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Curriculum Night 2014
In the beginning…
In the beginning, the most important function music serves is to ease anxiety. The first thing I want to teach a 2 year old is that school is a place where we have fun.
I start with the simplest songs, the ABCs, Twinkle, Twinkle, and The Itsy Bitsy Spider. These songs help teach the beginnings of language. Our goal is to rock “Baby Beluga” by the time the year ends.
When we are 3, we’re going to start to learn more complex songs. Now we’re ready to go deeper into our Broadway repertoire, “Tomorrow,”, “My Favorite Things” and learn fun pop songs like “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog” and “Sing A Song”.
4 year olds take music to another level. Our songs are going to be longer and more complex, including 2 or 3 verses and choruses. We'll take on songs like “This land is your land”, “The train they call the city of New Orleans”, “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” and “I Can See Clearly Now.”
What makes music fun?
What makes music great for kids? For me, the answer is that there’s a tremendous amount of learning that occurs effortlessly. What we’re doing is having fun, and while we’re having fun, our vocabulary is exploding and our memories are developing.
Connections to literature
I have a bunch of picture books that go along with some of my songs. I often ask one of the teachers to hold the book and turn the pages as we sing the song. What this does is deepen the connection to the ways they’re using books in the classroom, and re-inforces the notion that there is something extremely interesting going on in these objects we call books. Songs can also be stories.
This is one of the most important lessons I teach. Through singing as a group, children develop a sense of belonging to a community; to something larger than themselves. And as a group, we are strong.
Instruments (Kazoos and Shakers)
I use kazoos often with the 2s and 3s. Deep breathing in and out is extremely important to brain development. I have also discovered that kids with language delays really benefit from playing the kazoo. Also, kazoos are great for kids who are shy, because the lesson here is “it’s ok to be loud! Let’s make some noise!”
Shakers are fun and really help with rhythmic development which is known to sharpen our math skills.
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I love the colour of turquoise variscite, and when it's mixed with silver in this bracelet - the result is heavenly!
The gemstones are 5mm in diameter. I drew the heart free hand and cut it from 0.8mm sterling silver sheet before hammering it to create all those multiple surface which catch the light and glint!
The bracelet is fabulous on its own and great to stack. I have made earrings and a truly gorgeous necklace to wear with the bracelet too, as shown in the photo.
I have shown the bracelet in the large photo with the matching necklace and earrings, and given a thumbnail closeup.
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Ph.D., Clinical Psychology (Health Psychology track), George Washington University, 2006 (APA-accredited).
Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology (APA-accredited), Behavioral Medicine Track, Brown Medical School, Clinical Psychology Training Consortium, 2005 – 2006.
Post Doctoral Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Medicine, Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital, 2006 – 2007.
R25 Transdisciplinary Cancer Control Research Training fellowship, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, 2007 – 2009.
Faculty, Master of Population Health Sciences (MPHS) Program
Faculty (Ad-Hoc), Mentored Training for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer
Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the State of Missouri, License #2010009610
Honors and Awards
Board of Directors, Trustee, Society for Medical Decision Making, 2012 – 2015
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (LRP) Recipient, 2009 – present
Lead Fellow, Dartmouth Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice, 2008, 2009.
Fellow, Dartmouth Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice, 2007-2010.
Gillies K, Cotton SC, Brehaut JC, Politi MC, Skea Z. Decision aids for people considering taking part in clinical trials. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2015, Issue 11. Art. No.: CD009736. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009736.pub2.
Madden T, Cortez S, Kuzemchak M, Kaphingst KA, & Politi M. Accuracy of Information about the Intrauterine Device on the Internet. (2015). American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Epub ahead of print. pii: S0002-9378(15)02233-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.10.928. PubMed PMID: 26546848.
Politi MC, Kaphingst KA, Liu JE, Perkins H, Furtado K, Kreuter MW, Shacham E, McBride T. (2015). A Randomized Trial Examining Three Strategies for Supporting Health Insurance Decisions among the Uninsured. Med Decis Making. Epub ahead of print. pii:0272989X15578635. PubMed PMID: 25840904.
Furtado K, Kaphingst KA, Perkins H & Politi MC. (2015). Health Insurance Information-Seeking Behaviors Among the Uninsured. Journal of Health Communication, 1-11.
Zeuner R, Frosch DL, Kuzemchak MD & Politi MC. (2014). Physicians’ Perceptions of Shared Decision Making Behaviors: A Qualitative Study Demonstrating the Continued Chasm Between Aspirations and Clinical Practice. Health Expectations. Epub ahead of print. PubMed PMID: 24938120.
Politi, MC, Kaphingst KA, Kreuter M, Shacham E, Lovell MC, McBride T. (2014). Knowledge of health insurance terminology and details among the uninsured. Medical Care Research and Review, 75(1), 85-98
Politi MC, Dizon DS, Frosch DL, Kuzemchak MD, & Stiggelbout AS. (2013). Importance of clarifying patients’ desired role in shared decision making to match their level of engagement with their preferences. BMJ, 347: f7066.
Politi MC, Lewis CL & Frosch D. (2013). Supporting shared decisions when clinical evidence is low. Medical Care Research & Review, 20(1S), 113 - 128. doi: 10.1177/1077558712458456.
Politi MC, Clayman ML, Fagerlin A, Studts JL, Montori V. (2013) Insights from a Conference on Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research Through Shared Decision Making. Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, 2(1), 23–32. PMCID: PMC3575182.
Politi MC, Wolin K & Legare F (2013). Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines about Health Promotion and Disease Prevention through Shared Decision Making. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 28(6):838-44. PMCID: PMC3663950
Gaissmaier W, Wegwarth O, Skopec D, Mulle, A-S, Broschinski S, Politi MC. Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information. Health Psychology. 2012;31(3):286-96.
Politi MC, Studts JL, Hayslip J. Shared Decision Making in Oncology Practice: What Do Oncologists Need to Know? The Oncologist. 2012;17, 91–100.
Légaré F, Politi MC, Drolet R, Desroches S, Stacey D, Bekker H and the CPD-SDM team. Training health professionals in Shared Decision Making: An international environmental scan. Patient Education and Counseling, 2012;88(2), 159-169. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2012.01.002.
Politi MC, Pieterse AH, Truant T, Borkhoff C, Jha V, Kuhl L, Nicolai J, Goss C. Interprofessional education about patient decision support in specialty care. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 2011;25(6):416-422.
Pub Med page for Mary C. Politi, Ph.D.
Deputy Editor, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2017
Editorial Board, Medical Decision Making, 2012 - 2017
Reviewer: Medical Decision Making; Health Expectations; Journal of General Internal Medicine; Annals of Behavioral Medicine; Risk Analysis; Supportive Care in Cancer; Behavior Therapy; Psycho-Oncology; American Journal of Epidemiology; Integrative Cancer Therapies; European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology; Patient Education and Counseling, 2005 – present | <urn:uuid:2d6cfaac-5bad-4f43-86f2-b1a46f9f61ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://publichealthsciences.wustl.edu/en/Faculty/PolitiMary | 2016-07-27T17:16:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257826916.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071026-00207-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.712313 | 1,306 |
Convalescent Plasma Donors Needed
MIDLAND, Mich. – MidMichigan Health is asking individuals who previously tested positive for COVID-19 and have recovered to consider donating their plasma, also known as convalescent plasma.
“If you have recovered from COVID-19, you may be able to help patients currently fighting the infection by donating your plasma,” said Lydia Watson, M.D., chief medical officer, MidMichigan Health. “As a result of your infection, your plasma now contains COVID-19 antibodies, which is one way your immune system fought the virus when you were sick. Your plasma is now known as convalescent plasma and this plasma has proven helpful to those infected with COVID-19. The donation could possibly save a life.”
Donors who have recovered from COVID-19 are asked to donate convalescent plasma through the local blood bank if they have had a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 by physician and laboratory testing, are symptom free for 28 days before being eligible to donate, and are symptom free for 14-27 days, a negative test must be verified.
“Your healthcare provider will be able to confirm your lab test and symptom free time as needed by donation centers,” added Dr. Watson.
Those interested in more information or wishing to become a donor may visit www.versiti.org/home/convalescent-plasma-donations. Those with questions may contact Michigan Versiti Blood Center of Michigan at (866) 642-5663. | <urn:uuid:6bdfbc43-4a74-47be-a88a-d0ba6384e168> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.midmichigan.org/about/news/2020/convalescent-plasma-donors-needed/ | 2020-08-13T02:50:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738950.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20200813014639-20200813044639-00338.warc.gz | en | 0.956654 | 322 |
Step-By-Step Niche Profits
Step-By-Step Niche Profits – Generating Traffic Initially, we are going to get some traffic by using a site that we have already used.
Head on over to http://answers.yahoo.com and find some questions that relate to your niche. Make sure to answer the questions like you are genuinely concerned.
Directly below where you answer the question there is a box for “resource” . You are generally safe if you put 2 links in that box. So, make sure that your Squidoo lens is always one of them and then just alternate the others.
Chances are good that you will not see a ton of traffic by doing this, but you will get some trickles and maybe even a sale. This is especially true because you are putting your links in front of someone who needs what you are selling.
The main source of traffic will come through writing and publishing articles with sites like http://www.ezinearticles.com If you have already written articles and used them, then you already know that by far they are the best source of targeted free traffic that we have at our disposal.
As a rule, I recommend writing and publishing 3 articles per day for each niche you are in. You can scale that down to meet time constraints that you have, but 3 or more articles a day will give you a steady flow of traffic and allow you to start making sales sooner than later.
Don’t let the article writing intimidate you. Earlier we went over how to come up with article titles that will attract readers and how to come up with content. Just follow the same procedures and you will find it easy to come up with content daily.
While traffic is our main reason for writing the articles, there are other benefits. Remember earlier when we were “analyzing competition” we were paying close attention to the number of links that a site had coming in. Every time that you submit an article you are going to link it to your Squidoo lens which will give it another backlink for the search engines to consider when choosing where to rank your site. The more the better.
There are other ways of getting backlinks and traffic that you can do. This is kind of like extra credit though. You hear a lot of talk about generating traffic through the use of forums and other social sites and for good reason. These kinds of sites are for the most part open forums where people can post whatever they want and then have a discussion about issues.
One of my favorite ways to find places that are pertinent to my niche is www.boardreader.com for example, I just went and typed in “relationship advice” because it is the niche we have talked about throughout this and it gave me over 37,000 results of forums and other social mediums that I can register to and include a signature linking back to my Squidoo Lens as well as talk about the subject.
You can also take advantage of the social networking sites like www.digg.com and www.stumbledupon.com. With these sites you can post a link to all of your virtual real estate as well as the articles that you write. This is just one other way that you can put your name out there and lead people to your content and ultimately try to convert them into buyers.
One thing that is very important and I can’t stress enough is that
where the article writing is concerned you have to be
CONSISTENT! If you aren’t, you very well could see your traffic and sales dry up.
The great thing about articles though, especially when you are dealing with low competition keywords, is you stand a great chance of landing a top ranking and getting hundreds of visitors a day because of it. Once this happens, you can make a decision on whether there are other keywords you can target or maybe move into another niche to give you an additional revenue stream.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One who attends to the maintenance or cleaning of a building.
- n. A doorman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
- n. a doorman
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A door-keeper; a porter.
- n. One who is employed to care for a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.; a caretaker; -- the duties may include removal of trash, cleaning of the rooms and public areas, and minor repairs.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A doorkeeper; a porter.
- n. A man employed to take charge of rooms or buildings, to see that they are kept clean and in order, to lock and unlock them, and generally to care for them.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone employed to clean and maintain a building
Likewise the janitor is not expected to make decisions on the firms new product line.
February 25th, 2010 at 10: 20 am ralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says: pezmiztix says: bob, typical progressive compassion on display … .. being a janitor is somehow below human standards ….
Two hours after a game ends, a janitor is cleaning the locker rooms and finds Wallace dead in the showers ...
If you get promoted from assistant janitor at the Shell station to night janitor, is that far?
I called the janitor again and told him to fetch those grasshoppers he had taken away.
I called the janitor to my room and had a chat for about two hours.
The very hall porter has gone out of town for his holiday, and the page-boy who officiates as temporary janitor is not quite certain about your name and gives you somebody else's letters.
"Someone call the janitor, we have a BIG mess again."
I like how they call the janitor, rather than trained professionals.
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Sophia Bush: 'This Means War' Premiere!
Sophia Bush flashes a smile at the premiere of This Means War held at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Wednesday (February 8) in Hollywood.
The 29-year-old One Tree Hill actress wore a blue Olcay Gulsen dress and accessorized with Dana Rebecca Designs earings and Melinda Maria and Kara Ackerman bangles.
Sophia recently celebrated the Prop 8′s ruling of being unconstitutional. “#EqualityMatters Fight for equality for EVERYONE,” Sophia wrote on her Twitter account the day before. “Be on the right side of history. #SameDNA #NOH8.”
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Do you not know that the kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah ˹alone˺? He punishes whoever He wills and forgives whoever He wills. And Allah is Most Capable of everything.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Do you not know that to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He wills and forgives whom He wills, and Allah is over all things competent.
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Overall what was expected. The big innovation for me is all this stuff integrated in one simple package. Which is kind of being glossed over in the press. and the price point -very low.
-liked the rebuilt apple apps. calendar & contacts are nicely rethought. lots of new ui in iwork.
-the times demo is just the start of the kind of integrated media experiences you can build. my thoughts on that: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?951
-the cover is awesome design it supports swivel, tip, and protects
-the $9 for numbers vs. $229 for excel is really interesting from a business perspective
Notable hardware gaps (concerning cause no software update will fix)
-storage sizes 64GB for videos, photos, and music -does not cut it
-usb port -it uses "camera" adaptors instead
-GPS only on 3G model
-how's it work with an iphone?
Notable software gaps (can/will be addressed with software updates)
-multiple iphone apps running at once
-multiple users -how do you share the device at home?
-doesn't run flash = many holes on web pages
-no really new interactions -all iphone UI or the most part. but lots of the floating controls outlined here: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?983 | <urn:uuid:75db90a5-6309-4d7f-bc1f-d1ec8400fd3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://ixda.org/node/21771 | 2016-07-31T04:25:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469258948913.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723072908-00139-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901556 | 305 |
Beautiful in looks and sensational in work, astonishing television journalist Norah O’Donnell was born on January 23, 1974 in Washington, D.C., United States. She has been serving her profession through great determination since the year 1996. She has been currently serving as a co-anchor of CBS This Morning. Super talented Norah O’Donnell holds hundreds of reason to appreciate her. She has been part of television shows like: CBS This morning, MSNBC Live, CBS News, NBC News Decision 2010. She has proven herself and her abilities through her unbelievable work in these shows which are responsible to drag her to the light of success she shines today.
Norah O’Donnell was married to Geoff Tracy in the year 2001 and they together share three children who are named Grace Tracy, Riley Norah Tracy and Henry Tracy. Norah was born and raised in Washington under the care and affection of father named Francis O’Donnell. She is a sister of Mary O’Donnell, and Francis O’Donnell. She attended prestigious Georgetown University to complete her education in B.A and M.A. She was graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School located in San Antonio, Texas.
Notable credits of Norah O’Donnell:
Chris Matthews, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, Weekend Today, CBS This Morning.
· 1999–2011: NBC News/MSNBC
· 1999–2011: Washington Bureau correspondent
· 1999–2011: Weekend Today circling news anchor
· 1999–2011: MSNBC Live fill-in anchor
· 2000-2011: Dateline NBC contributing communicator
· 2003–2011: NBC News White House correspondent
· 2005–2011: MSNBC Chief White House communicator
· 2011-present: CBS News
· 2011–2012: Chief White House communicator
· 2011–present: CBS Evening News fill-in anchor
· 2012–present: CBS This Morning co-anchor
· 2011–present: Face the Nation fill-in host and communicator
Her dedication and hard work is the one who have carried her to the height of success she stands today. She is an intelligent personality with vision, determination and courage. She believes that dedication and hard work and define impossible unrealistic.
Norah O'Donnell holds the net worth of around $8 million American dollars. norah o’donnell. salary from her shows is the main source of her income. | <urn:uuid:909db229-eb8b-4d38-9d06-b303e343784a> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://ecelebrityfacts.com/norah-o-donnell-net-worth-salary | 2020-04-10T06:16:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371886991.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20200410043735-20200410074235-00530.warc.gz | en | 0.955368 | 497 |
Contact Us We're here to serve. Contact Info Address 2801 Three Lakes Road, North Charleston, SC 29418 Call Us (843) 747-6120 Fax (843) 747-6117 Donna Trego, Owner [email protected] Kanesa Hopkins, Operations Manager [email protected] Jason Mims, Market & Sales Manager [email protected] Career Opportunities [email protected] We’re Ready, Let’s Connect. First Name Last Name How many employees - Select -0-4950-99100-199200-299300 or moreInquiry Type - Select -I am interested in vending serviceI am interested in office coffee serviceI am interested in Avenue C MarketsOur machine is in need of serviceOur Machine needs to be filledHow did you hear about us? - Select -We used Coastal Canteen with another company Internet searchA friend referred us Other (please specify in comments below)Subject Your Message Submit Form Service Area Service Request First Name Last Name Company Name AddressLocation within building Description of equipment Your Message Submit Form Support Within 24 hours You can rest assured knowing that we're always available to handle any support requests you might have. Unparalleled Customer Service At Coastal Canteen, we take pride in providing our customers with smile-causing customer service. | <urn:uuid:04b3f0b6-45c6-4b2b-9ce0-4f7e4c058345> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.coastalcanteen.com/contact/ | 2022-05-17T02:00:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662515466.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516235937-20220517025937-00795.warc.gz | en | 0.810737 | 265 |
I have been on holidays these past 2 weeks and dear gawd did I need this break (at least from one of my jobs). Since Tuesday I’ve been pretty much stuck at home during the day which I welcomed, because it meant getting lots of things done I have been putting off – including several tasks involving organzing something or other. Yesterday, after walking to the post office to pick up some hot boots, it was time to organize the bookshelves in my bedroom. I really don’t like having all this book storage in my bedroom (to me it’s like bad feng shui – too much visual stimulation for a room that’s supposed to give me tranquility), but it was the only free wall in my tiny house that could house my magazine collection and some books. I threw some of the older magazines out because holy smokes I have far too many, and made the piles neat again. Once the contents were organized (and shrunk down a bit) I went out to the storage shed and dug out some apple baskets and a couple wooden crates I had purchased some time ago at an antique shop out in the boonies. I am a FREAK for rustic/industrial storage options, and these, along with my vintage metal locker baskets, helped in the wrangling of my crap. I’m a happy camper now, and I think I can sleep a little better tonight knowing it’s not a disaster. (P.S. Before the hubby moved in, the shelves looked like this, and after when I de-feminized the space, the room looked more like this). | <urn:uuid:671322c4-c82d-49fb-b40c-f7f5246f2501> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://www.desiretoinspire.net/2012/08/10/killin-time/ | 2018-09-23T04:55:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267159006.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923035948-20180923060348-00143.warc.gz | en | 0.975123 | 335 |
Do you know anything about fact psychic analyses? Do you have any clear fertilization about the reality psychic analyses? Generally, psychic readings are utilized to foresee the future occasions. To locate the fact regarding your life, you can make the proper usage of the reality psychic analyses. A psychic will be able to forewarn the occurrences which are yet to take place in future. Are you significantly fretted about your future possibility? If you are parents, are you thinking deeply regarding the college test of your youngsters? The fact is that in human society, the value of forecasting or astrology is substantial because individuals count on god and spirits. They think that there is the mystic world or the supernatural world which is under the advice of the Almighty God.
Currently, they declare that it is feasible to get the solutions to remove the fears, disappointment and psychological problem by inviting the divine spirit to the planet. A psychic will tell you whether your youngsters will certify their college exams efficiently or otherwise? He will provide you some fundamental information about the future which is meant to take place in the coming days. You will certainly obtain the chance to find the positive method surpass the awkward situation if you have the ability to understand the future accident in advance. It will certainly be an excellent benefit to you.
On the other hand, the scientists take the solid exemption to this kind of unscientific technique of future reading. According to the researchers, there are few religious minded persons who try to misinform people by providing the fake information regarding the future forecast using astrology, horoscope reading, palmistry and also psychic reading.
The experts assert that there is no scientific reason or evidence whether this kind of projecting is authentic. Nonetheless, the appeal of the analysis has actually not gone down. Edgar Cayce has made a great deal of popularity and also acknowledgment by predicting future precisely relying on the truth psychic readings. There are various other psychics that are also extremely well recognized to the people for their superb contribution to the reality psychic readings. Get a free psychic question in this link.
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Global Sanitary Valves Market Forecasts 2018-2022 - CAGR Expected to Grow at 4.54% - ResearchAndMarkets.com
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2018--The “Global Sanitary Valves Market 2018-2022” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
The global market to grow at a CAGR of 4.54% during the period 2018-2022.
Global Sanitary Valves Market 2018-2022, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.
One trend in the market is the development of valve positioner technology. With the growing demand for sanitary valves in different end-user sectors, vendors in the sanitary butterfly valve market are focusing on developing valve positioner technology. To adjust positions of actuators based on a control signal, valve positioners are used.
According to the report, one driver in the market is the rising use of sanitary valves in food and beverages and pharmaceutical industry. With the rising need for maintaining sanitized and hygienic environment in pharmaceutical industries, there has been an increase in the integration of sanitary valves as an integral component in the fluid handling systems.
Further, the report states that one challenge in the market is fluctuation in raw material prices. The cost of raw materials is essential in valve pricing and plays a key role in the profit margin of vendors. Among the raw material costs, the direct material cost accounts for more than half of the total raw material cost for valves.
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President Obama and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta clashed at a joint press conference in the African state during his official visit on Sunday: Obama harshly criticized Kenya’s record on issues related to homosexuality.
“When you start treating people differently not because of any harm they are doing to anybody, but because they are different, that’s the path whereby freedoms begin to erode,” he said. “Bad things start to happen.”
The President also compared Kenya’s laws to Jim Crow-era segregationist policies.
As an African-American in the United States, I am painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently, under the law, and there were all sorts of rationalizations that were provided by the power structure for decades in the United States for segregation and Jim Crow and slavery, and they were wrong.
In Kenya, gay marriage is outlawed. Homosexuality is also against the law, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, and the global move towards recognition of homosexual unions is regarded with suspicion.
President Kenyatta was visibly uncomfortable throughout Obama’s comments.
However, after being pressed by a reporter, he remarked that President Obama’s comments highlight a difference between the United States and Africa.
“The fact of the matter is Kenya and the U.S. share so many values: common love for democracy, entrepreneurship, value for families–these are some things that we share,” he said. “But there are some things that we must admit we don’t share. Our culture, our societies don’t accept.”
He went on to argue that calling for tolerance of LGBT Africans is to impose one’s will on a foreign culture, and that, to most Kenyans, the recent liberalization of marriage laws across the globe is a non-issue.
He also said that Kenya has many more problems to focus on, and that the West should be helping them on issues related to equality for women, water sanitation, and economic growth before attacking laws many Kenyans view as an important safeguard of their culture.
President Kenyatta is not the only important Kenyan leader taking a stand for his country’s opposition to homosexuality. Much of the Kenyan clergy has been quick to strike back at President Obama’s assertions.
Cardinal John Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of the Abuja Diocese in Kenya, said on Sunday:
Even if people don’t like us for it, our church has always said homosexuality is unnatural and marriage is between a man and a woman. There is no such thing as marriage between two men or marriage between two women, whatever they do among themselves should not be called marriage.
“There is no question of the Catholic Church changing its positions on this matter,” he boldly stated.
Before coming to Kenya, President Obama was warned by top Kenyan political figures not to mention homosexuality, gay rights, or other aspects of his socially liberal agenda on his visit.
“We are telling Mr. Obama when he comes to Kenya this month and he tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up and go home,” Irungu Kangata, a national leader, told demonstrators outside Kenya’s Parliament earlier this month.
“Liberal thoughts are being tolerated in some countries under the guise of human rights,” Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi said. “We must be vigilant and guard against [gay marriage and abortion].”
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As the presidential campaign enters the home stretch, each side is narrowly focusing its message on a very select group: movable voters — the undecided and those who may change their minds — in the battleground states.
According to ABC News polls, there are fewer movable voters at this stage than there were at the same time four years ago. Who are they? The polls show that there is no one single typical movable voter. They are less interested in the election than the firmly decided voters and are less likely to be paying attention to it.
Politically, they're less partisan: more likely to be independents, more likely to be moderates (62 percent compared with 48 percent of the definites), and less likely to be conservatives. They're a bit younger than voters overall — 45 percent are younger than 40, compared with 29 percent of definites — and more likely to say that the economy is their main concern (40 percent versus 29 percent of committed voters). And by a very slim margin, they tend to be single men.
On a quiet tree-lined street in this old industrial city in Pennsylvania, a state where polls show the race a dead heat, two undecided voters live side by side.
Aaron White is 33, never been married, and works as a systems analyst for a pharmaceutical company. He was once a registered Democrat, but is now registered as a Libertarian.
Beth Buechler is 44, divorced, a mother of three and works as a secretary at Muhlenberg College's art department. She's a registered Republican.
Both voted to elect George W. Bush in 2000, but say they are unlikely to vote for him again this fall.
"He didn't seem as arrogant as he does now," says Buechler. "I felt like he was in touch with us."
"I thought George Bush was very strong when I voted for him in 2000," says White. "After 9/11 I was really behind our president. I thought he was doing a great job of holding our country together. I thought he was taking proper action to defend our country." Now, he says, "I think there are other people behind him pulling strings and that he's not the strong character we thought he was."
For both White and Buechler, the breaking point with Bush was the war with Iraq.
"The invasion of Iraq was a big switcheroo the president pulled on the American public," White says, "and I don't think we've gotten a satisfactory explanation why he invaded Iraq."
But while they are both disenchanted with the president, neither yet feels comfortable with the Democratic nominee.
"I'm reasonably certain that I'm not going to vote for George Bush … but I have a lot of trouble voting for John Kerry," White says. "I need for him to give me a clear vision of what he plans to do instead [of Bush]. And I really don't feel I've gotten that."
"I don't know much about him," Buechler says of Kerry. "I want to know how he's going to get us out of Iraq. I want to know how he's going to balance the budget. … I don't know how John Kerry is going to handle those issues."
More Than the Lesser of Two Evils
Neither feels that either campaign's message is helping them much.
"Whether George Bush had a mediocre career when he was in the air guard is not an issue to me," White says. "And whether John Kerry fought valiantly in Vietnam or had a desk job. That's not really the issue. The issue is attacking one another over it and that doesn't impress me at all."
"It's just been a lot of negativity," says Buechler. "I think that's one of the main reasons I'm really undecided. … I need to hear some specifics."
Both want to hear specifics in the presidential debates and want very much to find a reason to vote for one candidate rather than against the other.
"I just don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils," says White. "I think it's really unfortunate that it may come down to that."
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Native Languages of the Americas:
Lillooet Indian Legends, Myths, and Stories
This is our collection of links to Lillooet folktales and traditional stories that can be read online.
We have indexed our Native American stories section
by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same
legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to
each other. In particular, though these legends come from the Lillooets, the traditional stories of
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The trickster hero of the Lillooet and other Interior Salish tribes.
Coyote is foolish and boastful, and so Lillooet stories about him are often humorous in nature;
however, he is a well-meaning creature who usually acts for the good of humankind.
Story of the Man in the Moon:
Lillooet legend about three proud frog sisters.
People of the Land: Legends of the Four Host First Nations:
Collection of Lillooet and other British Columbia Native legends and stories.
Salish Myths and Legends:
Anthology of legends and traditional stories from the Lillooet and other Salish tribes.
Lillooet religion and expressive traditions
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There are nights when I am unable to sleep because I’m stressing over a project that has been consuming me. There are times when I wake up, thinking about all that I need to accomplish during the day. And there are my days off in which I’ve spent food shopping, cooking, cleaning, and setting the table to prepare for a special dinner. In all cases, I’m a bundle of nervous energy – and no one better get in my way. It’s about getting things right – my own sense and drive for perfection. My doing something – usually for someone else.
We hear this restlessness and hurriedness in several of our readings today. All centered around acts of hospitality.
Three strangers suddenly appear at the tents of Abraham. Abraham hastens inside to Sarah and tells her to quickly make some cakes. He runs to his herd, chooses a calf and tells his servant to prepare it. He gathers all of this and brings it before his guests, standing under the tree with them as they, presumably seated, eat the feast he has set before them.
In today’s Gospel reading, an occasion of hospitality sets the context. After Jesus’ exchange with the lawyer last week about “who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:25-37), he and his disciples continue on their way to a village, where Jesus is welcomed into the home of a familiar family: the sisters Mary & Martha (with Lazarus apparently out of town at the time).
While we don’t actually know what Martha was doing, we can imagine her in and out of the kitchen. Making sure the meal was being properly prepared, bringing drinks to her guests, hanging up their cloaks in the closet.
We could say that both Abraham and Martha were being the perfect host, tending to every whim and need of their guest. Running to and fro, making sure all was perfectly prepared so as to make their guest comfortable, welcome, and satisfied.
The responses to these acts of hospitality receive different responses in each story though. We hear Sarah’s laughter at the comments of the three strangers. Is it really laughter of unbelieving or laughter of the nervous kind? Who are these guys? What do they really want? Have I prepared things well enough?
Martha shows a different kind of nervousness – one of frustration and anxiety. Why doesn’t she get any help from Mary? Aren’t women supposed to be in the kitchen and not listening to a teacher? What will the neighbors say? While Sarah laughs, Martha gets angry.
Both are showing what we might call “anxiety” today. And we do live in anxious times. Bankruptcy in Detroit. Continued unrest in the Middle East. Violence in our neighborhoods. Being wary of the stranger who is our neighbor.
Suzanne Guthrie writes a lot about anxiety:
Anxiety, like the common cold, is catching. One person’s anxiety at work or at home, infects the esprit de corps like a rampant infection. An unnamed anxiety can attach itself to a perfectly solvable problem and spread from an individual’s phantasms to the coffee pot in the course of a morning.
I inherited anxiety biologically. When I gratefully consume my daily dusting of medication for depression and anxiety I often think with regret that my father struggled without meds, pacing and pacing around the house in worn paths of worry over things beyond his control. I have to watch my anxiety, feeding on me and offered by me – the bread of anxiety. (I must say, to my credit, that many disasters have been averted by my detailed, all-consuming hard work of worry. If you worry hard enough, the disaster won’t happen. That’s what it feels like, anyway.)
How many of us can related to either Abraham’s, Sarah’s, Martha’s or Suzanne’s anxiety? Where do we find God in the midst of it all? I think that’s what Jesus is really trying to tell us.
Jesus’ answer cuts to the core about anxiety: “Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things. Mary has chosen the better part.” Wait a minute – isn’t hospitality a core value of Jesus’? Welcoming the stranger? Embracing the outcast?
Suzanne also writes,
The rebuke was not because Martha served instead of listened. Jesus himself came as one who serves. The rebuke was for anxiety and distraction sabotaging Martha’s own desire to offer hospitality. Jesus, too, offered hospitality. Mary accepted it. She offered the hospitality of her heart to the Word made flesh.
Who doesn’t get distracted and anxious? Doing too much good in too many directions is one way of thwarting your own desire to offer hospitality. Rather, seek the one thing. Even then, it may be necessary to re-evaluate your energies and sense of hospitality.
What is that one thing? Some people believe this story places the importance of the contemplative life over the active life, but I don’t believe that’s true. We need both action and contemplation, and God calls people to both. Indeed, many activists are deeply contemplative, while many solitaries are fully engaged with the world.
Jesus is calling us away from distracting. To put our focus on what matters most – God and each other.
In our age of Total Information Overload, it’s “no small struggle” to move from the experience of Martha, distracted, agitated, and anxious, to Mary’s quiet, centered interiority. Dag Hammarskjold famously observed that the longest journey is the journey inward. That’s how and where we experience the love of God.
Many of us have shared how St. Matthew’s is like a family of welcome and hospitality. How do we embrace this in the busy-ness of our lives to simply come and be present in worship – to turn off the cell phone, sit in silence before worship and save the chatting until coffee hour?
Here at St. Matthew’s we have been evaluating and re-visioning what it means to be hospitable to the “stranger” among us; to slow down and embrace God in our midst. Did you know that almost every Sunday we have visitors among us? Our newcomers’ committee has been working to re-imagine ways to make sure we are paying attention to how we invite and include those who have recently come to our community. How we engage in providing a space away from the busy-ness of life as well as a place where we are comfortable talking about our spiritual journey. What happens after that first handshake? What happens during coffee hour? Do we tend to converse with our friends? Are we running around taking care of church business? Or are we seeking out someone we might not know – seeking that one thing which might be the hospitality of our heart and our presence?
I’d like to leave you with a few quotes to help us set aside our anxiety:
The Dalai Lama has said,
This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety. It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is itself to succumb to the violence of our times.
There is a verse from the book of Ezekiel quoted in Night Prayer, a service in the New Zealand Prayer Book that is one of my favorites:
It is but lost labor that we haste to rise up early and so late take rest, and eat the bread of anxiety. For those beloved of God are given gifts even while they sleep.
Jesus invites us to be hospitable. A hospitality void of anxiety and full of awareness. He invites us to be aware of our surroundings, to look around, breathe the air, gain some peripheral vision. For there are strangers and visitors among us, and we’ll miss them if we aren’t careful.
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- Bob Coulter, Director of the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri and an alumnus of AUNE’s Department of Education.
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a brand photographer and astrologer for playful, quirky folks who are ready to shine brightly as their full, unapologetic selves.
You’ll see recent client work, astrological insights, book recs, the occasional hot take, and more here on the blog.
So pull up a seat, grab a snack (Doritos are always a good choice), and stay a while!
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Author Notes: Nobody told my chocolate-loving self that severe food intolerances would mean being forced to cut out my favourite sweet treats. So I didn't. Instead, I devised other ways to satisfy my cravings.
I originally made this pudding with cashews and coconut and while it was delicious, it was also incredibly heavy. However, replacing them with hemp and avocado makes for a lighter consistency and texture -- exactly what I miss when I think of the chocolate pudding of my childhood.
I grew up in Belgium where Danette by Danone was the chocolate pudding of choice (terrible, I know). The ad went "tout le monde se leve pour Danette" ("everybody stands/gets up for Dannette'). Unlike the mass-produced version, my pudding is so chock-full of healthy ingredients, it will actually give you the energy you need to get up and go.
One piece of advice: I don't usually tell people what is in this pudding until after they have tasted and loved it. Though it's officially a dessert, my favourite time to enjoy this is on a rainy Sunday afternoon, with a good movie (I created this recipe before my daughter was born, when such things still existed).
You can also use frozen raspberries. Make sure you give them time to thaw. —ThePickyFoodie
ounces ripe avocado
1 Tablespoon shelled hemp seeds
cup coconut water
tablespoons raw cacao
packet fresh raspberries
- Blend the avocado, hemp seeds and coconut water.
- Add the rest of the ingredients.
- Blend until smooth
- scoop into pretty (or deep) bowls and scatter raspberries on top.
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Danny and Sandra Oliver of Yadkinville are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Amanda Jayne Oliver to James Dustin Robinson. Oliver is a resident of Huntersville.
She has a bachelor of arts degree in English and communications studies from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Oliver is employed by West Rowan High School. Robinson is a resident of Greenville, South Carolina.
He has a bachelor of science in engineering from Clemson University and is employed by Day and Zimmerman. The bridegroom’s parents, Herman and Louise Robinson reside in Cordova, South Carolina. The wedding will take place at Center United Methodist Church on July 28 at 5 p.m. | <urn:uuid:1ec50a77-146e-4c7f-9b48-a1017657223f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://yadkinripple.com/pages/home/push?class=next_page&rel=next&per_page=5&x_page=105 | 2013-05-23T11:34:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935804 | 137 |
Transit App Citymapper Launches Bus Service in London
Citymapper continues to blur the line between mobility service and transit company.
Earlier this year, transit app Citymapper launched an experimental "popup" bus service in London. Now, the company is delving even deeper into transportation, launching a full-time bus service in the British capital.
Citymapper is now licensed by Transport for London (TfL), the city's transit agency, as a bus operator, the company announced in a Medium post. That means it can now start charging customers for rides. Like the previous Smartbus experimental service, Citymapper's new bus service will operate on a fixed route, using bus stops. But the new service will use full-size buses, rather than the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter minibuses used in the Smartbus experiment.
Citymapper's first route will open to the public sometime in August or September. Buses will traverse a section of East London between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights. City mapper believes this route and schedule will fill a service gap left by London's current public-transit services.
Gaps like that can be identified using the wealth of data Citymapper has accumulated through its app, which helps users track city buses. The availability of that information is what convinced Citymapper to begin running its own buses in the first place. The company believes using data in this manner can improve the experience for passengers.
In addition to operating on routes dictated by data, Citymapper promises that its buses will have more tech than their counterparts. Each seat will have a USB charging port, display screens will inform riders of the next stop, and drivers will receive real-time traffic information. Citymapper will also track the number of people on each bus.
However, Citymapper won't accept Oyster Cards, the ubiquitous prepaid cards that give riders access to London's other public-transit services. Instead, riders will pay with credit or debit cards, or Android Pay and Apple Pay. Citymapper has not disclosed fares yet.
Citymapper promises a bus service with features tech junkies will love, but that is still familiar enough to entice ordinary bus riders. If Citymapper's plans work out, it could also be the beginning of a new kind of mobility service that directly targets public transit, rather than taxis or privately-owned cars.
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- RELATEDFernando Alonso Wants More Events Like London Parade For Formula OneThe Spaniard star wants it to be the "first of many."READ NOW | <urn:uuid:e5ad2132-f3fb-43d3-b155-b017aea30205> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://www.thedrive.com/tech/12679/transit-app-citymapper-launches-bus-service-in-london | 2020-02-24T08:43:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145910.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224071540-20200224101540-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.912675 | 695 |
Stay cozy and fashionable in the gorgeous Arielle Tracksuit Top.
This top is made from 95% Cotton and 5% Elastane, ensuring comfort and breathability. It features a striking floral print over the garment; it has a rounded neckline; two front in-seam pockets; side-splits at the hem and full-length kimono sleeves. It can be worn as a top or a dress.
Simply pair it with stockings or Sissy Boy Jeggings (click here to add) and a fashionable Sneaker.
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6 Designer Freebies You Need to Know About Now
Being a designer you know that sometimes you have to pump out a project pretty quickly — and it’s nice to have a helping hand. Not to worry, we’ve got you covered. Here are 6 Designer Freebies you need to know about.
St. Louis Designer Freebies
Typography may actually be the most important part of any design project. Not only to do the actual words set a voice for your project. But so does the font.
Example: You wouldn’t create a kid’s Birthday Party Flyer using Papyrus, the same as you wouldn’t design a funeral program with Comic Sans. Sometimes the stock Adobe Photoshop fonts don’t cut. Here’s where we get our free fonts.
Stock Photos/Vector Graphics
Stock images have really grown. It’s not all corporate photoshoots and clipart that you find on istockphoto anymore.
Graphic design freebies from all your favorite Dribbble and Behance Designers, including free icons, free images and some other design freebie free stuff.
This site is no longer updated that often, but still has a massive library of great free content. Icons, mockups, Photoshop patterns — there’s plenty to get you started on a new project.
Every good creator, at one point or another gets “Designer’s Block” and needs to find some good inspiration, nothing is designed free. It helps to browse through other people’s work and lucky for you, designers like to show off! It’s like getting a free design, but it’s mainly an idea.
Uplabs started as MaterialUp, a blog dedicated to the Google material design spec and creations that looked good. It has since grown into a huge community where users share projects they’ve created and trade design suggestions.
If you’re specifically looking to design a groundbreaking website, there’s no better place to look than Awwwards. Every day this site is updated with insanely creative, original new website designs. It’s bound to get your artistic brain juices flowing.
Now you should have all the inspiration, resources, kits, and maybe even a template, you need to get crackin’ at creating something great. This is our first of many designer freebie posts aimed at helping you be amazing at your job. | <urn:uuid:993941c0-eea5-4e51-8087-4b0f1da194b8> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://matchboxdesigngroup.com/blog/6-designer-freebies-you-need-to-know-about-now/ | 2018-12-15T23:59:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827137.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215222234-20181216004234-00629.warc.gz | en | 0.915991 | 511 |
The Seymour Duncan Vintage Stack imparts the classic twang of a vintage Tele with no 60-cycle hum and virtually no noise.
The Vintage Stack utilizes Duncan's patented, hum canceling, Stack technology for unsurpassed quietness. The six-pole piece construction gives the pickup a bright, punchy sound, while retaining a vintage look. They even include black yarn on the lead pickup and a chrome-plated brass cover on the rhythm model. Comes with four-conductor hookup cable.
Vintage-voiced humbucker. Perfect for traditional country, country pop, chicken pickin’, rockabilly, blues, and classic rock.
For all well-balanced instruments. Works equally well with maple and rosewood fingerboards.
- Brent Mason
- Pete Anderson - Dwight Yoakam
- Dale Oliver - Blackhawk & Reba McIntire
- Ronnie Montrose
- Matt Bellamy - Muse
- Matt Hocking - Edgar Winter Band
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"Marantz brings DTS:X to this year's upper- and premium-class home theatre AV products"
"The SR7010 and SR6010 AV Receivers as well as the AV8802A (AV8802) and AV7702mkII Pre-Amplifiers are already packed with the latest in audio and video processing technology, wireless connectivity and total ease-of-use. Now, Marantz delivers on its promise to upgrade the DTS:X-ready devices with full DTS:X capability.
The AV8802A will get the firmware update starting February 4th, while the other three models’ firmware will be delivered from March 3rd onwards. When connected to the Internet, the AV components will give an update notification once the firmware becomes available. Final dates are subject to change until final release. If a user has turned off the “automatic update” feature on their AVR, they should manually check for the availability dates. Full instructions can be found at www.marantz.com/dtsx. Additional updates for current DTS:X-ready models will follow later in 2016." | <urn:uuid:49e200b8-3314-422c-9a8e-ae67f5672cca> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.marantz.co.kr/en-hk/news/news/marantz-brings-dts-x-to-this-years | 2021-12-08T18:52:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363520.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20211208175210-20211208205210-00028.warc.gz | en | 0.930674 | 235 |
Officer's Flintlock Pistol- c. 1800-1830
- Media Type:
- This officer's flintlock pistol features a brass butt plate, a trigger guard and a ramrod holder. The pistol is made of walnut with a steel barrel. This pistol dates from 1800-1830 and would likely be similar to those used in the War of 1812.
This ramrod is wood with a brass cap. It was likely used to aid in the loading of a firearm.
Further research conducted in 2010 states the British Light Dragoon Pistol dates from 1760 - 1780. It has a rammer and brass end and has a missing frisson cover.
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- Image courtesy of the Niagara Historical Society & Museum
- Please contact the Niagara Historical Society & Museum for any reproductions of this image.
Niagara Historical Society Museum
Agency street/mail address
43 Castlereagh Street
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INTRODUCTION class 1-1 *IN STUDIO
Let's meet ! This is your take in/ introduction class of 60 minutes.
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- Anouk Maas Yoga & Health coaching
Awaken your body with yoga, meditation and breath. Re-connect with yourself. We will also talk about your goals and make a plan for any further classes when wanted. If you have requested orthomolecular advice, we will discuss the results of the tests (you will get by email to fill in before our appointment) as well.
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Attorney General William Barr could release his summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report in the Russia investigation as early this weekend, but multiple outlets are reporting that it will not be released Saturday.
The development comes one day after special counsel Robert Mueller turned in his highly anticipated final report in the Russia investigation Friday, sparking calls from lawmakers for the report to be released to Congress, and in some cases, released in some form to the public.
Barr previously said that he will advise top congressional committee members about details from the report that he can release “consistent with the law,” even saying the DOJ aims to put out a summary “as soon as this weekend,” in a letter to Congress.
Though the report will reportedly not recommend any future indictments, the Russia probe has already brought charges against more than 30 individuals and entities, including several former members of President Donald Trump’s campaign or administration.
The AG was spotted at the Department of Justice Saturday morning, adding excitement to the flurry of speculation about his decision to process the report.
The development comes amid a busy day for congressional lawmakers who are crafting formal responses to the report’s release, including calls among top congressional Republicans and Democrats to discuss next steps after the report.
House Democrats are holding a 3 p.m. conference call that Fox News reported will include committee leaders like Committee on Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
In a letter released ahead of the call by Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, she wrote, “Even if DOJ chooses not to prosecute addition individuals, the underlying findings must be provided to Congress and the American people. The Attorney General’s offer to provide the Committees with a summary of the report’s conclusions is insufficient. Congress requires the full report and the underlying documents so that the Committees can proceed with their independent work, including oversight and legislating to address any issues the Mueller report may raise.”
Republicans reportedly held a call Friday, during which some apparently expressed relief that there would be no more additional indictments, but stressed the significance of Barr’s summary.
Congressional Republicans issued a wide variety of reactions to the report, with most agreeing with Democrats that the report should be made public, but some saying that no new charges meant the investigation was a political mission.
House Republican Whip Rep. Steve Scalise told Fox News host Sean Hannity Friday that the lack of new indictments “does vindicate President Trump” and “gives credence to those claims that this was a witch hunt.”
He added: “I’d like to see not only the report made public but how many tens of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent over nearly two years to meander around and, as you say, bully people.”
Last year, it was revealed that Barr sent a memo to the Justice Department, Trump’s lawyers, and lawyers representing others in the Russia probe that said Mueller’s obstruction probe, which followed the president’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, was “legally insupportable” and should not be sanctioned by the Justice Department.
Barr’s summary of Mueller’s report will be his interpretation of the special counsel’s findings, and legal experts told INSIDER it will be critical to see what and how much Barr reveals of Mueller’s conclusions in the obstruction case to know what could happen next.
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Fernando Torres was limited in his playing time against Switzerland in which Spain fell short having lost 1-0 due to his fitness level recovering from his knee-surgery but it seems as if the Liverpool striker will be ready for their next match as he went on to state that he has fully recovered and has been training with the team at the same pace for 2 weeks now
Although no one is sure what head-coach Vicente del Bosque will do in regards to starting Torres, the one thing that is for sure is that Torres needs to see more playing time if they are looking to get more chances to score.
In just the short time that Torres was able to make his appearance in the match against Switzerland, you can easily notice how hungry Torres was to score a goal and being that they had lost against the Switz., you can only imagine just how much hungrier Torres will be to put one in the back of the net. However, Torres knows that the decision is not up to him as Del Bosque has not mentioned anything about who will start against Honduras, a match in which Spain has no choice but to walk away victorious.
Fernando Torres went on to say the following :
“We are all ready to take the pitch and give our all and if I amin the starting 11 then great but if not I will wait for my chance.”
The way Torres played against Switzerland, you would have to think that del Bosque will have no choice but to put Torres alongside Villa, as both players prove to be to much for many teams when paired together up-top. Going into this match against who is said to be the weakest team in the group, Spain should not have any problems to walk away with the win.
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I know its been forever since I’ve written. Things have been so hectic, and in lieu of giving the most thrown together recap, I’ll try to pull some semblance of a story together… starting with present day…
Today was a mopey-ass day. It started out really good but then I got a call from the doctor stating I have to go in for another colposcopy, aka, the worst procedure ever. [Aside: The doctor lady told me to take ibuprofen beforehand and I asked her if I could take a few shots of vodka but she didn’t know.] I was supposed to start my triathlon training today but after that news and the endless rain and continued apartment stresses [see below], I just wanted to stay at home for the night. So, I ended up writing out some thank you notes as it is my last week(!!!) at work. Which in itself feels really weird. I woke up on Monday and was like “holy cow, this is my last ‘Monday morning!’ for at least the next year.”
Joe got a job. This is a good thing. But they want him to start ASAP and while in Boston this past weekend we realized that the housing market there is a joke. Especially in “off season”, aka, not when students are vacating the area. To start things off, we found one place we loved but then by the time we got back to the realtor’s office it was gone. Then we spent three days viewing endless apartments and walkups and other random vans-down-by-the-river, until we realized that not only is there nothing available in the timeframe we need it to be, there is also nothing available within the price range we set for ourselves.
We finally got something squared away through an outgoing Sloan student so we left Boston happy. All good and awesome right? Well, no, because it turns out it isn’t as clear cut as that and we don’t know when we’ll be able to move or if we will be moving in. Which, in some ways is okay because we still don’t have our place rented out, but in other ways sucks because Joe will still have to be out there and I’m a lame face who doesn’t want to be alone.
So basically I have no idea what the next three months of my life will look like. Which I suppose is fine, because a lot of things are good and falling into place too. I’m trying out a new business development role within Girls in Tech Global. I’m super excited to continue with the organization and about my growing responsibilities (or, at least shifting). I also connected with the Macalester Alumni in Boston group – so at least if I am there this summer I will not be alonezies.
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As a person saved solely by grace at age 26, I started enjoying John Wilkinson's No Argument for God (IVP, 2011) as soon as he conveyed well a likely first reaction to Christian doctrine: "God died on a cross. Read it again-God died" (p. 11).
The book continues in that "as others see us" vein concerning the Christian idea of atonement: "God sent himself to pay himself for the sins against himself. How does that add up?. . . If I borrow your car and get in a wreck, it is one thing for you to forgive me. It is quite another for you to write me a check so that I can hand the check back to you and then we are even" (pp. 11-12).
And what about our services? "People (some of them complete strangers to one another) sing songs, read stories from an ancient book, and listen to a speech on how to live. . . . Most churches feature a cross-a symbol of an ancient execution. Strange. . . . At the conclusion of the time together, someone passes a plate or a basket to collect money. If this were your first time seeing all of this, it may look to you like an elaborate scam" (p. 23).
So does this mean we give up on evangelism or change our forms of worship? No, of course not. It means that we don't fool ourselves by thinking our apologetic arguments will save sinners-only God can do that by changing hearts. It means, as Wilkinson puts it, that "faith is difficult . . . it requires humility and forces us to accept that we are not as smart as we think" (p. 34). Smartypants debates impress some people, but they are far less effective in communicating the truth of Christ than compassionate deeds and words.
So do we ignore our reason? By no means: Wilkinson advises that we just "rid ourselves of the idea of its supremacy [and] return reason to its proper place" (p. 142). If our reason could understand everything about God, He'd be a small god. If we could make sense of Christianity right away, it wouldn't be very deep. If we exist in four dimensions and God operates in many more, a religion to be true has to recognize the logic in some things that appear illogical to us.
Wilkinson's summary is good: "All the things that Jesus taught are analogies that help us grasp what things are like beyond our world of five senses" (p. 10). Sometimes we try to build up faith in God detail by detail, but that only works if we first accept through God-given faith the basic presuppositions. Think of any miracle in the Bible that nonbelievers rail against or try to explain away: They're all easy for a God who created everything out of nothing, but to believe the small we must first believe the big.
Three things should comfort us in our evangelism. First, we don't miss the forest for the trees: "Which would you rather know-the breadth of the galaxy and the number of stars in it, or why the galaxy is here?" (p. 65).
Second, we have what we need to believe, and should not think that "God's voice was commonplace in ancient times. Remember that these occurrences were not daily-try counting up the number of times that God speaks to people in the Old Testament and then divide that by the number of centuries that we are talking about" (p. 122).
Third, each of us can offer "the most persuasive truth that a person can encounter: the three-dimensional presence of Christ in you. You can have all the conversation in the world about the depth of a relationship with God, but if it is not observed in your life, then both of you are misled" (p. 160).
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Creativity to structure practice, design plays, creativity to keep games and practices fun and challenging. And don’t forget the creativity required to design your youth sports team logos for the uniforms.
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Firebrand Sports Logos can take the stress out of the logo hunt for you. They take the guesswork out of the design process by providing high quality, ready made sports logos for schools, youth sports teams, and universities. You can easily and affordably brand your sports program with a new logo that is customized with your school name, team name, and colors. You can use that logo on uniforms, as well as on promotional products for fundraising.
The logo ordering process is simple and quick, and once they get your final approval of the logo, they email your finished logos in the industry standard formats needed for use on print, digital applications and promotional products. You will also receive a manual to help you maintain consistent and accurate use of your logos.
When you use Firebrand Sports Logos to help you design your team’s logo, you can save your creativity for designing plays and structuring fun practices!
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Carl Ray’s Single “I Stand With This Country” Offers Comfort During Difficult Times
Country music singer/songwriter Carl Ray’s latest single “I Stand With This Country” is quickly becoming a fan favorite offering hope and unity to listeners near and far. Carl Ray puts his God-given talents to good use, echoing prosperity and comfort to bring fans together with distinguished lyrics and heartfelt emotion. Each and every one of us deals with strife in various ways, but it takes that one song to come along and heal us all the same. “I Stand With This Country” is available to download and stream on all digital services now!
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“Today and tomorrow I will pray for civility to be resurrected from the shadows. I hope that love will no longer be marginalized and silenced. That it will overtake us all. I have unwavering hope that we will claim for ourselves and the lives of others peace and hope for every woman, man, and child. That we all make a commitment to eradicate hatred and we become our brother’s keeper and that we will leave a better world for our children and their children,” declares Ray.
Peace and solace are found in the voice of a man who has never stopped believing in people, music, and the heart of his country. Carl Ray uses his tenor appeal to express a prayer for the nation to fill itself with love, respect, and hope no matter the situation. Mentored by the late, great Johnny Nash, Carl Ray has been given crucial advice from the legendary Garth Brooks and has often been compared to the emotive Vince Gill. With all these attributes combined, Carl Ray lays it all on the table in, “I Stand With This Country.”
“This single is a clarion call to this end. God has the whole world in His hands, but we have a role to play in changing our world and it starts with changing our hearts and minds.”
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Carl Ray shared major stages as a young person opening for The Spinners, BB King, Teddy Pendergrass, and Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes. As his musical interest developed and expanded, Ray began writing more of his own songs, and he was soon discovered by international reggae artist, Johnny Nash. It was Ray’s relationship with Nash that led this young prodigy and developed his love for country music. He eventually penned songs for Nash on Epic and London Records titled “You’re the One”, “We’ve Got Trouble”, “Sing World A Love Song” and “Baby You’re Mine”. Ray’s song “Baby I Believe In You” was also recorded by jazz artist Bill Summers and Summers Heat. Ray recorded two albums on his own: “I Love Country Music” and “Play That Country Music Black Boy”.
Ray has just finished his first bluegrass/gospel record and in his words “it was a labor of love.” The album, titled ‘Coming Home’, was produced by Ray and Grammy Award winner Greg Cole, who has previously worked with Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, Jeff and Sheri Easter, Daryle Singletary, and Ray Price among others. Carl Ray’s pilgrimage to bluegrass and gospel has been a long time coming and he is excited to have several notable bluegrass pickers join him such as Darrin Vincent on bass, Seth Taylor on acoustic guitar and mandolin, BJ Cherryholmes on fiddle, Josh Swift on dobro, Jesse Baker on banjo and Aaron McCune singing bass. ‘The Queen of Bluegrass’ Rhonda Vincent joins Ray on a duet performing “The Old Rugged Cross”.
To keep up with everything Carl Ray, visit his website and follow his socials linked below.
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"So you DID know!""Yeah me and him are great friends, we hang out all the time!" Mel exclaims.
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A lost and found, super quick photo shoot I did with Elizabeth before we left for NYFW. I wore this out to the Lookbook x Levis party and felt absolutely amazing in it. My usual everyday wear seems to be consisting of less on top top and more on the bottom. Perhaps this shows which part of my body I favor! If I can fall in love with something instantaneously like I did this skirt and it gives me the right amount of cover up, then I'm all in. Plus, stripes on a pencil skirt are super chic and fun. Wins for me all around!
Check out the recap video from the Lookbook x Levis party here to see what I had to say about the new Revel jean!
Stay tuned for my last NYFW look on the blog tomorrow plus my night with Nordstrom later on this week. Happy Monday and thanks for stopping by!
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The upcoming HANNOVER MESSE 2013 will be staged under the banner of "Integrated Industry." The lead theme signals the fair's key focus on the growing integration of all areas of industry. "Machines, industrial equipment, work pieces and system components will soon be capable of exchanging data in real-time."
HANNOVER MESSE 2013 will comprise 11 flagship fairs:Industrial Automation - Motion, Drive & Automation (MDA) - Energy - Wind - MobiliTec - Digital Factory - ComVac - Industrial Supply - IndustrialGreenTec - Surface Technology - Research & Technology. The upcoming event will place a strong emphasis on industrial automation and IT, energy and environmental technologies, power transmission and control, industrial subcontracting, manufacturing technologies, services and R&D.
Show Venue: Exhibition Grounds, 30521 Hannover, Germany
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Posted by Hulse on February 26, 2003 at 16:17:53:
In Reply to: Re: Strewth posted by Blue Boy in Oz on February 26, 2003 at 07:18:35:
Just to show you how honest I am - we probably didn't deserve the score - but the lares (as Gobbo would have said) of Old Trafford were smiling kindly. I only bring this up to make the site relevant to the footie haters!
And right now it's these insignificant topics that are keeping the site moving.
I say to Strewth - Strewth, you contribute something of pith and moment. Strewth, you ante up. Give us something to chew over Strewth, pout your balls on the table and be willing to open yourself to the wit and wisdom of the old boys - and they are legion.... and they are watching.
Sorry, just waxing lyrical.
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IRESS Live Account: On the TRESS trading platform, FXTRADING.com offers three different accounts types, namely Silver, Gold, and Platinum, with minimum deposit requirements of $10,000 AUD, $50,000 AUD, and $100,000 AUD respectively. For the Silver and Gold accounts, there is a platform fee of $60 AUD, while no platform fee on the Platinum account.
FXTRADING.com offers a maximum leverage of up to 1:500, which is a generous offer and ideal for professional traders and scalpers. However, since leverage can magnify your profits, it can also result in a loss of capital, especially for inexperienced traders. Therefore, traders must choose the right amount according to their risk tolerance.
The spreads and commissions depend on accounts and instruments. For clients on the Standard account, they can have variable spreads from 1 pip and there is no commission, while for clients on the Pro account, they can enjoy raw spreads from 0 pips but have to pay a commission of $3.5 per lot.
Below is a comparison table about spreads and commissions charged by different brokers:
|Admiral Markets||0.5 pips||No|
|Pepperstone||0.16 pips||AUD 3.5/lot|
|Tickmill||0.0 pips||USD 2/lot|
Note: Spreads can vary depending on market conditions and volatility.
FXTRADING.com offers a range of trading platforms to suit the needs of its clients. One of the most popular platforms is the MetaTrader4 (MT4) platform, which is available for PC, Mac, iOS, Android and WebTrader. MT4 is a user-friendly platform that comes with advanced charting tools, technical indicators, and automated trading options.
In addition to MT4, FXTRADING.com also offers IRESS ViewPoint and IRESS Mobile, which are more advanced platforms designed for professional traders. These platforms come with additional features such as advanced order types, news and research, and real-time market data.
Overall, FXTRADING.com's trading platforms are well-designed, user-friendly, and offer a range of advanced features suitable for both beginner and experienced traders. See the trading platform comparison table below:
|Admiral Markets||MT4, MT5, WebTrader|
|Pepperstone||MT4, MT5, cTrader|
|Tickmill||MT4, MT5, WebTrader|
FXTRADING.com provides its clients with a wide range of trading tools to enhance their trading experience. These tools include FXT Navigator, which allows traders to view market data and analyze it through a customizable interface. Trading Central offers daily technical analysis and market insights, while the Economic Calendar provides traders with the latest economic news and announcements that can impact the financial markets. Market Sentiment offers a view on how other traders are positioned on various instruments, while API Trading and VPS are advanced tools designed for more experienced traders who use algorithmic trading strategies and need reliable and fast connectivity. Overall, these trading tools can help traders make more informed trading decisions and improve their overall performance in the financial markets.
In terms of deposit and withdrawal, like many good brokers, FXTRADING.com provides a detailed form with important information about currency, payment method, minimum amount, arrival date, fees, etc. Deposits include PayPal, VISA, MasterCard, Neteller, UnionPay, Local Internet Banking, POLi, International Bank Wire Transfer and Local Bank Transfer.
The minimum deposit requirement is $200 to open an account. Most deposits are instant and no fees are charged.
By contrast, Clients can withdraw with PayPal, VISA, MasterCard, Neteller, International Bank Wire Transfer, UnionPay and Local Bank Transfer. Please note that withdrawal processing times may vary depending on the selected method and any applicable fees or restrictions may apply. Most withdrawals can be processed in 24 hours without any fees.
To withdraw funds from FXTRADING.com, you can follow these steps:
Step 1: Log in to your account on the FXTRADING.com website.
Step 2: Click on the “Withdrawal” button in the “My Account” section.
Step 3: Select the account you want to withdraw funds from and choose the withdrawal method.
Step 4: Enter the amount you wish to withdraw and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process.
FXTRADING.com does not charge any deposit and withdrawal fees, but there may be additional fees charged by banks or other intermediaries involved in the transfer of funds.
There is an inactivity fee of $10 per month after 6 consecutive months of inactivity. This fee will be charged to any account with no trading activity for more than 6 months. However, it's important to note that this fee is subject to change and may vary depending on the type of account and the jurisdiction of the client.
See the fee comparison table below:
|Broker||Deposit Fees||Withdrawal Fees||Inactivity Fees|
|FXTRADING.com||No||No||$10/month after 6 consecutive months of inactivity|
|Admiral Markets||No||No (except for bank transfers)||No|
|Pepperstone||No||No||$20/month after 12 months|
|Tickmill||No (except for bank transfers)||$2 for credit/debit cards, 1% for other methods||$5/month after 6 months|
Note: Fees may vary depending on account type and payment method. Please refer to each broker's website for the latest information.
FXTRADING.com offers customer support 24/5 via email, phone, and live chat. It supports both English and Chinese. Their website also includes a FAQ section with answers to commonly asked questions. You can also follow them on some social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.
Overall, FXTRADING.com's customer service is considered reliable and responsive, with various options available for traders to seek assistance.
|• Offers multilingual support 24/5||• Limited availability during weekends and public holidays|
|• Live chat support available on the website|
|• Quick response time to email inquiries|
|• Knowledgeable and helpful customer service representatives|
Note: These pros and cons are subjective and may vary depending on the individual's experience with FXTRADING.com's customer service.
FXTRADING.com offers a range of educational resources to help traders improve their knowledge and skills. The Market News section provides the latest updates on market events and trends, while the FXT Analysis section offers expert analysis and commentary. The Trading Insight section contains a variety of educational materials, including trading strategies and tutorials on technical and fundamental analysis. The FXT Navigator Guide is a comprehensive guide for traders on how to use the platform's features and tools. Additionally, FXTRADING.com offers webinars hosted by industry experts, providing traders with the opportunity to learn directly from experienced professionals.
In conclusion, FXTRADING.com is a well-regulated broker offering a wide range of trading instruments, powerful trading platforms, and comprehensive trading tools and resources. The broker's low spreads, flexible leverage options, and multiple account types cater to traders of all levels. The customer support team is professional and responsive, and the educational resources are valuable for beginner and experienced traders alike. While there are some fees associated with trading, overall, FXTRADING.com provides a competitive and reliable trading environment.
|Q 1:||Is FXTRADING.com regulated？|
|A 1:||Yes. It is regulated by ASIC.|
|Q 2:||At FXTRADING.com, are there any regional restrictions for traders？|
|A 2:||Yes. Restricted Countries: the USA, Ontario Province inside Canada, North Korea, Iran and New Zealand.|
|Q 3:||Does FXTRADING.com offer demo accounts？|
|Q 4:||Does FXTRADING.com offer the industry-standard MT4 & MT5？|
|A 4:||Yes. It supports MT4 and IRESS.|
|Q 5:||What is the minimum deposit for FXTRADING.com？|
|A 5:||The minimum initial deposit to open an account is $200.|
|Q 6:||Is FXTRADING.com a good broker for beginners？|
|A 6:||Yes. It is a good choice for beginners because it is regulated well and offers various trading instruments with competitive trading conditions on the leading MT4 platform. Also, it offers demo accounts that allow traders to practice trading without risking any real money.|
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Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer aims to protect the ozone layer and prevent emissions of ozone-depleting substances. To this end it was agreed in 1990 to establish a Multilateral Fund, into which industrialised countries pay, in line with a key laid down by the United Nations. The Fund is used to cover the additional costs entailed to developing countries by compliance with the terms of the Montreal Protocol.
The Fund uses international implementing organisations such as the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Since the replenishment negotiations in 1996, it has been possible to meet up to 20 per cent of contributions in the form of bilateral cooperation activities. The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag, or parliament, thus decided in 1996 that 80 per cent of German contributions should be paid directly into the Fund, while the remaining 20 per cent should be provided in the form of practical inputs in partner countries.
From 1990 to 2005, 2.475 billion US dollars were pledged to the Multilateral Fund. Of this total 400.4 million US dollars came from the negotiations held at the end of 2005 for the period 2006 to 2008. Germany contributed 10.844 per cent, which translates as 34.989 million euros according to the exchange rate set by the Conference of Parties. Of this sum 80 per cent (27.991 million euros) will be paid directly into the Fund, while 20 per cent (6.998 million euros) will be provided in the form of bilateral cooperation in partner countries. This makes Germany the third largest donor, behind the USA and Japan.
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These sweets have a peppermint taste, but you can use the basic recipe for other flavours as well. Use almond, vanilla or make them with fruity aromas like strawberry - whatever you like best.
1 person made this
225g icing sugar
1 egg white
1/2 to 1 teaspoon peppermint essence, or to taste
a few drops food colouring, optional
Directions Preparation:15min › Extra time:30min rising › Ready in:45min
Sift the icing sugar into a large bowl.
In a separate bowl, whisk the egg white with an electric whisk for 30 to 45 seconds until the egg white is light and fluffy.
Add the egg white and the peppermint essence (and food colouring if using) to the icing sugar then mix well. The mixture should be firm, add more icing sugar if necessary.
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We’re delighted that the first screenings of our 2017 tour will take place in the wonderful surroundings of the Mhor Festival.
We will screen over 70 films in the 3 days of the festival and are delighted to be working with Glasgow Short Film Festival, Film G, The Scottish Documentary Institute, The University Of West of Scotland, Wee Linties, Lisa and Tom and many others to bring you this programme.
From family animations to warm-hearted classics, political documentary to experimental forms we aim to inform, challenge and entertain you. Below are some specially selected highlights of the festival for the full programme for each day go to Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
Wee Linties Travelling Archive presents The Singing Street – Saturday 3pm
The Singing Street is a wonderful slice of Scottish life. This 1951 film is a collection of children’s songs and street games, recorded on the streets of Edinburgh. After the screening, Wee Linties are inviting you out to play! We’ll be learning some of the songs and games featured in the film and having a wee go at making up our own. If you have songs and games from your own streets to share, we would love to hear them and add them to a special archive of our own! Workshop suitable for all ages
10 Years of Film G – Friday 6pm
FilmG is a Gaelic Short Film Competition. Launched in 2009, with the aim of finding new talent for BBC Alba, and acting as a platform for writers, filmmakers and actors, the competition has gone from strength to strength over the years, attracting over 600 entries thus far. Join us to enjoy some of the very best of their back catalogue.
Geordie | Frank Launder | 1955 | UK – Sunday 12noon
This charming and warm hearted comedy uses the Trossachs and the area surrounding Monachyle Mhor as the setting for the early years Geordie MacTaggart (Bill Travers). A slight boy who lives in the Scottish Highlands and is constantly bullied by the other boys, who call him “Wee Geordie.” He decides to embark on a bodybuilding course, and is so successful that he grows up to be an elite hammer-thrower, representing Britain at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. His girlfriend, Jean (Norah Gorsen), is put off by his vanity, but, while competing in Australia, he meets and falls for female shot-putter Helga (Doris Goddard).
Sita Sings the Blues | Nina Paley | 2008 | USA – Saturday 6pm
Sita Sings the Blues is a wonderful animated film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. Episodes from the story of Ramayana and scenes from the artist’s own life are animated and set to songs performed by 1920s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw. Sita, and this re-interpreted myth of Ramayana are brought to life using the strikingly modern technique of vector graphic animation as the ancient mythological and modern biographical plots intertwine inviting new interpretations and understandings.
Film critic Roger Ebert was “enchanted” and “swept away” by this film and called it one of the year’s best films in 2009.
The 39 Steps | Ralph Thomas | 1959 | UK – Saturday 8pm
Ralph Thomas’s 1959 version of the 39 Steps uses Central Scotland and the Trossachs as the backdrop for the adventures of Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) . With one famous scene filmed on the bridge over the River Balvag in nearby Balquhidder.
The film commences as Hannay arrives in London and saves a nanny from a hit-and-run driver before discovering that she’s actually a spy trying to stop the theft of military secrets. After the woman is killed, Hannay goes to Scotland in an attempt to stop the plot’s leader himself. Along the way he has several narrow escapes, dodging both the police and assassins, as well as getting handcuffed to a girls school instructor (Taina Elg) who doesn’t believe his wild tale. | <urn:uuid:c857d82e-bc40-4dd8-9a85-bbd2450f8556> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://cinemor77.com/cinemor77-mhor-festival-highlights/ | 2022-10-07T09:52:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030338001.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20221007080917-20221007110917-00215.warc.gz | en | 0.938988 | 862 |
The Catholic Church is not fully equipped to deal with the home life, financial needs, problems and issues surrounding a married priest with wife, children and even grandchildren. . . . Through the marital problems and eventual breakdown of Fr. Reese's marriage, played out in such a public manner, the Ordinariate -- and the overarching Catholic Church -- is learning firsthand the lessons that Anglican bodies have already learned -- marriage and the priesthood is a delicate balancing act.However, a visitor raised another issue that's been at the back of my mind:
It is worth asking how well his service with not only the Anglican Church of America, but with another traditionalist affiliation, the Anglican Catholic Church in the Indianapolis area, was investigated. Did anyone contact [ACC] Bishop Starks as a part of a background check? Sometimes clergy church-hop for other than spiritual reasons, and abusers are good at being charming. Was his background fully vetted for signs of trouble?Both the ACA-TAC and the ACC have communities in Indianapolis. The published accounts of Reese's background only vaguely mention a "continuing" denomination in which he was ordained in 2006, and no published account I've seen refers to a second. The visitor suggests Reese was at St. Edward the Confessor (an ACC parish in Indianapolis) at one point when his oldest children were small and they were singing in the choir, possibly in the late 1990s or early 2000s. He may have been originally ordained in the ACC and then moved to the St Margaret of Scotland ACA-TAC group in Indianapolis, according to the visitor.
At this point, it seems to me that it's incumbent on the CDF to walk back the cat, find out where exactly Reese was as an Anglican priest, and determine why he apparently hopped jurisdictions before landing in the Catholic priesthood. A failure to check references thoroughly, and a failure to verify all prior employment, would be a major dereliction, especially in light of the allegations that he provided alcohol to minors and became intoxicated with them as a Catholic priest.
I will see if I can e-mail the parishes involved and determine if they will confirm whether he was a priest in either, and the dates of his tenure or ordination. In light of the publicity, which must certainly be pervasive in the Indianapolis area, I'm not sure if either will wish to be associated with him at this point.
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Residents of Withernsea will shortly be receiving a new booklet from East Riding of Yorkshire Council, which includes a snapshot of activities and events at East Riding Leisure Withernsea; the Withernsea Centre (Library and Customer Service Centre); and events put together locally by Active Coast and Active Withernsea.
The aim is to ensure that local people can find out about a wide range of activities, encouraging them to lead happier, healthier and more active lives.
The publication of the booklet coincides with the relaunch of the Withernsea Little Town Bus, which includes an extended timetable on Wednesdays for those wishing to take part in the Active Wednesdays activities at the town's Leisure Centre. The bus costs £1 for adults and £0.50 for children under 16.
In the booklet are details of all the facilities available at East Riding Leisure Withernsea, including swimming, the sports hall, the Tone Zone gym, the dance studio, the spin studio, squash courts, and the café, as well as the regular activities programme.
Active Wednesdays at East Riding Leisure Withernsea include a Withernsea Walk (every Wednesday at 9.30 from the Leisure Centre); Body Balance; Aqua Fit; Body Pump; Escape Pain sessions; Aqua Mobility; Junior Gym; swimming lessons; and sessions for those wanting to get back to sport or play, and those with long term conditions.
There are also details of The Hut, the open access indoor and outdoor staffed play facility for young people. Activities there include sand play, a mud pit, and Go Karts - and all the activities on offer are free!
In addition, residents can read about everything on offer at Withernsea Library and Customer Service Centre, from the games group to Reminiscence sessions; and from the Book Club to the Writers' Group. There is also Healthy Chats, a new social group with a focus on health and wellbeing. All library activities are free.
Active Withernsea will be offering free summer outdoor exercise classes at The Hut, and the booklet also features Skate Jam and Active Kirkfield, offering even more exciting activities in the town.
Active Coast's summer programme includes Withernsea-based events : a beach clean on 28 July; a Stone Art Family Workshop on 8 August; Coastal Explorers on 9 August (stone art and a fossil hunt); and Have a Field Day on 12 August.
Councillor Vanessa Walker, portfolio holder for adults, health and wellbeing, said : " It's truly exciting that there is so much going on in Withernsea this summer, and that we have been able to put it all together in a booklet, and to distribute all this information to local people!
"All these activities for all ages represent a real attempt to encourage residents to live healthier and happier lives, and to improve their wellbeing. It's great that we can do all this, and I really hope that lots of people will get involved!"
The new booklet will be available at several outlets in Withernsea later this week, including libraries and GP surgeries, and leisure facilities, and will also be delivered to 3000 households next week.
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Wasting Time May Be the Best Thing You Do Today
Why boredom can be good for you
Posted Jan 07, 2012
My friend Elise* is one of the most active human beings I've ever known. On any given morning, this mother of four makes sure her kids have a healthy breakfast, are properly dressed, and have all of their homework in their knapsacks before she sends them off to school. Then she goes to her own job in the publishing world. On the days when she doesn't have a lunch meeting, she goes to the gym and has a sandwich at her desk.
She has a part-time housekeeper who keeps her home in order and provides adult supervision when the kids get home from school; but Elise is back in time to have dinner with her children and help with their schoolwork.
I love Elise, and I admire her stamina; but I'm not sure all of this activity is good for her. She doesn't take time for herself, even on weekends, when she's often ferrying her family to their various sports, art and music events (because naturally, her children are kept equally busy). Elise is married to a wonderful man, but there are signs that their relationship is suffering. And it's hard for her to grab a minute to be with her friends anymore.
I like to be busy myself, so I have empathy for Elise's breakneck pace; and certainly I support her spending so much time with her children. But I also understand that there is a limit to the value of productivity. In fact, sometimes it's really important to be able to simply waste time.
Elise, like many of us today, suffers from what the German sociologist and economist Max Weber describes as a confusion of activity with morality. With the coming of the industrial revolution, Weber says, we began to equate being productive with being good. Today we have almost come to believe that the busier we are, the better we are.
I am a psychotherapist, not a historian or political analyst, so my understanding of Weber is very limited; but what I understand is that he thinks it is a mistake to equate resting or non-productive behavior with wasting time, or, as many of us tend to do, with laziness. Today we teach our kids that if they are highly productive in school, they will get into a good college; and that if they are highly productive in that good college, they will have a successful, meaningful life. And of course, we teach them this because we believe it. But there are problems with this belief system.
Elise's oldest daughter, for example, is clearly rebelling against Elise's emphasis on productivity. She doesn't put it into words, but she shows it in behavior - for one thing, she refuses to participate in some of the extra-curricular programs in which she has been involved all of her life; and she has become a binge drinker and eater, which obviously interferes with her ability to do her schoolwork. Another child is also suffering, but in a different way. This "very good" girl is an excellent student and is as active as her mother could possibly wish, but she has also developed an eating disorder. Hers takes the form of self-starvation and over-exercising. She has become dangerously thin and is going to be hospitalized for treatment for her anorexia.
Perhaps these youngsters would have developed these difficulties even if Elise was not so focused on productivity. I believe that cause and effect is not nearly as clear as we tend to think. Parents have influence over their kids, of course, but not total. There are other influences, including the genes we're born with and the culture in which we live, both of which have been found to be highly significant in the development of eating disorders (http://www.anad.org/) (I've written more about the issue of parent-blaming in other posts and in a couple of articles you can look at on my website, if you like.)
But what can Elise do? She is not wealthy and must work. She loves her children and wants to do what's best for them, so she spends as much of her free time with them as possible. Her husband is an excellent father and is very involved with their children and has always done his share of housework and childcare. They are working on the relationship and hoping that they can save their marriage, not only for the sake of their children, but for themselves as well.
So where do I think she can find even a single extra minute that she can "waste"?
This is the problem for many of us. It's no longer just that we don't see spending time sitting in a tub or staring blankly out the window as having value - we simply don't have that time available to us!
I'm a great fan of Thich Nhat Hanh, and I like many of his sayings. Here's one that I find very useful: "Smile, breathe and go slowly." I don't always remember to do it myself, especially when I'm rushing from teaching a class to seeing a client, or trying to find time to write my blog, get my house clean and go to the movies with my husband.
But sometimes I do remember it, like when I'm walking from my apartment to my office in the early morning when the rising sun is coloring the sky pink and purple (yes, even in New York City we can see the sun rise - or at least see the sky change colors!) And that tiny moment of breathing and going slowly actually puts a smile on my face - and makes the day feel much more manageable.
So here are a few things that I have found to help me slow down, breathe and smile:
- Watching television with my husband and/or my son.
- Walking to work, a five minute walk that I do at least once a day, slowly - so that it takes ten minutes instead of five - and paying attention to what I see along the way.
- Staring out of my window and not paying attention to what I see.
- Meditating for five minutes.
- Taking a long, slow bath or shower.
- Reading something that is neither educational nor mind-improving (junk mysteries are my favorite).
- Chopping vegetables for a stew or soup.
- Slowly sipping a cup of tea.
- Talking about nothing important to a friend or family member on the phone.
- Taking a short walk alone or with a friend or family member.
- Straightening something up in my apartment.
- Watering my plants.
I know that some of these activities are also "productive," but I actually learned from a client, who found that straightening up her living space and watering her plants, if she did them without stress or pressure, were both extremely soothing. So sometimes, of course, it is possible to combine productivity with relaxation. It's just important not to turn something that could be relaxing and possibly even unproductive into a high-maintenance, goal-oriented activity. Which is something most of us are very good at doing!!
I would, as always, love to know your thoughts about these ideas; and I'd love to know what you do to give yourself a little time to breath and smile.
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If Leighton Meester's on-set look is any indication, Blair Waldorf is back and fiercer than ever. Photo: Network Showroom
**WHO: **Leighton Meester
**WORE: **A Louis Vuitton dress, Prada bag and Alexandre Birman pumps
WHERE: Filming Gossip Girl in New York on Tuesday, August 9
Actress Leighton Meester pulls off the Park-Avenue-Princess-with-an-agenda look like no one else can. Her edgy python pumps are balanced by her floral dress with the polka dot belt. With signature soft curls and sheer trimming at the skirt, the overall message is: Blair Waldorf is back and fiercer than ever.
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Prep 15 mins
Cook 20 mins
I watched this episode of America's Test Kitchen, and knew I had to try it! MMMMM! The crust on the meat is outstanding. This is almost more a method than a recipe. I have a little container that you put wood chips in and I used that for the smoking portion. I also used Mesquite. Prep time does not include marinating time.
- 1 tri-tip roast, trimmed (about 2 pounds)
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups wood chips, preferably oak
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 3⁄4 teaspoon garlic salt
- Pat roast dry with paper towels. Using fork, prick roast about 20 times on each side.
- Combine garlic, oil, and salt and rub over roast. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or up to 24 hours.
- Soak wood chips (if using) in bowl of water to cover for 15 minutes, seal in foil packet, and place over primary burner.
- Turn all burners to high and close the lid, keeping grill covered until wood chips begin to smoke heavily, about 15 minutes. Scrape cooking grate clean.
- Using paper towels, wipe garlic paste off roast. Rub pepper and garlic salt all over meat.
- Place roast on side of grate opposite primary burner and grill, covered, until well browned, about 5 minutes per side.
- Leave primary burner on high and turn all other burners off; cook until roast registers about 130 degrees (for medium-rare), about 20 minutes.
- Let rest at least 10 minutes and slice against the grain.
Perfect, perfect, perfect! We did ours in a charcoal weber and it came out wonderful. We just moved the coals around to use them indirectly with the wood chips. The smoke flavor was just delicious with the garlic marinade. After we removed it off the grill, I coated it with a small pat of butter and tented it for 20mins. I sliced it super thin and served on crusty french rolls with grilled portabellos and sweet roasted garlic. It was even great the next day. This will be the only way we do tri-tip from now on. ATK has never let us down.
It's very rare that I absolutely follow a recipe, but since tri tip is a new cut of meat to me I wanted to try this recipe from start to finish without any of my own ideas thrown in (however, I cooked the roast a bit longer to fit my family's preference). This is a fantastic recipe, that was a total family and guest pleaser. I will cook my tri tip like this eternally - thank you for posting!!!
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Oklahoma farmers nearly double winter canola acreage
By Vic Schoonover
Producers Cooperative Oil Mill
Oklahoma farmers nearly doubled their planted acreage of winter canola this fall when compared to the 2011 crop, according to Gene Neuens, field services manager for the Producers Cooperative Oil Mill here.
"We believe more than 250,000 acres of winter canola have been planted in Oklahoma," Neuens said. "We believe 25,000 acres were planted in Texas and 35,000 acres in Kansas in the same time period."
More than 170,000 acres of winter canola were harvested from the 2011-2012 crop in all three states, he said. Rising interest in the crop's agronomic and cash benefits are mainly responsible for farmers' growing interest in planting this year, he said.
"The two main go-to people who have been helping farmers start planting winter canola are Josh Bushong, Oklahoma State University Extension canola specialist, and Heath Sanders, our agronomist here at PCOM.
"They have driven hundreds of miles across the Southern Plains to help farmers who have only planted the crop once or twice or just started this year."
There are several reasons why winter canola's planted acreage in the Southern Plains has increased so rapidly, Neuens said.
"The first reason has to do with the crop's original purpose for being developed," he said. "In the 1990s, OSU agronomist Dr. Tom Peeper, who was a seed scientist looking for ways to combat the presence of perennial weeds growing in continuously planted winter wheat in the Southern Plains, decided to take a closer look at canola, an oil seed crop then grown as a spring crop in the northern U.S. and Canada."
Interest in the crop grew as plant breeders developed varieties that could be grown in the winter months like winter wheat. Growing trials demonstrated winter canola, which is a completely different crop than winter wheat, interrupted the growth cycles of weeds like rye grass and wild oats. Increasing presence of the weeds in the wheat fields has become a major problem for wheat farmers. When selling their harvested wheat seed, having weed seed in the wheat causes serious dockages in the prices paid to farmers ar the grain terminals when they harvest their crop, Neuens said.
"Wheat farmers are doing their best to clean up their fields and get rid of the weed problem," he said. "Using herbicide applications is helpful, but the cost of the chemicals and application costs a lot. Anything that helps farmers to successfully grow a crop and not cost a lot really gets their attention. Growing winter canola in rotation with wheat has proven to be a winning accomplishment for them."
Secondly, and just as important, winter canola brings more per bushel than wheat when sold at the elevator, Neuens said.
"Winter canola is selling for $12 per bushel or 24 cents per pound. Winter wheat is averaging around $8 per bushel. So the price paid for canola is about 50 percent more per bushel than what wheat is bringing," he said.
Another reason for the increased acres being planted to winter canola this year has to do with new growers, Neusens said.
"Good prices paid at the grain terminal, the ability to add another cash crop to their production schedule and a really good crop insurance program have all brought more farmers to trying out the crop," he said. "This is the reason I said Josh and Heath have been burning up the roads this year. While winter canola, and this is another reason for its popularity, can be planted and harvested with the same equipment as wheat, that is, the same grain drills for planting and combines for harvesting, we have found winter canolas demands closer management than winter wheat."
Neuens explained establishing seed beds before planting and becoming adept at harvesting the crop, depending on the weather, requires farmers to refine their farming methods. "Growing the crop isn't difficult," he said. "But it is a different crop than wheat and we are still tweaking seedbed preparation and how to best harvest the crop."
Farmers have learned winter canola can be swathed and then harvested with a combine or directly harvested with the same harvester.
While many farmers grew a quarter section of the crop last year to get started, many this fall, Neuens has learned, increased their acreage to two or more quarter sections. To begin with, Neuens said, OSU and Kansas State University Extension agronomists led farmers to plant winter canola in a rotation of one year to plant canola and then three years of wheat on the same fields.
"Today, a lot of the larger farmers have started planting canola in a 50-50 rotation with their wheat," he said. "That is, planting canola every other year on the same field. Good prices and better weed eradication have caused them to do this, along with the crop insurance approved by the USDA Risk Management Agency."
Popularity in growing the new crop has had led to other changes as well, Neuens said. He points out farmers who have started growing the crop have been buying more equipment such as drills, spray rigs, swathers and harvesters. Country grain elevators that normally handle winter wheat for sale and storage along with one other crop like corn, grain sorghum or soybeans, are having to deal with the increasing popularity of winter canola.
"More country elevators have decided to receive canola as well as the more familiar crops," he said. " It is a growing experience for all of us."
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LGBT Activist fined for Nov. march through Chicago's Loop
Mon. March 2, 2009 12:00 AM by Kevin Wayne
thousands gathered in chicago to protest prop-8 on nov. 15
City of Chicago fines GLN's Andy Thayer $500 for 5,000 plus anti-Prop 8 march
In November, Thayer helped organize a protest in response to the passage of California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in that state. He had secured a permit for a rally at Federal Plaza, which drew nearly 5,000 people. Organizers had anticipated 200 participants.
Following the rally, the crowd poured into the Loop for an unplanned march that tied up traffic on State Street and Michigan Avenue. Since organizers did not have a permit to march, Chicago Police Commander Charles Keating reportedly ticketed Thayer.
"The cops say that I alone was nailed for the parade permit violation on that day because it was my name on the Federal Plaza permit and that it would have been hazardous to stop the parade and write tickets for the other 4,999 people there," Thayer told the Chicago Examiner.
Thayer was found guilty even though the prosecutor couldn't prove that he had incited the crowd to march. He received a $500 fine, plus $40 court costs.
"Out of the 5000 marchers, I was the only one charged with a violation of the ordinance. Even though the City produced no credible evidence in the trial that I incited the crowd to march, I was found guilty," he said.
City of Chicago Senior Counsel Scott Sachnoff reportedly offered a lesser fine, but asked the judge to apply an additional penalty found in Section 10-8-330(t) of the Chicago Municipal Code that would bar the permit holder, including any affiliated organization identified on the permit application, from receiving another permit for a year.
The judge denied the City's request and imposed the $500 fine.
"This penalty in the ordinance is a patently unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment right of association, and we undoubtedly would have prevailed many months or years from now in court, but that would not have been very helpful for us in a few weeks time on March 14."
Thayer and other anti-war organizers plan a March 14 anti-war march, which is the 6th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
"The attempt to impose the 1-year permits ban was a last-ditch attempt to derail the permit for the March 14th anti-war action," concluded Thayer.
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Chapter 88 – Brother
Xu Jian will restore to factory settings every time he changes, so even if he and Qin Chen have expressed their intentions and their relationship became clear, Xu Jian didn’t hesitate to refuse after listening to Qin Chen’s proposal to sleep together tonight.
This time is different from the past. If he wakes up naked on Qin Chen’s bed again, Xu Jian has 99% confidence that they will have unintended s** first thing in the morning.
They haven’t been together for a long time, so it’s better to be reserved.
After turning back into a cat in advance, Xu Jian became a cat eater again. After eating a little, he was full. Qin Chen took a paper towel to wipe his mouth, and his eyes stared straight at Qin Chen’s bowl of fried eels.
Seeing that he was craving, Qin Chen wanted him to eat more, then his eyes swept to his round body and decisively dispelled the idea.
For the sake of the little ancestor’s health, it’s better to control his diet.
Lying in bed at night, Xu Jian looked at his furry meat pad, full of doubts:
Previously, Mustache said that crossing the Yang can prolong his transformation time. Why did he not only extend it but advanced it today?
Does the method of crossing the Yang no longer work? Or did Mustache lie to them?
The latter possibility just popped up and was cut off by Xu Jian. It’s impossible for Mustache to go to such great lengths for two yuan, not to mention that his method was indeed useful before today.
Thinking through his broken head, he didn’t have a single thought, making Xu Jian confused, his eyelids were fighting, and he didn’t know when he fell asleep.
The next day, Xu Jian got up earlier than Qin Chen. He was neatly dressed and washed and there was still no movement in Qin Chen’s room.
Standing in front of Qin Chen’s door, with his ears pressed to the door, eavesdropping for a few seconds, Xu Jian was a little surprised: Still asleep?
If he remembers correctly, Qin Chen has work today and will go to the company in the morning.
It was getting late. He glanced at the closed door. Xu Jian thought for a while, raised his hand, and lightly knocked on the door twice, calling the person in a low voice, “Qin Chen? Are you awake?”
After asking, Xu Jian listened again but still didn’t hear any movement.
After standing outside the door for a while, Xu Jian finally opened the door cautiously.
The curtains on both sides of Qin Chen’s room were drawn tightly, with no light at all. His field of vision was too dark. After losing the cat’s vision advantage, Xu Jian squinted his eyes and could only see the protruding outline of the bed.
While slowing down his steps towards the bed, Xu Jian lowered his voice and tentatively spoke:
“It’s almost nine o’clock, are you awake?”
Qin Chen, who was lying on the bed, was motionless and didn’t respond, obviously still in a dream.
Xu Jian didn’t expect Qin Chen to oversleep one day. After smiling, he approached the bedside and pulled the quilt, as he said, “Get up, you have to go to work today, yasimilar to ah—”
Just after pulling the quilt, Xu Jian didn’t get to finish his words. Qin Chen, who was lying with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes and raised his hand to accurately grasp the wrist by which he was pulling the quilt. Then, with a little force, Xu Jian, who was already bent over, was thrown on the bed with an unstable center of gravity.
Xu Jian didn’t expect Qin Chen to deliberately pretend to be asleep and engage in a surprise attack. He saw that he was somehow pinned down on the bed when he reacted.
It happened in an instant, Xu Jian raised his eyes in horror and was directly confronted with Qin Chen’s face that was close at hand. Qin Chen stretched out a hand to turn on the bedside lamp, then raised his hand to pinch Xu Jian’s face, and said with a smile, “Good morning ah, Mr. Xu who threw himself at me.”
Mr. Xu: “……”
Xu Jian felt that Qin Chen was unreasonable. It was clearly his sneak attack but deliberately distorted the facts to say that he took the initiative to throw himself at him.
Raising his hands and rubbing Qin Chen’s face, Xu Jian pretended to be serious and said to himself, “Let me feel it, where’s your face?”
He lowered his head and kissed Xu Jian. Qin Chen smiled, “Don’t worry, your boyfriend’s face is still there, and is as handsome as ever.”
Amused by him, Xu Jian looked at him, “How can you praise yourself?”
Where is the Qin Chen, Film Emperor Qin, that is aloof and difficult to get along with?
Qin Chen changed his words hearing him, and went along, “Then you praise?”
Xu Jian cupped his face with both hands, raised his head, and kissed him on the forehead with a “mwah”, his eyebrows curved, “Handsome!”
Xu Jian’s mouthful “mwah” is still ringing.
Although there was only one word, Qin Chen reaped the benefits. He raised his hand and pointed to his lips, asking for a kiss confidently, “This, too.”
After hearing this, Xu Jian’s gaze lingered on his lips for two seconds, then firmly refused, “No, you haven’t brushed your teeth yet.”
The shunned Qin Chen: “……”
Qin Chen’s eyes narrowed dangerously, he lifted his hand to tickle Xu Jian. Xu Jian, who was sensitive and ticklish, twisted into a mahuafried dough twist. When he was out of breath with laughter, he called out, What Brother Qin, Brother Qin, and Mr. Qin, shouting all over.
The two made trouble in bed for a while. When Qin Chen finally let Xu Jian go, he was already exhausted from laughing, and his whole person was paralyzed on the bed with a ‘大’ shape, like a wasted fish.
With weak hands and feet, Xu Jian resentfully looked at Qin Chen, who was refreshed and got up to go to the bathroom to wash up. He had the illusion that he was a ruined little daughter-in-law, and Qin Chen was a scumbag, who put on his pants and didn’t own up to his fault.
The contract for <Chaotic Steps and Flying Swords> has been signed, and the script has been delivered to Xu Jian a few days ago. Xu Jian has nothing to do these days but to look at it.
Today, Qin Chen has to go to the company, and Xu Jian has nothing to do again and read the script at home:
Qi Feng, played by Xu Jian in <Chaotic Steps and Flying Swords>, is a typical male duo, and grew up with the female lead as childhood sweethearts and was born as a son of a wealthy family. His green garment is fluttering gently like a jade. Every move reveals elegance and nobility, and his gentle treatment to people reveals alienation.
Qi Feng treats people impeccably, has a good look, good family background, and has a good character. He is the dream of all the rich young ladies who haven’t been married. However, as it turns out, the good-looking gongzi is arranged to be betrothed to the lovely female lead.
It’s a pity that the day didn’t go as planned. Qi Feng’s family had a sudden change. When Qi Feng and the heroine went out for a trip, vicious thieves broke into his home.
When Qi Feng returned home that night, what he saw was the tragic scene of his parents, brother and sister-in-law, and other seven people lying in a pool of blood. In addition to the housekeepers, servants, and handymen, dozens of people in the whole house, except for his six-year-old little nephew hiding in the water tank, no one survived…
It was a real bloodbath.
Qi Feng, whose family was ruined overnight, was stimulated and his temperament changed drastically. He took his confused little nephew to the female lead’s house to retire and embarked on the road of revenge.
In the play, Qi Feng’s daily raising of a child is also a major point.
Xu Jian has basically never gotten along with children. He was a little unsure whether he can perform the strict and loving feeling required in the script.
Acting with children is sometimes much more difficult than with adults; there is a need to pay attention to the atmosphere and feelings.
Looking through the interactive plot of Qi Feng and his little nephew in the script, Xu Jian thought for a while and decided to go out to find his feelings and see how other people get along with children.
After searching for the nearby park on his phone’s map, Xu Jian put on his coat and scarf and went out.
Today happened to be the weekend, Xu Jian took a taxi to the Wetland Park with the largest flow of people nearby.
Xu Jian wanted to go around the park near the apartment, but after getting into the taxi, the driver enthusiastically told him that if he wanted to join in the fun, he had to go to the Wetland Park in Sanshui District, where there are many people.
Xu Jian, who was rushing to the lively scene, nodded without hesitation, “Okay, then go to the Wetland Park.”
It took more than half an hour for the taxi to arrive, and the driver who took a large bill beamed at Xu Jian and said, “Here we are, will youformal/courteous you scan the code or pay in cash?”
After glancing at the meter, Xu Jian calmly smiled and said to scan the code, but when the amount was entered, his heart was dripping blood. If he had known earlier that it was so far, he would’ve taken the bus; it saves energy, is environment-friendly, and saves money.
The Wetland Park is indeed very lively, and there are many children. There are all kinds of small toys sold in the small square in the center. Xu Jian passed by and thought it was fun. On a whim, he bought a balloon for five yuan and tied it to his wrist.
It’s even a Doraemon.
A 181 tall man with a balloon tied to his hand is already eye-catching, not to mention a handsome guy with long legs, and his turning heads rateLike the rate of how many people turn their heads on him XD is simply 100%.
Xu Jian originally bought it for fun. Now that everyone was looking at him in amazement, he was a little embarrassed to be stared at, so he found a relatively hidden seat to sit.
From the direction of Xu Jian, several children could be seen shoveling sand in the sand box with small shovels and buckets, while their parents stood on the side and chatted.
Xu Jian began to pay attention to the demeanor and movements of these parents when talking to their children, then he carefully wrote down the conclusions he had observed in the small notebook he brought.
It’s easy to lose track of time when concentrating on one thing. When he saw the parents starting to help the children playing in the sand box to pack up their toys, Xu Jian felt a little hungry.
When he looked at the time, it was surprisingly almost twelve noon.
After sorting his notes he got from observing for a few hours, Xu Jian planned to go to lunch first, then continue in the afternoon.
After he put the small notebook back in his pocket and patted it, Xu Jian stretched out and stood up; but when he raised his foot to take a step forward, he suddenly felt dizzy, causing him to fall back into the seat with a jolt.
Waking up again after the dizziness, Xu Jian opened his eyes and saw tall and thick three trunks and enlarged leaves.
After taking a look at his fluffy legs, Xu Jian: “……”
With yesterday’s early change back into a cat, Xu Jian suddenly changed back to a cat at noon this time. After panicking for a moment, he quickly calmed down and thought to himself—
How do I go back now?
The balloon that was originally tied to him didn’t know where it went, so Xu Jian jumped off the seat and fled the scene immediately.
Although the place he chose was hidden, Xu Jian wasn’t sure if there were surveillance cameras that would catch him; he had to walk.
As if someone was holding a cage behind him to catch a cat, Xu Jian’s four short legs tumbled quickly and rapidly left Wetland Park.
When he came by taxi, Xu Jian just wanted to go back the same way, but he didn’t remember the way, and he couldn’t tell north, east, south, and west at all.
Looking at the busy road, Xu Jian regretted it now: I should’ve known not to run too far.
Xu Jian didn’t tell Qin Chen before he went out. Even if Qin Chen couldn’t see the other when he got home, he wouldn’t know where to start, he can only worry helplessly.
Waiting for Qin Chen to rescue him on this road will get him nowhere. It’s not Xu Jian’s character to sit and wait for death, so he intends to save himself and ran to the bus stop to look at the information board, wanting to see the name of the station he was familiar with.
Xu Jian, who was a round snow-white furry, stopped at the bus stop and raised his head to look at the information board. A young couple waiting for the bus was the first to notice the snow dumpling-like him.
The girl raised her hand and pulled her boyfriend’s shirt, she pointed at Xu Jian and whispered, “Look, there’s a fat cat!”
Before he got fat, others would say when they see Xu Jian—look, there is a cute and beautiful cat!
And now… Xu Jian’s first impression to passersby was ‘fat’.
Xu Jian’s wagging tail stopped: “……”
The author has something to say:
Jian Cat: I don’t want to talk 🙂
Qin poop scooping officer after returning home from work: Where’s my boyfriend?!
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Marine Midland – Sattler’s
Co-Branded Charge Card
Shopper Credit Service LOGO
Credit card EXP. Aug 1962
This is an example of most likely one of the earliest co-branded bank credit cards. Possibly issued directly to Sattler’s customers. Any extra information about the conditions of issuance of this card, please contact us.
Marine Midland continued to issue owner brand credit cards, adding the INTERBANK logo for the Master Charge group from around 1967, and changed to Master Charge design in 1970-71. Magnetic stripe coding was added from 1975.
Marine Midland was founded as Marine Bank, a state-chartered bank, on July 10, 1850.
Around the turn of the 20th century it began to expand by means of merger and acquisition. The center of business was still the Buffalo region of western New York. From late 1950’s credit cards began to be issued under the “Midland Shopper Credit Service” which came to be called “Midland Charge Card”
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Visual Organization + Communication Design
The distance from the baseline of one line of type to another is called line spacing.It is also called leading, in reference to the strips of lead used to separate lines of metal type. The default setting in most layout and imaging software is 120 percent of the type size. Thus 10-pt type is set with 12 pts of line spacing. Designers play with line spacing in order to create distinctive typographic arrangements. Reducing the standard distance creates a denser typographic color, while risking collisions between ascenders and descenders. Expanding the line spacing creates a lighter, more open text block. As leading increases, lines of type become independent graphic elements rather than parts of an overall visual shape and texture.
– Ellen Lupton, from Thinking With Type
Below is an example of the impact of variable line spacing aka leading, on the same paragraph of text.
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Workout Windup: Half-Marathon Training Week 1
Welcome to a new series on the blog! I decided this was the best way to track my training, and this way you can all follow along (if you wish). Plus I know it’ll help me stick to my September goals if I know I’m being held accountable to you guys on a weekly basis.
I plan on normally posting this series every Sunday evening, but decided to wait until today for the initial post because I stepped away from my computer this weekend. This is my first time being in NYC on the anniversary of September 11, and I think being here for the 10th anniversary was monumental. I didn’t want my focus to be ripped away by technology; I just wanted to absorb. It was extremely moving and I’ve never felt more happy about where I am. The American pride oozing from every street corner was just inspiring and incredibly humbling. I’m so glad to be here.
…Getting back on track, let’s see how my workouts went this week! My goals were:
- 1 strength workout
- 1 yoga class
- 1 spin class
- Run 20 miles
- 7 planks
This is how I did:
Monday: Run 4 miles
Tuesday: Run 3 miles
Normally I love spin, but this week I was not having any of it. I blame part of it on the fact that I was under a lot of stress and couldn’t get my mind off of it, and the other part on the new instructor I tried out. I was not a fan.
Friday: Hot Power Yoga
This class was awesome! My favorite style of yoga thus far. I love the flexibility to work at your own pace and level, and I like that it’s still hot for me to get a heavy dose of sweat on. I will be returning!
Saturday: 6 mile run + strength workout
My legs felt heavy at first, but quickly fell into a groove and I finished strong! Love that I had enough energy afterward to dive straight into an upper body and core workout.
Miles run (this week): 13
Miles run (total): 13
Strength sessions: 1
Yoga sessions: 1
Spin sessions: 1
So I was semi-successful this week. I crapped out of my 4-mile run and 3-mile run on Wednesday and Sunday, but I’m not beating myself up about it. My plan allows for some flexibility, but I’m definitely going to try to stick to it more from here on out.
I’m really happy I fit in my strength, yoga and spin sessions too! Crafting my schedule to different studios and lifting after a long run has been trying, but definitely manageable.
In other news, I need your help! I was originally going to title this post “Workout Windup: New Orleans Training Week 1,” but my race got cancelled! I found out Friday afternoon that my birthday race was postponed until 2012 “due to logistical obstacles.” Seriously depressing. I was really looking forward to running in New Orleans for my 22nd birthday — I have to make it better than my 21st! So here’s where you come in: please, please, please tell me of all half-marathon races that you know of in October and November. My race was originally November 20, but I’m willing to look at races outside that weekend right now. And if you’ve run them already, tell me how you liked it!
I’ll leave with you a heartwarming quote I saw when I opened up a piece of Dove chocolate that I nibbled on last night.
It’s so true. Just ask my friend Andrew, who’s formed a great relationship with my giant stuffed bear, who he’s named Jeffrey.
You can’t mess with a love like that 😉
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Renaissance?
Renaissance is Mazor Robotics’ guidance system that allows surgeons to perform any spine surgery, from the simplest to the most complex — safely, accurately and efficiently while reducing radiation and optimizing clinical outcomes.
Independent scientific research has shown that using Mazor Robotics technology in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) increases surgical accuracy, lowers clinical complication rates, reduces pain and enables faster recovery and return to daily activities. Research has also shown its superior accuracy, up to 99.7% (compared to around 90% in freehand surgeries) in complex surgeries such as scoliosis corrections.
How precise is spine surgery with Mazor Robotics’ Renaissance™?
Renaissance™ is designed to provide consistent accuracy to 1 mm (1/25th inch), which is superior to freehand surgeries. Mazor Robotics technology is highly precise and has been clinically validated in studies worldwide. For example, a recently published study demonstrated 98.3% accuracy for placing 3,271 implants in 635 cases in 14 international medical center.
What are the clinical benefits of Mazor Robotics technology?
Although statistics show that spine surgeries are generally quite successful, Renaissance takes spine procedures to the next level with its consistent accuracy. Independent scientific research has shown that Mazor Robotic technology increases surgical accuracy, lowers complication rates, reduces pain and aids in faster recovery with a quicker return to daily activities when compared to open, freehand surgeries.
What are the advantages of minimally invasive surgery with Renaissance™?
In the past, Tri-City surgeons performing open spine surgery have accessed the spine by making a large incision in order to allow a full, direct-field-of-vision and access for the surgeon’s hands and tools. In minimally invasive surgery, our surgeons make much smaller skin incisions.
To allow for this limited field-of-vision, surgeons use fluoroscopy (X-ray) images to view their progress. Yet, even with imaging, comparative studies demonstrate that MIS accuracy is lower than in open surgeries (which offer a better, direct field-of-vision). So, there is usually a clinical tradeoff between accuracy and low exposure to radiation versus the advantage of MIS.
When our surgeons use the Renaissance, they actually map out the surgery on a computer using CT images of the patient. Patients benefit from high levels of accuracy, low intraoperative exposure to radiation and the advantages of minimally invasive surgery.
How will my surgeon work with the Renaissance™?
At Tri-City, our surgeons always select the best treatment for your specific condition Based on your CT-scan, your surgeon will use Renaissance’s advanced 3D planning software to plan the optimal surgery customized for your anatomy and diagnosis. Once in the operating room, Renaissance guides our surgeons precisely to the pre-planned anatomical location where intervention is necessary.
Our surgeons are always in control. The Renaissance is not an independent robot and does not cut or perform any action on your body. Your surgeon performs the required procedures, such as placing implants. Your surgeon is in full control of the system at all times. Also, at any stage, your surgeon can decide to continue without the assistance of the Renaissance.
What should I expect before my surgery?
Before your surgery
You will have CT images taken of your spine in preparation for your procedure.
Your surgeon will use Renaissance’s advanced 3D planning software with your CT images to create a unique surgical blueprint. This also provides increased safety and precision increased safety and precision since it allows your surgeon to plan ahead, before entering the operating room.
The day of your surgery
Once ready for your operation, you will be put under anesthesia.
In the operating room, two fluoroscopy (low-dose X-ray) images will be taken of your spine, from the back and from the side.
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dining for the arts
Dining for the Arts is a unique gourmet dining experience that celebrates the fusion of fine food, fashion, live entertainment, and the power of Art Within Everything. Supporting the arts never tasted better!
The fourth annual Dining for the Arts will take place on Saturday, April 16th, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the FFA Enrichment Center on the DMACC Ankeny campus. The winners of the Art Within Everything (AWE) Awards will be recognized; a fashion show featuring the designs of local student talent; a dinner that is elevated to an art form; and a silent auction that is sure to delight. Join Metro Arts Alliance in making the arts accessible to all!
AWE (Art Within Everything) Awards
2016 Artist AWE Award
The 2016 AWE Artist Award is given to an artist who exemplifies excellence in his or her field and has made a difference in the community through their work. This year’s winner is Dr. Janet Hart Heinicke of Indianola, IA, who has been an artist and educator all of her life. Her artwork has been on display world-wide, and her teaching and administrating skills direct others to their full potential as artists and to become positive contributors to society.
Dr. Heinicke has been an artist and educator all of her life. Her artwork has been on display world-wide, and her teaching skills direct others to their full potential as artists and to become positive contributors to society. Those who know Dr. Heinicke describe her as an individual who has taught by example how to appreciate the value of every form of artistic expression.
Heinicke holds a Doctor of Education and Master of Science in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University. She exhibits her work internationally and has been a visiting artist in Vietnam, China, Tanzania, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia and Africa.
Dr. Heinicke was head of the Art Department at Simpson College from 1982 until 2001 and continued as adjunct faculty through 2003. She is credited with starting a program at Simpson called Chrysalis. Chrysalis brought high school students to the campus for workshops and interaction with college art students.
She is currently the Fine Art Superintendent for the Iowa State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition. In addition, she is a faculty member and instructor at the Des Moines Art Center’s Education Program.
2016 Champion AWE Award
The 2016 Champion Award is given to an individual or entity providing financial support to advance artistic excellence for artist(s) or art project(s). This year’s award goes to Dr. Bruce Hughes, a noted neurologist who also recognizes the effects that the arts can have on the brain. He has given his time in leadership roles and financial giving to the Des Moines Art Center and the Des Moines Metro Opera, and his life-long love of Shakespeare led him to found the Iowa Shakespeare Experience.
Dr. Hughes has been the Director of the Ruan Multiple Sclerosis Center at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines for the past 20 years. With over 2,000 MS patients the Ruan Multiple Sclerosis Center is the largest comprehensive MS center in Iowa.
Dr. Hughes is actively involved in MS research having published papers and participated in numerous clinical trials for relapsing remitting and primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He serves as the Chairman of the Clinical Advisory committee and is a board member for the Upper Midwest Chapter of the NMSS. He is the recipient of the Lifetime MS Champion Award and has been inducted in the Health Professionals Volunteer Hall of Fame of the NMSS. Dr. Hughes is passionate about raising awareness of MS and philanthropy, and is dedicated to the education of multiple sclerosis giving lectures to patients, medical students, residents and practicing neurologists.
Dr. Hughes is a noted neurologist who also recognizes the effects that the arts can have on the brain. In his own words, “The positive effects of the arts go beyond the brain. The arts in general are really pivotal in nurturing the human soul.” He has given his time and financial support to the Des Moines Metro Opera and the Iowa Shakespeare Experience.
Dr. Hughes has not only supported arts programs, but has actively assisted in guiding new major artistic initiatives on the local level. He was an initial founder of the Iowa Shakespeare Experience. This summer festival, founded in 2008, provides a unique opportunity for our community to experience Shakespeare. Coordinating with Iowa’s First Lady, Chris Branstad, last year the festival was moved to the Great Lawn of Terrace Hill.
Dr. Hughes currently serves on the boards of both the Iowa Shakespeare Experience and the Des Moines Art Center, and is a past President of the Des Moines Metro Opera.
2016 Infusion AWE Award
The 2016 AWE Infusion Award is given to a successful individual or entity outside of the arts sector that infuses a creative and innovative approach to their lifestyle or business. This year’s winner is Turnaround Arts: Des Moines Public Schools. Their infusion of the arts into all curricular areas is revolutionary in its goal to promote student growth and engagement as well as parent involvement. Their partnerships and work to integrate the arts into core courses has made DMPS a national model for arts education.
Turnaround Arts has infused the arts into all curricular areas and is revolutionary in its goal to promote student growth and engagement as well as parent involvement. Their partnerships and work to integrate the arts into core courses has made the Des Moines Public Schools and national model for arts education.
Currently the Turnaround Arts program is infusing the arts into classrooms at five schools on the North Side of Des Moines. Because of this program, student test scores, participation in arts events, and community involvement in the schools have all increased. Additionally, the program has created a community synergy resulting in an increase of parents attending conferences, back to school nights and arts events.
2016 Spark AWE Award
This year, Metro Arts has added a fourth award – the Spark Award. It is given to a rising star whose prodigious aptitude and distinguished body of work belie his or her recent entry to the pursuit of an artistic field. The inaugural winner of the 2016 Spark Award is Alessandra Leo. A sophomore at the University of Iowa, she not only draws, paints, and writes poetry, she is dedicated to all forms of art and pushes others to find their true identities and be themselves. She recently has had her artwork displayed in Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, a Venice, Italy, art gallery.
Alessandra is a sophomore at the University of Iowa. As an artist she works in multiple mediums including drawing, painting and writing poetry. Recently her artwork was displayed in Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, an art gallery in Venice. Her goal in life is to communicate her thoughts of the world through art. She is dedicated to all forms of art and pushes others to find their true identities through art. Those who know Alessandra describe her as a “thoughtful and perceptive young person, serious about her studies but with a kind and open personality that makes her a natural collaborator.”
Alessandra says “her art is made for others, for people to know they are not alone”.
2015 Artist AWE Award
The Artist award goes to an artist who exemplifies excellence in his/her field and has made a difference in the community through their work. This year’s winner is Stewart Buck of Ankeny for his influence on art students and for instilling a legacy of art appreciation and engagement in the city of Bondurant, where he worked as a high school art teacher for many years.
“I am thrilled to received such a prestigious honor! That was so kind of Chris Vance to nominate me.”Stewart Buck
2015 Champion AWE Award
The Champion award is given to an individual or entity providing financial support to advance artistic excellence for artist(s) or art project(s). This year’s award goes to Chad Cox, General Manager of Hillyard Des Moines. As board chair for the Des Moines Social Club for the last two years, he saw the successful transition of the former Des Moines firehouse into a venue for the arts at the Des Moines Social Club.
“I am humbled and honored to accept the 2015 AWE Champion Award. It is all the more special coming from Metro Arts Alliance, an organization I have worked with for several years, and I look forward to engaging in the process leading up to the dinner in April.”Chad Cox
2015 Infusion AWE Award
The Infusion award is given to an individual or entity outside of the arts sector that infuses a creative and innovative approach to their lifestyle or business. The inaugural winner of this award is Business Publications Corporation, Inc. Led by Connie Wimer and Janette Larkin, the staff at BPC has created the template to recognize and honor the arts, music, and culinary venues. Their products – weekly, monthly, and specialty items – are sought by the entire population.
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Welcome to Colorado, the lacrosse capital of the West.
—Image courtesy of Scott McCall
It’s been a rough year for Denver sports fans. We took a 35-point trouncing in the “Game That Shall Not Be Named” back in February. We didn’t make it past Round 1 in the hunt for the Stanley Cup. And we didn’t even show up to the NBA playoffs. But the Mile High City clinched one little-known title this past year: the U15 Lacrosse Boys’ National Championship.
The victory shouldn’t be all that surprising. Over the past few years, Colorado has quietly earned an unofficial coronation as the “lacrosse capital of the West.” Consider: The University of Denver is the only lacrosse program outside the East Coast to boast Division I men’s and women’s teams. The University of Colorado Boulder added a D-I women’s squad this spring. And the state has two professional outfits, the Denver Outlaws (outdoor) and the Colorado Mammoth (indoor).
This month, Colorado will cement its status as a lacrosse stronghold when Denver hosts the Federation of International Lacrosse Men’s World Championship. Held once every four years, the tournament will bring together teams from 38 nations, the biggest roster in its history, to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park from July 10 to 19. (The U15 National Championships follow at Aurora Sports Park from July 21 to 23.)
“There are so many good reasons why the championship is coming to Colorado,” says Jamie Munro, CEO of 3D Lacrosse, a Denver-based development program. “We’ve got rabid fans, a great facility, and summertime in Colorado is a real destination.” We’ve also got Munro, who was instrumental in building Denver’s lacrosse scene. A Rhode Island native, Munro played at Brown University under the legendary Dom Starsia, the winningest lacrosse coach in D-I history, then headed DU’s program during its fledgling D-I years. Within one season, the school became a top-20-ranked team. During Munro’s 11-year tenure as head coach, DU won four regular-season conference championships and clinched the team’s first NCAA tournament appearance.
“Lacrosse is one of those sports where as soon as somebody plays, they get hooked,” Munro says. “And then they can’t stop talking about it.” That’s certainly true for him: Munro’s been tapped to do color commentary during the national broadcast of the world championship. If the United States nabs another lacrosse title this month with Munro in the booth, it would be only fitting, as both of these East Coast products have found a second home in Denver.
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A look at where the next generation of Colorado’s top lacrosse talent is headed.
School: Cherry Creek High School, Class of 2016
Committed To: University of Michigan (D-I)
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Committed To: University of North Carolina (D-I)
School: Kent Denver, Class of 2014
Committed To: Elon University (D-I)
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Committed To: Salisbury University, Maryland (D-III)
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Committed To: Jackson-ville University (D-I)
Because of its frequent fast breaks and shot clock (for pros and indoor), lacrosse is often referred to as “the fastest sport on two feet.”
Although there are similarities to hockey (sticks, goals, face-offs), lacrosse has designated defense-only and offense-only players who must remain on their sides of the field to avoid an offside penalty.
That constant twist players perform with their lacrosse sticks is called “cradling.” It helps them maintain possession of the ball (it would easily fall out otherwise) and makes quick direction changes possible while keeping check-happy defenders guessing.
Like soccer and hockey, lacrosse goalies get special treatment: With 10- to 12-inch wide heads, their sticks’ pockets are the largest of any on the field. Also, so long as goalies are in the crease (the nine-foot circle around the goal), they can’t be checked.
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Use the following links when requesting your courses for the next school year:
Course requests are ONLY available from Wednesday, March 4 through Wednesday, March 18, 2020.
- For directions on how to request courses for the next school year click here
- Students or Parents can request courses
- Parents may have to request courses for incoming Freshmen & transfer students without an active Skyward account
- Freshmen Parent Letter - courses explained
- Course Catalog - detailed descriptions of all the courses
- Graduation Requirements - use to see what classes must be taken for graduation, plus electives offered
- Curriculum Changes effective the next school year
- Scheduling Guidelines for College Bound Students
- ALHSO - online high school courses (additional tuition payments paid by students)
- Dual Credit Courses - college & high school courses (additional tuition payments paid by students)
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One of our favourite things to do with visitors is go to the Sunday morning jazz brunch at Blue Note. We’ve probably been around 5 times now, and whilst the performances have been a little hit-and-miss in terms of the kind of jazz we like, the food is decent and the price extremely reasonable, so it’s always an enjoyable event.
Tom’s parents are particularly keen on jazz, so for once we actually did some research about the group scheduled to play on the Sunday they were in town, and sadly we weren’t that impressed. Not-so-sadly, this meant expanding our horizons and looking into who was playing at some of the many other excellent jazz venues, and the Monday evening of their visit saw us all lining up outside the door to Smalls in the West Village.
We had been advised to arrive early to get a good seat, and in fact got there so early they weren’t even open yet, so we had to while away some time in the wine bar next door, and were still around 4th in line when they started letting people in. A narrow staircase led down to the basement space, where we were greeted by a selection of mismatched chairs, a small stage area and an even smaller bar. The walls were hung with drawings, photos and posters of various jazz greats, and mirrors were positioned behind the players (which was actually a really good thing as from more than a couple of rows back the view of the performers wasn’t great).
The group we had opted to see were the Dan Tepfer trio – the eponymous Dan is a pianist who seems to play with a variety of other musicians, this time it was bass and drums. Other than a brilliant cover version of Beyonce’s “Single ladies (put a ring on it)”, I believe that all of the music they played had been composed by Dan, and we enjoyed it very much indeed.
I was also interested by the other members of the audience – an eclectic mix of tourists, students, a handful of professional-looking types, and several older afficionados. We stayed for the two sets that the trio played, and as we headed out at around 10:30pm it was clear the night was just beginning – I think there were two other groups scheduled to play sets, and the room was fuller than at any point since we’d arrived. It certainly felt like a much more ‘authentic’ New York jazz experience than Blue Note brunch, which is undeniably rather touristy (not that that’s necessarily a bad thing!), although I’m sure that to get the proper experience we should have stayed at the club until the end of the night – maybe next time…! | <urn:uuid:2542e5e8-4b04-470b-8215-76c00e3ca929> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://leavesfromthebigapple.com/2014/11/04/a-little-jazz/ | 2019-04-20T06:28:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578528702.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420060931-20190420082931-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.989842 | 573 |
Bill Cosby, now inmate NN7687, placed in single cell
Bill Cosby spent his first night in prison alone, in a single cell near the infirmary, as he began his three-to-10-year sentence for sexual assault.
Corrections officials announced Wednesday that Cosby – now known as Inmate No. NN7687 – will serve his sentence at SCI Phoenix, a new state prison about 20 miles from the gated estate where a jury concluded he drugged and molested a woman in 2004. The $400 million lockup opened two months ago and can hold 3,830 inmates.
Cosby will meet with prison medical staff, psychologists and others as the staff assesses his needs. Under prison policy, the 81-year-old comedian will be allowed phone calls and visits and will get a chance to exercise.
The prison’s long-term goal is to place Cosby in the general population, officials said.
“We are taking all of the necessary precautions to ensure Mr. Cosby’s safety and general welfare in our institution,” Corrections Secretary John Wetzel said in a statement.
As Cosby began adjusting to life behind bars, his family and publicists vowed he will appeal his conviction on three felony sexual assault counts after the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
Calling Cosby “one of the greatest civil rights leaders in the United States for over the past 50 years,” spokesman Andrew Wyatt on Tuesday decried the trial as the “most sexist and racist” in the country’s history.
The judge, prosecutor and jury saw it differently.
“No one is above the law. And no one should be treated disproportionately because of who they are, where they live, or even their wealth, celebrity or philanthropy,” Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill said in sentencing Cosby to an above-average sentence.
Cosby’s defense team has raised the racial issue before, in 2016, before quickly scrapping it.
“We prosecute where the evidence takes us and that was done in this case,” District Attorney Kevin Steele said Tuesday.
After his first trial ended in a hung jury, Cosby was convicted in April of drugging and sexually assaulting Temple University women’s basketball administrator Andrea Constand. He has faced a barrage of similar accusations from more than 60 women over the past five decades, but Constand’s case is the only one that went to trial.
In a statement submitted to the court, Constand, 45, said the assault and Cosby’s subsequent attacks on her character had crushed her spirit, adding: “We may never know the full extent of his double life as a sexual predator, but his decades-long reign of terror as a serial rapist is over.”
Prosecutor Kristen Feden said Constand told her she was happy with the sentence.
“I always look for my strength in the victims, and Andrea Constand was amazing,” Feden said on NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday. “Her courage and her strength was enough for me to say, ‘Let’s keep going.’”
Women’s advocates hailed Cosby’s sentence as a landmark #MeToo moment.
“Bill Cosby seeing the inside of a prison cell sends a strong message that predators – no matter who they are, from Hollywood to Wall Street to the Supreme Court – can no longer be protected at the expense of victims,” said Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women of New York.
Cosby’s lawyers asked that he be allowed to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction, but the judge ordered him locked up immediately, saying that “he could quite possibly be a danger to the community.”
Cosby – who is legally blind and uses a cane – removed his watch, tie and jacket and walked out in a white dress shirt and red suspenders, his hands cuffed in front of him.
Cosby must serve the minimum of three years before becoming eligible for parole.
Cosby’s punishment, which also included a $25,000 fine, came at the end of a two-day hearing at which the judge declared him a “sexually violent predator” – a designation that subjects him to monthly counseling for the rest of his life and requires that neighbors and schools be notified of his whereabouts. A psychologist for the state testified that Cosby appears to have a mental disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to have sex with women without their consent.
Constand testified that Cosby gave her what she thought were herbal pills to ease stress, and then penetrated her with his fingers as she lay immobilized on a couch. Cosby claimed the encounter was consensual, and his lawyers branded her a “con artist” who framed the comedian to get a big payday – a $3.4 million settlement she received over a decade ago.
The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, which Constand and other accusers have done.
Five other accusers took the stand at the trial as part of an effort by prosecutors to portray Cosby – once known as America’s Dad for his role on the top-rated “Cosby Show” in the 1980s – as a serial predator.
Constand went to police a year after waking up in a fog at Cosby’s estate, her clothes askew, only to have the district attorney pass on the case. Another DA reopened the file a decade later and charged the TV star after stand-up comic Hannibal Buress’ riff about Cosby’s being a rapist prompted other women to come forward, and after a federal judge, acting on a request from The Associated Press, unsealed some of Cosby’s startling, decade-old testimony in Constand’s related civil suit.
In his testimony, Cosby described sexual encounters with a string of actresses, models and other young women and talked about obtaining quaaludes to give to those he wanted to sleep with.
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Tiny Pages Made of Ashes is Comic Bulletin’s Small Press Review Column
This week, in lieu of reviews, I’m just unloading all the fantastic books that have been sitting around in my “TO REVIEW” pile for embarrassingly too long. These all deserve thoughtful reviews, but I’ve either been overwhelmed by all the great books being published of late or unable to find the right words to describe these gems. Please know that if they are featured here, they are spectacular works and deserve your attention.
(Ed. Note: All text featured below comes via the respective publishers)
THE ONE HUNDRED NIGHTS OF HERO
By Isabel Greenberg
Published by Little, Brown, and Company
In the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths about the secret legacy of female storytellers in an imagined medieval world.
In the Empire of Migdal Bavel, Cherry is married to Jerome, a wicked man who makes a diabolical wager with his friend Manfred: if Manfred can seduce Cherry in one hundred nights, he can have his castle--and Cherry.
But what Jerome doesn't know is that Cherry is in love with her maid Hero. The two women hatch a plan: Hero, a member of the League of Secret Story Tellers, will distract Manfred by regaling him with a mesmerizing tale each night for 100 nights, keeping him at bay. Those tales are beautifully depicted here, touching on themes of love and betrayal and loyalty and madness.
As intricate and richly imagined as the works of Chris Ware, and leavened with a dry wit that rivals Kate Beaton's in Hark! A Vagrant, Isabel Greenberg's One Hundred Nights of Hero will capture readers' hearts and minds, taking them through a magical medieval world.
TURNING JAPANESE: A GRAPHIC MEMOIR
Published by 2dcloud
MariNaomi’s newest graphic novel tours the mid-90’s US and Japanese illegal hostess bar scene and her own personal cultural awakening.
Published by Hardcore Ambient Press
TEENAGE GRAPHICS is a collection standalone images possibly with an overriding theme but possibly without. All of the images were created in silence between this year and last year.
BABYBEL WAX BODYSUIT
By Eric Kostiuk Williams
Published by Retrofit/Big Planet
In Babybel Wax Bodysuit, cartoonist Eric Kostiuk Williams presents a collection of short stories delving into self-worth, Internet culture, and the fascinating grotesqueries offered up by our science-fiction present, all rendered in what curator Luis Jacob ("Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto") has referred to as a "unique visual style, narrated in a fabulous spirit of liquid intelligence."
In this issue: our author, as a closeted teen, navigates comic book message boards and befriends a Pentecostal Christian! Keith Haring fights off gentrification in the 1980's East Village! A familiar pop star breaks free of her Las Vegas promoters, one hundred years in the future! And more...
AND THEN THERE WAS NOTHING
By Patt Kelley
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I went to the Westbury for a pint.Read More
It was a midweek night and I was waiting at a Green Lanes bus stop for a 341 or 141 to take me up to the Salisbury for a few beers. The fog around Clissold Park had been collecting all afternoon and now lay in a thick band over the little river valley that was the former course of the Hackney Brook. All of a sudden there was no traffic. No cars, buses or cyclists. Had everyone decided to watch Arsenal v Steaua Bucharest on the telly? After what seemed about half an hour but was probably 20 seconds, a white van steamed past seemingly anxious to get into more normal territory.
I'd seen some of the Steaua players earlier in the day, sauntering around Oxford Street in their smart tracksuits and pointing out their favourite Christmas window displays. "Good luck tonight," I said.
"Ah, you must be a Tottenham fan!" smiled one (he looked like the midfield general).
"No, I'm not. I said 'good luck' from the perspective of a neutral who wishes you to enjoy the atmosphere of the Greater Blackstock Road area. I hope you have a good experience and possibly go for chips afterwards. I don't care about the result."
But they'd already stopped listening. I have that effect on professional footballers. Like the time I got Bob Wilson's autograph when he came to my home town in the mid 70s and I wanted to know why he didn't play against Leeds in the 1972 Cup Final but he was looking away, off into the mid-distance at Arthur's Tuck Shop at the edge of the market place (though it was actually owned at that stage by Derek Marwood who possibly had kept the 'Arthur' sign up for a bit in the hope of getting some 'goodwill passing trade').
It was about 20 minutes later that a 341 appeared. The driver looked nervous. Clissold Park had almost disappeared. Green Lanes no longer seemed part of a city. The bus sped up the slope towards Manor House - then after the crossroads we slowed down as if the driver knew he was in familiar territory. At the Salisbury the London Pride was off and the gents toilets weren't open. The silent TV on the wall played a tape loop of Vladimir Putin sitting down at a table before at last the football results came in. In the end I hoped that the Steaua players had gone back to their hotel for Bells whisky miniatures, rather than searching for chips in the Highbury Vale fog.
Winter is closing in. The tits in our back garden have almost run out of nuts and the mice are so starving they've taken to eating from the box of mouse poison that's been in the cupboard under the sink for the last year. It always gets cold in the days just after Christmas. Which is why I haven't left the house all day.
My friend Mark phoned and asked if I was doing anything tonight.
No, I said.
Fancy going to see Arsenal v Portsmouth.
No, I said.
Er, OK then. Bye.
Instead I cracked open some beers and watched telly with my wife. There was one chocolate left from the really fancy box and I said she could have it.
Back home to the sticks to watch it in a crowded smoky East Midlands pub. I'm stood next to a scouser and we get into one of those Glanevillesque conversations about history, technique and tactics. He seems like a reasonable fellow and I buy him a pint. As the pints flow, he starts to take the existence of David Seaman and the Neville brothers as a personal affront.
In the second half some younger lads come in and slightly obscure his view of the big screen. Words are spoken. It looks like it's going to kick off. I try to calm him down, explaining that it's only a friendly and not worht getting too upset about. He gives me a look of withering contempt and spits "It's football. It's ALL important." Then goes to stand at the bar with his mates.
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I raised a point of order in the House of Commons today regarding the case of a constituent, Lizanne Zietsman, who faces deportation from the UK in nine days' time. Ms Zietsman is settled on the Isle of Arran with her husband, with whom she runs a successful small business. There has been an outpouring of support from locals who are deeply distressed at the prospect of losing a valuable member of their island community.
I have made a number of representations to UK Visas and Immigration regarding this case, have written to the Minister of State for Immigration, have tabled an Early Day Motion on the subject and will present a petition next week calling for the Home Office to reconsider this appalling decision.
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Murrieta is a quickly developing group nestled in between Lake Elsinore and Temecula, California. This range is reflected in Vancouver’s Chinese meals, which blends conventional cuisine with town’s affect — and which has a fame for being a number of the world’s greatest. Households will rejoice main Chinese festivals like New Years or the Spring Festival, Ching Ming (Tomb Sweeping Competition), and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Chinese language Communists may also continue to be active in making an attempt to broaden their influence over the Thai-Chinese language on the expense of Taiwan and the United States.
Because of imperial enlargement and trading, elements and cooking strategies from other cultures are built-in into Chinese language cuisines over time. Praising chinese blood is sth an excessive amount of amongst chinese neighborhood in thailand till it’s boring.
Other than greens may be generally seen, some distinctive greens used in Chinese delicacies include Chinese leaves , bok choy , dao-mieu (Chinese spinach), choy sum , on choy, yu choy, bitter melon , and Gai lan or Chinese language broccoli and so on. Other vegetables including bean sprouts , pea vine ideas , watercress , lotus roots and bamboo shoots are also utilized in different cuisines of China.
Whereas it may not necessarily be so, Lorraine Clissford says that sautéing vegetables could make the nutrients simpler for the body to tackle. She goes on to amplify a Chinese concept relating to uncooked food: the stomach finds it hard to digest an excessive amount of uncooked food and this may result in bloating and weight gain.
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Listen and watch at Kemal Malovčić music videos. Kemal Malovčić was born on May 6, 1951 in Sanski Most (Bosnia). Kemal Malovčić is a popular Bosnian folk singer and his career began in 1970 at the age of 19 years when he released his first single. His older brother Džemal Malovčić helped him through his early career writing both the music and lyrics for him. However, his greatest success came with the Yugoslav band Južni Vetar between 1985 and 1991. Among the huge hits of Kemal Malovčić the song 'Caru ide carevo' is the most famous. | <urn:uuid:315a17f6-6b64-49c0-8a59-0368ff431ab3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.muzika-balkan.com/kemal-malovcic/ | 2016-10-28T04:24:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00483-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989164 | 145 |
I'm eating Count Chocula Cereal this morning. Count Chocula is a friendly necromancer.
He's a friendly look-a-like even.
So what's up then, right? Well, this morning I spent a good portion of this morning working on a new Lady Dexter comic. It's not quite finished yet.
I also wanted to let you know that our family now has four characters at the same place in the game. Isaiah, The Evil Twin, Bailey, and Molly are all at The Krokosphinx now. I actually got to play Molly with Bailey this weekend!
I also decided to start moving Thomas through Grizzleheim finally so I could unlock the loot monstrosity that is the Raven$, so Thomas is now making his way through Mirkholm Keep.
I know . . . finally. I guess I just was more interested in beating the game with kyle and amber and getting bailey and molly up and running.
It took the leader of the Wizened Wizards (Ms. Mecatz) showing me that the Raven$ drop a ton of loot each time you fight them to convince me that I really should finish up grizzleheim with Thomas and stop delaying . . . meh, loss of exp, meh. What ya gonna do? I WANT THE GOLD! GIMME THE GOLD!
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A large amount of New Zealand’s seagrass have been killed by sediments released from land development. The seagrass bed at Whangarei Harbour has for instance been reduced from 14 sq km in the 1960s to virtually non-existant today.
When salmon is farmed in large-scale monocultures, the fish tend to become susceptible to disease and parasites.
A young staghorn coral that fluoresce redder is less likely to settle and develop into coral polyps than young staghorn corals that fluoresce greener. This surprising discovery was made by assistant professor of biology Mikhail “Misha” Matz and his colleagues* at the Austin branch of the University of Texas.
A species of giant crayfish native to Tennessee in the United States has been scientifically described and given the name Barbicambarus simmonis.
A turbulent, bizarre and downright strange year for fish, our list of the Top Ten Fish Stories of 2010 will have you scratching your head, wiping away tears and laughing all in one sitting.
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Microsoft occasionally releases service packs for its Windows operating systems to fix problems and add features. Each service pack is a superset of all previous service packs and patches so that only the latest service pack needs to be installed, and also includes new revisions. However if you still have the earliest version of Windows XP on Retail CD (without any service packs included), you will need to install SP1 or SP2, before SP3 can be installed. Older service packs need not be manually removed before application of the most recent one. Windows Update "normally" takes care of automatically removing unnecessary files.
Windows XP was criticized by some users for security vulnerabilities, tight integration of applications such as Internet Explorer 6 and Windows Media Player, and for aspects of its default user interface. Service Pack 2, Service Pack 3, and Internet Explorer 8 addressed some of these concerns.
The service pack details below only apply to the 32-bit editions. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was based on Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 and claimed to be "SP1" in system properties from the initial release. It is updated by the same service packs and hotfixes as the x64 edition of Windows Server 2003.
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The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette is revealed with mid-engine design and at a bargain price. It’s the most profound redesign in the Corvette’s history.
Chevrolet revealed the first mid-engine Corvette at an event in California on Thursday night. The change was made to take the all-American sports car to the next level of performance so it can compete with the world’s best on equal footing.
The Corvette has had its engine up front for the first seven generations, ever since the first one drove onto the road in 1953. Previous attempts to change ends were met with heavy resistance because they were too complex, expensive and odd for the car’s audience.
Legendary Corvette engineer Zora Arkus Duntov knew the vital advantages of installing the engine between the axles ever since he built the first mid-engine Chevrolet Experimental Research Vehicle (CERV i) in 1960. He and his successors created several more prototypes using the layout over previous years that achieved lots of attention, but couldn’t convince management to integrate them into production as the conventional Corvettes continued to sell.
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the pinnacle of those dreams. Looking more like the sports cars it aspires to steal the thunder from than any Corvette prior, the low-slug, Targa-top coupe is equipped with a 490 horsepower 6.2L pushrod V8 that sits under a clear cover and drives the rear wheels through a quick-shifting, eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. No manual transmission is available, which will give the traditionalists another thing to gripe about.
With 465 lb-ft of torque, plenty of weight on the back tires and the latest traction and launch control systems, Chevrolet says it can go to 60 mph in under 3.0 seconds when equipped with the optional Z51 package and performance exhaust that increases power and torque up by 5 hp and 5 lb-ft. That puts it right in exotic car territory. Keep in mind that the Stingray is the entry-level Corvette version and much more powerful options are still to come.
The Stingray’s backbone chassis is mostly made of aluminum and covered in fiberglass body panels, in keeping with Corvette tradition. Its stretched headlights and angular quad taillights are the only styling features that recall the car it replaces.
The suspension features A-arms and coil springs on all four corners, and officially loses the signature leaf-spring rear end of past Corvettes. Adaptive magnetorheological dampers and a hydraulic nose lift are available that raises the front of the car 1.5 inches to get over bumps. You can even geotag the locations where you need it most and the feature will automatically activate as you approach them.
The interior features a full-digital instrument cluster, a squared-off steering wheel, a full-digital instrument cluster, a central tablet-style display canted toward the driver and a long row of buttons and toggles planted on a raised ridge between the seats. Behind the motor is a trunk large enough for either two golf bags or the Targa roof panel, while a smaller area in the front can hold a carry-on bag. Visibility is upgraded by a video rearview mirror that gets feed from a wide-angle camera at the trailing edge of the roof, while a forward-facing camera can be used to film track sessions with the Performance Data Recorder or as a dashcam on public roads.
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray starts production later this year. Pricing isn’t known, but GM President Mark Reuss said it will around $60,000, which is close to the current Stingray price and about the same as a 300 hp Porsche 718 Boxster. A full-convertible version will come after the coupe’s debut.Categories: Auto News, Blog | <urn:uuid:3e2621b0-4698-4bdf-b515-0bbe7cf309ce> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://themotormasters.com/2020-chevrolet-corvette-revealed-mid-engine-design-bargain-price/ | 2019-08-24T16:18:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027321160.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20190824152236-20190824174236-00229.warc.gz | en | 0.933574 | 793 |
Frequently asked questions
How do I make changes to my WinTrade setup?
- Add or delete products
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Once the form is completed and signed, please send it to your International Business Manager or designated International Services Officer.
If I am already registered to use Business Online Banking or Corporate Online, do I need to register for WinTrade?
Yes, you must register to use WinTrade.
What products and services can I access within WinTrade?
- Import Letters of Credit
- Import Collections
- Export Letters of Credit
- Export Collections
- Trade Finance
- Administration - user profiles.
How much does WinTrade cost?
There is no service fee for using WinTrade.
Why do I need to sign back into WinTrade after following a link to a third party site?
To ensure the security of your personal information, Westpac utilises encryption technology. When you follow a link to another site which does not utilise this level of security, Westpac suspends your WinTrade session. Therefore, you will need to re-authenticate in order to return to the secure environment.
What happens if I need help using the system?
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Ipswich/Woodbridge: Drink-driving soldier banned after turning himself into police
IPSWICH/WOODBRIDGE: A drink-driving soldier is banned from the road today after crashing his car into a lamppost and then calling police to confess.
Honest Daniel Learmont, who is based at Rock Barracks in Woodbridge, was more than three times the drink-drive limit after returning from a night out in Ipswich.
The 19-year-old admitted driving with excess alcohol when he appeared at South East Suffolk Magistrates Court.
Wayne Ablett, prosecuting, said Learmont’s Vauxhall Astra crashed into the lamppost in Budgen’s car park in Woodbridge on February 17.
The military engineer telephoned police and waited at the scene until officers arrived.
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Mr Ablett told the court: “He immediately said ‘I’m not going to lie. I have been drinking’.”
Learmont told officers after being dropped off following a night out he believed he had been sober enough to drive back to his barracks.
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However, a subsequent breath test showed he had 107 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 mcgs.
Peter Barlex, mitigating, said his client had been “extremely honest that day”.
He added: “He went out with others in a minibus to Ipswich, got the minibus back and felt okay to drive.”
However, when Learmont did so he immediately crashed his car at around 4.30am.
The court heard the teenager has had to explain himself to senior officers which had been difficult in itself.
Sentencing Learmont, of Craigs Drive, Dumfries, Scotland, District Judge David Cooper said: “He confessed all. In many ways you couldn’t ask for more.”
Learmont was disqualified from driving for two years, fined �585 and ordered to pay �85 costs, along with a �15 government surcharge.
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BRUSSELS, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- Crop Protection Industry Intensifies Water Protection Measures
Today a strong delegation of more than 90 people, representing research institutes, national authorities, farmer associations, water industry and crop protection industry, gathered in Brussels for the TOPPS-prowadis* workshop to exchange views and discuss practical solutions for professional pesticide users on how to best mitigate water contamination from diffuse sources.
"What we describe as diffuse sources is the pesticide run-off and drift on the field level" - Philippe Costrop, project chairmen of the initiative explained. "As diffuse sources are often the main cause of water contamination, we want to offer concrete recommendations available for farmers to protect water."
"Under TOPPS-prowadis projects we have been preparing best management practices (the BMPs) full of advice, training materials and information for farmers with tools on how to reduce losses of crop protection products to water bodies. Now you can also find them on our freshly launched website (http://www.topps-life.org)" - Philippe Costrop added.
Continuing on from the previous year's TOPPS projects the TOPPS-prowadis, run by the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) in collaboration with numerous EU partners, plans to reach out to 350,000 farmers and their advisors, land managers and pesticide operators in key European agricultural markets, addressing main European water protection issues and the new pesticides legislative requirements.
"One of the main water related "Time to Change" projects, the crop protection industry plans to expand the TOPPS-prowadis initiative going forward to all EU member states" - said Friedhelm Schmider Director General of European Crop Protection Association (ECPA).
"Studies have proven that with simple risk mitigation measures and best management practices 80% of water contamination can be prevented. Minor modifications applied by the farmer can have a significant impact on water quality. The understanding that it can be markedly improved by knowledge transfer to the field has been driving all of our efforts"- Friedhelm Schmider concluded.
The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) represents the crop protection industry interests at European level. Its members include all major
companies and national associations across Europe.
For more general information:
For the online version please follow the link: http://www.ecpa.eu/news-item/environmental-protection/04-24-2012/665/reducing-pesticides-water
*TOPPS-prowadis (Protecting Water from Diffuse Sources): http://www.topps-life.org
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Russia's aid was shipped in an Ilyushin-76 cargo plane and included 40 tonnes of canned food, baby food, rice and sugar.
Samardzic said three more shipments including more food and medical aid were expected by April 10.
"This is important help for the survival of Serbs in Kosovo," he said.
No details have been given about how the aid will be distributed among the 100,000 or so Serbs living in Kosovo.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, ordered the aid at Serbia's request.
He said the aid should be distributed regardless of ethnicity and "without political colouring".
However, Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders have said that Moscow should coordinate shipments with Pristina, Kosovo's capital, rather than Belgrade.
Kosovo's February 17 declaration of independence was quickly recognised by the United States and its key European allies.
But Serbia and Russia have rejected Kosovo's statehood as illegal under international law.
Belgrade has sought in past weeks to retain control over Serb-held areas in Kosovo, a move that could lead to a de facto division of the territory.
Clashes last month between Serbs, UN police and Nato peacekeepers in Kosovo left a Ukrainian policeman dead and dozens of people on both sides injured.
Serbs also say a new European Union administrative mission is illegal.
Lavrov said Russia was working to prolong the UN mission established in Kosovo in 1999, after a Nato air war ended a Serb crackdown against Kosovo separatists.
Speaking to the Duma, Russia's parliament, he said: "We are taking concrete measures to prevent the use of force to compel the Kosovo Serbs to accept Kosovo's independence.
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Every once in awhile, we must travel to remind ourselves of what the monotony of life makes us forget.
For me, nature provokes clarity and allows me to transparently assess where my priorities lie. It’s a way for me to regroup, collect my thoughts, and approach every other aspect of my life with patience and gratitude, and the understanding that there are infinite things in this world that are beyond my control.
I’m also very fortunate to have friends who are just as hungry for this sense of clarity and adventure as I am. My friend Alyx is one of the most positive influencers of this realm, documenting her own expeditions through a rad-as-fuck blog titled, ‘Shoestring Adventures’.
A few weeks ago I was feeling feelings. Uninspired and defeated; stuck in a full-fledged creative rut. While consoling my discontentment over carbs and brunch, I received a text from Alyx saying simply, ‘Hey! What are you doing today?”. Within six texts we had established an impromptu weekend camping trip in Joshua Tree. I had two hours to get home, pack and get ready.
This is the true spirit of the adventure; being able to drop everything, cancel your plans, fuck showering, pack a bag and do what you know is best for yourself. I rushed home, threw some clothes in a knapsack, grabbed my camera and waited for Alyx to arrive so we could pick up some essentials (read: s’mores). Within two hours we were on the road, our friend Julie in tow.
With no campsite reserved, no cash and no real plan, I was prepared for infinite possibilities on the road ahead of us.
I’ve learned over the course of my adventures that travel, just as life, will always be OK with or without a plan. We made it to our campsite, pitched our tent in the dark, and set up a cozy campfire to indulge in s’mores and snacks. The rest of the weekend was filled with photos, food, stories and smiles. I came home Sunday night exhausted, yet never more ready to take on the week.
Sometimes you have to find a way to silence the constant hum in the back of your brain, to turn off the voices that stir your fears and failures, and bury the ghosts in the back of your mind. That weekend in Joshua Tree, I learned that some of the most beautiful and amazing things are born from a lack of planning, an act of spontaneity and an open mind. | <urn:uuid:8b99ad50-ccc5-4f8f-b22f-087a5135a872> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://thecultcollective.com/joshua-tree-national-park-the-spirit-of-adventure/ | 2019-11-11T20:38:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664437.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20191111191704-20191111215704-00025.warc.gz | en | 0.956989 | 537 |
Music plays an important role in our worship and community life. Musical opportunities are provided for every age level in the congregation and include ensembles for many different talents and skill levels. You are invited to be a part of this exciting facet of our church life.
The McFarlin Music Ministry works to create music for worship that helps to open the hearts and minds of the congregation to the word of God. We strive to maintain environments that promote musical and spiritual growth. Through concerts we seek to add new interest among people of the surrounding communities to become a part of the McFarlin family of faith. Through our efforts of innovation and education we strive to reach the youth of Oklahoma for Christ through Music. | <urn:uuid:c3e02da3-89ab-4150-8fec-a37363f064ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://mcfarlinumc.org/ministries/music/ | 2017-02-25T22:41:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171900.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00077-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952105 | 141 |
Notes and Editorial Reviews
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Hans von Bülow made the witty remark that Johannes Brahms’ First Symphony, which was born only after the greatest trials, doubts and qualms, is actually “Beethoven’s Tenth”. But despite all the work’s apparent references to Beethoven’s symphonic creations, this is of course a misunderstanding. Brahms himself said that if one were to write a Symphony based on Beethoven, it would have to be “much different”. What this “difference” would consist of was discussed much later by Schoenberg, and only after the passage of time was Brahms recognized as a pioneer of modern music, i.e. due to such compositional practices as the development of all
processes from one common germ cell, variations at all musical levels, cross- and back-references, and last but not least, a certain scorn for the notion of “divine inspiration”. Instead, he focused on making the material his own through a nearly academic process of examining the methods available for use.
This recording documents an encounter between tradition and modernity. The venerable Laeiszhalle in Hamburg is the scene for a Brahms recording in audiophile, high-resolution SACD technology with the historic Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, which has made such a furor in recent years with its recordings of the original versions of the Bruckner Symphonies. Under GMD Simone Young, the orchestra succeeds in developing new, current and exciting views of traditional repertoire.
Works on This Recording
Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68 by Johannes Brahms
Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Written: 1855-1876; Austria
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Thank your employees as you usher in 2016! If your company had a great year in 2015, your employees deserve your appreciation for their part in building that success.
Even if 2015 wasn’t your company’s best year, you should still thank your employees! Reflecting on the year’s challenges with gratitude will help your team feel recognized for their perseverance and build the confidence they need to move forward into the New Year with resilience and hope.
The weeks around New Year’s can be stressful. The holidays are winding down, and the pressure’s on to make and keep resolutions for the New Year. It’s the perfect time to recap your company’s year with your whole staff and let them know how much they’re appreciated.
Gratitude Helps You Make Better Resolutions
What do many New Year’s resolutions have in common? They come from a place of shame.
Dan Bowling, Duke Law School professor and expert on the science of wellbeing at work, explains why so many resolutions are forgotten by February:
At the heart of most resolutions is a desire to live a happier life and enjoy more workplace success, but for some reason, resolutions focus on removing the negative things from our life rather than filling our New Year with positive things.
This is a fool’s errand; it doesn’t work. Instead of making the usual glum commitments about taming bad habits, sure to be discarded before the Doritos are passed around the Super Bowl Party, why not focus on what will really make you happy at work and in life?
In his Talent Management Psychology at Work blog post, “10 New Year’s Resolutions for Workplace Happiness,” Bowling suggests antidotes to negative-focused resolutions.
- Be mindful
- Use your strengths
- Learn optimism
- Keep perspective
- Be nice
- Make your job a calling
Know what Bowling’s positive-focused resolutions all have in common? Gratitude. They’re the kind of resolutions that stick because they come from a place of appreciation, forgiveness and openness.
The amazing part of it? When you and your coworkers are learning optimism, practicing mindfulness and trying to be nicer, it’s suddenly a lot easier to quit “bad habits.” Your energy is actively focused on the positive instead of fixated on blocking the negative.
That’s why it’s so vital to look back at 2015 and forward to 2016 with gratitude. When you thank your employees, you’re building the foundation for growth.
Thank your employees: Review Your ‘Nice’ List
Santa is amazing at gift-giving because he pays attention to who’s good and puts them on his “nice” list.
Are incidents of everyday and extraordinary excellence noted at your company? Is your management team reviewing these notes as an end-of-year recap?
Forbes contributors David Sturt and Todd Nordstorm say companies would do well to adopt Santa’s list method. In the article “Why You Need A Workplace ‘Nice’ List,” they make that case that carefully observed and recorded accomplishments are essential to effective employee recognition.
“The result of your efforts will not go unnoticed. In fact, it may transform your team. That’s because (as parents everywhere know), the best part of Santa’s list-making strategy is that it reinforces good behavior,” Sturt and Nordstrom write.
Your “nice” list is only as good as what you do with it. Thank your employees as soon as you notice achievements and thank them again at the end of the year. It will give context to the bigger picture of what the company has accomplished and where it’s going — thanks to the employees.
“Keeping a list is the simplest way to remember to reach out and say thank you,” Sturt and Nordstrom write. “During the holiday season, we particularly focus on gratitude, but this tip rings true year-round. So make it a resolution to keep a ‘nice’ list throughout all of 2016.”
Learn more about harnessing the power of workplace gratitude in our popular (and free!) eBook, “Transform Your Workplace with Gratitude.” Click the image below and start transforming your workplace today!
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It’s becoming harder and harder for smokers and alcoholics to get their fix in Singapore thanks to high taxes and stricter laws. But Instagram addicts have no such barriers.
In fact, Instagram could be making poorer and more miserable than any of your other vices. Not only do you not get warned by gory cigarette pack images about the ills of Instagram, you may not even know how to delete your Instagram account because those devious developers have tried to make it as hard as possible for you to get off the bandwagon.
Why you might want to delete your Instagram account
Have you ever complained that you don’t have time to read, exercise, date, keep your plants alive, etc.? While we don’t deny that many people put in some pretty punishing hours at work, we’re also some of the biggest time wasters when it comes to spending time on social media.
A 2017 survey found that Singaporeans spend an average of 3 hours 12 minutes a day on their mobile phones, with at least 71% of people checking their social media on a daily basis. Think about everything you could do with all that time if you stopped stalking other people’s social media accounts.
Of all the social media platforms, Instagram is probably the worst when it comes to encouraging you to spend money.
Facebook is not as bad, as some people only share fake news or complain about fellow commuters on the MRT. With Instagram, on the other hand, people are pretty much obliged to show sumptuous visuals, more often than not of gorgeous holiday destinations, their latest purchases and all the fancy restaurants, cafes and bars they’ve been visiting.
Because of that, it’s also one of the worst culprits when it comes to causing lifestyle inflation.
You are bombarded with carefully-curated pictures which create the illusion that they accurately represent other people’s everyday lives. This in turn makes you feel like it’s normal to wear a new outfit every day, go on 15 overseas holidays a year and drink $6 coffee every morning.
You might feel withdrawal pangs from not being able to scroll through your feed when you first delete your Instagram account. But once it’s out of your life, you might actually start to enjoy that extra time, money and the ability to live your life instead of gazing at other people’s.
How to delete your Instagram account
Ready to take the plunge? Here’s a step-by-step guide to deleting your Instagram account.
Step 1: Turn on your computer. (You can’t delete Instagram from your phone.)
Step 2: Log into Instagram’s desktop site.
Step 3: Go to this page to delete your Instagram account.
Step 4: Select a reason for deleting your account from the drop-down menu, while carefully ignoring their offer to temporarily disable your account.
Step 5: Scroll to the bottom of the screen and re-enter your password.
Step 6: Click on the red “Permanently delete my account” button at the bottom of the screen.
Step 7: Rejoice at your newfound freedom.
How to deactivate Instagram account (if you just want a break)
So maybe you’re not ready to take the plunge and delete your account completely. You’ve amassed way too many followers and posted way too many pics to want to give all that up. Here’s how you can temporarily deactivate your account:
Step 1: Turn on your computer and log into Instagram’s desktop site.
Step 2: Go to this page to temporarily disable your account.
Step 3: You’ll see this on the screen: “If you’re just looking to take a break, you can always temporarily disable your Instagram account instead”. Click on the words “temporarily disable”.
Step 4: Select a reason for disabling your account from the drop-down menu.
Step 5: Enter your password at the bottom of the page.
Step 6: Click on the blue “Temporarily disable my account” button at the bottom of the page.
Step 7: Resist the urge to reactivate your account.
Now you’re free to live your life without worrying about “gramming” pics of your food and outfits every five seconds, or wondering about what fabulous things the people you’re following are doing and buying right now.
You may not realise it immediately, but getting off social media is just the first step towards quelling the desire to keep up with the Joneses and compare yourself with other people.
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Lonnie Walker IV
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Admirals Terminators (Lower waiver priority: 14)
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In an environment where talent is scarce and the turnover rate high, how do you retain staff that show potential? This talent gap has become a problem, not just on the local front in Asia, but also around the world.
"A good manager empowers the team and does not micromanage. A good manager expresses interest and concern for team members," Prasad said, in explaining some of the qualities Google has identified in a good manager.
William J Manfredi, executive vice-president, global talent management at Wunderman/Y&R, believes in setting clear goals for managers -- 70 per cent financial, and 30 per cent qualitative, to be exact. Wunderman also uses talent assessment matrix to measure performance and potential.
"Simplicity works. I'm not interested in people leaving. I'm more interested in whether they're doing a good job growing and managing talent," Manfredi said.
Shaun Ruming, vice-president, human resources and training at McDonald's Asia-Pacific, West Asia, and Africa, echoes the same sentiment. He said that its goal in managing talents is to ensure the fast food giant has the leadership talent to drive business success, both today, and in the future.
As for Barry Cupples, chief executive officer, Omnicom Media Group Asia-Pacific, who likens the staff and talent pool to an ecosystem, said the five important components are empowerment, engagement, involvements, philosophy, and culture.
The speakers at the session on the Asian talent gap shared a common belief, and that is, good talent is worth investing in, and that companies have a role in empowering and educating staff.
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Adam uses his experiences, insights, and knowledge to provide meaningful, and engaging interactions that are tailored to best suit each organisation's requirements.
The below options are a guide to what is available, and can be altered, or combined depending on your needs.
Adam has had media training, and is up to date with the latest mental health media guidelines. Additionally, he has a police and background check to work with older, younger, and less-abled people.
A presentation involves Adam speaking for 20 - 60 minutes. He shares an in depth version of his story, and experiences of mental illness and depression as a teenager. How it affected his family, schooling, friends, and future prospects. The battle with suicide ideations, his complete sense of loneliness, and hopelessness. His trials with medication, talking therapy, and hospitalisation. What worked for him, and the lifestyle changes he has made to vastly improve, as well as maintain his good health to this day.
Adam is aware that every group will have different areas of need to be covered, and so works with the organising group to determine what additional areas should be added or changed. Some of the additional areas of insight include anxiety, exams, communication, family, relationships, general well being, bullying, self-harm, seeking help, what carers and friends can do, further details of medical intervention, happiness, self-esteem, body image, and many more.
A question and answer section can also be incorporated into this.
As a panellist, Adam will be one part of two or more people, answering questions, and contributing to topic discussions. He aims to keep as informed as possible with new findings, and research being conducted in the mental health area, however brings the unique perspective of a young persons lived experience. He uses this experience to passionately, yet constructively add well reasoned insight on a variety of topics.
Adam knows very well that his experiences are not universal, and so can work well with differing opinions, experiences, and perspectives. He also knows his limits, and never crosses into areas that require a medical professional's expertise.
Additionally, Adam believes in the important of openness, and honesty, and so is happy to contribute to any and all topics that may arise.
As a consultant, Adam provides expert advice and insights from a lived experience perspective. This is intimately tailored to the organisations goals, and objectives. He works closely with the organisation to reach their desired outcomes, both short and long term.
This role is most utilised with organisations implementing new, or altering pre-existing mental health strategies, policies, procedures, and services; both internally as well as externally. Some include multinational companies, financial institutions, governments, policy makers, schools, hospitals, and many more. Additionally, this role also covers advising on mobile and technological applications and innovations.
Adam strongly believes and insists on the importance of having a lived experienced voice and input in any program that involves mental health. It provides a unique perspective that is difficult to ascertain otherwise, and offers valuable insights that will increase the consumer's experience, and program's effectiveness.
As a facilitator, Adam works with the individuals, groups, and organisation to enable questions, discussion, engagement, and consistent flow of the event. He utilises his insights and experience to add further value, specifically with events which focus on mental health.
An event's size can range from small to large, and depending on an event's purpose, Adam's role can vary. Events can also include workshops, at both a schooling level, as well as within workplaces at a corporate level.
An interview with Adam can go for any length of time. It covers all formats, including audio, visual, and print. Additionally, it can be pre-recorded or live, in person or over the phone, or Skype. This is mostly utilised by media organisations, however can be used in any area. He is capable of answering questions on all areas of his personal experience, as well as a variety of mental health topics. Including, suicide, depression, anxiety, hospitalisation, positive lifestyle changes, communication, relationships, and much more.
Adam has had media training, as well as experience being interviewed on T.V., radio, podcasts, web-series, magazines, and newspapers. He is fully versed in the latest media guidelines on mental health reporting and appropriate language.
Adam can provide a comment or quote, both written and verbal on a variety of areas within mental health. This can include new products, medications, research findings, policy decisions, and more. His comment will come from an informed lived experience perspective, and give a valuable insight that may otherwise be missed. | <urn:uuid:3690985d-04e6-4dc5-b248-143846a2be75> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.adamschwartz.com.au/packages-speaking-options | 2019-05-24T11:24:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257605.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524104501-20190524130501-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.967498 | 950 |
OnStage Recap – Stampin’ Up! Annual Convention
Stampin’ Up! host a yearly convention in November where demonstrators get together to celebrate each other accomplishments, learn about new upcoming products, and of course STAMP!!! Two years ago we were in Orlando, FL. Here’s how the convention hall looked:
And this year, due to COVID, here is how it looked. Me, myself & I in front of my computer.
It was actually a lot more fun than I would have expected. I used my iPad to chat with my team during the entire 3 days and it was as close as we could get to all sitting together like 2 years ago. And even better, we have access to all the presentations and classes for 2 1/2 more months! I got to sit back, enjoy, and just take it all in without needing to get every bit of detail down in my notes.
The event kicked off with a performance by Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo!!! This 80’s kid was singing along to every song! She looked and sounded just AMAZING.
I was honored to be recognized for my 10 year anniversary, $100k in career sales, and prior-year Sales, Team Building, and Leadership (team member advancements).
My OnStage Presentation
The biggest moment for me actually started 2 months ago when I received a call from Stampin’ Up! corporate. They asked if I would design some projects from an upcoming product suite in the new January – June Mini Catalog and present it during OnStage. The catch was that they needed to record my presentation in 2-3 weeks!😳 I couldn’t tell anyone and it was a complete surprise until Sat when my name showed up on the day’s agenda.
I was given 17 minutes and the largest suite in the new catalog and a list of “features & benefits” for those products that I needed to explain. I was concerned I was going to come off sounding like a lunatic at how fast I needed to talk to get all the information out 😜 and not trip over my own tongue.
The weather here in New England cooperated and I was able to invite a few Team Members who live locally to view Saturdays sessions outside in our new backyard sitting area. A week ago we had 6 inches of snow with 20 degree overnight temps.
No OnStage event is complete without a ‘swag bag’. We received this cute box (that the post office mangled 😠) with a fun bag, a new stamp set, notebooks, trading pins. As a leader, I was also fortunate to receive a CenterStage box with a pair of Paper Snips and a unique scissor charm.
Hopefully, next November will be in Philidelphia, PA celebrating in person, but we will just have to see how this next year plays out. I do know that if Stampin’ Up! has to have a second OnStage at Home, it too will be awesome! | <urn:uuid:da542177-4fd6-4f17-a031-aa5dc72295de> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.craftystampin.com/onstage-recap-stampin-up-annual-convention/ | 2021-03-05T07:10:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178370239.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20210305060756-20210305090756-00109.warc.gz | en | 0.975866 | 624 |
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