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Metodo 3 are the Spanish private investigators hired by the Madeleine Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned Limited. Based in Barcelona, they were hired at a cost of 50,000 per month soon after the McCanns fled Portugal and returned to England.
Francisco Marco Fernández is also a specialist in IT law and he has a Master’s in corporation law. He is both a lawyer and a private detective.
He has written a wealth of doctrinal articles on the subject of private investigation, its legislation and jurisprudence.
His doctoral thesis is entitled “Private detectives and the right to privacy”.
Ever since he was young, he has shown a great interest in all things related with private investigation, its legislation, the company – detective relationship and the figure of the detective in Spain.
Several of his works on these subjects have been published. He is the author of “Código de Seguridad Privada” (“Private Security Code”), co-written with the Professor of Criminal Law, Fermín Morales Prats, and published by Aranzadi. The manual he compiled entitled “El Control en la Empresa” (“Control of the Company”) has also been published.
Francisco Marco may have a string of impressive credentials to his name but his big blunder in the McCann Case was his claim that he knew where Madeleine was and that he would have her home by Christmas 2007.
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Commercial lawn mowing is a great way to present your business as professional, diligent and attentive. As any reputable lawn mowing service in Carmel would, we at Earthworks Outdoor advise potential clients to ask as many questions as they need to. To that end, if you are choosing among lawn mowing companies, we suggest that you ask about a few essential issues.
Contact us today to ask us all the questions you want. At Earthworks Outdoor, we understand that knowledge is important, and we strive to provide top-notch service so that you do not need to worry about your lawn.
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for good resolution please use the DOWNLOAD button ABOVE.
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Pictures by Chris Smart. Logo Design by Sol Rac. thanks!
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Classy Coats For Wedding Dresses Wedding Dresses Thumbmediagroup Coats For Wedding Dresses Pic - The image above with the title Classy Coats For Wedding Dresses Wedding Dresses Thumbmediagroup Coats For Wedding Dresses Pic, is part of Coats For Wedding Dresses picture gallery. Size for this image is 630 × 630, a part of Wedding Dresses category and tagged with lace coats for wedding dresses, coats for wedding dresses, fur coats for wedding dresses, dresses with coats for wedding guests, coats for over wedding dresses published January 18th, 2019 02:55:29 AM by Winifred Haley. Find or search for images related to "Classy Coats For Wedding Dresses Wedding Dresses Thumbmediagroup Coats For Wedding Dresses Pic" in another posts. Back to: Coats For Wedding Dresses.
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On the one hand, in the sciences of education and psychology a great deal of emphasis is placed on self-confidence, but in Islamic teachings, ethics, and gnosticism (‘irfan) on the other hand, it is stressed that one must trust only in Allah (awj) and not in oneself. Is there a contradiction between the two perspectives?
1. Comprehending one's abilities, potentials, and building on the existing capabilities in the attempt to satisfy one’s desires and attain to the true human identity. This version is in no way in conflict with the spirit of trust in Allah (awj). The advantage of this version is its compatibility with two key religious terms: self-knowledge and knowledge of Allah’s (awj) blessings and the right way of employing them.
Tawakkul comes from the root wikalah and so by derivation means “appointing someone as one’s trustee (wakil)”. What is meant by the self-confidence that is in harmony with tawakkul is maintaining one’s composition in the face of great predicaments by relying on the endless power of Allah (awj), thereby considering oneself triumphant. It means to struggle resolutely in the face of all the troubles and tribulations that befall one, trusting in Allah (awj) where one feels powerless and not ceasing to try. Rather, even where one feels capable, one should know that the real power is Allah (awj). For, in the eyes of the true monotheist, He is the fountainhead of all existing powers, so that viewing the natural phenomena in separation from the Divine will is a kind of polytheism. All natural causes derive their potency from Him and exist due to His will.
What is meant by the self-confidence that is in harmony with tawakkul is maintaining one’s composition in the face of great predicaments by relying on the endless power of Allah (awj), thereby considering oneself triumphant. It means to struggle resolutely in the face of all the troubles and tribulations that befall one, trusting in Allah (awj) where one feels powerless and not ceasing to try. Rather, even where one feels capable, one should know that the real power is Allah (awj).
But the second interpretation of self-confidence is in no way compatible with tawakkul, for in this sense self-confidence would be to regard one’s strengths and capabilities independent of Divine will. And self-reliance and relying on other creatures are in opposition to the spirit of trust in Allah (awj).
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At Sinclair Estate Agents, we’re committed to respecting and protecting your privacy.
Sinclair Estate Agents has a Data Protection Officer who is responsible for matters relating to privacy and data protection. The Data Protection Officer can be reached at enzo@sinclairestateagents.co.uk or 9 Bullring, Shepshed, Leicestershire, LE12 9PZ.
Sinclair Estate Agents is a trading name of Sinclair Estate Agents Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, whose Registered Number is 5459388 and Registered Office is Eltham House, 6 Forest Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3NP.
We may use your name, address and contact details for the purpose of carrying out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and Sinclair Estate Agents, such as providing you with products and services you have requested, visiting and arranging viewings of your property. Our legal basis for this use is that it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party.
We may use your name, email address and postal address to provide you with information, you have requested from us, respond to enquiries or requests from you, communicate with you in relation to those enquiries or requests and arranging visits to your property by our staff. Our legal basis for this use is our legitimate interests, namely carrying out activities in the course of Sinclair Estate Agents’ business in response to customer enquiries or requests.
We may use your name, postal address, photographic documentation and third party correspondence to verify your identity where we have a statutory or regulatory duty to do so. Our legal basis for this use is compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, our legitimate interests, namely ensuring the security of our systems, network and information and those of third parties.
We may also use any of your personal information that we collect from you directly and additional information about you from external sources where necessary to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk. These sources include but are not limited to, third party credit referencing agencies and other publicly accessible sources Our legal basis for this use of your personal information is our legitimate interests in preventing our business being subject to fraud or credit risk.
These are Meridian (Leicester) Ltd and the Mortgage Advice Bureau; Move with Us conveyancing Services and asset management services.
Your personal data including name, address, contact details, and preferences will be shared with Vebra Solutions Ltd. Vebra Solutions Ltd. provide Sinclair Estate Agents with property sales software.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at info@sinclairestateagents.co.uk or write to us at 15 High Street, Sileby, Leicestershire LE12 7RX. In addition, you can exercise your right to object to direct marketing at any time by clicking an ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of one of our emails.
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on 10th October 2018.
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Simple classics make the day flow a bit easier with the Browse slipper from the Seychelles collection. Smooth faux leather upper. Slip-on construction. Almond toe silhouette. Leather lining. Padded insole. Jute rope wrapped midsole. Man-made sole. Imported. Measurements: Heel Height: 1 4 in Weight: 8 oz Product measurements were taken using size 8.5 width M. Please note that measurements may vary by size. Weight of footwear is based on a single item not a pair.
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Let's just say I have written and rewritten this post more times that I would like to admit, so here it goes.
to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
The truth is that I knew when I created this website that this blog would eventually be used for more than just glimpses of my work, my heart for the organizations I volunteer for or things I advocate for. I knew it would eventually be to share more of my family; I just didn't know how long that journey would take (which is a big reason to why this website has been in the works for a few years).
If you know me you know that I have two fur babies (the CL Mascots as we call the goldendoodles) and am married to the most amazing man! I know that every wife says that about her husband, but I truly mean it. When we got married 1,971 days ago I thought I loved him with all of my heart. Fast forward to our third year of marriage we both knew our love had grown as we started really visiting the idea of babies and a family outside of our four-legged children. Fast forward, yet again, to today and I truly understand that love knows no bounds and is bigger than I have yet to experience.
However, the one thing we didn't know when we began that conversation was just how long God had our journey planned for. With more bumps in the road than I like to admit after more than 1,050 days something was different. Although we had been to this place before it wasn't until December 6, 2017 that it became more of a reality than the times before.
With us taking things a little slower than others may have I am beyond blessed and incredibly humbled to share that Blair and I will welcome the biggest blessing we could ever comprehend this July. The amazing Courtney Brown of Courtney Leigh Photography captured all of these amazing images that Blair and I will be forever grateful for! Including a tiny baby bump we have been praying over for 17 weeks!
The honest truth is that while we are beyond ecstatic to share our news my heart also goes out to those in the midst of this journey. While we don't know what your individual story might be, we do know what its like to love something so much and never meet. We know what its like to be asked when were going to jump on the baby train (to which my husband will tell you we may have very easily been the conductor - his ability to make me laugh may be one of my most favorite things about him) and what it's like to see baby announcement after baby announcement, or what it seems.
Please know that if you're in the middle of a journey, confused or discouraged that God is with you. If you need someone to talk to, or someone to pray for you I am more than happy to, and I'm happy to share more of our story.
To each of you who have shared in our journey, who have prayed over this precious baby or have loved on us and our marriage - we are so grateful for you and can't thank you enough! We would love for continued prayers as we begin an entirely new chapter and welcome baby Frederick this summer.
For this child I have prayed and the Lord has granted me the desires of my heart.
I would love to grab coffee!
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Core Consumer Prices in Sweden increased to 216.96 Index Points in March from 216.56 Index Points in February of 2019. Core Consumer Prices in Sweden averaged 168.49 Index Points from 1987 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 217.37 Index Points in December of 2018 and a record low of 98.21 Index Points in January of 1987.
Core Consumer Prices in Sweden is expected to be 218.73 Index Points by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Core Consumer Prices in Sweden to stand at 221.25 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Sweden Consumer Price Index with a Fixed Interest Rate (CPIF) is projected to trend around 230.45 Index Points in 2020, according to our econometric models.
This page provides - Sweden Core Consumer Prices - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Sweden Consumer Price Index with a Fixed Interest Rate (CPIF) - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.
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Ga-In(가인) (bornSon Ga-In(손가인), September 20, 1987) is a South Korean singer , actress , and entertainer . She is best known as a member of the Korean pop music girl-group Brown Eyed Girls and for her appearances alongside Jo Kwon from 2AM for TV showsWe Got MarriedandAll My Love.
Not a Single Picture Wasted for Suzy, Park Bo-gum, So Ji-sub and etc.
Let's Coke Play! Battle Shinhwa!. According to Ga-In, she was crying in the bathroom following her failed audition when she was approached by composer Ahn Jung Hoon, and was invited to audition at Brown Eyed Girls' company, eventually joining the group. The four members performed several small shows under the name "Crescendo" before officially debuting as Brown Eyed Girls in 2006.
In October 2010 Gain started her solo activities through her album Step 2/4, the first teaser for her music video was released on October 4 , the second teaser one day later .
On October 8 the music video forIrreversiblewas released The song earned much attention for the tango influence and the dramatic music video, which is almost 11 minutes long. A few days later the dance version was released , which showcased Gain dancing in the desert.
At midnight of April 22 KST, JYP and Ga-In released a duet track titled, ”Someone Else". This is the first song JYP released in about two years.
In 2012 Gain made her comeback with her second solo album and revealed the tracklist and album name on September 24 . The albumTalk About Sincludes five tracks, the title songBloomis written by Kim Eana and composed by Lee Minsoo, who have also worked on her first solo album. In the following days several teasers were released for the individual songs, such asTinkerbell ,Catch Me If You Can ,Meet Her andGaze .
The whole music video and album were finally released on October 5 , later on she also won an award on M! Countdown with her title track .
A day later she released a shocking teaser for the song . The teaser shows two silhouettes behind a shower curtain, at the end Gain says the wordsFuck you. It was revealed that the song will be a simple yet melodious and has a classic guitar. Also Bumkey features in the song.
On January 27 the MV and song was finally released . The song tells about an intense and rocky relationship between Gain and actor Joo Ji Hoon, who are caught in an physically and emotionally abusive relationship. The music video was revealed along with the whole album. The lyricist Kim Eana and composer Lee Minsoo worked on the title track, just like on her previous songBloom. The title songTruth or Daredeals with the risky topic of rumors and their effect on celebrities and their life.
Each girl is from the top K-Pop Girl groups that dominated the music scene at the time. Together, they "debuted" as a fictitious girl group for Samsung's Anycall campaign with a CF/MV called "Tomorrow". Although, the group was only scheduled to last two months, they released six music dramas.
In 2006, Ga-In did a collaboration single called "Must Have Love" with SG Wannabe 's leader Kim Yong Jun.
Ga-in appeared onWe Got Marriedwith 2AM 's Jo Kwon starting from September 2009. Their virtual marriage came to an end after 15 months in January 2011.
She made her acting debut in MBC daily sitcomAll My Love. She was the female lead, "Geumji". She acted alongside her virtual husband Jo Kwon, who played the role as her younger twin brother, "Okyeop". Her character was the love interest of Yoon Doo-joon (from BEAST) character also named "Yoon Doo Joon". However, owing to schedule conflicts, her filming of the sitcom ended in May, 2011.
"—" denotes releases that did not chart, stats are currently not available or that they were not released in that region.
"돌이킬 수 없는 Full Ver."
These are collection of Gain wins on Korea's televised music shows. Inkigayo is aired on SBS , M! Countdown on Korean cable channel Mnet and Music Bank on KBS .
Note:An artist may only win three times for one track on Inkigayo before they are taken off the 'Take 7' nominees list.
Note: An artist may only win three times for one track on M! Countdown before they are taken off the nominees list.
"Brown Eyed Girls and ZE:A talk about the history of their group names". Allkpop.com. 2010-05-09. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
"Brown Eyed Girls' Gain signs contract with Loen Entertainment for solo activities". Koreaboo.com. 2011-12-21. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
"싸이 "'젠틀맨' 안무, 브아걸 '시건방 춤'이 모티프"".
"Show Luo & BEG’s Ga-In Heat Things Up In "Cast The Net Of Love" MV". 247AsianMedia.com. 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
"Dream Team Girl Group 4Tomorrow". Allkpop.com. 2009-10-06. Retrieved 2012-05-22.
"Gaon Monthly Album Chart". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
"Gaon Digital Chart". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
"Billboard K-Pop Hot 100" (in Korean). Billboard Korea. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
"'Brown Eyed Girls' Ga In and actor Joo Ji Hoon revealed to be a couple!". Allkpop. May 9, 2014.
(Korean)"'4관왕' 가인-조권, 가온 차트 '싹쓸이'". YTN. February 23, 2010. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
(Korean)"2NE1, '2010 MAMA' 5관왕..걸파워 빛났다(종합)". Nate. November 29, 2010. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
(Korean)"‘아담부부’ 조권-가인, MBC 방송연예대상 2관왕". Joinsmsn. November 30, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2010.
(English) Big Bang, 2NE1, CNBLUE, & Block B big winners in Europe's 3rd Annual 'So-Loved Awards'. allkpop. December 9, 2012.
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Early enrolment to school assists the school to be best prepared for a student's arrival at school.
Below are a collection of documents related to enroling your child at our school.
Please feel free to contact the office to organise a tour of the school.
To see how best to prepare your child for starting school, please look at the Transition to School page of our website.
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the Stage 9 from Vesaro is serious business.
Overclockers UK are spearheading the charge to Virtual Reality. Our huge range of performance gaming peripherals are all ideal choices for virtual reality gaming. To accompany your HTC Vive or Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset, a realistic game controller provides enhanced immersion in your favourite VR Games.
Even if you are just playing regular PC Games, the jump to Virtual Reality gaming is a huge step forward simulation and PC Games for any gamer looking to take their experience to the next level.
Racing Simulators such as Project Cars, iRacing, Dirt Rally and Assetto Corsa benefit enormously from the use of a high performance PC Racing Wheel. Pair a peripheral set like this with a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift VR Headset and you will be immersed in the thrill of racing. With the Vesaro Stage 9 Simulator, the option to operate with a VR Headset will take the most immersive racing simulation system available to day and put that world around you.
More links for "Advanced Modular Racing Simulators - Core Stage 9 TurnKey Complete Racing Simulator"
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This new study also clarifies the role of the Great Attractor, a gravitational focal point in intergalactic space that influences the motion of our Local Group of galaxies and other galaxy clusters. Within the boundaries of the Laniakea Supercluster, galaxy motions are directed inward, in the same way that water streams follow descending paths toward a valley. The Great Attractor region is a large flat bottom gravitational valley with a sphere of attraction that extends across the Laniakea Supercluster.
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It's not the time of year when you expect to see much going on in the forest, but you know, going for a walk with birders in search for the "confusing fall warblers". So as TPP is always looking down, this fern popped right out. Like spring wild flowers this little fern was expected in the spring, although this particular species has leaves that turn bronze and persist until spring. It was not expected to have fertile fronds. This is one of the rattlesnake ferns, formerly the genus Botrychium, but now Sceptridium, S. dissectum obliquum, the bronze fern. TPP really hates this name change, as the older genus has been in the memory banks for at least 45 years. This plant consists of either one or two leaves, one sterile frond, which can be somewhat bigger, and more dissected, than this one, and a second frond that consists largely of sporangia (cream colored here), which when present rises above the fertile frond (the petioles can be fused appearing as one). The gametophytes are subterranean and so are seldom seen. The whole fern is only about 5-6 inches tall. It's not actually rare but seldom noticed. This fern may be a bit mixed up because of the weather like a few other plants. Because such plants are seldom noticed, many people think they are rare plants; sort of but not as much as they think.
TPP feels horrible; he is in the grips of a flu-like substance. The Phactors were in rural North Carolina for a wedding of a nephew, and Mrs. Phactor's family does love these opportunities to get together and whoop it up, and to be fair they are pretty good fun. On one hand it would be unfair to blame them for my illness, but they are a group of huggers and kissers. Let's check the flu-like substance symptoms: fever, check. Not very high, but enough to make you feel miserable. Congestion, check. My sinuses feel like they will burst and TPP feels like he's already swallowed a bucketful running down his throat. Headache, check. Every cough (check), makes the old head feel like it will explode. Watery eyes, ? not sure about this one. The eyes are definitely watery, but not sure if this belongs to the flu-like substance or not; they've been watery for weeks and attributed to harvest dust. General fatigue, check. Good thing Mrs. Phactor & F1 could take over driving. Even fell asleep while listening to a damned-good pod cast (S-Town, This American Life). Highly recommended. This was after relinquishing the driver's seat. Runny nose, check. Annoying as hell; tissues always within reach. Sore throat, not so much. Sneezing, check. Redness of skin & eyes, the latter are plenty red, but not the skin. Well, not a bad run of symptoms, all but one at least in part. And TPP did not yet get a flu shot for this year. Hard to know if they work or not now.
Erasing Nature is a title stolen/borrowed/reused from the Garden Rant blog (love those people). TPP has long fought against plant blindness, but this goes to the level of replacing nature with digital technology. TPP finds this totally appalling.
Acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow; all these words have been left out of the new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary and here's the new words added: attachment, block-graph, blog, broadband, bullet-point, celebrity, chatroom, committee, cut-and-paste, MP3 player and voice-mail. Of course 2/3s of the cuts are botanical.
And because they have so little experience with nature many teachers are no help at all. Damn, TPP tries not to read news about the POTUS, so he turns to gardening blogs, and gets all depressed anyways.
Dear Readers, The Phytophactor is in the planning phases of a field trip to New Zealand; it's been at least 30 years since he last visited. So what he needs is a decent plant identification book that does not come in a 10 volume set. Traveling light and limited luggage you know. For recording those plants (and scenery), while iphone cameras are far better than they used to be, TPP still likes to have a camera with controls that go beyond point and shoot. Liked my Nikon P7000, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth. Love the close up focusing of those Nikon lens. Traveled for years with lens and camera backs and lots more, but as the years have accumulated, the convenience of a compact camera has increased. So what advice do people out there have for TPP? Advise me well grasshoppers, and you will be rewarded with many fine blogs.
The screwy weather of 2017 has some of TPP's plants confused. June was quite hot, July & August were cooler and wetter, September started cool but then got hot and very dry. And as Fall continued and the days shortened, the weather got cooler and rains finally relieved the drought. But no cold weather even into early October (except for the last 24 hrs). so some plants are a bit confused about what time of year it is. Today's sunflower, or more usually a rock rose, an ornamental variety generally placed in the species Helianthemum nummularium, a member of the Cistaceae. The genus means sun flower, but so does Helianthus. Members of this family, and this genus, and this species are pretty common ornamentals of the Mediterranean region, but most of them are not hardy here in zone 5. It's a small, low, evergreen shrub that makes a nice border and ground cover. After looking sort of rough most of the early summer and not flowering then (perhaps recovering from winter), one of two plants decided to flower now! Pretty bright flower, but not a big display. Nice in a protected area.
Busy weekend has put TPP behind.
This was pretty interesting. Stylized dinosaurs rendered as fruits by computer intelligence, although clearly a lot of instructions were needed. Still they are pretty neat. Enjoy.
Here's a weed of the week (WOTW) that ranges from utterly insignificant to just small. It grows in a low, spreading mat, seldom more than a centimeter tall, and is sometimes called the sandmat or prostrate spurge. Officially it has the totally appropriate name Euphorbia prostrata. It can grow, quickly, from cracks or seams in sidewalks, and it is very prolific making lots of seeds so this naturalized annual is sure to reappear next year. While it can be pulled (do take care, the milky sap can be irritating) an herbicide treatment is perhaps the only way to keep this weed under control. However you can at least admire how efficiently it covers space, and of course, the remarkable beauty of its flowering and fruiting display. There are a couple of similar species, E. maculata and E. serpens, but generally these species have smooth stems and leaves while E. prostrata is hairy. Ever wonder why botanists often have a hand lens, which is their version of bling? It's to see if plants like this are hairy or not.
The outdoor gardening season is just about done. The monkshood or wolf bane is just coming into flower here in early October, right on schedule. Red October the lastest flowering hosta is just finishing up. And TPP must turn his attention to the glasshouse to find flowers of interest. One bed of succulents has a huge clone of a relatively common Aloe, and every decent sized stem was in flower. There are over 500 species and lots of cultivars, and TPP has no idea what this one is. Any suggestions? Quite colorful in a salmon sort of way. This inflorescence is a near perfect example of a raceme, a single central stem with an ascending helix of stalked flowers. With so many flowers it takes quite a few days to flower from bottom to top. Note how the flowers change position as they come into flower. The lowest flowers are in a pollen accepting phase with the stigma protruding from the corolla. No hummingbirds were around, but a little self-pollination will produce a few fruits. The whole thing makes for quite a visual display.
One of the things TPP misses the most about teaching is finding interesting connections between botany and other cultural things and lacking a class of interested (?) students to present them to. Perhaps TPP is weird in this regard, but people who find "connections" interesting always seem to have the best scholarly attitudes or at least an intellectual curiosity.
Ergot is a fungal parasite of cereal grains and when its spores contaminate flour and bread, it can produce dramatic side effects, various forms of ergotism, the stuff of the Salem witch trials, and effects that include hallucinations. So this article investigates whether hallucinations ever influenced art especially a fellow like Hieronymus Bosch who really painted some strange images, strange enough that it is not difficult to imagine he was under some kind of hallucinogenic influence. Image shows an ergot spore body replacing a cereal grain where it could contaminate flour ultimately leading to the idea that the whiter the flour the more pure it was (image from the Wikimedia Creative Commons complements of Accipiter).
September is always one of our drier months, but locally our rainfall is less than half of the average amount. The Phactors have done slightly better than the general area and our gardens are parched. Very large, old trees are showing signs of stress. Leaf fall is starting quite early and the lawn has a nice crunch when you walk across it. Several poorly established shrubs, mostly sort of new, have already died. So far a lilac, and a male winter berry have gone belly up, several more look very sad. A few things may survive and reappear come spring, but some will go missing. And it isn't as though we have not been watering. This is a drought. We've had one 1.25 inch rainfall for the whole month. Fall color is going to be a bust as leaves simply turn brown. And do remember winter is mostly about dry conditions, so unless things turn around, we'll be watering some things in December. The cool August & early Sept. followed by hot weather, and lack of rain have some plants very confused. A "Christmas" cactus is covered in buds, a non-hardy azalea that usually blooms in Jan.-Feb. has a couple of flowers open.
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A Barry supermarket manager has launched 30 challenges to celebrate her 30th birthday, with a target to raise £6,189 for local charities, marking her date of birth.
Zoe Selby is the store manager of Colcot Road Co-Op and is raising money for the Welsh Air Ambulance, Cardiff Dogs Homes, Barry Round Table, AO Cymru and Welsh Hearts.
Zoe’s started her 30 challenges on the first day of 2019, taking part in the Barry Island New Years’ Day Swim raising £171 for Ty Hafan. She continued by taking part in an 8 lap, 10 mile walk around Roath Park with plans for the remaining 28 throughout the year.
Zoe and colleagues taking part in the 2019 Barry Island New Years Day Swim.
As part of her 30 challenges, Zoe plans to take part in a Snowdon Zip Line, bungee jump, car wash, Brecon Beacons Three Peaks and many more challenges.
Donations to Zoe’s challenge can be made instore at Co-Op on Colcot Road, Barry or via Just Giving.
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Irrespective of their size and growth stage, businesses today are creating more data than ever before. You need the right tools for storage and security of your customer records, transactional history and data analytics. This is why Octans stays …ready with scalable data storage solutions. We are your one-stop shop for products and services related to Direct Attached Storage for Servers & Computers; File and Object Storage, Network-Attached Storage; Storage Area Network (SAN) and Cloud Storage.
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I would say that It is never ‘rude’ to not reply to someone’s snap unless they are looking for a response. I wouldn’t find it rude to not respond to anything without added text or anything that is also posted through other media. Depending on the context of the snap I would imagine it would be fairly clear if the sender is looking for a response. A pic of dinner might not warrant a response, however the added text ‘look what I made’ would be something to respond to.
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Oh no. Oh no, oh no. Our beloved Transformers have been replaced with small non-transforming versions of themselves. "Action Masters" by name, you can just see that all the enthusiasm has died. At least for me. Ah, well, there's tons more Transformers to make up for them in the decades to come!
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Understanding water infrastructure, where leaks are coming from and their impact on your city can be a daunting and expensive task for most cities. I/I along with getting the water leaks repaired quickly and efficiently is a service that we can perform for you.
Resin and epoxy can be used for several other repairs as well. Listed below are common problems for structures in our area. We have completed several repairs using different techniques for these issues.
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Loved one with low vision can’t puzzle? The puzzles here are made for those who struggle with other puzzles due to low vision, arthritis, Alzheimer’s or whatever reason. Give one a try.
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This month, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church celebrates its 325th anniversary, making it the oldest church in Baltimore. I was honored to have been commissioned to create a commemorative illustration and redesign their website. Congratulations, Old St. Paul’s!
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Have enough contents to show the scrollbar in the editing area.
See the caret blinking in the editing area.
Move the mouse inside the editing area, close enough to the scrollbar. See that the mouse changes to arrow.
The caret will disappear (no editing focus). If you type, nothing happens.
8835.patch (745 bytes) - added by Frederico Caldeira Knabben 7 years ago.
8835_2.patch (808 bytes) - added by Frederico Caldeira Knabben 7 years ago.
8835_3.patch (793 bytes) - added by Frederico Caldeira Knabben 7 years ago.
This must be content direction aware to not bring a side effect for rtl page.
The patch is not well tested, there's an js error, and when content is rtl, the right margin is still not visible.
when content is rtl, the right margin is still not visible.
There is a bug on IE where it sets the right margin as well when you have margin-left only.
At this point, better to have this fix for ltr only.
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Zug, Switzerland - The Handball Euro06 which took place in Switzerland was the most extensively covered and viewed tournament in the history of Men's European Handball Championships.
More than 760 million cumulative viewers followed 707 hours of televised event coverage. The event took place from 26 January to 5 February 2006 and is the European Handball Federation's (EHF) premier event.
The championship was transmitted by close to 120 television and radio broadcasters worldwide and benefited from approximately 800 accredited journalists, photographers and technicians to deliver record media coverage.
This result is based on an independent programme analysis including information provided by broadcast partners worldwide. The report was compiled by the German communication research agency Sport+Markt AG on behalf of Infront Sports & Media AG, the EHF's exclusive television and marketing partner.
The report is one of the most comprehensive to date and is seen as a conservative estimate for the event's total coverage. This is due to several key markets — such as Russia, Turkey, Argentina and Brazil — not being able to provide audited audience data to meet the full criteria of the study. If the unaudited data from these markets were taken into account, the total figure of 760 million would increase to an estimated 850 million cumulative audience.
Infront has increased the television coverage of the Men's European Handball Championships significantly over the history of this event. Both the 2002 event in Sweden and the 2004 competition in Slovenia broke all previous records in television broadcast terms. The most recent Euro06 comfortably exceeded this: The total transmission time grew by 20% and the cumulative audience figures increased by more than 30% (based on the audited cumulative audience) compared to the last Men's Championship in 2004.
The 2006 television report demonstrated that coverage reached virtually every European country. The victory of the French team over Spain in the final match benefited from significant news coverage around the world. Extensive television coverage was also reported from countries not represented in the competition, e.g. Romania (25 matches), Belgium (16), FYR Macedonia (15), and Sweden (10). Live broadcasts of Euro06 matches were also shown in the Middle East and North Africa. Delayed transmissions and/or news coverage was available in several Asian and South American territories.
The official tournament website, www.euro06.com, which was jointly provided by the EHF, the Swiss Handball Federation and Infront, provided fans with extensive information about the event, participating nations and players. It received 74.6 million page impressions from the beginning of January through 5 February. The result more than tripled those compared to the 2004 event website – another tournament record.
Tor Lian, President of the EHF, said, "We are proud of our deep-rooted partnership with Infront Sports & Media. It dates back many years and has played an absolute crucial role in the development of the EHF, especially in terms of the growth of its flagship event, the European Handball Championships. The innovative and close-knit partnership has made the European Handball Championships into a leading event on the sporting market, as the figures underline. The 2006 Men's European Championship, held in Switzerland in January, turned a corner and set a precedent for international, indoor sporting events. The EHF will continue its work with Infront for the next period to encompass the 2008 and 2010 European Championships to reach even greater heights."
Infront has acted as the EHF's exclusive commercial partner for almost thirteen years. In 2004, both partners renewed their cooperation until 2010.
The EHF and Infront are currently preparing to broadcast the Women's European Championship from 7 – 17 December 2006 in Sweden, where TV4 Sweden will be acting as host broadcaster and offering live signals from all 47 games.
The nations which have already qualified include Norway (as title holder), Denmark, Hungary, Russia, Germany and the host country Sweden. The other participating teams will be decided during the play-offs at the end of May.
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Medical regulation protects the public. Every day, medical regulatory authorities (MRAs) around the world strive to fulfill their mandate—to protect, promote, and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards for the profession of medicine. IAMRA exists to support the world’s medical regulatory authorities in this endeavor. Through scientific, educational, and collaborative activities, IAMRA strives to encourage best practices among the world’s MRAs and to respond to both their current and future needs.
A truly global collaboration, IAMRA welcomes applications from MRAs and other organizations involved in medical regulation, from medical schools, and from organizations involved in regulating other health professions. As a membership organization, IAMRA values the communication, participation, and interaction that are key to the success of this international collaboration.
We invite you to learn more about the benefits of membership and our membership levels.
If your organization would like to apply for membership in IAMRA, please complete the online membership application.
The 2019 IAMRA Symposium on Continued Competency will be held September 9-10, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois (U.S.). The theme of the symposium is Continued Competency: Balancing Assurance and Improvement. This event is being hosted by the American Board of Medical Specialties, in co-sponsorship with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and the National Board of Medical Examiners.
The Symposium has limited capacity, and IAMRA will invite expressions of interest to attend.
IAMRA's 14th International Conference on Medical Regulation will be held September 15-18, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This event is being hosted by the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
By facilitating the ongoing exchange of information and meaningful collaboration among medical regulatory authorities, IAMRA seeks to provide a forum for the development of concepts and new approaches in medical regulation.
IAMRA members receive discounted registration rates for IAMRA events, so consider joining us today.
IAMRA eNews is a quarterly newsletter to facilitate the sharing of information by and for those with an interest in medical regulation. To read the latest edition of IAMRA eNews click here. If you would like to submit an article or a news item for a future edition of IAMRA eNews, please Contact Us.
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The story goes that Army Maj. William Lee was riding a desk in Washington and sulking about his commanders ordering him to shut up about his goofy idea to help win the war.
The phone rang. The guy on the other end of the line wanted to know everything about these gizmos called parachutes and how they could be used to drop troops behind enemy lines.
Lee had a question: Just who the hell are you?
The guy said he worked for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR thought airborne assault just might be crazy enough to work, said Sgt. 1st Class Alex Burnett of the "All American" 82nd Airborne Division.
Lee would become known as the "Father of the U.S. Airborne," and go on to lead the 101st Airborne.
The 82nd, which fought in the trenches of World War I, was reformed in 1942 and went into the history books with drops in Italy and Normandy, and in the bridge-too-far "Operation Market Garden."
The division, which serves as the nation's Global Response Force -- ready to go anywhere on the globe within 18 hours, is marking the centennial of its 1917 formation for World War I with a series of podcasts and events on its proud legacy.
It includes tributes to the legends who came from its ranks -- Sgt. Alvin York, Lt. Gen. James "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin, Gen. Omar Bradley and others.
You can listen to and subscribe to the podcast here.
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A marriage creates a union forming the foundation of a family. It brings together two families. It brings together two people in one of the strongest bonds and strongest responsibilities that life can present. Though it sounds like I am speaking about commitment to marriage let me digress.
When people two people choose to marry do they “KNOW” what they are getting themselves into? Answer: No one does! Life leads down a path that may not be easily predictable. You rarely know where Life can lead and what lessons you are to learn from this experience. The beauty of living life is the weird twists and turns that create the unique and beautiful moments in life, even the most difficult challenges! The trust in your partner is almost always tested. I do not mean this in the most obvious ways of fidelity to the marriage. I mean in the times of challenge such as: parenting, illness, and even death, trusting the divine spirit and the learning that must occur. We choose to come into this life and into this set of lessons for a reason and getting along with your chosen partner creates very important chances to experience and “live” through significant challenges.
It is a blessing when two people find each other and create the bond of trust. As they walk hand in hand through life they are connected and must support their partners through all the good and difficult times. In a small way, marriage is a living example of “oneness” and the true lack of “self.” With the exchange of unconditional love, partners find themselves in each other and, possibly, a part of something much greater. A chance to love, demonstrate unconditional love, and to be part of heart driven union is one of the major lessons we are here to learn. This requires overcoming fear, self-doubt, perhaps a history of trust issues, and the willingness to be a participant in something much greater than a single individual’s life. Trusting your heart, knowing your heart, and following your intuition regarding your partnership is a huge step and engages the mind, the body, and the spirit.
Mike and Michel, I know you are loving, spiritual beings. Go and create the good in the world that your bond through marriage enables the both of you to offer.
I Love You! Your connection serves as an example of what can be most positive in life.
Take good care of each other and your selves.
Along the way, do what you came here to do and make the world a better place. Enjoy the lessons, even the challenges, that are a part of the process of living. Be the team I hope that you can, and will, be.
Let there be the bright and shining light of love in the world, and may you find yourself basking in the brilliance of this unconditional love from within.
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Vance&Hines power duals with monster exhaust, stage 1.
Harley hammock seat and factory seat included.
4 point docking system allows for tour pack add on or backrest.
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Water is everything in wire EDM machining. It carries away contaminants, keeping machines operating at peak efficiency; water transfers the charge from the electrode to the part, effectively performing the cut; and water cools the electrode, allowing it to carry a consistent charge and reducing the chances of breakage.
We’ve designed a hybrid wire that takes full advantage of H2O in each of these situations during the machining process. Our ZT Hybrid Wire features a baked on zinc layer that is far superior to coated and brass wires. Not only does the outer layer adhere better to its brass core than other coatings, but the intricate texture of the outer layer gives water the chance to work its magic.
Here are a few ways this wire works hand-in-hand with water to improve EDM processes.
Reducing chances of breakage…Grooves in the zinc layer get the water closer to the brass core. This expedites the cooling of the wire and decreases the chances of downtime caused by wire breakage.
Cleaner water, cleaner machine …The baked on zinc layer gives this hybrid wire superior resistance to in-process flaking. The resulting cleaner water allows the machine to properly flush, keeping its components clean and operating properly. In the short term, this reduces maintenance and monitoring time. In the long term, the life of the machine tool can be extended.
Faster, finer parts … The extra space the wire’s outer texture makes room for more water than usual to be involved in the cut. Since the water is the medium actually carrying the charge from the wire to the part, the extra and more consistent spark energy allows for a faster (on average 30% faster than conventional brass wire) and more precise cut with finer finishes.
The ZT Hybrid Wire is available in both hard and soft versions, P2 through P15 and K125 through K250 size spools. It’s also backed by MC Machinery’s Consumable Products Groups no hassle replacement guarantee. To see specs and learn about our other industry-leading consumables, visit our Consumable Products Group page.
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Carbonized fiber packing with PTFE dispersion containing graphite particles. PTFE and Graphite makes the packing have excellent self lubrication.
SUNWELL P502IG -- Carbonized Fiber Packing Reinforced with Nickel Wire Reinforced with inconel wire to provides increase mechanical strength, usually for static.
> Main used for centrifugal pumps, plunger pumps, mixers and valves.
>Particularly idea for hot water, condensate and main coolant pumps.
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Product | Hand ToolsSee our selection of hand tools that will help you get the job done right!
The Empire Level 36 Series Magnetic Polycast Protractor is built to be a versatile tool for all kinds of angles and pitches.
Built with an easy to read dial with adjustable angle pointer and a magnetic base and back.
This handy cost effective protractor also includes an angle pitch calculator in back.
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Originally developed by Guttorm Vik in the late 1990s as part of his editor project – which today we all know and love (Zap users excepted) as StrongED – StrongMen can display a hierarchical menu structure based on the contents of a text file. The menu entries can be used to run applications, launch URLs in the default web browser, provide a list of open files, and more.
Fred Graute, the application’s current maintainer, has just released version 1.27, which offers full Choices support, three new commands for use in the text file that defines the menu structure, improved keyboard support, increased configuration options, and a means to add new applications, directories and files to the menu by dragging and dropping them onto StrongMen’s icon bar icon.
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HE may be a cash-strapped student but an Oxford University undergraduate has already pledged to give away at least £200,000 of his future earnings to charity.
Rather than dreaming of the day he can afford to buy flash cars and have money to spend on other luxuries he has instead signed up to donate 10 per cent a year from his future salary.
Tom Rowlands, aged 22, has made his pledge after being inspired by a talk given by university post doctoral research fellow in ethics Dr Toby Ord.
Dr Ord has established Giving What We Can, an international society dedicated to eliminating poverty in the developing world. He led by example by giving away everything he earned over £20,000, which adjusts with inflation, to a variety of “effective” charities.
He has calculated that he will part with £1 million over the course of his career.
Now Tom who is reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Harris Manchester College has pledged to do the same.
The Bolton School old boy from Westhoughton, who is considering a career in politics, said: “When I saw him, he looked healthy, and happy.
The organisation recommends charities that are the most effective at making a difference.
He added: ”It is manageable, the student loans I have are deducted before the 10 per cent is taken and it is also linked to inflation.
“I think all the worry about the economy can sometimes help us re-evaluate what actually matters—the average person in the UK is still well within the top five per cent of the richest people in the world.
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D16Y7 engines in used condition have been discounted in price at the JDM Pros company website for the remainder of this year at http://jdmpros.com/d16y7-engine-sale.
The updated "D" series motor block built by Honda in the 1996 year helped to create global interest in the Civic, SE, Del Sol and Coupe LSI vehicles. The JDM Pros company is now discounting its price structures in place for its D16Y7 engines for sale. Consumers can receive mileage and other engine data by visiting http://jdmpros.com/d16y7-engine-sale.
The 1.6-liter builds in stock are meant for installation into Japanese, U.S. and Canada vehicles that are compatible with the 9:4:1 motor compression. Consumers seeking a replacement SOHC block will benefit from the low mileage rating found on the second hand models that are shippable at the JDMPros.com website.
"The used MPFI editions that we are able to offer the public are imports that were acquired for a better price compared with the traditional dealership prices on similar models," said a seller at the JDM Pros company.
The 97 cubic inch displacement Honda D auto engines that are now being sold for a lower price will continue to receive warranty protection plans for the remainder of the year. The scrap yards and nationwide dismantlers offering the distribution after order processing are continuing the parts protection support.
"The direct bolt on blocks that are now found in our web inventory list all applicable mileage and other data that can be important during research by consumers," the seller continued.
The JDM Pros company is promoting its active price comparison system now a feature on its website for 2015. Instead of calling by phone for price data, consumers can now search or sort inventory privately using a computer or mobile device with an Internet connection. This service is expected to increase order time frames and speed up deliveries for ordered products.
The JDMPros.com company stocks preowned Japanese automobile motors that are acquired in second hand condition from wrecking yards across the United States. The JDMPros.com company has integrated more support solutions for consumers using its website this year to find price data or to place orders for foreign brand motor blocks.
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Every discipline in medicine has a basic fundamental truth that it ascribes to. For example, for critical care medicine (CCM), this truth is barrier integrity. In a healthy person, all anatomical and physiological barriers are intact and functional. These barriers are generally energy-dependent and keep critical substances separated. Upon death, all these barriers fail: fluid moves into the alveoli, bacteria move into the blood stream, and sodium and potassium equilibrate across cell membranes.
Anesthesia and regional anesthesia (RA) maintain their own peculiar truth. Understanding this truth may promote better understanding of what anesthesiologists instinctively or knowingly strive to accomplish. At the very least, such understanding may help the perioperative team to avoid some common anesthetic pitfalls.
If CCM is about managing bariers, then anesthesia is about managing reflexes. These can be physiological reflexes; if one cuts the skin the patient reacts, if one places a tube in the trachea, the patient reacts, and so forth until surgery would be an exercise in frustration. During surgery and trauma, most of the reflexes are initiated by nociception, or the noxious stimuli resulting from surgery or trauma. Others are initiated by hypovolemia and other stimuli, but this review will focus on nociception and management of the reflexive response.
The physiological reactions to pain are vast and well known, and vary from attempting to get up off the table and run away, to an increased heart rate and blood pressure. These reflexes can be managed at the end organ, for example by giving beta-blocking agents to counteract the hypertension and tachycardia response to noxious stimuli. The use of muscle relaxants to prevent the spinal cord-mediated reflexive movement to nociception is another example.
Perhaps the optimal place to interrupt these noxious impulses resides within the site of origin. Avoiding the painful stimulus in the first place can do this, but this is unrealistic in a surgical setting. Next best, then, is "hiding" the surgical stimulus from the ever-vigilant spinal cord. Physicians can block the nociception receptors from transmitting a message of pain to the brain by injecting local anesthetic agents into the surgical field, or by blocking the nerves that relay the message of pain to the spinal cord and brain. That is the prime use of RA in modern practice.
In modern anesthesiology, it is no longer a situation of general anesthesia (GA) versus regional anesthesia (RA). The out-dated notion that RA is safer than GA does not hold true anymore. Although literally thousands of research projects attempted to demonstrate that RA is safer than GA, these efforts were frustrated and consistently met with failure because the premise is simply not true. For example, in 1954 the mortality associated with GA was 3.7 per 1,000. That means that for every 1,000 patients induced with GA in 1954, 3.7 would die as a direct result of the anesthesia. In 1982 that figure improved to a mere 1 per 10,000 anesthetics, and it did at that time make sense to offer some alternative to GA. That was probably the reason for the sharp increase in the use of RA over the last half of the previous century. Now, in 2010, we can relax, GA is safe, and has an associated mortality rate of approximately 1:300,000. We can now focus our energy on the appropriate management of pre-, intra-, and postoperative pain. RA is perfectly suited for this, because it is very effective, safe (if the time-tested rules are obeyed), can be administered preoperatively, used for intraoperative analgesia and continued through the postoperative period.
Modern anesthesiology, therefore, is all about managing reflexes associated with surgery, and to disrupt the pathway of the noxious stimulus to the brain makes perfect sense. This is the modern use of RA. In the postoperative period, RA provides excellent analgesia, while minimizing opioid-related side effects by reducing and even eliminating the need for opioids. RA has proven its value as the ultimate weapon in the armamentarium of multimodal approaches to postoperative pain.
Single-injection nerve blocks are well suited as the sole anesthetic for peripheral surgery such as to the hands, feet, and eyes under monitored anesthetic care (MAC) conditions and various degrees of sedation - from conscious to unconscious sedation. However, single injection nerve blocks have a short duration of action and are only of value for the intraoperative and direct postoperative period. In a very painful surgical procedure, such as rotator cuff repair, single-injection nerve block may be valuable in managing the intraoperative pain. Such nerve blocks even help in getting the patient out of the recovery room expeditiously. Unfortunately, the patient receiving a single-injection nerve block for rotator-cuff repair is the same unfortunate soul waking at 0200 with severe, uncontrolled, and unmanageable pain in the dark and loneliness of the night. Most surgeons, and especially patients, would agree that in this situation it would probably have been better to have no block and to manage the pain with conventional analgesics before discharging the patient from the hospital or surgical center.
If, therefore, the patient is expected to suffer severe postoperative pain, it is the modern trend to place a continuous nerve block preoperatively. The anesthesiologist injects a bolus through the perineural catheter sufficient for an intraoperative surgical block, and then infuses a low concentration and volume of local anesthetic through the perineural catheter for a few days following the surgery. However, ambulatory continuous nerve block requires continuous and costly involvement of healthcare professionals, and not all anesthesiologists are willing to spend such energy to add this liability without suitable remuneration. The question of who takes responsibility for the cost associated with ambulatory continuous nerve blocks has been unanswered, and some argue that the benefits are not worth the cost and effort. Although such systems are feasible, effective, and met with a high level of patient and surgeon satisfaction, ,, ambulatory continuous peripheral nerve blocks have unfortunately not yet reached their rightful place, except in the practices of a small number of enthusiastic anesthesiologists.
There is very little doubt that continuous nerve block is advantageous for in-patient care of patients, especially elderly patients, who require total joint replacement. Indeed, physicians seem to agree; 89% of French anesthesiologists would request a regional anesthetic for their own surgery, if the procedure were amenable to such a block. Continuous nerve block has no place for relatively painless surgery such as carpal tunnel release and acromioplasty. Here, the patient is burdened with the risks of a perineural catheter, whereas enjoying no benefit over single-injection nerve blocks or simple field block, which may be advantageous for these surgeries.
Is it possible to enjoy the prolonged analgesia of a perineural catheter, but absorb only the risk of a single-injection nerve block? Some workers have promoted the use of additives such as buprenorphine to the local anesthetic agent to extend the duration of action, but this has not universally been met with enthusiasm. It is, generally, felt that if a long-acting block is needed a catheter should be placed for continuous nerve block, which is regarded by most as safer (or at the very least as safe) as single-injection blocks with fewer unwanted side effects or complications.
Why this apparent contradiction? With increasing concentrations of local anesthetics, nerves are generally blocked in the following order: pain fibers, then general sensory, and then motor. The ideal local anesthetic would provide intense motor (also referred to as "surgical") blockade during the intraoperative period. Shortly thereafter, the block's intensity would decrease to cover only pain fibers, thus permitting full participation in rehabilitation while maintaining a pain- and opioid-free recovery. This pain-fiber coverage would last for 3 to 7 days before resolving completely, and the physician would have a mechanism for concluding the nerve block prematurely if clinically indicated.
Current mechanisms used to prolong single-injection nerve blocks do so by extending the entire "pharmacokinetic" profile of the nerve block. That is, each stage of motor, sensory, and analgesia block is prolonged. Prolonged motor, and even sensory, blocks run several risks, including suboptimal participation in rehabilitation, as well as neurapraxic injuries stemming from limb malpositioning unnoticed by patients in the days following surgery. In contrast, the properly managed perineural catheter permits intense surgical blockade during the intraoperative period, and then titratable analgesic-level nerve blockade for days thereafter, with the option of discontinuing the nerve block effect at any point. This has not been fully clarified by research, but at the very least, it can be accepted that continuous nerve block is as safe and free of side effects as single-injection nerve block.
Drug companies have also worked energetically for at least the past 15 years to develop a long-acting local anesthetic agent, but this cannot expect to be successful for anything but local wound infiltration, because similar to extended release epidural morphine, it is not only the wanted effects of analgesia that is long-lasting, the unwanted side effects, for example, phrenic nerve paralysis, will also be long-lasting. For those reason catheters for long-term nerve block are, for the time-being at least, here to stay.
One unpublished case of a young professional that permanently lost the function of the superior trunk of the brachial plexus (personal communication), and a number of unpublished cases of quadriplegia and at least two published reports of spinal cord injury brought this issue acutely to the forefront.
The patient who lost the function of his superior trunk received an ambulatory continuous interscalene block for a rotator cuff repair. Upon removing the catheter at home the day after surgery, he experienced severe pain that radiated down his arm, which he described as a "lightning bolt going down his arm." The anesthesiologists reassured him and he continued to remove the catheter, which ended with total and permanent loss of the fifth and sixth roots of the brachial plexus.
The catheter was advanced 15 cm beyond the tip of the needle, and was clearly curled around the superior trunk of the brachial plexus. Upon removal of the catheter, the nerve roots were avulsed, which caused the "lightning bolt" sensation experienced by the patient followed by the permanent nerve injury and loss of function.
We do not condone the "bolus and pull" practice of some practitioners.
Removal of a catheter can only take place when the sensation and motor function have fully returned to the limb.
If there is no pain with removal of the catheter, it can safely be removed.
If there is radiating pain, fluoroscopy with contrast of the plexus should be undertaken. Ultrasound examination of the brachial plexus could also be done, and, under both scenarios if light tugging on the catheter causes the brachial plexus to move with the catheter, surgical removal of the catheter is mandatory. If the brachial plexus does not move with the tugging on the catheter, the catheter can be removed carefully.
Surgical removal should be an extremely rare occurrence, but if indicated one should not hesitate to do it. With the modern recommendation of not advancing catheters further than 3-5 cm beyond the needle tip, it can be expected that this phenomenon will disappear.
Voermans et al. highlighted this problem. Unfortunately, it is the humble opinion of the current authors that this problem could be expected to increase as the use of ultrasound increases. It is a fact that the brachial plexus is best visualized when the ultrasound probe is placed perpendicular to the nerves with the scalene muscles and nerves in the short axis of the ultrasound beam. It is also a fact that the in-plane approach to these nerves is the easiest way to perform a brachial plexus block. , This leads to the so-called "posterior approach to the brachial plexus," which is similar to the Pippa approach popular in Europe. This, unfortunately, often leads to the block being done more medially and on the root level of the brachial plexus. This root-level approach provides an excellent analgesic block, but it is not readily appreciated that at this level the roots are surrounded by dura and penetration of the dura leads to a subdural injection, which can also be intramedullary, because the nerve tissue here is nothing but the axons originating in the spinal cord, which are accompanied by perineural spaces in which the local anesthetic agent spreads centrally. Both these scenarios can of course lead to devastating complications and preventing these can only be done if the microanatomy of the brachial plexus is fully understood. A review of this microanatomy follows.
Our understanding of the microanatomy of the peripheral nervous system is not new. Key and Retzius in 1876 used Richardson's stain, whereas Horster and Whitman in 1931 used trypan blue to study the spread of intraneurally injected solutions experimentally. In more "recent" times, French et al. in 1948 studied intrafascicular injection with radiopaque contrast medium in dogs. Since this early work, even after the introduction of electron microscopy, no new insights have been introduced to refute these concepts or add significant new knowledge.
The embryological formation of the branches or peripheral nerves occurs later than roots and trunks, but for ease of understanding, the peripheral nerves will be considered first. Peripheral nerves are composed of numerous fasciculi; each surrounded by a dense perineurium and held together by a looser epineurium [Figure 1].
The essential structure of the perineurium is a lamellated arrangement of flattened cells separated by layers of collagenous connective tissue (similar to the plexus sheaths and, although not yet shown, one wonders if the epineurium is not a continuation of the plexus sheaths). It provides an ensheathment for both the somatic and peripheral autonomic nerves and their ganglia. The cellular lamellae are composed of concentric sleeves of flattened polygonal cells, and these cells are equipped to function as a metabolically active diffusion barrier, although they do not have the morphologic features of a true epithelium.
Longitudinal flow within the fascicle is inhibited minimally, whereas lateral extension is restricted by the relatively non-compliant perineurium. As the nerve approaches the dural penetration, resistance to extension increases and a peripherally injected medium comes to lie in clefts in the perineurium. Final emergence into the subarachnoid space occurs first by way of the subdural space and subsequently by breakthrough across the arachnoid barrier into the subarachnoid space.
Experimental work of Selander and Sjφstrand on intraneural injections into rabbit sacral nerves demonstrated that, during injection deep to the epineurium but outside the perineurium, an irregular bleb formed around the injection site. The tracer that they injected spread for a short distance within an easily expanding epineurium, which often ruptured. When 50-100 μL were injected at 100 μL/min, the injection pressure rose within a few seconds to 30-60 mmHg and thereafter quickly decreased to a steady 10-30 mmHg. As soon as the injection stopped, the pressure returned to zero. During intrafascicular injection deep to the perineurium, however, the tracer was seen to spread rapidly, proximally, and distally inside the fascicle. The longitudinal spread varied, but in all cases, it reached the sacral plexus. Distally, the tracer colored the tibial nerve, sometimes even reaching the foreleg. In another study, the tracer reached the lumbar plexus via the injected fascicle, and then even sometimes tracked distally via an entirely different nerve originating from the plexus. This study also showed that high-pressure intrathecal injection of contrast medium spread down the fascicles of peripheral nerves.
Selander et al. demonstrated that if the injection was made into a small fascicle, the injectate did not extend beyond the sacral plexus, but if the injection was made into a big fascicle, the injectate easily passed the sacral plexus and reached the spinal cord. During slow injection, the spread in the medulla was superficially under the pia mater. In some of the experimental animals, the spread was into the CSF, and the dura and arachnoid were also colored. In one animal, the blue stain extended to the cerebellum. In cross sections of the spinal cord, the fluorescent tracer used was mainly seen is the thin sub-pial space. Accumulation of the tracer was noted in the dorsal root-medulla junction area, extending into the substantia gelatinosa of the anterior horns, and into the anterior median fissure. They recorded pressures of between 435 and 675 mmHg when injecting 50-100 μL with a rate of 100 μL/min into a fascicle. After cessation of the injection, the pressure remained above the estimated capillary perfusion pressure (50 mmHg) for at least 10 min.
After splitting away from the fascicles, at the level of the nerve roots, the perineurium thickens and fuses with the dura [Figure 3]. , (Embryologically more correct, the peripheral nerve perineurium is a continuation of the dura mater.) The axons inside the roots are consequently not protected by the perineurium anymore and the extracellular or tissue fluid is the CSF. The connective tissue framework of the peripheral nervous system, therefore, arises entirely from the dura mater to a continuation of the perineurium around the fascicles of the branches. As the nerve progresses peripherally, it is more and more subdivided by perineural interdigitations until each fascicle of nerve axons eventually has its own perineurial sheath. The mesothelial cells of the arachnoid membrane become hyperplastic where they exit the nerves and form a cuff around the roots just after they penetrate the dura mater. Beyond this cuff, no tissue can be seen that is recognized as arachnoid.
With the recent introduction of ultrasound to regional anesthesia, it became clear that nerves could either be hyper- or hypo-echoic. When studying the ultrasonographic appearance, it can be seen that the more proximal the nerve the more hypo-echoic (black appearance) [Figure 4] and the more distal, the more hyper-echoic the nerve ("honeycomb" appearance) [Figure 5]. With the insight of the nerve microanatomic morphology, this should be easy to understand in practical terms - even if not entirely correct in pure physics terms [Figure 4] and [Figure 5].
Although intraneural but extra-fascicular injection at the branch level is probably without consequences, injections at the root level (and perhaps trunk level of some individuals) should be regarded as epidural injections, because the injection is made directly outside the dura-extra-dural, peri-dural, or epidural. All the time-tested safety practices for spinal epidural injections should therefore similarly apply for root level or paraneuraxial or paraspinal extra- or epidural injections. These should include the use of large bore relatively blunt Tuohy needles and the avoidance of sharp thin needles (for continuous and single-injection blocks) ; the use of similar test doses to test for intravascular or intrathecal injection, fractionation of the main dose, and perhaps even similar guidelines for anticoagulation, although this is open to debate and can be expected to be further contested. All the catastrophic, potentially catastrophic, and tragic cases, ranging from total spinal block to quadriplegia, referred to in the papers by Antonakakis et al. and Mariano et al. can comfortably be explained by intraroot (sub-dural) injections with relatively thin and sharp needles that were not designed for use around the dura. All the presented cases were spinal root or trunk level blocks performed with needles that one would not use for a spinal epidural block. All root level blocks (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral), and perhaps even trunk level blocks, such as interscalene blocks in certain individuals, should probably be regarded and respected as para-spinal or para-neuraxial epidural blocks similar to spinal epidural or neuraxial blocks to afford it the appropriate level of respect that will avoid disastrous complications.
Modern anesthesiology should be regarded as the science of managing reflexes. The reflexes following noxious surgical stimuli can and should be managed at its origin rather than at its end organ response. In this regard, RA plays a pivotal roll in managing the reaction to intraoperative painful stimuli by preventing it from reaching the spinal cord and brain. Postoperatively, RA is also of great value to treat pain following surgery and trauma and to minimize the use of opioids.
It is clear that institutions benefits greatly from single-injection nerve block for postoperative pain management, and it is also clear that, except for the practices of a few dedicated enthusiasts, ambulatory continuous nerve block is highly beneficial to patients, but the logistical and financial aspects of it is far from solved.
Severe and permanent nerve injuries have been forced to the forefront, but with careful catheter removal after full sensation has returned to the limb and with full understanding and respect for the microanatomy of the peripheral nervous system, these complications can and should be nullified. This article attempted to highlight the modern philosophical approach to anesthesiology for shoulder and other surgeries, and attempted to offer a practical approach to catheter removal to minimize or nullify nerve injury. Finally, it attempted to revisit the microanatomy of the brachial plexus, to caution practitioners of the microanatomical reasons for devastating complications.
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Cave Rock Site. Rubicon Bay meteorological station. Sunnyside meteorological station.
Timber Cove meteorological station fig. 1. Timber Cove meteorological station fig. 2. TB4 NASA meteorological station.
TDR1 raft meteorological station fig.1. TDR1 raft meteorological station fig.2. Towing TDR1 meteorological station to location.
TDR2 meteorological station in 2001. Tahoe Vista meteorological station. USCG meteorological station.
USCG Dock meteorological station fig. 1. USCG Dock meteorological station fig. 2. USCG Dock Westshore.
Timber Cove pier and Heavenly. Tahoe City marina evening. Timber cove meteorological station sunset.
Lake Tahoe view. Mount Tallac.
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There was a time when a number of media types thought that hyperlocal journalism--think neighborhood-levels news--would save the fourth estate.
Not anymore. Patch, AOL's big gamble to bring hyperlocal journalism to the masses, has been the victim of numerous reports claiming its efforts haven't paid off, in page views or in revenue. Several weeks ago, Jim Romenesko reported that Patch planned to "to cut staff and freelance budgets and start producing 'easy, quick-hitting, cookie-cutter copy.'" On a more hyperlocal-local scale, a Chicago Reader piece by Michael Miner from two years ago wondered if Patch was "an evil slave empire or a boon to hungry journalists?"
The heat is particularly strong from those inside the media. Bob Garfield, host of the public radio show On the Media, recently declared that the hyperlocal news is not a workable model in a fragmented media environment.
The debate made us curious about who actually frequents sites like the Roscoe View Journal ("Your definitive guide to Chicago's Rosecoe Village and West Lakeview"), to name a Chicago example. Do you find these sites useful, or do you find news about potholes and parking boring? We open the phones at 9 am, so if you can sneak away from your cubicle, call us at 312.923.9239.
Bob Garfield will come on to make his case. And hyperlocal publisher Mike Fourcher will explain why the critics are wrong. Finally, Rich Gordon from Northwestern University shares what he's learned from years of experimentation in the classroom.
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Little Ark Dog Grooming Supports DogFest 2016!
Little Ark Dog Grooming is proud to support the 9th Annual DogFest which will be held on Saturday, April 16th in Duboce Park. DogFest is a celebration of dogs and kids benefiting SFUSD McKinley Elementary School, a K-5 public school at Castro and 14th Streets. The festival offers something for dogs, kids, and parents of both breeds. Make sure you participate in the Silent Auction for a chance to win Little Ark Dog Grooming Gift Certificates.
Little Ark Dog Grooming is a Top 3 Winner in the Bay Area A-List 2016 and #1 in San Francisco!
Thank you to all our loyal customers who voted for us. We are honored to have won this distinction and will continue to do our best to be the Best in the Bay! We are grateful for the trust you have in us to care for your dogs. Read all the great comments the Little Ark team received.
Little Ark Dog Grooming has gift certificates that can purchased for any denomination. Stop by the shop or call (415) 626-7574 and order one over the phone, we will be happy to mail them out.
Re-Use for Rescues is a program Little Ark developed to support the Friends of San Francisco Animal Care & Control. We are collecting new (treats, etc.) and gently used items (leashes, collars, etc.) for the dogs up for adoption at the ACC. Please visit our Re-Use for Rescues page for the complete list of items and how you can help. Thank you in advance for your support and generosity.
Little Ark Dog Grooming is pleased to announce our partnership with the Friends of San Francisco Animal Care & Control.
As a business and in our personal lives we feel it is important to look out for the care and well being of all animals and to participate in charitable causes within the Little Ark community.
Friends of SF ACC raises funds for San Francisco Animal Care and Control and its rescue partners in order to enhance or establish programs and services that benefit animals and serve and educate the public. Animal Care & Control provides housing, care and medical treatment to wild, exotic and domestic stray, lost, abandoned sick, injured and/or surrendered animals. They aim to adopt, rehome or reunite domestic animals with their guardians and to rehabilitate and release wildlife to their native habitat. Animal Care & Control responds to animal related emergencies, including animal abuse and neglect, as well as matters of public safety.
Little Ark Dog Grooming is a 2015 Top 5 Winner in the Bay Area A-List 2015!
Thank you to all our fabulous customers who voted for us. We truly appreciate the trust you bestow on each and every day in taking care of your dogs. We are honored to have won this distinction and will continue to strive to be the Best in the Bay! Check out all the great comments Little Ark and Kim received.
Little Ark Dog Grooming at DogFest 2015!
Little Ark Dog Grooming was a proud sponsor of the 8th Annual DogFest held on Saturday, April 18th in Duboce Park. We had a fantastic time and it was great to support the local McKinley School in such a fun way!
Doggone It! It’s our Anniversary.
We are celebrating TWO anniversaries this week. 10/15/15 marks 1 year of ownership for us, Kim and Yuri, and 39 in business for the Little Ark.
Please drop by the shop Thursday thru Saturday this week and we will have Mission Mini’s cupcakes for you and a lil’ goody bag for your pup as a Thank You for your trust and support in keeping Little Ark the best and longest running grooming shop in San Francisco!
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If you're in need of a Yorkshire boar to make your Yorkshire or crosses tall shouldered with more extension to their neck and longer faced, Road Hog will do that in a heart beat. He's pictured here standing on dead level ground! Road Hog is a beast coming at you, deep, wide and square in his chest floor and extra wide at the ground. He brings that same width up on top of his blades; a monster, wide shapely top; very good in his ham loin junction and brings that same width into his wide, full rump. He stand on a huge forearm, up on his toes and pasterns; extra deep, wide and square in his forerib and carries that same depth through his mid-section and into his flank. What you need most, is his overall power and mass!
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A series of six good quality Vlog videos featuring Pattaya Nightlife from Bangkok112 who is a fairly prolific producer of high quality and highly entertaining videos on both the website and YouTube. They are filmed over 3 days between February and April – 2 parts per day. The first video starts in Soi 6 and moves on to Soi 7, Soi 8 and Walking Street. The video was shot in February 2016. part two follows immediately afterwards.
Please click the next button above to see part two.
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Blue Coast Hotels And Resorts Limited operates in the Hotels and motels sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Blue Coast Hotels And Resorts Limited with three other companies in this sector in India: Byke Hospitality Ltd (2018 sales of 1.77 billion Indian Rupees [US$25.56 million] of which 100% was Hotel and Tourism), Viceroy Hotels Ltd (1.18 billion Indian Rupees [US$17.02 million] ), and TGB Banquets and Hotels Ltd (1.19 billion Indian Rupees [US$17.11 million] ).
Sales Analysis. Blue Coast Hotels And Resorts Limited reported sales of 1.35 billion Indian Rupees (US$19.44 million) for the fiscal year ending March of 2018. This represents a very small increase of 1.7% versus 2017, when the company's sales were 1.33 billion Indian Rupees. Sales at Blue Coast Hotels And Resorts Limited have increased during each of the previous five years (and since 2013, sales have increased a total of 38%).
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/27 May) — The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Region 12 has directed local government units (LGUs) in the region to fast track the creation of their transition teams to ensure the smooth turnover and assumption to office of newly-elected and reelected local government officials in the area.
Josephine Leysa, DILG South Cotabato provincial director, said the regional office issued such directive in compliance with the provisions of DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-33 of Secretary Mar Roxas dated April 18.
“All LGUs, especially those that have new elected officials or new faces assuming various elective posts, were mandated to create their transition teams,” she said in an interview over radio station dxKR.
In his memorandum circular, Roxas noted that the transition teams are needed to ensure “continuity in local governance” and prepare for the effective turnover of all LGU concerns to the incoming officials as set by noon of June 30.
Aside from ensuring smooth local governance transaction, the teams are tasked to conduct an inventory of all real, immovable and movable properties of LGUs; assemble all documents or records; turn over all accountabilities; and, organize the turnover ceremonies.
The transition teams will be headed by the local chief executive and composed of all department heads as well as representatives from the DILG, Commission on Audit (COA) and non-government and peoples organizations.
Leysa explained that LGUs with their mayors and governors reelected but have new faces in other posts are mandated to create and activate transition teams.
Those with all its incumbent officials reelected and will be returning to their posts will still be required to establish such team, she said.
She said the transition teams are tasked to orient the new elected officials, brief them regarding their tasks and give updates about the status of the LGU’s operations and continuing initiatives.
The briefings will comprise reports about the LGUs’ overall performance, status of development programs, financial performance, contracts and loan agreements, comprehensive development plan and COA audit.
“(The team) will basically re-orient the new and returning officials about all developments at the LGU in the last three years,” Leysa said.
She said the briefings will also serve as benchmarking for the operation of the LGU and their results may be used as basis for the upcoming work programs of the incoming officials.
The official said they are presently monitoring the compliance of the LGUs regarding the creation of the transition teams.
“They will have until the end of (June) to comply with this directive,” she said.
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Vince Power has bought back Spanish festival Benicassim from his former company Music Festivals, CMU has reported.
The major investment comes after Music Festivals, Power’s publicly listed festivals business, which was established in 2011, was forced into administration last month following an especially difficult summer across its portfolio of events.
Speaking to Hot Press, Power commented: “I’m delighted that we have entered into an agreement to acquire the shares of Benicassim that has secured the future of the festival."
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Considering that golf is a sport of the wealthy, golfers were the worst tippers, the absolute worst. I was young and wanted to do a good job and was treated like an idiot and a servant. I’m surprised I wasn’t turned off work for life. Well, actually, I think I was but the need for money caused me to keep going.
So John, Golf Gear is not going to help get my vote. And my guess is that so many people have crappy jobs, like caddying your clubs, that you aren’t going to get their votes either.
Seriously John, I lived in Arizona. You were a good senator. I might have voted for you in 2000. You were a different sort of Republican. I respected what you went through during the Vietnam War. Hell, if you stop the sale of your soul, my friend Jim will buy you a Top Gun t-shirt.
If you really cared about the environment, you would know that a golf course IN THE DESERT where there isn’t any water is probably not a very green choice. At least not as green as the room where you gave your speech the other night.
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Central Arizona Governments (CAG) and Sun Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization (SCMPO) hosted their joint annual Legislative Day on Monday, February 4, 2019. This year there were 65 people in attendance including 9 Legislators (click photos to enlarge). CAG and SCMPO would like to thank Senator Fann, Senator Pratt, Senator Steele, Representative Farnsworth, Representative Cook, Representative Shope, Representative Powers Hannley, Representative Fillmore and Representative Roberts for their participation.
Arizona House of Representatives Committee on Land, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs met in Superior, Arizona. Topics included Blight & Abandoned Building Concerns presented by Superior Town Manager, Todd Pryor. A few slides from Mr. Pryor's presentation are shown below (click to enlarge).
Central Arizona Governments (CAG) is pleased to partner with the United Way of Pinal County and Pinal County in the Pinal County Heat Relief Network. CAG staff has produced an original interactive map that illustrates the locations of entities participating in the Pinal County Heat Relief Network.
We believe that it is very important for people in need to be able to find the closest heat relief location. Our goal is to enable those in need of relief from the heat to acquire water and a cool place to recuperate. Through this effort we believe lives could be saved! We look forward to implementation of the program and its successes!
Please view the interactive map and sign up to be a donation center, drop-off location, emergency hydration station or a heat refuge. We look forward to your support!
For more information about the Pinal Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), please click the logo.
*All photos on the website were taken from within the CAG Region.
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Emmanuel Macron’s climate commitment to “make this planet great again” has come under attack after his environment minister dramatically quit, saying the French president was not doing enough to meet environmental goals.
Nicolas Hulot, a celebrity environmentalist and former TV presenter, announced on a radio breakfast show that he was leaving the government over “an accumulation of disappointments” with its measures to tackle climate change, defend biodiversity and address other environmental threats.
Hulot’s departure is a major blow to Macron and calls into question the president’s credibility on the environment. Though he did not make environmental issues a major part of his election manifesto last year, he subsequently attempted to push them to the forefront as a symbol of progressive politics and to counter Donald Trump’s decision to take the US out of the Paris climate accord.
Hulot announced his departure after the government said it would relax hunting laws, a measure aimed at boosting Macron’s appeal in rural areas, but seen by environmentalists as caving in to the powerful hunting lobby.
Under the changes, hunting licences would be cheaper and more species could be shot, sparking outrage among campaigners for the protection of birds. Hulot said lobbies had too much power over the French government.
Hulot’s differences with the government had been exposed in recent months. He had been disappointed when the government backtracked on a target to reduce reliance on nuclear power to 50% of the country’s energy mix by 2025.
He had also sought a legal ban on the controversial weedkiller glyphosate but was overruled by the agriculture ministry, which preferred negotiating directly with farmers and industry.
The government was taken by surprise by Hulot’s announcement live on radio. Macron, who was beginning a visit to Denmark, was not informed beforehand.
The Elysée, asked about Hulot’s concern over the influence of lobbyists, said the government listened to people but made decisions in the general interest.
The departure of Hulot, seen as a major figure on the left, threatens to upset Macron’s delicate political balancing act, trying to style himself as a centrist who can appeal to both left and right in France.
He has lost support on the left in recent weeks and his approval ratings have dipped as he struggles to shake off the label “president of the rich”. Over the summer, he faced the first major political scandal of his presidency when a senior security aide was filmed violently assaulting a young man and woman at the edge of a Paris demonstration.
“The most basic of courtesies would have been to warn the president of the republic and the prime minister,” government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux told the BFM news channel after Hulot quit.
Richard Ferrand, the head of the parliamentary group of Macron’s party, La République En Marche, said politicians and the government had worked hard with Hulot to meet climate challenges. “We’ll keep going with the same determination,” he added.
Hulot was formerly the star presenter of the hit environmental TV programme Ushuaïa and had turned down offers to enter government by previous French presidents.
In February, he denied a magazine report of a historic allegation of sexual assault made against him by a woman in the 1990s.
After the anti-nuclear Hulot quit, shares in French state power company EDF rose more than 2% in early trading. Hulot had repeatedly said EDF must close up to a third of its 58 reactors to reduce the share of nuclear energy.
[4C Note: We are shocked by this resignation. Hulot was one of France's most important climcate activists. His appointment in May 2017 appeared to many of us a sign that Macron was serious about wanting to combat climate change. His loss suggests that the French President is more serious about making it easier for French companies to fire workers than about preserving a livable climate for companies and workers everywhere.
If you read French, an article in Le Monde can be found here.
In addition: The following was sent to us today by a representative of the French affiliate of the Climate Action Network (Réseau Action Climat).
FYI, The French Minister for the ecological and inclusive transition, Nicolas Hulot, resigned this morning (live on radio, without notifying the President and Prime Minister beforehand).
This comes after several rollbacks from the French Government on biodiversity, environment and climate and after the news that France missed its emission reductions goals in 2016 and very likely in 2017. Hulot said he was "alone", did not get enough support from the Government and the MPs and that even if there were some small wins, this would not be enough to be to tackle the climate crisis.
This comes as a bad signal as it underlines the fact that Macron and his Government don't really consider climate and environment as priorities at the national level. We have no idea about the potential political consequences of his decision at the national and EU level. It is also likely that the Minister who will replace Hulot will not be as progressive as he was.
We will keep you posted once we know more about what's next.
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It’s been a very long day for Mr. Blue as I woke up before dawn to get on the road to New Hampshire to check out the Fisher Cats. After driving all day, I reached the ballpark just in time to make it for first pitch of Game 1 of the double header with the Reading Fightin’ Phils and I had a nice surprise on a couple of fronts which I’ll write about later today. For now, here’s the minor league report.
Brad Mills took the ball for the Bisons and pitched a great game, going 6 2/3 innings and allowing just two runs on four hits including a solo home run to Robert Andino. Mills struck out five but didn’t pick up the win as the Bisons rallied only after he was out of the game. Picking up the win was Ryan Tepera who threw an inning and a third and Bobby Korecky picked up his 17th save with a 1-2-3 ninth. Jonathan Diaz was the only Bison to have more than one hit, going 2/4 with a double and Ryan Schimpf hit his eighth Triple-A home run. Darin Mastroianni was the only position player to go hitless but he was on base with a walk.
There were two great starting performances for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats as the two starters in the double header saved the bullpen by only needing one inning for both games. In Game 1, Scott Copeland was very sharp and threw a complete game, allowing only two runs (one earned) on six hits and three walks but struck out nine batters. The offense was ignited early with a K.C. Hobson home run (his fifth) but the club only had five other hits. Michael Crouse was on twice with a single and a walk and drove in a run.
Roster Note: Taylor Cole was promoted to New Hampshire (finally) and Kendall Graveman was sent up to Buffalo.
The Fisher Cats completed the sweep of the Fightins with another offensive explosion. Andy Burns had a great game with the bat, going 3/4 with a double and two RBI while Jack Murphy was 2/3 with an RBI and both Andy Fermin and Jorge Flores were 2/3 with a double and two RBI. Austin Bibens-Dirkx got the start and wasn’t sharp early but hung in there to throw six innings of two-run ball, striking out five and Gregory Infante was very good in the ninth to finish off the game.
It was a wild one in Dunedin as the Blue Jays hung on for a win over Palm Beach. The big story here was Roberto Osuna making his first start of the season with the Dunedin Blue Jays on the comeback trail from Tommy John surgery last year. He went 3 1/3 innings and allowed three runs on four hits and one walk but also struck out six. Griffin Murphy picked up the win but allowed a run over 1 2/3 innings and Tony Davis was tagged for three runs over three innings. Another big name, Brett Lawrie, made the start for the D-Jays (at second base) and went 1/3 with a walk and two strikeouts before being lifted for Christian Lopes. The night belonged to other players though with three Blue Jays getting three hits including Emilio Guerrero (3/4, 2 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI), Shane Opitz (3/4, 2B, 2 R, RBI) and Jorge Saez, who was 3/4 with his first home run with the Blue Jays. Gustavo Pierre was 1/4 with a home run and Cole Gillespie, also making a rehab start, was 1/5 with a double and two RBI.
A young prospect that I had seen early in the year, Zachary Bird of the Great Lakes Loons, looks like he’s finally figuring a few things out but it was, unfortunately, at the expense of the Lansing Lugnuts. Bird, barely two weeks into his 20s, threw 5 1/3 innings of strong ball at the Lugnuts, giving up only one run on a massive, solo home run to Mitch Nay. Nay finished the game 2/4 while D.J. Davis and Justin Atkinson were also 2/4. Recently promoted Starlyn Suriel had another solid start but gave up all three runs over five innings. Alonzo Gonzalez went three excellent innings in relief, allowing just one hit and one walk while striking out five.
Roster Notes: Roberto Osuna (who had been put on the Lansing roster) was “promoted” in a paper move. Jeremy Gabryszwski was legitimately given a promotion to Dunedin while Miguel Castro was promoted from Vancouver to Lansing.
A slugfest in Boise needed 11 innings to resolve but it was the Hawks who came out with an 11-10 win over the Vancouver Canadians. Zak Wailewski was cruising, having only allowed two runs before the sixth but got burned, ending up with six runs charged in 5 1/3 innings thanks to reliever Kamakani Usui who allowed both inherited runners to score. Michael Kraft has been strong as he went two perfect innings, picking up two strikeouts. Joe Lovecchio allowed four runs in his inning and Yeyfry Del Rosario allowed the game winner in his second inning of work. The offense was in great form, getting multiple-hit games from six different players. Roemon Fields set the table with a 2/7 game and stole his 34th base of the season and Alexis Maldonado was 2/6 with a run and an RBI. Michael De La Cruz (3/6, 2B, 2 RBI), Gunnar Heidt (3/6, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI, SB) and Ryan McBroom (2B, HR, R, 4 RBI) all had three hits each while Max Pentecost had a four-hit game with a triple and a stolen base, stealing a base.
Jesus Tinoco was hit hard, allowing seven runs (five earned) over 2 2/3 innings for the Blue Jays as the club lost again. Oscar Cabrera was excellent in relief, throwing 4 1/3 innigns of one-hit, one-walk ball. Richard Urena pushed his season batting average to .320 with a 2/4 game and Angel Rojas was also 2/4 with a double and an RBI.
Grayson Huffman was solid for the Blue Jays but his good outing was wasted as Brandon Hinkle fell apart, allowing six runs (five earned) over the last two innings of the game. Huffman gave up just one run on two hits and two walks with four strikeouts over four innings. The offense had four hits, all singles: one each from Juan Kelly, Edwin Fuentes, (who drove in two runs), Yeltsin Gudino and Dave Pepe.
Getting four hits in a second straight game, Deiferson Barreto was the only player with multiple hits, going 2/3 with a double. The pitching was pretty bad with Bobby Wheatley (2/3 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 2 BB), Turner Lee (1 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 2 BB, 1 K) and Joe Claver (2 IP, 5 H, 3 R) all giving up multiple runs. Francisco Diaz pitched 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief but allowed two hits and three walks with only one strikeout.
After making his first start in Double-A for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats last week, Kendall Graveman will look to make another debut, this time for Triple-A Buffalo in their 7:05 PM game in Norfolk at the Baltimore-affiliated Tides. You can catch Graveman on MiLB TV.
After a decent night’s sleep, I’ll be hanging out in New Hampshire to watch game four of the Fisher Cats’ series against the Reading Fightin’ Phils. It’s still listed as TBA but my bet is on Taylor Cole to make his Double-A debut at 7:05 PM on MiLB TV.
The D-Jays send Jesse Hernandez to the hill at 6:30 PM to face the Palm Beach Cardinals.
Brent Powers is scheduled to make tonight’s 7:05 PM start for the Lansing Lugnuts at beautiful Dow Diamond in Midland, Michigan, home to the Great Lakes Loons. This game is also on MiLB TV.
The Vancouver Canadians have an unannounced starter pitching against the Boise Hawks at 9:15 PM ET.
the Bluefield Blue Jays send lefty Evan Smith to the hill against the Bristol Pirates at 7:00 PM.
Is Matt Smoral pitching tomorrow night or Monday night?
If nothing changes with the rotation, Smoral looks like he’ll pitch Monday.
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Not only is L.L.M. universally recognised, its possession implies that an individual is specially trained in all legal matters pertaining to a specific discipline and that he/she has in-depth, detailed and sound knowledge of it.
Thus, for those students who aspire to completely devote themselves to the study of law in a manner to be in noble position in its specific sections, Babu Banarasi Das University (BBDU) offers the degree of Latin Legum Magister, or, L.L.M., with a facility providing a never-ending array of books and materials and all practically required setups, along with highly experienced and learned mentors.
Eligibility Criteria: As per UGC/BCI norms.
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Wisconsin overtook the Gophers in both the USCHO.com and USA Today polls this week thanks to a red-hot start, marking the first time since March 5, 2012 that someone other than Minnesota has occupied the No. 1 spot. The Badgers have lost their last 11 games against the Gophers, so they’ll have something to prove heading into this series. They’ve gotten excellent goaltending from Ann-Renée Desbiens, and their defense has been up to task, giving up just four goals in six total games so far. Wisconsin shouldn’t have a problem generating offense against Minnesota for stretches, but this will be a big test for that defense. It’ll also be interesting to see how the Badgers’ penalty kill holds up against the Gophers’ power play; Wisconsin is currently 28-for-28 on the PK, while Minnesota’s power play is clicking at a 53.3% rate.
The Gophers tied Minnesota Duluth in their last outing, 3-3, and lost the extra WCHA point in the shootout. They didn’t start off looking like their best, and fell behind 3-1 in the third period before making a comeback. They’ll need a better start and a full 60-minute effort against a Badgers squad that has been all business so far this season. Wisconsin has plenty of players to rely on for offense, and are capable of matching Minnesota’s lines, so the Gophers will need a sound defensive effort. They’ll also be relying on the goaltending of Amanda Leveille, who will more than likely need to withstand some pressure from the Badgers throughout the series.
Boston University and Clarkson will square off for a two-game series in the weekend’s biggest non-conference match-up. The Golden Knights and goaltender Shea Tiley earned two shutouts in a sweep of Providence last week, but they’ll be facing a much more capable offense in the Terriers this week. BU hasn’t seen NCAA action since losing 5-2 to Minnesota two weeks ago, and they’ll be looking for a more focused offensive effort against Clarkson. The Terriers have been really good in spurts but need to show more sustained pressure; they’ll also need some better goaltending. Victoria Hanson and Erin O’Neil split the first two games, but Boston University needs one of them to step up and prove they can be counted on to make necessary saves at crucial moments in a game.
After earning the shootout win over the Gophers last week, Minnesota Duluth heads to North Dakota looking for its first win since defeating Connecticut 3-0 on Sept. 27. The Bulldogs have yet to put it all together this year but they’ve got the talent to be very competitive, as they showed last week. UND swept Minnesota State last week with two very dominant efforts on the road, and will be looking for more of the same against a stronger Minnesota Duluth club. They’ll need some consistency when it comes to finishing off their chances, as well as a strong defensive effort to limit the Bulldogs’ high-quality chances.
Northeastern heads to Erie, Pa., for a series against Mercyhurst after starting off the season 0-0-2. Both of those ties came last week, one against RIT and the other against Syracuse, so the Huskies will be looking for better results against another College Hockey America opponent. The Lakers could not get a win against Maine last week, settling for a tie despite a solid offensive effort. Both teams are good to go in goal, with Chloe Desjardins in net for Northeastern and Amanda Makela between the pipes for Mercyhurst, but both are still looking for really strong offensive outings. There’s probably more pressure there on the Huskies in that regard, with the likes of Kendall Coyne and Paige Savage in the line-up. The Lakers are still searching for a true go-to scorer in the wake of Christine Bestland, though there are certainly some possibilities.
Vermont plays host to non-conference opponent RIT for two games, with the Tigers coming off that notable 2-2 against Northeastern. UVM earned a big 3-1 win against North Dakota to start the season, but fell to Bemidji State, 4-0, in the following game. They then played to a tie against Rensselaer last week after defeating the Engineers 4-2. The Catamounts will be looking for some consistency throughout the whole weekend when it comes to both offense and goaltending as they aim for their first sweep of the year. RIT has been locked into all low-scoring games so far this season, but Vermont’s top players will try to break these contests wide open, so the Tigers will need to match the offensive effort.
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Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography is a biennial month-long international festival of photography taking place in Cardiff, Wales' capital city. The festival is initiated and delivered by Ffotogallery in collaboration with a wide range of local, national and international partners and supporters. Diffusion 2019's theme is Sound+Vision .The festival explores the relationship between sound, photography and lens-based media, and how in contemporary visual culture the transmission, presentation and reading of images is influenced by sound, and likewise how music is experienced visually as well as aurally. From virtual reality to 360 degree immersive cinema, light projections to digital installations and instagram-sourced exhibitions, Diffusion 2019 will be pushing the boundaries of photography and lens-based media. Now in its fourth biennial edition, Diffusion 2019 features a month long programme of exhibitions, interventions, screenings, performances, events and celebrations in both physical and virtual spaces and places. The success of the previous editions of the festival would not have been possible without the help and support of volunteers, so we are looking for enthusiastic people who are willing to give up their time and expertise to help plan and deliver this year’s festival. We have several volunteer areas to get involved in: • Delivering events, exhibitions and audience engagement • Installation/de-installation. • Photography/filming/editing. • Marketing and promotion, including print, web and social media • Supporting festival logistics and admin In return for your time, Ffotogallery will provide training and support in the form of professional advice and encouragement, socials and networking events, and work experience as part of the team delivering an international festival. There are no specific requirements for volunteering beside a passion for contemporary art and keenness to volunteer.
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Yeah, I had big plans of hiking the highest point in the lower 48. I had been hiking all summer to as high as 13,000 feet and as long as 15 miles in one day. I was now ready to hit the big one...Mount Whitney 14,491 feet. Two days before my scheduled assent, I got sick. I couldn't believe it. I made the trip anyway, just in case I started to feel better. I didn't. I got worse. I went through the process of acquiring my permit and driving to the trailhead portal. I hiked up the trail for a while to just check my strength and endurance. It was not good at all. I was too weak from my illness. I arrived at the portal a day early to acclement to the altitude so I just hung out for the day to see if my health would improve. Bummer. I felt terrible. I decided to about the hike. Mount Whitney is nothing to play around with. I need all of my horse power to attempt Whitney. 66% of the people who attempt Whitney fail even when they are healthy. I certainly didn't want to get up there and get into trouble, so instead of hiking to the highest point, I decided to hike to the lowest point in the lower 48 states...Badwater Death Valley.
Since Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain, it receives the rising suns light first of all of the mountains.
These are the walls around the Whitney portal. It's rather intimidating to look up and know that is where you have to go.
This looks high above the valley doesn't it? If you said "Yes"...wrong. It is just the starting point to Mount Whitney.
Here I am a day prior to my scheduled hike to Mount Whitney. I am hydrating myself and acclementing to the altitude. I'm sitting next to a creek reading about how to pack light and hoping to get healthy. It didn't work. Shortly after this picture was taken I decided to head for Death Valley.
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Healthy Homes recently featured us in their magazine. The article touched on a number of topics including our history, how we stand out versus our competitors and also what we are seeing as popular items going into 2019.
Kilkenny Architectural Salvage & Antiques was formed in 1998 by Robin Maharaj. After living abroad for a number of years he decided he wanted to move to his home town of Kilkenny and set up a business that involved a long standing passion of his in the world of salvage. Robin got this bug while living in London when he bought a derelict property and spent a number of years renovating it and bringing it back to its original glory.
Kilkenny Salvage started originally building up stock by attending auctions, dealing with other salvage yards and buying from everyday people who had items to sell. Since then the business has evolved and while we still buy from those original sources that allowed us grow we now have an extensive network of people and businesses who we deal with. We work very closely with some of the top hotels, restaurants and bars around Ireland. We also import items from the UK, Europe and even further afield.
People often ask what they will be able to find in our yard and we love being able to reply “everything and anything”. That’s the beauty of the business that we never know what we will buy or sell each day. This is one of the biggest reasons that we have so many repeat customers. People love to come to our warehouse and rummage around for a hidden treasure.
We are very fortunate that we have a large site with nearly 100k square feet to walk around. The key for us is that we keep a lot of items in stock from the plain and simple building materials, to the unique pieces that you simply won’t find anywhere else.
Along with dealing in salvaged items we have a wide selection of stock that are reproductions of old styles. A good example is our cast iron radiator range. These are newly cast but with a focus on a classic old fashioned style. People want the original look but don’t want the risk of leaks from salvaged options. The beauty of our radiators is that you get a highly efficient radiator with great heat output that looks and feels like an original all at a very reasonable price.
Flooring is a big part of our business also. There is a strong demand in Ireland for solid wood flooring as people are pushing away from the likes of laminates. We have a wide range of flooring that goes from salvaged boards that were originally in an old Irish school to the other end of the spectrum which is a board that has been cut from a new beam but the one constant is that the quality is always our focus. A good floor in a house becomes a statement and we want to make sure that it’s always a positive one.
Another question we get asked is who visits a salvage yard. The honest answer is absolutely everyone. In the same day we will have someone into us who is renovating their home, to a hotel owner, to a high end interior designer to an architect working on a project. We are confident that we can cater to everyone’s needs no matter how big or small their project is.
The origins of our business were simply with people visiting us in our yard but in the last year or so we have made big push on social media and the feedback has been amazing. On Instagram for example we have over 10k followers who regularly engage with us. We have found this to be a great way to bring the world of salvage to the next generation.
Obviously there is always competition no matter what business you go into but we feel we stand out from the rest for a number of reasons. First of all product knowledge is what we make sure we are always at the cutting edge on. From dealing with new ways of laying our flooring, to complicated structural features with using our beams or even knowing the history of some of the rare antiques we have. This is always the fundamental starting point for us. Along with this we are always looking for new and exciting items to bring to the yard. We don’t think about the short term when we buy stock. We are happy to buy an item and let it sit in the yard for three years if we feel it’s the right piece. There will always be someone who will want it but they just might not be in to visit us tomorrow. If it’s a good item we will buy it and this ensures we keep a wide selection of items in stock at all times.
Visiting a salvage yard is meant to be fun, its meant to be adventurous and most importantly it’s our job to make sure people go home feeling like they have bought a quality product, at a great price from an experienced team.
2018 has been a big year for Kilkenny Salvage as we are celebrating our twentieth anniversary. Our enthusiasm hasn’t wavered one bit as we are always excited to see what items we will be buying or selling tomorrow.
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It’s obvious now that the final relegation place is between Cardiff City, who are on 28 points with a -35 goal difference, and Brighton & Hove Albion, who are on 33 points with a -19 goal difference.
Cardiff have five games remaining, while Brighton have six.
The two teams meet on Tuesday in a crucial match.
I honestly believe we can still stay up !!!
No doubt I'll be accused of being negative but so be it. We've struggled for goals all season and especially on the road - this was evident again today.
How can we hope to survive when we're so bloody toothless up front?
I'm afraid it would be a minor miracle if we stayed up from here.
My main reasons are our lack of goal threat and dreadful goal difference.
We also appear to be on the end of too many poor decisions by officials and general rotten luck!
I have a sneaky feeling we are going to just about do this.
I truly hope so. We just have to throw the bloody kitchen sink at it and take some risks.
It's all on Tuesday, win and we really put the pressure on them and they do seem to be in a bit of a free fall.
It will be tough but it's not totally unrealistic for us to win Fulham away who we put a few past at home and Palace at home.
If it comes to needing a point at old Trafford I wouldn't rule that out either.
People often say that a match is a must win.
BUT the game against Brighton is just that!
Win and we might well stay up....lose or draw and I think we are down.
Let's be positive and try to win it. Scoring first would be a nice change!
Lengee wrote: People often say that a match is a must win.
I hate the term must win, Infact had a heated debate about it a few months ago lol.
Win Tuesday and I think we will have the momentum and pip Brighton, their confidence is draining by the week and pressure will mount if we close the gap. Lose or draw and we're virtually down, every player has got to play out of their skin and not just a few such as today. Our season so far is on this game and I just hope it's not going to be 4 meaningless games after Tuesday, win and there's everything to play for.
2blue2handle wrote: It's all on Tuesday, win and we really put the pressure on them and they do seem to be in a bit of a free fall.
Fair do’s that is about the most positive post I’ve seen for a long time.
For me, I’d say erring on the unrealistic though.
Of course I hope your right.
This thread should be renamed straw clutching. I would describe us as being unofficially relegated at the moment, its only the mathematics to complete. Even if we do win, we'd still be two points behind Brighton and they have a game in hand. Yesterday was the last chance and we blew it through a mixture of not being good enough and bad luck from officials. I can't fault the honesty of the team and I am proud of them but they are simply not good enough. Good luck to those who travel on Tuesday but I fully expect a comfortable home win. No doubt they'll still be threads popping up that we can beat Liverpool to survive though!
Would like to stay up, wouldnt be the end of my world if we went down.
What we all realise though is that whatever happens - we need to find 2 strikers asap for next season. Easier said than done obviously - and no doubt the neil and Co are looking. But - unless we find someone who can put the ball in the net - then we will always struggle to win "must win" matches.
We have won just 8 from 33 games. Highly unlikely we will win 3 from 5, although it is only natural that we will keep grasping at straws until relegation is a mathematical certainty. In all probability we will be lucky to get another 4 points at most, but until our relegation is confirmed we live in hope. The fact we are still in with a chance with just a few games left shows the fighting spirit in the squad which to be fair, is not PL standard.
Let's face facts we are relegated. Couldn't score in a brothel.
Brighton will beat Newcastle who'll be on the beach at that point.
If only draw won't mean relegation people are asumimgwont win 4 games but this is football and anything can happen? Teams have avoided relegation by winning 6 or 7 games at end season even against top 6 sides when didn't win that many in previous 20 odd games, not over until the proverbial lady sings last song?
As I said earlier, it is a must win on Tuesday and IF we can do that then it's all to play for.
Just had to explain to Jnr we're as good as relegated if we lose on Tuesday.
"But we'll win v Newcastle".
"What makes you say that?".
This really is a must win, if we are to have any hope at all we must win this one and at least one other and then pray !!!
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Some popular Asbury industries include Manufacturing, Chemical Manufacturing, and Carbon and Graphite Product Manufacturing. Asbury's most popular employers are Asbury Graphite Mills, Inc. and Asbury.
Asbury Graphite Mills, Inc. PO Box 144, 405 Old Main St. Asbury, NJ 08802. 908-537-2155. Cummings Moore Graphite Co. 1646 N. Green Ave. Detroit, MI 48209 313-841-1615. Anthracite Industries. PO Box 112, Sunbury, PA 17801. 570-286-2176. Southwestern Graphite. PO Box 876, 2564 Hwy 12 DeQuincy, LA 70633.
Asbury Graphite Mills imports from Imerys Graphite And Carbon Switzerl in Italy through the port of New York, New York . Call +1 (480) 744 2559. ... WEST PORTAL ROAD 156 ASBURY NJ 08802 US. Notify Party Marks and Numbers; IMERYS GRAPHITE AND CARBON SWITZERL. STRADA INDUSTRIALE 12.
Carbon & Graphite Products. The data we collect are only those necessary for the proper use of our service.
Asbury Graphite Mills began life in 1895 as a water-powered graphite mill in the small town of Asbury, NJ. More than a century later, with eight product divisions, Asbury Carbons Inc. is the world's largest independent processor and merchant of refined graphite and other carbons.
Asbury Graphite Mills, Inc. in Kittanning, PA US is an automotive Supplier Plant. This location produces automotive parts such as: graphic products, refined graphite, using materials: calcined coke, carbon powder, graphite.
Asbury Graphite Mills Inc at 405 Old Main Street, Asbury, NJ 08802, USA. Find their customers, contact information, and details on 2098 shipments.
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Website Designers in Northern Cape | All Inclusive from R250 P/M!
Website Designers Northern Cape is a web design company formed by a group of web designers and developers serving clients across South Africa.
Website Designers' key focus is to bring high quality, search engine optimized web site packages that is paid on a monthly basis to business owners in the Northern Cape at affordable rates.
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Experts from the financial and digital sectors exhibited an optimistic outlook on the future of financial inclusion in India during the first day of the 4th Financial Inclusion and Digital Payment Conference, organized by IAMAI. The speakers were unanimous in acknowledging the viable impact of technology and digital payments to increasing financial inclusion in India, where even now an overwhelming majority of the population does not have access to banking services.
At the conclusion of the first day, all speakers accepted that fact that financial inclusion is likely to get a boost based on the coming of age of the telecom industry, and that manufacturers of financial products had started creating products to increase financial inclusion.
Skill development in India increasingly being driven by the private sector.
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The "Diversity Index" co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund is being carried out by the Confederation Lewiatan in partnership with the Agency of Innovation and Development.
The project is a continuation and extension of the commitment of the Confederation Lewiatan in the area of promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. The main theme of the project is to manage diversity-modern approach to the proper use of the potential of employees by sight and appreciation of diverse experiences, knowledge, skills, abilities, work styles - the differences (and similarities) inherent in the people due to their gender, age, (dis)ability, race, ethnicity, etc.
Employees who normally perform tasks in a variety of units in which the individual skills and talents are noticed and appreciated, accompanied by the awareness that the differences are treated as a value, not an obstacle. This improves their job satisfaction, sense of security and responsibility for their jobs, can engage in activities with greater courage, energy, less schematic, stimulates a fuller and more daring use of knowledge, experience.
The aim of the project is to develop, test and implement indicator examining diversity in the workplace and practical, user-friendly self-audit tool used by businesses. These activities will be complemented by a wide information campaign.
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There I was, grouching over the vacuuming (yet again) when hunkering down to extinguish the ever present (and LARGE) dust bunnies under a bookcase – what did I discover? Just a sad, slip of a paperback, lying spine down and corners dog-eared, smooshed up against the wall.
An unread, (I repeat, UNREAD (!!!!)) Betty Neels.
My cats came running, convinced I had been prematurely crushed beneath a large pile of books, but no, it was just me, squeeing like a 9yr old at a My Little Pony Convention.
3) I have a secret book faerie that is rewarding me with snowflake speshul books because reasons.
1) There are a finite amount of Neels in the world, and every time you read one? That is one less you can discover.
2) They are REALLY hard to find anywhere. My local libraries combined have 5. Out of 135 (ish). And I only find one every few months at the second hand books stores and op-shops in the area.
3) A never-before-read Neels is a delicious treat, like an upside-down pineapple cake: It is ALWAYS good (a not-that-great Neels is still leagues ahead of any other romance) and goes perfectly with lashings of cream.
Plus has the added benefit of making you want to take up dress-making and bicycle-riding and other hyphenated things…Hence my heretofore mentioned excitement.
Meet Julia. One of three sisters, she has always stood by the irrefutable premise that women should stand on their own two feet.
She shares a house with her two (much prettier) sisters, and when we (and Professor Gerard van der Maes) first encounter her, she is making a new dress out of a set of curtains that were hanging in the spare room.
They strike sparks off one another immediately.
‘Do sit down,’ said Julia, being sociable.
Instead he crossed the room to stand beside her and look down at the stuff spread out on the carpet.
‘It looks like a curtain,’ he observed.
Her tone dared him to say yes and delay his departure.
He had a second cup, and she hated him. And she thought he would never go.
Their next encounter is at the very dance Julia was making her dress for.
And thus the scene is set. For reasons best known to Providence, Julia keeps ending up in the Professor’s sphere of influence. They meet again at a dinner; he bails her out of trouble, he feeds her. And slowly they begin to see each other in a different light.
The Professor originally thinks Julia is sharp-tongued and difficult, but when he sees her naive treatment of an extremely expensive glass of champagne he is stabbed with unexpected feelings of tenderness.
On Julia’s part, she starts to feel like she mis-judged him, wishing their encounters weren’t quite so antagonistic.
For a relatively short book, A LOT happens.
Ruth & Monica (the sisters) both get married.
Ruth gets sick, and Gerard offers her and Julia a stay in his country cottage in Holland, so Ruth can recoup.
Then travels through Holland with the Professor.
She finishes a job and then picks up yet another.
Gets a wardrobe update (it’s not a Neels unless there is a wardrobe makeover (!).
Ends up in a FIRE.
Sets up her own shop.
And all the way through, Gerard is there, in and out of her life; calm, resolute and gentle.
It’s not really a spoiler to say that Gerard discovers he has fallen in love with Julia much earlier in the story, because in reality, this story isn’t about Gerard.
It’s about Julia. Her bid for independence; her reluctance to settle for second best; her intrepid spirit of adventure as she tries to carve out a space for herself in a cold and inhospitable world.
‘You were not going to tell me?’ His voice was as quiet as his face.
‘Of course I shall be happy,’ said Julia in a cross voice, wishing that he would go so that she might burst into tears in peace.
Which was exactly what he did do, blandly wishing her goodbye, telling her cheerfully that he would see himself out.
She wept into the eggs.
Julia is a rather isolated character, which manifests in a number of ways: she has no close friends, apart from her sisters; and with no real qualifications, no traditional workplace either. It means she is free to travel at the drop of a hat, but lacks the resources to do so.
And whilst it would be easy for Neels to make Gerard the Prince Charming to sweep Julia off her work-worn feet, she resists (for the most part) the urge to do so, and the story is definitely the better for it.
Though a man of no conceit, he was aware that he could make her fall in love with him—but he had no intention of doing that; she must learn to love him of her own free will…He didn’t think that she was happy; she liked her work and the surroundings in which she lived but she was sad about something. There was nothing he could do for the moment only have patience.
Neel’s Professor is blunt and to the point, ruthlessly honest and never prevaricates, yet he is also gentle and compassionate, particularly with Julia.
Is it perfect? No. But it IS Betty Neels, and it is one of the last books she wrote.
It was first published in MAY 2001, but there is very little sign of anything remotely modern. No mobile phones, ipods, or anything that smacks of life beyond the 1970s. More than anything, there is a slight melancholy sense of loneliness that seems to permeate the story. Julia ends up fairly solitary, until Gerard comes along and declares his love.
It’s easy to write that off as Neels making Julia relapse on her earlier self reliant stance – but I think that is rather erroneous. It’s not that her autonomy was wrong, but rather that she tried to show it through a variety of ill-though-out mechanisms and she tried to use the idea of independence to resist her feelings for Gerard.
She ran away from Gerard (and her love for him) and wouldn’t tell him where she was going.
Using this theory, it then makes sense (in the logic of Romancelandia, at least) that nothing ever quite works out for Julia in the long run. Fate has decreed her a partner, and a partner she shall have.
It doesn’t feel like Neels is against singleness and the evidence of independence, but rather, for Julia, she decided it was not to be.
And whilst I might not let that pass for another author – for Neels?
Dinners with watercress soup, duckling in an orange sauce andpofferjes light as air and smothered with cream.
Teas with eggs and ham, several kinds of bread, butter, pots of jam, a splendid cake and a great pot of tea.
But where ever it falls?
I am totally wishing I had one.
Your review was as refreshing as reading the Neels! She is sublime and loveable. And such a good writer. I am in the midst of shelf (shelve?) cleaning purgatory … with at least 60 Neels laid out on the floor in the process of organizing by year of publication. I only have one item in my bucket list: like you, to possess all Neels in paper!
I will admit though – to having a entire bookcase dedicated to Heyer — I’ve collected them since I was about 15, and have doubles and first editions and hardcovers, different cover versions – and I LOVE reorganising them. Especially on rainy days – nothing like a good purge!
Sighs. WHOLE LOTFUL OF HEYERS? DEEP SIGHS! Last year, I REALLY REALLY wanted to buy as many Heyers as I could. Someone must have heard my wish ‘cus within a few days a whole slew of them went on sale for about $2.00. Only, they were the Kindle edition. I would still buy the paper version! My favorite so far has been Frederica. I’ll probably write about it once I’ve re-read it at some point!
I’d love to buy paper version of the Neels that I have REALLY LOVED so far! If only!
Ooh – I love it when there is a serendipitous sale !! And Frederica definitely has to be near the top of my Heyer Favs – I LOVE Frederica and Alverstoke’s oh-so subtle romance, it is gorgeous – plus you add in Endymion & Charis (most boring couple alive) and Felix ??? It is dang near perfection!
Oh, no! I’m sorry I caused book envy, esp. the wracky kind. I’ve always imagined you with like the entire Neels collection, cheesy covers and pretty watercoloured ones that came later from Harlequin.
I have a lot of new Heyers. I love the covers. And I have them in e when Sourcebooks did the big Heyer-birthday sale many moons ago.
Oh – in an ideal world with unlimited funds – I would have ALL of the Neels (*maniacal laugh*) sadly, my bank balance is less than ideal and even cheesy covered Neels start about $9 – not including postage. Which adds up FAST.
Alright, clearly my reading life heretofore has been a sham. I’ve never read Betty Neels. I’ve clearly got a lot of work to do.
If you ever come across one – grab it!
The food, the clothes, Holland & HEAs? The best of comfort-reads!
Do you have a particular one or two that you would recommend for a Neels newbie?
Oooh, well… I always think the most quintessential Neels books, (or at least the ones I end up liking the best) tend to be the ones with the heroine’s name in the title.
It’s odd, and I’m not sure why exactly – but there you go!
If you are an OpenLibrary aficionado, there are a few of them there that are available to borrow – so if you’re not sure about them, it may be a good way to go…!
Will have to look up this one as well!
I am definitely prepared to accept LOTFUL as a word. It covers all those instances with another descriptor just won’t do!
Wah! It looks like my Overdrive *used* to have it, but no more.
On the bright side, I think I have that kind of nose! Also, dimples.
LOL! Can you make a dress out of a curtain? …Or ride a bicycle with a French Stick in its basket without falling into a ditch?
If so, I am now 98% positive you are a reincarnate of a Neels heroine.
There’s a used book store near me that has a whole pile of Neels books. My problem is we don’t have much space for books and I prefer ebooks. I went on a Neels binge when Scribd came along (they had so many) and then I had the idea I should ration them, so I didn’t run out. And then Scribd discovered that romances were losing them money and no more Neels.
Mills and boon have been reissuing them in themed three book editions. But I haven’t read this one.
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The ESS BIZTOOLS Business Advisory Services Introduction Training Modules provides accountants/advisers with a training package to introduce the team to a range of new business activities relative to non-compliance services.
What is the CFO's role?
Digital Disruption… Is it a Disruption or an Opportunity?
Script - How do we assist our Clients?
Turning your Accountancy Firm into a "Client Business Centre"
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Research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics predicted today that by the end of the decade more than 41 million North American business users will spend over US$10 billion annually on wireless enterprise data services.
Its latest Wireless Enterprise Strategies service report — Wireless Enterprise User-Level Market Forecast — also concludes that enterprise mobile e-mail will eclipse Short Messaging Service as the prime revenue generator as early as 2009.
IM and ‘presence’ are also identified as hot trends as businesses realize the benefits of a mode of real time non-voice mobile communications, and ranks of internet-savvy young adults enter the workforce.
Strategy Analytics analysts cite dramatically lower costs, vastly improved user experiences and thinner, more stylish QWERTY devices as key demand catalysts for mainstream business adoption.
“Climbing to over US$8 billion in revenues, we expect the category of personal productivity tools including e-mail, SMS and IM to continue to dominate wireless enterprise data revenues through 2010,” said Antoine Mathiaud, senior analyst and author of the report.
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Volcanoes facts give the information about the famous eruptions, hot magma, volcanic gas and flowing lava in the world. There are many interesting facts that you can learn by reading the whole article below. You will learn much about the earth through the volcano activities. Here are the facts in details?
An eruption of a volcano will occur if the molten rock below the surface of the earth located on a mountain has a big pressure.
Magma is the hot liquid rock situated under the surface of the earth. When the magma reaches the outside area of the volcano, it is called as lava. Look at ice land by reading Antarctica facts.
Volcano eruptions can be one of the most horrible disasters ever. There are several famous eruptions in the world which killed many people. Some of them include Mt Pinatubo in 1991, Mount St Helens in 1980, Novarupta in 1912, and Mount Krakatoa in 1883. Look rainforest facts if you like to know the global warming.
There are some biggest volcanoes on earth. The biggest one in the solar system is not owned by earth but it is located in Mars. The name of the biggest volcano is Olympus Mons. The height of the volcano is 13 miles or 21 kilometer. The width is around 373 miles or 600 kilometer.
The most volcanic activity in our solar system is taken by one of Jupiter’s moons called as lo. The surface on Jupiter moon has the big amount of volcano.
You are wrong if you think that the shape of volcano is in the cone shape. There are many other types of volcanoes that you need to know. It can be in the shape of fissure vents, wide plateaus and dome shape.
The location of volcano is not only on the land. You can also see some of them are situated on the coin floor. The most popular one is found in Iceland. It comes under the icecaps.
There are some activities of volcanoes that you need to know. The regular activity of volcanoes is called as an active state. If the volcanoes have a recent historical activity but now they come in quiet mode, it is in dormant state. The extinct state is applied on the volcanoes if there is no chance for this mountain to erupt again.
The characteristics of volcano are defined based on several parts. Some scientists define it based on the shape, how the volcanoes erupt and how they are formed.
There are several substances that people can find on the volcanic gases. Those are hydrogen chloride, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, water vapor, and hydrogen fluoride.
Volcano eruption is considered as a dangerous disaster. The ash of the eruption can spread into the air for about 17 miles or 30 kilometer. Do you want to add more facts about volcano?
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To help you find the perfect room when you book a hotel in Port Dickinson, New York we have made it easy for you to compare hotels, including our most popular hotel chains. Currently our most popular Port Dickinson hotel is Microtel Inn & Suites By Wyndham Binghamton, which has been booked 5 times in the last hour.
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Jenny Rose changes her job again and this time she goes to the Snack Bar and works as a waitress there. You can help her to do her job perfectly. Just prepare ordered dishes and serve visitors. You need to wait until the visitor comes and orders the dish, prepare ordered dish, bring the prepared food to visitor and take the money in time. You can also buy new clothes and shoes to earn more and to serve your visitors faster. Buy TV to add patience to your visitors. Upgrade your kitchen appliances to prepare food quicker. Take care about the food to be cooked properly.
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Most people in Kearny, NJ want to speak with a counselor about their addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. By speaking with one of our knowledgeable counselors by calling 1-888-534-1219, you are taking the very first step in finding the most suitable addiction treatment for your specific needs.
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Wouldn't it be great to see humans of widely different viewpoints coming together in appreciation of the human qualities we all share and in thanks for this beautiful Earth that gives us life. This is how some view the American holiday of Thanksgiving, as an opportunity for healing of separation from each other and nature. Since both Native American and early European music are close to my heart I'm composing a Thanksgiving Suite in this spirit of harmony.
Here are some sketches hearkening back musically to the 1620s, the years of the Pilgrims' arrival. The three movements blend Native flute, drum, harpsichord and cello along with a voice track at the end. Feel free to listen here or download (you'll need good speakers to hear the drum as intended). Enjoy!
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I finally, at long last, finished Boxy last week!
I started Boxy on April 19 and finished it on August 19. But I did complete a lot of other projects during that time, including two cardigans, three shawls, a whole bunch of animals and bunny dresses.
I haven’t tried it on yet, so can’t comment on how I like it at this point.
That’s Alodia, a hooded scarf designed by Moira Engel that is in the newest edition of the Twist Collective. Stay tuned for more on that!
The winner of my review copy of Deck the Halls: 20+ Knitted Christmas Ornaments is Alice Moisen, who has been emailed. Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway.
Yesterday was International Cat Day, so Loki and I have been celebrating This weekend Loki has played, napped, ate and slept, so he is keeping up his end of the bargain in his employment as my cat.
I have 10 more rows to knit in the current stripe, and then two more 48-row stripes to work, so I am on track to finish before the Camp Loopy deadline. It is nicely mindless knitting at this point, and I love the colors, but I am also looking ahead to starting something a bit more challenging.
Christmas in . . . August?
I have another really cute book to review.
This is Deck the Halls: 20+ Knitted Christmas Ornaments and it is from Annie’s Knitting. The link takes you to Annie’s website, where you can order this great little book in either hardcopy or electronic download, for the very reasonable price of $9.99 for each format.
As you no doubt have figured out from the title, this is a collection of Christmas Ornaments that you can knit, and they vary from easy to intermediate.
I love, love, love this wee reindeer!
And the elf is also too cute for words.
The little snowflake is a great way to practice stranded colorwork without the commitment of a big project.
A little sheep! The body is knit with a textured bulky yarn so it is easier than it looks. I think you could use a worsted yarn held with a strand of laceweight mohair to achieve a similar result.
How could i not include the wee socks among my favorite? You can really go wild with creativity on these with just tiny bits of yarn.
And the same goes for the mittens.
And the tiny sweaters too!
A lot of these ornaments would be great as embellishments on special gifts or as a holiday pin for your coat.
If you got started now, you could whip out a lot of adorable little embellishments by thew time the holidays roll around.
And to help, I’ll offer up my review copy, even though I selfishly want to keep it!
To be entered in the drawing to win my review copy of Deck the Halls: 20+ Knitted Christmas Ornaments leave a comment on this blog post by 11:00 am Eastern Time on Sunday, August 9, 2015. I’ll choose a recipient at random them.
This is Martina Behm’s Match & Move and I am knitting mine from Wollmeise Pure in the Sabrina and Tambopata colorways. This combo makes for nice subtle stripes.
I’m just a bit over one-third done at this point.
Loki wants you to know how tiring it is being beautiful and spoiled all the time.
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The music industry has undergone extreme changes over the past few years, many of which have opened the doors for developing bands and artists. Gone are the days where the only option for getting fans to hear your music relied upon support from a limited number of "gatekeepers." Music Marketing 101 provides artists, managers, and business entrepreneurs with the foundational music marketing base they'll need to succeed and thrive in this new music business.
This course starts with the basics - an overview of key music marketing principles, terms, and practices which together form the foundation for all music marketing plans. From there, students will dig into the key areas of opportunities for musicians, including merchandising, publicity, radio promotion (online and traditional), retail & distribution (online and traditional), advertising, and touring. Students will learn what companies and partners to work with to reach their core fans, how to communicate with them, and the ways to leverage the changes and new opportunities that the internet offers to marketers. The information in this course can form the basis for a full marketing campaign, or be immediately implemented into a new marketing and promotion campaign. This course looks at the opportunities available at both traditional terrestrial marketing opportunities, as well as online opportunities. By the end of the course you will have an active marketing plan and timeline tailored to your own unique strengths and budget.
When Do You Need Physical Distribution?
What Makes a Good Promo Kit?
When Should You Consider Radio Promotion?
When Should You Consider Radio Support?
What Else Should Be in Place Prior to Considering Your Radio Campaign?
When Should You Consider an online Radio Campaign?
What Is CMJ and Why Does It Matter?
How Do I Pull All of This Off?
John Lenac has helped to drive the evolution of the technology and music landscape since his days as a musician, band manager, and local concert promoter in the late '80s. He helped launch one of the first Alternative Rock FM stations (KTOZ, circa 1991), and grew it to become one of the highest-rated stations in the US. After programming and managing rock stations in Nashville and Kansas City, he was a Promotion Manager at TVT Records and then Rock Editor at HITS Magazine.
In 2004, he joined LAUNCH/Yahoo! Music. As Head of Music Programming and Artist/Label Relations, he managed a team of radio and video music programmers and interfaced with record labels, artist managers, artists, and business leaders for Yahoo’s branded original content music programs. He then joined PledgeMusic as the Global Head of Business Development, negotiating and closing deals with record labels and various manufacturing, marketing, and ticketing companies. John has been developing and managing artists his whole career, served as the president of a music festival/concert series, and founded and ran his own FM talent management company.
John's work has contributed to millions of albums sold and put dozens of gold and platinum plaques on his wall. He has been a guest lecturer at several schools, including UCLA. He's been a panel moderator and panelist at music industry conventions all over the world, including: SXSW, CMJ, MUSEXPO, Worldwide Radio Summit, One Movement Festival, Music Export Finland, MUSEXPO EUROPE, and The Global Rock Summit. He has also been interviewed by various media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Variety, Records & Radio, Billboard, FMQB, and MTV.
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Liina Siib visits the 16th international fair of contemporary and historical photography in Paris.
November is photography month in Paris. Every two years the cultural institutions and galleries focus on shows of photography, and every year the international galleries, publishers, collectors and curators gather for the photography fair Paris Photo, which for the second year in a row was housed in the magnificent Grand Palais with its glass ceilings and metal construction.
Grandness transpired everywhere – in terms of the number of publishers and visitors, the special exhibition programme and the additional Plateforme. Press releases echoed Paris’s wishes to reassert its leading position as the capital of photography. The rich photography tradition in France or the economic side of it cannot be ignored. It is mainly a Western white middle-class event that tries to offer documentary and artistic images of the world, some more, some less. Julien Frydman, the director of Paris Photo has a background in the Magnum and Arles photography festivals. The 16th photography fair was opened by the French minister of culture Aurélie Filippetti, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and the President’s partner Mrs. Valérie Trierweiler also visited the event.
The programme for La Plateforme Paris Photo, with its noteworthy performers, was the motivation behind my trip to Paris, the director and moderator of which was Roxana Marcoci, the curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in collaboration with Paul Holdengräber, the director of New York’s Public Library LIVE. Plateforme, which took place with the help of the Luma Foundation, was not an academic event but structured as an experimental platform, which during the four days saw a colourful array of international people – famous artists, architects, theorists, filmmakers and others who exchanged ideas on the relational context in which photography operates today and in turn offered meaning to the main goal of the fair.
Plateforme consisted of smaller formats such as critical round-table discussions, pecha kucha sessions, darkroom, interactive and performative lectures which covered a wide spectrum of subjects. In particular, the discussions exploring the Düsseldorf school of photography (including Hilla Becher and Thomas Ruff); architecture, urban photography and propaganda (including Rem Koolhaas, Charlie Koolhaas, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley, Martin Parr) and the filmic element in still and moving pictures (David Lynch) were the three most interesting.
The first round-table discussed what constitutes an avant-garde academy and how a school of photography emerges. Düsseldorf Art Academy has seen three generations of photography artists. Hilla Becher talked about how she together with Bernd Becher started in Düsseldorf in the 1960s: first they built a darkroom and a workroom with Bernd, the photography department came later and Bernd was the one who worked officially as a teacher. They mostly worked with black and white. Hilla Becher said, "Colour photography was very expensive so we stuck to black and white." Everything was run on a very low budget, artists among themselves, and no market for photography. It was only retrospectively that they started to call what they did conceptual art. Hilla Becher added, "The only people who did not understand it or did not like it where the photographers." In the beginning Thomas Ruff considered what the Bechers were doing to be boring: "I was in shock when I heard that the Bechers are going to teach me. Later, the concept became like an ideal for me. I realized that they were right and I was wrong."
The debate continued with the relationship between photography and painting, their format and precision. The Bechers would not have been able to paint their objects the way they photographed them. Photography resulted in the refinement of detail and the precision of large format cameras. Ruff added that photography was considered second-rate art due to its format; large format enabled it to overcome this limitation. Large high quality pictures could be printed from large format film. Even the collectors were shocked how sharp these were.
One exhibition as part of the fair introduced publications from 1964–2012 that were connected with Bernd and Hilla Becher’s work. One hundred photographs from the book "Zeche Zollern II" from 1977 were also exhibited for the first time. Thomas Zander Gallery based in Cologne sold Candida Höfer’s black and white series "Liverpool" from 1968 to a European museum for 290,000 euros – a testament to the continuing success of the Düsseldorf school. Another example is Gallery TAIK which represents the artists of the Helsinki School of Photography, and which was the only representative of Finland at the fair (producer Mirja Majevski, alumna of Estonian Academy or Arts). By taking into account how quickly the photographs on the walls of their booth changed, it appeared that the international collectors had also found them.
Photography artist Martin Parr in the architecture and propaganda round-table claimed that most books on architectural photography are propaganda. Beatriz Colomina (Princeton University) admitted that modern architecture is a form of media; the image itself becomes part of architecture. Modern architecture becomes prominent in the media, for example, in newspapers, photographs, books etc. Images are the new architecture and photography makes it modern.
The archival round-table viewed (photographic) images as documents, which are being constantly redefined. They touched upon the problem of photographic archives and obtaining and reusing images (artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Akram Zaatari, and director of Fotomuseum Winterthur, Urs Stahel) by summarising that – there is hope in every archive, but there can also be pain; without hope there is no point in establishing an archive.
Two pecha kucha (Japanese for "the sound of conversation", 6 min 40 sec presentations) sessions directed rapid focus on noteworthy exhibitions, events, artist books and phenomena connected with photography. This kind of "performative blog" format is perfectly suited to sharing information and presenting preferences. The discussion topics included the Vatican Observatory, observation and faith (artist Laurent Grasso); from Z to Z or from Zoe Leonard to Zanele Muholi and the South African lesbian soccer team (art critic Elisabeth Lebovici, Paris); room-sized pinhole-camera projects, where the result is a negative image with very long exposures (artist Vera Lutter); practices of presenting photographs in the context of exhibitions according to the peculiarities of different mediums (photography curator Matthew S. Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago); Michael Schmidt’s book "Lebensmittel" (Simon Baker, Tate Modern); telling stories and giving meaning in a time that has seen a vast increase in images (artist Alec Soth) and many others.
In her interactive lecture Taryn Simon, a photography artist from the USA, presented an overview of her project dealing with a virtual image atlas, which was created in collaboration with a programmer Aaron Swartz. The atlas deals with statistical information and the neutrality of search engines and the changing of images over time. The website shows the first five images that the Google search engine displays in different countries for English terms such as "jealousy", "leader", "artist" etc (www.imageatlas.org).
The main attraction at the fair was definitely filmmaker David Lynch, who Julien Frydman had approached before the fair and asked to select his favourite photographs from the fair during a digital blind date (Lynch did not receive any information about who the author was or the names of the works), which in the exhibition were then labelled with black signs "Vu par David Lynch" (99 photographs in total). The second part of the request entailed sequencing the selection for a book published by Steidl. Truth be told, Lynch’s selection was spot on, and could be viewed as scenes from his movies. A parallel, which from time to time touched upon different aesthetic beliefs, also emerged in the booths at the fair. At Plateforme, Lynch in conversation with Paul Holdengräber provided insight into his choices and the words "thrilling" and "organic phenomenon" stood out. Lynch’s admirers can watch the conversation at the Paris Photo website parisphoto.com.
Since I lacked the direct desire to obtain a photograph, I did not view the booths through a collector’s eye. I did however look at the prices and there were many red dots on the labels by the fourth day. Both of which present complete parallel realities compared to the circumstances in Estonia. Oddly enough, photographs of homeless people, beggars, the abandoned and the sick in beautiful expensive frames stood out. There were also photographs of the home of an HIV-patient in South Africa. Several galleries offered Irving Penn’s photographs of cigarette butts.
It is interesting that many galleries presented the type of work that had been commissioned from the photographers. These professional commissions work very well in the context of the fair – the photographer has already considered the commissioner, perhaps had a larger budget, stylists and a team – something that has been accepted by one person may very well be liked by another.
One word among those that were thrown out there and which lingered in the minds of dealers and collectors as a magic formula was precision. Precision as an optical concept and an illusion. This is something that a desirable photograph should be able to offer.
Paris Photo also takes place in the Paramount Pictures Studio, Los Angeles, between 26 and 28 April.
Liina Siib is an artist who mainly works with photographic images. She represented Estonia at the international Venice art biennale in 2011.
Alex Prager. 4:01pm Sun Valley. 2012.
Archival pigment print. 153 x 122 cm. Alex Prager, courtesy of Michael Hoppen Contemporary.
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Frome has been named as the best place to live in the South West while its "up and coming" neighbour Trowbridge has missed out, despite being tipped to become "better than Bath".
The Somerset town came top in the south west region in the The Sunday Times Best Places to Live 2018 guide.
Meanwhile Trowbridge, which was recently mooted to become a rival to Bath, did not feature on the list.
The Wiltshire town has recently been named the number one best up and coming place to live in the UK.
Why is Frome so great?
Frome previously won the Great Town Award in 2016.
A spokesman from the Sunday Times Best Places to Live Guide 2018 said: "Frome is back again this year, and this time hits the top spot, named as Best Place to Live in the Southwest.
"You know a place has a healthy quota of hipsters when there’s an artisan quarter.
"When not buying knitting wool and battered old suitcases in the cobbled St Catherine’s neighbourhood, the new residents are tucking in at new restaurants such as Sam’s Kitchen, Bistro Lotte and the Fat Radish.
"For feeding the soul, there’s an arts festival in July, the Black Swan arts centre and Cheese & Grain, a music venue where Foo Fighters rocked up for a gig last year.
"The Compassionate Frome plan, set up five years ago by a local GP to help people cope with ill health, has resulted in 17% fewer hospital admissions in the area.
"The methodology uses robust statistics, but also the knowledge of The Sunday Times’ expert panel. The judges combine the hard data with their own on-the-ground experience and insight to ensure the chosen locations truly are places where everyone can thrive."
The London Economic featured Trowbridge at the top of its best up and coming places to live in the UK, saying: "On the face of it, Trowbridge is another bland Wiltshire town.
Which is the best place to live?
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If you are in Long Beach, California this weekend, there is an event that you should not miss.
On November 15th at the Long Beach Scottish Rite Event Center-Ernest Borgnine Theater, in Long Beach, California. You can find all information about the event on the Native Harmonies facebook page.
Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne/Dutch) has recorded three sensational contemporary Native American albums and has emerged as one of New Mexico’s finest Native performers. Among many other awards Shelley has received 2 Native American music awards and her album “Full Circle” was Native American “Record of the Year” 2011. Shelley has played guitar and classical flute since her childhood and she also has mastered the Native American flute, on which she performs passionately on some of her compositions.
Shelley has been featured in several magazines such as Cowboys & Indians, Native Peoples and New Mexico Magazine to name a few. She tours nationally and internationally with the full band featured on her album “Full Circle”, which was skillfully engineered and produced by Grammy Award winner Larry Mitchell.
Shelley just released a Christmas album which is available here. More information about Shelley and her beautiful music can be found on her website.
Shelley’s husband and musical partner Fabian Fontenelle is from the Zuni and Omaha Nation. He was born in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico but he also has family in Nebraska. Fabian is the great-great grandson of the famed Chief Big Elk of the Omaha people.
A performance by Fabian is a show in itself, a captivating display of ancient sacred songs, traditional northern plains style dancing, drumming and hand-crafted regalia adorned with the intricacy of hand-beading and more.
Fabian is an original member of the “American Indian Dance Theatre”, and also provided master-work choreography and performances with two time Grammy Award winning artist Robert Mirabal on tour in “Music from a Painted Cave” which was also featured on PBS television under “Great Performances”.
Both Shelley and Fabian have been touring members of the famous Robert Mirabal’s Musical “Music from a Painted Cave” feature on PBS Special Performance’s.
Read more about Fabian and his music here.
World champion Hoop Dancer and artist Lowery Begay will be performing in Long Beach as well. With his dance he will be telling the story of creation and you will recognize the earth, the sun, the moon and all kinds of animals, such as the eagle and the butterfly in the formation of his hoops.
Lowery is from the Diné Nation (Navajo) and was raised on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and Arizona. He grew up learning the traditional Navajo ways by his grandparents.
Lowery is a professional Native American performer and artist. He has been dancing as a Hoop Dancer and Fancy Dancer most of his life. Lowery has been dancing, storytelling, playing the Native American flute, building drums and sharing his culture with people all over the world for many years.
Japan and European countries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Belgium and Iceland are only some of the places he has visited. He performed in Ecuador with Robert Mirabal and was invited to the country of Jordan for a cultural exchange in summer 2012.
For more information about Lowery, you can visit his website.
I am giving away a music download to Shelley’s Album “Heart Songs”, which Shelley and Phobe gave me when I saw them last time in Germany this summer and the 4 of us had a wonderful time. The album contains beautiful and relaxing flute music. Perfect for meditation on cold winter nights or to dream away on a sunny beach.
When you scroll down you can listen to her new Album “Love Medicine” on trial. Push play and enjoy.
Come back here and comment below with the name of your favorite song!
The giveaway ends on Friday, November 28th 2014, 11:59 pm. The winner will be announced on my facebook and Twitter account and also contacted via email.
The giveaway is open to participants from all over the world.
Since I won’t need your address to submit the price, the contest is open to all ages.
When you are leaving a comment below you have to do so by providing a valid email address, since this will be my way to contact you in case you win.
The prize has to be claimed within 3 days or a new winner will be chosen.
The prize cannot be paid in cash and is exempt from legal procedures.
Congratulations Dave! You will get Shelley Morningsong’s flute Album “Heart Songs“. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do!
If you missed the giveaway or didn’t win this time, subscribe to my newsletter and I’ll let you know about the next one.
Shelley Morningsong has such a beautiful voice, and I found it difficult to to pick a favorite (her music is exceptional!). “Your Love, My Medicine Remix” is so cool (reminds me of Annie Lennox). However the spirit of “We Didn’t Ask Why” captured me, and is my pick as a favorite. It’s a beautiful song – modern, majestic & spritual. The lyrics captured me, too: “I decided to hit the road, one day…I heard singing like a long, lost melody.” As a musician, I’m drawn to music that inspires, such as this!
“We didn’t ask Why” — that song is absolutely awesome!
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Kaz Rowe will video call in from Los Angeles to talk about their practice. They will be discussing their ongoing published comic as well as the ins and outs of comics as a career.
Kaz Rowe is a Los Angeles based cartoonist and illustrator, and alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are creating an ongoing, long-form webcomic (Cunning Fire).
Kaz’s work focuses thematically on liminal identity, namely Jewishness, and using fantasy as a vehicle to explore intersections between queer gender and searching for community and purpose. Additionally, Kaz is a historical researcher and creates mini-comics dedicated to LGBT historical figures.
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