently retired as the Chair of the Department of Education at College of Saint Mary. Noted nationally and internationally for her work in pre-adolescent reading, Dr. Carlson began her 50-year teaching career the fall after her graduation from South High at the age of 17. She will continue to work with educators as Professor Emeritus at the College of Saint Mary.
The holder of the ConAgra Distinguished Professorship, Dr. Carlson is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame and was named a Woman Visionary by the YWCA and honored by Ak-Sar-Ben as the Midlands Outstanding Educator. As the Chair of the Education Department, Dr. Carlson instituted and implemented several programs which have serviced many of Omaha's poorest minority families including the SMART program which brought girls from Girls, Inc. to the college every Tuesday and Thursday night to study math, science and related technologies.
She also founded the PALS program in which college students traveled to some of Omaha's most economically deprived schools to tutor in reading and writing. Dr. Carlson is the author of more than a dozen articles and textbooks and has presented at more than three dozen national and international reading conferences.
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Once in a while I need to take a break from an image before it appeals to me again. I was looking through my archives from earlier this summer for a different image of this classic Canadian Rockies location when I stumbled upon this long exposure photograph of Mount Rundle. I did not strike as particularly pleasing the first time around, but it did catch my eye today. Interesting how our state of mind has the ability to affect our perception of an image. I’d better post the shot now. It may not appeal to me tomorrow. Vermilion Lakes, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
This image is available as a print.
f/22, 15 seconds, ISO 50, 17mm.
Paul Zizka is a professional mountain landscape and adventure photographer based in Banff, Alberta.
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The UNM School of Public Administration (SPA) has a new face in the director's chair.
Bruce J. Perlman recently took over as director of SPA. Given the local, state and national attention SPA has received in recent years, Perlman is eager to continue fostering the school’s growing reputation.
“You won’t find a better program, not just in New Mexico, but in the nation,” Perlman said.
Perlman received his Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School in 1980. After his initial appointment at the University of Southern California, he joined the University of New Mexico School of Public Administration as an Assistant Professor in 1982.
While at UNM he has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Presidential Lecturer and held the Hatch Chair in Law and Public Policy. Currently, he is Regents’ Professor and Director of the School of Public Administration and has been twice Director of the School and Associate Director of the Office of International Technical Cooperation. Perlman is the author of more than 50 academic journal articles and publications and two books, one in English and one in Spanish.
In addition to his academic career, while on leave from UNM he has served as the Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Albuquerque and Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor of New Mexico. He has held posts and consulted widely on government affairs both in the U.S. and abroad for organizations ranging from the U.S. Congress and Agency for International Development to the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. He is the former editor of the State and Local Government Review’s Governance Matters Section and the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education.
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31 A Manual of Normal Physical Signs by Wyndham B. Blanton. Second Edition. Printed 1930. Book is in overall good condition.
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Background: Nigella sativa (NS) is a traditionally used herb for treatment of asthma by different publics . However, there are few studies on its efficacy and mechanisms of action.
Objective: To investigate the effects of NS fixed oil -compared to dexamethasone (Dex)- on iNOS, peripheral blood eosinophils (PBE), serum IgG1 and airway inflammation in murine model of allergic asthma.
G1: six naïve control mice. G2: ten mice were sensitized intraperitoneally and challenged intratracheally with conalbumin . G3: six mice were sensitized, challenged and treated with Dex for 17 days. G4: nine mice were sensitized, challenged and treated with NS fixed oil for 17 days.
Histopathology and immunohistochemical study of iNOS in lung tissues, detection of PBE % and serum IgG1were done.
Results: Lung tissue iNOS expression increased non significantly in G2 compared with G1(p 0.14). NS fixed oil significantly reduced PBE%, IgG1 and lung inflammation, while non significantly reduced iNOS expression, compared with G2 (p 0.035, 0.001, 0.03, 0.06 respectively) . These effects were comparable to the effects of Dex.
Conclusion: iNOS has a limited - if any – role in allergic airway inflammation. Other isoenzymes (constitutive) may be responsible for the production of NO present in asthma. NS exhibited airway anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects on PBE and serum IgG1 which may be useful for the treatment of asthma.
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They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; his eager body begins to quiver. Suddenly, he breaks from the group, flying over the green grass, faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face, your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into those trusting eyes, so long gone from your life, but never absent from your heart. Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together.
Ch. Olde Ridge Moonlit Silhouette "Liza"
Ch. Olde Ridge Vintage Windsong "Tucker"
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I don't think we'll ever see long matches like that again (except maybe on Classic). On current though, especially now they are in their separate queue, we really should have them last longer. An hour sounds very reasonable.
/dance & cry's in joy Winter Grasp is a possibility!
The only time AV takes longer than any other battleground is if there is a large group on one team that decides to play defense which doesnt usually happen.
I hope something is done to change AV back to how it used to be, where guards hit harder and it actually takes a group to do most things. Also tripling the reinforcement count would allow teams to actually try to reorganize and push out of a losing position instead of just saying screw it and fighting on the bridge for 30 minutes because they are already behind by 200 reinforcements. Even better would be to just get rid of reinforcements, but people are probably not ready for the return of a possibly multi-day long battleground.
I hope something is done to change AV back to how it used to be, where guards hit harder and it actually takes a group to do most things.
Pre-patch AVs are the best. Basically when all the NPCs are tuned for 10 levels higher. Pre-patch BfA you will see guards and bosses tuned to 120 so we will have the nice, long AVs.
Pre-patch BfA you will see guards and bosses tuned to 120 so we will have the nice, long AVs.
We'll be changing the rewards for Epic Battlegrounds to be better than normal battlegrounds. There is also going to be a weekly quest for Conquest to do a Epic Battleground.
We just placed scaling tech on the creatures in Alterac Valley so that their difficulty scales with your character power. This should cause the creatures to retain their difficulty throughout the expansion cycle. Let us know how this feels!
I think it would nice to see the scaling tech at least set at a point where taking out the boss NPCs isn't easy enough that groups zerg to do that, because that actually makes AV more fun, in my opinion. If it's a zerg game, you abandon all of the mechanics of the battleground. If you're separating it into a separate queue, now's the BEST time to try to get it back to being a long game of attrition.
What about summoning those extra bosses. Or whatever they where considered back then.? Get rid of win from x amount of kills. Bring back the long long AV!! Did I need to put a # in there?... Next time I'll read the hole thread before I open mouth. I agree with the others postings.
Can we have the starting point for Horde and Alliance randomized in AV? The terrain and choke points are an imbalanced design that favours one faction over the other.
I don't think its realistic to expect a major map edit after so many years, but an alternative fix would just be allowing Horde to start in the Stormpike base, and Alliance in the Frostwolf base 50% of the time. Just reverse the NPCs and make up some lore about taking over the enemy's camp. It would play out similar to how SotA had random starting points (attacker/defender). I could even see this affecting strategy based on where your team starts, which is kind of interesting.
I don't know how else to "balance" a map like AV without fundamentally changing it.
I'm definitely hoping big battlegrounds get complete overhauls into WvW zones like guildwars. That would be amazing to have. Other battlegrounds should just get the HD upgrade I guess just to make them feel recent in our times.
While it might feel more PVEish than PVP, I think there's a distinct place in the game for large scale maps, and I'm not just saying that because of the popularity of Battle Royales lately, but rather as somebody who would spend hours at a time in old school AV, grinding up to Marshal.
I know a lot of the discussion focuses on AV (since its not as blacklisted), but I think IOC could use a serious look in terms of building balance. I can't say for sure what's OP or too weak though, but I do know I can kill glaive throwers in a couple of GCDs, and defense cannons dont see to do a whole lot to players, and not much to vehicles unless they stand in the fire. I used to do some honorable kill farms to finish out my Bloodthirsty title in MoP, but the graveyards received that protection aura in WoD as a result of our groups. Don't think a whole lot has changed besides that. When I go into IOC I mostly play defense and can stop the workshop and docks vehicles in their tracks. Tends to ensure victory.
I'm not sure what you could to spice up Tol Barad/WG honestly, since they just felt like more of a necessity to unlock dailies/raid instance, and a stacking buff was needed to even things out. I just think it'd be cool to see 2 new epic battlegrounds released in 8.2 or about halfway through the expac.
Is this just for Beta-Server or could we test on Legion servers? Will Alterac open up on Beta-Servers now(if enough players will que)?
Because it sounds good and i will test it asap.
I think moving these to a separate queue is a great idea. I also think that you should actually rework AV as it fits perfectly with the BFA theme. Here is my idea.
1. Make it a pure resource race instead of a kill the boss scenario. Make it a large scale AB basically. The more points you hold on the map the more resource you consume or gather to a certain number say 2000.
2. Increase the number of player from 40 to 60. The map is large and to win you are going to need to have small teams defending and small capture teams. There should not be an issue with lag as you are not going to be fighting 60v60.
4. Set a time limit for 30-60mins and allow people to come and go. Maker sure we can report people who are playing rock-paper-scissors over in the corner and not participating. If the one team loses a player and there is not another one in the queue spawn an AI NPC to fight. If a real player joins the AI NPC is removed.
Normally I'm against that kind of scaling for max level content, but it actually makese sense in AV, especially since gear shouldn't matter much in a BG. I'll have to test it out.
Love these types of bg's. Where are my afk boyz at?
Will Blizzard be taking additional measures to stop players who circumvent game restrictions to bring their full premade raids on voice chat into AV/IOC?
Because they're going to love this change. Fast/easy wins against pugs, plus better rewards than normal bgs.
Premade raids have plenty of experience gaming the queue system. Their members sync queues and verify their queue pops over voice chat so they all join the same bg and then roflstomp the other team. If necessary, they'll even send a scout into the bg first to see if there are enough empty spots on the team to accommodate their entire premade raid.
You also going to fix AV so it's not horrifically tilted towards the Alliance? Like how we have to kill all of their archers to claim a tower but they only have to kill the one in front of the door? Or how they can just march into our town and keep and Horde has to cross the major choke point of the road to Stormpike GY and the bridge into DB?
Maybe move the Horde cave back to where it was?
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Mr. Meyer has been the Chief Executive Officer of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (“Sirius XM”), a provider of various types of content on a subscription fee basis through its two proprietary satellite radio systems, since December 2012 and has been a director since January 2013. Previously, Mr. Meyer was the President, Operations and Sales of Sirius XM. Prior to joining Sirius XM in May 2004, Mr. Meyer was the President of Aegis Ventures, a general management consulting company. Before Aegis, he held a number of senior management positions in consumer electronics over a 25 year period, including as the Senior Executive Vice President of Digital Media Solutions of Thomson, a worldwide leader in consumer electronics. Prior to joining Thomson, Mr. Meyer held senior management positions at General Electric and RCA. Mr. Meyer is Chairman of the Board of Directors and a director of TiVo Corporation (and Rovi Corporation prior to its merger with TiVo Corporation) and a director of Pandora Media, Inc.
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There’s no doubt that there are a lot travelers who sometimes find it troubling to make some crazy food trips while traveling in many parts of the globe because of the lack of vegan and vegetarian food choices. Fortunately, the food scene is changing and restaurants are slowly becoming more accessible to vegans and vegetarians. Oh wait, what’s the difference between the two? Well both don’t eat meat, but vegetarians can eat dairy products and eggs while being vegan means a big “no” to all animal products. We won’t go to the deeper explanation of these two but here’s a list of 10 cities that will surely tickle your veggie-loving taste buds and also your feet longing to wander.
Ghent is an unexpected vegan find for anyone visiting Belgium. The local government has even mandated every restaurant to have a vegetarian dish on their menu (that can be totally vegan too) and what’s more amazing about Ghent is their Thursday Veggieday campaign where skipping meat and fish is encouraged. Every Thursday, some restaurants serve a special vegetarian menu and school cafeterias serve only vegetarian-friendly food.
Try out Ghent’s all vegan buffet restaurant Komkommertijd or the fast food joint De Frietketel where you can get a hazelnut burger, soy meat balls with a vegan dipping sauce, and a mountain of fries. For dessert, there’s Greenway that serves rich, fudgy, vegan chocolate brownies.
Chennai is known to be the birthplace of vegetarianism and nowadays, going vegan is making its way. Starting with the first vegan restaurant of Chennai, VeganeR serves South Indian delicacies like dosa (fermented crepe), puttu (steamed rice cake with coconut), idli (steamed rice cake), and paniyaram (spiced dumplings). Veganism may be a growing trend in Chennai but with the long list of vegetarian restaurants, it’s not hard to encounter unexpected vegan dishes in restaurants like Eden and Cream Centre. It won’t hurt to ask for vegan versions of some of the dishes in these vegetarian restaurants.
Chiang Mai is home to 300 Buddhist temples and over a hundred vegan and vegetarian restaurants, which is not unexpected in this town known for its rich food culture. One must-visit restaurants in Chiang Mai is Pun Pun which isn’t only a restaurant serving organic vegetarian Thai food, but also a place where you can learn organic gardening, do yoga, and cooking using local healthy ingredients. There’s also the famous Chiang Mai Vegetarian Society for affordable, fresh, and healthy traditional Thai dishes.
When looking for vegetarian meals, just say “chay” (pronounced like “zai”) and you’ll be able to find suitable dishes for you. If looking for specifically vegetarian restaurants, you can look for the words “quan chay” and you’re good to go in to satisfy that hunger. It’s not even hard to look for vegan restaurants around the area and some of the places you can visit are Am Thuc Chay Mani and Thanh Tinh which serve affordable vegan Vietnamese favorites like pho and spring rolls.
When in Vancouver, you won’t need to worry about where to get your next vegan meal. Instead, you can create your own vegan itinerary by checking out the latest and the most popular vegan-friendly restaurants around the area. Want brunch? No problem. There’s Aphrodite’s Organic Café for that. Want cupcakes and other desserts? Go to Edible Flours. Are you a raw vegan? There’s Indigo Food Café for you. Vancouver continues to offer yummy vegetarian and vegan treats from food trucks to fine dining.
Being vegan in Berlin isn’t even a tough thing with all the different kinds of restaurants that offer varieties of cuisines, from local to international. You’ll even have fun shopping around the city’s small grocery stores to their huge vegan supermarkets such as Veganz. The typical Berlin dish, the döner, gets its vegan version found in Vöner (smart name right?). For fancy cakes, waffles topped with soya whipped cream, tropical smoothies, and savory soups, Café Vux will be your comfort spot. If you wanna spend the night with some mixed cocktails, the vegan bar Chaostheorie will be glad to offer you vegan snacks that’ll match your drink.
Glasgow is known to be an unhealthy city receiving records such as the place with lowest life expectancy in western Europe and the place with the high rates of obesity. However – a big however – the city is paradoxically known to be the most vegan-friendly city in the United Kingdom. This can sound weird but looking around the city for vegetarian or vegan options isn’t a problem at all. Burger cravings are easy to satisfy at 13th Note, which will give you Glasgow’s best veggie burgers with salad and chips (fries) on the side. Do you know the Scottish sausage (known for its sheep stomach ingredient) called haggis? There’s a perfect vegan version that you can find in Saramago Café. Can you have a full vegan breakfast? Oh yes you can! Try the 78. If some restaurants didn’t make a mark on your taste buds, there’s a lot of other awesome restaurants to try and they’re just waiting for you.
The Big Apple lives up to what it has been always described as: a melting pot of cultures. People connected to culture and culture connected to food. No doubt when it comes to food, NYC can offer dishes that can either make you feel at home or like living in a foreign land. Besides the foreign and creative stuff, vegetarian and vegan options are widely available in the different cuisines offered. For sushi without the fish and seafood, there’s Beyond Sushi. For an organic and raw vegan diet, Quintessence is your tummy’s mate. Go to Prince Street Pizza to have a bite of their veganized NY pizza, ad try out Taïm for a fiery falafel sandwich.
It’s no hard job to look for the right cafés and restaurants for practicing vegans and vegetarians when in Taiwan. In fact, being vegetarian can be easily expressed with the help of the Chinese word “Su” (素) which means “simple” but can also be understood as “vegetarian”. You can start your breakfast with a cup of fresh soy milk and vegetarian steamed bun Yong He Doujiang Wang. For lunch, you can splurge a bit on Buddhist buffets where you can have choices of greens, rice, faux meat, soup, and noodles. For strictly vegan meals, there’s the Vege Creek that lets you pick the ingredients and let the chef turn it into a nice hot bowl of goodness. For bread and desserts, you can try out Fresh Bakery and Café Taipei.
A true vegan paradise where no one questions your food choices, Portland is where many vegan tourists find love – and a screaming appetite. Looking for food is already a serious business because vegan food from stores as small as food carts are already everywhere. Earth Burgers boast their handmade chickpea burgers using gluten-free burger buns. And when it comes to oh-so-good doughnuts, drop by VooDoo Doughnut and buy a box of tasty sweet vegan doughnuts, from raised yeast doughnuts to cakey ones. For raw desserts (and also for those looking for something gluten-free), it’s none other than Blossoming Lotus where you can try out their yummy raw cheesecakes after the nachos and barbecue. Don’t forget to drop by Portland’s Vegan Mini-Mall for more food and even non-food vegan items like wallets and shoes.
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The Deep Dome Lamp Fixture is designed with an extra long dome, which is perfect for use with large or long lamps including the T-Rex Active UVHeat, PowerSun UV, ReptiSun UVB compact fluorescent, and Avian Sun UVB compact fluorescent bulbs. The deep dome extends beyond the face of the lamp and prevents the lamp from "sticking out" of the end of the dome fixture. The highly polished aluminum surface inside the dome greatly increases UVB and UVA output compared to fixtures with a white surface inside the dome.
The ceramic base allows for use with lamps up to 160 watts. Includes an on/off switch on the power cord and a hook to hang it from a reptile lamp stand. 120 Volt use only.
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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Dr. Franklin, theAdvisory Board, to the members of the Congress who are here --Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Congressman Amo Houghton,Congressman Jay Dickey, Congressman Ed Pastor, Congressman TomSawyer, and Congressman John Lewis, whose life could be a wholechapter of this report. We thank you for coming. We thank MayorArcher, Mayor Webb, Mayor Bush, Mayor Flores, Governor Thomas of theGila River Tribe, and other distinguished Americans who are heretoday -- business, religious, community leaders.
I thank the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney GeneralEric Holder, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Housing andUrban Development, the Secretary of Transportation, SBA AdministratorAlvarez, Acting Assistant AG, Bill Lann Lee -- I hope I won't have tosay that "acting" forever -- (laughter) -- our Deputy SBAAdministrator Fred Hochberg. Thank you all for being here.
I want to say a special word of thanks to all the peoplewho made this board possible -- to John Hope Franklin for his wiseand patient, but insistent, leadership; Reverend Suzan Johnson Cook;Angela Oh; Bob Thomas; Linda Chavez-Thompson, who was with us in theWhite House just a moment ago but has what I called an excusedabsence -- (laughter) -- my long-time friends and colleagues, theformer Governors of Mississippi and New Jersey, Bill Winter and TomKean. I thank Laura Harris, who has been a wonderful consultant forus on Native American issues. My good friend, Chris Edley, thank youfor what you have done. I thank Judy Winston and the staff of thePresident's Initiative on Race for the remarkable job they have done,and I'd like to thank the people in the White House who worked withthem, but especially Minyon Moore, Maria Echaveste, and before her,Sylvia Mathews. (Applause.) Thank you all so much for what you havedone.
Now, some time ago, John Hope Franklin said, "The taskof trying to reshape our society to bring about a climate of racialhealing is so enormous, it strains the imagination." Well, again Isay, I'd like to thank John Hope Franklin, the rest of this board,and the staff for straining their imaginations and finding the energyto take on this tremendous task of focusing the nation's attention onbuilding one America for the new century.
Often, this has meant enduring criticism, some of itperhaps justified, some of it I have questioned, because, as Dr.Franklin said, no one could solve this problem in 15 months since ithas not been resolved in all of human history to anyone's completesatisfaction. But they have taken on the endeavor. And it has beena magnificent journey. They have crossed this country, the lengthand breadth of America. They have seen all different kinds ofpeople.
For them, it has been a journey across our land, ajourney across our culture, a journey across our history, and ajourney, I imagine, for all of them across their own personal livesand experiences. They've gone from Silicon Valley to Oxford,Mississippi, to the Fairfax County school district across the riverhere, where there are students from more than 100 different nationaland ethnic groups -- 150 different national and ethnic groups.
We knew that no effort could solve all the challengesbefore us, but I thank this board because they have helped America totake important steps forward. I also thank Americans -- unbelievablenumbers of Americans -- from all across the country who haveparticipated -- all those who wanted to tell their stories and allthose who were willing to listen.
They have brought us closer to our one America in the21st century. Out in the country they found a nation full of peoplewith common sense, good will, a great hunger to move beyond divisionto community; to move from the absence of discrimination to thepresence of opportunity to the spirit of genuine reconciliation.This board has raised the consciousness and quickened the conscienceof America. They have moved us closer to our ideal, but we have moreto do.
I want to say, I am especially proud of the work thatevery member of our administration has tried to do. When I look outhere at the Secretary of Labor, the Attorney General, SecretaryCuomo, Secretary Riley, Secretary Slater, Aida Alvarez, Janet Yellen-- all these people who work for me -- they know that we care aboutthis, and they have really worked hard to do you proud, and I thankthem, too. But we have more to do.
You know, for more than two centuries we have beencommitted to the ideas of freedom and equality, but much of ourhistory has been defined by our struggle to overcome our steadfastdenial of those ideals and, instead, start to live by them. It hasbeen a hard road. It is rooted deeply in our own history, as JohnHope Franklin said. Indeed, I believe it is rooted in the deeperimpulses that trace their beginnings back to the dawn of humansociety: the mistrust, the fear, the hatred of those who are theother, those who are them, not us.
In the area of race, it has been a special burdenbecause you can see people who are different from you. And withNative Americans, it's been a special burden because we took landthat was once theirs. With African Americans, it's been a specialburden because we all have to confront the accumulated weight ofhistory that comes from one people enslaving another.
But with every area of racial tension, if you strip itall away, you can go back to the dawn of time, when people firstbegan to live in societies, and learned they were supposed tomistrust and fear and hate people who were not in their crowd. Wesee it manifest around the world in our time. We've seen it betweenthe Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, going on forhundreds of years -- thank God, I hope, about to end. We've seen itwith the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda. We've seen it with theArabs and the Jews in the Middle East; with the Serbs, the Croats,the Muslims in Bosnia; today, the Serbs and the Albanians in Kosovo.In America we see it manifest still in racial differences, but alsoin religious and political differences as well.
In whatever manifestation, I think we have to begin withone clear understanding: when we approach others with discriminationand distrust, when we demean them from the beginning, when we believeour power can only come from their subjugation, their weakness, ortheir destruction -- as human beings and as citizens, we pay aterrible price.
Our founders were pretty smart people. They knew weweren't perfect but we needed to strive for perfect ideals. And theybuilt us a country based on a Constitution that was literally madefor reconciliation -- for the honorable and principled resolution ofdifferences, rooted in a simple proposition that God created us allequal.
Now, because they created a freedom of religion, theycouldn't write in the Constitution, therefore the first and mostimportant commandment is this, to love your neighbor as yourself.But what they did write in that Constitution is, you are commanded torespect and treat your neighbor as yourself. That's still a prettygood guidepost for what we have to do.
On the eve of a new millennium, our country is more freeand equal than ever before, but we have to keep going until everybodyhas a chance to live out his or her dreams according to his or hercapacities and efforts; until everyone has a chance at a good job, adecent house on a safe street, health care and education for theirchildren; and most of all, the chance to be treated with dignity andrespect and to reap the full rewards of citizenship; to relish whatis different about themselves but respect what is different aboutothers.
We know that gaps still exist in all these areas betweenthe races, and we must work to bridge them. We must bridge theopportunity gaps. We must build an America where discrimination issomething you have to look in the history books to find. We have todo a lot of things to achieve that. Let me just try to say what mythoughts are kind of following up on what Dr. Franklin said.
The first thing we have to do is keep the conversationgoing. A real gap in perceptions still exist among the Americanpeople. Some believe that this is no longer really an issue, or it'sjust something that occurs when something terribly outrageoushappened, as did in Jasper, Texas. But it's not just that. It's anissue in the back of someone's mind every time a police officer ofone race pulls over somebody else of another race. It's an issue inthe back of everyone's mind every time a perfectly normal child isput in a remedial class because of the color of his or her skin orthe income of their parents.
We should not underestimate the power of dialogue andconversation to melt away misunderstanding and to change the humanheart. I am proud to say today that the National Conference forCommunity and Justice, led by Sandy Cloud, who is here, will soonconvene a group of religious leaders to continue this work offostering racial reconciliation. And I thank Sandy for taking onthis important job.
The second thing we have to do, again to echo what Dr.Franklin said, is to make sure we have the facts about race inAmerica. A lot of us have strong opinions on the subject; not all ofus have the facts to back them up. As a matter of fact, the more Istay in Washington, the more I realize that sometimes the veryability to hold strong opinions depends upon being able to be deaf tothe facts. (Laughter.) That's why I am very, very pleased that theCouncil of Economic Advisors, under the leadership of Janet Yellenand Rebecca Blank, has produced a book, "Changing America:Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and HispanicOrigin." And I commend it to all of you. It's also not too big.(Laughter.) You can digest it with some level of comfort. But it'sa good piece of work.
This book will help us to understand how far we havecome and what we still need to do in our efforts to extendopportunity to all our people.
Finally, we here in Washington have to act. We have putforward in this administration and within our balanced budget acomprehensive agenda to expand opportunity for all Americans ineconomic development, education, health care, housing, crime, creditand civil rights enforcement. Again, I thank the Cabinet for theirleadership on these fronts.
Just today, Small Business Administrator Aida Alvarezlaunched two major initiatives to streamline the application processfor loans guaranteed by the SBA for less than $150,000, to make thiscredit available on more flexible terms. The size and kind offinancing many minority- and women-owned businesses so desperatelyneed, as well as many other people in inner-city and rural areaswhere the unemployment rate is still high. (Applause.) Throughthese efforts, we estimate more than $1 billion in loans will beavailable to help businesses expand and create new jobs. We have tomake this opportunity available for more Americans.
I also would like to say I am still hoping that in thisbudget fight in the next few weeks, we can pass the economicopportunity agenda put forward by Secretary Cuomo and the VicePresident to provide more community development banks, morejob-creating initiatives in the inner cities and the isolated ruralareas where the economic recovery has not yet hit. (Applause.)Thank you.
Second, every place we went from North to South to Eastto West, all the people with whom we talked recognized that in thefuture education will be even more central to equality than it hasbeen in the past. We have to do a great deal to set high standardsand increase accountability, to eliminate the gaps and resources andachievement between the races, to give our children the opportunityto attend schools where diversity will help to prepare them for theworld in which they will live. We know too many schools are not asgood as they should be; we know too many students still are caught ina web of low expectations, low standards, poor teaching, crowdedclassrooms.
The budget that I have sent to Congress proposes neweducation opportunity zones to reward poor school districts thatfollow Chicago's lead and introduce sweeping reforms, to close downfailing schools, promote public school choice, eliminate socialpromotion but make sure students get the summer school andafter-school help they need. Today, the summer school in Chicago --the summer school -- is the sixth biggest school district in theUnited States, and over 40,000 kids are getting are getting threesquare meals a day there. So it's fine to say, no more socialpromotion if you give children the chance to learn and grow and do tothe best to of their ability. (Applause.) Thank you.
Today the House rejected that idea and instead passed ablock grant proposal that would eliminate accountability; reject theidea of national responsibility for helping communities to raisestandards, improve teaching, or bring the benefits of technology toour students. I also believe we have to pass this proposal toconnect every classroom and library to the Internet by the year 2000;otherwise, the poor kids will be left further behind.
We have a lot to do here. We have a lot to do in thecountry. We've got to keep the connection between what we do hereand what we do in the country, and that is a lot of what this boardhas recommended. So even though the work of the board is over, theyhave given us a continuing mission.
I will say again: if you look at the life of Rosa Parks,if you read the book that John Lewis has just produced about hislife, if you consider the sacrifice of two people who -- one justcame to visit me, Vaclav Havel, the President of the Czech Republic,and one will be with us in a few days, Nelson Mandela -- if you lookat all this, you see that a people's greatness only comes wheneverybody has a chance to be great. And it comes from, yes,opportunity; it comes from, yes, learning; it comes from, yes, theabsence of discrimination. But it also has to come from the presenceof reconciliation, from the turning away from the madness that lifeonly matters if there is someone we can demean, destroy, or put down.That is the eternal lesson of America.
We are now given a future of incomparable, kaleidoscopicpossibility and diversity. And somehow we have to implant in thesoul of every child that age-old seed of learning so that the futurecan be ours.
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When I told my husband that I thought it would be exciting to take an African safari, he wasn't fond of the idea. He said, "We'll be lucky if we see one sleepy lion surrounded by a dozen cars". Alas, he was wrong. We saw active lions every single day and lots of other beasts too, including the pair of rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) shown above.
Ngorongoro Crater (in Tanzania, East Africa) is indeed a wonder. It's one of world's largest (unbroken) calderas, measuring 610 meters (2,001 ft) deep and 260 square km (100 square miles) in size. This natural amphitheater was created about 2 million years ago when the cone of an ancient volcano collapsed into itself. The view above shows its rim in the distance. Because this impressive crater has a nearly permanent supply of water, a healthy population of lions, rhinos, zebras, hippos and wildebeests, among others, live here throughout the year -- migration to water isn't necessary.
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To improve population diet environmental strategies have been hailed the panacea because they require little agency or investment of personal resources; this contrasts with conventional strategies that rely on individuals to engage high levels of agency and make deliberate choices. There is an immediate need to improve understanding of the synergy between the psychological and environmental determinants of diet in order to optimise allocation of precious public health resources. This study examined the synergistic and relative association between a number of food environment and psychological factors and the dietary behaviours of a population sample of women with young children.
Women in Hampshire were recruited from children’s centres and asked about their demographic characteristics, psychological resources, dietary behaviours (food frequency questionnaire) and perceptions of healthy food access and affordability. Three local food environment factors were objectively assessed: i) spatial access to food outlets using activity spaces; ii) healthfulness of the supermarket where women did their main food shop, (based on nine in-store factors including price, placement and promotion on seven healthy and five less healthy foods); iii) nutrition environment of children’s centres visited frequently by the women, assessed via staff-administered questionnaire. A theoretical model linking environmental factors to dietary behaviours, both directly and indirectly through three factors representing individual agency (psychological resources, perceived food affordability, perceived food accessibility), was tested using Structural Equation Modelling.
Complete data were available for 753 women. The environment of women’s main supermarket was indirectly related to their dietary behaviours through psychological resources and perceived food affordability. Shopping at supermarkets classified as having a healthier in-store environment was associated with having greater psychological resources associated with healthy eating (standardised regression weight β = 0.14SD, p = 0.03) and fewer food affordability concerns (β = − 0.14SD, p = 0.01), which in turn related to healthier dietary behaviours (β = 0.55SD, < 0.001 and β = − 0.15, p = 0.01 respectively). The three food environment factors were not directly associated with dietary behaviour (p > 0.3). The overall model fit was good (CFI = 0.91, RMSEA = 0.05 [0.05, 0.06]).
This pathway analysis identified three focal points for intervention and suggests that high-agency interventions targeting individual psychological resources when combined with low-agency supermarket environment interventions may confer greater benefits on dietary behaviours than either intervention alone.
The limited effectiveness of educational and information campaigns at tackling stubborn public health problems like obesity and poor diet is now widely recognised [1, 2]. It has been proposed that these types of interventions are limited by their requirement for high levels of individual agency, or purposeful enactment of available psychological, cognitive, social and financial resources, to be effective [3, 4]. Alternative low-agency public health interventions, which require little investment of an individual’s resources and involve addressing the broader environmental determinants of health behaviours such as fiscal measures, school food policies or product reformulation, are considered to hold great potential for being effective and wide-reaching [3, 5]. Evidence from two systematic reviews supports the notion that high-agency obesity-prevention interventions, like nutrition information campaigns, produce relatively small effects, particularly among those with the poorest dietary behaviours [6, 7]. However, there is contradictory evidence from another review which found little difference in the influence of obesity-related policies on health inequalities according to their required level of agency . These findings suggest that calls to shift policy and research activity towards either low- or high-agency initiatives to improve health behaviours, like diet, may be oversimplifying the complexity of human behaviour [9, 10].
Contemporary theoretical frameworks, like the socioecological model, emphasise that health behaviours are the product of synergistic action between individual, social, environmental, policy and economic factors . A number of conceptual models also postulate specific pathways of influence, indicating that environmental factors can act directly on diet, and/or indirectly through psychological mediators such as perceived control [12–14]. However, with most research having focused on the direct relationships, few studies have tested potential mediators of the pathway between food environment exposures and diet [15, 16]. There is a clear need for empirical evidence to understand the relative effect of, and synergistic action between, the various psychological and environmental determinants of diet to inform appropriate allocation of precious public health resources .
This study applied the widely used conceptual framework, the model of community nutrition environments , to test the relative importance of a number of environmental and psychological factors in their association with dietary behaviours among a population sample of women with young children, with good representation of those from disadvantaged backgrounds. All model components were identified from existing evidence of dietary determinants among this population [15, 17–19].
The model (Fig. 1) posits that dietary behaviours are directly affected by three individual-level psychological factors: i) psychological resources (e.g. perceived control), ii) perceived food affordability, and iii) perceived food accessibility; these factors assume high levels of individual agency. The model also hypothesises that dietary behaviours are directly affected by three food environment factors that require lower levels of agency: i) spatial access to food outlets, ii) in-store environment of main supermarket, and iii) nutrition environment of children’s centres frequently visited. Finally, the model proposes synergistic action where the three food environment factors act indirectly on dietary behaviours, through the psychological factors. These direct and indirect relationships were examined using structural equation modelling (SEM). This technique has a number of advantages over other multivariate techniques including simultaneous assessment of multiple interrelated relationships to enable direct comparison, and improved estimation of relationships by using latent constructs to reduce measurement error .
This study was cross-sectional and used participant data from the Southampton Initiative for Health (SIH), a study of women attending Sure Start Children’s Centres in Hampshire, UK [21, 22]. Sure Start Children’s Centres were a UK government initiative introduced to provide health, education and support services for families with young children aged under 5 years . These centres emphasised support for vulnerable families and offered play groups, parenting courses, child health checks and housing or employment services. Healthy eating was a priority issue for Sure Start Children’s Centres with nutrition information, snacks and cooking sessions frequently offered to parents and children using these services . The environmental data originated from observational surveys of food outlets and a cross-sectional telephone survey with children’s centre staff. The study area covered the three council areas of the SIH (Southampton, Gosport and Havant) plus Eastleigh, Fareham and Portsmouth because participants reported food shopping and working in these neighbouring areas. Southampton, Portsmouth and Havant have concentrated areas of high deprivation and are ranked in the most deprived third of the 326 local authorities in England; Gosport, Eastleigh and Fareham are more affluent . More than 98% of the study area was classified as urban. All study procedures, including acquiring written consent from all participants, were conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki and were approved by the University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine Ethics Committee (SOMSEC025.09, SOMSEC033.09, SOMSEC037.09, SOMSEC065.10).
Participants were women who were pregnant or had a young child and whose home residence and main supermarket were located within the study area. All women were recruited while attending children’s centres located in Southampton, Gosport and Havant. Local Sure Start data indicated that 70% of children aged under 5 years were registered with one of their children’s centres at the time of the study . Detailed information about the 30% not registered was not available, however, children’s centre staff believed that the most advantaged and most disadvantaged families were least likely to engage with their services. A total of 509 participants who had previously completed the phase I SIH survey in 2009 undertook phase II by telephone between December 2010 and May 2011. During the same time period, an additional 412 were recruited in phase II to enhance sample numbers and completed the questionnaire face-to-face. Analysis of differences between the two groups of participants showed that mothers completing only phase II were younger (p < 0.001), more likely to have one child (p < 0.001), had lower levels of educational attainment (p = 0.04) and lived in more deprived neighbourhoods (p = 0.02) than mothers who completed both Phase I and II surveys. The phase II recruitment bolstered the numbers of disadvantaged mothers and by combining both groups the sample in this study had representation from across the socioeconomic spectrum. All participant information was treated as cross-sectional.
Questions were asked about women’s age, number of children, highest educational qualification attained, home postcode, and postcodes of frequently visited locations (main supermarket, workplace, children’s centre, general practitioner and physical activity site). Home postcode was used to determine participants’ level of neighbourhood deprivation according to quintiles of the 2007 English Index of Deprivation income domain . The questionnaire also included items relating to dietary behaviours, psychological resources and perceptions of the local food environment which are described below.
Table 1 summarises the four measures used to describe the dietary outcome latent construct: dietary quality score, fruit intake, fast-food intake and takeaway food intake. A dietary quality score was calculated for each participant using a 20-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) The score has been validated against serum folate, a biomarker of nutritional status . Participants were asked how often in the previous month they consumed each of the 20 foods. Dietary quality scores were calculated by multiplying consumption frequency for each item by corresponding coefficients identified from a principal components analysis and summing the results. Scores were standardised to have a mean of zero and standard deviation (SD) of one. Higher scores represented better dietary quality aligned with the national Department of Health and Social Care’s dietary recommendations in England (The Eatwell Guide) , characterised by higher intakes of vegetables and wholegrain bread, and lower intakes of processed meats, crisps and granulated sugar added to cereals, tea or coffee. Fruit intake was assessed separately by a question that asked how often in the previous month fresh fruit was consumed . Fast food and takeaway intake were assessed by asking how often in the past month foods from i) fast food chains and ii) independent takeaway outlets were consumed [30, 31]. Examples of fast food chains and takeaway outlets were provided to facilitate appropriate responses. Exploratory factor analysis showed these four measured variables loaded onto a single dietary latent construct using qualitative assessment and quantitative criteria of eigenvalue greater than one and factor loadings greater than 0.32 . The total variance explained by the dietary latent construct was 23%.
Total space covered by set of Euclidean 1000m (0.6 mile) buffers around postcode centroid of home and other frequently visited locations including main supermarket, work, GP, Sure Start children’s centre and physical activity location.
Table 1 summarises the measures used to describe the three latent constructs that represent individual agency (psychological resources, perceived food affordability, perceived food accessibility). These constructs were identified from exploratory factor analysis of measured variables previously theorised and shown to predict dietary behaviours [12, 18, 19, 34]. The total variance explained by the three psychological constructs was 45%. Two measured variables, i) social support for fruit and vegetable purchasing and ii) perceived accessibility of healthy takeaway options in residential neighbourhood, returned very low factor loadings indicating that these variables represent different underlying processes to the other measured variables; they were therefore omitted.
The psychological resources latent construct was characterised by four measured variables: i) perceived control over life, ii) self-efficacy for healthy eating, iii) healthy eating outcome expectancies, and iv) food involvement. These variables were measured using published scales with good reliability (Table 1) [35–38]. The perceived food affordability latent construct was characterised by two measured variables to assess participants’ food circumstances in the past year. Participants were asked whether they could afford to buy i) enough food and ii) balanced meals . The perceived food accessibility latent construct was characterised by three measured variables that assessed participant’s perceptions of i) food accessibility, ii) the variety of fresh fruit and vegetables and iii) the quality of fresh produce within a 10–15 min walk or 5 minute drive from their home . These perceived food environment measures were adapted from those used in previous research (Table 1).
Table 1 summarises the measures used to describe the three environmental latent constructs. Exploratory factor analysis was used to determine the measured variables that characterised the spatial access to food outlets latent construct. Four measures of spatial access were included: i) square kilometre of individual activity space ii) variety of supermarkets in activity space, iii) food environment score for healthy outlets in activity space, and iv) food environment score for unhealthy outlets in activity space. The total variance explained by the spatial access to food outlet latent construct was 55%. The methods used to collect the spatial access data and create the individualised activity spaces and food environment scores have been described elsewhere . In brief, individualised activity spaces were produced by creating 1000 m (0.6 mile) buffers around postcode centroids of home and frequently visited locations using ArcGIS . Buffers that overlapped were merged into one space and the total area was calculated (km2). Cross-sectional food outlet data were collected during observational ‘ground-truthing’ of the study area between July 2010 and June 2011. A total of 1787 outlets were geocoded to postcode centroid using Geoconvert and ArcGIS (< 3% of locations did not match and Google maps was used to identify a proximal address). Coordinates for 20 types of retail and takeaway food outlets were overlaid onto activity spaces to determine the variety of supermarkets, and derive a healthy and an unhealthy food environment score for each participant (Table 1). The food environment scores (FES) represented spatial access to healthy and unhealthy food outlets respectively, and included weightings to characterise the healthfulness of the in-store environments based on the availability of healthy or unhealthy foods in each outlet type .
The environment of main supermarket latent construct was described by a composite score representing the healthfulness of the in-store environment of each participant’s main supermarket (where they did most of their food shopping) using published methods . In brief, information about nine in-store factors (variety, price, quality, promotion, shelf placement, store placement, nutrition information, healthier alternatives, and single fruit sale) on 12 foods known to discriminate between better and poorer dietary quality were collected via in-store surveys. Data were collected between July 2010 to June 2011, to correspond with timing of participant interviews, from all supermarkets and convenience stores located in the study area. These data were used to create a standardized healthfulness z-score for each supermarket where women shopped (Table 1). The single composite score was used because conceptually all nine components are considered important indicators of the in-store environment.
Exploratory factor analysis revealed that four measured variables characterised the children’s centre nutrition practices latent construct: i) food policy content, ii) healthy eating ethos, iii) availability of healthy eating information, and iv) barriers to promoting healthy eating. The total variance explained by the children’s centre nutrition practices latent construct was 46%. Data were collected via cross-sectional telephone survey, from August to October 2011, with a convenience sample of 86 staff members at 28 children’s centres located in the study area. Responses from staff members of the same centre (n = 2–5) were averaged to provide a single response from each centre for each item. The measured children’s centre nutrition practices variables were assessed using items adapted from published scales that assessed the nutrition environment of childcare centres and kindergartens (Table 1) [45, 46].
The distribution of all measured variables was screened prior to modelling. Two variables, the healthy and unhealthy food environment scores, were positively skewed and subsequently log transformed. To set a common scale for the analyses, all variables were standardised to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one. Stata statistical software package version 13.0 was used to transform variables, conduct sensitivity analyses (t-test for continuous variables and Chi Squared test for categorical variables) and to summarize participants’ socio-demographic, behavioural, psychological and environmental variables. IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0 was used for exploratory factor analysis and IBM SPSS AMOS 22.0 for model testing.
Testing a model in SEM involves two key stages: i) measurement model – confirms measured variables are significantly and adequately related to the model’s constructs; and ii) structural model – tests validity of relationships between constructs in the model . Confirmatory factor analysis was applied to validate three measurement models incorporating: i) dietary behaviours, psychological, perceived affordability and perceived accessibility latent constructs, ii) spatial access to food outlets construct, and iii) children’s centre nutrition practices construct. For the structural model, given that the three environmental constructs are likely to be related, covariance between these three constructs was set. The environment of main supermarket construct was defined by a single measured variable. It is recommended in these cases that the error variance be set to the variance multiplied by [s.d.2 * (1-α)] , where α is the Cronbach’s alpha statistic.
The measurement and structural models were assessed for fit using five fit indices: Goodness-of-Fit Index (GFI ≥0.90 indicates good fit), Adjusted Goodness-of-Fit Index (AGFI ≥0.90 indicates good fit), Comparative Fit Index (CFI ≥0.90 indicates good fit), Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA < 0.08 indicates good fit), and standardised Root Mean Square Residual (sRMR < 0.08 indicates good fit) [20, 51]. Bootstrap procedure is recommended for testing the significance of indirect effects . It was run with 2000 samples to produce pathway coefficients and 95% bias-corrected confidence intervals for the overall indirect associations of each environmental construct on diet through the three psychological constructs because AMOS is unable to examine the indirect effects of specific pathways containing latent constructs. In the adjusted model, confounding variables (age, number of children, educational attainment and quintile of neighbourhood deprivation) were added by creating direct associations from each covariate to the dietary behaviour latent construct and the psychological constructs.
Of the 921 women who completed the phase II SIH survey, 82% (n = 753) had complete data and were included in this study. Participants excluded (n = 168), due to incomplete data, had higher educational attainment (p < 0.001) than those included but showed no difference in age, number of children or level of neighbourhood deprivation (p > 0.2).
Table 2 presents the socio-demographic characteristics and dietary behaviours of the 753 participants with complete data. The mean age of the sample was 32 years (SD 6) and the vast majority had one or two children (80%). The age of children ranged from new born to 17 years but over three quarters (77%) were aged 5 years or younger. More than one third of participants (37%) had not attained an educational qualification after the age of 16 years and nearly a quarter (22%) lived in neighbourhoods within the most deprived quintile in England. Almost two thirds (60%) reported not being in paid employment. The mean dietary quality score for the sample was zero (SD 1), and the scores ranged from − 2.8 to 2.9. One standard deviation improvement in dietary score is equivalent to eating salad vegetables up to six times more often, and crisps up to six times less often a week. More than two thirds of women (70%) reported eating fruit once a day or more, while 38% and 21% reported never eating fast food or takeaway in the past month respectively.
Table 3 presents the descriptive findings for each of the psychological and environmental measured variables grouped by construct. The average for all psychological resources variables was towards the upper limit of the scales indicating women generally felt a good sense of control over life, confidence in eating healthily and health benefits resulted from eating healthily, and were involved in food-related activities. Not having enough money to buy food or balanced meals was a problem for less than a fifth of women (17% and 13% respectively). Most women agreed or strongly agreed that they could complete their food shopping (75%), had a good variety of fruit and vegetables (67%), and had good quality fresh produce (79%) in their local neighbourhood. The spatial access to food outlet measures showed that the median geographical area of women’s individualised activity spaces was 10 km2 (IQR 8, 12) and that most women had access to three different types of supermarkets within this area. The median food environment score for healthy outlets was 98SD (IQR 69, 136) and the median food environment score for unhealthy outlets was -175SD (IQR -122, − 615), indicating that most women had greater exposure to unhealthy than healthy food outlets while undertaking their daily activities. The median healthfulness score for the 51 supermarkets where participant’s purchased most of their groceries was 1.8SD (IQR 1.7, 1.9), with scores ranging from − 0.7 to 2.2. One-SD difference in healthfulness score is equivalent to a more healthful store having 11 more varieties of healthy foods, double the number of healthier alternatives of less healthy food products, and a cheaper mean price (£/portion) of the healthy than the less healthy foods (up to 31 pence). The children’s centre nutrition practice measures showed a high median food policy score (40SD; IQR 33, 41), healthy eating ethos score (40SD; IQR 37, 41) and healthy eating information score (9SD; IQR 8, 10), indicating that promoting healthy eating was a priority in most centres; though staff reported a moderate number of barriers to promoting healthy eating (4SD; IQR 3, 4).
Model fit was good for the dietary measurement model (GFI = 1.00, AGFI = 0.97, CFI = 0.97, RMSEA = 0.06 [0.02, 0.11], sRMR = 0.02) and for the measurement model incorporating the three psychological constructs (GFI = 0.98, AGFI = 0.96, CFI = 0.96, RMSEA = 0.05 [0.04, 0.07], sRMR = 0.04). The spatial access to food outlets measurement model showed adequate fit (GFI = 0.99, AGFI = 0.96, CFI = 0.99, RMSEA = 0.09 [0.05, 0.13], sRMR = 0.01). The children’s centre nutrition practices nutrition model revealed good fit for all indices (GFI = 0.98, AGFI = 0.92, CFI = 0.97, sRMR = 0.04), except RMSEA (0.12 [0.08, 0.17]). Post hoc modifications showed that placing a co-variance between the error terms for the healthy eating ethos and food policy variables improved model fit (GFI = 1.00, AGFI = 0.98, CFI = 1.00, RMSEA = 0.06 [0.00, 0.13], sRMR = 0.01). This action is justified by evidence showing that organisational policies influence organisational ethos, particularly the behaviours and attitudes of management and staff .
Overall model fit for the structural model was good (GFI = 0.93, AGFI = 0.91, CFI = 0.91, RMSEA = 0.05 [0.05, 0.06], sRMR = 0.05). Figure 1 shows that the indicator variables generally loaded well on the latent constructs with most (72%) having factor loadings greater than 0.50 and only one a poor factor loading (< 0.32). All measured variables showed significant associations with their corresponding construct (p < 0.01) and the total variance in diet explained by the psychological and environmental constructs was 37%.
Figure 2 shows the standardised regression weights of associations between constructs for the structural model. None of the environmental constructs were directly associated with diet (all p > 0.3). Spatial access to food outlets was not associated with any of the psychological constructs (all p > 0.2) and children’s centre nutrition practices was only associated with one psychological construct (β = − 0.26SD, p < 0.001; others p > 0.1): better centre nutrition practices were associated with poorer perceptions of local healthy food access. Perceived access to healthy food however was not associated with the diet construct (p = 0.7). The environment of women’s main supermarket was positively associated with the psychological resources construct (β = 0.14SD, p = 0.03) and negatively associated with the perceived food affordability construct (β = − 0.14SD, p = 0.01), whereby women who shopped at supermarkets with healthier environments (i.e. better availability, pricing and placement of healthy foods) had more psychological resources attuned to healthy eating and fewer concerns about affording food or balanced meals. The psychological resources and perceived food affordability constructs were both significantly associated with the diet construct: women with more psychological resources attuned to healthy eating had better diets (β = 0.55SD, p < 0.001), while those with greater food affordability concerns had poorer diets (β = − 0.15SD, p = 0.01). The indirect association between supermarket environment and diet through the three psychological constructs was significant (β = 0.07, 95%CI 0.004, 0.071). Indirect associations with diet through the three psychological constructs were not significant for spatial access to food outlets or children’s centre nutrition environment (β = 0.03, 95%CI -0.01, 0.07 and β = − 0.04, 95%CI -0.08, 0.01 respectively).
Adjustment for covariates known to predict diet (age, number of children, educational attainment, neighbourhood deprivation) weakened the model goodness of fit indices slightly (GFI = 0.92, AGFI = 0.89, CFI = 0.89) however, the badness of fit indices remained within recognised limits (RMSEA = 0.06 [0.05, 0.06], sRMR = 0.06). There was little alteration in the strength or significance of the associations between constructs after adjustment; only the relationship between perceived food affordability and diet attenuated (p = 0.2). Each of the four potentially confounding variables were significantly associated with the diet construct (all p < 0.05). The indirect association between main supermarket environment and diet, through the three psychological constructs, remained significant after adjustment (β = 0.03, 95%CI 0.004, 0.07).
This study is one of very few to examine the pathways between dietary behaviour and multiple food environment and psychological factors. The overall model predicted dietary behaviours well. The results support the hypothesis that low-agency environmental determinants and high-agency individual determinants are synergistically associated with dietary behaviours: the in-store environments of women’s primary supermarkets were indirectly associated with their dietary behaviours, acting via their individual-level resources. More specifically, shopping at less healthful supermarkets (where availability, pricing and promotion favoured unhealthy foods) was associated with women having fewer psychological resources for healthy eating and poorer dietary behaviours. Use of less healthful supermarkets was also associated with greater food affordability concerns and poorer dietary behaviours (though the latter weakened after adjustment for confounding variables). Our results showed that the association between psychological resources and dietary behaviour had the largest effect size of all associations in the model. However, the strength of relationships between the supermarket environment and psychological resources and food affordability resources were not insubstantial, particularly if population reach is considered . No direct associations between women’s dietary behaviours and the three environmental factors or women’s perceived access to healthy food access were observed.
This pathway analysis pinpoints three focal points for intervention to improve population diet: i) the in-store environment of supermarkets, ii) an individual’s psychological resources for healthy eating and iii) an individual’s perceived affordability of healthy food. Moreover, our findings suggests that interventions are most likely to be effective if strategies targeting these focal points are implemented concurrently. Supermarkets are an important source of food for many people [55–57] and therefore offer an important setting for public health intervention to improve population diet. A systematic review of nutrition intervention studies in supermarkets and grocery stores revealed good evidence that low-agency price reduction interventions increase purchases and/or intake of healthy foods, and some evidence for high-agency nutrition information strategies (e.g. shelf or product labels, posters and flyers) improving dietary behaviours . Assessment of study quality however identified that most of the research was poor, having medium to high risk of bias. Three high quality randomised control trials from New Zealand , Australia and the Netherlands assessed the independent effects of: i) nutrition/behaviour change materials, ii) price reduction (12.5, 20 and 50% respectively) on fruit and vegetables, iii) price reduction plus nutrition/behaviour change materials or iv) no intervention, on supermarket purchases of targeted foods. The mechanisms underlying these interventions were that increased psychological resources (i.e. nutrition knowledge, self-efficacy) in addition to price reductions on healthy foods would together improve the healthiness of food purchases. These three studies showed that nutrition/behaviour change materials alone had no effect on fruit and vegetable purchases while price reduction alone and price reduction plus nutrition/behaviour change materials increased fruit and vegetable purchases; though the latter had little additive effect over price reduction alone. At first glance, these effectiveness trials appear inconsistent with our modelling results. However, the nature of the price reduction strategies meant that participants were not blinded to the intervention and were fully aware of the reduced cost of fruit and vegetables. It is therefore highly probable that participants’ perceptions of the affordability of healthy foods (i.e. fruit and vegetables) improved, particularly among low-income groups; whether this mediated the increase in purchasing was not tested in these studies.
The process evaluation results from the Australian trial supports the notion that price reduction improved perceptions of fruit and vegetable affordability . More than two thirds of the participants who used the price discounts reported doing so because they saved money. Additionally, many perceived that the discount enabled them to buy more fruit and vegetables, or a greater variety of fruit and vegetables, particularly the more expensive types. Furthermore, participants reported that the discount made them feel appreciated and rewarded for making healthy choices; suggesting that low-agency environmental strategies may also enhance an individual’s psychological resources. This process evaluation, and our study results, suggest that strategies to improve the supermarket environment could help to improve an individual’s psychological resources. Something as obvious as product price reduction may facilitate improvements in self-efficacy and sense of control when buying healthy food products because individuals face fewer financial or physical barriers to healthy eating. Such mechanistic pathways are yet to be tested in intervention research but would be particularly relevant among low socioeconomic populations who hold fewer psychological resources than those more advantaged [63, 64].
Our findings suggest that high-agency interventions targeting individual psychological resources when combined with low-agency supermarket environment interventions may confer greater benefits on dietary behaviours than either intervention alone. The three supermarket trials described above found no such additive effect. One possible explanation is poor engagement with the nutrition/ behaviour change materials [61, 62]. Our measure of psychological resources excluded nutrition knowledge because there is growing consensus that just giving people information about what they need to do to change their health behaviour is ineffective . By illustration, the Australian trial’s process evaluation revealed that participants could recall the healthy eating messages they received and reported liking the recipe ideas but used them infrequently . An alternative to traditional educational approaches is to treat people, not as lacking knowledge, but as experts of their lives and their behaviours, helping them to break down their behaviours at the time and places where they occur and supporting them to act differently [2, 22]. Such an approach, when combined with low-agency environmental strategies, may help individuals to break the automatic patterns of purchasing unhealthy foods in some environments and create consistently healthy dietary practices. New technologies offer great potential to prompt people to reflect at times and places where they are undertaking dietary behaviours such as food shopping and cooking.
The lack of association we found between women’s dietary behaviours and their spatial access to food outlets or perceived access to healthy foods is consistent with findings from a systematic review of observational food environment research . A systematic review of intervention studies measuring the effect of a new supermarket opening on the diets of nearby residents also found little evidence that enhanced access to supermarkets improved dietary behaviours . However, in contrast to our results, the review showed that perceived access to healthy foods improved consistently across studies and the authors recommended longer follow-up periods to ascertain possible delayed dietary effects. Another of our findings showed that better children’s centre nutrition environments were associated with poorer perceptions of healthy food access. We reason that children’s centres with good nutrition policies and healthy eating activities may heighten women’s awareness of the importance of eating healthily and of the high numbers of unhealthy food outlets in their neighbourhoods. The children’s centres in this study were predominantly located in more deprived neighbourhoods which have a high prevalence of fast food outlets . Our work provides evidence to support continuation of nutrition-related activities in children’s centres.
In this study we used a novel application of SEM to determine the relative strength of associations in a multi-component model to pinpoint areas for future intervention to improve population diet. The model was derived from previous theoretical and empirical work. By using latent constructs, SEM enables relationships to be measured free of error because the error for each construct is estimated and removed, leaving only common variance to calculate more accurate relationship estimates . Additionally, SEM enables simultaneous assessment of direct and indirect associations between multiple constructs allowing relative comparison of the strength of relationships in addition to providing measures of statistical significance . The use of actual exposures, including main supermarket and activity spaces, and the temporal connection between the collection of food environment, individual and dietary data increases confidence in the study findings. Finally, our sample had good representation of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The findings of this study are limited by the use of cross-sectional data which precludes conclusions relating to cause and effect. The setting within Hampshire, UK, somewhat limits the generalisability of the findings to other populations. Our study showed good model fit, however, this does not necessarily conclude that all necessary constructs have been included in the model . For example, the home nutrition environment and social support for healthy eating have been shown to play a significant role in path analyses of previous obesity-related pathway models [50, 66]. We did not account for potential self-selection bias in our analyses . It is therefore not clear the extent to which women in our study chose to conduct their daily activities in the areas they did because of the food outlets available to them, and how this may have affected our results. We applied a model that was linear in direction which may have under-represented the interplay or antagonistic actions between constructs. Testing the model’s pathways in intervention studies among different populations could help validate and/or improve the model and enhance its generalizability.
Our findings provide empirical evidence for individual dietary behaviours being linked to both the environments of the supermarkets where women shop and their psychological resources. Policy initiatives in supermarkets that are likely to be effective at improving population diet, including the provision of greater varieties and cheaper pricing of healthy foods whilst simultaneously reducing promotions of unhealthy foods. When coupled with interventions to enhance psychological resources, such as nutrition self-efficacy and perceptions of healthy food affordability, these strategies are likely to be maximally effective. Individual strategies that hold great potential, particularly among those with the poorest diets, are those that steer away from simply providing nutrition information and towards encouraging people to recognise environmental manipulations and to feel good about having made healthy food choices. Researchers have a vital role in working with retailers to scientifically evaluate, using factorial methodologies, the pathways identified in this study and any differential effects by socioeconomic status.
We are grateful to the mothers and children, Sure Start children’s centre staff and store managers who participated in the Southampton Initiative for Health. We thank the broader Southampton Initiative for Health team for their contributions to the study. We offer particularly thanks to Jamie Lawrence for her assistance with the food environment data collection and to Patsy Coakley for computing support.
This research and the authors of this paper are supported by the following funding sources: United Kingdom NIHR fellowship, United Kingdom Medical Research Council and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton. Kylie Ball is supported by a Principal Research Fellowship from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the UK Department of Health and Social Care or NHMRC.
The dataset can be made available upon request, subject to appropriate approvals. Researchers wishing to use the data can make a formal application to the Southampton Initiative for Health Oversight Group by emailing mrcleu@mrc.soton.ac.uk. Subject to approval that the intended purpose is compatible with the study’s ethical approval, and formal agreements regarding confidentiality and secure data storage being signed, the data would then be provided.
CV and JB conceived of the study, designed the food environment audit tools, coordinated the data collection, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. CV, GA and GN performed the data preparation and statistical analyses. KB, GM, MEB and CC participated in the design of the study and provided methodological advice. All authors contributed to the draft manuscript and approved the final manuscript.
All study procedures, including acquiring written consent from all participants, were conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki and were approved by the University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine Ethics Committee (SOMSEC025.09, SOMSEC033.09, SOMSEC037.09, SOMSEC065.10).
CV, GN, GA, GM and KB have no conflicts of interests to declare and no further financial disclosures to make. JB and MB have received grant research support from Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition. CC has received consultancy, lecture fees and honoraria from AMGEN, GSK, Alliance for Better Bone Health, MSD, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Novartis, Servier, Medtronic and Roche. The study described in this manuscript is not related to any of these relationships.
UK Department of Health and Social Care. The Eatwell Guide. HM Government. 2016; [https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/the-eatwell-guide/]. Accessed 18 Nov 2018.
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He plays in Parma and needs an update.
And change to PES 2013 set.
You better elaborate if you want those suggestions to be taken into account, just warning you for first and last time, I will delete that kind of posts in the future without any problem.
Add his club name to his name.
Even tho he is a bad player overall he has some decent atributes.
His attack needs to go down, its true he likes to attack but most of the time he has no idea what to do and he waits too much before making a decission. Maybe something like 65-66 would work better.
Acceleration needs to be decreased at least 10 points. He takes way too long before show any good TS. Also TS may go down to 78 or 79.
Agility also need to be decreased this guy takes forever to make a turn, he is a "tronco". Values like 65-67 would work better.
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During an epidemic of visceral leishmaniasis in the Sudan, two cases of congenital kala-azar were seen. The first child, whose mother had contracted kala-azar in southern Sudan, was born in Khartoum, where no transmission of leishmaniasis is currently occurring. At seven months, the child had fever, lymphadenopathy, and hepatosplenom-egaly; leishmania parasites were detected in the bone marrow. The child died and an autopsy showed leishmania parasites in all tissues including the lungs, kidneys, and thymus. In the second case, parasites were found in the placenta of a five-month-old fetus. These two cases demonstrate the importance of followup of infants born to mothers with leishmaniasis.
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Following the success of Surtex earlier this year Dot Dash Design Studio are thrilled to announce we will be exhibiting our print and pattern collections at Brand Licensing Europe.
Look forward to seeing you there from 13th-15th October on Stand J43! Pop by and say Hello!
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Asian markets have undergone a significant change in the past decade, particularly within the energy sector. As the region’s economy grew rapidly, China emerged as the world’s second largest energy consumer, which in turn drove the growth of the firm in Hong Kong. Today, Baker Botts is well suited to assist energy sector clients with their business and investment needs, not just in China, but across the Pacific Rim.
Baker Botts, a Registered Foreign Law Firm, has represented clients involved in major energy projects in Asia over the course of three decades. Since 2005, we have served as a regional hub, supporting our clients throughout the region. We advise both Asian based clients as well as global clients looking to invest in Asia.
Along with our emphasis on the energy industry, Baker Botts also provides corporate and private equity clients with cross-border mergers and acquisitions capabilities throughout Asia, with an emphasis on China. We also have considerable experience representing parties to international arbitration in the region including Hong Kong and Singapore.
Our lawyers have earned recognition from third-party sources. Chambers Asia, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Guide to the World’s Leading Energy Attorneys and the International Who’s Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers researchers ranked our lawyers for their work for clients in the energy and natural resources and projects practice areas. We pride ourselves on the team approach we bring to every engagement, and we believe our collaborative approach improves the results we earn for our clients.
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Hello mates 👋, hope you’ve had a refreshing start to the year, we certainly did!
We had a good time celebrating Makar Sankranti at rtCamp, with some delicious til ke laddus and festive fruits. Some rtCampers took this opportunity to share how the festival is celebrated across different cultures.
We wish you all the sweetest start to the new year as we celebrate Makar Sankrant, at work!
We enjoyed a fun prelude celebration for our 10th anniversary, by making a weekend trip to Tapola. We took this opportunity to meet and greet our entire team and welcome the 10 new team members, who joined us earlier this month.
The weekend was a perfect opportunity to chill and have fun along the banks of the Tapola river camp. Accompanied by singing, beatboxing and Shayari performances, we celebrated 10 years of being in business. After all, the quote “Work Hard, Play Harder” is exactly what we believe in!
We released newer versions of EasyEngine V4, which introduce new features and fixes. We have now included CloudFlare integration and also enhanced the process to get near zero downtime, while switching between site configurations. Read more to know more about other updates and many more notable fixes.
On the other hand, v4.0.10 introduces support for adding custom SSL certificates, which will make it easy for users to renew their SSL certificate. Via custom webroot, all the configurations will be set up by EasyEngine itself, to cater to the custom ci-cd needs of the user. Click here to know more about these features.
We’ve released the latest version of our plugin- rtMedia 4.5.5 which comes with visual enhancement and also improves the search feature, media upload BuddyPress activity, Uploader Shortcode, and BuddyPress Public messages.
We’ve also released add-ons to Amazon S3, which fixes the image editing issue, and rtMedia 5 Star Ratings which rectifies issues related to the album rating operations and settings. Here is how you can update to the latest version.
We have the first local event of 2019 at our home ground, WordCamp Pune, in February. Here, we have a bunch of rtCampers who are going to be participating in different capacities. During the same time, our CEO, Rahul Bansal, will be traveling to attend WordCamp Bangkok, where he will be giving a talk about “Art of Pricing”.
Since we’re going to be participants and sponsors of WordCamp Pune and WordCamp Bangkok, we were quite keen on attending both the WordCamps. However, as they both fall on the same day, we will have to split our team between the two events.
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Heavy duty butchers apron. 35" x 45" x 22 oz material. This is the top-of-the-line apron.
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There is only one bsn school in Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts. It is Roxbury Community College. The school's website has a Google Page Rank of 6. Roxbury Community College appears to maintain its site on a regular basis, as is indicated by the fact that there are not many broken links just one click away from the homepage.
The colors used on the website for the only bsn school in Roxbury Crossing are white for 28% of the site and grey for 5.6% of the site.
The primary font used on website of Roxbury Crossing's only bsn school is Tahoma.
Roxbury Community College has a Facebook page with 72 "likes".
Roxbury Community College does not have a YouTube channel.
Roxbury Community College has been bookmarked on Delicious 4 times.
Roxbury Community College does not have a Compete Rank, reflecting a negligible number of unique visitors. The school has a SEOMoz Page Authority rank of 45.7.
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Here are a few upcoming dates and reminders to keep in mind.
The TMS sweatshirt store will be up again starting April 1st! Toano students can order uniform polo’s and pants this spring on our online store again. A variety of sweatshirts will be offered including the new design. All items can be ordered online at agpestores.com/atlanticandschmidemb/groups.php by using a debit card or credit card. A direct link to this site is available on the TMS webpage. The online store will be open starting April 1st, 2019 until April 16th, 2019. All purchases will be delivered to TMS the second week of May.
April 10th and 11th: Tiger Walk Extravaganza during Physical Education classes.
April 11th: Final Event – Color Splash Fundraiser Finale for qualifying students at end of school day.
April 12th: Report Card will be sent home.
Calling all 8th Grade Families: It is time to begin planning for the 8th Grade Semi-Formal Dance. Please come out and help with this process. We will be meeting Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 6:30 PM in the TMS Cafeteria. To help make this event a success and memorable for our students, your help will be needed. Looking forward seeing you there.
8th Grade Semi-Formal Dance will be held Friday, May 31, 2019, from 6:30-9:00PM. More details will be forthcoming.
The 8th Grade Stepping Up Ceremony will be held June 12, 2019 at Warhill High School. Ceremony will begin at 6:30 PM. Students are to be at Warhill by 6:00 PM.
In an effort to recognize more students who make positive decisions on a daily basis, the Toano Middle School Community has implemented a peer recognition program. On a monthly basis, students have the opportunity to nominate a peer who consistently demonstrates our core values. Students who are selected are recognized on the Tiger News and receive a PRIDE t-shirt. Thank you for your continued support in our effort to teach students our core P.R.I.D.E. values of being Prepared, showing Respect, having Integrity, being Determined, and Empowering others.
Please visit our school webpage (https://wjccschools.org/tms/) for additional information about the things happening here at Toano Middle School.
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But how much leave are we obligated to provide?
For ages, I’ve carefully counseled my clients on this issue, recognizing that the courts (and EEOC) have declined to offer any meaningful guidance on how much leave beyond FMLA employers are required to provide. Is it two months? Four? How ’bout six?
There has been no plausible answer. Until now.
In the matter of weeks, one rather influential federal appellate court has issued not one, but two decisions that set a far clearer path for employers to follow when deciding whether and how much additional leave they need to provide as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA. Let me quickly explain these cases and offer practical steps you should consider when analyzing an employee’s request for leave.
Unless you’ve been securely wedged under a Human Resources rock over the past several weeks, you’ve been bombarded with alerts about the Severson case.
The facts of this case are fairly straightforward. Ray was employed at Heartland Woodcraft, and he suffered from a chronic back condition, which occasionally flared up and limited his ability to walk, bend, lift, sit stand, move and work. One such flare up caused Sugar Ray to take a continuous leave from work. He asked for and was granted 12 weeks of FMLA leave.
Two weeks before his FMLA leave expired, Ray informed Heartland that his condition had not improved and that he would need surgery. Heartland notified Ray the day before his surgery that his employment with Heartland would end when his FMLA leave expired the following day. However, it encouraged him to reapply for employment when he was able to return. As the story goes, he was ready to return several months later, but instead of reapplying, Ray filed an ADA lawsuit claiming, among other things, that his employer failed to provide a reasonable accommodation by granting him an extended leave of absence.
Intermittent time off or a short leave of absence—say, a couple of days or even a couple of weeks—may, in appropriate circumstances, be analogous to a part-time or modified work schedule. . . But a medical leave spanning multiple months does not permit the employee to perform the essential functions of his job. To the contrary, the inability to work for a multi-month period removes a person from the class protected by the ADA.
As I shared with Law360 and Bloomberg BNA, it’s as if employers have been given a piece of the Holy Grail! For ages, we’ve searched for a more defined limit on how much leave an employer is obligated to provide under the ADA as a reasonable accommodation. This influential circuit court, at least, has defined this boundary for us.
Notably, weeks after the Severson case above was decided, the same appellate court doubled down on its position that the ADA was not a leave of absence statute and that leave beyond a couple of weeks simply is not required under the ADA.
Marytza’s case also is simple fact pattern. She suffered from breast cancer, requiring surgery and an extended leave. As her 12 weeks of FMLA leave was about to expire, she sought an unspecified period of leave, which could have lasted as much as six months. Her employer, the Indianapolis Housing Agency, declined to grant more than four additional weeks of leave. When Marytza could not return from work after 16 weeks off (12 weeks of FMLA leave and 4 additional weeks), her employer terminated her employment.
These two cases are, in many respects, a game changer. But what are the practical takeaways?
1. Where Can I Get Aggressive? For my clients in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana (states covered by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals), I clearly am being more aggressive in the manner in which I handle ADA leave requests. This court’s guidance is golden [no pun intended]: A few days or weeks of leave is likely required under the ADA. But one that is open-ended and spans multiple months simply is not.
2. For clients in other states, I’m using these cases as strong authority, but I’m not slamming the gas pedal. Let’s remember: Engaging the Employee in the ADA’s Interactive Process is Essential. Communicate during FMLA leave…after FMLA leave ends…and at all times before and in between!
When a client calls me for guidance on whether they can deny leave or terminate an employee after he or she has asked for the second or third extension of leave (after FMLA has expired), I ask the client for feedback on all the communications they have had with the employee regarding issues such as: a) the employee’s ability to perform his/her job; b) whether the employee likely will be able to return to work (and when); c) whether the requested leave will allow the employee to return to work immediately after the leave ends or very soon thereafter; d) whether there are other accommodations to help the employee return to work in a timely manner; and e) whether the employer has received any feedback from the employee’s physician about the above issues. The EEOC’s decision to initiate litigation against an employer often hinges on whether the employer is to blame for the breakdown in the interactive process. To minimize your exposure to liability, keep communicating with your employees! The interactive process is essential.
3. Approach the Undue Hardship Analysis Carefully. In an earlier post, I highlighted a presentation I gave some time back with EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum that analyzes the approach employers should take when determining whether a leave request poses an undue hardship. In that post, I offer a number of criteria you should consider when making this determination. I encourage you to use this analysis when determining whether a leave of absence is negatively impacting your operations.
4. A Quick Word of Caution about Intermittent Leave. Notably, in both the Severson and Golden cases, the employee’s return to work date was unclear, which often is the case. The court in Severson left open the possibility that a shorter leave period — indeed, intermittent leave — might actually be more palatable as a reasonable accommodation under the ADA. All the more reason to tread carefully and conduct an individualized assessment of each leave request to determine whether a leave of absence is reasonable and effective in helping the employee return to work.
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2 Does Roundup Kill Grass During Cold Weather?
4 Is Burning Weeds Better Than Roundup?
Donning your armor of long sleeves and pants, safety glasses and plastic gloves, you're ready to do battle with the never-ending weeds in your garden. Wielding your sprayer filled with Roundup (glyphosate), you briskly step outside into the chilly morning air. While you may wonder if it's too cold to spray those weeds, according to the manufacturer the ideal temperature for applying Roundup is between 53 and 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
Roundup is a nonselective weed killer, usually applied to the foliage of weeds and other unwanted plants. To ensure success, spray the weeds' leaves until they're completely wet, but not dripping. By spraying when weeds are actively growing, usually in the spring and summer, the plants' cells pull the glyphosate all the way into the plants' centers, killing them down to the roots. Because Roundup is nonselective, avoid spraying on windy days; overspray may kill your desirable garden plants. Also avoid spraying when rain is in the forecast; if it rains within six hours you may have to reapply the Roundup to kill the weeds.
de, Ruth. "At What Temperature Does Roundup Work?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/temperature-roundup-work-81477.html. 28 November 2018.
Can You Spray Roundup in Fog?
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Well, there's no "may" about it, and that was a problem with writer and director Rob Zombie's work here, a conscious attempt to change tack from his over the top works previous to this with a more creepy and insidious effort designed to unnerve rather than shock. Except you could tell what was going to happen from practically the first scene, especially if you'd ever watched Rosemary's Baby, so for all the bizarre imagery the movie built up to there was very little surprising about it, predictability being an enemy of suspense in this case rather than making you sweat with anticipation as presumably was the intention.
When Judy Geeson appeared as Heidi's landlady Lacey, alarm bells would be ringing immediately, and when two of her friends appeared, played by Dee Wallace and Patricia Quinn, you noted with appreciation that Zombie was continuing his habit of bringing back cult names from movies past, but also that they weren't being hired for nothing scenes, and would have an important part to play in the rest of the story. That this began with a bunch of aged nudists from centuries before partaking in a black mass was another strong hint that some kind of devil worship was going on, and someone or something was trying to bring about the birth of the Antichrist and all that overfamiliar stuff.
So while it was always nice to see these cast members, there was a point where this started to get a bit silly. Zombie was presenting some arresting visuals to create an off kilter atmosphere, so among other things you had a Bigfoot making an appearance for no reason explained, or a midget dressed in a baby suit which didn't look so much disturbing as what it was, pretty daft. Heidi was a character who couldn't catch a break, an ex-heroin addict who obviously has to go back to her habit haflway through when she starts lolling around her apartment under the influence of the three witches, and earmarked to be the conduit through which Satan would return thanks to her ancestor being cursed for his religious attempt to destroy the orignal witches.
And there was another problem, rather more serious than the crawling pace and it being really blatant what was next: the witches of Salem weren't witches at all, they were entirely innocent victims of a hate campaign fuelled by social paranoia, so to offer a scenario when the evildoers were thoroughly vindicated was a misjudgement at best and a serious misstep at worst. Whose side was Zombie on, anyway, did he think it was perfectly all right for women to be executed because some religious nutters wanted a scapegoat? Because that's the way The Lords of Salem came across, though to be fair this wasn't exclusive to his film, as previous efforts such as City of the Dead played the same dubious card, though that was more enjoyable than the plod through various cinematic manifestations of Beelzebub unfolding here. Also, and this may be a minor quibble, but the swearing was some of the most awkward around, as if the cast were embarrassed by what their director asked them to say. Music by John 5 (from Short Circuit?) and Griffin Boice.
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American musician turned horror director. Born Robert Cummings, Zombie fronted cult metal band White Zombie for a decade, before making his first movie in 2003, the gaudy shocker House of 1000 Corpses. A sequel, The Devil's Rejects, was released in 2005 after which he contented himself with two reimaginings of the Halloween franchise. His Satanism-themed next film was The Lords of Salem.
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Now that you have chosen a whole new pharmacist, focus on interactions, Does the pharmacist make time to explain each new medication; when an how to get it, just what it does and possible negative effects. Unfortunately, generic prescription medication is more difficult to identify online since they come from several manufacturer. So, you've been within the job market or intend to hit it soon and they are looking for promising professions to join.
As these drugs online are developing daily almost all kinds of medicines that exist in medical stores are offered also there. Some love to help people, others such as the science aspect from the job. Cu transformed a fairly easy data entry service company into becoming one with the country's largest outsourcing service providers.
Make sure before you leave the doctor's office you understand all of the directions. Keep at heart, many chain pharmacies and hospitals is not going to hire you unless you might be a certified technician. Experience helps increase salaries for pharmacists whether stay with a similar employer or not.
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger, or 1-2 lumps of preserved ginger, chopped. As a small entrepreneur, when was it time to boost prices like Netflix. The respiratory therapist's tasks include offering the precise measurements of oxygen or other kinds of gas concentrations in the patient's blood as well as measuring blood alkalinity or acidity levels.
In a hospital setting, pharmacy technicians can do many of the aforementioned tasks in addition to some specific on the hospital. If the situation is not treated for an extended period of time, it may well lead to serious complications including cancer. You notice the drug name and strength and go grab the medication.
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Hi, Could someone kindly help me with steps on how to sell featured ads in classipress via woocommerce channel? Attached, this is where I got stuck in classipress at the check-out. I want it taken me to woocommerce channel.
I am using woo-commerce because it has the exact payment gateway [credit wallet] I want to use. Thank you very much in advance for your time.
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SendPulse Review: If you want to grow you business online. Online Marketing is the way to grow your business. SendPulse can greatly help you in your Online Marketing efforts.
It helps you in maximizing open rate automatically with Artificial Intelligence, Hyper-personalization, Predictive analysis for e-mail that will make your email marketing efforts more successful.
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Some of the best features of SendPulse are listed below.
It helps you in easily creating professional looking email templates. These email templates are responsive.
You can choose the number of columns, place & edit elements and preview email in browser & mobile device. It also allows you to choose between different free templates.
A/B Testing is one of the best feature of any email marketing service. It allows you to test out different versions of subject of the body of emails and check which performs best.
Whenever you subscribe to any website or blog with your email, you receive some emails. These emails are automated. This type of setup is also called as “Autoresponders”. It helps you in saving time, avoid mistakes and increasing customer loyalty.
You can also use SendPulse on your mobile from its mobile app for Android and iOS. Its mobile app have capabilities like adding subscribers to mailing list, send newsletters and evaluate results.
SendPulse also offers high quality SMTP Service for your emails. Its features are listed below.
SendPulse SMTP Server easily integrates with email sending program. You can integrate its SMTP Server with MS Outlook and The BAT. API and third-party services are also supported.
It allows you to send out your emails from a Dedicated IP Address. They also regularly monitor all Dedicated IP address.
Their server supports SSL connections. It can send out mailing at high-speed.
This SMTP Service also generated sending reports and delivery error reports. All these reports can downloaded from your computer.
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With its free plan, you can send 15,000 emails per month to 2500 subscriber for free. For more than 2500 subscriber, you can opt between monthly subscription and pay as you go plan.
For over 1 million subscribers, you can choose VIP Plan.
Their SMS sending service price depends on the country. Its Web Push Notification service is free to use.
Their customer supports is also awesome. You can get in touch with them via live chat. They also offer e-mail and telephone supports 24 hours a day.
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Wall art is approximately 16x55" x 1.5". If you'd like a different size than shown please contact me and we can work together to make a piece perfect for your home!
Wall art is made with a hand picked mix of upcycled, reclaimed, and new wood, then painted with wood paint that is partially transparent for a more weathered and rustic look and finished with a UV protective varnish to preserve the natural beauty of the wood. All wood pieces have unique grain and textures ranging from rough to very smooth. Colors may be slightly different than how they appear on the screen. The frame is stained espresso.
Shipping to Hawaii may cost an additional amount. Please contact me if you are interested in shipping outside the US and I will calculate the cost. International customers: This item will ship USPS. Additional brokerage fees, taxes, and other international fees may apply once the item is in your country.
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John Lawson: How will firms cope with pensions vs pay rise dilemma?
With just 10 months to go before automatic enrolment contributions start to rise from their current minima of 1 per cent plus 1 per cent, how do employees and their employers view the prospect? This is something we aimed to find out in our fourth Working Lives report. The results are surprisingly positive.
Taking employers first, three-quarters say they are confident in their business’ own financial situation and the wider economy. Only 9 per cent do not feel confident.
When it comes to the increase in auto-enrolment contributions, over half do not think it will make a difference to their business. This is either because they are already paying more than 2 per cent into their employees’ pensions or their finances are in good shape.
However, the remainder will have to recover costs from elsewhere, with 20 per cent saying it will impact employee pay rises.
This is a concern, considering another recent survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which suggests employers think pay rises over the next year will average just 1 per cent.
With employees facing their own 2 per cent increase in pension contributions, they could experience a cut in take-home pay.
Inflation is not helping either, with the Bank of England predicting a rate between 2 per cent and 3 per cent for early 2018. With this in mind, there is a real prospect that up to a fifth of employees could experience a pay cut of as much as 4 or 5 per cent when auto-enrolment contributions take a step up next April.
Despite these potential headwinds, 44 per cent of employees feel confident in their own financial security, up 3 per cent since last year. And as far as pension contributions are concerned, 50 per cent of those facing higher contributions say they will keep saving, with only 4 per cent definitely planning to stop paying into their pension. The remainder are either undecided (34 per cent) or thinking about stopping their pension (12 per cent).
Although it could be seen as a negative that 16 per cent of employees are thinking about or definitely planning to stop their pension, these figures should be cause for optimism. If we cast our mind back to employee surveys conducted pre-auto-enrolment in 2012, many predicted opt-out rates of between 25 per cent and 35 per cent. As we now know, the opt-out rate hovers around 10 per cent.
When it comes to expectations of what auto-enrolment will deliver, employees are less well informed. Two-fifths believe their workplace pension will provide enough to live comfortably or at least to get by.
Our response to the auto-enrolment review calls for contributions to rise to 12.5 per cent over time. This level of private saving is enough for most people to maintain a comfortable standard of living in retirement.
While it is right to wait and see what happens when the 2018 and 2019 increases become real, that should not stop us thinking about longer-term savings needs. A more modest rate of contribution growth than those scheduled might also be helpful in inflicting less pain on workers and their employers, particularly during challenging economic conditions.
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Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe reunited with World Youth Day (WYD) pilgrims and set them a new challenge to enrich their faith at a special Ignite Live event on Friday, 2 September.
Attended by more than 250 people at Chisholm College, the event is one of six hosted by Ignite Youth throughout the year bringing together youth groups, parishes and individuals from across the Archdiocese of Perth.
Last Friday’s event was also designated as the official reunion for Perth’s WYD pilgrims, following the huge celebrations held from 26 to 31 July in Krakow, Poland.
Much of the night therefore focused on reflections from WYD, alongside the usual games, activities, music and opportunities for reconciliation.
During his speech to attendees, Archbishop Costelloe touched on this topic by focusing on the beatitudes – the eight blessings Jesus recounted during the Sermon on the Mount.
One of the beatitudes – ‘Blessed are the merciful’ – was the theme of this year’s WYD.
The Archbishop had no problem relating to the young people in attendance, freely admitting that the beatitudes could be confronting, even for him.
“It’s not an easy job, really, to talk about the beatitudes. When you have a look at them, you realise the list is kind of a list of the very things most of us don’t want to be,” he said.
“The first one, for example: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit’. How many of us here have as one of our major ambitions to be poor for the rest of our lives? Probably not too many of us.
Archbishop Costelloe went on to explain that the beatitudes could be condensed into one question, which he challenged the young people in attendance to ask themselves: What kind of person do I want to become?
“It’s a question for everybody, but I think it’s a particularly important question for young people, because you are still at that stage where you can shape yourself, or you can allow a whole lot of other people to shape you in ways that you might not particularly want to be shaped,” he said.
This is where the beatitudes come in, Archbishop Costelloe said, because they are Jesus’ suggestions of the qualities that we should demonstrate in our lives in order to be happy.
He added that the beatitudes were not necessarily to be taken literally, using the first beatitude, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs,’ as an example.
“Being poor in spirit obviously doesn’t mean being poverty stricken or destitute or lacking the basic necessities of life,” he said.
Ignite Youth Perth Co-ordinator Ronan McGinniss said the Archbishop’s message struck a chord with those present on the night.
“It was very relatable to people who went along to WYD because of the link to ‘Blessed are the merciful’, but it was also spoken in such a way to encourage those people that didn’t attend WYD and people that may not even go to Church to consider the person that they want to become,” he said.
Mr McGinniss added that holding a reunion for Perth pilgrims was important to ensure the experience of WYD could be continued at a local level, and Ignite Youth were happy to collaborate on the event.
For more information about Ignite Live events, visit www.igniteyouth.com/live-perth.
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Transportation within the district is included, additional charges apply to different zones (outside of Vancouver).
Please contact us for information on zones and additional transportation cost.
We try to accommodate every customers needs to the best of our ability, therefore a minimum of 24Hr notice is required per errand.
For special request's within the 12Hr period please contact us right away, but understand there is no guarantee.
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Air pollution in China is a critical global health problem, responsible for somewhere between 700,000 and 2.2 million premature deaths annually. The largest single contributor to air pollution-related mortality is particulate matter below 2.5 microns in size, or PM2.5. Exposure to PM2.5 has been found to increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes, lung disease, and lower respiratory disease based on a number of longitudinal studies around the world comparing populations with differing levels of exposure. China is the world’s largest consumer of coal, and coal is responsible for the vast majority of electricity generated in China. I’ll argue that replacing coal-based generation with low-polluting alternatives like nuclear, natural gas, or renewables could save between 200 and 1,000 lives per gigawatt-year.
China has, on average, among the worst air pollution of any country in the world. Many of the areas of the country have PM2.5 levels that rank on average (using the U.S. EPA rating scheme) as “Unhealthy”, with spikes up to “Very Unhealthy” or “Hazardous” as relatively common occurrences. Occasionally cities in China will experience air pollution levels literally off the charts, with PM2.5 concentrations reaching levels of 1,000 or more micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3)—the standard health scale ends at 500 µg/m3. The image below, from Berkeley Earth’s real-time air pollution monitoring of China, shows PM2.5 levels on a typical fall day.
A large portion of PM2.5 in China comes from coal use. When coal is burned, it both directly releases particulate matter as a result of incomplete combustion and releases sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and black carbon that serve as important precursors to atmospheric PM2.5 formation. In many cases this secondary formation is more important than direct PM2.5 emissions from coal. Approximately 55 percent of coal consumed in China is used to generate electricity provided to the grid. 40 percent is consumed in industrial processes, while around 3 percent is used in the residential sector (with the remaining 2 percent consumed by commercial and other). China generates approximately 3,700 terawatt-hours or 422 gigawatt-years (GW-years) of electricity from coal annually.
Determining the contribution of coal-based electricity generation to PM2.5-related mortality requires estimating what percent of total PM2.5 in China comes from coal-fired power plants. A recent study by the Health Effects Institute and Tsinghua University performed extensive atmospheric modeling of PM2.5 sources to attribute overall concentrations. It found that about 40 percent of total PM2.5 could be directly attributed to coal. Of this, about 21 percent came from industrial uses (steel production, for example), 12 percent came from power plant coal, and 6 percent came from domestic coal burning (for space heating). It is important to note, however, that they assumed widespread use of scrubbers for electric power production; if the use of scrubbers is low then a larger fraction of the observed PM2.5 would be attributed to coal use. The breakdown of PM2.5 by source is shown in the pie chart below, both for the high power-plant scrubber use scenario put forward by the Health Effects Institute and a low scrubber use scenario that assumes power-sector emissions are more similar to those of industry.
Figure 2. Breakdown of estimate PM2.5 contributions by source in the Burden of Disease Attributable to Coal-Burning and Other Air Pollution Sources in China study from the Health Effects Institute and Tsinghua University in the High Scrubber Use scenario. The Low Scrubber Use scenario shows estimated contribution percentages if power plant emissions were more similar to industrial sector emissions.
The Health Effects Institute also provided an estimate of total mortality from PM2.5 of 916,000 deaths per year (with a remarkably narrow uncertainty range of 820,000 to 993,000), a mortality that is smaller than the prior Berkeley Earth estimate of 1.6 million, although within the published uncertainty range (700,000 to 2.2 million). Assuming that 12 percent of PM2.5 (and thus 12 percent of PM2.5 mortality) is attributable to coal-based electricity generation, we can estimate deaths per gigawatt-year (GW-year) as 260 (uncertainty range 233 to 282) using the Heath Effects Institute numbers and 454 deaths per GW-year (uncertainty range 199 to 625) for the Berkeley Earth numbers.
It is somewhat interesting to note that while both power generation and industrial sectors consume comparable amounts of coal, the PM2.5 contribution from the industrial sector is twice that of the electricity sector in the Heath Effects Institute model. This is largely due to assumptions regarding the utilization of emissions control technologies like sulfur, nitrogen, and PM2.5 scrubbers. Nearly all power plants are assumed to use scrubbers, while use in the industrial sector is more spotty. However, there is strong reason to believe that the actual utilization of scrubbers by power plants is much lower than officially reported. Operation of scrubbers consumes a non-negligible amount of energy, and there have been numerous reports of plant operators shutting down scrubbers to increase profits when they can get away with it. While China has started to crack down on this behavior, it is likely that actual scrubber use is still well below the 90+ percent assumed.
We can get an estimate of the mortality contribution of coal-base electricity generation when scrubbers are not fully utilized by examining a case where coal power plants had the same PM2.5 contribution as industry. While this is likely not true across the entire power sector, it may well be the case (or even a conservative estimate) for individual plants. This still results in effective power-sector emissions per ton of coal that are around 30 percent lower than for the industrial sector, as more coal is consumed in the power sector. If the power generation sector has emissions similar to the industrial sector, deaths per GW-year would be 456 (412 to 497) for the Heath Effects Institute mortality model and 745 (326 to 1025) for the Berkeley Earth model. These results are illustrated in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Estimated mortality per gigawatt-year of coal-based electricity generation attributable to PM2.5. Both estimates from the Health Effects Institute and Berkeley Earth are shown. The high scrubber use scenario follows the Health Effects Institute assumptions, while the low scrubber use scenario assumes emissions allocation similar to the industrial sector. Both published error bars (solid bars) and estimated error bars using the mortality impact uncertainty in the Berkeley Earth approach (dashed bars) are shown for the Health Effects Institute numbers.
Other studies conducted on mortality impacts of coal-based generation outside of China have found comparable results. A 2007 article in The Lancet estimated a mortality rate per GW-year of 202 for the U.K. and an average value of 231 globally. These estimates are noticeably lower than most of the estimates we consider for China, though they overlap with the low end of our values. This discrepancy might be due to two factors: first, there is reason to believe that emissions control technologies are in more widespread use in places like the U.K. and other parts of the world than in China. Second, the mortality estimates will be impacted by population density, with coal generation located in coastal China (where plants are primarily concentrated) having a much larger exposure impact than in most regions of the world.
Ultimately, at 422 GW-years of electricity produced annually from coal, we can bound Chinese coal-generation-related deaths at between 84,000 (200 deaths per GW-year) and 434,000 (1025 per GW-year). The consumption of coal for electricity generation thus has large negative public health implications for China. Moving to away from coal and toward alternatives like nuclear, natural gas, and renewables such as solar and wind, would not only reduce China’s greenhouse gas emissions but also save lives.
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Review: NATO, In Search of a Vision.
Reviewed: Aybet, Gulnar, and Rebecca M. Moore. Eds. NATO: In Search of a Vision, (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. 2010) 272 pages.
House, Jonathan M. A Military History of the Cold War 1944-1962, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. 546 pages.
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9 Must TCP use IP?
8 Can manholes be made in other shapes than circles, that prevent the cover from being able to fall down its own hole?
5 Windows10: What is "Service CPU Usage"?
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This luxurious Italian suede purse is handmade in Italy by Pineider craftsmen.
Made from the softest suede, this Italian purse will hold 16 credit cards and has 2 sections for banknotes and receipts. There is also a zipped section for coins.
This beautiful Italian suede purse will appeal to the sophisticated woman, who appreciates Italian style and design.
Gorgeous Italian suede purse, handmade in Italy by Italian heritage brand Pineider. Large selection of handmade leather purses and wallets available at Luxury Artisan.
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Everyone's favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm ) drops his wisdom and good-bad advice for the masses. Learn the secrets Larry David has gleaned from the Falstaff of television. Live your best Leon. Bring the Ruckus.
For centuries bespeckled dorks have pored over the scrolls of the ancients, read tea leaves, and looked to the stars for philosophy, wisdom, and advice. While some people have probably offered good advice, and others offer bad advice, Leon is here to offer his brand of good-bad advice. These are the musings of a master genius spitting out the secrets of the universe--to help you become just like him .
Be forewarned: in opening this tome and Leon's mind, you need to be prepared for straight talk. The kind of unfiltered blunt straight talk that pounds on your door, invites itself in, makes itself at home, helps itself to your food, security pass code, your expensive organic beet juice, and finally makes itself comfortable on that twin bed in your guest room. All the while you think you're helping it--but really it's helping you help yourself!
Because that's how this book doozit.
Leon Black, he ain't wrong...he just ain't right.
Life skills -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Humor.
Contributors Smoove, J. B., 1964- author.
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I’ve never heard of them actually! I need to try some new haircare brands so I’ll keep them in mind!
I’ve never tried any of their products but I like multi-purpose products!
I love this range from Shea Moisture!
That hair mask sounds lush!
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Hello Dr. Cortez-Rucker, I hope all is well! I am reaching out to thank you and your wife for the Texes 068 Review. I had the opportunity to attend the Houston session in October and found it to be most helpful. Also, I had no time to fully prepare for the exam; so I took your advice and used the study guide to prepare the night before. All that being said, I passed my exam the FIRST TIME around. Thank you so much!
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Little Penguin: The Series - The penguins goes to the park.
On Saturday, the five penguins went to the park on 5:00 am.
Edward and Pinggu played on the swing.
Peppy, Petty and Fifi played on the 3 in 1 slide.
After playing, their parents bought smoothies for the penguins.
All Aboard the Choo Choo Train!!!
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The Air Warfare Systems(AWS) Business Office has an immediate opening for a Principal Financial Analyst in support of advanced development efforts.
AWSAdvanced Development has combined sales of approximately $200M per year with a secure and stable long term business forecast. A significant portion of this business consists of development and integration efforts which require contractual Earned Value Management. Responsibilities include EarnedValue Management Systems (EVMS) implementation and maintenance, variance analysis, quarterly Estimate-at-Completion (EAC) / monthly Latest Revised Estimate (LRE) development, data analysis and reporting, and baseline establishment and maintenance. Candidates should have experience with Cost Performance Report (CPR), all formats, and Contractor Cost Data Report (CCDR). Candidate will also closely monitor funding, invoicing, and cash collection for their projects.
This position will also include mentoring finance professionals, partnering with leadership to help develop the AOP, 5 Year Plan, Product Line Reviews and monthly manpower and BSEC forecasts. The ideal candidate will be able to communicate effectively with Cost Account Managers (CAMs), Integrated Product Team (IPT) Leads, Program and Finance leadership and the customer. Frequent interaction with various functions and multiple levels of the organization will be needed, so the successful candidate must possess strong presentation, communication, and professional skills and be able to work independently, with little supervision and oversight.
Current DOD Secret Security Clearance.
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Only problem is, the feast and famine of semi-annual launches leaves no margin for error, and all those fancy funnels you keep hearing about take half a year and a rag-tag team of hired guns (coders/designers/copywriters) just to get it up and see if it's working.
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Originally Published: February 28, 2016 6:01 a.m.
The Health Care for Homeless Veterans program: Outreach, case management, treatment and referral services, dental care, employment services and patient aligned care teams.
The Domiciliary Care Program: A 90 to 120-day residential rehabilitation program for up to 120 at-risk and homeless veterans faced with the challenges of substance abuse, mental health ailments, and unemployment. Case management services are provided with the goal of independent living for graduates.
• Provides a transitional, downtown housing complex for 56 veterans: The program with a maximum stay of two years offers each veteran case management, job placement assistance, career counseling and education retraining supports, as well as other support services aimed at helping veterans retain independent, permanent housing upon graduation.
• Provides 21 units of scattered site permanent housing for eligible veterans.
• Provides veterans with career counseling, employment assistance and other resources. Organizes the annual Homeless Veteran Stand Down, a one-day event where non-profits and other agencies come together to provide a range of services to benefit homeless veterans with such things as winter clothing and outdoor gear, dental care, employment assistance and legal consultations.
Provides supportive housing services to homeless and at-risk veterans. Some of the assistance includes security and rental deposits, rental payments, and case management services that are tailored to individual veterans so they can maintain their housing, be that with employment assistance, securing Social Security or veteran benefits, or budgeting strategies.
Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 16 (DAV), 730 5th St.
Operates a local thrift store, the proceeds of which are used to benefit disabled veterans.
The chapter funded the purchase of a three-bedroom, three-bathroom transitional/permanent home for formerly homeless veterans that is managed through the Prescott Area Shelter Services.
The chapter also purchased the property on Rush Street that is now used as a family shelter.
Provides supportive housing and outreach services for homeless veterans and families, as well as those at risk for homelessness. Services include case management, housing counseling and searches, assistance with obtaining VA benefits, budgeting, childcare, transportation, and emergency financial assistance, rapid rehousing assistance, including rental or utility deposits.
Can provide assistance with bills, housing expenses and other aid to vulnerable children, individuals and families at risk. They can support people in a crisis situation regardless of their race, ethnicity or religious affiliation.
First Baptist Church Reach-Out Program, Goodwin/Marina St.
Food and utility assistance, some limited housing assistance.
Prescott Area Shelter Services, 336 N. Rush St.
The Coalition for Compassion and Justice, 505 W. Gurley St.
The Open Door program provides hot meals, food boxes, clothing, showers, mail service, diapers and toiletries. The Coalition also offers a housing rehabilitation program, emergency assistance and referrals to other community resources.
Salvation Army, 237 S. Montezuma St.
Provides emergency food boxes, breakfast from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. with a sack lunch on Mondays. Home to Operation Deep Freeze emergency shelter during winter months.
Showers available for use between the hours of 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. Monday - Friday.
Local medical staff also volunteer their services on Monday mornings offering basic medical services to clients. Motel vouchers.
Project Aware Shelter, 215 ½ Leroux St.
Provides emergency shelter to men.
Church on the Street Revival Ministries, 105 W. Carleton St.
St. Vincent de Paul, 935 Fair St.
Children may receive $10 vouchers to thrift store for clothing. $20 voucher for adults. Motel vouchers.
Free lunch once a month for about 100 people at the different church locations. Trinity Lutheran, 3950 North Valorie Drive, on the fourth Saturday; Emmanuel Lutheran, 7763 East Long Look Drive, second Friday; St. Germaine, 7997 East Dana Drive, second Tuesday and last Tuesday of each month. All lunches take place from 11 a.m.-12:30.
Yavapai Territorial Gospel Mission, 602 Lincoln Ave.
Provides emergency shelter, case management, extended shelter, single women with children and without children, long-term recovery/rehabilitation program-90 days or more. Male children must be age 12 or younger.
Provides transitional shelter for up to five homeless, at-risk or runaway teens age 12 to 17 for up to 30 days.
Peer counseling suicide hotline assists youth from 3-9pm daily.
Outpatient behavioral health services in Prescott Valley. Includes counseling, case management, psychiatric services, and assistance with medications.
Outpatient behavioral health clinic in Prescott Valley serves children with issues ranging from depression to serious mental illness.
Free food to those in need.
Arizona 211 is also a general resource for services in all counties.
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Everything is fading in that pleasantly subtle violent way, death of summer obscured in bursts of colours which cannot be named. Grey-blue mist rising from the lakes beside which no evil can dwell surrounds us with mystery beyond which only hides the world in which we dream.
This is not the first time I’ve left Seattle. In 2002 I traveled east as my then-lover traveled south, he to university, I first to the basement of my father in a tiny, post-coal town in Ohio, then to Portland Maine for a short, very hard winter. I’ve journal entries from the time just before I left, prose attempts to get at the strange in-between sense one has at the point after deciding to leave a place but before actually doing so.
I returned, and for another 2 years lived in Seattle. On the summer solstice of 2004, I flew to France for 3 months, and just before this time I gave up the place where I’d lived to couch-surf with a friend in order to save money. Though I felt that same liminality even stronger this time, I wrote surprisingly little regarding it and instead wrote about the discovery of the will, something I’ve begun to understand happens near the saturn-return of most lives.
To say that self is but an illusion is not to dismiss it; rather, it is to put it into the world where we can truly celebrate it for what it is, a dream no different from the others with which we colour our existence with the hues of story and song.
Thus, to know the self is to gain the self as a tool, to use it as a canvas or a masque, to present to the world an incarnate dream upon which others might build. To take up a self is to take up an art, to delve and delight in glamour and beauty, to act for the world a part of one’s own choosing, a subtle magic and a glorious feat.
And then–again. Back in the same house in the same room overlooking the same mountains and lake, attempting to make sense of all I’d seen of the world (and the terrifying reality that it was as brutally fascinating as I’d suspected). This wasn’t easy. Seattle was in the midst of another harrowing, a strange, fanatical rush of people to buy houses elsewhere, the first recent wave of destruction of old buildings, and the same sudden embrace of new technology the rest of America endured in the middle of the first decade of this century.
When I’d returned, something had changed. The liminality I’d experienced before I left seemed to remain upon my return, or, more so, a new state of in-between had opened within me, and I could never quite find myself fully…here.
Yet one more time, I left Seattle, to Vancouver BC. Something felt relieving about this move, less dream-soaked, more practical. My then-lover had gotten a full scholarship to a master’s program at UBC, and I’d get health care for the first time in my adult life, get a new ACL torn in a work-accident. That liminality was strange, because I’d left Seattle so often by then it seemed rather casual. And a darkness had settled over my understanding of the world, years of struggle against societal change which left me alienated from everything but my memories of dreams.
More often than not, the pictures refuse to fade into the magic of memory. The do fade from sight but, instead of the solemn trek to and into the sea, they linger awhile, hesitant to walk into the breaking waves.
And back. Nothing could ever quite pull me back into the world. I felt forever in-between, trapped within the liminal without egress. I often thought I was going a bit insane, feeling myself never at home, viewing the world from that same mist I wrote of in the excerpt with which I started this piece.
In many pagan, magical, and indigenous traditions, liminality is an entry point to the Other. The shore is a liminal space, just as the gloaming (the time between sunset and twilight) is liminal, and Beltaine and Samhain. In the liminal, the interstices, the in-between, the world is both one thing and another, and we are caught within it. Colors bleed to grey, the sea turns to land, the earth tilts from life to death.
All of life had become this moment for me. Trapped between sleeping and waking, the place of the physical and the place of dreams. Echoes of noises I did not quite hear, light from stars I could not see.
From what I’ve read of anthropologist’s studies of “shamanic calls,” and from the lives of mystics and unhappy poets, I think I recognize this phenomena. I am no shaman nor saint nor mystic, nor is my poetry very good, but the similarity of experience is not easily mistaken in myself. The longer one attempts to avert ones eyes from what one has seen, the more difficult it is not to focus on it in the mind’s eye, and so one sets within oneself a cycle of frustration, a perpetual dissatisfaction, a suspended binary, an unresolved polarity: liminality.
And here I am again, in another liminal space, another border. Except–it’s not quite the same. In it, in the decisions I’ve made these last 6 months, some difference has resolved itself into a third option, a completed dialectic. In the spaces in-between, one need not choose between here or There–one can stand in both and actually be in both while existing in a third space, that specific space in between.
On the shore, one need not be either on the sea or on land. The shore is both and a third place. In the darkening of the day, it is neither light nor dark, it is both, it is the gloaming. And I’d extend this with a suggestion, one that may prove useful to anyone who experiences deja vu in a similar way.
Setting aside the scientific conjecture of the experience, a deja vu seems to be the future bending itself back into the past to be experienced in the present. It is rarely for me the sense of having “seen it before;” rather, it is like having remembered a dream in the past from the future of the current moment: all-is-always-now.
It takes practice, but I’ve found that I can look around in those moments, pull myself out of apparently looping script and see something else. A deja vu, like the shoreline, like the time before you leave somewhere but find your mind already there, may be a liminality.
Then again, it may not be. Ambiguity is also liminal.
Still. I am here. I am elsewhere. I am in-between.
And I am absurdly happy.
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This is not your typical dental office. We think Alexandria is special!
We make smiles. Of course, that’s what orthodontists do, right?! But success in braces or Invisalign, to us, is so much more than a beautiful smile at the end of treatment. We want you smiling every second you’re with us!
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Parkland Buddy Sports offers 8 sports programs that run throughout the calendar year.
The programs service all children with special needs regardless of physical or mental diagnosis ages 4 and up.
2nd: Group stretch and warm up.
A more typical game is played on one field or court and non typical games, where each player has the opportunity to control the play, take place on the other fields or courts. The younger players have their own game area.
Smiles, laughter, and friendship are happening!
Through positive reinforcement and friendship our players achieve new levels of success each time they come out to the fields. The majority of our volunteers are local high school students. We also register mature middle school and elementary school students, and there is always a need for adult volunteers. The number of players the program is able to enroll is dependent upon the number of volunteers who sign up. As a result, the commitment from our volunteers is not casual, they are required to attend at least 80% of the game days. This attendance and commitment is critical because our players count on their buddy being there for them. Through their mutual interaction, ignorance and stereotypes are overcome. Our volunteers learn patience, understanding, tolerance and their ability to change the life of another person and visa versa!
If you do not receive a call from us, then we will be playing and volunteers and players are expected to show up.
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I have learned to dread the month of August. The sticky, swampy heat that blankets Washington, D.C., doesn’t bother me much, nor do I dread the countdown to summer’s end. Like many parents, I’ll trade a stretch of 90-degree weather for the peace, quiet and order of having my children where they belong: in a classroom.
Every day in August, my son Blake, 12, suits up in pads, helmet and mouthguard for football practice in his 115-pound division in our local tackle league. It’s his third year in the league, and his first playing slot back on offense and defensive end for the team. Weekly scrimmages have started, game films are being watched and studied, and updated copies of the head coach’s playbook arrive in my email inbox on the regular.
To be clear, I’m not a fan of Blake playing tackle football. His father (my ex-husband) and I argue about it every year — before, during and after the season. The risks for kids getting hurt are too great, I say, especially as they get older and play against bigger, faster and meaner opponents. My ex and I agree that the data about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (also known as CTE, a degenerative brain disease found in athletes, military veterans and others with repetitive brain trauma) and neurological injuries in professional players are horrific. Recent findings by Boston University are terrifying: CTE was found in the brains of nearly all of the deceased professional football players studied. More and more professional football players, as well as athletes in other sports, are now refusing to let their own children play tackle.
To be clear: I’m not a fan of my son playing tackle football.
Yet, despite weeks of arguing, pleading and attempts at bribery, I gave in. I’m once again on board the tackle train. Why? Because Blake loves the game and wants to play. And my ex makes a valid point that the game of football has changed since we were kids. He says it’s being taught differently, and measures are in place to avoid excessive hitting, especially during practice.
Still, my elder son, Cole, went on the record years ago about hating tackle, much to the dismay of every football coach we’ve ever met. Cole is a 6-foot-5, 190-pound bruiser at age 14, but he’s made no bones about not liking the violent contact required by the sport. Good to know, my G. Because if you hate hitting or being hit, football cannot be your thing.
The problem is that there are few sports that can guarantee a zero risk of injury, including gymnastics, cheerleading (it apparently ranks very high in catastrophic sports injuries), baseball, lacrosse and soccer. Just this past season, two of Blake’s AAU basketball teammates got concussions after diving for loose balls and hitting their heads on the hard court. That’s one more than his football team suffered all last year. Head injuries happen in sports, obviously. One friend’s 16-year-old soccer-obsessed son got a concussion from a header during a game. Doctors eventually inserted a permanent metal rod into his right arm after two bad breaks from rough play. Another friend’s son played rugby at Middlebury College; his on-field concussion was severe enough that he has since quit the sport for good.
Mama has been seated on the sidelines for the past two seasons chasing a Xanax with peppermint latte.
But while Mama has been seated on the sidelines for the past two seasons chasing a Xanax with peppermint latte, football has been teaching Blake valuable skills. He’s learned about teamwork, pushing through emotional pain, being a gracious loser and sticking together with colleagues through adversity. He has respect for the trustworthy older men who are coaches and assistant coaches. As an African-American woman, my concerns for my black sons can be overwhelming. Having additional adult role models in my “village” helps ease my anxiety (somewhat) about the risks to teenage boys, including racial strife, unethical police and judicial officers, and the high rates of drug use among black youth.
Another upside to letting the lad play tackle football? What he’s not doing. The hours that Blake spends on the field at games and practice are hours away from a television and cable TV, wireless devices and social media.
Talking to Blake about getting injured while playing football turned out to be a great opportunity to discuss things we often take for granted, such as good health and true sportsmanship. Seeing a whole team take a knee on the field when a player is hurt can be profoundly touching. It’s the type of kind, empathetic gesture I wish happened in many other areas of our daily lives.
But I don’t need a list of excuses to let my kid play football. I’m not a head-in-the-sand kind of mother. I balance worry with being the kind of parent who is mindful and encouraging. At least until next summer when the battle begins again. Maybe that’s the summer Mama wins.
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“Mister, Can you give me a receipt?” Give me a break. Receipts are trash to me.
I just want my change back. No, it isn’t just the jiggling sound of the coins. Turn off your malicious and/or suspicious mind, I also love to reach the inside of my pocket. That to me is gold mining in my own sandbox.
I also love the coins in the cup holder. Whenever I drive through a drive-through and in need of extra coins, I can just have my palm open and count all the change I got scattered all around the carpet of my car, or from my house. Noted, I’m not organized.
That also minimizes collecting dollar bills I get off of paying with $20-bill, say hypothetically, if I need to pay $10.41 . I can just give $10 and hence start my digging. Happy as a clam, my dearest coins were in good use.
I just hate dollar bills stuffed in my wallet filling up the space with all the trash. By trash, I mean [refer to the intro].
Actually, all of it was the whole intro. The point I am actually trying diligently to get at is that I hate convenient stores.
Whoopsy! Redo, I digressed too much.
“Mister, Can you give me a receipt?” Convenient stores don’t give the receipt back. That way, every now and so often, they see to it that they get any chance to kickback some chunk change. If you owe the store $4.93 and you give them $5, forget about your 7 cents.
That urge of fighting for small change is shying away to your stomach. They make it feel like there’s always a rush, too. You see the tag priced $4.13, then instead of the cashier punching the 10% tax, they’d make it feel there’s a need to hurry the business that they would just punch in $5 to make it quicker. Customer lost, he needs to figure out what the 10% of 4.13 is, add the solution back then still have to subtract it from 5, he’s left lost and confused.
Happy as a smug, cashier gets away with the chunk change that later in the day totaling to an hour-paid salary.
Convenient stores, pffft. Yeah, convenient to their advantage.
“Mister, I just want my coins back!” I just want to look at the different states. I get a smidgen of excitement whenever I get something else other than the regular bird. Who’s got California? Mister took my change, and I’m held back to argue for my coins.
For a little interaction, PLEASE help me choose my next post.
Italian Food – I’m finding it hard not to sound condescending and snotty when writing about it. It segues to the concept that a certain cultural food of a particular place is never the same when it is made from some place else.
Sevilla, Spain – A would have been pitiful post. I planned of blogging about it some time when a close blogging buddy, regularly seen here, got DESERVINGLY freshly pressed for her entry of it.
Jerez, Spain – I went back to the scene of the crime to where I got rammed by a bull. Refer to recent entry called “Running of the Bull”.
Why we travel? – A topic brewed from a comment made to my recent post “Winter“.
Our Top 13 Albums of 2011 – A collective short listed albums formed by handpicked music aficionados including yours truly.
^ I assumed you’d go for something Spain.
That’s +1 for Why we travel?
I travel to read that proverbial book of St. Augustine. That book that makes us see the world. Because according to him, the word is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. Obviously, I don’t want just a page.
That comment is actually for the first commenter, Rom.
^ Are you voting for it, Sony?
Change is always good~~~Waka waka!
We are pretty sure our chickens are Italian. They dig cheese pizza.
Yes — for why we travel. Hehe … Obviously, I was biased there.
^ Thanks for all the input.
It’s between Italian Food or Why we travel?
Thanks Cafe23 for sealing the poll.
I’ll try my best to come up with a layman’s entry. I promise to post the other topics eventually as well.
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MUNICH. Telefónica O2 Germany provides business customers new and highly attractive offers for the mobile web. Until the end of August, notebook users can order the O2 business data campaign tariff without monthly basic fee in combination with the O2 data flat rate for only € 16.80* a month. In addition, new smart phones like the O2 Xda Guide and call and data tariffs are available at special conditions. The expansion of the O2 network will enable business customers and employees to use the rapid mobile web across Germany via UMTS and EDGE soon.
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getitexam.com provide our candidates with the latest exam materials updates for MRP . To ensure about the relevance and accuracy of our resources, the study materials are constantly revised and updated by our expert team. We guarantee the materials with quality and reliability which will help you pass any Cisco certification exam.
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